part conlUkth the Scphiroticall power or Virtue of all the Divine Attributes, in

which alio (as Ex.skjel teftifieth, ) is contained the virtues of the four wind, is the main aftor, who by his feverall fubdivided emifsions, of diverfly condi- tioned beams, doth operate in and by his (tarry Organs, all thefe occult and hidden effects below , which cannot fall into the Sphere or capacity of a common man's underltanding, though by effect we find it to be thus and thus ; So that there is not a particular beam, that is emitted from it, which hath not a fecret difpofed aft, no otherwire varying from orte another than, by ocular experience, we find the effefts of them to differ : For whatfoever was originally decreed in the fecret Counfell of the Archetype, is effected from agencrality unto many Specialities , and from each Speciality unto an infinit number of individuall particularities ; So that the SEviall or Angeiicall effect, is the image of the eternall Idea, and the temporall world , is the fimilitude of the a:viall ; and again , in the temporall or typicall world, every ftellarlliape is thelikenefle or paterne of the Angelicall fdea; and again, the Elementary things are the fliadows of the fpirituall fhapes or Images in heaven: Wherefore as God fendeth our his Emanation, which is his Image, un- to the Angelicall world , in a diverfity of faftiions , and multiplicity of refpeits; Sothe Angelicall fpirits do fend out their feverall different Lights unto each o- ther, namely every order unto his inferior , and every upper Sphere unto the Spheres which are below them, and fo from the ftarrs, which alfo apply their lights unto one another by feverall afpefts, infufingthemin and upon the creatures by degrees dowDward,evenunto the very Center of the earth: which creatures after the manner of their pattern doalfofhine forth unto one another by beams, which are either Sy mpit hetical and harmonious or Antipathetical and difcordant to eacho- ther;neither ought we to doubt, that there arefuch agreeing and difagreeing beams here below, feeingthatin the fountain of Unity from whence all things do flow, we obferve an oppofition of properties , namely a privative Nolunty , and a pou- tiveVolunty; Nor yet ought we to deem otherwife, then that the palTive fpiri- tuall nutter of the world's foul, is the fublljeft by which the Divine Virtue worketh, and in which it ftirrethiipas well loving andpofitive, orgoodandSym- patheticall paffions, by pounng out plentifully his pofitive and vivifying.beams of life, adding delight and jcyes with a completion of the fpiriruall created matter's appetite; So that it forgetteth the rooted nature which its dark Parents or Mother Chaos, and the Divine Puiflance did in her nativity beflow upon it, and is con- vetted into a child of Light, by adoption; and therefore in this cafe, it doth Sym- pathize with thofe golden fhowers of charitable and vivifying Light, which are fent down from the benigne attributes of God, and begins to bate, and dread, and lotheor efchew, all fuch privative influences, as are poured down from the fevere, .infaluta'ry and dertruftive attributes ; no otherwife then Light flieth from dark- ipefs, and being delighted at the prefenceof more lighr, and life, avoideth and hateth the prefence of his contrary, namely of death, and evill. Hence therefore it eometh, that the children of Lighr, which are grafted unto this catholick illumi- patcd fpirit, do flie, as from a peitilence the children of darknefle and their works, Andthereafonis , becaufe this humid" created fpirit, finding now the pleafure, ■ yoliinty, and felicity of its illuminaredeftare, isaffraidleafl the privative beams of darknefs, or the difmall Emanations of God's wrath, fhould dimm their light, and obfcurethebrightnefs of life ; that is to fay , left they ihouldturn their Sym- pathizing pafsions of joy and gladnefs, into the Antipathizing ftorms of fadnefs and mourning, by fucking or contracting thebeaute«usEmanjtionsof joy.love, andgladnefs, fromtheCircumferenceinrothe Center of the Spirit, and fo de- prive it of that falutary and rpri?,hrfuU irradiation of love and life, by hiding of God's face, which he did emit from the Center to the Circumference of the crea- ture.
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tare, to recreate and rejoyce it. According unto that of Mofes : God forfakes the Deut.31.17. w-ckcdand h'Jeth hii fAce'fr^m them, thutmiict) cvium.iji bffaUthtns; Oruncothac Plal.'io4« ' of David: Oodi^iding hit fiice from the wicked thi) are'troub ed^ receiving i heir Jf i- rit they expire: That is, vexation and privative pafsions befall them : which rr:ny alfobeunderftoodof thecatholickMicrocofmicall wordl's fpirit , as of the Mi- crocofmicall and other creatures, ail whii.h have their beeing froTi the Macrocof- micall Spirit : For when the Divine nature, which animareth the Sun of hea- ven, was difpleafed at the Pafsion of our Saviour, it did Ccntrnlly withdraw his beam s from it, andic lolt its beauty, and became dark, againl^ the common courfe of nature ; So that the pleafanr. Sympathy which it produced by its pre- fcnce unto the creatures beneath, and in the heavens above , was quite changed into Antipathy for a while. This therefore was a privative pafsion in the heart of the "rear world, or as a man may fay, a Syncope or fwooning of the world, when ELOAH did abihin for that feafon, to pour forth his influence of beaury by the portof TIPHERETH: Alfo that palpable darknefs which happened in hajp:,\\^s aprivative pafsion, caufcd by the hiding away of God's face, or by the contradting the beams of light within himfelf. Such privative pavsions alfo are menaced unto the Sun, Moon , and Starrs , towards the latter end of the world : For if the world was made by the fending forth of Goa's bright Emanation ( for by the Spirit of the Lord the heavens were adorned , as Job telleth us) it foUoweth, that by ta- king it away, all will return again unto darknefs, and plain nothing or deformity, even as it was before. But this producing of good and Sympatheticall palfions, by emitting of light from the Center to the Circumference;and .->gain,the effects of Antipatheticall pafsions, which do oppofe the concord and Sympathy of life, is excellently defcribed and painted forth, by the due examination of the vital action in man: For as there are noted to be in general I , two feverall 3£tive Virtues m man's fpirir ; whereof theoneis voluntary, vvhiih is the Prince over the oth^r, and comniandeth and moveth the inferior aii^ions, even as the Divine Angell Mita:- tron doth in the Vrxmian ntobili of the great world , which is referred unto the Vo- luntv, and moveihby it the celeltiall otbs, and Elementary world ; fo in the Mi- crocbimicall Fabricki the firlt mover is that Divine mentallbeam which is the head of man's foul; and the other kind is involuntary , becaufe it is comm:.nded and ruleth after the will of theintelleftuallor rationall beam, no otherwife then all the lower Orbs are conttraincd to move, after the will of the mover in the Pnmum mobile. So the vitall action in man , is one of thofe branches, which is involunta- ry, and nootherwifefubjedt untothe Volunty of the mental beam, then the ftar- ry heaven; (which is thefeat of life, forafmuch as the Sun which is the heart of the world, hath his refidence there ) is commanded by the EniperyallSpirit.
Now as we find, that according unto the will of the Divine eflence poured one into the heavens, and confeqiiently here below, as well joyfuU and compafsionate cffefts dofpringfrom the pofitive and dilative property of Unity, to recreate and Jtir up volupty and pleafure in the creature ; as alfo trift and fad effluxions, pro- ceeding from the contraLtive Virtue , whereby God hideth the face of his benig- nity from the creatures, and thereupon as well concupifcible as odible or irafci- ble pafsions a'-e caufed in the world : Even fo we hnd it manifelkd, as well by ex- perience, asbytheobfervationof thelearnedeltinPhyfickand Philofophy ; that the vitall action, which is over-ruled according unto themind of the fup;iior Vo- luntv, either is opened orenlarged by the dilative property of the firlt movers w'll, and thereby openeth the cabinet of the hearr, to produce in the vitall fpirit thofe good pafsions, which Sympathize with life andlight , namely gladnefs , hope, confidence, love, miferecord, and afFibility ; or it is cont rafted, and thereby ga- thererh together alio the fpirirs in the heart,whereby is engendred in the vitall fpirit fuch bad privative pafsions, as doantipathife with thofe good ones, which rejoyce and comfort the life, and thefe pafsions arc termed Antipatheticall , becaufe they are wholly contra'y unto the nature of thofe which are good ; of which number, proceeding from the hearts contraction ,■ are fadnefs , care, difpaire , fear, ha- tred, anger, furor, bafhfullncfs, andfoforthj So that as by the former, the fpi- rit by dilatation did look up unto the Fountam of Light, and did rejoyce to fefc thevolupties and pleafnre thereof ; Soby the later, the fpirit wa^? fo'-ced by con- faction, robe deprived from the vifion of light , and ro look p-oncly do.vnward into the abyfl'e of darknrfs, and -ro pirricipace with the dark pifsions thereof. And by this decifering and opining therefore of the two oppofit pafsions, in the
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little world, vvcmayeafilycollcft the reafon and manner of them in the Teat world, being that as naiem Jic > Atia parJs & loims ; fo alio the palHons of the " reac world, may calrly be confidered by thofe of the little world. As for example,^Thc Load-done is in comparifon of its mother earth , even as man is to the whole world; wherefore Man is called the Son of the world by He ntes , as Cardanns, Bap. Porta, D. Gilbert i and Others, have made the Load-rtone thi child orfon of the earth. We find, I fay, in the Load-done, all the paifions, as well fympatheticall as antipatheticall , which do affett his mother earth ; for it hath his Poles with the earth, andit efchevvethallin conformity with the earth, it tlyech from chat which is contrary unco its nature. And again, doth fympathife with that which is its like, it hath its iEquinodialls , Colures « Meridians , and Tropiiks, as the earth hath • and, in conclufion , it argueth not onely a fenfe in motion, but a kind of reafon in its aition, namely,its refufingthat which is contrary unto it, or embracing and dc* firing that, which is agreeing and conformable unto its harmony , as fhall be mire at large exprefled , as well in the fecond part of this prefent Book, as in the ma recicall experiences, which (hall be fet down in the third or laft Book of this Trea- tife.
To conclude, how this mentall beam receiveth the behefls or influxions , of be- nignity or fcvericy from above, is expreffed in my precedent difcourfe, namely, by permitting of bad fpiritsofdarknefs to reigne and have dominion, or helping the good fpirits to execute their offices of joy and delight. Lo, here is cdntained thefum of all myfticall and hidden fympathy or antipathy inthe world, which fomedo therefore, by reafon of the profundity and difficulty in the inquifition thereof, judly attribute unto the fecret a£l and operation of an angelicall power , which is a middle vertue betwixt God and the creature, And for this reafon (as is faid before) an Angell is defined to be, Taaejuam inter Deum & Uaturam virtas me- dia,a ^li.ifit'.nt operationes in rebus quas vel natitra eorum non fttceretynoft vel fic facereti ejHAS alii frovenire dieum a proprietate occulta, d* alii quia tale • As it were a mean ver- tue betrveen God and nature, by the which certain operations are effeSled in things, which their nature {that is, their elementary form') would not produce , at the leafiwife wottli not fo ejfeEi^ as that which Is faid to happen or cometopajfebj a» occult property ^and ^at others will. Quia tale^ Becaufe tt is fo.
HoTv this is demonfirated by Harmony , what Sympathy and ■Antipathy is ,
IT is a divers proportion or difproportion of matter, or mundane fpirir, guided by one and the fame eternall foul, renifpintus aqaatuor veniis, Demondrated by a Pipe, whofe notes vary according unto proportion, in fpirit oraire, moved by one and the felf-fame blad , whofe proportions , when they difproportionably meet, do jar; but when they proportionably meet, accord and agree. All fpirits in creatures are proportioned Dy more or leffe aire, all in Ipirit of life , moving and afting; and according unto tne proportions in concord ordifcord, they agree or difsgree: as the weights of Pythagoras his hammer, in bodies proportionat e or dif- proportionnte. Alfo two ftrings being as one ftretched up, give concording or dif- cording founds , according to their greatnelfe or Ihortnefs. As for example, in this cafe of aire in a pipe.
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The Author mak^ih 4 freanible in this Chapter unto this his Magnet'tek^DifcoHrfe ^ a»dthenvrcceedcth unto the Chaos ofopinionSy touching the erigmc.U and attra- ilive vertHt of AJagnttick,Bvd'-es.
I Did manifeft unto you In the precedent Member of this Book , theprinciplesandoriginallsofSymp.irhy and Antipathy; buc becaufe it is not every ones gift to loar fo high at the tint , as to be capable of a Theory or fpecuUtion, whi h p^:netraterh into Gods Itore-houfc or trealury , contained in the abfl-ufe bowells or center of his createQ nature : I will Roop a little, for yourbetter inftruftion, and more ckar info. mitionj andelu- cidace or make more plain the abltrufe fubjeft we have in hand , by fome vulgar or ocular demonftrations, which may guide them and perfwade them to believe that, which may otherwife (eem uncredible. That I may therefore proceed more me- thodically, I will onely in this member lay down the chief platform , on which I purpole to build fuch experimental! concluhons , as fhall dired the misbelievers,, yea, and fuch as by their ignorance do remain hitherto obdinate in their misbelie- ving errour, (^htiugrhit, Exferienti a efietiamfuliornmm.i'rlfi'a, Experience is 'he mother of fools) into the more alTured haven of taith, and folid belief. And becnifc the exploits of fympathy , and alfo thofe of antipathy in every th'ng, a-e effedtd by a magneticall powetj whichisbothtoexpell by anirafcible or odible expulfion, and allure and draw unto it by a concupifcible attraction, ( as fhsll b;-. diewed you hereafter) I think it mol) fit to fearch out diligently, and th:it wih the ^^r^os eyes ofmybrighteft fenfes , or to penetrate deeply with the Lyncean opick of my ftiarpertunderftanding, unto the dark myltery of the Load-ltone's c Magnec's nature> that we may with the more affurance make our ingrelfion into the pra£ti- call demonllration, of fo arcane and occult a contemplation. For feeing that the fecret operation, as well of the Weapon-falvc , fo exclaimed on by the ignorant , as the extraflion of the Mummyj^both corporal and fpiritualjout of men or beafts; asalfothetranfplantationof the animal's vit alls, infirm or wholfom nature , into any vegetable or animal ; with the manner of the ftcaling of the vertue and (trengrh from one animal, and infulingofit into another ; the fecret alligation of the plants fpirir, with that of man , or any otheranimal ; fo that what befalleth the one, name- ly, either wet or dry, or cold andheat, the other alfo fhall partake of. Seeing(I fay) that thefe operations are tearmed magneticall , becaufe they imitate theaftive . vertuesof the magnet or Load-Uone, Iwillbend allminccndenvour to make ai> opcnpaffage, unto the anatomiling of all thofe myrteries , byche unripping and undoing the fpirituall fardell of the Load-rtone, thereby to pry and look inro the fountain of its formall , interiour, or centrall and elfentiall adions ; and toefpy the grounds, as wcllof hisirafcible as concupifcible palTions t For if once we fhall be nble to find out, by the fubtillelt afpeft of our reafon . the inviiihlepilTages and lurking places thereof, and can afterthat obferve the point , or punctuall root of their effences, and difcoverthe internallcaufeofeachaftion , we fhall with eafe conquer andfurpaifeallthereft , being that what thing effeci, mu{f needs p'ovehomogeniall and all one, in their intern:.ll and hidden na- tures, as fhall be proved more at large unto you.
But alas, why fhonld I, being ( minimus ApoHohrum ) the lei(l of .1 thoufand , prefumc fomake fo dangerous a voyage unto that unknown Ttland, where this oc- cult magne-^ick Nature doth dwell, amon^, or in the middle of fuch dangerous and inaccelTible Rocks , when fo many wife Philofophcrs have failed and wandred
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on the variable and tempeftuous feas of opinion , and have at thelaft returned home, onely vvich the tidings of what others have related of her being, her eflfence, and her aftive vertues ; and foknow nothing of their own, but what they have at- tained to by hearfay, or perceived by extcrnall operation ? Good God ' how many fuch Hiips of fools are thereinthis world ? who when they have travelled in their Hudies and learning many years, floating through the wide feas of vain and fcarce probable imaginations, have returned home now in their old age unto the port of their infancy, having their wit or underflanding onely laded and charged, with the po">r fragments or merchandifeof//»/>^mr, or other mens opinions , but are able to fay nothing centrally upon their own knowledge. So that we Chriliians, after wehave travelled, and made our peregrination of life and (ludies in the world, think it fuffi ;ient in the end to fay , ^rifiot.'e, PUto , Gale's , Hippocrates, and, in con.lufion, this man, or that man, faid fo; Ergo,\t is fo:_ When Scriptures do teach •us a truer Philofophy, which is quite contrary unto theirs. This kind of Itudents therefore are rightly pointed at by the Apollle, and numbered amonglt thofe which are, pmper difcentes y fedad fcletJtiamveritiittii nstnquam pcrvsnientes ; everij;^ i^ lea ning , but r.ever attaining mto the trttth. For how is it polfible, that the blind fliould rightly lead or conduit the blind ? Others having long (kered the Helm of their Bark thi? way, or that way , for to find out theabltrufe feat or habitation of this Stones vertues , have fcarce dallied^their veffell againil hef rocky Ifland, but have thereupon returned with wondrOus relations , of what they have by that means coUeded, and, in fine, have proved their new imaginations but as fuperfici- all, as the effe£ls of their fearch have been ; and, in conclufion, all have proved buc con jeftu rail. Others have fo far been guided and directed in their fearch , by the Pole-lhr allurements , that they have Ituck fatl in the frozerrfeas , and have gone no further; but, at therefolutionofthe ice, they have returned with imaginary wonders, conceived of magneticallMountaines, andiron Cadles , even by eight degrees above the Moon, that is, in the eighth Sphear ; yea, and others foar above that place alfo. Whereby we may conceive , how every mart according unto his chimerian-fancy, imagines variety of Caftles in the aire , yea, and above the ftars alio, for the maoneticall foul's habitation. Some bogle not a jot from the con- tinent of the earth, but imagine it to be numbered amonglt thofe rtars , which have the Sun for their fixt center, about the which they move perpetually ; fo that they feigne the earth to have theform of a ftar , which is far dirferent from the Peripate- ticall form. Incondulion, every one hath his opinion fomewhat differing front another; and that you may know all this to be true, Iwillexprefs and recite fo me of their newes, touching thiscnc[uir.y, which after their long voyage they have made in thifuddy feas of their ferious contemplations, and regiltred them in their written monuments, as in the Chronicles or Hiftories of their Hudious adventures, or fpecula'riveandrpirituall travells. Amongft the which, fome foar upwards, and call the heavens for witnefs, to confirm their aflertions ; fome fail unco the hyper- borean mountains, others unto ftrange northern Illands , tofind outthe grounds of this miracle ; others fend their fpirits of enquiry down unto the bowells of the earth, and find it to be the univerfall itarry form thereof ; fome will make the origi- nall to fpring atomically out of the (tone and fubje£t to be attraited. But amongft ' ail theferationall perfons, I dare fcarce rank oneof anotherkind; forafmuchasthis man furely is to be numbered among thofe Elders, which have travelled in the ihip of fools, being chat he, much like an other Grytlus , or as the eighth wifeMatkr of Greece, will h.ive this vertueto be Cacomagical, or the ad of the devill.
Now amongft fuch as have travelled in their fpirirs unto heaven, to find our this myftery, one will have the reafon, for the direilion of the Load-lione, to be fought for out of the Tail of the celeftiall 7?f «ir-lhr, affirming, that the vertue of this ftarry ^e^rdorh prevail , and hath dominion over this Stone, and is transferred from it into the Iron ; and that is Marfilhis Fictifu. But I reply. That this is not fo, be- caufe experience teacheth us, that Iron of it felf hath his Poles, as well as the Load-ftone, and will by a due adaption feek out , and by its own naturall inirinct turn and direct it felf, unto the ftation of his proper Poles. Of this opinion alfo is /'frr«/Pfn;^W»«x, who following the rules of Frier 54«» , have fought the argu- ments ofthem3gneticalldire(3:ionscut from the Poles of the heaven. A\[o Car- diinas will have the immediate caufe of the variation ofthis Stones vertue, xo fprin^fromtherifing of the ftarinthe ^f/ir'sTail; Lucas Gauricus\s alfvi of theic opinion , but he joyneth alfo the vettite of Saturn and Murs in this negotiation ,
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confefTing withall j thac the main conftellation in the Zodiack unco which this Scone is I'ubjeift, is f'/V^^o : Alberms Af^^Kui [a.kh , thac the Load-ltone and Icon are direfted unto the Northecnltaccs, andfoUowcth chem no otherwife, then a Plant called the Hclltrofim followeth the Sun. Bejjardus will have his opi- nion apace, and makeththepoleof the Zodiack the fountain of the Load-ltone's Victue. Again, the Comm(>rfCfnJi^» Colledge, decive the caufe hereof fcom a part of the heaven J notfarfcom the Pole. But Mtnin Cortefmj \v'\\\ have this actra- ftive Virtue, to defcend from a place beyond the Poles or movable heavens. On the other fide, Ga::demus MemUt^W^ us, that the Load-Ilone doth draw Iron, with an intent to direct it unco the North, becaufe it is an order fuperior unto the Iron, with the conlkllation of theBeace. I muft confefs , that beams whicharedilatedareprompt to deliver their brethten, which are imprifoned, and to direft them to their native home : But I cannot underlland Meml^s mind , in this fenfe. Others make the heavens in generall, the fountain of this Stone's vic- tue : Foe Paracelfus faith , that it is the flares , which being full of the Load- ftone'spowec, dcaweth the Icon unco them, &c. And this fhouldfeem probable, becaufe the Iron movech to it poles, even in the abfence of the Load-Rone. Fer- w/jK/ftaggecs: toe fomcimes he confeffech thecaufe of this Aftion to beabftrufe;and in another place, he maketh the heavens to be the Author. Scaltger , loring neacer unto the point of verity, afligneth to it alfo a celelViall caufe unknown to him- felf, averring, that the terrettiall Load-Hones arederived not from the Globes, or mountainesof thelkrcs ; but from that effentia 11 power or eflence , which wasc- their Fabricator, which raigneth in that part of heaven , which hangeth over the Stptentrionall point.. Andunto this opinion doth Plato feemto adhere, where he confeffech the Magnecicall eflence to be a Divine power. And verily, they fpeaji well, but in fo large a fenfe , that this their aflertion appeareth unto their difciples, being rightly fcanned, ( as I faid) igaetumper ignotins : For fo in the ge- nerall teems we may fay, that all things arc from God : We will come down from our celeftiall fpeculaiions , and look on the humility of fuch, as being too wary> and lirtning overmuch unto the Proverb,, Noli altumfaferey Climbenot (bo high^' have their regard more pronely, namely upon the earth, and her effects onely; and of this ranck is FracafloriuSy who fearcning after the reafon, and beginning of this attracting faculty, doth imagine that the Hyperborean mountaines, which a- bound with rocks of this nature, do draw thefe Iron-natured fubje^ts unto them. And this his figment feemeth fo plaufible , unto divers perfons of learning, thac they follow it as well in their Altronomicall writings, as Geographicall tables, or defcripcions of the world, and Sea-cards or maps ; which if it were true, they would eafily draw unto them all fuch Ships as pafs in the Northern Seas : OUus MagnHs, and fome other that follow his traditions, fay, thac the attractive force Cometh from fomc northern Iflands, which abound in that Magnetick fubje£t. But leaving their fancyunto the empty wind, I proceed unto others. Lucretius Cat-f/s, a poet of the Epicurean Se£t, dreameth thac the attraction of Iron,iscau- ■ fed of an effluxion of atoms : For, faith he, according unco the Epicuees opinion-;, asraolt fubcill atoms doemanaceand flow out from every thing; even fo do atoms flie out of the Iron, as Magneticall feeds, by a certain coition of it with the Load ftone, into the interpofed place, or fpace that is between them, andthac by the union or complication of both bodies, theironis deawn , &c. Unco this fe.vika\Co do ■I'lphrodifeus , Joannes Cofteus y Plutarch, yea, and Thom.is -/iijuittat • incline; when indeed they ought toknow, that no atteaftion is made by emillioa from the Center unto the Circumference, that is, by dilatation; but rather by fucking in , and contracting from the Circumference unto the Center , and there- fore the emilfion of atomicall feeds, out of the Iron, can be no reafon of its Uni- on with or moving to the (tone. But it mult be the Load-ftone, that mu(t draw the beams or fpirits out of the Iron : For it appeareth that the Iron doth not draw it felf unco the Load'ltone, but is drawn unco it : ThaUs ^L^d yinaxagoras rhink that the Load-ltone hnch life in ic, becaufe it attraCtethafubltancelikeit felf , as lively creatures do: LuoetiusTindOrpheiis think there is that Symp.ichy between the Magnet and the Iron , which is between the male and female ; and in this they erre not much. ^wrro^T, 5c/i//^fr ," and the Cardinal C«p««r, would have Iron to move unco rhe Load-ftone, asuntohis originall Matrix. Galen thinketh that it draweth by his fubltantiall form. And now I mult come unto the opinion of my renowned Fellow or Collegue,
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