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Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes)

Lumen de Lumine

A New Magical Light · The Complete 1651 First Edition

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To the Reader · Passage 4

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Original English

My Advise is, that no Man should resent the common spleen. Who writes the Truth of God, hath the same Patron with the Truth it self, and when the world shall submit to the generall Tribunal, he will find his Advocate, where they shall find their Judge. There is a mutuall Testimonie between God and his Servants, if the Baptist did beare witnesse of Christ, Christ also did as much for the Baptist: He was a burning and a shining Light.

Modern English

My advice is that no one should take the common ill will to heart. Whoever writes God’s truth has the same patron as truth itself; when the world submits to the universal judgment, that writer will find an advocate where the others find their judge. There is a mutual testimony between God and his servants: if the Baptist bore witness to Christ, Christ did as much for the Baptist: ‘He was a burning and shining light.’

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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