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The Region of Light · Page 125 · Passage A
Original English
This Pratum, or Meadow of the Idea's, a place well known to the Philosophers, (Flammel calls it their Garden, and the Mountain of the seven Metals, see his Summarie, where hee describes it most learnedly for hee was instructed by a Jew) is a certain secret, but Universall Region: one calls it Regio Lucis, the Region of Light, but to the Cabalist it is Nox Corporis, a Terme extremely apposit, and significant. It is in few words the Rendezvous of all Spirits, for in this place the Idea's when they descend from the Bright world to the Dark one, are incorporated. For thy Better Intelligence thou must know that Spirits whiles they move in Heaven, which is the Fire-world, contract no impurities at all, according to that of Stellatus;
Omne quod est supra Lunam, aeternumque bonumque Esse scias, nec triste aliquid Coelestia tangit.
Modern English
This meadow of the Ideas, a place well known to the philosophers, is a certain secret yet universal region. Flamel calls it their garden and the mountain of the seven metals: see his Summary, where he describes it most learnedly, having been instructed by a Jew. One calls it the “region of light”; but to the Kabbalist it is the “night of the body,” an extremely apt and significant term. In a few words, it is the meeting place of all spirits: here the Ideas, descending from the bright world into the dark, are embodied. To understand this better, know that spirits, while moving in heaven, which is the fire world, contract no impurities at all, in accordance with Stellatus:
“Know that everything above the moon is eternal and good; No sorrowful thing touches the heavenly realms.”
Socrates
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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.
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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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