THE MAGICAL WRITINGS oF THOMAS VAUGHAN (EUGENIUS PHILALETHES) A VERBATIM REPRINT OF HIS FIRST FOUR TREATISES: ANTHROPOSOPHIA THEOMAGICA, ANIMA MAGICA ABSCONDITA, MAGIA ADAMICA, AND THE TRUE CELUM TERRA WITH THE LATIN PASSAGES TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, AND WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE AND ESSAY ON THE ESOTERIC LITERATURE OF WESTERN CHRISTENDOM BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE AUTHOR OF “LIVES OF ALCHEMYSTICAL PHILOSOPHERS; “THE REAL HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS ;"" “THE MYSTERIES OF MAGIC,” ETC. . LONDON GEORGE REDWAY, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN 1888 a ewCONTENTS. BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . - - 7} eee INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON THE ESOTERIC LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES, AND ON THE UNDERLYING PRIN- CIPLES OF THEURGIC ART AND PRACTICE IN WESTERN CHRISTENDOM . . . . . . . . ANTHROPOSOPHIA THEOMAGICA =. ww eee ANIMA MAGICA ABSCONDITA . . . . . . . Maia ADaMICcA, OR THE ANTIQUITIE OF MAGIC y A PERFECT AND FULL DISCOVERIE OF THE TRUE C@:LUM TERR#, OR THE MAGICIAN’s HEAVENLY CHAOS, AND First MATTER OF ALL THINGS Se ee DOR PAGE vii 124 155 163BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE. HE long confusion of Eugenius Philalethes —otherwise Thomas Vaughan—with the anonymous cosmopolite adept, Eirenzeus Philalethes, who is said to have accom- plished the Magnum Opus at the age of twenty-two, and to have subsequently wan- dered over a large portion of the habitable globe, performing astounding transmuta- tions under various names and disguises, s has cast so much doubt upon the history and identity of the Welsh initiate, that it will be best to present the reader with certain verbatim citations from the chief authority concerning him, which is the Athene of Anthony 4 Wood. “Thomas Vaughan, who stiles himself in all or most of his writings which he published, Eugenius Philalethes, was the son of Thomas Vaughan of Llansomfreid, but born at Newton, in the parish of S. Bridget, near Brecknock in Brecknockshire, an. 1621, educated in grammar learning under one Matthew Herbert, entred in Jesus Coll. in Mich. term, 1638, and was put under the tuition of a noted tutor; by whose lectures profiting much, he took one degree in arts, was made fellow of the said house, and afterwards taking holy orders from Dr Manwaring, bishop of St. David's, had about that time the rectory of S. Bridget before-mentioned conferred upon him by his kinsman Sir George Vaughan. But the unsetled- ness of the time hindring him a quiet possession of the place, he left it, retired to Oxon, and in a sedate repose prosecuted his medicinal geny (in a manner natural to him), and at length became eminent in the chymical part thereof at Oxon, and afterwards at London under the protection and patronage of that noted chymist, * Sir Rob. Murrey or Moray, knight, secretary of state for the kingdom of Scotland. . . . He was a great chymist, a noted son of the fire, an experimental philosopher, a zealous brother of the Rosie-