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Aula Lucis, Latin: "The House of Light"

OR,

The House of

LIGHT:

A

Discourse written in the year

1651.

By S. N. A pseudonym for Thomas Vaughan (1621–1666), a Welsh clergyman, philosopher, and alchemist. a Modern Speculator SpeculatorIn this context, a philosopher or investigator who observes and contemplates the mysteries of nature..

This is the place, which (if boldness be allowed to words)

I would not fear to call the palaces of the great Heaven

original: "Hic locus est, quem (si verbis audacia detur) Haud timeam magni dixisse palatia Coeli." This is a quote from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book 1.

LONDON,

Printed for William Leake, and are to be sold

at his shop at the sign of the Crown in Fleet Street,

between the two Temple Gates.?