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==Author, occultist, and legal problems== | ==Author, occultist, and legal problems== | ||
He attracted attention in royalist and [[occultist]] circles for [[divination|predicting the future]], including the death of Oliver Cromwell, then Protector. Their royalist connections caused both Francis and John Heydon to be imprisoned in the final years of the Commonwealth era. The Restoration of 1660 resolved Heydon's incarceration – though he was imprisoned briefly later in 1663 for dealing in suspect (treasonous) literature, and in 1664 for debt. | He attracted attention in royalist and [[occultist]] circles for [[divination|predicting the future]], including the death of Oliver Cromwell, then Protector. Their royalist connections caused both Francis and John Heydon to be imprisoned in the final years of the Commonwealth era. The Restoration of 1660 resolved Heydon's incarceration – though he was imprisoned briefly later in 1663 for dealing in suspect (treasonous) literature, and in 1664 for debt. | ||
His 1663 book, ''[[Theomagia|Theomagia Fundamentals of Geomancy]]'', remains a fundamental text concerning the [[divination]] art of [[geomancy]]. In it, he describes the characteristics for numerous geomantic spirits (including [[Zazel]]) which are not found in other [[grimoire]]s of the period. | |||
In 1665, Heydon published ''Psonthonphanchia, or a Quintuple Rosiecrucian Scourge for the due Correction of that Pseudo-chymist and Scurrilous Emperick, Geo. Thomson'', a fierce response to a pamphlet issued by physician George Thomson criticising the conduct of those members of the Royal College of Physicians who left the city during the Great Plague of London of 1665–66. | In 1665, Heydon published ''Psonthonphanchia, or a Quintuple Rosiecrucian Scourge for the due Correction of that Pseudo-chymist and Scurrilous Emperick, Geo. Thomson'', a fierce response to a pamphlet issued by physician George Thomson criticising the conduct of those members of the Royal College of Physicians who left the city during the Great Plague of London of 1665–66. | ||