Quotes:Vaughan, Thomas

Zirkoff, Boris

Vaughan, Thomas (pseud. Eugenius Philalethes) (1622-66). *Magia Adamica: or the Antiquities of Magic, London, 1650. See Vol. V, p. 383, for biogr. data.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 668

Vaughan, Thomas (pseud. Eugenius Philalethes). English alchemist and mystic, b. 1622. Graduate, Jesus Coll., Oxford, 1638; BA.., 1642. Remained for some years at Oxford, but expelled 1649, for bad behavior and bearing arms for King. Studied alchemy in London. Married, 1651. After Restoration, found patron in Sir Robert Murray. Held some employment of state. Died of mercury fumes, Feb. 27, 1666. Writings deal mainly with magic and mysticism, rather than technical alchemy.

Works: Anthroposophia Theomagica. London, 1650. — Anima Magica Abscondita. London, 1650. —*Magia Adamica: or the Antiquities of Magic. London, 1650. — The True Coelum Terrae. London, 1650. All four in The Magical Writings of Thomas Vaughan. Edited by A. E. Waite. London: Geo. Redway, 1888. — Lumen de Lumine. London, 1651. 8vo. — Euphrates. London, 1655. Edited with a Preface by W. W. Westcott. London: Theos. Publ. Society, 1896.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 5, p. 383