Magia Adamica

Name: Magia Adamica
Author: Thomas Vaughan

The Antiquity of Magic · With the Complete Coelum Terrae

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Natural Knowledge and the Patriarchs · Page 33 · Passage A

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Original English

thereof. This Discourse I confesse, is somewhat remote from that I first intended, namely that Philosophie was revealed to Adam, as well as Divinitie, but some Pates are Blocks in their own wayes, and as I told you formerly, will not believe that God dispenseth with any Naturall secrets; This made mee produce these few Instances out of Scripture, as Praeparatives to the Proposition it self, and if hee be any thing ingenious, to the Reader. His Compliance to my Principles I expect not, nay I am so far from it, hee may suspend his Charitie. Let him bee as rigid as Justice can make him, for I wish not to praevaile in any thing but the Truth, and in the Name of Truth, thus I begin.

Modern English

for use. I confess this discussion is somewhat removed from my original purpose: that philosophy, as well as divinity, was revealed to Adam. But some heads are blocks in their own path and, as I told you, refuse to believe that God imparts any natural secrets. That made me produce these few scriptural examples as preparations for the proposition itself and, if he has any understanding, for the reader. I do not expect him to comply with my principles. Indeed, far from it: he may withhold his charity. Let him be as strict as justice can make him. I wish to prevail in nothing except Truth; and in Truth’s name I begin.

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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