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CHAP. IV.
OF THE ARMARY UNGUENT, OR WEAPON SAEVE, &C.
THE principal ingredient in this confection, is the mofs of a dead man’s (hull, which Van Helmont calls the excrefcencies or fuperAuities of the ftars. Now the mofs growing on the Ikull of a dead man, feeing it has re- ceived its feed from the heavens, but its increafe from the mummial marrow of the Ikull of man, or tower of the microcofm, has obtained excellent aftral and magnetic powers beyond the common condition of vegetables, although herbs, as they are herbs, want not their own magnetifm.
Now, the magnetifm of this unguent draws out that Arrange difpofition from the wound (which otherwife, by a difunion of the parts that held together, and by which, I fay, Arrange difpoAtion and foreign quality is produced) from whence it Aips, not being overburdened or oppreAed by any accident, fuddenly grow together ; and this is effected by the armary unguent, or weapon falve. From this it appears that the unguent, or weapon falve, its property is to heal fuddenly and perfectly without pain, coArs, peril, or lofs of Arrength ; hence it is manifeAr that the magnetical virtue is from God.
It is now feafonable to difcover the immediate caufe of magnetifm in the unguent.
FirAr of all, by the confent of tnyftical divines, we divide man into the ex- ternal and internal man, aAigning to both the powers of a certain mind, or intelligence : for fo there doth a will belong to fleAi and blood, which may not be either the will of man or the will of God and the heavenly Father alfo re- veals fome things unto the more inward man, and fome things flefh and blood reveals, that is, the outward and fenfitive, or animal man. For, how could the fervice of idols, envy, &c. be rightly numbered among the works of the flefta3 feeing they confift only in the imagination, if the AeAr had not alfo its own imagination and elective will ?
Furthermore, that there are miraculous ecftafies belonging to the more in- ward man, is beyond difpute. That there are alfo ecftafies in the animal man,
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