Book II,

Handing therefore puts on this fame image of its objedi 3 and becaufe the foul is the pure fimple form of the body, which turns itfelf about to every member, therefore the adting underfianding cannot have two images at once, but firH one and then the other. He, who is wholly the life, created all things and hath faid, nothing is to be expedted as dead out of his hand. Likewife no- thing can come to our view wherein himfelf is not clearly apparent or prefent 3 for it is faid, “ the fpirit of the Lord hath filled the whole globe of the earth and, again, “ that he containeth or comprehended! all things,” there- fore there is nothing in being, no creature but what pofiefies a certain degree of divine fire and life, yet lying dormant or unexcited, till ftirred up by the art, power, and operation of man.
CHAP. IX.
OF THE EXCITING OR STIRRING UP THE MAGICAL VIRTUE.
EVERY magical virtue therefore Hands in need of an excitement, by which a certain fpiritual vapour is Hirred up, by reafon whereof the phantafy which profoundly fleeps is awakened, and there begins an adtion of the corporeal fpirit, as a medium, which is that of Magnetifm, and is excited by a fore- going touch.
There is a magical virtue, being as it were abflradted from the body, which is wrought by the flirring up of the power of the foul, from whence there are made moH potent procreations, and moH famous impreflions, and Hrong effedts, fo that nature is on every fide a magiciannefs, and adts by her own phan- tafy 3 and by how much the more fpiritual her phantafy is, fo much the more powerful it is, therefore the denomination of magic is truly proportionable or concordant.
Now