Robert Fludd: Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of 2 Worlds [Paperback]

Joscelyn Godwin (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1, 1991

Robert Fludd was one of the last of the true Renaissance men who tool all learning as their preserve and tried to encompass the whole of human knowledge. Born in Elizabethan England, he became a convinced occultist while traveling on the Continent. His voluminous writings were devoted to defending the philosophy of the alchemists and Rosicrucians and applying their doctrines to a vast description of man and the universe. All of Fludd's important plates are collected here for the first time, annotated and explained together with an introduction to his life and thought.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: Phanes Pr (January 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933999690
• ISBN-13: 978-0933999695
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #843,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction to Robert Fludd., February 19, 2002

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This review is from: Robert Flood: Hermetic philosopher and surveyor of two worlds (Paperback)

Joscelyn Godwin has produced a perfect introduction to the hermetic philosophy of Robert Fludd. The book reproduces 124 illustrations from Fludd's encyclopedic volumes, which range from medical, alchemical, musical, cabbalistic, cosmological and astrological topics. Godwin provides a short commentary on each plate and an account of Fludd's life in the introduction. A must have for anyone interested in the history of the Western esoteric tradition.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnifical pictures and plates., August 8, 1998

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This review is from: Robert Fludd: Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of 2 Worlds (Paperback)

A beautful book, maybe the most wonderful Godwin's work. The plates and pictures just are comparable with a Manly Hall's "magnus opus", "The Secret Things of All Ages". Good spend of money.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Surveyor of 2 Worlds, November 12, 2009

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This review is from: Robert Fludd: Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of 2 Worlds (Paperback)

Robert Fludd is a link in the chain of Christian esotericism which includes figures as disparate as Origen, Hildegard, Eckhart, Ficino, Boehme, Emerson and Steiner; and he seems to have received his arcane knowledge not only from other writers but from the same source as all true theosophists before and since. Such people are often at variance with the established Churches, to whose authority they offer the challenge of a personal revelation. Cutting through the crystallizations of dogma, they approach the spiritual world directly, returning with a new vision of its inexhaustible riches. It was Fludd's virtue that he could present his vital teachings unmarred by his own psychology, and thus his work has always been prized as an inspired vehicle for universal truth.