Elias Ashmole: The Way to Bliss

[Paul Ferguson]

"The Way to Bliss, written by an anonymous English alchemist probably between 1600 and 1620, is a classic that has somehow become annexed to the Rosicrucian tradition through being (a) plundered by the Rosicrucian charlatan John Heydon and (b) being published in an excellent edition by Elias Ashmole in 1658 as a conscious riposte to Heydon's effrontery."  ( Ron Heisler, 'Robert Fludd: A Picture in Need of Expansion', at https://www.alchemywebsite.com/h_fludd.html )

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