John Heydon

John Heydon
Tavalludi	10-sentyabr 1629-yil London, Angliya qirolligi
Vafoti	1667-yil Britaniya
Fuqaroligi	Birlashgan Qirollik
Kasbi	Muallif, faylasuf, astrolog

John Heydon – ingliz faylasufi-neoplatonisti, okkultist, astrolog, rozenkreyser.

Biografiya

Angliya inqilobi boshlanganida qadimgi tillar va huquqshunoslikni oʻrganishni toʻxtatishga majbur boʻlgan va kavaleriyada xizmat qilgan. 1651-yilda Ispaniya, Shimoliy Afrika, Yaqin Sharqqa sayohat qilgan. Vataniga qaytgach, advokat sifatida faoliyat yuritgan, zodiak taqvimlarini tuzgan. 1656-yilda mashhur shifokor, botanik va farmatsevt Nikolas Kalpeperning bevasi bilan turmush qurgan. Angliya respublikasining soʻnggi yillarida rojalist sifatida qamoqqa olingan. 1660-yilda ozodlikka chiqqan. Biroq, 1663, 1664 va 1667-yillarda qisqa muddatli qamoqda boʻlgan, oxirgi marta – uning homiysi Bekingem gersogining fitnachilik faoliyatida ishtirok etgani uchun qamoqqa olishgan.

Qiziqishlari

Tomas Braun va Tomas Vonning asarlari, Francis Baconning „Yangi Atlantida“ asari unga katta taʼsir koʻrsatgan, ushbu mualliflardan koʻp narsani oʻzlashtirgan. Alkimyo va geomantiyaga qiziqqan.

Asarlari

• Eugenius Theodidactus, the Prophetical Trumpeter. (1655);
• A New Method of Rosie Crucian Physick. (1658)
• The Rosie Crucian Infallible Axiomata; or, generall rules to know all things past, present, and to come (1660);
• The Idea of the Law, charactered from Moses to King Charles: whereunto is added, The idea of government and tyranny (1660);
• The Harmony of the World. (1662);
• The English Physitians Guide: or a Holy Guide] (1662);
• Theomagia, or the temple of wisdom in three parts, spiritual, celestial, and elemental: containing the occult powers of the angels of astromancy in the telesmatical sculpture of the Persians and Ægyptians: the mysterious vertues of the characters of the stars…the knowledge of the Rosie Crucian physick, and the miraculous secrets of nature. (1662-1664);
• Psonthonpanchia. (1664);
• The wise-mans crown, or, The glory of the rosie-cross (1664);
• Elhavarevna; or, the English Physitianʼs Tutor in the Astrobolismes of Metals Rosie Crucian (1665).

Adabiyotlar

• Yeyts F. Rozenkreyserskoe Prosveщenie. M.: Aleteya; Enigma, 1999, s.234-236.
• Waite A. E. The Real History of the Rosicrucians. London: George Redway, 1887, p. 315–386 ([1]).
• Willard T. Heydon, John // Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism. – Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2006. – S. 570-571. – ISBN 978 90 04 15231 1.