Lumen de Lumine

Subject Index

Entries link to stable passages and study features. Historical page references belong to the 1651 witness and are distinct from the pagination of this modern edition.

Analysis

glossary.

Aphorism

glossary.

Aristotle

the goat-stag, first matter, fire.

Art

glossary.

Astrological Impressions

Thalia’s explanation, the grain analogy.

Basil Valentine

the experience quotation, first matter.

Beryl

the beryllistic art, the natural recipient.

Blunden, H.

the historical title.

Bodleian Library

the Latin poem, the essay on light.

Body

glossary.

Brothers of R. C.

the Latin letter, Vaughan’s English presentation, related publication.

Chaos

glossary.

Child and Little Ones

the emblem’s child, the access motto.

Conjunction

glossary.

Descent

glossary.

Dionysius

divine darkness.

Dissolution

glossary.

Divine Darkness

the first matter discussion, the several lights.

Dyad

glossary.

Earth

glossary.

Elixir

glossary.

Emblem

the original engraving, all inscriptions, English key.

English as the Original Language

the edition statement, the source record.

Ether

glossary.

Eugenius Philalethes

historical authorial name, authorship.

Fermentation

glossary.

Fire

glossary.

Fire, Uncreated and Created

aphorism 3, interpretive essay.

First Matter

glossary.

Fountain

glossary.

Fountain of Learning

the Oxford dedication.

Gold

the ends of the search, bodily fermentation.

Greek, Worn Quotation

Homeric phrase, primary parallel.

Guide

glossary.

Halicali

the sealed house, the proposed derivation.

Haly the Arabian

the mountain saying.

Hermes Trismegistus

regeneration.

Homer

the quoted dwelling of immortals, the parallel text.

Imagination

the fantastic region, Phantasia in the engraving.

Light

glossary.

Lully, Attributed Passages

first matter, water made by art.

Lunaria

the mountain herb.

Magic

glossary.

Medicine

glossary.

Mercury

Saturn and Mercury, the Green Dragon, the mercurial subject.

Metempsychosis

glossary.

Monad

glossary.

Mountain

glossary.

Nature

glossary.

Oxford

the dedication, the dispersed body, Bodley’s library.

Paracelsus

slime of the earth.

Patience

the diet of the passions, reserve and disclosure.

Prester

glossary.

Pythagoras

the title maxim, metempsychosis.

Quaternary

glossary.

Reason

reason with experience, Ratio in the engraving.

Regeneration

glossary.

River of Pearl

the historical section.

Sal Alkali

Halicali and its claimed derivation.

Saturn

relation with Mercury, the two living mercuries.

Seal

glossary.

Sealed House

the prefatory key, the house full of light.

Sendivogius

heavenly water.

Separation

glossary.

Silence

the tongue, Thalia’s charge, ethics of disclosure.

Spirit

glossary.

Star-soul

glossary.

Symbolic Reading

editorial method, reading route.

Thalia

glossary.

Tincture

glossary.

Treasure

glossary.

Vaughan, Ro., Engraver

printed signature, the reproduced plate.

Vaughan, Thomas

authorship, first-edition record.

Water

glossary.

Zoroaster

the Prester of Zoroaster, the final number relations.