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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.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
Their philosophy is like a church, that is all discipline, and no doctrine
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
It is an age wherein truth is near a miscarriage, and it is enough for me that I have appeared thus far for it, in a day of necessity.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
It was well that I quitted it at last and walked again into that clear light which I had foolishly forsaken.
Works of Thomas Vaughan: Eugenius Philalethes, by Arthur Edward Waite (1919)
If thou wilt kick and fling, I shall say with the cardinal: Etiam asinus meus recaldtrat (My ass also kicks up his heels) for I value no man's Censure.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
The Holy Spirit, moving upon the chaos — which action some divines compare to the incubation of a hen upon her eggs, did together with his heat communicate other manifold influences to the matter.
Works of Thomas Vaughan: Eugenius Philalethes, by Arthur Edward Waite (1919)
Surely, So sir, this is not the Philosophers’ Stone, neither will I undertake to define it, but give me leave to speak to you in the language of Zoroaster: “Seek thou the channel of the Soule.”
The Magical Writings Of Thomas Vaughan (Eygenius Philalethes) by A. E Waite (1888)
Now if I should question any sect (for there is no Communion in Christendom) whither these later intimations drive? They can but return me to the first rudiments, or produce some empty pretense of Spirit.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
Look on this life as the Progress of an Essence Royale. The Soul but quits her court to see the country. Heaven hath in it a scene of earth; and had she had bin contented with ideas, she had not travelled beyond the map.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
I will not advise you to pleasures, to build houses, and plant vineyards, to enlarge your private possessions, or to multiplie your gold and silver. These are old errors, like Vitriol to the Stone, so many false receipts which Solomon hath tried before you, “And behold all was vanitie, Eccie. u. and vexation of spirit.”