Aula Lucis, or The House of Light

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Adversary is out of the way, and tell me with that friendly Stoic The "friendly Stoic" refers to the Roman satirist Persius, who often wrote from a Stoic perspective.:

Do you hear this, Amphiaraus, hidden under the earth?

original: "Audisnê hoc Amphiarae sub terram abdite?" A quote from Persius’s Satires, calling upon a legendary seer who was swallowed by the earth.

If any such weeds original: "Tares." In the Bible, tares are weeds that resemble wheat; here, Vaughan uses the term to describe critics or false ideas that might sprout after his death. spring above ground when I am under it, I have already looked upon them as an idle, contemptible bundle. I have prepared for them a fitting destiny and, by my present scorn, annihilated their future malice. It is a better and more serious generation I would be serviceable unto—a generation that seeks nature in its simplicity, and follows her not only with the tongue, but with the hand Vaughan distinguishes between those who only talk about philosophy and those who actually perform experiments.. If you are such a person as this character describes, let me advise you not to despair. Give me leave also to affirm to you—and that on my soul—that the consequences and treasures of this Art The "Art" refers to alchemy or Hermetic philosophy. are such, and so great, that your best and highest wishes fall far short of them. Read then with diligence what I shall write, and