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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Latin

Postquam vero Nos Vestrum Duorum Diligentiam, & sedulitatem, quam in vera Cognitione Dei, & Lectione sacrorum Bibliorum impendistis, jampridem (quamvis vobis inscientibus) bene scivimus, etiam ex vestro agnovimus scripto, Nos etiam vos præ multis aliis millibus responso aliquo dignari volumus, & vobis hoc significare ex permissu Dei, & Spiritus Sancti Admonitione.

Modern English

Since we have long known—though you were unaware of it—the diligence and care that you two have devoted to the true knowledge of God and the reading of Holy Scripture, and have recognised it also from your writing, we wish to honour you with an answer before many thousands of others, and to communicate this to you by God’s permission and the Holy Spirit’s admonition.

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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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

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The historical text and emblem are public domain. The supplied 2026 reading, translations and Diotimos editorial material are published with the site owner’s authorization.