Lumen de Lumine

Name: Lumen de Lumine: or, A New Magicall Light Discovered and Communicated to the World
Author: Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes)

Lumen de Lumine, published in 1651, opens with an allegorical vision in verse and prose: at daybreak the author is led through a rock and a cave of earth to the hidden place of Nature, where he is given a letter, in Latin and English, said to come from the Rosicrucian brethren, describing the mountain at the centre of the earth and its treasure. Vaughan then explains an emblematic figure and writes short chapters on the first matter, the philosophical fire, the river of pearl, the aether, the Prester of Zoroaster, the magical perfume, and the regeneration and descent of the soul, ending with his Aphorismi Magici. This text follows the EEBO-TCP transcription of the 1651 edition.

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1.Title page56 w.
2.Dedications; to the reader1,301 w.
3.Lumen de Lumine, part 1 of 54,936 w.
4.Lumen de Lumine, part 2 of 53,790 w.
5.Lumen de Lumine, part 3 of 54,000 w.
6.Lumen de Lumine, part 4 of 53,779 w.
7.Lumen de Lumine, part 5 of 53,802 w.

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