Aula Lucis, or The House of Light

because I know of no one from whom I would receive it. And here you see how ambitious in the book itself I have grown; but if you judge my temperament original: "humor." In the 17th century, this referred to a person's disposition or state of mind. to be wrong, do not tell me about it, lest I should laugh at you. I look indeed a step further than your lives; and if you think I may die before you, I would have you know that death is the way to surpass original: "go beyond." Vaughan suggests that through death, he will reach a higher state of existence than his living critics. you.

In short, if you attempt this discourse, you do so without my advice, for it is not suited to your circumstances original: "fortunes.". There is a white magic Vaughan refers to "natural magic" or spiritual alchemy—a holy science of nature—as opposed to "black magic" or sorcery. with which this book is enchanted; it is an adventure for Knights of the Sun A reference to heroes of chivalric romances, implying that only those with noble, solar spirits should attempt to understand the work., and the knight-errants of this time may not complete it. I speak this to the University Quixotes A satirical comparison of arrogant academics to Don Quixote, the delusional knight from Cervantes’ novel., and to those only who are ill-tempered as well as poorly disciplined. There is among them a generation of wasps, creatures that will fight even if they are never provoked.

They buckle on their logic as if it were armor original: "proof." In armor-making, "proof" armor was metal that had been tested and proven to withstand weapons., but it fares with them as it did with the famous Don [Quixote]: they mistake a barber’s basin for a helmet. For my own part, I am no reformer; I can tolerate their positions well enough, as long as they do not interfere with mine. What I write is no rule for them; it is a legacy deferred to posterity, for the