Magia Adamica

Name: Magia Adamica
Author: Thomas Vaughan

The Antiquity of Magic · With the Complete Coelum Terrae

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Dedication to Thomas Henshaw · Unnumbered Preliminary 14 · Passage A

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Original English

my Pupill. If therefore amongst your serious and more deare Retirements, you can allow this Trifle but some few Minutes, and think them not lost, you will Perfect my Ambition. You will place mee Sir, at my full Height, and though it were like that of Statius, amongst Gods and Stars, I shall quickly find the Earth again, and with the least Opportunitie present my self

Modern English

rather than my pupil. If, therefore, amid your serious and more cherished retirements, you can allow this trifle a few minutes and consider them well spent, you will fulfil my ambition. You will place me, sir, at my full height; and even if, like Statius, it were among gods and stars, I shall soon find the earth again and at the first opportunity present myself as

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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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.