[35] Miss Vaughan somewhat naively gives us a lead. After describing Thomas Vaughan's sojourn with Venus-Astarte among the Lenni-Lennaps, she adds: "This legend is not accepted by all the Elect Mages; there are those who regard it as fabricated by my grandfather James of Boston, who was, they believe, of Delaware origin, or, at any rate, a half-breed; and they even assert that, in the desire to Anglicize himself, he invented an entirely false genealogy, by way of justifying his change of the Lennap name Waghan into Vaughan. Herein the opponents of the Luciferian legend of Thomas Vaughan go too far" (p. 181). [36] I have already pointed out that Miss Vaughan is quite possibly a myth. But, if she exists, I do not see any reason to suppose that she personally invented the "legend of Philalethes." It lies between Leo Taxil and his friends in 1895, and the alleged founders of Palladism in or about 1870, that is Albert Pike and Miss Vaughan's father and uncle. And, so far as it goes, the ignorance shown in the legend of all books published in the last twenty years is evidence for the earlier date, and therefore, to some extent, for the actual existence of Luciferianism. [37] _Cf._ A. E. Waite, _Real History of the Rosicrucians_, p. 274. [38] The principal writings ascribed to Eirenaeus Philalethes are _Introitus Apertus in Occlusum Regis Palatium_ (1667), _Tres Tractatus_ (1668), _Experimenta de Praeparatione Mercurii Sophici_ (1668), _Ripley Revived_ (1678), _Enarratio Trium Gebri Medicinarum_ (1678). The works of Eirenaeus Philoponos Philalethes (George Starkey?) are often attributed to him in error. The B. M. Catalogue, s.vv. _Philaletha, Philalethes_, is a mass of confusions. Lenglet-Dufresnoy, _Histoire de la Philosophie Hermetique_ (iii. 261-266), gives a long list of printed and manuscript works. Most of these he had probably never seen. He probably took many items in his list from one in J. M. Faust's edition of the _Introitus Apertus_ (Frankfort, 1706); and this, in its turn, was based on what Eirenaeus Philalethes himself says he has written in the preface to _Ripley Revived_. He there says, after naming other works: "Two English Poems I wrote, declaring the whole secret, which are lost. Also an Enchiridion of Experiments, together with a Diurnal of Meditations, in which were many Philosophical receipts, declaring the whole secret, with an Aenigma annexed; which also fell into such hands which I conceive will never restore it. This last was written in English." Can this Enchiridion and Diurnal be Sl. MS. 1741? I find no "Aenigma." Can Starkey have stolen the poems and published them as the _Marrow of Alchemy_? [39] The preface to _Ripley Revived_ makes it clear that the _Introitus Apertus_ was originally written in Latin, not in English. [40] This is recorded in Helvetius' _Vitulus Aureus_ (1667). Helvetius describes his master as 43 or 44 years old, and calls him Elias Artistes.