X. t. cettdumvidetur^ nifie^'iatenus homines^ anlmaUacjue cetera i^ute in terris denunt, &

nip. de CirnJ- giffiu^fur natatjue funt,principia & ortginemtnd: habere deTnonjirabo, d)" (^uod anima *•*• decaloej}, quoddelere, languere, mori, & denique quicejuidbomm^ltve ejl in homing
de cnelo proficifcitur: Touching celejliall and Divine matters, it feemeth to me^ that there is nothing to be faid^ fave onely, that I will demonftrate, that men and b.-afrs which live ftpcnthee/irth , and are begotten and bcrn , have ihtir btginninf and Origin all from thence, and that the Soul is from heaven^ and to be dolorous^ to lanauijk , and to die,
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yind finally yWhAtfocver is goodorbadi»man, doth froceed from tibove. And forthisWii// in pratud- caufe Haly faith , Adedictts cjul Ajiror.omtam ii^norat , efi tanqHum cacHs viam l>Mfslo""e qnoddam fxamiftOfSf hncatque i'ditc nufcrahiliicr cefpitans, pro qiinli^et boni malive appare»tia : ''^'" "'^f- The Pbyfhlitn whxh Is ignoran: in Afironomj^ is like a blind mAn, which examineth and feeircheth out his way with aflajfe^ mtferabiy reeling thit way and that way , according to every appearance of goodorevil.BuT to come nearer the yoiattCichusEfchu/amHsOiith, That every one of the twelve Skncs receivech his parcicular andfpeciall name from ?^'^'''' "? ''*• the nature or property of fomeDcaft, becaufethe nature ofthe one doth feemto '"*'*"• fymbolizq with that of the other. And Mo/es Arabtctisiiixh-, That every ani- mated thing hath a peculiar liar , which fendeth down his influence to defend and prefervc his like upon earth, and that by the divine will and command.
As for ex^implie. The Stars which are in Aries , govern and fend down their influence upon the terreftriall.Ram, and on Qieep ; and the celefliall Scorpion up- on theterreltriall one. And RcucUn faith, Hon efi tibi nlUplanta aut herba inferiUs, cut non eft fella in frmamento q;i4tnonpercntiat ean}'. There is not a herb or plant here ^'^-i'^'CibiS Se/owy which hat h not afar in the frmanicnt to beat on tt by his influence. To Conclude, you may difcern by this the Aftronomers and Philofophers intention , namely, to take the vilible bodies aftion for that an^elicall fpirit or vsrtue , which ruleth and vivifieth all things that are beneath, and breatheth forth influences out of the iiar- ry organs , and not the lUrry fphear , as the worlc^ly Ethnicks did imagine , Who went no deeper into the myiieries of God, and his nature , than their corporall eyes, and ocular experience did guide them. But they which have dived more pro- foundly into thefefecrets , have evidently difcerned a more hidden principle in thefe occult influences. Hereupon Hermes faith , Diiin aflrornm ideis c>*^fig*>is g^^ , eorum confpicieb.imtir •yd'numerattt funt fietU fectinditm eas, qui inhabitant illas^Deos: The fods were difcerned in the idea's of the fiars-, with their fgnes ; and the far s art numbe- red according umo rh 'fe gods which do inhab'tthem. Where, by the gods he meancth, the variery of angelicall emanations, whichptoceedfromoneunity ;' or he may take the Arch angels , which are thecondu£lors of thofe feverall emanations, for gods 5 at which the Apoftle doth righrly except> when he feith, DH quidem'funt qui, q^^^ 3^ '1 dicunnir in calo C? in ler^'a, nobis tam(n units Deus Pater ex quo omniit^ & unus Domi- tius JefusChrifiusper quern omnia. There aeftch creatures as are called gads^ in he a- ven'and in earthi but unto us there is but one God the b athcr^ from whom are all things ; and oneLord Jefus Chrift by wham are all things* As if he had faid , God the Father, or the radicall Unity? is the fountain from whence all things fpring; andhiscatho- lick emanation theirr\mediate ait) by which allvertues, actions, and vivifications , are diverfly eftefted, according unto his will which fent it out , both in heaven and earth:So that itis not the Angel,but.God in the Angel. Wherefore Picus Mirandn- lanu.'y-^dcceli'm non eft referendum ft quid a nobis fit,qnod noftras vires vldetur expede- ~. ' *' * rey fed potiitsvel ad angelosvel ad Deum, If there beany thiftgfromus that exceedethoitr ^ power ^ j^ells,'jr toGod.¥oT this reafon ihsrsioTQ Rabbi Mofes: Angeli non movent fpmper orbes cacleftes eodem modoy R-^bi Mof. ^»o ft ut non femper eodem modo fant, muiatibnes horum mfsriorj^m-^ max imam namquc vim atq; poteftatem angelica exercet conditio in ret corporeas-.quapropter intelle£lus agenSy a quo infliant frmie,nomi>iatur Angelus, & appellatur prafe^us univerfitati , tit dixe- rant Saplentes noflri, vocatnrque Mitattron , a quo quidem gubernantur omnes Virtutes fmculares qua pariter Angeli dicuytur, quorum efi mttltltudo quoad nos infinita , fed quoad Creatorem determinata & fnita. The Angels do nr:t alwalcs move the celeftiall cries after one m inner. And thereupon it comnteth to pafe, thai the mutations of ttife- riour thin fS are not made after one fajhon ; for the Angelicali condition hath a great force and power over corporal I things , and therefore the intelleUaall agent , from whtrh the forms ofthincrs do iffue or ftream forth, istearmtdthat Angel, -whifih Is the Prefident of all the world, .is our wife men havi teftified ; and it is called Mtthtron , of whom ail fingular vertuss are oovernedy the which are I kewife called Angels, of which kjnd there is an infinite multitude in regard of us, though unto theCreator they art limited and finite. And Rabbi Brefittsdozh feem to confirmthus much, in thefe words , Creator quott- dlecreat costum An^elorum, quos aliivocant Formas,q({od fntfftbfiantia formales^ qui- bus totafph doth d.iilj create a company of Angels, which other men do call Formes, becaufe they are formallfubflances ; of the which kinde, the whole fphear of generable and corruptible things arc replenlfhed without number.. Now by this IntelleBui agens, or Mitattren, forafmuch as it is the Prefident over
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the whole world, whichlfaidbvifore co be that AiiiKA naiKdi oi the P-atoHifis^ which did animaceevery particular thing, by lending out of an infinity of his tor- mall beams; we may perceive, that theremyliicall HcbraickTheofophers did un- P g derlland that very power , which the Apolile doth in the place before mentioned
* ' ' alTigne unto our Lord Jefus Chrift. Being that as they made this A/z-wrrcw the catholick Angell, or Pr^efe^umftntverjitcciythc ruler ot the world , pro(;peding by emanation from £«/»/)^ or Infinity ; fothe Apoltlefaich, that all forms, and what elfe, proceedeth from God the Father, and have their being from our Lord Jefus Chrilt.
To our purpofe therefore. As God ordained from his infinite fountain of Uni- ty, two principles of a clean contrary nature, namely. Light and Darknefle; fo the firlt-born of Darkneffe was Litii'tr.m, or the Prince of darknefle, ^hichwas termed Sathan, and his rule is in darknefle, and over all dark things, or privative proper- ties; and he hath his four-foid Angels or Demons ofa different nature, which have their dominions over the winds and elements , and are ready to.effeil th;ir Prince hisbehefls, in a bulinefle of darknefle, and therefore of difcord and privation, be it of the property of what winde thacbloweth , according unto that of the AfocA-
Apoc. 7. A'P-f, I ^aw four angels jtanding upofi the four angles of the earth , being prefdetn ever
th e fcur winds of the earthy unto whom it was granted to hftrt the earth and the feat , &c, NoweachofthefeAngells havemany.oivifions, and fubdivifions of legions under them, who do then act at their volunty, when they have dominion toblow and trouble the aire. All thefeSre animated by the influences which are fent down from the Olympick fpitits , as they likewife have their animation and times of do- minion appointed them, by the Emperiall Arch-angell : And rhefe are the imme- diate difpenfat6rs of the will of their eternall head and well-fpring. ' For this rea- fon therefore , as we ocularly behold that the Sun-beams do illuminate wholly what objeftfoever the fame looketh upon, being enlight^ed , by reafon of an in- finity of beams which are united in and upon it: So alfo all emanations which are carried down tinto the flats, do fill them with an infinity of beams , which are in- JJeed of fubdivided Angells , havijig the nature of all that whole emai^tion which did animate the ftars.And therefore all the Olympick fpirits of each flar are alike in property. The felf-fame reafon alfo there is, from the angelicall beams which iflue from each wind, and fill the whole aire, and water, and earth , with an innumerable number of hurtfuU fpirits, of their nature. And yet it is fure, that asGod made all things to exifl and be, (as Solomonisxih) he had a care to appoint over the winds
Sap. I. as many good Angells, with theirinferlburfpirits , which arifefrom their good
beams, to over- rule the malice of the bad fpir its, with their fubjeftr , which alfo have their abidings in the aire. And, that each of thefe hurting or harmful! angeli- callPrefidentsofthe wind share a mailer tocurb his malice, itappearethby the
Apoc. 7. confequence of the forefaid Text, Et vidi angelum afcendentem ab om* foils habetJtem
figKHtn Dei vivi, & clamavit voce maq^na-^uamor angells, ijuibusdatt*'/fi ejl ?iocereter- rx & mari, dicens, Noliie nocere terrA,& mari^neqne arbonbuSy &€,» And I faw ano- ther knael afcendf rem the eafi ^ havingthe feal of the living God^ andhe cryed with it great voice unto the four angels, in whofe f offer it was to hurt the ee.rth , and the (eas^ and the trees, &c. So that we fee here, that there is an Emperiall Angell, which is a fpirJLor Intelligence ofgoodnefleandptefervation, who hath power overthe An- gells of the world, as well bad as good, andconfequently is a Lord and commander over the harmfull Angels, not onely of that Eaflerly quarter , but alfo overall the other three; and that was /T//c /) Eaflis afcribed. And this great and foveraigne Angell by others is faid to be Mltat- rrew, of which we have fpoke before, whom others efleem to be the image of the etern.ll I Sapience, by which all things were made. Howloever, it was that empe- riall Angell, that had victory over the Dragoh and his Angells , and therefore hath rhem his vafl"alls. Sothat as Satan is the Prince of darknelTe, and an enemy unto light, and thereforeuntoChrifl and his creatures; fo this great Angell. in whom is J EHOVA's Name, (as the Scripture affirms) in which is life , and in whom is light without darkneflfe, is the Prince of light , and hath power over light, pofition, and life, and therefore an utter enemy unto darknefle, with the Prince thereof. And forth.it caufe, as Satan hath his armies fcattered in the aire, by the four winds ; fo alfo hath the emperiall and victorious Prince of light, his conducing Angells, dif- perfed over the face of the earth and waters , and in every pl.ice« over rhecacholick dement of the aire, to refift the violent andfubtleorin\ihbleaflV.ultsofthearmy
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or fpirits of darknefs; which good Ipirks alto are under che conduA of four good Captains, of the nature of the four winds; vvhich Captains are full of goodnefs, and grace. Therefore the MyliiciU Theologians and Cabalills do ^vtr:^ Ojtod m iae.xerchH Del quatuor [imt Antefignum, >.empe, Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, & Raphael: Lev Sicin e.xerc:tti pariter Satayi^i latijjima gerU'H jtgn.feri iiUoravel^ Samael, Az,ceel yM.Rdc.Ub. r Az.ae,', Mahaz,ael: i5 Mnahern Racaoatz^niitih. Whereof the firfl of each kind, do war in the Halt, the fecond in the North, the third in the Soiith , and the fourth in the Weft: For thefe four fpiricuall Captains of Satan, are thought to be the four harmfuls Angell, which are (aid to caufe the four winds to blow : and as for thcother four of God's Captains , that; they are alfo Prefidents of the four winds: we find it confirmed by Rabbi Tcdacus Levi in this fenfe: Deus qnatuor vencs cr ea- j j ,. .., vit quatHor Anaelos^ cjni praftRifiti^tfuper eos in dte & in koRc : Alxhael, qui eft ex it /o.* ^iner' fortec'enientiit & TniferationiscoaftitnitHr Mamona'i.Q. pr£fe[l:tsfuper venpim orient talem ujijue ad dimiditmi diet, & ufqtte adno^em , regtique vemum Occldemalem \ Ra- fhael, qiiifimiliter ejl di parte clememiA : Turn Gabriel in vtrtmejudicii, & feveritatis^ pnefeHius eft cum vento borealt , fnper dimidmm noUis, i£)- duas menfuras mnndl : No- rielvefo vel Uriel pruftdet Anftro : God created for the four winds four Anqels^ -which are Rulers or Pref dents overthem , in the day-time , andi»thentght: Michael, which is of the part of clemency and commiferat'n»,ts made the Lord andRuler over the Eafl windy untill midday , anduntill night : And Raphael, which is alfo of the part of mifericord, doth govern the fVefl : Then Gabriel in the power of jmdgmott andfcvsritj, is conftitu- tedLord over the North wind: And Nor ie! or Uriel, is maje Over feer of the South: So that we fee, that as well there ar^good beams or benigne fpirits, which by a fe- cret and hidden Emanation, do iiream forth from the fountain of the winds, namely thofe which are poured out by J EHOVA's^benigne Attributes, as are El by Jupiter : Eloach by the Sun: S^dai h^j Venus', &uAihzr\ Adichael, Raphael, Gabriel, &c. do by their Legions execute God's Will. And there are bad and corrupt or privative emilfion of ipirits, of a contrary fortitude from the winds, which have their Originall from Elohint, Elohim Gibbor, znd -ddonaia^ which make Saturn, Mars, ■uTiAihz Moon , their ftore-houfe ; neither would I have any one to wonder, that I fliould derive the multiplicity of the good and che bad proper- ties, which are effefted by the winds , from one Divine eflence , which imparteth his Willbythediverfity of his lively properties lincailje 4 Archangells; fince the Prophet faith, remfpintusa quatuor ventis, & infuffU i'terfe^os ]ftos utrevivifcant: E«k. 37. Come {OSpirit) from the four winds , and breathe on thefe Jlain pirfons , thattbey may live again. Here the Prophet acknowledgeth , that it is but one efTentiall vivify- ing Spirit that efFefteth all this, and confequently that the four oppofite properties in the four Angells, which are the Governors of the winds, are theinfluences or ef- fentiall beams, of one and the fame Spirit of life in elfence.
By reafon of thefe fpirits of a contrary fortitude in the aire, fometimes good and propitious events befall the crentures of this lower world , ramely when the good fpirits raigne, and wholfomc winds do blow, which happen, when the benign llarrs and Planets have dominion in heaven, and confequently their influencesbelow; and again, fomtimes bad and dyfaltr ms accidents, armed with privative and de- ftruiSfiveeffefts, befall the creatures of this Elementary region , by reafon of fe- vere emilfions of beams from the winds, which animatathofe evill fpirirs, that in infinite multitudes do hover, -though invifible, in the aire; who are rejoyced and revived at the blafts which iffue from the Rations of their cruell Princes , and are as it were fhmmons and all-arms to ftir andexcirethen unto wrath; andtoblow the coles of their fleeping malice. ■ All this we may gather 'from this fpeech , ex- tracted out of JofephCaftalieytlis : AterrauCaueadfirm^'.memHm, noned locus va- r r , ,. . cttsts , fed om>:e plenum frmis, ex iLlts pr.ra, ex t^is capaces gratix , ac m ferationum: ^„Z p^j^lj^^, & funt infefnis multic effigies fasdie, noxi't,tent,urices; & ofunes commorantes , & vo- ds. /antes i» a'ee. Etnon aterraufque incxlum locus vacuus , qtitntotttm fuat [pedes- ex lis adpacem , ^a: its adbillum; ex lis ad bonum, e.\- Us adr/t.ihfm; ex iis ad vitam, ex its ad mortem , & omke id in habitat wne inferiori in qua nosftfmns : From the earth . Ufito the firntament , there is not avoid place , but all is full of forms : Of the which fame are pure, ardfome are capat^le of grace and mercy : and there are be^.eath many foul, hurifxllj and tempting jhapes; andof all thefe do abide, andflieupanddown, in the aire. And from the earth unto the heaven., there is not one [pare place •,but all is- full of forms ; whereof f me are enelmed to peace, fome to war; fame of them dre given to (rood- Mejs; feme to naughtinefs ; and fame of them are A gents to life, and fome uKto death;
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aftda'i this cha'ttceth in the Ijiver hiihitation^ m the whiah we Are , Jic. Whereby he fionifierh, that the whole air is replenilTied as well with fpirits of darkneffe , as w^ith fpirits of light. And therefore there is a continuall conflid^ made here be- low, betwixt thelc fpirits of oppofic conditions : Whereof the one do attend up- on their Prince of darkneflc , being alwaies re,idy to accomplifh his behelts, and confequcntlyare very familiar untd the humid nature or matter of the world, which is the child of the dark Chao5, andfor'that caufe have naturally a great do- rninignand power over it, whichby reafonof its inclination unrodarknefs,iseafy to be tempted and allured from the Society of formal Light. And hereupon the^nate- riallwo-ld, theflelh, andtheDcvill, are joyned together ; asalfo Satan is ter- Ephef. 2. med by the ApolUVthe Prince of the aire, which is tjieoff-fpring of the waters, from whence the materiallfubft,uice;of the world was taken : The other do wait on the Prince of Light, their Mal?>er, who istheeternall Wifdom, which fpjingeth from the bright wordof eternuy. Andthefe two dignify the world with life, and do em.ploy their grearell care , to animate, vivify, and preferve it, withfuchfa- lurary beams, as they receive immediatly from the eternall Emanation or fiery Wo*rd, in whii.h is the effencc of life and being. By this means therefore, "name- ly from rhe oppofition of thefe two fpirits of a contrary fortitude, all the pafTions in the fpirir, and confequently of the Soul ,' yea and body (as well of the great world, and all the creatures therein, as of the little world) have their immediate be^inningi namely the good palTlons as are, joy, charity, hope, confidence, mi- fericord, humanity, in the little world , which are caufed by dilatation of the heart, and concord, appetite. Sympathy, defire, or concupifcence, delight, audaci- ty, iucundity, caufed by dilatation from the Center unto the circumference: and by eonfequence Antipathy in the great world. And again, the bad pafHons , in the little world's fpirir, as are fadnefs, hatred, defperatnefs, timidity, anger, fu-' ror, andbafhfulnefs, which arifa from the contrailion-of the heart ; and in the creat worlfl and his creatures, as are Hupidity or congelation, difcord, hatred, KafcibilityjfearjCTT. and in conclnfion Antipathy,whichcomes by contrafting from the circumference unto the Center. All which are certain palfions , either well affefting, and reviving the vital fpirits with comfort by dilatation of thofe fpirits with the beams of a kind of ;oy and delight, or elfechoakingor fuffocating them, with rhe gloomy fog of dajknefs, by con^rafting of thofe fpirits, with the mift of grief or privative fadnefs.
CHAP. y.
J^'hat AB ions in the Spirit or Sou! in gener All, do froduce Sympathy, Andmhat Antipa- thy : How Sympathy or Compfjfion proceedeth from a certain dilatatlo>i of fpirits in ttva or more particulars, er an emitting of their internalt beams of life or eJJ'ence , pof- tivcly and benifrnly ^ from the Center auto the Circumference , attempting thereby to Ma\e a concord or union y hetrveen two or more like or hemogenial natures; and contrarirvife Antipathy, bycontraUing the faid beams, from I he Circumference unto the Center, movcth afer a» oppofite m^vintr , namel' by div'.fion or difcord; that is, (juite cot- tr.tryunto the beams of the other which are emittd. '
IHavefignifiedunroYoufirft, in my precedent difcourfe, that two* p-operties were Archetvpically, or Ideally, andafter acomplicite manner comprehended in oneradicall Unity, orEffcnce , namely the one effected by its Nolunty, the oiherby i.ts VoUintj Lo here the root and originall foundation, or poinr, from ths which all Antipithy and Sympathy do fpririg, namely thefirft from the privative property or its Nolunty ; the fecond from its pofitive or Volunty. I told you re\r, r bar frotn this one roor,.or Unity in effence , a two-fold branch or member did fpring forth, exprelTing typically, and explicitly , theeffe6^sand conditions of tli.fe two contrary properties, ordifpofitions, which were contained compli- cirely in the Ideall root, namely darknefs, (which is the privative frifit of his Noliirity,) andlight, therruecharaderorbadgeofhis Volunty. Andthenlpro- vedunroy^u, that thefe two were the beginnings of all thing'^. Lo hi'^ethetwo Principle^; of Antipathy and Sympathy, excra£led cut of one root. Thirdly, I demofiil rated unto you , that by the feparation of the pure frornthe impure , from
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the dark Chaos, ( which a£t was efFeded by the fpagerick vertue of the bright ema- nation, or word of the eternall Unity ) the humid or watry nature of the world was created ; that_istofay,efrentially informed, by the lively prefenceof the faij all-informing Spirit ; fo that through that union of two contrary natures in one, namely, the informing eflence, or naturating nature ; and tiie informed fublhnce , orthenarurenaturaccd;thefpirit of the world was animated , and afterwards by the wifeft Phi loiophers termed the Anima mundi , which is that angelicall compo- fitionoftwojcalled therefore by the Sages/4/f led Identitat. Now the paflTive portion, of which altetity was made, is faid tobethe humid created nature, or naturated matter of the world, whofe aftive effence is the ever-living emanation from eternity , which ( as the Apollle teacheth us ) doth vivifie all things, and filleth all things, and is all in all. The union of thefe two maketh the caiholick foul of the world, called in refpedofthe limple, creatine , and vivifying emanation , Mens ; in regard onely of the fpirit informed, Sj>irit»s j and, as thefe two are united in one, Anima. Lo here the third degree of the fym- patheticall and antipatheticall progreflion, from the fimple root of eternity, namely, the created matterorfpirit in the foul of the world, being the child or ofF-fpring of darknerte, or the dark Chaos, which is therefore naturally prone unto the negative or privative effefts of darkneffe, and confequentlyapt in its own con- dition, to receive any difcordant and antipatheticall imprelfion , which the ange- licall fpirits of darkneffe Ihall imprint upon it. For as the facred light, which ani- mates the humid fpirit of the world , and confequently the whole mafle of the wa- ters, whereof the heaven and the earth was made, (as St. Peter doth juilifie) is the molt movable, agill, andaftive of all things; fo on the contrary party, the matter that is informed, and therefore the created body and fpirit, is molt degenerate from it , in that it is no way enclined of its own nature unto motion or life. For the Philofophers words are , AiateriA efl ferfe ad motnm ineffcax , & ah ipfa 'anima feu luce degenerans . Wherefore of its felfe it endueth its mother CA condition, and is enclined to reft, immobility, darkneffe, cold, fpiffitude, and con- gelation: For this caufe therefore it fuffereth the imprelTions and characters of both oppofitions , to wit, fometimes it enclineth unto darkneffe , and then it groweth fpirte, opakjColdj immobil, thick, and ponderous, and tendeth in that his property downwards to the cold center , or the feat of darkneffe, which is its mother ; and then it is in rebellion and nppohtion with light, motion, and heat, and fo it is an- tipatheticall unto the aiitions of light and life; as we fee the airy fpirit of the world, which is clear , light, diaphan, thin, movable, and foaring upward , by the 'operating power of the defcending light , becommeth by the Northern cold con- gealed, opak, fpifle, and immobil , or fixed into fnow, hail , ice, froit , and fuch' ■Rke. So that by this antipatheticall acceffionofthe cold characters of the dark abyffe,it is difcordant from the loving union, and fymphoniacall acceffe, which ic had unto the region of light. Contrariwifc, the bright form of the foul, which is the effence of chat eternall emanation , doth give the matter or fpirit of the foul' s life, aition, motion, heat, tenuity, and diaphanity, and that more or leffe , accor- ding as it hath power and dominion over it. And we muft note, that the more the fpirit approacheth unto the nature of light , the firmer are the bonds of its fympa- theticall accords. Forasfympathy dochconfift of thingsofa like nature, fo the nearer the fpirit approacheth unto form, the greater is the fympathy and accord, thefurerthetie , and the more virtuous theeffeit; for the more that the created fpirit is illuminated, the leffe it remembers that natural! inclination and love, that ic had unco its dark originall ; infomuch that by fuch an extream purified exaltati- on it becommeth as it were deified : And therefore Plato*^ opinion is, that if the middle fpirit, which is between the mentall beam , and the dark bodily fubitance , doth more adhere unto the divine or menrall beam, than the dark body , then it will become a good Demon or Angel ; but if it refpeft the body more than thedi- vine beam, it will defcend unto the nature of a Cacodemon , or fpirit of darkneffe. Alfo by Scripture we are taught, that by adhering unto this divine light, namely, unto Chrilt , we fhall be transformed into the fame image , to wit, if we forfake this dark world, and the lufts of the obfcure body or flefh. But to return unto the foulof the great world. If the airy fpirit be given over unto the power of dark- neffe, it becommeth bodily, and tumes into the fame image, namely, froftjfnow, hail, &c. butifthehot effect, or the formall aft of light, prevail a degree over the • ftupid cold of darkneffe, it leaveth his opake quality, and becommeth diaphan , and
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returneth from an earthly, fixt, andobfcure nature , unco a clear, tranfparent, and fluxibl&fubltance ;and by another degree ot'the divine act , it is made more fubtle, more dilated* more invilible and pure, and it is called Aire; by a third it is purified unto fire ; by a fourth unto xther, when it lofeth all the appetite of mutation, and forgetteth the privative itock from whence it came: by a fifth it becommech angeli- call or emperiall ; and fo it is exalted more and more indignity , according as it is more and more obedient unto the aftionsof theeternall andcatholick influence of form, which fliineth forth from the fountain of infinity. For we mult under- ftand, that the whole inclination of the eternall em.anation , is to reduce this child of darknelTe unto eternall light, unity, andlife; as confrariwife,the endea- vours of the potentiall darknefle, which is the ffampof Gods Nolumy^ or privative ^ — nature, are clean contrary. Sothat all the end of the creating light's aftion, isto
unite all by the fymphoniacall bandof love and unity , andconfequently of fym- pathy, namely, by making the catholick child of darknefle like it fell, and therefore to make two to compaflionateeach other. But contrariwife, that of darknefle is evermore enclined to make duality of unity , and to breed difcord, by violating the bands of concord, andfoto procreateanewantipathyandhatred, therebyiode- llroy the fruits of love. Sothat the fpirit which light hath redeemed out of the dark Chaos, is the intermediate fubjetft betwixt both rheextreams , that is to fay, be- tween light anddarknefs : and therefore is the paffivefubjed ordained by the Cre- ator, toendure the imprefllons of each oppolite extream, whereupon it becom- ineth fometiraes the fubjeib of fympathy, namely, when it is obedient unto union
» and light; and fometimes of antipathy, to wit, when it rebelleth againfl that light.
Thus do we fee the true fubjeft of all pafsion in the foul of the world , and this was the onely reafon , why the Philofopher//*r/«c//>«/ avowed with fuch confi- dence. That all things were compofedof ftrife and friendfliip; and Emptdocles, That the foul ?vas made of amity and enmity. I will now therefore exprefle unto you. chat concordant order,which that eternall love, who (hincd out from the Father of light and love, hath put and placed in each region of this world, todiflinguilli the two different natures from one another, by placing between them an intermediate
' fubjeft , whichdoth agree with each extresm. Andfirit I will fpeak of the orders
in the univerfall fpirit of the world, and lalily, of every particular vivified, and inat^ed fpirit, as well in the intelleiluall or emperiall , as virall or itheriall , and naturall or elementary heaver, and that in order.
We muft place the two oppolite principlesin this world, in the two extreams of the feraidiameter thereof; andfirlljweimaginethefeat of theGodoflight, or of the divine a • Angells, or Emperiall Heaven, (I fpeak unto the vulgars underflanding) that is in the circumference of the vawted world; and then we deem the throne of darknefle, or the divine puifsance, to be in the center thereof, as the furtheft place from its oppofire in ri.iture, whit h is light. Here you may fee the two principles of con- cord and difcord,of love and hatred,andcon(equently of fymp.uhy and antip.ithy, of the effefts whereof all the Scripture and each member of Philofophy,is full. The catholick mnter which was originally extrailed our of darknefs , namely, the wa- ters, which was made the marciiall fubilance , (ofwhiih the heavens and the earth were framed by the divine word, doth occupy all that fpnce which the world containerh ) was by thecelelliall Alchimy , orfpagerickYe;tu2 of the divine illu- minating emanation , divided according unto the contrary anddiuot-danr natures of the faid two principles, into the upper waters, and the low jr waters .- whereof t he firft or higher waters were good 1 and obedient unto the bright Divinity, and were converted into a fiery nature, being thereupon rearmed rhe Emperiall narure, for their obedience unto the bright emanation,& werefullofinrellectuallfire,and angelicall light. And therefore this portion of the waters was ordained for the feat ofthe good Angells. The lower waters contrariwife, as being fecall,grofs, im- pure,and thereforemore rebellious untolight, and obedient by participation unto darknefle, were placed next unto their dark beginning, namely, the enrrh , and did poflels all that fpace between the ftarry heaven and the earth , \vhii.h is called Ele- mentary, and for this caufeisfubjecttoall changes of generation and corruption : And (his was ordained to be the feat of Satan and his angels , which is for that
Fphcf.s. caufe called the Prince of this world, the Prince of the airc;anJhl^ prime fubjecls
Ephcf.6. 2-ecalled Principalities, Potentates, and Governours of th's world. Lohere the two extreamsin thecreaced nature! from the uppet whereof , a generall fympathy
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and love/or aSymphonucall confenc of things, is made and effeAed in this world: by the other, namely the lower, an univerfall Antipathecicall jar, is by turnj effected, and intruded into the Symphoniacall accord of things in the lower world, namely when the feverc Attributes ot God, do rain down into the ftarry world, influences of a contrary nature, which afrerward by their emifsions un* xo the lower world, give liberty and power unto the bad Angells , to work their delirudliveand Antipatheticalleffeds, on certain creatures thereof.
As for example, thcattribute ELOHIM, dofh fend down into the liarre, ot Planet of Saturn , the fruits of his chill and frozen effects , whereby the fpirics of that Sphere are corroborated; the which again do pour down their Boreall or Northern nature , unto the fpirks which are their Subiiitutes in the Elementary world, to wit, thofe whichbave power to harm by the Northern winds. Here- upon ^rchttn^e.HJ Calfalifta: Hocnomen EL ^ quod nos Deum hahentMs interpret A' am intd tMtomniafovet y & emnibftsfHccurriti fummafittate, &clemeKita,idquotiefi illlfro'Dotm. priMTKy & idea tilt gratia atnihiiitHT ; jitferipfuntKomenELOHlMveniuntfcver* fuwtiotiet & ftra^es , & Angeli ei inferv'tentes dlcuntur BEN-ELOHIM u Q» JiliiELOHIM: ^ELOHlMer^oterroremfigHificaty ^ fAVoremx Hihc locus Aqui- iinaris ei ajfirnatttr , a que froceditomne malum: This name or MtrihuteEL, which is ^ mterprttattonGddf doth fufier or nourijh all thi»gi , And ajft^eth every creature ty his piety and clemency, rphich is Appropriated unto him : But iy the name or Attribute ELOHJM, come fevtre punijhments and Straiagems^and the An qells vhich are his 4//- nlfiers to ejfea his mil are called BEN-ELOWM, that is to fay ^the fons ofELOHIM'. ' ELOHIM therefore ft gnifieth terror and fear : And for this caufe the Northern ijuar- . terof thewor'd, from whence Cometh all evill, ts afftgned unto this property , drc. By this therefore we may difcern, how the fpirits, which are difpenfatours as well of falutary as malevolent and dclirudlive influences, are in the mafs of thj lower Elementary waters : whereby man and the other creatures of God , may be either prefcrved ordeftroyed. Toconclude, thar middle fpirit in the worla, calledthc rirmament , which divideth both the extreamly-aiffenng waters from one another, and is that intermediate fpirit of the world , whichdoa equally partic^pjte, and behold each extreme, is theCentrallmanlionof that tcernall Sciric, wbichemit- teth his beams from his fiaiely Solir, or funny palace,even uni o:ni Center of dark- nefs, and extendeth his emanation even unto the feat of Lis,ht whichi> his root: for his bright nefs is emitted from the attribute EL O A H, by thebcautifuUor glorious port, orgateTIPHERETH: which importeth, grace, benmy, and pul- chritude, by the Angelicall order of the Virtues, mrothat purified palla'^e of the Sun ; So that by hisemanatingprefence, he penetrateth every where, and fiU- cth all things by his prefence, and vivifieth all things by his Virtue, and is the Fa- ther of life, vegetation, multiplication , and preiervation, and hith made his feat in the Center of the heavens , that*by one moll pcrfeft Confon.int, name- ly arptrituaUDir.p.ifon, he might illuminate the Angels nbove, and the ftars round aoout him, and that by a more marerial Diapafonjhe might penetrate inro the Cen- ter of the elementary world, to communicate his perfedJlion toeach creature there- of, thactheymight be beautified by his bright prefence, and vivified by the pene- trating beams of hiseflence , and confequently that the imps or fpiiits of dark- nefs maybe debilitated by the appearance of his Glory ; as if one chord were ex- tended betwixt the Fountain of Light and the abyfleof darknefs , which being flruck, made an nnifon, but being prefied down .md divided dired^ly in the middle • of it, each part will render, being (truck, a double diipafon, unto that unifon, importing a double perfection, proceeding from the bright catholick Emanation* whereof the one refpet^eththe adorning of the lower waters, with life and virtue, ., and the other makerh an accord of friendlhip among the higher. Now as the bo- dy of the Sun, and fubftance of the iEther is of a middle or mean fpiriruall mat- ter, or confiftence of the waters, it is evident , that it alfo is fubjed to be altered by paflion, as well Antipatheticall, as Sympathetica!! : For clfe it would nor be the immediate receptacle of thofe oppofit and contrary Eman.itions, which de- fcend from thediffering Attributes : Butbyefteft we find the contrary : Forfome ftarrs are friends, and Sympathife in nature, with fome creatures below : Some • 9gain, do hate one another deadly, and confequently fend down into this lower world, contrary influences, which move contrary pafiions or imprefnons , in the vitall fpirits, or fouls of certain Elementary creatures. Again , we find that the life of the A;iitnal, doth confift of oppofit adions,namely of Syiloleand Diaftole;
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that is, of contraiSlion by the property of matter, and dUatation by the Ad of the formall Light ; So that the nature of matter, is to draw by contraftion from the Circumference unto the Center : but the condition of the tormall elfence is quite contrary unto it : For it doth dilate or emit his beams from the Center to the Cir- cumference. AlfothePhilofophersteftify , thatinfleep and rell the fpirits arc contrailed from the Circumference to the Center, after the manner of the dark ■ Chaos, or cold North wind, which bringeth by that contraction, the agill and vo- latil fpirit or aire of the lower world to relt, and fixation by condenfation ; But contrariwife, in wachfulnefs , or waking, they conclude, that there is an emiision or emanation of fpirits from the Center unto the Circumferentce, which is an Argument of two contrary effefts, of the firmaments vivifying operation , in the fouls or fpirits of the creatures below, and yet by reafon nf rtie equality of each aftionand pafsion, they have a compound-difpofition 5 according and agreeing in the naturall operation of life, which defcendeth from above. Thus therefore you fee, that even from the Harry heaven there defcendeth Sympathy and Anti- pathy.
As for the Elementary world, it aboundeth manifellly with the effefts of thefe two contrarieties, and therefore lelt there fhould follow any continuall unnatu- rall perturbation, whichmay deprave this great formall workman of his expecta- tion, which was to put concord and peace in the machine which he had ordered and framed ; he divided each region in this lower world, that there might be in- terpofed an indifferent friend between two extream enemies , which he effefted ' by weight, number, andmeafure ; Sothatunto the weightielf portion of the lo* wet waters is imparted the leaft proportion of form, that by its grofsneffe and, weight it might fall unto the Center, and remain fixt in it, and it was called earthy*' then, unto another portion hebelloweda double meafure of Light, to make it rc" fide in a higher region ; andthereby the matter which was .next the earth, became more thin, light, and movable. And therefore this augmentation of Light, mel- ted the frozen waters a little, and did make them fluxible and tranfparent : So that he partly by reafon of the continuity of his matter, with that of the earth, and partly becauf? of its cold nature, it is a temperate friend of the earth, andtaketh his place next unto him; Sothat itis not focoldas theearth, norfo nioift as the aire: For it is not enough fubtiliated, till the bright Agent of the world beftoweth onthedarkwarery abyffe, abovethewater, three portions of his Light ; So that ic converted part of thegrofs lower waters , inro a thinner and more light fliape, than was the watery Element ; and it was the aire which by reafon of the triple pro- portion of formall light was hotter, and more dilated, then was the water; where- fore as the water was cold, (but not fo cold as the earth,) and moill , (but noc Co moift as the aire;) So the aire is hot, but not fo hot as the fire; and moilfer then rhewater. By reafon therefore of his mdirtore, this portion of the catholick Ele- ment is friendly to the water on the one fide , and on the other fide unto the fire, becaufe of his neat. La(Uy, that in-created Spirit of life did yet multiply a part of thofewaters, by another or higher degree, of fubtility and purity; So that it be- came the moll fubtil and higheif portion of the generall Elements , and is confe- quently hot and dry; wherefore by reafon of its drouth? it agreethontheonefide with the earth,which in circulation is next unto him, and on the other fide with the aire, in refpe(5l of his heat ; but ic is hotter then the aire, and not fo dry as the earth. Lo here you fee the etfe£lof that Sympathy, which the Peace and Loveof God, did put among the difcordant enemies of this world : For thereby the wa- ter, asafricnd to both the aire and earth, becometh a ftickler, and mediator of . peace between them. The aire, as a friend unto the two enemies fire and water, is made an indifferent judge betwixt them both: So that the one contrary is kept from ftrugling and tugging with the other, by the fuper-celefiiall and golden tic of Hi.b. I.- peare. Thus you fee, that this Spirituall Chriil doth (as the Apolile faith) Ixar
Andfttfiain all things by the rcori of his I'^lrtue. And as Hermes faid , the humtd » „• J J ture by the ajfiflarce oj the world, is ordered And difoofed harmonioufly into Elemems; So that by this Virtue , all Sympatheticall a6lion was effedled in the Sublunary Sap. 19. world, of which the Wifemanfpeaketh thus : In j'e Ehmer,ta dum cnnvertcbi'.mftr^ ftcftt in orfatw cjiiahta. is fon:ts inimtttittur, this harmonicall ranck and Symphoniacall proportion is violated, then the enemies come together and rage agai nil one another , unto the difluib.inre of :he whole Sublunary fabrick: For aire and earth do Ilruggle ag unR one another ; as alfo the
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water doth cruelly invade the limits of the fire, and all wilibe out of order , and in a detlrui'tive war with one another > were it not tor the prefcnce of this Lordof^ niilrule. ThuSjas you lee, will Dyfcracy and Antipathy re gne by their turnes, in theneather regionof the world, when the tye of the elements areloofe. Thus will friendfhip be quickly changed into hatred, when JEHOVA is pleafcd to fend forth his altering winds, and to corioborate and animaie by his influence from above, the miniiters of his wrath here below, againlt the fublunary creature.
Now cornel to prove, that all fympathetkall and ant pathcticall effects, do proceed from the fecret and occult actions of the minillrino ipirirsof this woild« That there is a mighty ditterence amonglt the Angels, no man of wildom can deny} for though all Angels were at the tirlt united unto the divine Unity, yet by reafon of the rebellion and ambition of Ly.afery that knot of union was broke ; and then the waters were divided from the waters , that^thegood Angels might be fepirated and diilinguillied from thebad , by the interpofuion of the firmament , as a Dia- phragms or middle ba-, between eathofth-ir habitations; So that the dark Angels wereenclofed in the lower , or dark, fecall, and dreggy wafers ;• and the light An- gels were lodged in the higher waters , which were illuminated and dignified by 2 fuper-celeltiall light and glory.
Thus youmay tee, that the very Angells of heaven , forafmuch as theyare crea- ted of aire, or tne humid fpidt of the world, ( which is their extemall ) andthe bright emanation from Unity, (which is their inrernall) are fubjeit , by reafon of their materiall fub.tance, which participates of both extream?, unto aftedtion^ or pallions, as welirympuheticall asantipachiticall ; and confequ^ntly they are abla by reafon of theii contrary properties, to produce both fympatheticall and anti- "^acheticall accidents, in the fpirits of the elementary creatures: As for examples fake, we will compare the catholick fynpathy and antipathy , whichis in thefjul of the great world , unto that peculiar foul or fpiric which is in man , being that every particular was framed out of theuniverfall. We ought therefore to under- liand , that the wholeedenceof th^ foulor Ipirit ofnian , though it be invi.ible, extendeth and manifefteth it felfby hit vertues and faculties ; for by her irafcibi- lity itcontemnethandhaterh, andby her concupifcibilicy icdothccvet and deiire, andbyher rationability ("he diilinguiiliech and difcernerh bervveen them both. Andverily,thewholeeffec1 ofthefoalselTence conlilteth in thefe three powers,, whereof thefirlHs compared to the action of the lower waters, whichis apt to' jaranddifag-ee, and i-; the egion of ^ f.V «w, o: the Prince of darknefs. The fe- cond is referred unro rhe narure of the firmament , which is the -egion of life and falutary love; and the lail unto the angjlicall and inrellectuall heaven , whiwhdo:h difcern b:tvveep things that belong unco the lower heavens, or regions of the world. Whereupon it app-areth, that f.om her rationall p-operty, every fenfe be- longing unto the foul of man doth p-o:eed;ai, from the other tvvo,every affection, motion, or p.iflion of the minde, dorh arife and fpring. Now there are known to be four affections of rhe loul, whereof two do proceed from her con upu'cible power, nam:ly, Joy and Hope, . fo'ar thit which we love, we rejoyceand areglad ; or, we hope for and expect, that which (iiall rejoyceus or make U5 glad) and the two other ilTue from her irafcible facultyorvertu;, namely. Grief or Dolour,and Fear; for now wegrieve at that which wehate, o: wefearrhat which would make us grieve, ^r be dol^roufly affected. And veily, we lliall, after a due inqui.ition , hnc^ that thefe four affe£tions of the Microcofmicall foul, are noton-ly the be- '•
ginnings, and common matter or fubjeit of all morall vices or vertues, but alfo " '
theoriginills of Meraphyficall or occult, and Phy'icall orelementarv , and appa- rent fympathy and antipuhy , as well in the little as in the g'eat world, and every creature thereof. For I would not have you ignorant, that b;ing the foul in man is derived from the vivifying emanation, dwelling in rhe words fpii-iruall vehicle , it muft follow, that that foul in the g'cat world mult needs have in it the faLultic, which the little world? foul hath; for, Oifodfacittalf,ejf m.i(T,stale. But thefe facul- ties in rhe fonl of man were derived from the g-eat world,and the eternal foul that vivified it. Wherefore it followeth, that there is a rationability, a concupifcibility, andan irafcibilityin the foul of the great world, chough not made manifet unto US : Firfl, becaufethat it hath attributes ofirafcibiliry and difpleafure ; for from his Attribute FJ^OMfM Gihboy , he fenderh down by theport Ge^irah, the fiery b^ams of his difpleafure , bv his Archangell Sam W , inro the globe or fphear of MArs,\yho is for that cai\fe Prefident o*-" 'he irafcible faculty of the greate- woMd ;
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wherefore his Influences do caufe wrath and angry effe£ts in the aire and earth , as thunder, lightnings , comets, and other wranglingaccidents, which (as Scriptures tell us ) are the arguments of Gods wrath and vengeance ; alfo war , famine, and pertilence; and augmenteth the angry nature andfpiric of men and beatts. And again , Gods Attribute JEHOyA Sabaotb poureth down the beams of concupifci- bility, by theArch-angell-^« phers and Aftronomersjwhofor that reafon, being moved thereto by experience and obfervation , havemadethisllar theprefidentandredfrixof the concupifcible faculty : As the Attribute EL doth pour out the beams of reafon, juftice, and re- ligion, yea, and naturali vegetation and life, into the fphear of Jupiter. But princi- pally this naturali faculty is rained into the foul of the world, by the Attribute jAH, through his port 5/i/»Vww or Wifdom. The fecond reafon is, becaufe the great world hath an intelleftuall or r|itionall heaven, and a concupifcible property manifelkd in eveay creature; and an irafcible,which is apparent alfo by reafon of ha- tred and horrourAvhich appeareth between one thing and another. Alfo,that there is an irafcible quality in the elements , that deadly hatred which is betwixt the fire and water, and the aire and earth, doth manifeft. That alfo there is a love and con- cupifcence between things, it is evident, becaufe one nature rejoyceth in his like; and therefore by a naturali inclination , every thing doth move and convert it felf unto his like, by all poiribility; butefpecially it is molf inclinable unto it felf. So we fee, that fire doth naturally affeiiiandmove unto fire, water unto water, and earth unto earth. But above all, the vivifying fpiric of every living thing, which is celelliall , and therefore exceedeth the place of the elements , doth with fervency^ affeft and thirit sfterhis like, and is rejoycedat the prefence and concurrency thereof. And for this caufe, this pdfsion of what creature foever, will be the more truly fympatheticall ; and the fycipathy between things will be fo much the grea- ter, and of more force, by how much the nearer the fpirits of the things, either pre- sent or difperfed , are in nature and confanguiniry to one another. As for exam- ple, If that both be of oneminier or thing, in number ; alfo like fpecifick individu- alls, though they differ in number, as the /^«.»m, fat , or blood of one man do fympathife with another , addiftans ; the Load-Iione of one Mine may afFeA har- monically the Iron of another, thereof , as well radicall as immediate , namely, becaufe both the natures belong unto one divine influence, or proceed from angelicall beams or an emanation, fenc forth from one and the fameftar, as well fixed , namely, of the firmament , or eighth fphear, as erratick and planetary. For I told you, that there is not one ani- mal, or vegetable, or mineral upon the earth, or in the feas, which hath not a pecu- liar ikr, that poureth out upon him his proper influence , as well to produce and generate its like, and to continue it in fuccelfion, as to preferve and maintain it in cflence. Now each angelicall nature hath his appropriated beams, from the radicall emanation of fome divine Attribute, which conveyeth it tohis deRinated or ftar- ry ftcre-houfe ; and from the Olympick fpirits of that liar, it is fent down unto fuch fpirits in the elements , as are their inferiour minifters , which operate accor- ding unto the felf-fame nature in each fpecifick, and every individuall there. As for example , The Hars in the R(tr» or Aries of the iodiark, have chiefell influ- ence over fuch like cattle on the earch;and the Scorpion over the like creeping things thereof; the Crab^ over fuch like creatures of the fea ; for we finde by experience , that if the Crab be taken when the Sun and Moondojoyne together, according unto the Longitude or degree of t he j£quinoftiall , in which the great flar of the celelViall Crab's claw is found , it is of mighty vertue and power againft poyfon ; and if it be colle(5ted or taken at .tnochertime, it wijl have but fmall eife£^. Again, we muli note, than each fixt flar, or conllellation of the Zodiack , hath his proper Planet, whofe peculiar Houfe he is , which concurreth in the fortification and al- teration of that influence. For the divcrfity of application of other Planets unto . it, doth caufe a variety of operation, even in the fame animals fperni , orplants feed, and mettlesfecretfpirit. And yet howfoevcr, they do more or lefs agree and fyvpathize in nature, as the beams of each Planet, fo applying unro one ano- ther, will give them leave; for if the concurrence be bet ween friendly Planets, and of one and thefam.etriplicity , namely, where their Houfes are of friendly ele- ments, then the fympathy will be thedronger. And thus much A^rippadoihfecm ^fif' ff'*' to intimate in thefe words , Inrebus proprietates ocotltas non fibelementali nMura, Tbilof. I • • j}^ ctclitiis iafnas^fenfbHsnofirisoccHhas^ rationivix demquennfis y qua qu'tdent a - t - ' ' V.tA
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vita ffirituque mundi, per ipfosftelUrum radios profcifcitntur , qt/d a noh:s tion aliter qHamtxpericmia, (S co»]dtnris indagAri pojfum. Scire ergo debes quod UHAtjttieque res movet ad fuum [imile & incunat adfeipfhrM fecn>idftm tott^m poJfefruirMt The occult properties in things, which are not grafted ifi them bjf an Elementary nature , but defcend from heaven, are hidden from our f.nfes, and fcurce/ji known unto our reafon : Foraf- much as they are derived frem the lifeandfpirnof the world, hy the beams ofthejfarrsy the which cannot be otherwife fanned and fonnd out by us, than by experience, and that conjeiluralljf or by ghefe. Ton mujt therefore know, that every thing doth move unto his likj, and bj all the means pofj.He doth incline unto it felf , &c. Whereby he argucth that the cacholick AngelkaSl fpirir, which vivifieth the world , in whofe Diviner