Robert Fludd's Cosmic Circulation Theory and Esoteric Philosophy

depends on solar motion. Indeed, air moves due to the sun according to the latter's movement, that is circularly. In the same way we see the vital spirit blow from the east of the microcosm, that is from the chamber of the heart which is like the Aeolus of the microcosm, and with its breath grasp and almost drag around with it all the aerial spirit of the blood. This movement is presented by Fludd as a rhythmic movement. Böhme, Gichtel and the Centers of Force Gichtel is Böhme's disciple so to understand Gichtel and his drawings it is necessary to understand Böhme. He is the first to insert a close relationship between force centers and planetary spheres. This is an idea that will have great following and development in Theosophy with Ascetic Astrology. References: ³Debus, Allen G. 'Robert Fludd and the circulation of the blood'. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 16:4 (1961), 374-93. Publisher: Oxford University Press. ISSN 00225045. ISSN (electronic) 14684373. ⁴Pagel Walter, Le idee biologiche di William Harvey. Aspetti scelti e sfondo storico, da Feltrinelli Editore, 1979, p. 454 e ss.: Fludd was considered equal to Harvey if not greater for the discovery relating to blood circulation. Fludd himself in Pulsus seu nova et arcana pulsuum historia (1630) applauds Harvey's theories demonstrating that they are perfectly coherent with his cosmosophical vision that he had indeed developed earlier in Utriusque (1617) and then in Anatomiae Amphiteatrum (1623). Even Pagel admits that Fludd's role in Harvey's influence is very probable given precisely the perfect insertion of Harvey's theory into Fludd's cosmosophical system. XVII The constellations are a great harmony of the unsearchable variegated voice of all types of instruments playing before the Most High. They are the Powers that produce Sound in the Substance of Forces. The Creative Desire or Fiat receives the Sound and makes it substantial; and the produced Substance is Spirit of stars that the elements receive within her and coagulate in it brooding like a hen with her egg. In this way the astral spirit is coagulated and brooded in all creatures. Therefore it can be said that everything that exists in this world, in animate or inanimate things is also in the stars and that they awaken their life here. For this reason they contain all the Forces that the earth contains. Furthermore, each star or planet has its own different property and influence; and the difference between creatures and things is due to the difference between celestial things. Historical mystery about Gichtel's sources. Importance it will have in the future with Theosophy and with Ascetic Astrology Palamidessi Techniques of Initiatic Awakening XVIII