Book II.

mud life a louder voice } but, if near, he whifpers in my ear, as if he fhould be coupled to the hearer, without any noife, as an image in the eye or glafs. So fouls going out of the body, lb angels, fo demons fpeak ; and what man does with a fenfible voice, they do by impreffing the conception of the fpeech in thofe to whom they fpeak after a better manner than if they fhould exprefs it in an audible voice. So the Platonift fays, that Socrates perceived his demon by fenfe, indeed, but not of this body, but by the fenfe of the etherial body con- cealed in this } after which manner Avicen believes the angels were wont to be feen and heard by the prophets. That inllrument, whatfoever the virtue be, by which one fpirit makes known to another fpirit what things are in his mind, is called by the apoftle Paul , the tongue of angels. Yet oftentimes they fend forth an audible voice, as they that cried at the afcenlion of the Lord, Ye men of Galilee, why Hand ye here gazing unto th x heaven ? And in the old law they fpake with divers of the fathers with a fenfible voice } but this never but when they alfumed bodies. But with what fenfes thefe fpirits and demons hear our invocations and prayers, and fee our ceremonies, we are altogether ignorant.
For there is a fpiritual body of demons every where fenfible by nature, fo that it touches, fees, hears without any medium, and nothing can be an impediment to it ; yet they do not perceive after the fame manner as we do, with different organs, but haply as fponges drink in water, fo do they all fenlible things with their body or feme other way unknown to us; neither are all animals en- dowed with thofe organs, for we know that many want ears, yet we know they perceive a found, but after what manner we know not.
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