Magia Adamica

Name: Magia Adamica
Author: Thomas Vaughan

The Antiquity of Magic · With the Complete Coelum Terrae

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Magia AdamicaThe Fall and the First Instruction · Modern English

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The Fall and the First Instruction · Modern English

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Original English

The Question indeed is deferr'd, but not satisfied For I would know further In what Schoole was Adam instructed? Now that it was impossible for him to invent these Shadowes and Sacraments of himself, I will undertake to Demonstrate and that by invincible Reason, which no Adversarie shall dare to contradict.

Modern English

the question is postponed rather than answered, for I ask further: in what school was Adam instructed? I undertake to demonstrate that he could not have invented these shadows and sacraments for himself, and to do so through invincible reason that no adversary shall dare contradict.

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.

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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.