Part I.

MAGNATISM.
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which defires another cherry, let her but touch her forehead or any other place with her finger ; without doubt, the young is figned in its forehead with the image of the cherry, which afterwards doth every year wax green, white, yellow, and at length looks red, according to the tenor of the trees : and it much more wonderfully exprefles the fame fucceflive alteration of maturities in Spain than in Germany : and fo hereby an allion at a diftance is not only confirmed, but alfo a conformity or agreement of the eflences of the cherry tree, in its wood- en and flefhly trunk ; a confanguinity or near affinity of a being imprefled upon the part by an inftantaneous imagination, and by a fucceffive courfe of the years of its kernel; furelythe more learned ought riot to imputejthofe things unto evil fpirits, which, through their own weaknefs, they are ignorant of ; for thefe things do on all fides occur in nature, the which, through our flendernefs, we are not able to unfold ; for to refer whatfoever gifts of God are in nature (be- caufe our dull capacity does not comprehend the fame rightly) to the devil, fhews both ignorance and raffinefs, efpecially when, as all demonftration of caufes from a former thing or caufe is baniffied from us, and efpecially from Ariftotle, who was ignorant of all nature, and deprived of the good gifts which defcends from the Father of Lights; unto whom be all honour and glory.
Note. We may, by the aforefaid chapter, fee the wonderful working power of the attractive or univerfal fpirit, which can by no other means be fo clearly de- monstrated as by the fympathies in natural things, which are inherent through- out all nature ; and, upon this principle of fympathy and antipathy, we fay is founded that fpiritual power which tends to things and objects remote one from the other, i. e. a magnetic attraction, which does actually exift, as we Shall clearly prove by experiment, where we fully (hew the aCtion and paffion that is between natural fpirits, by which means wonderful effeCts are produced, which have ignorantly been attributed to divers fuperftitions, as Sorcery, In - chant ment , Nigromancy, or the Black Art , &c.
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MAGNETISM.