Part I.

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by reafon of an intenfe, or heightend imagination, is, without doubt. Martin del Ris, an elder of the fociety of Jefus, in his Magical Difquilitions or Enqui- ries, makes mention of a certain young man in the city Infulis, that was tranf- ported with fo violent a delire of feeing his mother, that through the fame intenfe delire, as if being rapt up by an ecftafy, he faw her perfectly, although many miles abfent from thence ; and, returning again to himfelf, being mind- ful of ali that he had feen, gave many true ligns of his true prefence with his mother.
Now that defire arofe from the more outward man, viz. from blood and fenfe, or llelh, is certain ; for, otherwile, the foul being once diflodged, or loof- ened from the bonds of the body, cannot, except by miracle, be reunited to it ; there is therefore in the blood a certain ecllatical or tranfporting power, which, if at any time lhall be excited or ftirred up by an ardent delire and mod; lirong imagination, it is able to conduit the fpirit of the more outward man even to fome abfent and far dillant objeit, but then that power lies hid in the more outward man, as it were, in potential or by way of polfibility; neither is it brought into ait, unlefs it be roufed- up by the imagination, inflamed ancL agi-- tated by a molt fervent and violent delire
CHAP V.
• F TUB IMAGINATIVE POWER AND THE MAGNETISM OF THE NATURAL SPIRITS, MUMMIAJ. ATTRACTION, SYMPATHIES OF ASTRAL SPIRITS, WITH THEIR BODIES, UPON WHICH THE WHOLE ART. OF NECROMANCY IS FOUNDED..
MOREOVER, when as the blood is after fome fort corrupted, then indeed1 vall the powers thereof which, without a foregoing excitation of the imagination, , were before in poflibility, are of their own accord, drawn forth into aition ; for, , through corruption of the grain, the feminal virtue, , otherwife d^owfy, and barren, breaks forth into ait ; becaufe, .that feeing the eflences of things, and
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MAGNETISM.