Book II.

vens ; farther, fome are oriental, fome occidental, fome meridional, fome feptentrional. Moreover, there is no part of the world deflitute of the pro- per abidance of thefe angels, not becaufe they are alone, but becaufe they reign there efpecially j for they are every where, although fome efpe- cially operate, and have their influence in this place, fome elfewhere ; neither truly are thefe things to be underflood as though they were fub- jecft to the influence of the ftars, but as they have correfpondence with the heaven above the world, from whence efpecially all things are diredted, and to which all things ought to be conformable ; whence, as thefe angels are appointed for diverfe ftars, fo alfo for diverfe places and times ; not that they are limited to any place or time, neither by the bodies which they are- appointed to govern, but becaufe the Divine Wifdom hath fo decreed ; there- fore they favour more, and patronize thofe bodies, places, times, ftars : fo they have called fome diurnal, fome nodturnal, others meridional. In like manner fome are called woodmen, fome mountaineers, fome fleldmen, fome domeftics : hence the gods of the woods, country gods, fatyrs, familiars,, fairies of the fountains, fairies of the woods, nymphs of the fea, the Naiades, Nereides, Dryades, Pierides, Hamadryades, Patumides, Hinnides Agapte, Pales, Parcades, Dodon®, Fanila?, Levernae, Parcae, Mufes, Aonides, Cafta- lides, Heliconides, Pegaiides, Meonides, Phebiades, Camenae, the graces, the genii, hobgobblins, and fuch like ; whence the vulgar call them fape- riors, fome the demi-gods and godefles : fome of thefe are fo familiar and ac- quainted with men, that they are even affedted with human perturbations ; by whofe inftrudlions Plato thinks that men do oftentimes wonderful things, even as by the inflrudtion of men fome beafls which are moft nigh to us, apes, dogs, elephants, do often ftrange things above their fpecies ; and they who have written the chronicles of the Danes and Norwegians, do teftify that fpirits of feveral kinds in thofe regions are fubjedt to men’s commands moreover, fome of thefe appear corporeal and mortal, whofe bodies are be- gotten and die ; yet to be long-lived is the opinion of the Egyptians and Pla- tonifts, and efpecially approved by Proclus, Plutarch alfo, and Demetrius the philofopher, and iEmilianus the rhetorician, affirm the fame ; therefore of
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