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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64768	Magia adamica or the antiquitie of magic, and the descent thereof from Adam downwards, proved. Whereunto is added a perfect, and full discoverie of the true cœlum terræ, or the magician's heavenly chaos, and first matter of all things. By Eugenius Philalethes.	Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666.	1650 (1650)	Wing V151; ESTC R203905	72,517	175

a continual Coction the Volatil Essences ascending and descending till at last they are fix'd according to that excellent Prosopopaeia of the stone Non ego continuò morior dum spiritus exit Nam redit assiduè quamvis soepe recedat Et mihi nunc magna est Animae nunc nulla fa cultas Plus ego sustinui quam Corpus debuit unum Tres Animas habui quas omnes intus habebam Discessere duae sed Tertia poenè secuta est I am not dead although my spirit 's gon For it returns and is both off and on Now I have life enough now I have non I suffer'd more than one could justly doe Three soules I had and all my own but Two Are fled the Third had almost left mee too {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I have written what I have written And now give me leave to look about mee Is there no Powder-Plott or practice What 's become of Aristotel and Galen Where is the Scribe and Pharisee the Disputers of this world If they suffer all this and believe it too I shall think the General Conversion is come about and I may sing Jam redit Virgo redeunt Saturnia Regna But come what will come I have once more spoken for the Truth and shall for Conclusion speak this much Again I have elsewhere call'd this Subject Limus coelestis and the middle Nature The Philosophers call it the Venerable Nature but amongst all the Praetenders I have not yet found one that could tell me why Hear me then that whensoever thou doest attempt this work it may be with reverence not like some proud ignorant Doctor but with lesse Confidence more Care This Chaos hath in it the foure Elements which of themselves are contrarie Natures but the wisdome of God hath so placed them that their very order reconciles them For Example Ayre and Earth are Adversaries for one is hot and moyst the other cold and drie Now to reconcile these two God placed the Water between them which is a middle Nature or of a mean Complexion between both Extremes For she is cold and moyst and as shee is cold shee partakes of the Nature of the Earth which is cold and drie but as shee is moyst she partakes in the Nature of the Ayre which is hot and moyst Hence it is that Ayre and Earth which are Contraries in Themselves agree and imbrace one another in the water as in a middle Nature which is proportionate to them both and tempers their Extremities But verely this Salvo makes not up the Breach for though the water reconciles two Elements like a friendly Third yet shee her self fights with a Fourth namely with the Fire For the Tire is hot and drie but the water is cold and moyst which are clear Contraries To prevent the Distempers of these two God placed the Ayre between them which is a Substance hot and moyst and as it is hot it agrees with the fire which is hot and drie but as it is moyst it agrees with the water which is cold and moyst so that by mediation of the Ayre the other two Extremes namely fire and water are made friends and reconciled Thus you see as I told you at first that Contrarie Elements are united by that Order and Textare wherein the Wise God hath placed them You must now give me leave to tell you that this Agreement or friendship is but par●il a very weak love cold and ski●tish for whereas these Principles agree in one qualitie they differ in two as your selves may easily compute Much need therefore have they of a more strong and able Mediator to confirme and preserve their weak Unitie for upon it depends the very aternitie and Incorruption of the Creature This blessed Caement and Balsam is the Spirit of the living God which some ignorant Scriblers have call'd a Quintessence for this very Spirit is in the Chaos and to speak plainly the fire is his Thrrne for in the Fire he is Sèated as wee have sufficiently told you elsewhere This was the Reason why the Magi call'd the first Matter their Venerable Nature and their blessed stone and in good earnest what think you is it not so This blessed Spirit fortifies and perfects that weak Disposition which the Elements already have to Union and Peace for God works with Nature not against her and brings them at last to a beauteous specificall Fabric Now īf you will aske me where is the Soul or as the Schoole-men abuse hwer the Form all this while what doth shee doe To this I answer that shee is as all Instrumentals ought to be subject and obedient to the will of God expecting the persection of her Body for it is God that unites her to the Body and the body to her Soule and Body are the work of God the one as well as the other the Soul is not the Artificer of her house for that which can make a Body can also repayre it and hinder death but the Soule cannot doe this it is the Power and Wisdome of God In a word to say that the Soule form'd the Body because shee is in the Body is to say that the Jowell made the Cabinet because the Jewell is in the Cabinet or that the Sun made the world because the Sun is in the world and cherisheth every part thereof Learn therefore to distinguish between Agents and their Instruments for if you attribute that to the Creature which belongs to the Creator you bring your sleves in Danger of hell-fire for God is a jealous God and will not give his glorie to Another I advise my Doctors therefore both Divines and Physicians not to bee too rash in their Censures nor so Magisterial in their Discourse as I have known some Professors of Physic to be who would correct and undervalue the rest of their Brethren when in Truth they Themselves were most shamefully ignorant It is not ten or twelve years Experience in Druggs and Sopps can acquaint a man with the Mysteries of God's Creation Take this and make a world Take I know not what and make a Pill or Clyster are different Recepts Wee should therefore consult with our Judgements before wee venture our Tongues and never speake but when wee are sure wee understand I knew a Gentleman who meeting with a Philosopher Adept and receiving so much Courtesie as to be admitted to Discourse attended his first Instructions passing well But when this Magician quitted my friends known Roade and began to touch and drive round the great Wheele of Nature presently my Gentleman takes up the Cudgells and urging all the Authorities which in his vain judgement made for him opprest this noble Philosopher with a most clamorous insipid Ribaldrie A goodly sight it was and worthy our Imitation to see with what an admirable Patience the other received him But this Errant concluded at last That Lead or Quick-silver must be the Subject and that Nature work'd

full Harmonie between Moses and the Cabalists But to omit their Depositions though great and high we are not to seek in this point for the Testimonie of an Angel For the Tutor of Esdras amongst his other Mysterious Instructions hath also this Doctrine When Adam transgressed my Statutes then was that decreed which now is done Then were the Entrances of this World made Narrow full of sorrow and Travell They are but few and Evill full of perils and very painfull But the Entrances of the Elder World were wide and sure and brought forth Immortal Fruit Thus much for the Curse it self Now for the Latitude of it It is true that it was intended Chiefely for Man who was the only Cause of it but Extended to the Elements in Order to him and for his sake For if God had excluded him from Eden and Continued the Earth in her Primitive Glories he had but turned him out of one Paradise into Another wherefore he fits the Dungeon to the Slave and sends a Corruptible Man into a Corruptible World But in Truth it was not Man nor the Earth alone that suffered in this Curse but all other Creatures also For saith God to the Serpent Thou art Cursed above all Cattel and above every Beast of the Field so that Cattel and Beasts also were cursed in some measure but this Serpent above Them all To this also agrees the Apostle in his Epistle to the Romans where he hath these words For the Creature was made subject to Vanitie not willingly but by Reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope Because the Creature it self also shall be delivered from the Bondage of Corruption into the Glorious Liberty of the Children of God Here by the Creature he understands not Man but the inferior species which he distinguisheth from the Children of God though he allows them both the same Liberty But this is more plaine out of the subsequent Texts where he makes a clear Difference between Man and the whole Creation For we know saith he that the whole Creation groaneth and travaileth together in paine untill now And not only They but our selves also which have the first fruits of the spirit even we our selves groane within our selves waiting for the Adoption to wit the Redemption of our Body Here we see the first Fruits of the spirit referred to Man and why not some second subordinat fruits of it to the Creatures in General for as they were cursed in the Fall of Man for Man's sake so it seems in his Restitution they shall be also blessed for his sake But of this enough Let us now summe up and consider the several inconveniences our first Parent was Subject to for they will be of some use with us hereafter First of all he was ejected from the presence of God and exposed to the Malice and Tentations of the Devill He was altered from Good to Bad from Incorruptible to Corruptible In the Day saith the Scripture Thou eatest thereof Thou shalt dye the Death He was excluded from a glorious Paradyse and confin'd to a base world whose sickly infected Elements conspiring with his own Nature did assist and hasten that Death which already began to reign in his Body Heaven did mourn over him The Earth and all her Generations about him He look'd upon himself as a Felon and a Murtherer being guilty of that Curse and Corruption which succeeded in the world because of his fall as we have sufficiently proved out of the Mosaicall and Cabalisticall Traditions He was Ignorant and therefore hopeles of Life aeternal and for this Temporal present Life he was not acquainted with the Provisions of it The Elements of Husbandrie were not as yet known there was neither House nor Plow nor any of those manuall Arts which make up a worldly providence He was exposed to the Violence of Rains and Winds Frosts and Snows and in a word deprived of all Comforts Spiritual and Natural What should I say more He was a meer stranger in this World could not distinguish Medicines from Poysons neither was he skill'd in the ordinarie praeparations of Meate and Drink He had no Victuals ready to his hands but the crude unseasoned Herbage of the Earth so that he must either starve or feed as Nebuchadnezar did with the Beasts of the Field He heard indeed sometimes of a Tree of Life in Eden but the Vegetables of this world for ought he knew might be so many Trees of Death I conclude therefore that he had some Instructor to initiat him in the wayes of Life and to shew him the intricate and narrow paths of that wilderness For without question his outward Miseries and his inward Despaire were Motives whereupon God did reveale a certaine Art unto Him by which he might relieve his present Necessities and imbrace a firme Hope of a future and glorious Restitution For God having ordained a second aeternal Adam did by some mysterious Experience manifest the possibilitie of his comming to the First Who being now full of Despaire and overcharged with the Guilt of his own sin was a very fit Patient for so Divine and mercifull a Physician But omitting our own Reasons which we might produce to this purpose let us repayre to the Cabalists who indeed are very high in the Point and thus they deliver themselves God say they having made fast the Doores of his Paradyse and turn'd out Adam sometimes the Dearest of his Creatures did notwithstanding the Present Punishment retaine his former Affection towards him still For God is said to love his Creatures not that there is any thing lovely in Them without their Creator but in that hee desires their perfection That is to say he would have them Conformable to himself and fitt to receive his Image or Similitude which is a spiritual Impress of his Beauty Now to restore this Similitude in Adam was impossible unlesse God should reassume that to himself which was now fallen from him So transcendent and almost incredible a Mercie had God treasur'd up in his secret Will being resolved to unite the Nature of Man to his Own and so vindicat him from Death by taking him into the Deitie which is the true Fountain and Center of Life This Will say the Cabalists was first revealed to the Angels and that by God himself in these words Ecce Adam sicut unus ex Nobis Behold an Adam like one of us knowing Good and Euill This speech they call Orationem occultissimam à Creatore Mundi cum beatis Angelis in suae Divinitatis Penetralibus habitam A most secret Conference which God had with the blessed Angels in the Inner-Chambers of Heaven Now that the same Scripture should speak one thing in the Letter and another in the Mysterie is not strange to mee how difficult soever it may seem to another For verily this Text may not concern the first Adam who knowing Evill by Committing it could not be like God in respect of that

whose lipps the Truth did breathe and knew no other Oracle Coelestium vires dum in se existunt à Datore Luminum per sanctas Intelligentias Coelos influuntur quousque ad Lunam pervenerint earum Influentia bona est tanquam in primo gradu deinde autem quando in Subjecto viliori suscipitur ipsa etiam vilescit That is The Heavenly powers or spirituall Essences whiles they are in themselves or before they are united to the Matter and are shower'd down from the Father of Lights thorough the holy Intelligences and the Heavens untill they come to the Moone Their Influence is good as in the first degree But when it is received in a corrupt Subject the Influence also is corrupted Thus He. Now the A stronomers pretend to a strange familiaritie with the starrs the Natural Philosophers talk as much and truly an Ignorant man might well think they had been in heaven and conversed like Lucians Menippus with Jove himself But in good Earnest these Men are no more Eagles than Sancho their fansies are like his flights in the Blanket and every way as short of the Skies Ask them but where the Influences are received and how bid them by faire Experience prove they are present in the Elements and you have undone them if you will trust the foure Corners of a Figure or the three Legs of a Syllogism you may this is all their Evidence Well fare the Magicians then whose Art can demonstrate these Things and put the very Influences in our hands Let it be thy studie to know their Region of Light and to enter into the Treasures thereof for then thou mayst converse with Spirits and understand the Nature of invisible Things Then will appear unto thee the Universal Subject and the two minerall Spermes White and Red of which I must speak somewhat before I make an end In the Pythagoricall Synod which consisted of Threescore and Ten Philosophers all Masters of the Art it is thus written I gnis Spissum in Aera cadit Aeris vero Spissum quod ex igne Spisso congregatur in Aquam incidit Aquae quoque Spissum quod ex I gnis Aeris Spisso coadunatur in Terrâ quiescit Ita istorum Trium spissuudo in Terrâ guiescit inque eâ conjuncta sunt Ipsa ergo Terra omnibus caeteris Elementis spissior est uti Palam apparet videre est That is The Thicknesse or Sperm of the Fire falls into the Ayre The Thickness or Spermatic part of the Ayre and in it the Sperm of the Fire falls into the Water The Thickness or spermatic Substance of the Water and in it the two Spermes of Fire and Ayre fall into the Earth and there they rest and are conjoyned Therefore the Earth it self is thicker than the other Elements as it openly appears and to the eye is manifest Remember now what I have told thee formerly concerning the Earth what a generall Hospitall it is how it receives all things not onely Beasts and Vegetables but proud and glorious Man when Death hath ruin'd him his courser parts stay here and know no other Home This Earth to Earth is just the Doctrine of the Magi Metalls say they and all things may bee reduc'd into that whereof they were made They speak the very Truth it is God's own Principle and he first taught it Ad. m. Dust thou art and to Dust shalt thou return But lest any man should be Deceived by us I think it just to informe you there are two reductions One is Violent and Destructive reducing Bodies to their Extremes and properly it is Death or the Calcination of the common Chimist The other is Vital and Generative resolving Bodies into their Sperm or middle Substance out of which Nature made them for Nature makes not Bodies immediatly of the Elements but of a Sperm which shee drawes out of the Elements I shall explain my self to you by Example An Egg is the Sperm or middle Substance out of which a Chick is ingendred and the moysture of it is viscous and slimie a water and no water for such a Sperme ought to bee Suppose Dr. Coale I mean some Broyler had a minde to generat something out of this Egg Questionlesse he would first distill it and that with a fire able to roast the Hen that layd it then would hee calcine the Caput mortuum and finally produce his Nothing Here you are to observe that Bodies are nothing els but Sperm coagulated and he that Destroyes the Body by consequence destroyes the Sperm Now to reduce Bodies into Elements of earth and water as wee have instanc'd in the Egg is to reduce them into Extremes beyond their Sperm for Elements are not the Sperm but the Sperm is a Compound made of the Elements and containing in it self all that is requisit to the frame of the Body Wherefore be well advis'd before you distill and Quarter any particular Bodies for having once separated their Elements you may never generat unless you can make a Sperm of those Elements but that is impossible for man to doe it is the Power of God and Nature Labour then you that would be accounted wise to find out our Mercurie so shall you reduce things to their mean spermaticall Chaos but avoyd the broyling Destruction This Doctrine will spare you the vain Task of Distillations if you will but remember this Truth That Sp●rmes are not made by Separation but by Composition of Elements and to bring a Body into Sperm is not to distill it but to reduce the whole into one thick water keeping all the parts thereof in their first naturall union But that I may return at last to my former Citation of the Synod All those Influences of the Elements being united in one Mass make our Sperm or our Earth which is Earth and no Earth Take it if thou doest know it and divide the Essences thereof not by violence but by naturall putrefaction such as may occasion a genuine Dissolution of the Compound Here thou shalt find a miraculous white Water an Influence of the Moone which is the Mother of our Chaos It rules in two Elements Earth and Water After this appears the Sperm or influx of the Sun which is the father of it It is a quick Coelestiall fire incorporated in a thin oleous Aereall Moysture It is incombustible for it is fire it self and feeds upon fire and the longer it stayes in the fire the more glorious it growes These are the two mineral Spermes Masculine and Foeminine if thou doest place them both on their Chrystalline Basis thou hast the Philosopher's flying Fire-drake which at the first sight of the Sun breathes such a poyson that nothing can stand before him I know not what to tell thee more unlesse in the Vogue of some Authors I should give thee a flegmatic Description of the whole process and that I can dispatch in two words It is nothing els but