Chapter doth fully confirm, and that by relation had unto the I.oad-ftone, and

Weather-p,lafs, in every particle of this Propofition, being that as blood is tranf- planted from the wounded parties fountain of blood, and, as it were , grafted on theoyntment ; foalfois the urine with bloody fpirits, transferred from the bloo-,; dy fountain in thi i£l:eritious perfon , and is planted or placed in abed offalutaryl allies, from whence it operateth nootherwifein thelivingblood , then the blood | "or fpirits in theoyntment do, in the veins nfthe wounded perfon.
I will now proceed unto the microcofmicall Magnet, which is taken out of the living man : and I purpofe to defcribe unto you brieflyjandin gencrall tearms, the wonderfull effects in fympathy , which it p-oduceth by his extra6f ion of the fpi- ritual! Mummy out of mans body , and by the tranfplantation and right applia- tion thereof.
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CHAP. VIII.
IVherein the fecret Ma^^^nety rvhich is extrf.Eledout of the Mlcrocofm , or M^njei
living, ts t» generalt terms memioned^ wi'.h the wanner of his anraEtion or
extra^lofty of thefftritttall Mummy cut of Aian, and the appUcatian;
andaswell the yimtfatheticall as Sympatheiicall operation thereof.
T Will nowin few words relate unro you a Hiilory,of the abrtruce manner of heal- ingby Tranfplamation; whkh if it be rightly confidered , itdothfarrefurpafs that of the Weapon-falve : For it doth not onely cure at diftance, as that doth- but it operateth that feat, by the vegetative fpiric of the plant. And yet I hope that my Story fliall noway found unto Wifemens cares, as Cacomagtcall , but onely naturally Magicall, and therefore ordained by God to be wrought upon in the right ufe thereof, for man's good and falutary benefit : For unto that end did the Spirit of Wifdom teach thofe which were inclined unto wifdom (as Solomon witnefleth) as well thofe things which are occult and hidden , as fuch as aremani- felt and apparent unto man's fenfe. And becaufe that good things may, by abufe, be converted unto evill and unlavvfull purpofes; as a fword,tokiU as well as to fave, as fliall be told you hereafter ; Therefore is it God's will, that thefe my- Ueries fliouldbehidfrom the unlearned, or at leaft-wife from fuch of the vulvar, as are wickedly minded; and ordained them to be laid open , unto fuch as are ho- neft, wife, anddifcreet. But leaving all preambles, I will come to the point, and proceed with that ftyle and method, in which I began.
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I ' The Gerterall Vropofttion.
There may be extracted out of a living man, without any prejudice unto his health, a Magnet J whichbyafeveral application of it unto convenient parts of th^ body, will draw or fuck out according unto the pleasure of the Applier, the ani- mal, vitall, or natural! fpirituall Mummy, out of one and the fame living Man, and that without any detriment unto his perfon , the which being rightly with the Magnet that imbibed it tranfplanted arid made vegetative, will operate as well by an internall adminiliration as at a far diltance, or by a fpirituall emanating relati- tion, after it be duly ordered and adapted , both to the health and prefervation; andinfeftion, and damage, and dettruftion of mankind.
An Explication of ever J Member oj this Profofition,
This Propofition doth confift of many Members; whereof the firft, toucheth the generation, condition, and preparation, of the Magnet. The fecond , the manner of application , fortheextradionof the fpirituall Mummy. The third, openeth thefafhionof a manifold Tranfplantation of that Mummy, being fo ex- tracted : and laltly, as well the ufages as the abufes thereof. Of all which Parti- cles or Members , thus in order.
Of the M'Crocof/nicAll Magnet,
We term this the Microcormicall Magnet, becaufe it hath rhe properties of the MinerallLoad-rtone. Andit may therefore eafily beconjedured and guefled , by fuch as are wife in their apprehen'fion, what it is, by comparing the animal Magnet with that of theMinerall: For as the Mincrall Magnet is not of a natural! , but monftrous birth, foritisnotengendredof likeand equall Genitors ; but is be-- gotten after the manner of the Mule, being that her mother or pafiive corporeal mafs,is a common Saturnine and ftony Mercny-, but his Father or aftive Form, is a Metalline,Sulphurous,Martial fpirit; Soal^fothis our Microcofmicall Magnet doth confilt of a Sulphurous Martial fpirit, being as it were his Formal Father; and of allrangcorforrein A/^rfw/, which is neverthelefs, a near neighbour in pofition, and condition unto the Microcofmicall Mercury, as his pafTive or Mercuriall mar- ter. AsfortheMineof whichicisextrafted, it is the living Man, and it is taken
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or derived from hiai without any prejudice unto his iicalth , and after a certain preparation of it , it is made a nt Magnet, to fuck or draw unto it the fpiritu- all Mummy out of the living Man, and that withowt any detriment unto his health.
The Manner of this Magnet's applicatltn ^ fur the extrtiliion of the Spirit HaU Alftmmj.
As for the manner of its application , it is this ; We take the Magnet fp prcpj|- redjand, if we would cxtrad the Animal's Mummiall fpirits, we muft appVy it unto ihofe places, which are apteft for their evacuation. As for example : If we defire the Mummy of the vitall parts, then we multadnpc our Magnet to fuck at that plate, which nature hath ordained to parge the vitall region. Laltly, if we would have the naturallfpirituall Mummy, we muft apply it unto that place of the bo- dy, out of which nature is accuftomed to fend forth the fpirituall fumes, or fwea- ty evacuations from that member, namely from the Liver. To conclude, if you Would make a general I Medicine, which fhould refpeft the ammal , yitall , and na- turall parts, all anonce; then muft your Magnet be applied unto them all, and after that it hath fucked a fufficient proportion, then ought you to refcrve it, for to make your Tranfplantation.
7 he Ad of TranfplantAtion of the Spir'ttnall Mammy.
Touching the a£l or manner of Tranfplantation: Paracelfus {3\x.\\, that the ex- tradled fpirituall Mummy doth not ooperate unto health and prefervation, but by mineral , vegetable, andanimal means. And therefore ic is necelTary, chat the » Ipiricuall Mummy attrafted, or extrafted out of the body, by the virtue of ih;i Animal M%net, muft be introduced into a vegetative nature ; whereby the faid Mummy , not being of it felf vegetative , may by adoption as it were be introdu- ced into, and be indued with a vegetative nature or condition.
We ought therefore to mingle a proportion of this imbibed Magnet^with a ceitain proportion of his mother-earth, and fow in this compofition the feeds of fuch herbs, asareproperforthisorthatdifeafe, and this or that ill affed^ed principall part of man's body , or this or that infirm member , which is contained in his re- sion; Asforexample: For the Lungs in the vitall region, when the difeafe is the Ptifick, fow Line-feed or Juniper , in the naturall region ; when ic is Dropfy , Pimpnel or wormwood ; in the bruifing or contufion of parts, Hypericon or Plan- tain ; in tumour or wounds , Perfecaria, or the great or lefler Cumfry; in Sale difeafes as are the tooth-ach, pain in the eies, and flowing Menftrues , Perfecaria macfflata, and fo forth. The herbs muft grow in this compounded earth , and that in the open aire : andastheherb or plant groweth, it will fympathetically and Magnetically extraft the imbibed Mummiall fpirits out of the Magnet , and will by that meanscaufetheMummyextraftedoutof every particular member, accor- ding unto his condition, to be ht to cure the infirmity of his proper meml»er.
Of theUfeandyinne of the Tranfplanted Mummy.
Laftly, as concerning the manner how to ufe this Tranfplanted Mummy, now that it is changed into a vegetable nature or condition :
If the difeafe be dry and of a combuft nature , as is the yellow Jauoders, the Pcifick, CJT. and you would cure it or expell it out of the body ; then take the herb wichhisMagnetick earth , and [caft them into the running water , and the difeafe will fade and die, by little and little.
But if the difeafe be moift, then you muftburn the herb, with the Magneticall earth. Again, if the difeafe be more temperate, namely between the extremities of water and fire; then hang up the herb in the aire, or fmoak, to dry; and thfc difeafe will tanguifti by little and little, as the herb dorh fade. If you flull give the herb or fruit unco the beaft that is of a ftronger nature than th^ tick , then x.\k beaft will be infected with that difeafe, and the fick will be free. Alfo if the fpi- rituall Mummy foextrafted, out of fome peculiar member of a found Man, be
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conferved in his continual I vegetation, if you take of his fruit, andtran/"phticic into a found oken tree, by that means the member out of which theMuintny was extracted, will grow continually , and continue in his natural! and robul't pro- portion of vegetation , without dcfecl. After this manner alfo, are the Willow trees, but that they increafe fo fuddenly , and by reafon thereof, they are not fo fit for this purpofe, left the member fliould grow too haltily, for by that means, many inLonveniences may follow: Asforexample, If after that manner the hair of a perfonbe fliutupirtoa willow-tree, they will growfo fuddenly and fo copi- oufly, that unlefsthey be removed thence, orthe Willow be burned , the eyes and b.ains will induredammageand detriment, as dolours, fluxes, Sec. namely, by the fuddain increafe, or too muchhumidity of theTree. And therefore accordin'' unto the proportion oftheperfon, there mult be a proportionate tree found out* into the which the Mummy is to betranfplanted ; buctheOkeis to be elefted before all others, becaufe it mcreafeth and groweth but temperately and llronoly, and a mans life will not ealily exceed the daies of an Oke.
By this mylUcall kind of attraction, thetrueand wife naturall Magician, (for fo 1 may call rhe true Philofopher, that operateth, as Solomon did , by the proper- ties of naturall rhingsj may bring to pafs fuch things, which in wonderwill excell (as I faid)by many degrees, the power or z6t of the weapon-falve; for by it,wife men have procured friend{bip& love,between fuch as have been utter enemies;& again, by the ufe of it, graceand atfedlion may be recovered from another, whofe favour isdefired, Prfr the Ape and the Snake(betwixt the whith, a naturall antipathy, or ft rife andha- t red, is ever obferved to be) may be made friends , and familiar unto one another. But to our purpofe.
If rhe members out ofthe which the fecond Mummy is extracted , are to be corroborated, then you muR make the extraited Mummy to vegetate, as before, by rranfplantanon temperately, and according unto the naturall proportion in theOke, or other fuch like found tree. But if themembersbe toodry, then let their extracted Mummy vegetatein the Willow tree, and fromthence again be tranfplantedinto fome other temperare Tree. Soalfoina humid complexion, it may for a time be tranfplanted into a hot and flowly growing tree , as is rhe Ju- niper; onely obferving, that the fruit in which the Mummy is tranfplanted, be preferved from all externall dammage. ■ rr ^^
' Demonftration,
I need not wafte the time in further demonftration, ofthe pofTibility and feazi- bility ofthefeaftsinthefpirituall tranfplanted Mummy, when by the very felf- fame proofs, whereby I have confirmed the manner of curing by the weapon- falve, and by tranfplantation, which is fet down in one ofthe Chapters of this pre- lent Book ,' 1 have fully demonltrated the reafons of thefe occult and abHrufe ani- ons in this kind ofcure, unto fuch as will not (with St. 7^ but what is confirmed by fenfe. And therefore, for the manifeftjtion of this hidden action, by a relation of natures , I refer you unto that very place alfo, where the falve is compared unto the vegetable and Magnet, the bloody fpirits unto the fpirituall Mummy , the manner of applicarion of beams from the Mummy to the fick member, unto theapplication ofthe tranfplanted bloody fpi- rits to the wounded member; the keepingthefpirirually-growingfpirir in rheoynt- ment from cold , unto the preferving the vegetable fruit , in which the Mummy is planted, from externall damage. So zhit eademefirano utnuf^fte, zr\d by confe- quzr\CQ,cadem ejl demon (Iratioms via in ambobus.
It ig too tedious in this placeroexprefs the efficacious operations of this fecret myfticall Mummy ; and I am alVured, that fome ignorant yWow?«,orCynicall igno- rant,will either laugh or bark at what is faid already touching it; for, Ouismajor fcleKtiie iiiimic/4S) properties, and their fympathericall effefts > from fuchCricicks , and lock it up in thetreafury of truth : Onely inaword, Ifay,that by it, theDropfie, Pleurifie, Gour, Vertigo, Epilepfie, French-Pox, Palfey, Cancer, Fiflula, foul Ulcers , Tu- morsjwounds, Herniaes, Fractions of Members , fuperfluity and fuppreffion of
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Menftrues in women, as alfo fkdlky in them ; Feavors, Hefticks, Athrophy, or wartint' of members, and fuch like, may by this natu rail magicall means be cured, and chat at diftance, and without any immediate contatt. And, to conclude, Pa- r^jcW/wjaffirmeth , that this magneticall kind of cure which is effedtedby naturall Ma^ick, dothexcellin vertue all other Phylkall fee ret s , which may be extrafted or feparated, either out of Herbs, or Roots, or Minerals.
I will now come to the fecond Part or Member of this Book , which fpeaketh of the ancipatheticall effefts of this Mummiall experiment.
The Second Part or Member of this Book, which
handlcth the prai^ice of Antipathy. CHAP. I.
In th'sChaper the Authorexfrejfeth , how bj the felf-fame internall fflrit wthecrea» lure ,as wet Antifathcticah as Sjmpathtticall tffids may i>e produced. Herein is alfo fet down the reafon^ why ajpirit,that is wfeBed and corrupted with a poj- f'jnfawe cond tion^ is mofi venomoHS and contagious umo his kjnd.
^S it is certain, that like doth naturally affeft his like ; for Na- ture doth rejoyce at the prefence of his nature, and nature ' doth correct and corroborate his nature, if it be found, and full of vivifying and wholfomc fpirits: So alfo nature, if it be poyfoned and infeded by a venomous nature, will, by uni- ting it felf unco a found and wholfome nature ^ quickly cor- rupt and inquinate it , andfoby fuch a kind of abortive and dvipraved union , antipathy is placed infixed of fympathy. Now how this is poflible in nature , I will in few words relate unro you. As na- ture doth magnetically eftetStandallure unto it her like ; fo, if that like which it lucketh untoit be inquinated with corruption, the faid attrafting fpirit , be it ne- ver fo found, will quickly tafte of the bitter with the fweet, namely,of the poyfon, and fo will alfo be corrupt equally with that fpirit , which is homogeneall unto ic, in which the infection dwelleth, being forced unawares CO entertain rtrife, dif- fention, and antipathy into his tabernacle unawares ; even as we fee a found fpirit in the Animal, which thirlHne after his like fpirituall celcftiall food, which ho- vereth occultly in the aire , co be refrelhedby ic , doch unawares draw in an enemy with it , namely, a pelHlent and corrupt fume, whereby it is oppreffed and infla- med with a putredinous fire ; fo that it was not the appetite or defite of the found fpirit to draw in that poyfon untoit , but thefpiric like it felf t.hat was poyfoned. And again , each fpirit which is incumbered with any antipatheticall and unnatu- rall accident , defireth to fliake off contentious antipathy, and to re-afTume that peaceful! fympathy which it enjoyed before; but finding it felf unable, it is apt to cleave and adhere unto good and found fpirits for its relief , being that viiunita fortioi i and if more found ipirits of his like were joyned unto it, then might it the eafilier conquer and expell his antipatheticall adversary. So alfo we fee, that one blear-ey*d perfon , by darting his infcvftious beams for relief at a reafonable di- ftance, becomineth a flame, which fetteth on fire the found fpirit unto thewhich ic appliech: for fpirituall poyfons are likefecret flames of malignant fire. Where- fore as fpirits are by union joyned together and mulciplyed, like oyle added unto oyle, fo doth the infectious flame increafe , and feed equally upon them both : For asthe found fpirit defireth the fociety of his like, co comfort it, and the corrup- ted fpirit fodefi red, dothalfocovet the found fpirit toalfirt i:; againfl his enemy. So corruption is fucked in by them both, and antipathy is forced to roull among them, and forfakethrhcm nor , tintlll it hath penetrated and gnawed into even theirbowclls, and poyfoned their very entrails. And wernuft note, that there is no poyfoned fpirit that doth fooner take hold of a fpirit, then fuch asisfpecifick ,
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. and of a homogcncal nature : For thyc is the realon , that one Mans fplrit bcin" infc6led with the Plague,cloth lb multiply it in his kind chiefly; as alio the Murren doth chiefly rage in the fpirits of Sheep, and medles not with the fpirits of Men, Do we not commonly fee, that alike nature b^:ing altered by pucrefailionj is moft deadly unto his like ? So worms avoided out of the body, and dried to pouder, do by inward adminifiration kill the worms. Spitle that is avoTded f om the PkI- wowrff/^, cureth after preparation, the Ptifick. 'i he Spleen of a Man prepared, is an enemy unto the fwelling and vegetable Spleen. The flor.e of the Kidney or Blad- der, by calcination cureth and dilVolveth the Stone. The tou.h of a dead man's hand cureth the fchlrrous tumors. The Scorpion being bruifed , or his body mace- rated in oyls. cureth the wounds of the Scorpion; andtheoyleof rhe Viper; as alfothetrochifes of his flefli,thebitingsof the Adder or Viper; dead and congealed blood, and the fait excrefcence out of man's bones, is antipatheticall unto the flowing blood: In con;lulion , there is nothing that is more powerful I to check or correct an impediment in afpirit , then by applying of the fame Specifick fpirit, being altered from his nature by a contrariety ; So alfc there is nothing that infe- titeth a found nature fooner, than a nature homogeneal unto it felf, which hath indued corruption ; and that isthereafon, that the infirm and corrupted Mummy of one man, is fo apt to putrify and corrupt that of another , as we may not one- lydifceinby thefe words of la'-acelfus -. Corrupia Mummi^., corfiu et.dm fantitn qHodanhigtty & cum q^oit'iitni-y corrumpk; eaancem fini corpora corr;ip[io, efi cor- j^. pi,-, r foris alter tis, ex quo Adunmnafi;mpt.^ efi, v.t 'emdo cr fanitas : The corrupted lAummj, Jra3 z ■ doth a' fo corrupt the Jotindbodyy that it Uyeihhollofy and'is united umo ; a>idthecor- r option of the f>;t}id bodj , is the health of the other body^ tut of rvb'ich^ the C9,rupt A'ti»im) was e.vtraSled, As for example : If a man be Leprous, and I extraft , by the Microcofmicall Magnet , the Mummy out of him, and give ir to a found man, it will reduce the Leprous perfon unto his health again ; but it will hlthily inft;cl the found man that took it, with the fame difeafe , as fliall be told you hereafter .more a: large. But before we come unto the bulk of this bufinefs , it will be molt nt,that 1 makean Apologeticali tranfgrelfAon, lefl fomeperfons , of moreenvyand indifcretion, than profundity in the true naturall A^f/tgia, may unworthily accufe mc of Cacomagy, and that onely becaufe they are altogether ignorant in the my- ikries of thofe lawfull Acts in nature, which were taught unto SoUmo;:^ and revea- ~
led unto the wife men of this world, for the good and benefit of mankind, by the good Spirit of God ; neither are they therefore to be efchewed, becaufe that by evil men they may be converted unto evil effefts, and fo diverted from their true ufages,for which God did ordain them; but rather a skilful! natural Magician, fuch asatruePhyfitian ought to be, fliould firft know the good ufes of fuch hidden my- Iteries in nature, that they might with the better effect imploy them, for the good of mankind, and then not be ignorant of thofe abufes, which may be produced by them, that they thereby may the better prevent, and put by, all fuch wicked ef- fe(Sts, as naughty men would produce by them, unto the dammage and deflruction of Gods creatures.
AN APOLOGY.
A fhort Apo'ogyjor the ttfa^e of the Myfticallor Spiritual! Mummy, and to prove, that 06 -well the Antipatlleiicall abufes , oi Sympathetic all ufes of it, andall other fiaturall thin its, arc to be kKorvn and well ttnderfiood, by the na- turall Magician or rvife Phyfitian , for preventions caufi; though notalwaies put in execution, b:tt onely where need requireth.
T Know that there will be many barking C;»;Vf:,/, inveighing Criricks, and railing or Satyricall^/tfw«j's,whofe onely delight is foUred with the fire of difdaine ormalice; who, fmotheredas it were, with the blind and foggy fmoakor fume of ignorance, will fay, thatif the Sympatheticall effects of the fpirituall Mumrny ba allowable fora Phylitian , yet are rhe Antipathetiacall properties thereof odious, andnoway tobeindured; nay they are Cacomagicall , beraufc the divell doth
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inftrnft his minilkrs, about the abufes of this Microcofmicalt kind of corruprion; and therefore for this reaton, the very knowledg of fiich a thing is not robe indu- red, &c. Thefeobjedions, Iknovv, will thefe fenflcfs and unreafonable kind of bablers make, touching the knowledg of fo myliicall a buhnefs. But if their faying fliouldtake^place amongit the wife, what fhould become of Sol omo>i's sk'il in naturall Logick ? Orwherefcre fhould he ( who was elteemed the wifelt among ■ men) befooverfeen, as to afpire unto the knowledg of all things wbatfoever, and to underlbnd as well the enemies as friends unto man's nature : For it is faid Sap. 7. of him, that he knew the natures of living creatures 5 the fiercnefs of bealis ; the
cogitations of Men; the difference of Plants-, the virtues of roots, and all things eliethat were occult and fecrec ? Nay, why iliould he fay, that Wifdom , the Work-Miftris of all things, taught it unto him ? Are there nor Plants, and Ani- mals, and Minerals, that are Itarkpoyfon and venomous unto mans nature, as well as benigneandfalutiferous ? He knew (fairh the Text) the narttres of all livin'^ creatures or animals; and why fo, if that were true , which thofe Scoffers m.utrer ? Why fliould he know or look after the property of fuch things , which arepoylon and harmfuU uhtomankind? Are nor theAfpis, the Viper, Adder, and that putrifying rr corrupting Worm, tcrmcdScps in Latin , or Pur ifur in Frenchjby reafon of his rorting venom.The Serpent railed Dipfu, which infe£teth the fpirit wuh an immenfurable drouth , the -rimphisbena, zhcBafiiirkj, the DrAgon. the Holtio :A.mongcreepingcreatures, the Spider, the Scorpion, the Toad , the Li- zard, rheSalamander, the Cancharides, and an infinite number of other, as well earthly 'I*? vvatery Animals, venomous and wonderful! pernicious vinto mankind ? He knew aUb the differences and virtues of Plants. But fay thefe temerarious Judi'es, What reafon had Wifdom to (how and difc over unto hina the aborr,inable cffeLL s of the herb called y^conitc} which is fo pernicious iinro Man and Beai^, that the Poets fained , that it grewalongrtthefhoreof the venomous River Acheron, inhcll. The Hemlock, which was the character of dearh among the ^cAm;W; for with the juce thereof they poyfoned the condemned perfons. The Jufqa' ante ot Hen-bane. The Poppy of vvhcfe jucethefomniferous Opium is derived. The Toad- l\oo\, ScarHOMY, Ei'^hrrbiurt}^ Colloijismttda, Bears-foo'^ Titimal ^ oz Spurge^ -^ S^- mbuccA^ Grunfell, Flfinmula^ and an infinity of fuch like vegetables. Alfoa- mon'^ltthe Mineralls^ yJ»ti/no»y, O^ick-fiher ^ Arfenick^, Rof.ilfar , ferdecrcafe-, Lhhurge, CerMjfe, f^an'o/, and an infinity of others ? My anfwer is. That all thefe thini^s, though in themfelves they are venomous, yet being rightly handled and ufedby wife men, they are made palfing medicinable. And I would have them knowjthat God created all things good;Dut it is the Divell and his in(truments,who by ill imployingof them do make them odious , and deteftable unto mans nature: For as by their right ufe and application, they may produce fympatheticall effeds; foby their abufe they produce nothing elfe but anripatheticall aftions, and rebelli- ous conflifts with man's nature; God, I fay, ordained them for a good ufe, name- ly for man's health ; but the Divell doth apply themdeftrui^ively, and malitiouf- ly, which alfo the forefaidwife naturall Magician ,5i?/oiw»», confirmeth in thefe Sap 14. words: Godcreated all things that they fhould exifl and be; and he made all the i.'ij." Nations of the Earth found and durable ; fc that there was not a deftruftive medi- cine in them. Alfo God created Man inexterminable; but it was by the malice of the Divell, that death entered into the world. And the wicked imitate him and are of his feed . Whereby it is plain, that it was the Divell, and naughty men, which are hisintlrnments,and indeed true Divells incarnate, which do adapt that for a wic- ked ufe , which indeed is good and righreous in it felf: What (hall I fay more ? what ? becaufe that the Divell doth apply a good thing unto a bad ufe , mufl: thac thingfor ever be abhorred and efchewed of wife men? And muft for that reafon the oood ufe thereof be excommunicated out of man's fociety, and be for ever after reputed for Cacomagicall, damnable, and diabolicall ? As for example: Be- caufe the Divell and his adherents , I mean the witches and Necromancers, doby theDivel'sinRructions, applythe Mummy of man as well corporall as fpiritu.ill, about their pernicious and deftruftiveinvenrions ; Therefore muft all they vvhich ufe the fame for a good and falutiferous intent be eiteemed Cacom.agicians ? Is it a fisn that the PhyGtian who curerh difeafesby it , hath for that reafon a commerce with the Divell? Or, mull a Chriftian Phyfitian, becaufe he is acquainted with
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the evill which the properties of naturall things may etfeft, by an unnaturall or an- tipathetical! adaptation, needs put that evill in execution unto the prejudice of manshenlth? Verily, it" things are rightly conlidered, the knowledge of goocfand evill in the creaturesjdo well befit thel'cienceof aPhylitun , for except he be ac- quainted with the evill as well as the good , how is it pollible to cure the harms which are effected by the bad, being that except the caule be known, the etfeft wil ha-dly or never be cured. As for example , If the nature of the fpirituall philtre which infeileth , be n .t difcovercd , howll-iould tbecurebe performed, orthe caufe be excinguillied or taken away?The true Magician doth not intrude into the fcience of t he Simples venomous nature , to do harm thereby , but to difcern the counter-poyfon which fliould prevent the mifcbief thereof, as the Scorpion cureth the Scorpions, the Viper the Vipers harms. Mull every man that hath a fword needs kill, or do a mifchief with it?May he not defend another from being killed or harm- ed ? S'oalfoit followechnot, that he muit therefore poyfon his patient , becaufe heknoweththepiyfon , and the manner how to corred or amend his malice, which hath deprived his patient of his health. Except the poyfon be known, the y4lexipha'miij»ov Counter poyfon will hardly be had. If the Hermit of y^/;f (of whom I hive fpoken before ) had not known the efpeciall antidote to care thofe,' which he had poyfoned and infeded with the peiVilence , many of thofe which he afterwards cured would have died wirh rhe relt. If therebedevills incarnate, whofe d li^hr is todeRroy, as fome men that wear fwords delight in quarrelling and kil- ling; and orhe-fome that know the good ufe of fire employ it naughtily , as he did, wh ) deliroyed wirh izDiayia's temple of the£p/3^A^^-(/)God forbid that fuch natural creature^, as are fire, iron , and fuch like , fhould be abandoned, and not exercifed in their right ufagc,becaufe they do harm when they areabufed. There are Saints as well as there are devills on the earth , who being acquainted with the impious inventions and devices of thefe devills, with their arch-ma(fer Satan, areableto challenge and combat them at their own weapons. SchoUars learn of Adjhtle the art of fophiltry and fallacy, not that they (lioulddeceivejbur that they fhould pre- vent deceipr, and the honell, and moft skilfuU and faichfuU Phyfitian , prieth into the myllcry of themolKpirituaU poyfon, not with an intentto poyfon, or do any evill by It, but. that he may with the greater aflurance, and vigorous efficacy, at- tempt the cure, and take away the caufe after it is known ; for the nature of the poyfon being well underflood the cure will be the more certain. The venomous wound of the Viper (as I have faid) is cured by theTheriacall antidote, into whofe compolition the flefh of Vipers doth enter; the oyle of Scorpions, or the Scorpion oficfe If being bruifed, doth cure the iHngofthe Scorpion, andthat by a magne- ticall attraction of his like. All which being fo, vyhy iliould not the wife Phyfi- tian look into the nature of fpirituall venoms, as well as the fpirituall counter- poyfons that are in man. When we find, that the venom that wounderh, is, by reafon of ht it his like? Ifby the found Mummy in man, I can Cure or takeaway rhe corrupti- on or venom , which his like nature hath accidentally imbibed , is it not a fit and Convenient thing to knowrhe one as well as the other.
I murtconfefs, that there are fleflily devills upon earth, Imean,nbhominable minirters and children of Satan, who being abandoned unco their mafter and head, commit (as I have told you before) many infolencies , and trecherou j (IraMgems , by the blood, hair, bones, skin, andcorporall Mummyofnians body; but above all therert, the wickednefs of certain theeves , hangmen , and other of chat Necro- manticall faction, is abhominable before God and man, and worthy to be whipped out with iron , or wiped away with fire, out of every good Common-wealth, which by their diabolicallfleights , do make ufe of mans lad breach intheir expi- ration of life, to ferve fortheir wicked employment , asfpirits madeobedient to rhsirwills, andfodo diflurb the quiet reft of the dying man's fpirit. Of which kind of wicked perfons, /'^r^rcZ/wifpeaketh thus, Per trifiices hafce Mnrnmlas mul- ta fajfim praflna & costfeH-afunt, ah ils cumprlmn qniillas ipjimetfrepara>'tint, utfiint ^^ ^ '''''- cai-nifices,Hn:ores.,latrones, &€. q ti nonfolum vita-in bominibsts adef?terttn:C^jn^uld- ''' tos !j-fos. Afummiam fecerttnt , fed et!itmjuguLitor:i7Hfpiritum , /jtemfplr'num homin'is vocaveruntf exceperunt; illumijHe fibt in extremo mortis momemo fubjecerunt ^ feu fub- jugAvernnty ac vari'is impofitis oncribiis exagitkrurit. Hinc ars ennta ejl Necrommtidj
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tal'ner hb iofis ■vocntt. V Necromania cjuidem o~ ipfa ^j^'ip'^- diairoiiyfei: A diahoio mjiiiUta, dociit^ ^ tradita ; ac ndip/ifts inftrnmetjcis fen mtwciptis in ab::fnm tam gmnkni ctn-verfa: funt en'.miUi homines r.oceHiijJim'i, ^itiifts praftaret laftdem molarem de collo [u^pendi , ac it* in pro- ft e euci. By chejethre; kinds of Mummies^ there are many thingsdorie and ejfeEied , and that efp:cial!y by fuch as have prepared them , as are the hanamen , the lcr(rcams, and thieves^ crc. who do nn onely bereave men of their lives , but a' fa they haverece:vedthefpint of thofetvhofs throats they have cut, or fir angled , and do makt themfnbjed-j or do fttbj-^gate it unto them. From hence fpringeth the art of Necromancy^ fo termed by them. Fie upon this art, and upon all fuch as are fo filthily abufed by it : Ve- rily it is Necromancy y but of the dev/lf; or it is inflilled, taught, and delivered by the de- vil I ^ aKd is by his inflruments or (laves converted into fo great an abitfe ; for the fe art wicked rj- harmful per fons , about who fe neck,i: were better that a milfione were hanged,& that I hey were with it cafl into the bottom ofthefea.l am advertifed,thac the hangmen of Germany are commonly artills in this deviiliO^kind of trade, and by it can do wonders, the more is the pitty that they are fuffered. Thus therefore each m^n may difcern a nunifeA difference, between the trneufe, and the abhominable abufe of a good thing, and bow ( ail faid before ) there are devills incarnate, as well as Saints, or good and pious men upon the earth , whereof fome do ufe Gods crea- tures to the benefit of man , and others unto his ruine and dellrudtion : And con- fequently, that it is lawful! foraPhyhtian to be converfant in both extreams , though his onely praftife ought to be imployedin doing good, I will nowdefcend unto my fubjeft.
CHAP. HI.
How Sympathy may by accident or difurder be changed into Antipathy, Here alfo certain mao net. call Demonflrations , convenient to prove e.ich Propoftion concerning thisfubi(B\ are cxprcffed.
IPiiporcinthis Chapter, whichtoucheth the effefts of Antipathy , to proceed after the felt-fnie method ,which I obferved in my precedent difcourfe of Sym- pathy ; and therefore in the firlt place Iwillpropofe unto you certain grounds, which I for that reafon call Propolitions; and then afterward I will demontltatively maintain them many waies.
I Propoftion,
As by fympathy in naturall fpirits , each member may be corroborated and forti- fied; fo by their antipathy, members may be debilitated, corruptedjand infected.
An expcrimentall Example or Demon f ration.
If the fpirituall Mummy extrafted out of man, be mingled with venomous things, and fobe fuffered to ror , or elfe"be mingled with the Mummies of infirm or infected perfons , or with the poyfonfome menltrues of a woman , and then a herb be planted, orthe magnet foimbibed, and be conferved in a continuall vege- tation, it may be acaufe, that thedifeafe lliould be of continuance. Alfo if one give the herb or fruit which favoureth of a hck man's Mummy , unto abealf that is of a {Wronger nature then thefickj then thebeaft will be infeftedwith that dif- . e.ift-, and the hck will be free. From this experiment, many egregious abufes may and would be effefted by wicked men , if tnis manner of diverting the creatures vertue from good to bad, were known unto them ; for by it, they may diflfeminate allies and the pellilcnce over a whole Country : for the plant will fuck out the fpiritu.iU Mummy of fuch perfons, as are infected with fuch venomous difeafes, by reafon of its vegetating activity. Alfo, if the fpirituall Mummy be extracted by mcinsofthis microcofmicall Magnet, cut ofabody infeAed with the Lepro- fie, and be applyed, or any way adminiltred inwardly unto another, thai! is health- full and found, it will infect the found perfon , and free the infeited , as it hath been proved by foiue. 2 Propo-
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2 ProfofitioH.
The antipatheticall Mummy of the fick may be excrafted , and inCefted or infu-- fed into another that is found.
A demon jirtnive Example.
This is confirmed by the precedent proofs, and is further maintained thus.
If one do fow feeds or herbs pertaining unto the three principal members in the Mummy ofadeadcarcafe> orintheMummy extrattedoutofahckor infeded perfon , and the fruit of thefe vegetables be given or adminiltred unto man or beaft, then the difeafe will be tranfplanted upon the faid man or beafft. By this means alfo naughty men may infod and poyfon. But becaufe thefe niifchiefs are horrible to a religious fpirk , I dare not farther exprefs the effefts of antipathy in fpirits, which may be brought to pafs by the abufing of GodsbleiTings. I will there- fore enter into another kind of antipatheticall practice, which fliall rather tend un- tothe confervation of man, then the dellruil ion of it.
3 Propojitlon.
If two lively flefhes that are wounded be applied to each other , they will fym- pachizeandbeunited J afiTimilated, andmade one continued fle(h , fothatasthe one pi ofperethj the other will do the like alfo ; conditionally, th.u the party from who'n the added Hefh is borrowed , continue in his lively and vegetable difpoliti- on ; but if the animal tree from which the graft" was taken, I mean, the body out of which the fiefh was lent or cut, do wither ordie , that is , doth leave to vegetate and act, then will that borrowed flefh alfo beat jarr and difcord with the flefhof the borrower, that liveth andvegetateth ; and confequently antipa; hy will fpring out from that union, which was rympatheticall before; fo that except the dying fleQi be amputated, or taken oft' from the lively flelTi , upon the which it was graf- ted or tranfplanted, it will caufe the living flefti alfo to gangrenate, and corrupt with it felf.
An experiment to confirm this.
This is well proved and maintained , by that experiment in Italy before mentio- ned; for when acertammbleperfonage had loft his nofe byawound, and had by the Phyfitians advice made a wound in one of his Haves armes , and clapped it un- to his wounded nofe , and fo the flefh of the one was bound faft unto the flefh of theother, continuing after that manner , untill by a fympatheticall agglutination •. ■
and union, both flefhes became one flefli. Then agobbit of the flave's flefhwas cut out of the arm, and was framed into thi (hape of a nofe on the Noble-min ; and theflave was manumitted, with mony in his purfe, for his paines. It befell, thac on a certain time after, theflave did die, and though he departed this life being far diftant from his marter , yet the borrowed flefhonthe matters nofe withered and gangrenated, infomuch that the antipathy between thefe two flefhes , though u- nited into one fubftance, became fo great , that if immediately that dead flefh had not been cut off, it would have corrupted and deftroyed the reft.
A Troblemat'xall Demonfiration from the Load-ftone.
One Load-ftone doth draw another in his naturall pofition , but being unnatu- rally ordered, it driveth away or refifteth the other.
The demonftration of this Problem hath been exprelTed, as well by a Load-ftone divided in BoatS) as by two Irons fwimming on corks.
3 Problem.
If a plant be cut off(as,for example, a willow- wand) and if it be regalarly planted
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For the proof of this Problem, look the 2 Propohtionof the 5 Chapter, in the Application unto the Vegetable.
The Afflieniion,
So ifthefpirics of the twoflefliesbe unnaturally difpofed unto one another, and turned from their fympathcticall union, unto an antipacheticall duality or difunion, or difcord in natures;then will it, after unequall jars, follow agenerall corruption: for> (as is faid before) Corr^ptum corrftmpe^iis niuuram fac'.lUme induit,
4 Prof) em.
If a fpiricual Mummy be corrupted by forae alienjor ftrange infedlious nature,yec in refpeillof the naturall Mummy of the found and wholfom body which is fo in- feiled, the found and wholfom Mummy of a body not infedted, will magnetically attaft it, though not fo aft"e£tionately, burmoreflowly; by reafonofthe union or adhering of the ilrange venom unto it , which caufeth a mixtion of antipathy with that of tympithy; and the reafon of that flownefs in the repelling of the antipathe- ticall infult, is, becaufe the found and homogeniall Mummy doth partly, by his concupifcibie ad , attraftunto it his fympatheticalUike , and partly expell his contaminating unlike,by his irafcible property : But for that this antipacheticall unlike cleavcth fo falf unto his infeded like, therefore it happeneth, thattheex- pullive relilfance is but flow ; and fo the found fpirituall Mummy becommeth as well corrupted and infected as the other,and by that means Sympathy is turned in- to Antipuhy.
A» Experiment to confirm this.
There are many proofs to maintain this , for when a corrupted fpirituall Mum- my is carried in the aire, from one infe£ted with a pelHlent Feavour, or fmall Pox , the Mummy fo infedfeddoth unite it felf, being homogeniall unto the found man's fpirir, and in that regard the one embracerh the other ; but the found Mum- miallfpirit, perceiving and tailing of the heterogeniall, or infected nature, which adhereth unto his like, doth flowly expell or relill it, by reafon that it doth covet his like , and therefore fympathetically attradeth ; and again, hateth his unlike , and therefore antipathetically expelleth,whichis,for that reafon, but flowly per- formed ; andthis isthecaufe, that the expulfivecrilis is not made fuddenly, after the poyfonfome infeftion is received ; neither will fweats, or fluxes, or eruption of blood out of the nofe , which are arguments of the refilf ance and expulfive fa- culty of contagious antipathy , fuddenly appear : andthis is effected fometimes by the found fpirits conquert, and fometimes by the vain attempt thereof.
I . A Probh-maticaU Demonfiration derived from the Load-fione,
Whena fnall pieceoflronisputintoa fmall Boar , withmaterialls of another loading, to float upon the water, and a Load-ftone be placed inanother veflell on the fame water, near one another , the coition which will be made betwixt thefe two magneticall bodies will be depraved, weak, and unnaturall , becaufe the Mag- net affecleth and draweth unto it molt Ihongly his like, or beR-beloved, when fhe is not laded or mixed with materialls of a contrary nature , and confequently not agreeing in fympathy with it.
yin AppiicatioM.
To conclude, A Mummy which hath anantipatheticall infedion joyned unco if, andappliethin conjunftion unto a founder Itrong and wholfome Mummy , is likeasifa portion of the flone czWizdl he amide s , (which is antipatheticall unto that of the Magnet, for it repelleth honor the Magnet it felf, as the M.ignet doth attract them unto it ) were joyned in a little bark unto the Magnet, or a piece of Iron alfo .placed in ^t, and that bark or boat fo burthened were applyed unto a
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ftronger Magnet in another bark in abafon of water; the llrong Magnet orLoad- ftone would partly attraft his like, namely, the Magnet or Iron, and partly refill and expell his enemy, and Co by reafon of his attradion , his expulfion would bj the flower. Therefore alfo the magneticall Philofophers hold this fo: a Maxim.
2 Problem.
The coition or union betwixt two magneticall bodies is more quictc and nim- ble , than the flight or divorce ftom one another} for experience ti^ich^ch, thac magneticall bodies are more fluggifhly repelled then they are allured or drawn unto one another } and the reafon is , becaufe there is fomc antipatheticallinva- lion which caufeth that hatred , and makeththat irafcible refiftance between the homogeneall fpiritof the Mummy, and the heterogeniall poyfon or infection in it: for we ought to conlider, that magnetick bodies do covet fynipatheticall union.
5 Profofitiofi.
Two Mummies of divers bodies, whereof the one is found, and the other infe- fted, though in tK'ir firft coition they feem to agree, by reafon of that homogeniaU refpeft which is between them, beingintheirpuritybutof one andthe famed- fence ; yet, for that the one is infefted, and for that caufe hath endued a hetero- geniall difpofition, contrary unto theeiVcnce of them both ; for that reafon (I fay) rhe fecond Mummy endeavoureth to be divorced from them both. And this is pro • ed thus by this problematical! D^monftration , drawn out of the Load-llone'^ property.
3 Problem.
Tf you fhall fettwofmall wiers on thepoles of a Load-done, thefewiers willbe ^j^^^j,, ^^ obferved to adhere at the lower ends together, upon the point of the pole, but ^^ Mai.Lix. 8. I heir top'? they will beat difcord, and averfe unto one another at their upper ends ,&;rf/,c«f ai. fo that they will be obferved to make a fork ,- as if one end did efchew and fly from the company and fociety of the other.
rH£ CONCLUSION,
T Could ( judicious Reader ) have made a whole Volume of experimentall Pro- portions , with their problematicallproofs, touching the infinite abyfs of Sym- patheticall and Antipatheticall efte Vegetable, and Mineral , both mutually between each fpv^cies or kind , as from the individualls of one kind unto another : But it is not my intention toexpreU my more bold and fetled opinions touching the truePhilofophy and hi-: .ipp^nJixes , in a larger Englifli phrafe , confidering rhe roughnefs and harflmeffc of my pen , by reafon of my defeft, and the infufficiency in the poliflicd nature thereof. Agiin, I know, that filed words andphrafes arebuc fuperficiall fiaflies, and flying Hn- dowes of a wealthy and rich fubjeit, the which, as they are, Proteia-like, changnble untoan infinity of colours, fo alfo are mens fancies and judgments as variable, be- ing the Proverb is, So many men^fo mmy minds, I d') imagine, and my minde giverh me, that although I be never fo curious in my inditing} or laborious in the phralV of mineexpr^flion 5 yetwiUmybellendsayouxs appear faulty in the curious eye-- fighc of fome men, though perchance acceptable enough unco others. lefteem it fufficient therefore , that 1 dare be hardy and bold in the fundamentall fubjea oi" the eflentiall Philofophy, being that it hath Truth it felf to maintain and defend it. without any adornation made by the gilded trcfles of fuperficiall fpeeches , or ver- ball explication ; and therefore as vernm non quxrit anga'.os , fo alfo flie needeth not the exprelflon of eloquent words, and refined fentences or phrafes to illuflrace it, and make it more perfpicuous in the eyes of wife and lejrned men > being that ic
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is not unknown unco them, that (he doth conquer all , for fhe is the bright fplen-
dour or emanation, which fpringeth from the omnipotent and eternal! fountain;
fheenli»htenethall, fhea(i^etheffentially in all, and over all, ano icvealeth her
felf in efteft to all ; and therefore (he is fo manifert in all her works , that fhe nee-
deth not any golden-tongued Oratour , nor fmooth and methodicall Rhetorician >
or lip-learnttdPhilofopher, todoherhonour, in theexprelTion of her excellency,
and recording the perfe6tion of her graces , revealed unto all the world , though the
unworthy worldlings will not acknowledge or receive her with reverence, as they
ought to do, but rather hide her perpetually , by their bell endeavours, with the
vail of obfcure ignorance, and thereby do not defift to perfecute and crucifiedaily
that fpirituall Chrift, which is the onely verity , true wifdom, corner-ftone , and
effentiall fubjeft of the true Philofophy, whofe Name be bleffed for ever and ever •
who onely hath made the heavens andtheearth, and every thing therein, andful
liaineth and preferveth them by the v ivification of his Spirit ; which operateth all
in all , and reignech in power and glory with the Father, for ever and ever : Who
willdefendhis fervantsfrom theopprelTtonof evill-minded men , anddandasa
fhield of defence , to preferve the prodaimer of his truth from the Serpentine
tongues of malitious back-biters, and the venomous carpingsof theCynicall and
Luk.xi. IS. Satyricall Momm. It is he that faith unto the adorer of his truth. Ego dabovotis
OS (^ fipientiam cui no» foterant refiflere & contradicere omnes adverfarii
veftri. And therefore I will fay as the Ptophet David did. In aU-
rnm tPtarttm Hmhra canam; I will fingthe truth under the
fliadow of thy wings. O Lord, in thee do I put my
trull ; keep and preferve me from mine ene-
miesjfor thy mercie's fake, AMEN.
FINIS.
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