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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
His writings shew him to be a supreme adept of spiritual
alchemy, and he despised the gold which he claimed to be
able to manufacture. The history of this man who roamed
from place to place, performing the most lavish transmuta-
tions, but always anonymous, always obliterating his personality,
often disguised to conceal his identity, by his own
representation in continual dangers and difficulties through
the possession of his terrific secret, and gaining nothing by
his labours, is a curious study of the perversity of human
character for those who disbelieve in alchemy, and some
for the faith of those who believe in it. The essential
ground
elements of fraud are wanting, and the intellectual nobility
of the man, illuminated, moreover, by lofty religious aspira-
tions, is conspicuous in all his works.
The list of his writings is as follows :
" "
Anthroposophia Magica or a Discourse of the Nature
;
of Man and his State after Death.
scondita ;
Nature. London,
"
" Magia Adamica ;
" Anima Magica Ab-
or a Discourse of the Universall Spirit of
1650. 8vo.
" or the Antiquities of Magic, and the
descent thereof from Adam downwards proved. Where-
unto is added a perfect and full discovery of the " Ccelum
Terrse." London, 1650. 8vo.
The Man-Mouse taken in a Trap ... for Gnawing
the Margins of Eugenius Philalethes. (A satire on Henry
More, who attacked him in a pamphlet entitled " Observa-
1
tions upon 'Anthroposophia Magica,"
etc.)
London,
1650. 8vo.
" "
Lumen de Lumine ; or a New Magicall Light dis-
covered and communicated to the World, with the " Aphor-
ismi Magici Eugenianii." London, 1651. 8vo.
The Second Wash ; or The Moore Scour'd once more,