See also:FLUDD, or FLUD, See also:ROBERT [ROBERTUS DE FLUCTIBUS] (1574-1637)
, See also:English physician and mystical philosopher, the son of See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Fludd, treasurer of See also:war to See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth in See also:France and the See also:Low Countries, was See also:born at Milgate, See also:Kent
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After studying at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, he travelled in See also:Europe for six years, and became acquainted with the writings of See also:Paracelsus
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He subsequently returned to Oxford, became a member of See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, took his medical degrees, and ultimately became a See also:fellow of the College of Physicians
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He practised in See also:London with success, though it is said that he combined with purely medical treatment a See also:good See also:deal of faith-healing
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Following Paracelsus, he endeavoured to See also:form a See also:system of See also:philosophy founded on the identity of See also:physical and spiritual truth
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The universe and all created things proceed from See also:God, who is the beginning, the end and the sum of all things, and to him they will return
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The See also:act of creation is the separation of the active principle (See also:light) from the passive (darkness) in the bosom of the divine unity (God)
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The universe consists of three worlds; the archetypal (God), the macrocosm (the See also:world), the See also:microcosm (See also:man)
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Man is the world in See also:miniature, all the parts of both sympathetically correspond and act upon each other
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It is possible for man (and even for the See also:mineral and the plant) to undergo transformation and to win See also:immortality
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Fludd's system may be described as a materialistic See also:pantheism, which, allegorically interpreted, he put forward as containing the real meaning of See also:Christianity, revealed to See also:Adam by God himself, handed down by tradition to See also:Moses and the patriarchs, and revealed a second See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time by Christ
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The opinions of Fludd had the See also:honour of being refuted by See also:Kepler, Gassendi and See also:Mersenne
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Though rapt in mystical See also:speculation, Fludd was a man of varied attainments, He did not disdain scientific experiments, and isthought by some to be the See also:original inventor of the See also:barometer
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He was an ardent defender of the Rosicrucians, and De Quincey considers him to have been the immediate, as J
.
V
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See also:Andrea was the remote, See also:father of See also:freemasonry
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Fludd died on the 8th of See also:September 1637
.
See J
.
B
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See also:Craven, See also:Robert Fludd, the English Rosicrucian (1902), where a See also:list of his See also:works is given; A
.
E
.
See also:Waite, The Real See also:History of the Rosicrucians (1887) ; De Quincey, The Rosicrucians and See also:Free-masons; J
.
See also:Hunt, Religious Thought in See also:England (1870), i
.
240 seq
.
His works were published in 6 vols., See also:Oppenheim and See also:Gouda, 1638
.
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