C. which is in a Trine Configuration with

A. as alfo C F. fhall for tiie famereafon re- fleft totheStar in B. and be likewife united withB.F the incident of the Star at B. Be- lold here by the way 5 the grounds of thac Familiarity which Fhroates the Indian Prince, iioteth in thcfe Arks of Heaven 3 when he :onfidercth the Poiition apt for the Aphdstit dF life* or the Houfes of the Figure 5 and :hus far have 1 purfucd the Harmony and /ertuc, which is found in the Afpefts : But fihtii 1 come to conlider of the Quartiic 5 A^hofe Beams onely cut each other ad anguloi ^dJos , and fo refltft into themfelves ; aftei^^.; much deliberation with ifty felf^ finding all" lid oftheOpticks tofaile, I was forced with Seiferiftuf ro fay, Ipgenue fatebimur caufainta'>' 'is effeduf nos denionfirare non pof^e : Id tanteti ixrifftmunt ep tarn diuturna abprvatione Cotn^ itrtUm habfmm ^ ut ea dc re Mitare fuderet^ ^^ ^ '^ G '^ Wherefore
82 The Harntofjy oft he Worl t\ .
UhereForc recounting with my felf foiiico: thofefpeculations before remembrcd , and fpeclally that Theorem oi Archimedes, which prove the angles of the ^extile^Qj^iartile and Trine to be otiely proportionable in taking up the Centre of the World; the morel coniider thereof the more I find myfelf con firmed, thatthe niyftery or fecret ofthefc Configurations, isdrawii from the E/««f//t." of SfiritSy and reft chiefly in this , that thefc oneJy irradiations , and thofe that are deri- ved from thefe, are proportional unto al partile matter^and therefore more effeftua4 For that thefe [rradiations onely are eve- ry way proportionable is before proved whether you refpeft the taking up of the cir- cumference, the power and proportion ol their fubtenfes unto the Diameter 5 orlaftly.|f| and principally , the occupying of place at the Centre of the world; which preroga-e tives feeing no other Arks, Subtenfesor An- gles do enjoy : Therefore I conclude theft above all others to be proportional unto the whole Syfteme of the world ; for that is tru- ly faid proportionable, which is neither de fcdive interrupted, no^' redoundant; but fuch arc the Arkes, S^btenfes and Angles ol thofe Irradiations J and none other: Er^o^ Thefe and none other are proportionable.
Now
rhs HarrHorty oj the H or id. 8 5
Now as that which is dcfe6tive,and wanterli proportion , leaveth the A(5tion fruftraic^ M\i\ without Effeft.
"to that which on the other fide otFendcth in excefle, niuft incur the contrary fault, and over charge that which either Nature or Art intcndeth^ whereby of necellity ic will follow 5 that there being no defedtj nor cxccfTejbut an equal and jiift mixture of the influence of the Stars in thefe irradiations 5 thefe onely fhall be apt and convenient to produce agreeable efFcft in the matter of all fuhlunary things. H or it fareth in thefe Effeas^ *vhich are produced by the mixture of £t^f- ^i^^l Fire ^ Ideas and Anima. Mundi : when rhek light and influence comes into the tfirf, as with the ChymicaU Vodors in their opera- :ions 5 where the defeft of heat produceth lothing; as on the other fide, excefl^e doth fitherbyfubliraationjcruptionjvitrification, creaking the vefleland the like^ dcftroy the vork.
And to make it yet clcaretohow t\^ beams >f any iS t^rr do proportionally take up the cntreofthe world, whereas, in that which, vent before, f have only (hewed, how the )bints of thofe ordinate plaines, whereunto hefc configurations have been compared, ♦fteii reiterated; do take up placcj I will fct G 2 forth
84 T^he Harmony of the World,
forth next, how the beams of any two Stars in any of the former configurations ihall take up morefpace, then that which is com- prehended between their incidents or- beams of true motion ; and how by their beams, cither incident reflefted,or oppoiitc, they do pofTefre, and take up the whole cen- tre of the world
'at
The Harmony of the florid, 85
at an inftant with proportion^hie an§Ic<> for evident demonftration viutttoi Qis our manner li) is cooccming Conjmi&ion an J Oppoation (whofc force rather tcndcih up- on union then propomion,; Ineed no fur- ther lacour, tbentorcfcrr the Gentiemen^ to the view of the laft ngure but one, where tbey may feetheunued beams of fuch Stars as arc in ConjunftionandOppojEtion to fur- round the center, and ali eiea;entar}r nrat- t e r w h a t foe v er fu bied unto the AQhns nf hsa^ vm^ and tht irn lights tbatjhaid ufm the etrmz^ ricb Ftry JapfjiTj.fprtad tatdfr the tbrme q (jcd andtkeldtai ofhii V^tim }/ifnd.
And (o for chc Qj_artile, whoCe beams io- cidenc and oppalue, traveriethe centre of the world at foure right angles viz. A F.G. G F. I. A F. H. and H.F.I, feeing foutc points of a re^angle qoadrilater figure hath been before proved to imploy place; I likc/- wife need no ' f then chc Gentle-
men will in t, rxonuderhowthdc
foure right augic^- ::. : e : ;. - ;;e quartileaod take up the centre or cr.e worid. Butconcer* ning the Trine or ^extile, alrboiigh tbelike be cv in skill, yec
ne%e. . ^ ^. c . . fr fpccuia-
tio:i^ ::re a v, :. mort,
for m \.:xt u\x n^urc fuppOie : .v :.:-,:? A . and G 3 B.
^6 ihe Harmony of 1 he IVorld, ^
B. Irradiate the earth with their Sexcile beam^', by various Spirits or Ge^ii according; totheplaceof Heavenj from whence tliefe Afpefts arc darted, for you (hall know the Gf;/zz may vary often er then the wind ant' u-eather, and although it be true, that by tli? protraftiiig of the oppofite Beam from p. f. D^the centre of the whole world feenict' iifed with proportionable angles B. F. -^ being fubtcnded by the ark of 6q. which i^ before dpciared to be the angle of an ordi- nate aequilater triangle, and fo leaveththf- outward angle B. F. I. equall to the Angl- of an ordinate Hf^/7go« 3 fubtended hereby the ark, 120, which is the ark of a Trine; the like bein:; alfo underflood of the angles made by the oppofite beams advert icem,ycc nevcrtheleffe you are here fiuthei toconfi- ilev^ how the incident Beam of B. viz. B. F. refle£tet!i unto C. and fo taketh up the whole femicircle A. B C i. with three fex- riles, viz. A.F.B. B.F.C.tmd CFJ^nlik- iTiannerjif yoii confiderC. to be in a trian- gular Configuration with A. you feefliat a the oppofite beame of A viz.F. I maketh Sextiie with the nicident beame of a Stari '4t C. viz, C. F.
So C.F. being the beam incident of th*; Fear C, reflcftcth alfo to the point B, and r ' maketl
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niakech the fame three Sexciles^ wherewith the whole Semicircle is taken up , as is be- fore demonftraccd : Wherefore this may fu- tistie the inditfereiit , hcvy any two Itars iu ^\\y of thefe Configurations doe proporti- onally pofTelfe the whole Cencre of the world in the fame momcnfc without reitera- ting the fame angle : Some able Arcifts have added unto thefe v'ormcr Afpefts three mo: e viz ^intile confilling or 72. degr. the fii- quintile of 144. deg. and the Sefquiquadrateo£ 135. dcgr. fo making eight Configurations anfwerable to the eight Confonant Hops in a ^onochord : Neither dare I for my pare contridift thefe new additions. For having madetriall as well in the fpeculations of the weather and meteors, as in the accidents of A'^tmtifi, I dare boldly affirrae, that there have divers events and effefts concurred with thefe new configurations, for which without thefe Conliderations, you can finde as yet no reafofi for this their Obfervation. For as in Mufickjchert be but three perfe^ concords, viz. the diapafon, diapente, and diatcflfaron : fo in the Harmony o( the Beants^ by which the Genii come down, there are but three perfect afpcfts anfwerable to the Harmony o£thQ Weavmh Spheres md fUnctSy
Namclj^5
88 ^he Harmony of the World.
namely the oppofition, the trine^Sc the quar- tile^ thefexcUe being accountedjaud fo pro- ved, to be but an imperfect Afpeft anfvver- ing cxaftiy to B. flat^ the (irft among the ini- perftftor compounded concords; wherfore coniidering that the firft three perfeft con- cords arefound.to have their peifeft afpe^ts anfvvcrable unto themjand that B. flat being imimperfeftafpeft, this made fome Gentle- vnen fufpcft that the Harmonical proprtions conteyned in thc^simcMonochrdniight alfo ha ve their afpefts viz. the Qyintile, Biquin- tile^ and (efquiquadrate anfvverable unto them; and thus have I hunted through the heavens and traced the Idea's or Ughtso^ God through the Sun y and followed the GeTtii from their LirnbuSy^fph£re of pure ethmal Fire^ through the Moon and Aire to the prepared inatterof the Earth, in which God hath or- dained to incorporate them, and now let no man therefore take occafion to caliumniate Aftrolo^y, becaufe a Gold chaine drew^i/- liam Lilly to flatter the King oiSweden^ &c, I intend not in this place to Apologize for that noble and admired Art; But to demon- ftrate the H arniony of the Macrocofme and yj' crocofwejthus I have paft cleerly through the harmony of the Eeames or influence of the iigbts and ^[[e^s of the planets j and here I
come
The Harmony of the IVorld. 89
come tcAnite the Genius to t\\^hody^&c, but firftlfliall (hew you the differences of Gf-
nn.
Chap. Vir.
(7/ Seminal forms, of Sowh of Briites;ofthe foul of Man, and how they differ in Nature one from another^ and how the fjule of 0a man differs from an Angel,
HAving now followed the Genii to the Earth '^ I fhall enumerate fourkj^desof tbentyViz* The iioyoi ff^ur^fixttriM) ^ or ferninal forms^ t^efoulesof brutesj the Humane foule ^ and that Ge«/«for//'/r/7 which aftuates or in- forms the vehicles of Angels, For I look upon Angels to be as truly a compound behigjcon- fifting (j^ Genius and Body^?L% that of men and brutes: Their exiftencel (hall not now go a- bout to prove, for I have done that already in my Book , Ihe 7 em fie oflVifdome-, My pre- fcnt delignc is to demonftrats to you theH/rr- tHony of the Uacrocofmy & MicrocofmeU how
the
9 O The H Armor? y of the t^Vorld,
the /^y/of tl-ie one enters iifto tli#body of the other; and the difference oF(7f«i/ ; and to expound or define the notion of thefe things , fo far forth as is needfull fur the evincing that they are the Ideas or notions of things which imply no contradidion or imponibility in their Conception , which will be ver)' ea^y for us to performe : the chief difficulty lying in that nure gcnerall Idea, of a Spirit ^ &c.
Now this general! Idea can be contrafted into kindes by no other difference then fuch as may be called peculiar powers or proper- tics belonging to one Spirit and excluded from another, from whence it will follow, that if we dcfcribe thefe feverall kinds of Genii by immediate and intrinfecall proper- ties, we have given as good definitions of them as any one can give of any thing in the World.
I will begin with what is moft Simple, the SeminaU formes of things ^vi\\\d\ for the prefent deciding, nothing of their exiflence accor- ding to their \ nal form is a cr^ cited fpirit^ organizing duely pre* fared matter into life^and vegetation proper to this or the other kind of f I ant ^\t is beyond my ima- gination what can be excepted againft this dcrcriptionj containing nothing but vyh^t '\^
very
The Harmony oft he IVorld. 9 c
very cohcrcnt"d iiitellible, forin that it is afpirit, it can move matter intrinfcaiily, or at leail dirc£t the motion thereof : But m that it is not an omnipotent fpirit, but finite and crcatedi its power might well be leftrai- ned to diiely prepared matter, both for vi- tall union and motion ; he that hath m^dt. fhereparticular//?/V/ti, varying their faciil- tie-! of vitall union accordinor ^o the diveilicf of the preparation of matter, &: lb limiting the whole comprehe«{ion of them ail, thac none of them may be able to be vitally joy- iied with any matter whatroever5and the fame iirft caufc of all things,that gives them a power of uniting with, and moving of,7;wf- ter dnely f re-par ed\ may alfofet fuch laws to this motion, that when it lights on matter fit for it, it will produce fuch and fuch a plant, viz. it will (hapc the matter into fuch figure, colour and other properties, as we difcoverin them by our fenfes ; this is the firft degree of particular life in the world, if there be any purely of this degree particulan but now as fUto has fomewhere noted , the effences of things are like numbers^whofe fpecies are changed by adding or taking a- way an unite
Add therefore another intrincicall power to this oivegetatio'rt^ viz, fenfatUri^ and it be- ^ ' comes
9 2 The Harmony of the PPorlcl.
comes the Genius of a Brll^Eefift. For in truch thebarefubflance it (t\{ is not to be computed ill explicite knowledge, it being utterly in it felfunconceiveable-, and there- fore, i will only reckon upon the powers, A fuhjeB therefore from whence is both vegetation and fenfation is the gener all Idea, ofthefoule of a Beafiy which is diftributed into a number ofkindes( asyoiiQiall fee in the next chap- ter all in order) the effeft of every intrinfical power being difcernibie in the conftant fhape and properties of every diftinftkindc of brute creatures.
Ifweaddto vegetatien and fen fat ion reafots properly fo called^we have then a fetlcd Idea of the Genius oimdn^which. I fliall more com- pJearly defcribe thus, A created fpirit or Gf- nius indued with fenfe and reafon, and a power of organizing terrefiriall Matter into hu» mane fljape by vital! unim therewith^ and herein alone, I conceive does the Genius or Souloi an AngeU d\ffer^ ( for I take the boldnefle to | call that foul, whatever it is, that has a pow- i cr of vitally aftuating the matter) differs \ from the Genius of a tnan in that the Geniu$ j of an Angel may vitally annate dtthereal hody^ but cannot be borne into this worl d in a Jerrejiriall one.
An Angelic all foul is y^yy intelligibly de- fer ibed
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fcribed thxxs^A cfeatedfpirit indued witbreafon^ fenfatioft and a power of being vitally united with^ and aduatin of a body ef aire or ather only^which fower over an direal or £thereal body^ is veryca- fi!y to be underftood by my Wife mam Crown^ in the third L hapten for it being there made good, that union with matter is not incompecible to a Genius^ and confeqiiently not moving of it, nor that kinde of motion in a Spirit which we call contraction and di- latation*, theff powers if carefully conlider- cd will neceflTarily infer the podibility of the afkaationand union of an Angelical Genius y with an JEtherial ov aiery body : l^Uto writes of other Orders of Spirit s^ox 1mm at mail Subfian* ceSy as the N^s? and 'Evac/^sj^ But there be- in^ more fubtelty then either ufefuUnefs or afliirance in fuch like fpeculations, I (hall paflTe them over at this timej having already irrefutably made good, that there is no in- congruity, nor incompoilibility comprifed in the Idea of afpirity or incorporeal Tub* ftance.
But there is yet another way of inferring the fame,^ it is the argument o^Honejl Para^ celfusywhcrchy he would conclude^that there hde fadoy^ fubftanceinus diftinft from mat- ter t/ias. our own minde. ^For every reall afFeftion of property being the mode of
fomc
94 ^^^ Harmofiy of the ^Vorid,
fome (libftancc or other, 9\\d rcall modes being unconceivable withouc their fubjefts^ hcinferrs thatj feeinjj; we can doubt whe- ther there be any fuch thing zs body in the IVorld'^ (by which doubting we fcclude Co- gitation from bodyj there muft be fome o- ther fubftance difhnft from the body, to which cogitation belongs^but I miift confel's thisargiiment will not reach home toPara- ce/fiis his TpiUTpoCey who would prove in man a fubftance diftinft from his bodysfor being there may be modes common to more fub- ]c^s then one, and tins of Cogitation^ may be pretended to be fuch as is competibic as well tofubftance corporeal! as incorporealK it t may be conceived apart from either though not from both. And therefore his argument does not prove that that which does think or perceive^isa fubftance diftin£t from our body, but only that there may be fuch a fubftance, which has the power of thinking or perceiving, which yet is nota body: And this \vas argued before Sr. Ralph Freeman Knight, &c, by Mr. Jhsmas Heydm and xi\y felf, who for fafiiion fake would needs fay fomthing fyllogifticaliys but truth needs no Crutches. For it being impofhble that there (houl^ be any reall mode^which is ianofubjea, and I clearly conceiving cogi- tation
7he Harmony of the IVorUL c^
tation iiidcpendciir^for exigence on coipo- real fttbdancc^ it is neceflaryjthac there may be fonie other (iibftance on wliich it luay de- pend: which muft needs be a fubftance in- rorporeall. And thus 1 have (hewed you the differences of Genii*, and now I (hall demon- ftratehovvCbod by his Ideals gives life and vertue to all things in the world ;
Chap- Vm.
Horfi different vertiiei are infufed into fiverall kjnds of things^ by the influence of the heavem^ ^ tans and Tlanets,
I Might eafily decline this ControverfjCjby pleading onely , that the entrance of the Soul into the Body 5 fuppofing her pie-exift- cnce , is as intelligible as in thofe other two waycs 5 of Creation and Traduftion. For how this newly Created foule U infufed by Gody 110 man know? 5 nor how > lfitbetradu6ted from the Parents, both their fouls contri- bute to their making up a new one j For if
there
f6 The Harm otiy oj i he P^'orlci,
there be dicif^on of part ufthefouleof the Male, ill the in;e6tion of his feed into the IVIatrixof the Female, and part of the Fe- male foiile to :oyn with that of the Males; beiidesthat the decifion of thefe pares of their foules 5 makes thefoulea difcerpihle efTencc , it is unconceivable how thefe two parts fhoiiid make up one fouJe for the In- fant •, A thing rediciilouii at firll view : But if there be no decifion of any parts of the Soul 5 and yet the Soul of the Parent be the raufeof the foul of the Childe, it is perfect- ly an a£t of Creation ; a thing that all fo- ber men conclude iAcompctable to any par- ticular Creature. It is therefore plainly un- intelligible, how any foul (hould paiTc from the Parents into the body of the feed of the Fdttus , to aftuate and inform it ; but that allinferiour bodies, are exemplified by the fuperiour Ideiis or Genii : Now we define an Idea to be a form above bodies, fouls, minds, and to be but one iimple, pure, immutablCj indivifible , incorporeal and eternal , and that the nature of all Ideas is the fame.
Now all 7^f/i'i proceed from C(?i, and arc diftinguiftied amongft themfelves by fomc Relative consideration ; leaft whatfoever is in the world (hould be but one thing with* out any variety , and that they agree ill
e^nc€ I
Tbe Harmony of the lyprtcl.
cflcnccj Uaft God (hould be ;* Compound Subftancc. I n che fecond place ( to be very ferious) we place them in the very inrelli- gible it felf,/'! tbe foul of the world , differing the one from the other by abfolvite forms; fo that all the Idsa^ \\\ God indeed are buc one form ; but in the Anlma Mundi they are many: they are placed in the mindeof all other things 3 whether they be joyned to the body, orfeparated from the body, by a certain participation j and now by degrees are diftingiiifhed more and more; wc place them in Nature, as certain fniall feed of forms infufed by the Idea's : And laftly , we place them in matter as (hadows. Hereunto may be added,that in the foulc of the world, there be as many feminal forms of things, IS Idea's in the minde of God.
Now again by thefe forms , (he did in the Heavensjin the Element of Spirits above the Stars, frame to her fclf fhapcs alfojand ftam- ped upon all thefe fome properties ; on thefc ftars therefore (hapes and propertie?;, and all vertues of inferiour fpecies, as alfo their properties depend; fo that every fpeciCg [lath itsccleftial fhapeor figure that isfuit- iblc to it ; from which alfo proceeds a won, derfull power of operating, which proper gift, it receives from its own Idea^ through H the
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98 The Harmony of the World.
the feminal forms of the anlma ntundi : For Idea's are not onely effcntial caufes of every fpccics, but are alfo the caufes of every ver- tucjwhich is in the fpecies j fuch as have a certain and fure foundation not fortuitous! nor cafual , but efficacious , powerfull and fufficient, doing nothing Jn vain.
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Thefc virtues and Genii do not err in their
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aftings, but by accident , viz. by leafon of the impurity, or inequality cf the matter; for upon this account, there are found things of the fame fpecics, more or lefle po- werfull 5 according to the purity or indif- pofition of the matter; For all celeftial in- fluences may be hindrcd by the indifpofici- on , and infufficiency of the Matter '-, but I mult haft the Genii to their Vehicles & then body them in a Terreftrial Idea^ or a form of flfelh, as foUoweth.
By an Example of a Figure of Heaven^ 1629* 5"fp.io.45. 9 b. P.M. lofi.idcthe name of my Genius , 1 look the places of the five Hylegi • iinSy and making projeftion always from the cginning of Aries^Sc theLetters being found nitjand being joyned together according to he degree afcending, make the name of my jenius Malhitiriel^ who ^ad upon Earth famili- Tity with Elias, and nany good fpirits are vont to fhew theni- lve!55and be affociates i'ith the fouls of them, hat are purified 5 Ex-
mples of which, there are many in facred Vnt ; as Adam had familiarity with the in^tl Kaziei^ Shemtht fon of ^0/7^ with Jo^ H 2 fhielf
J CO The Barntony of the IVorld.
fhiel ^ Alrahant with Zadkjel ^ Ifaac and Jacob vf\th Peliel, Jofe^h^ J ojhua ^nd Daniel withGfflpnel^ Mofes with Met attrm film vi\th Mdbitiriel ^ Tobias the younger with Raphaeiy V avid vf'ith Cernid ^ Mannoah with Fhadael y Job with Cenez^ Vlato with Cerrel , Ezek^el with Afmael^ Efdras with Vriel^ Solomon with Michael^ SocraUs vf ith Lev aniel^ Gideon with ^erffiliel^&c. And tlic names of Genii are m^dc by Hebrew. Gnek^y Chaldean , Arahick^y JEgypian or Latine lettcrSjfrom the degree of the Afccndentj through each degree accor- ding to the order of wgncs to caft thcLetterSj and what letters fall into the places of the aforefaid ftarsfound out above, and rightly idyned togetherjraake tbenanieofaGf»/«f; but fome curious wits have conceited , that my going to fchonlin IFarwickcJhire amongft my mothers friends one while, and afterwards in Vevonpire amongft my fathers friends , ch'^ngcs the Nature of my Genius % they are m'lfLaken^although I have been in Italj^Spain and Turkey , and many other parts of the world 5 yet is my Genius not changed ; For Mercury my Significator in Virgo , and Venus in Libra , give me the Nature of my Genius ^ and Gemini will be my Afcendent : Here they objeft again , that it fals out^that men of adiifering Nature and Fortune do often- times
ihe Harmony of the IVorld. l O i
/times by reafoiiof the fame Afcendencand name, obtain the fame Genimoi the fame name : Note the Polition of the Heavens may differ by th^ Planets places; Although Elijah had the favae I have from Heaven •, and you muft know thereforejthat it miift not be thought abfurdjthat the fame Angel may be fcparated from any one foJ , and the fame be fet over more : And yet the/ow/after the I)eath of the Bcdy wears the fame name the Triefi^ Godfathen^ Mothers and P^r^wts con fen- ted to give the body at Baftifm , as guided by Gtd the chief F.z^ker. No^v they finde out an eviil Genius fixim the Almutez of the Angle of theTwelfthHoufc, which they call anevill (^iiit^ calling froni the degree of the falling, Ugainft the progrcfle ofthefignes. And, as IdiVers m^n have many times the fame nanpe, fp alfo fpirits of dUvers Offices and natures ixiay be norcd.pr marked t^y one name ^^by o^e and the fame Seal or Chara$er^ yet in a different refpcCt-, for as l?he Serpent ^ozh fom'6|:im€» fyftfit ^hriti ^ andfometiTnes the J)evilly.[o the fpme names, and the fame Numbers ^jid Seals may be applyed fome- times to the ord^r o^sL^oodfprity and feme- Ki; times to the order of a bad : And as there is ert ' A Heaven above , fo there U a. Heaven below^ n "-und as there are Stars above ^ fo there are Stars in- ■ H 3 helo'^
O 2 The Harmony of the IVorld.
Ulow -y and all that is above U alfo helow , which makes the Harmony and agreement of the World. And this is the Figure of the Earth
in which \ was born ; and as you may fee in
iny KcJK Crucian InfaUihU Axomata^ how
numbers
The Harmony oj the World. i og
numbers work upon the foul *, fo you may fee in my three Books which were the title of Ihe 7empk ^of Wifdome , how thefe figures work upon the body^and Harmony upon the viho\c Animal 'j And there hafecret divine power in them, as there is in Herbs and Plants that Cure Difeafes. Again, there are Spirits in the Earth that vivifie all things up- on the Earth , and there is a fpirit in the w^- t^ that caufes the flux , and influx of the Sea 5 and thefe are the CharaBen of the wi- nifiring fpirit s^ which St. Paul faith , rvere fent forth to them who
fioaJLbe heirei of fdva^ tioin
? And we read in EfajyThe Angels of the Lord went forth , and flew in the TentoftheAffyrians One hundred eigh' tyfive thoufand'jknd thefe are thefons of the Oyle of fflendour^ we read of in Zachary^viho aflift the Kulers of the whole Earth : And the higheft place of thefe Orders below, are thofe which they call MJlpnnVH , i. e, creatures of FolmeflTc, by the which Godgiveththe gift of Being. In the fecond place, fuccecd Ophanim^ i e. forms or Wheels , by the which God di^ ftinguijhcth the Chaos: In the third place are
Amlim
J 04 The Harmony oft he IVorld.
Atdiw^i. e. -great, ilrong and mighty Angeh^ by the ivhich Jehova Elokim pronounced , oi^ JehovAh jbyncd with He ^ AdmiHiUreth Form to the iirjmd Vialter : In the fourth place are l^afmalini.hy which E! , Godframeth \he Effl^, gm of'hodiii'y The fifth order is from Sera* fhm y by the which God Elohim Giber drai»eth forth thi ElemenU \ The lixch is MdaMm^ i.e. of Angels, by the which God Ehha. pro- dticeth nitttals : The feventh Ehhimi e. x\\t fpirits of the Earth , by the which God feho- vah S^'o'^.t/^i>iocrcateth Animals : Thfcnineth is hoiix^ kerutii>^ty by the which God Sadai _ created Manki^ide. The tenth IJJim , i. e^ Noble*;, ftrong nvenjOrblcfTed^by the which God Aiin^t ht^o'^ttlx Knowledge in N^rey TveaffM^Thihfoyhy m4 Divinity ^ and thus are the works of God done in E^rt^^asrhey are niH^itvrn B^rmomoujly,
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Chap. I X.
Urn the Genii are united to their different Ve- hicks ; 0//Etherial and Terrefirial Vehivles. The Duration of the Genii in their fever alVe^ hides necejfary for tk^ tinderfianding^ hjW they enter into this Earthy body,
FOr your better underftanding hovj TL-pre^ exiftentGenius may enter thisTerrejhial bo' dy\thtTt are two thinj^s to be enquired into, the diference of the Vehicles o^Geniijznd the caufe oftheir union with them : The Vlato^ niUs doe chiefly take notice of three kindes of Vehicles^ Mthereal^ Aereall and Terreftriaf-^ And now I (hall flicw you how the gf«iw is united to the body^ or terreftrial Vehecle by the medium or fpirit of the world; for there is nothing of fuch tranfccnding vertues, which being deftitute of divine afliftance, is content with the Nature of it fclf.
And thefe divine powers , which aredif- fufcd into things zit Lights y Genii ov Ideals call them which you will : For the vertue of things depend upon thefe, becaufe his the property of the Soul to be from one matter meuded into divers things ; and Sometimes
the
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thtfouleoiowt things they fay goes out in- to another : altering it and hindering the operations of it. 'As the foul of falf-hearted courfe-ftatured Scolds offend the fine temper of of a delicate fweet natured Woman \ and the fpirtUoi the firfl: fort^ they fay^goes into the J)awi and Crowr, but the fecond will fu re inhabice the Ether ialKegiofty the Country of «od.
And the Diamond hinders the operation of the Load- jione ^th^t it cannot attraft Iron, now feeing the foule is the firft that is mova- ble, and as they fay, is moved of it felfj but the body, or the matter is of it felf unable, and unfit for motion, and doth much dege- nerate fron\ the /Jj///^, therefore there is a more excellent medium^viz. fuch a one that may be as it were no body, but as it were a- /Wf 5 or as it were no foule^ but as it were a body : viz. by which the foule may be joy- ned to the body ; now fuch a Medium 1 con- ceive is the fpirit of the World^ viz, that which we call the §lui}ttefience:h^Q2LW^t it is not from the foureElemente.>but a certaine fii ft thing, having its being above, and befides them. '. There is therefore fuch a kinde of "spirit required to be,as it werethe V!^^i//?», where- by Cxieiliall Genii 2i\t Joynedtogrofsbodjes of red Earthy and beftow upon them wonder- full
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full gifts. This fpirit is after the fame man- ner in the boc||r of the world, as a Genm is in the body of a man: For as the powers of our fouls arc communicated to the members of the body by the fpirit, fo alfo the vertue of the foul of the world is difufed through all things by the Qi^iintcfTence.
For there is nothing found in the whole
world, thathathnoca fparke ofthevercue
thereof; yet it is more, nay5moft of all infu^^
fed into thofe things which have received or
taken in moft of this fpirit, now this fpirit is
received or taken in by the Kays of the Starsy
fo farr forth as things render themfelves
conformable to them; by this ffirit every
property is conveyed \\\to HerU^Stones^^et ids
and Animals y t hrou^li the Sun^ Y o;«j Planets^
and through Stars higher then the Planets: Now
this fpirit may be more advantageous ton?,
if any one knew how to feparate it from the
Elements', or at leaft to ufc thofe things chief-
ly, which do moft abound with this fpirit,
^ for thefe things, in which this fpirit isleffe
drowned in a body, and lefs checqucd by
matter, do more powerfully , and perfectly
^ aft,and al fo more readily generate their like.
For in it are all generative and feminary
^ vertues, for which caufe, fome Doctors and
. AlchimijU endeavour to feparate this fpirit
from
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from Goldy and make the Fentarva^ which is cafy but very coftly , but W it be rightly Separated from Gold and .Sift/er ; if you (hall afterwards projcft upon any matter of the fame kinde, (i.e.) any mettall , will prefently turn it into Gold or Silver , and I know how to do that, and have (een it done but we could make no more Gold^ then the weight of that was, out of which we extra- fted thefpirit. For feeing that is an extence forme, and not intence, it cannot beyond its own bounds change an imperfcft body into a perfect 5 which i deny not but may be done by another way.
Now originally ntan was taken out of the great World ^ as woman was taken out of Man : For man was a piece of Red earth : But while I contemplate this Grange vertue of the fpirit of the woi Id^the power ofthefoulcof the woman comes into niy minde; in which there is nofuch mea- fure orexaltednefTe , that it fhould be able i toaft fuch Miracles , as I may fo call them, I ratherthen natural effefts : I cannot but be more then ufually inclinable to think that the Plaftick power and faculty of the foulc of the Infant 5 or whatever accedions there mny be from the imagination of the Mother, is not the adaequate caiifc of the Formation
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of thtFatus'^ but if you think this is oncly my bareword, read Orpheus^ Synefius ^siiid Zo- roafier': and they will be my Authority for thisDoftrine.
If this be not enough^I will follow the nts- ihodofGody & examine the nature & compo- fition of man : You finde in Genefis that God made him out of the Earth ; This is a great myftery , For it is not the common Pot Clay^ but an other thing, and that of a far better nature : He that knows the fubjeft of the fhilofopbical Medicine and the Fantac^d^ and other fecrf tS5how to cure all difeafcs^Sc raifc the Dead to life again, and by confequence know what deftroys or preferves the tempe- rament of man: And in man are three princi- ples homogenial with his life^fuchas can re- ftore his decayes 5 and reduce his diforders to a Harmony. They that are ignorant in this point are not competent Judges oi lifff and Veath^ but ^achj and PifpotsVodors,
To unite the foule to the body , the fpirit of Nature allifts this performance *, fo we have difcovered a caufe proportional to fo prodigious an Effeft: For we may eafily con - ccive that the deeply impaiHonated fancy of the Mother fnatches away the fpirit of Nature intdConfent^ which fpirit may rarticnally be acknowledged to have a hand in the efeor-
matioa
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mation ofall vitall Beings in the world^ and haply be theonely Agent in forming of all manner of Plants.
In which kinde, whether (he exert her po* wer in any other Elements then Earth and Water I I will conclude no further than that there may be a pollibility thereof in the cal- mer Regions of Aire and JEther-y To the right underftanding of which conjefture, lome light will offer it felfjfrom what I have faid, concerning the vifibility andconliften- cy of the Aerial V^mom^ m their occurfions one from another.
But this is not theonely Argument that would move one to think that th'\s Spirit of Nature intermeddles with the Efformation of the Faitus', for thofe iignumeSyVizmarkji moles 3v\d Scars ^ that are derived from the tV. others fancy ^ in the Aft of Conception, can- not well be underftood without this Hjipothe' fis'y For what can be the fubjcft of that Sig- nature > Not the Plaftick part of the foul of the Mother.
Forthat itis not the Mothers foulethat efForms the Emhrio (as Epichannus^ Cebes^ ffeU lus and froc/z/yjingeniouHy conjedure, from the manner of the EflFormation of Kirds^ which is in their E^^i^diftinct from the Hen^ and they may afwel be Hatched without any
Hen
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Hen at all 5 a thing I have ordinarily Teen both in JEgy^t and Arabia. : I have feen it al- fo in Italy and in Barhary :) Now the EwhrtOj for it hath yet no bodyjnor its Geniusy^ov the SonU •, if we believe Flato and Eoethius , is not yet prefent there. But the Sprit of Nature or mediii, is prefent every whcre^which is fnatcht intoconfent by the force oft he Imagination of the Mother, retains the Note, and will be furetofealeiton the body of the Infant.
For what rude inchoations the foul of the world has begun in the Matter of the F£tits^ this fignature is comprehended in the whole defigne, and after compieated by the pre- fence and operation of the Particular feule of the Infant J which co-operates conform- ably to I he Pattern of the Soule of the world , and infifts in her footfteps, who having once begun any hint to an entire deligne ; (he is alike able to purfue it in any place , (he be- ing every were iike, or rather the fame in her fclf : For as our Genius , being one, yet, upon the various temper of tht Spirits ^ ex- erts her fclf into various imaginations and conceptions j fo the Genius of the world^be- ing the fame perfeftly every where is enga- ged to exert efformative power every where alike,whcrc the matter is exaftly the fame.
Whence
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Whence it had beca no wonder , if thofc Chickens above mentioned, fometinies mark- ed with Hawk^s heads , had been hatched an hundred miles diftant from the Hen , whofe imagination was difturbed in the aft of conception , bccaiife the foul of the world had begun a rude draught 5 which itfelf would as neceflarily purfue every where; This opinion therefore of Tlato is neither irrational nor unintelligible , That the Jnima Mundi interpofes and infinuates into all Generations of things , while the matter is fluid and yeilding, which would induce a man to believe, that (he may not ftand idle in the transfiguration of the Ve^ hides oH\\t Genii^ but aiTift their fancies and defircs ; and fo help to cloath them, and at- tire them according to their own pieafures ; or it may be fomecimes againft their wills^as the unweildinefTeof the Mothers fancy for- ces upon her a monftrous birth.
Now the foul fain into this low and fatal 1 condition, where (he muft fubmit to the courfe of Nature, and the laws of other Ani- mals, chat arc generated hereon Earth, dif- playesherfelf by degrees, from fmallerdi- menlions to the Ordinary fize of mei),when as this faculty of contraftingand dilating
I
T/se Harmony of the iVorld, \ \ ^
>f themfelves is in the very efTence and Idea •fall Spirits; as I have vviicteii in my fe- ond book of the Kofie c rucian Phyfick^^ cap. 3 . •o (he does but that leafurely and naturally 1OW5 being Tub jefted to the laws of this Ter- eftrial Fate 5 f as I have noted in tbe Idea of he Law ) which (he docs, exempt from this ondition fuddenly and freely : Not grow-
iig by juxta polition of parts, or in-
romiffion of matter, but inlarging of her slf with the body^meerly by the Dilatation •f her own Subftance, which is one and the amc alwayes. And now I Qiall fpeak of the larmony of mans body , how the foul fa* Vionsit.
Chap,
1 1 4 The Harmony oft he World.
Chap. X,
Of the Harmony of the Microcofme , horf> th t "pint or Genius proportions the body: Hoy rhe Body agrees with Mufick , a}td of tb weafure and Number of Members in Man,
MAn in his Original was a branch plan ted in God , and behold he is the nioi beaiitifull and perfefteft of his works, weai ing his Image yet , and is called the lellc world*, Therefore he by a more perfei^ compoiition and (xvccc Harmony ^ and moi fiiblime dignity doth contain and maintai' in himfelf all Number s^Me a fur es^ Weights^Mo tions^ Elements^2ind all other things which ar of his Compoiition. t
And in him 5 as it were , in the ftiprean workman-fhip 5 all things obtain a certaii high condition, beyond the ordinary con fonancy, which they have in other Com pounds : From hence in old time, Men di( Number by their Fmgers, and (hewed al Numbers by them : And they feetr. to prov that from the veryjoynts of mans W),ill Num bers^ Meafures^Vrof onions^ and H^irmonies wer invented and contrived^ A at
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i
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And according to tlie Meafure oFthe bo- ;dy,is framed Temples^ Palaces^ Churches^Chip- p!s^Abbeyes.Hoy.f^s^liheaters\ Mo Ships Gujis^ Enc^ins^ and every kinde of Artifice^ and all members of Edifices and buildings 3 as Cd^ 1 2 limr.Sy
1 16 The Hdrntony of the World.
lumns^ Chapiters^oiPtHarSy Bafn^ Buttrejies^Feet o^ PtUarSj&c, Moreover Go^ himfeU taught Nuab to build the Ark^ ^ according to the nieafure of Mans body 5 and he made the whole Fabrickof the world proportionable to Mans body, therefore it is called the great World, mans body the leflfe. ] hereforeal thofe who have written of thc' Microcofmeor of man^meafure the body by fix feetj a foot by ten degrees , every degree- by five minuites -, and thus we number fixty^ degrcq^jWhich make three hundred minuits, to the which arc compared fo many Geome- trical Cubits y by which Mofes defcnbes the Arke: For as the body of man is in length! three hundred minuites 5 in breadth fifty, in height thirty.
So the length of the Arks was three tiun- drcdCubitSjthe breadth fifcyjand the height thirty ^ that the propbrtion of the length to the breadth be Cik fold , to the height ten fold 5 and the proportion of the breadth to the height about two thirds : In like man- ner the Meafures of the Members are pro- portionatej>and confonant botli to the parts of the world, and Meafures of the Archetype^ and fo agreeing , that there iS'no member in man, which hath not correfpqndence with f(^pie figue 3 Scar, intelli^geme ^ T^lvine nat
fome-
7 he Harmony oft he if arid, 1 1 y
fometimes in God himfelf^ the Archetypes but the whole meafure of the body may be turu- edjand proceeding from roundneflejto turn .and tend to it again : And the body may be meafured many wayes^ fur example. If a man be placed upright ^ with liis feet toge- ilier and his Amies ftrerched forth , he will nuke a Quadrature equilateral^whofe Cen- :re is the bottomeof the belly: Eut if on the fame Centre^a Circle be made^by the Crown of the Head, the Arms being let fall fo far, till the end of the Fingers touch the Cir- cumference, make as much as the Finders cuds are diftant from the top of the head.
Then they diviiie that Circle, which was drawn from the Centre of the lower belly, I into tive cquall pares, which do conftitute a ' perfeft Tentagon , and the heels of the Feet, having reference to the Navile, make a Tri- rzh^^/d" of equal fides^but if the heels being un- moved, the Feet be ftretched forth on both (idcs, to the right and left , and the hands lifted up to the line of the Head, then the ends of the Fingers and Toes do make a fquare of equal fides , whofe centre is on the Navile ', as if a man flood in the middeft of a Figur-e_, a^d his hands made (horter by the B fourte^nth'part ofiiis upright ftature , thea the dj'ftance of his'feet having reference to 1 2 ihe
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6
the lower belly, they will make an equiiate-L ral Iriangle , and the Centre being placed in his Navileja Circle being brought about, will touch the ends of the Fingers and Toes . And if the hands be lifted up as high as may be, above the Head, then the Elbows will b( equall to the Crown of the Headj and i then the Feet being put together, a mat ftand ftreight, he may be put into an equila ralfquare brought by the extremities of the Hands and Feet.
The Centre of this fquarc is the Navile
which is the middle betwixt the top of thi
Head and the Knees •, Obferve theCompafi
of a il^an under the Arm-pits contains the
middle of his length, whofe middle isth
bottomeofhis bread, and from thence up
ward to the middle of his breaft betwixi
both duggs , and from the middle of hij
bread unto the crown of his head, on everj
fide the fourth part : alfo from the botto n
of his breaft to thebottome of his knees,and
from thence to the bottomeof his ankles che
fourth part of a man, the fame is the latti-
tudc of the (houlder blades, from one cx-
tream to another, the fame is the length
from the elbow to the end of the loweft finr
ger, and therefore this is called a Cubit.
Thus wc connc foure Cubits make the
length
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length of a man5and one Cubit the breadth, which is in the (houlder blade, but that which is in the compafle one foot^ now [\k hands breaths make a Cubit, foure a foot, and foure finders breadth make a hand breadth, and the whole length of a man is twenty four hand breadths, of fix foot, of ninty fix fingers breadths, from the bottom ofhisbreafts to the topof his breads, is the fixth part of his length, from the top of his
! breaft to the top of his forehead and lowcr-
i moft root of hishaires, the feventh part of
I his length.
Of a rtrong and well fet body, a foot is the fixth part ofthelengthjbutofa tall the fe-
• venth. Neither can (as Zoroafter^ and Jar- chas teftifiej the talneife of mans body ex- ceed feven fcct^ the Diameter of his Compafs is the fame meafure, as is from the hand be- ing fhut unto the inward bending of the el- bow, and as that which is from the breaft to both duggs, upward to the upper lip, or downward to the navel; and as that which is from the ends of the bones of the upper- moft part ofthebreaftjcompaffing the Gul- let, and as that which is from chefoleof the foot to the end of the Calfeof the legg, and from thence to the middle whirle bone of ^he knee, all thefe mcafures are co equall,
aad
1 20 The Harmony of the World,
$ind make the fevcnth part of the whole height.
The head of a man from the bottome o£ the chin to the crowne of his head, is the eighth part of his length , as alCo from the elbow to the end of the fhoulder-blade : fo great is the Diameter of the compafTe of a tall man*, the CompaflTe of the head drawn from the top of the forehead, and the bot- tome of the hinder part of the head, make the fiift part of his whole lengthjfo much al- fo doth the breadth of the breafts, nine fac e breadth makeafquare well fet man^and ten a tall man. ^
The length of man therefore being divi- ded into nine parts, the face from che top of the forehead to the bottome of the chin, is one, then from the bottome of the throi or the top of the breaft unro the top of the ftomack is another, from thence to the na- vileisathird, from thence to the bottome of the thigh a forth, from thence the hip to the top of the calfc of the legg makes two, from thence to the ioynt of the foot makes two more, all which are eight parts.
The fpac^ from the top of the forehead to the crowne of the head,and that which ig from the chin to the top of the breaft, and that which is fiom the joynt of the foot, to
the
The Harmony of the Vf^orld. 1 2 1
thefole of the foot, 1 fay thefethieefpaces joyned together make the ninth part; in
• breadth, the breaft hath two parts, and both arms feven, but the body, which ten face breadths niake,is the moft exaftly proporti- oned.
Therefore the firft part of this , is from the crowne of the head to the bot- tome of the nofe , from thence co the top of the breaft, the fecond, and then
V to the top of the ftomack the thirdjand from thence to the navile,che fourthjfrom thence to the privy members thefiff, where is the middle of the length of manifrom whence to the fole of the feet, are five other parts; which being joyned to the former, nake ten whole; by which every body is meafurcd by a proportioned meafure. For the face of a man from the boctome of his chin, to the top of his forehead,and bortomeof the haire is the tenth part: The hand of a man from the fhutting,tothe end ohhe longeft finger isalfo one part; alfo betwixt the middle of both diiggs is one part, and from both to the top of the gullet is an equilaterall trian- gle, the lattitude of the lower part of the forehead from one eare to the other is ano- ther part : the latitude of the whole breaft, ' ' viz.
1 2 2 The Harmony of the IVorld.
viz. from the top of the breafts to the/oync of the Ihoulder blades^ is on both fides one part, which make twoj the compafTe of the head crofs-wife fiomthediftanceof thecye- browes by the top of the forehead unto the boctome of the hinder part of the head, where the haire ends, hath alfo two parts ; from the flioulders on the outiide unto the coupling together of the joynts of the Hand, and on the inlidc from the Arme-pits unto the beginning of the palmeof theHand,and of the Fingers, are three parts. The com- pafTe of the Head by the niiddlc of the Fore- head hath three parts; thecompafle of the Girdling hath fourc parts in a well fee man, as (faith Tomfonatiui) but in a thin body three parts and a halfe,or as much as is from the top of the breaft to the bottome of the Eelly,the compafle of the Breaft by the arm- pit to the Back hath five parts, viz, as much as half the whole length from the Crowne of the head to the knurles of the Gullet, is the thirteenth part of the whole altitude^ the Arme? being ftrctched upward,the Elbow is even to the Crown of the Head.
But now let us fee how equall the other commenfurations arc to one the other, as much as the diftance is from the chin to the ^op of the Breaft, fo great is the latitude of
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The Harmony oft he lyorld. 1 2 5
the Mouthy as much as is the diftance be- ^vvixc the top of the breaft, to the Navile, To great isthecompafle of the Mouth; as much as the diftance is from \ heChyn to the crown of the head, fo great is the latitude of the girdling place-, as is the diftance from the top of theNofeto the bottome, fuch i« the diftance betwixt the chin and the throat^Al- fo the cavity of the eyes from the place be- twixt the eyc-browes unto the inward cor- ners^andthe extcntion of the bottome of the Nofe; & the diftance from the bottome of the Nofe to the end of the upper lip; I fay thefe three arc equall amongft themfelves, and as much as from the top ofche Navlc of the forefinger to thelowermoft Joynt there- of; and from thence where the hand is joy- ncd to the arme on the outfide, and in the inlide from the top of the nay le of the mid^ die finger unto the lowermoft joynt, and from thence to the fhuttingcf the hand : I fay all thefe parts are equal! amongft them- felves; the greater joynt of the forefinger, e- qualls the height of the forehead; the other two to the top of the Nail, equall the Nofe; from the top to the bottome, the firft and the greater joynt of the middle finger equall the fpacc which is betwixt the end of the
Nofe
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Nofetothecnd of the Chyn^and thefecond joync of the middle finger is as much as the diftancefrom the bottome of the Chin tp the top of the lower Lip, but the third is from the mouth to the end of the Nofe, but the whole hand as much as the whole face.
The greater ioynt of the Thumb is as much as the widenefle of the Mouth, and as the diftance betwixt the bottome of the chin and the top of the lower lip, but the lelTer joynt is as much as the diftance betwixt the top of the lower and the end of the nofe;the Nailes are half as much as thofe joynts, which they call the Nayle joynts, the di- ftance betwixt the middle of thceye browfs to the outward corners of the Eyes, is as much as betwixt thofe corners of the Ears; the height oftheForcheadjthe length of the Nofe, and the widenefTe of the Mouth are equallj alfothe breadth of the Hand and Foot are the fame-, the diftance betwixt the lower part of the Ankle to the top of the Foot is the fame, as that betwixt the top of the foot, and the end of the Nay les.
The diftance from the top of the Fore- head to the place bewixt the Eyes,and from that to the end of the Nofe j and from thence to the end of the Chin is the fame , the Eyebrows ;oyned together, are as much
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as the Circle of the Eys, and the half Circle of the Ears equals the widenefTe of the mouth ; whence the Circles of the Eys^Ears and fVl©uth opened are equalj the breadth of the Nofeis as much as the length of the eye-, And thej;efore the Eyes have two parts of that fpace^which is betwixt both extremities of the Eyes, a third part the Nofe that is betwixt takes up : From the Crown of the Head to the Knees^the Navile is the middle •, from the top of the Breaft to the end of the Nofe, the Knuckle of the Throat makes the middle j from the Crown of the Head to the bottome of the Chin, the Eyes are the middle 5 from the fpace betwixt the Eyes to the bottome of the Chin, the end of the Nofe is the middle 5 from the end of the Nofe to the bottome of the Chin , the end of the lower Lip is the middle , a third part of the fame diftance is the upper Lip : And all thefc Numbers , Meafures and Weights are through manifold proportions and har- monical confents Confonant one to the o- ther : For the Thumb is to the VVrill in a circle Meafure in a double proportion and a half, for it contains it twice and a half, as five is to two.
Eut the proportion of the fame to the brawn of the Arm neer the Shoulder ^
triple
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triple, the greatnefTe of the Legs is to that of the Arm, a proportion half fo much again^as of three to tvvo.And the fame proportion isof the Neck to the Leg, as of that to the Arm, the proportion of the Thigh is triple to the Arm •, the proportion of the whole body to the Tninck is eight and a half 5 from the Trunck or Breart to the Legs, and from thence to the foles of the Feet , a third and a half; from the Neck to the Na vile, and to the end of the Trunck a double.
The latitude of them to the latitude of the thigh is halffo much again: of the head to the Neck trvple, the fame to the leg. The length of the Fore head betwixt the Tem- ples isfourefold to the height theieofjthcrc arethofe meafures which are every where found, by which the members of mans body according to the length jbreadti\,height5and circumference thereof agree among t them- felveS5aiid alfo with the celeftialsthemfel vest all which meafures are divided by manifold proportions, either upon them that divide, or are mixed, from whence there refults a manifold Harmony.
For a double proportion makes thrice a ViapafoHy^ourc times double twice a Diapa- foujand Diapentej after the fame manner arc Elements, Qualities, Complexions, and
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humors proportioned. For thefe weights of humours and compleftions are^iligned to a found and well contpofed vnan^ viz, thfe three weights of blood, of flegmefoure5ofcholler two, of melancholy one; that on both fideS there be by order a double proportion; of the firft to the third, and of the fecondto the fourth, a foure times double proportion : but of the tirft to thelaft an eighth fold.
MebabelOlopuen faith, that the heart of a man in the fiilt year hath the weight of two Prams, in the fecond, foure ; and fo proper- tionably in the fifty year to have the weight of an hundred Drams, from which time the decreafes are again reckoned to an equili- brium ; which the courfe being ended, may- return to the fame limit, and not exceed the fp.acc of life by the decay of that member^ by which account, of one hundred years, he circumfcribed the life of man. And Empi' docks and Jamhicus are of the fame opinion; therefore doe I intend Kofie Crucian Medi^ cines in their proper places to prolong life ^ -pre- ferve health , kfep people yeung^ wife and vertuous^ and change^ alter and amend the Jiate of the body if need require it.
The Motions alfo of the Members of mens bodies anfwer to the motions of the fpiritSy that move t;he Spheres upon their whirling
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Vortices^ turning and ftraining the P/anets this way and that way, and every itian hath in himfelf tne motion of his heart , which anfwer to the motion of the Sun 5 and being difFufed through the Arteries into the whole body 3 fignifies to us , by a nioft fure rule, Tears^ Moneths^ Dayes^ Houres and Minuits,
There is a certain Nerve found by the Anatomifts about the middle of the Neck- pitj which being touched jdoth fo move all the members of the body , that every one of them move according to its proper motion ? by which like touch Damabiah kjm Ciw^thiiiks the members of the world are moved by God t And there are two Veins in the Neck, which being held hard, the mans ftrength failes immediately , and his fenfes are taken away untill they be lobfencd.
Therefore the eternal Maker of the Worlds when he was to put the Soul into the Body, and into its habitation *, firft made a fit lodg- ing worthy to receive it, and endows the moft excellent 5ott/ with a moft beautiful! Body 5 and then the Soul knowing its own Divinity ^ frames and adorns for its own ha- bitacion. Thus the People oiFerfia , Greece, Arabia, Italy^ Spain and France ^ which were governed by wifei cUjdid make them Kings^ Ivot of thofe which were moft ftn)ng , weal- thy,
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thy 5 but thofe oiicly vv}ii(:b were moft prefer and heautifuii^ for they ronceived , that the Gallantry o( the mirtdey did depend vfon the excellency ofthebody^ which luch as fearched into the fee rets of Caiifcs , hid in the very Majefty of Nature , were bold to afTert, that there was nofaiilt of^and no difproportion in the Body 5 which the Vice and Intempe- rance of the Minde did notrollowibecaufe it is certain, that they doeinoreafe, thrive and operate by the help one of the other : And now Jet us fee where ih^Soule or Gemus is feated.
CTiap. XI.
tn Vfhat part of the body ^ is. the chief ff at of the foid i that common fenfe is feated f^nwhere in the head^a caution for the choyce of the particu- lar place thereof^ that the whole braine is not / 1, nor any fmall folid particle^ nor any externall tnembrane of the Braine^ tior the Sepcem Lucidum nor the Conarion, nor that fart of th fpra^l warroiP where the Nines are ccn^ K ceivid
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ceived to concun^ but thefpirits in the fourth Ventricle of the Braine: that neither the fout without the f I ir its ^ nor the ffir its without the f re fence of the Genius in the Organ^ are fuffici^ entcaufts of fenfation-, how fen fat ion is made; how inia(rinationy of reafon and memory^ and whether there be any markes in the braine^ that thefpirits are the imediate infirument of the Genius in memory alfo^and how memory arifes, ' as alfo forgetfuHnefi^ how fpontanious motion is performed'^ how we walke^fng^and pi ay ^though thinkjng of fomethina^ elfe\ that though thefpi' rits he no t alil^e evtry where^ yet the fenfife- rous imprefion will pA'Jito the common fen for ium^ that there is a heterogmity in' the very ful her plfy and what it is i>i her we call the root and centre J and the eye\ and what the rayes and branches^ that the foher and allowable difiribu- tion of her into parts^ is into perceptive and fUjlicl^.
IF there be granted a GeniUs in the Body, chat the Head is the chief Seat thereof, & place of common (tn^t-^U that no mail hereafter may make any other unhappy cho'cein the parts of the Body^wefhall now propofefuch Reafons, as wc hope will plain- ly proYC,thac the common Senronum nnifl
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needs be in theHeadi or indeed if we prove that the Heart is noc the feat of common fenfe, nor any fmalfcUd particle , nor any external membrane of the Brain: Nor the fepem Lucidtm ^ nor the Conarium\ it will followaccordingtothisHy/'i)r^f^i5 that the Head is : As that out of Cornelim ^ippa, that a Nerve beingtyed, Senfe andWotion will be preferved from the Ligature upwards to the Head , but downwards they will be loft : As alfo that experiment of Cardanus by a Frogjwhofc Brain he peirced, and pre- fently the Frog was devoid of (enfc and mo- tion, and if you take the entrailesout, it ivill skip up and down , and exercife its (tw- fcs as before, which is a plain evidence, that motion and fenfe is derived from the Head-, and there is now no pretence to trace any motion into a further fountain; the Heart f from whence theNerves were ronceivcd to branch by Dv. Ctdpefer ^ and from whence certainly the Vcms and Arteries doc as ap- pears by every Anatomy Jbeing fojuftly dif- :harged from that office. To which it m ly uftice to add the conlideration of thofe difc afes , that feize upon all the Animal fun- ikions at once ; fuch as are the Lethurgie^ ipoplexie^ Epilepfie^ &c, the caufes of which lofie Crucians 5 findc in the Head 5 and ac- K a cordingly
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cordingly apply Remediesjj but che ordina- ry Dolors of Phyfick^be'm^ ignorant in thefe things 5 aiC the deftruftion and death of ma y thourands ofpoore people.
Which is a plain dete£i:ion that the Scat of the Soiilc, as nuich as concerns the animal faculties is chiefly in thcHeaJ, the fame n'iay fc^Taid of Phrenfie^ and Mdancholly^ and hich like diftempersj that deprave a mam Imagination and Judgement j The Kofie Cruci^ ans alwayes conclude fomething amifs with- in the Cranium •, but the ?byfitians knows not wheie the diftemper lyes, being but little skilled in Nature oiKofie Crucian (^^.edicines,
Laftly 5 if it were nothing but the nearc attefidancc of the outward fenfesonthe/o///, or herdifceniing faculty, being fo fitly pla- ced about her in the Head; this unleffe there were fomc conliderable Argument to the contrary , fhould be fufficient to deter- mine any one thai is unprejudiced, to con- clude that the feat ofcommon Senre5LInder- fland ng, and command of Motion is there alfo.
^' Rut now the greateft difficulty will be to define in what part thereof it is to be placed; ii^ which, unltfle we will go over boldly and carelefly to woi k , we art to liave a regard to Mecanical congruities^ and not pitch upon
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any thing , that by the Advantage of this ' fuppofal , that there is a Soul in man , may go for polTible : but to chufe what is mod: liandfome and convenient : That the whole Brain is not the feat of common fenfe , appears from the Wounds and Cuts , it may receive without the deftruftion of that faculty^ For they will not take away fenfe and motion, unlefle they peirce fo deep as to reach the Ventricles of the Brain ^ as Kiiierius obferves.
Nor is it in Byfocratei his fmal (olid par- ticle ^ for belides , That it is not likely the Centre of perception isfo Minute, it is vtry incongruous to place it in a body fo perfe^ly folid, more hard then Adamant or Iron j but this Invention Arijiotle hias fome whcre^which is a freak of his ? etui ant fancy ^ that has an ambition to make a blunder and confufion of Hypocrates^ and all other Phylofophers and IPhj- fittans^ Metaphrficalfpeculations^coWc^m^ fome and burning others, making thofe that read him believe, how though thefoule were no- thing but matter*, yet it might be incorru- ptible and immortal ; it was not worth the while to take notice of it here in this Hypo- thefis ^ which we have demonlbrated to be tTue^viz, That thereis a/o///orGr«i;tf in the body, whofe Nature is material or cor- poreal.
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Nor arctheMembranesin theHead^thccom* mon Se)iformnynt\t\\trt\io(^t that invelop the Brain (for they would be able then to fee the Light, through the whole the trepan makes ) thou£:h the ^Axty ire Jamid winked with his eye: f To fay nothing of the conveyance of theNerveSjthe Organs of external fenfe^that carry beyond thefe cxteriour Membranes, and therefore point to a place more inward, that muft be the recipient of all their imprcf-^ fes) nor any internal membrane, as that which bids faireft for it, the Septem Lucidum^ as being in the mideft of the upper Ventricle. But yet ifthe level of motion through the external fenfes be accurately confidered, fome will fhoot utider, and Tome in a diftant p ar aid ^ (o th^xt this membrane will not be flruck with all the objefts of our fenfes; be- fides that it(ecms odd and ridiculous, that the center of perception (hould be either driven out fo into places, or fpread into hol- low convexities, as it muft be fuppofed, if we make either the externall or internal! membranesof the Braine the feat of com- mon fenfe, the moft likely place is the ConarioH or the concourfe of the Nerves in the fourth Ventricle of the Animal ffiriu there.
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Of this opinion were the brothers of the Ko- {\9 Cr^y?jvvhich would aoc be too long to recite here. Now the Authority of thefe men are not raflily to be refufcd, neither do I finde any Arguments hitherto that are valid enough to deface it, thofe that are recited out of Avenrois^ Ariftotle^ Fompomtius^ and Cardanius fubCcribed too by thofe learne4 Authors of -^i^«o^r/z/>^/^, and the Hydro pra- wAgicall Arty have not in my judgment the force to mine it, I (hall repeat them and then examine them.
Thefirft is, that this Ghndula is too little to be able to rcprefentthe Images of all that the foul has reprefented unto her : Thefe-f cond 5 That the external Nerves do not reach to the GlaHdulaj and that therefore ic cannot receive the impreffe of feniibleObr jefts : The thirdjThat it is placed in a place of Excrements 5 which would foile the fpe- cies of things : The fourth. That the fpecies pf things are perceived there,where they are carried by the Nerves '-, but the Nerves meet about the beginning or head of the fpitta[ marrow y a more noble and ample place then the Clandulit pinealis.
To thefirll, Ianfwer,That the amplitude of that place where the Nerves meet in the fpind farrow is not large enough to receive
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the diftint^ imprelles cf all the Objcfts the riinde retains in memory : Befides, chat the' other pares of the Brain may ferve for that purpofe, as nuich as any of it can; for it is the SovIm felf alone that is capable of re- taining fo diftinft and perfe^l: reprefenta- tions 5 though ic may make an occafional life of feme private marks it impiefles in the Brain ; which haply may be nothing at all like the things it would remember, nor of any confiderable magnitude nor proportion to them 5 fuch as we oblerve in the words Arx and Atomus , where there is no corre fpondency of either likenefTe or bignefTe, betwixt the words and the things reprefen^- ted by them.
To the fecond , That though there be no continuation of the Nerves to the Conarion ^ yet there is of fpirits ; which are as able to conveigh the impreiTes of Motion from ex- external CcnCc to tht CcnarionyVi.s the Aire and JEiher the imprefTe of the Stars unto the tye. ^
To the third. That the GlandiiU\sco\\\G' niently enough placed 5 fo long as the body is found 3 for no excrementicious humours will then overflow it or bcfmear it ; but in fuch diftempers wherein they dot^Apoflexia^ ^.^tale^fm^ qr fuch like difcafes will a rife ;
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which wc fee do fall out ^ let the feat oi com- mon fettle be where it will.
Laftly? I fa y^ that the Nerves, when they re once got any thing far into the Brain^TiXQ evoyed oilunicles^ and be fo foft and fpon- gy 3 that the motion of the Spirits can play through them; and that therefore they may ray through the fidcSjand fo continue their Motion to the Conarion^ where ever their ex- tremities may feem to tend.
But though thefe Arguments do notfuf- ficiently confute the opmion , yet I am not fo wedded to it, but 1 can think fomething more unexceptionable may be found out, cfpecially it being fo much to be fufpefted, that all animals have not the Conarion^ (as I have faid in my tookE//>5>^y^wo/f3Efqj)made publike, by the Title of, Ihe way to BliJJe) That what pleafed Agrifptt fo much in this invention , is that he conceited it fuch SI marvelous fine inftrument to beat the animal fpirits into fuch &: fuch pores of the Braiuja thing that 1 cannot at all clofe with: For Reafons I have given you in my Book cnrituleJ, ^ New Method ofRofie Crucian fiby- fick^'^ befides, that ftones have been found in this Glandula^ and that it is apparent,that it is environed with a Net of Veins and Arte- ries , which are indications, that it is a part
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affigned foiTome more infcriour office : Bin yet 1 would not difmifs it without fairip play.
. Wherefore that opiniow of Faracdfm inaj warrant the other , who places alfo the fear of common fenfe in that part of the fpinai ptarrow , where the Nerves are fufpefted to meet, as it is more plain and fimple, fo iti^ more irrefutable , fuppofing that thefoule** centre of perception ( whereby fhe does not pnely apprehend all the objects of the ex- ternal fenfes, but does imagine Reafon^ and freely command and determine the fpirics into what part of the body fhe pleafes J^ could be conveniently featcd in fuch duU pafty matter 5 as thePyth of the Brain is, a, thing, 1 muft needs confeffe, that pleafes not mej and therefore I will aUb take leave of this opinion too, and adventure to pro«r nounce, Ihat the chief feat of the Genius oi^ Soule^ where Ihe perceives all objects, wher^ fhe Imagines, Reafons, and Invents , and from whence (he commands all the parts of the body , is thofc purer animal fpirits in th^ fourth Ventricle of the Brain. The proof c£ this is our fimpathizing fo fenfibly with th.n changes of the -^ir^, which all the learned Ajirdogen take notice of ( but flattering ly^ ing William Lilly is not in our Harmonyj) for
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he knows nothing o{ Art^ Nature^ Keafon , or Vhjlofofhy ^ neither doth he underftand any ot my Booki'.(^h\\d therefore without a figure, you can tell, Gentlemen , how wife he is-,) As in clear aire 5 the influences of the fpirits of the planets and Stars peirce our thoughts more purely^and make them more clear^but in cloudy, they come down more obfcureSc dull: So Mr. L?//)' being ignorant of this, I have (hut him out of our noble and admi- rable "^ociety of honed and Methodicaly lear- ned Gentlemen , fA^thematitians, A{{ronomers and AJhologerSj not without fome fcorn that he fhould come upon the wings of honour to us , by onely the commendations of Waper- women , Kag- women and ?edlers , that cry him up when Truth &: all y^rts&: Lear- ning cry him down : And this is the man, (hut him out of doors, go thy ways, be gone. But take thy Ajirologie or IntroduCiion to HO' raries ^ejiions^nd Nativites^ that Mr. Mc^t iF/Vi^3and Mr. John Gadhury comipoCed^ which fepublifhed in thy Name along with thee; it is ufelcfle to us, and our Harmony, it is out of Tune, no wicked Goats areadmitted to our pure Concord, let us follow our way, which is by the influences, which conveys Senfc, Thoughts and PaiTions, immediately ^ the iSoule 5 and they are very tenuious / and
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and delicate, and of a Nature very congene-^ roiistothe Aire^ with which it changes fo eaiily. »
That which makes me embrace this opi4 nion, rather then any other is this ^ That firfl, > his fcicuation of the common /Vwforiwwi betwiytthe Head and the trunk of the Body:^ is molt exactly convenient to receive the imprefles of O'ojefts from both , as alfo to impart motion to the Viufcles, in both the Head and in the Body. •
And chat as the heart pumps out hlood^tv^ petually to fupply the whole body, with nourifhment, and to keep up thebulkeof this edifice for the Soul to dwell in, as alfo from the more fubtle and agile parts thereof to replenilhthc Brain and Nerves with //>/* rits^ which are the immediate inftrumentof the foul for ^t\\(t and motion*, foit is plainc likewifea that the main ufe of the Brain and Nerves, is to keep thefc fubtle fpirits from overfp reading diiripation,and that the Rraiii with its Caverns is bur one great round Nerve : as the Nerves with their inviliblc porofities are but fo many fmaller produ£ti^ ous or flendcrer prolongations of the Braine. '
Now unleflTethe very cflenceoftheG^wwf reach from the Conmon Senforium to the eye,
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I thtre will be very great difficulty how there fhoulcWbefo diftnicta reprefentatioii of any viiible obje^l, for it is very hard to conceive, that the colours will not be coiifoundcdjand the bigneireof the ob'e^t diminifhcd, and indeed that the Image will not be quite loft before it come to the Ge^tiia^ \i it be only in the common Senforium, foi' it i^ plain, and cxpei'ience will demonftratCjthat there is a very perfect /;'//r^e of the objeft in the bot- tome of the eye^which ib made by the difcuf- fation of the lines of /VlotirMi from it, thus the line A. B. which ftands in roundnelTe from theobjeft A C. bears againft that point in the bottome of the eye in B. and the line CD.
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Againft the point D. whereby C. and A; are felt in their place, and in fuch a tfiftancfe as they are in the objeft C. A. and fo of all the hnes which come from the Objeft C A. into the bottome of the eye B. D. from ivhence the object Is feltjinfuch a length and breadth, as it incapable of being perceived in at fuch a difrance from the eye. Aijd as the motion that is conveyed from A. to B. and from C. toI>« is felt there : fo the mo- dification of it, whereby the objects in thofe parts may feem Ked^dlow^Blew^hloomeySh^y- colour^ Vurfle^ Ornnge^ Green^ or any other, colour, is felt there alfo, whence it is plaine, that there will be an exquifite impreilionjac- cording to all circumftances of the objeft, irt the bottome of the eye;fo th^t if the Genius receive it there, and convey it thence to her centre of perception intirely in the fame eircumftances, the reprefentation will be complcat. Butifthefoulbe not there, but the conveyance thereof muft be left to the bare Lawes of niatterjthe image will be much* depraved or loft, befoi-e it cart come to the Common Scnforium. "
For this motion muft be propagated from B.andD. till itcomc to the hole E. and fo palTe into the obti€kNerve,to be carried into the Brain, and io to the feat of conmion
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fenfe: But becwixc B. and E. or D. and E. there may bethedcpainture of fundiy co- lours, whence it will be neceffary that F. be tni£tured with the colour P. and F. G. with the Colour of both D. and F. and fo of the reft of the lines drawn from the Ob- jeft to the eye : fo that all their colours would be blended before they come to E. Now at that harfh flexure at E where the vifuallline is as crooked as B. E. R. accor- ding to the experime^its of refleftion and jrefraftion^the breadth or length oftheobjeft C.A.would be loft, for we muft needs expcft that, as it \s in reflexions and refractions, where the objeft will appeare in that line, that immediately conveyes the fenfe of it, fo here it muft be alfo*, and therefore the point C. and A. muft appear about Q. whence the objeft will flirivel up in a man- ner into nothing. And fuppofe it might ap- pear in fome tolerable latitude, for all this the brain being an Opake fubftance, fo fooa as the motion comes thither, it would be fo either changed or loft, that the image could not pafle the opacity of it in any fplendour of entireneflTe
Wlierefore I do not doubt but that the I- mage which the Genius perceives , is that in the Eye, and not any other corporeally pro- duced
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dufted to the infide of the brain ( where co- lour and figure would be fo ftrangely depra- ved, if not quite obliterated ) I mean it is theconcourfeof the lucid fpirits^ inthcbot- tome of the Eye , with the outward light conveyed through the humours thereof, (which is the beft fenfc of Plato his ffvcoAvynA wherein the great myftery of Sight conlilisj asyoumay read at large in my new Method oi Rofia Crucian Vhyficf^,
But time pafTes away fo haftily^ that we liuift briefly difpatcht?ur work : I therefore iii general fay , That Senfation is made by the arrival ot Motion from the Objeft to the Organ 5 where it is received in all thcCir^ cumftances we perceive it in, and conveyed by the vertue of the Souls prefcnce. there, alTifted by her immediate inftrument the fpi* nts : (Now the Genim that enters the body, is not confined to the common /f«/on«w,but does effcntially reach all the Organs of the body, And by the continuity of the virtue of thefe Inftruments to thote in the com- mon fenforium , the image of every objeft as faithfully rranfmitted thither.
As for imaguiation , there is no queftion, but that funftion is mainly exercifed in the cheif feat of thefoule; thofe purer animal fpirits in the fourth Ventricle of the Brain^ \
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peak efpecially of that imagination^ which is 10ft free, fiich as we ufe in ere^iing A-lrologi- all figures^ and Kedifying Nativities, giving Judgment eloquently upon every revdutim and 'ireaion^ or in projecting figures_ of Geomancy ; ^hen we finde out the Name of the Gmius^ Old or Angell of any me^ ficith all the various and toji important encounters of this life^ or fiich as ccompany the more fevere Meditations and ifquifitions in Kojk Crucian Medicines ^Jinfiures f Gold und Sf/i^^r^andali manner of Colours^ fPretious Stones^ and difTolving of M^tri/'/y, I id Kaifngof dead bodies from Death to Life a- linrFor Fafting^frefh Air,good VVme mode- uely, & all things that tend to a handfome pply and depuration of the fpirits, make ir thoughts more free 5 fubtle and clcer. Reafon is fo involved together with ima- nation, thatweneed fay nothing of it a^ irtby itfclf. Memory is a facuky of a ore peculiar confidcration; and if the pith 'the Brain contribute to the functions of a* ^powerof the minde (more then byconcer- ng the Artimall fpiritsj it is to this •, bue e braineOiouldbe ftored with diftinft I- ages (whether they conhft of the flexures^ ,the fuppofed Fibrill£y or the orderly pun- ire of poreS) or in a continued modifycd otion of the parts thereofj fome in this L manner
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manner, and others in that) is a thing ]| have not only faid, but proved utterly im-j fofiiblc: If ther€ be any M^r^^ in it, it mud be a Vinc^t oU r here and there ikn ding for the recovering t memory, a feries of things that would fiU^ii may be, many (heetsof paper to write then ac large.
As if a mi\n fhould tye a firing about j friends finger to remember a bufineiTe, tha a whole days difcourfe, it may be, was bu little enough to give him full inihuftion in. Fr om whence it is plain that the Mem9 ry is in the 5ow/and not in the Erainy a'ndi ihe do make any fuch marks as we (peak ol (he having no perception of them diftin^ from the reprefentation of thofe thing* which they are to reminde her of, (he null not make them by any Cognitive "^ower ^hwth fome fuch as is Analogous to her plaftic power, or faculties of Organizing the bodys where (hearts and perceives it not.
But whether th€ ^oul aft tluis or no upa the brain, is a matter.of uncertain dcternw nation, nor can it be demonftrated by an experiment that I knew fit to make it intell; giblc to Lilly s Loggtr headj and therefore v« ivill containe ourfelves within, keeping ei lights and miileries oi the Capacities oftt
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fpirits to our felves, becaufe they i'.re the immediate inftrument of the Soid'm all her opperationsj and they with the Gf^zi'/i per- forme all thefiinftions of memory that we are confcious toiaur ielves of.
And therefore ! (hall concbide, that me- mory conlifts in this, that the foul has acqui- red a greater promptitude to think oftnis/or that phantafme, with the circiimftances thereof, which we raifed in her uponfo ne occafionj which promptitude is acquired by leither^the often reprefeiuationof the fame phantafme in her, orelfe by a mure vived impreffe of it, from its Novelty, Excellency, MifchievoufneSjOrfomefuch like condition, i that at once will pcircc the foul with an ex- traordinary refentment j or finally by volun^ tary attention, w hen fhe very carefully and onfet purpofe imprints, the Idea, as deeply ,as fhe can into her inward fenfe j this prom- ptitude to think on fuch an Idea will led'en in time, and be fo quite fpenr, that when the fame Idea, is reprefenied again to the foule , ihe cannot tell that ever (lie faw itbefote, ibut before this inclination thereto be quite gone, upon this prbnefs to returne into the fame conception, with the circumftances3 the relative fenfe of having feeu it before ([Which we call Memory) does necefliirily eYiierge upon a frcfh leprefentation of the ^bjeft. La Eut^
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Biic forgctfulneflTe arifcs either out ofmeer defuetiide of thinking on fuchan ObjeAjOr on others that arc linked in with it, in fucK a feries as would reprefent it as paft , and fo make it a proper Objeftof r^emory •, or elfc for that the fpirits^which the foul ufes in all her Fiinftions, be not in a due temper; wh'rch may arife from over much coolnefTe, or waterifhnciTe in the Head, to which alone Ji)'/?ccr/7tfi afcribcs oblivioufneflTe.
Thelafi thing I am to cowiidtixs fpontang' cm mjion^ which that it is performed by the continuation of the fpirits from the feat of. common fenfeto the Mufcles , which is the grofle engine of Motion, is out of doubt, the manner how it is,we partly feel and fee (i e.^ We tindeinour felvesa power, atourown pleafnrejto move this, or the other member, with very great force j and that the Mufclc fwelsjthat moves the part, which is a plain indication of influx of fpirits, thither di- rected or there guided by our meer will ; a, thing admirable to con fider, and worth our moil ferious meditation , that this direction of the Imprelfeof /Vocion, is made by our meer Will and Imagination of doing fo*, we know and feel it fo ultimately, that we can be of nothing morefure, that there is fome fluid andfubtile Matter^ which ordniarily
we
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we callfpirits, direfted into the Mufclethac moves the Member, its fwelling dos evidence to our fight ; as alfo the experience that moderate life of good Wine, which fupplles Spirits 5 will make this Motion the more ftrong : As for the manner, whether there beany fuch valvalag or no in the Nerve, common to the oppofite Mufcles, as alfo in thofe that are proper to each, it is not mu- teriall h this great priviledge ofour Souls di- refting the Motion of matter thus, is woU'. derfull enough in either Bypothefis : but I look upon the Fi^rdR^ parts of the mufcJCjas the maine engine of motion*, which the foul moiftning with that fubtle liquor of the an^ 7;iw/z///'mt/, makes them fwcU and (hrinke, lik^e hute ftringi in rainy weather.
And in this chiefly confifts, the notable ftrengthof our Limbs in Spontanious motion^ but for thofe conceived ValvaU^ that expe- rience has not found out yet, nor fufhcient reafon, they are to wait for admiflion till they bring better evidence. For the pre- fcnceofthc animall fpirits in this fibrous flcfh, and the command of the foul to move, is fufficient to falve all Thxnomena of this kinde,for upon the »?/7/ , conceived in the common fen for ium ^ that part of the Sonl that relidcs in the Mufcles, by a power neer a kin; t 3 tQ
J ^O ihe Harmony of the florid.
to that, by which fhe made thebody^ and rhc Organs thereof 3 guides the fpirits into fuch pores and parts, as is moft requifite for tfie (hewing the life of this excellent Fa- bj'ick.
And in vertue of fome fuch power as this^ doe wefo eafily walk 5 though we think not of irjasalfo breach 5 and (ing, and play on the Lute^ Gittctrre or Amfhorion^ though our niindes be taken up with fomething elfe , for ciiftome is another Nature ; and though the ?!uinal Spirits ^ as being nieerly Corpo- realj cannot be capable of any habits *, yer thefoule, even that part thereofjthat is not cognitive niay^and therefore may move the body 5 though cogitation ceafe , provided the members be well replenifhed with fpirit?. whofeaifiliance in natural motions of Ani- mals is fo great 5 that their Heads being ta- ken off, then' Fody for a long time will move as before : As Vomittan obferves in the Flies he catched and in fulted over 5 which after he had executed his 'uftice upon, would flye about^and \\(t their Wings , a good part of an houre after they had loft their heads ; which is to be i^nputcd to the relidence ot their foule in fhem ftill , and the intirenefle o£the'i animal Spirits^ not ealily evapourating through their crHftarious Bodies, For it is but
a
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^ vulgar conceit to thinkjthat the head being taken ofF^thefoul miift prcfenclyflyout^like u Bird out of a BaskeCjWhen the lid is lifted up. For the whole world is as much thronged Up with body as where fhe is; and that tyc of the fpirirs^asyct not being loft^it is a greater engagement to her to be riiere than any where elfe. This motion therefore in the Flyes about J«/y 5 that is fo perfect and du-v rablc, I hold to be vitall; but that in the parts of difmembred Creatures, chat are leiTc perfcft^may be ufually mechanical.
1 have now fo far forth, as it is requiiite for my deligneconiideredjthe Nature and Fun- ftionsof the Soul\ and have plainly demon- (Irated, that fhe is a fubftance diftin£t from the Bovlyjand that her very eflence is fpread throughout all the Organs thereof: Asalfo that the general inftrument of all her ope- rations is thefubtile fpirits; which though they be not in like quantity &: (incerity eve- ry wherejyet they make al the body fo pervi- ous to the impreflesofobjeftsjthatlikelight- ning, they pafTc to the common fenforium: For it is not necefiTary that the medium be fo fine and tenuious , as the matter where tht moftfubtle motion begins, whence %^^tjf'^5j[J"^ through Aire and Water ^tho\\g\\ Aire alone is not (iifficient for fuch a mocionas UgH^
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and Water almoft uncapable of being the feat of the fountain thereof. This may fervc to ilhiftrate the paffages of fcnfe from the r»iembranes(or in what other feat fcevcr the Spirits are moft fubtilc 3nd lucid ) through thicker places of the body to the very centre ofperception.
And thus have 1 difcovered a kinde of Heterogeneity in the Soul-, and that (he is not of the fame power every where : For her centre of perception is confined to the fourth Ventricle of the Brain : And if the fen/ifcrous n^ocions we fpeakof be not faith- fully cono^icted thither , we have no know- led r:e of rhe Qbjeft. That part therefore of the foul IS to be looked upon, as moft pieci*!- ous 5 and (he not being an independent mafs as matter i?, but one part refulting from an- other ; th it which is the nobleft is in all rea-r fon to be deemed the caufeof the Reft. For which reafon fas Jlfid cals God^ on whom all things depend 5 pil^ay fii^ttv ) fo, I think this part may be called tne Root of thefoule^ which apprchepiion of our wiU feem the lefs ftrange, if we confider that from the higheft life ^ viz. 7he7rimty in Vnity^and Vnitj in %riniX} : There does refult that which hath 310 lite nor fcnfe at alljX/i^s. the ftupid Matter, t(? he re fore in very goed Analogy^ we may ad- mit,
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mic, that that precious pare of the Soul in which r^des perception, fenfe, and uuder- ftanding, may fend forth fuch an efTential enianation from it felf , as is utterly devoid ofwl fenfe and perception , which you may call, if you will 5 the exteriour branches of the Soul 5 or the Kayes or Beams of ths Soul \ i f you call that nobler and diviner part the Centrey which may very well merit alfo the Appella- tion of the EyeofthC'J^ow/; all the reft of its parts being but meer darkuefTc without it j In which, like another Cyclop , it will re- femble the World we live in , whofe one Eye is confpicuous to all that behold the light.
Now next let us prefcribe Medicines Chi- mical, or Kofia CYucian^viho\t£on\t and fit to keep the Body in health andluftinelTejUntill the appointed time of Death, that is, when the Soul fcparates from it , but we will keep them together in good temper a while with thefc Medicines i and then after we (hall teach you the Harmony and Compofition of the Humane Soule ; and then conduct it to the place from whence it came.
Ghap.,
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Chap. Xll. •
Medicines to prolong life^co preferve he^h^ to wax young being old ; To continue young: How to change^ alter and amend the ft ate of the Body, Of Aiiriim Potabile , Of the Pa- nacea ^ Of the Mihtv'-, Of the Pantarva ; The TFater of the Sun 5 7he IFater of the MooHy
• 7he Blerp linVnire and the Fire ', Jhe Greene^ fait and Azure Oyle ; Of the red Medicine; Of the tVater of the colour of Gold ; Of th^ Oyle of Gold ; How to dijfolve Mettals.
IT will not be amide to fpeak fomething in this place of the Nature and Conftitu- tion of .Van , itnd prefcribe fame /V^edicines that may keep the Soul and body together compleat One Hundred Years -, to make thac more plain which already hath been fpo- ken.
As the great fForld con (ifts of three parts, the Elemcntaljthe CdelVial^ and the Spiritual^ above all which Godhimfelfisfeatedinthatin* finite^ in acceffhle Light ^ which ^r e antes from hk ywn Nature y even fb Man hath in him his Earthly Elemental parts 5 together with the Coeleftial and Angelical Natures:, in the cen- tre
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trc of all which moves and fhines the Divine Spirit. The Sti\Cy\^\y Calejiial^ ^theriai psirt of man, is that whereby we do Move , ^^ec, Feel^Tafte and Smel; and have a camnieice with all material objefts whatfocver : It is the fa me in us as in Beads y and it is derived from Heaven yVihcrek is predominant , to all the inferiour E^rt^j' Creatures.
In plain terms , it is part o^ Animn Mmdiy commonly called j4nimji Media 5 becaufe the influences of the Divine Nature arc conveyed through it to the more material parts of the Creature, with which of themfelves they have no proportion . Py means of this Anima Mediator the JEtherial Nature ^ man is made fub'eft to the influence of the St^ri 5 and is difpofed of by the Ccclejlial Harmony : For this middle fpirit (^middle I mean between both cxtrcams, and not that which aftually u« nites the whole togetherj as well that which is in the outward heaven , as that which is ia MaUy is of a fruitfull infinuating nature, ^iid carried with a ftrong defire to multiply it felf : fo that the Ccelejiialform ftirs up, and excites the Elemental -y for this fpirit is in MaUj in BeajU^ in Vegetables^ in Minerals , and ill every thing, it is the Mediate of Ccnipo- (l^cion and Mulriplication.
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And now i ftcp from the fir(i Harwonicail Vnity to the Serretum lenebrarnnij for here I fee the Creature prevaricates j you muft therefore draw the w/^tfr oi thtSun^ and the. fvater of the Moon^ for in them is Yilius folisy and Fdia Lu^^CceieJiis^ and what offices fo-j ever the two great Lunaries perform for the: confervation of the great world in general : Thefe two little Luminaries perform the like for the confervation of their fmal Cask or Microcofme in particular And the fir ft Me- dicine I fhall give you the Receipt of, it will Cure ali Difeafes in the Body , prolong Lite, Health, Youth, VVifJome, Virtue, and will alter, change and amend the flateofthc Eody
Kecep, l.mi Ccekfiif partes Decern. Separatur Mafculm a Fantina^ v.terque porro a Terra /w^, fh'ip.Crtamen & citra cmmm violentiam Separata, ■proportione debit h harmonica , & vitali conjuH". gellaXimque , Anima defcendefttia fph^ra pyro^ plajlica^ mcrtuum fimnt & reli^v.m Corpus am- plexu mirifico Yejlaurahit conjunda foveantur. I^ne naturali in perfedum Matrimoniurn fpiritus^ & Corporis ; procedas Artificio vulcanico-ma- gico , qvoufque exaltentur in ^i fit am Kotam Mettphyf.chant, H^c eft^iHa^ de §hja tot fcrihil^ krimt ia^fi patfcincvertmty Medicina,
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Now the Kofie Crucians^\s\\o without con- troveriie are the wifeil of Nations , when . they difcourfe of the generation of Mettals^ tell u?5 it is performed in this manner. The Mercury or Mineral liquor (fay they) is alto- gether cold and pailive, and it lies in certaine earthly fubterraneous caverns, but when the5K«arcendsin theEaft, his beams and heat falling on this Hemifpbere^ ftirriip and fortifie the inward heat of the Earthy thus we fee in Winter weather that the out- ward heat of the Sun excites tlxe inward na- turall warmth of our bodies, and cherifheth the blood when it is almoft cold and fro*^ zen.
Now then the centrall heat of the Earth being ftirr'd and fecondedby the circumfe- rential! heat of the Sim^ woikcs upon the Mercury znd fublimes it ina thin vapour, to the top of its Cell or Caverne *> but towards Night when thtSunfets in the M^'efty the heat cf the Earthy becaufe of the abfence of that great Luminary grows weak, and the cold prevailesj fc that the vapours of the Mercury which were formerly fublimeJ^are now con- I denfed, and diftill in drops to the bottomc of their Caverne; but the night being fpent^ the Sun againe comes about to the Eaft, and fublimes the moifture^as formerly this fubli-
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mation and condcnfation continue folongj till the yiercury takes up th^Sttbtle Sulphureous farts of the Earthy and is incorporated there- withifo that this fulphur coagulates theMcT- curj/y and fixeth him at laft^ that he will noc fublime, but lyes ftill in a ponderous lumpe, and is concofted to a pcrfeft inettall -, our Mercury therefore cannot be coagulated without our fulphur: For it is water that difTolves and putrifies Earthy and Earth that thickens and putrifies waters you nuift therefore take the Corafcen Vog^aud the Bitch of Armenia y cuple them both together, and they will bring you a skje coloured JVheip^ that will preferve health, &c. For out of the two firft principles is produced a third A- gent.
But the Earth being the fubfidence or remains of that Primitive mafs, which God formed out of DarknefTe, is therefore a fa:cu- lent impure body ; For the extraftions which the Divine Spirit made were pure, 0- Icons ^ JEtheral fuhfiancesy but the Crude^Pheg- marick, Indigcfied Humours fettled like lees towards the Centre ^ the Earth is fpongie. Porous and Magneticaljof compofition loofe, the better to take in the fcveral Influences of HeatjRains and Dews/or the nurture and confervation of her Produ^s. In her is that*
principal
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nrincipal refidence of that Matrix 3 which
attracts and receives the Sperm from the
Mafculine part of the world ; fhe is Natures
JEtttit : Here Vulcan doth exercife hihifelf,
he is a pure Ccelejlial PlafticJ^Firey we have^-
firologie^ Afironomy and Geoinancy under our
Feet '-, the Stars are rcfiilent with us 5 and a-
bundance o^ Jewels and Vdntarva's^ Blew t'm-
inures ^ Waters of the ^nH and Noon^ all m^LW--
wtn o^ coloured Medicines and Salts ^ and the
green Fanacea^ the Blew Fir^^and Golden Wa^
ter^ the Azure linCiure^ (he is the Nurfe and
Receptacle of all things , for the fuperiour
Natures ingulph themfeives inroher 5 whac
(he receives this a^e, (he difcovcrs the ntis^ty
and like a faithfull Treafurer conceals no