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Curious Books.
CURIOUS BOOKS .
BY BOOKWORM . No . IV . " STROLOGY Proved Harmless , Useful , Pious . " Being a sermon
\ ** - *•* - written by Richard Carpenter . London : Printed for Jas . Cottrel , by John Allen , at the Rising Sun , and Joseph Barber , at the Lamb , in St . Paul's Church-yard . 1657 . This curious old tract , though called a sermon , does not , on the
face of it , appear to have been preached , though it may have been so . It is dedicated to "Doctissimo Domino et amico meo , Elise Ashmole , " etc ., and has a preface dedicatory also to the Honourable Society of Asti-ologers . I cazmot , at this moment , put my hands on "Ashmole ' s Diary , "
to see i £ he mentions Carpenter ' s " nominatim ; ' but if I remember rightly , just as he frequently refers to the Astrologer ' s feast and to its revival , so he also mentions attendance on a sermon . There are extant sermons thus preached , and I hope to allude to one of them in the next Magazine . This sermon or address is a learned defence of
Astrology , though it is noteworthy and interesting to observe that Carpenter does not allude to any Hermetic association , no does he mention the Rosicrucian Fraternity . He does , indeed , speak of " noble students of astrology " and the Society of Astrologers , but this is all he says . On referring to Kenning ' s Clyclopsedia , I do not
find Carpenter ' s name in the list under astrologers , or Lilly . Perhaps my learned friend , Bro . Rylands , can tell me something of Carpenter , and who he was , —a city clergyman , or what ?
Tlie German , or rather Nicolai's theory , that English Fz-eeznasonry takes its colouring from Ashmole ' s Hermeticism , so far is not borne out by facts . Ashmole was , no doubt , as his friend , Richard Carpenter , terms him , "Fortissime Literarum Astrologicorum Atlas ; " but whatever seventeenth century Freemasonry was , " quod est perbandum , "
the Freemasonry of 1723 , as evidenced by Anderson ' s explanatory statement of that year , had little Hermeticism in it . That an Hermetic system or gz-ade flourished synchronously with the revival of 1717 , I am , for many reasons , inclined to believe , and that Elias Ashmole may have kept up a Rose Croix Fraternity is within the bounds of possibility . But so far we have no proof ; and until we
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Curious Books.
CURIOUS BOOKS .
BY BOOKWORM . No . IV . " STROLOGY Proved Harmless , Useful , Pious . " Being a sermon
\ ** - *•* - written by Richard Carpenter . London : Printed for Jas . Cottrel , by John Allen , at the Rising Sun , and Joseph Barber , at the Lamb , in St . Paul's Church-yard . 1657 . This curious old tract , though called a sermon , does not , on the
face of it , appear to have been preached , though it may have been so . It is dedicated to "Doctissimo Domino et amico meo , Elise Ashmole , " etc ., and has a preface dedicatory also to the Honourable Society of Asti-ologers . I cazmot , at this moment , put my hands on "Ashmole ' s Diary , "
to see i £ he mentions Carpenter ' s " nominatim ; ' but if I remember rightly , just as he frequently refers to the Astrologer ' s feast and to its revival , so he also mentions attendance on a sermon . There are extant sermons thus preached , and I hope to allude to one of them in the next Magazine . This sermon or address is a learned defence of
Astrology , though it is noteworthy and interesting to observe that Carpenter does not allude to any Hermetic association , no does he mention the Rosicrucian Fraternity . He does , indeed , speak of " noble students of astrology " and the Society of Astrologers , but this is all he says . On referring to Kenning ' s Clyclopsedia , I do not
find Carpenter ' s name in the list under astrologers , or Lilly . Perhaps my learned friend , Bro . Rylands , can tell me something of Carpenter , and who he was , —a city clergyman , or what ?
Tlie German , or rather Nicolai's theory , that English Fz-eeznasonry takes its colouring from Ashmole ' s Hermeticism , so far is not borne out by facts . Ashmole was , no doubt , as his friend , Richard Carpenter , terms him , "Fortissime Literarum Astrologicorum Atlas ; " but whatever seventeenth century Freemasonry was , " quod est perbandum , "
the Freemasonry of 1723 , as evidenced by Anderson ' s explanatory statement of that year , had little Hermeticism in it . That an Hermetic system or gz-ade flourished synchronously with the revival of 1717 , I am , for many reasons , inclined to believe , and that Elias Ashmole may have kept up a Rose Croix Fraternity is within the bounds of possibility . But so far we have no proof ; and until we