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Thomas Vaughan

Magia Adamica

The Antiquity of Magic · With the Complete Coelum Terrae

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Original English

Have you beheld a Flame, that springs From Incense, when sweet, curled, Rings Of smoke attend her last, weak Fires, And Shee all in Perfumes expires? So dy'd Hyanthe. Here (said shee) Let not this Vial part from Thee. It holds my Heart, though now 'tis Spill'd, And into Waters all distill'd. 'Tis constant still: Trust not false Smiles, Who smiles, and weeps not shee beguiles. Nay trust not Teares: false are the few, Those Teares are Many, that are True. Trust Mee, and take the better Choyce, Who hath my Teares, can want no Joyes.

Modern English

Have you beheld a flame spring up From incense, while sweet curling rings Of smoke attend its last weak fires, And it breathes out its life in perfume? So died Hyanthe. “Here,” she said, “Never let this vial leave you. It holds my heart, though now outpoured And wholly distilled into water. It is constant still. Trust no false smiles: She who smiles but does not weep deceives. Yet trust no tears: the few are false; The tears that are true are many. Trust me and make the better choice: Who has my tears can lack no joys.”

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.