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Elias Ashmole
The Quartercentenary Biography of Elias Ashmole aims to complement previous scholarship about him both by eminent past historians and by myself, while telling an incredible rags-to-riches story. Having spent most of the last twenty years on Elias Ashmole's collection of manuscripts and books, I felt I owed it to Ashmole that I should write his Quartercentenary Biography. The year 2017 marks 400 years since Elias Ashmole's birth, in Lichfield. The son of a modest saddler, Ashmole died as the founder of the first public museum in the British Isles. His successful life against all the odds is a great tale. Tercentenary celebrations for the foundation of the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, focussed...
The Magus of Freemasonry
A comprehensive look at the life of Elias Ashmole, who represents the historic missing link between operative and symbolic Freemasonry • Explores the true role of occult and magical studies in the genesis of modern science • Explains the full meaning of the term magus, which Ashmole exemplified Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) was the first to record a personal account of initiation into Accepted Freemasonry. His writings help solve the debate between operative and “speculative” origins of Accepted Freemasonry, demonstrating that symbolic Freemasonry existed within the Masonic trade bodies. Ashmole was one of the leading intellectual luminaries of his time: a founding member of the Royal So...
Elias Ashmole: His Autobiographical and Historical Notes, his Correspondence, and Other Contemporary Sources Relating to his Life and Work, Vol. 2: Texts 1617-1660
A scholarly edition of Elias Ashmole's autobiographical and historical notes, his correspondence, and other contemporary sources relating to his life and work. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
