III. Dcmo/i(lra:icK.

Touching the fortification and augmentation of fpirits in the dead and impo- tent, or northern Mummy , bvthecontaftof the fouthern o: lively^ Mummy ot flcfh, it is magnetically maintainsd to be potTible and probable, by this problema- tical! Demonltration, which proveth, that the northern Magnet, or airy Mummy , is exalted in his power by the fouthern.
Problem 2.
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The ftronger Magnet or Load-flone , and the bigger in quantity, doth aug-
ment the force of the lefler ; as alfo of Iron, by puttingthelelTer Magnet upon
the pole of the greater, fo that the northern pole will become Itronger
in his attradion. As for example, A piece of Iron being put on the pole
• of the leffer Stone in that poficion , it wUl hold it up pe:pindicula:ly on
Cipher, lib. a. de Mig. c- »5. Vid.Azi!.c.84
the north point A. which on the pole B. wiU no way be ettected.
In like manner the northern Mummy , by the con junSion of it unto the fou- thern nature, is exalted in iirengch , and fucketh new fpirits and vigour unto it , by drawing power from the Wronger, and fo leaving the lironger weaker , which i s better proved by this third Problem.
Problem 3.
IFtwo Magnets, armed by two Iron fteely teeth a piece , be fet before you , the K}i^. the teeth are equall, and of a like length ; then fet the teeth of thele together, that come from contrary poles and parts , and the ftronger will apprehend and lift up the weaker ; and the weaker being united and incorporared with the ftronger, by the vertue that it receiveth from the ftronger j will lift up from theg-ound, ancl retain the ftronger and greater very firmly , although he be much heavier than the weight the fmall Stone doth ordinarily life up.
AfflxxtioK.
Even fo the weaker or no-them Mummy being leffer in qu^-^ntiry, willsather force, and multiply fpirits, by his faculty of attraction from the ftronger andtigger mafs , of the fouthern or lively Mummy. Lalily, that by the application of tnis dead, northern, or congealed Mummy, unto the lively, fouthern, or asquinodiall Mummy , the moil evident andftrangeft attraction proceedethfrom the northern ' Mammy ; it is manifefted by this example in the Load-ltoce,
Trollem-
Seft. 2.' MofakallThilofofby, z^i
Prublem 4.
There is a magneticall actraftion from the iquacor of the Load-ilone , but far different from that of the northern pole , both in violence , and in manner of at- traftion; for the iquinodiall attradllon is more naturally mild, as if it were a mean betwixt the two poles ; and yet in fubitance, all is bucone earth, though va- rious in formall execution: As for example, The erection of apiece oflron will be the lefs perpendicular, and the actraftionwil! be the weaker , by how much the nearer it approcheth from the pole unco the xquinotliall. Again, all that have written the magneticall Hiliory , do afctibethe greatellforceof attraction unto the northern pole of the Magnet , as fliall alfo hereafter be declared and proved more at large.
I will conclude with a demonftracion taken from the like Mummy of hearts; and it is this.
The fourth demonflratiofiy which is Animal.
It is acommon thing, and vulgarly in ufe, to take a piece of raw beef , and ap- plyitunto the nape of the neck, todrawAway rheumesor defluxions out ofthc eyes: And 1 was informed by one of credit and'* learning , that when a fimple fellow that was troubled with fore and vyatering eyes , was counfelled to apply raw beef behind in his neck, to draw back and divert the humour ; he mifta- king r he bui)nefs,applyed the raw cold beef upon both his eyes , and it was his bad change, that it attracted foMrongly, thatiniiead ofdrawing out the rheum, it pul- led forth his eye holes. Alfo, a worthy Gentlewoman of mine acquaintance, had (as Oierelleth me) rawbeefapplyed unto her neck, for todivert the rheum front her eyes; bui fheconfefled, th.it it drew foltronglyuntoit, that fhe felt her eyes, as it were, fucked or di-awn into her head, andwill not beperfwaded to this day , but th.u her eyes are deeper in her head than they were. Whereby it is argued, tbac by far greater reafon, the experiment above mentioned is in every refpeiS demon- Itrated to be true , being the Magnet of it, is compofed of fubtle aire, Mummiall fpirits, coagulated by an internal! and centrall vertue, in the magneticall mafs.
Another relative Anlm.il Demofijtra(:ort.
hNoh\Q-mSir\ of Bohem':an^mi.dFur£rav}us , did ufe for his Gowrthis medi- cine; He took a piece of Beef, and did moiden it a little with wine, andlaidicon the place affected, renewing the fame medicine every fix hours fpace , and it drew forrh a great deal of ulchy and fot-did matter. And if afterward the fame flelli be gi- ven to be eaten of dogs, it will infect them with the fanvi Gowty difeafe as it did the man : and this was tryed upon a couple of that Lore's dogs 5 as HansHanker^ the Minifter oftheLord //p/w» j , did relate ir from it\z Hid Bur gravius his own mouth, and alfo he himfelf faw it effected on a dog.
Ifthisgroffe mafs of magneticall i!uffe in its fimple nature, could draw fo ^^^^ ^^^^_ ftrongly untoit , mui h more fliould our faith be grounded on a'moe fpiruuall andairy animal Mummy, or mummiall Magnet, whi.hlknow, hut an nor dif- pofedac this time, neither do I think it fit in this place, openly to reveal, ortoex- prefs , either its manne- of p'-eparanon ordiveriiry inufsge . beraufe by -tie 3- bufe thereof, wirked and naught y-minded pjrfons may do as much harm the'-chy , in inducingofdifeafes as th; hondlPhyfuian may do good, inexpellingor curing of them, yd itiid of A-fr. Cozton's Do^.
A fourth rdnti-ve aKima!-Dez»0),/}rat:e» .
Ir is efteemed to be an excellent mngnericall cure in the plague ; when the fore or rnrbunrledorh appear, ro rake a dry'd Toad, m.icerated in vinegar , and afrer- wardt'iapplyit to the infected place of the body : for it is reported , tofuck or draw the venom to it (Irongly. This hath been often tryed, and it may be proved, by reafon that the Toad is magnetically attractive, and Itiptick , partly becaufe of her cold venom, and Boreall, dull and heavy,or melanchoUy difpofition, and then forafmuch as it is obferved to Itench blood. So that this grofi and teireftriall ve-
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nomous Magnet performech his office , in artraAing from the Botch or Carbun- cle his like, though not fofubcilly and fpirirually, as the Elementary or airy Nor- thern Mummy doth from the lively or Southern natured man. I could tell you of many vegetables) which have a Magnetick property, to fuck and draw unto them, being applied unto the (oles of the feet , or puire for divers Aguifli diltempers. But that I fliould in fo doing , prove perchance too tedious , unto you; and therefore I will proceed unto the fecond degree of the Magneticall virtue in the Mummy, which is to draw or fuck unto it his like; not by contact or touch onely, hut ad dlfians^ and that by a fpirituall sttraiftion in the aire, and at an unknown longitude, as fhall better appeare in thefe Chapters following.
CHAP. III.
HoTv by relax ion of Natttrull thwgs umo one another ^ they do, after that a corporall
conta^ or toHch is mA'le betwixt them , oferatevfonderffilly, and that by a
Magneticall concent, or Spiritual/ continuity, both after a can-
iaU: or touch is made in the curing of maladies, or wafting hit
like , by a mtitua,ll operation at an unknown difiance,
T Will proceed as I be^an , from a generall propofit ion unto diverfttics of expe- riences, the which afterwards I will prove feifible and pofTibk , by divers De- monttrativc relations.
The Propofttion,
It is polTible that two Mummyes of oppofite condition, that is to fay, the one being of a deadly Boreall condition; and the other of a lively and Southern, or squinoftiall property , may after a corporall contact made betwixt them , operate from one to another a far dittance, by a fpirituall relation, which is continued be- tween them, as well antipathetically as fympathetically.
Experiment to confirm the fame.
An Ita/iantord by an accident had his nofe cut off,and by the counfel of hisPhy- fician made a wound in one of his flaves armes,and clapped his mutilated nofe unto it, and fo continued it untill a perfeft union was made betwixt the flefb of the (lave andhis Malier- Afterwards a gobbit of theflaves flefh which cleaved to the nofe, was cut out, and formed into the (bape of a nofe. The fervant's wound was healed up, and for his painfull fervice during this exploit was manumit ted or freed , and with ftore of money in his purfe went unto A'^/)/f/, which was above a hundred miles from the place where his Matter remained , whofe adopted flcfh on his nofe, profpered and did nourilli from the veins ; fo long as the man which was made free, did live. It came to pafs that the manumitted perfon did die at Naples, and thereupon iramediarly the adopted flefli unto rhe Mailer's nofe did decay , and be- gun to gangrenate, infomuch that if he had not cur it off, it would have marred all the relt and killed him. This relation is known to be fo true and certain , that to this day it is famous over all Italy , and in every man's mouth of that Conntry, and tertified by fome'j^'rw Englifhmen, which have been in that Country. By this Hiilory therefore we may fee, that fo long as the tw-) bodies which made contaft were of one difpolition, namely Southern or squinoftiall , they, though being in body far remote from one another,didoperatefpiritually,andwereprefentin fpirit ; tnat is, they did con- cur together with theafpeit of theirfympatheticall beams , andthe flefh was fpiri- tually vivified from the flave's lively fountain, even as the grain of Wheat hath his nounHiment , and vivifieth by the application of the Sun*s beams unto it: but when the Southern, or requinoftiall, or lively property of the bondman's fpirit waschangedintoadeadly Northern and cold difpolition , then the vivifying fpi- rit did ceafc ro apply any more unto the adopted flefli, and in liew of it, the dead- ly Norrhern fpirit, did fuck or draw away that which the Southern had beftowed upon it, no otherwife then the Northern Froft jnthe world killeth and drawSth
out
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out the life of the grain, or feed, or plant, or herb, by his concraaiyeand Boreall property. And for this caule the Gangtx-ne, which is a Northern dilea e, did take the borrowed portion of fleQ-i on the nofe. Here therefore we fee, how th^ fame fpiric altered from a Southern or xquinoftiall , unto a Northern condition, opera- tcth by a contrary, and unnaturall , and depriving means , and that fecretly and a far off,
' I, A Corollary Dsnt9>tjlratiot7^ takjn from the Macaco f>9fr.
We fee in the Wether-glafs ( of which I fpoke before ) that between the bolts- head andthe place of the wKer, to wit, in the whole pipe of theMatcras, there isaninvifibleairyfpirit, which though it benotfeenof it felf, yetdoth it ope- rate vitibly in tfte.t\ : For if the externall aire be very hot , then it dilateth the aire included in the bolts-head; whereby the water at the other end, is obferyed to finckdown, though no ocular Agent may be found : but by intelkauall eies we may difcern,ihat it is done through the virtue, and lively Emanation of Sulphu- rous Li'^ht in the aire, by thefecretemilTionof whofebeams, the aire is rarefied, andbyrarefaaionbeateth the water downward ; and contrariwife, by Northern cold the water is lift upthrough the contradion of the emitted Spirits; So that we may difcern how lively Emanations , and confequencly afting and vivifying fpi- rits arefent forth from the lively and Microcofmicall fountain unto the crea- ture's which are apt to animate and vivify : but if the fountain become cold and icie \n liew of a Southern aaing addition of life , it induceth a mortifying , and privative fubftraaion, and that as you may perceive in the Wether-glafs, by a fpi- rituall concurrence, or rather an invifible , and infenfible continuity , which is between both extreams; as you may eafily fee it demonftrated in the Wether-
glafs.
II, ji Bemonftration derived from the Lo4d-fione*j fropertj. If we fhall take anovall Load-ftone, namely
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and fhall divide it in themiddie,namely in the iquinoaial about B,C,and thenfhal expofe the part A,B,into his little veffel to floce on the waterjand alfo put the o-rbec half C, D, in another little boat, or veffel in the fame water ,we (hall find that thefe two halves B, C, being of one xquinoaiall nature, will defiretobejoyned again together, and to be reduced into the fame continuity it was before ; and for thac reafon, the fpirit wliich is continued between them , though the body be divided, being invifibly united unto both divided portions, doth direa them both , and by an aauall emanation out of each of them , attraa , fuck , and agglutinate as it were each of them in their naturallpofition, as they were before.
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^54 Mefaicall Thilofojby, Book 5,
■Application,
_ By this therefore, the continuation of fpirits betwixt the fleOi of the foremen- noned captive at ;V4f/f,, and that which the mailer borrowed, retnaininc^ elfe- where, is evidently argued and confirmed. And though it may be alleaged", that the Load-aone doth not draw without his oibe , yet 1 fay, that though men do , guefs at the fenfibleattraaion of weights, yet can they not limit the penetratin-^ aaion which is between magnetick bodie^^^aS I have proved in my precedent Book! and will hereafter demonltrate it more at large.
A Vrogrejfion In the forefntd Maineticall Demmftration.
. Biic.contrariwife , ifwefLall attempt to apply the .£quinoaialI , or Southern place of the divifion in the Load-Itone C, unto the pole A , in their barks thus ;
the one will flyfromtheother, andbe contrary unto the other; for in.fo doins^ , nature willbcr perverted, and the form of the Stone diilutbed. Therefore this fli^'^'hc from one another, or hitred between them, arifeth from the evil! polition or ap- plication ofnaturc^jdifcordingjn their genuine order, whichftirupan intertine war,hatred, or antipathy between the parts, andcaufe a contrariety or diftortion of fpirits.
Application.
By whichit appeareth, that the xquimaiall fpirit of the late-living captive , being turned northern or Boreal, will in no wile accojd wirh thefouthern nature of the yet-living adopredor borrowed flefli, which is pftlkfled by the Maltcr, a^k did before; but proverb anriparheticall and deitru^ive unto it , that is, it warre^h with a contrary property againit it , being that n6w it as fail with-draweih the beams ofhis fpirir i fledi lent unto the Malkr, a?,whilllit lived, it didfendthemafteranjquinoili^ll m.inner, forth from the center unto the circumference , namely, from the live fountain in the captive, unto the like in the Matter. -