Lumen de Lumine, or A New Magicall Light

...return the acknowledgment
where I received
the benefit. I do not intend
my address for the
banks of the Isis original: "Banks of Isis"; a poetic reference to the River Thames at Oxford, symbolizing the University itself; you have
no portion there, unless
your stones referring to the physical college buildings require my
inscription meaning: a funeral epitaph or memorial. It is your dis-
persed body referring to the members of the University who were scattered or expelled during the English Civil War and the subsequent Commonwealth period I have
known, and that only
I remember. Take it then
wherever you are,
in your sad removals and
visitations original: "Removes and Visitations"; refers to forced displacements and trials or afflictions sent by God. It is neither
Sadducee nor Pharisee Vaughan implies his work does not align with either the spiritual skepticism of the Sadducees or the rigid, outward legalism of the Pharisees,