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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.

— Thomas Vaughan Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

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Be ye transmuted from dead stones into living philosophical stones.

Aristotle thrives by scuffles and the world cries him up, when truth cries him down.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

Be pleased to consider, that obstinacy enslaves the Soul, and clips the wings which God gave Her for flight, and discovery.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

They dwell altogether in the face, their endeavors are meer titillations, & their acquaintance with Nature is not at the heart.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

Ignorance gave this release the name of death, but properly it is the soul's birth and a charter that makes for her liberty.

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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