Memorial - Robert Fludd - 377 years ago TODAY also known as Robertus de Fluctibus (17 January 1574 – 8 September 1637), was a prominent English Paracelsian physician. He is remembered as an astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist. Fludd is best known for his compilations in occult philosophy. He had a celebrated exchange of views with Johannes Kepler concerning the scientific and hermetic approaches to knowledge. - Wikipedia THE central figure of Rosicrucian literature, towering as an intellectual giant above the crowd of souffleurs, theosophists, and charlatanic professors of the magnum opus, who, directly or otherwise, were connected with the mysterious Brotherhood, is Robertus de Fluctibus, the great English mystical philosopher of the seventeenth century, a man of immense erudition, of exalted mind, and, to judge by his writings, of extreme personal sanctity... I should rank the Kentish mystic second to none among the disciples of the divine Theophrastus, while in the profundity and extent of his learning, there can be no question that he far surpassed his master, who is said to have known little but to have divined almost everything, and who is, therefore, called divinus, in the narrower sense of that now much abused term. - The Real History of the Rosicrucians, by Arthur Edward Waite, [1887] A Journey through his published works (actual publications are rare): https://secure.flickr/photos/uofglibrary/sets/72157639615853183/
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:26:22 +0000
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