Magia Adamica

and in what surrounds it, and had firmly clenched his fists, he said: ‘Receive them, O holy earth, destined to become the mother of all, so that you may seem lacking in nothing.’ Opening hands such as a god ought to have, he sent down everything necessary for the constitution of things.” [Vaughan’s own English rendering:] “When God, he says, had filled his powerful hands with the things which are in Nature and in what surrounds Nature, then, closing them again, he said: ‘Receive from me, O holy earth, ordained to be the mother of all, lest you lack anything.’ Immediately opening such hands as it befits a god to have, he poured down everything necessary for the constitution of things.” This is the meaning: the Holy Spirit, moving upon the chaos—an action which some divines compare to a hen incubating her eggs—communicated various other influences to matter together with his heat. For just as