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Vaughan, Thomas
Vaughan, Thomas (1621–66), twin brother of Henry Vaughan, was an ordained Anglican minster, and evicted from his living at Llansantffraed in 1650 for misconduct. A disciple of Cornelius Agrippa, he published various treatises on alchemy, magic, and mysticism, including Anima Magia Abscondita: or a Discourse on the Universall Spirit of Nature (1650) and Magia Adamica; or the Antiquity of Magic (1650); Aula Lucis, or the House of Light (1652); and a Preface to a Rosicrucian work, The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of R.C., Commonly, of the Rosie Cross (1652). Most of his works were published under the pseudonym of ‘Eugenius Philalethes’ (‘Good Truth-Loving Man’). He engaged in furious controversy with the Platonist Henry More (See Cambridge Platonists), who had attacked his Anthroposophia (1650) as nonsense. After the Restoration, Thomas enjoyed the patronage of Sir Robert Moray, first president of the Royal Society. Moran and Vaughan accompaied the court to Oxford to flee the plague in 1665, and Vaughan died at Albury, according to A. Wood, of mercury poisoning. He was satirized by S. Butler in his ‘Character of a Hermetic Philosopher’, and is said to have suggested some aspects of Ralpho in Hudibras. Swift, in A Tale of a Tub, described him as a writer of the greatest gibberish ‘ever published in any language’.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Vaughan, Thomas." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Vaughan, Thomas." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-VaughanThomas.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Vaughan, Thomas." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-VaughanThomas.html |
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Philalethes, Eugenius (1622-1666)
Philalethes, Eugenius (1622-1666)Pseudonym of alchemist Thomas Vaughan, brother of Henry Vaughan, the "Silurist" poet. Eugenius Philalethes has often been confused with Eirenaeus Philalethes (or Philaletha), another alchemist. The scholar Arthur E. Waite made this error in his book The Real History of the Rosicrucians (1887). He corrected it the following year, both in his new edition of the Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers (1888) and his edition of The Magical Writings of Thomas Vaughan (1888). |
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"Philalethes, Eugenius (1622-1666)." Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Philalethes, Eugenius (1622-1666)." Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3403803545.html "Philalethes, Eugenius (1622-1666)." Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 2001. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3403803545.html |
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