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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Original English

Now had the Night spent her black stage, and all Her beauteous, twinckling flames grew sick, and pale. Her Scene of shades, and silence fled; and Day Drest the young East in Roses: where each Ray Falling on Sables, made the Sun and Night Kisse in a Checquer of mixt Clouds, and Light.

Modern English

Now Night had played her dark stage out, and all Her lovely, twinkling flames grew sick and pale. Her scene of shade and silence fled; and Day Dressed the young East in roses, where each ray, Falling on black, made Sun and Night embrace In a chequered pattern of mingled clouds and 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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