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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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Complexions There are other Moystures and those too aethereall They are Females also of the Masculine Divine Fire and these are the Fountains of the Chaldee which the Oracle styles {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Summitates Fontanas the Invisible upper springs of Nature Of all substances that come to our hands this AEther is the first that brings us News of another World and tels us we live in a corrupt place Sâ—ndivogius call'd it the Vrine of Saturn and with this did he water his Lunar and Solar Plants Ex Marimeo said the Jew oriuntur Nebulae quae ferunt Aquas Benedictas ipsae irrigant Terras educunt Herbas Flores In a word this Moysture is animated with a Vegetable blessed divine Fire which made one describe the Mistery thus Ex Naturâ ex Divino factum est Divinum enim est quiae cum Divinitate conjunctum Divinas substantias facit To conclude the AEther is to be found in the lower spring or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} namely in that substance which the Arabians call Flos salis albi the Flower of white Salt It is indeed borne of Salt for Salt is the Root of it and it is found withall in locis salsosis in certaine Saltish places The best Discovery of it is this The Philosophers call it their Mineral Tree for it grows as all Vegetables doe and hath Leaves and Fruits in the very Houre of its Nativity This is enough and now I passe to another principle The Heavenly Luna THis Luna is the Moon of the Mine a very strange stupifying substance It is not simple but mixt The AEther and a subtill white Earth are its Components and this makes it grosser than the AEther it self It appeares in the forme of an exceeding white oile but is in very truth a certaine vegetant flowing smooth soft salt c. The star-soule THis is the true Astrum Solis the Mineral spiritual Sun It is compounded of the AEther and a Bloudie fierie spirited Earth It appears in a gummie Consistency but with a fierce hot glowing Complexion It is Substantially a certaine purple animated Divine Salt c. The Prester of Zoroaster IT is a Miracle to consider how the Earth which is a Body of inexpressible weight and Heavinesse can be supported in the Ayr a fleeting yeelding substance and thorough which even froth and Feathers will sink and make their way I hope there is no man so mad as to think it is poys'd there by some Geometricall Knack for that were Artificiall but the work of God is Vital and Natural Certainly if the Animation of the world be denied there must needs follow a precipitation of this Element by its own Corpulency and Gravity We see that our own Bodies are supported by that Essence by which they are actuated and animated but when when that Essence leaves them they fall to the ground till the spirit returns at the Resurrection I conclude then that the Earth hath in her a Fire-soule a most powerfull strong spirit that bears her up as the spirit of Man bears up man To this agrees Raymund Lullie in the seventy sixth Chapter of his Theorie Tota Terra plena est Intelligentia ad operationem Naturae inclinata quae Intelligentia movetur à natura superiore Ita quod natura Intellectiva inferior assimilatur naturae Superiori The whole Earth saith he is full of Intelligence inclined to the Discipline or Operation of Nature which Intelligence is moved by the Superior Nature so that the Inferior Intelligence is like to the Superior This spirit or Intelligence is the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a Notion of the admirable Zoroaester as I find him render'd by Julian the Chaldaean It comes from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} uro and signifies Lightning or a certaine burning Turbo or whirl-wind but in the sense of our Chaldee it is the Fire-spirit of Life It is an Influence of the Almighty God and it comes from Terra Viventium namely the second person whom the Cabalists style the Supernaturall East For as the Natural Light of the Sun is first manifested to us in the East so the Supernatural Light was first manifested in the second person for he is Principium Alterationis the Beginning of the wayes of God or the first Manifestation of his Father's Light in the Supernatural Generation From this Terra Viventium or Land of the Living comes all Life or spirit according to that position of the Mâ—â—kubalim Omnis anima bona est anima nova veniens ab Oriente Every good soule is a new soule comming from the East that is from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Cocmah or the second Sephiroth which is the Son of God Now for the better understanding of this Descent of the soule wee must refer our selves to another placet of the Cabalists and this is it Animae à Tertio Lumine ad Quartam Diem inde ad Quintam descendunt inde exeuntes Corporis Noctem subintrant The souls say they descend from the Third Light to the fourth Day thence to the fifth whence they passe out and enter the Night of the Body To understand this Maxime you must know there are three supreme Lights or Sephiroths which the Cabalist cals Sedes una in quâ sedet Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth This third Light from whence the souls descend is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Binah the last of the three sephiroths and it signifies the Holy Ghost Now that you may know in what sense this Descent proceeds from that Blessed spirit I will somewhat inlarge my Discourse for the Cabalists are very obscure in the point Spirare say the Jews Spiritus Sancti proprium est to Breath is the proprietie of the Holy Ghost Now we read that God breathed into Adam the Breath of Life and he became a living soule Here you must understand that the third Person is the last of the three not that there is any Inequality in them but it is so in order of Operation for he applies first to the Creature and therefore works last The meaning of it is this The Holy Ghost could not breath a soule into Adam but he must either receive it or have it of himself Now the truth is he receives it and what hee receives that hee breaths into Nature Hence this most holy spirit is styl'd by the Cabalists Fluvius egrediens è Paradiso because he breaths as a River streames He is call'd also Mater Filiorum because by this Breathing he is as it were delivered of those souls which have been conceived Ideally in the second Person Now that the Holy Ghost receives all things from the second Person is confirmed by Christ himself When the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speak of himself but what soever he shall heare that shall
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