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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

this Mysterie is to bee considered severall wayes and that because of its severall Subjects The Primitive Original Existence of it is in God himself for it is nothing els but the practice or operation of the Divine Spirit working in the matter uniting Principles into Compounds and resolving those Compounds into their Principles In this Sense wee seek not the Antiquity of it for it is AEternal being a Notion of the Divine Wisdome and Existent before all Time or the Creation of it Secondly we are to Consider it in a Derivative Sense as it was imparted and communicated to Man and this properly was no Birth or Beginning but a Discoverie or Revelation of the Art From this Time of its Revelation wee are to measure the Antiquity of it where it shall be our Task to demonstrat upon what Motives God did reveale it as also to whom and when The Eye discovers not beyond that stage wherein it is Conversant but the Eare receives the Sound a great way off To give an experieuc'd Testimonie of Actions more Ancient than our selves is a thing impossible for us unlesse wee could look into that Glass where all Occurrences may bee seen Past Present and to Come I must therefore build my Discourse on the Traditions of those Men to whom the Word both Written and Mysticall was intrusted and these were the Jewes in Generall but more particularly their Cabalists It is not my Intention to rest on these Rabbins as Fundamentals but I will iustifie their Assertions out of Scripture and intertain my Reader with Proofes both Divine and Humane Finally I will passe out of Judaea into AEgypt and Graece where againe I shall meet with these Mysteries and prove that this Science did stream as the Chimists say their Salt-Fountain doth out of Jurie and watered the whole Earth It is the constant Opinion of the Hebrewes That before the Fall of Adam there was a more plentifull and large Communion between Heaven and Earth God and the Elements than there is now in our Days But upon the Transgression of the first Man Malcuth say the Cabalists was cut off from the Ilan so that a Breach was made between both Worlds and their Chanel of Influences discontinued Now Malcuth is the Invisible Archetypall Moone by which our visible Caelestiall Moone is governed and impraegnated And truly it may be that upon this Retreate of the Divine Light from Infe riors those Spots and Darknes which we now see succeeded in the Body of this Planet and not in her alone but about the Sun also as it hath been discovered by the Telescope Thus say They God to punish the Sin of Adam withdrew himself from the Creatures so that they were not feasted with the same measure of Influences as formerly For the Archetypall Moone which is placed in the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Haschamaim to receive and convey downe the Influx of the six superior Invisible Planets was as the Jewes affirme either separated from the Ilan or her Broasts were so sealed up that she could not dispense her Milk to Inferiors in that happy and Primitive Abundance But because I would not dwell long on this point let us heare the Cabalist himself state it in a clear and apposit phrase Initio Creationis Mundi Divina Cohabitatio erat descendens in Inferiora cum esset Divina Cohabitatio inferiùs reperti sunt Coeli Terra uniti erant Fontes Canales activi in perfectione trahebantur à Superiore ad Inferius inveniebatur Deus complens supernè Infernè Venit Adam primus peccavit diruti sunt Descensus confracti sunt Canales desiit Aquae-ductus cessavit Divina Cohabitatio divisa est Societas That is In the Beginning of the Creation of the world God did descend and cohabitat with Things here below and when the Divine Habitation was here below the Heavens and the Earth were found to be united and the Vital Springs and Chanels were in their perfection and did flow from the Superior to the Inferior World and God was found to fill all Things both Above and Beneath Adam the first Man came and sinned whereupon the Descents from above were restrained and their Chanels were broken and the Water-Course was no more and the Divine Cohabitation ceased and the Societie was divided Thus far my Rabbi Now because I have promised Scripture to my Cabalism I will submit the Tradition to Moses and truly that Rabbi also is of my side for thus I read in Genesis And to Adam he said Because thou hast eaten of the Tree whereof I commanded I hee saying Thou shalt not eate of it Cursed is the Ground for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eate of it all the Dayes of thy Life Thornes and Thistles shall it bring forth unto Thee and Thou shalt eate the Herb of the Field In the sweat of thy face shalt Thou eate Bread untill thou returne unto the Ground for out of it wast thou taken for Dust Thou art and to Dust shalt thou returne This is the Curse and Adam was so sensible of it that he acquainted his posterity with it For Lamech prophesying of his Son Noah hath these words This same shall comfort us concerning our work and Toyle of our Hands because of the Ground which the Lord hath cursed And this indeed was accomplished in some sense after the Floud as the same Scripture tells us And the Lord said in his Heart I will not Againe curse the Ground any more for Mans sake Here now we are to consider two Things First The Curse it self and next the Latitude of it To manifest the Nature of the Curse and what it was you must know that Good essentially is Light and Evill is Darknes The Evill properly is a Corruption that immediatly takes place upon the Removall of that which is Good Thus God having removed his Candlestick and Light from the Elements presently the Darknes and Cold of the Matter praevailed so that the Earth was neerer her first Deformitie and by Consequence lesse fruitfull and Vitall Heaven and Hell that is Light and Darknes are the two Extremes which Consummat Good and Evill But there are some mean Blessings which are but in ordine or disposing to Heaven which is their last perfection and such were these Blessings which God recalled upon the Transgression of the first Man Againe there are some Evills which are but ' Degrees conducing to their last Extremitie or Hell and such was this Curse or Evill which succeeded the Transgression Thus our Saviour under these Notions of Blessed and Cursed comprehends the Inhabitants of Light and Darknes Come you Blessed and Goe you Cursed In a word then The Curse was Nothing else but an Act repealed or a Restraint of those Blessings which God of his meer Goodnes had formerly communicated to his Creatures And thus I conceive there is a very faire and

Knowledge which made him sinfull and altogether unlike him For God if I may so expresse it knows the Evill onely speculatively in asmuch as nothing can escape his Knowledge and therefore is not guilty of Evill For as Tritemius hath well observed Scientia Mali non est Malum sed usus The knowledge of Evill is not Evill but the practice of it It remains then that this Speech concern'd the Second Adam Christ Jesus who knew the Evill but did not commit it and therefore was like one of us that is like One of the Trinitie knowing Good and Evill and yet no way guiltie of the Evill This primitive and Compendious Gospell was no sooner imparted to the Angels but they became Ministers of it the Law as St. Paul saith being ordained in their hands till Christ should take it into his own and their Administration to Man took Beginning with this Oracle Thus say the Cabalists Raziel the Angel was presently dispatch'd to communicat the Intelligence to Adam and to acquaint him with the Mysteries of both world AEternall and Temporall For as he could not obtain the Blessings of the AEternall World unless by a true faith hee apprehended the Three AEternall Principles of it so neither could he fully injoy the benefits of this Temporall World unless hee truly understood the Three Visible substances whereof it consists For there are Three above and Three beneath Three as St. John saith in Heaven and Three on Earth The Inferior bear witness of the Superior and are their only proper Receptacles They are Signatures and Created Books where wee may reade the Mysteries of the supernaturall Trinitie But to proceed in our former Discourse The Cabalists doe not onely attribute a Guardian to Adam but to every one of the Patriarchs allowing Them their Praesidents and Tutors both to assist and instruct Them in their wearisome and worldly Peregrinations A Doctrine in my Opinion not more Religious than Necessary how Prodigious soever it may seem to some Phantastic insiped Theologicians For Certainly it is impossible for us to find out Mysteries of our selves wee must either have the Spirit of God or the Instruction of his Ministers whereher they bee Men or Angels And thus wee see out of the Traditions and Doctrine of the Jewes how their Cabala and our Magic came first into the world I shall now examine the Scriptures and consult with them where if I am not much mistaken I shall find some Consequences which must needs depend on these Principles and thus I apply my self to the Task The first Harvest I read of was that of Cain and the first Flocks those of Abel A Shepheards life in those Early Dayes was no difficult Profession it being an Imployment of more Care than Art but how the Earth was plow'd up before the sound of Tubal's Hammers is a piece of Husbandrie unknown in these Dayes Howsoever it was a Labour perform'd and not without Retribution Cain hath his Sheaves as well as Abel his Lambs both of them receive and both acknowledge the Benefit I find established in these Two a certain Priesthood they attend both to the Altar and the first Bloud was shed by Sacrifice the Second by Murther Now so dull am I and so short of Syllogismes those strange Pumps and Hydragogues which lave the Truthex Puteo like Water that all my Reason cannot make these Men Levits without Revelation For I desire to know how came they first to Sacrifise and by whom were they initiated If you will say by Adam The Question indeed is deferr'd but not satisfied For I would know further In what Schoole was Adam instructed Now that it was impossible for him to invent these Shadowes and Sacraments of himself I will undertake to Demonstrate and that by invincible Reason which no Adversarie shall dare to contradict It is most certain that the Hope and Expectation of Man in Matters of Sacrifices consist in the Thing signisied and not in the Signe it self For the Material Corruptible shadow is not the Object of Faith but the Spiritual aeternall Prototype which answers to it and makes the dead figure Effectual The Sacrifices of the Old Testament and the Elements of the New can be no way acceptable with God but inafmuch as they have a Relation to Christ Jesus who is the great perfect Sacrifice offered up once for all It is plain then that Sacrifices were first instituted upon supernatural grounds for in Nature there is no reason to be found why God should be pleased with the Death of his Creatures Nay the very Contrary is written in that Book for Death both Natural and Violent proceeds not from the pleasure but from the displeasure of the Creator I know the learned Alkind builds the efficacie of Sacrifices on a Sympathie of parts with the great world for there is in every Animal a portion of the star-fire which fire upon the Dissolution of the Compound is united to the General fire from whence it first came and produceth a sense or Motion in the Limbus to which it is united This indeed is true but that Motion causeth no Joy there and by Consequence no Reward to the Sacrificer for I shall make it to appeare elsewhere that the Astral Mother doth mourn and not rejoyce at the Death of her Children Now if wee look back on these two first Sacrificers we shall find Abel and his Oblation accepted which could not be had he not offerr'd it up as a Symbol or Figure of his Saviour To drive home my Argument then I say that this knowledge of the Type in whom all offerings were acceptable could not bee obtained by any humane Industrie but by sole Revelation For the Passion of Christ Jesus was an Ordinance wrapt up in the secret will of God and he that would know it must of Necessitie bee of his Councell Hence it is called in Scripture the Hidden Mysterie for the Truth and Certainty of it was not to bee received from any but onely from him who had both the Will and the Power to ordain it But if you will tell mee like the Author of the Praedicables that men sacrifised at first by the Instinct of Nature and without any Respect to the Type I shal indeed thank you for my mirth whensoever you give mee so just a Reason to laugh It remains then a most firme infallible Foundation that Adam was first instructed concerning the Passion and in order to that he was taught further to Sacrifise and offer up the Blouds of Beasts as Types and Prodroms of the Bloud of Christ Jesus the Altars of the Law being but steps to the Cross of the Gospell Now if it be objected that severall Nations have sacrifised who did not know God at all much less the Son of God who is the Prototype and perfection of all Oblations To this I answer that the Custome of Sacrificing was communicated to Heathens by Tradition from the first Man who having instructed his own Children they also

delivered it to their Posteritie so that this Vizard of Religion remained thought the Substance and true Doctrine of it was lost And thus in my Opinion it sufficiently appears that the first men did sacrifise not by Nature as Prophrrius that Encmie of our Religion would have it but some by Revelation others by Custome and Tradition But now I think upon it I have Scripture to confirme me concerning this Primitive Revelation for Salomon numbring those serverall Blessings which the Divine Wisdome imparted to the Ancient Fathers amongst the rest specifies her Indulgence to Adam Shee praeserved saith hee the first formed Father of the world that was created alone and brought him out of his Fall Here I find Adam in some measure restored and how could that bee but by discovering unto him the Great Restorative Christ Jesus the second Adam in whom he was to believe for without Faith he could not have been brought out of his Fall and without Christ revealed and preached unto him hee could have no Faith for hee knew not what to believe It remaines then that hee was instructed for as in these last dayes wee are taught by the Son of God and his Apostles so in those first times they were taught by the Spirit of God and his ministring Angels These were their Tutors for of them they heard the Word and verily wee are told that faith comes by hearing It is now as I think sufficiently proved that Adam had his Metaphysics from Above our next Service and perhaps somewhat difficult is to give some probable if not Demonstrative reasons that they came not alone but had their Physics also to attend them I know the Scriptures are not positive in this point and hence the Sects will lug their Consequence of Reprobation Truly for my part I desire not their Hum but their patience I have though against the Praecept for many years attended their Philosophie and if they spend a few hours on my Spermalogie it may cost them some part of their Justice but none of their Favours But that we may come to the thing in hand I hold it very Necessarie to distinguish Arts for I have not yet seen any Author who hath fully considered their difference The Art I speak of is truly Physicall in Subject Method and Effect But as for Arts publickly professed and to the Disadvantage of Truth allowed not one of them is so qualified for they are meer Knacks and Bables of the Hand or Braine having no firm Fundamentals in Nature These in my opinion S●l●●o● numbers amongst his Vanities when hee speakes in a certaine place That God had made man upright but hee had sought out many Inventions Of these Inventions we have a short Catalogue in Genesis where Moses separates the Corn from the Chaff the Works of God from the Whymzies of Man Thus wee read that Jabal was the Father of such as dwell in Tents his brother Jubal the father of all such as handle the Harp and Organ and Tubal-Cain an Instructer of every Artificer in Brasse and Iron What mischiefes have succeeded this Brasse-and-Iron Cyclops I need not tell you if you know not the fates of former Times you may studie the Actions of your owne you live in an Age that can instruct you Verily it is worth our observation that these Arts and their tooles proceeded not from the Posterity of Seth in whose Line our Saviour stands for as wee shall make it appeare hereafter questionlesse they had a better knowledge But they proceeded from the Seed of Cain who in Action was a Murtherer and in the Circumstance of it a fratricide To be short there is no Vanity to the Vanitie of Sciences I mean those Inventions and their Professors which produce nothing true and Natural but Effects either false or in their Ends corrupt and Violent But 't is no Conquest to tread on Ruines Cornelius Agrippa hath already layd these Rodomontados in the Dirt and that so handsomely they were never since of a general Reputation Give me an Art then that is a perfect intire Map of the Creation that can lead me directly to the Knowledge of the true God by which I can discover those Universal invisible Essences which are subordinat to him An Art that is no way subject to Evill and by which I can attain to all the Secrets and Mysteries in Nature This is the Art wherein the Physics of Adam and the Patriarchs consisted and that this Art was revealed to him I will undertake to demonstrat by Scriptures and the Practice of his Posteritie This Truth I am certain will seem difficult if not incredible to most men the Providence of God being praejudic'd in this point for they will not allow him to instruct us in Naturall things but onely in Supernaturals such as may concerne our Souls and their Salvation As for our Bodies he must not praescribe for their Necessities by teaching us the true Physic and discovering the Lawes of his Creation for though he made Nature yet hee may not tutor us in Natural Sciences by no means Aristotle and his Syllogism can doe it much better Certainly this Opinion is nothing different from that of the Epicure Deum ad Coeli Cardines obambulare nullâ tangi Mortalium curâ That God takes the Aire I know not in what walkes and Quarters of his Heaven but thinks not of us Mortals who are here under his feet Questionlesse a most eminent Impietie to make God as Iertullian said of old Otiosum inexercitum Neminem in rebus Humanis An idle unprofitable No body in this World having nothing to doe with our Afaires as they are Natural and Humane Sure these Men are afraid lest his Mercy should diminish his Majestie they suffer him to trade onely with our immortal parts not with Corruptible bodies that have most need of his Assistance they are base Subjects which he hath turned over to Galen and the Apothecaries Not so my friend he hath created Physic and brings it out of the Earth but the Galenist knowes it not Hee it is that pitties our afflictions he is the good Samaritane that doth not pass by us in our miseries but poures Oile and Wine into our wounds This I know very well and I will prove it out of his own Mouth Did not hee instruct Noah to build an Ark to pitch it within and without and this to save life in a Time when hee himselfe was resolved to destroy it In a time when the world was acquainted with no Mechanics but a little Husbandrie and a few Knacks of Tubal-Cain and his brethren But even those Inventions also proceeded from that light which hee planted in man an Essence perpetually busie and whose Ambition it is to performe wonders yet hee seldome produceth any thing of his owne but what is fantastic and monstrous Did he not put his spirit in Bezaleel the son of Uri and in Aholiab the son of Ahisamach Did hee