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A64761 Anima magica abscondita or a discourse of the universall spirit of nature, with his strange, abstruse, miraculous ascent, and descent. By Eugenius Philalethes. Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666. 1650 (1650) Wing V142; ESTC R3720 27,836 76

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