D. fVilham GHkrt, for his Magnecick skill, and deep feaxh as well conremplatlve

as experimencall touching this Subjcvl;^ : His mind is, that this attratftive virtu« in theLoad-ftone, doth Tpringfrom formall actions, ororiginall and primary Vir- tues or vigours : Forheconcludcth, that the Magnetick force proceedeth from a particular or lingular form, differing from that formall and fpecifitk caufe in mixt bodies, mentionedby thePeripateticks, but (faith he) ic is a certain form, vvbich is the proper entity and exigence of the (iarry Globes, and their homogeniall in- corrupted parts, which hecallethtliePrimarie, radicall, and artreall Form, name- ly fuch a one as is in the Sun, the Moon, and other celeliiall Stars. And he averreth, that after a like manner, there is one in the earth, which is that true Magneticall Puiffance, whiLhiscalled the firltaft or vigor. And this he faith, is not derived from the whole heaven, affirming, that it is procreated by Sympathy , through in- fluence, or occult qualities ; neither is it from any peculiar (iarre : For it hath its Magneticall virtue from the earth, &c. This is my learned 9«»» CoUegue his opinion, whofe pains and indullry in the refeanh of this Subjeft's pradicall conclufions, as I cannot but commend and extol ; So on the contrary lide, reafon will not permit me, to confent unto this his fpeculative foundation or root of the Load-(tone's virtue in all : For who can believe, thit the earth it' felf, much lefs the particulars thereof, can have any Virtue radically from it felf; when it is evident, that as well the earth as the heavens, came radically out of the waters? And therefore as the heaven was before the earth , it mult needs follow, that the formall Virtue of the earth, did totally defcend from heaven, and confe- quently the eaith had no fuch property from it felf. But of thi^ hereafter more ac large. Among the Ethnick Philofophers Piato, and of the Chri.aans . ca''£ey and Fernelitis, do think, that the caufe of this Attraction is Divine and from abovej but how, and after what manner they exprefs not.' And therefore though in a «'e- nerality they have fpoken the truth, yet in thefe common words they feem to cx- prefle, they know not what. In particular, I will conclude with the latt opinion, which is the moftidle and infufficient of all the reft , and therefore is worthy to be made the laft and mort unworthy part , namely thetayl, or excrement of them. Fraud fens Kticus, maketh a great doubt, concerning the wonderfull pr-iperry in theLoad-ftone, and becaufe (forfooth) the pitch of his capacity can attain no higher then unto Superficial! things, and fuch as are fubjeft unto fenfe ; therefore he judgeth all effects beyond his reach , to b; Cacomagicall , and confe- quenrly he maketh a doubt, whether the caufe of thefe aftions in the Load-(tone benot animpofturyorfubtillflight of theCacodemons or evill fpirits. And yet this man is more to be born withall, then fuch as do boldly averre , that the aft and wonderful! effects of the Weapon Salve is cacomagicall : Forhefpeaketh not abfolutelyastheydo; who*without any farther doubting, do feem to attribute all hidden effects unto the Divell, andfo deprive God of his due; but onely this man maketh a doubt, whether it be fo or no.
CHAP. II.
In thisJChapter, the yluthor*s OplnioK touching the originall , intermediate,, and immediate AUion or Virtue of the Load-ftone uenncleated and ^ fet down at la-'ge.
IAm Cure you do remember how in my precedent difcourfe, 1 have demonftrated, that God in a generality doth operate all, and in all, and then after what man- • ner the felf-fame Unity in the Divine eflence, is maniferted in its propetcy, ac- cording unto the multiplicity of hisfacred Volunty , which is therefore proved to be manifold , becaufe the particular eff'e(f^s of his actions, which are n-it put in execution but by his Volunty, are infinite in Variety. And for this caufe I fhew- ed unto you, th.it thereareattributeduntooneand thefamefacredeflence, Ten feverall denominations or Artributes, whereof fomefendout emanations of di- latation and extenfion, by the which the waters were expanfed and fpread abroad by fubtiliarion, and fhdpsd into bright , clear,' and tranfparent heavens: and of fuch kinciof influences , arethofewhvch are emitted and infufed into the world by HOCHMA through J AH, orby theSpirit of Wifdome; and thofe which fpring forth from EL O A H, by the Port of TIPHERETH (which importetb beauty
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and briobtoerte) inco the Sun, who by dilatation doth clarifie and fubciliate the fpi- rvtot the world, and expelleth darknefs ; and this action doth proceed from the center to the circumference. And contrarivvife, there are other emanations, which ooucoutbeamsofatcra^lionor contradkion , as dotli^i-oZ/^/^bytheport i/w.^^ 0: Prudim'tt, into the ej\oheoi Sttti.rn. By this therefore, the Spirit of God in his prudency did tie and hang the heavens , as it were lincks in a chain of gold toge- ther, and did bear upthe elements in theirplaces, andfucked or contrafted the grorter part of the waters , from the circumference unto th- center, andtheredid confirm and fix them in a dark and grofs manner. So that the fountain of this at- tradlive and contraSive property , is in the divine Attribute tLOHIM, which for reafons that I have told you beforcjis the head of the northern property, name- ly, of cold, drought ,opacity,congelation, incraflation, and reft, which is caiifed in the center , becaule it is the terminus ad ^« trdkian or atiroBion ts chiejlj made ^beyond the v:fhic!.\,there can beno further fentiraiioK, Andfor this reafon , the centrall vertue which is in the bowelis of the earth , dorh draw and allure all weighty things unto this point , which when they attain unto the center, can pafl'e no further; forit is at that centrall butt that the property of ELOHIM doth aime, and the Divinity which dwelleth in the earth's center, is the divine eflence under the name and property of £XO///yJ/, the feat of whofe im- mediate emanation, is the angelicall order of Thrones , which belongeth untothe earth orgroller waters ; his magazin or treafure-houfe in the ftarry heaven , is the "lobe olt Sattt », whofe property for this reafon is cold and dry , altriftive, c ontra- dive, attractive, and retentive ; for his beams contract unto the center , andheis the Lord over the North-winds, which are cold and dry, contractive, attra fad, and melancholy ; and it is the Planet which doth adminilter unto the Pole- Itar, called by rhe ^Egyptians Alrmkaba, f orafmuch as it hath the nature and ^xo- Ttzny oi Satm» :ir\df^e>tns , and therefore it is the principall helper and affiltantin performing, n6t onely the attractive effects of fZ-O.^^yl/, and for that reafon doth endue the nature of 5rfr«/-», which abounds in rhe Northern effects of £L0- HIM, but alfo it participates with the condition of r that commandeth the concupifcible faculty ; and for this reafon it maketh a natu- rall coition, namely, it draweth with a voluptuous delight his like , even as femi- . nine matter is eagerly affeCted, to draw or fuck makuline form untoir. This ■ therefore is the teafon, that the earth doth attra(St untoit the formall fhapes, which dei'cend down from above, and burieth them within its womb with delight. For heaven is affirmed by all true Philofophers and Cabalifts, to be the mafculine, anci the earth the feminine. Neither can 1 but confent with L»cai Gaifricnh the Aftro- Ingians opinion, wherehefaiih, ( as is recited before) That the (tar in the Tail of Urfamajor, or the ^reat Bear, is Prelident of the Load-ftone ; as alio, that Satum is the Planet which is allotted unto hun ; and laltly , that it hath an fpeciall rela- tion unto the Conllellation of ^/V/o , and the rather, becaufef^/r^» is that Signs of the Zodiack, which poflefieth the very felf-fame Longitude that the faid (tar doth, and for that it is of an earthly, fliptick, and attractive nature , as alfo of the condition of Saturn and Venus. All thefe reafons have been Itrong motives to per- fvvade me, that thefe are principall celeltiall agents , in the Northern difpolition and propertyofthis lower world, andconfequentlyin the attractive motion of the terrcllriall northern Pole, and every particular thereof.
I proceed therefore in this my defcent from above to the earrh, in rhis manner: The Planet ^ ftarand/^/r^ on or contraction, doth alTilt him therein his office; and bytfiem, thefpirits of the northern wind wax vigorous , and contraCt by congelation the catholick element ofthcaire,inromuch that by fucking together the difperfed element of air , they contract it into the folid and denfe mafs of fnow,fro(t,h3il,& ice. Whereby we may learn, that the earth was a thin water firft, but by the breath of LLOJilM'tt was turned into an earthly fubltance, byconrraCtion; and therefore as long as iris earth, if hath rhe property of that fpirit, which by congelation made 't earth. For by vertue of this £LO/^/J/^«rfc/7, the dry land did appear outofrhe w.iters, a> J/o/tfy telleth US} and every member of the world , I mean, each heaven, and each element, were tied and fiftned together; fo th^t as by the p'-op;rry of/--^^'. (which a-guerh the immenfe benignity "f £/:>/«/.•, rhe Father of all things) namely, the cmilTion of beams by the port Hochma, the cscholick cieatcd fplric cf wifdom
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did illuminate and create the waters ingencrall; bucthjdivifionof them, which wasal o made by the wo. d j-^H ^ vvcrefalined in formall ties by the properties of ELOHIfld, or the vivifying Spirit of the Lord. And therefore D^vid faid, f^eri>i Domini [irmatifitnt casli, &jpir ft ai> creejfis omn'S viritts eor/tm : B/ theward cfjjc pr^^i ^^ g Lord the heavens were made, a^id by his Spi. ic eAcb formAll vertue thereof. For this *' * ' reafon, in all the feparating creation and formation , not onely of the fimple hea- ven > and elements , but alfo of the creatures compofed of them , both in heaven and in earth, evermore ELQUIM is named by Mofes^ namely, when thedarkneffa was lucked anddravvn apart from the clear vvate rs , when thegroffe or inferlour waters were conrrailed from the fuperiour, when the thinner heavens were di- ftin^uilLed by infpillacion from the thicker elements,when the dry land was by the colds coagulation gathered together in the center , when the thinner aire was co- agulated into itarry bodies, (wherefore ^;7y?of/ parsfai orhis^ ThejUr is the thicker part of his orhe ) when the elements were com- pa(5ted by congelation ,. into the compound creatures of the fea and land; for all this was the work oiELOHlM^ who, after the heaven and the earth were made , did ordain and fafhion by incrafsatioD, the erratick globe oi Saturn, and the fixt conlkllatioH of /^r^c,
whofe totall attraftive and retentive nature is ^ If P 1 *
contraaed in the Pole-ftar, as it were the whole ^teUo- ^^ rolaviM
balisofaPyramis, intothepointoftheCone; and y/ TotUB
therefore by contrati^ion of the dilative privative vertue, the power is the ftronger; as we fee, that a broad River gathered into a (trait betwixt two Rocks , is the more fvvift and violent ; or as the Bugle-maker, by blowing the whole flame into a v^^rtta Vnrltac point, maketh that point of fiich power, that it is n»
able to melt glafs. And thefe two fixt Conftella- tions are affigned , as principal minifters u nto 5^-
?«'», being o-dained for the diftribution of his ftiptick influxions , joyned witfa 3 con.up'.fcible defire unco the neather world ; and therefore the AlironomiaAs have alfigned themboth all one nature, becaufc they perform all one adt , namely, that of Saturn and Venus, as is faid. Wherefore isfnperiora dicantur reaere inferior ra, udeo utjicnt fit inferit^s ita prlks faCium effet ptperius : -ds^ I fay, .. hefuteriour hea- ' venly ladies are reported to govern the inferionrs;iind that is things are a ' id here helorv ttt like manner were thejfirjt efe^ed above. So of necelfity is the Pole ofche North m theaire, orfublunary element, pointed at and marked out by the wind Boreas-, and that fame Pole in the water, whofe charader is the frozen fea, and that in the earth deciphered and manifefiedby the Load-itones northern point , are animated from thefe contractive , or retentive, and cold, and dry celcftiall natures , as they again hive their power in the earth and waters fuccelfivly from the Orders of the Cherubins and Thrones, who receive radically their attractive and retentive power from the A-ttribute ELOHIM Ritach , which doth coagulate and infptfTatc , by contracting and drawing of the effe£ts of jEHOVA's dilating property, from a di- lated tranfparenc clear form and llghr, unto a thick, opake, and ponderous nature, as it appeareth and is made manifelHn the creation of froft, fnow, ice, and hail, by the northern ait and property of God , which made the Pfalmilt fay , Em.ttit »/- Vesfunt la-'icm , G" prtiiyios cjttaft cineres difpe'-^it, deficit gelu tam^itam frufia, coram frigoreeius He feudeth out [now like rvool^ auddifperfeth the frofi as a'hes, pfal. ^^t. he cajietb down his ice as gobbets , who is ah e to endure before his cold ? Whereby ir ap- peareth, that it is the contractive attofJEHOVA, in his property ofELOHIM, which immediately effecteth thefe things , by means of his Boreall organs, which arefi'ft angelicall, nextfiellar or (tarry bodies , beinganimatedby the angelicall; and laltly, windy and elementall, which are animated by the (tarry influences, ths effence whereof is in Gocl, andfromGod, or JEHOVA , being one God in ef- fence, which is expreffed by the name of JEHOVA, but in property diltributed into many branches , and accordingly, every branch hath its p^xruliar illunlinating b^ughes, and each illuminating bough dilateth it felf, by afubdivilion of f:)rmall twigs, 'ir vivifyirgbeam^jinto an infinity of actions, not varying from the capitall emanation in eifence, hit in property onely. Asforexample, The influence fal- ling from ELOHIM by the fpirit Binah, dcfcendeth into the fphear of Saturn, un- der whofe dominion areaninfinity of creatures , namelyjthofc which parttcipare
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vvith the nature of Saturn, as are all things that are of a terreftriall condition , to wit, cold, dry, Itiptick, attractive, andcontradlive. But kavingthisCabalitiicall and Altrologicall way of proving, I will defcend unto fuch tetUmonies, asfacred Philotbphy doth affordnric.
I told you before, that the eternall Unity, everlalUngly One ineffence, divi- ding or transfornaing it lelf by property into Trinity , did fhape out or defcribe ideally, the archetypicall or internall world, accordinguntowhofe example he did afterwards delineate or frame out the typicall or exteinall. Wherefore it mull follow, that ifthe typicall or naturall world was framed after the idea in the in- teUe£luall or menrall world , then what parts or properties are made evident un- to our capacity in this world, were alfo the fame in the archetype; for, Qjtodfactt tule eft magii Ule. There was no houfe that the Carpenter or Brick-layer builded, but it was firft delineated in the idea of his intellect , and then drawn forth fuper- ficially in paper, and fo afterward put into a folid execution ; {03.U0 David con- fefled, that he had the Temple, vihKhSolome^ erected , firlt drawn forth ideally by Gods fin?er. Now when that God had in his divine counfell, thus ordered and flia- ped out an ideal world in himfelf, to pnt it in execution, and, as it were, to make it to appear unto mans fenfe , he emittedhimfelf out of himfelf in the form of an eternall emanation, called his Image, which was his wifdom, by which the generall world, and every particular thereof, was produced according unto the ideall pat- tern, which was in it felf. This therefore being fo , and being that the divine eflence can no way be divided, howfoever it varieth in property, it toUoweth , that every particular beam which (hineth out diverfly from that catholick emanation, to create differing things, is one indivifible eflence with the whole emanation ; and therefore hz'is. Hid to fill- all, and to be all in all. Andthat the mcorrHftibl; fpiritis in
Wifd.'ia. I. all thingstand that he filleth the whole earth, I proceed therefore thus : If the created
^ • '• world have his fhape, his members, and every particular property affignid unto it ,
by that formallandvivifying world, which is defcribed and imprinted in this di-
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Vine and all-fufficientand creating emanation ; then confequently, all the mem- bers, properties , and natures in this world, are graphically or curioully painted ott inthe fupernaturall one, it remaining neverthelefs one and the fame in eflence. And therefore as in him, the catholick image of the outward world is contained, fo every beam or emanation that iflueth from him , but is not divided from him , conraineth the (liape of the world. And for this reafon, the wife Philofophers have faid. That each creatureenjoyeth a proportion of the great world, by which it is fliapedandmadein it felf a little world , as {hall be demonftrated by the Load- llone more plainly hereafter. And again, man is called, Omfiiscreatura,Az he doth participate of all ; fo that his foul is iaid to be , Ad,imapnemtorins fapiemia fatla , omnium in fe aerens fimilttudinem : Made after the fimditttde of all wifdom, 6eari»^in itfetfthelik^enefs of all th.ngs. And therefore it is tearmed of another , Omninm fi- mili'tudo , The likenefsof'allth;n Hereupon all'o it is reported, to be a certain divine and individuall fubrtance ; /^Z- k^nd;s in hi?; Book, de Rmdiii, fpeaking after an Altrologicall manner , feemeth to aver fo much in thefe words , Si ai.ctti datum effet totam condltionem caleflis harmo- ^i^nfl. fopof ^^^ comfrehendere , mundtimdcmentorum cum fms fingtdis ccntentis inc^mctinque loco & anocunqtic tempore plene cognojceret tauqnam caufatHm per can fas; fi ettam aliquam rem hnjus mHyid.i in toft fra conditio»e covnofceret, caleftis htirmo»i lateret,[edeuiim CAufim ta?!q:(am pei ejfellnmJHHm fomprebcnderet : onmu ei'.m rei^ quan. ttmcmiq^ie modi.ft^in mund.o eUmemorHm agens,totini caUfiis harmor-ia eft ejfetlH^ Hhofoever doth comprehend the whole condiiion of the celefliall harmony , he may fitllj buoiv the whnle elementary worldyWith every content of the fame , in every place, and at all times, iti she efeEl by tie caufe. Alfo if he tinderftand anjf thing of this vcorld In hfs totall nature at)d condition, the celeftialt difpofiticn and condition will not be h. dden front him, but w II he A fcovered unto him, as the ca-ufe is by the cjfeEl. For every thing in this world, hvw little faevcr it be, that aldeth , is the effect- of the whole harmony ofthi hea- ven. By which words, Aiksndu-i being deeply feen in the niylkry of nature, feemeth ro aver, that as there is adefcem from unity unto multitude, fo all that multitude is in that unity as alfo rhat unity filleth all the multitude ; fo is i in 2, and 2 in 3, and ; in 4, and 4 in 5,&c. and yet that unity which is the beginning, is the end, andallinall. So light enfornis the angelicall creature , the angelieall the ftarry creature , the Harry creature the elements, and the elements the compound crea- ture: Wherefore open the compound creature, and look upon t hs elements, divide
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the Elements, and you fhall find the (tarry and quincelVentijll nature; openthefe and you (hiW conceive the fubtill alcericy of the Angelicall fpiritj in which is the Divine a6t or immediate beam from God. In this work therefore there concurreth in the feparation of the firft a fentlble afpeft; in the other, we muft behold with in- cellecftuall eies ; So that you may obferve , how all is in every thing , and every thing in all. Hereupon it was alio that Hermes faid> (fpeaking myRically and not after the common fenfe) Quifornacemcumvafe noftro conjtruit , novptm mnnd.m conflat: He which makfth our furnace vith the gUfttoit , he maketb a new wo- Id. But what needs more words, when we find all this confirmed by demonftration? For weknowthattheLoad-ftoneisbut apart of the Earth, and yet it hath all his Circles, and both his'Poles, yea, and that very nature in all refpe(fts, between each Pole, and Circle, that the whole Earth hath, and thereupon it is termed i errellaf or a little Earth ; and fo may the whole earth be tearmed p^rw// >w«»t/«;, being k containeth the Poles , circles, and aftrall, yea, and Elementall natures of the great world; no otherwife then the great world doth in all thofe refpeils , repre- fent the Archetype, which is carved 'out inrelleftually in the all-working Spi- rit of Wifdom, or facred Emanation ; yea, and we go yet deeper into our diminu- tives : For if a piece of Iron rod, which naturally afpecteth the North and South, bebrokoff, that fmall piece will have alfo as exaiUy his North and South Pole, and confequently his circles as the whole rod, and neverthelefs the rod keepeth ftill his North and South point as before. The like in the Load-ftone will happen, as experience fhall hereafter make it appeare more plainly.
That we may come a little nearer to the explication of this Myftery , ye muft underihndthat this eternall catholick Emanation , is the effenriall and fpiritu- all rock, out of which, firft the great world in generall , and then all particular things therein , were carved or framed by generalities : firft, according unto the Ten generall Emanations and their properties , which the Ethnicks in fome fore referred unto their Ten generall Predicaments; and this again had their fpecialities or fubakernate degrees of many ranks and orders of dignities, all which wereac laft made apparent by the infinity of individualls > which they did in their kinds produce according unto thofe divers beams of the mukiplicite Will or Volunty f f God, which this eternall Emanation poured out into them. All which particular beams, more or lefle, being not divided in effence from the univerfall Emanati- on, or the Spirit of Wifdome, which made all things , are the fpirituall Corner- ftone? on which every creature as well particular as univerfall, doth formally or eflentially confift; and this Corner-ftone , is that internall eflence in every thing, whichasit givethlife; fo alfo it is all and over all the things that it inadeth with life, and therefore alfo the foul, whofeCenter this Corner-ftone is, is faid to be in all and every part. I will leave to fpeak of its aftion in other creatures , and will onely infift on our main Subjeft in hand, which is the earth and her off-fpring orprogenie, amongft the which the feminine Load-ftone, and his ferruginous mafs, are chiefly reckoned. Divine Philofophyteacheth us, that the Globe of the Earth is fuftained by this Corner-ftone, and confequently hath her manifold Vir- tues from it, Ubinam eras^ (faith JEHOVAH) ejuando fandebam terram'>c]uis difpofuic Job. jg. menfuras ejus^ am ejnis extendtt fttper eamlmeam} Sftper quo bafes ejrts defixx fant ? ^ut qmsjecit lapldem ejus A»gularem'> where vcafiihoti when J latdthe faundacion of the earth } J-Vho difpofed of the meafures thereof ? and who did extend over it a line } upon what bafts or foundation was it fuflalned} or who la'-dthe corner^fione thereof "> Lo here an axiom of Divine Philofophy , propofed by the Creator himfelf, bow unworthy are the Ariftotelicall rules concerning the ftrufture of the earth , in re- fpeftof this Divine Oracle's rudiments and doftrine, which is founded on the trueCorner-Jione Jefus Chrift: For this caufe the Apoftlejuftly biddeth us »cr Colof. 2. 8. to be deceived by Philofophy, and vain fallacies^ accordini^ unto the tradition of man, and after the Elements of thii world, and not according unto Chri ft ^ in whom drvelleth all the plenitude of Divinity corporally ; who is the head of all Principalities and Powers. Andelfewhere hegivethareafon, rtimtly rjuiaipfe omnia eft In omnibus ^ portatejue Yir:\>.i: omnia verba virtHtis fiiit, fpfe fandavit terram, & opera manttum ejus funt exit : Be» caufe he IS all in all, and beareth up all things by the word of his Virtue; he did lay the eay th on his foundations, and the heavsns were the worl^ofhis hands. It was therefore this Spirit of Wildome, which was that fpirituall Corner-ftone, on which the earth, and every particle thereof hath his affigned place or ftation, refidingonit, as upon the fureft Foundation , and which indueth every particle thereof more or
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lefs, with a feverall diftincl Virtue, as a gift beftovved on it for its felf : For the
Wifeman doth teltifie, that tins ejfrmiitllfpirit fitltth the whole f
effemial virtue,which iiluech from it, can be divided from it ;So ea^ h particle of the
earth mult be indued more or lefs,with the property of the whole, being that it mo-
veth all upon one fpiritualUine or axil-tree, {is'Job feenieth to averre,) which
by a twofold property, differeth accordirgunto the two principles proceeaing from
the Divine Unity, namely his iVi^/w^t^ or privative and contracting nature (for
it operateth by a privative, contra6\ive, cold> congealing dilpofition, which isef-
isB-ti lefs or more, according as it approacheib unto each Pole; that is to fay, unto
the North or South): and his ^o/«/»/; or pofitive, dilative, and diffolving nature-
forafmuch as this fpirituall centrall San , doth in the middle point of the axis,
emit his beams from it to the circumference,no otherwife than the celeflial Sun, and
his eternall Agent doth dart forth his beams from the ty£^ii'iKoHial , which is the
circumference of the middle point in the axil-tree towards the Poles rhereoi ; but
approacherh no nearer the Poles, then the limited Tropick of each Htniifphere.
And this is the reafori of that Antipathy , which is noteci to be as well in the Iron
as the Load-Hone : Forif you devidethe Load-lionein the middle betwixt both
his Poles , namely in his ^quino^inU- and then afterwards, if you put the part of
the middle of one Hemifphere, namely of the Northern C, unto the South Pole
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Bthus, itvvillabhorreandflyfromic, as being clean contrary in condition unto it. For the one is the feat of tne dilative property, and the other is the naturall place of the contradive; theonehot, the other cold; theoneattraftive , by, fuc- king from the Circumference unto the Center; the other expulfive by dilating of its beams from the Center to the Circumference: contrariwife the Sympathy in the Load-ftone is there, where like is fitly applyed unto its like , as well in order as condition: For if you offerto joyn tneix£^//iwff/;«//of theone Kemifphere, untothat of the other, they will forthwith clofe and unite one with another: For, by the continuation of the fpirituall Axil-tree, one Pole fucketh the Hemifphere which is next unto it, namely B draws the North Hemifphere C, A; and the North Pole C, fucketh reciprocally unto it the South Hemifphere B, A; and they bothjoyninA. Alfo the two Poles do agree together in harmony: Fortherea- fons above mentioned ; So that if you put the North Pole unto the South, they fuck and draw alfo one onother, and make a Union : Whereby each wife Specu-
lator may difcern the reafon of Sympathy and Antipathy, in alt things ; as alfo the manner of attraftion and dilaration in every creature.; and how each nature en- clineth properly unto its nature, but flyeth or indineth naturally from its contra- ry ; and allproceedeth from the oppofu properties in one radicall eflence, as I will prove here immediatly, by a more familiar experience.
In the Weather-glafs, which I have defcribed in my precedent Philofophicall difcourfcyou may difcerne two points, correfponding unto the two Poles, name- ly the matt ras head above, refemblingthe Northern Pole; and the water below, compared to the Southern Pole ; the aire interpofed betwixt thes*^ unto the fpa-
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tious heaven, or fublunary fpirit, which is betwixt thefe two Poles, the middle of which in the figure i, the jEquinodiall doth cue, as bang in the tnid-way betwixt the two Poles. We find evermore, that when the aire, included in the top of the Mattras, orbokshead, is cold, namely, when the northern blalts are fent forth, it will be contraded, and confequently will fuck or draw up the water , and there- upon we are caught the reafon of the attradlive nature, not onelyinrhe northern or feptencrionall winds, but alfo in the Load-ftone, and all other things, which by contraftion of the aire do draw and fuck unto.them , namely, that they have thac property from the power of Gods Spirit, vvhich,by his angelic^U organs doth blow fromthe north. By this alfo it is made evident j whyonePole doth fuck and at- traft from the other, in :he Load (tone, namely, by the continuityof the fpiritu- all axle-tree, which is made and animated by one corner-ftone, or efsentiall and centrall fpirit, as is faid, though of two oppohte conditions , in which alfo it wor- keth afcermmy diveriities of degrees : and therefore .SVowow teaimeth it fimpex, or uniciis, fimple, or one, in regard of his divine nature ; and mHltiflexy in refpe*^ that it worketh and operaceth after a manifold manner: for as it worketh about the poles of the axle-tree , byattrafting and fucking unto it by cold and drought; fo about the j£quinoftiall , and that more and more approching from t he poles to- wards the jEquinoctiall , it varieth in ten thoufand proportions more or lefs in di- latation, by reafon ofthe manifold degrees of heat , whith this centrall Sun of life imparteth unto the aire : And this isnot onely manifeftedin the forefaid Wea- ther'glafs , forafmuch as we find , that by how much the more the heavenly Sun , with his divine centrall agent, approachetn unto us , by fo much the more the ex« rernall aire, being dilated by his heat , doth alfo dilate the aire , (;ontained in the neck ofthe mattras, or bolts- head, and driveth down the water, chat is, it repelleth back the cold of winter , which came in by fhowers of rain , fent from the fouth unto his proper pole. Sothat we fee, as the nature of the cold pole is to draw or fuck unto it by condenfation, which is effeiled by con t raft ion , or made by a Sa- f;;r»;»ff faculty, fo the nature of the hot ^quinoftiall, and his adjacent parts, is to expell his oppofite by dilatation, which is effefted by a fubtiliaring heat. And rhis is the rearon,as is already demonftrated , thu the jEquinoftiall of. the Load-ftonc deteftethtobe joyneduntothep-ilejasonthecontrary fide, the pole abhorreth re- ciprocally the .(Equinodliall, Alfo this is the reafon , thac in the pole of the faid Itone, there is fo great power of actrafllon , and that it fuckech the iron unto it, ad angulos relJos itbii is, after a perpendicular manner '^ and then the nearer the needle, or piece of rteel, or iron-wier , approacheth unto the Aquinoftiallof the ftone , the more will his obliquity in coition or conjundion be with the ftone. So thac whenitcommethdireftlyuntotheiEquinodialljit willlofe all angular contaft, and lie flat, as it were, on its belly, as you may fee by this true obfervation fol-
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But becaufe thefe demonftration^ may feem unto the vulgar fomewhac intri- cate, as being ignorant ofthe centrall fun ofthe earth, which the Philofophers call yi> chdiim naturA-, ox,The mafier-workntiw if ttature. Asalfoit will be difficult for them to conceive, what an axiltree ofthe earth may be, and what his poles. And again , the right ufe of the Load-Hone , or practife in the Weather-gbfs , is un- known unto many a man. I will proceed unto a kind of proof and explication of this matter, which is familiar unto each perfon of what degree foever. It cannot be gainfaid, but that Man, and all other creatures, as well vegetable as animal, are compofed of a living foul, whichis internall, and a body, being his externall : The felf-fame alfo we ought to judge ofthe earth, for it hath an inward fpirit, whereby it operateth diverfly j And again, as there is no animal nor vegetable,that can exift
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without the aire, foraftnuch as by it each thing liveth and exifteth, by infpiration , (forby that means they fuck in the celeftiall influence ) foalfothe aiery elemenc doth feed the inward fpirit of the earth, and conveyeth from above all the heavenly influences into her body, and maketh her the mother of all mineralls and vegeta- bles. I told you before , that all inferiour things, with their operarions , are the types or fimilitudes of things above; and that God did animate the Angels, the An- ' gels did inform the ftarsj and the flarry demons, or ol y mpick fpiiits, fend down in- fluences unto the winds, and the winds do inform the catholick clement of the aire four-foldly, that is tofay, according unto the nature ot the four winds; which ■four-fold information doth give or afligne a name unto the fourekmcnts. And al- though in the catholick aire , there is but one onely fubl.ancein eflence, yet it varieth in nature after a four-fold condition, according unto the will and property of that one Spirir, which onely is the efficient aftor oi agent in this metamorpho- fis, or Protean tranfmutation, from one nature or form unto another, although he ufeth as well angelicall a> liarry organs ; and is laid , to ride upon the cherubins, and to glideupon the wings of the winds For this reafon therefore Ezsk XS. theProphet iaiei, Comedo fp'rihffOfKthefourw.ndSf andb euthe Kfon thefe (lain h- dies that :hcj may live. He faid not, Come, O Ipirits; but. Come, O fpirit ; where- by he argued, that it is but one Spirit which bloweth efli£ntiaUy from the fouc winds, and conlequently , that this one fpirit in efsence, isbut onely one thing, though four-fold in regard of his property; and that as in this archetypicall fpirit , the whole world was ideally divided into poles and portions , diltinguifhed by fpirit nail circles; fo alfo in all the regions of the world, heobferveth conliantly thefelf-fime chara(3;erofporuion,namely,intheflarry world, asintheairy ; and in the airy as in the water and earth. For in the heavens , the northern pole is poin- ted at, and marked out with the Harry character , which is found in the Tail of the great Be-'ir : in the aire it is manifelted in that very point , from whence Boreas or the north-wind bloweth , which doth exaftly correfpond unco the pole-flar. A^ain, that the earth obfervetb the very fame order in the diredtion of her pole , is confirmed, by theconverlionoftheLoad-ltone andiron, unio the north-ftar. Thus you fee, that it is one onely fpirit in effence, that workethall in all. I pro- ceed therefore thus to my demonftration, which is fo famihar to each perfon, that • not any one who is in his fenfes can deny it; for I am fure, no man can be ignorant, that when the north-wind bloweth , theaireis of nature cold and dry , andthere- fore is converted into the condition and confiflence of earth, namely, from a clear tranfparent light, fubtle, diflblved, and dilated confiltcnce of aire, into a troubled, opakeordark, grofs, pondero«s, and com rafted fubliance ; for experience doth teach us, that it is tranfmutedintofnow, hail, froli, and ice; that is, from an aery fpirit, unto an earthly and foFd body ; from an invifible and mobile eftate, unto a vi'.ibleandfixt difpoiition. And,inconclurion, the who\p aire is changed into a fpiricuall and corporall earth ; and this tranfmutation it hath from that cold, dry, and attraftive form, which it borrowed from the northern wind, or feptentrionall property of rhe divine fpirit , which ordereth all things , and altereth them from one form unto another, by the breath of his noftrills, (as Scriptures allcgorioufly fpeak^i orby thofe windy emiffionsj or angelicall emanations , which it fendeth from the four corners of rhe earth. So that by his breath from the north , he exer- cifethihat property in the lower world, by the which he draweth or attrafterh from the circumference unco the center, andfo congealeth, infpiffateth, and har- denethfoft fpirits,byconcraftion andcoarftacion of thofe parts, which before were porous and dilated. But fome will perchance reply, and fay. How is it likely, that rhe emanation or emilfion of fpirits, from the port oiBinah^ under the Attribure of ELOHIM, or the lireaming forth of the breath or blafts from Boreas , and his two collateralls, can harden by conrraftion, or fuck and draw in fpirirs , from the circumference unto the center, whenrheiremilTionsare rtraighc from the north fouthward, and make no reflexion , whereby any fuch motion, a circttrnfersfitia ad centrum, fliould be made? I anfwer. That this is effefted after a wonderfull fafliion, and worthy to be pondered by the choifeft wits. We muft confider therefore in the firfl place , that the property of the Attribute ELOHIM, was before all beg'nning ordained, to indue the negative or contraftivetwture of the eternal I Unity's No- luTitjiy namely, of darknefs ; for when God will not fhew rhe lighr of his counte- nance, he refledeth his light in himfelf, that is, he wirhdraweth it from the cir- cumference tothecenter, and leaveth onely darknefs unto the creatures. 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property of God isancipathecicall unto fuch parts of the world, asalfountoall fuch creatures, as have their life from a naturall heat, which heat h;rd its beginning from Gods benevolent einanation, that is, from the adof unity, byanemiiri- on or dilatation from the center unto the circumference , I mean, from unity into nmltixude. It follovvech therefore , that though the emifsion of winds from the north be ftreight, yet their efsentiall property , proceeding immediately from Gods angelicall organ, is contraftive and attrading from the circumference unto the center,, feeing that it is an emifsion, which,by the divine Spirits emanation and adion in the nature of ELOHIM , is cold, dry, coagulative , or congealing, and apt to rell , andi? therefore antipatheticall andoppugnant unto the difpofuion of the air, forafmuch as it is hot and moilt , and conl'equently is animated by the di- lative aftion, which the catholickfpiritfendeth or breatheth out of the celeltiall Sun, and other vivifying Itars , as are Jupiter and rems. And for this caufe it fol- loweth, that when the Boreall fpirits are fent forth into the aire , it muft needs fucceed, that, at the antipatheticall contradl of thefe cold fpirits, th'e naturall heac orlifeof theaireflyeth, or with- draweth it felf from its circumference unto its center, and Co partly by that contrad^ive motion in it felf, caufed per antiperlfiajin, or by reafonofthe antipatheticall occurrence, or meeting of his contrary, and partlyby mingling ofanewterreftriall form, it is congealed , andfalleth to the earth as if it wer-e dead, becaufe unmovable , in the form of fnow, hail, froft, and ice. In like manner we fee, that the aery life in other creatures, whofe formall bee- ingconfiftethofGods dilating property , is forced to fly from the circumference unto the center, leaving the externall parts chif, cold) and apt to a deadly congela- tion, or lethallrepofe, which we obferve not onely in animal creatures, but alfo in vegetables, feeing that their blood, (as I may tearm it) or vitall fuck, is congea- led, by the wmter and northern cold, and is,asit were, livelefs, untill by the vivi- fying and dilative force of the enfuingVernall, or Springly and Auftrall vertne , ic is refolved and melted again , and the fevere tye or icy knot of the northern nature undone. For this reafon therefore you may difcern , that there is but one catho- lick element, which is partly fubjedt and obnoxious unco the privative and dark contracting, and confequencly attraftingproperty of Gods Spirit, and partly ca- pable to enduehispoficive and light dilating difpofition ; and that this common fubje contraftion, caufed by the welt winds, ismadewater; andby more compreltion and conrtridion, caufed by the northern and winter blalls , becommeth fnowy or icy earth : And concrariwife, by lefle dilatation and fubtiliation , is made aery or vaporous, caufed by thefpringfeafon, andfouth wind, and by a greater rarefadion andexah?-tionit is made fire, by the dominion of fuch fpirits as are fericout from the eaft, and fummers heat; and both thefe main, two-fold, divided properties, be- long unto one and the fame Spirit, as is before related. Verily, this common de- monllration can deceive no man, being that the very unreafonable creatures are moved by a naturall inclination , either to fympachize and rejoyce wi'ch the cle- mency and comfort of the one property , or to fly from or efchew thefeverer af- faults of the other, which do antipathize with their nature. But to our main bu- finefs. It is manifeft by that which is already faid, that the northern breath is con- rraftive, attraftive, infpiffativd, and apt to darknefs, immobility, and relf ; and that thefouth-winde,or ratherthewinde from the ^quinoctiall, is contrary in nature unto if, as being ready to undo all that the north winde did effed , namely, to dif- folve the congealed aire, which was made fnow, froR, hail, ice, into water, and vva- ter into aire, to make tranfparent that which was dark , and render thin that which was before thick: Andthereforebetween thefe properties there is nomorefym- patht, then I have fhewed youto be between the Load-ftones iEquinoftiall , and the Pole. And again, that both thefe oppofite natures proceed , and fpring from one and the fame divine and catholick fpirit , which operaceth all in all, every where, and confequently as well in earth as in heaven , this teftimony of the true Phllofophy doth manifeftly confirm and import: Deo emittcme ferm'/ncm funm i» nr i terram cfttantcelerrime excstrrit , qui nives entitth fiCHtlartam ^ & fminam (juaft ci- tieres differ git, dejicit gelu tanejHam frufia , coram frigore ejus cjuis canfijlat ? Emitt'it verbamfnuff & liquefaclt ifia , fimul ac effiafyemi-im fuum, efflunnt aij/xe. Gad fen- deth forth his word , ttriinneth forth moftfwiftly upon tfieedrth ^ who froducsth fn&m iikewool, cindfprendeth ah-^oadthef-ojt like afhes ^ andcaficth dowrt theice as itwere pieces, J-vho is able to repfl agaitiflhis cold? He fer.deth forth his word and melt eth or
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diffotveth (ill thefe ; fo fooyi Ai he breatheth forth hu wtnd or Spirit , the eongea'ed waters te^in to flow and move. Whereby icappeareth, that the Word or Spirit of God congealeth by one property, and dill'olvech by another: and conlequently aj God is all one in eflence ; fo it is one and the fame Spirit that effefteth thefe four- fold alterarions , inonecatholickfpirit of the world, which areby the Ancients called dilUnil Elemencs;becaufe they cuold never as yet thtoughly determine,whac was the efTenciall form of the Elements. But if they had well conlidered the four Elements, of the whuh they fpakefo much, and, asitfliould feem, underliood effentially but little , or had they well conceived that heaven and eirth were made t Pet. J. of water, and by water by the Word, as Sacred Philofophy teacheth us, then they would have known alfo , that the common (ubitantiall Sub;ed of them all -. was but one created watery fpirit; alfo that this fpirhs four-fold information , was ef- fefled by one in. rearing formalleflence or Divine Word , a(^ing and informing that univerfall Element by a four-fold emanation ; l"o that the will of one creating Spirit, effefted by, and working in, four Angells of an oppofit nature , maketh dil'pofeth, or changeth every day this one fpiricuall watery Stibjed into this or that Element, according unto the Will ot the Creator. All which is evidently demonllrated by the wether-glafs : For the aire therein inclofed, doth by contra- (ftion or dilatation, convert it felf into the form of any of the Elements, and is altered therein, according as the nature of the Macrocofmicall blaft or wind that bloweih. Now whereas it may be objectively demanded, From whence then came the earth and waters, that are relident perpetually here beneath ? I anfwe'r, Thatthey are th-effeits , whichthe winds by the Will of God or ELOHIM RU ACH did originally produce, and thefe were framed firft out of the aire, namely by rhickning it by one degree into water, and ingroffing it by another into folid and Sxt earth, as it appeared by the third daies Creation, where it was faid, that ArUuni a^paruerit ex aqais : Dry-land did appear cut rf the tvaters. But the Divine Philofopher St. Paul doih confirm all this , where he affirmeth, that 5v oufht to biftieve by Faith^ that thofe things which are vifible, were firjt of thiti^s mvi^ fibleandti'ifeen. And again, if that the two lower bodies did not refolve them- felves by little and little, though infenhbly into aire, it would not be polTible that the earth or the water could hold that abundance of Water, Stones, Brimttone, caufedof Lightnings, and fuch like, which falleth from the aire; and yet we fee that neither the aire, nor water, nor earth, areat any time found bigger then their naturallaccurtonaed proportions. By this therefore I havefufficientlyexprefied un- to you, the attraftive and concraSive property of the Northern Pole in the aire; which inferreth thus much, that as the Northern blalls are enemies unto life, be- caufe they contrail from the circumferenceto the Center , which is contrary unto the aft of man's life, therefore all things that are reduced into a chill, cold, and Northern property, be they airy, watery, or earthy, they draw ftrongly unto them, as it is proved by the weather-glafs: For the included aire being animated , by the effedsofaltrong and obftinate Northern wind, fucketh and dravVeth the waters on high, namely from the i^^«;'wff/W/ point of the glafs, unto the Center of the North Pole, which is alligned by the head of the m.attras ; and alfo by the fame rea- fon congealed fpirits in any earthly fiibftance, do fuck or draw from the exteriour to the interior; as we obferve that ^o/f^^rzwowi^jfi^fucketh moy (lure unto it ; and alfo all other earth when it is throughly dry, and that in his own naturall condi- tion, namely becaufe it being of tfie quality of the North, it fucketh ana draweth Orongly a watery moyfture ; out this is by reafon of his drought ; the attradion therefore in the Loacl-llone isotherwife. For it having the eflcntiall nature of its morher Earth, and the virtue of the North in his Pole , draweth the mafculine Sulphureou'^ fpirits out of Iron greedily,and that with a feminine appetire by reafon of the propinquity, and likenefs of one nature unto another. The like regard alfo hath th: Polefhr unto the Load-ilone, as the Load-ltone hath unto the Iron, which is his like : For Natura Natura Juagaudei & latatur : N.m-.re is gl.ii .i»d re- jorcethiKhrr like nature i zsEmpedocles doth truly Zillifit, But both the Iron and the Load-rtorve artf of one myne , one vein, and one nature, feeing tha: both of them are of an earthly and boreall difpoHtion , and therefore the Load- iione and hi'; formall included fpirits, being more enconibi-ed withfuperfluities, then the refined Iron, dorh as it were (either for their aiTiihnce , namely to be de- livered from thit incombrance) draw unto rhem their like , out of the purified Iron or Steel, by a wonderfuH appetite, and in this aftion fuck unto it the Iron,
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who ( as unwilling toleave its formall fpirit ) doth follow by a naturall continui- ty, themorionof itsformallbeanis, orcll'efor comfortandconfolation, yea, and formal refeftion's caufejno other wile then the cold tnareriall female doth the more fonr.'.ll male, toberefrefhedbychemaiculinefeed or fulphureous Form, which they both received from that generall Agent's ideal Northern nature, thatfu- ftaineth and animateth the earth. I will prove it by a hmilitude, but in a vegetable fubitance. Weobferve, that the grain ot wheat , not participating with The na- ture of the earth, that is, fo long as it isaboveground and not {own , attradeth not his like from heaven ; but wh^n it is committed unto the earth, and the earth by corruption hath unlooled his bands, his (pirits fuck down from above the Sun- beams, and celetiiall'inauences of his fixt conftellacion and erratick Planet in quantity; that thereby it may be delivered, and rife again by the celeftiall beams of his own nature, that defcend from heaven, and principally from the Sun; fothat like being added to his like, becommech the Ihonger in afcention : For experience teachethus, that the celelliall included form orvicall beam creepeth out of the earth upwards , tending by all his appetite unto its ethereal native home, from whence it came; but becaufe the Element of fire is contiguous unto the atthereal fpirit , therefore it will not permit thefe sthereall or funny-beams, to afcend with- outit, and becaufe the aire IS a near-cleaving and continued neighbour unto the fire, therefore it will not permit the fire to afcend without his prefence : and again, the water challengetn the felf-fame priviledge , namely to afcend with the aire : and l.iftlyi the earth will not let the water move upwards without her com- pany, as being next of her race, and therefore will have the felf-fame prerogative with the other three. But becaule the earth is ponderous and cannot afcend , (be holdeth it faB below, and will not permit the fpirit to fore higher; and fo thofe beamy fpirits which feemed to defcend, forthe freedom of their brethren , are by thefe Elementary ties, or rather the four-fold difpoluion of one Element detai- red, and made to hover, and hang in the aire ; where inlfeedof flying upwards to heaven, they do multiply into many graines. And I have noted by mine own ex- pe.i-'nce, namely by anatomifingof corn, with the fiery knifeof diAillation, that the f jmale in corn, which fuckech down the celeltiall influences of the like nature, h 3 pure volatil Salt, of a refined or aereall terretfrial condition; but rich in cele- leftiall f^re, and therefore made volatil and airy by the union of both extreames; fo thar if is this f.-male, which allurerh and draweth down magnetickly , beams from above, and holdeth them fart to multiply its own nature; even like the fow- ler, thatmakethufeof a captivedbird , to allure others of the fame kind unto his netts. But as for the female mineral nature, becaufe the body of it is more com- pa by the attradlive virtue of his ftipcickand attractive fait , the elfenriall beams of Iron, as from a ftar of his own nature, to folace and redeem his fpirits, and cdn- •Tequenrly with the fpirit it fucketh alfo the mafculine body; forafmuch as the one cannor be well devided from rhe other, and when it haih them it retainech them; partly for a confolarion arid corroboration; and partly for a muldplication of his ertence. And therefore thofe Philofophers are deceived , which averre , thao the Icad-rtone doth not fecretly feed upon the'formall fpirits of Iron, becaufe though itsforcewasprefervedbyimmerfing or burying of it in abagof filings or fcales of Iron; yet becaufe neither the Load-(tone was augmented, nor the Iron dimini- fhed inwaight, theyconcludetbatit doth not nourifh. But they ought to know, that the formall beams in the aire, dothadde no more waight unto it, then the light of a candle doth totheglafs, or water in which it fliineth; and yet it nou- riflierh formally, that is, it multiplieth in formall eflence , though not in materi- all fubi'iance or quantity. To conclude , as the externall cold , caufeth the for- mall heat in the aire to contraft itfelf, in flying and retiring it felf , from the cir- cumference unto rhe Center, toefchewtheaffaultsof his adverfary ; fo alfo the externflll cold,dotb compaft it into a more folid fpareby an antiperiftaticall rever- beration, and oontra£tion,caufed by the Northern cold's penetration. Bur in the Load-flone rhe fpirit is Saturnine, and doth not otherwife fuck in his like, by the afTiftance alfo of a Saturnine body , animated by the drouth of a Martial nature, whir h alfo is by fomeafcribed unto the North: But moreover, it affefteth his like in the Iron, and therefore by a fympatheticall defireis the more animated unto that bu'"nefs of Attraction. And it fhould appear, befidesallthis, that there isan attradive property alfo in the body of the Iron , which fucketh unco it the fpirits
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oftheLoadftone J noothervvife than the male or Mdfs doth in his nature covet and affeft Tfww ; but becaulc ihc femalejby realon of her coldneis , dorh moil af- feft and defire t-he company of the male , the fpiricuall beams of her affection doth with the molt fervency dehre and covet , and therefore draw and allure the beams of the male 5 ( which is ofa hotter, and for that reafon of a more perfed nature) unto her; and this is obferved in the Iron, which I takefor the male, forthough it, of it fdf, without the Load-ftones afsittance,dothconveit hi inclination, unto the poles of the world,yet we oblerve, that it isniore{lo\vly,and with the lefser appetite, and therefore more formall than material!,
I celled therefore, upon that which is already faid, that two like thing? , which are of the nature of the Aquinoftiall and temperate Zone, do afFett and embrace one another, by a fympatheticallemiffion of beams, fromthe center unto the cir- cumference; and fuch is the love of thofe creatures, which live by the property of apohiive emanation, as are animals, which are of a hot difpohtion , be they dry or moiii; and therefore they do not fenfibly draw one fpirit unto another , bur work by theunion which is made by aconjundlion , or concurrency together ot lights , after an emiffion of their formall beams. And thefe have a reference unto the fpir- ritsproperty, wkichilfueth from the ealt and fouth winds , whofe natures are to dilate from the center, and therefore not to coptraft from the circumference. Contrariwife, two like natures , whichembrace the property of the Poles, and cold Zones, do affed and hug one another by contraftion, namely, by fucking and drawing of each nature from the circumference unto their center , even as we fee . one Load-itone divided in the middle, will draw and fuck another unto it fclf, till both parts of it be fitly joyned together , in the very place or equinoSiall of their "> divifion ; and after this fafhionaUo is that attractive affeftion made, \>hichis be- tween the iron and theLoadltone, which are creatures fubjed unxoSatfir»,f^irffo, and the Pole-ltar.
From thefe Phyficall and Aftronomicallaffertions of ours, theChimycall con- templation varieth not much ; for if in that kindoffpeculation, we do obferve the nature of the Load-ftone, we fhall find it not to fpring from any naturall , but ra- ther from a monitrous birth or generation, foralmuch as it is noted to proceed fromunequall and unlike parents , as the Mule doth; for if we obferte well the manner of its compofition, we fhall finde , that his mother , or pafsive corporeall mafle, isacommon, ftony, and earthly ^/fr-r/zr; ; and that his father , oradive form, is ametaUick,orfulphureousMartiall fpirit : And, inconclu;';on, we fhall perceive, that their mixtion is effeded in this manner: The Mercuriall liquor of a Itony, earthly, or Saturnine nature , being as yet in its firlt matter or fhell, as ic were, and being a near neighbour unto the ^fri'«r^ of /^/ tures are molt commonly found near , and in company one of another ) did here- upon, and for this caufe, acquire unto it felf, a light tranfmutation , and fo do ap- pear to be joyned together by a ftreight, contiguous, and almoft continued union; fo that the compofition doth obtain a mean exiftence,* between the nature ofa Martiallmettle, and a Saturnine (tone, andmay well be rearmed a yWirrc^rj' , me- tamorphofed by halves, or a kind ofa Hermcphroditicall Saturnine- /^frr; the which, when the Sulphureous Martiall fpirits, as the metallick forntr do enter, it receiveth thofe Martiall fpirits, and conferveth them in its womb, as their prrv per pafTivcand mother ; and by that means, themafsis coagulated into a ftony body.
Now fi nee every fpirit , andconfequently thisof the Load-ftone , defireth to be nouriflied by tnat which is neareft and likclt unto his own nature , the which nature or fpirit is onely found in Iron, it happeneth for this reafon, that the inward martiall fpirit of the Load-ftone , doth draw the body of Iron unto it , and after an occult manner, dothfeem to fuck his nourifhmeot out of it ; I conceive there- fore, that the fixt fait in the Iron or Load-ftone, is partly of a hot and dry Martiall nature, and confequently of afiery earthly condition ; and partly of a cold and dry, Itiptick, and Saturnine faculty , which alfo it receiveth from its earth; arsd therefore there concurreth two teftimonies ofltrange attradion in the Load- Itonc. And becaufef^i-w^iisfaid to be the female friend, and companion unto Mars, fhe doth add a ftrong concupifcible defire unto the attradion, and bridleth the irafcibie and odible property in Mars, by her feminine embraces. If we look fenoufly into theinward nature of Iron, orfteel , we fhall find all this to be ma- nifeftedby effed, f«r I have with a certain familiar Me^firfftm^Tcdacsd all the body
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of Steel into akindofCopperis or Vitriol, which nature of minerall fait is fami- liar with, as well roCoppsr as Iron ; for Vitriol is by the fame reafon extraftecj out of Copper. N ow we (hall find in Vitriol or Coppeiis, a hot burning corrofive nature, and an earthy attracting fulphur, which fucketh unto it as Bole Arm»m- ack^, or Terra Sigillata doth moiiiure : whereby it is evident, that as well a Martial! and Saturnine, as Venerian condition , concur in the magneticall or ferruginous fait. Again, we (hall find, that the irfluxions of Mars do mingle themfelves na- turally with the northern wind , and agree well with the nature of the earth , by reafon that in the circulation, of elements, the earth doth, in regard of her ficcity , confent and fympathize with the fire. Again, Ptolemy doth afcribe thofe Aquilo- nary winds, which are violent, unto Mars his influences ; moreover, that Mars his fpirit is the caufe oftheattraiftivevertue, ineachccrrofivefalt , and gum that is fubjeftunto it, it is well manife(ied in Ehphor^ium, ScAmony, Laureola, Flammulay and hot corrofi ve Venomes; for thefe (as Hermes telleth us) are fubjeft unto Man hisConrtellation. Hereupon we finde , that Vitriol is cold, acid, and(tiptick in his externall ; and yet hot, cauftick , and corrofive in his interiour. And again , Iron ( which is called Mars , becaufe ft is fubjed unto CH'iars his influences ) is Vitriol or Copperis in his interiour ; as alfo Copper, (which is a mlnerall fubjed unto the Conttellation oH^enus and therefore is c ailed f^e»Hs.)
CHAP. III.
Of the excellency of Man in the Animal Kingdom, and of the admirable nature oj the Ltad-Jione in the Mineral.
I May well prefume to compare the Load-ftone in difpo(ition with Man , confi- dering the admirable venues and dignity of the one in the Animal kingdom; and the miraculous operations, and myfticall properties of the other, in the Mine- ral region. As for Man, (for dignities caufe I will fpeak of him in the fir(t place ) there isfiicha fuper-eminent and wonderfuU treafure hidden in him, that wifc- tnen have e:feemed, that theperfe(ft wifdomofthis world, confilkthinthe know- ledge of a mans felf, namely, tofindout that fee ret myftery, which doth lurk within hi n. For man is faid to be the center of every creature, and for that caufe he is called Microcofmus , or the little world : Centrum & miraculum wundi , The center or miracle of the world , Containing in himfelf the properties of all creatures, as well celeftlall as terreltriall, and confequently of the Load-ftone. He is Tevtptum Det\ the TempleofGod; Corpus Chr/fii, the Body ofCh-ift; Ha^.taculum SplritusfmElif the H abitacle of the holy Gha(}.,(is the Aportle hath taught us). Neither verily may it be imagined, that God would make choice of an un.vorthy dwelling place. Anii therefore in the confideration thereof, andourenquiry after fo great a myftery, we had need to proceed with our exafteftdifcretion and judgment, from the vi* fible things of man unto the invifible , that is, to penetrate with the (harped edge of our wit by demonltration, a fojleriori-^ or from the externall man, inro the bow- ells ofhis fecret, myfticall, and internal! beeing; wherefore we p-oceed thus : See- ing that Man is rightly reported hy Hermes to be ths Son of the world, as the world is the Son of God, beingthat it is framed after the imageof the Archetype, (for v/hirh caufe he is rearmed the little world) It will be requifitetounderftand, that be isinlikemannerdividedinto a heaven and earth, as the great world was , and confequently containeth in it felf noothervvife his heavens, circles, poles, and ftars, than the great world dotL And alfo as we find , that the fpiricuall image of the heavens, with their circles and poles, are delineated alfo in the earth, and every particular thereof, (as it appeareth in the Loadftone and Iron ) fo the character of the inward man is deciphered and pourtrayed out in the outward man , no other- wife, than we may judge of the fafhion ofthefwordbythefcabbard, or the kernell by the (hell. Concerning rhe re-fearch or enquiry after the worlds poles in man , there hath rifen no fmall difference amongft the Philofophers ; Pythairoras, PlatOy and Jrfiotle have ordained the eaitpart ofthe world to be his right hand, and their reafon is,becaufe the diurnall morion of the heavens, which proceedethfrom the Primnm mobile, is etfefiked from eaft to weft ; and confequently the weft muft be his left hand, or finilier portion: and in placins man according unro this pofi- tion , his face muft look unto the north, and his pofteriors unto the fouth. Buc
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Empedocles oppofeth this opinion, affirming, that the jEftivall Sotftice, or the T:o- pick oiCancer, is the right hand of the world ; it foUoweth therefore, that the Hy- emallltationoftheSun,ortheTropickof C^/jr/corw, muftbe the left ; and accor- ding unto this diredion, man's face mutl beholdthe well. As for mine own part, niine opinion is adverfe unto both their minds, forafmuchas I, being moved there- to for reafons, as well Theologicall as Naturall, would rather adapt mans face un- to the Orient, or eaiiern quarter, and then his polteriors fhall refpeil the weil, and fo the north pole will correfpond unto his left hand, and the fouth unto his right. That this polition is notonely naturall y,but alfo divinely,befitting the Microcofni, we prove it thus : The Patriarcks, Prophets, and ApotUes, in their devouteft prayers, did ufe to convert their faces unto the ealt , which is an argument, that this quarter of the world was by the Creator alloted unto mans anteriour parr. Matth. 14. Andin ^/^ff/j^vweread, ihzt ltght»inojkaUc:me omoftheeaj}, afidjhallpAjfeunto NuBib. 3 J. f/jfjvr/?. And in another place it is izid^Metimlni quamc^tte nd pUgamorkmaiem, & ad plagam anjirAlem, & adflagam accident alem, & ad fUgamfeptfntrlonalem. A'ltA- ^ureJorihti>]totheeiifi,a»dthefoHth,andthe yvefi^andtorvArds the north. As if he had faid , Meafureout plots of ground before you, and at your right hand, and behind Job ij. you, and tx your left hand. And Job faith , Behold, I go into the eafi, and he wiUnot
^: there-arid unto the wefi^and I jhall not find him there •, or unto the north, wherehe wor- kjih, and I ihall not difcern him ; he hideth himfelfin the fouth, and J ihali f/et behold him. But St. ferom interprets this place thus. If Ifhall go unto theeafiy heappearetlx »ot ; if unto the wef^ / jhall not underjtand him ; if unto the left hand^ what (hall I do} I (hall not overtake him; if on the right hand, Ijh^ll not fee him. And TremeJtius thus : Jf J jhall fo forward, hetvill not be thereof bacd^yard, I jhall not find, him ; when he ope^ rateth on the left hand , yet jhall 1 not jee him; he will cover the right quarter of the tiorld, and yet jhall I not beholdhlm. So that what Pagn.ne maketh the orient angle of the world, Tr^wf//;«jmaketh the face or fore-part of the world , and fo-forth. Whence it appeareth, ( and that, as I think, without further cont roverfy ) that the direct difpolition of man, according unco the fituation of thegreat woid, is, when his face is difpofed unto the orient, or eaft angle of the earth. And for this reafon arethe two eyes of man difpofed in the frontifpiceofhisfabrick , as alfo of all other creatures, that they might after a long nofturnall darkneffe, behold with delight the orienrall Sun, that by the prefence thereof , they might adore the Cre- ator thereof, in whofe power it is, by his golden afpeft , to b.iniQi the prefence of the gloomy night, andconfequently to faluteit , as being the vifible type of the eternall Sun's invihble beauty ; who alfo (as Scriptures hath tauoht us) will appear at the laft day from that eaftcrly point , to renovate and purifie by fire the corrupt world. It foUoweth therefore, that mans right hand, or right part, mult refpedl the fouthj as his left hand the north. All which are by fo much the more apparent , by how much they agree and concord with Philofophicall reafon : For the Liver be- ing on the right fide of man, dnh molt conveniently fympathife with the fouthern nature , being that it engendereth by its vertue warm aery blood , and fendeth it forth by the channells of the veins , every where , over the microcofmicall earth , to make it to vegetate, even as the fouthern wind produceth tepid or madid iliowers, to water the microcofmicall earth, thatthereby the plants and herbage whlchgrowethonir, may encreafe and multiply by vegetation. The left fide, or left hand, is rightly compared unto the worlds Boreal quarter,or the Ardtick p le : for as in that angle, the aire, water , or earth, is cold and dry , ape to congelation , & of a contrniftiveandfiiptick,orrelirictive nature;foalfo we finii,rh.u thefpleen which lyeth in the left part ofmansbody,isthe recepracleofmelin-holy, or con- gealed, cold, black, fowre, and earthly humours ; and as the northern blalts of the macro oimicall or great world, do obfcure and mask, oreclipfeofr-times the fair fun-fhine of iheealt, and by that means do procure an obfcure darknefTe overall the hemii'phear; even fo in t he little world, the flatuous fumes fent fofth from this northern fplene, contradterh the heart , and inltead of wholfome and bright p vTi- on:, namely, of joy, mirth, andgladnefs, which the beauteous fun-fhine of life procurerh unto man, it bringeth forth dark pafs ions, as are, fadnefs,fear, difpair , and fuch like ; yea, and cauferh the heart to fuffer the effects of rynropes,and p:il- pirations. Thus therefore you fee the two oppofite poles of the litrle world to concur in cffv;(ft , and th>it in all refpects, with that of the grc.uworld, counting thj fouthern pole from the ;£quino£ti.ill. For if wc divide the Lo.id-ftonein the middle, that part in the .'Squinottiall which is next the norch-pole, will f^rve and
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ftandin place of the South Pofe; and if again , that haff be divided in fhe Tro- pick of Cancer, thedivilion about the Tropick of Cancer , will be his South Pole. But to look more internally yet into the little world , we find that it conlilleth on that fpirituall Corner-rtone, by which the world was made and the earth fuftai- ned, and confequently in which the world, and every point thereof , was ideally delineated from the beginning , before it was made after the manner of the earth, which is faid to be full of the Spirit of Wifdom. Hereupon it is termed the Tem- ple of God, the body and members of Chriil, and the habitacle of the Holy Spi- rit, (as is faid before) . For this caufe therefore we mult think, that there arefe- cret Poles, circles, and ftarrs, alTigned unto man, as well fpirituall as corporall> DO otherwife then there is unto the earth, and every Magneticall portion thereof; So that in man is the properties of the Macrocofmicall winds , and confequently in it may palTions be brfed , and produced, which are as well Antipathsticall as Sympathetica!!.
Now verily, if in the fecond place, we fhall duly obfervethe nature of the Load-Hone, we fhall not a little admire at the rare and fingular properties there- of; yea truly, we (hall find it alnaoft to paffe man's reafcn and underltanding, thac a hard mineral (lone, unmoveable, and Hupid, fhould nevertheleffe be pofleffor of fuchfpirits, which are able infenfibly to difplayand tranfmit their occult fa- culties and virtues, quite through or a travers tlie hardeft ftones , the mod folid and clofeR grained wood ; the thick and intranfpirable plates of mettal; yea, the impenetrable glafs it felf , and other fuch compacted ftuffe , which have not any fenfible Spiracle or porofity, and that it fhonld work on it felf , and on Iron ; and that it fhould behold the Pole Arctick at fo long a diltance , as there cannot be a greater in our regard, namely from the earth unto the highelt heavens, or the eighth Shpere, the which is almoft incommenfurable, I mean unto the Pole-Itar. I dare boldly fay, that alltheSchooleof thePeripateticks, who made profelTion to give a reafon of all things, and to be ignorant of nothing, that toucheth the molt oc- cojlt and intimate fecrets of nature, would find themfelves much troubled and puzzeled, and as it were inclofed in a confufed Labyrinth of phantalticall ima- ginations andChimerianfurmifes, before they could difcuffeand unvaile this mi- Ity bufinefs, or unrip the fardill of fo profound a riddle ; that is to fay , ere they could hit the mark, or attain unto the wifhedend of this inquirie, which is onely pointed at and demonftratedby the finger of a far truer , and divmer Philofophy, whofe main Subject of all aftions and power, is the fpirituall Corner-ttone Jefus Chrilt, in whom is the plenitude of Divinity, as St. P^iw/ teachethus. Is it not wonderfull, that this fpirit can pafs like that celeltiall one in Man, where the aire is not able to penetrate ? Is it not an evident Argument, that it is of an acthereall race, which is able to operate ihefe effects quite thiough fuch folid bodies ? Wherefore lee not /'/«Mrc/j make his brags as he hath done, where he (triveth to undo this intricate Gordian knot or tye, reputing it a fhame and defe£t infuch lear- ned men, as have medled herein, and have not dived into the depth thereof, be- ing that at laft he himfelf flieweth palpably herein his error, after he had made fo Itrift aninquifition : For hecondudeth, that the infenfible emanations or emif- fions or effluxions which iflue out of the Load-ftone, and p-oduce his attraftivs effefts ,are grofsand flaruous ; whereas , if he had a little better confidered the bufinefle, he would have found that the fubtileft, and moft rarifiedaire, is not able to find any porofity or fpiracle to breathe through thick compaftedboards, or fmoothed and polifhed (tones, or plares of filver and gold ; much lefs can any paf- fage be admitted unto grofs and flatuous fpirits, to breathe or expire through. But to return again unto the (traight line of our HKtory.
CHAP. IV.
Of a d/juble AttraUive difpofttion tM Man; and horv the one agreeth with the nature
of theLoad-finfie; and the other is differ etit from ii. Herein ttlfo the
Reafon, why the dead carcafs of a Man is indued vnith a Mag-
neifck^po-Krer or attra^ive nature, is difcovered.
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San the dimenfion of the Load-(tone, there is obferved to be a multiplicity in kinds or manners of attra(!^ion, ( for the attraition of it is otherwife ef-
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fe-f^ted at his Poles, n:;niely perpenciculailvj thinkisonthee^^M/VjcaM.', whi(.h is datlin? ; fo alio there is a great difference between the attraction, which is made intnan: "For the Spleen being of theproperty of theNortbPole, iuckethunto it by the i^.wwwj 5p/f«/ iy by a Saturnine virtue, and the Gall attradeth, by a Martiall Sulphureous o: fiery terreftriety, choUer untoit;and theLiverbyaScmthern or .£quinodial di- lataiion, difpcrfeth the blood which it hath rubitied, by veiny channells through the whole Microcofnjicall earth. Buthrft, it attradethby his porous Organs :he like unto it from the guts. All which manner of attraction it would never efi'ed, were it not by the incitation of naturall heat, which though in it felt it rather dif- fipateth by dilatation, then attrafteth by contraction ; yet itinciteth and anima- tcth certain corporeall inilruments, ordained by nature for attraction's caufe, namely to draw and fuck by contraction, and to dilate again by relaxing or dilating of the'mfelves. And for this reafon is the Heart, the Stomack, the Inteftines, or Guts, thi Veins, & verfefor retention, and oblique for expulnon. Again, the attraction of the ai-e by the -^fpira Arreri.% and noitrills , could not be effected , but by the aid of the Pulmones or Lungs, the which would not move or work but by the animation of a dilating and vivifying heat; fo that, in this cafe, all attraction of externall aire, which is made by the Pore?, into the flefny parts, and by the Lungs into the Hea.T, and by the noftrils into the b;ain,p:oceedeth from the dilatated action of hear,and is effected by inltruments, and that properly by the lungs and heart : Even as we fee that the Syringe or Squirt being pulled out, attracleth or drawethaire; but being thrultin, it emittethorexpellethit again; andyetboth thefe oppont actions ia oneOrEjanorinttruT.ent , proceed from one dilated humane fpirit which acteth. We mult underftand therefore, (asl haveexprefledbifore) that man is compofed of Matter which is his Patient, and Form which is his Agent; and as matter did firft proceed of the watery Subject , which di-iffue out oi the dark Chaos , and therefore is of it felfindinable unto a Northern and privative difpoiition, n.'mely . to rert, cold, mortincation, and immobility; fo ir is this Matter , that maketh .contraction, as well in -hz heart, and ccnfequently in the Palfe's morion, as in the other parts of the body ; that is to fay, the naturall inclination of Matter in nian, is apt to contract fpirits from the Cucunaferencc unto the Center ; when contrariwifc Form being derived from Light, is bufie in dilatation , and therefore in animation, and exagkation of Matter, which would otherwife be fopified, and as it wei« mortified, by her mother's Northern cold. And this is the reafon of Syftele and Diafiole , in the hearts motion j which commeth of that action and palTion, or operation and reiiftence, which is made between the Light , heat , or iEquinoitial form, and the dark and cold, or polar matter in man's compofitionj whereby it is apparent,that as the great world isfaid to be conapofed ex lire et am:ci- tij, of hatred ajsdfrie»d]hfp; To alfothe little world , is rightly averred to be com- pared of contraries, namely of the children of Light and Darknefle. Now in this therefore, a live-man's attractive power, differech from that of the-Load-ftone, becanfe the Load-ltone is not fo appearing lively as man is ; but may in fome fort be efteemed dead, becaufe it is divided from his ferruginous vein in the earth; and aoain, he attraiteth not by any dilatation, madeof a vivifying heat , throughany o^gmicall Subftance or alTiltance,bnt by an earthly and Centrall, contracting dupo- fifion. And for that reafon , his greateft power of attraftion coniiiteth in the Pole. The live man's attraction p-oceedeth therefore from a dilatation of lively hear, from the Center unto the circumference, which caufeth mareriall inltru- ments ordained as well for attraction as retention or expuliion to eSect their of- fice; andyetfometimes it cperateth chiefly to contraction, that is in motion from the circumferecne unto theCenter,when it receiveth by the p^rmilTion ofGod fhebeamsof a p-ivative Emanation, aswhen the heart is contracted: whereupon b.dpi'Tions, asfadnefs, m.elancholy, difpair, envy, fear, an(3fu.-h like do follow, as we have told you before. Sometimes the naturall heat reflect^rh, for the Sen- fes repofe and reft, his beams inwardly , as in the action of fleep, whichisatype of death and darknefs ; but contrariwife, itdil.iterh its felf from th; Center unt-) the circumference, when it will have the animal fpirits to watch and operate in their functions.
By rhis therefore we mayimie'n:, that the Load-ftonf; atmctive natnrc is ilfcm s-;e circumference unto the Center, beinsas k were to man's externallview
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half dead, and by that manner of attradion it drawech unto it his like, namely fpirits out of the Iron or Iteel, which by reafon of its refination and homogeniety in nature, as being cleared froni all his itony Mercury, which was heterogenious unto-itj wemay compare unto a live man, which is replenifhed with lively ema- nating or dilating fpirics: For I would have every man to know, that there is not a creature on the earth, which hath not his Altrological or ftarry influence, which (though we cannot difcern it) doch. (bine forth, and maketh his afpstft unto the like of his kind, namely unco fuch creatures, as are of condition with theltarrsof heaven, from whence the creature's influence doth defcend : But if the two crea- tures be ditVonanc in nature , then the one doth Anripathetically divert or refled his beams from the other. The Iron therefore like a vivified mats , meeting with the Load-Hone, doth eafily emit his beams o£ love unto the Load-Itone, who doth as greedily fuck or draw them, by means of his inward earthly Martial Spi» -its, even unto her Center , and by the attraction of the Iron's formall beams, draweth with it all the Irbn body, that poflelTeth the ftarry or Martial influence. In like manner a ftrong Magnet, is as it were a female unto a weaker. No otherwife is it with a live man, and the dead carcafs of another; For though that many bodies appear to be dead, yet ihall the naturall Magician know, that in his fledn and bones there abideth admirable fpirits , which operare no lefs wonders, yea , and far grea- ter th;nthofe of the Load-ftone. And therefore I would have each felf-concei- ted perfon, that arc fo apt to envy againit the Myfteries of God in nature, to learn (
more difcretion and experience, before they fo vain-glorioufly do judge the ftrange, and marvellous eifeif^s of man's royall nature, and pronounce fo boldly without hefitation, or fticking, that there ar« no fpirits in any amputated mem- bers or portion in man, no nor in the dead carcafs, as Cafman and Fofier aver ; Nay ~ " that the Devill himfelf cannot conferre any into them or it : For I would have both them and other temerarious and bold Judges to know, that as the Load- ftone, though appearing a dead mafs, is obferved to fuck and draw Centrally un- to it, with a lively appetite the beams and body of the Load-ftone; 'and that all and every member divided from the Load (lone, willdo the likein its proportion: Evenfol can prove it, andconfirmitby an ocular demonftration , that bya right application of the flelliy parts of a dead man's carcafs unto a live man, (if the ap- plication be long) it will make the live man faint and feeble, the which neverthe-' lefs a while after the mareriall or corporall Magneticall Mummy be removed, will receive again his wonted ftrength : Moreover, lell: this relation may {eem to Mr. Fo/^frand thereftof his Cabaliliicall Seft, a figment or Chimerious fancy: forafmu^b as he may alleadge, that thd application of the thing may work in the live man's imagination, and caufe him to perfwade himfelf that he is faint? and that without any true g-ound , and that there can be no externall effed to prtSve it. lanfwer: That it willfujkor draw forth of the live mm thefpintuall Mummy in a viiible manner : Forby thecoldne^ of thepart, the fpirituall Mummy fo excra- fted, will condenfe it felf on the fuperficies of the corporall Mignet , even a aire into a cloud, or a cloud into Manna ; fo that- it may be gathered and converted inroa very pretiou'^and wholfome /^i»»/«r of which it is extraded , be found, and of a wholfome complexion) . as contrari- wife, it may prove as corrupr and Antipuheticall a medicine, where rhe body out of which it is drawn is infected with any venomous oi; contagious difeafe, name- ly French Pox, Plague, Leproiie, and fuch like, as fhallbe more at large expref- fed in the next book. Now rhe reafon of this ad and operation in the dead man*"? Magnerick pirts, is, that as when theb-^dy wasal've, it was animated by light, and enjoyed all the properties of light, to wit, it was hot, active, moveable, dilative, and, in conclufion, of an .^quino£ti,ill or Soiirhcrn condition; fo that naturall fi'-e being exringuifhed, it finduerhthep'operties of darknefs ; for it is mortified by cold, andisrongeahd,porenriall, fix or immobil , conrraftive, and, in fine, of'rhe rig'd rone's, and frozen Pole's nature; So rh.u whef-eas before whilft it lived, ir did CTiit his beams f-om the Center to the Circumference , and did enjoy the blelTins^s ofGod's vivifying and pofitive Emanirion , now it indueth the condi- tion of his contrading, p'-ivative and mortifying ETnanition. And yet I would not that wifemen fhould think , that becaufethe lively body is turned into a dead ca-cafs, rherefo'-ei'- is voidof all fpirits of life, be'n that the incorrupriblefpi'it is in all things, and confequently as well in thofe.thac are dead, as iothofechat arealive : Forthisincorrupciblefpirit according unto the
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variety of his property in ihi lOur winds , is rorneciine in motion from the center of the thing in which it is, unto ciie circumference , for fo he vivifyeth, and caufeth the creature to act and live , by a fouthern or iquinodiall faculty ; fo ( I fay ) it operateth from the centc ot i.hc ccleiuall fun, to the animation of inferiour crea- tures, nanoely, by evocation ot chtir in^orrupciblefpirits, ( which were repelled . by thi winter or Boie^l cold into tiidr center ) frpm their center, unto their cir- cuintercnce,asit appcareth by fueh vegetables , whichfeem, for that reafon, as it were dead all rhewinte: ici- on, b^caufe the fpirit of life leaves and forfakes thecir- cumterence of th- plarr , and bctakcchit felf unto the center, to retire from the af- faults of cold, which u: ic> oppoute , as far as it can. But when it perceivech its fountain of li'^ht f .ppoach, and to fend chemforthfuccours,they begin by little and little toiprin^ 5^ain,fron i.hcir center unto their circumference; and being united unto the cxternillbeuns whichare come unto their aide, they expel dark privation, and corgealing .cid, from out their tabernacles , and do proceed to ope- rate and aft unto vegeianon and multiplication ; as alfo we fee in the corn which is buried in the earth. Even fo, (I lay) and no otherwilc, the Load-llone's Martiall nature being originally , by ? Satu.ninc fpirit, contrafted into his center , is ex- sgitated andhirrcdup, and with Iiks )oy doth fuck unto it the formall beams of the Iron, from whofe Mart iall lulphurcous fpirit they did originally fpring. And even fo alfo, the ipi its ot the dead body being by mortifying cold driven from the eircumfv;rcrce unto the center , and telling there at repofe witfiour any adlion , niaktth the body and pvery part thereof fixt and unmo- vable; but when they are apply;d unto the lively circumference of their fpecies or kind, they fpring for-.hwirh and in their watery fpirits towards the cir- cumference, (_as if they were almoll famifhed in the center ) and rejoyce to meet * with their likein the live man, which doth, as it were, dilate it felf, and ili'ue forth of the pores in allreaming 'n.inner> tor their aifmance ; andthcy beinq partly con» gealedinthecenter of thedcad member, do with ; greedy appetite ruv.krhemin with the fpirifuall Mummy , which is their vehicle, towards their cenc rail abi- ding, to endue it with life as it was before, and to recreate it with their prefencej but the unctuous fpirituall Mummy, being full of bright fpirits, reltingupon the fuperficiesof theliveman, infpilTared with the cold and mortifying conta(il of the deadflefli,orpart ofthecarcafc, i> forthwith congealed, and may be refervedfor a private ufe. But can we (I pray you) better confirm this, than with the contra- ^ive, rcftridivcjor congelativevertueofthe fumousexcrefceiKe,iffuing from the fait contained in the dead mans bones ? for by applying it, I mean, the Urnea oc mafle, which groweth on the dead mans bones , unto the irruptions of blood ot hxmorrhoigy in a living man, the warm blood, as it were, moved by an antipathe- tical laffedion, returnethback again ; and is denyed paflage by the congealing and binding operation, of thefe northern effe&ed excrefcences.
But leaving thefe conclufions , touching the dead mans magnet and its vertues , fora while, what will you fay, and there may beamicrocofmicall Magnesor Load- itone, which may befelefted and gathered out of the living man , without any de- triment or prejudice unto his lite, whofe vertues, both in regard of its monflrons and unnaturall generation, being compofed of unlike parents , and being compa- red of two fubilanccs different in kinde, as the Mule is , namely, of an earthly Mercury, and cholerick fulphureous human fpirits ; as alfo in his manner of attra- ction of the fpirituall Mummy out of the living man ; yea, and what is far more admirable, by the tranfplantation of it , either to the animal or vegetable kinds, it worketh after a {trangefafhion; either fympathetically or antipathetically. I know, that thefe newes will ftreightvvay be efteemed bylome, who areaprer to judge amifs, than rightly to fcan, robe diab^licall ; Andwhy? Marry becaufe they pifie thefphearof their capacities. And yet Iknowthis to be true , and know them which have put it in execution, not without the wonderment ofmany; yea, Iknow this Microcofmicall Magnet, and the ufe thereof , the which when it is tryedby wife-men, and well pondered by them, will appear as naturall, as the effects there- of will feem Ilrange, and the reafon abftrufe. But if that which I have faid before be well undtrrliood, and feriouflv pondered, the caiife hereof will not feem fo hidden , as that it fliould exceed the limits of nature. Ofthiskind of magneticall aftion as well fymparhetical! as antipatheticall, I purpofe,by Gods grace, to difcourfe more at large, in the third or Ui\ Book of this Treat ife or Hillory.
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In this Chapter is exfrejfed thefecret cMufe why^ and manner how , as well the Micro- ctfmicallt as xVIacrocofmicall Load-fione^ doth operate ad diftans , a»d that. unto an unknown dimenfion , or unlimited interval/.
MR. Fojler hath fufEciendy expreffed the (hall'ownefs of his Philofophy, where heaverreth, Thatbecaufe thelighc ofthe Sun and Stars cannot penetiate the thick clowds,and opake bodies ; Erfo, the formall effence of a man is not able to pierce and penetrate directly in his ccurfe, without being flopped or hindred by CattleS) Hills, Woods, and fuch like. But had he been a little moreprotoundly feen, or immerfed in the bowels of true Philolophy , he would have known , that theEtheriallfperm, or Ailralicall influences, are ofafarfubtiler condition, than is the vehicle of vilible light : Yea verily, they are fo thin, fo mobile, fo penetra- ting, and fo lively , that they are able, and alio do continually penetrate , and that witnout any manifeft obrtacle or refiUame , even unto the center or inward bofotn of the earth, where they generate mettals of fundry kinds, according unto the con- dition ofthe influence , as the antient Philolophers do jnltifie. The fubtlety therefore of this fpirit,/'/oi(««/, according unto ^^/ in thefe words , Tamaeji ^theris tennitas ut omnta corpora pe»etret univerf tamfu- fera quam infer a, & cum ipfis conjuniiuj aut implicit us^ ea major a mlnime redd^t, quiA fpniius ifle interior ChnUaopera earum mole minima nullum prorfui au^mentum reci- pientCy alit atque conferva:. The tenuity ofthe i^iher is fuch, that it doth penetrate all the bodies ofthe worlds as well above in heaven, as bslovum earth-^ avd this heavenly fub' fiance being joyned and mixed with them, it m^eth them not a jot the bigger for all that^ tecaufe this inward ^pi) it doth nourijh andpreferve all bodies , witho'.t adding any thing H»to their rvsighr, or e»creafing of their fubfiance. And by reafon of this heavenly natures pu ity or fubtlety, the heaven , or caelum , is called by the wifer Philofo- phers, and myfticall Poets, the Husband unto the earth , which they teartn ^efia ; yea, and the very liars of heaven, among the which the Copernicans ranck the earth, are likened unto his wife, being that they areextrafted out ofthe itheriall fubllance , no cthervvife than Eve was out ofthe fide of Adam ; for they are defi- ned to be the thickelx portions of their orbs , by reafon whereof, they are accoun- ted as the members of heaven , and confequently there is nothing fo thin , fubtle , and piercing, as is that fpiric from whence by condenfation they are derived. This is the caufc, that the true AlchymUls do tell fuch wonders of their Caelum , which they call their Qumeffence , arguing, that by reafon of its purity and fubtlety , ic is able to penetrate all things. And the Philofophers fay, that it is their nature , whichthey define tob^ , Vis quttdamrebus inpnita^ommapermtans entia, cun^Oi ge- p^ ArteCbv xerans res, eafque angens aleufq^e & exfmilibus ftmilia procreans. A certain infinite mc, power in things , -which penetrateth and pajfeth through all thtnfrs , tngendring every thingy and augmenting and nourijhmg them , and procreating like things of their like. And verily, if you willbepleafed toconfider really what I have fpoken before, you will remember how I told you, that the angelicall vertue proceeded from the archetypicall emanations, andare the types of the divineldea. Again, that the artheriall fpirit was filled with the angelicall influences , which had their effentiall root from God. So that in verity, it is not the ftarry light which penetrateth fo deeply, or operatethfo univerfally , but that etcrnallcentrall fpirit , wich which his divine and unrefiftable eflence , penetrateth all things , both in heaven above , jindin the eartband waters beneath. And ail this the my'.iicall Philofophers fee- med to verifie, though darkly, when they called Saturn, which was the father alfo o( Jupiter, or the head ofthe cathnlick emanation, the father oi Caelum, or H;aven, arouing thereby, that in the emilTion of the fpirit of wifdom, he produced, created, or informed the heavens, according to that oijob. Caelum omajH Spiricn tuo. Thou . didfi ado- n the heavens by thy Spirit. And David, Verba Domini fmatifunt coeli & Spi- pfjj^ ritu ab ore ems omnis virtus eorr^m: By the vord ofthe Lord the heavens were made, and by h 's Spirit each vertue thereof. And St . Peter, Cah erant priits O terra ex aquis , & ^ p^j^ j^ per aquas exiflentes verba Dei : The heavens were frfl , and :he earth of water , and by the waters, exi/ti'nfT by the word of God. It is certain therefore, that the whole elTen- tiall aft of the atrheriallfpirir, is the divine emanation, or the bright incorruptible Spirit of the Lord ; and therefore of nerelTity that fpirit, which is worthy to bs the
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immediate vehicle of lo unrefiltible and emanating influence mu!^ be conforma- ble to it in purity and fubtility which is the intormer, who is fa id by the wife So/c- Wlf
(fj- inmvAre omnia. & implere or hem terrarttm : To be the mofi afttve and moveable and (ubiill of all things ^ and to penetrate and fafseverj/where, by reafo» of his purity in ef- fence, andto renew andrefrtfh all things, and to fill the earth ■ui:h his prsfence. This Wifd. I. therefore was it that made fome, even of our ChriHian Philofophers, to break forth into thefe fpeeches : Det^ efi Natura, & Natura DsHs : God is Nature, and Nature is God. Whereby they ment, that the naturating or radicall informing nature, wa? the eternall emanation, which made and informed the humid nature of the world; which for that reafon was called Natura naturata , or the Nature mhtch tfOf m^d& naturaU-, namely by the prefence of the Naturating nature or Spirit of the Lord, which moved upon the waters, and imparted unto them of his fiery informing Vigor or Effence, as we may find partly by Sacred Teltimony , and partly by the confirmation of St. Anflin.
We muft therefore after a due confiderarion of this which is faid , infer, that if iheinfluencebe compleatly animated by the incorruptible Spirit of the Lord, then mulHt be indued with the properties of that Spirit or Divine Nature, and confequently it mull be the molt fubtill , quick, movable and penetrating of all fpirits, and in that refped will be able to pafs through all folid bodies without re- filtance, and alfo to ingender, augment, and nourifh all things ; and being incor- porated or fpecificated, ir procreateth like individualities of their like; and againj It hath in regard of our capacity, an infinite extenlion, and therefore cannot be limited. All which I purpofe by experience or ocular demonrtration , ro demon- ftratein this manner. We find in practice, that the Load-(ione by virtue of bis fubtill fpirir, which doth internally animareit, is made fo potent through it, in his attractive virtue, thatit is able without rehllance to difplay and tranimit the beams of his a£live virtue quite atravers thehardetl flones , the molt folid and fineli grained wood, through thick plates, copper, tin, filver, orgold: yea, and to penetrate quite through the impenetrable glafs It felf, and other fuch liketom- paiSted Huff, which have no fenhble porofity or fpiracle, which is an evidcnr Argu- ment, that this fpirit is of a far more peircing and fubtill nature , than the fubiu- nary aire: forafmu.h as it is denied pafiage through the flighted paper-skin or blad- der. In the like manner man's inward or celelliall fpirit , whi- h is the vehicle of this vivifying beam, is fo fubtil in it felf, that nothing is able to refili it, when the inward mentall beam doth aime at any mark, how far or how inaccelTible foever it may be elteemed in the flefhly mans conceit- For being this celelliall or sthereall fpirit in man, is made after the pattern of the Divine Image which it beareth, it muft alfo refennble it in its adions. Now the lubtilty of the Divine act in piffl^ni. 4. man's fpirit, is exprefled by //^rwfj, in thefe words : Qulcmqie hacDei Natttrk futti JHnt , inielligemik fn^cuntlacompUilHntur cjut. in terra fftnt, & in mari, & fiqmd eft pneter eafupra calttm, atcjue adeo feipfos erignnt ut ipfnm ejuoque bonum lnt:ie- anturi J^'ho foever do rely on thts Divifte Nature, may comprehend by their ynderflanding allthinf'3 wh'ch are upon the earth, andin ihefeas; yea, and befides all thu,a»j thiHf that is in heaven above; and alfo they may elevaie thernfelvts in fuch a manner, that they mailfeho!dthefaceofgoodHef[ettfelf-, &c. Whereby he lignifierh the all-fuf5cienc aft of penetration, which is in the mentall beam, by whofe unrefiftable adi- on the celelliall influence doth penetrate and operate without any intermediate re- finance in and through all things, By which it is evident, that as every interior fpecifick creature is indued with this effentiall fpirit , and doth confill, and is as it were founded andedificatedonif,ason anellential Corner-floneorFoundationy fo the emilfion of his beams is not to be limited by any fetled Sphere of activity, asthcunadvifed and more fenfuall theninrelleduall Philofophers have denned it to be , being that it is Vis in rebm -nfinita, -in infiniievittue or y.atHrein things, and there- fore not finite or determinable : For look h nvfarit fhineth oV emitteth his active , fpirit our of the Center of the celelliall ftar; even fo far is this Centrall terrellriall bright Spirir able to make his .?''wi«iv?w«e->- of extenlion; So that as the heavenly ftarr's beamy influence doth penetrate downward uni;© rhe Genres of the earth; even after rhe very like manner dorh each terrellriall liar peirce unro rhe Center of ^ theceleftiall liar from whence ir was derived; and the more rich and exalred is rhe
furry form in the creature, the nearer it approacherh unro rhe nature of the molt exalted ftar in heaven, andmakethhis extenfion the more forcible. Now as wc
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fee that every Aftrall itifluence in the creature doth by a naturall inclination , and that Sympathetically, afped the liar or*cekfliaU Fountain from which it did fpring ; and likewife that Itar in heaven, by a paternall refped, doth fend down his influences to feed and nourifli his like filiall tire or form in the creature here be- low, and both of them by a mutuall relation do rejoyce together at the fpiri- tuall pretence of each other, (whereupon it is faid : Natark nainra, Utamr tP:reimcontinet^\ Onaturacoelcfiis veritatis , naturas Dei »mumitltip!ica;}s : ISTatureis rejoiced in nature, and comainetb nature ; O celefiiall nature which by the H'ill of God doth mnlip/j natures,) fo likewife each kinder fpecies which is indued with all one influence, d )th,becaufe of his liknefs to another, lend forth by a fyrapatheticall conlent, beams of one nature, making an harmonious Symphony in the concourfe of their beams , by which they do agree in union of love. And for this reafon the axiom of the Philofophers before mentioned runneth in this ftrain , N^tura ex fi* mllibtss limiliafrocrearefolet : Nature doth nfe to procreate iikj of like. And this is the caufewhy each fpecifick Fortndoth rejoyce in its like, and is ready to produce his kind, and doth not ufe to pafle the limits of his kind, as for example : A Man's nature producethaMan, aHorfe a Horfe, a fenel-feed fenel, a bean a bean, wheat produceth wheat, &c. And alfo the nature of each thing fo created is moft amiable unto the nature of his like, andfendeth forth the amiable and Sympathe- ticall beams of his affeftion, to concurre with the like beams , which are emitted from his like ; fo that both of them do eafily confent and rejoyce at each other andby contraction of beams, they indeavour to caufe a union: For this reafon therefore the Load-Itonerejoyceth at the afpeft of its like; for if one Load-lione meeteth with another, each will afpedt the other by their Saturnine Sulphure- ou trally fuck and draw the one tothe other, with a Sympatheticallimbracin". Alfo becaufe that the Iron is fubjeil: unco the felt-fame compilation, and hath^is Cen- trall ilar in all points correfpondent unto the Load-ftonc, ( for which effentiall confangLiinicy, they are both found in the felf-fame terreltriall vein, therefore they both are obfervedlo lovingly to entertain and hug one another: For experience tellethus, that the feminine Load-llone above all meafure embraceth as a luxuri- ous harlot the mafculine Iron, and not the Iron the Load-llone, zsAverroes, Sca- liger, and Cufanfis the Cardinall,have erroneoufly furmifed; affirming that the Iron moveth unto the Load- Itone, as unto his beginning and matrix from whence it came: for, by that reafon, the North Pole in the Iron fliould move of it felf more fwiftly unto the Pole-ftarr, which is the fountain of both their Centrall influences, thantheMaMet: all which is by experience proved quite contrary. Now to confirm the infinity of the extenfion of thefe Centrall beams in two like bodies unto one another, let us firft be capable of fomeTheory , th^it we may af- terward the better defcend unto Practice. Radins (faith AlkiKdtts) ^tsiacemrofiel- U ad eentriim term procedit firt/ffimns ejfe prohatur in operation! t fua fpecie : The beam » j » /' 7vhtch proceedeih from the Center of thefiar unto the Center of the earth , is proved to be mnfl (iron? in the kjnd of his operation. Whereby he fignifieth at what an incommen- furabtediftance the occult Harry beam, or beamy influence, worketh with and in his image on the earth ; for he faith elfewhere Licjuet quod Radii fie/lares dverfa con^ flituunt indivldtia in hoc mundo : It is manifejt , that thejlarry beams do make ani in- pendcr divers indlviduall creat: ftarry influences of the lower bodies, and their beam's extenfion he fpeaketh thus: Mnndus lElementarius eji exemplrimmundi Sjderei , it a m qu&lihet res ineocomcn-ia ipfiwfpeciem cott'ineat. A'fanifefium eft cjuodomnisres hnjus mr.ndi radios faciat fuo tKore'adiftflar Sydeum-, alioijrti figur am mtindi Syderei ad plenum nofi haberet : fed C^ hoc in a'iijH. bus ffnfu mar/ifefiatnr -.ignis enim radios caloris ad /oca proxima tranf' f}fitt't, & terraradies(j/gorts. Hoc igitur pro vera ajfumentes , dicimus t^nod omne ^Hod /iBffalem habet exijientiam in mundo elemeniornm radios em'ttit in omnem partem^ tjui totum mandum elememarem replent fuo modo- Pr fac t d'WercKtiam inefffflu radiomm in rebus huJHs mundi: The Elementary world is the ima^e or patern of the ftarry world ; fo that every thing that this world comatneth in it, dothc'mprehendthe form or liknefs of the ftarry -world. It is ev'dent that everf thin IT in this world, doth emit his beams after his manner, evenasthe (larrs of heaven do ; for elfe It jvotddnot fully affume the figure of theflarry world ; but this is m tde ma- fj.'feff- ."« fame things untofenfe : For the ^re doth fend forth the beams of his heat unto the bordtrr/ig places , and alfo tht earth the Emanations of hit cold. We affirm
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therefore for a certainty ^ that every thing which haih An a^laall exlfience m this ele- ment arj world y doth er»it or fend forth his beams unto every part , the which do fill the elcrnentary world after trielr fajhion. Moreover , the difiance of one thing from An other , maketh a difference ;» the effect of the bedims , in things of this world. Whereby he nukech ic plain , firft, That there is nothing in the lower world, but hath his like in the ikrry world, vvhofe beams and influences it recciveth. And again , that as the faid ftar in heaven doth dart forth his beams even unto the very center ofthe earth, and therefore hath fo large a Iphear of aftivity, that itfearcheth every place of the vavvted world: Even fo, and after the lame manner, thofe Harry fcintills, or beamy fparks, which it fendeth down into his fubje6l creature , being that it is allone in eflence with its fountain , andtherefore continued with it, and indivifible; fearcheth in like manner each angle or corner of the fublunary region , yea, it penetrateih even unto the very celeiiiall fountain, from whence it is deri- ved, as Ihall be more clearly demonltrated hereafter , being that every portion or fmallpartofa large Load-lione, hath his poles and circles , as well as the whole. It is made therefore apparent by this, that theaitionof each elementary thing is effefted, aswellby difjunftion of their bodies, that isto fay,^«/(i'y?^»J, as when they are joyned together by a mutuall contaft of one another ; buttheaftion of elementary things, when they are feparated from one another , is performed by a fit application , and infufion of their beamy influences unto each other, which would hardly be believed , by reafon ofthe occultnefs ofthe a£tion , did not ex- perience guide us, by the obfervation ofthe Load-ftones attrad^ion of Iron unto ic at a dilhnce. Alfo we obferve, that the images of things are feen afar off in Mir^r rors, or Opricall glafles ; and it was no fmall artifice ofthe Pythagoreans, and fome other of our ChriftianPhilofophers, toexprefs their minds unto friends, being in far countries, by reflexion, made through prepared Mathemaricall gbfles, in the circle or compafs ofthe Moon. But forfooth,ourexternallPhilofophers, which will onely be guided by their fenfe , do dream of a certain limited fphear of activity, and do afcribe bounds unto theaftionof this mylHcall nature, as they pleafe, or according unto their exterior fenfe's obfervation : As for example, Be- cauferhe Load-Hone draweth the Iron but at half the didance of a table , Ergot they think and conclude , that the vivifying a£t of his vertue penetrateth or exten- dethitfelf no farther, than at that diflance in the aire, and confequently being led by their corporall eye-fight , they limit, after this externall andvifible a£^ion, the Load ft ones fpirituall extenfion. But if they would duel yclofe their corporal! eyes in this inquifirion , and look, as true Philofophers ought, in the re-fearch of fo abftrufe an zdCwn , with the afpeft of their mentallintelleft , they would find , that the extenfion of thebeamy fpirit in the Load-ftone, doth equalize that of his proper celeftiall ftar.beingthat they arebothof one eflence ; asalfo is the like fpi- rit in the Iron, and every fcintill or fpark of fire hath the properties ofthe whole, as is faid ofthe Load-flone. But there are many things, which may hinder the evi- den: etfect in the Load-ftone , namely, the ponderofity of the body ofthe Iron, and therefore it will not draw it beyond the circle of his fenfible emanation ; and another thing is the difperfing and Jilatiog ofthe union of beams in the Load-ftone: for the beam-,, after they are emitted, a.e the more difperfed the farther they pafs,a3 it appeareth by this demonft acion. '
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is upon the Iron, for which caufe k actraiteth its fpirics forcibly , becaufe, vis unnaeftfortior. But when the Iron is planted at a further diUance , namely, in C, thegreacelt portion of the balis of thefpirirujll triangular-emiirion , paffeth by the Ironjwith^ut any Itreight encounter, andfohiseffedt or vertue ismadetoo weak, to draw fo ponderous a thing at fo far a diiiance. But becaufe his celelliall ft.ir doth meet and embrace his emilVtons , and doth fortifie theni , therefore it is evident > that the pole-Har doth ad in the Load-ftone , toliirupand animate his like vi- gourin it; and the Load-ltone being fo vivified, doth correfpond unto the action of the liar, penetrating,by all one fympatheticall and fymphoniacall confenr, even tothe center of his fountain , which is ealily erfeited , being they are all of one effence. Do we not perceive this by an externall apprehenhon to be true, when weobferve the northern pole of the Load -Hone, in a kindofnaturallduty, to re- gard and behold with a Ifedfalt conltancy the pole-liar , which is fo farotf f'-om the body of the Load-Hone, though near and conjoyned in the beamy arfeftion ofoneeflentiallrpirit ? That this is fo, we may perceive by the needle touche-d. Do wenorgathrrby Alironomicall pradUfe, that thediliance of thcfe two bodies, I mean, the celelUall liar, and the terreftriall Hone, isfogreat, as therecannotbs elfeemed a greater extenfion in our regard? namely, feeing that the fpa-e is be- tween the Harry heaven, or eighth fphear, in which the pole-flar is; and the earth : And yet we find them to concur and meet in afpeil , and to operate and fympa- thizi'with ea :h oth;r. What / and muH this abHrufe fpirits aftionbe limited by any phantaHicall and imnginary fphear of adivity , figured out by perfons little skilled, and too too fuperhciall in the occult treafure , and arcane or centrall ztW- ons of God in nature ? In like manner theremuH needs be a fymparheticall con- currence of occult beamy light, betwixt the Iron and the Load-ftone , becaufe they have both centrall Hars , or beamy influences of one nature , and from one and the famefountaine, whole occult emanations pafs , God knoweth, at how far adiilance, although the effects do accidentally appear unto our fenfe, no mo-c than the celeHiall influences vvhiih defcend from heaven, upon the Minerals , Ve- •
getables, and Animals. Neverthelefs, if we will believe the relations of Hiftory , we a^e told by Serafio, O ms Magnus , and the Moors , that as well in the India , as towards the northern pole, there are Rocks of this Stone, which fuck and draw fliip^untothemarafar diHance, and pull the iron nailes out of them , whih is a caufe, as they fay , that they faHen together the plancks and boards of their boats and iliips with wooden pins. And again, whatlhallwe fay unto the opinion of Fracii{ti ;"«J, a learned Phylitian, and a well grounded Philofopher, who blufheth not, after a tedious enquiry made by him in the Load-Hones fecrec difpofition, to conclude, that the reafon why the Load-iione dire£teth his pole unto the north, is, becaufe th It in that angle of the terreliriall world, there are mountaines of Load-Honj, which do draw Iron unto it. Verily, it is a great diHancc , that this magnetickRock isableto operate upon the Iron, if that were true, namely, from the .£quino(5liall unto the frozen point: of the North-pole ; for unro the .£qui- noiSliall line, theMariners make ufe of the Needle, to find out what alritude they are in. And although fome do think thisHrange, yet for all that , many learned men, feen as well in Geography, and compofing of Sea-Maps , as delineating the defcriprion of the world , do firmly adhere unto this opinion. Whereby wc fee , that wife and learned men do confirm, that the limited fphear of aifivity , afcribed unto the Load-Hone by the Peripatetick Philofophers , and Chriftian School-men ofhisfeit is vain and frivolous.
But to come and afcend from the Minerall , unto the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms, we obferve, that there is an admirable relation between the fixed Hars and the planets, and by the fame reafon alfo between plant and plant, yea, and be- tween the plant and the mineral , and between the animal and the plant: As for ex- ample, Touching this fympatheticall relation, we find in the firtl place , that theMi^i/A Attt. beams of the herb and flower Heliotrofium, and that oiSuccgrr, do fvmpathetically/'*. i. meet, and "oynethemfelves , and embrace lovingly the beams and influences of the Sun, for they are obferved to turn and winde about , even in the moHclowdy day, at the diurnnll motion of him. And contrariwife,in thenight time, by reafon of his abfence , they contraft their flowc-s , as being enemies unto the dark and cold nis,hr, as iJ^ waxeth grf.en , andgroweth, when the Moon decreafeth , and again it wit hereth^'"'*''"" when (he encreafeth. Theteisalfoa great fymparheticall reference between the
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Crabj and Oyfter, and the Moon, for when the Moon cncreaferh, they encreafe in
their iucce or juice; again, when i>ie decreafeth, they alfo do decreafe in thsir
fubllance.
Munffer Geo- Moreover, touching the eradiation of one plane unco another , it is noted, that
grath,l.i$.c.i.thQ ^"f > otherwile rearmed Herb-g-Ace, doth entertain with exceeding great
friendfliip the Fig-tree , intbmuch that it never groweth or profpereth better, than
underthat tree; and, that there is a notable fympathyberwixt their natures, it is
evident, becaufetbey fmell andtafle much alike. Alio if the Myrtle be planted
near the Pomgranat-tree, it maketh him more fertill and fruirfull, and it felf
more odoriferous, and each of them rejoyce ac one anothers prcfence and fociecy ;
and indeed, both of them agree in a nature, being cold, dry, and aftringent.
Moreover, :o exprefs the exceeding fympatheticall relation, which is between the Vegetable nature and the Mineral, let us but mark diligently the occult pro- perty of the Eiazel-tree. For ifat certain times there be forked twigs cut from it , and each twig of the forked branch be held in each hand, fothat the forked place wherethey joyne fland directly upward , and,as it were, pe.pendicularly: And with this kind of poftureof theltick , the party that holdethir pafs over a moun- tain , that hath in its bowells fome rich minerall , or mettalline veine, when as themanwalketh right over the place of the mine, rhe perpendicular cwirtwill forcibly, and that whether the bearer will or no, bow downward towards the earth; but ifthere be no mine or veine, ir will not move. Th-.c this istrue, my felf can witnefs, and more than a thoufand , whi fie thus much; for even among us, certain Germaines performed the like feat in the Silver-mines 3X.^Vales ; and in thofe mountains of Saxony and Hungary , where there are mines of Silver and ^grk. lib. Foft.vel. Mun- would have them know, that George Agrkola and Ainnfter , do avow the fame to be fterinGeoe. true. Lord, what a ftir would the enemy ofthe weapon-falve make, to behold fuch, a fight ! What ! an unfenlible branch of a tree, confifling of two twigs onely , to difcover hidden mettal , and to penetrate with his in vifible beams above fix hun- dred fathom in the folid earth , and that quite through craggy rocks , and llony veines ' What, (will they fay) is it polFible that a vegetable, which is lefs active , inovable, and hot, then is the animal, fhould perform this aft , when it is impolTi- ble(as they fay) that the animal's beamy influence or emanation, fliould pafs or co-operate at any far dillance with his like, byreafon ofcalfles , rocks, woods , hills,fogs, and fuch like? Surely they will conclude, that this wonder muflbe done by the aiSt ofthe devill, ornot at all. For, being an animal fpiric cannot ef- fect fuch an union in afpect, at fo far a diftance , how (hould the fenflefs vegetable move, and enclineof it felf, &c ? Such will their cenfures be, I know, who are ape to judge before thecafe be known, whenin verity it is that proportioned harmo- ny in all thefe lower creatures, by which they do correfpond unto the celeftiall bodies, or rather to the divine influences in them , which fpring from one capitall, catholick, and eternall emanation, whoinfufethimmediatly his vertuous beams, as well of fympathy as antipathy , into each flarry »lobe, and they again do pour them down into this elementary world, caufing a harmonious and fymphoniacall Mkind dt Ktd. confent betwixt both regions. And therefore ^/^?W*«faith, Oioifjia qtta fiunt in hoc Stell. • mundo, & contwgtint in mnndo ehmemornm , a ccelejti harmoniAJitnt tranflata : j4ll things that Are efeiled In this vforldy anddo hapfen in the elementary world , proceed from the coelefyiall harmony. It is therefore certain, that the merallick beams con- curring in their afcent with the beamy influences ofthe forked mod, di caufethac portion in the haze! roods twill^, t o move downwards, no other wife than the Load- itone is noted to draw Iron, or an other Load-ltone, mollftrongly by the pole. I • know, it will feem If range unro thefe kind of men, to hear , that met'allick fub- ftances in their veines fhould fend forth beams ; but if they were as well conver- fant with the lively natures ofthe mineralls, as the minerall men of r/ro//, in C^''- many, and in Hungary art, they would be adured by ocularexperience, that ac times they fend forth thunder and lightning in the earth , which appeareth moft dangerous unto the workmen , fo that except they get out of the mine when they obferve the fignes, they fuffer.
But to proceed. There is alfo noted and marked to be a kind of antipatheticall afpeft, between the creatures here below, as well as between fome fpeciall (tars , botherratick, and fixt, above; and alfo one creatures beamy afpeft is known to
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abhorre the other; So that In their applications of beam^; , the one is obferved to efchew anddeclineor reflex from the other, vvithakind of irafcible , formidable or edible and hatcfuU averhon. M7-^/i^«Jtellethu?, that the Cowcumberbeln^as it were terrined atthenoile of the Thunder, is often th.ingcd. The Onion was refu- *f"^''*'- '• fedby thcEjy/'f''^'' robe eaten, becaule iiwas noted by them, to vary from all other growing things : forasallherbs,favingit, did increafeas theMoon did; So, onely the Onion did contrariwife , receive all his detriment and dimmu- tion , when that Ihr did increafe in his Light. Th;re isanAntipuhy between the Lightning and the Fig-tree, and the hide of the Sea-calf, and therefore thefe are never llrutk by it. Alfo there is known to be exceeding hatred p;j„jjj ^ between the reed and the fern or brake, infomuch chat if either of the roots brui- fed be laid on the ftalks or branches of the other, it catteth it offfrom it with a fcornfull hatred. Of all hearts alio the Elephant hateth and deteheth the little Moufe ; fo that if any of the food which is adminirtred unto them , be eaten or p/,-„ ijy j, touched by Mice, they will abhorre and loth it forthwith. The like Antipathy is C4|>,'id.' noted to be between the natures of the Catablepa and the Weafell : for the Wea- fells are as poyfon unco them. The Cock doth Antipachetically abho: re the Fox. f* «*• All Snakes and Adders do fear and fly from the Allien tree, infomu«.h that they arc .. ... , careful! to keep themfelves as well out of the forenoon as afternoon fliadow of it. ftp"\z[ ' * Again, Di.ifcorides Kportcth':hit the T^^vw^or Ewetreeis fo venomous, that if any one do but fit under it , he is hurt thereby , and often times it cofts him his ritfcorid. life. And Cff/;«/^«^;^/»«j faith, that the Adder is affraid of a naked man. It is wellkn-.vnandconhri-aedby many Authors, that the Carablepa being but a very c^/. Rorff^. fmall Animal, killeth with the beam of his afpecl a thoufand paces off from hini. W. if. c^.*?. Alfo one blear-eyed perfon is able to infeit another afar off by the fecret emiirion of his concagiou«beames. We fee that Onions draw teares from aperfon ad di- fians , by the eniiirion of its beams. Again, weobferve, that as like being whol- fome.ind found, doih commonly, by aSympatheticall aft'eftion embrace his like; So alio like being corrupted , doth Antipachetically, and that ad d' flans poyfon and infeft his like ; as we fee that a blear-eyed or Ophchalmiacall perfon, infe6teth no member of another perfon but his eye, and one of Pcyhcall ulcered and confu- med Lungs woundeth onely the Lungs of another , and that W^/,/?a>jj, and by the application or concurrency of the two beams of one nature, being Antipacheti- cally affefted and impoyfoned. But to return again unco our Magnecick Scope, which is as well fpirituall as corporall ; 1 fay, there is fueh a fpirituill refpedt of Sympathy berwixt creature and creature , that the beloved dorh allure and draw unto it after an admirable manner of artraftion, the fpirit of the Lover , as I my felf havefeen marvellouflyeffeddby a water-Spannell of mine own in FrMncc. For as I rode port to L;o«j, and by the way had loll my vallife or male, in which my Letters of Exchange were, and feeking to return back again, I found sny poft-horfe of that quality, that he would by no means recoile and go back again. Then I was forced to fend my dog back to look out, and after he had been abfent half an houre, he brought the bouget in his mouth, which is ftrange, confidering that I was on horfe-back, and that he could not difcern any foiting of mine; and yea nevcrthelefs he came to the bouget which I defired, and finding by it a fent of me he brought it again. But that I may come more pertinently to the bufinefs. A friend of minebeinginmy company lort his dog in the night-time , we came into a private houfe where he never was before; and being in a chamber, the doore being faftned, about half an hour after the dog came, and oid violently fcrape and bounce atthedore, to find out his beloved : whereby it is evident , that the beams of his affeftion, did in the abfence of his Marter not forfake his Martet's beams, which guidedhim unto the unknown place fo direftly, that he found him out. Is it not alfo a wonderfuU Sympatheticall Emanation, thatthe Pigeon called the Carrier, doth make unro the place or dove-coat wherein he was bred and foftered? Which for that reafon, icdoth fo dearely atfetft andlove, that though he be conveied 500 miles from his-nourfery in an enclofed basket , yer he will fly diret^ly back again with a lerrer about his neck ? Which is an evident Argument, that it is juRly and rtrai^htlv guided by the emitted beam of his affeftion, which is contiued, af- ter a fpi-irualfmanner, with the place it doth moR delight in. What fliall we fay in two perfon?; whereof the onedoth love and afteift without all reafcn, and there- fore p'-ofen^eth with the beam of his affedlion his beloved, though fhe or he al- together either abhorrixig or neglecting, and not corn^fponding with the like beam?
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nious point of afteaions. Nav vcilv a^ wc- HpLm k ™"^""n one harmo-
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pafllon n,ove agai'n from the Center un^^ che Cucuml ence"S\^"'P"'^"^^'J the deadly enemy; and doth caufe the congealed blood toX; nd move '° 'v "^ would meet with and affault afrefh the murtherer'. em^r.Tr • c^' ^"^ ''^ furelyconfefs, that where one fpirit concur ecMn L ^"^T '' ^2 '^' '""'^
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.ick cure. cffeaedbLvve^en her^ofo otcX a 'd whlch I li.„e fpdcn fo much, in that hot ^ZZZ'r "'"';'";"°''"*
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hble, and unfeziblc in the mineral bodies 'bfrea on of L firm id Tf'cTJ'^- of them, which are therefore apcer to retan their influenbllh™ ' , " ^^"^'1''^
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llonelooketh towards rhe North ftir r^,,^^rkr >-/"\^":'^n us, tnat the Load-
as alfo the ilardo^hll^t Si hn"; S^u^^^^^^^^^^^
nerall mark, at an unmeafurable diftancr, as L f d beS e Whi 'h K "'' r''" T
fliouldnot (Ibefeechyou) theAnimall rtar derived f^m his cH^^^^^^^^ ''^"^
fend out alfo his beams unto the frozen and chi bbod ;„ h"" S ' ^°""^^'"»
mean the Weapon-falve, or untothe W iSl^ ^^^^^^^^^
Iron by his attradive Sulphureous nature. F^r experience t'earh^rh '"'° l^'
though no corporall blood be found on the iron ver S I? i '^'^f ^J "^ ' ^'^ac
thgtvvoundedt'heperfonbeanointed it cureth'br. ulV '^ u' fh^„^^^P°"
^?r.ounr:y^^:!:^ons have mlde'tryal^w 'en t'hey du iS'^ffa^^^^^^^^ ^'P^^i
with the Probe, and found by exoerienc/ mme I • l ^^^ ^°""^
thefire, tl^c the part of thefLXr weapo3 d'^^^^^^^^^^ --
the party, bemarhar it will fhanc^ roU„r r. '^"--overit lat, whichwounded i4w d4thew^undis b KfeTva^^^^^^^ ' ^''.^^eby they perceive ,
penetrate. And therefore tLs L an evidenr .,/ P^^/'^'/t-'^ weapon which did
argument from the minerall demonftration, unto the veaeJ-Sl L u °"'
ingidle, and dom^nothin" in rhe center thprenr !. (L..J^ u u- ^" '^^ '^'' toaa a„d opetatehi. own-d...,e.y l:^':^:^^::^t2^l or tS'S^; i'^
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of the elementary compound: And therefore, as it was before contrafted from the externall cold into the center, it is now by the prefenceof frelTifolary irradiation from above, exfufcitated, as is were, from death unto Ifc ; and fo by the aifiaance of thofecekliiall beams , it paileth beyond the limits of the corrupted grain, and foareth above theearth, and fceketh by all means to afcend unto his native rcion, from whence it defcended ; but being cumbered in his afcent by the fublunary'fub- ftance of the importunate elements, which endofe it on every lide, it is befet with the volatil (alt of the aire, and inlteed of mounting into his deiired place, it is con- tented to multiply in his kind, and to have companionsjnamelyjathergraines, pro- created like it felf.Inlike manner the niicrocolmical Siinof life,raigning(as Strip- tures do teach us) in the blood , doth emanate and fend out his fpirituall beams which are infeparable, by continuity joynedunto, and continued with, the i'piric of the congealed blood , which is fucked into the iron, or other weapon , and re- tained inir; foi, fo pure, worthy, and fubtle is the fpint ofman'sUfe, thatevery creature doth by a naturall inliin6t affedt to participate with it ; yea, the very de- //«//«/ dt Hit- vills are faid to affecl a dwelling place in mans body, byreafon of the excellent '""«• temper thereof. Neither would I have any man to fcorn this faying of mine ; for there is a concupifcible paiTion even in the very ftones and minerals themfel ves , as inthe Load-llone and Iron it is made manifelt; andthefpiritofthelron, thonoh it beminerall, i rtts are. And therefore marvell not, though I fay, that the univerfall fpirit afle- cteth the animal, biingthar for the fame reafon there hath been noted to be both a fympatheticall and antipitheticall condition between, as well the mineral and vegetable, and the mineral and animal, as between the animal and vegetable. Buc I will produce unto you a probable demonilration : There was an Earl (ofvvhom, in my Book, intituled , ^ he pjueenngof Parfon Fajhr's Spuuge, I made mention ) that had his Gardiner cruelly wounded in his hand with a fyth , as he was mowin" ofgrafs, the wound bled llirewdly, and could not be lienched : They went up un- to his Lord, and fignified fom.uch unto him, and implored his ailidance , andde- hred to havefomeof his we.ipon-falve. He commanded, that forth-with the fyth lliould be knocked off from his wooden handle, and conveyed uno him. The wounded fellow hearing fo much, rook a hammer himfelf , and liolding it with one hand, heftruckhard upcntheweapon-orfyth with the other , and immediately (a wondrous thing to tell , and yet for from any fufpition of diabolicall art!) the blood ftenched', and he bled not one drop after it ; as if the mineral fpirtr , which rerained that of the animal, were terrified, and, as it were, in awe of the animal fpirit that (truck it, and thereby lo.f all the faculty of attratilion ; or that thefpirics includedinit, which did con ent in harmony with the fpirits of the bleeding man, had rejoycedinakindof revenge which was taken on the weapon : For know, that there is a fympatheticall and antipatheticall irradiation , as well berween the animal and the minerall, as between the animal and animal , or mineral and mineral. But mark, I pray yon, afecond notable obfervation, touching this point ; Sir Bev's Thelwell told me , that for triall upon a Wheelers ax , that had wounded him grievoufly on his leg , afrer it was anointed and wrapped up , the wounded perfon that could not llecp fot pain in five nights before , did fleep immediately after the oyntmenc , and was at relt ; which when S'v: Bevls 'rhelwtU ^{^1^^, he would needs maketriallof a thing, vYhich he had heard confirmed by many : Ke opened the anointed Ax, andfcraped offtheoyntment at one corner of it , and forthwithhe was advertifed , that the party complained of a grievous pain , which he felt jull about that part of the wound where the ax was bare by fcraping ; where- upon alfo he anointed that protion over again, and fuddainly the party felt eafe. The fame experiment was made and found true by the faid Lord, Captain Stiles , und S\r Nicho/at GilbjU'm. I can alfo fay upon m/ine own knowledge, that in the Church-yard on 5.^^-/?r(iff-hill, a wid )W-Gentlewoman hiving a box of this oynt- menr, cured many of the Toorh-ake , by pricking the pained toothwith a fliarp Hick, till it Med, and putting that {tick into herbox ofoyntment. Among the reft, one of her neighbours, a contentious woman, having the tooth-ake , madem.ean* linto her for her cure, or to have eafe. Her teerb were pricked, and rhe Hick put in- to the ovnrmenr, and flie grew well. But wichin three or four daies after, fhe fell out with rhe Genrlewomans maid,and gave her Miilrefsbut hadlanguage;all which the maid did certifie her Millrefs of. The Gentlewoman being merrily difpofed » faid , She would make het repent it, aud went unto the box , and took away the
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flick belonging to this woman out of the pot , and put it into a bafon of cold wa- ter , and immediately the woman had fuch pain , as flie was forced to lu.^ to the Gentlewoman , and (he receiving another Itick which had pricked her teeih anew j it gave h:r immediate eafe. \Vhich accidents, when I had well contemplated, I thought v'irh my felt , that the included fplrit hadhis chiefelt comfort from the ovpuiicnc, by keeping them warm; and that if theoyntment was removed, the cold aire, v\hKh is an enemy to the activity of the bloody fpirits , was potent over ir, and did congeal them ; and fo by confent of the beamy influence of life,emitted from the wound unto the imludea fpirits, and continuated ever unto them, as in?: feparable, (forit was one and ihefame fpirit , according unto Ejickjel's teflimo- ny, intwo feverall properties , that blowed from the north-wind, andthefouth) what diRemper befallcththe included and congealed fpirits in the weapon, hap- peneth, by etfeft of remilfion of evoked beams, and, as it were, by a report, unto the wound of the patiint. Again, we muftconhder, that rhe feparated blood hath In it each refpeft of the Microcofm , no otherwife , than a portion of a whole Loaddone , oeing divided from the whole, hath init all theprrpoftionsof the World, namely> the Poles, j£quino£f ial, and fo forth, as well as thi whole in it ; fothat the Idea oft he wounded member, is inthe fpirits of cheeTni'ed blood, and maketh his relationto every part thereof J nootherwife, than the poles of a piece of the Loadlione do unto the whole. As alfo there is the like orcuh attraction and emifllon of beams, between the little blood emitted, and th- whole bulk of blood retained inthc; veines, as is between the fmall amputjted Lo^d-'ione , and the whole. 1 condudetherefore, that as the congealed bloody fpi;i:s in the wea- pon, or amputated blood, do by vertue ofthe homngeniall heat, and uniluofuy of the falve or oyntment, ripen and exfpire out by little and little unto his fountain , no orherwiferhan the fpark in the grain of corn , being kept and preferved in the earthly matrix from the cold crude aire , doth afpire upward to the heavenly Sun ; foalfo bylitrle and little doch the wound heal , and mend in the wounded crea-- ture. And tli.is much for the manner of a£^ion, between rhe wound and weapon- falve. Nowa-.vord ortwo touching the intervall, or longitude ofdiilance, be- tween the wound and the oyntment.
The diltance betwixt the Pole (tar and the Load-ftone is unknown, and yet the one doth operate in the other , by fending out their re iprocall beam-? upward and downward ; therefore here can no certain limited fphear of activity be 'ffigned unto their action. The Sun and the fpirit in the grainof wheat do operate in like manner, by a continuation of one and the fame nature. Lo here, is rhe limited fphear of activity alfo aboliflied, beingno man can julily determine ofthe exrenfi- on of the folar influence, of whofe nature, the beam in the grain dorh participate no otherwife, than one fmall Load-flone cut out of a great one , hath his parts , or poles andcircles, inevery refpeft co'-rcfponding with thofe of the great one. Man hathamofl fubtle influence, or vivifying fpirit of life, fent down and infufedinto him by divine infpiration , in which is the property of the four wind? , ( as the Prophet Esiekjcl zdlczh us) and confeciuently the Idea of every nature ; but theef- fence of this (pirit is indivihble, and therefore the vivifying fpirit fent from it into man, hath all the properties of the fpirit that infuredit,no otherwife than a lefler Load-flone,cut out ofthe greater,hath in every refpeft the property of the greater. And confequen[ly>the fpirit of the one is no more divided from the other, than the Sun-beams can be divided from the Sun. But the Spirit ofthe Lord filleth all things,(asi"o/o/»o« hathit ) and maketh the dimenfion of his operation in man moreor lefs,accordinguntohiswill ; and therefore vyill admit nofuch phanrafli- call limited fphear of adivity , as the wifdom of mans invention, 1 mean, the fub- jeft ofthe p.igans Philofophy, which is folly before God, would inferr. For this reafon therefore He; mcs faith , Anima meme Deo^fiep/ena, tm':m/i wmidi replet, com- Pimtni.ii. pUUitur extima^v'nam^Ue hdc omnibus ^n^ger it. I'he fuut or vital! fp:rn bein^ftiHof diviftiiY, filkth the worfd ,a»d emhraceih externull ihinis, Andthis givcth lift unto all things without ; it giverh life unto the great and perfeft animal the world, and breathing unto each thing that liveth within it. And again elfewhere, Nattir.i in^ corporea/i.'hilefi capacius , nihil rclocius^ n'h.l validius autpotemius. Sic iterum ate ipfoitieipkns tnediiare, a!(jHe anifrttitit prdcipto , (j" jubeto (Jn^uaw) ut tranfeai i» Octanum^ tllApriufcjH.Tm ■nferis ibi evt, indenb- nunc eft Krejuaijuam Ai[cedeas. Jubeto iierum ut in cceltm vu.'et, nullis pemns egebit, rih.l ejus abjlruet ctr.-fui , nonfolis iKCcndiumiKou £iheris amp i:t*do , Hon vertigo ae lorum, non
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fyderum mtiquorum corf era, qum penetrans omnia ad fupcrnum ufqae corpus tranfce/t- dat, Ojiinettam fivo^Hens Globos om)2es traiiftre cceLrum , (J^odijue fupC'tHS eft invt- jitgare, id cjttoque tibt Uccliit. Advene^ qnantitjit ammtt tuApotejtas quAiita celeritas: There is nothing more capable than the incorporeall or fpirititall ttiiture ; notbin a more frvifty and qaick^or nimble; nothing more firon^r or powerfull.hgzm. Beginning thus with thyfelfy do than meditate, and command thyfoptl, what thou pleafejl , and it wilt flye foenerthan thou commandeft : Command it (^l faj^ that it pafs into ihe Ocean fea, and it will be there before thou bidfi it. Again, command it that it flye into heaven , and it will want no wings ; nothing will hinder her or flop her in her courfe , no not the heat of the Sun, nor the vaj} largenefs of the heavenly or itthereall vault, nor the wheeHhg about of the jlarrjorbs, nor yet the bodies of the other ft arrs^ but peircinp- all thefe , it paffech quite through, even unto the higheft bod/. Moreover, and if thou wilt have her to pafs tver the celefiidll Globes, andtofearchoutwhatfeever is above, thou maifi do it alf'o, Marl^therefore how great the power of the Soul is, and howfwift and q/iicl^ it is in its extcftt.on , &c. thus far the wife Hermes. By both which places we may ob- ferve, firlt, that the Soul in general!, and therefore in particular, is full of Divi- nity, and confequently that it is this Divine Effence , that worketh in this foul all in all, in the world , and every member thereof, as the Apolile faith , and therfore the faidPhilofopher in the place before: Anlma mente Deoque plena , &c. Secondly, that fhis Divinity in the catholick created fpirit fiUeth all thing Angelicall exigence ; that is, indueththe mantle of the valt world's fpirit. And c this agreeth with Scripture, which faith, that Spiritus Deitmplet omnia. The Spirit ' '** ^' ofiheLordfllethall things. Spiritus incerruptibilis inefi omnirei: The inccrruptibe p- j Spirit is m all things. Deus vivificat omnia-: God vivifieth all things , and confe- quently, is the ertentiall aiSt and life of the world, as 1 have proved fully in t he firft Book of this Treatife: wherefore Hermes in another place faith thus : -i^nima uni- verfit per omnem mundum ab una mundi totius anima profiuunt , tanquam dtftributa cii'- cumferentes: The unlverfal fouls throughout the whole world, do proceed as it were diftr!- buied concurrents from one foul of the wholeworld; which is all one witii that which we have faid before, namely that all Souls in this world, are certain beamy iireams, proceedingfrom that catholick Emanation, which iflued from theeternall Foun- tain of the illuminating aft, tofomemore copioufly, andtofomeinorefparin''- I y ; and therefore Man is faid to be in dignity little lefs then the Angells , by reafon of the large port ion of Light beltowed upon him: Spiritus Dei fecit me (faith Job):1oK fed infp.ratio Omnipotentis fecit me Intel igere. Thirdly, Thar in the very twin^k- ling of an eye, it is able to penetrate quite th'-ough all thing"; , and that at what cU- ftance it pleafeth, and conr;quently will not be limitted by any imag^niry Sphere of aftivity. But Mr. Fofler and his complices will reply , that the fpirit which fhould operate in the blood , and from the bliod, to the Ointment, isanaturali fpirit, and not this Divine Spirit , This Objeftion makech me to fmile : As who fliouldfay, that this adl of vivifying, yea, and of every other faculty b^longinc unto man's fpirit, doth not move from one and the fame Divine Fountain , when the Apoftle faith, Inhimwetmve^we live, andhaveour betHa. Again, it is faid thatinthebloodisthe foul or fpirit of life. And St. Johnh\l\\, !» Terbo erat vita, in the PVord was life, I will tell you therefore what a true Philofopher faith, touching this point, Anima (faith he) adfmtlitudintm totius fapienria facia, ommm in te gerit fmllitHdinem, ejtque fpiritus intelleUualis, femper vivens, femper inmotu, & fe* cundum fui operis officium , varus nuncuparur nommibus. Dicliur vita dum vevC' tat; fpiritus dumrontemplatur; fenfus dumfenti:; animus dum fapit; mens dum imel~ tigit; ratio dum difcernit ; memoria dum record/ttU'-; dum vult voluntas : ^ ifla omnin non funt nift una anima proprietate diver fa fedeffentiaunica: The foul of Man fra- med after the ftmilitude of all wifdom, dothbeareinitfelf the liknefs of all things x, and it is an intelleBuall fpirit, ever living, and ever in motion, audit is termed by divers names and appellations, according unto the offct of the work^ whtch it effeEleth : For when it vegetateth or caufeih to grow and multiply , it is called life ; when it contemplateth, it is termed a fpirit ; it is called f en fe, when it is converfant about the funUion , which belon* geth unto the external I fen fc ; it is termed the mind, when it is verfed about wifdom ; it is called Mens or the mentdl beam, when 'it underftandeth; it is termed reafon, when it difcerneth between good or bad; it is called memory-, when it vemembreth; it is fiyled Vo- lunty when it willeth ; and yet all thefe are but onely one foul , divers properties, I fay, but one onely effence. So that it is thefame eflenriall aft , which caufethlife, and contemplation; which maketh fenfe and intelleft ; which effefteth memory and
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reafon; and, tocondude, that willethornilleth. Which being thus. Is it not a finfuU ihin^ in ignorant peii'ons, to make the occult adlions ot th's abrtru e fpi- rit, by which they liv'^j inove, underhand, difcern between good and evillj re- member, fee, feel, hear, touch, and talt, the efteds of the devill ; snd confe- quently to rob rheir bight foul or her honour, inrtead of giving her thanks for her aifillance, by afcribirg her arcane operations molt irreligioufly and fallly, unto the devill? And why 1 pray? Why,becaufe they cannot dive into the depth of her atlivi- tv, by whom they thcmfelvesdolive, move, andhave th.;ir being. Yea, and to limit her afliviry with bounds, according unto their pleafure, who (though they know not fo much) have their life and volunty from her, which limiteth them ac- cording as fhe pleafeth , who is infinite in her b.^einp ; for fo much as fhe is a por- tion, not divided from that Divine Emanation which is infinite in his extention. It is evident therefore, that this vivifying Spirit can fend forth its adtion unto any mark in the world, from any fpecifick nature, but efpecially from the Microcof- micall creature; andthe rather, if the mark be of the fame fpecifick condition, and the vehicle of the fpirir, namely theeffufed blood, meafuivngfirftthediltance between the wound and the Ointment. Moreover, we fhall find this conftrmedby other of her operations, effeded in the fame Microcofniicall Mine, from whence it emitteih its'beams, atan unlimueddiftance. As for example^ It is found by experience, and that by naturall means , without any fufpition of Cacomagicall devices or fiiperiiitious artifices, that if a perfons urinethat hath the Yellow Jaun- dis, lie conveied at the diftance of a hundred miles (as by an honourable Perfon of nofmallrank, and entire in Religion, I am informed, whohathoften times made the tryall hereof) unto a place where a compohtion fhall be made of the urine, andafhesof a certain tree, commonly known and had in this Kingdom, with cer- taine blades of Saffron/as hath been told you in my Book,entitled The Sqiteez^ing of Parfuyi Feflei^s Sfonge) it often-times cureth that difeafe, when the belt of Phyii- call experiments have faikd ; andthis Medicine mifleth feldom, where the difeafe iscurable. And now I will relate a true Itory, which befell this latt yeare 16^0, upon a Chirurgion's wife , who dwelled not far from the Tower of London: She fell defperately fick of the Yellow Jaundis, and hadhck gripings , and fh outings withall, about her Stomack; my felt after many others was called unto her, buc prevailed but little by our Phyiicall means over the difeafe-, wherefore flie hearing me tell of the many cures which this Noble Earl I fpakeof, did perform in having the Parties water, (lie fent herman unto me with her water , to requeft me to make fome meanJ unto the Noble Man for her. The fellow was fent by me with a let- ter four miles into the country > and when he came unto the houfe, he found two that were there to give thanks for their recovery : For by that means they were cured. Theu/me was received for my fake, andthe fellow fent away : Buc mark the confequence ; fo foon as the fellow was parted with the urine, the fick woman was tatled unco by demureGoflips.and told that it was done by witch-craft and the devill, and therefore dangerous for her foul, which made her rage and cry-out upon witch-craft , and was much difcontented; which when I heard, I came no more unto her,efteeming her ungratefull, and fent fuddenly to the Earl, to requett him toundo thebufinefsj andbreak the clods; which he fent me wo^^d he would do, bur told me it was to late : For (faid he) it will work theeff;c^howfoever. Indeed the woman mended immediatly after it, and no doubt did afcribe rhe cu-e unto fome other inefficacious Phy ficall trafh, applied per chance unto her by fo ne Mountebank. All thisi fpake to my knowledg; and I am not ignorant of the manner of the cure: For it pkafed the Noble Perfonage to impart un-^o me the nunner; yea, and the Ladies his daughters have cured many of this difeafe; afwell richaspoore, who have made fome means unto them for this cure. And thii; wor- thy Lord did affure me, that he had cured at an hundred mile's diltance. I cannot chofe but make you acquainted with another cure, which he effefted upon a noble Lady that was my patient. She had extreamly the Jaundis, and though I did in fome fort remove them for a while- yet it returned again. I then reqnefted th: Noble Knighc her husband to fend her water unto the forefaid Honourable P.^rfo- nage, and promifed him to write my letter by him- All was done as I coun- felled, and rhe Countef therather, becaufethe Lady that was fick, was of aNobleParentPge. Somewhat iw-ousht wirh the difeafe,- but not ro our purpofv.- : Whereupon I did vifire 'hi"; Noble iSlan, and told him of the fmall fuccefs that his Medicine had. He willed
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tne to fend her water once more ; and cold me, that a Lagy vva forefaid noble patients behalt, the day before. I lent ogiin hor water , and from that time forward fhe mended apace, and \\i^ perfectly i. u ed. There are a hun- dred who can jultiriethis tobetiue. Neither^ an it be aJLdged , thit it might b^ done by fome medicine ufedin the mean time. To > ut ott this objedion, flie was prohibired for all that fealonto rake any medicine, but ba-'e food onely. Now the reifon of this cure is nootherwifeerfecSed, then th4t otthe weapon-falve ; for the fpirit of the blood in the infefted perfon , h.uha continuated relation unro his falc , yea, and its habitation is in the ireall fait ot the blood , whi.hb.inga fubrle earth, in the center whereof is the I'pirit conttafted , andbe ngpirtly difpe'-fed in theurinejwhK his the whey of the blood, it fucketh anddraweth unto it his like from the infeded body, whereby it b;ing, as it were, refufcirated , andnewly re- vived, it emitcech new beamsto meet , comfort, and correiil rhe infeded beams, emitted out of the tick body. And again, the infefling fpirit of the iiteritious hu- mour is, b"y vectueofthe fait inchealliesj and fafFron, conquered and tarn d;fo that as it diech, the infuUing humour, and his venomous fpirit , decayethandfa- deth by little and little in his ftrength , till it be finally qiiire extinguillied. Whereby it is evident, that by one and the fame medicine, the fpirit in the urin's fait, and that in che lick- man's blood, are both fympathetically refrefhed and pu- rified, and the flame of theevill infecting fpirit of the difeafe, as well in the urine as rickbody,is ancipathecically quenched and annihilared. In this refpedt therefore, we compare the compofition ofu:ine, allies, and faft'ron in this cure , unto the weapon-falve J in the confolidating of wounds ; and the urine carried from the fick unco the mafs fo compounded, unto the blood or fpiriron and in the weapon; and the exfufcicating of the congealed fpirit in chefalt of theurme , nnro the re- vivifying and exagitating of the fpirit in the dead blood, or fucked up by the po-y fubftance of the weapon; fo that we fee here all one confenc : Fo- as rhj dead blood came from the lively fountain of blood, fo the urine was the whey or ferous fublbnceof i:he famewell-fpring, not left delUtuce of the bloody fpirits.
What fhall we fay unto the ad ni'able effects, in the tranfplancarion of rhe bloo- dy fpirics in man , into other animals or vegetables ? Venly,ic is a thing well known unto fuch , asarewellfeen in the myikries of natu-all, nico.ofn'cal! , and macrocofmicall Magii:k , that the fpirituall Mummy , vvhofefeat is in the mi- crocofmicall blood, may be fu. ked or drawn out of mans uody by a Magnet, excra- Aedout of the famefubjed, andtranfplantedintoa bealt, treejo^he-b ; fothac the difeafe alfo of the li:k mm may be conveyed from the (ick perfon in^o the n , by means of this microcofmicall Magnes , the pradife whereof fhall be expreffed more at large in the next Book. Alio JJj^tnnes R>t»tdius PharArnu^idns doth profefs, that he hath cured divers of the Gout, by cutting off the haires of the feec and thi^hes, and paring off the nailes,andthrulHngofchemintoahole which he bored unro che very pith of an Oke , and clof\ng o: ramming up the ho\e again with a peg or pin, m.ade of the fame tree , and afterward daubing ic up , and covering ic over wich cow-dung. Then, faithhe, if the Gowte come not again wichin che fpace , ofthree months , the Oke will befufficient to draw magnetically unro it the dif- ea{e; but if che Gowc come again within chree months fpace , it noteth the infuffi- ciencyofche Okes magneticall vertue. Wherefore then he proceedech after chis manner : He borerh a hole in another Oke as before, and keepeth thofe pieces which in che boring came oncotche Oke, andbruifeth them, andquilrs or ilitcheth them up in a bag, and applyeth them to the member grieved; and this he doth jull three daiesbefo-e the new Moon: Then in che very hour of the new Moon, he taketh away rhe bag, and taketh out the bruifed wood, andputteth it into the hole of the tree, and '■a'nmeth it in with a peg or pin of the fame Oke. And if for all this the Gowt fhill be perceived within three three months after , then he cutteth ofFche hair and nails of che feet, and tyeth them unto the back ofaCrab-fifh , and cafteth ic into the running water , andthe gowcy perfon will becured. This D~i£tirof Phyfick doth profelfein acercain Book of his , fet forth by him in the German Tongue , that he hath cured many by the firft experiment , and many other by rhe firft and fecond , one after another ; and laftly , many defperate ones by the firft , fecund, :ind third. And he faith, thac this manner of cure is commonly found cer- tain in thofe Gowts, which happen of a fulphureous caufe ; but in thofe Gowts which rife from a Mercutialland fait nature, it often faileth. And therefore lea- vm^ this ■Tiionetick manner of cure , hebetakethhimfelfunroa more extemall kind of remedy' Hh I
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I have (alfo in my, Squeezing of Mr. fo/tr's Spunge) related unto you , the ftrange'iympathyvvhuh is bawixt the Vegetable, czlitd Ksfr.-fol^s , anu the ma- trix of a woman, and how it being laid in Plantain water, ittlofcih itfelf; and if apart ofthat water bed unkbyawomanchat is in Travell, and the herb in the wa- ter be removed into another houfe, yetat that very inflant that the woman is upl on delivery, the flower or herb will by iitrle and little open it fdf, even as the matrix of the woman dorh : An evident argument , that thofe beams which ilTus from thefe two , do fynipathize with one another. To conclude, it is moft evi- dent, that feeing the Ipirituall Aihalicall vercues^ in each inferiour creature , do defccnd from ccleRiall Ibrs, and are of one continued n«ture with them , as the Sun-beams which are here below , are not divided or feparared from their foun- tain of light , it folio weth, that they emit their beamy influences unto one ano- thcTj evenasrhe two ftars do in heaven, from whence they are animated: fothatif the two liars in heaven befriends, they both do fympathize in the occurrences of their emanations with one another ; but if they be enemies to one another in hea- ven, rhey will, in their applications of beams , antipathizeand decline from one another. And as touching the diftance which they obferve in their mutuall adion with one another, we mult miagine it to extend it felt fo far, as their beams are able to apply to one another. And I would have fuch men, as are onely converfanc about fenfible affairs, know , rhat the adVion of thefe creatures byafpecl unto one another, do operate occultly? though theeffeft doth not alwaies manifeft it felf unto our fenle; but withall they ought to tonceive, that the nearer in naturall affi- nity the liars in heaven, and confequently the things beneath, which are fubjed unro rhofefpirits, are unto one another , the more efficacious will the fympathi- fingefteds prove, by reafon, that then their beams will meet direftly, that is, without any fwervirg or declination.
CHAP. VI.
ThAt the deviil doth makeuj'e of naturall things to operate his firatagtms amorgfl men ,
nit bout the which, he cn/i effi£l »othtttgtrsily ^ but onely frefiigioujly , or by dnujion i
■^'idf n hethtr thofe Naturdil things are thtrefove Cacomagica/l , and to be ef-
cherred uf Jl-fankjftd , becaufe their fccret effeliis do fumetimes
confoi m themselves v.nto the vuliintj of the divill .
WE read in many places in Scripture, chat the devIU maketh ufe of Gods creatures, to bring topafshis fecret devices and ttratagems againll man- kind; as for example , Satan, toimpovetifh and ruinate the fortune of patient Job, did make ute of the winds , and did call ( as the Text faith ) the fire of God from heaven to confume his cattle, God forbid , that we Ihould elieem for this reafon thefe creatures of God to be cacomagicall and diabolicall, becaufe God madethem ad to accomplilli the willof the deviil : He made him alfo aPrinceof the aire, infomuch as he hath power to ftir up tempelis in the feas , and Itorms in the elementary heavens; and therefore the aire by lome is called. The Synagogueof Satan : What ! mufi we therefore abhor the aire and winds, becaufe the deviil doth at fometimes ad by and in them his mifchievous feats > when as the aire is cleared and purified from all corruption ( z^-^rifiotU faith rightly ) by agitation of the winds, for if it were not excited andmovedby the winds, it would putrifie, as the Handing waters doch. Again, if we fhould fly from , and loath the aire, how fhouldwe live ? when the airy fpi'it is the fpirituall feed of our life. We read alfo in Scripru'-es , that God caufeth the Sun indiff^erently to rife upon the good and bad, and chat the Sun and Moon do harm or hurt fome , as again they are comfor- Pfal. III. 5. table and propitious unto others; and thi^izforc David (mh, The Sun (h^ill not ha>-m thee by day, nor the moon by right. The Moon, which is termed by the Poets, Hcc cate,'\% thegoddefs of witches , for unro her did the famous Enchantrefs Afedai* make her orifons, for rhe furthering of her purpofes ; and yet the aire, che water , and the earth, are feafoned with her humid or madid vertues , and the plants, yea, and animals, do acknowledge her rhe Patronefs of vegetation ; (he maketh the feas tofwell, and again, by another kind of her pofitionorafped , the feas are abated in tiieir pnde , and humours are more fcanry in every living or vegetating thing : Yea, we finde, that all the mslignanc watry fpu its are fubjed unto her influences;
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and that Satan alfo taketh his advantage on the diverfe pofirions of her » or Con- junctions and applications with other as well fixt as erratik (larrs to work his fears: for he is an old beaten Souldier in ARrology, and knoweth the effects of every fi-. tuation of the heavens , and therefore can take the advantage of their llrongefl influences, upon animal, vegetable, or minerall creatures, which are fubjed un- to them, he knoweth the due times when chey are poured down upon f hem, and is expert in their virtues, which are thenonely of greateft efficacy and force, when the powerfull point of their proper conftellation Itriketh upon them, and lUrreth up their Centrallfpirits, to ihew forth the uttermolt of theit occult or arcane na- tures and conditions, and then at the very infant, he coUedleth the herb or Hone, or rhaketh ufe of the Animal's members, orteacheth fuch as are Sorcerers todoit, wirhofik knowing the myltery of the conlkllation's concurrence or ap- plication at that time of the colleftion with the naturall creatures fo colle- cted; So that when they attempt to make ufe of the fame Simples at another time, they find them weak and of none effed ; becaufe the fpirits of every herb , animal , or minerall , are weakelt , when the ftarre which is their nur- ling cclertiall mother, hath lea(t power or dominion in heaven. All which the true Altrologicall Philc>fopher knoweth right well by experience , to be true : For gathering of a Simple at the point, when the conitellation , as well fixt as erratick, which kath the eflentiall dominion over it , is in his greateft dig- nity and power in heaven j he finderh an admirable efficacy in it , as well in his oc- cult as evident property ; when contrariwife, if it be collefted at a feafon, where- in the heavenly Patron is weak and feeble, rhey will appear as it were faint and al- moft dead in their power : Whereby it is nioli: apparent, that it is the naturall creature's, whichby their own eflentiall natures work, even as well thofe fympa- theticallasantip.uheticall etfeiSls, which the devill doth make ufe of to perforin his devices, even as thePhyhtian, Philofopher or naturall Magitian doth, to effe£l their own ends. What fhall we fay then? what? that whofoever fliall ufe or operate by the fame creatures, be they animals, vegetabls, or minerals , are Caco- magicians and their work diabolicall; becaufe the devill at fome times maketh ufe of their fubtil and abtirufe aSion , tobuildhimfelf a nameamongft fools > Is ic not Godthat worketh fuch effefls in thefe his crearures ? Did he not by his Word beftowfuch virtues on them in their Creation, and continued ir in their fuceiTion by generation ? Why then is it not as polTible unto Man, who is framed after God's Image, to know the true time of the collection of thefe creatures, with the ufes and virtues thereof, as well as the devill ? What? becaufe, forfooth, he fince the fall Adam, is blinded with ignorance, and cannot fee or diRinguiOi light fromdaknefs? That -^^i^iw knew the virtues of the ftarrs and of every particular earthly creature fubje£t unto every one of thefe llarrs , we partly gather out of Scriprure : For elfe could he not have afsigned a proper name unto each of rhcm, agreeing to his nature. But if the fucefsion of Adam is blind, and cannot dilHn- guifh of colours, and therfore is ignorant alfo in tliefe hidden rreafures of God; How, I pray y^u, came the devill co have fo Azzt^ an infight in them, being that he fell for his rebellion, farre deeper than Man, and is clogged with a darker vayl than he, and therefore is called the Prince of darknefs. Oh, yru replyv the devill is a fpirit without body, andthereforeisableto difcern the hidden things of God in nature, fooner and beter then Man, who is a grofs bodily creature. And again, Mandieth every Age, bur the devill by reafon of his long continuance, is of great experience. I aniVer : That though Man die and continueth not long ; anil though he be obfcured in his underllanding by reafon of his Fore-fathers fall; and though he be dadorindued with a dark and coT.berfom body , yet hathhethe re- velation of the Truth, and a difcovery of the nbllruce mvlteries of Naturall things firll from God, bequeathed and left unto him by fucceuion; that is , by a Cabaliiticall tradition, even from our Fore-father Adant, and by the revelation of God's Wifdom, or the good Spirit, which he hath bellowed upon rh- Elect : S«p. ?• i7" For by it (as i'o/o»«o« himfelf dothre(lifie) he came roknow the difpofuion cf the Earth; the virtue of the Elements; the beginning, end and middle of times; rhechange of manners, the divilion of times; the courfe of the year; thedifpo- fitionof the rtars; the natures of living creatures; the condition of beafti; the force of the winds: the differences of Planrs; the virrues of roots ; yea, faithhe, ana I d\fcove"ed all hidden and abdruce things •- For Wifdomwho is the worker of all things taught it me , err. And again , it is faid , that he knew and was inft-u-
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fted in the myfteries of all Plants, even from the lowly Hyfop, unto the lofty Ce- dar of L^b^.fon. Was it th;n a diabolii.all a£tion in Soii>mon , to look after , and to praclife upon the abitruce natures of Plants and Animals, and to find out by his skill in Ajhology the pcoper Itarrs, which are their true Patrons and charitable Mo- thers in heaven, and to make elsdion of their due times and feafons in gathering of them;bcingthattheDivineVVifdom that made them, operates in them , and by them, taught him rhis skill; becaufe the devill alfo is by his acute cbfervarion made partaker of their knowledg, and dorh makeufc alfo of all thefe things to ferve his own turn: What? beiaufe,Ifay he, hath this knowledg to eleft every Simple , in his force and feafon, by obfervation of that reference which is be- tween the ftarrs and them; Therefore murt not Man be partaker of their natural virtues, or be made cunning in the skill of collecting them , but by the aide and revelation of the devill ? When in flat terms the Scrinrures fay, that God made themallfor cheufeof Man, mull they be efteemeddiabolicall in all that ufe them, and therefore be forbidden, becaufe the devill doth fometimes ferve his turn with them ? As who {hould (ay, that God (hould create any thing, onely fo^ the de- V il*$ ufe, and not to ferve man in each necelliry , and that according unto his free will; being that it is faid, that He gave man power, and made him Lo^^d over all his creatures. What if the animal, or vegetable, or mineral Simple , do in lome cafes harme and prove venomous, yet in other refpefts it proveth fahicary. There is no wind fo bad, but bloweth unto fome men, good.
ThtCoHcquintiia, ScAfytoriy, EufhcrbiHtn^ C ^ cumer aftn'ww, Titimal/j Bears-foot , Flammnia, Garlicky, and fuch like, in the vegetable kingdom, prove in fome re- fpe£ts venomous, and yet may be applied after a falutary condition, unto the bo- dy of Man. hUo j4 > fen ck^, O'fiment, /Int'.mony^ Qy.ick -fiver , and fuch like, iri the minerall Sphere do kill, beingmalevoloufly and without corredion appli- ed. The Toad, the Viper, or Adder, the Spider, the Scorpion, theCantharides, and fuch like in the animal region, are deadly poyfon unto man-kind ; and yet they may be fo prepired,that they may prove wholfome medicines unto him^and become counter-poyfons. But be'.ides all this, as there is nothing in the world , that worketh mo^e effeitually by Sympathy and according unto nature, than one wholfome and found nature doth with another ; So verily is there nothing, that operateth more Antipathetically , and contrary to nature or deiiructively, than the corruption of an errpoyfoned or infeded fpirit , doth with a wholfome fpirit of his like Species, And the reafon is. becaufe it coveteth and defireth by an earnetl communication of his beams, ro receive (as it were help and fuccor in its diftrefs from the found Ipirits , unto the irradiations whereof, it applierh it felf for relief: as we fee in the time of contagion, the fpirir ariilng or emanating from the infected perfon, spplieth his infefted beams g-eedily unto the emanating fpi- rit of his wholfome like ; andfoby a continuation of one unto the other, rhe fiery venome of the one impoyfoneth and co-inquinater h the falutary nature of the other, and that onely with his fpecifick like : For commonly the Plague , fami- liar unto Men, doth not (iick or cleave unto the fpirit of bealts, namely unto that of Sheep, and fuch other. As in like manner, the Murrenin hearts , infedleth nor Man's fpirit; but the like fpecifick nature is evermore aprert , to embrace and apply hi= beams nnro his like : For this caufe therefore it is evident, that as out of a wholfome Mnn , there may be had a fpirituall Mummy, which is wondrous hcal-hfull and falutiferousunro mankind; in.omuch that for his univerfall re- fpefts, ir rnay beefteemedasaPrfw^r^.torcatholickmedicine, topreferve healrh* Soalfo rhere vrM>y be atrrsfted our of Man , afrer a rtrange manner of corruption of his fpiriturli Mummy, a venome, than the which there cpnnot be found a more pernicious c malignant one to mankind in the world: For this reafon Therefore, a certain y^-'i', (as T was by a Merchant that came newly from Fefs\x\ Barbar, untoi-f- for» credibly informed) after he had beheld an E*^/ had a red hc^d, and f.iining himfclf ro be much taken with rhe love of him, wrought fo with him, that for ?oo Pound, he agreed to fell himfelfunf^ him f^"- hi« fine, thinkingin tinieto come togive his Jewifh Mafter rhe flip,, and run iwayr Within awhile nfrer the fl ip being ready to rerurn, and the Marri^^r^ goi'^^tonke their leave of their captive fallow, they refortedunro the 7i?"'s houfe, who after rh^y had demanded for their fellow, led them into aback Courr, whce they found the red-headed captive, hi -back being broke, and a s:agge in his mou'h and chop -"nd throat fwoUen ; which, as he faid, was caufed by the Hinging of Vipers, which
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were forced into his mouth ; and fo hung up and expofcd unto the hot Sun, with a hlvec baton under his mouth, to receive that vviiiLh dioppid from his mou.h ; of which (as he related unco me) the 7'''»' made a kind of poyfon fo deadly, that ic did furcty kill where it touched; affirming that he fold it at an excelfive rate. The like was etfeded, (as I was told by the Pope's Apothecary, dwelling in Avi- ttion ; and Gnce, it h-irh been contirmed by others, that came from Rome) by a cer- tain Cardinal, who immediatly after he had gor his red-headed Miitris with child, - and nouriHiing her with all thedelightfuU damties that might be , till flie was de- livered, didinafe:ret Court in his Pallace bu-y her, armes and all, unto the paps, and fo let loofe unto her TWO hungry Afps, or, mGermtut heard it related, two deformed Todes, the which making immediately unto her dugs , fucked, anditi fucking bit her , and impoyfoned her dugs ; and when the Todes were full , that milk became ( as he faid ) i'o venomous and deadly , that it infected any one that touched it, it vvaj fo fubcle and piercing. And belides ,(as theformer Ilorygoech) the woman was taken up , and after her back was broken, was hanged her legs up- ward againit the Sun , to receive that venomous liquor which dillilled from ic into a Ulver veflell, wherewith he intended to have poyfoned that Cardinall, which flood as a block in his way between th; Popedom and him. But all wasdifcovered, and he, according to hi unerit, did endure the fiery triall for it. And the reafon why the red- headed man or woman is elefted molt fit for this purpofe, is, becaufe they are fubjeit by their nativity unto the influences of the Sun , and therefore are the more cap.ibleof , and obnoxious to corruption; wherefore their fpirituall Mummy being conraminated by the animal poyfon , is after his fermentation and putrefaftion , made admirably fubtle , and exceeding malitious. And al- though the fympithecicall defirebe inth^fpecifickMumny , tobejoyned with fais like, yet by reafon it is infected, and intoxi:ated by that antipatheti- call fpirit of the invenomed bealt , which hath got the malkry over it , in cannot embrace his like fympathetically , but it infe(^;^;th it alfo by his antipatheticall additament , and fo the accidentall venome converteth them both into his nature. That thv-re was a certain Hermit, that lives not far off from Aix in Provence, is frefh yet in every mouth of that place, that with the like philtre did infeftthe whole Cicywith fo dvifperate a plague, that it diddeiiroy moit of the people thereof ; onely they were preferved and cured when this Her- mir pleifed , who for that caufe was ftyled by th^ name of Holy Hermit ; for as hj p ^yfoned the hammers of each of the dores, fo that whofoever knocked with them was fo-thwith infeded , he that poyfoned had his countcr-poyfon to cure. Tnis d:villifh perfon was at the laft difcovered, and burnt alive, as he well defer- red. By the like ftratagem , a little before my comming into Prov nee, theplague wasb'-ou^hr into ru i>i\n Pia'n-'m, by certain lewdp^rfons , whofuffered for it, their flefli being torn from thsm by hot fiery pincers. Alfo lately, by the flrewing of a venonous povvdes the plague was mulciplyed in M'Uan , the confpirators difcovered, and executed: And thus by thefe wicked inventions, the intemall fpi- ritsofmenwereinfe£led,andtheexternill aire polluted. Niither can this tothe trueNaruraliil apppea: rtrange, finceir is proved bv experience, that a wholfome ai-e is oftenrimis converted by a venomous blali of the fouchsrnwinde , nto a cor-up"ed.ind contagious difpo ition , and the aire that was pure and unpolluted , isno\vbvrhepdt!ferousb^e.^thof a plaguy p;rfon, or the infectious carbuncle, or both, inquinated and mide venonous ; and that ai'-e fo corrupted, will alfo cor- rupt his next acy neighbour , which was found and h;alchfuU befo'e. Let us but obferve , how rheinfe£ted fpirit of the plaguy perfon, or one polTeifod wi'^h the fmall Pox,or Me.ifcls,Ptilick,orOphthalmy, or blear eyes, dorh infect the fpirit of a found m^nat a good diftan e ; and the Leprofy, Epilepfy, Fren:h-Pox, by an immed'arc ront^ct ; and we iTiall find, how that whirhwiscreated wholfom and falutarv in man, is become contaminating and venomous by difotder. Whit there- fore fhall I fay? mufl we con lude, th 't we mufl abandon our own nature, becaufe it may be mide infectious and deidlvunro u^? Nay, mul we therefore eleem hu- man ni'^ure to be therefore .ibhominable , and:ibhorredof man , becaufe the wit- ches and force'ers do, bv the devills doctrine and mltruttions , make ufe of mans flefli, hair, miles, excrements, blood, yea, and of both his fpirituall and corporall Mnmmy, to bring their wi;ked purpofes and inchmrmenrs to pifs? That this is fo, we find it as well maintained by Hiflo'-y , as daily praftife . obfe^ved amongft the witches; for - »/e;'/
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tobeawitch)telleth, how his fweet-heart ftr^),vvasby her miftrefs 5 being a noto- rious witch , lent into a Barbers fhop fecretly tor mens hair, to employ it a- bout her witchcraft. AUb he fheweth, that it was a thing fo frequent in thofe dales , Ijy reafon of the abundance of forcerefi'es which abode in Tl.ejfaly , to have watch-nien with itore of lights, to attend upon the dead corfesor corps , imme- diately after their death, to hinder and prevent the witches, which uled to come infecretlvby night, in the form of Weafelsandfuchlikefhapes, to (teal awayfome put ot the carcaie to ferve their turns , about their wicked arc. Moreover, it ij a common thing, amongll them and the Necromancers , tofrequentthe Church- yard';, and to vilit the graves of luch as are dead , either for fome part ofthem, or elfe forapiece of their winding-flieet, o'r of the ccffin wherein they were buried , by reafon of the fpivituall Mummy which (Hcketh unto them, to etfect their cere- monies and naughry devices. It hath bten confefled by a witch , that deltroyed a Noblemanschildrer ofthisLand, that flie could have no power over one ofthem, till flie had recovered an old glove that it worcjand afrerward fhe had power overit: the reafon was , becaufe of rhe relation which the fpirituall Mummy of the child , that entered by fwear into the glove, had with that of the body; nootherwifethan that fpirit upon the weapon hath, unto the fpirit of the wounded body ; fo that as that fvireth, either in hoc or cold diftempers , foalfoic fared with the fpirit in rhe ^Yound , as it appeared, when the ax orweapon was uncovered by chance, the woundwould be dolorous and diliempered wiih cold ; and when ofpurpofe part of the oyncmenc was pared off from che weapon , thac part of the wound whi..h correfpondcd unro it, would ake andbe troubled ; foalfo the witches , applying their na\ightv v.nom unto the Mummyin theglove, fl-iooe, orotherparc of the worn-n-iirt,fmock,fock, or futh like, do produce their venom.ous effect afar otf. We read alfo in caccmagicall books , in what eUeem the members of young chil- dren were among enchanters, and efpecially their skin, ofwhich, after many dia- boHcall and nei.romancicall confccrations, they create their virgin parchment, on which they write the names of god, of the angels they invoke, andthechaiailer of the planet or (hrunto which they do belong. Mult therefore the magnerickef- feft of mans nature, or fpirituall Mummy, with his like, be efieemed damn.ible and diabolicall , becaufe the myilery thereof is by thedevill revealed unto witches , and the fecret properry thereof converted unto an evili fenfe , and unchriHian-like ufe? Mu[l aire be refufedand banilbed from man , becaufe it maybe by bad means corrupred.and fo be made to kil:or is fire to be excluded as condemnab!e,for thac it, being ill applyed , provethnow deltruftive, which being rightly applyed, doth cherifli and comfort? If by contaminating or changing our fpirituall Mummy into a ccntaginus and venomous difpofition, we infect another, as one plaguy perfon poyfonethano'her, addijUns; and one houfeon firefetteth fire unto another, though It be not contiguous or touching : mull therefore the ufe of the aire and fire be condemned, and banilTied from mans ufe ? Or, mufl Gods fire from heaven be abhorred, becaufe Satan made ufe of it inadeltruitivefenfe, andforiheruine of Jo^'spoflcfljon ? Shall, I fay, the occult property of the fpirituall Mummy, and rhe admirable efficacy of mans fpirit , invvhoUbmeandfalutary ufes, be therefore - efchewed and abhorred, becaufe by infection it may be converted to a poy fonfome difpofition ? Shall a good fword , whi>h is ordained for the defence and fafeguard of its malkr, be therefore b:oke and call away , becaufe a bad man killeth another with ir? A good thingbeing ill applyed.may do harm. The influent e and I'ght of the neavenlvSun,in the which is the fpiracle of life , being ill received , doth fome- time breed unnaturnil effects , yea, the devill himfelf maker h ufe of ir, to ferve his ufeat fevcrallfcafons;and yet neither it, nor his vertues, can for all that be elke- med diabolicall. In like manner, if we dcfcend froai the animal fphear, unco the vegetable and mineral , we find, that che notorious Enchanrrcfs Medif, made fpeciall ufe in her em hanrments, ( as alfo the fame is related of other forcerers and witches) of he;bs , Oones , and mineralls , without the help cf which naturall things, neither they, nor their dev'll, which revealed unto them their fecrer ver- tues, could «.fF.d or accomplish their dehres. Andfor thispurpofe, ( as Ox'/^ tel- lerhthel'o'-y) flie fearched the lofty tops of ^rt, to find out herbs for her pur- pofe-. M.my operate their feats by the vertuou"; property of ftones , which the devill doth deliver unro rhem, though they themfelves know neither the Harry influcn^ethar giveth the for rations of fuch llrange effects: As for example. There was a witch in ScotUiid, who
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at her arreignment did confefs,thac by the property of a ttone which was taken from her, flie could difcover any thing, namely if a thing were true it would fweacand'if it were falfe, it would not Ivveat ; and alio it would reveal other things unto hor by changing colours. And again, wh'^n they defiredto fee feme conduiions fro.n her flie faid, that it they would let her have her (tone, (lie would (hew them fome : But they fearing that flic would efcape by that means durlt not let her have it , but did burn her at theQueensFerry in ScoiUnd. Some are inllru£ted by him to take a metal andto prepare it under his proper conllellation,and to gtave on it the charafters of the (tar, and Angells belonging unto it, at fuch a time as the ftar is molt potent in heaven , and well encountred by other Planets. And then they find thefe plates to be of a Itrange efFe6t, in many Magical executions. What? And becaufe the devillknoweththe virtue and properties of thefe naturall things, and can inftru6t hisminitersin theevillufageof them; therefore dorh it follow, that Adam, and Solomon, andthe wife MagitiansoftheEalt, and many othergood and godly per- fons, do not know their virtues, their times of collection, and their manner of application in goodnefs ; yea, and if they fee a jult cau(e in a contrary fenle , and that without the tranfgrelTion of the bounds of naturall and lawfull Ma^ick, whofe true fubjeCt is the Spirit of Wifdom^ which is the Bafis or foundaticfn of true Naturall Philofophy ? What make we of the means which Mofes uled , when heby difperhng of aflies , brought the botch over all i/£.gjft ? But fome will fay, that this was fupernaturally done : Let them but look into the occult Secrets in the nature of other aninnals, vegetables, and mineralls, and they fhall find as great myiteries as thefe contained naturally in them , all fufpition of commerce with the devill being fet apart. Was the reverend Father A.bertus Magma' z Caco- magician, becaufe ne reciteth the abltruce, occult, and mylticall virtues of Ani- mals, Plants, and Stones. The like did //^ww , PUto, and many other pro- found Philofophers. Ormuftthefebethepupills of the devill, becau(e they know the limes and houres of their coUeftion, and manner of preparation, though they kept that fecret unto themfelves ? No verily, for they had it from tradition, name- ly from the my{ticall and profound Philophers or naturall Wifemen , fuch as So- lomon^ Hermes^ and the wife men called M^?i-i or naturall Magicians of the Ealt, which revealed them unto the worthy, by fucceirionfromone Age unto another. Was it not a wondrous propery in Gy^f/ his ring, that cold make him, by the naturall property that it had, to walk invifible ? And yet forfooth the blind bu- xardsof our Age (fuch,l fay, as Mr. i^i/tfr, and his Complices are) will have all thefe miraculous effects in the creatures, to proceed from the devill ^ and fo de- prive the Omnipotent Spirit of God, and his Nature, of their right; when SoL- mon in plain terms confefleth, that all the knowledg of the fecret times of Ele- fticn, of the myfticall natures in the (tars, of the occult virtues and properties of Man, Bea(ts, Plants, andRoots, and all things elfe known or unknown, pro-
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eth, and difcovereth unto man, the abltruceniylteries of Naturall Philofophy, whi(^hconfi(teth in the knowledg anddifcovery of naturall virtues, as well above as beneath. And fecondly. That it is the fame Spirit that made thofe virtues in every fpecifick thing, namely in the (tarrs above ; and in the animal, vegetable, and minerall kingdoms beneath. Which being fo, what can the devill, bein^but a reafonable creature as well as man, do, in the creating of thefe effentiall virtues- by which he worketh his feats , more then man? Or why (hould we artribute that unto him, which doth rightly belong unto the all-creating and acting Spi- rit in the internall creature ? If man pleafe, he may attribute the wickedneffe of the aftion unto the devill , which inltigateth man to evill, and teacheth him the means to effeft his bad intent; that, verily , doth of right belong unto the devill : For he was created for a de(troyer,as the Prophet //'»' irhe makethufeof God's naturall creatures; for he ufed the fire of God from heaven , to deltoy Job'z cattle, and the corrupt aire to kill with the Plague or Pe- ftilence the Ifraditesio: Dav.d*s (ins : Neither was it ever obferved, that he could do ought againit man of himfelf, faving onely in temptation : but he operateth to deltroy, or make iick by fuch naturall antipirhi(ing means, as God hath framed for a direfterufage ; although alfo unto fome of his veneficall fchollers, he is plea- fed to (how and reveal a counter-poyfon, by which they may by a (tronger fympa-
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theticall operanon, drown ■ or extinguifh luch antipatheticall efFeCts as they have impofed upon man's externall fpiric, when they are moved either forfear of punidi- ment, or for gain, or for compairion to do it: which is the reafon that fome witches can undo rhofe afflifting maladies , which they themfelves , or other witches have laid on perfons ; but alwaies they rauft operate by a reall and mani- • feftnatiirall Subltance, asare Powders, Ointments, Herbs, and fuch like. As iDcmsinX' for example: Clmd,ta, Fdica, Joauf Bdftno and Nicola Plfcatrix , with all their fir I. ' Society, in Lorraine-, Lonfelled the 9. of Alay 1581 . that they had delivered unto
themby thedevill, fubtill powders of three natures, the which were diftinguifhed in colour •■ For( faid they) that of a black colour killeth , being ftrewed on meat, or rubbed on the body , orfprinkled on the apparell; andthat of an afhen or reddifli colour, cr.ufeth difeafes : but the white Powder did cure thofe difeafes. And Odel!^. Boncariam being arraigned the 1 8.of January 1586. faith that it was the manner of the witches of his fa6tion , to Itrew a poyfoncd powder in the way where they fliould pafs, on whom they would work mifchief. And Trayicis Peri- ve , confeffed the 4 of -A/iww.'^f!' 1588. that an herb wasgiven her by thedevill, to be laid in the way that R'ibcrianM ( who did beat her for Healing fome of his peares) didpafs, which caufed himfuddenly to fall fick. Francis FoUers, and yWar^etfVarny, z^A lacobit Equine, confeffed the i 5.of Jatiuary 1584. that they had Ointments, by which they anointed rods and whips ; So that if they touched therevvith, but theveflments of any one, he died not long after. Alfo they faid, that if they anointed their hand with' this Magicall Ointmenr, if they but touched any one's garments, they diHd within a fmallfpace after. Thus you fee how the devill cannot work but by naturall poyfons : For nothing proceedeth meetly of himfelf , but preftigious apparitions, namely thofe which feem , but indeed are no more in effeft, then a painted image is in regard of the true fubttante.
And therefore let not the devil's minifters maketheirbraggs, tharthis commeth from his inventio'n : For the true Alchymitis fpeakupon their own experience, that their Matter when it is in rotting and black , is more delku£tive then the ve- nomous Tyrean or Serpent ,and therefore it killeth fuddenly ; wherefore they warn the operatours to beware of their Fumes : but when it appeareth in decoftion be- tween, white and black, it rcduceth the Patient into a ftraight between death and health; that is, into a licklyconliitution; and the white , which fignifieth perfe- ction of maturity, caufethljealth, and cureth infirmities, andpreventeth the ma- lice, that the black and afh colour bring with them ; So that you fee the devill can do no more of him felf then man is able. Again , for ftrewing of the deftroying powder, the famewaseffeftedby m.an's wicked invention in Millane , the yeare \62g. Andfor the Ointment which killeth by an immediate contatLt, the ]cwmd the Cardinall knew that wicked crafr, namely to abufe God's creatures as well as thedevill: for whofoever it touched, it killed; and again, the Hermit eftefted the fame bufinefs by anointing the hammers of thedoores, and had his Alexifharma- coworcounter-poyfonfor ir, as well as thedevill ; So that you may fee that the wicked-minded man, that abufeth God's good creatures, as well as the devill , al- tering it from the true fenfe , for which it was created by God ^ for the benefit of Man; may, righrly berancked with thedevill, and be termed jufily, a devill incar- nate, in that without the devil's furtherance, he can effeft many devililTi waies, todenroy,as well as thedevill, without flelli and bones. I conclude therefore, thatit isagreat abfurdity ; yea, and a grofs foppery or madnefs in ignoranr men, fo lightly to adjudgeandcenfure the abltruce Magtialia , or occult Myiteries of God in ISIature, as to affirm them to be adions or inventions of thedevill, though their effefts were bad, much lefs when they are good , and falutiferous ; as is that of the Weapon-falve, when it is commonly known unto God , and all truly un- derftandingmen, that it is the animal, vegetable, or minerall creature, which cf- fefteth theoneby abufe, and the other in the true property 'and virtue; that j?, for the ufe, for which it was created l»y God: For God created all creatures good, a*id confequently for a good ufe ; but it is the malice of the devill , that diverreth it from his trueufe ; which alfo is evidently confirmed by the Wifeman in thefe word's, CreavitDeus It! effentoTfinia, & fanabiles fecit nattones erbis terrarnrn, & Sap. 1.14. ' mneflinlUistfiedicamenffi'Mextermimi, nee Infer or um reanum in terra ^^ creavitque Sjp. I. 24, hominemifiexterminab'ilem, & ad irnarrinem fttniUtHdin's fHA fecit earn: iitvidi.i autem DLiboli morsintroivit in orbemterrnntm: God created all things that they miirht exijl erbe^ and made all the nationf of the earth who/fomej an-d there is nat any deadly thing
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to befettnd within thcnt, nor yet the kjnfdam of hell anddLJl, nit ioK Hpo» the en, th. And he treated (J/Uan inexierm'wabL, ihm /.., to iafifor ever, jtnd he made him after his own image; Out de^-vheinrediniothewcrld by the envy afidmaliceofthe dev'll,&c. For know this, that before thefall oiyidaw, all things were ftreightly and rightly taken, and confcquently no: miitaken; but after that he had talfed of the Tree of good and cvill, hi;j corporall eyes were open , and the creatures were interpreted and dilHn- guillied for good andevill, and were converted unto both ufes-, for from that hour, the mylteries of iniquity and lighteoufneflc began to reigne in the world > and evill begin in the very iirli practile after the fall , to flioulder goodnefs ; and vice did firit prevail againl'f vertue , and by naturall means was employed by the firUt fruits of wickednefs , to wit , the vegetable creature, or a piece of wood, by the envy of unrighteous Cj/'^ , to knockout the braines of his 'righteous brother Abd; when contrariwife this vegetable creature was in another fenfe apiece of wood, namely, in the form of a crofs , ( Iknifyingthe oppofition which in this world is made between good and evill) an inurumenc of Chrift's death, without the which, there was no alTuranceof lalvation.
VVe fee therefore, that all occuit operations proceed from the hidden verc-uein naturall things , which were difcovered by Gods Spirit, as well unto mankind, as conceived by the Qiarp-witted obfervation ...f Satan. Unto good men, I fay, they were detected by the good Spirir, todogood, and prevent evill ; for except the evill be known, acounter-poyfon will hardly be found out : Unto bad men, they were adminiitred to execute mifchief and iniquiry. I will reckon up fome of thefe fecret vertues j in each of the three kingdoms of compound creatures , namely , Animal, Vegerable, and Mineral.
Firlt therefore for the Animal. The Owl is faid by Albenus A-lAgnns , to have many notable verfues; For, faith he, if his heart and right foot be put upon one that "lleepethj he will forthwith tell what he hath done, or any thing that you (liall ask him; and he Ciith, that it hath been tryedbyfome of his brethren to be mo'i true. And againjif one do but put it under the arm-pit , no dog will bark at him. Alfo the Goat's blood is reported by him , toturnglafs into aloft and malleable temper, iltheglafs be fod in it and vinegar, that one may handle it like pai^e , fo that if it be caft againlt the wall, it will not break. And if one maketh an oyntmenc of the fame compofuion , and do annoint his face with it, things WiW appear hor- rible and terrible unto him. Andif the faid compofuion be put in the tire , and there be prefcnt one that hath the falling-ficknefs , andaLoadHone touchhim, he will prefently fall into a fit as dead, and if fome cold warer be given him to drink, he will recover. So (fairh he) if a candle be annointed with the Camel's blood , all men in the room willfecm to have Camel's heads. And thus he proceedeth in hi? Hiltory, witft a defcription of ad-nirable wonders, which are effccT;ed by the oc- cult properties of hearts, vegetables, andrtones.If Mr. Fe/?(?rand his adherents fliall ' fay, that all thefe are lies, 1 reply, That it was a learned Philofopher, and famous Theologian that relaceth them, who, ho doubt, would, if he lived, tell him. That he lliould learn to underlland rhe hours of cleftions, the rtars that have dominions on the earth , and their times of exaltation or fortitude on the earth. And laftly, over what creatures in the three compound Kingdoms they have their proper in- fluences. For my parr, I know admirable fecrets in man and beafti, for the which thePeripatetick Philofophy can yield no reafon ; as for example. That the Pike or Jack-fi(Vie's guts dried, fliould mightily provoke urin; the fucking of blood from a Mole, whofe nofe is cut offfor the fame pu'-pofe, will cue the falling- ficknefs, andthatafter the taking of it , it maketh ihe party exceeding lick ; as ex- perience hath taught us , bythecureof aLady in 7C^«f , wlio was cured thereby: Alfo, tlvu it being burnt unto powder , infhould, by an occult nature, expell the cholick. That the heart and liver of the Frogs Hiould be approved , for the falling- ficknefs. That a Snake's skin fliould accelerate and hailen a woman's delivery. That the menrtrues in a woman fliould caufea Leprofie. That the Toad dried fhouldrtench blood, as alfo the Spider, being applyed unco the noftrills of him that bleederh, as I have often tried.
As for other occult miracles in rtones, mettles , herbs, and animals , the true fch-iUars unto.Vo/aw93,I mean, Hermes, Plato, A bertn.! Mae,""'i^''ff'^orJd!Sf and fudi like, arefuU; and doubtleffe they would not prove f i fottifli and indifcreet , ropubliiiilies, and to write things of impolTibility, averring themto be effected in their knowledge, and fo by that means, lofe that reputation , which they have
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gained in the world by their wiidoni But .15 concerning th2 pra(Ctife of our main bultncrt'e, vvhii.hi is between the ditterent Mummy whlLh is in mans body , and the ocular demon- {Iration thereof , produced from the Loadllone, Ipurpofe in this next Book to fhew and prove more unto you , than any one hath done before me unto this pre- fent, as I may imagine.
The Third BOOK.
Which toucbetb many fra& kail Proofs , and experimeir- tallConclufions , to confirm the loving Microcofmicall
AttraSliony or fympatheticall Coition^ and afitipathelicall Ex- fulfion or hatred^ by the mag»etic/^and expulfi'Z/e pro-
pettj of the Macrocojmcalt Load-fione,
The Argument of this Bool{.
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The Author's Proem unto this prcfcnt Book , wherein he bricjflyand in few word^j rcciteth what is faid before.
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T Have related to you in mj precedent di^courfe-^ and made f(ifjicie/)t proof of it ^ Coloff. z. t. "^_| that the fpirituallChri^ , the divine hPord, tr eternall rvifdom , is the true i>a- jis or foundation of the fjj'enlia/l Philofophy^as is proved ly the yipoflle's te^imovy^ jcJi. t. forafmuch as heis the fare and /^ezer -failing (o^ner-ftone^ on which eijery crea-
1 T't> ^- ture is huitded, and in ffhuni it confijleth'j feeing that in it is life , and that life is the rjj'emiatl lioht^irhich 'Jvijieth all ib:ngs , and confequently oprrateth all Aft. 17. in all, as the Scriptures do fujficientlj tejfijie : For if the Spirit of the Lorddoth Sap. 1. impart unto the cr'-ature Ife, andi/ifpiraiion, and all tbin'is : ^nd if again that
Spirit doth replem^) the earih , ^»d ie in every things ( as Solomon cof^fefj'eth ) then mufi we alfo aik/iovledge, that this centrall Spirit of every fpecifick thing is that 'Divinity , wherein the efjentiall root of all magnetick fympathelicall attra- Bion, and aniipaiheticall expidfion in every kind, conjifleth. For heing it if the catholfck love which imparteth it felf unto every particular exigence ^ to give it aBion and motion^ to attraB his like nature, for a convenient nourilhment , :ijji' Jiance, and con[oU:iot.^ fo alfo it maketh the organ in which it atleth,to refiji and expell all fach ema/.at/ufA, as either in order, quality, orejjencf^ do disagree ■, andareoppoftteorharmfulltotlefpecipck exijience or cor~ferVAtton. For this reafon therefore it e/.dueih thecretiture with a double /iff etli on y namtly, with a concupifcible defjrc, and an irafciile haired , whereof the Oi. e de':h ; ejoyce of fym- pathize with.his like , arul therefore allureth or draweth it unto him , to ccnfuUte and afifl him in /. is ieeifig \ the oti. er i/cth efchew and drive atvay , hy an antipa- theticalland odious afpeB, that which may he harmfull and noyfcnie unto it. yincl this ii the aEl of that all-creating andfuftaining t-l^ifdonie^ which made each crea» ture,hyakind ol fuicjfie prtfi-rvaiion, which ft fucketh from his like in tie world, to Le and exijl ; and to/fequently hath gi fen it an irafciUe faculty to de ■ fendit ftlfjfrom that which is co/.rrary unto it ; yi'herelywetnayfeCy loiv this vi- vifying fpirit du h mcdira^e all things wiih an unparliallhand , in f much that though it hath fran-.ed all thin^ ly oppofcicn , namely, light and darkne(je , and therefore in mans regard be th good a/. dezilli yet he ordained, that each indi V'i- luall ihould have theiacu'ty^ to tf dot with an irafciile and antipatheticall
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elifilau/^ thit Vfhich unto it is comrary either in cvder or nature , or hth : u/,till the time he accom^li^Dedy in which after he is exalted^ hejhall expell all contra- riety and difcord out of this world ^ by waking a fympatheticall umon amoKM all things f which alfo 5r.Paul doth argue in tbefe words: Cum evacuaverit om- nemPrincipacum, & Potcftarcm, & Vircutcm: Oportct autcm cum rco-- ' ^°^' '^• nare, donee ponatomnes inimicos lubpedibus iuis ; noviffiraa autcm inimicadeftiuccurMors, Omnia cnimfubjecitpedibus ejus; Cum autcm cilubjedafucrint omnia, tunc Scipfefilius fubjcftus critilli, quifub-Hcb. 3. jecit fibi omniaj ut fit Dcus omnia in omnibus : When he hath cvacua - ted every Principality , and Potcftat , and Virtue : For he muft raign untill he put all his enemies under liis feet : the laft enemy death lliall be dcftroyed: For he lliall fubjedl all things under his feet. And when all things are made fub jt him, who hath made all things fubjcd unto him, that God may be all in all. whereby it is evident, that the catholick Magneticall virtue , which re- fideth in God's etemall Spirit , ^^6ll at the la(l k exalted after Jjis glorious viSlo~- Y% and draw all things unto him , and all things fhall he one in him , and het/i- them, andconfequently all Difcord and Hatred being banijhed and laid /iparjtf Love^ Teace^ andVnity , fhall ereB the perpetuall and never-dying Trophy of this hallowed riBory, This univerfall Oi'tagnetick P^irtue , is acknowltdned bythe Spirit of Chrift in thefe words : Sicxaltatusfucro atcrra , omnia tra- Jo''- ". ham ad meipfum •• If 1 fliall be exalted from the earth , 1 will draw op attrstdt all things unto my fclf j that is, I will, by mine attraBive or conjoyn- ing, Vniie all things, and, as it were , ingraft them into mine own Nature j So that in the beginning, all things came from one Unity ^ as comprehen- ding initimplicitly, all things which are explicitly unfolded, and comprehended under two contrary Principles; So in the end all things containd under difcordant Principles , {hall he again reduced unto one and the fame radicall beginning. But as yet we are fubj^Bed under contrary Trinciples j for the whole world , and the members thereof, are compofedyet of f rife and concord:, of enmity and friend- P^ipi of darknefje andlighthof eutlandgood:) and therefore under theprotC' Bionef this Divine fVifdom, which governeth all things , and (iriveth to have the viBory over confufon and dijjentionin this world, that a generall peace and union may be made. tAnd therefore that all things 7nay return ar.d live in him^ who is onely Love , the creature hath power to make a fympatheticall accord with his like, andtorepell^by anirafcible or antipatheticall property, his con- trary.
Now therefore fince that this Spirit is all in all, and therefore in every •^/'^ "- Coiof, r ij fick, it confequentlyfolloweth that it AttraBethfympathetically, that which is con- fervative, or of a like nature and condition , inthe animal, vegetable, or mine- rail kingdom , and expellethantipathetically from it , that which is harmfully odious , and detectable, or of a contrary difpofition m, toit. And thus rtuch touch- ing a brief of my precedent fympatheticall and antip.ttheticall Theory , mentie- nedia my precedent difcourfe. I will now enter boldly into the PraBick of them loth, that thereby you may be the eaflier induced to believe, thatfuch things as are f poke of before Theorically^ arefeazible andeafy to be brought to praBice , and that onely naturally ^without any C acorn agi call aB , or Viabolicall afiflancei as many temerarious and rajh-headed fools of this world have fcandaloitfly blazed abroad, not onely in their vain and windy H'ords, but alfo by their inconfiderate Writings. J will proceed there fore unto my purpcfe^ and divide this prefent Book into twofeverall members: whereof the firji fhall handle fuch fympatheticall ejfeBs^ and the fecondfach antipatheticall events , as are Magnetically poduced in the animal, vegetahk} ar,dminerall kingdoms.
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The fir ft Member of this Boa/^, intreating of the admi- rable effe&s in Sympathy, which are brought to
fafs by the Magmticall Attra&ion of lik^ unto lih^.
CHAP. I.
JJereinis exprejfed, horo bj comparinfthe Mifteral Load- ft one ^ andhis attrAclive Vtriusi with th'jfe of the ^i:fiimal and Vegetable, we nw.y find out brina^ to a dei>:onjirable light , the TvorAtrftttl effects that do lurk.i» them both,
Unce "u is a thing moft worthy of obfervation amorig wifemen, th.ic there is nothing in the celeltiall Orbe , which hath not his like in theterrelUiall; Soverilyj there is nothing in the rainerall kingdom which hath not his like in the vegetable; andagain, thiliknefsof the vegetable Sphere is found in the animal, I mean in love and hatred; in attraition and ex- pulfion; in union and divorce. But, becaufe in the mineral kingdom, there is found nothing in all the world, foneare in virtue unto the adion and life of the animal, as is the Magnet or Load-Uone; Since that itaft'efteth fenfTbly , his ferruginous Hke , itfeemethto wooeandlult after it, andattradeth it eagerly , and laliy, uniteth it felf unto it after a marvel- lous manner, even as the the female and male do in the animal kingdom. For this reafon every like particle in the animal or vegetable kingdom, that worketh after ' the fame manner, are jul^ly rearmed Magneticall. Hereupon the well experimented Doctor, Paracelfiis, when he writeth ot themyliicall Mummies, as well corporal cs fpiriruail, and of the attraftive means or manner to extraS: them, as well out of the living a? dead bodle; Ke, for the better inftra£tion of his SchoUers, and fuchashetermethTJ.'/cj Artis^ the children of ^rt, exprelTcth examples, drawn from the Load-lione and the Iron : Forby it he doth fufEciently declare the man- ner of extracting the faid Mammy , and confequently doth open after his fafhion , what theMicrocofmicall, or Animal Magnet is , bymeans whereof it is extra out of the body, namely that it is a corporall or fublfantiall thing , as he feemeth to juftify in thefe words : Spiritnalis Mummla non operatur mfi per corptralia nte" dia: Thefpiri!iiallAfiim7nin>orkrthnctbutbycorporAll means. Where he inti.Tia- teth by corporall means, thofefecret Mjgnetical I bodies, which fuck it forth of the living animal, and make it to operate, as well at home by an immediate con- traft as aBrcad, namely in or at ?.n unlim.itted diliance; that is to fay, by a naturall and convenient tranfplantation. He therefore who is wife and profound in thele myfteries of Nature, and unto whom the Sympatheticall Concordance, abftruce properties, nature, virtues, and originalloftheLoad-ftone, andtbelron, is well known, willknowthat their example may fitly be applied unto man : Forbyithe may eafilydJfcern the Microcofm.icall Magnets , and underftand the manner of their extraction of the fpirituall Mummy out of man, and withall conceive the pro- per end and ufage thereof. That thetefore thefe things may be the better dilated and enucleated unto the well-wifking Reader, I think it fitinthefirft place, t» touch a little the fame itting of one fymphoniacall Concordance , that doth con- cern the nature and 0:iginall6f the Load-ftone, and the Iron, which we have more fully mentioned in the precedent Book of this our difcourfe , that there- by we may with the greater facility , gather what the MicrocofmicaU Magnets are.
As! rold you before, in the third Chapter of the feccndBook of this Treatifc, that it was evident, that the Load-(ione , otherwife called the Calamite, or mine- rall Magnes, proceedeth,nor ofany narurallbeginning. but ratherofamonflrous biah and originall , forafmurh as ir feemeth after the manner of a Mule, to be p;ccreared of unequall and unlike genitors or parents , beingtbat hi5 mother, or
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corporeal and paffivcmafs appeareth cvidendy co be a common, SaturninCj ftony , Mercuriall fubhance 5 anahis father, or active form , a mettallick or fulphureous Martiall fpiric : Nowafterwhat manner the mixtion of chefe two are made, Ibe- feech you to obferve in a word : When the Saturnine Mercurial! liquor of the !to- ny nature was as yet in his firit matter , near unto the Mercury of A/ar^, (for thefe two are moll commonly found together ) namely, the Magnecicall nature, and the Iron mine; for thi> reafon , to wit, becaufe of their near allirance, and propinquity in exilknce, t here was required but a light and eaFic tranfmutation, to unite them into one body, and therefore it feemeth to enjoy a middle nature, between a metall and a uonc. And it may well be called a half tranfmuted Saturnine Mercu- ry, into the whi».h, when the fpirit of the Martiall fulphur , as a metallick form » hath entred, it reteivech it as his pafTive morher > and conferveth it within it felf , andi-^ coagulated into a itony body , which is called the Calamitc, Magnet, or Loaditone. Now fince every fpiritdoth principally affeft and covet, tobe nou- •riflied with rhar which is nearelt and likert unco his nature , the which nature and fpirit is foundcobconely in Iron; and therefore they are obferved to proceed from one Mine,6r the fame terrene matrix ; yea, that out of the Magnet body, the perfe- £te(t Iron or Sreel is extracted , it arifeth from the conlideration , that the Martiall and Saturnine fpirit of th;; Load-ftone,fucketh and attrafteth from his center the body of Iron unto it, drawing forth of it his formall beams, as it were his fpirituall foodjbut becaufe the Iron-body will not forfake fo eafily his inward fpirit , it icA- loweth and is fucked unto it. And again, the Iron finding the like fp^rits in the Load-done, doth covet asfafttobe poflefTor ofthem , by an equall coition or defire, and fo a conjunftion or union is made no otherwife between them, than between man and wife. But becaufe the Loadftone is fuller of the Saturnine ftony Mercury thra the Iron, which is purified from it by fire, and confequently more near unto the property of the male > therefore it fucketh not the Load-ftone fo greedilYuntoit,astheLo.id-ftonedoth the Iron. For it is an old confirmed axi- om. That Matter doth defire and long after Form, and as eagerly doth draw and allure it, as the female doth the male. But that the Iron is in lieu of the male, it appeareth,in the ftrength chat it addethunto the Load-ftone, for if the Load-ftones pole be capped with fteel, it doth fo far animate it beyond his own proper nature, that it caufeth itrodraw unco it a far greater proportion of Iron, then otherwife it was able. This therefore being rightly confidered, we may with the greater fa- cility colle tract the microcofmicall fpirit , without any dammage or debilitation of the body.
If therefore we would attempt to effeft this excellent exploit , we muft doit by fuchacorpo'-all Magnet, as fhall be taken outof theMicrocnfm,or Man, whofe produdion and generation muft in every refped accord and agree with that of the macrocofmical, orterrene mineral Loadftone , whi- his mentioned before; the which I purpofe onely by circumlocution , and not in plain tearms , to exprefle unco you, that thereby fo great a fecret as this key, to unlock the balfamick ca- binet of mans Mummiall nature, may be hidden from the unworthy, and yet Cuffi- ciently made manifeft unto the worthy and religious Philofopher, by evident cir* cumftances ; for if that fuch hidden myfteriesin nat ure were vulgarly difcovered, there wouldbe no difference had between a wife man and a fool. And therefore Solomofj did teaeb us, Quod/sifapientisce/arerensy It is the fart of a ivife man to hide the thing. And the wife Philofophers in their Writing"^, did fo confiderately exprefs the fecrec of nature , that they might hide it from the ignorant and uncapa- ble vulgar, and ^tfpeak plainly to fuch as are the children of art, and fons of truelearning. But thisisnotall, for I would have you tounderftand,that the pro- perty of chemagnetick microcofmicall work isfouniverfall, that it fheweth the way, as well to infe£l the Mummiall fpirits ofmanwitha venomous and per- nicious antipatheticall nature, as lo extract it in its wholfome and fym- patheticall condition , whereby it may be employed in good and falutary ufages. And for that reafon, namely, becaufe evill-minded perfons, as well witches and forcerersjwhomthedevillhathinftruftedin theabufeof this excellent myftery,as alfo wicked minded-men , I mean incarnate devills, may do great mifchief in the world, by the publick revelation thereof ; for moft men are proner unto mifchief , than inclined to do goodnefs ; I think it to be the wifeft part , nor to name the in- ternall microcofmicall Magnet openly , but onely to exprefs it in moregenerall
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tearms. I would have thsretoreeach wileman to under(knd, that the tnagnetick nature, aswell antipatheticallaslympathecicall,of all things, conn.Hechonely In the fulphureous vertuc of the vitallfpirits, which by reafon of their incarceration, areapttoactraft their like unto thenj , by contrao^ingof kfelf from the circum- ference unto the center: Even Co the animal, vegetable , and mineral fait , which is the immediate receptacle of this fulphureous fpirit , that by reafon of its pure. Saturnine, Mercurial earth, fucketh and draweth by the adt of the included fpirits their like from the circumference, whereby they vegetate and multiply , both in theirairy volatill fait , which by a Saturnine or northern condition, .is like fnow or froli condenfed , and in their actheriallor celeltiallfire. And again, the ful- phureous fpirit flyeth back , or refledeth his beamsintolts cen.trall fait , aft-er it did emanate unto the circumference of the body by northern accidents , namely, by cxternall cold, as it appeareih by the fiery or heavenly feeds included In the aire, that is retained within the Weather-glafs , which when the north-wind blowerh iscontrailed, by reafon that the expanfed fpirits of the celeftiall ful- phure, or the heavenly fire which is in it , flying from his cold oppoOre , betaketii itfelf unto the center of the aire, compaffing, as it were it felfwith aclowd, or making it a houfe , to refifl the northern blalts inclemency. For ( as hereafter I will fhew you in my magnetick demonftration ) that the fulphureous jEquator is an enemy to the cold Mercurial poles. Alfo in mans body, when a northern or ftu- pid fear poffefleth it , the fulphureous fpirits contraft themfelves , and leave the externallafpeft pale, blewiOi, and wan , and info doing, contraft the internall fpirits of the body unto the center ;but this motion is antipathetlcall , and caufed by unnacnrall pafljon. Again, thofe fulphureousincludedfpirits being at liberty, they dilate and expanfe themfelves into the open aire, as having no evident magnet toattraftor contra6l;chemintoa narrower room. To conclude therefore, the microcofmicall Magnet muftiffueandbeingendredfromthe microcofmicall ful- phureous fpirits in his proper falt,which is his form,& from a more ftrangeMercu- ry, which by his vicinity and propinquity, is moft familiar with it , and, as it were, akin unto it by adoption , and this is his paffive matter. Wherefore of thefe two microcofmicall portions , I mean, theformall and materiall , our fecret Magnes is framed, by the which, the fpirituall Mummy is extrafted out of the living man, by means whereof , admirable cures, and pernicious harmsmay be cffefted , as well addifians , or afar off, as near at hand, or by an immediate contacl or ad- minillration- Moreover, the fame internall Magnet , or attractive fait in man, in whofe interior the fulphureous vivifying fpirit doth dwell , and of vvhofe condi- tion and root , our forefald microcofmicall Magnet is, will perform the felf fame falutary effefts, and many other rare experiment all concluhons, if it be conveyed into the blood by tranfplantation from the alive perfon by an effluxion; orinthe nails and hair, feparated from him to another fubjeft. There is alfo another mi- crocofmicall Magnet , which is taken from the dead man, by the means whereof, the fpirituall Mummy maybe drawn out of the living man , andapplyed for mans health, as well by an immediate adminiltration, asby tranfplanting nfi: into a ve- getable plant, herb, or tree , as in the progrefs of this Book fliallbe more amply declared. Butbecaufe the order of thefe things in our demonftration, apoficrhri, or by progrelTion from the effe£i unto the originall caufe of thefe things , will be moft convenient for the common and vulgar capacity, I will begin to afcend in this mine explication fromgrofTer elements , unto more fubtle, intricate, and ab- flruce things , as if by proportionate degrees I (hould mount from the earth into heaven. I purpofe therefore firft to exprefs and demonftrate unto you, thofe things magnetically, which are onely wrought by the corporall contaft oftwofeverall bodies of the fame naturall condition.But before I will begin with the Mummy, whichis taken out of mans dead body, Ithinkit inthefirft place moft neceffary, to entreat ofthe dead carcafe his my ftery, that we may proceed the more metho- dically in our inrenr.
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CHAP. II.
That tiere are four forts ofcorporall Mi^mmy , whereof one ontlj, is itfefull and tu^ffarj fotfiluiaij p::rpafes. In this Chapter alfo is fei dorv» an experiment, with certain ocul/f De'Monfirations^ confirnnni^ the mag»eiic.ttior a tra^ive venue of the Ba f'imick^fpirit.i^rvb.ch are in the ttffuUAinmntj.
SUch as have profoundly conhdcrcd, anddecply refp^ited , as well the externall .ifinternall n.uure of man, have perceived, that the microcofmicall Mummy is ot' two conditions, namely, corporall orfpirituall ; of chefirrt, I purpofeto fpe.'rt: in this prefenc Chapter ; thefecond lliall be handled hereafter, and that at large. Touching the corporall Mummy , it is either naturally fympatheticall , or unna- turally ancipachecicall. We find therefore by experience, that the naturall Muip- my is onelymedicinableandfaluriferous , after his due preparation, which is ef- fected chiefly by his own magnecick property ; thereftareapterto breed difeafes , and to infect I'uch perfons as are in health , than to afford them any falutary relief or confolacion; for, as according unto the nature of the four elements, thers are four kinds of corporall and fubitantiall Mummyes, fo alfo are they dirtinguliTied according unto thofe elements, whofe natures they have endued ; of the which , phree of thefe are corruptible, and inducers of death and ficknefs , namely, the earthly, the watery, and the fiery; and onely that which is airy, isutil to mans life, and amicable unro his nature. Concerning thofe three kinds of Mumhiy which breedcorruption, the reafon vvhy they prove corruptible, is this : We mu[t hold it firtl for a generall axiom in Philofophy , Ouod cormptumcorrnrnpentis naittram in fc indniif 1 hat the thin f corrupted, doth endue the )ij[isre of tha thing corruptbiff ; As for example , If the dead carcafe of a man be cor rupted in the earth , it is changed and pa-flecn into the nature of rhi earth , and becommeth inutil for mans health, and indeed rather deltructive then conlituftive or wholfome. Again, if the corruption be made in the water 5 then thecorrupredfleflior dead body will acquire or en- due a waceriQi and madeluginous difpilition , which alfo will prove very incom- nirodious or unprofitable, for the confer vat ion of the vitall fpirits. Andlaftlyjby theinordinate violence of fire, the fpirits in the Munimiall body will be confu- med, waded, or expired, Nowthereafon why thefe faid corporall Mummie's in thofe eftates, are inconvenient for the confervation of health, is , Becaufethe forefaid three do fodeRroy and corrupt the body of them, that they maka and conrtrain his earth, his water, and his fire, to return unro their firrt matter; fo that whereas theearchand the water are ordained, tobetherecepta:.les of two vi- vifying elements, namely, of fire and aire, which onely can be confervedinabody that is incorrupted , it mult of necelTicy follow , that in the three forefaid Mum- mies, thofe vivifying fpirits mu.l needs vanifli and fly awav, for want of a naturall body, which is now become corrupted and deflroyed, and therefore unnatu-ali. Seeing therefore nothing is required in the true Mummy, more then that whirh is^ipt and proper for the confervation of life , yea, for life it felf, which is the aire, which is baniflied and expelled from the three forefaid Mammies , therefore no- thing can be extracted oat of chem, but hcknefs, death and deftruction , and con- fequentlyantipatheticall effects; fo that if a found, murthered, orftrangledbodyj do rot under the earth, or in the water , it is not fit or proper for the wholfome ufeof mans body. Theveryfelf-fame regard is rob: hid unto fuchbodie", asdie through inSrmityes and difeafes,and although they are not viiibly corrupted by the three forefaid externall elements , yet neverthelefs it happeneth fo, that a certain invifible corruptible influence and impreiTion , ismadeorcaufedfrom the extcr- ,
nail elements, into the internall. From hence therefore proceedeth that inteftine war in mansbody, whereby the elements do kill and corrupt one another , but af- ter a divers faHiion , namely, otherwife in one body than in another , according as one element or elementall alteration, is faid to have dominion or rule over the othe-. And this is the reafon , that fuch variety of difeafes do haunt mans body: as for example, TheDiopfiecommethof the ftrong irnprelfion of water, thefle- "ftick or burning Feavor of fiery infultations , and the Leprofie of tbe dominion of earth, j^c. And therefore alfo, where any fuch elementary corruption happeneth unto the body , there the wholfome fplrit of the C(5rporall Mummy , with his ha- bitacle or dwelling manfion , is utterly overthr
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depart, and conrequently contrary Mummiall Ipirit!;, dodomlnere, and are ready to operate ancipathetically as Aiall be expreflcd in the I'econd member of this
Book,
But if the found body,thjc is, not haveing any infirmtybe killed onely by and in the Element of aire; that is to fay, through Itrangling or by hanging, then there will be found no imprdlion of the forefaid Elements in the corpoMll Mafs of mans carcafs. And for that reafon it will remain incorrupted, and will not fuf- ferany Elementall refolution , fo long as it is confecved in the aire. If therefore the body or tabernacle of the fpirits , and viral Balfom remaineth entire, then that aereall vitall Balfom is not compiled to dcpa.t from his lodging, fo long as thebody isnot refolved by nature or art. But if icbe refclved, then it will forfake the body, as the foul doth ; as alfo the animal ailral ipiric , which did reconcile the one with the other. But the vitall, vegetable and Ualfamick fpirit , remaineth in the incorrupted body : It foUoweth therefore, that thi^ airy kind of Microcof- micallMummy, is moil proper fortheconfervation of vitall fpirits in the living man, being extracted, p'epared, and rightly after preparation to be applied, I will therefore come briefly unco our Magneticall Experiences, touching this Mum- miall Subjeft.
The Profofition,
If this falutary kind of airy Mummy, with his vehicle or Magneticall inftru- ment, betaken, or chofen, or feleded rightly, it will indue by reafon of th: abfence of aftuall life , and the dominion of cold, the condition of the Northern pole, andconfequently by that reafon, thofeairy included fpirits, which were wbillt thebody was living, of an hot a;quino6liall nature, and therefore more dilative from the Center to the Circumference thanattraclive,ar.e now by death made to aft from the Circumference to the Center, if they be excited by'rhcir like fpirits, which are jequinoftial land lively, and then they become attractive of thesquino- ctiall Mummy , namely by contrafting themfelves into the Center; and confe- quently this airy microcofmiLall Mummy , murt be indued with rhe Magneticall property of the Northern pole, and therefore by a concaduall application of it to his like the living man, it will fuck and attraft greedily his like nature ; and having drawn it in, will retain it; So that it may, by aduepreparation,be madefym- pathecicall, and reduced into a lingular medicine for mans health and confervati- on : Oritm.ay befocontam.inated, and made antipatheticall with the impure and infectious Mummy, of the infirm living creature , that it may free the infirm, by extrafting outthe poyfon which did mfed it, and infedl a wholfome and found bo- dy, unto the which it fliallbe given inwardly.
An Experiment upon thu.
I coUefted a portion of this Northern Mummy , namely of the fleflb of a man firangled in the aire, inwhiih the fpritual Mummy, was Centrally contrafted by cold, and I applied it typicnlly unto the part of my body, which was nearelt un- to it in naturall pofition. I found it in the concaft palfing cold, andaslcwere ice and Northern. After it had remained on, a certain time, I found, that in tha exciting of his frozen and Northernly contrafted fpirits, by rhe arquinoiliall hertc of my body, they drew oft" my Mummiall and vivifying fpirits greedily, and at f<>me times, and as it were by fits, I felt them in their Magnecick operation fenlibly , and after a kind of dolorous fafliion , to tug and pull fome adjacent parts clofe about it; incondufion, after a certain time I took it oft" and found it much altered in fmell and view , by reafon of the quantity of my fpirits, which they actrafted un- to them; both which Mummiall fpirits, fo Magnetically congregated together, lextrafted, and prepared after my manner, for the ufe of mine own body. But becaufe my affertion will perchance be of little credit, 1 will prove the feifibiliry of it, and probability of every particle or member hereof, by many and fundry examples or Demonll rations.