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This is the final book written by the seventeenth-century occultist
and alchemist, Thomas Vaughan (1621 66). Originally published under
Vaughan's penname, Eugenius Philalethes, in 1655, the work found a
new audience in the Rosicrucian circles of the nineteenth century,
when William Wynn Westcott, Supreme Magus of the Society,
republished the volume in 1896 with a commentary by an associate,
S. S. D. D. 'I have read many Alchemical Treatises', its annotator
comments, 'but never one of less use to the practical Alchemist
than this.' For its later readers, however, the value of the text
lay in its insights into the history of hermetic thought rather
than its alchemical advice. An important work of occultist
philosophy in both its seventeenth- and nineteenth-century
contexts, it purports to reveal nothing less than the origin of all
life. The paragraph-by-paragraph commentary in turn demonstrates
the history of its reception and interpretation.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Thomas Vaughan was a 16th century mystic and mage whose work had
largely gone out of print and unheard of until A.E. Waite restored
his following with his 1888 translation and restoration of four of
Vaughan's books. Even then, as a devout Christian mystic, Vaughan's
work never enjoyed the type of revival other mystics did, as it was
based on a world which was assuredly sprung from Eden, in a time
when more "rational ideas" were prefered. Vaughan's work is vitally
important for both an historical understanding of Christian
Mysticism and a brilliant justification of how contemporary magic
is not only permitted under the laws of the Christian God, but has
sprung from that deity Himself.
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