Lumen de Lumine

Name: Lumen de Lumine
Author: Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes)

A New Magical Light · The Complete 1651 First Edition

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The Heavenly Luna · Page 79 · Passage A

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Original English

This Luna is the Moon of the Mine, a very strange stupifying substance. It is not simple, but mixt. The Aether, and a subtill white Earth are its Components, and this makes it grosser than the Aether it self. It appeares in the forme of an exceeding white oile, but is in very truth a certaine vegetant, flowing, smooth, soft salt, &c.

Modern English

This Luna is the mine’s moon, a very strange, stupefying substance. It is mixed rather than simple. Its components are ether and a subtle white earth, making it grosser than ether itself. It appears as an exceedingly white oil, but in truth is a certain vegetative, flowing, smooth, soft salt, and so forth.

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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