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ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS : JOHN HEYDON. 345
and with it these tokens mystery and signet ;
the one
be sure to use both with discretion.
opens, the other shuts ;
As for the mysteries of the Eosie Cross, you have my
Library to peruse them all. There is not anything here
but I will gladly reveal it unto you ; I will teach you the
virtues of numbers, of names, of angels, and genii of men.
I have one precept to commend to you you must be silent.
You shall not in your writings exceed my allowance ; re-
member that I am your love, and you will not make me a
prostitute.
But because I wish you serviceable to those of
your own disposition, I give you an emblematical type of
my sanctuary, namely, the Axiomata of the E. C., the
secrets of numbers, with a full priviledge to publish it. And
now I am going to the invisible region, amongst the
ethereal goddesses.
you, Out of sight,
happy."
Let not that proverb take place with
out of mind. Eemember me and be
I asked her if she would favour me with her name. To
this she replyed very familiarly, as if she had known me
long before
"
: My dear friend H., I have many names,
but my best beloved is Euterpe. Observe in your E. C.
Axiomata that the genuine time of impression of characters,
names, angels, numbers, and genii of men,
is when the
principles are Spermade and Callado ; but being once
coagulated to a perfect body,
the time of stellification is
past. Now the E. C. in old time used strange astrological
lamps, images, rings, and plates, with the numbers and
names engraven, which at certain hours would produce in-
credible extraordinary effects. The common astrologer he
takes a piece of metalls, another whining associate he helps
him with a chrystal stone, and these they figure with
ridiculous characters, and then expose them to the planets,