Lumen de Lumine: or a New Magical Light

my adversaries original: "Adversaries" supply me withal: I would advance the truth, because they would suppress it. Indeed I have been scurvily Scurvily: meanly, contemptibly, or unfairly. rewarded, but the success of this art grows from its opposition, and this I believe our late libellers original: "Libellers" — those who publish malicious or defamatory statements. have observed; for they quit the science, to quash the professors In this context, "professors" refers to those who practice or "profess" a specific branch of knowledge or art..

It is not enough to abuse and misinterpret our writings: with studied calumnies original: "Calumnies" — false and malicious statements intended to damage a reputation. do they disparage our persons, whom they never saw, and perhaps never will see. They force us to a bitterness beyond our own dispositions, and provoke men to sin, as if they did drive the same design with the Devil original: "D vill".

For my own part, I will no more hazard my soul by such uncivil disputes; I know I must give an account Accompt: an archaic spelling of "account," often used in a legal or spiritual sense to mean a final reckoning. for every idle word A reference to the biblical warning that "every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.". This theme hath reduced my passions to a diet original: "Diet" — here used metaphorically to mean a state of restraint, temperance, or spiritual discipline.; I have resolved for the future to suffer: for