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the balfamic virtue of it, defires the quality induced into it, to be beftowed on itfelf throughout, and from thence by a lpiritual magnetifm to draw out all the ftrange tindture of the wound, which, feeing it cannot fitly enough effedt by it- felf, it implores the aid of the mofs> blood , fat , and mummy , which are conjoined together into fuch a balfams which not but by its own phantafy becomes alfo medicinal, magnetical, and. is alfo a tradtor of all the ftrange qualities out of the body, whofe frefh blood, abounding with fpirit, is carried unto it, whether it fhall be that of a. man or any other living creature. The phantafy therefore is a returner, or reducible and ecflatical, from part of the blood that is frefh and newly brought unto the unguent ; but the magnetic attradlion began in the blood is perfedted by the medicinal virtue of the unguent; not that the unguent draws the infirmity of the wound unto itfelf, but it alters the blood newly brought unto it, in its fpirit, and makes it medicinal, and ftirs up the power thereof: from thence it contradts a certain medicinal virtue, which returns unto its whole body to corredt the fpirit of the blood throughout the whole man. Now, to manifeft a great myftery , viz. tofhew that in man there is placed a great efficacy whereby he may be able only by his beck, (as we before men- tioned) nod or phantafy, to adt out of himfelf, and to imprint a virtue, a certain influence which afterwards perfeveres, or constantly fubftfts by itfelf, and adts upon objedts at a very great diftance ; by which only myftery, thofe things which we have fpoken (relative to ideal entity conveyed in a fpiritual fewel, and departing far from home to execute its offices, concerning the magnetifm of all things begotten in the imagination of man, as in that which is proper to every thing, and alfo concerning the magical fuperiority of men over all other bodies,) will plainly and confpicuoufly appear.
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