Part I.

MAGNETISM- 25
Now the higheft fort of magic is that which is ftirred up from an intellectual conception, and indeed that of the inward man is only to be excited by the Holy Spirit, and by his gift the Cabala ; but that of the external man is ftirred up by a ftrong imagination, by a daily and heightened fpeculation, and, in witches, by the devil.
But the magical virtue of the exhaled fpiritual vapour, or fubtil fpirits fent from the body, which before lay in potentia , or by way of poflibility only, is ei- ther excited by a more ftrong imagination, the magician making ufe of the blood as a medium, and eftablifhing his kindled entity thereon, or by the amend- ing phantafy of the weapon falve, the exciterefs of the property lying in the blood ; el fe by a foregoing appointment or difpofition of the blood unto corrup- tion, viz. whereby the elements are difpofed unto a feparation, and the effences (which cannot putrify) and the eflential phantafies, which lay hid in the pro- perties come forth into acftion.
The phantafy therefore, of any fubjecft whatfoever has obtained a ftrong appe- tite to the fpirit of another thing, for the moving of fome certain thing in place, for the attracting, repelling, or expulfton thereof; and there and not elfewhere we acknowledge magnetifm as the natural magical endowment of that thing firmly planted in it by God.
There is therefore a certain formal property feparated from fympathetical and abftrufe qualities ; becaufe the motive phantafy of thefe qualities do not directly fly unto a local motion, but only to an alterative motion of the object. Now it is fufficient that (if a man happens to receive many wounds in his body) blood be had only from one of thefe wounds, and from this one the reft are cured alfo, becaufe that blood keeps a concordant harmony with the fpirit of the whole, and draws forth from the fame the offenfive quality communicated, not only to the lips of the wound, but to the whole man, for from one wound only the whole man is liable to grow feverifti.
Therefore the outchafed blood being received on the weapon is introduced into-the magnetic unguent.
For then the phantafy of the blood, being otherwife as yet drowfy and flow to acftion, being ftirred up by the virtue of the magnetic unguent, and there finding