Vera et Viva Effigies JohanÌ„is Heydon Equitis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nat 1629 Die ♃ Sept 10.9 45 PM Gaudet patientia duris Otia Imperialia The Idea of the Law of Policy Government Warr Regio Lucis The Harmony of the World The Temple of Wisdom The Holy Guide Lilly The Wise-Mans Crown OR THE GLORY Of the Rosie-Cross SHEWING The Wonderful Power of Nature with the full discovery of the true Coelum Terrae or first Matter of Metals and their Preparations into incredible Medicines or Elixirs that cure all Diseases in Young or Old With the Regio Lucis and holy Houshold of Rosie Crucian Philosophers Communicated to the World By JOHN HEYDON Gent. A Servant of GOD and Secretary to Nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. He that looketh upon my Books let him learn to be religious LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be sold by Samuel Speed at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet 1664. THE LIFE OF John Heydon The Son of FRANCIS and MARY HEYDON Now of Sidmouth in Devonshire IOhn Heydon is not basely but Nobly descended The Antiquaries derive them from Julius Heydon the King of Hungary and Westphalia that were descended from that noble family of Caesar Heydon in Rome and since in this Royal Race the line run down to the Honorable Sr. Christopher Heydon of Heydon near Northwich Sr. John Heydon late Lord Lieutenant of the Kings Tower of London and the noble Chandlers in Worcester-shire of the Mothers side which line spread by Marriage into Devonshire among the Collin's Ducks Drues and Bears he had one Sister named Anne Heydon who dyed two years since his Father and Mother being yet living He was born at his Fathers House in Green-Arbour London and Baptized at St. Sepulchres and so was his Sister and both in the fifth and seventh years of the Reign of King Charles the First he was educated in Warwick-shire among his mothers friends and so careful were they to keep him and his sister from danger and to their Books that they had one continually to wait upon them both to the School and at home He was Commended by Mr. John Dennis his Tutor in Tardebick to Mr. George Linacre Priest of Coughton where he learned the Latine and Greek tongues the War at this time began to molest the Universities of this Nation He was then Articled to Mr. Mic. Petley an Atturney of Cliffords Inne with eighty pound that at five years end he should be sworn before Chief Justice Roll now being very young he applyed his minde to Learning and by his happy wit obtained great knowledge in all Arts and Sciences afterwards also he followed the Armies of the King and for his valour Commanded in the Troops when he was by these means famous for Learning and Arms he Travelled into Spain Italy Arabia Aegypt and Persia and gave his minde to writing and Composed about 20 years since The Harmony of the World in two Books The Temple of Wisdome in three Book The Holy Guide in six Books Elhavareuna in one Book Hampaneah Hammeguleh in one Book Ocia Imperialia in one Book The Idea of the Law The Idea of Government The Idea of Tyranny in three parts The Fundamental Elements of Morral Phylosophy Policy Government and War c. These Books were written near 20 years since and preserved by the good hand of God in the Custody of Mr. Thomas Heydon Sr. John Hanmer Sr. Ralph Freman and Sr. Richard Temple during the Tyrants time first one had the Books then another c. And at last at the Command of these Honourable Learned and valiant Knights they were Printed He wrote many excellent things and performed many rare experiments in the Arts of Astromancy and Geomancy c. but especially eighty one the first upon the Kings Death Predicted in Arabia by him to his Friends The second upon the losses of the King at Worcester Predicted at Thauris in Persia the third Predicted the Death of â—liver Cromwell in Lambeth house to many Persons of Honour mentioned in his Books the fourth he wrote of the overthrow of Lambert and of the Duke of Albymarle his bringing again of the King to his happy Countries and gave it to Major Christopher Berkenhead a Goldsmith at the Anchor by Fetter-lane end in Holborn the fifth precaution or Prediction he gave to his Highness the Duke of Buckingham two Moneths before the evil was practised And his Enemy Abraham Goodman lies now in the Tower for attempting the death of that Noble Prince The sixth for Count Gramont when he was banished into England by the King of France and he predicted by the Art of Astromancy and Geomancy the Kings receiving of him again into favor and of his marriage to the Lady Hamelton The seventh for Duke Minulaus a Peer of Germany that the Emperour sent to him when the Turk had an Army against him and of the death of the Pope the rest are in his Books And therefore by these Monuments the name of Heydon for his variety of Learning was famous not onely in England but also in many other Nations into which his Books are Translated And it seems something difficult to determine whether the sophistication of truth or the fucus of errors hath of late years been the more Epidemical cheat in Print it being sufficiently notorious how this generation of Taylors Almanacks the under-wits go a whoring after the Press and what a noysome spawn of Brats are generated of the froth of illegitemate Brains not less numerous then spurious that neither their male content Parents nor Religion Law Reason nor Charity are able to maintain And although Mr. John Heydon's works be of a more generous extraction yet they are very far from Complementing themselves with the least vâ—â—n hopes of exemption from those censures which are common to all men It is worth an Asterisk to observe how infeazable it hath been in all ages for the most innocent to escape this Correction Divine Plato that Prince of Phylosophers is accused for being too confused and immethodical Virgil by some is counted but a shallow and weak witted Poet and by others charged as if he were wholy be holding to Homer for his works and Homer himself is derided by Horace as if he were too drowsie a Poet Demosthenes could not please Marcus Tullius in all things Trogas Pompeius doth accuse Titus Livius his Orations of fictions and falsities Seneca was Nic-named and called Lime without Sand Pliny is compared to a turbulent River that taste of many things but digests few Hermes is called by some the dark King some affirme Zoroaster had no depth of Judgement An Astrologicall Taylor accuses Cornelius Agrippa Kt. John Heydon Appolonius and Tritemius of inventing new and strange principles in Phylosophy D. Brown is reproved for inconstancy and instability of Judgement And Mr. Moor and Eugenius Philalethes for their too much subtilty in some things Mr. Hobs is thought too full of Reason in his Religion and the
transformed and made as God As the Lord spake concerning Moses saying I have made thee the God of Pharoah this is the true Rosie Crucian Philosophy of wonderful works that they understand not the Key thereof is the intellect for by how much higher things we understand with so much the sublimer vertues are we endowed and so much greater things do work and that more easily and efficatiously But our intellect being included in the Corruptible flesh unless it shall exceed the way of the flesh and obtain a proper Nature cannot be united to these vertues for like to like And is in searching into the Rosie Crucian secrets of God and Nature altogether in efficatious for it is no easie thing for us to ascend to the Heavens for how shall he that hath lost himself in Morral Dust and ashes find God How shall he apprehend spiritual things that is swallowed up in flesh and bloud can man see God and live what fruit shall a grain of Corn bear if it be not first dead for we must dye I say dye to the world and to the flesh and all sences and to the whole man Animal who would enter into these closets of secrets Not because the body is seperated from the soul but because the soul leaves the body of which death S. Paul wrot to the Collossians ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ And elsewhere he speaks more clearly of himself I know a Man whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tel God knows caught up unto the third heaven c. I say by this death pretious in the sight of God we must dye which happens to few and not always for very few whom God loves and are vertuous are made so happy And first those that are born not of flesh and blood but of God secondly those that are dignified by the blessed assistance of Angels and Genii the Power of Nature Influence of Planets and the Heavens and vertues of the figures and Ideas at their birth now this I humbly intreat you that you be not mistaken concerning me as if I at any time having received such divine things should boast of them to you or should arrogate any such thing to my self or could hope to have them granted to me Although I have hitherto kept my self unmarryed and free from the company of a woman yet I have been a souldier following the Armies of the King and in other Countries consecrated with mans bloud and exposed to all the blasts of inconstant fortune being crossed in my flesh in the world and worldly afairs and therefore could not obtain the sublime Gifts of the Immortal God But I would be accounted a director who always waiting at the dores shews to others which way they must go And here I present my self your most humble servant and honourer May the 9th 1664 ☽ 5 h â—â— A. M. John Heydon An Apologue for an Epilogue ABout the year 1648 we Studied Astronancy and Geomancy and writ the Harmony of the World in two Books the first Printed for Mr. Brome with the Temple of Wisdome at his house in Ivy-Lane The Holy Guide Elhavareuna being an Introduction to the Rosie Crucian philosophy and diversly Compiled in these Books in short words yet sufficient for those who are wise some of these things are written Methodically some without order pur posely some things are delivered by fragments some things are even hid and left for the search of the wise who more acutely contemplating these things which are written and diligently searching the Harmony of the World the Temple of Wisdome and the Holy Guide may obtain the Compleat rudiments of the Rosie Crucian Philosophy and also infallible experiments and if you desire to study these Books keep silence and Constantly conceal within the secret closet of your Religous breast so holy a determination for as Taphthartharath saith to publish to the knowledge of many an Art wholly filled with so great Majesty of the Deity is a sign of an Irreligious spirit and Divine Plato Commanded that holy and secret misteries should not be made publique to the people Pythagoras and Prophiry consecrated their followers to a religious Silence The Rosie Crucians with a certain terible authority of religion do exact an oath of silence from those they initiate to the Arts of Astromancy Geomancy Telesmaticall Images because by them the dead are raised to life by them they alter change and amend bodies cure the deseased prolong Life preserve Health renew youth in old folke make dwarfs grow great men make fools and Madmen wise and vertuous destroy the power of writchs by these Arts they make men fortunate in play law suits love victory over enimies in Horse Races in Gameing in Merchandize and at sea silencing the violent waves by these Arts they know all things and resolve all manner of questions present or to come as saith Beata YOu that admirers are of vertue stay Consider well what I to you shall say But you that sacred laws contemn prophane Away from hence return no more again But thou O my Eugenius whose mind is high Observe my words read them with thine eye And them within thy sacred breast repone And in thy journy thinke of God alone The Author of all things that cannot die Of whom we uow shall Treat And Engenius The odidactus Proclaims Beata Pulchra comes hence hence all ye prophane Theodidatus cryes from her grove refrain Now in celebrating the holy misteries of Hester Heaton and Beata Pulchra they only were admitted to be initiated Eugenius Theodidactus proclaiming the prophane vulgar to depart of these goddesses you may read at Large in our Temple of Wisdome in Esdras we read this precept concerning the Cabalisticall secret of the Hebrews declared in these verses thou shalt deliver those Books to the wisemen of the people whose hearts thou knowest can comprehend them and keep those secrets in the Temple of Wisdome you see obscure Figures of Astromancy and Geomancy whereunto is added the Alphabet of Angels or writing and Language of Haeven affording compendious words partly by Starrs Characters set in manner of a wheel thick the reading thereby being defended from the Curiosity of the prophane therefore my worthy Schollers in this science be silent and hide those things which are secret in Religion for the promise of silence is due to Religion as Tertullian affirms but they which do otherwise are in great danger Now concerning these secrets my Ingenious disciples I would tell you if it were lawfull to tell you you should know all if it were lawfull to hear it but both eares and tongue would contract the same guilt of rash curiosity the divine Goddess Hester Heaton sings in those verses the power of God The Heavens Ioves Roiall Pallace he 's King Fountain vertue and God of every thing He is omnipotent and in his brest Earth water fire and aire do take their rest Both night and day true
afflictions and false accusations I never saw him angry nor did he ever Arrest or imprison any man or woman in all his life yet no clyent of his was ever damnifyed in his suit He was falsly accused but lately of writing a Seditious Book and imprisoned in a Messengers Custody But his Noble friend the Duke of Buckingham finding him innocent and alwaies for the King he was then discharged and indeed this glorious Duke is a very good and just Judge and although some speak slightly of him he studies the way to preserve his King and Countrey in peace plenty and prosperity it is pitty the King hath no more such brave men as he a thousand such wise Dukes as this like Marshal'd Thunder back'd with flames of fire would make all the enemies of the King and Christendome Quake and the Turke flie before such great Generals in all submission we humbly pray for this Great Prince and leave him to his pleasure return to our subject John Heydon is not of that vain and presumptuous Nature as the Taylors that despise all Artists even Agrippa Appolonius More Vaughan and Tritemius And yet they cannot read these and many other Learned Authors they so impudently abuse Rob of their Learning and convert other mens parts to their own profit He lent one Ten pound in Gold he in requital or return speaks ill of him and pretends to know many admirable Rules of Geomancy and impertinently addes them to Nativities and applyes them to all manner of Questions in Astromancy but his Books being written so long since viz. near twenty years by himself their greediness of great maters is discovered and we now know them to be neither Scholers nor Gentlemen these hang up clouts with here are Nativities Calculated Questions resolved and all the parts of Astrology taught by us For three pence four pence six pence or higher if you please thus are young Apprentices old women and wenches abused and that they may be found for money they tell us the 12 Houses of heaven in the sign of a Coat of Arms are to be let when they might indeed set bills upon their brazen foreheads engraven thus Here are Rooms to be let unfurnished but our Author regards not these men all their scandals forgeries villanous devices they contrive against him he slights and scorns hath purposely forsaken Spittle-Fields his lodgings there to live a private Life free from the concourse of multitudes of people that daily followed after him but if any desire to be advised let them by way of letter leave their business at his Book-sellers and they shall have answer Counsel without reward for he is neither envious nor enemie to any man what I write is upon my own knowledge He writes now from Hermeupolis a place I was never at It seems by the word to be the City of Mercury and truly he hath been in many strang places among the Rosie Crucians And at their Castles Holy-houses Temples Sepulchres Sacrifices all the world knows this Gentleman studys honourable honest things and faithfully comunicates them to others yet if any traduce him hereafter they must not expect his Vindication he hath refered his quarel to the God of Nature it is involved in the concernments of his Truths and he is satisfied with the peace of a good conscience he hath been misinterpreted in his writing with studied Calumnies they disparage his person whom they never saw nor perhaps will see he is resolved for the future to suffer for he says God condemns no man for his patience the world indeed may think the truth overthrown because she is attended with his peace for in the Judgement of most men where there is no noise there is no victory this he looks upon as no dissadvantage the estimate of such censures will but lighten the scales and I dare suppose them very weak brains who conceives the truth sinks because it outweighs them as for tempestious out-crys when they want their Motives they discover an irreligious spirit one that hath more of the Hurry-eano then of Christ Jesus God was not in the wind that rent the rocks in peices nor in the Earth-quake and fire at Horeb. He was in Aura tenui in the stil smal voice his enemies are forc'd to praise his vertue and his friends are sorry he hath not 10000 pounds a year he doth not resent the common spleen who writes the truth of God hath the same Patron with the truth it self and when the world shall submit to the general Tribunal he will find his Advocate where they shall find their Judge there is Mutual Testimony between God and his Servants or nature and her Secretary If the Baptist did bear witness of Christ Christ did also as much for the Baptist He was a burning and a shining light when I writ this Gentlemans life God can bear me witness it was unknown to him and for no private ends but I was forc'd to it by a strong Admiration of the Mistery and Majesty of Nature written by this Servant of God and Secretary of Nature I began his Life some years since and do set it down as I do finde it if any man oppose this I shall answer if you are for peace peace be with you if you are for War I have been so too Mr. Heydon doth resolve never to draw Sword again in England except the King command him Now let not him that puts on the Armour boast like him that puts it off Gaudet patientia duris is his Motto and thus I present my self a friend to All Artists and enemy to no man Frederick Talbot Esq March 3 1662 3 To the Most Excellently Accomplished the truly honourable learned wise vertuous c Bevis Lloyd Esq Eternal Health be wished I Would have you know that I love and honor you beyond expression and shall serve you in Art and Nature to my power I have presumed to make you one in the number of my Noble Patrons because I hear the wickedness of some Pulpit Polititians incessantly rageing against my person which they never saw nor perhaps will see these sophistical Sicophants contend against me continually with bitter hatred envy and Malice without any provocation on my part one very proudly with a full mouth and loud voice aspersed me with Atheisme in St. Pauls Church in his morning Sermon the eight of May before the Lord Mayor and others Amonst a promiscuous people Railing against the Rosie Crucians who Art and Nature united Others in Coffee discourse and stinking smoak of Tobacco did fill the ears of the Ignorant with my infamy others in publique and private assemblies I hear do instigate the Dukes Princes and Peers of England c against me But my Religion being published I would have you know my Philosoply is to know God himself the worker of all things io pass into him by a whole Image of likeness as by an Essential Contract and bond whereby we may be
great it may controul More worlds then one And all your wit can rule March 26 die ♄ â— h 40 P. M 1664. Thomas Tilliâ—n a Philosopher by fire to the Duke of Buckingham To his Loving Ingenious friend Mr. John Heydon upon his Harmony of the World Temple of VVisdome and Holy Guide c. Mr Careless Phrase and words that lye Neglected This vertue have that they 'l not be suspected Others may over praise your Book for vve The best things often over-rated see So what I write will aequidistant lye From polisht wit and servile Flattery Bees from a bruised Ox says Maro breed But you draw honey from a * an envious Almanack Makers his deceitful enimy ♂ in ♉ Tatter'd weed Who borrow'd of you Gold yet doth complain Much of poverty whose empty Brain Measures the slow-part Planets by the glass And when th' Nativity's done its poor alas But now theventricles of your pregnant brain Give birth to a brave man issues without pain Seeing your wit 's so pure your phrase so clean Your sence so weighty that each lines a chain Of Gold 'twixt Jupiter Hismael and the Gods Mercury and Mars that are now at odds Your Book like a young true born Eagle may Behold the sun in publick at noon day Colton May 13 8 h. 30. A. M. Die ♀ Frederick Talbot Esq To his honour'd Friend Mr. John Heydon on his most excellent principles of Philosophy in The Harmony of the World The Temple of Wisdom The Holy Guid Hameguleh Hampaaneah Elhavareuna Ocia Imperialia and the Idea of the Lavv all written near 17 years since and by Gods Providence now printed WOuld you those Pillars see those Reliques have Ruins of time and knowledge Seth did save From the impetuous Sea when waves were all And all were waves within these Pages small You 'l find them in their antient Lustre shine Not counterfeit but rich and masculine Or what Fgyptian Sages sometime set In their Papyrus books Rowls vastly great VVhilst Arts and Letters were no common things But Preists and Poets Princes were and Kings E're Learning a Ludibrium became To the audacious Rout oh hapeless shame E're Sacred Page vulgar Thumbs could soil Thence feeding black Seditions lamp with oile Books Monuments of banish'd winds do live And if from pure Minerva's born survive VVhen titles tryumphs Arches Name become Silent i th' ruins of a ruin'd tombe VVhen Scipio's Pompey's Caesar's Lawrels may By long success of wasting years decay Good Books eternal products of the brain Not onely live but may grow fresh again March 26 1664. â— h 30 A. M. W. Smith Master of Arts of Clare Hall in Cambridge A Catalogue of those things contained in these Bookes First Book 1 The white Elixir of Quicksilver 2 The white Ferment 3 The red Elixir of Mercury alone 4 The red Ferment 5 The Accurtation of the red Elixir 6 The Phisicall and Alchimicall Tincture of thered Lion and the glue of the Eagle Second Book 1 The Elixir of Copper 2 Of Augmentation and projection 3 Of the Blessed stone or Elixir of Life and of its vertues and also of Malleable glass Third Book 1 The Elixir of Saturne white and red and also of Jupiter 2 The Abreviation of the work of Saturn 3 The Elixir of Mars 4 A short work of the Phisicall and Alchimicall Tinsture 5 The Magistry of Pearles 6 The Composition of Carbunkles 7 Of Minerall Electrum 8 The Explanation of the Philosophers words when they speak of the tenth number wherein the stone is perfected and also the wonderfull Secrets of the animiall stone with two other of his works The Rosie Crucian CROWN Set with Angels Planets and Mettals c. The First Book CHAP. I. 1 Of the Gold Mercury or Argent vive 2 Purification 3 Sublimation 4 Calcination 5 Exuberation 6 Solution 7 Separation 8 Conjunction 9 Putrefaction into Sulphur 10 Fermentation 11 Multiplication in vertue 12 Multiplication in quantity HE that can make the Stone of Argent vive or ☿ alone is the greatest searcher out of Art and Nature because there is all that in ☿ which wise men do seek for Quick-silver is the mother and sperm of all Metals and their nearest matter and it is not onely a spirit but a body it is also a middle Nature and also a sulphur it is a lingring ☿ it dieth and riseth again and is fixed with its own proper Elements wherefore it is first necessary that it be purged from its impurities The purgation or purification is on this wise grind it upon a Marble with a muller or a wodden Pestill in a wodden Morter with common salt and a little vinegar springled thereupon till the salt be black then wash it well with vineger and dry it easily at the fire or at the Sun then strain it through a double cloath or a new skin of a sheep till it be dry and the vineger clear taken away and be of a white colour and clear Grind it upon a Marble with a little ☿ sublimate and let it mortifie and in corporate with it then grind it with its equall weight of salt-Peter and green Coperas till it be like a paste Then put all into a subliming glass and in Ashes sublime all the ☿ that it be white and clear as snow in the head of the Limbeck sublime it again three times or oftener and iâ— will be pure ☿ and sublimate Put one pound of this ☿ sublimate into two pound of common Aqua fortis by little and little at once as by two at a time till all bâ— dissolved like sugar in wine then shut the glaâ— and set it in Balneo to dissolve the space of 1â— days then distil away the Aqua fortis in a lentheâ— in Balneo and the ☿ will remain in the bottom like butter of a white colour And calcined bâ— corrosive water Put this calcined ☿ into an Earthen bodâ— with a Limbeck and in ashes sublime the whole dissolved substance three times which will then be very white and then it is called Mercury Exuberate VVhen you have three or four pound of this receive the third part and fix it by often sublimation till it remain in a hard mass and ascend no more but remain fixed VVhich is called the Glue of the Eagle or the prepared body permanent and the volatile made fixed which is to be reserved for the earth of the stone Dissolve the other two parts in Balneo or in a cold Cellar or put it in a blader and hang it over suming hot water till it be all come to water Take this water thus made and digest it in a Circulatory well closed the space of nine days then put it in a body with a head and receiver well luted and in ashes or Balneo distill the water of a white coulour or milkie and is called Lac Virginis dissolving all mettalls and so you have seperated the spirit of the stone which is also called the lingring spirit and the white Tincture of
Lord Verulam is taxed for the length of Learning Paracelsus is envyed for hard words Sir Kenelm Digby is censured by Tho. Vaughan Dr. Barlovv for his tedious distinctions Des Cartes for the perplexity of his Method and in a word these very learned and most excellent Philosophers Phisitions and Divines that by the profoundness of their Judgement and splendor of their Eloquence have so illustrated the three Kingdomes as that they have left the world Just cause of their Admiration no hopes of Imitations even these have not escaped the like Misreprehensions for in the late years invectives have been written against these men yet who more learned then Sir Kenelme Digby more eloquent then Dr Barlow who more witty then Mr. More and Eugenius Philalethes who more acute then Mr. Hobs who more free and flued then Lord Verulam who more delightful and satisfactory then Gregory and Gafferell who more profound in Philosophy then Henry Agrippa Knight who more Candid and ingenious then Roger L'Estrange who more clear and transparent then Paracelsus who more distinct then Vincent Wing and succinct then Dr. Wallis yet all these in their respective and incomperable works have met with the said undue reprehensions If his works therefore shall chance to meet with some waspish humours let him consider the Climate Nor is it more then wants a president or less then needs a Charitable Construction which is the worst revenge can possibly be executed by such as chuse rather to suffer then offend Mr. JOHN HEYDON For the Taylors amongst the Almanack Makers carp at all the rest and envie all amongst Philosophers Democretus laugheth at all things Heraclitus weepeth at all things Pyrhias is ignorant of all things and Plato knoweth all things Diogenes contemnes all things This John Heydon fears none contemneth none is ignorant of none rejoyceth in none grieves at none laughes at none is angry with none but being himself a Philosopher he hath taught the way to happiness the way to long life the way to health the way to wane young being old and the way to resolve all manner of Questions Present and to Come by the Rules of Astromancy and Geomancy and how to raise the dead He is a man of Midle stature tending to tallness a handsome streight body an Ovall ruddy face mixed with a clear white his hair of a dark flaxen brown colour soft and curling in rings gently at the ends of the Locks his hands fingers long and slender his leggs and feet well proportioned so that to look upon he is a very compleat Gentleman But he never yet cast affection on a woman nor do I find him inclined to marry He is very often in great Ladies chambers and I believe his modest behaviour ther makes them the more delighted in his company The Princes and Peers not only of England but of Spain Italy France and Germany send dayly to him And upon every occasion he sheweth strong parts and a vigorous brain his wishes and aimes and what he pointeth at speak him owner of a noble and generous heart this Gentlemans Excellent Books are admired by the world of Lettered men as the prodigie of these later times indeed his works before mentioned if I am able to Judge any thing are full of the profoundest learning I ever met withall And I believe who hath well read and digested them will perswade himself there is no truth so abstruse nor hitherto conceived out of our reach But mans wit may raise Engines to scale and conquer I assure my self he is owner of a solid head and of a strong generous heart And if any should question my Judgement they may read the Comendations of both the Universities Oxford and Cambridge besides the learned Thomas White and Thomas Revell Esq both famous in Rome and other parts beyond Sea that have highly honoured this Gentleman in their Books yet he hath suffered many Misfortunes his Father was sequestered Imprisoned and lost two thousand pounds by Cromwell this Oliver imprisoned this son also two year half or thereabout in Lambeth-House For he and his Fathers Family were always for the King And endeavoured to the utmost his restoration And indeed the Tyrant was cruel to him but John Thurloe his Secretary was kind to him and pittied his curious youth And Joshua Leadbeater the Messenger kept him At his request and Mr. John Bradley's at his own house And gave him often leave to go abroad but being yet zealous and active for the King he was again taken and clapt up in Lambeth-House in these misfortunes it cost him 1000 l. and upwards after this some envious villains forged Actions of debt against him and put him in prison It seems at the begining of these misfortunes a certain Harlot would have him to marry her but denying her suit or that he ever promised any such thing and that he never spake to her in his life good or evil She devised with her confederates abundance of mischief against him see him she did in some Gentlemens company Many courted him to Marry but he denyed now there was left amongst a few old Almanacks and scraps of other mens wit Collected and bequeathed unto the world by Nic. Culpe as his own admired experience Alice Culpeper his widdow she hearing of this Gentleman that he was an Heir to a great fortune Courts him by letters of Love to no purpose the next Saint in order was she that calls her self the German Princess But he flies high and scorns such fowl great beasts the first of these two blessed birds in her life time caused one Heath to Arrest him another after him laid Actions against him that he never knew nor heard of In this perplexity was he imprisoned two years for they did desire nothing but to get money or destroy him for fear if ever he got his liberty he might then punish them He being of a Noble Nature forgave them all their malice and devices against him and scorns to revenge himself upon such pittiful things God indeed hath done him the justice for this Heath Consumes to worse then nothing and indeed if I can Judge or predict any thing his Baudy-houses will be Pawned and he will dye a miserable diseased beggar His Mistris when he was very young and a Clerke desired him to lye withher but he like Joseph refusing she hated him all her life God preserved him from their malice although one of these 3 lewd women swore this Gentleman practised the Art Magick she told Oliver Cromwell she saw familiar Spirits come and go to him in the shape of Conies and her maid swore she had often seen them in his Chamber when he was abroad and sometimes walking upon the house top in a Moon shine night and sometimes to vanish away into a wall or Aire and yet she never saw him in her life nor could she tell what manner of man he was But these stories were not Credited and for all these and many more
me from â—nvie and Malice I presume to call you Governour of my Regio Lucis and him Protector of Elhavareuna or the High Preist of the Rosie Cross and the Harmony of the world the Temple of Wisdome The Holy Guide Contain the power of Natural science and the most absolute Consummation therâ— of and that which is the Active part 〈◊〉 Figures which by the help of the naturâ—â— vertues of Mettalls from a Mutuall aâ—â— opportune application of them brings forâ—â— opperations even to Admiration whiâ—â— sciences the Rosie Crucians taught whâ—â— they came to worship our Saviour Chrâ—â— when he was born The Princes of all placâ—â— did study these sciences as Hiarthas Kiâ—â— of the Caldeans Jespion Prince of tâ—â— Brackmans Phroates The Indian Princeâ— Astaphon Duke of the Gimnsophists Budâ—â— King of Babilon Numa Pompillius Kiâ—â— of the Romans Zamoxides Emperour 〈◊〉 Thrace Abbaris Priest of the Hiperboreâ—â— Jewes Hermes Trismegist a King and Laâ— giver of Egypt Zoroaster the son of â—â—romasus King of Persia All these and maâ—â— more were Lovers of these Rosie Cruciâ—â— Infallible Axiomata and both writers anâ— patrons of this Kind of Learning 〈◊〉 Josephus The Hebrew Hermes Eranthâ—â— King of Arabia c. And Plato relates 〈◊〉 Alcibiades that the sons of the Persian Kingâ— were instructed in these sciences that thâ—â— might Learn to administer and distribuâ—â— their Image to the Common-wealth of tâ—â— world and the Common wealth to it and â—icero saith in his Books of Divination â—â—at there was none amongst the Persians â—id enjoy the Kingdome but he that had â—â—rst Learned Philosophy Rosie Crucians â—ontemplate the powers of Naturall and â—oelestial things and searching curiously â—nto their Simpathy doe produce incredible â—owers in Nature into Publique veiw so â—oupling Inferiour Telesmes Images Gaâ—â—hes and other things as Allurements to â—he Gift of superiour Angels Planets Genii Idea's And figures and other things â—â—at by the Mutuall application of Angels â—lanets and stars to Genji and figures of Geomancy upon Mattalls arise wonderfull Miracles not so much by Art as by â—ature to which Art becomes an Assistant â—hilest it works these things eelctions being â—ade of hours when Angels and Planets â—re strong figures and Characters rightly â—ngraven or cast uppon prepared Spermatick â—ure Mettall clear and fine free from â—ny Mixture and all fitted to the Angel â—lanet signe Idea figure of Geomancy â—nd these must be applyed to the person of â—he Querent or Native signified by the Angel Planet signe Genius Idea and figure who shall then find the Coelestiall and terrestriall powers unite to his desire and performe incredible extraordinary things at certain times Naturally and Rosie Crucianâ— as the most curious searchers of Nature making use of these things that are prepared by Nature only by appling fiery active things to Earthly passive things produce oftentimes effects before the time ordeined by Nature which the envious scriblerâ— think are Miracles and cry them down as Magicall with and in their under opinion termed Diabolicall which ineed are Naturall works the prevention only of the time coming betwixt as if any one should produce Roses in the Month of March and apple trees Blow and bear fruit in December and Ripe cherries Grapes and Beans in January or make parsly grow into perfect plant within few hours and cause greater things then these as Clouds rain Thunders and animalls of divers kinds and raise the Dead And spot Horses black and white like stars or any other colour and very many transmutatious of things these Books and Arts I submit you excelling in Jugment and Candour to your censure that if I have wrote any thing which may end either to the contumely of Nature offending God or injury of Religion you may condemn the errour but the scandall of Malicious persons being dissolved you may defend the tradition of Truth â—nd that you would do so with these Books â—â—d my self that nothing may be Concealed â—hich may be profitable and nothing approved of which cannot but do hurt by which â—â—eans the Harmony of the World The â—emple of Wisdome The Holy Guide â—egio Lucis and Elhavareuna having passed â—ur examination aswell as my other Paâ—â—ons with approbation may at Length be â—â—ought worthy to come forth with good sucâ—â—ss in publique as my other Books and may â—ot be afraid to come under censure of â—â—sterity because I wear the most Noble â—â—tle of â—prill the 5 th at noon 1664. Your most affectionate humble Servant and true honourer JOHN HEYDON The Rosie Crucian CROWN Set with Angels Planets and Mettals â—â— The Second Book CHAP. I. Of the blessed stone of the Philosophers 〈◊〉 the Elixir of life and also the way 〈◊〉 making malleable glasse 1 Elixir of life 2 Gold dissolved 3 Silvâ—â— dissolved 4 Gold melted 5 melted Silver 6 Projection of the red Medicinâ— 7 Projection of the white Medicine HERMES Speaking of fermentation bids us to take the sun and 〈◊〉 shadow by the shadow he meaâ—eth the moon because in respeâ—â— of dignity lustre and power 〈◊〉 is much more weak and inferiour then the 〈◊〉 And the moon followeth the sun as a shadow doth the body and is not illuminated except by the light of the sun we will first speak of the body that is to say of gold and after come to the shadow of which gold it is written in a book of Chimicall Art in this manner The Philosophers stone is made of gold alone and onely by nature and is more sublime then them which the Philosophers affirme cureth all infirmities According to the opinion of this Philosopher I purpose to begin with gold alone and the medicine which is a new and sole nature and antient and sound Quintessence But to the end this gold may be better and more pure it may be purged two manner of wayes that is to say by Antimony and by dissolution in corrosive waters with which copper plates are mixed as Goldsmiths use to do which is called water gold When you have thus prepared your gold project one part of your red medicine or red Elixir upon 100 parts thereof when your medicine is augmented in vertue and all that weight of molten gold will be converted into a red brittle masse which grind upon a marble to an impalpable powder Then dissolve these hundred parts or so much thereof as you please in distilled vineger or in spirit of wine and set it to disgest in Balneo the space of a day or two then distill the spirit of wine from it in Balneo and in the bottome will remain the fixed and pure oyl of the gold which is then the true Aurum potabile and spiritual Elixir of life if you would give to any one of this powder presently before it be converted to oyl warm a little white or Rhenish wine and dissolve in either of them so much of the red powder as will tincture the same into a red colour and the wine so tinctured will be Aurum potabile but it