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The everburning lamps mystery

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mardi 02 août 2005 [n° 280]

Ludovicus Vives

“Ludovicus Vives, 1610, in his notes to St. Augustine, says that in his father’s time, A.D. 1580, a lamp was found in a tomb, which from the inscription was 1500 years old; it fell to pieces when touched. This Commentator does not follow his master in his denunciation of these lamps, but says they must have been made by men of the greatest skill and wisdom”.

JOHANNES LUDOVICUS VIVES (Juan Luis de Vives) geb. 6. März 1492 in Valencia, gest. 6. Mai 1540 in Brügge

[Ludovicus Vives, on Augustine’s City of God, XXI.6 (pages 845-846 in the translation of 1610, commenting on eternal lamps in pagan temples) :

“Placing of some Asbest”: Or of a kinde of flaxe that will never bee consumed, for such there is. Plin. lib. 19. Piedro Garsia and I saw many lampes of it at Paris, where wee saw also a napkin of it throwne into the middest of a fire, and taken out againe after a while more white and cleane then all the sope in Europe would have made it. Such did Pliny also see, as hee saith himselfe.

CHAP. XIV. Of the Salamander Sir Thomas Browne (1646; 6th ed., 1672) Pseudodoxia Epidemica III : xiv (pp. 153-154)

Trithemius

Everburning Lights of Trithemius Two eternall unquenchable burning temporall lights of Mr Trittemio Abbot at Sponheim, described by the hande of Bartholomeus Korndorffer

This text from MS. Ashmole 1408 p. 239-243, in Oxford, purports to give two recipes for constructing ever-burning lights, ascribed to Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516), Abbot of Sponheim, an expert in cryptography and the occult arts. – Adam McLean

source : Alchemical texts
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Rosicrucian Thoughts on the Ever-Burning Lamps of the Ancients By W. Wynn Westcott Transcribed by Eric O’Dell.

Chronos Apollonios’ “Home on Olympus” – Perpetual Luminescence : The Undying Lights of the Ancients, Part Two

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