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Of Praétical Phyfick.
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Buc others there are that endeavour to free themfelves, and clear the controvertie, by faying, that individuals when they beginto
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NSE RR ee be under fome de€cerminate Conftellation, they chen receive a certain admirable facul- cy (of Operating, or of fuffering) over and belide that they have infpecial, or from the fpecies. Buc let this be granted; yet not- withftanding ic cannot be-daid, that the pre- cious ftone, or Metal, dothen begin to have their being when they have thefe Characters engravenupon then; for they were, and had their being before; and indeed cheir: fub- ftance was likewife individual;and according alfoto their own opinion, the Attral Spirit & virtue infinuateth it felf inco chat fubftance wherewith 1c hath aSympathy. Forthere is, towit, between natural fub{tances them- felvesacerrain occulc and fecrec familiarity and Sympathy; buc yet. no fuch thing be- cween Natural Subftances and Artificial Pi- gures.
Buc others are of this opinion, that the Fi- eure is not indeed the principle of operauong buc yet notwichftanding thacit conduceth ve- ry much unto the faid operation. Forthe
conception of a deformed Figure in the mindg | lof Man or Woman, we fee what fadnefs it
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a fair and delighcful Figure and reprefenratis on caufeth in their Minds and Counctenances. And by the Inftruments of Artificers, ac- cording cothe variety of the Figures, i1oare
the operations various; fome of them by the |
Saw, and{fome others of them by the Hat- chet or Axe.
But neither is there any ching of weight of | moment inthis that they alleadg. For ide- |
mand, what Beauty or Deformity chereis in thefe Imayes and Characters ? And where- as fair things delight the minde while they are feenandlookcupons how (I pray) can
thefe things delight the mind of aMan when |
they are carried and worn about him covered and feldom look’d upon? And what do thofe various Names, (and indeed ofrentimes fuch as are altogether unknown tous) confer and
add unto the fair and pleafant conception be- |
fore mentioned? And as forthe Inftruments
of Artificers, the Figure indeed maketh much }
unto the operations whicn are by a local mos | tion; but nothing at all uncothofe operati- |
ons chat are wrought by alrerations:; fori thefe the Figure doth nothing at all, neither can it: and precious Stones if they have any
natucal virtues at alinthem, they puc forth |
thefe their virtues under any Figure whatfo-
ever it be. the Fafper ftone, inthe place above alleadgedy
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‘Neither yet ave there any .other thac hi- therco have been able to bring any the leaft fhew of probabilicy for the virtues of chefe | Se Characters and Seals. And how indeed cngraven upon it; unto neither of which chis couldthey poffibly render any Reafons, and virtue can be afcribed:, for che matter is give us the caufes of {uch thei ablurdTenets3| from Nature, and hath in it no fuch virrttes - fe. Se and this they chemfélves fee a neceflity of only expel and drive away Difeafes; but that | confefling, . | fome of them wil likewife make a Man graci- And-here therefore for the proving of the ols unto al Men whatfoever and that others | elicacy of thefe Seals, they bectake chem- of them will procure for a man. knowledg, | felves to Amulets, and pretend chevircue of Wit, and Memory, others the favour of|them, Buc be icfoindeed, that all things Princes 5 others vidtoty im War, and Civil} whatfoever are wriccen couching thefe Amu- Gaules; others good fortune Cas they calit) | lets aré true, Cas moft cercain ix is thac in Hawking, Huating, bithing, and Mer-| very many of chem are3) yet what is all chig chandifing 5 and that others wil make friends | uncothefe Seals; in which if we confider che to ftand faithful unco them 3 others advance | Metals, Charadters, and che like, ic is with- out alldoubr, chat chofe things have in chem nofuch virtues. And Peony, the Hoof of the Beaft lx, and the like, do thew and puc and I know not what other |forcth cthofe virtues that they have, albeic things that chefe Seals are able toaccomplifh | there be no Characters atall engraven upon for him that wearech them? Rodolphus Gocle- | them: andthe like alfo Galen Cin the place nius (che younger) taketh here a great deal | before alleadged) cels us chat he himfelt had of pains, and troubleth himfelf exceedingly | by experience found to be true of the Jafper- {tone. he diftinguifheth between thefe Seals; and} “AndthenasthefeSeals have hot their vir- thofe whofe Authors are faidtobe Ragael,|tue from the matter; fo neither from the Chael, Terel, Hermes, Salomon, thete he | Characters, chac are from the Artificer 5 and rejecteth : buc there are orhers of them thac | cannot have any fuch virtues, either fromché he commendeth, to wit, thofe Seals thar | Artificer, or from themfelves. For why, thele Chataéters are from an Idea in che minde of the Arcificer, which doth not work any effect upon things external, And of themfelves they are nothing elfe buc Figuress But now thereisno power nor efficacy at all in Figures for che working any effect, in re= gard that they are nothing elfe but enly qualicies ofa quantity. For all vircue and power of acting is principally from fub- ftance; which by its qualities is efficacious and operative. Adtion is between Contraries | of che fame kinde, and fuch are not Natural and Artificial; among which are thefe Cha- racters. }upon things Natural, nor alter or affect them
effects cannot proceed from any Natural Caufe. For, two things chere are in thof Seals, the matcer it felf, and the Chatatters
ments ; andthat there are fome of thefe Seals
fluence of thefe Scars, and from the Con- Hexion and Continuation of the Narcural Caufes; without any impiety, or Superfti- tionatal. But now whacthis Connexion of the Natural Caufes is, and in what manner
from Heaven; thefe things heno where rel- Jethuss; neither doth he fufficrently explain
things are very clear, and fufliciently mani- fefted by Experiments. But the very fame may be faid by Chacl, Ragael, and the rett
| of the’ Magitians, in che behalf and forthe | asthey arefuch: buc they Act and work up=
Juttifying of their Seals alfo. Andwho is | on thenvas they have a Nacuralmatter. And there that now adaies knoweth nor, chateven |fo 04 the contrary, things Natural do noc by fiich likeSeals very many have been made | Act upon Artificial things (by altering or af= inviolable, and not to be hurt by any Wea-| fecting them )as fuch, but as they confift of a pois? And therefore the Queftion is not) Natural matter. And therefore Images or here, whatmay be done; but the Queftion) Names engraven upon matter can, of them- is only from what agent thefe things are) felves perform nothing; and the matter if ic performed; and whether by a Natural| beac allaffected by the Heavens, is equally Caufe; or by the affiftance of che Evil) and as much affected if it hath noc any Image or Figure at all engraven upon it : and
But now unto any onethat fhal accurately | as for Characters, Fipures, and Words, en= and exactly and without any prejudice| graven upon the mater, they have in chem weigh and confider the whole bulinefs, ic wil) no peculiar virtue of receiving the Influen- very eafily appear, chat thefe vercues and’ ces of the seer ae neither can ; ih 2
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