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ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS : JOHN HEYDON. 321
and the character of my spirit Taphzabnezeltharthaseraphim
arah,
of birth.
projected by a learned lord for the honour (? hour)
Now let any astrologer, geomancer, philosopher, &c., judge
my geniture ; the figures are right according
to the exact
time of my birth, rectified by accidents and verified by the
effects of directions. Now in the midst of all my endeav-
ours, there is but one thought that dejects me that my
acquired parts must perish with myself, nor can be legacyed
amongst my dearly beloved and honoured friends. I do not
fall out or contemn a man for an errour, or conceive why a
difference in opinion should divide an affection; for a modest
reproof or dispute, if it meet with discreet and peaceable
natures, doth not infringe the laws of charity in all argu-
ments.
" When the mid heaven was directed to the Trine of the
Moon, I writ another book, and entituled it,
' The Funda-
mental Elements of Philosophy, Policy, Government and the
Laws,' &c. After this time I had many misfortunes, and
yet I think there is no man that apprehends his own miseries
less than myself, and no man that so nearly apprehends
another's. I could lose an arm without a tear, and with few
groans, methinks, be quartered into pieces, yet can I weep
seriously, with a true passion,
to see the mercilesse Rebels
in England forge a debt against the King's most loyall subx