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Thomas Vaughan

Magia Adamica

The Antiquity of Magic · With the Complete Coelum Terrae

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English Introduction · Branch 318 of 318

Subject Index

Modern English

Subject Index

Entries point to passages and, where useful, to an editorial aid. A passage may continue across an original page boundary; follow the surrounding reading for its complete argument.

Adam: Instruction and Necessity

source p. 17; source p. 18.

Adam, First and Second

source p. 19; source p. 20.

Agent and Patient

source p. 52; source p. 81.

Agrippa

source p. 8; source p. 126.

Air

source p. 50; source p. 90.

Alazonomastix

preliminary 15; preliminary 31.

Aleph, Mem and Shin

source p. 49; source p. 50.

Alphabet

source p. 49; source p. 53.

Ancient Transmission

source p. 9; source p. 74.

Angels and Instruction

source p. 20; source p. 52.

Antimony: Exclusions

source p. 45; source p. 113.

Aristotle and the Schools

source p. 3; source p. 74.

Ark: Skill and Preservation

source p. 30; source p. 31.

Authority and Testimony

source p. 10; Received Knowledge and the Test of Experience.

Bacon and Experience

preliminary 15; P. B.: defence, taunt and commemoration.

Bath, Natural

source p. 119; source p. 120.

Bezalel and Craft

source p. 30; source p. 31.

Bodies and Divine Care

source p. 29; source p. 60.

Book: Imagined Reception

preliminary 33; source p. 139.

Cabala: Letter and Substance

source p. 49; source p. 49.

Cain, Abel and Sacrifice

source p. 22; source p. 24.

Calf, Golden

source p. 45; source p. 46.

Chaos

preliminary 26; source p. 114.

Charms and Words

source p. 7; source p. 53.

China: Reported Monument

source p. 60; source p. 63.

Christ: Nature and the Gospel

source p. 32; source p. 60.

Christian Readings of Jewish Traditions

source p. 11; source p. 49.

Coelum Terrae: Opening

source p. 78; From Magia Adamica into Coelum Terrae.

Composition and Separation

source p. 129; source p. 130.

Corruption

source p. 59; source p. 115.

Creator and Creature

source p. 81; source p. 134.

Cynthia and Tethys

preliminary 16; P. B.: defence, taunt and commemoration.

Damascene Earth

source p. 44; source p. 45.

Death of the Kiss

source p. 52; Death of the kiss.

Dedication to Harbert

preliminary 3; preliminary 8.

Dedication to Henshaw

preliminary 9; preliminary 14.

Digby

preliminary 16; P. B.: defence, taunt and commemoration.

Doxology and Amen

source p. 140; source p. 140.

Dreams and Interpretation

source p. 36; source p. 37.

Earth and Water

source p. 44; source p. 128.

Ecclesiastes

preliminary 9; preliminary 10.

Egypt: Figures and Transmission

source p. 66; source p. 72.

Elements

source p. 50; source p. 130.

Epictetus Motto

preliminary 1; 1656: supplementary issue witness.

Experience and Error

preliminary 15; source p. 121.

Fall

source p. 11; The Fall and the Possibility of Restoration.

Fire

preliminary 30; source p. 120.

First Matter

source p. 44; source p. 85.

Flamel: Described Book

source p. 54; source p. 58.

Generation

source p. 60; source p. 84.

Genesis: Differing Words Reconciled

source p. 44; source p. 45.

Golden Calf

source p. 45; source p. 46.

Harbert, Mathew

preliminary 3; preliminary 8.

Heaven, Higher and Lower

source p. 80; source p. 125.

Heliopolis

preliminary 8; preliminary 8.

Henshaw, Thomas

preliminary 9; preliminary 13.

Hermes: Received Authority

preliminary 28; source p. 71.

Hyanthe

source p. 93; Hyanthe: a narrated encounter.

Ilan

source p. 11; source p. 12.

Images, Reported

source p. 54; The Sign and the Thing.

Influence

source p. 12; preliminary 16.

Invective

preliminary 7; preliminary 32.

Jacob: Rods and Ladder

source p. 35; source p. 52.

Joseph and Divination

source p. 39; source p. 40.

Light

source p. 6; source p. 117.

Love and Generation

source p. 84; source p. 133.

Magic: Vaughan’s Definition

source p. 1; source p. 7.

Malcuth

source p. 11; Malcuth.

Man-Mouse: Correction Notice

printed errata; About This Edition.

Mercury

source p. 124; source p. 124.

Moses: Knowledge and Practice

source p. 44; source p. 45.

Name and Thing

source p. 49; The Sign and the Thing.

Nature: Personification

source p. 102; source p. 93.

Noah

source p. 30; source p. 31.

Oath and Secrecy

source p. 108; source p. 109.

P. B. and the Commendatory Poem

preliminary 15; preliminary 16.

Plato and Moses

source p. 74; source p. 75.

Poems and Prose Testimony

source p. 95; source p. 96.

Printed Corrections

printed errata; printed errata.

Public Reception and Rank

preliminary 4; source p. 139.

Reduction to a Sperm

source p. 129; source p. 130.

Regeneration

source p. 60; source p. 115.

Rest, the Soul’s

preliminary 12; preliminary 13.

Salt

source p. 6; source p. 85.

Secrecy and Disclosure

source p. 51; source p. 112.

Signatures and Types

source p. 21; source p. 6.

Soul: Different Uses

preliminary 12; source p. 131.

Spermalogy

source p. 27; source p. 130.

Spirit and Life

preliminary 30; source p. 134.

Stone: Speaking Subject

source p. 131; source p. 131.

About This Reading Edition

Thomas Vaughan’s complete 1650 Magia Adamica publication, with all historical preliminaries and the complete appended Coelum Terrae, original and modern English, fresh translations of Latin, Greek and Hebrew, full poems, eight historical marginal notes, the complete recovered printed corrections, 312 annotations and the complete supplied Diotimos study apparatus.

Historical Text and Translation

Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes), Magia Adamica: or The Antiquitie of Magic, with Coelum Terrae. London: T. W. for H. Blunden, 1650. Governing transcription: EEBO-TCP A64768.0001.001. The Getty Research Institute copy supplies surviving first-edition page images; the 1656 issue supplies explicitly disclosed missing or defective material. The complete shared 1650 errata are recovered from the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica copy of The Man-Mouse.

About Diotimos Editions

This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

The historical text is public domain; the EEBO-TCP Phase I transcription is released under CC0. The supplied 2026 reading, translations and Diotimos editorial material are published with the site owner’s authorization.