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Thomas Vaughan

Magia Adamica

The Antiquity of Magic · With the Complete Coelum Terrae

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Original English

of them onely Moses tells me of a generall [Marginal note: Exod. 1. ver. 6.] Exit: Joseph died, and all his brethren and all that Generation. I must now then to prove the Continuance and Succission of this Art addresse my self to the Court, where I shall find the Son of Levi newly translated from his Ark, and Bulrushes. Yet, there is somthing may be sayd of Joseph, and verily it proves how Common Magic was in those dayes, and the effects of it no newes to the Sons of Jacob; for having conveyed his Cup into the Sack of Benjamin, and by that policie detain'd his Brethren, hee asks them: What Deed is this [Marginal note: Cap. 44. ver. 15.] that you have done? Knew yee not that such a man as I can certainly divine?

Modern English

of them. Moses tells me only of a general departure: “Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.” To prove the art’s continuance and succession, I must now turn to the court, where I shall find Levi’s son newly translated from his ark and bulrushes. Yet something remains to be said about Joseph, and it truly proves how common magic was in those days, its effects familiar to Jacob’s sons. Having conveyed his cup into Benjamin’s sack and detained his brothers by that stratagem, he asks them: “What deed have you done? Did you not know that a man such as I can certainly divine?”

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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