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 Prester of Zoroaster · Page 82 · Passage A

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Original English

Omnis anima bona est anima nova, veniens ab Oriente. Every good soule is a new soule, comming from the East: that is from חכמה Cocmah, or the second Sephiroth, which is the Son of God.

Modern English

“Every good soul is a new soul, coming from the east.” Every good soul is a new soul coming from the east: that is, from Chokhmah, or the second sephirah, which is the Son of God.

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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