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 Diapasm, or Magical Perfume · Page 91 · Passage A

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Original English

It is compounded of the Saphiric Earth and the Aether. If it be brought to its full Exaltation, it will shine like the Day-star in her freshest Easterne Glories. It hath a fascinating attractive facultie, for if you expose it to the open Ayre, it will draw to it Birds and Beasts, &c.

Modern English

It is compounded from sapphire earth and ether. Brought to its full exaltation, it will shine like the day-star in her freshest eastern glories. It has a fascinating, attractive power: exposed to the open air, it will draw birds and beasts to itself, 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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