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Thomas Vaughan

Magia Adamica

The Antiquity of Magic · With the Complete Coelum Terrae

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Original English

That is: A stone erected to the praise, and aeternal Remembrance of the Law of Light, and Truth, brought out of Judaea, and published in China. After this followed the body of the Monument, being a Relation, how the Gospel of Christ Jesus was brought by one Olo puen out of Judaea, and afterwards by the assistance of God planted in China. This happened in the yeare of our Lord six hundred, and thirtie six. Kim Cim, the Author of this Historie, in the very beginning of it, speaks mysteriously of the Creation; Then he mentions three hundred sixty five sorts of Sectaries, who succeeded one another, all of them striving who should get most Proselyts. Some of their vaine Opinions he recites, which indeed are very suitable with the Rudiments, and Vagari's of the Heathen

Modern English

[Vaughan’s English:] A stone erected in praise and eternal remembrance of the Law of Light and Truth, brought out of Judaea and published in China. After this followed the main inscription, relating how Olo Puen brought Christ Jesus’s Gospel from Judaea and, with God’s assistance, afterwards planted it in China. This happened in the year of our Lord 636. Kim Cim, this history’s author, begins by speaking mysteriously of creation. He then mentions 365 kinds of sectarians who succeeded one another, all striving to win the most converts. He recounts some of their vain opinions, which certainly agree with the rudiments and vagaries of pagan

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.

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