"It seems to follow that we know as much and as little about the passing of Thomas Vaughan as might be expected from h…"

"At the beginning of his literary life Thomas Vaughan was influenced deeply by the works of Cornelius Agrippa and espe…"

"Look on this life as the Progress of an Essence Royale. The Soul but quits her court to see the country. Heaven hath …"

"The Author to the reader:"

"She hath several ways to break up house, but her best is without a disease. This is her mystical walk, an exit only t…"

"Ignorance gave this release the name of death, but properly it is the soul's birth and a charter that makes for her l…"

"If thou wilt kick and fling, I shall say with the cardinal: Etiam asinus meus recaldtrat (My ass also kicks up his he…"

"It is an age of intellectual slaveries; If they meet any thing extraordinary, they prune it with distinctions, or dau…"

"Now if I should question any sect (for there is no Communion in Christendom) whither these later intimations drive? T…"

"It is an age wherein truth is near a miscarriage, and it is enough for me that I have appeared thus far for it, in a …"