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

— 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)

Assay nothing without science, but confine your selves to those bounds, which Nature hath prescribed you. p. 70 (last sentence of the book)

Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)

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