Book II.

the work performed. But the reafon why exorcifms, conjurations, charms, incantations, &c. do fometimes fail of their defired efFedl, is becaufe the un- excited mind, or fpirit of the exorcift, renders the words dull or inef- fectual.
Therefore no man can be a happy or fuccefsful magician, but him who knows how to ftir up the magical virtue of his foul, or can do it practically without fcience.
And there can be no nearer medium of magnetifm, than human blood with human blood.
And no fympathetic remedies, magnetical or attractive, but from the idea or phantafy of the operator impreffing upon it a virtue and efficacy from the excited power in his own foul.
And now to bring our Magnetic Treatife to a total conclufion, we have to fay, that whoever, through ignorance or obftinacy, will fay there is no validity or reafon, or reality in the fcience of magnetifm, proves himfelf unworthy the facred name of philofopher, becaufe he condemns what he knows nothing at all about.
For thofe who will give themfelves the leifure to examine the truth of thofe things which we have taught, will not find their expectation deceived, therefore will not condemn.
But whoever fhould be fo fuperftitious as to attribute a natural effeCt fo created by God, and beftowed on the creature, unto the power and craft of the devil, he filches the honour due to the Omnipotent Creator, and re- proachfully applies the fame unto Satan ; the which (under favour) will be found to be exprefs idolatry and blafphemy.
“ There are three” (as fays the Scripture) “ who bear record in heaven; the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit ; and thefe three are only one.”
There are three that bear record on earth ; the bloody the. fpirit, and the water ; and thefe three are only one.
We therefore, who have the like humanity, contain blood and fpirit of a co-like unity ; and the aCtion of the blood is merely fpiritual. Therefore, in
Genefs,