part cf her accounts.

The water hath feveral complexions ac- cording to the feveral parts of the Creature. Here below and in the circumference of all things it is volatill, crude and raw 5 for this very caufe. Nature makes it no part of her provilion^ but fhe reftities it firft, exhaling ic up with her heat , and then condcnfing ic to Rains and Dews, in which ftatc fhe makes iifeof it fomourifhment: Somewhere it is interiour, vitall and caleftial, cxpofed to the breath of the firfl Agent,andftirred with fpiritual, eternal windes. This is that Vf)chs
©f
1 ^o 7 he Harmony of the World.
of Jpulejusy and the fire of Nature is her Cu- fid y In the IVater are hidden treafures ^ but* ioinchatited you cannot fee them , for all the cheft is traufparent, I doe now advice thofe Gentlemen that Read me, to ftudy Water , that they may know the Fire.
Now Nature hath for every Seed a Veffel of her own, and all her Veffels are but feve- raU forts of Earth, &c. The Aurum Fota^ bile IS fo admirable a Medicine, that it cures the difeaftd very ftrangly, for they are hea- led Unawares h Neither do they feel any o- pcrationibuc fi\dden!y they will be found Sc in heaUh ^ there are Icveral wayes to ufe this pcret virtue of Gold ^ both tirft and laft, and fome of them may be communicated, but fotne liot.
Furthermore to Cure and keep the body in health, take thefe approved Medicines, to nourifh and fortifie your Spirits-with, that which is proper to your particular infirmity, viz. Th^F/7«ftfri/^,a univerfall Medicine,for fome Teniperanuresj f 2///^, SoIiSy Calejlis^ A- miens Vit£., Proper for Surfets and cold A- gucs-^for Lethargyes and dulneflfe of Sight, Kecep JgnisVit£dnd SangJiisViU^forDidem^ i^^rs oJ- Stomack and Bowels^ in extreame twoon'ingS't StelliiVita;^ in all new dillempers g^f Bowels or Belly, Coughs^ fliortnefle of
Breath
The harmony of the World. 1 6\
Breath, paffionsofche Heart, Kadix Vlt£:t\\t Aurum Totabile is well experienced to be wonderfuU helpful! to women in travel!, by many thoufands of people, &*€. the Aquit Solis ^nd Aqua Lun£, cwre mad people, the SipivitofOranges mixed vi'ithT>elici£Vit£yCurts SadnefTe and Melancholly; Spiric of Cina- TfiOHy Lentort 5 mixed vfkh Sallys Vit£ are good in cafes of Infeftioiis peftilentiall danrrers. Spirit of Angelica^ Cfoves and Kofe^nary mixed, cure the Rickets, VVorni^, Green-licknefTe, Mother-fitSi Spirit of B^»^w^, Saffron^ ^Vmt^ and Medulla Vit£y{or waftings and weaknefs; Spirit ofClary and Nutmeggs^ the Panacea and St^ccus Vit£^ cures the Convulfionjpalfy and Falling-fic! na Potabile^ cure the Dropfie, Leprolie Gour, Scurvey, Spleen, Wind, Gravel!: Adjutrix Vit£y cures all diftenipers of the Stomack and Bowels, and caufeth appetite anddif- gefture : But there are many counterfeit Waters fold by thefe names, and falfe Me- dicines madeby thofe whounderlland not naturall things, nor their generation, and thefe fill frail bodies full of filthy difcafes : To begin then to learn how to make the true medicines that will innoxioufly and faith- fully cure all difeafcs incident to bodyes, M you
1 6 2 The Harmony of the If ''or Id,
you are to know in the firft place that gen^- lation is twofold,
.Ordinary,
^Extraordinary. Extraordinary generation is that, by which an unlike thing is generated out of an unlike, as Mice are generated out of dujig, and Snakes by putrefaction by thcSun; this Generation is termed in the School?, Equi' %/ocall,
' The ordinary is that, by which a like thing begets his like, as when a man begets a man child, and a Lyon a Lyon; this in the Schools is termed unwocal},this generation with the method and the nieans ofkj I (hall include briefly thus, every thing generated or begotten, is generated and borne of his own fpecific feed, and in his proper Ma- trix. : i-
Before any ^etitdi thingcan be generated, the feed muft iieceffarily putrifie, and then be liourifhcd. - ■
The feed then putrific^, when a fait of th^ fame nature with it, diffolved in a conveni- ent liquor, doth by the alliftaneeof a gentl« heat penetrate, aiiali?.eand raritiethc Tub' llance of the feed , that the included fpirif uiay out of its fubj?6\: niatcerj form a convex
nieai
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nient habitation or body for it fclf 5 in which jtmay perform the Offices of natural pro- pagation and feniinal Multiplicacion.
The Humour or liquor which fervcs for putrcfaftion niuft be proportionable to that body which is to be putritied; the heat which promotes this putrefaftion, muft be fo niiida and temperate, that the liquor in which the refolving Salt lyeth, may remain ftillin and about the matter 5 and not be laved or eva- porated from it ; the body putrifying^muft not be removed out of that Matrix, in which theputrifa6i:ionwasbegun5«ntili that which ! is intended be fully perfefted ; the more pure the Matrix is , the thing generated is by fo much the more perfeft and found ; that Matrix is onely convenient and adapted to '• Generation^which permits an ea(je entrance to the feed.
Our Salt'fe$^ is a moft white incombu- ftablebody, and a gummie Aereal Nature ; ■ itisfoun6luousand aireal^it will not gene- rate nor mingle with our due : I have for triall taken it info its grofle , and putting it in a quart of Rain diftijled ; I digeikd thefe two without any other third thing/ora full fortnights time-, but they would never mix, the Nitre Tnotwithftanding many long and violent agitations of the GlaflTe ^keeping ftill Ms a pare
1 64 The Harmony of the IVorld.
a part, in the form of Butter or Oyle ; more white then Snow : It is indeed of wonder- full vertue alone^d^c. Bodies or fubftances which are generated of AyrCj retain thefirft complexion of their Parent : Yet I have feen Water turned into a blood'red colourjWith- out any other thing ; and 1 know how to do it, but I may not teach thefe things: Now^ out of that body which is either corrupted or dcftroyed by ftrange or extracious na- tures •, or whofe fpermatick Veflels , are by fonie violence maimed or cut off, no feed can be had : That body which ispreferved or fuftainedby one fimple kindc of Nutri- ment; is far more perfect and durable , and yeeld:- more found and prolitick feed ^ than that which is nourifhed with many and dif- ferent kindes of Nutriment 3 by tbefe Rules you may know how to digeft, to diffolve, to putrifir, to generate, to fepl(^te the impure from the pure, and fo to come by moft per- feft Medicines 5 but you muft follow the method ofmyHo/ie Crucian ^\\y(icki lib. 2, chap 10- you know not all nature doth.And \ erily^fo great 8 that God never imparts them to any frau- dulent Monttbanks, nor to Tyrants, nor to ^\\y irapuve lafcivioMis Perfons, nor to the
Effeipinat?
The Harmony oft he IV arid, 1 6 S
Effeminateandldle, nor to Gluttons , nor Ufurers, aor to any worftiippers oiMnni:^}^ but in all Ages, the Pious^the Charitable,t he Liberal, the Meek, the Patient and Indefati- gable Spirit^who was a diligent obferver and admirer of his marvelous works found out : For,
Ihe greedy Cheat mth impure hands may not^ Attempt thefe Arts^nor are they ever got By the unlearn d and rude •, 7he Vicious minde loluft andfoftnejJegiven^itftrik^sftarK^lindey
So the Jlie wandring Favour ^ &c.
And again.
But the Sage^ Pious man^ who ^iU adores 5 And loves his Maksr^ and hii love implores^ Whs ever joyes to fearch the fecret caufe , Andferies ef his workj , their love and lawSj Let him drarv neer^ andjoyning will m^ jirength Study this Art in all her depth and length : J hen grave experience jh all his Comfort hey Skill'' d in lar'ie Nature'' $ inmoff myjlery, The kjtets and doubts his bufie courfe and cares Will oft di^urbe^ till time the truth declares And liable patience {through alltryah pafl ) Briytgs the glad end^ and long hop* d for at lafi.
M 3 Behold
J 66 ihe Harmony of the (Vorld.
Behold all you Medicafters, who hate and perfecute thefe Divine fciences Afi^logyfieo* mizncy^ and Chymiftry^ give ear O you Vo^ors that darken counfel by words without knowledge j gird up your loyns like men, for I will demand of you, and anfweryou me 3 With what confidence can you profefTe yoiu felvesto be Phyfitians, feeing that all Phyiick or Medicines are without Ajirologiey Gtomancy and Chimiftry imperfeft ? By the iirft of thefe we underftand,from whence the difeafe came, and what Medicine is proper for the Patient at certain times > To Cure him according to his Temperature, which we finde by the fecond , and how long the ficknefTe will continue > And the third fup- pliesus out of the light of Nature,with con- venient means, (and particular Natures to feparate the impure from the pure) and will teach you by the firft how to healc all Pifea- fesof the Macrocefmical fubftances,and after- wards by examples and experiments dedu- ced from thofe exteriour Cures, will (hew us the right and infallible Cure of all Difeafes in our own bodies? He that knows not how to heal and purge Mettal? ? How can he re- ilore the decayed or weakened radical Bal- fomeiuMan? and excite it by comfortable and concordant medicines to perform pcr-
The Harmony oj tht World. 167
feftly all his appointed Funftions , which niiift necefTarily be put intoaftioii, before any difeafe can b€ expelled 1 He that knows not what it is in Antimony which purgetli Golds how can he come by an effeftiial and wholefomeMedicinejthat will purge and caft out thefe extrarious peccant caufeSj and humours that affli£t and deftroy the body of man ? He that knows not how to fix Arfemck^^ to take away the corroiive nature offuhlimate^ to coagulate Sulphurous fpiritSjand by a con- venient fpecifical medium to break and ana- lizeftones in the greater world^will never in the body of man allay and tarne the Arfeni- call fpirits oi the Microcofmic fait •, nor take quite away the vencmous indifpoiition of the Sulphur, nor diflblve the Stone in the Bladder, and drive it out being diflblved > It is a noble, fafe and pious courfe, to ex-« amine and try the force and virtue of Medi- cines upon the Macrocofntical fubftances, be- fore we apply them to our fellow Creatures^ and the rare Fabrick of Man : And yet ther^ is none of thefe medicines but is fo eaiie and cheap to be made, that a fine Chymical La- dy in the making Sack-pofTets and Sugar- fops may praftife thenl, ahd read advice to a Daughter, without difturbing her fan- The
1 68 The Harmony of the IVorld.
The Skje cohured IFater^ is that in uhich the Azure tindture is extreamly predomi- nanr, but with much light and brightnefs this ftrange liquor, if the Sun (hine on it at Noon, will attraft the beams or fplendorto it felfj in which they will iiiike downwards, as it Coagulated with the heat, but refleft- €th to the eyes of the beholders,a moil beau- tiful! Pvain- bow.
Take the^^J'^of theF/V^ofour litle invi- iible World. For being prepared, it produ- cech noble effects, Touth^ Pf^ifaome^ dndVer^ tue^^Kw'iWraife the dead , and vvherefoever it appears ,it is an infallible fignc of life, as you fee in the Sprnig time, when all things are green, the iightof itischeerfull, and refre- (huig, beyond all imagmatiou , it comes out of the Heavenly earthy for the faphir doth fpermatizt, and injefts her tinftures into the ^tfe^r, where they are caried and mani- fefted tothe eye. This Saphir is equall of her felf to the whole compound, for (he is thrcefold,or hath in her three feverall eflen- ces :
The Stone Symchhis brings the bearer ac- c^\vd\mt(Xvi'\x.\\ Angels and ^pirits^ the.^tone A^achitisma\{ts the Images of the gods appear y the hnn^dis put under them, that Dream caufech Orac-es-^thtit is a certain vercuein
the
The Harmony of the If^orld. i 6 9
the Loadjione^ by which it attracts Iron •, Khu* barb expels Choller ; the Oyleof that ft ink- ing loathfonie weed Tobacco cures all manner of Wounds 5 but the fmoak of it, isworfe than any thing in the world : The Kofie Cm- ciam have invented jmiverfal Magnetic medi- cines for Feavers, which being put into the Urine of a lick Patient , the quantity of a few drops will fympathetically work the Came operation in the Cure of the Fea- ver, as the weapon Salve does upon the wound.
And there are Medicines with which men way prolong their lives for ever^ they fay, raife dead Bodies to life again j but it is not law full to fpcak and teach thefe things to any man: Bccaufe, whereas he has but a (hort time to live, yet he ftudies mifchicf with all hi^ might 3 and attempt all manner of wicked - neife: If he fhould befure of a very long life, he would not fpare God himfelf.
Were it not good, that we needed not to care,nor fear Hunger, Poverty ,Sickne(rc and hgc^Sc that we could alwayes live (o,as if we lived had from the beginning of the worlds and moreover, as we fhould ftill live to the end thercofj And dwell in one place, that neither the people which dwell beyond the T^ivir Ganges in the Indies could hide any
. thing
1 7 o I'he Harmony of the World.
thing, nor thofe which live in Veru might be able CO keep fecrec their Counfels from yon.
What think you ofoneonlyBook in which you may ReadjUnderftand and Remember, all that, which in all other Books, (which heretofore have bceUjand are novv^and here- after (hall come out)hath been, is, and /hall be learned and found out of them > How pleafantwere it, if we could foiing^that in- Itead of ftony Rocks, we could draw to us Pearls and precious Stones> inftead of wilde Beafts Angels and Geniii and inftead of hel- h(h Vliito , move the mighty Princes of the world : I could teU you more , for 1 have h^or^n Come Sciences^ which you ^/rt^^ never heard of ^ nor your Fathers before you -^ but lam drawing off the ftage in all haft, and returning to my firft folitude$,my difcourfe fhall be therefore very ftiort, and like the Echo's laft fyllablcs, imperfeft, I intend it oncly for a hint,not a full light , but a glance , and you muft im^ prove it for your better fatisfaftion.
Chap.
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Chap. XI 11.
How the Soul or Genius being united to the body continues in H^rmofty with it : A Comparifon hetwixt the Sonle in the tody , and the Aerial Genii.
LEt lis now convey the Soul to the place from whence it came 5 for all is vanity under the Sun 5 therefore wemuft firftfeek the KingdomeofGodj &c,
O Godj my life / whofe Effence man
Is no way fit to k^w^ or [can -,
But (hould approach thy Court z Guejl
In thoughts more low^ than h'lsrequeji.
When I confider, how I ftray
Me thinks 'tis pride in me to pray.
How dare I fpeak to Heaven^ not fear
In all my iins to court thy Eare ,
But as I look on Woonts that hirke
In blinde Intrenchments^ and there work
Their own dark Prifons to repairc,
Heaving the Earth to take in Aire;
So view my fettered Soul^ that muft
Struggle with this her hfid of Duji
tp 2 ^hs Harmony of the IVorld,
Meet her Addreffe^ and add one Kay^ Jo this niew'd parcell of thy Day ."^^f would though here imprifoMed^ fee Through all her rirt thy 7hrone znd Jhee^ Lord guide her out oHh\s fad night And lay once more^Let there he Light.
Having thus difcovered the Trimitivefu^ pernaturalpmt of the Creation^ how the Spirits and Angeh defcend into the Sphers^ and give iifey light and influence to the TUneti^^wd their dffcent of darting of Genii to man^ heafl and every living Creature , The Harmony of the Heavens , and the Harmony of mans body : I (hould be in a readinefle to treat of the fouls feparation from it, did I not think my felf oblis^ed iirft to fpeak of the Harmony ofthe^oul'^ For as the Harmony of the tody coniifis of a due meafuie and proportion of the members; fo the Confonancy of the mirde of a due temperament , and propor- tion of its Vertues and Operations which are Concufifcible ^ Irafcthle and Keafon^ which arc fo proportioned together.
For Beafon to Concupifcence hath the proportion ViafafGn^ but to Anger Viatefla- ron ; and Irafcible to Concupifcible hath the proportion Viafsnte : Uhen therefore the befi: -proportioned SoulU jojned to the beflfro^ portioned body^ it is manifeftjthat fuch a man
alfo
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alfo hath received a moft happy lot in the diftribution of gifts. For as much as the foul agrees with the body, in the difpofition of Naturals , which agreement indeed is moft hid^yet after fome manner (hado wed to us by the wife.
But to haften to the Harmotiy of the Soul ^ we muft inquire into it by thoiiCinediums by which it paiFeth to us ( /. e, ) by celeftial bo- dies and fpheresy knowing therefore what are the powers of the foul^ to which the Flanets anfwer5wefliall by thofe things, which have been fpoken of before, the moreea/ily know their agrecmeius amongft themfelves ; For the Moon governs the Powers of Increafing and Decrealing 5 the phantaiie and wits de^- pendson Mercury ^ the Concupifcible virtue on Veuus^thc Vital on the Sm •, the Irafcible on Mars '^ the Natural on Jupiter-^ the Pre- ceptive on Saturn ; but the Will as the prl- fnumntobile^ ^nd the guide of allthefe powers at pleafure, being joyned with the fuperiour intelle£V, is always tending to good -, which intelleft indeed doth alwayes (hew a path- way to the Will5as a Candle to the Eye '■> hut it moves not itfelf^^but istheMiftrefleofher own operation, whence it is called Freewill; and although it alwayes tends to good, as ^n objeft futeable to it felf 3 yet fometniies
beins:
174- ^^^ Harmony of the t^'orld,
being blinded with errour , the animal po- wer forcing it 5 it choofeth evill believing it to be good.
Therefor? Will is defined to be a faculty ofthe intelleft and Will, whereby good is chofen by the help of Grace^^ and Evill not aflifting 5 Grace therefore which Pivines call Charity? or infufed love, is in the Will, as a firft Mover 5 which being abfent , the whole confent fals into diffonancy , More- over, the foul anfwers to the £/zrr^ ^y fi^fi^ to the Water by ImaginnUonj to the Aire hj l^eafon^ to the Heaven by the Inte/ied ^ and the foul goes out into a H/zrwc^^y of them ac- cording, as thefcare tempered in a mortall body.
The wife Plato knowing that the Harmc- nious difpofitions of todies and fouls vltk: di- vers,accordingtothe diverfity ot the com- plexions of men, did not in vain ufe mufical founds and fingings, as to confirme the Health of the I odyy and reftore it being loft. Soto I ring theminde to wholfome man- tiers, until! tkey make a man fuitableto the Celefiiall p^armeny^ and make him wholy Ce- Jeftiall; moreover there is nothing morefj^- catjous to drive away evill fpirits then V\uficall: J^arrffony f for they being fain from the Ctf- leiiiall Harmofty^Q^iwnot endure any true con-
feuc
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feiu, as being an Enemy to them, but fly from it : Body es being but thick clouds to Sculs^ and there. is no more difference be- twixt a /bw/ and an Aereal Genius^ then there is betwixt a Sword in thefcahbard and one out of it. and that a foul is but a Gemus in the body^ and a Genius 2l foul oik of the body^ yet the foul followes the temperature of the body, and is corrupted and ruikd in it.
Chap. XIV.
Bow the foul feparates from the body, and is net jiopt in the dead corps J as fome would have it > how Jhe can get out of the body ^ that herVnion •with her Aerial Vehicle way be veryfudden as it were in a unoynentl how the foul may beloof-^ ned and leave the body^ and yet returnetoita^ gain by ointments', that fouls departed communi- cate dreams. Apparitions of bodies and unbodied- Genii, Of C ap \^2i^ &\)Y.t^\c Culpepertf?^- pearing after death-^ Y^oyp Naturalland Ordi^ nary it is for Genii to appear ? Keafons to ferfwade the unprejudiced that ordinarily thofe apparitions that bear the fl:ape and perfon oHhe deceafed^ are indeed the fouls of the 771: 7hat^ the foul is capable of an Aery and JEtherial b(^
1 T 6 The Harmony of the World.
dy^ as welt as a terremall; and alfo of fenfe, paiH,p!eafure', Ofthegemous power of changing the temper : Of her /tered Vehicle, and the fljape thereof ; 7hat the vehicles of Genii have ^s much of foled corporeal fuhflance in them as the bodies of them: 7hat the naturall abode of fords departed after death is the Aire: How T>£mons and feparate Genu hear and fee us at ^ ^aji dijiance, and whence it is that though they may fo eafily hear or fee us^ we may neither hear nor fee them •, Of the Touch, Smell, Tafte, ^^idjs^curlpment of Genii \ How they arevifi^ ^^e one to another : That they converfe inahu^ ^^fane fhape the better fort of them ; the bafer in Befiial., of the Igneous fplendours ofGeniir, How they are made^^That the external beauty of theGe- wi haccording to the degree of the inward Ver* tue of their minds? How Gho\)sentertaine one another in the other world-^ of their conferences P^i/ofophicall and political! j Of their Religious fxercifes-y Of the pajhmes and recreations of the letter fort\ Whence the Airsal Genii have their food-^ Ofth^foodandfcaftings of the better fort of Genii.
Concerning the AftnallandLocall Sepe- ration of the foul from the Body, it is manifefttobc underftood of this Terrefiiall Bcdy^ for to be in fuch a feparate State, as XQ be wliere Body or Matter is, is to be out
lof
Tke Harmony of the World. 177
of the world; The whole univerfe being fo thick fet with Matter, or body, that there is not to be found the leaft vacuity therein;. TheQueftion therfore is onlyjwhether upon death the foul can pafle from the Corps in- to fome other place 5 Belen and Salmanaz, fcenie, to arreft her there by that generall Law of Naturcjtermed the Law of immorta- lity, whereby every thing is to continue in the fame Condition it once was injtili fome- thing elfe change it; but the application of this Law, is very groffely unjuft in thi§ Cafe.
Mr, Owen and fome other of the Trahytet friefts^ wonder how the Soul can get out of the ^o^/y, being imprifoned atid lockt up in fo clofe a Caftle. But thefefeem to forget both the nature of the foul, with the tenui- ty of her Vehicle, andalfo the Anatomy of the body; forconfidering the Nature ofthe foul her felf, and of matter which is a like penetrable every wlierCj ihtGeniin can pafs through folid Iron and Marble^ as well as through the foft Jire and JEther^ fo that the chickneffe of thebody isno impediment to tier 5 befideS her /Kfreall Vehicles is of that tenuityj that it felf can as eafily pafTe the rmalleft pores ofthe body, as the light does jl^JJe, or the lightning the fcabbard of a [word N mtbiin
178 The Harmony oft he World,
rpixhout tearing or fcortcbing of it', and laftljr whether we look upon that principall feat of the plailick power the heart, or that of perception the brain: when a Man dyes, the ibul may ccllefther felf, and thefmall reii- out o( Spirits f that inay haply ferve her in the inchoation of her new Vehicle') cither in the hearty \a hence is an eafy paffage into the Lung?, and foout of theiiioiith , or elfe in- to the head, out of which there are more? doores open then I will (land to number. Thefe things are very imaginable, though as Invifible as the Aire^ in whofe clement the^ are tranfafted.* 'i^'» 'f ^»'' " '
How the foul m^y live and- fiA fepa rate froiii thebody,may beeafily Uildcrftodd ouc of what has been fpbkcn, but that fhe does^ defado^ therfe are but two way ^s to prove it^ the one by the t^ftimony of Hiftory, the other by Reafonj that of Hjftory is either of Perfons perfeflly dead, or of thofe that have been fubjed to Erjhfies^ or rather to that heii;ht thereof, which is more properly called ^^Ai^Z(7ict) ifphe^tbe foul doe i redly leave the body ^ and yetretitrne againt. Of this latter fort arc the Kofie Crucians^who Anoint thcit' heads. iiKiKT^ojJ'i ^st^lxetKay with a Gutftmy Medi" cine made of the Oyle of Kavens^ SrpallomSj Jtiiher:, CoId^HoHy^ Snlt^y Mercury ^ 8cc. and
this
The Harmony of the H or hi. 17 9
this would loofen the foul and quit it from
thebodyjand carry it up and down through
I the world, and (iiew it all things, whilll the
I body, lies Stearnmg and f^eating^ as if it were
: Turgid with fire:, &c.
But the pafling of the foul out cf the bo- ' dy in fleepe, orecftaiie, may befometimes a certaine difeafe, as well as that of the ■ 'KvKToCcLTeti 3 thofethat walk in their fieep: Now if it fhould happen that fome fuch di- ftemperfhould arife in the bodj^aswould very f much change the vitall cocnity thereof for a time , and in this Paroxcifme that other di« feafe of the NodambnH (hould fiirprife the party, his Immagination driving him to Walk to this or that place, his Soulm-ny very eafily ; be conceived in this loofned condition it lie^ in, to be able to leave the body, and pafTe in the Aire, as other inhabitants of that Ele- iinentdo, and aft the part of feparate 5p/- rits^ and exercife fuch funftions of the per« ceptive faculf yj as they do that are quite re- leafed from terreftriall matter; Only here is the difference, that that Damj) in the bo- dy that loofned the Union of the foul being ipcnt, the foul by that Natural! Magi i\ } have ufedto difcourfe of in my New Method of Kofie Crutian Fbifick^^ Will certainly return to thifbody^ ai\d unite with ic again as timi I^ 2 ' ai
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as ever^ but no men biic K&fie Crucians can paffeoiit of their bodies, when theyplcafe. TheExampleof the other fort^z/i^i of the appearing oftheG^5/?5o/Mf« after deathjHre lb numerous and frequent in all mens mouths, that it may fcem fuperfluous to particularifc inany,This appearing is cither by di earns or open vifions,in Dreams as that which hapned la^ict t» Bcto-zA///, to Julia, the Qiieenj to whom an armed Knight (iiggefted in her fleep, the deach of Affolonius 'Tyaneus^ and thecomming again of her in- chanted ServantLeo«ii« the Second^hcr dear- ly beloved; and it came topaffe,
I will adjoyne only three examples or four of ViiionSjwhich arc ordinarily called appa- ritions of the Dead, as that of Nero fwho af- ter the Murdering of his Mother: was haun- ted with Vdmons^ and Otho was pulled out of his bed by the Ghofl of Galha : And a Maid that lived in the houfe with my Mother, one night was pulled out of her bed by one John Stringer^ that a little before was killed by one Kichard EvenSyVjho loved this niaid as well as he, and the maid,notwithftanding three doors being lockt faft, had the right iideofher haireand headcloaths clean Iha- ved or cut aw^ay.
Such inftances as thefe are infinite,! heard
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wonder f44ll delightful Mtifick^ht the Air i oo. mila from anyLandyii^on the twelfth oi June, 16^0-
- Afterwards a gentleman in our bhip being a fleep at noon in the Cabin^vi^s called for by a voice from the'fhore^which hayPd ourfhip^ few of us took notice of his Name; he was twice called for before any of our men could remember we had any fuch man aboard; at laft he was waked and came upon the deck, and gave a %ne that he attended to the Voice ; but after giving exprefTe attention^ a clear and diftinft voice was heard from the fhoare *, which was the Defart Ifland o^Chrif- ly in Turkey , uttering thefe words ; Ed' ward IFal f or dy your Mafler Nicholas Sheldon is here y when you come int$ \ta\y Jhipfpeedily home^ for your Mi fire f^ wijhes for yon: At his retura he found all this to be truth 5 for his Mafter dyed about the houre of that day he heard the Voice.
And my Father Francis Hey don with one Niv. Black^ore in the year 1644. beheld the hand o{ Almighty Gody with a fword drawn and fhakjngit over thetVeji^ it appeared wonder- full glorious with part of the Arm, very fear- full and furious, it was in its motion ftriking every way all that night , and a few daycs
1, after they ht^idEJfex and his Army were
foutedby the Aogci of Almighty God : iox
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fo they concluded 5 Rebellion was pu^ifh- ed.
And one Captain Lap being merry at our hoiire5told my Father and Mother Jhe would ne- ver fee them nure untiU the King came to his throne flgaiae ; and then he would requite their loves to him^ if he livedo and if he dyed^ yet he would come end found a trumpet unto them ; which in truth he did at a garden doorc^and then they re- mcmbred his words , and thought he was deadj as fuddenly after they heard.
Another Example is of Mr. Do£^or Kich, Culptper^ whofe Ghoft appeared to his Widdow^ Alice Culpeper^ and fpake to her, in the lively Image of his decedfed body^ bidding her vindi- cate him, for he was abufed by fonie Booksfel- las j He appeared to a fellow in his houfe, Hiimed, Ihomoi Harrington , and gave him a paper, which is now publiftied , we.aring the title of Mr. Culpepers Ghoj}^ giving feafonable -/idvice to the Lovers of his Writings^ and tbid by Feter Cole^ in Corn-hilly necr the Royal Exchange, London % thefe Apparitions are really the fouls of the Dcceafed, and no Pc- vils, as Tome fondly conceive , as you may iead in the Book.
Now thQGeniusin her Aerial Vehicle is ca- pable offenfeproperlyfo called, and con fe-
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neceilicyof therefulcing of fenfe from vital union of the Genius vvich any body vvhatfo- ever; and we may remember, that the im- mediate inftriimenc of fenfe, even in the earthly body^ are the fpiritsj fo that there can be no doubt of this Truth. And plea- fure and pain being proper modifications of fenfe, and there being no body but what is palfiblc, it is evident that tht(e Vehicks of aire ^re fubjcCt to f aims \nc\\?ls fleafure^ in this Region, where ill things are to be met with as well asgood.
And there is as much matter or body in one coniiftency as another; As for example. There is as much matter in a Cup of Aire , as \\\ the fame Cup filled with Water, and as much in this Cup of VVater,dS if it were filled with Lead or Quickiilverjwhich I take notice of here, that I may free the imagination of mtn from that ordinary and Idotick mifap- prehenfion , which they entertain of Spirits that appear; as if they w^reasevaNid and devoid of fubftance, as the very ftiadows of our bodies, caft againft a Wall, or our Images reflefted from a %iver or Looking-giaffe , and Ch^refore from this Errour, have s,\\en them names accordingly, calling the Ghojis of men that prefent themfelves to them. 'E//«A«t & yynW^^ Images and Shades., Th$ which, the ^4 more
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niore viliblethey are , they think them the more fubftantial , fancying that the Aire is fo condenfed, that there is not onely more of it 5 but alfo that finiple there is more matter or fubftance, when it appears thus vilible 5 then there was in the fame fpac^ be- fore c- And therefore they muft needs con- ceit that death reduces us to a pittifull thin pittance of being j that our Subftance is in ^ manner lofl 5 and nothing but a tenuous reek remains, no more in proportion to us, then what a fweating Horfe leaves behinde him 5 when he Gallops by in a frofty morn- ing 3 which certainly muft be a very lamen- table conGderation to fuch as love this thick and pkimp body5andareplearedtoconiider bow many pounds they out-weighed their neighbour thelaft time they were put in the Ballancc together.
But if a kinde of dubious tranfpar^ncy will dcihouftrate the deficiency of corporeal fubftance , a fiUtir of Chryfial will have Icffe thereof, then one of Tobacco fntoak^'y which though it maybe fo doubtfull and evanid an object to the Eye, if we try it by the hand, it will prove exceeding folid : As alfo thefe Ghojis , Gemi^ or unbodied Souls, call theni which you will, that are faid to appear in tlfAis manncp, hav« proved to. them that
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have touched them , or have been touched by them. For it i> a thing rediculous and un- worthy of an Ajir^mmr^ Aihologer^ Geoman- cer or Phyhfopber to judge the nieafurc of corporeal matter, by what it feems to our light, for fo Ajre would be nothing at all ; or what it is to our handlifig, or weighing of it, for fo indeed a Cvp o{ ^ick^filver would feem to have infinitely more matter in it, then one filled with Aire onely , and a vcf. fel of J^/rtfr lefs when it is plunged under the Water in theRiverjthen when it is carried in the Ayres but we are to remember, that let matter be of what confiRency it wil I, as thin &: pure as the flame of a Candle-, there is noe- leffe of corporeal Subftance therein , than there is in the fame dimenfions of Silver^ Lead or Gold,
Seeing its demoflrated that Genii have folid bodies, and the place of the Soul or Genius abode is the Aire , and the Vehicles of the Genii or Souls deceafcd is the Aire ; nor can the Souls Vehicle be incommodated by ftorms of Winde ; and yet Rain^ Haile^ Snow and Jhunder wiH incommodate her lelTe : For they paflfe as they doc through other parts of the Aire which clofe again imediatc- I'y, and leave neither wound nor fcare be- hinde ^hem : Wherefore all thefc Meteors
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Mr. John Gudbury fpeaks of, may in their mediocrity be a pleafure to her and refrefh- nient ; and in their exceife no long pain, nor in their higheft rage any deftrudion of Life at all : From whence we may fafcly conclude, that notonelythe upper Region, but this lower alfo^may be inhabited both by the deceafed Souls of Men and by Demons. And though we cannot fee thefe Aerial Spi^ ritSy yet they may not milfe of feeing us 5 and that it may be, from a aiighty diftance, if they ca^i transform their Vehicle , or the Organ of light , into fonie fuch advantage- ous Figure,as is wrought in Dioptick Glafles, which power will infinitely exceed the con- trafting and dilating of the pupill of our Eye; which yet is a weaker and more defe- £titious attempt towards fo high a privi- ledge as we fpeak off ; which notwithftand- ing may feem very poffible in fpirits , the fame may be faid of their hearing : For the ifame principle may enable them to (hape themfelves Organs, for the receiving of founds, of greater Art and Excellcncyjthaii the molt accurate acconftick we read of, or can excogitate : Wherefore it is a very childifh miftake to think that bccaufewedo. not every day fee the Ihape , nor hear the ^ifcourfc of Spirits, that they neither hear
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nor fee us; For foft bodies ^re impreillble by hard ones, but not on the contrary ^ as mel- ted wax will receive the fignature of the fealjbut the fcai is not at all imprcfTed upon by the Wax. /\nd fo folid a body will ftop the courfeof AirCj but the Aire will notftop the couifcof a folid body, and tstry inconhde- rable tcrreftrial coniiftency will refle^l light, but light fcarce moves any terreftrial bo- dy out of its place, but is rebounded back by it^that therefore that is moft tcnuiousand thin is nioft pallive; and therefore if it be once the Vehicle offenfe, is moft fen fible whence it will follow , that the reflection of light from Objefts being able to move our Organs that are not fo fine, they will more necefUrily move thofe oi the Genii^ and at a greater diftaucej but their bodies being of 'Diaphanous Aire^ itisimpofliblefor us to fee them, unleffe they will give themfelvcs the troublecf reducing them to a more terre- ftriall Confiftency, whereby they may refieB Light'y nor can we eafily hear their ordinary fpeech, partly becaufe a very gentle Motion of the Aire v;ill aft upon their Vehicles, and partly becaufe they may haply ufe the finer and purer part of thatElemcnt in this Exer- cifc, which is not fo fit to move our (tn(ti^ and therefore unleflc they will be heard da-
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thofera^ naturally that imprcfle of the - in their ufuall difcourfe can never ftrike our Organ.
And that we may not feem to fay this for nought, that they will have hearing as well as feeing, appears from what I have intima- ted above, that thi? faculty is ranged near the Coftimon Senforium in the Vehicle, as well as in that of fight; and therefore the Vehicle being all Aire^ fuch percuHions of it as caufe the fence of found in us, will neceflarily do the like in them; but more accurately, hap- ly if they Organize their Kfibic/f for the pur- pofe, which will anfwertothe arreftion of the earsof animalls, for the better taking in the found.
And they have the fenfe of toucR, clfe how could they feel refiftance, which is ne- teJaryinthe bearing of one body againft another, becaufe they are impenetrable? And to fpeak freely, my thoughts, it will be a\ery hard thing to difprove that they have not fomething analogicall to SweUnd7afley which are very neareof kin to 7ouch proper- ly fo called. For Fnmes and Odours pailing fa cafily through the Aire^ will very Naturally infinuare into their Vehicles alfo : which funieS5if they be grofer and hume£tant,may raife that Diverfification of touchj, which we
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Morcalis call Tailing : if more fubtle and dry, that which we call Smelling^ which if we ihould admit, we are within modeft bounds, as yet in Comparifon of others : as Cornelius Agrippa^ who affirms down right that the Arial Gemi^rc Nourifhed, and Car^ dan fayes Co too, and fome of them get into the bodyes of AniiiKdls to batten them- felves therein their brood ^i\d fpiritSy which is alfo averred by Zadich^ who tells us that the purer fort oi Genii are Nourijhed by draw- ing in the Aire^ as our fpirits are in the Nerves and Arteries^ 8c that other Genii of a courfcr kinde,ruckin moifture, not with the mouth as we doe, but as a fponge does water: and Almadir Writes concerning the Zabii^ that they cat of the blood of their 5acrilice, be- caufe they thought it was the food of the X)*€Wio«5they worfhipped, and that by eat- ing thereof, they were in a better capacity to communicate with them, which things if they could be believed, that would beno fuch hard%robleme concerning the bodies of Spirits and Souls departed.
It is certain that Genii and Ghojh of Men^ have the fence oi Hearings Seeing and touching and not improbably of Smelling and l^fiiftgy which faculties being granted, they need not be much at a loflTe^ how to fpend their
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time, though it were upon externall objefts: ali the Furniture of Heaven and Earth, be- ing fairly expofed to their view, they fee t&e Tame Sun and Moon that we do^ behold the perfons and converfe of all men; and if no rpeciall Law inhabite them, they pafTe from lo-wn to lio-wn^ and from City to City as f/j/>rocrtftf^airo intimites.
There is nothing that we en oy but they may have their fees out of k'-, fair fields^ large and inviom PFoods^ fleafant Gardens^ high and hedthfull Mountains^ where the pureft gufts of Aire are to be met w\thyChrifiai! Rivers^ MoJJy Springs ^folemnity of Entertainments ^ 1heatric\ Vomps 2in^ ^ heaven, publickand privatedif- courfcs, the Exercifeof Religion^ whether, in Temples^ Families^ or hidden Cells ^ They may be alfo(and haply not uninterreiTedXpefta- tors oftheglorious and mifcheivous hazards of W^Wr,whecher Sea Pij^hts or Land fights; belides thofe foft and lilenc, th^gh fome- timcs ho lefTe dangerous, comWts in the Camps of Cupid •^*'^tid a thoufand more parti- cularities, that it would be tod long to reck- on up,where they haply are not meer fpefta- tors, but abetters, ^s Cardan Writes: Like old men or Country Varfons that arepaft tFreJi^ iing^ pitching the Pat , or p!(^yi^g ^t Cudgeti
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thenifclveSjyet will alFift and abet the yoimg iiienof the paridiat thofe Excrcifcs. So th^ ^oulioivcitn departed, though they have put off, with the body, the capacity of ordinary funftions ofhumanelife; yetthcy may aflilt and abetthenij as purfuing fomedclignc in them '-i and that for evill or good^according as they were affefted themfelves^when they Vvere in the lody.
And whatfoeveris the cuftomc anddefire bf the Genius in this life 5 that fticks and ad- heres to her in that which is to come , and fhe will be fure, fotar as ftie is capable5either to aft it, or to be at leaft a fpeftatour and a- bettour oi fuch kinde of aftionsj and the better fort of Souls , who having left the bo- dyj are ipfofado made Genii inftcad of men ; that befides the peculiar hapineffe and bltjfe they reap thereby to themfelveSjthey are ap- pointed by God 3 and have a miiljon from him^ to be Overfeer of humane affaires: but that every Genius does not perform every Office, butas theirnatural inclination and culiomes were in this life, they exercife the like in fome manner in the other: And Tri- temim iheitfove will have ^fcuiapius to pra- ftife Phylick, and Be/en [s his Authourfwho. faycsj) herctiUs is to exercife ftrength ; TIuxq his Vhylofofhy^ Amfhilocm to Prophecy^ fyxha-
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gor as to it2ich the niiftcry of th^ Tetrad is ^ JE- fop to cell talcs, C^/f or and Pollux to Navigate,