Anima Magica Abscondita

Name: Anima Magica Abscondita: or, A Discourse of the Universall Spirit of Nature
Author: Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes)

Published in 1650 as a companion to Anthroposophia Theomagica, Anima Magica Abscondita is Thomas Vaughan's discourse on the universal spirit of nature, the hidden soul of the world through which heaven acts upon matter. Writing as Eugenius Philalethes, Vaughan describes this spirit, its strange and abstruse operations, and its place in the alchemical work, setting the Hermetic tradition against the philosophers of the schools. With its sister treatise it drew the satirical Observations of Henry More. The text follows the EEBO-TCP transcription of the 1650 edition, with the commendatory poem printed at the end.

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1.Title page53 w.
2.To the reader1,637 w.
3.Anima Magica Abscondita, part 1 of 34,399 w.
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