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Thomas Vaughan

Magia Adamica

The Antiquity of Magic · With the Complete Coelum Terrae

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quod est Inferiùs, est sicut id quod est superiùs. This is his Mysterie, and 'tis great: The Benefit that attends the Purchase, is no lesse: habebis Gloriam totius Mundi, All the Pomp, and Splendor of the World shall bee Thine. To this Language, the Dialect of I sias doth so Echo, these two, like Euphorbus and Pythagoras, might passe for Ono.

Coelum sursùm, (sayd he) Coelum deorsum; Astra sursùm, Astra Deorsùm: Omne quod sursùm, omne id deorsum.

Modern English

what is below is like what is above.” This is his mystery, and it is great. The benefit attending its acquisition is no less: [New translation of the Latin:] “You shall possess the glory of the whole world.” [Vaughan’s English:] All the world’s pomp and splendour shall be yours. Isias’s speech echoes this language so closely that, like Euphorbus and Pythagoras, these two might pass for one.

[New translation of the Latin:] Heaven above, he said, heaven below; Stars above, stars below; All that is above, all this below.

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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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.