By Frederick Hockley
Frederick Hockley (1809-1885), was once an incredible - if usually ignored - determine in nineteenth-century occultism. He was once an energetic "seer" who engaged in scrying, and became interested in ritual magic, alchemy and spiritualism. He used to be additionally a Freemason, who in later in existence was once linked to the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and different esoteric fraternities. as well as his personal writings, Hockley sought out and copied Grimoires and different magical, alchemical and kabbalistic texts that had lain hidden in inner most collections round England. lots of Hockley's early manuscripts have been commissioned by means of the bookseller John Denley (who had obtained Ebenezer Sibly's lovely library, the resource of a number of the texts that Francis Barrett utilized in compiling The Magus), while others have been for his personal use. After his dying Hockley's library used to be dispersed, and is it identified that many Hockley manuscripts made their approach into the arms of individuals of the airtight Order of the Golden sunrise. Such was once the excessive regard during which Hockley used to be held, that of the group's founders, W. Wynn Westcott, not just wrote that Hockley's manuscripts have been "highly esteemed," but in addition posthumously claimed him as Adept of the Golden sunrise. "The Rosicrucian Seer" not just finds a lot approximately Hockley's existence and esoteric actions, but in addition offers precious insights into the occult milieu of 19th century England that gave upward push to the Golden sunrise and encouraged its participants.
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Hervey! who has long favoured me with his acquaintance. Of course Mr M's information is derived from his intimate knowledge of German & French, & when you have mastered their difficulties a vastly enlarged field of Occult Science will furnish you with Original matter, as well as others (especially on Alchemy). I do not know Mr M's address but a letter thro' Bro. Kenning" will doubtless reach him-I saw in the last issue of the Freemasons his marriage announceds-s-l very sincerely hope it will be a turning flood in his favour.
3 As Hockley refers to him as the late Lord Stanhope, this can only be Philip Henry, 4th Earl of Stanhope (1781-1855). An FRS and FSA, he interested himself in the case of Caspar Hauser, the wolf-boy, and paid for his maintenance until the boy died in 1833. 4 Unidentified. 5 Unidentified. 6 Thomas Shorter: member, Committee of the London Spiritualist Union, 1859. Author of Confessions of a Truth Seeker (London, 1859). Editor of The Spiritualist Magazine. 7 Arcandam: The most Excellent, Profitable and Pleasant Booke of the Famous Doctor and expert Astrologean Arcandam, orAlcandrain, tofind the Fatal Destiny, Constellation, Complexion rsc.
He was in England by 1650 and published medical tracts and a preface to The Marrow ofAlchemy by Eiraneus Philopenus Philalethes (1654). 27 John Partridge (1644-1715), originally a shoemaker, became a publisher of astrological almanacs from 1678, the most popular being Merlinus Liberatus, which first appeared in 1680. 28 Probably Reuchlin, DeArte Cabalistica (1517). 29 See note 9 above. 30 John Heydon's TheHoly Guide leading the way to the wonder of the world (a complete Physitian) . . with Rosie Cruden medicines (London, 1662).