John Heydon

Sir John Heydon, pseudonym Eugenius Theodidactus (born 10 Septemberjul / September 20 1629greg in London. . † around 1670 ) was an English writer, astrologer, occultist and Rosicrucian.

Life

Heydon studied Latin, Greek and Jura, served during the English Civil War on the side of the royalists and then toured Italy, Spain, Egypt, Arabia and Persia. After his return to England he continued to move in royalist circles and distinguished himself as a clairvoyant.

In 1656 he married the astrologer Nicholas Culpeper widow. Shortly before the end of the Cromwell era Heydon was imprisoned, released in 1660 due to the commencement of the restoration. A few years later he had behind bars again for debt and because of the sale of secret papers of the Duke of Buckingham.

Works

  • Eugenius Theodidactus, the Prophetical Trumpeter ... ( 1655)
  • A New Method of Rosie Crucian Physick ... ( 1658)
  • The Rosie Crucian Infallible axioms; or, generall rules to know all things past, present, and to come (1660 )
  • The Harmony of the World ... ( 1662)
  • The English Physitians Guide: or a Holy Guide ( 1662)
  • Theomagia, or the temple of wisdom into three parts, spiritual, celestial, and elemental: Containing the occult powers of the angels of astromancy in the telesmatical sculpture of the Persians and Ægyptians: the mysterious vertues of the characters of the stars ... the knowledge of the Rosie Crucian physick, and the miraculous secrets of nature ... ( three parts, 1662/4 )
  • Psonthonpanchia ... ( 1664)
  • Elhavarevna; or, the English Physitian 's tutor in the Astrobolismes of Metals Rosie Crucian ( 1665)
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