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Curious Books.
CURIOUS BOOKS .
BY BOOKWORM . No . V . A CURIOUS Book is "Stella Nova , " "A New Starre , " Ac . - * - * - Preached before the learned society of Astrologers , August ,
1649 , In the Church of S . Mary Alder Mary , London . By Robert Gell , D . D ., Minister of the Word there . London : Printed for Samuel Satterthwaite , and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Sun , on Garlick Hill , 1649 . The date of the sermon is three years after Elias Ashmole ' s
initiation at Warrington , but there is no mention of him in it ( as there is in Carpenter ' s address , 1657 ) , nor any allusion to Rosicrucians , except that the preacher terms the body he is addressing the " learned societie of Artists or Students in Astrologie . " In the sermon he addresses " the learned Society of Artists , " and
gives a very interesting history , ( if a little fanciful ) , and a learned defence of astrology . His sermon is , of course , a purely Christian sermon , delivered in a City church , and is another evidence , if evidence be needed , that an Hermetic Society in 1649 was flourishing
and in numbers in the City of London . What its influence on , or connexion with , eighteenth century Freemasonry is another matter , on which I need not enter here . In Elias Ashmole ' s diary for 1649 , we find this remark : August , " The Astrologers feast at Painters' Hall , where I dined . " He does
not mention the attendance at church . Elias Ashmole was " made a Freemason , " as he says , at Warrington , October 16 th , 1646 , and on the 14 th February , 1647 , attended the Mathematical Feast , at the White Hart , in the Old Bailey . In 1645 , Elias Ashmole made the acquaintance of the well-known Sir
John Hey don . It was in October , 1646 , that he made the further acquaintance of William Lilly , through Jonas Moore and John Booker . He next mentions the Astrologers' Feast , August 1 st , 1649 , and October 31 st the same year . August 8 th , 1650 , he says : " I , being at the Astrologers' Feast , was chosen steward for the following year . "
August 14 th , 1651 , he mentions the " Astrologers' Feast at Painters ' Hall , London . " He mentions the feast again March 18 th , 1653 ; and he again alludes to it August 22 nd , 1654 , but not in 1655 , though again August 29 th , 1656 . It is not recorded in 1657 , though Car-
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Curious Books.
CURIOUS BOOKS .
BY BOOKWORM . No . V . A CURIOUS Book is "Stella Nova , " "A New Starre , " Ac . - * - * - Preached before the learned society of Astrologers , August ,
1649 , In the Church of S . Mary Alder Mary , London . By Robert Gell , D . D ., Minister of the Word there . London : Printed for Samuel Satterthwaite , and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Sun , on Garlick Hill , 1649 . The date of the sermon is three years after Elias Ashmole ' s
initiation at Warrington , but there is no mention of him in it ( as there is in Carpenter ' s address , 1657 ) , nor any allusion to Rosicrucians , except that the preacher terms the body he is addressing the " learned societie of Artists or Students in Astrologie . " In the sermon he addresses " the learned Society of Artists , " and
gives a very interesting history , ( if a little fanciful ) , and a learned defence of astrology . His sermon is , of course , a purely Christian sermon , delivered in a City church , and is another evidence , if evidence be needed , that an Hermetic Society in 1649 was flourishing
and in numbers in the City of London . What its influence on , or connexion with , eighteenth century Freemasonry is another matter , on which I need not enter here . In Elias Ashmole ' s diary for 1649 , we find this remark : August , " The Astrologers feast at Painters' Hall , where I dined . " He does
not mention the attendance at church . Elias Ashmole was " made a Freemason , " as he says , at Warrington , October 16 th , 1646 , and on the 14 th February , 1647 , attended the Mathematical Feast , at the White Hart , in the Old Bailey . In 1645 , Elias Ashmole made the acquaintance of the well-known Sir
John Hey don . It was in October , 1646 , that he made the further acquaintance of William Lilly , through Jonas Moore and John Booker . He next mentions the Astrologers' Feast , August 1 st , 1649 , and October 31 st the same year . August 8 th , 1650 , he says : " I , being at the Astrologers' Feast , was chosen steward for the following year . "
August 14 th , 1651 , he mentions the " Astrologers' Feast at Painters ' Hall , London . " He mentions the feast again March 18 th , 1653 ; and he again alludes to it August 22 nd , 1654 , but not in 1655 , though again August 29 th , 1656 . It is not recorded in 1657 , though Car-