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Thomas Vaughan

Magia Adamica

The Antiquity of Magic · With the Complete Coelum Terrae

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Natural Knowledge and the Patriarchs · Page 26 · Passage B

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Original English

It is now (as I think) sufficiently proved, that Adam had his Metaphysics from Above: our next Service (and perhaps somewhat difficult) is, to give some probable. if not Demonstrative reasons, that they came not alone but had their Physics also to attend them. I know the Scriptures are not positive in this point, and hence the Sects will lug their Consequence of Reprobation. Truly for my part. I desire not [Marginal note: Coloss. 2. 8.] their Hum but their patience: I have though against the Praecept for many years attended

Modern English

I think it is now sufficiently proved that Adam received his metaphysics from above. Our next task, perhaps rather difficult, is to give probable, if not demonstrative, reasons that these did not come alone, but brought their physics with them. I know Scripture is not explicit on this point, and the sects will drag their conclusion of condemnation out of that silence. For my part, I ask for their patience rather than their murmur of approval. Although against the precept, I have attended for many years to

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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