Thomas Vaughan (philosopher)

"Look on this life as the Progress of an Essence Royale. The Soul but quits her court to see the country. Heaven hath in it a scene of earth; and had she had bin contented with ideas, she had not trave…"

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

"Now if I should question any sect (for there is no Communion in Christendom) whither these later intimations drive? They can but return me to the first rudiments, or produce some empty pretense of Spi…"

"The peripateticks when they define the soul or some inferior principle describe it only by outward circumstances, which every child can do, but they state nothing essentially."

"They dwell altogether in the face, their endeavors are meer titillations, & their acquaintance with Nature is not at the heart."

"Now to return to Jacob, it is written of him, that he was asleep, but this is a Mysticall Speech, for it signifies Death, namely that Death which the Cabalist calls Mors Osculi, or the Death of the Ki…"

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

"It is an age of intellectual slaveries; If they meet any thing extraordinary, they prune it with distinctions, or daub it with false glosses, til it looks like the traditions of Aristotle. His followe…"