John Heydon

John Heydon

John Heydon , pseudonym Eugenius Theodidactus (born September 10, ^jul. / 20th September  1629 ^greg. In London , † 1670) was an English writer , astrologer , occultist and Rosicrucian .

Life

Horoscope by John Heydon

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

In 1656 he married the widow of the astrologer Nicholas Culpeper . Shortly before the end of the Cromwell era , Heydon was imprisoned and released in 1660 due to the start of the Restoration . A few years later he was put back behind bars over debts and the sale of secret papers from the Duke of Buckingham .

Works

• Eugenius Theodidactus, the Prophetical Trumpeter ... (1655)
• A New Method of Rosie Crucian Physick ... (1658)
• The Rosie Crucian Infallible Axiomata; or, general 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 in three parts, spiritual, celestial, and elemental: containing the occult powers of the angels of astromancy in the telesmatical sculpture of the Persians and Egyptians: 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)

literature

• William Arthur Jobson Archbold: Heydon, John (fl. 1667) . In: Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (eds.): Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), Volume 26 (Henry II - Hindley), MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City, London 1891, p. 317 -318 (English)
• Arthur Edward Waite: The Real History of the Rosicrucians . George Redway, London 1887, pp. 315-386. on-line