Adamic Magic, or the Antiquity of Magic

works, that he should plant in Man a Desire to know, and yet deny him Knowledge itself. This in plain terms were to give me Eyes, and afterwards shut me up in Darkness, lest I should see with those eyes. This earnest Longing, and busy Inquisition In this context, a diligent search or investigation. wherein Men tire themselves to attain to the Truth, made a certain Master of Truth This likely refers to a revered philosophical or mystical authority, possibly a Hermetic or Neoplatonic source often cited in the 17th century. speak in this fashion.

Therefore it clearly appears in this structure of the World, which we see, that some Truth triumphs; which so often moves, stirs up, entangles, and unfolds our reason; so often it provokes our restless and sleepless mind in marvelous ways—not by chance or by accidents from elsewhere, but by its own inherent and original charms of Nature. Since all these things are not done in vain, it must follow that at some suitable time, we shall finally embrace the Truth of those things that exist. original: "Ergo liquidò apparet in hac Mundi structurâ, quam cernimus, aliquam triumphare Veritatem ; quæ toties rationem nostram commovet, agitat, implicat, explicat ; toties inquietam, toties insomnem miris modis sollicitat, non fortuitis, aut aliunde adventitiis, sed suis & propriis, & originariis Naturæ Illicibus ; quæ omnia cum non fiunt frustra, utiq; contingit, ut Veritatem Eorum quæ sunt, aliquo tandem opportuno tempore amplexemur."

It is clear therefore (saith he) that in this Fabric of the world, which we behold, there is some Truth that rules; which Truth so