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Libra Esoterica

The harmony of the world

being a discourse of God, heaven, angels, stars, planets, earth, the miraculous descentions and ascentions of spirits : with the nature and harmony of mans body, the art of preparing Rosie Crucian medicines to cure all diseases : their rules to raise bodies decayed, which are verified by a practical examination of principles in the great world : whereunto is added, the state of the New Jerusalem, grounded upon the knowledge of nature, light of reason, phylosophy and divinity : all fitted to the understanding, use and profit of wisdomes children, and communicated to the sons of art

by John Heydon & Thomas Cross

  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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In this book Heydon described the spirits, an idea and motion, the angels that rule spirits and planets. Gave explanation of the cause to be sounds and music. Also explained the stars - their beams reflection and interaction.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism, Astrology, Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Demonology, angelology, and possession, Initiatory orders and secret societies, Occultism and esotericism, and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “Occultism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Occultism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Occultism”· via Open Library
    • “Occultism”· in subject
  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magic”· via Internet Archive
    • “Magic”· via Open Library
    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    A contributing source assigned this topic during controlled cataloging, but the exact triggering term is not present in the merged metadata.

  • Astrology

    A contributing source assigned this topic during controlled cataloging, but the exact triggering term is not present in the merged metadata.

  • Initiatory orders and secret societies

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Rosicrucians”. Retained metadata contains “Rosicrucians” in the subject metadata.

    • “Rosicrucians”· via Internet Archive
    • “Rosicrucians”· via Open Library
    • “Rosicrucians”· in subject
  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Retained metadata contains “Angels” in the subtitle, “Angels” in the description, and “Angels” in the edition subtitle.

    • “Angels”· in subtitle
    • “Angels”· in description
    • “Angels”· in edition subtitle
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Mysticism”.

    • “Mysticism”· via Open Library

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Editions

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being a discourse of God, heaven, angels, stars, planets, earth, the miraculous descentions and ascentions of spirits : with the nature and harmony of mans body, the art of preparing Rosie Crucian medicines to cure all diseases : their rules to raise bodies decayed, which are verified by a practical examination of principles in the great world : whereunto is added, the state of the New Jerusalem, grounded upon the knowledge of nature, light of reason, phylosophy and divinity : all fitted to the understanding, use and profit of wisdomes children, and communicated to the sons of art

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1662London : Printed for Robert Horn, and are to be sold at his shop ...; Printed for Robert Horn, and are to be sold at his shop ...English—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Getty Research Institute
  • Digitization sponsor: Getty Research Institute
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; gettyalchemy
  • Scanner: scribe1.santamonica.archive.org
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openlibrary-work:OL15566030W
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