1650 · Magia Adamica
Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes) · 1650
Magia Adamica
In Magia Adamica, published in 1650, Thomas Vaughan sets out to prove that magic is the oldest wisdom in the world, revealed to Adam and handed down through the patriarchs, Moses, the Chaldeans, Egyptians and Magi to the wise men who came to Christ, and that true magic is the knowledge of God's work in nature. To it he joined a discovery of the Coelum Terrae, the magician's heavenly chaos or first matter of the alchemical work. The long address to the reader continues his quarrel with Henry More, who had attacked him under the name Alazonomastix Philalethes. This text follows the EEBO-TCP transcription of the 1650 edition, whose encoding runs the two treatises together.
Contents
- 1.Title page62 w.
- 2.Dedications to Mathew Harbert and Thomas Henshaw; verses on the author1,473 w.
- 3.To the reader2,641 w.
- 4.Magia Adamica and Coelum Terrae, part 1 of 84,693 w.
- 5.Magia Adamica and Coelum Terrae, part 2 of 84,095 w.
- 6.Magia Adamica and Coelum Terrae, part 3 of 83,761 w.
- 7.Magia Adamica and Coelum Terrae, part 4 of 83,782 w.
- 8.Magia Adamica and Coelum Terrae, part 5 of 83,793 w.
- 9.Magia Adamica and Coelum Terrae, part 6 of 83,906 w.
- 10.Magia Adamica and Coelum Terrae, part 7 of 83,800 w.
- 11.Magia Adamica and Coelum Terrae, part 8 of 83,771 w.