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Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes)

Lumen de Lumine

A New Magical Light · The Complete 1651 First Edition

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Original English

This was no sooner spoken, but she past by those Diamond-like, rockie salts, and brought me to a Rock of Adamant figur'd to a just, intire Cube: It was the Basis to a firie Pyramid, a Trigon of pure Pyrope, whose imprison'd flames did stretch, and strive for Heaven. To the Fore-square or Frontlet of this Rock was annex'd a little Portall, and in that hung a Tablet. It was a painted Hedge-Hog so rowl'd and wrapt up in his Bag, he could not easily be discompos'd. Over this stood a Dog snarling, and hard by him this Instruction.

Modern English

As soon as she had spoken, she passed those diamond-like rocky salts and brought me to an adamantine rock, shaped as a perfect, entire cube. It supported a fiery pyramid, a triangle of pure pyrope, whose imprisoned flames stretched and strove towards heaven. A little portal was attached to the rock’s square front, and a tablet hung within it. This showed a painted hedgehog, so rolled and wrapped in its own covering that it could not easily be disturbed. Above it stood a snarling dog, with this instruction beside him:

About This Reading Edition

The complete 1651 Lumen de Lumine, or A New Magical Light, by Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes), with original and modern English, fresh translations of the Latin, Greek and Hebrew passages, the historical emblem and its inscriptions, all twelve Magical Aphorisms, 105 annotations and the complete supplied Diotimos study apparatus.

Historical Text and Translation

Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes), Lumen de Lumine, or A New Magicall Light. London: H. Blunden, 1651. Governing witness: Wellcome Collection EPB/A/69096.4, digitisation b30340160, Wing V150, ESTC R146. Source credit: Wellcome Collection; Public Domain Mark.

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