Starting also in 1650, Ashmole would publish three books on alchemy. The books were Fasciculus Chemicus, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum and The Way to Bliss.
Peter Levenda:
Elias Ashmole...was initiated into Freemasonry a hundred years earlier than that (almost). The record of his initiation is on file. So there were Freemasons in the 1600s. And then I look at the oldest existing documents of Masonic initiations go back to the 14th Century - about 50 or 60 years after the suppression of the Knights Templar. So there's a proximity in time with the suppression of the Templars and the first Masonic rituals.... in the same century and from Scotland, which is where the rumors have it that the Templars wound up in Scotland where they were fighting against the King of England at one point. So there is a connection and I think there really is.
https://www.masonrytoday.com/index.php?new_month=5&new_day=23&new_year=2016
Ashmole joined Warrington Lodge on October 16th, 1646. We know this from a diary entry he made which states "I was made a Free Mason at Warrington in Lancashire, with Coll: Henry Mainwaring of Karincham [Kermincham] in Cheshire." It is unclear how active he was in the fraternity. There are two other entries in diary, both about an event on March 11th, 1682. The first is from the day before noting that he was summon to lodge on the 11th, the other detailing that the he went to the meeting and that information about the dinner. Ashmole's diary entries are some of the earliest references to Freemasonry in England.
https://revealedtxt.papalmagic.com/
Claims that a book idea and chapter was stolen by the editor of Peter Levenda.
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