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rejed: the magnetifm of the blood, as accounting it among the ridiculous works of Satan.
This I will fay more, to wit, that thofe who walk in their deep, do, by no other guide than the fpirit of the blood, that is, of the outward man, walk up and down, perform bufinefs, climb walls, and manage things that are otherwife impoffible to thofe that are awake. I fay, by a magical virtue, natural to the more outward man ; that Saint Ambrofe, although he was for diftant in his body, yet was vilibly prefent at the funeral folemnities of Saint Martin •, yet was he fpiritually prefent at thofe folemnities, in the viiible fpirit of the external man, and no otherwife : for, inafmuch as in that ec- flafy which is of the more internal man, many of the faints have feen many and abfent things. This is done without time and place, through the fupe- rior powers of the foul being collected in unity, and by an intellectual vifion, but not by a vifible prefence ; otherwife the foul is not feparated from the body, but in good earned:, or for altogether neither is it re-conneCted there- unto, which re-connexion, notwithftanding, is otherwife natural or familiar to the fpirit of the more outward man.
It is not fufficient in fo great a paradox, to have once, or by one fingle reafon, touched at the matter 3 it is to be further propagated, and wre mud: ex- plain how a magnetical attraction happens alfo between inanimate things, by a certain perceivance or feeling 3 not indeed animal or fendtive, but natural.
Which thing, that it may be the more ferioudy done, it behoves us firfl to fliew what Satan can, of his own power, contribute to, and after what man- ner he can co-operate in the merely wicked and impious addons of witches : for, from thence it will appear unto what caufe every effeCt may be attri- buted.
In the next place, what that fpiritual power may be which tends to a far remote objeCt 3 or what may be the addon, padion, and Ikirmidiing between natural fpirits, or what may be the fuperiority of man as to other inferior crea- tures 3 and, by confequence, why indeed our unguent, being compounded of human mummies, do thoroughly cure horfes alfo. W e will explain the matter in the following chapter.