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that is Angels ^into the Sfhere of the Sun^ giving bright- nefs and light, to it, and produceth then Metals, chiefly Gold':, his Intelligencer is KaphaeL Read Thf Harmony of the fVorld,
Now for to receive this from the Operation of the Sttn^ they made an Image in the hour of the Sun , Leo then Afcending^ and the Sun in it : The Figure was a King crorvnedy fitting rn a Qhair^ having a Raven on hii hand, and (landing upon a Globe : which Figure at the lUme time in molten Gold muft be caft ; and then the virtue is brought down by Venhiel the Sfirit^ t^tinr flantly will reft upon it.
This Spirit is ftrong, fiiir coloured, like a temperate and well proportioned Mjw, cholerick^^ having a voice barren. By this Sprit young tohy fpake to Kaphad ; and it aided him to fetch his Fathers Cold^ and alfo bound the evil Spirit Afmodeus : Verchiel before ruled Jfaac. This Spirit cureth all difeafes of the Hearty Sto* mack^y Back^y Sides y Brefisy Kibsy Feavers of bleody Ar l>oftbumes , Peflilent FeverSy the Jaundtfey FluxeSy tht Falling-fickpefs : He maketh a Man bold, invincible, and honourable : he difcovers all Thefts, and helps the right owner to their goods ac^ain : he (heweth the caufe of Wifdomeand Folly: he teacheth admirable things: he fheweth the cijufe of Bcafts and Man, Profhets and Stars: he difcovers the fecret working of the Mole, and other wonderful things.
, Firft, he (heweth the caufe of Folly and Wifdomty and wherefore Frophets are faid to be wifcr then Men, and their Spirits wifer then they, and the Stars moft wife of all ; for the odds in degrees, in the heat, drought and clearnefs of their bodies; but the Spirit of ^^^ cury is far more excellent at this, then he> I (hall there- fore let him alone, and not queftion further of this mat- ter.
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-^Ohelyl (hall accept of the knowle 6( Wtfdome >y that we may the better underftand how iO ciire' and clear the Idiots Body ^ m many kinds of foolifhnefs, as in childhood^ drunJ^nnefsy Jleep and dotirig difiajej 5 which he fays Nature her felf is able to difperfe in her due time ^nd fcafon ; and will fcowre out the foul ^^iSgygrofs humours, which overwhelm the Sprits^ and made them imdean and quietjor at leaft in the doting difiafkf (he may be holpen eafily, and enabled by little Bkj'li to do it 5 that we may judge, if great and ftrong «nd mighty mea«s of Art chanced once tojoynwith 'Nature y the ranked of all, and deepeft rooted (that is) natural folly it felf, may be rooted out and difpat- ched.
But you may reply as foTie do, that the reft which g oQtfrom outward light, and hang by caures,may Kc cik-ed; when this being fo rooted by nature, and the firft mixtute of the feed, before anyone of us de- -fcend and incorporates with it, it is a mixture as ill as any beaftly mixture 5 nor can it be amended by the Creature it felf, but by us j unlefs man will take up- on him to put a Beafi into Manlike Nature^ andrui^ back to the degrees of kind allotted, and bounded out above by us ; whereby you ipay fee^if youconfider well, that a Beaftftanding in a lower fteep kind of mixture, and can in no cafe be bettered and m.ade man, unle(s that his temper be fpoyled firft , and thei^ made anew ; and fo his life being deftroyed, and his body amended^ you raife a degree fortunate, and arreft a good Ge7iins^ and put it upon him. Read our Harmony of the World.
In making a fool wife, there is no fuch difficulty : for his Spirit^ though it be ec/i//e tarihly hody^ is pure and wife, and in refpeft of his tem- per^ a degree ^bove a Beaft, becaufe of his divine Mind " within