Фладд, Роберт

Dr. Robert Fludd AKA Robertus de Fluctibus England 1574 – 1637 Teachers: Paracelsus; Dr. William Harvey; Johannes Valentinus Andreae AKA Christian Rosenkreutz; Vitruvius; Dr. John Perrin; Master Gruter of Switzerland; Raymond Lull; Plato; Aristotle; Pythagoras; Hermes Trismegistus; Iamblichus; Cicero; Franciscus Georgius; John Duns Scotus AKA Doctor Subtilis; Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim;

Students: Sigmund Richter; John Amos Comenius; John Michael Greer; William H. Huffman; C. H. Josten; Madame Blavatsky; A.E. Waite; Marquis de Orizon, Viscomte de Cadenet; Duke of Guise, his brother Francois, a Knight of Malta; John Webster; Dr. Matthias Engelhart; Dr. Gergor M. Horst AKA The German Aesculapius; Justus Helt; Johann-Theodor de Bry; Hieronymus Gallerus; Jean Balthasar; Dr. Carl Jung; Athanasius Kircher; Johannes Theodorus de Bry, illustrator; Friends: Johannes Kepler; Sir William Paddy; Michael Maier; Sir William Harvey, discovered circulation; The Lord of Bourdalone; Reginaud of Avignon; The Elector Palatine; Landgrave Moritz the Learned; Adam Halsmayr; Enemies: Johannes Kepler, parted company as enemies; Andreas Libavius, Lutheran preacher; Rene Descartes; Marin Mersenne;

Organizations:Christ Church, Oxford; influenced philosophy of the Order of the Golden and Rosy Cross (co-founder) AKA Orden des Gold- und Rosenkreutz, (the Fraternity of the Golden and Rosy Cross); Author: Analysis confessionis Fraternitatis de Rosea Cruce (Analysis of the Confession of the Holy Cross) 1615; Apologia Compendiaria, Fraternitatem de Rosea Cruce suspicionis … maculis aspersam, veritatis quasi Fluctibus abluens, &c., Leyden, 1616; Tractatus Apologeticus integritatem Societatis de Rosea Cruce defendens, &c., Leyden, 1617.; Tractatus Theologo-philosophicus, &c., Oppenheim, 1617; The Tillage of Light of Patrick Scot, 1623 ; Mosaical Philosophy, read it here (http://www.levity.com/alchemy/mosaical.html); Utriusque cosmi aka History of the Macrocosm and Microcosm in 5 volumes, 1617-1624 AKA Technical, Physical and Metaphysical History of the Macrocosm and Microcosm (1617-1626), Brief Declaration to James I of England, defending himself against charges of heresy; A Philosophical Key, alchemical work describing experiments on wheat; Truth’s Golden Harrow, a defense of the physical reality of alchemy;

Comments: Magician ; Paracelsian physician; astrologer; math; cosmologist; Qabalist; Rosicrucian; Platonist; Memory ; perpetual motion machines; created Robert Fludd's Sephirothic Tree; interesting Paraclesian approach to battle wounds...put the treatment on the weapon rather than the injury aka a "weapon salve" see Dr. Fludd’s Answer unto M. Foster; agreed with Iamblichus over Porphyry that Astrology was insufficient to discover one's Holy Guardian Angel, that one needed to advance beyond the physical world markers to the Intelligences of the Planets (see Higher Authority than mere scientific knowledge); Magnetism was the sexual attraction of the Universe towards union the God-force;

Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fludd; http://www.ralph-abraham.org/ficino/chronos/fludd.txt; http://hermetic.com/caduceus/articles/1/4/opening-the-fludd-gates.html; Robert Fludd: essential readings by William H. Huffman;