Lumen de lumine From Thomas Vaughan Lumen de Lumine, or a New Magical Light, London, 1651. Back to allegories. It was about the dawning or daybreak when, tired with a tedious solitude and those pensive thoughts which attend it, after much loss and more labour, I suddenly fell asleep. Here then the day was no sooner born but strangled.Thomas Vaughan was a natural philosopher and student of chemistry and alchemy in the tradition of Paracelsus. He is held to be the most likely author of the works of spirituality, mystical philosophy, and natural magic published under the pseudonym Eugenius Philalethes. Vaughan produced an English-language translation of the Rosicrucian Fama Fraternitatis, and was unusual among alchemists in that he worked closely with his wife Rebecca from 1651 until her death in 1658.Thomas Vaughan was a natural philosopher and student of chemistry and alchemy in the tradition of Paracelsus. He is held to be the most likely author of the works of spirituality, mystical philosophy, and natural magic published under the pseudonym Eugenius Philalethes. Vaughan produced an English-language translation of the Rosicrucian Fama Fraternitatis, and was unusual among alchemists in that he worked closely with his wife Rebecca from 1651 until her death in 1658.Thomas Vaughan was a natural philosopher and student of chemistry and alchemy in the tradition of Paracelsus. He is held to be the most likely author of the works of spirituality, mystical philosophy, and natural magic published under the pseudonym Eugenius Philalethes. Vaughan produced an English-language translation of the Rosicrucian Fama Fraternitatis, and was unusual among alchemists in that he worked closely with his wife Rebecca from 1651 until her death in 1658.
