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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

Aristotel to AEelohim and condemn the Truth of God to justifie the Opinions of Man Now for my part I dare not be so irreligious as to think God so vain and improvident in his workes that he should plant in Man a Desire to know and yet deny him Knowledge it self This in plain termes were to give me Eyes and afterwards shutt mee up in Darkness lest I should see with those eyes This earnest Longing and busie Inquisition wherein Men tyre themselves to attain to the Truth made a certain Master of Truth speak in this fashion Ergo liquidò apparet in hac Mundi structurâ quam cernimus aliquam triumphare Veritatem quae toties rationem nostram commovet agitat implicat explicat toties inquietam toties insomnem miris modis sollicitat non fortuitis aut aliunde adventitiis sed suis propiis originariis Naturae Illicibus quae omnia cum non fiunt frustra utique contingit ut Veritatem Eorum quae sunt aliquo tandem opportuno tempore amplexemur It is clear therefore saith he that in this Fabric of the world which we behold there is some Truth that rules which Truth so often stirrs up puzzles and helps our Reason so often sollicites her when shee is restless so often when shee is watchfull and this by strange meanes not casual and adventitious but by genuine provocations and pleasures of nature All which Motions being not to no purpose it falls out at last that in some good time wee attain to the true Knowledge of those things that are But because I would not have you build your Philosophie on Coralls and whistles which are the Objects of little Children of whom we have spoken formerly I will speak som what of those Elements in whose Contemplation a Man ought to employ himself and this Discourse may serve as a Preface to our whole Philosophie Man according to Trismegistus hath but two Elements in his power namely Earth and Water To which Doctrine I adde this and I have it from a Greater than Hermes That God hath made Man absolute Lord of the first Matter and from the first matter and the Dispensation thereof all the fortunes of man both good and bad doe proceed According to the Rule and Measure of this Substance all the world are rich or poore and hee that knows it truly and withall the true use thereof he can make his fortunes constant but hee that knowes it not though his Estate be never so great stands on a slipperie Foundation Look about thee then and consider how thou art compassed with infinite Treasures and miracles but thou art so blind thou doest not see them nay thou art so mad thou doest think there is no use to be made of them for thou doest believe that Knowledge is a meere Peripateticall Chatt and that the Fruits of it are not Works but words If this were true I would never advise thee to spend one Minute of thy life upon Learning I would first be one of those should ruine all Libraries and Vniversities in the world which God forbid any good Christian should desire Look up then to Heaven and when thou seest the Coelestiall fires move in their swift and glorious Circles think also there are here below some cold Natures which they over-look and about which they move incessantly to heat and concoct them Consider again that the Middle spirit I mean the Ayre is interpos'd as a Refrigeratorie to temper and qualifie that Heat which otherwise might be too violent If thou doest descend lower and fix thy Thoughts where thy feet are that thy wings may be like those of Mercurie at thy Heeles thou wilt find the Earth surrounded with the Water and that Water heated and stirr'd by the Sun and his starrs abstracts from the Earth the pure subtil saltish parts by which means the water is thickened and coagulated as with a Rennet out of these two Nature generates all things Gold and Silver Pearles and Diamonds are nothing els but water and salt of the Earth concocted Behold I have in a few words discovered unto thee the whole system of Nature and her Royal High-way of Generation It is thy Duty now to improve the Truth and in my Booke thou mayst if thou art wise find thy Advantages The foure Elements are the Objects and implicitly the Subjects of Man but the Earth is invisible I know the common Man will stare at this and judge me not very sober when I affirme the Earth which of all substances is most gross and palpable to be invisible But on my soule it is so and which is more the Eye of Man never saw the Earth nor can it be seen without Art To make this Element visible is the greatest secret in Magic for it is a miraculous Nature and of all others the most holy according to that Computation of Trismegistus Coelum AEther Aer sacratissima Terra As for this Faeculent gross Body upon which we walk it is a Compost and no Earth but it hath Earth in it and even that also is not our Magicall Earth In a word all the Elements are visible but one namely the Earth and when thou hast attained to so much perfection as to know why God hath placed the Earth in Obscondito thou hast an Excellent Figure whereby to know God himself and how he is visible how invisible Hermes affirmeth that in the Beginning the Earth was a Quakemire or quivering kind of Jelly it being nothing els but water congealed by the Incubation and heat of the Divine spirit Cum adhuc sayth hee Terra tremula esset Lucente sole compacta est When as yet the Earth was a Quivering shaking substance the Sun afterwards shining upon it did compact it or make it Solid The same Author introduceth God speaking to the Earth and impregnating her with all sorts of seeds in these words Cumque manus aquè validas implesset rebus quae in Naturâ Ambienteque erant pugnos validè constringens Sume inquit ô Sacra Terra quae Genitrix omnium es futura nè ullâ re egena videaris manus quales oportet Deum habere expandens demisit Omnia ad rerum Constitutionem necessaria When God saith he had filled his powerfull hands with those things which are in Nature and in that which compasseth Nature then shutting them close again hee said Receive from me O holy Earth that art ordained to be the Mother of all lest thou shouldst want any thing when presently opening such hands as it becomes a God to have hee powr'd down All that was Necessary to the Constitution of things Now the meaning of it is this The Holy Spirit moving upon the Chaos which Action some Divines compare to the Incubation of a Hen upon her Eggs did together with his Heat communicat other manifold Influences to the Matter For as wee know the Sun doth not onely dispense heat but som other secret Influx so did God also