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 Star-Soul · Page 80 · Passage A

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Original English

This is the true Astrum Solis, the Mineral spiritual Sun. It is compounded of the Aether, and a Bloudie, fierie, spirited Earth. It appears in a gummie Consistency, but with a fierce, hot, glowing Complexion. It is Substantially a certaine purple, animated, Divine Salt, &c.

Modern English

This is the true “star of the sun,” the mineral, spiritual sun. It is compounded from ether and a bloody, fiery, spirit-filled earth. It appears with a gummy consistency, but with a fierce, hot, glowing complexion. Substantially, it is a certain purple, animated, divine 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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