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Roberto Fludd, também conhecido como Robertus de Fluctibus foi um médico paracelsista, alquimista, astrólogo, matemático e cosmologista inglês.

Sua vida foi fortemente ligada ao esoterismo. Estudou artes em Oxford, no Saint John the Baptist College, e medicina no College of Physicians de Londres. Morreu em 1637. Viajou pelo continente europeu por anos e depois estabeleceu-se em Londres como médico.

Escreveu uma apologia defendendo os rosa-cruzes, publicada com a intenção de ser admitido na fraternidade, mas, para seu descontentamento, não obteve resposta e ainda foi acusado de magia diabólica e de ligação com a fraternidade. O rei James I foi seu patrono, após uma conversa com ele, ocasionada por acusações de heresia. Dizem que ajudou na tradução da Bíblia. Seus trabalhos incluem tratados sobre o macrocosmo e o microcosmo, experiências alquímicas , uma defesa do bálsamo de arma , entre outros assuntos. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. Janeiro 1574 – 8. Setembro 1637
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Robert Fludd: Frases em inglês

“Particulars are frequently fallible, but universals never. Occult philosophy lays bare Nature in her complete nakedness, and alone contemplates the wisdom of universals by the eyes of intelligence. Accustomed to partake of the rivers which flow from the Fountain of Life, it is unacquainted with grossness and with clouded waters.”

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Robert Fludd, cited in: Arthur Edward Waite (1887). The Real History of the Rosicrucians Founded on Their Own Manifestoes https://archive.org/stream/realhistoryofros00waituoft#page/290/mode/1up. p. 290
Waite commented: "Like others of his school, Fludd insists on the uncertainty of a posteriori and experimental methods, to which he unhesitatingly attributes all the errors of the natural sciences..."

“But, good God, what is this when compared with that deep and true music of the wise, whereby the proportions of natural things are investigated, the harmonical concord and the qualities of the whole world are revealed, by which also connected things are bound together, peace established between conflicting elements, and whereby each star is perpetually suspended in its appointed place by its weight and strength, and by the harmony of its lucent spirit”

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Robert Fludd, cited in: Waite (1887, p. 291)

“The art, also, of alchemy or chemistry is surrounded with such insoluble enigmas that we can scarcely gain anything but ignorance therefrom, and ignotum per ignotius.”

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Robert Fludd, cited in: Waite (1887, p. 291)

“Which of us has, at this day, the ability to discover those true and vivific numbers whereby the elements are united and bound to one another?”

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Robert Fludd, cited in: Waite (1887, p. 291); On arithmetic

“But absolutely nothing remains of that one and only medicament of which Hippocrates makes mention (darkly and mystically, I admit) in several places, and still less are its operations understood, inasmuch as no one now searches with lynx-like eyes into the profound depths of true natural philosophy, to gain an accurate knowledge of its composition and its virtues.”

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Robert Fludd, cited in: Waite (1887, p. 290)
According to Waite: "In Medicine he laments the loss of that universal panacea referred to by Hippocrates."

“Geomancy was a natural art, drawing on the inborn powers of the human soul to glean information from the larger soul of the world.”

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Robert Fludd, in The Art and Practice of Geomancy: Divination, Magic, and Earth Wisdom of the , p. 24.