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MAGNETISM,
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CHAP. X.
OF THE MAGICAL VIRTUE OF THE SOUL, AND THE MEDIUMS BY WHICH IT ACTS.
SOMETHING more we will add, before we difmifs the prefent fubjeil, which is that if a nail, dart, knife, or fword, or any other iron inflrument be thrufl into the heart of a horfe, it will bind and withhold the fpirit of a witch, and conjoin It with the mummial fpirit of the horfe, whereby they may be burnt in the fire together, and by that the witch is tormented, as by a fling or burning, by which means file may be known fo that fhe who is offenfive to God, and deflruilive to mortal men, may be taken away from fociety according to the law of God limited to any outward object, that work the magical foul never attempts with- out a medium or mean : therefore it makes ufe of the nail, or fword, or knife, or any other thing as aforefaid.
Now this being proved, that man hath a power of ailing, per nutum, or by his nod, or of moving any objeit remotely placed ; it has alfo been fufficiently con- firmed by the fame natural example, that this efficacy was alfo given unto man by God.
And as every magical faculty lies dormant, and has need of excitement, or ftirring up ; which is always true, if the objeit whereon it is to ail is not nearly difpofed, if its internal phantafy doth not wholly confirm to the im- preffion of the agent, or alfo if the patient be equal' in ftrength, or fuperior to the agent therein.-
But on the contrary, where the objeit is plainly and nearly difpofed, as fliel is, for the receiving of magnetifm, then the patient without much ftir- ring up, the alone phantafy of the more outward man being drawn out to the work and bound up to any fuitable mean, yields to the magnetifm.
Therefore we repeat, the magician mufl always make ufe of a medium ; for then the words or forms of facraments do always operate, becaufe from
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MAGNETISM.