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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

some few minutes the white and red Sulphurs will never essentially unite and coagulat On the Contrary if it takes cold but for half an hour the work being once well begun it will never sort to any good purpose I speak out of my own Experience for I have as they phrase it given my self a Box on the Eare and that twice or thrice out of a certain confident Negligence Expecting that which I knew well enough could never bee Nature moves not by the Theorie of men but by their practice and surely Wit and Reason can performe no Miracles unlesse the hands supplie them Bee sure then to know this fire in the first place and accordingly bee sure to make use of it But for thy better Securitie I will describe it to thee once more It is a drie vaporous humid fire it goes round about the Glasse and is both equall and Continuall It is restlesse and some have call'd it the white philosophicall Coale It is in it self naturall but the praeparation of it is Artificiall it is a heat of the Dead wherefore some call it their unnatural Necromantic fire It is no part of the Matter neither is it taken out of it but it is an external fire and serves onely to stirr up and strengthen the inward oppressed fire of the Chaos But let us hear Nature her self for thus shee speaks in the Serious Romance of Mehung Post putrefactionem sit ipsa Generatio idque per internum incomburibilem Calorem ad Argenti vivi frigiditatem calefaciendam quod tantum equidem patitur ut tandem cum sulphure suo uniatur Omne illud uno in Vase complexum est I gnis aer Aqua videlicet quae in Terreno suo vase accipio eademque uno in Alembico relinquo tum coquo dissolvo sublimo absque Malleo forcipe vel lima sine Carbonibus vapore Igne aut Mariae-Balneo Sophistarum Alembicis Coelestem namque meum ignem habeo qui Elementalem prout Materia idoneam decentemque formam habere desyderat excitat That is After Putrefaction succeeds Generation and that because of the inward incombustible Sulphur that heats or thickens the Coldness and Crudities of the Quicksilver which suffers so much thereby that at last it is united to the Sulphur and made one Body therewith All this namely Fire Ayre and Water is contained in one Vessell in their earthly Vessel that is in their grosse Body or Composition I take them and then I leave them in one Alembic where I concoct dissolve and sublime them without the help of Hammer Tongs or File without Coales Smoake Fire or Bath or the Alembics of the Sophisters For I have my heavenly fire which excites or stirs up the Elementall one according as the matter desires a becomming agreeable forme Now Nature every where is one and the same wherefore shee reades the same lesson to Madathan who thinking in his Ignorance to make the stone without dissolution receives from her this Check An tu nunc Cochleas vel Cancros cum Test is devorare niteris An non priùs à vetussissimo Planetarum Coquo maturari praeparari illos oportet Doest thou think sayes hee to eat Oysters shells and all ought they not first to bee opened and prepar'd by the most Ancient Cooke of the Planets With these agrees the excellent Flammel who speaking of the Solar and Lunar Mercurie and the Plantation of the one in the other hath these words Sumantur itaque noctu interdiuque assiduè supra ignem in Alembico foveantur Non autem ignis Carbonarius vel è ligno confectus sed clarus pellucidusque ignis sit non secus ac Sol ipse qui nunquam plus justo calidus ardensque sed omni tempore ejusdem caloris esse debet Take them therefore sayth hee and cherish them over a fire in thy Alembic But it must not be a fire of Coales nor of any wood but a bright shining fire like the Sun it self whose heat must never be excessive but alwayes of one and the same Degree This is enough and too much for the Secret in it self is not great but the Consequences of it are so which made the Philosophers hide it Thus Reader thou hast the outward Agent most fully and faithfully described It is in Truth a very simple mysterie and if I should tell it openly ridiculous Howsoever by this and not without it did the Magicians unlock the Chaos and certainly it is no newes that an Iron-key should open a Treasurie of Gold In this Universall Subject they found the Natures of all particulars and this is signified to us by that Maxim Qui Proteam non novit adeat Pana This Pan is their Chaos or Mercurie which expounds Proteus namely the Particular Creatures commonly call'd Individualls For Pan transformes himself into a Proteus that is into all varieties of Species into Animals Vegetables and Minerals for out of the Universall Nature or first matter all these are made and Pan hath their Propri●ties in himself Hence it is that Mercurie is call'd the Interpreter or Expositor of Inferiors and Superiors under which Notion the Ancient Orpheus invokes him {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Hear me ô Mercurie thou messenger of Jove and son of Maia the Expositor of all Things Now for the Birth of this Mercurie and the Place of it I find but few Philosophers that mention it Zoroaster points at it and that very obscurely where he speaks of his Jynges or the Idea's in these words Multae quidem hae scandunt lucidos Mundos Insilentes Quarum Summitates sunt Tres. Subjectum est Ipsis Principale pratum This Pratum or Meadow of the Idea's a place well known to the Philosophers Flammel calls it their Garden and the Mountain of the seven Metals see his Summarie where hee describes it most learnedly for hee was instructed by a Jew is a certain secret but Universall Region one calls it Regio Lucis the Region of Light but to the Cabalist it is Nox Corporis a Terme extremely apposit and significant It is in few words the Rendezvous of all Spirits for in this place the Idea's when they descend from the Bright world to the Dark one are incorporated For thy Better Intelligence thou must know that Spirits whiles they move in Heaven which is the fire-Fire-world contract no impurities at all according to that of Stellatus Omne quod est supra Lunam aeternumque bonumque Esse scias nec triste aliquid Coelestia tangit All sayth hee that is above the Moon is eternall and good and there is no Corruption of Heavenly Things On the contrary when Spirits descend to the Elementall Matrix and reside in her Kingdom they are blurr'd with the Original Leprosie of the Matter for here the Curse raves and rules but in Heaven it is not Praedominant To put an end to this point let us hear the admirable Agrippa state it This is hee between

which proceeded from the Third Spirit and out of that Water went Aire and Fire But God forbid that I should speak any more of them publickly it is enough that wee Know the Original of the Creature and to whom wee ought to ascribe it The Cabalist when hee would tell us what God did with the Three Mothers useth no other phrase than this Ponderavit Aleph cum omnibus omnia cum Aleph sic de Singulis He weighed saith he Aleph with All and All with Aleph and so he did with the other Mothers This is very plain if you consider the various mixtures of the Elements and their Secret Proportions And so much for the Physicall part of the Cabala I will now shew you the Metaphysicall It is strange to Consider what Unitie of Spirit and Doctrine there is amongst all the Children of Wisdom This proves infallibly that there is an Universall Schoole-master who is Present with all Flesh and whose Principles are ever Uniforme namely the Spirit of God The Cabalists agree with all the world of Magicians That Man in spirituall Mysteries is both Agent and Patient This is plain For Jacobs Ladder is the greatest Mysterie in the Cabala Here wee find two Extreams Jacob is one at the Foot of the Ladder and God is the other who stands above it immittens saith the Jew Formas Influxus in Jacob sive Subjectum Hominem shedding some secret Influx of Spirit upon Jacob who in this place Typifies Man in general The Rounds or steps in the Ladder signifie the middle Natures by which Jacob is united to God Inferiors united to Superiors As for the Angels of whom it is sayd that they ascended Descended by the Ladder their Motion proves they were not of the superior Hierarchie but some other secret Essences for they Ascended first and Descended afterwards but if they had been from above they had Descended first which is Contrarie to the Text And here Reader I would have thee studie Now to return to Jacob it is written of him that he was asleep but this is a Mysticall Speech for it signifies Death namely that Death which the Cabalist calls Mors Osculi or the Death of the Kiss of which I must not speake one Syllable To bee short they agree with us in Arcano Theologiae That no word is efficacious in Magic unlesse it be first quickened by the Word of God This appears out of their Semhamaphores for they hold not the names of Angls effectuall unlesse some name of God as {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} be united to them then say they in the power and vertue of those names they may worke An Example hereof wee have in all Extracted names as Vehu-Iah Elem-Iah Jeli-El Sita-El Now this Practice in the Letter was a most subtil Adumbration of the Conjunction of the Substantiall Word or Spirit with the Water See that you understand me rightly for I meane with the Elements and so much for the Truth To Conclude I would have the Reader observe that the false Grammaticall Cabala consists onely in R●●●●●tions of the Alphabet and a Metathesis of Letters in the Text by which means the Scripture hath suffered many Racks and Excoriations As for the true Cabala it useth the Letter onely for Artifice whereby to obscure and hide her P●●●●sicall Secrets as the Egyptians heretofore did use their Hieroglyphics In this Sense the Primitive Professors of this Art had a literal Cabala as it appeares by that wonderfull and most ancient Inscription in the Rock in Mount Horeb. It conteines a Prophecie of the Virgin Mother and her Son Christ Jesus ingraven in Hieroglyphic fram'd by Combination of the Hebrew letters but by whom God onely knows it may be by Moses or Eli●ah This is most certain it is to be seen there this day and wee have for it the Testimonies of Thomas Obecinus a most learned Franciscan and Petrus a Valle a Gentleman who travailed both of them into those parts Now that the learning of the Jewes I mean their Cabala was Chimicall and ended in true Physicall performances cannot be better proved than by the Booke of Abraham the Jew wherein hee layd down the Secrets of this Art in Indifferent plaine Termes and Figures and that for the Benefit of his unhappy Country-men when by the wrath of God they were scattered over all the World This Book was accidentally found by Nicholas Flammel a French-man and with the help of it hee attained at last to that miraculous Medicine which Men call the Philosophers stone But let us hear the Monsieur himself describe it There fell into my hands saith he for the Summ of two Florens a gilded Book very old and large It was not of Paper nor Parchment as other books bee but it was made of delicate rindes as it seemed to mee of Tender young Trees The Cover of it was of Brasse well bound all ingraven with Letters or strange figures and for my part I think they might well bee Greek Characters or some such ancient language Sure I am I could not read them and I know well they were not Notes nor Letters of the Latine nor of the Gaule for of them I understood a little As for that which was within it the Bark leaves were ingraven and with admirable diligence written with a point of Jron in faire and neat Latin letters coloured It contained thrice Seven leaves for so were the leaves counted at the top and alwayes every Seventh leafe was without any writing but instead thereof upon the first seventh leaf there was painted a Virgin and Serpents swallowing her up In the Second Seventh a Crosse where a Serpent was Crucified and in the last Seventh there were painted Deserts or Wildernesses in the middest whereof ran many faire Fountains from whence there issued forth a Number of Serpents which ran up and down here and there Upon the first of the Leaves was written in great Capitall letters of gold ABRAHAM THE JEW PRINCE PRIEST LEVIT ASTROLOGER AND PHILOSOPHER TO THE NATION OF THE JEWES BY THE WRATH OF GOD DISPERSED AMONG THE GAULES SENDETH HEALTH After this it was filled with great Execrations and Curses with this word Maranatha which was often repeated there against every person that should cast his eyes upon it if hee were not Sacrificer or Scribe Hee that sold me this Booke knew not what it was worth no more than I when I bought it I believe it had been stolne or taken by violence from the miserable Jewes or found hid in some part of the Ancient place of their Habitation Within the Booke in the Second leafe hee comforted his Nation counselling them to fly Vices and above all Idolatrie attending with sweet patience the Comming of the Messiah who should vanquish all the Kings of the Earth and should reigne with his people in glorie aeternally Without doubt this had been some wise and understanding Man In the third

know it wee will teach you something not Common The Body of the Serpent tells you it is a fierie Substance for a Serpent is full of heat and fire which made the Egyptians esteem him Divine This appears by his quick motion without feet or finns much like that of the Pulse for his impetuous hot spirit shootes him on like a Squib There is also another Analogie for the Serpent renewes his youth so strong is his natural heat and casts off his old skin Truely the Matter is a very Serpent for shee renews her self a thousand wayes and is nèver a perpetuall Tenant to the same Forme The wings tell you this Subject or Chaos is Volatile and in the outward Complexion Arrie and Waterie But to teach you the most Secret Resemblance of this Hieroglyphic The Chaos is a certain Creeping Substance for it moves like a Serpent sine pedibus and truly Moses calls it not Water but Serpitura Aquae The Creeping of Water or a water that creepes Lastly the Knott on the Tayle Tells you this matter is of a most strong Composition and that the Elements are fast bound in it all which the Philophers know to be true by Experience As for the Assinitie of Inferiors with Superiors and their private Active Love which consists in certain Secret Mixtures of Heaven with the Matter their Opinion stands thus In the Vital fire of all Things here below The Sun say they is King In their Secret Water the Moon is Queen In their pure Aire the five lesser Planets rule and in their Central Hypostaticall Earth the fixed starrs For these Inferiors according to their Doctrine are Provinces or Thrones of those Superiors where they sit Regent and Paramont To speak plainly Heaven it self was originally extracted from Inferiors yet not so intirely but some portion of the Heavenly Natures remained still below and are the very same in Essence and Substance with the separated starrs and skies Heaven here below differs not from that above but in her Captivitie and that above differs not from this below but in her Libertie The one is imprisoned in the Matter the other is freed from the grossness and impurities of it but they are both of one and thēsame Nature so that they easily unite and hence it is that the Superior descends to the Inferior to visit and comfort her in this sickly inf●ctious Habitation I could speak much more but I am in haste and though I were at leisure you cannot in Reason expect I should tell you all I will therefore decline these generall Principles to tell you something that makes for the AEgyptian Practice and proves them Philosophers adepted The first Monument I reade of to this purpose is that of Synesius a very learned intelligent man Hee found in the Temple of Memphis {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Bookes of stone and in those hard leaves these Difficult Instructions {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} That is One Nature delights in another One Nature overcomes another One Nature over-rules another These short lessons but of no small Consequence are fathered on the great Hostanes The S●cond Monument is that admirable and most Magicall one mentioned by Barachias Abenesi the Arabian This also was a stone erected neere Memphis and on it this profound Scripture {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} That is Heaven Above Heaven Beneath Starres Above Starres Beneath All that is Above is also Beneath Understand this and bee Happy Under this were figur'd certain apposit Hieroglyphics and for a Close to all this Dedicatorie Subscription I find it onely in the Coptic Character but our Founts wanting that Letter I must give it you in the Greeke {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Isias the High Priest erected this to the Resident Gods in AEgypt And now though I formerly suspended the Authoritie of Irismegistus I might like the Italian produce his weapons Sfodrato but I love no Velitations and Truth is so brave it needs no Feather Quod est Superiùs sayd Hermes est sicut id quod est Inferiùs quod est Inferiùs est sicut id quod est superiùs This is his Mysterie and 't is great The Benefit that attends the Purchase is no losse habebis Gloriam totius Mundi All the Pomp and Splendor of the World shall bee Thine To this Language the Dialect of I sias doth so Echo these two like Euphorbus and Pythagoras might passe for Ono Coelum sursùm sayd he Coelum deorsum Astra sursùm Astra Deorsùm Omne quod sursùm omne id deorsum And then follows a reward for the Intelligent Haec cape faelicitare understand this and thou art fortunate Thou hast made thy self very happy This is enough to prove that Magic sometimes flourished in Egypt and no doubt but they received the Truth of it from the Hebrewes who lived amongst them to the terme of four hundred and thirtie years This is plain for their own Native Learning was meere Sorcerie and Witcheraft and this appears by the Testimonie of Moses who tells us their Magicians produc'd their Miracles by Inohantments And why I beseech you should this Instruction seem impossible For Joseph being married to Asenath daughter of Potipherah Priest of On some of the AEgyptian Priests and those likely of his own alliance might for that very Relation receive a better Doctrine from him But this is not all 〈…〉 d say of this Nation and their Secret 〈…〉 ing if I were dispos'd to bee their Mercurie There is not any I believe who praetend to Antiquitie or Philosophie but have seen that famous Monument which Paul the Third bestow'd on his Cardinal Petrus Bombus and was ever since called the Bembixe Table No doubt but the Hieroglyphics therein contained were they all reduced into Letters would make a Volume as ample as Mysterious But 't is not my Designe to comment on Mcmphis that were to make Brick and look out the straw withall AEgypt having no compleat Table but the World over which her Monuments are Scatter'd This place then was the Pitcher to the Fountain for they received their Mysteries immediatly from the Hebrewes but their Doctrine like their Nilus swelling above its private Chanel did at last over-run the Universe Jamblicus the Divine in that excellent Discourse of his de Mysterus tells us that Pythagoras and Plato had all their learning ex Columnis Mercurii out of the Pillars or Hieroglyphicall Monuments of Trisinegistus But the Ancient orpheus in his Poem de Verbo Sacro where hee speakes of God hath these words Nemo Illū nisi Chaldao de Sanguine Quiddam Progenitus vidit None saith he hath ever seen God but a certaine Man descended of the Chaldaean Bloud Now this was Moses of whom it