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Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont

Belgian / France   1614 – 1699

Comments: [[Neoplatonism]]; [[Qabalist]]; [[Rosicrucian]]; Quakers;



Teachers: [[Christan Knorr von Rosenroth]];  [[Paracelsus]];  [[Jan Baptist van Helmont]], his Father; Dr. Johann Isaac [[Hollandus]];


Students: Franciscus van den Enden;  Juan de Cabriada; [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]];  Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway; [[Georg von Welling]]; 



Friends: Friends:  Dr. Edward Fowler; William Penn; [[Henry More]]; [[Valentine Greatrakes]]; Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury;  Adam Boreel;  Serrarius;  Benjamin Furly;  John Locke, corresponded 1688;  Johann Konrad Ammann;  Charles II; [[Robert Boyle]]; 

Enemies: Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine; 

Organizations: Cambridge '''Platonist''' school;  'the Lantern'; Quakers; Philadelphian Society, 1697;

Author: Alphabeti veri naturalis hebraici brevissima delineatio (in English,  Alphabet of Nature) (on Hebrew); Cabbalah Denudata (1677)(translated by S.L. [[MacGregor Mathers]] as Kabalah Unveiled in 1912; Opuscula philosophica (1690); 157 alchemical canons (read it here http://www.levity.com/alchemy/157canon.html);  Paradoxal Discourses, concerning the Macrocosm and Microcosm . . .(1685); – translated  “Adumbratio Kabbalae Christianae traduit du Latin pour la première fois” by [[Christan Knorr von Rosenroth]]; Nouveaux Essais; Two Hundred Queries, 1684; the Quaedam praemeditatae et consideratae cogitationes super quattuor capita libri primi Moisis aka Premeditate and Considerate Thoughts ,  1697,  translated in English 1701; translated [[Boethius]]’ De Consolatione Philosophiae with [[ Christan Knorr von Rosenroth]] aka Knorr von Rosenruth


 

Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus_Mercurius_van_Helmont; http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tku/index.htm for Mather's translation of Cabbalah Denudata ; http://www.digital-brilliance.com/contributed/Karr/VanHelmont/fmvhCabDial.pdf ; http://www.digital-brilliance.com/contributed/Karr/VanHelmont/index.php; https://compossivel.wordpress.com/2007/12/25/franciscus-mercurius-van-helmont/
http://www.digital-brilliance.com/contributed/Karr/VanHelmont/fmvhCabDial.pdf (Cabbalistical Dialogue); http://www.alchemyguild.info/Archives/16%20Kabbalah/Burmistrov%2C%20Endel%20-%20Kabbalah%20Russian%20Freemasonry.pdf ;