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THE

HOLY GUIDE

LEADING THE WAY TO THE WONDER OF THE WORLD

A compleat Physician teaching the knowledge of all things, Past,

Present and yet to Come, viz, of Pleasure, Long Life, Health,

Youth, Blessedness, Wisdom and Virtue, and to Cure, Change and

Remedy all Diseases in both Young and Old.

WITH ROSIE CRUCIAN MEDICINES, WHICH

ARE VERIFIED BY A PRACTICAL EXAMIN-

ATION OF PRINCIPLES IN THE GREAT WORLD,

AND FITTED FOR THE EASIE UNDERSTANDING,

PLAIN PRACTICAL USE, AND BENEFIT OF

MEAN CAPACITIES.

By John Heydon, Gent.,

, a servant of God, and a

Secretary of Nature.

“And he took the golden Calf which they had made,

and burned it £n the Fire, and ground it to powder, and

strewed it upon the Water, and made the Children of

Israel drink of it”. EXO. 32, V. 20.

LONDON

Printed by T.M. and are to be sold by Thomas Whittlesey at the

Globe in Cannon Street near London-Stone, and at all Booksellers

and Shops. 1682.

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The

Holy Guide

Leading the Way to

Long Life, Health, Youth,

Blessedness, Wisdom and Virtue,

and to Change, Cure, Alter and Asend the state of the

Body.

All being made plain and easie to mean Capacities.

By John Heydon, Gent.

A Servant of God and

Secretary of Nature.

Aude ignis vocem.

LONDON. Printed by T.M. 1662.

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To The

Truly Noble

By All Titles,

Sir John Hammer,

Barronet.

Sir,

Your Worthiness and grateful acceptance of this kind of

Learning, which I promised your honourable self, I would put

forth, is now flown to your Temple of Safety, Knowledge,

Perfection, or acquired parts for refuge and protection, from

the wickednesse of itinerant scandalous Pulpit Sycophants,

achool-sophisters, and some of my own profession,

Lawyers: I mean the Phanatick Rable of Gown—men, that rage

against the King and Bishops, whom God preserve out of their

power: these contend against me continually, and contemn that

which they do not know. But take heed ye unwise among the

people; 0 ye fooles, when will ye understand? they Judge they

know not what, and condemn without evidence. This HOLY GUIDE,

which about ten years past, with some others of af finity

thereto, for my private exercise and satisfaction I had at

leisure, composed; which being communicated unto one, it became

common unto many; and was by transcription successively

corrupted, until it arrived in a most depraved copie to Doctor

NICHOLAS CULPEPPER, and from him many had Copies, which Bone

highly esteemed, and others abused: it came to pass about seven

years past, I ehewed my true Virgin invention in manuscript to

the learned Mathematician Mr. JOHN GADBURY, who was then in

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comapny with Captain GEORGE WHORTON and other Gentlemen, of

which one had a Copy, but imperfect; and therefore knowing me to

be the Author, intreated me to publish mine: I suspected my

ability, because it was set down many years past, when I was

very young, and was the sense of my Conceptions at that tine,

not an immutable law unto my advancing Judgement at all times;

and therefore there might be many things therein plausible unto

my passed apprehension, which are not agreeable to my present

self; therefore unwilling any work of mine should be printed.

But at last I was persiaded; Now the enemies of King Charles &

the Bishops, very proudly, with full mouth, bitter hatred, envy,

malice and calumnies, hindred me from putting of it forth. Hence

I began to be at a stand, whether I should put forth the rest of

the book, or no; whilst I did doubt that I should by this means

expose my self to publick censure, and as it were cast my self

out of the smoke into the fire, a certain rude fear seised upon

me, lest by putting then forth I should seem more offensive then

officious to you, and expose your Worship to the envy of

malicious carpers and tongues of detracters, whilst these things

trouble me with a various desparation, the quickness of your

understanding, exact discretion, uprightness of Judgement,

Religion without Superstition, and other most known Virtues in

you, your authority and integrity beyond exception, which can

easily check and bridle the tongues of slanderers, removed my

doubting, and informed me to set upon that again more boldly,

which I had almost left off, by reason of dispaire: Therefore

(most honoured Sir) take in good part, this book, in which we

shew the mysteries of Astromancy and Geomancy, Art and Nature,

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Celestial and Terrestiall, all things bing opened and

manifested; which experienced Antiquity makes relation of, and

which came to my knowledge, that these Secrets of R. CRUCI*jt$

(hitherto neglected, and not fully apprehended by men of later

tines), Nay with your protection be by me, after the shewing of

Natural Virtues proposed to them that are studious and curious

of these secrets: by which let him that shall be profited, and

receive benefit, give you the thanks, who have been the occasion

of this publication, and setting of it at liberty to be seen

abroad, wearing the fionourable Title of

May 1.

1662.

SIR,

Your humble Servant,

John Heydon.

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