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A64767
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Lumen de lumine, or, A new magicall light discovered and communicated to the world by Eugenius Philalethes.
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Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666.
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1651
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he speak and he will shew you things to come He shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you All things that the Father hath are mine Therefore said I that he shall take of mine Here wee plainly see there is a certaine subsequent order or Method in the operations of the blessed Trinity for Christ tels us that he receives from his Father and the Holy Ghost receives from Him Againe that all things are conceived Ideally or as we commonly expresse it created by the second person is confirmed by the word of God The World was made by him saith the Scripture and the world knew him not He came unto his own and his own received him not This may suffice for such as Love the Truth and as for that which the Cabalist speaks of the fourth and fifth Dayes it suits not with my present designe and therefore I must wave it It is clear then that Terra viventium or the Eternall Fire-Earth buds and sprouts hath her fierie spirituall Flowers which we call soules as this natural Earth hath her natural Vegetables In this mysterious sense is the Prester defin'd in the Oracles {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Flower of thin Fire But that we may come at last to the thing intended I think it not amisse to instruct you by this Manuduction You know that no Artificer can build but the Earth must be the Foundation to his Building for without this Ground-work his Brick and Mortar cannot stand In the Creation when God did build there was no such place to build upon I aske then where did he rest his Matter and upon what Certainly he built and founded Nature upon his own Supernaturall Center He is in her and thorough her and with his eternall spirit doth he support Heaven and Earth as our bodies are supported with our spirits This is confirmed by that oracle of the Apostle Omnia portat verbo virtutis suae He bears up all things with the word of his power from this power is he justly styl'd {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The infinitly powerfull and the All-powerfull power-making power I say then that Fire and spirit are the Pillars of Nature the props on which her whole Fabric rests and without which it could not stand one minute This Fire or Prester is the Throne of the Quintessentiall Light from whence he dilates himself to Generation as we see in the effussion of the Sun-beams in the great world In this Dilatation of the Light consists the joy or pleasure of the passive spirit and in its Contraction his Melancholie or sorrow We see in the great Body of Nature that in Turbulent weather when the Sun is shut up and clouded the Aire is thick and dull and our own spirits by secret Compassion with the spirit of the Aire are dull too On the contrary in clear strong Sun-shines the Aire is Quick and Thin and the spirits of all Animals are of the same rarified active Temper It is plaine then that our joyes and sorrows proceed from the Dilatation and Contraction of our inward Quintessentiall Light This is apparent in despayring Lovers who are subject to a certain violent extraordinary panting of the Heart a timorous trembling pulse which proceeds from the Apprehension and Feare of the spirit in relation to his Miscarriage Notwithstanding he desires to be dilated as it appears by his pulse or Sallie wherein he doth discharge himself but his Despaire checks him againe and brings him to a suddain Retreat or Contraction Hence it comes to passe that we are subject to sighs which are occasion'd by the suddain pause of the spirit for when hee stops the Breath stops but when he looseth himself to an outward Motion we deliver two or three Breaths that have been formerly omitted in one long Eâ—piration and this we call a sigh This â—â—sion hath carried many brave men to very â—â—â— Extremities It is originally occasion'dâ—â— the spirit of the Mistris or affected â—irty for her spirit ferments or leavens the â—â—â—t of the Lover so that it desires an unionâ—â— far as Nature will permit This makes us â—â—sent even smiles and frowns like Fortunesâ—nd Misfortunes Our Thoughts are never â—t Home according to that well-grounded Observation Anima est ubi amat non ubi â—â—â—â—â—t the soule dwels not where she lives out where she loves We are imploy'd in a â—erpetuall Contemplation of the absent Beauâ—â— Our very Joyes and Woes are in her power â—he can set us to what Humor she will as â—ampian was alter'd by the Music of his Mistris When to her Luâ—e Corinna sings Her Voice inlives the Leaden strings But when of sorrows she doth speak Even with her sighes the strings doe break And as her Lure doth Live or Die Lea'd by her Passions So doe I. This and many more miraculous sympaâ—hies proceed from the Attractive nature of the Prester it is a spirit that can wonders and now let us see if there bee any possibility to come at him Suppose then wee should dilapidat or discompose some Artificiall Building stone by stone There is no question but we should come at last to the Earth whereupon it is founded It is just so in Magic if we open any Natural Body and separat all the parts thereof one from another we shall come at last to the Prester which is the Candle and secret Light of God Wee shall know the hidden Intelligence and see that inexpressible Face which gives the outward Figure to the Body This is the Sâ—â—lagism we should look after for he that â—ath once past the Aquaster enters the Fire-world and sees what is both Invisible and Incredible to the common Man He shall discover to the Eye the miraculous Conspiracy that is between the Prester and the Sun Hee shall know the secret Love of Heaven and Earth and the sense of that deep Cabalism Non est planta hic inferiùs cui non est stella in Firmamento superiùs ferit eam stella dicit ei Cresce There is not an Herb here below but he hath a star in Heaven above and the star strikes him with her Beame and sayes to him Grow He shall know how the Fire-spirit hath his Root in the Spirituall Fire-Earth and receives from it a secret Influx upon which he feeds as Herbs feed on that Juice and Liquor which they receive at their Roots from this Common Earth This is it which our Saviour tels us Man lives not by Bread alone but by every word that comes out of the Mouth of God He meant not by Inke and Pâ—pyr or the dead Letter it is a Mystery and St. Paul hath partly expounded it He tels the Athenians that God made Man to the end That he should seek the Lord if happily he might feel after him and find him Here is a strange Expression you will say that a Man should feel after God or seek Him with his Hands But
Auroram assurgere magnum Thesaurum animadvertetis penes quem praecipuum exactissimum est summa quaedam Tinctura quâ Mundus si Deo placeret tantis donis dignus esset posset tingi in summum Aurum Coverti Hac Tincturâ utentes utì vos docuerit vester Conductor vos quamvis senes reddet Juvenes in nullo membro animadvertetis ullum morbum Penes hanc Tincturam invenietis etiam Margaritas quas nè quidem licet excogitare Vos vero nihil â—â—pietis pro Autoritate vestrâ sed sâ—â—is contenti cum eo quod vobis Conductor communicabit Deo semper gratias agite pro Hoc summam curam intendite nè coram mundo superbiatis sed Dono hoc rectè utimini in ea impendite quae Mundo sunt contraria ita possidete quasi non haberetis Ducite vitam Temperatam cavete ab omni genere peccati alioqui hic vester Conductor à vobis se divertet privabimini hac faelicitate Scitote enim hoc fideliter Qui Tincturâ hac abutitur non vivit exemplariter purè Syncerè coram Hominibus Beneficium hoc amittet parùm spei restabit quo iterum id Recipere possit c. Thus have they described unto us the Mount of God the mysticall Philosophicall Horeb which is nothing else but the highest and purest part of the Earth For the superior secret portion of this Element is Holy ground and Aristotle tels his Peripatetics Locus quo Excelsior eo Divinior It is the Seed-plot of the Eternall Nature the immediat Vessell and Recipient of Heaven where all Minerals and Vegetables have their Roots and by which the Animal Monarchie is maintain'd This Philosophicall Black Saturn mortifies and coagulats the Invisible Mercury of the stars and on the contrary the Mercury kils and dissolves the Saturn and out of the Corruption of Both the Central and Circumferentiall Suns generat a new Body Hence the Philosophers describing their stone tell us it is Lapis niger vilis faetens dicitur Origo Mundi oritur sicut Germinantia As for the Epistle of the Fraternitie I shall for satisfaction of the ordinary Reader put it into English I know some Doctors will think it no Advantage but then they confesse their Ignorance I can assure them The Subject is no where so clearly discovered and for the first abstruse preparation there is no privat Author hath mention'd it but here wee have it intirely and withall most faithfully described I confesse indeed their Instruction wears a Mask it speaks in Tropes but very plaine and pervious and the English of it is This Every Man naturally desires a Superiority to have Treasures of Gold and Silver and to seeme Great in the Eys of the World God indeed created all things for the use of Man that he might rule over them and acknowledge therein the singular Goodnesse and Omnipotencie of God give him Thanks for his Benefits honour him and praise him But there is no man looks after these Things otherwise than by spending his dayes idely they would injoy them without any previous labour and Danger neither doe they look them out of that place where God hath treasur'd them â—p who expects also that man should seek for â—hem there and to those that seek will he give them But there is not any that labours â—or a possession in that place and therfore these â—iehes are not found For the way to this â—lace and the place it self hath been unknown for â— long time and it is hidden from the greatest â—art of the World But notwithstanding it be â—ifficult and laborious to find out this way and â—lace yet the place should be sought after But it â— not the will of God to conceale any thing from â—ose that are his and therefore in this last Age before the Finall Judgement comes all â—ese things shall be manifested to those that â—â—e worthy As hee Himselfe though â—scurely lest it should be manifested to the â—nworthy hath spoken in a certaine place â—here is Nothing covered that shall not be â—â—ealed and hidden that shall not be known â—e therefore being moved by the spirit of God â—e declare the will of God to the World which â—e have also already performed a and pubâ—â—shed in severall Languages But most men â—her revile or contemne that our Manifesto â—else waving the spirit of God they expect the proposals thereof from us supposing we will straightway teach them how to make Gold by Art or furnish them with ample Treasures whereby they may live pompously in the facâ— of the World Swagger and make Wars turâ— Vsurers Gluttons and Drunkards live unâ— chastely and defile their whole life with severall other sins all which Things are contrarâ— to the Blessed will of God These Men shoulâ— have learnt from those Ten Virgins whereâ—Five that were foolish demanded Oile for theiâ—Lamps from those Five that were wise hoâ—â— that the Case is much otherwise It is expeâ—dient that every man should labour for thiâ— Treasure by the Assistance of God and â—â—â— own particular Search and Industry But the perverse Intentions of these Fellows we understand out of their own writings by the singular Grace and Revelation of God wâ—â— doe stop our Ears and wrap our selves as â— were in Clouds to avoid the Bellowings anâ— Howlings of those men who in vaine crie onâ— for Gold And hence indeed it comes to paâ—â— that they brand us with infinite Calumniâ—â— and Slanders which notwithstanding we dâ—â— not resent but God in his good Time will judâ—â— them for it But after that we had well knoâ— though unknown to you and perceived alâ— by your writing how diligently you are to perâ—â—â—â— Holy Scripture and seek the true knowledge of God we have also above many Thousands thought you worthy of some Answer â—â—nd we signifie this much to you by the will of God and the Admonition of the Holy â—host There is a Mountain situated in the Midst of the Earth or Center of the world which is â—â—oth small and Great It is soft also above â—easure Hard and Stonie It is far off and â—â—eer at hand but by the providence of God â—visible In it are hidden most ample Treaâ—res which the world is not able to value This Mountain by Envie of the Devill who alwaies â—poseth the Glory of God and the Happinesse â— Man is compassed about with very cruell â—easts and other Ravenous Birds which make â—e way thither both difficult and dangerous â—â—d therefore hitherto because the Time is â—â— yet come the way thither could not be sought â—fter nor found out But now at last the way to be found by those that are worthy but notwithstanding by every man's self-labour and â—ndeavours To this Mountaine you shall goe in a cerâ—â—ne Night when it comes most long and â—ost dark and see that you prepare your selves â—prayer Insist upon the way that leads to â—â—Mountaine but aske