Chapter in our Harmony of the World^ that this I fay

fliould be the very fubftance, whofe natural faculty is to move it felf, and by its motion 2ii\d nods^ to determi- nate the courfe of the Spirits into this or that part of the hody^ feems to me for more foolifh and fabulous^then the ftory of him that would prove, that men cannot change the winde as they pleafedi in the corner of a 'Banykferchief, or direft the ^irofperity of a Ship at Sea, which I have feen.
My Genius bids me conclude that the imprefs of Spantaneous motion , is neither from the Animal Spirits not from the Brain ; and therefore that thofc operati- ons that are ufually attributed unto the Soul, are really compatible to any part of the body : And therefore
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tBat the Soul is not a meer Modification oitht Body ^ ts I told you in T/^e Harmony of the World^ but a fub-^ fiance dijiinU therefrom.
' Now let us eiiquiie whether this fubftance diftlnft from what ordinarily we call the Body^ bealfoit ftlfa corpfirealfubftance^ or whether it be incorporeal; If yoU fay that it is a corporeal fuh^ance^ you can iinderftand no other then matter more fubtle and tenacibuSj therf the Animal Spirits thcnifelves mingled ' With cherA,- and difperfed through the veilels and porofitics of th^
Sody i for there can be no penetration of dimenfibnsi ut I mean not always to confute conceipts ; fo^what " I (aid of the Anlm.il Spirits before, is applicable with ail eafeandfitnefstothisprefenc cafe. I love not, iflcafl help it, to fpeak one thing twice.
I may conclude againft any oppofition, that that which i'Tiprefles fpo7itamQus >^/.9/z()/z upon the body , oi? more immediately upon the A?iimdl Spirits^ that whica imagines. Remembers and Reafons , is an (mmateriai fubftance diftinft from the body ; which ufes the Ani^ mal Spirits^ and the Brains for inftrii^ehts, in fuch and fucb operations : and thus you fin Je an Angel in a pro- jper notion and lignification^ that hath apparently theft faculties in it, it can both underftand and move corporeal matter, Now with eafe I can confider the fubftance df the vaft Heavais : for my Snu!^ as my good Angel tells me, is as it were a compendious Statue of the Veiiy ': So I may mth facility contemplate theNatureof the Almighty m this little Medal of God^thtSoul^ enlarging to infinity, what I obferve inmyfelf, when I tranP fer it unto God ; as I do imagine thofe circles, whicUl view on the Globe, to be vafter and bigger, while t fancy them as defcribed in the Heavens: andthas much of the fubftance of the Soul. This part touching the faculties of the Soul hath two appendices) one of
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thekis thekpowledge of Divination^ the other oi Fafci"' nation : The Divination natural is that I intend to fpeal^^ of, and it (pringethfrom the internal power of the Soul : This is of two fortSj the one Native^ the other by Influxion : Native is the ground upon this fuppofition, that the Mindc when it is withdrawn and colleftcd into it fclf, and not diffufed into theOrgans of the Bodyy hath from the natural power of its own Eilencej fome prenotioii of things future 5 and this appears mofl in fleep, as you read in the latter Chapter of the fecond Book, of extajies^ propinquity of death^ jnore rare in waking , or when the body is healthful and ftrong, ^mdthis ftateof the Mindeis cornxonly procured by abftinencies, and thofc obfervances which do moft of all retire the Minde unto it fclf, from the praftique functi- on of the Body^ that thus reclaimed from the incum- brances of exteriour engagements, it may pofle(s and lenjoy its ovvn Nature, But Divination by Inflexion is grounded upon another fuppofition, that the Mind e as a Mirour or Glafs (hould take a fecondary kind of Illw minatinn from the foreknowledge of God and Angels-, linto wfiich the fame ftate and regiment of the Bodj^ which was to the firfty doth like wife conduce : for the ^me fequeftration of the Minde-, caufeth it more fcvere- ly to emply its ov/n Efreiice5and makes it ir.ore fufceptive of Divine Infiuxions-, fave that the Soul in Aftromancy and Geomancy by Inflexion is rapt with a kind of fer- vency and impatiency, as it vyere of the Pei/^^whei ewith it ispofleft (which Sir Chriftopher Hgdon and other in- spired Chriftians noted by the name oifacredfury :)h\\% in native Arts, th€ Minde is enfranchised, and neerer 1^0 a repofe rather, and an immunity from labour.
Aftromancy and Geomancy ^re the power and in" tenfive A^ of the Iniagiriation upon the Body of the Jtnaginant. Now when I had more intcntively eonP*
dered