Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Research Library, The Getty Research Institute http://www.archive.org/details/ternaryofparadoxOOhelm TERNARY PARADOXES C Magnetick Cure of Wounds. ThesNativity of Tartar in Wine. Clmage of God in Man. Written originally byJob.'Bapt.VanHelmont, and Tranflated, Illuftrated, and Ampliated BY WALTER CHA%LETO^ Do&or in Phyfick, and Phyfician to the late King. SnfbeEia apudplures hujufmodi Sanationis Facilitate atqttece- leritas permanent adhuc dndnm ; vulgienim labile &ctiofum in- genium, in arduis ac infolitis, ad judicia ejufdem femper tenoris promptum^ ob facilitatem, ideocjue flaccidttmefi. Diabolic* enim fratidi tantam reftitutionum benignitatem libentius confecratfiudm Divin* bomtati, human* natttrt conditori, Amatori, Salvatori, pauper umq ft e patri. Kutler. LONDON , Printed by fames Flejher for William Lee, dwellingin FUetftreer, at the fign of the Turks head. i6$o. To the truly Noble, by the right of Blood,Vhtue and Learning, WILLIAM Vifcount Brouucker of Lyons, Baron Brouncker of Newcaftle, &c. My very good Lord, Mong other Difparagements of this life, collected andfumdupin my frequent retirements and con- centrations of my Minde , my Thoughts have j mo e then once, glanced on the exceeding vanity of that Heroick difeaje, incident to the heft tempered Souls, the infatiate Appetite of pofthume Glory. J.nd though Imuft not but confejs, this originary FeaVer ele- mented in the innate Ardor and Scintillations of thofe Sparks of Divinity, Tbhich now lie raked up in the Mafs or Chaos, of our eclipfed Nature -, and that by the light of thefefecret Flajhes, may be difcovered the Im- mortality of that Semideity, or noble Effence, for a while immured in walls of Clay : yet when I make re* fleftions on the unconcemment , and happy infenfility of the Soul, once fled home, to an indijfoluble Union with J x the The Epiftlc Dedicatory. */* Soul of Beatitude j 04 to the trifling affairs oft fwarm of Mortals y here below, and that all fylatw to tfo Vtftble and perifrahle WM^ an loft m utter c ■ livion, at the vnftant of for Tranfitioji to tfo inYifib ) intellecTnal) anivmmteri.i: IcaMnotbntfmieatv Dehifion of this Ambition, ofhivntgottr Memori : furvive our Afhes , and lifting our Names in t Legend of Fame , by the ingraVemcnts of memoran and ivor thy Anions y asfeemmg to be no more • -tfoy provident Fraud of impaired Nature, vrfxreby mn is fondfomly deluded into the attempting Atlions off*\> difficulty or danger } as if preftnted without thej}c ows difguife of Honor , mufl appear abfolutdyi- /hutliVe,at leaft to the Tranquillity andjober Frm • on of owfelves, if not alfo to our Conformity unto tit CatMique Maxime , deeply imp/ejfed upon the radii Principles of our Ejfence, Philautie or Self-confcn • | tion. For what individual KjWfrledg can we haVi j CxQlx ? Or what intelligence can fo hold with tfof tits of thofe y whofacrifla tfo moft of Feneration to * Mcmo>y ? Or did the inctnft of humane Honor afcu fo Ugh, 4& to approach tfo Manfion of tfo Souls of l-\ roes, deVefted of Mortality • which can no more beg, a • eJtfon thatamanon ourHemifpbae 1 jfo>tild befenfik of tfo wagging of a ft raw tn the Antipodes : yet w i could tfo A«xfi of that Nothing contribute tot: The Epiftlc Dedicatory, fate of Bleffednef } wlwfe mcafarc is immenfity, therein to imagine either Dcfeft, Satiety,or Mutati- -on, would be a Conceit favoring too much of Senfualtty, ,and of bloody advantage totbeabfurd Metaphyfickjs of ydx Alcoran * And bow much more noble a plea, to the )xnmyT)uJlJhaIlbeoffenfive: fohath it wrought my refolutions to that Stoical temper, that Mobile I fix one f eye o/Reafbn on that domeftick Security, and internal * Serenity , which nece/farily redounds from thefeVere ' prafilice ofGoodnefi, in this life ; and the other of Faith on that infinite Compilation i ordained to reward our pious endevours, in the next : I can comfortably ac~ epdefee inthefecret difcharge of my duty to God and the World , at leafl in thefincerity of intention : and ? though I Jhould arrive at fuch unexpe tied Felicity, as 1 to The Epiftlc Dedicatory. to be an in/hument, or acceffory, either in the difewy fome Magnale in fyioiVlcdg, or in the Contribution fame Benefit, conduclive to the repair of the Comm breaches oj Humanity • yet I dare confidently hope. I fhould have no ear open to the invafion of PopuU EugeSj nor admit any dream of happinef \ intheefi mation offucceeding Ages. lS[ow, though the too acute Severity of fome, ma herebefurntfbed with latitude enough, either to char g this my Theory of Averfation fromPraife, on m king confeious of fuch Fragility, Lapfes and Impe r te&ions of my 1* en, at ?night conclude , that the bej part of my Judgment lies in the politick Conceal ment of my Name 5 or deny me qualified ivith akli\ ties.of reducing it into 'Tratlice : yet lhaVe thisQom- fort left to take SanSiuary in , that I may (without ingaging your Lordflnp , into the Tatronage of afalf hood) appeal unto your judicious integrity, for deter- mination, whether my Scepticicy, even in fuch 7>{oti' mis, 04 my felf bath, to the mofl precife,. anatomical -■ n9Uf iPU fabdhijkntf each fubjeU, and abflrafted perpenfion vmnum, de of each minute particle thereof {not much below the genii'* accurate Method , invented by the Stoicks *, and late- *Jffi*M* b revived into ufe by the mofl ingenious Mons. Des tbodo vermis (Partes *) examined and tranfmitted to the World, veftigand*, p. forjndubitate . and irrefragable Truths ; be not evidence* fhm n The Epiftle Dedicatory. jf, ong enough to make good y that I prefer the mmu fjlattm of any one fengle Verity , to all other finifler interejls, in this Vale of Error, and therefore jhould embrace and jftmiiite the decifive Contraction of tiper heads , with joy tquall to that of benighted Ma* • jriners , at the eruption of their faithful! hof confrVhi^ influence ,and vigorous wamth, are fo neceffary to the Vitality and Gro'ilthofmyStti ■ IV I -ocas now, intixsclccfron^ I baVe adven- tured cnely to bear up agahft theimpctimit, torrent of i fn m The 'Other ArtraliiVe y the too early Dif- f,hon of ti 'tie jhie'L and the immature admittance fubordinate) transmitted to a Community, beyond the power of Re- vocation. Tl?us much 1 was concerned to /peak , as to the Precaution of Scandal, deduclive out of my Apo- fiafie, from my Solution of Self- conceal ment ? and the publick ayowance of my f elf for tl?e Father : It remains onely, ■ th,it I cnde'Vour a spallation of this boldhpfeof my judgment, infloopingyour Lordjlnpto jo low aPatrpmge, {ar- cijjus, intofuch a fond dotage of Partiality , as to ex- fcSi a better Fortune J)?ould belong to the lines , copied by my untquaUTencil , then what I have obferVed to have accrewed to others upon more laudable Tranfcrip- tions. This I would not have rafhly extended by any y to an imputation of occult 'Bhjphemy, againfl theVe- nerable i Majefiy of our Mother Tongue,- out of which ^l am ready to affert, may be [fun as fine and The Epiftle Dedicatory. fit a garment , for the moft fpruce Conceptions of the MincWo appeare in publick in, as out of any other in the World: efpecially , fmcethe Carmina- tion or refnemeyit of it y by the skill and fweat of thofe two Heroicall Wits , the LordSt.Alban,andthe now flouriJ}?ingDr. Browne 5 out of whofe incomparable Writings may befelected a Volume of fuch full and fignificant Exprefsions., as if uprightly fathomed by theutmoji Extent ofthefublimeji Thought, may well ferVe to ftagger that Tartiall Axiome of fome Schoolmen, that the Latin is the moft lympho- niacall and Concordant Language of the Rati- onal! Soul e. Thefe Diminutions as well of the Epidcmick cufiome of Dedications , as of Tranflations in generally and of my owne in particular ', I have prn,make up that body of Knowledg, called Experience. All which Pilots mutually confpire to ftcer our Mindes,pcr- pendicularly toward our fatisfacfion of the main end of our Creation: the reverential and fiduciary Contem- plation of the MercyJVifdem, and Bounty of the Supream Effence. But fo deeply immcrfed in Senfuality, are all the wretched Sons of Ad Atn , that few can afcend fo many degrees toward the height of their primitive Ca- pacity, as with equal and conftant paces to purfue the guidance of thefe genial Impreftons. For if fome may ufurp the licenfe of Conccflion, that the habit of Cog- nition by Faith doth fmoothly refult from the Idea's of religious Notions, either infenfibly inftilled into our in- fancy, and natufallized by cuftom ., or cnthufiaftically acquired, that is by the infufion of Light Supernatural, without much labor and difficulty precedent : yet none' that ever felt the weight of Ignorance,, and endevoured to toggle from the oppreflionof it, through the An- xieties of ftudy, will adventure on an aflertion of fuch- tementy, as that the fatisfe&ory and certain Compre- henfion of moft Natural objetfs, is eafieand familiar to our Reafon. Since the fubtrleft fpeculation will evift, that every the fmalleft piece of the Hexameron Fabrick,- carricth in the narrow round of its fingle Ens, Abftrufi- ty fufficient to empuzle the fcrutiny of the moft daring and Eagle-eyed Philofophy. And if Truth be the moft defiderablc Good, and yet the- (p^OLEGOMEl^J. the moft difficult to obtain •, as on the one fide, I have reafon to applaud my vow , of unravelling my (horc thread of life, in the conftant and eager fearch of this in- estimable treafure ; fo have I alfo opportunity to hope, from all heads of Candor and Difcretion, to receive a Charitable Confideration and Forgivenefs of my frail miftakes and deviations, on the other •, efpecially in my attempts of exploring the Caufes, and manner of fome operations of Nature, vvhofe occult Efficiencies feem rather propofed to exercife, and perplex, then fatisfic our defires of Comprehension, Among which knotty pieces every intelligent man will readily account the Theory of Magnetifm, or more plainly, the fecret power of Natural Actives, working on analogous and determi- nate Paffives,by invifible Emanations, or an Influential E*trg1 jtranfmwxve to remote diftance •, and more par* ticularly, the Argument of Helmont, in this difcourfe. Concerning which fubject, I ihall, in fome part, recede from my firft intentions of Neutrality, to conform to the incitements , and pacifie the importunity of fome Friends, in the concife and extemporary delivery of my own Conceptions: though I ftand fully convinced, as well of the vaft difparity 'twixt the nerves of my Wir, and the confiderable gravity of this Theme 5 as of the impendent danger of various an fures , arifing from the irreconcileable difcord of opinion in fome, and the ran- cor or livid Prevarication of others, to both which Hy- draes, I muft become expofed. £ Having premifed this preparatory Apology : I ihall henceforward chain my extravagant Pen, to thefole indagationof this admirable (though fecret, and there- fore vulgarly defpifed) Verity -, and allow it no wider range then what the modeft rules of a Preface will ad- b r «% mit. PROLEGOMENA mit. Wherefore I come diredly to the examination of the Hoti, or matter of Fatt. That Wounds have been frequently cured with more expedition, and lefs torment, then ufually follow upon the ufe and daily renovation of Topical ^itineraries -by the Confermentation of the Mumj^ the blood efflux ed, and M retaining to Vitality, with the B*lUmicd Faculty of the Magnetical remedies': I mutt firmly be- lecve, until my Scepticity may be allowed to be fo up folcnt, as to affront the evidence of my own fenfe and quefhon the verity of fome Relations, whofe Authors are perfons of fuch confefTed integrity, that their finolc Attentions oblige my faith, equal with the ftron° e ft demonftration. Among many other Experiments mnAo by myfelf, I (hall fekl and relate oncly ^on< ^ anff moft ample and pertinent. Upon an ardent difpute, with aDodtor ofThrn logy, reverend for his Piety and Learning, concerning the Legmmitt ufe of the Sympathetic Powder , thl I might at one ftab deftroy his inveterate ?refump, ic „ that the Capital Energy of that Maonetical Remedy' adored for the fanation of wounds at dirtance, did pro- ceed rather from the Sophiftical Activity of that Im- poftor who gave the flirt incurable wound unto huma- nity, derived by the mediation of an imtticit CompTli then from any native and genuine endowment of the rnr,ol. I prcvatled with him, to enterprizean Exneri ment of the efficacy thereof after this manner? §ri£ furniilied him, both with the Powder and^wf Matned with the blood of a GentlemScf] iy wotd iSSS CSKStt^rj*! ; ps PROLEGOMENA. difavow all Confederacy, immediate or fecondary, with Satan, all expectance of his concurrence, and coefH- ciency, and all confidence in the cooperation of intenfe Imagination : as alfo, that he adventured on this tryal, onely for information of his judgment, whether it lie in the deftiny of Natural Agents , to tranfmit their Virtue unto, and execute the CommhTion of their fpe- cifical Proprieties upon obje&s at diftance. However, within few hours, the Patient (wholly ignorant of the means ufed) found his blood retired to its wonted rivu- lets, and the lips of his large wound perfectly Confo- lidated. Upon which admirable fuccefs, the Divine, having alfo haply met with a cure for the nicety of his Conference, from a prevaricate Advcrf.iry, became a fervent Profelyte, to our Doctrine of Magnetifm : foon after writing his Palinodia, in thefe words • Indubitanter credo, Caufas Naturales, qttanquam nobis ignot as, opcrari. in prafata fympatheticafanatione. This juftification was extorted from a profefled Ene- 10. ntf : a fecond remarkable Example , I have received from the mouth of a profefled Friend, to the fpecula- tion of vulnerary Magnetifm • which is right worthy of recital, as well in regard of the Experimentator, as of the rare effect enfuing. Sir K. Digby (a noble Perfon, who hath built up his Reafon to fotranfeendent a height of Knowledg, as may fecm not much beneath the ftate of man in innocence) immediately before his late exile, was pleafed to tell me •, that not many yeers paft, Mr. ZpAmes Bowel (who planted the Vocal Forefl) interceding betwixt two Brothers of- the (word, received a dange- rous wound through the Arm : By the violent paia whereof, and other grievous Accidents concomitant, he. was fuddenly dejected into extream Debility and C. 3 Dancrer.. PROLEGOMENA. Danger. That in this forlorn plight^defpairing to findc eafe or benefit, by the fruitlefs continuance of Chirur- gery, and fearing the fpcedy invafion of a Grangram ; he confulced Sir K. D. who having procured a Garrer cruentate , wherewith the hurt was firft bound up, in- fperfed thereon, without the privacy of Matter Horvet, a convenient quantity of Roman Vitriol. That the Powder no fooner touched upon the blood, in the Gar- ter, then the Patient cryed out, that he felt an intolera- ble mooting, and penetrative torment, in his Arm \ which foon vaniihed,upon the remove of all Emplafters and other Topical Applications ,cnjoyned by Sir K. D. That thenceforward, for three days, all former fymp- tomes departed , the part recovered its priftine lively Colour, and manifeft Incarnation and Consolidation en- fued : but then Sir K. D. to compleat his Experiment, dipt the Garter in a fawcerof Vineger, and placed it upon glowing coals 5 foon whereupon the Patient re- lapfecf into an extrcam Agony , and all former evils inftantly recurred. And finally, that having obtained this plenary fatisfa&ion , of the fympathy maintained betwixt the blood extravenated , and that yet con- ferved in the veins •, as alfo of the Soveraign Balfamick Faculty of the Vttriol : he took again the Garter out from the Vineger, gently dryedir, and frcfhly drefied it with the Powder $ whereupon the Sanation proceed- ed with fuch admirable fuccefs, that within few days, there remained onely a handfom Cicatrice^ to witnefs there was once a wound. Other Cures,fo neer allied to Miracle 5 as the former, and no lefs conspicuous, have been wrought, with the fameMagneticalBalfam, by Sir Gilbert Talbot^ upon upon many wounded in the Kings Army 5 chiefly in the \A7>fl-Prn i

nee of the blood, which undoubtedly, by a Congener out mnminwm Magnetifm, holdeth a certain fympathy with UOX yatme ad £. Fountain from whence it was derived, (as is to fatiety fan. Qukquid of fatisfatfion demonftrated by Helmont) in a ftream of 5£jg£ fubtilhtcd Atomes, extendeth to the iqAwiuai radios emnm Wound, and there operateth to the Delate® or extir- ''&* &* Wtf> pationof the Acid ImprefTion, againft which it carrieth de % pi ^ ^ z Seminal Antipathy. If this be thus : I may be fooncr rumjah 6. deftitute of leafure, then fubftantial xArguments, to en- force, that it was either Ignorance, or < rev ar; cat ion, thatfirft contrived this detractive objection, to the dignity of Hoplochrifticai Remedies : as alfo, that Nature (though, according to the great Aphorifmof Hermes Trifmegiftus, Natura funt Medicatrices, I allow her to be the prime and proxime Caufatrix of all Sa- nation •, and all Medicaments no more but Auxiliatory> r> * or 22. PROLEGOMENA. 2.1., or Adjuvant, by the modification of exceflive preter- natural Qualitics,and remove oflmpcdiments) is not al- ways able to play the Chiron to her felf,but in this Cafe, owes much of the honor of her fafety and conqueft, to the aififtant power, and amicable coemciency of the T/- trioL The fame alfo I defire fhould be underftood,of the Magnetical manner of operation proper to the Armary Unguent-, though I apprehend the Ingredients of that Magnale^ to work rather by a Confermentation of Anafc- gous Mumies united. If I have not thrown this Peble home , nor directly to the mark : 'twas becaufe I had neither time to take full aym, nor elbow room to ex- tend their finews of Reafon fo far, as my felf defircd. The other, I am confident, will hit our Enemy in the forehead. If the Effect of Hoplochrifm be not conftant and umvocal, but doth ordinarily confefs an Altcrity or Variation from Good to Evil, conform to the friend- {hip or enmity of any Third Natural Agent affbeiated; at the Arbitrary Election of the Experiment ator, that is, if from the Counter-activity of intemperate Heat, Actual or Potential, of any vencnate or deleterious Quality , corrofive and feptical Medicament, putre- factive Acidity,^. confubftentially applied unto, and confermentate with the Mumy of the blood, and mag- netically- fympathetick Remedy, there immediately arife a Reincrudefcence of the Wound, and a Rccidivation or return of all oppreflive fymptomes dependent : then is it eftablifhed , beyond the queftion of any the moft Pyrrhonian Incredulity, that the Sanation of Wounds* at diftance , is not rightly adferiptive to the (ingle power of Nature , converting the blood fucceflively diftilling from its interfered Conduits, into a genial Balfam* but more properly attributary to the confede- PROLEGOMENA. rate virtue of the Vnguent or Powder, idiofyncratical- lyoppofed to rhe eiTenrial hoftility of that Acid Vul- ture, which- ravenoufly devours the Cambium^ or ro- rid deftillament ordained for the Vegetation and Rendi- tion of the wounded parr. But the Hypothefis is uncon- troulable upon rhe evidence of Sir A". D. his Experi- ment, in tofsing the life of Matter Homely from hazard tofafety, from fafety to hazard, and back to durable fafety again, at pleafure : therefore is rhe Inference alfo found and juftifiable. For the propenfe fubmifsion of Nature, to the fury of a deleterious influence, rranf- mitted from a remore Enemy , by the mediation or con- voy of the Mumial Effluviums, mot from rheexrra- venared blood back toirs vital fountain 5 doth implicire- ly manifeft her emolument and relief received, by rhe fame invifible rranfvection, from rhe grareful and con- generous deradiarions, or individuated Magnetifm of a remore Friend, Since Comrades ever imply the necef- fary exiftence each of other* Another Block rhere is, ar which not onely rhe herd 25; of Fools, bur even rhe greateft Clerks ufe to ftumble, in their queft of this Secret. Requifite it is (fay they.) that every Natural Agent be immediately applied to its determinate Patient •, otherwife, its fpecincal Acti- vity, though neerfo potent and expedite, muftbeloft in a fruirlefs expence, and unfarisfaction of irs particular end •, but rhe Sympathetic^ Remedy is not topically ap- proximated to the Wound •, therefore muft it be, either no Natural Remedy, or a vain and inefficacious one, at beft. But this Argument, though at firft appearance plaufible, weigheth not one grain in the ballancc of more exact Rcafon , againft our theory, and may be cafily blown out of the way,by.this diftin&ive Anfwer. D 2 If PROLEGOMENA. If it be underftood, that every Natural Agent ought immediately, immediatione fnppofiti^ to touch the Pati- ent, upon which its virtue is proximely to be difcharged; but remotely, by the mediation of other bodies interja- cent, by which the Power of the Active is communi- cated to the diftant Pafsiverwe willingly grant the truth of the Major ^ tobefolid and undeniable, in regard, it fufficeth to the fupport of our Magnetifm , that the Active touch upon the Pafsiveor Object proper and re- mote, immediationevirtutis. And therefore we cannot but fmile at the weaknefs and incongruity of the Minor - becaufe the Sympathetick Remedy ought immediately, immediatione (uppo (iff ,to touch that fubject, upon which its virtue is firft received : but not the part affected, on which the virtue is fecondarily and ultimately received and terminated, by the interposition of accommodate inftruraents, whether bodies fituate at convenient inter- vals, or continuate by fuccefsion of parts. For thus, by the fame extenfion of a medium^ do we warm our hands at the fire : and the Sun tranfmits his vigorous influence and heat, to our opace Globe. And in this degree of affinity, are Sympathetica! Medicaments allied unto Ce- leflial Influences : infomuch,that not onely the Aer,but vaft Rocks of Adamant, Walls, and any the mod: com- pacted and opace bodies are fubjects qualified to admit and convoy this Magnetical Virtue, to its peculiar ob- ject, no lefs then any the mod potent AftralTranf- mifsion. Vpon which ground, if any ftick at the vaft and unlimitted extenfion of that Sphear of Ailivtij^ afsigned by the immenfe Bounty of Nature, unto Sym- pathetica! Remedies • and yet can eafily concede an in- finite Orb of fewer unto Celejiial Influxes : he hath very great caufe, either to lament his Ignorance of thofe, or rcnenr (Pq^OLEGOMENJ. repent his Credulity of thefe. And I profefs, that if my rude ear may have the liberty to judg, Frincipium Acti- ons Sympathetica^ eft Facultas influentiis affais^ agens per irradtationem inobjeclum fibi appropriatum ; founds as like an Axiom of conftant truth, as Idem Accidens 7ion rn.gr at de fubjecJo in fubjecJum. Hitherto hath my imployment been to clear the Pro- fpecl:, by the neceftary remove of fuch Doubts, as {eem- ed very much to obfeure the refplendent luftre of Mag- netifm^ and render the Excellencies of Sympathetical Remedies imperceptible \ efpecially to thofe purblinde Moles, whofe imperfect opticks could never endure to pry into the myfteries of the Intellectual and Spiritual World, but think the debt of their Creation fully dif- charged, in a flight and fuperficial fpeculation of the Material, and never were admitted to a neerer privacy with Nature, then to have touched the hem of her up- per garment. And my now task mould be,to endevour an ample prefentment of the £i cm, or Caufes of Ho- plochriftical Sanation. But of this I can here hold forth no more, then a thin, blew Landskip, or Abridgment : chiefly in refpect the more learned pencils of Bapt, Por- ta, Severing, H or tnt annus , Ktrcherus, Cabeut, Rob. de Fluttibm, (that Torrent of Sympathetical Knowledg) and the choifeft flower in our Garden Sir K. Digby y have already enriched the World , with ample and ele- gant defcriptions of the manner, how Sympathetically Magnetick Agents tranfmit their Spiritual Energy,unto determinate Patients, at vart and indeterminate diftancc -, and fecondarily, becaufe in my precedent De- clarement of the Magnetical operation of vitriol, I unavoidably fell upon a plain (though narrow) delinea- tion of the fame fubject. I 1 r\n(i A /»»► PROLEGOMENA. 26. Confidcr we, firft the interminable, and almoft in- finite Extent of Divtfibility : that is, with the razor of moft acute thought , rcdivide the fubdivifions of an Atome, and diftinctly perpend, how large a round of fpiritual Aporrhx&ts^ or Evaporations may be made and maintained by a very fmall Body, actually fnbtiliatcd, and emitting a continued fteam of moftfubtle effluvi- .27. urns. Let us remember alfo, that by a general confent of all the Secretaries of Nature , and the undeniable teftimony of trivial Experience, every mixt Body, of an unctuous Compofition, doth unceflantly vent, or expire a circumferential fteam of invifiblc A tomes , homogeneous and confimilar, that is of the fame iden- tical nature with it felf ; and for that rcafon ; efficacioufly operative to the fame Finality : which minute/#£//7/4- ttons, wafted on the wings of a convenient medium^ interpofed betwixt the accommodate objett and the body exbala»t, and fo arriving at an analogous Patient, do immediately difcharge their Activity thereupon , 28. and by degrees of mutation fubduc the fame to a Con- * Koh r*0, formity or Qualification requifite to the Caufation of faafifympatbla tnat particular effec^originally enjoyned to the Seminal l^r^itu Entity of the Agent. Then let us ftretch our Intcl- eodcmtemfm lectuals, to fathome, how immenfly long the arm of 'itTvZL fl m ? at h muft bc conceded, by all that mail obferve, nonnuilal imii- how the Contagion of the Small Pox and Plague* is lias longi fm.c i frequently darted from one Brother or Sifter toan- f^aTJ&ti- otner 5 at tne dift ance of many hundred leagues , by -unfa lock ha- invifible cmiflions 3 or Pefiilential Atemes 5 without all bitantd) codem fee tempore, cxitialifs'mis bujits tyanni (piculls gravuer affiiftat, & fere dektas fuiffc Dic- merbrocck de Pefie. cap.4. Ita etiam Evagrius, Hi'ftor. Ecclef. lib.4. ap.i^. refert, in Pcfie Antiochcm, ccrias famlias prmfus intewffe, falvis manentibm interim reliquu Vrbu incolis. Canfa ve, b dependet ab arcana qnahm difjnfitionii (imili[tidi?ie 3 quam inte; fe babtnt, qua apt a c/2 *flpc(lem ucipiendm. (PROLEGOMENA. excufeof intelligence or mutual Commerce by inter- venient mefTengers : as alio of Fear and Imagination. How a Taghacotian Nofc, enfeoffed with a Commu- 30, nity of Vitality and Vegetation, by right of Tranfplan- tation, upon the face of a Gentleman at Bruxels, hath grown cadaverous, and dropc off, at the inftant of that Porters death, in Bononia y out of whofe arm it was firft exefted. And finally (that we may fuperfede the 31. rehearfal of other Naturally magical examples ) how carefully good Hufwives avoid the boyling over of their Milk 3 left the Atomes thereof fubtiliated by the intenfe heat of Fire, and roving abroad hand in hand with the igneous Atomes , mould be attracted by the Cows Udder (for the (tune or Fountain of every erTii- fion, acteth a magnetical part, and drawethtoit felf the fubdivifions of that fame effufion, fituate within the Orb of its Alliciency) and fo an Inflammation be caufed, by the appofition of the Atomes of Fire con- comitant, £nd when we mall have thus caft about, 32, fummed up our reflections, and difcreetly accommo- dated the like effects, daily occurring to the Compara- tive perpenfion of Magnetical Vulneraries : we (hall naturally fall upon, and fet up our reft in this Conclufi- on : That the (anation of Wounds, by remote means appli- ed to the Weapon , or cloth imbued with theblecd^ is no Diabolical^ nor prejligiou*, but a meer ordinary cjfttt of Natural Cau(es, operating by Magneti(m. For very Fa- miliar muft it be made unto us, that the^AWemifed from a wound, doth conftantly (until the laft a&of putrefaciion) hold an influential commerce with and af- 33. finity unto its proper Fountain , yet enjoying a more perfect ftate of Vitality, in its native Confervatory, the Veins 3 and in that relation, doth continually fend E forth (f%OLEGOMBT^A. forth fubtle ft reams, orinvifible Emijfaries of Mumial Atomes, toward that Fountain, or grand Source, as Ambafiadors, to intimate the faithful Correfpcndence and Amity yet maintained : that thefe Magneticai N untii, being joyncd incommiflion and confermentate with the Balfamical Emanations of the Sympathetick Vngucnt or Powder Ao carry them home to the wound : And laftly, that the Exotick and deftruelive Acidity, imprcflfed upon the fides of the Wound, and defeating the attempts of Nature towards the redintegration and accretion of the Continuity infringed , may be fubducd and eradicated by the Medici m I Faculty of the Atomes, deradiated from the Vngucnt^ and conducted along to the wound in the arms of the Mumial Atomes* Since we arc of opinion, that no man, who hath but Philofophy enough to examine the Natural endow- ments of each fingle Ingredient of the Compoiition, as alfo of the third Quality refulting from their Com- mixture of Confcrmentation : will deny, that the Ar- mary Vngutnt> is impregnated with zfanative Faculty * but fuch as may be too violent andimenfc 5 if the Vnguerit were applied in body , without the requifue allay and refraction of previous Attenuation. Thus (judicious Reader) have you feen me, in very- few minutes,run over my main courfe of the Rcafons of Hoplochrifm • wherein, iince I may not come fo neer to the guilt of Arrogancy, as confidently to fay, I have won 5 I freely fubmit to your equitable Arbitration for cenfure,whether I have not contended fairly,at leaft ,for the Garland of Truth, and far outftript thofe my two hotfpurred AdvcYfrncs^gnorance and refumption. But yet muft I become a further exercife of your Patience, by holding you to the trouble of going along with me 3 over PROLEGOMENA. over two other very fhort Stages : which I am obliged to meafure, in order to my plenary difcharge of a ram promife , which the clamorous importunity of fomc friends prevail'd upon my too flexile geniui to enter into. Thefuftis, to fcanover the fecond Paradox, con cerning the Nativity of Tartar in Wine. Here, I profefs, I highly admire the fagacity of Hdmonts wit, in fo ex- actly tracing this obfeure Entity, back to its firft fingle conftitutive Principles, hunting through all thofe gra- dual mutations, which he diftinctly fcented, as well in the Conglaciation of Wines, in cold Climats, as their Fermentatisn , in hot, immediately upon their being brought home from the Prcfs. Nor can it be gainfaid^ by any, that the Spirit of Wine, in avoidance of its ir- reconcilable Antagonift, Gtid; retreating to the Center of its liquor, doth leave the Cortex, oroutward round, open to the invafion of Acidity 5 which being the firft 34, degree of Corruption (for if we boyl any Flefli, that hath been but newly feized on by Pmrefaclion^ the broth thereof will have a manifeft fowrenefs) and want- ing an object, whereon to fate its Appetite of Corrofion and Diflolution, doth inftantly dive to the bottom, and there operate upon the dregs, or refldence of Ter- renity y fubfiding upon a precedent Diacrtfts y or feque- ftration of Heterogeneities : and fo doth, by a fecond ebullition, caufe them to reafcend to the Convexities of the Liquor. But whether, the Acid Sprit , being coagulated in the very ad of Diffolution, according to that Chymick Axiome, Omnis Spiritu* diffolvens , tadtm aclione, qua corpora dijjelvit, coaguUtur^ be the immediate Caufe of the Concretion or Coagmentati- on of the dtifolved and fluctuating Faeces : I confefs, I ^m yet unfatisfkd. The ground of my hsefitancy, in (PROLEGOMENA. this particular, is that upon a ftrict and laborious explo- ration of the Caufes of Coagulation , conductive to Lapidefcence or Petri fiction \ in my Diflertation De Lith;afi,o£ {tones in the Microcofm, I found ^ that the onely Gorgon^ or Lapidifa&ory Principle, to which all . Concreted fubftances ow their Coagulation, and upon the deftruction of which, they return to their primitive Incontinuityand Volatility^ is a Satin t Fixative Spuir^ as I have in that difcourfe fufficiently proved : and therefore I mould rather derive the pedigree of Tartar .35. after this manner. When the Acid Spirit, immcrfed in an exceffive quantity of Terrenity, becomes evirate, languid, and infufficient to the volatilization of the more grofs, ponderous, and flxt parts of the Faeces - y it is wholly overcome by the predominant power of the Saline Gorgon , ambufcadoed in the terreftrial Refi- dence : and fo immediately upon this conqueft, all the Terreftrial Atomes are fixed, coagmentated, and ferru- minated into a folid Concretion j which is the Tartar ad- hering to the (ides of Wine Casks. 16. Here alfo doth my conftant Fidelity to Truth, make me to obferve 5 that \tvineger be made of Wwe^whok fpirits are all Exbaufted^ by the deftruftive embraces of Heat, furrounding the veffel, and fo infenfibly ex- trading all radical vigor and eflcntial vitality from the mafs of liquor, propttr cfj&iumvy to be united to aeon- fimilar fubft . ncc 5 as fecmeth moft confonant to Ex- perience ^ then doubtlefs, that great Privy Counfellor *i n iibro de to Nature, Senmrtu* *, hath deferved the refuge of Sio,buio } caf.t. that Proverb, Bernhaydut nonvidet omnia ^ in his mis- take, That Vineger mould be made of Wine, wherein the fpirits are fixed or congelattd y by reafon of an op- premve quantity of Fixative Salt, arifing from the im- PROLEGOMENA. maturity, aufterity and defective Fermentation of the Muft, and not out of Wine, whofe fpirits are feparated by Exh&tiftien-, and by confequence, muft have mif- carried in his defign of drawing Spirit of Wine out of Vineger, which project he mentioned both in his Chy- mical opirations, and in his incomparable Tract, De Cwfenfu Chymicorum cum Gdcnicu. My laft unwilling task 5 is the delivery of ray fuffrage, upon that infcrutable Paradox, aliened by Helmont'm his Difcourfe of I he Image of God in Man, as the main point he drives at in all that Meditation 3 namely, that Reafon is no radical, primitive,efjential part of the Hum An foul, but a caduce, furious Faculty, accidentally Adveni- ent upon the Degradation of our Nature , by eating the foyfonous Fruit of the forbidden Tree ; and by confe- quence, ftp Arable from the foul, at the inflant of her e~ mancipation from her prifon of Clay, and wholly ufeUfto her in her (late of restitution to the Clarity of AbflraLted and Intuitive Intellection. To this opinion (I blufti not to profefs) I have for- merly leaned, as well by reafon of a propenfity there- unto kindled in me by a ihort paffage in S. Auguftine *, * Pr*ftantiqve as by finding, in my folitary fpeculations, a readinefs T^icmVaiiT in my beleif tofubmit to the conviction of thefeenfu- mm^tauqmm ing Arguments. (1.) The Soul layeth hold on her SlS'^ hopes of future Beatitude,with her right hand o£Faith y soiilq. which is a firm and unalterable Apprehenfion of ob- 1. jects, to which her left hand of Reafon can never be ex- tended : yea, fo far ihort doth our moft advanced and illuminated Reafon come of the true Cognition of . the effence of Omnipotence, Infinity, Etermh, &c. that, in every ftep of our journey towards the true EitzAum y we muft quit the dark Lanthorn of Reafon, and wholly E ? throw PROLEGOMENA. 2. throw our {elves upon the implicit conduct of Faith. For a deplorable truth it is, that the unconftant, vari- able, and reductive impofture of Reafon, hath been the oncly unhappy caufe, to which Religion doth ow all thole' wide, irreconcilcable and numerous rents and fchifms, in the feamlefs and indivifible Coat of Faith, made by men of the greateft Logick, and even fuch, whofe int^nfer flames of Devotion had rendred their mindes the whiteft and moft purified from the lees of Temporal interejl : every Faction alleadging a rational induction, or ground for its peculiar Deflection, from the unity of Truth • Reafon having, in their judgments, erected the rotten and fragil reed of meer Futation, in the room of the found and inflexible Pillar of certain and fiduciary Cognition. (2.) TheMinde of man,fqua- red by the rule of Faith, (lands afcertained, that the form or effence of Verity^ is unical, finglc, and devoid of all Alter ity •, and that the Intellect, in its abftracted fimplicity , apprchendeth onely the unity of verity : but Reajon is unavoidably obnoxious to the delufion of Multiplicity, and diffraction of Alterity, and there- fore unfit to fteer the Will^ in the act of Election. £>uippt quje(ns Helmont^ moft fignificantly) facile per linguas , nunc adunum y nunc vtro ad alterum extremorum^ nuta- bundafletferetur^ rationefque ubique inveniret^ fingeret } fubBerneretjuxtAflacitadefideriorum. (3.) TheMinde, having once fathomed the extent of her wings, in Me- taphyseal fpeculations , becomes afliired, that after her delivery from the Dungeon of Flcfh and Blood, (he fhall have all her knowledg full, entire, abftracted, in one fingle act 5 not fuccefnve, not-extorted by the ob- lique violence of premifes, not erroneous , controver- tible, or dubious : that fhe (hall no longer groan under the. PROLEGOMENA the perplexity of framing Vemonflrations, by wrefting, deducing, inferring, concluding one proportion from another $ whether in order to her act of Concept ion or Notification. (4.) Where precedeth no Difcourfe, no Composition, nor Connexion of Prcmifes 5 there, doubtlefS; can fucceed no Conclusion, Confecution, or Reafon : but the Science of the Premifcs , is always more certain , then the Science of the Conclufion (Since the certitude of the Inference, is extracted out of, and doth neceffarily depend upon the Certitude of the propofition conceded) and that Science is radically feated in the Intellect , without the conenrrence of Rejfon, becaufe we finde it elder then the Demonflra- tion. And queStionlefs, this were a fur ground for any able pen to contend upon •, that Reafon doth not gene- rate, in the Undemanding, any more, then a Caligi- nous or Spurious Cognition, which we may call a fpe- cious Putation : as alfo, that the indubitate Science of the Verity of Effences , of the Simplicity of tilings abstracted, and of firft Propositions, or leading noti- ons in Syllogifms , doth not flow from the polluted and tempeftuous Stream of Reafon 5 but, indeed, from a more divine, ferene, luminous Fountain, the Intellect \ which I may, with Solomon, adventure thus todefcribe : It is The breath of the power of God, and a pure influence flowing from the Glory of the Almighty the bright neft of the everlafling Light, the unfpotted Mirror of the Power of God, and the Image of his Goodnefi, and being but one, f\)e can do all things, and remaining in her [elf fhe mtket h all things new, &c. (5.) Let any Probleme in Philo- fophy be propounded to ten, or twenty (the number is of no concernment) themoftfage Oedipufe's in the World, and a reafon demanded from each apart ; and I dare PROLEGOMENA. I dare promifc, you {hall obferve, the variety of opi- nions will ftand in aequilibrio with the number of Per- fons 5 every finglc head being deluded by the im- pofture of fpecious Reafon, and fo contumacioufly ad- hering to its particular Apprehenfion , that the mod modeft of them all will be ready to (wear, that his Solution hath touched the white and Centre of Truth -, when, peradventure, not one among them hath ever (hot neer it. Such a Chameleon is our Reafon •, and fo £• varioufly delufive. (6.) Truth is imprefled onely up- on the Intdietty in regard, the verity underftood, is nothing elfe but the adequation of the Intellect to the object \ or more plainly, the Intellects putting on the Form of the thing comprehended (for the Intellect knoweth objects in the reality of their dirtinct EfTencc, and is therefore interchangeably certified of the Nature of things, by the things, themfelves : Since the Fffe of things is, of it (elf , ever true, and their EfTence and the Efience of Truth, are homogeneal and identical) and therefore the Intellect, which is in a manner carried forth to a Conjunction with the abftract Forms of ob- jects, is always directly true. Now fince the Imagina- tion, or its laborious Faculty, Reafon, is a certain ob- lique and circulatory way of intelligence, wyerdrawn through the devious meanders, and complex paths of Dijcetirfe^ but not by the immediate MetamorphofTs of adequation, or Protean fhifting of its own Form, into the Form of the thing apprehended : therefore is the way of Cognition by Reafon, Fallacious and Non- 7. fcientifical. (7.) Whatever found eth but analogous or affine, that doth Reafon pofitively judg, conlbnant and homogeneous to Verity : when yet Reafon and Truth are infinitely D/(j>arate : a.s to the roots of their EfTences. For (p^OLRGOMEl^J. For Verity is, Em reale, verum : But Reafon is, Ens mentale, probkmaticum^ and oncly plaufible, or appa- rent •, and hence do our Metaphysicians account of Ens rauonis, no more then Non-ens, as deriving its geni- tare from no more fubftantial a Father, jhen Imagina- tion, and its production, from the wanton and incon- ftant womb of Putation. (8.) Many wife men, great g. Scholars, and extreamly tender, in the point of their Allegeance to the Church, have thought it no difhonor to their Creation , nor Diminution of the <%pw> or tranfeendent dignity of Humane Nature, to opinion, that the Faculty of Difcourfe, though in a greater de- gree of obfeurity, may be attributed to brute Animals, I prefume, this hard faying will, by the unifone vote of the multitude, be foon condemned to relim more of the Fhihfopher y then the Chriftian^ and fo be exploded for Contagious and Ethnical. But that indifferent Ear, * ^fi'mnua that lliall have fo much patience, as to hear St. fcrome f£.a?jS2t- relatc his ftory of the * Faunejx femi- humane Monfter, man defcripto, that having vocally acknowledged the true God, em- ^ lu » A«p- braced the Chriftian belief, received the fymbols Q£paMnli*D£ the fame, and earneftly defired the mediatory Prayers vo ' um mmc ~ of Anthony, the Anachoret, converted a long time™Xw with him, in the Wildernefs : (hall obferve the Arith- >datu, Famus mctick of Bees * , in computing their Hives morn and [ cgltur A ™ mal even, having no other method of directing themfelves 2u^imlmum\ each to his proper home, but the number of their par- NahtY * &~ ticular Common- wealth, which when they mils, upon ^tfwls co- a tranfpofition of them, they ftray and are loft in their k &'fwk- miftake of entering another Hive i And finally (hall to f ^ A " tnnespotucre expeUere morb'os Arte Machaonia : Non tamen hirerum eau[as novere latent* s J guts deeetifte Liber ', . Quern pur o Sermone & voeibtu edidit Anglis Charleton latricuf. Hercukas. rerum vires, animamque reclufit Splendid; ore face: Et velut Alcides, refiravit Tartara nobis - Ndn Acheronta tamen. Hie Phoebo eft e bar us Jed long} chariot effet Si Peripatetics.. Alex* Kosse, F n To*- II II I* I II III | To ^^Wtf^^te^^Wfe^J on his elegant Tranflation of forfie moft fcle<5t pieces of Helmont 5 accompanied with his excejl^nt Notes, candid uinimadverfions^ and opportune Enlargement. ■ HElmontj though dead, is now reviv'd. Your Pen, Like atan extends in Witches. 1 o 3 . What are the true and proper works of Satan. 1 04 . Sin rook away the endowments of Grace, and obfeured thofe of Nature. 105. The end of the pious exercifes of Catholikes. 1 06. The grand effect of the Cabal. 107. Two fubjects of all things. 108. Man hach a power of acting, as well by fpirit, as body. 109. W hat kind of ray, or effluvium, is tranfmitted from a witch, to a bruite. no. How a Witch may be difcovered* 1 11, How the fpirit of a Witch may be captived, and bound fart in the heart of a horfe. n 2. The intention depraves a good work. 1 1 3 . The Virtue fcmioall, is Naturally Ma- gicall. 114. The caufe of the Cruentation of aimurdered Carcafe, in the praefence of the homicide. 115. Why the Plague a frequent concomitant of feidges. 116. Works of mercy, to be done upon the diftrefled, though only in order to the avoydance of the Plague. 1 1 7. Plaguesarifingfromrevenge,andexfecrationsof men dyingunder op- preffion,molt fatall, 1 18. Why the carcafes of malefactors were to be removed from the gibbet, 119. Why excrements can be no authors of a Plague. i2o.Whythebloodofa bull is venemous. 121. Why the fat of a bulis made an ingredient into the Sympathetick unguent;name- ly, that it may be made an Armary Unguent* 1 22. Why Satan cannot concur to the Unguent. 123. The bafis of Magick. 124. When vani- ties and impoftures are reputed for magick, 125. A good magick in holy Writ, 1 26. What may be called true magick. 1 27. The caufe of theidolatry of Witches. 12 8.Thc Excitators of magick.- i2 wherewith arms, which have re- ceived no tincture of blood, are to be emplaftrated, clearly an- other ; and for this reafon, he Chriftens the former, the Mag- netic}^ and Sympathetic!^ the latter, the Armary Magnetic^ Vngnent : Which therefore (and to good purpofe) receives into its confection, befides the ingredients efiential to the for- mer, Honey, and Bulls fat. In fine, Goclenius, to humor his own genius, hath altered the prefcriptionof Paracelfus « affirming, that the Vfnea, or mofs, is to be felected onely from the skulls of fuch, as have been hanged. Of which his own, and grofly erroneous inven- tion enquiring a reafon, he Mufhes not foolifhly to imagine,, that in ftrangulation the Vital jpirits violently retreat into the skull, and there conftantly (hroud themfelves for fome time, until the mofe (hall, under the open canopy of the Air, grow up, and periwigth? Cranium, Varacelfm hath exprefiy taught the: Of the M&gmtkk the contrary, and by multiplied experience we are confirmed, that Vfnea gathered from the skulls of fuch, who have been broken on the wheel, is in virtue no whit inferior to that of men ftrangled with a halter. For truly from Animals there is not drawn the Quint E (fence ( in regard the principal, and pa- ramont eflente periftieth together with the influent jpirit, and life) but onely the virtue pnmfidl, that is, the originary , im- plantate, and confermcntatefpirit, fafely remaining, and in an obfcure vitality furviving, in bodies extinct by violence. What other things Gsclenius hath delivered, of remedies to repair a ruinous memory, rs we cannot but declare them, in no relation, congruent to the fcope intended ; fo alfo we nothing doubt to prove them meer pageants and impertinent flourifhes. Betwixt our Divine zn&PhyJician, there is at all no difpute dcfatto, about the verity of the/^; for both unanimoufly concede the cure to be wrought upon the wounded perfon : The contention lies onely in this, that the Pbyfician afTerts this Magnetical Cure to be purely Natural* but the Divine will needs have it Satanical, and that from a compact of the firfl inventor. Of which cenfure, in his Anatomeof our Phyjicians difcourfe, he alledges no pofitive reafon ; conceiving it fuffi- ciently fatisfactory , if he, on the fcore of his own folitary judgment, abolifh it, though he fubjoyn no grounds for the abolition; that is, acquiefcing onely in this, that he hath re- moved the feeble and invalid arguments of the AJfertor ; which, in fober truth, is a matter of no diligence, no learning, and of no authority to erect or eftabliili beleif. For what a- vails it, to the procurement of faith, from no fhonger evi- dence, then the futility of fpecious reafons, urged by fome ignorant head, to give a definite judgment on the thing it felf? and to declare it impious, if himfelf hath not fo much as in a dream thought upon any one petty reafon, for the fupport of his fentence ? What if I, being a Laick,fhould with courfe and untrimmed arguments, commend Presbytery, and another re- ject my reafons as unworthy and infurhcient, will the order of Prieithood it felf be therefore rejected ? Of what concern- ment, I pray, is the ignorance, or temerity of any one to realities Cure of Wounds, >— — — — ■i^'^^^*^*^^ * 1 ' ' "' * ' ™ '™* " " ' — ■■■■'■■ ■■■■■! ■ aa i realities themfelvcs ? In the Court of Truth, Philafophy fub~ mits not it ft If to naked, and fingle cenfures, unlefs there alfo concur a conjider able gravity of the Cenfors, fortified with firm and convincible reafons. Wherefore I, who have undertaken, in oppofitton to out Divine, to make good, that the Magnetick Cure of wounds, is the fingle, and ordinary effect of Nature ; in the firfl: place, think Goclenius worthy to be excufed, if without fuccefs he hath fweat in the indagation of the grand and approximate Caufe of this rare effect. What wonder, when our Divine makes publick confeflion, that himielf is utterly ignorant of that caufe, and onely for that reafon refers it to Satan, as to the Author and matter-wheel in this abftrufe motion : For fuch is the infirmity of our delapfed nature, that we are defiitute of the knowledg of the moft, and moji excellent things. And there- fore, to palliate this defect of ourunderftanding, we, though not without fome tacite reluctaacy within, obliquely wrefi: many effects, whofe efficients are beyond the ken of our blear- eyed reafon, to the fanEluary of ignorance, and refer them to the Catalogue of Occult Qualities. For who,among Divines^ ever had a plenary and demonstrative knowledg of the true and proper caufe of Rifibility, or any other Formal propriety : For example, of the heat of fire. Dolt not thou fall upon that Fallacy, Petitio Principii, an abfurd begging of the queftion, if thou anfwer, that extreme heat belongs to fire, becaufe it is of the eflence of fire ? In truth, the Ejfences of Forms, in regard they are unknown to us, a priori ,from their Caufalities ; there- fore alfo is the original, or pedigree Of Formal proprieties , wholly abftrufe, jejune, and undifcovered ; and where we per- ceive any Formal paffton fubjoyned, the minde,as if tired with vain fcrutiny, foon ceafeth from the difquifition of it, and re- pofeth it felf, fitting down contented with the empty notion, and bare name of Occult proprieties. Go to, I befeech thee, does the Anatomift ,our Cenfor> happily know the reafon why a Dog fwings his tayl when he re Joyces, bur a Lyon when he is angry ; and a Cat, when pleafed, advances hers in an erect pofture ? What therefore, when himfelf cannot give a reafon for the motion of a tayl, will he fo much wonder, that Gocle~ H nim 6 Of the Mdgmtick niw hath given an improper and infolid reafon of Aiagnetifm ? and from the refutation of that, prefume that he hath more then fufficiently demonftrated thatfanation of wounds to be Satanical, which is the genuine effect of Afagnetifm ? Far from us be fo great temerity of cenfure'. 5« Come on then; why dofl thou call that cure Diabolical} Infooth, thou oughteft to have annexed the reafon of thy cen- fure, unlefs thou expected it fhould be denied by others, with the fame facility, wherewith thou arfirmeft it tD be diabolical. Lawyers require onely the affirmative confirmed ; but Philofc- phers both parts,, that the ignorance or protervity of the AV- gant party ,may not appear greater then that of the Affirmant. Do ft thou happily maintain the Cure to be Diabolical.becaufe it cannot be clearly underftood (by thee) that there is any natural reafon fork? I will not beleeve, that from thy own infirmity, thou mayft deliver fo idle and ftupid a fenterxe of the vertue of it. For thou well knowcft, that the imbecillity of our under ft anding, in mt comprehending the more abftrnfe and retired caufes of things, is not to be afcribed to any defect in their nature, but in our 6tpn hdodrvin'kt intellectual*. Proceed therefore ; whence hall: thou aflurance, that God, in his primitive intention, hath not directed this vertue Mag' netical to the benefit of the wounded ? Shew us your Com- miilion ; hath God elected you the Secretary of his Councel ? £ # Certainly, however you may waver in your belief, you (hall in eondufion finde, that amongit you Divines, the Magnetick cure can be accounted Diabolical for no other reafon then that the fhallownefs of your judgment cannot comprehend, nor * your Function admit it to be natural. What wonder, that no Divine hath ever fcented ihtkfubtilities ? for after the Prieft and the Levite had both paiTed on to Jericho, there fucceeded a Samaritan, a Lay man, who deprived the Pricfts of all right g of difquifition into the fecret caufes of things Whereupon Nature from thenceforth fummoned not Divines to be the In- terpreters of her nicer operations,but adopted Phyficians onely to be her darlings, and none but fuch, who inftructed by Py- rctcchny, examine the propvi'etitftti things, by fequeftringthe impediment? or < log": of venues ambulcadoed in their grofler materials. Care of Wounds, materials, fuch arc their crudity, venewfities, and impurities; that is thole bryars and them's every where, from the firft Malediction, inoculated into the creatures in their fpring or virgin eftate. For fince Dame Nature (the Proto-Chymifty her felf doth every day fublime, calcine, ferment, diffolve, coagulate, fix, ore. Certainly we alfo, the onely faithful inter- preters of Natures Oracles, do by the fame helps and advan- tages draw forth the EJfential qualities of things from the dark pi ifon of their materials,and bring them to the Meridian light of reafon. But the Divine, that he may be able to difcern what is prt- fiigious, from what is natural ; it is requifite, that he firft bor- row the definition from us, left the Cobler lhamefully adven- ture beyond his Laft : Let the Divine enquire ©nely concern- ing God, but the Naturalift concerning Nature. AiTuredly the goodnefs of the Creator was largely diffufed on all the works of his hands, who created all things for the ufe and benefit of ingrateful man: neither admitted any of our Divines as an Afleflbr in his Councel, how many, and how excellent vertues hefhould endow his Creatures withal. In the interim, I am wholly unfatisfied how he can be excufed from the fin of Pride, who becaufe he comprehends not the natural caufe, as meafuring all the immenfe works of God by the narrow extent of his own head,does therefore audacioufly deny, that God hath beftowed any fuchvertue on the Crea- ture; as if man, a vile worm, had fathom'd the power of God, and were privy to the defignes of his Councel. He efti- mates the mindes of all men by his own, who thinks that can- not be done which he cannot underftand. To me, ferioufly,it appears a wonder in no refpeclthat God hath, befides a body perfectly refembling the Load(lme, be- ftowed upon his Creatures a nobh verttte alfo, which our rea- fon can explicate by no other term then that of Magnetifw. Ougfit it not to fuffice, to the indubitate conceflion of Mxg> nctifm, that onely one (ingle example (I (hall hereafter bring in others,numerous a,nd appofite) be introduced,of the natural efficiency of that ftone, according to the model or pattern whereof, even other endowments, varioufly diftributed H 2 amoneft Of the Magnetic k amongft the creatures, may be clearly underftood ? What, becaufe the thing is new, paradoxical, and above the reach of your undcritanding,muft it therefore hzSatanicalztto > Far be it from us to conceive fo unworthily of the Divine Majefty xo. of the Creator , nor indeed ought we thus to court or gratifie the Devil, by transferring this honor upon him ; for what can ever affect him with a more full delight, then that the glory of good works be afcribed to him, as if he had been the grana Author of them ? ,j That material nature does uncefTantly by its fecret Magne- tifm, fuck down forms from the brefts of the fupcrior Orbs, and greedily third after the favor and benign influence of the celeftial Luminaries, you willingly concede ; and moreover, that the ftars in exchange attract fome tribute from inferior bodies, fo that there is a free commerce, and reciprocal return from each to other, and one harmonious concord, and confpi- racy of all parts with the whole univerfe : 'And thus Magne- tifm, in regard it is vigorous and pregnant in every thing, hath nothing new in it but the name, nor is it paradoxical, but to thofe who deride all things, and refer to the dominion of Satan, whatfoever falls not within the narrow circle of their own undemanding. In good truth, thiskindeof wifdom is never to be found by him that feeks it with derifion. 12 But I befeech you, what of Superfiifion hath the Armary Unguent ? whether becaufe it is compounded of the mofs, toood 9 nt*mj 9 znd'fat of man ? Alas ! the Phyjicia* ufes thefe inoffenfively, and to this purpofe the Apothecary is licenfedto fell them. Or perchance, becaufe the manner of ufingand applying the Medicine is new to you, -unaccuftomed to the v\ilgar, but admirable to both; muft the effect therefore be Satanical ? Subdue your paflion, and calm your rage, ere long you fhall be more fully fatisfied. j. For the manner of its application, contains in it nothing of evil. Firfl, the intention is good and pious, and directed one- ly to a good and charitable end ,• namely, the healing of our fick, la nguiihing neighbor, without pain, without danger, and without the confumption of his purfe: And do you call this diabolical I In fcie.the re mtdies themfelvcs arc dMitiset natural means, Cure of Wounds. $ means, to which we (hall in the progrefs of our difpute, by convincing arguments demonftrate, that this generous faculty was peculiarly given by God himfelf. Our wifhes are that your felf had, by fo firm evidence, ratified your negative por- tion, viz. that Godythe fupreme Good,did not,in the Creation, confer upon the ingredients of the Vnguent, any fuch natural venue, and mumial Magnetifm. This Magnetkal remedy can, on no fide,be laid open to the 1 4. encroachment of fufpect; fince, both in the cenfetlion and uje, it hath no fuperftitious rites performed, it requires no myfterious words, no characters, or imprefTes, no preftigious ceremonies, or vain obfervances conjoyned : It prefuppofes no planetary hours, or punctilioes of conftellations, it pro- phanes not (acred things ; and what is more, it foreftals not x 5* the imagination, requires not a confidence, or implicit faith, nay not fo much as bare leave or confent from the wounded party ; all which are ever annexed to fuperftitious cures. For we account that properly to be Superftition, when men j6 9 relie upon the fingle power of an implicit faith, or imaginati- on, or both concurring, above any particular vertue, which of it felf is not fufificient, or by the primitive intention of the Creator, not deftined to the production of that particular effect. By which it is clearly manifeft, that our Magnetic!^ cure hath none the fmalleft tincture of Superfiition. Do thou therefore, O Divine ! great with a farcafm, with defign at leaft to detect and deride the Devil, make an experiment of the Vnguent, that fo thou mayeft deftroy and totally abolifh that implicit compaU with him ; neverthelefs thou (halt, vc- lent or nolent, without either direction from, or obedience to thy will, finde the fame effect remit from thy application of it, that ufually does upon ours ; which does not at all (ucceed upon the conjunction of fuperftitious caufes.. Whoever reputes the Magnetkal Sanation of Wounds to 17- be Diabolical, not becaufe it is performed by unlawful means, or directed to an unwarrantable end; but becaufe in the manner of its operation, it progreiTes in a path, which his reafon cannot trace : He alfo convicted by the fame argument, (hall either give the quidditative and peculiarly expeefceaufes H 1 of to Of the Migntttck 19. of all thofc admirable effects of the Loadftone, which in the fequel of my difcourfe I am to mention ; or confcfs, that thole rare operations of the Loadftone, aretheimpoftures and the legerdemain of Satan j or (hall compulfively concede with us, (which indeed will be the fafer way) that in nature there is a Magnetifm, that is, a certain hidden property, by this ap- pellation, in reference to the confpicuous and confeft prero- gative of that ftone, diftinguifht from all other abftrufe, and to common heads unknown, qualities. A Loadftone placed upon a thin fmall Trencher of wood, floating on water, does inftantly in one determinate point au- ftralUe, and in the other feptentriotate. That extreme, which by its verticity regards the Southern Pole , when by touch it hath impregnated a piece of fteel or iron, will immediately fleer it to the North; and the other extreme which looks up- on the Northern Pole, having invigorated a needle of fteel,will incline it to the South. By its Septentrional point, which is its bellj, it attracts iron orfteel to it; and by its Auftrale end t which is its back^, it thrufts iron or fteel from it. The Aqui- lonary fide, by friction of the point of a Compafs needle, pofi- tionally from the right hand to the left, endows it with a ver- tical or polary faculty, whereby it is directed to the South : But if the friction be ordered in a quite contrary pofition, from the left hand to the right, the direction of the point of the needle will alfo be contrary, and neer to the North. Thus alfo the Auftrale fide of the Loadftone* according to the variety of locality, or pofition in fridion, varies the polarity. Nay, what carrieth a neerer face of miracle, if a Loadftone by its affriction hath invigorated and excited a piece of iron, with a magnetical activity, that is, a power to attract another piece of iron ; the fame new made Magnetical iron, if inverted upfide down, and in that Antipodean pofition, a fecond time, rub'd upon the Loadftone, will, in the lame moment, be devefted of its magnetical infufion, and clean forget its lately acquired power of attraction. All which various and admirable effects of the Loadftone, thou mayeft, if thy judgment relifh them, finde made good by multiplied obfervations, by tvilliamGuil- bert, not many yecrs paft, a Phyfician in London, in liis Book De Care tf Wwnsls* i 1 I)e MAgntte : Of which fub/eft no man ever writ more;**#- eioftflj or experimentally ; and by whofe induftry, the variati- on of the Compafs may be reftored. The needle, which now points directly upon the North, coming under the Equinoctial Line, ftaggers to and fro, hovers from Pole to Pole, and in a trembling unconftancy fixes on neither: But once brought over the Meridian, nimbly wheels about, and fixedly applies it felf to the South. I (hall annex this Medical Vertue of it : the hack^of the Load/lone, as it repulfethiron, fo alfo it retrudeth the gut, by reafon of too wide an expanfion of the procefs of the ?er\tonenm\ prolapfed into the ScrottimpxttxXx the Entero- cele or intefrine rupture, and likewife all Catarrhes or deftil* ments, that have a private artinity, or analogy with the nature of iron. The iron-attracting faculty, if in a compofition,. married to the mumy of a woman, then the back of theLoad- ftone applied to her thigh, on the infide, and the belly of an- other impofed upon her loyns, about theloweft fpondil of the' back, will lafely prevent an abortion threatned ; but on the contrary, the belly of one Loadftone applied to her thigh,and the back of another to her back, will both wonderfully facili- tate her travail, and expedite her delivery. All which various operations of the Loadfione, our Anatomifl is obliged to il- luftrate, by reafons, drawn i priori, from the fountain of their diftinct and determinate efficiencies, and expound to us the i'ubtilc manner of the progrefs of each caufe, in the producti- on of each feveral effect : otherwife, Khali byaparile argu- ment of ignorance, conclude, that thefe in like manner,, are a^fo meer Mujions of Satan, and no e feels of Nature. I fhall now infer fome certain examples of another Magne- tifm, coufin-germanto the former j that fo with our judgment better informed we may at length come to the pofitive reafon, and clear refutation of all the objections of ouradverfaries. What can I do more ? I my felf will contrive reafons for you,, which you have not at all urged. You may argue thus j Every effect either immediately proceeds from God, the fcle Opera- tor, and fo is a miracle • or from Sjtan, and fo is prodigious ; or from natural and ordinary 7 can; is, and fois meeriy natural ;, but Magnttifm is neither, a miracle, noi a natural effect j and therefore I z Of the Magnttick m ■ \ ' therefore Satanical. I anfwer ; Though I might, with great facility, declare this enumeration delivered, to be invalid, in regard the inm-ardman hath a power of activity, by none of the forementioned ways, (which, in the purfuitof our debate, we (hall largely, and to ample fatisfa&ion, treat of) yet how- ever we now. with a dry foot, pafs by the ajfumption, making it our chief task to deny and fubvert the *'»/*rf»« , ) namely in that part, whereby it isaiferted, that the effect is not natural. For, by the rules of orderly and artificial difputation, that was firft to be made good, that we might not fall foul upon that elench^ Petitioprincipii^ a precarious conceflion of that Thejis % which is yet queftionable and undetermined ; but in this point, our Ccnfor hath yet been, and ever will be defective, to affirm the effect not to be natural ; unlefs he thought, that a bare affirmation is equivalent to a confirm at i«»,and that to have fub- ftituted his fingle authority in the room of reafon, was evi- dence flrong enough to (ilence doubt, and procure credence. For there are many effects natural,which yet do not ordinarily happen ; namely, fuch as are rarely incident. Wherefore to gratifie our Jnatomift, I fhall all along the trad of this exer- cife, not onely maintain the affirmative part, but alfo perfpf- cuoufly commonftrate it by reafons, and ratifie it by examples. For fo the mighty argument, even now urged, will fall by its own weight. 20. There is a Book, imprinted at Vranekera^ in the year \6i 1. by Vldericm Dominions £alc\, of the Lamp of life. In which you (hall finde, out of Paracelfus, the true Magnctical cure of rnoft difeafes, as of the Dropjie, Gout, faundies, &c by inclu- ding the warm blood of the Patient in the fhell and white of an Egg, which expofed to a gentle heat, and mixt with a bait of flefh, you (hall give, together with the blood, to a hungry dog, or fwine, and the difeafe (hall inftantly pafs from you in- to the dog, and utterly leave you ; no otherwife then the Leproiie of Naaman did, by the exfecration of the Prophet, tranfmigrate into Gchazi. What, do you account this alfo Diabolical, thus to have reftored our languiftung neighborly the Magnetifm onely of the mumial blood ? however, he is perfectly and undoubtedly recovered, f A Cure of Wounds. I ^ A woman weaning her childe,to the end her brefts may the 21. fooner dry up, ftrokes her milk into a fire of glowing coals, and thereupon her paps fuddenly grow flaccid, and the foun- tain of her milk, is flopped. What, doth the devil fuck and drain them ? Hath any one with his excrements defiled the threshold of thy door, and thou intendeft to prohibit that naftinefs for the future, do but lay a red-hot iron upon the excrement, and the immodefl: floven (ball, in a very fhort fpace, grow fcabby on his buttocks j the fire torrifying the excrement,and by dorfal Magnetifm driving the acrimony of the burning, into his impudent anus. Perchance, you will object, that this action is Satanical, in regard the end of it is revenge, and the lxfion of the party, which offended us ; but afluredly, the abufe of fiich powers depends on the liberty of mans will, and yet the ufe is no whit the lefs natural. Make a fmall table of Bifmuthum* ', and on the one ex- 22. treme, place a piece of Amber, on the other, a piece of green * Confute jhp. Vitriol ; the Vitriol will in a moment lofe both its colour and P l emcatntu acidity. Both which are familiarly obfervable in the prepara- l '^ ra ' tion of Amber. This one experiment, of all others, cannot but be free from 23. all fufpecl of impofture, and illuilon of the Devil. A certain inhabitant of Bruxels, in a combat had his nofe mowed off, addreffed himfelf to Tagliaco^us * , a famous Chirurgeon, * Aljlfcrjbmt living at Bononia, that he might procure a new one ; and Talwotius. when he feared the incifion of his own arm, he hired a Porter to admit it, out of whofe arm, having firft given the reward agreed upon, at length he dig'd a new nofe. About thirteen moneths after his return to his own Countrey, on a fudden the ingrafted nofe grew cold, putrified, and within few days, dropt off. To thofe of his friends, that were curious in the exploration of the caufe of this unexpected misfortune, it was difcovered, that the Porter expired, neer about the fame punctilio of time, wherein the nofe grew frigid and cadave- rous. There are at Brnxels yet furviving, fome of good re- pute, that were eye-witneffes of thefe occurrences. Is not this Magnetifm of manifeft affinity with murriy, whereby tt# I nofe, 14 Of the Mdgnetick nofe, enjoying, by title and right of inoculation, acommu" nity of life, fenfe and vegetation, for fo many moneths, on a fudden mortified on the other fide of the Alpes ? I pray, what is there in this of Superftition ? what of attent and ex- alted Imagination > 2-f . The root of the Car line Thifile (which is the White Cha- meleon of Diofcorides) pluckt up when full of juice and vigor, and contemporate with Humane Aiumy, does, as it were by an operative ferment^ exhauft all the natural ftrength and courage of a man, on whofe fhadow thou treadeft, and in- fufe it into thee. But you may account this praftigious, be- caufe Paradoxical * as if the fame identical Leprofie were not traduced from Naaman to Gehaz,i ; and-the fame numerical aj« Jaundies tranfplanted from the patient to a dog. For a difeafe is not under the Predicament of Quality- but all the Pre- dicaments are found in every particular difeafe. Since indeed, it may be lawful to accommodate names to things , but not things to names. 16. The Heliotropian or Solifecjuous Flowers are wheeled about after the Sun, by a certain Magnetilm ; not for his heat, whofe comfort they may long after; for in a cloudy and cold day they imitate the rhythme of the Sun; nor for his Jight, are they the Lacqueis of the Sun ; for in the dark night, when they have deferted him, they face about from the Weft, to the Eaft. You will not account this Diabolical, in regard you have another fubterfuge at hand ; namely the harmony of fuperior bodies, with inferior, ami a faculty at- tractive, purely celeftial, and no way communicable to fub- lunaries. As though the Micrccofm, unworthy this heavenly prerogative, could in his blood and mofs oblerve, and cor- refpond to no revolution of the Planets. I might here, with pertinence, difcourfe of Philters, or amorous Medicines, which require a Mumial Confermentati- dn, that the affection and defire of the minde may be forcibly drawn, and rapt on to one determinate objecl.But on a fober corvfultwith thought, it feems moreadvifed, to iuperfede that theme, when I (hall firft have mentioned this one obfe: - ^tion ; I know an Herb, commonly obvious, which if it be rubbed, Cure of Wounds. 1 5 rubbed, and cherifhed in thy hand, until it wax warm, you may hold fail the hand of another perfon, until that alfo grow warm, and he (hall continually burn with an ardent love, and fi\t dileftion of thy perfon, for many days toge- ther.' I held in my hand,firft bathed in the fteam of this love- procuring plant the foot of a Dog, forfome few minutes : The Dog, wholly renouncing his old Miftrefc, inftantly fol- lowed me, and courted me fo hotly, that in the night he la- mentably howled at my Chamber door, that I fhould open and admit him. There are fome now living in Bruxels^ who are witnelTes to me, and can attefl the truth of this facl. For the heat of a mans hand warming and refolving the plant, I fay not a bare, fimple and folitary heat, but excited and im- pregnate with a certain effluvium^ or emanation of fpirits natural, doth peculiarly determine and individuate the ver- tue of the plant to himfelf ; and by this ferment communi- cated to a fecond perfon, doth by Magnetifm allecl: the fpirit of that perfon, and fubdue him to love. I omit the cures of many difeafes,which the Arcanum, the 2 $« myftery of humane blood, doth Magnetically perform : For unlefs the- blood, yea the very fanies or purulent effluxions from Wounds and Ulcers, the Urine, and that fubtle effluvi- um, which by infenfible tranfpiration evaporates through the pores of the skin, did continually exhauft, and carry with them fome part of the vital fpirit ; and unlefs thefe had alfo fome participation of vitality, and confpiracy with the whole body, after their remove from the whole concretum : Un- doubtedly the life of man could not be fo fhort. For indeed this is the caufe of our inteftine calamity, and that principle of death we carry about us, am'bufcadoed in the very princi- ples of life. The Herbs Arfemart or Water Pepper, Cumfry, Chirur- 2 q. geons Sophia or Flixweed, Adders tongue, and many other of the Vulnerary tribe, have this peculiar endowment ; that if, when cold they are fteept in water (for an Oke felled, when the North wind blows, will grow verminous and rot- ten, if not inftantly funk under water) and then applied to a Wound or Ulcer,until they grow warm, and after buried in a I 2 muddy 1 6 Of the Magntiick muddy uliginous Earth ; when they begin to putrifie, they then operate upon, and draw from the Patient, whatever is evil, fuperfluous, and hurtful to him. And this the Herbs per- form, not while they grow in the earth, nor fo long as they remain in their primitive and prijlineform (forneceffary it is that the grain be mortified, that it may bring forth fruit) but in the putrefaction of their Corporeities, for the Ejfential vir- tues being then as it were releafed from the prifon and impedi- ments of the corporeal matter, do put forth and freely execute that Magnetifm , which otherwise had lain dormant and en- chained, and according to the contagion and imprefilon re- ceived from the wounded or ulcerated part, powerfully fuck put much of the remaining evil, though feated deeply and at great diflance in the body. 30. If anyone in gathering the leaves of Afarabecca , (hall pluck them upward, they will perform their operation re- spectively, and purge any third perfon, that is wholly ignorant of that positional traction, by vomit onely ; but if in gathering they be wrefted downward,t\\ty then will purge onely by ftool. Here at lead can be no fuipect of fuperfiition ; for what need I here to mention any thing of Imagination ; when your felves concede, that by the power of imagination nothing can be acted upon a third object, efpecially where that third object is utterly ignorant of the pofition, which the decerpent ufed > 3 *• Will you again take hold of the facred anchor of ignorance, and accufe this fecret of an implicite Compacl with Satan ? But herein lurks no vain obfervance; chiefly when the de- cerptorfhallhave, the afTument being wholly infcious of the pofition, plucktoff the leaves, either upward or downward. Doubtlefs, befides Afarum and the extremities orcluftersof Elder , no other Cathartic^ Medicines are enriched with this propriety; for they, in what pofition foe ver collected from the plant, do ever operate univocally : that is, either constant- ly upwards, or conftantly downwards, according to the defti- iiation of their gifts. But in Afarum, in the integral plant, there fenfibly appears a Magnetical propriety ; and fo it doth \ juioufly endow its leaves, according to the fenfe of their dc- 3 *• cerption. That not onely plants, but alfo almofl all created Entities, Cure of Wounds, 17 Entities, have a certain adumbration of fenfe, or obfcure fen- fibility, they largely declare as well by Sympathy, as Antipa- thy (which prefuppofe , and cannot confifl: without fenfe) maintained amongft themfelves ; which fatisfactorily to mani- feft, (hall be the fubject of fome fucceeding lines. A (econd Tit of the Gout furprized a Noble Matron, of my 33. acquaintance, after the firfc. paroxyfm had gone off, and left her; and thenceforward the Gout, by an unwonted recidi- vation, and periodical recourfe, infefted her without remifli- on, for many moneths together. But (he not apprehending whence fo violent and unexpected a return of the difeafe had happened to her ; at length (he tiling from her bed, as often as the fury of the fit, by intervals, fomewhat remitted, re- pofed her felf in a Chair, wherein a brother of hers, many years pair, and in another City, cruelly tortured with the Gout, was wont to fit, fhe inflantly found that from thence the difeafe did awake, and afrefh invade her. This effect like- wife is, on no pretence whatever, to be afcribed to Imagina- tion or doubt ; (ince both thefe. were much yonger then the effect. But if it hapned that any third perfon fubject to the Gout fate in the fame Chair, to him there fucceeded not any reincrudation of the difeafe. For which reafon, the mumy of her dead brother defervedly rendred the Chair fufpected of contagion ; which penetrating through all her cloaths, did to the filter onely, and not to any other podagrical perfon,excite thofe frequent refluxes and paroxyfms, which otherwife had flept,and not invaded her. The caufe truly was the Magnetifm of the brothers mumy, infected with a prodagrical miafm or tincture , erHuxed from him, and imprefled upon the Chair, ileteiminately operating on the uterine mumy of the filter ; and that a long tract of time after his funeral. I befeech you, what can you difcover in this of any implicite Compatl, with our grand adverfary Satan ? A Saphire enobled with a deep coerule tincture, if it be ap- , 4 plied to, and a fmall time rub'd upon a Carbuncle, whereby the Plague pathognonVnically difcovers it felf, and after a while be removed, the abfent Jewel then ceafeth not Magne- tically to allect and extract all the pefcilential virulency, and I 5 contagious 1 8 Of tbe Mdgmtick contagious [Jtfyfon From the infected party ; provided that this be done, before the Patient hath differed too great a profternation of fpitits, and decay of ftrength. Phyficians therefore ufe (which to us much advances the reputation of MagnetifmygtoxXy and Hourly to draw a circle with a SaphWe, round about ipejfrikntijtl tumor : To this end,lefttbe venome exhaling^ ftiould in that part, where it infenfibly evaporates, exfpatiate and dilate it felf to a wider range, and fo in that circumferential expandon infect fome noble part adjacent, for in that place where the virulency exhales, magnetically attracted from the infected body as it were through a trunck, orcondiut-pipe, all the round or circle inftantly grows black, and at length torrified into ah Efchar falls of: the heart, in the interim, being preferred from the fatal contagion. Nor is there any poftem -door left open to evAfton, by objecting, that we are to conceive the poy'fon attracted to the Carbkncle, in the fame moment, when the round was drawn about the place, or at leaft then critically conquered by the internal champion of life, the heart ; and not to attribute it to any Magnetifmof the Sapbire removed atdiftance. But however, the Jick^ will give in their teltimony, that they did not perceive arty relief in the inftant of the Saphires touch ; but a good while after : The poyfon indeed,gradually,by little and little, departing from the body, by the Magnetical attraction. Yea, the place it felf will afford a more certain and fatisfactory e- vidence on the behalf of Magnetifm ; for it grows not black and torrid in the minute of, or by the affliction of the Sam- phire ; but many minutes after, being immediately combuft by the peftiferous, that is Arfcnical, vapor, in that one path, and no other, expiring from the Centrals. For wbere the ve- nome doescontinually exhale, the venemous radii being con- gregated and bound up into one Cone or pyramidal point, there it is of neceflity that the part fuffer extreme violence, grow black, and be torrihed ; which effects, as they are per- formed in fucceflive motions of time, fo alfo they inform us, that the virulency does fucceflively breathe forth,in obedience to the Magnetical alliciency of the abfent Gem. Your reply perchance will be,that every Agent doth require a cer- Cure of Wmnds. 19 a certain, arid limited duration of its impreffion : that the Saphire did not benefit the Patient in the prefent, but left be- hinde it an imprej/ion, which was by degrees to fubdue the remainder of the Plague ; but not that the Saphire did attract any thing at all, after its remove from the Carbuncle. Here you {hall obferve, that every Agent of Nature does act in an inftant in the firft moment of congreffion, unlefs there be fome obfhcle or remora of difobedience in the Patient ; but in the body infected there can be no impediment from re- luctancy, or flop of reaction, fince it longs for a relief with all expedition, and in expectation of it, unceffantly pants and labors in all veins of the body. It would be clear another thing, if the Saphire were firfr to fuffer preparation, concoction, or alteration, that fo from the concretion there might be educed the imprifoned Agmt, which fhould afterwards diffufe and fpread it felf through all parts of the body. But when the Saphire eonferves its native integrity, and continues unMjf&lved and incorrupt, it requires onely a certain determinate time for this, that it may, by the touch and mediation of the mumy, affociate and unite its own- fnfiuffui.il ftty to the peftilential vapor, and io captive k,_ that afterwards being withdrawn,it may forcibly command it from the heart. To this afTbeiation and marriage, I fay, that there be a convenient alligation of the virtue Saphiricalto, and as jt were a Conglomeration with the venome, there is required a determinate meafu re of time (grant the eighth part of an hour) wherein the Compafs line may be drawn about the peflilential Br-bo. For if there were onely fome bare, fingle impreflion of the Saphire , which conftantly adhering to the- place after the touch, fhould by little and little conquer and eradicate the ve name, within the precincts of the body- and no Aiagnetical alliciency of the a'bfent flone : There could no reafon be found out, why that particular place of the circle, fhould bebenegroed and torriried, nor why the virulent ex- halation fhould not range in a larger circumference then .the cicumdate line. What is-more, if many Carbuncles fieiliiy 3 % (hew themfelves in divers places at once ; yet that onejy ffai - bitnde^ which was circumfcribed with the Saphire, undergoes combuflion. 20 Of the Magmtick combuftionand denigration, all the other finking down again, and vanifhing infenfibly. And therefore, I befeech yon, what impreflion attractive can the Saphire leave behinde it, after its remove, if not a Magnetic*! one ? Principally, when the Attratlum doth imply an infeparable relation to the Aitra- font ; and fo tranfpofitively. Yea, if the Saphire (hould from its felf tranfmit any virtue into the fick body, after twice or thrice ufmg, it would inevita- bly be fubject to diminution and decay of power, (for fo the hoof of the Ell^, by often ufe of it, to fufpend and rellft the invafion of Epileptickjparoxyfms, by degrees becomes evirate anddefpoiled of all activity) that faculty, which is impreft upon the Carbuncle, being exhauft andipent; which mani- feftly in the Saphire falls not out alike ; for fo much the more excellent and eiiicacious a Saphire is efteemed, by how much the more frequently it has fuckt out the venome of the pefti- lence. It may be you'l anfwer, that the Saphire does generate a new third quality in the Patient, by reafon whereof it begins to attract and drain the poyfon, that way onely ; and that al- though the Saphire be then removed, yet that nature never- theless, once encouraged and invited into action, ccafes not to perfevere intheexpulfion, and maintains that Crilis, through that paiTage onely,where the poyfon firft began to be expel I'd. Firft, we f^^/Vf, whether the Saphire does attract by a firft, manifeft quality (imagine heat) or by a formal ' magnctical pro- priety ? But this Magnetical eflential faculty requires not any previous generation, or refult, of a new quality, within the body; but onely the conjunction of its virtue attractive, to the peftilential aer, fo that it may perform its office of at- traction. From whence the inference is ; that the attraction is performed by the abfent Saphire* This affumption holds clearly good, becaufe every natural Attrahent does attract adfe, to it felf ; for to this end onely does it attract. For which reafon, a new third quality, generated in the body, would rather attract the virulent exhalation concentrically and inwards, and could by no means be invited outwards, by an exccntrical attraction. Our fecond enquiry is ; whether the Saphire may not have generated, and emitted a virtue from it felf, and impreft that virtue Cure of Wounds, a x virtue on the skin onely ? For neither can this (land ; fince then, it would not be neceffary, that a circle (hould be drawn about the Carbuncle , with the Saphire ; but it would be fuffi- cient,that any other more remote and commodious part of the skin be toucht ; which, by the fuffrage of experience, is ab- folutely falfe. Our third query is, whether the Saphire haply can unlock and expand the pores of the skin ? and whether Nature, on the Angle (lock of its power, could not have made ufe of its own expulfive faculty, without the attraction of the Saphire ? ]f we fay, not ; then the Saphire cannot be allowed to attract, but onely to have aflifted and corroborated the expulfive faculty. But this opinion is foon fubverted by the effect ; in that no place fuffers combuftion, either without or beyond the round ; and alfo becaufe the other Carbuncles^ be- ginning to bud forth,do at the fame time fink away and vanifli, though never toucht by the Saphire. Since indeed, if onely the expulfive faculty were corroborated, that would expel the venemous fumes every way round,and could not be retrained to any one certain and eleel place. Fourthly, Nature had already, before the admotion and affriclion of the Saphire, giving fufficient teftimony of its own valor and ability, in expelling the Carbuncle fingly and of its own accord. Whence alfo it appears a grofs falfity, that Nature once excited and rouzed up to expulfion, by the faphi- rical infufion, does afterward perfevere in, and ftoutly main- tain that critical motion ; fince obfervation aflures us, that frequently the Saphira is but (lowly applied, and comes too late, to aflift the beginning of the expulfion. For which con- (Iderations, notwithftanding any thing you (hall be able to oppofe, it is of abfolute necefiity, that the pefiilential venoms is magnetically attracted by the abfent Saphire. Will you therefore, that the natural magnetifm of the Ar~ mary Unguent be more plainly and amply difcovered unto you ? or will you difparage and calumniate the noble allici- ency of the Saphire j and alfo write to the Calumniator ? you will (I fuppofe) judg it to have much more of reafon and folid truth to comply with our faith j that as death, wounds, difeafes , (laughters crept in , and made encroachments on K humane Of the Mdgnetick humane nature, by means of the Devil, from whom nothing proceeds but mifchief : So alfo that every good gift comes down from the Father of lights. It being a pofition univerfally afTented unto by all men : That that mufi be good, which nei- ther the fab jell, nor the objetl, nor the means , nsr the endpropofed, can accufe and conviEh of evil. 36\ Hence was it, that the antient Prelates of the Church were wont heretofore to wear rings enricht with a Saphire ; the ufe and excellent virtue of that precious ftone being,for the major part, hardly underftood among them. For to whomfoever the charge of fouls is committed, to them alfo of equity,and duty, it belongs to vifit and be afliftant to the infecled. with the plague ; the dark mift of ignorance, in our days, obnubilating and eclipfing the knowledg of the mofc excellent pieces of Nature ; in whofe room have fucceeded, an afFecled fpruce- nefs of language, a vain-glorious trimnefs of the windy and dead letter, and a confident, prefument garrulity. Which may be the fubjecl of our fevious forrow, but more of our wonder ; that all mechanique Arts do daily receive advancement, and. afccnd by the degrees of new difcoveries, neerer towards their perfection ; but the ftudy of Philofophy onely ftands ever pcr- plext and dikouraged with unjufi cenfures, and now is in its Apo7 # In this particular, therefore, Man alfo hath his magnes, or domeftick power of alliciency ; whereby,in time of the plague, he draws in, through the invifible pores of the skin, the pefti- lential Atomes exhaling from the infecled. For Nature, which at all other times is wont to admit nothing,but wholfome and alimentary juice, and with great diligence and exaclnefs to fequefter that juice, from the inalimentary and excrementiti- ous parts of it; at this time, yeelding and wholly fubmitting to its magnes, greedily fucks in the peftiferous aer, and invites death into the inmoft clofet of life. Ediametro contrary to this inteftine magnes. Providence has furnifht us with another peculiar, antagoniftical magnes (this we infert, that our dif- p-ute may not become barren and fruklefs, in any one part of K Cure of Wounds, 2$ it, namely the Saphire, or a tranflucid piece of Amber ; which rubbed to calefaction upon the [even planetary pulfes, (thofe on the jugular Arteries, on the handwriirs, neertheinftep, and on the throne of the heart) and hung about the neck in- ftead of a Periapt or Amulet, are too hard for the humane magnes, conquer and deitroy his attraction, and by that fupe- riority of attraction, become the mofl certain Amulets and Counterpojfons to the fatal contagion of this plague : Other- wife, if there precede not a requihte confridion of the Pulfes, they are altogether invalid,and of no efficacy.For thofe things, which in their primitive constitution were a Saphire and Am- ber, having from the arTriction changed their family, firft lofe ^ g . their originary appellations, and are afterwards called aZf- w.vfotf.orprefervatory Amulet again ft the pefttlence. Will any man, think you, account thefe effects Diabolical ; and attribute them to a covenant made with Satan ? It is fuffirient, that we have introduced a few, but felecl, fatisfactory, and pertinent examples, whofe cafe holds a per- fect analogy, and even proportion with that of the Armary Vnguent ; we fhall now feafonably turn our felves to your Arguments. You argue Goclenius of ignorance of the doctrine of A- riftotle, in that heinfinuates that the fame numerical Accident can pafs from one fubject to another (my wifh is, you had been as able at probation, as you are at refutation) namely, that this alfo is an aiTertion of huge pertinacity, to conceive, that a Cicatrice or fear in a dead body is not identically the fame, it was in the man yefterday living. For in vain do we 2 0> honor, and pay an humble and fiducial veneration unto the reliques of Saints ; if nothing but that fimple , impoflible matter , which the difciples of Ariflotle dream of, can remain, and not fome accidents conftantly continue in the corrupted body, which were heretofore in the living. Behold ! whither a paganical error may precipitate thofe, who improvidently carp at others. I fay, to imagine that to be absolutely im- poflible, which is abfolutely necefTary, is the part of the mod abfurd and grolTeft ignorance : For example, that Ugh ,f rom the body of .the Sun even down to the earth, in a more fwift K 2 motion 24 Of the Magnetic k motion then the twinkling of an eye, through all the (mailed: Atomes of the air, does produce new /pedes, and thofe Jpecies produce another ftock and fupply of [pecks of light. This properly is to be blinde in Sunfhine; for if we had not diffufed upon us the identical light and vigorous influence of the Sun, butonely the thoufand, of thoufandsof millions, [pedes of light and virtue [olary ; no[ublunary could have growth or vegetation, nor could ever any fire be kindled by the refraction and union of its beams. For the [pedes of Jpecies of light, Jlnce in reality of eflence they are no more light, then the '[pe- des of colours are really colours, they can never be of activity ftrong enough to produce fire.tor my part, ferioufly I eherifh and applaud my felf for that ignorance of Arifiotles doctrine, of which Goclenius is accufed as rude and illiterate. Doth not the needle of the Mariners compa[s , through a firm glafe, clofely fealed up with melted foder (in which there can be no pore or crany difcovered) fleer it felf to the Artickjpole f and is it not attracted to a piece of iron placed within the orb of attraction, the pole during that feduction, wholly neglected ? Wherefore the fame numerical Accident, ([reaming in one con- tinued radim from the Loadfione into the aer, pafles through the glafs, and perhaps goes as far, as to touch the pole it felf. 40. And Magnet i[m likewife is a Celefiial quality, of neer affinity to the [tdere a I influences', neither is it confin'd to any deter- minate diftance of place ; as neither is the Magnetical Vn~ guent, of which our difpute. ^i. You fmile, becaufe Goclenius choofes for an ingredient into the Vnguem, that mo[s onely, which is gathered off the fcull Fur. of a man of three letters *. Nor in this truly is there any ground for your conjecture, that in the herb there lies a fnake in ambufh, any vain touch of UJ perdition couch't. For if a fe[uite, put to death by ftrangulation, or any other kinde of martyrdom, be left [ub diojn an obedient pofition to receive the influence of the ftars* yet his head will yeeld the fame crop of Mo[s, equivalent in ufe, and equally ripe, with the head of a Thief: fince the Se- iwinality of the mefs drops down from Heaven upon Mount Calvary, For fometimes there diftils a frothy dew, which is called Cure of Wounds. 25 called Aurora ; and after that, a more tenacious Vifcid Muci- lage defcends, which is called Spermafiderttm, the feminal e- rniflion of the fhrs ; fometimes the Heavens have (hower'd down clouds of Frogs, Spiders, Locufts, and other fuch in- * 2# feels, which in their defcent became folid, tangible, and vital fubftances : in other mountainous places the prodigious clouds have rained mil&ndalfo blood; frequently alfo there is found lying upon ftones and bones a white bit uminom mat' tcr, fweat from the celeftial orbs, which turns into weft. This ^ candid fubflance, in fome places, where it petrifies and is changed into ftone, induces acruftaceousfurface,, or parget upon ftones • in other places it degenerates into a mofs. To this Clajfis of Meteors we are alfo to refer, the Dew, 44, Manna, Throni, Thereniabin, Nofioch y Nebnigea, Laudanum *, * Quid vtht and other fuch aereal produdions.Though thefe partake more ^^thorper h*c largely of the fubflance of aer : while, in the interim, the ori- " ova & '"" . ° J . . . ~ , r ' . /-11 f ta momma., ex ginary principles of the mofs, growing upon lculls, are of z C abali(iico-Para- higher and more noble pedigree, the feminary excretions of cclfi vocabulma the ftars; and are called by Hermetical Philofo:hers the flowers f»iuuata a cxpli- or fruits of the Cehftial Orbs. By thefe the prudent have at- •5^2" tempted and atchieved many notable defines ; and indeed;, SjJ^^l' they being enriched with the favor and continual influence of the Heavens, want not the ground and foundation of excellent and generous faculties* The mofs therefore of a fcull, fince it hath received its feminality from the celeftial orbs, but its Ma- trix, conception, and increment from themumial and medul- lary fubflance of the fcull of man; it is no miracle, that it hath obtained excellent Aftral, and Magnetical virtues, far 45*. tranfcending the common lot of Vegetables ; although herbs alfo, in the capacity of herbs, have their peculiar Magnetifms : I will infert an obfervation of my own ; A certain Soulctier of a noble extraction, wore a little lock of the mofs of a mans fcull, finely enclofed betwixt the skin andflefhof his head; who in friendlhip interceding betwixt two brothers, that were fighting a mortal duel, unfortunately received fo violent a blow with a fword on his head, that he immediately fell to the earth-. With which blow his hat, and hair were cut through, aj with an incifion knife, even to the skin; but heefcaped iK 2 without 26 Of the Magnet I ck without the fmalleft wound, or penetration of the skin. I need not anticipate, your felves may without much difficulty guefs, to whatcaufe the guard of the skin may be juftly afcri- bed. It hath not been the cuftomc of my genius, to perplex and rack my rninde, with uncertain conjectures ; fince indeed lightning, of far greater violence then a fword, if it ever touch a Bay tree, does yet never difcharge it felf upon a Sea Calf, or Horfe, whofe fnafle is anointed with the fat of a Sea Calf, nor ever falls upon that ftable, whofe dorepofts are emplaftered with the fame fat. The experience is trivial and frequent. But I pafs lightly over this fcene, and refigne it to others ; fo foon as I fhall have mentioned one other example, like the former. * Ell (tola S. j n ji rc lH enna * Saint Hubert is worfhiped with folemn and (ex diverts" da- P u blick veneration, whither all people bitten by any mad dog -vibtts obferata, fpeedily addrefs themfelves (as elfewhere others flock to the a diverfisquo (hrines of Saint Domirus and Bellini^ :) there the Flymen or qitcdavigms j> rie ft buries afmall lock of wool, from theftole or upper wjiodua. <«<> garment of the Saint, which is artificially inclofed within the praftind'unt skin °* tne forehead or the patient, bitten by a mad dog; (iola Wins par- and from thenceforth forever he can be no more wounded ttm,nma7wite or fmitten, rby any mad, or wilde beafts whatever ; for the fa- tntcrim Jlold^ crec j m agick of the lock is thefhield, that fecures from the abotthizauis' v i°^ nce '°f enraged teeth, and renders the wearer invulnera- jam& amplius ble. * Your anfwer will be, that this extraordinary effeclis amis. Ncc c(i done by an immediate miracle of God, cooperating with facred impojlurx locus, reliques. Well, grant it be a miracle ; yet that God in the pro- Vodi anfoU dudion of miracles, does, for the molt part, walk hand in fiicx'bjffollana, ^ iand Wlt ^ Nature, and in a manner oblige himfelf to an ob- imo, vel bom- fervance of, and conformity with her cuftoms and rules, thefe bace, adeoqite Patients of Saint Hubert do plainly evidence by their lock of nee poffet quo- W ooll. For that uncircumfcribed Omnipotence, whofe power is tannnnovuluB' ' • (litui. Prafcindimt autcm de (tola partem, ut filament urn fogulis demrrfts a rab'ido, intra cut'm frmtitincament. Inde enim aiiud miraculum. £>uod qui femel fufeepto filamtnto e (tola, per thus fuos convaluit, poteft a/teri demorfo diferetermimm, & fopircrabkm adventantcm, per quadra- genarias, idque in annos aliquot, dum tandm fuo commodo adirc qucat S. Hubert urn. Ea tamen fub conduienc, uttaniiUum fi quisfupra 40 dies expedet, nee prorogationem termini ante impctra- verit, cenfeftim in rabiem incidat dcplaratam. Hxc Myflagogus omnibus, quolquot devot'tonts crgS percgre Junt profefti, bofpitibns-, clato fuferalit, pradicat. Sedvhti emimCliOiibns potim olent fraudem^ qmm veritaicm Chajiimfmo dignam. * 46, limited Cure of Wounds. 27 limited by no law but that of his will, who can do all things by the fingle efficiency of a Fiat, does fometimes make ufe alfo of natural means. Thus let the fweat in the Sudary, or Stove of Saint Paul, be alfo a Magnetic al Vnguent ; but the fweat of the fick perfons, or the infenfible effluvium exhaling from them, be the blood of the wounded, fprinkled upon a piece of wood, and put into the box of Vnguent ; immediately all harm and evil depend- ing on the wound, is from all parts of the body attracted magnetically. And this effect is by fo much the more power- 47» fully wrought, by how much more efficacy the fupematural magnes is endowed withal. For in both, truly, there is the fame reafon, and the fame manner of the caufes operation ; the difference lies onely in this, that in the material world, the effect fucceeds upon a requisite conjunction and co-efficiency of corporal means, the blood and the Vnguent', but in the fupematural, by a holy magnetifm, arifing from the facred re- licjuesoi the Friends of God, which in this relation, undoubt- edly deferve our venerable efteem. That thefe miracle-pro- 4$, ducingreliques might in the manner of their operations, by a neerer fimilitude approach to the nature of the Magnetical Vnguent, God, the foul of mercy, moved with compaction to- wards our frail and calamitous eftate, hath infomeof them called up a fountain of oyl, perpetually pouring forth dreams of Balfam : To this end, that every where relieved and fup- ported by magnetical remedies, we might for certain beaffured, that the Magnetical cure of wounds is received from God, and both in the fupematural and natural world doth proceed in an equal order of caufes, in an equal pace and manner of operations,and by the conduct of the fame Diretlor and Guide. Hence is it, that frefh and new reliques work more, and more noble miracles when they are carried about, or applied to the Patient by the touch ; becaufe it is of unexcufable neceffity, that the magnes be firftrub'd, touch't, and ftir'd, if we will have it to attract. I return to thee,0 Vfnta ! the noble ifTue of celeftial feed : 49* for whofo hath enjoyed a convalefcence from the Hydrophobia^ by the lock of wooll, and other pious rites obferved, is not onely 28 Of the Mdgmtick 50. * In exCmplm 3Ll\evmano iegitur, inftar Joiut : fed ex incuria typogta- pbl litci-am I pro 'Xjtiutatam effe conjeei j eoqubi tnetapbora Jo- «<*, civitatcm Niniven ctr~ cumamb'miU, enimislongm- and doth not he delight himfelf in an undeferved donation of it ? Himfelf has vouchfafed to bequeath us a touch-ftone, jj. by which we may give infallible judgment of the perfons or* men; namely, that we fliall know them by their works. But what the works of Paracelfta were, and how much greater then all expectation of* Nature, and the mordacity of male- volent tongues, his own Epitaph, by the moft illuftrious, and moil: reverend Prelate, the Biftiop * of Salt^burg, appenfed *-panclpe Sa. to that well deferved Monument of his, doth in defpite of lUburgmfi. envy, fufficientiy declare. L z The 3* Of the Magnetick THE Epitaph olTATs^ACeLSVS: Engraven in ftone, at Saltzburg, in the Hofpital of Saint Sebaflian, on the crcd Wall of the Temple. * Aim Philip- pus Aureolus Paracclfus, ut idem Hclsnont. intraCt. dcli- tlriafi. * Atiieroga'dU, vel wdinavit : ut A damns Melchlor, in vi tis mdicorum German, COnditur hie Philip pus Theophraftw *j in fig- nis Medicine Doettr , qui dira ilia vulnera, Lepram y Poddgram^ Ffjdropifim , aliaque infanabilia cor- poris Contagia^ mirifica arte.fuftutit ; ac bonafua in pauperes diftribuenda 3 collocandaqm honor avit *. Anno 1541. die 24 Sep- tembrisyvitam cum morte mutAvit. TLJErc entombed is Phil- ■*• *lipu* Theophrafius _ , a famous Doctor of Phyfick, who by his wonder-working Art took away thofe mortal wounds,the Leprofie, Gout, Hydropfie, and other in- curable contagions of the body-,and ordained his goods to be distributed and given to the poor. In the yeer 1 541. on the 24 day of September^ he made an exchange of life for death. Paracelfus, therefore, is fo far from having deferved ill, in that he hath revealed Magnctifm, unknown to Antiquity ; and in the room of that fludy of Natural rrifdom, which with *reat barrennefs is taught abroad in publick Schools, intro- duced another more folid and real one, which by the Analyjis and Syntbcfis, the diacritical refolution of heterogeneal, and fyncritical conjunction of homogeneal bodies, is made pro- bable, and brought home to a familiarity with our fenfe, and yeelds a more wealthy harveft of knowledg • that thence he hath rather, by a juft title, won the denomination of the Monarch of [cents, from all his predecelTors • unlefs with thofe Cure of Wounds. 33 thofe that malign him, we, as ignorant Judges, difcommend all his good actions, and difparage thofe benefits, he accumu- lated upon pious ufes. I am thus a man, (i. c.) this is the | rogative of my humanity ; all things appear cheap and light in the ballance of my reafon, that pretend to a dominion over my belief,by no ftronger title,then that of Cufiom onely. Since there is nothing, that enfhroivds our mindes in a greater mifi of error and fedutl ion, then that we are conformed to Cufiom, out of an eajie and ungenerous credulity, fubmitting our ajfent to rumor, and the dreams of the multitude. We are therefore gallantly to attempt the emancipation of our faith from the tyranny and pedantifm of popular tradition, to purfue the liberty of our intelle&uals, and to enjoy, not enflave the lia- bilities of our judgment. You may again plead, that in Sublunaries there is no influ- ential virtue, that can be paralleld to the impreflions of Su- perlunaries ; but if you (hall ftumble at this ftone, you will at the fame inftant fall upon the reprehenfion of all thofe learned men, who have taken the direct path- to Pl.ulofbphy ; fincethey have rightly obferved to us, that in inf nor bodies there is an inference or tribute delivered down from fuperior, and reciprocally an analogy or refemblance of inferior in celefiial bodies. Do not Herbs, Animals, and difeafed men foreknow and prefage the future mutations of times and feafons ? Are we not to expecl fo much the harder Winter, by how much fhe deeper cave or lodging the Frog hathfera- ped in the earth, to harbor himfelf in the fucceeding Winter > For from this ground proceed the Aletcorical Auguries ; not indeed, that thofe prophefies of weather arife from the too early and yet future motion of the ftars ; in regard, it would then follow, that that motion muft caufe this prefagous fenfa- tion, long before its own contingency. Far be it from a fober head to dream fo palpable an abfur- dity, For the firmament does onely denounce future events ; b;p"ParrK. \A -» T A n ».« 40 of the Magnetick — Laboring your reafon to finde out a way of evafion you will thus contend for the prerogative of the Pole ; that the Pole doth indeed attract the I^oadfione 7 but according to the various and certain material difpofition of feveral Loadfione.^ it doth ailed them not in a right line towards it felf (for fiich is the condition and will of the Attrahent) but to fome other place fituate in vicinity. The fubftance of which is ; the Pole truly invites the loadfione to it felf in a direct line, but the Loadfione becomes refractary, and comes not in a direct: line, by reafon of fome unknown impediment, (which you term a certain peculiar difpofition of it) exiftent in the Load- fione, which is fuperior in power to,and vigoroufly refifts that traction of the Pole ; although the influential alliciency of the Star, at the diftance of fo many thoufand miles, arrive" at the body of the Loadfione entire, and without the leaft de- cay or diminution of vigor. You perceive, how much truth you have granted to your fubterfuge ? and how, though by compulfion, you affirm that in the Loadfione there dwells a certain (you call it certain y v/hich indeed to you is purely ima- ginary ^ and to all men elfe wholly uncertain) motive difpofi- /•*'o#,befide$,and fuperior to the attraction of the Pole ; which yet at the fame time, you peremptorily deny the Loadfione to poifefs ? which in the ballance of reafon carries this weight : the Loadfione is endued with a domefiick^ Pilot , a directive faculty , which guides it to fome determinate place, but is not at all attracted by the Pole. Driven from this ftarting hole, you flic for refuge to fome other Celeftial Attrahent ; feated in vicinity to the Pole ; by replying, that the Loadfione is attracted , and doth not direct it felf, by any internal polary virtue ; attracted not by any one particular and determinate Star, or point of Heaven, but by a certain Circle or Zone, at a neer diftance, environing the Pole. I anfwer, That this evafion is far fetched > for this imaginary Circle mult be extended to the latitude of eight degrees at leaft ; namely, from three to eleven degrees ; for I have obferved fome Loadfiones to fufill that large variation. Wherefore if there were a power of attraction equally in- herent in all pares of this Circle, one and the fame Loadfione won 1,5 Cure of Wounds. 41 would continually vary, and in the fame hour deflect, now to three, and anon to eight or eleven degrees from the Pole or Central Star ; which is a falfhood manifefted upon frequent experiment. Therefore, to help out this Chimera, there muft be conceived many leflfer Orbites or rounds one within an- other, in a Circle of fo great latitude -, every one of which fubalternate Zones muftfelect and attract its particular Load- ftone. Which being conceded, you inevitably fall again into the fame ^fV/a/j namely, that the Loadftone contains within it felf a certain difpofition or eletlive power, whereby it fhould conform to the traction of one round, rather then of an- other; and by confequence, when you have ftretched your abfurd conceptions to the higheft pin of phanfie, there will be neverthelels a motive virtue, or native verticit) in the Load- ftone. Yet we have not a clear profpect into the nature of this abftrafity. If the Pole did attract the Loadftone, the attracti- on muft depend either upon the elemental and material tem- per,or upon the fpecifical form of the Loadftone ; but a Gl /r, &&• wherein the Magiftery of Loadftone hath been prepared , though never fo much wafhed, and cleanfed by often rubbing, doth acquire a polarity, and for ever after conform it felf pofitionally to the two Cardinal points of Heaven ; by realbn of an impreflion, by inviiible aporrhceas or emiflion of mag- netical atomes, without any corporeal remains, communica- ted to the Glafs. Steel alfo once excited and invigorated by the contact of the Loadftone, how often foever rinfed and poliftied, doth yet inherit the Magnetical infufion, and point out the Pole. Which two diftinct bodies, fince they neither have a parity of temper , or homogeneity of forms betwixt themfelves j nor hold any proportionate analogy of temper, ox. identity of form, with the Loadftone : carry with them evi- dence clear enough to fatisfie a rational belief^ that the Pole can attract the Loadftone for neither of thofe two ends j namely, affinity of temperament, or cognation of ejfence. You may rejoyn, that immediately upon a {friction, there fucceeds a participation of the fubftance of the Loadftone in the poro- fities, or atomic • aline ontiguitics of the (heel, or fpondils of the M 3 glafs* 41 Of the MAgmt'uk 6j* gUfs. A miferable excufe ! for zherofw of the Fir tree, is of it (elf, by an internal Gorgon, coagulated into the hardnefs and folidity of a ftone, which having undergone tins petrification or lapidefcence, doth allecl: iron to it feif, no otherwife then the Loadftone. Here your dream of the corporeal participati- on of the Load ftone vanifheth. 6*8. The Loadftone onely by the arTriction of Garlicky amits it; tt*t dt Allctli- yerticity, and neglects the Pole, conferving to it felf, in the v* vinutu me antime, its peculiar form, material conftitutton, and all aUw*i%tflo> other dependent proprieties. The reafon, becaufeG'jr//V^is confep'uionc, a- the Loadftones proper Opttm % and by it that fmrittal fetifi- tiorum poms ex tion\t\ ihe Magnet isconfopited and laid afleep ; which fen- ;c!atwue y quam f at j on we have in our precedent difcourfe, mamfefted to be (cLZTnmlto thc fole and cardinal caufe of the all of all formal proprieties, cenfcatur Hel- Verily, that alliciency of the Pole muft be extreme weak and months, sie- of inconfiderable energy, which palling through fo many and mm experienii- fo immenfeorbs of heaven, and (hiking through great and 7" TfcHc *c - ^ rm buildings, an< * tmc ^ W ^K cannot yet be of power fnffi- /Zjfety "prima c ' ent t0 pierce the thin juice of Garlicky or the fume of A/er- indubitanter re- cnry \ the material radix, or temperamental foundation, and feriffct afreftu, a |fo the fpecifical form of the ftone, remaining unimpaired f 8d mdm and inviolate. v'ZiiSm, , A M *&"\ fwimming freely upon a calm water, in a fmall & moxfuuo boat of cork, hoileth iail, and gives one broad fide to the tMiiextinSluiH, North, and the other to the South. Therefore if this pofitio- hiud obfatram na j converfion were occafioned immediately by the folicitati- *thatm SV cx~ onof thePole > onely the Northern fide of the Stone would u'^ZcatCuat) be conftantly courted and drawn by the North Pole ; which euftralemanc ' is apparently falfe upon the teft of experiment. For if a ycrforii.magncte Magnet hath impregnated and magnetiried a gad of iron with mvigorat^ex- its North fide, it doth not, according to the law of its own naTfafmsln P ro P ri ety, dilpofe and incline that iron to the North, but to amplcxusrapere the South, although the atomical powder or duft of the foftt: afletiam, ftone adhere to the iron ; but on the contrary, if it hath ex- moA dens nag- Clte( [ aiK j fpi r j te d iron with its South fide, then it converts that "'TimbutHs 11 *^* t0 thc Nortn - Again, tlie Magnet with that part, where- i^reos acus, codcm fncct } ufque dum SYcifliorcm rubigmm contraxaint, mbaAtos, pempte fc vct/hs aUicerc valeat. by Cure of Wtiunds. 43 •••""J— P— «■« by it formerly applied it felf to the North , on t'ther fide the Equinoctial line tackes about, and faceth the South. Yet further let us purfue this Argument. A Magnet float- ing in a skif or fhallop of Cork, on a quiet pond, if the Bo- real quarter of it be violently ravifhed from its own beloved! pofition, and turned about to the South ; immediately,, as if wheeld about by fome counter-violence, it readdrefieth to its old miftrefs the North. For which reafon r if the Magnet were by an influential line from the Pole, drawn back again to the Pole,and this return did not proceed immediately from the fpontaneous direttion of the ftone ; of neceflity, by that convulfionof the Pole, the whole skif would be towed and haled to the North bank of the Pond, which never happens ; for both the Magnet, and its Shallop, by the acquifite directi- on of the ScptrentrionalCidc, (land frill upon the water and. remain unmoved. There is therefore inherent in the Magnet an influential virtue, which being not obliged to the propin- qi'ity or contiguous admotion of its object, is, after the nobler manner of celeftial influences, freely and without in- terruption or languor tranfmitted fo far as to the Pole it felf; (ince there is a fpontaneous eradiation, or emiffionof atomicaL radii from the body of the Magnet to the Pole. And thus, when there hath been found and prefented to the view of reafon, onely one influential virtue in fuk againfl: the more rro/} compare, or more material and lefs ratified fubftance of a ^o^. Ana* in this diftinctive notion we fay, that the light of the Sun, the influx of celeflial bodies, the narcotical ejaculation cf the Torpedo, the fatal optic kjmijfi on of the Bafilish^, &c. are qualities purely and wholly fpiritual ; why;'becaufe they are darted at and ftrike upon an object at great difhnce, not by the communion or affociation of fubfiantial evaporation ; but are, as by a medium of imperceptible light, deradiated and (hot from their Subject to a fit and determinate object. Thefe things thus conceded and made indubitate by argu- ments of reafon and experiment, it is fuificiently manife/r, that our Divine, when yet he underftood not Goclenius, hath neverthelefs carped at him, and indeed many times when he deferyed it not. (i ) Becaufe Goclenius placed a. fpiritual qua- lity in fo courfe a lodging, as a corporeal unguent. (2) That he affirmed the influential alliciency of a magnetick body to be derived to its appropriate object, through a medium or vehicle, as light is deradiated from the globe of the Sun. (3) That (uch fpiritual qualities are , by the mediation of a €crt2i\n fenfation of the univerfal or mundane fpir it (the grand and fole caufant of zWfympathy) tranfmitted to a remote and determinate object. This Archem or univerfal Spirit our Di- vine interprets to be fome Cacodtmon, fome curfed genius, but by no law, that I underftand, except that of his own licenti- ous judgment ; fince in real verity, it is a more pure and vital breath of Heaven, a Spirit which comprehends and cherifhes within it felf the Sun, and all the herd of lefler Stars,a minde or intelligence which dirTufed through all the limbs or parts of this great Animal, the World, doth inform and regulate the whole ; and fo by a certain commerce, communion, and confpiracy of otherwife-difcordant parts, and an harmonious marriage of the diftinct virtues of fingle effences, doth order and govern the vaft engine of the Univerfe, according to the unanimous Cure of Wounds. ^ unanimous confent of all, who have read and commented on the true Hiftory of Nature. To example, the Solijfequout 70. flowers fenfibly obferve the travel of the Sun : and the Sea conforms to either Luneftice, and fwells her obfequious tides high in the full, but (hrinks them low again in the Wane of the Moon. In fum ; all Creatures by their life, (let us, the maiter-piece , and abridgment of all , do homage to the Majefty of that King, to whom all things live) efTence, exigence andfenfation vifibly atteft the majefty , liberality , and prefence of the great Creator. For which consideration, our Divine is defervedly to be checked, in that he hath, with infurferable audacity , thrown rebukes at our Phyfician \ whom yet heunderitood not,writing in a philofophical ltile. For fuch a piece of difficulty was it to obferve a mean in all things. You enquire of us what can be attracted from the body of the wounded party ? and how any attraction can be per- formed by the abfent Vnvuent ? But in troth I might, with- out injury to themodeit rules of difputation, return, that when your felf (hall fully refolveus, for what reafon the Loadftone doth attract iron, and convert it felf to the Pole ; then (hall I alfo fatisfie you, how and by what means Mumy can, by the mediate efficiency of Mumy, work a cure upon another Mumy, which it hath touched upon : but in regard we have fubftituted our felves to relieve the infufficiency of Goclenint in this particular ab(trufity,we (hall,in the fequence of our difcourfe, by a didactical or fcientifical Analogifm * demonltrate unto you, by what means the Magnetical at- * Ratio qua ah traction of the Vngttent is performed , if at leaft I (hall to «"*&»« ni ob- fatisfaction inform you, what can be by the Vngttent attracted f eHr *j*8 ttt '»- from the Wound. We are to obferve therefore, that in z^tioarMt'iofit' Wound, there fucceeds not onely a bare rotation of continuity, comparat'wie & or Mfunion of the part • but alio that there is an exotickor praceptbTie cau- forain quality ', whereby the lips of the Wound being enraged * trttm c ffi cl€ntim and provoked to a certain excandefcence, by and by grow tu- dZe^taGden' mid and apoftemate, yea, the whole body from thence be- in lib. ad rfaa- comes afflicted with Fevers, and a grievous fyndrome or con- fjbulum. cu.rfe of dangerous Jymvtmcs ; for thus an £r. whole (hell 7 1. N " is 4$ of the Magnetic k is but flenderly crackt, foon putrefies and turns adle , when otherwife it might have been a long time conferved. Now this extrant om and peregrine quality the Armary Vnguent im- mediately fucks out of the Wound, whereupon chelipsof the Wound, being at length opprefTed and impeded by no Accident, are delivered from all pain and fickly situation of fpirits, andfuddenly haften to accretion,incarnation,and con- folidation. Nature her felf is the fole Chiron, that by the Sovereign balfam of the vital blood doth reunite the fevered parts, and foder up the incontiguity : the Phyjician is onely her fervant to be aflifhnt to her in the remove of thofe im- pediments, which otherwife might oppofe and infringe the power of her action : nor does the Medicine deferve the at- tribute of Sarcotical, or by its own virtue regenerate flefh in a Wound, but then to full fatisfaction of our hopes executes the commiflion of its faculty, when it hath removed thofe accidental remoraes that did retard and hinder the operation of Nature : all which impediments the Armary Vnguent, up- on its own fingle flock of power, doth fecurely and effectual- ly take off and banifh. Your rejoynder will be, that the Armary Unguent, in pro- bability of reafon, ought not to exhauft the forementioned quality , rather then the natural vigor of the body, and ftrength of the veins : and that the blood, fince it continues uncoriupt in the Unguent, ought to procure health, and not any indifpofition, to the wounded party : according to the •example of the Car line Thiftlc above mentioned. I refpond, -that there is a plurality and variety of Mignetifms : for fomc attract Iron, fome Straws, fomeLcad, others Flefh, the jpurulent effluxion of Wounds, &c. and the Magnetick en- dowment of fome confifls onely in this, that they can onely extract the peftilential Atomes from the centrals of an in- fected body, &c. Yea, if you fhall annex the /anation in our Unguent to your own Argument, your own weapon will wound you. Por from thence, that the genuine effect of the Unguent is to cure perfectly, fpeedily without pain, without colt, dan- ger, and decay of ftrength : Hence, I fay, it reiults a manifeft truth ? Citrtrf Wwnds. 4? truth, that the Magnetkal virtue of the Unguent is (imply natural, and proceeds from God, and not from Satan. The reafon thus ; if Satan did cooperate to thtsCure (according to your affertion) the cure would of neCeflity beimperfec\ attended with great amiflion of ftrength,an univerfai languor and enervation of tlie body, manifeft hazard of life, a diffi- 7 s . ctl, and at beft a tedious convalefcence, an alienation of the minde, abefion of fome more noble faculty, andfuccefsof fome notable misfortune. All which events 3s they are ever annexed to Diabolical cures : fo are they never obferved to follow upon a cure wrought by our Unguent. Our appeal lies to Experience, for fo many as ever received a cure by the Unguent will freely give in their teftimony on our fide. Now Satan is no Oracle tha4T delivers truths, no Counfellor to good,unlefs with defign to inllnuate hisdelufions the fmooth- er, and cannot but betray himfelf by this, that he never long continues in the truth, he fo fpecioufly pretended : for always, when he has been an inftrument of any good, con- fhnt to the hoftility of his nature, he in the clofe tempers his favor with a larger allay of evil. And introth the fame method would he according tothecuftom of his malicious friendftiip, have obferved in the Unguent, had he been in- terefTed as an Author or Fautor , either as Principall or Ac ceftory : at leaft this remedy .would then have failed and be- 73. come evirate, when the wounded patient is refcued from the jaws of death, and reprieved from the Gates of Hell, who otherwife, tainted with the mortal contagion of fin, would by reafon of his dangerous wound have poured forth his foul together with his blood ; unlefs perchance you feek to evade by faying, that Satan in that Crijis, that puntlilio of danger, furfered a change of his cruelty into compafsion, de- vefted himfelf of his ellential and inveterate enmity, and put on the good Samaritan, nay, fell not onely to commiferate but even drefs the wounds of humanity ; and that he hath ac- quired fome intereft, fome jurifdiclion over the wounded patient, himfelf leaves doubtful and open to difpute, in that he preferves him by the Magnetical Unguent, whom he had rather fhould perifh, It may be that Satan is in your efteem N 2 now 48 Of the Magnetick now held a Arid and pun&ual obferver of his word and bargain, and no longer a turncoate, fraudulent diflembler and perjured impoftor. Befides, we pofitively deny, that your fftppofition can carry weight in the ballance of truth, that the blood once extravenated continues uncorrupt, and conferves its intereft of vitality ; but rather that it is deprived of all community , and participation of life , and immediately undergoes fome degree of corruption ; but that it obtains onely a Mumial vitality. To this purpofe conduces the cor- rupted, and yet magnetical blood in an Eg. Wherefore I pafs by the abfurdity of your ob]tBion, fince it hath been fo bold as to wreft the Magnet of the Unguent to another intention, then that which the wife bounty of God t in the primitive decree of his counfel, ordained it unto. The Cure of Wounds, 4£ The To/ithe ^eafons of Magnetifm more neerly brought home to our knowkdg } by Metaphyseal and Magical principles. Opportunity now invites us to difcover the grand and ap- proximate caufe of Magnetifm in the Vnguent : Firft, by the confent of myftical Divines , we divide man into the e x~ sternal, and internal man, affigning to each diftinft part the powers of a certain minde, or informative principle • for in this disjunctive acception, there is a will competent to fiejb 74. and blood, which properly is neither the will of man, nor the •will oi God - r and our heavenly Father reveals fome things to the inward man, and fome things are revealed by fiejh and (flood, that is, the outward man, in the fingle and abftraded relation of Animal. For how can the adoration of idols^ envy, and other fuch branches arifingfrom the root of Cok- cupifcence, be juftly lifted amongfr the works of the flefli (fince they confift onely in the imagination) if to the flefh alfo there did not peculiarly belong an Imaginative faculty, and an elecTive will ? Again, that there are miraculous Ecflaftes competent to the inward man, is a tenet true beyond the difpute or hxfita- tion of a Sceptick. And that there are alfo Ecft-aftes in the outward man, is unqueftionable by the moll impudent infide- lity : Yea Martin Delrio, an Elder of the Society of fefu, in his Magical Difcjuijitions brings in a certain youth,in theCity Infulis, rapt with fo intenfe and violent cogitation,and ardent 7 i£ defire to fee his mother, that as if tranfported by an high Ecflafie, he faw her many leagues diftant, and returning again to himfelf perfectly remembred all things his fancy met with in this more-then-i > j[/£ < */? Vifien, and reported many fignes to atteft his real and prefential vifit of his mother. Many fuch examples occur to our quotidian obfervance,. which in conformity to our purpofe of brevity we with in- duftry omit. But that this defire did arife from the outward. N 3 maD ? _— . 50 Oftbt Magnet ick man, namely, from flefh and blood, is mod certain ; for otherwife the foul once difliged and enfranchifed from the body, can never, unlefs, by miracle, be again reunited toir. 76. Therefore in the blood there dwells a, certain Ecflatkal power , which, if at any time it (ball be excited by an earned and ardent de(ire,is able to tranfport and on the immaterial wings of fancy waft the fpirit of the outward man to fome deter- minate object though at vafr difhnce removed • but this Ec- ftatical faculty lies dormant in the outward man,as inpotentia, hi hability ; nor is it deduced into act, unlefs firft rouzed and excited by the imagination accenfed and exalted by fervent dc- fire, or fome other art equivalent to affection. 77. Moreover, when the blood has undergone fome gradual corruption, then and not till then are all the powers of ir, which before lay lock'c up inpotentia, aniflept in an unadive hability, awakened and called forth to action, without any previous excitation of the imagination : For by corruption of the grain, the feminal virtue, otherwife drowfie, torpent 7%. and fieri 1, fprings forth into the act of fertility. Forfincethe effences of things, and their principles of vitality know no obedience to the tyranny of corruption, by the diflfolution of the inferior harmony, the feparation of their corporal Hete- rogeneities, they awake into a vigorous activity, and freely 79. execute the commiflion of their faculties. And from hence is k, that every occult propriety, the compage of rheir bodies be- ing,by certain previous digejiions (which we call putrefactions) once dilTolved, as it were emancipated from the bondage of corporeity, comes forth free, expedite, and ready for action. Wherefore when the Wound, by the ingreflion of the offen- 80. iiveaer, hath admitted an adverfe and extraneous quality , from whence the Wood immediately actuates and ferments in the lips of the Wound, and otherwife is converted into a purulent matter; it happens that the blood in the Wound freflbly made, doth, by reafon of this exoticl^ quality, fuffer fome degree of putrefaction (which blood then received upon the weapon, is empiaftered with- the Magnetick Unguent) by the mediation of which gradual putrefaction, the Ecfiatick^ power of the blood, formerly latent in potential is drawn into Cure of Wounds. 5 1 aft, which bccaufe it holds a commerce and fecret friendfhip with that body, from whence it was effluxed, by relation of its hidden ecftafie • hence is it that this blood conftantly carries •an individual refpecl and determinate amity to the other Mood yet running in the veins of the fame body. For then is it, I fay, that the Magnet fets it felf a work in the Unguent; and by the concurrence and mediation of the Ecftatick power (for fo I chriften this quality, in defed of a m-ore convenient Epithite) fucks out the noxious tintlure frorn the lips of the Wound, and at length by the mumial, balfamical and at- tractive virtue acquired in the Unguent, the Magnetifm is confummate, and the Cure perfected. Lo now you have the true and pofitive reafon of the Natu- 8-r ral Magnetifm in theUnguent 5 deduced from Natural Magick • to which the Sonl of Reafon , and Light of Truth is pleafed to a (Tent, in that fentence, Where the treafure />, there the heart is alfo : For if the treafure be in Heaven,then the heart, that is, the fpirit of the internal man is fixed upon God, who is the true Paradife, who onely is the life of eternal life. But if the. treafure be laid lip in tranfitory and fading things s then alfo is the heart and fpirit of the outward man chained to things that mu ft perifh and confefs their duft. Nor is tnere caufe why you fhould infer any mjfiical fignif cation, or fecond in- tention by underftanding not the Jpirit, but the cogitation and §2,. naked ehfire, for the heart : for that would found frivolous and abfurd, that where-ever a man fhould place his treafure, in his cogitation, there alfo would his cogitation be placed : and Truth it felf interprets this prefent Text literally ^ acd Without enfolding any myfrery or deuterofcopy ; and by an example annexed manifeftly (hews the real and local prefence of the Eagles with the Carcafe. And inthis fignification alfo the fpirit of the internal man is faid to be locally in the Kingdom of God (which is very God himfelf) within us: tind the heart or fpirit of the external man locally dwells about its treafure. What wonder, that the aftral fpirits 8fc. of flefhly minded men fhould, long after their funerals , appear wandring about fuch places, as their treafures are hidden in? by which apparitions the whole NeBroms.ncy 52 of the MAgnttick * Ncftrmmtia* of the Antients emancipated itfelf. I fay therefore, that the tfjpeocsqiu. externa i man i s fingly an Animal governed by the reafon and gmd^Smm wil1 of the blood : blU in the interim > not barely an Animal^ manes, vclpoti- but alfo the image of God. Let Logicians therefore hence ob- us damnes fub ferve , how defectively and improperly they ufe to define man wum .(peck Ur- f r0 m his power of ratiocination. But of this fubject more ZnSr' m ' largely elfewhere*. cxcitatTad*rc- ^ or wmcn confideration, I (hall in this place opportunely velanda avcana infert the Magnetifm of Eagles to Carcafes newly flain : for ex ono cvocan- Fowls of the aer are not endowed with fo much acutenefs of tur: ut tan; ore 't\itfcnfeof fme/ling, that by the noftril they can receive an tiVonmiilTd mvn:at i on m I ta b> to come an d ^ ea ^ on ^ ea d bodies in Afri- Lucanum. ca ' F° r neither can an Odor be dirTufed to fo vaft a circum- * in tradatu ferential diftance, fince both the great latitude of the Sea ejmde Vcnaii- interpofed muft of neceflity hinder, and the elemental pro- •enc Scicntiarum. priety of the Odor, fubjeft to diminution and impairment in fo long a trad of aer, forbid fo huge an expanfion of the Atomes ftreaming from the odorible Body ; nor is there any ground whereon to build your conception, that birds can by their fight difcover carcafes at fo large diftance, efpecially when they lie Southward, behindefome high Mountain. But what need is there for us, by the tedious force of words, to inculcate the Magnetifm of Fowl ; fince God himfelf, the Alpha and Omega ofPhilofophy, hath in exprefs terms decreed the procefs of intercourfe or commerce betwixt the heart and its treafure, to be the fame with that betwixt Eagles and their prey of dead bodies : and fo on the contrary, interchange- ably ? For if Eagles were carried on to their prey the Car- ?4. cafes, by the fame incitement of appetite, whereby all Qua- druped Animals are goaded on to their paftures, afluredly he would have faid in a word, that Animals are directed and congregated to their food by the fame motive, that the heart of a man fallies forth and invades its treafure. Which would contain a molt grofs falfity : for the heart of man progrefTeth not to its treafure, with defign to devour it, and fate it felf therewith, as Animals are by the fwinge of appetite rapt ©n to their food. And therefore the comparifon betwixt the heart of man and the Eagle holds not good in the final caufe or Cure of Wounds. 1 3 ©rattractive,for which they tend to defire of fruition : but in the manner and proceffe of tendency, namely that they are e- qually invited,allected, & carried on by Magnetifm really and locally to their determinate objects. Wherfore the fpirit and 85. willofthebJoud erTufedout of the wound adhering to the weapon, and together with it embalmed in the Vnguent , in- ftantly tend and egiefle towards their peculiar treafure , the refidue of bloud yet running in its proper confervatory, the veines, and enjoying a community of life with the inward man. Bnt the Pen of Divinity in a peculiar Elogy writes that the Eagle is allured to the Carcafes of thefiaine : becaufe he receives his fummons and invitation from the originary , im- planted, and mumiall fpirit of the carcafe ; but not from a- ny odour exhaling from the body under the arreft of putrefa- ction. For this Amm.1I , in ailimilation , appropriates to him- felfe onely this mumiall Spirit : and hence is it in Sacred Writ faid of the Eagle , My youth Jhall be renewed like an Ea- gle. In regard the renovation of its youth proceeds not from the bare eating thtflejh of a carcafe , but from an Elixir orefTentiall extract of the fpiritbalfamicall ^xqu\(\te\y depu- rated and refined by a certaine lingular digeftion , or corre- ctive faculty proper only to this Fowle : for otherwife Dogs, Ravens and Pies, would alfo receive an equall benefit of reju- venefcence ; which experience afiures us to be falfe. You will fay, we have travelled far indeed to fetch home a reafon tofupportandilluftrate our Alagnetifme. But what will you infer hereupon ? if you confefle that what feems far remote from the capacity of your intelligence, mult alfo to you feem far fetched ; truly the book of Genefis teacheth us, that the Soule of every living creature dwels in the bloud of it, as in its proper manfion. For in the bloud there inhabite certaine noble and vital powers , which, as if they were en~ dowed with animation, cry loud to heaven for revenge , yea from the hands of Judges here below, demand vindictive ju- ftice to be done upon.the homicide: which fince they cannot be denyed to be naturall Citizens of the blood , I fee no reafon, why any man fliould reject the magnetifm of the bloud , and unjuftly reckon its rare & admirable effects among the ridicu^ O Ions 5>4 Of the Mdgnttick lous acts offatanj wil fay this further,that men which walk in their flecp,do by the conduct of no other An there is a certain power peculiarly belonging to the Witch, which de- pends not upon Satan j and by eonfequence Satan is not the principal! efficient and grand executor of the homicide; for otherwife, if he were the prime executor, he could in no re- fpecl ftand in need of the Witch for a Coadjutrix and AJfiftanf, but would ere this time, by his own (ingle power, have cut off and fwept into the grave the greateft part of mankinde. Moft miferable and deplorable indeed were the condition of the pofterity of Adam, which fhould lie in fubjeclion to fo horrid a tyranny, and ftand obnoxious to the fate of his ar- bitrary cruelty : but we have the Almighty Preferver of men, more faithfull in his mercies towards us then to fubjed the workes of his own hands to the arbitrary dominion of Satan* %°- Therefore in this impious act there is a certaine power clearly peculiar, and naturall to the Witch, which proceeds not from Satan. Moreover,what the nature,extent, and quality of this Mt- qicall Cure of Wounds. 57 gicall (yet naturali) power of the witch may be, we muft ex- actly explore and gravely confider. It ismanifeft in the firft place, that it is not any Corporeal! ftrength of the mafculine iex ; for there concurres not any forcible attraction of the members of the body, and witches are for the moft part old, feeble and impotent women . Wherefore of necefltty to the production of this notable mifchiefe there mud concurre fome other power, of farre more vigour and activity then the ftrength of the body, and yet purely naturali to man. This power therefore mu ft be ambufcadoed in that part, whereia ^p. we moft nearly refemble the Image of God. And although all pieces of the hexameron Creation doe in fome relation or other reprxfent that moft facred and venerable image of the Creator-, yet in regard man doth moft elegantly ,moft properly and moft exactly reflect that fhadow of Divinity, therefore doth the image of God fhine more tranfeendent in man, and as Lord Paramount beare rule and exercife dominion over the O o, reprafentative Divinity of all other Creatures. For haply by this prerogative all created Sublunaries are made fubordinate to his royaltie, and proftituted at the feet of his Soveraign will. Wherefore if God execute his will, and produce real! n X effects per nutum, intuitively, and by the fingle efficacy of his word : then man alfo to make good his title of being the true mirrour or repraefentative of the Deity, ought to enjoy a power of doing fome actions per nutum. For neither is that new, paradoxicall or troublefome to our faith, nor peculiar onely to God himfelf : fince Satan, the moft vile and abject of all Creatures, can alfo move folid and ponderous bodies from place to place at pleafure, onely per nutum : for he hath no corporeall organs, no extremities, wherewith to touch,locally move, or aflume any new body to himfelf. No lefte there- 92. fore ought this priviledge to belong to the inward man, in his (pirituall capacity; if we allow him to beare the image of God, and that no idle and unactiveone If we name this faculty magical!, and this appellation found harfti, and terrible in the eares of your ignorance, I (hall not quarrel with you, if you pleafe to denominate it a Jpirituall vigour or energie of the inward mamfor wee are not at all follicitous about names,but O z ever .1 I — ■ -- ' ' -g of the MAgmtick ever with as direct an eye of reafon as I can, I look upon the 9 j. reality of the thing it felf. This magic all power therefore na- turally refides in the inward man : whether by this title you underftand the foule or vitall fpirit of man, is now indifferent to us.- fince the inward man doth hold a certain correfpon- dence with the o/mrar^ in all things, which commerciall in- flux, thriving and as it were glowing with a fervour of afti- vity'in a peculiar manner, is an appropriate difpofition and proportionate propriety. On which ground it is neceffary, that this active faculty be diffeminated and diffufed through the whole compojitttm of man: but indeed in the _/Wf, more intenfe and vigorous, and in flejh and bloody far more remifle and languid c e c . The Vitall Spirit in the throne of flcjb and £/W,that is the outward man, fits Viceroy to the Settle, and acts by her com- mifiion : and is the fame plaftick^Jpirit^which in the feed com- prehends, contrives, and models the whole figure of man, that Magnificent ftructure, limms out all the lineaments and accurate adumbration of the parts, and underfhnds the pra> 06. deftinateendsofallits delignes and undertakings: which as Prafident and guardian accompanies the infant from the firfl moment of its conception, to the lafTof its diflblution : and which although together with the life it bid adieu to the body, yet fome little remaines, as if ftrongly united unto and con- fermentated with the corporeall mafTe, for a while fojourn in a Carcafe extinct by violence. But out of a dead body, whofe lamp of life languished and went out of its owne accord, both the implantate and influent fpirit depart hand in hand together. 97. For which reafon Phyficians diftinguifh this fpirit into the eripinarj^ implantare and inherent , or Adnmi ill^ and the in- finer, t or acqnifite vanishing together with the former life: and afcerwards they againe dichotomize or fubdivide the in- flnxive fpirit into the natnrall, vitall and animall'. but we in this notion bind them all up together in this one tcrme, the q vitall fpirit, ox inward man. Tht Sotile therefore, by eflence wholly fpiritttatl, could by no meanes, move, inform, and actuate the vitall Jpirit (which truely carries fomething of corporeity and bulk) much lefTe excite and give locomotion to fieJk Cure of Wounds. jp flefli and bloud; unleflfe fome naturall, yet magic all and fpiri- tttatt, power inherent in theyWf, did ftreame down from the foute, as from the firfl: motor, upon the fpirit , and fo defcend to the body. I befeech you by what way could the corporeall Spirit obey and execute the command of the Soul , unlefife it firft receive commiflion and ability from her to move the Spi- rit, and afterwards the body > But againit this Magicall Ma- trix you will inftantly object , that indeed there is fuch a na- turall power, but her wings are dipt , (he is retrained and confined within the walls of her owne tabernacle , the body y fo that (he cannot extend her authority and influence beyond the circumference of it; and therefore although we give her the proud name of Magic all, yet we cannot etcape the guilt ofwreftingand abufively applying that Epithite , fince the true, genuine, and fuperftitious Magicall power defumes not her bafts from the Soule ; in regard the Soul: her felf is devoyd of all ability to move , alter , or excite any the lead thing at all, without her own orbe of activity , the body. I anfwer, that this Vigour and naturall Magic k^of the ldimatc leftuall acl of the Soale is ever clear, enjoys a «onftant Ju- C l!f**?'!T ( bile of calme ferenity , and continues in fome fort perpe- eni'ia, quxdivi- Wall ; but fo long as the principal! Agent hath not mtmunacum tranfmitted its power fo farre as the limits of Senfe , this kgeUoylitrtr kinde of action is not dirTufed through the whole man. 4Mf* nur r i >» on For we who are wholly imployed and taken up with the ex- Z!?!Hl L.V ercife of our fen fit he Facalt ie together with our Camall in- ^a voce, &■ pa- ,,. J J M - . , v •- t_ i. r tabus auncuia, i- telligence , are perpetually (oh mifery worthy a deluge of Hnraduttaafte- tearesl difrraftcd and impetuoufly hurryed away from the ufe Ycnubm mam 2xi& benefit of our more ccelcftial & Magical fcience ,and held KMws He- ca p t i vc8 rather in the crepufculous and owle-ligh o^congniti- P*f J driven- **j tncn & the Meridian of trath. Nor do we the inhabitants tifsimi tuttores of ^Egyptian darknefle understand our own intelleclion,untill tuque yrjtftfl'orcs there fucceed a certamc mutuall traduction of the feverall fa- i ] m ' Gr * cuWbi, a fucceflive deliver)' of the image of the object from ^yuutwMK • tlc ^ to otner > anc * untill as it were certain angles of actions, tha/Mi* ' propagated by divers agents, concurre and become complica- 101. ted about the Mediam. 102. Now Satan excites this Magicall porre r ( otherwife dor- mant, and impeded by the Science of the outward man) in his vaffals : and the fame awaked into activity ferves them in ftead of afword, orinflxument of revenge in the hand of a potent ^dverfary, that is the Witch. Nor doth Satan adfer any thing at Cure of Wounds. 61 at all co the perpetration of the murder, more then the bare excitation of the fomnolent pomw, and a confent of the Will, which in Witches is for the moft part fubjed to his compulft- on : for which two contributions, the damned mifcreant, as if the whole energy of the ad were foly attributary to him- felfe requires by compact, a conftant homage, a firme and irrevocable oppignoration, and devout adoration at lea(t,and frequently a Surrender of the veryfoule into his poffeflion. When intruth this power was freely conferred upon us by God, our Architect, and is no more then purely natural t to IO >* man. For thofe prtfligious ads and impoftures, the effafci- nation by the optick emiflion of the eyes, the falfe difguifes of Watches in borrowed fhapes, and other delufions of this kind, are onely derived from the legerdemain of Satan, and his proper atls. And for this reafon all the operations of this Montinbamo, this Hocm-pocus, are meerly ridiculous pageant delufionsand counterfeit apparitions, by the presentment of formes that delude the fenfe ; becaufe the God of mercies permits him not to enjoy any greater range of power, but holds this mifchievous Leviathan by a hook in his noftrils : but on the other fide, the Witch doth by the magick of her own naturall . IQ 4. faculty perform -reall and impious ejfctls. Since that by Jin, not the endowments of Nature, but of Grace, were oblitera- ted in Adam, no man difputes : and that thefe gifts of Nature, although they were not totally cancelled and loft, yet re- mained eclipfed and as it were envelloped in the obfeurity of a midnight deep. For as man from that unhappy moment, wherein he forfeited his primitive Soveraignty, became inevi- tably obnoxious to the fame fate of mortality together with bis fellow creatures : fo alfo were all his heroick and imperial faculties withdrawn behind a cloud, and fo opprefled with the opacity of fejhly lufis, that ever fince they ftand in need of excitement and eduction from that Cimmerian umbrage. And to the procuring and advance of this excitation, abflracled 10 >* Contemplations, fervent and uncefiant Prayers, tedious vigils, macerating Fafis and other ads of mortification, are ftrong and prevalent conducements ; that by thefe fpirituall anti- dotes the Lethargic of flelh and blood being fubducd, men P may 6i of the Mdgnetick — — — i^ — — «» «»— i^^— »^— -^— — » «— — — — ^— « may obtain this faculty renewed into its primitive agility, and in a calme requiem of fpirit offer up their addrefles to thatpure Ejfencc, which requires to be worshiped no other way, then in purity ofjpirit, that is, in the zealous abyfle of the Souk, the profundity of the inward man. j £ To this purpofe alfo mainely conduceth the practice of the Cabal, which may reftore to the Soule this her naturall and magicall prerogative, and rowze it up from theflumber and inchantment of Carnality. I will explain my felf yet farther, like a Mathematician, by Examples, and aflume the very operations of Witches : which although of themfelves they are full of impiety and horrid mifchiefe j yet they grow upon the fame root indifferently difpofed to the production of good or evill fruite, namely up- on this Magicall facultie. For it proclaimes not the majefty of Free-will, or the tractate of it, if we from thence collect argument concerning a thiefe, an affafline, a whoremonger, an apoftate, or Witch. Grant therefore that a Witch kill a horfe, in a (table removed at good diftance : there is fome certain naturall power derived from the fpirit of the Witch, an^ not from Satan, which can oppreffe, ftrangle, and perifti 107. the vitall fpirit of the horfe. Grant that there be two fubjetts of difeafes and death, and that one of thefeis the body where- in every difeafe takes up its quarters : and becaufe all Entities difcharge their activities on this, as the molt paflive and flexible, men have conjectured, that the other fpirituall do- minion was derived immediately from Satan : but the other is the impalpable and invifible Spirit, which is conftituted in a capacity of fuffering every difeafe, perfe , in its own folitary nature. The Spirit once invaded by any forreign hostility, and fubdued to the obedience ofpajfion, the body alfo cannot but fubmit to compaffion and deuteropathy; finceevery action is terminated in the body(for the mind after once it is adliged to the body, alwaies flowes downward, as when the Palate is mifaffected with paine, the tongue alwaies tends thither, on the defigne of relieving it) but on the contrary, the body may often be aflaulted and entered by the force of a difeafe, and yet the jp ir it remain exempted from fympatby. For there is a claflis Cure of Wounds, 6$ claflis of difeafes onely material!, which arife fingly from a materUll tinelure. So various and numerous are the occafi- ons of death, that, when we have taken the jufr. dimenfions of our frailties, we (hall finde no ground left us, to ered any ftrudureof pride upon. The ad therefore of the previous touch of the Witch is purely naturall : although the excita- tion of this magicall virtue depend upon the auxiliary con- currence of Satan, in as near an intereft, as if the Witch had cut the throat of the horfe with a fword, which Satan had put into her hands. This ad of the Witch is naturall and l°8» corporeall : as the other precedent ad is naturall mdjprituall. For indeed man doth naturally confift no leffe of zjpirit,then a body : nor is there rcafon, why one ad (hould be accounted more naturall then the other ; or why the body, the courfer part of man, (hould be allowed a power of adion, but the fpirit, the more noble and cceleftiall part , (in its relation of being the Image of God) accounted idle, unoperative, and altogether devoid of any adivity peculiar to it felf : yea the Vitall fpirit s, in mod exad propriety of language, are the im- mediate adors of fenfation, motion, memory, &c. but the body, and dead carkafTe cannot,in any refped whatever, owne thofe faculties: wherefore every action (lands more relatively and properly regardant to its Agent , then to the body, which at beft is no more then the tranfitory lodging of the Agent. And thus it is evidenced, that there paffeth a fpirituall ra- ioo. ^WjOrgleame of magicall virtue, from the Witch, to the man or horfe appointed for de(truction,according to that Axi- ome : That no atlion can be done, without a due approximation of the Agent to the Patient \and a reciprocal unition or marriage of the virtues of each, whether the admotion or approximation be corporeall or fpirituall : which by an example ready provided to our hand we can both prove and illuftrate. For if the heart (which is the prefence-chambenof the vi- tall fpirit) of a horfe flain by a witch, taken out of the_yec warme and reaking carcafe, oe empaled upon an arrow, and II0 roafted upon a broach, or carbonadoed, immediately the vitall fpirit of the witch, without the intervention of any other medium, and anon the whole witch (fince not the body, P -y. hilt 6$ Of the Magnttick ' — n il - -■ - ■ ii but onely the jpir it is capable of fenfatian) becomes tormen- ted with the unfufferable pains and cruelty of the lire ; which truly could by no meanes happen, unlefle there preceded a conjunction or reciprocall intercourfe of the Jpirit of the- Witch, with the jpirit of the horfe. For the horfe after ftrangulation retaines a certain mmniall virtue (To I call it, whenever the virtue of the vitall nectar, or blood, is con- fermentate with the flefli ) which is the originary, implantate fpirit, fuchas is never found refident in bodies, that are ex- tinct by voluntary deaths in any chronique dileafe, or other ataxy, irregularity, or difruption of the inferiour harmony, that is the temperament of the body : to which the jpirit of the Witch is affociated, as joynt commifiioner. In the reak- ing and yet panting heart therefore, the jpirit of the Witch, before itihall,by the diffolution of the precedent confpiracie, or divorce of the united fpirits by putrefaction, have returned backe into her bofome, is imprifoned and held captive, and the retreat of it prevented by the arrow transfixed, and by in. the torrefaction of both fpirits together : and hence comes it to paffe, that the witch is afflicted and throwne into a horrid 112. agony in her fenfative jpirit* This effect adinits a change, or double conftrutlion, from the intention of the experiment; For if revenge be the motive or incitement to the experimen- tator, then is the effect unwarrantable and inconfiftent with the charitable rules of Chriftianity '• but if an honeft and confeientious defigne, to compell the Witch to detect her felf, to betray her to the jufticeof the Magifhate, to procure fecurity to our neighbour and our felves by the remove of fo impious, blafphemous, and nocuous a vaflall of Satan, that the greater glory to God, and peace and benevolence to men, may redound from the difcovery ; then undoubtedly the effect cannot be difallowed or condemned by the moir rigid, preuie, or puritanicall judgement. We are not to conceive, that all theTpirit of the Witch fallyed forth , and tranfmigra- ted into the heart of the Horfe (for fo the Witch her felfe hadperiflhed, falne into an eternall fwoune) but that there is a certaine univocall participation, or idcnticall traduction of the jpirit and vitall light of the Witch .- in an equal! analogie to Cure of Wounds. e>5 to the Plaftique fpirit, or fole delineator and architect of the mod curious and magnificent fabrickof man, which in every diftinct emiflion of the geniture or feed is covertly ambufca- doed and propagated, furrkient to the procreation of a nume- rous iffue, the originary fpirit of the father yet remaining unimpaired, and conferving its individuall integrity. For in footh that participation and inheritance of the vitall light r is magical , and a rich and fruitfull communication of the fpecifccall efifence, by the fertill virtue of that benediction, delivered by the Protoplafi of all feminall formes, Let all Ani- malls and Vegetalls bring forth feed, and hence is it that one individuall feed produceth ten myriads of other feeds Equi- valent, and as many feminall fpirits comprehending the whole fpecificall effence, by the fame myfterious way of traduction, whereby one Tapor is lighted by the flame of another. But what the proper nature of this Magneticall fpirit, and what the Magical! entity begotten in the wombe of phanlie may be, I fhall more largely declare in the proceiTe of our drfcourfc : For it becomes me to retreat from my digrelTton, and now to progrefle in that path, which directly leads to pur intended fcope. Nor is there any pretence of reafon , why any.fhbuld con- jecture, that this reailion, or rebound oimagic.ill power upon the heart of the Witch , is only imaginary and a chimera of licentious phanfte , or a plainly firperftitious and damnable impofture and delufion of Satan ; fince by this token the witch is infallibly detected, and volent nolent compelled to ap- pear in pubtick, which in one of our precedent fuppofitions we have furficiently demonftrated to be e diametro,vppofed to the intention of Satan: for the effeel holds conftantly good, and never failes to fucceed upon experiment , as having its fu'nda- rnentall caufalities laid in reafon and the fpirituall nature of the inward man, but not at all built upon fuperfhtious (up- porters. Hath not many a murdered carcafe , by the operati- on of the fame magneticall fpirit, fuffered afrefh cruentatiora upon the Coroners inquefl, in the prefence of the Homicide, and very often directed the Magiftrate to a juft and infallible judgement of the crime, although the blood, before that mi- P 7. nute. 66 of the Mdgnetick nute, flood congealed and frozen in its cold rivulets > The 114. realbnof this life in death , this plea of the grave and loud language of filent corruption . which hath empuzled the anxious difquifitions of many fubttle heads, we conceive to1>e thus : in a man dying of a wound, the infer iour virtues , which are mumiatl, (for thefe are not fubject to the reftraint of our will, and operate not in conformity to the dictates of rea- fon) have deeply imprefled upon themfelves a certaine Chara- cter of revenge : and hence is it , that at the approach of the a{iafiine,the bloud whofe fountaine death had fealed up , be- gins btumultuation and ebullition in the veines , and violently gulheth forth, being , as in a furious fit of anger, enraged and agitated by the image or imprelTe of revenge con- ceived againft: the murderer, at the initant of the foules 115. immature, and compulfive exile from the body. For indeed the bloud after death retaines a peculiar/^ of the murderer being prefent, and enjoyes a certaine,though obfcure, kind of revenge : becaufe it hath its peculiar phanfte : and for this rea- fon, not Abel himfelfe, but his innocent bloud cries loud in the eares of divine juftice for revenge. This alfo is the caufe, why the Plague is fo frequent a con- comitant to feidges, and why the beleaguered fee the revenge of their dead acted upon their enemies by the furviving Ma - gick of their friends bloud : for the magic all fpirit of the in- ward man, in the heat of the encounters & fallyes,hath con- ceived a character and impreflion of revenge , and fometimes the defendants , efpecially th common Souldier , being by want and other extreame miferies reduced to defperation,and man and wife, conjoyned as well in death as life , falling into the cold armes of the grave, bequeath heavie imprecations and maledictions to the furviving Officers,who engaged them in the calamity, and might, had their charity been but halfe 1 16. fo weighty as their wealth, have relieved their famine : by which earneft curfe, there are more ftrong and durable im- prefsions engraven on the ftdereall fpirit of the dying man (chiefly of a great bellyed woman)which furvive the funeral 1 of the body. This poftbume fpirit (call it Ghofl ifyoupleafe) immediately after death taking a vagabond progrefle in the lower \ Cure of Wounds. 6j lower region of the ayre, applies it felfe to the contrivement of fuch fpirituall means of revenge and mine, as lye within the fphearofits activity, and having oncedefigned the way, moft readily advances to execution- And Plagues of this o- 1I7 riginall are moft fatall, afwell in the univerfality of contagion, as r if we expect a perfect cure from the drefllng of the .pon,truely the z^o^ and other it? fellow ingredients will pre e a cure, when the weapon is ^ined with blood erfuled fiom :i : Since there is recruited a more violent a cious, namely, a taurine, n , and an acreall communication of florid honey. And thus have wee, to the fatisfachon of the moil incredulous and prejudicate, made it out, that the admirable efficaq the Vr.guent ought to be imputed, not to any auxiliary i currence of S.itun who could performe the cure without the ufe of honey and Bulls blood) but to the communion of X.-.Txrall qualities, by the energy of the pofthume Char cf Rez tnge, remaining firmly imprefTed upon the blood and concreted fat. Our Ad\ erfaries will whifpei , and fecretly exuit, that the power of our Afagnetical V r.guert could have hardly been fupported, but by Anmlogcml Arguments drawn from abftrufe operations of Witches, from the impoftures of Satar., and the jpiritttal magicl^of the ir. orld, which is a faience onely imaginary , of no folid concernment or weight in the ballance of reafon, and a dangerous,, if not damnable, error. Neverthelefs, not any finiller obliquity orper\eriion of truth, nor any indirect defign in us, by fpecious fimilitudes to impofe upon the weaker credulities of the illiterate : but the grofs ignorance of others, and the deplorable condition of humane fragility, which by the propensity of our vitiated nature more readily inclines to evil, more nimbly apprehends evil, and is more familiarly inilrucled by evil, then good, hath Cure of Wounds. 69 hath compulfively directed our pen to obferve this method in the explanation and probation of our thcfls. However, what we have reprefented in this fcene concerning S.uan, and his familiar Zany the witch , affords no encouragement or ground for others to hope a perfect conformity or resem- blance of the power of our Vnguent with that of Witches ; for neither the ffiritual faculty of the Vnguent, nor the ecfta- tinue pbaufie of the blood, are excited by the manuduction or impuliion of Satan. The mark we fhot at was, that there is inhabitant in the Soul a certain Alagical Virtue, infufed by the primitive bounty of her Creator, naturally proper and of right belonging to her by that juft title, that Ms.n ts the imA&e and r.ohle effigies of the Deity ; and that this virtue is qualified with a celeftial activity, and femidivine prerogative of operation, that is, a power of acting per. nut urn, intuitive- ly, fpiritually, and at vaft diflance, and that too with much more vigor and erHcacy, then by any corporeal helps and ailiflance. The reafon briefly and plainly thus ; the foul is the diviner particle, and more noble moity of man, far over- weighing the body both in dignity of eflence and extraction : chereforealfo is the activity competent to it fpiritual, Magical, and of fuperlative validity. That the Soul by the dictates of this Virtue, which hath fuffered a confopition and abate- ment of its primitive agility by the counter-magick of the forbidden Apple in Paradife, doth regulate, manage, and move onely her own peculiar body ; but the fame being ex- fufcitated and awakened again into action, fhe extends her dominion beyond the narrow limits of her earthly cloyfler co an object at diflance , and becomes lb longimanous as to operate onely per nutum , by intuition conveyed through convenient mediums : for upon this point is founded the whole balls of Natural Magick_, but in no refpect upon the 123. brittle and fandy foundation of Benedictions , Ceremonies, and vain fuperflitions ; for thefe vain and impious obfer- 124. vances were all introduced by him , who hath ever made it his ftudy, to confpurcate and defile the befl things with the fophiftication of his tares. And in this fenfe we have not 125: trembled at the name of Maaicl^, but with the Scripture Q_ underflood 7° Of the Mdgnttick underftood it in the beft interpretation : and yet we have al- lowed it, to be indifferently imployed to a good or evil end, u6. namely by the lawful ufe orabufeof this power. And fo under this term we comprehend the highefr ingenitecogni ti- on of natural things , and the mofi; vigorous power of action, equally natural to us with Adam, not wholly extin- guifhed nor obliterated by original fin , but onely obfeured and as it were confopited, and therefore wanting experge- faction and excitement. And therefore we declare , that 1 2 7- Magnetifm is not exercifed by Satan : but by that which hath no dependance upon Satan : and confequently that this power, which is peculiarly connatural to us, hath been a- bufively fathered upon Satan, as if he were the fole patron and promoter of it : that this Magical Faculty lieth dormant in us, charmed into a fomnolent inactivity by the opiate of 328. the primitive fin, and therefore fhnds in need of znExci- tutor to promote it into action : Whether this Excitator be I2Q. { ^ e ^°ty fy*™* by illumination, as the Church commemo- * Coma vigil rate$ t0 nave happened in the Eaftern Magi, and frequently by others 7> happens in many devout perfons even in our days : or Satan , plumanm &fo» for fome previous oppignoration and compact with Witches ; por dfliransy is in whom this excitation is wrought as by a Coma * vigil, or !lc y ravarion°of Clttoc ^ e *» am * 1S therefore imperfect in regard of the manner, the internal evil in regard of the end, obfeure in regard of the means, fenfes, where- and nefarious in regard of the Author : nor doth the verfi- in the fick arc pellous or Protean impoftor endure that the Witch fhould oppreded with | cnow tms power to be her own natural endowment, on pur- b?e F ?op P er| n ty" P ofe to hold her the more fo^ty obliged to himfelf, and to fleco, and yet cannot, by reafbn of various images and phantafms crowding into the ima- gination, and perturbing their {lumbers. Vtd. Semcrt. in Inlfuut. * Catocbe, or Catalep{h t is a violent fymptome of the Animal Faculty, whertwith who is furprixed, remains deprived of all fenfc and arbitrary motion, and rigidly congealed like a fbtue in the fame polture, where- in he was fit ft invaded, Confide Jul. C afar. Scaligcr. Exerc.$ 11. H oc admhandum far,c fymp- toma, ex eo omi vida/tr, quod fmfonum commune, five Conadon, &• interdum etiam partes ei vicin*, mulcts occHpentur bummktti, dum rclieuum cerebrum ab its. rmnus eft affc&um. Hinc emm nnUu6 objcftotHmmotm ab omnia mhec off eft u pertipi potcft : & fymtut in ccubro fais copiose fjiihdem geniti, fed dcttrmmaiioncm in ahai partes nan accipwites, i» cofdm mufculos, in quos anna er ant deter mwaii, perpituk flaunt, corpjtfquein eodemflatu ret went. Nullo autem modo a. Congelations (p'uii\s\im,qu*d viilgut Mcdcnium docct.fieripetc(l .* Ilia tnim cerebri fubfidentiam, -.■Krvoiumquc comprrjfi&zm, & hute Apoplexiam pai'w iiduetvet, left — • II. -- - Curt of Wounds. 71 left the exercife of fo noble a faculty, once excited, fhould be employed to any other atchieveme, but what is impious and deftructive to mankinde ; and fo he keeps the reins in hi* own hand, nor can the Witch know how at her own pleafure to excite this dormant Magick^, who hath wholly proftituted the freedom of her Spirit to the will of another tyrant. That man of himfelf, without the auxiliary concurrence of any forrein Caufality, can where and when he pleafe, by the praclife of the Cabatiftique Art % awaken and excite this grand Virtue into action : and fuch who have attained to this reno- vation of their impaired nature, are honored with the title of Adepti, Obtainers, or Acquirers, the felect veflels of God, whofe wills ftand in humble and full conformity to the dictates and advifoes of the Holy Ghfi. That this Magical Virtue is alio naturally inherent in 150. the outward man, namely in flefh and blood j but yet in a far lefs meafure, and of a more feeble energy : yea, not onely in the outward man, but even in Brutes, in fome proportion and of inferior vigor (for fo the Book of Mofes hath pofitiveh obferved unto us , that the foul cf every beaft is lodged in itf blood, and therefore he deiervedly forbids it to be lifted ia the bill of humane fare) and perchance in all other created natures ; fince every fingle entity contains, within the nar- row tablet of its own nature, an adumbration or landskip of the whole Univerfe ; and on this hint the Antients have left it on record unto us, that there is a God, that is an univerfal Entity, in all things. That this Alagick^ of the outward man % no lels then that of the inward man, doth want excitation: nor doth Satan excite any other Afagickjn his bafe mifcreant vaflals, then that of the outward man; for in the interior clofet of the Soul is feated the Kingdom of God, to which no Creature hath accefs. We have further demonftrated, that there is a mutual connexion between fpiritual Agents, and that fpirits as they combat, which we have (hewn in the ex- ample of the Witch, fo alio they hold a friendly and amica- ble correfpondence each with other, which We prove by the teftimony of Magnetical experiments, and proper arguments, for the fafcination and ligation of fouls, as m the amours of Q^ a David 72 Of the Magntiick ■ ■ ■ i i ■ • David and Jonathan, &c. Finally , we have ftretched the (mews of our reafon to manifeft, that man enjoyes a dominion paramount over all other corporeal Creatures, and that by his own natural Magick he can countermand the Magical vir- tues of all other fublunaries : which royal prerogative and predomination fome others have erroneoufly and abufively transferred u po n the power of charms and incantations. By which Hierarchy we have to fatiety of fatisfa&ion, made it manifeft , that all thofe admirable and abftrufe effects are wrought, which the ruftical and too corporeal Philofophy of others hath afcribed to the dominion of Satan. That thofe who are ignorant of moil things we have de- livered, (hould yet remain dubious and unfttisfied in many things, is neceflarily certain : wherefore we have determined to make a fummary rehearfal of all : chiefly that fo what we have fpoken in the former part of ourdifpute, concerning the duello or conflict of fpirits, and the reciprocal amity or mutual confpiration of their united virtues, may receive the clearer explanation. It is a task worthy our fweat and oyl, todifcover and handfomely define the arms, militia, and en- counters of fpirits,and their Commonwealth: in order where- unto we are with great fobriety of judgment , and acute- nefs of reafon, to perpend the example of a pregnant or great bellied rpoman, who when (he hath intently and with vio- lence of defire fixed her minde upon a Cherry, immediately there is imprefled upon the fruit of her womb the mode!, or pourtracl of the Cherry, in that part, whereon the ingravi- dated woman laid her hand. Nor doth there remain onely a bare and idle figure of a Cherry, and afpot ormaculatior. of the skin: but a certain real produclion , which buds, bloflbmes, and ripens in its due feafon, at the fame rime with other trees, the fignatures of colour and figure palling gradu- al changes till it come to maturity. High and facredjn good troth, is the power of the microcofmical Jpirit, which with- out any arboreal trunck produceth a true Cherry: that is flefh, by the fole feminality and conception of Phanfle, qua- lified with all the proprieties and virtue of a real Cherry. Hence we underiland two neceifary conferences. The firfi, that Cure of Wounds* 73 that thcfeminaljpirits, and in fome latitude of aeception the 13 a. verv ejfence s of all creatures do lie ambufcadoed in our na- ture : and are onely educed and hatched into realities by the microcqfmicratical Phanjie. The other , that the Soul in the conception of thought i??. doth generate a certain idea of the thing conceived in the minde : which as it before lay concealed and raked up, as fire in flint ; foby the concitation of Phanjie it doth produce a certain nezlidea or exact pourtraict, andaneflential deter- mination, in every part refponding to the quiddity of the Cherry, which cannot be a meer quality, but fomething J ike a *34« fubflance, of an ambiguous eflence between the body and the jpirit, that is the Soul. This production isfofar Jpiritual, that it is not wholiy exempted from a corporeal condition,- fince the actions of the foul are terminated in the body, and the other inferior faculties fubfervient to her : nor yet fo far corporeal, that it may be circumfcribed by dimenfions, which is onely proper to a feminai 'Entity, as we have for- merly related. This ideal Entity therefore when it falls from the invifible and intellectual world of the microcofm, it then puts on corporeity, and then firfi: becomes fubject to be cir- cumfcribed by the determinate dimenfions of Locality and Numeration- The proper obje El of the imclutl is an abilxact- ed, naked and pure ejfence, lubfifting of itfelf; and not an Accident, by the confent of Practical, that is Myftical Di- vines. This Prothw, the intellect, doth thus as it were cloath- and apparel this conceived ejfence with Corporeity. But in re- gard every operation of the foul, whether external or inter- nal, hath its fieri in its own proper image : therefore can not the intt Heel difcern and know, the Will like and felect, and the Memory recollect and recogitate, unlefs by images : and this fame image of the object the inte lie if doth cloath in corporeity : and becaufe the Soul is the fmple Form of the body, which readily converts and applies her felf to every member, therefore cannot the intellect entertain and harbor two images at one and the fame time, but fucceffively firft one and then another. And thus the Soul wholly defcends epon- the intellect y and the yet-tender and embryon image *3»5/* Q 2 newiv 74 Of tbt Magnetick newly conceived ami impre/Tcd , and afterwards forms the cognition of the peculiar efTence into a perfiftent and durable image, ok ideal Entity. The minde being once polluted by the leprous miafrn, or contagious tincture of fin, foon be- came obnoxious to the wrath of God ; and becaufe this was at once deturpated and depraved, being develted of the Nobi- lity of its primitive condition ; therefore Death found an en- trance upon our nature, not by the original decree of the Creator, but by the degeneration of man dehpfed into filthi- nefs and impurity, and ungeneroufly degrading himfelf, by reafonof this ideal entity now arrayed with comparative corporeity ; which corruption and turpitude,with deplorable fertility fpringing up in every the moil: venial peccadillo, we muff extenuate andmortifie byfliowersof poenitential tears in this world, or too late bewail in the next. This entity there- fore, while it remains in the forge of the intellect, is but lightly and {lenderly characterized, nor doth anywhere, but in a pregnant woman, receive a more firm confidence, which in the mafculine fexit never obtains but by the will-, more familiarly thus , the Agent Intelletl always procreateth an ideal Entity, or femi-ftthfiantial ponrtraitt of the efTence of an object j but doaths it not with corporeity, unlefs by the immediate action of the will, great-bellied women onely excepted. Sin therefore, whether we allow it to be a reality, or non-reality ', at lead a confent and propenfity to evil, can never be committed without the real production of this kinde 136. of Entity, and the affumption and indution of it. And this truly hath ever been the Caufe of the facundity cf feeds : for the Pbanfe, excited by the orgafmus or heat of /#/?,produceth a (lender reality or ideal entity, which when the foul hath clothed with corporeity (for the action of the minde, while it remains immured in wills of Cefh, always tends downward and outward) it inftant!ydiiTufe:h this new ideal entity into the liquor of the feed, which witbott: t T : impregnation had ftill continued barren and devoid of any Plaftitjuc 137. fower: which action is performed as it were by an aliena- tion of the minde, the vnH being ravifhed, by the trueMagick of the outward man, into a kinde of (bore ecfiafie, in which Cure of Wmnds* 7j there happens a communication or bequeit of a certaine Mentall tight to the entity defcending into the body or ma/Te of feed. Whenfoever therefore the Cogitation draws the fimft and •will into confent - y fo often is there hatched and incorporated a filthy, fyunous ideall entity : by which production the will is faid to be confirmed: and this idcall entity with all expedition rangeth through the body, whitherfoever it is- fent on an er- rant by the will : and by this meanes the will now moves the arme, now the foote , anon the tongue , and fo all other parts. Againe when this entity is diflfeminated upon the Vitall Spirit , on a defigne of love, reliefe, or harme to any objec\ then it wants no more then a flight and eafie excitement from the auxiliary hand of God, of the Cabaliftique Art, or of Satan ; that fo the portion of the fpirit, which is impregna- ted with the ideall entity, mayfally abroad and atcheivethe enterprife en joined it by the will. Thus every male projects i$%* his feed at diftance from the dimensions of his body: which feminall emiflion carries along with it that fcecundity, which it drew from the infufed entity, and executes its procreative commiflion beyond the trunck of the individual! protoplaft. Undoubtedly bodies fcarce makeup a moity of the world: but Spirits poiTcfle a full mediety, and indeed the major part of the world. And therefore in this whole Context, I call Spirits the Patrons of Magnet i/nJe: ~rtot thofethat are fent downe from heaven doe we mean, much lefTe thofethat a- fcend from the horrid AbyfTe below;butfuch only which have their originall, and exigence in man himfelfe •. ft^r as fire is, by excuflion, kindled from flint, fo alfo from the Witof man, by a kindeof fecretfcintilktion, fomething of the vitaftinftuent fpirit is defumed, and that fomething afmmes an ideall entity, as its ultimate forme and complement. Which perfection once j^o obtained the Spirit, which before was purer and more refined then the asherealt aer, becomes fubtihtated like light , and affumes an ambiguous or midle nature between Corporeall ftibftances and incorporeall. But it is fent ambaf&dor whither- foever the trill directs it, or thither at leaft,whither the innat< wfaltifrfc y5 Of the Magnetick infallible f deuce of fpirits doth command it, according to the intentions and fcopes of the taskes to be performed : the ideall entity therefore, being now ready prepared for its journey ,be- comes a /<>/?r (underftand it in Tome latitude of lenfe ) and fluffing off corporeity, confefTeth no reftrair.t or circumscri- ptive laws of places, times ? or dimenfions. And this refined and exalted ftmifubfiance is neither the Devil! , nor any effeft, nor a-ny confpiration of his : but a certain jptritttall action of the tn- ■tvardman, plainly and purely naturall and hereditary to us. This myfterious wifdome who ever entertaineth with that fo- lemnity of judgement and preparation of nature and unpra- judicatc thought,which becomes the gravity of a mind greedy of marnalities, (hall eafily underftand, that the material! ivor Id is on all fides governed, regulated^ and coerced by the im- material! and inviftble : and that all corporeal created natures are placed at the footfhole of man, oa being fubordinate t& the rc- crality of his Trill. And this very thing truely is the Caufe, why "even the mumie, the fat,, the moflc, and the humane blood, namely the Phanfy naturally exifting in them,in the Vnguent, fhould domineer over the blood of a Dogge, of a Horfe, &o (lied upon a piece of wood, and buried in a pot of the Vn- gttent* 141. ' Yet we have not faid enough concerning the Magnttifme of the Vnguent : We ftiall therefore now purfue a hint, which we darted in our precedent lines. That the Alagnetifme of the Loadftone and other inanimate Creatures is performed by a certain Naturall fenfation, the immediate Authrix of all fym- 142. p*M7, is a truth unquestionable. For if the Loadfone dired it felfe to the Pole, it muft have a certain knowledge ,left it be- come Subject to deviation and error in its direction : and how, Ibefeechyou, can it have that requifite knowledge, if it be not fenfibhoi its owne locall pofition ? In like manner if it convert to iron placed at great diftance, and neglect the Pole, of neceflity it muft firil know the (ituation of the iron. Wher- fore the Single Magnet is endowed with various [mfes, and alfo with imagination : nor will it be enough, that it be provi- ded of fenfation, unleflewealfo adde the provokement and goads of occult fritndjbip and Philauty or felfe-love ; and fo that Cure of Wounds. «y that the Loadftone is endowed with a certaine Naturall phanfy , by the power of whofe impreflion all Magnetifmet in the whole Catalogue of Creatures are performed. For 14?. by one phanfy it is directed to iron, and by another to the Pole ; for then is its virtue dirfufed onely through a fmall fpace of the aer to the object near at hand : but that Phanfy is changed, when it prevents an abortion, reftraines the im- petuous flux of Catarrhes, or hinders the falling downe of the inteftine in a rupture: and by a third phanfy, different from both the former , doth the Loadfione attract any thing ofglaiTe melted by fire: for any the fmalleft fragment of a Loadjhne injected into a good quantity of glafle, while it is in decoction , of green or yellow turns it into perfect white. For albeit the Loadfione it felfe be of a deep ( though fome- *44* thing fhadowcd ) fanguine tincture, and be wholly deftroied and confumed by the fire that dilTolves the glafTe : yet not- withftanding while it retaines any relict of its vital ejfence, it exhauftetn the tintled liquor even from the candent glafle, anddevoureth the tintture of it: and thus we difcerne, that the attraction of the Loadftone is not determined onely to *>•»; but alfo extends to that aerial pan, which otherwife could not , without great difficulty , be divorced from the body of the giafTe : and to this purpofe is it commonly ufed by GlaiTe-makers. The phanfy of Amber delights to allect ftrawes, chaflfe, and other feftucous bodies , by an attracti- on , we confeiTe, obfcure and weake enough, yet furficiently manifeft and ftrong to attefl: an Eletlricity , or attractive fignature : for married to the mumie of our bodies, it appears fuperiour to the humane Magnet, draws counter to it, and by that intereft entitleth it felfe to the dignity of a Zenexton % or prefervatory Amulet againfr contagion. But Amber mixed with Gummes, its imagination being then tranfplanted, attract- ed the T'enome and bullets out of wounds : for the pleafure anddefireof attraction is varied on either fide, that is accor- ding to the various contemperation and allay of the humane mumie, and of the Gummes. But alas 1 What wonder can it be 1 a^ ( unlefle amongft thofe, who being ignorant of all things, R foolifnly 7 S Of the Mdgnetick •~m~~m i i - I ■ ■ ■ ' foohftily admire all things ( that inanimate creatures fhould be inriched with an imaginative faculty ? when that infinite EiTence,whoisall life, and the very Soule of Vitality, hath created all things in perfection, and fo prevented all expectati- on of deficiency and inutility in the leait peice of his handy- worke : nor can the fubtileft Cui iofity finde out any one peice in the innumerable lift of Creatures, wherein the reflex of his Divinity is not confpicuous : for the Jpirit of the Lord fill's the whole earth ; yea this expreflion, that he comprehends all things, carries the emphaticall and flgnificant force of the word. Doe we not beleive that there was a large ftock of malignant fcience ambufcadoed into the forbidden fruit} and that our un- happy Protoplafts, together with the aple, fwallowed downe that fcience, and received it into the very entrails and profun- dity of their nature? and doth not this fcience praefuppofea phanfy peculiar to it ? For thus fome fimples induce an Amen- ty or ftiort alienation of the reafon, others caufe a conftant madnefTe, or Maniacal fury : not by a diffraction of the brain, or a diflipation of the Animall fpirits (for then the ftrength and vigour of the maniacall perfons would ofnecefli- ty fuffer impairment and decay , which never happens, but rather on the contrary they become much ftronger and almoft 147. invincible ) but indeed , by the exotick and diftractive phanfy of thofe peculiar fimples introduced , which over- ma Iters our /^/y, and fubducs it to full obedience, fome- times only pro te mpore , as in periodicall deliriums, phrenftes &o and fometimes for ever, as in Lunaticks and Maniack* or Bedlams. $4$. Doth not the rabies or madneffe of Dogges by this meancs tranfmigrate into men? the Maniacall phanfy of the Fury beeing tranfplanted into the flaver or falivous froth o'f the doggs tongue , which foone conquers and triumphs over the blood of any Animal, into which it hath infinu- ated it felfe, through any the molt flender puncture of of the skin? for then the primitive and genuine Phanfy of all the blood in the wounded body furrenders up its- inferiour power , becomes fubordinate , and compul- fively Cure of Wounds. 19 * A derivative from Hydrophobic a fear of wrter, which is a fymptome of the Animal Fa- culty, or alienation of reafon introduced from the peculiar propriety of the venornc of a mad dog. The reafon of this ftrange accident Phy- ficians refer either to the occult quality of the venornc, by fecret and fpecifical fermentation of the blood fubduing the inr.gination to this abfurdity; like as the ftingor the Tarantula, opcra:ing chiefly on the feat of reafon, the brain, alienates the Phanfie , 3nd fo infacuatcs the minde, that the patient dances to deat'i, if noc cured by harmonious mufick ; or to the imagina- tion ofthe patient, from the remembrance of the occafion of bis harm , a dog, perpetually fixt upon and troubled with the image of a dog, fo that he conceives the apparition of a dog in the W3ter, or liquor prefented to him, and there- fore abhors to drink it. Examples of this are 149- fively afTumes the * Hydrophobic*! phanjie of the Exotick^ Tincture : from whence, in excefs of time, comes a Binjical Death, ( i. e. ) from the fole difeafe and ex- orbitancy of the minde , the Magical virtue of the Dog being excited and exalted above the non- excited, but fomnolent Vhanfte of the Animal. By the fame myfte- rious traduction, in all refpects, is the Phanjie of the Tarantula im- prefTed upon man , by a (lender thrufl: of his fting,and the wound- ed fuffering an immediate alienati- on of their reafon, fall into a vio- lent fit of dancing, and capering recorded by Au'w, Tetrab.z. cap.z*. high levoltoes: onely the poyfon of the Tarantula differs from that of the mad dog in this par- ticular, that this operateth by a magical power excited, and fo by magickjcruly, and without the favor of a metaphor, fo called; but that acleth by a magical power non-excited and fomnolent, as the fame difference is undeniably manifeft in Monkshood, Aconite, &c. deleterious plants, which are fpeedy and inevitably deftrudive, in very fmall quantity : in regard, no Animal endevours tofecureor defend it felf againfl: the biting of a wad dog, fince the magical power of his excited phanfie being diflfufed, is binding and obligatory, againft which neither the teeth, nor horns of any beaft can make the lead prevalent refiftance ; which cannot be affirmed of the Venome of the Tarantula. In the outward man therefore, as alfo in all his fellow Ani- mals, the Magical power is latitant i and as it were confopited ; nor is it capable of excitation onely in man, (though we con- fefs, with greater facility, an i to higher atchievements) but even in many other Animals,conforced with man at the Crea- tion. Again, it fufficeth not, that the Spirit of one individu- al maintain and obferve this law of concord, and mommachy R2 or 150. ijt. 8o Of the Magnetick or dueUo with the Spirit of another individual : but more- over there dwells a certain nniverfal or mundan flirit in the whole world, (/. e.) in all things within Trifmegiftu, Circle which we Chriften the Magnum magnate, which exfifteth the umverfal Pander of all fympathy and dyfpathy , the invisible Mercury or common Intelligencer, and the Pronator of all natural adions ; and by whofe mediation or convoy the Mac- nctifmis, as by the mort convenient vehicle, tranfported and wafted to anobjed atvafldiflance. This is made good by an autoptical demonftration ; for if upon the minikinq of a tuned lute you place a (lender ftraw, hanging with a doubtful extremity (/. r.) equilibrated in the aer 3 and at con- venient diftance in the fame room ftrike the minikin of an- other Lute, when there fucceeds a confonance in the eighth note, you (hall fee theflraw to tremble; but when the notes concord in an #»//^,then the minikin of the untouched Lute impatient of delay, will quaver, caper for joy, echo the fame aer , and by a nimble fubfultation throw off the ofFenHve ftraw. What, will you impute this effed to Safan, *nd make him the Fidler ? Now you fhall never obferve the ftraw to re- bound from the firing, though all the firings of the other Lute be linanimoufly, ftrongly, and neer at hand plaid up- on ; for it is not the bare and fimple tone that compels the untouched firing to quaver • for then every tone would caufe the fameeffeft; but it is onely the nniverfal fbirit the Common Mercury , inhabiting in the middle of the • ( V univerfe, and being the faithful executor and adjutor of all natural adions, tranfports, promotes and caufes the Sympathy. ! 52# But why tremble we at the name of Magick •' fince the whole adion is Magical ; nor hath any natural ulgcnt a power of activity, which is not emergent from the phanfie of its peculiar/*™*, and that magically too. But in regard this phanfie in bodies devoid of voluntary eletlion is onely of a de- terminate and limited identity : therefore have fornevulfar heads erroneoufly and dully imputed the effect of fuch re- (trained bodies, not to the phanfie of them, but a Natural yropmty ; out of an ignorance of Caufes fubflitucihg the tfFefl Curt of Wounds* gj r feci in the room of the Caufe. When indeed every Age »t doth operate on its proper object, by z prcefenfation or diitin- dive foreknowledg of it, whereby it is directed not to dif- charge its activity rafhly and at random, but onely on its own peculiar object. For the diffufion or emiflion of activity neceifarily fucceeds the fenfationof the object y and the effect refults from an excitement of the pbanfie, by tranimittingof the ideal entity, and conjoyning it with the radius ot gleam of the pajpve entity. And this, in our diatectjhach ever been the Magical action of natural bodies ; yet in mo(r accom- modate language and juft propriety of denomination, this Magical and pbantajriqzc aftivitj belongs principally (if notfolefy) to Creatures ennobled with a power o£ election. I (hall mufter up the Creatures, and guide our difquifition I ^* i through every Claifis of them. All formal proprieties flowing from the forms of the three nniverfal principles, Sal, Sul- pbur y and Afcrcnrj % or the fait. Unctuous fat, and liquor,, whereof every body is compofed, and into which it is, by corruption of the corporeal harmony, again refolved • and the Mercury or liquor is fo often diverfe and differently qua- lified^ there are different fpecies of compound bodies^ which fame variety of impregnation we are to conceive alfo of the other two, Sat and Sulphur : All fpecifkal proprieties,! fay,, are derivator)' from the pbanjies of thefe farms % which in regard they are very corporeal, and deeply immerfed in the bofomeof Elements, therefore are they called Formal and occult proprieties , out of a grofs ignorance of the forms y • . • which in another (and introth more Phi lofophicatj accepta- tion are Magical e feels produced by the pbanfie of the faid forms : but (we confefs) lefs noble, and more corporeal, yet abundantly Satisfactory ro thofe ends, which, by the pri- mitive deftiny of their Creation, they regard. To this feries *?<§> belongs the fubductive virtue of Cathartick or Purgative, the lomniferous faculty of Hypnotkk^Q* dormitive medicaments, t~c. Befides thefe there are other nobler Proprieties, taking their original from the pbanfie of the forms of the whole Compofi- tnm : and thefe are diffufed through and inherent in- the R 3, whole- 8j Of tht Magtutick whole Compoftum, by rcafon of the Form of it j fbchare the Magnetifm of the Loadfione, the virtue of Tinctures , and allfpecifical and appropriate Medicaments - y which are occasioned by reafon either of the whole homogeneous mixture, or the particular form of fome integral part, but not of any Jingle or divided principle', fuch as thefe are naturally inhe- rent in the trunck, leaves, root, and fruit of plants, and not in any one of the three principles diacritical ly feparated from the compage or conjuncture. Thus alfo Antimony, while it remains in its primitive form, and native integrity, is en- riched with noble and excellent qualities, which it could ne- ver afpire unto in its folitary and divided principles. But thefe are alfo clofely enfhrowded in Corporeity ; and there- fore the natural magicf^ lies covertly ambufcadoed and ob- fcure in them, and hath been thought wholly attributary to Nature, by an unjuft and unadvifed diftinction of Nature from Magicl^, oppofing the former e diametro to the latter, when in fober verity they are both one and fame, though commonly received under diftincT: appellations. Thus the leaf of arc/? hath a diftinct virtue, which the flem, or yellow tuft in the middle of the rofe hath not : and that virtue arifeth not to the leaf from the three Grand principles united, or any one of them paramont in the conjuncture;but immediate- ly refulteth from its Vital Form, which, when it isdeftroyed, amitteth its primitive, and acquireth other fee ondary virtues ■ as in example, a grain of Corn in its primitive vitality nourijh- j ^ e eth,but when degraded from that firft life, it fructifies. Third- ly, there is another Magical power proceeding from the phan- fte of the life of the integral compo fit urn : and this is implanted in bruites and the exterior man , which being fpiritual, is more abfolute in foveraignty then the former, but yet not ad- vanced to the zenith or higheft pitch of energy, though fome- times by much excitation, and a ftrong phanfie introduced by a real entity, it afcend to a very great height of activity, and by a neer emulation rival the true Magick_ of the inward 156'. man. Again, the Soul of every Bruite enjoyeth a power of creating a real entity, and of tranfmitting the fame, by the mandate of the Will, to an object at very large diftance : of this CureofWmnds. 83 this fort of magical bruites, are the Bafilisk^, a dog, many fifties defcribed by Olam Magnus, csrc. fuch alfo is the virtue inhabitant in the blood of many Animals: and hence doth Holy TVrrt deliver exprefly , that the Soul fojourns in the blood though extravenated, though decoded on the fire, yea, arid (for ought can be alleaged to the contrary) though totally altered by corruption. Finally, there is alfo a Mag.c I l 1T* virtue as it were abfiratled from the body, which is wrought by the excitement of the interior power of the foul: and from this arife moft potent procreations, moft noble imprefiions, and effects of fupreme vigor and efficacy. For (introth) Na- 1 58'. ture in moft of her operations playes the Magician, and acts by the energy of her own phanfie ; and fince this activity is by fo much the more potent, by how much the more fpiritual ; therefore is the term or appellative of Magick exactly analo- gous and concordant, Of all which gradually different Jpecies of magical virtue, I S9 X there is hardly any one that ftands not in need of excitation. For that of the lowed Claflls requires excitement and educti- on, by fome previous warmth , or gently fomenting heat, by which there is educed a certain vapor , or (piritual effluvi- um, by reafon whereof the phanfie reftra'med in a profound fleep, and drowfie inactivity, is awakened into adion y and then begins a mediatory encounter between the corporeal jpirits, which is of JWagnet'ifm, excited by a precedent touch. But that of the higheft Claflls, fuch as belongs to bruits and men, receives excitement from an intellectual conception -, and that of the inward man is not at all excited, unlefs by the Holy Jpirit, and by his excellent gift, the Cabal • but that of the outward man, by ftrong imagination, by afliduousand in- tenfe fpeculation, yea, and in Witches by Satan. But the ma- gick_of the extravenated blood ( wherein the foul hath taken up her quarters) which lies lurking onely in potent ia, is excited and invited into act, either by a more ftrong imagination ex- alted, conceive it of the magician making uie of the blood as a medium, and fixing his newly accenfed entity thereon • or conceive it by the afcendent phanfie of the Armary unguent ,, the excitatrix of the proprieties latent in the blood ; or by a previous y* Of the M&gmtuk previous defti nation of the blood to corruption whereby the Elements are dilpofed to reparation, and the EfTences (which know no corruption ) and the Eflential phanfies, which lay obfeured in the potentia of the proprieties, fully forth into action. 160. The phanjie therefore of any fubjecl whatever hath ob- tained a ftrong and vigorous appetite to the fpirit of its pecu- liar object, in order to the locomotion, attraction, expulfion, or repulfion of it : now in this, and no where elfe, we ac- knowlcdg Magnetifm, as the natural magical endowment of that fubjeft, conferred upon, and firmly implanted in it, by the wife bounty of God. t6i. There is therefore a certain formal propriety fegregated and manifeftly diftincl from the Sympathetic and abfirufe, qualities, in this particular relation : that the phattjie, which is the motrix of thofe qualities , doth not diredly tend to the Locomotion, but onely the Alteration of the object. And thus, though we giant, that every Magnetifm be either Sympathetica^ or Antipathetical ; yet notwithftanding the inverlion will fail, that every fympathy rnuft be Magne- tical. But we retire from our digreflion to the grand mark our intentions level at. By this time (I conceive) it is clearly un- derftood, that there refideth a phanjie and magical appetite, not onely in the blood, but even in the fuperfluous humors, meats , and excrements ; fince the various and numerous progeny of difeafes affordeth conviftive manifeftoes of it. 162. ^or pregnant women labor with an abfurd and ridiculous appetite to ftrange and unufual meats, and Cache&ical Vir- gins, by a natural ceftrum or libidinous fury of the exorbi- tant womb, do with extraordinary celerity (though not with- out great inamcenity and palenefs) digeft what ever they long for : but indeed , not from reafon of fimilitude of fub- ftance , nor from any confanguinity of humane nature requiring that particular meat , their irregular appetite fo ravenoufly covets j but feduced by the exotic] ue phanfie of the virions humors^ accumulated in the veiTels of the womb, and reftagnated or belched up into the ftomach, which over- Cure of Wounds, 85 over-maftering the true and natural appetite, goadeth them to this abfurdity > } by the expulfion of which noxious im- purities , we have frequently cured fuch perverfions and abfurd appetites ; or elfewehave mitigated and compofed them, by permitting the irregular and frantick phanfie of fuch humors to fate it felf by fruition. In the blood therefore there • inhabiteth a peculiar phanfie^ which in regard it is of more **> vigorous energy therein, then in other things, therefore doth Divine Hiftory, in a lingular and emphatique Elogy, call the blood (though ftrongly decoded, and ready cooked for the table) the Manjion of the foul. And in regard this phanfie of 164. the blood is capable of traduction, and may be devolved to pofterity • for this reafon is it, that the manners, geftures, conditions, and genius of the Grandfather are revived and be- come refplendent in his iflue, long after the refolution of him into duft. Nobility took its firft rife from well-deferving Virtue . hence mo(t nobility be without juft merit, fufpeded to be encreafed by the continued and fucceflive propagation of the family s unlefs the heroick inclinations and virtues of gallant anceflors, obfcured by mortality, might, with proba- bility of hope, beexpeded tofinde arefurre&ion, andfhine again in their late pofterity. Again, doth not the enmity itfc. conceived betwixt the Woolf znd/bcep remain firmly impreffed upon their pelts? Wherefore the phanfie of an Animal, per- vicacioufly furviving death, is impreffed not onely upon the blood : but alfo whoever deeps under the coverture of a blanket made of the skin of a Gulo or Glutten (a beaft: of in- credible,becau(e infatiate,voracity,very common inSwedland) is forced continually to dream of feafting, hunger, voracity and the enfnaring of wilde beads, according to the natural condition of that animal, while it was living : and ttius,onely by an external coverlet, the phanfie of the beafl, which during life ibjourned in the skin, is devolved and traduced unto a man, that fleeps beneath it. And thus alfo, by the miniftery of the Phanfie of the blood comes it to pafs, that the blood extra- venated, being received upon the fword or weapon, is intro- duced into the Magneticl^JU nguent. For then the phanfie of \66. the blood, before unaclive and fomnolent, being by the vir- S tuc 86 . Of tbt Magnetic k tue of the magr.etical unguent excited, and there finding the balfamical and medical virtue of the unguent, earneftly covets the newly-induced quality to be communicated to it felf throughout, and from thence , by fpiritual magnetifm, to exhault and drain out all the forein quality, that had invaded the wound \ which when it cannot furficiently perform upon thefingle fWk of its own ftrength, it implores the aid of the moll of the blood, fat, and mumy, which by coalition dege- nerate into fuch balfam, that by no other means, but its own pbanjie, becomes medica/,wagnttic t il, and &Ko attraftive of all the forein quality out of the body, whole frelh blood, a- boundingwithfpirits, is applied unto it, whether it be the blood of a man, or any other Animated Creature.The phanfie therefore is reducible and ecftatical from part of the blood frelhly and immediately after the erTufion brought unto the unguent : but the magnetic al attraction, begun in the b!ood,is perfected by the medical virtue of the unguent, Butthe^^- guent doth not attract ttie evil and depraved tincture or in- quinament of the wound, unto it felf, and fo put on as much contagion,as was enclofed in Pandoraes box : but onely works a falutiferous alteration on the fpirit of the newly effufed and frefhly applied blood, makes it medical, balfamical, and rouzeth up its dormant virtue : whence there reiults to it a certain medical and magnetical virtue, which makes a fpeedy return to the body, from which the blood iiTued forth, with full commiflion and power to cure itscoufin german, the fpi- rit of the blood yet flowing in its proper conduits,throughout the whole man. For it fucks out of the wounded party, the exotick and dolorous imprefllon, diminiiTieth it by a medical power, exileth it; which medical virtue, being the puiiTan: conqucrefsof the evil, is partly excited in tneblood,and partly in generated in the fame by the ungmnt, that is by the fpirit of the v.ngr.cr,t, upon the mtgicl^of its phanfie (/. e ) its created endowment, thus exercifmg imperial power, and elticacious ioveraignty, over the fpirit of the blood. In another cafe, ihc blood enciofed in an egge (hell, putrefying with ail its eigw about it, and fo as it were redeemed from the bondage of cor- *6j. poreity, and the fpirit delivemi from all impediments, by previous ' ■ Curt of Wounds. ,87 previous putrefaction, becomes attractive, by the mediation of the muniyof a dog, and really transfers that dileafe, which was hefrore feated in the plianlie and afti'ality of the ex- cremeatitious impurities in the patient , into the dog that devours it j for no other reafon, but this, that the magnetifm cannot be advanced to perfection of operation , without the intercellion of the balfam of the unguent. We have ob- fcrved, if it happen that the wounded party hath received many wounds at once , that it furhceth to have the blood efFuted out of any one of the wounds j and that by the fingle application of that blood, all the other wounds are cured together : becaufe that blood obferves a correfpono'ence and fympathetical concordance with the fpirit of the whole man, and from the fame educeth the offenilve extraneous quality, communicated not onely to the lips of the wound, but alfo to the whole body j for from one wound thete ordinarily is kindled an universal fever throughout the whole body of man. Hitherto have I fufpended the revealment of a grand my- x<58. ftery ; namely, to bring it home to the hand of reafon, that in man there fits enthroned a mble energy , whereby he is en- dowed with a capacity to zt\ extra fa without and beyond the narrow territories of himfelf, onely per nmtert* by his fingle beck, and by the natural n^-gick of Iwpkw/ie, and to rranfmit a lubtil and mvitiblevirtve, a certain influence, that doth afterward fubiifland perfevere per fa and operate upon an objefl removed at very large diftance : by the difcovery of which fole my fiery, all that we have hitherto treated, con- cerning the ideal entity, conveyed in the arms of a fplritual emanation, and Tallying abroad to execute the mandates of the ?>v'^, concerning the wagxetifmofzli Creatures, proceed- ing as well from humane pbanfu -, as from the native and pe- culiar phanfie of every thing, and alfo concerning the magical f::vcriority of man over all other fublunary bodies, will receive illustration, and fhine bright in the eye of our underftanding. Tis a meridian truth, too clear to be echpied by contr-overfie, r ^ 9t that of fteel there may be made a needle, which invigorated by the confriclion of a load (tone, doth point out the pole to S 2. Seamen; 88 Of the Magnaick Seamen : but in vain is the fteel hammered into a needle, and placed at free range in the navigatory Compafs, to level at the north Star, unlefs there hath preceded a fit and requisite affriction of the loadftone.Which afTertions fince they found k>ud enough to pierce the ears of the deafcft incredulity, it remains convenient, that we frame and qualifie a Mariners needle, folo nmu, onely by the magnetifm of our pbanjie, and magick of intuition. On the anvil therefore, whereon the fteel is hammered into a figure of a needle, let the north point be chalked out, and that in a ftrait line : then ftand you, when you play the Vulcan, with your back to the north, that fo when the fteel is beating under the hammer, you may draw it out into a needle towards your felf and the north : I fay therefore, that fuch a needle, thus pofitionalty and intu- itively framed, will acquire a vigorous po/aritj, una punctually obferve the north Star, without any forein impregnation or magnetical infufion, and indeed without any variation, to which the ordinary needles invigorated by the loadftone are fubject, which carries with it a very great myftcry. Moreover that needle, which is made upon the forefaid line, by chance y and without the knowledg or intention of the Fabricator, con- tinues bare fteel, devoid of all verticity, and directs not to the pole. Hence is it a natural Confequence, tRat the imagination of the Fabricator, in the very moment of the needles nativity, when the glowing heat of the fire is fomewhat abated, and the fteel but obfcurely red, doth imprefs this magnetical faculty into the fteel needle, as a convenient and appropriate fubject. Not that the celeftial orbs do, in that punctilio of time, in- fufe the verticity ; for then it would delcend and be imprcffed upon the fteel, without the intention, confent or obferrance of the fmith ; which cannot fatisfie experience : for if the Stars did tranfmit their influence at fome certain hour, and in fome determinate poiition, then might the Charatlerifticat and figillarj fcience of the celeftial orbs be allowed to put on triumphant wreaths, which we pafs by. *7. s * But that ConftelUtion which defcends upon the fteel (and it may be upon every magical image and feal) is derived from the Micrtcofaical Heaven , that is , from our own Olympic. Cure of Wounds. % 9 Oljmpus : vain and unfuccefsful therefore have beenthofe Magical feals andpentacles, which were not framed and con-* figurated by the magician in an high ecfiafie and exaltation of his phanfie ; for all inferior Entities and Phanfies are com- pelled to do homage to the tranfeendent magick of ours, by which prerogative Sapiens dominabitur afirus, a wifeman fhalJ regulate and countermand the influence of the Stars, to the dominion of whofe fceptre the Parent of Nature hath fub jett- ed whatever is contained in the vaft Amphitheatre of Heaven. What we have here alleaged concerning the phanfie impref- fing a verticity upon the fteel , as we have learned from the authentick teltimony of many judicious pens, and from our own frequent experience : fo may it be confirmed ten thou- fand times to the obfervation of any whofe curiofity fhall en- cline him to the eafie trouble of the experiment. Thus the leaves of Afarum, and the tops of Elder, fubmit and conform unto the phanfie of the decerptor, who impreffeth upon the plant, and the plant upon the leaves a magnetic al virtue, which in operation fliall juftly refpond to the pofition of the hand that gathered them: when otherwife, the leaf being decoded (as the needle heat again in the fire) and given in a potion, the virtue of the phanfie imprefTed upon it would of necefiity perifti, if the Magnetifm were not cheriihed and maintained from the integral plant. That the blood of any Animal decoded and ready cooked for the trencher,doth yet contain theyWof that Animal, is true : but that virtue doth not depend upon the impreflion of humane andforein phanfie, but arifeth immediately from the proper endowment of its own phanfie. By the fame reafon alfo doth a dart thruft 1 -^ To through the heart of a horfe, killed by the execrable magick of a witch, binde up and hold captive the vital (pirit of that witch, and twifteth it together with the muwialjfiirit of the horfe, that fo both may be torrified together, and by that tor- ment, as by a (harp goad, the witch may be driven to betray her felf .- and that at length, by the juftice of the magistrate,, the bafe mifcreant, detectable toGW, and pernicious to man, may be eternally exiled from the converfation of mortals,and cut off, according to the Law of God. For if the operation be S 7, determined; O Of the MAgMbck determined to any external ob')t&, the magical foul doth never attempt it without a convenient medium .- and for this reafon (he makes u& of the dart or nail transfixed through the heart. Now this poittion, that man is endowed with a power of acting, fer nutum, or moving any object at remote diftance, bein<3 proved by convictive evidence: k is alfo fufhtiently con- firmed, by the fame natural example, that this tranfcendent energy was conferred upon him by the wife indulgence of his Creator ; and therefore, by the Charter of hisNatuve, doth X72. jwftly belong unto him. Their conjecture hath ever had a firong hautgouft of abfurdity, who have hitherto conceived, that Satan hath moved, altered, and tranfported any thing, ami really applied AtHztsto Ptijfives in locomotion,onely jkv *mnm', while tbey have taken for granted,' that tbe Devil was the fiirft and grand Motor intheforementioned motions, that by thofe corporeal extremities requisite to contaction, he could violently fnatch away, tranfmit, or any way move, at leaft an aereal body (which they fondly imagine) though deftkute of a foul. Abfurd, I fay,, is it to believe, that Satan fince his exile from the prefence ( I mean , the merciful influence) of Divinity, and fall from the glory of his own eflence, cloth frill retain a magical dignity, whereby he can really act upon any natural fubject, and produce what effect foever he pleaie, onely by intuition, becaufe in the primitive excellence of his once Angelical nature, he received fuch an endowment: but that the fame prerogative was taken from, and ever iince denied unto man, and given to the Devil, the moftvile and defpicable of Creatures: and that if there be any fuch real effects performed by man,thcy are to be afcribed toafervilc combat! with the devil. Open the eyes of your reafon : for Satan hath hitherto proudly triumphed in your fo great and fo dangerous ignorance, with fo high content, as if you had made his altars fmoke with the grateful incenfe of glory and dignity, and devefted your fclf of your own native prerogative, pulled out your own eyes, and offered them in facrificetohim. Wc have laid, that every magical virtue doth lie dormant, and jmt Curtvf Wounds. 9l and want excitation t which holds perpetually true, if the object, upon which the energy is difcharged, beno'tneerly difpofed and qualified to admit it,if the phanfie of it doth not promptly conform unto the impreflion of the Agent, or alfo if the Patientbe equal in ftrength, or fuperior to the Agent. But on the contrary, where the object isconveniently,proxim- ly, and obediently qualified to entertain the magical influx, as fteel is to receive the magnetical infufton of a ioadfloue & or plainly weak, and confeious to it felf (as are the homicide adulterer, theif, and witch) there the patient, without much excitation, the (oh phanfie of the cxtrsard man being deduced into aclion and adliged to any convenient medium,2,t the rirft affaukfurrenders its felf, and obeys theMagnetifm. I fay, the magician ever makes uie of a medium : for thus, unlefs a pregnant woman hath extended her hand to her own thigh, forehead, or buttocks, the infant in her womb (hall never be ftigmatized in his thigh, forehead, or buttocks. Thus do the words or forms of Sacraments ever operate : becaufe £x opere operato, from the work performed. But why exorcifms do not aiway fucceed in their operations ; the defecHs ijotin God, but onely becaufe the nnexaltcd and dully -excited minde of the Exorcifi doth blunt the edg of the Charm, and render the words invalid and ineffectual. For which reafon, no man can be a happy and perfect Exorcifi, but he, who hath learned the art to excite the JlSzgick^of his oxm.phue/te 5 or by pradife can do it ecfatically , without that know~ Icdg. It may be youi fay, that our Armary unguent acquires no other magnerical virtue, then that which redounds to it from- the phanfie of him that compounds it : you are raifiaken,How- ever, (hou'ld we allow you that error for truth, your caiife could receive no fupport or advantage thereby ;fmce then you would tmpHcitely confels the effect not to be afcrioed to Satan. So the Vv.gttent would not be magnetical from any innate and natural phanfie peculiar to it ielf, butfrofri ao external adventitious infpiration, nantdythe phanfie of the Compounder^ imprefTed upon it : fince there. cani>e oonecret medium of the forefaid Magactifm, then bamanejMood mih humane: pt Of the Magnetic k humane blood ; truly, the blood alone, as the moft propor- tionate and predifpofed fubjeft, would fuffice to thecompofi- tion of the Vnguent, and ail the other fimples ingredient into the confection, would be fruftraneous and unneceflary, efpe- cially the blood of a Butt and bony, where the cure is to be per- formed by applying the falve to weapons not diftained with the blood of the Patient, which is manifeftly falfe by experi- 179 ment. Finally, the Magnetifm of the "Unguent would then be general ; in refpecl the Confcclioner may, by thewildeand univerfal range of his Fhanfie, intend to make the irnpreflion, uncertain, undeterminate, and extenfive to the wounds, not onely of man, but of all beafis whatever. What if the Corn- founders pbanjieviere not fixed upon a dog ; muft the Vnguent therefore have no virtue to cure the wound of a dog r Away, with fuch idiotifm , fuch ridiculous dotage. What hath Bole Armeniake, what Linefeed oyl, what Honjt, and in fine what hath the blood of a Bull, of peculiar difpofition, or de- terminate refpecl to the wound of a horfe, or man ; that up- on them onely, as upon the moft proper medium y and not upon any other things, the Phanfie of the Confeftioner fliould be imprefled > and yet if thefe werefecluded the Compofition, the Unguent would be barren and devoid of all power and vulnerary efficacy. The Natural phanjie therefore of the Vn- guent is the f oh and grand caufe of the Magnetifm , and the im- mediate and prefer caufe ofttoe Cure : but not the imagination of the Component' Behold 1 you have our (underftand true, Chrifiian) Philo- fophy ; not the frantick fophifms , or idle dreams of Eth- nicks. Be cautious, I befeech you, that you bring not me into cenfure, who have been your felf more forward and rafh 174. incenfuring others. I am yours, and a Roman Catholick : who have cordially and firmly determined in my felf, to meditate or write nothing, that may be contrary to the Word of God, or the fundamental Articles of the Church. I well underftand the conftellation of my own genius , and know my felf born, not to allow or foment contentious debates, not to write Comments on, or defensive Apologies for the pens of other men ; wherefore, what I knew, I defired, with a free- Curt of Wounds, g$ a freedom becoming a Philofopher, to communicate to the world. I (hall annex onely this one daufe : Whoever attributed to the Devil an erTecl: arifing from Natural Caufes, fo created by God, and fo conferred upon the Creatures : he doth alie- nate the honor due to the Creator, and ignominioufly (others might fay blafphemoufly) apply it unto Satan : which (un- der your favor) if you (hall ftriclly call under the teftof your Anatome, you will finde to be exprefs idolatry. My earned prayer to the fountain of all Clemency, our God and Father of Mercies, is now, and ever (hall be, that he would be pleafed to look, with the eye of compaffion and forgivenefs, upon thofe errors and lapfes of our under ft anding* which from our native, not ftubborn, ignorance, and humane fragility we have contracted. Amen. Thtxe 9\ TFJcre are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghoft, and thefe three are one : (And 4?m Jpeiking of the Hum a- nity of Chrift ) there are three which bear record in Earth, tfa Bloody the Spirit, and the Water, and thefe three are one. Tons therefore, wh haye the like hu- manity, it is no wonder, thai we contain 'Blood and 4 Spirit of the like witty : and that the aclion of the 'Blood is meerly Spiritual. Yea for this reafon, in Genefis it is not called by the name of Blood : but digitized with the appellation of a x T{ed Spirit. Withdraw tlxrefore , whoever thou art, from thy incredulous pertitiacy, and ingenuoufly acknowledg an- other Spirit in the blood , be (ides the Devil : unlefs thou wilt dare tooppofe thy mis-infomed Faith to the Bwk of Truth. The P5 The Tranjlators Supplement. NEmo hue Getmetrit expert ingrediatur, was the Motto which the femi-chriftiart Philofopher, Plato,aufed to be engraven on the pofch of his Academy * : im- * Mwfil. 'Fid plying not onely the exact meafure of lines, but alfo nm > mvka the Geometry of a mans felf, the dimenfions and juft extent platon - of the paflions and affections of the minde, to be the previ- ous qualification neceflfary to any^that (hould hope to benefit by his Lectures. And Nemo hue PhilofopbU expers ingrediatur, (hall be our infeription in the front of this Tranjlation ; un- derfhnding by Philofophy, the ample knowledg not onely of the Elemental and viiibl* World, but alfo of the Intellectual and Spiritual ; not onely of the more plain and obvious tracts , wherein Nature progrefleth to the production of ordinary effect's • but even thofe obfeure and unfrequented paths (he walks in, when (he advanceth to Abftrufities and more myftef ious Alaghalities ; together with that acquired Candor of judgment , and habitual Equanimity, which as well emancipateth the underftanding from the pedantick tyranny of fubfeription to all that's read, if but difguifed in the fpecious drefs of probability, and ufhered in by Antique Authority ; as it irtclineth the reafort to a fober aflent, and modeft conformity to fuch AJfertions, which carry the face of judicious Enquiries , and ferious majefty of Truth , though they be prefe.nted at difadvantage, under a cloud of Novelties, or Paradoxes. Nor can we fear that this our device, or imprefs, will be fufpected of impertinency i by any that (hall do fo much right to their own judgments, as to conced, thataifo*^r thus qualified, muft be the onely he, that can furvey, underftand, eenfure, and enrich his head With the fubtler fpeculations, and profound Dihoties of our more then ingenious Helmont ; while it is of confeffed neceflity, that the grofs ignordnct Of fome mud obfeure, and the prevarica- tion of others pervert the profpeel of thefe fplendid (though T 1 Hpt/>ra. $>6 The TranfiMors Supplement. Heterodox seal) Notions, and Natural ( though fpiritual, or magical ) Caufalities, which his finer pen hath drawn, in landskip, upon this tablet, The AJagnctically- Natural cure of Wounds* Now though the penfive Confideration of the incapacity (fome would have faid, Barbarity) of the numerous multi- tude, on one fide, and of the deplorable inflexibility of the leading part of learning, more then a moity of Schollers be- ing fwallowed up in a deluge of Preemption and Prejudice, on the other, might in fome meafure excufe our defpair of finding many heads of this foveraign temper, wherein fuffi- ciency in knoirledg ought to have received the juft allay of Candor, and non-adherence to Antiquity ; yet may we not in- cur the odious premunire of fingularity fo far, as not confidently to hope, that our worthy Author will fall into the bands of fome, whofc unbyaffed intellectuals will fmoothly run him over, and gather fo full fatisfa£t.ion from many of his Experiments, that Gratitude her felf will prompt them to confefs the facrifice of Honor defervedly due unto his memory. And upon this evidence of Hope, we are bold to promife our felf fupportment for our refolutions of not attempting either any Comment on , or Defence of thofe Metaphyseal (underftand onely Ideal and abstracted ) conceptions , and novel Hints, rich afperfed upon thefe fheets 5 fuch as that of a Phanfie, or Natural fen fat ion, by the Charter of their Creation, properly pertinent unto, and infeparably inherent in all mixt bodies, though devoid of Animation, and power of voluntary eletlion ; and this not onely fingle and of deter- minate identity, but multiplex and various according to the diverfe predifpofition and capacity of the object, whereon they difcharge their activity ; that of the magical preroga- tive of man, or that tranfeendent endowment, whereby he is empowered to ad per nutum, by the fole virtue of Thought or Spiritual intuition, upon an object removed at vail diflance, by means of an ideal entity, formed in the womb of more attentive Imagination, and tranfmitted by the will', that of the htdXConfopitionof this Hierarchy, or iemi-divine Faculty of the The Tran floors Supplement. 97 the foul, by the Opiate or Counter-magick of the Forbidden Fruit ; and the refufcitation or excitement or the fame, by theenfranchifement of the inward man from theedipie and oppreilion of Corporeity, in Enthufiafms, Raptures , and/r- flatical Contemplations, ef-c. Since the known poverty of our Reafon could not but throw infinite difp^ragement on the wealthy harveft of his ; nor the accefs of our plenary ajfent, or vindication, confer any thing at all of eftimation to fulfil the Authority of his Name, or determine the eftabiifnment of his Portions for folid and unrefutable Truths. Wherefore in conformity to the advifoes of fome riper heads, to whofe friendly decifion we humbly fabmitted our hefitancy in this point, together with the concurrent vote of our own thir- teenth thought, we have flood refolved, neither to dim the luftre of our Authors fenfe, by the interposition of our Boe- otian* interpretation, or melancholick enlargement ; nor make * ^ceoti erim' our pen guilty of fo uncivil encroachments on the liberties apudcmiqms, of the comprehensive Reader, as to preoccupy his head, with fiolidituu & the abortive remits of our Shallower fcrutinies , or prevent ftupiditatis no- bis more ocular difquifitions and maturer animadverfions ; but t ^ nema ' cau ~ fo far to affift younger capacities, as to endevour the ex- Horat.'mEp^ planation of fome unfrequent idiomes, and uncouth terms, Baetimincafa which the Author feems to have borrowed from the Caba- jurares ae>c liftique Vocabulary of Paracelfiu ; annexing onely, for fatis- ****** faftron of the more illiterate, the more felecl , and lefs fuperftitious Forms, or Prefcripts of the Magnetic^ Armary Vnguent. In the mean time, in order to our avoidance of fcandal, as we cannot fmother our wifhes, that the ardor of debate with his opponents, Father Roberts, the fefnite, and Goclenius, the Phyfician, and the eager queft of reafons to make good his theory of Magnetifm againfl: future Affailants, had not fedu- ced his gravity to flumble upon fome few Examples, whofe eonftant verity Experiment may have juft caufe to queftion orfober Philofophy, at flrft fight, fmilingly refer tofuper- flition : fo we cannot but figh at the apprehenfion of our own want of abilities to fuftain fo considerable and weighty a task as the due perpenilon and mature difquifition of fome T 2 ahftrnf* 98 Tbt Trtnjiatm Supplement. abflrufe riotions, which the concifer pen of oaf Author hath onely hinted, per tranfennam, and fo propofefd to the more deliberate difcovery of fome worthy EnUrgtr. For (to omit others of lefs value) upon that one cardinal pin of Magnetifm, or the Magical virtue of Naturals, it feemeth to us, that the whole fpeculation of thofc three grand Arcandes, whofe ob- fcure and yet infcrutable Caufalities have" captived the great- eft Wits, in all ages, in a labyrinth of perplexed and uncer- tain Enquiries. ( I ) The Original and edgnation of Forms ; ( l ) The caufes of Sympathy andDyfpathy, or of idiofyricfi- tical Friendfhip and Enmity or averfation j ( 3 ) And the fo Uhiverfally magnified Tower of Imagination , rieceffarily de- pend. To the clear and fatisfactory folutionof which Pro- %levm s whoever 19 ordained, by the exceeding bdnignity of his Conftellation, will perform a* work of higheft benefit, and unparalleled merit to the Commons-wealth of Learning, Will advance his memory to fo high a pitch of Honor y that 'twill be accounted humility in him to look fo low as Cafar, and (hall have our free Vote, that his ftatue cannot be uncivil, or ambitious, if it take the right hand of Ariftotles in the Vati* can. But alas 1 this muft be a work of Time, Pyrotechny, and many heads cooperating. And therefore the wide and almoft irreparable encroachments, which the late deluge of Bar' barifm hath made upon the ftudies of our own ingenious Nation^ and ominoufly threatned to moft Seminaries of Art's and Sciences in Europe : together with the general contempt of fevere Philolbphy, amongft thofe, whofe wealthy For- tunes might fuftain the charge of Experiments and forein Explorations requifite to the laudable achievement of fo magisterial a piece of knowledg , may probably encourage our fears, that it may be late ere pofterity be blefTedwith its revealment, nay, perhaps not until the whole material World be ready to confefs the Chymiftry of the laft day. Having hitherto feduced the minde of our Reader, into a fliort profped of thofe few pieces , which our devout Zeal to the advancement of the knowledg of Natures choifefi: Magnalities hath inflamed us to defire in a larger draught j and The Tranflators Supplement. 99 and prefented him the (lender fummary of what our Supple- ment intendeth : a longer digreffion cannot but tacitely fcan- dal the weight of our Theajm,and rudely difoblige attention. Wherefore, we return to the direel difeharge of our under- takings : the interpretation of fome Fanatique words, which in the opinion of Grammar know no figmficarjon, becaufe no Etymology, nor can the greateft Philologer deduce from any original higher then the Babe I of P trace Ifa ; and the fupplj of the Antiquity, and Firms of the Magnetical Vn~ guent. Bifmuthum, in the dialect of Hermetic aI Afineralogifis, 1. admits of a double fignification. For fome accept it for % Bifmuthum* fimple, and lift it in the inventory of Marchafites or Fire ftones, taking it to be no other, then that which the Noble Geber called Magnefia, and the fliops Black Lead : * others *yidc ca/Jpin, intend by it a compound made by the hand of Art, and that Itb.z. dc mctalL of two forts : The firft, when upon melted Tin, the Chymift ca P- J 4 * affufeth Mercury, and makes thereof a fragil fubfhncea.nd fnow-white mafs • * the other a mixture of Silver and M?r- * nomxm in eury, which fubmitteth to the firft aHauk of hie, as eafijy as diBionar. Voter wax, and is of exceeding whitenefs, which we conceive to be e l f' the true Magwfia, Pbilofofbarum. But we had rather incline to the autoptical teftimony of thje judicious Dodor fa-dan ^ * who renders Bifmuthum to be in Englifh, TmgUfs x or the * In his Book fteril Marchafite of Lead. Now Marchafites are the immature «? j M . materials of metals, and vary according to each feveral and nmfvviers. 1 " diftincl fpecies of metals : * and hence donbtie{s Paracelfus * Libmm w took occafion,in the feparation of Elements from Marchafites, /j^g^r. Ar- iz compare the golden Marchaiite to Gold, the filver one to can - chymic. filver, Talck to Tin, Bifmuthum to Lead,Zincum to Copper, lib -- Cfl P- l ^- :n ^ j T c 1 • X4 _> !~ r , r,' ir * comment xt. ad Cadmia to Iron,Stifeium to Mercury, &c. Confme Paraceljum r ncm intcrtio Archidox* Throni, or Trenos and Trojioffa, in the wild Language, Of , 2, rather Canting, of Paracelftu^ implies a rorid Aftteqr < 9 or ,G> Thm;: - teftU/deWy. being a (pedes of Minna, infweetne& density, tenacity, and whitenefs, far cranfeending all other : genera- ted by the Mercury of the midle region, infuiing its aftraj fcminality into the fertil matrix, of the Aer - y Afi j wholly feparated ioo The Tr an (later s Supplement. I- a 4- Noliocb. In digionaia Patau!/?. Ncbhlgea- 6. Laudanum. feparated and refined from all Sulphur and Sale. This delicate extract of the Scars is in good plenty found, if we regard the time of its diitillation, in the lpring and entrance of harveft, when the Sun begins to leave the torrid Negro, and make his more temperate courtfhip to the (tarty Virgin : if the place, in molt Eaftern Countries, upon the leaves of Trees and Herbs. Tberemaben, or Terenialnx, meaneth the fame, which the more regular and orthographical penof Ariftotle hath pro- perly named drgjui\t, mel4treum y ve/nfeid*r»; an oleaginous kinde of mldhenj, not confected by the Chymiftry of Bees, but diltilling from the Retort of the inferior Aer, upon Mea- dows, Campaniaes, Trees, and Herbs. This delicate collation the civility of the Planets entertaineth us with,in the moneths of fttrte, p#/y,and Aug*, ft, as if they intended the refrefh- ment of the laborious fwain,exhauited by the heat of Summer and fweat of Harveft. The Antients called it Tbrer, if we may credit the traduction of Dorn&tu, in his comment upon the diflra&ed meteorology of Paracelfat. Nofioch underftandeth the nocturnal Pollution of fome plethorical and wanton Star, or rather excrement blown from the noftxils of fome rheumatick planet, falling upon fpacious plains, fields and fheep paftures, of an obfeure red or brown tawny, in confidence like a gelly, and fo trembling if touch- ed : which the philofophy of the clouted fhooe affirms to be the ruinesof a Star fallen. Some there are, faith Doymhs, who by Nefiocb intend Wax : but by the favor of a meta- phor. Nebulcea we Englifh a Salt, or Nitrons exudation and de- ftillament from the clouds, by the deliquium of the colder aer refolved into an unctuous liquor, and defcending upon folid and ftony bodies ; which fuffering induration, by the exhalement of its aqueous parts, alTumes folidity, and by the intereft of exact fimilitude and cognation, doth more then pretend unto the dignity of celeftial Nitre. Laudanum, if the fame that all the Druggifts of Europe call Ladanum, is the Woodfeer, or liquid fpumous exudation of the (hrub Cifiw, or Ledon y growing in great plenty in the The Trdnjlatcrs Supplement. i o I thelfland Cyprus, which the Natives, (unlefs thefyth of time hath lighted upon thatcufrom, fince the days of Dio- fcorides) * ufe every Spring to gather from off the long * litfa. i. fhaggy hairs of the thighs and beards of Goats, feeding fttfuio. among and bruftiing themfelves againft the ftalks and leaves of the plant , and after due clarification and percolation thereof, to conferve in convenient pots : But if, in the ac- count of Helmont, a kinde of aereal meteor, or production arifing from the coition and confpiracy of fome feminary celeftial influx with fit and proportionate matter , the fat evaporations of Plants ; we confefs that after a tedious fearch of Paracelfw, Severinm, Dorneus , and others his inter- preters , we cannot receive pofitive fatisfaftion concerning its name, nature, manner of generation, or fpecifical dif- ference, but muft acquiefce in a contented ignorance of what it is. We dare not countenance error, or ftifle our own habilities 6f difquifition , fo far, as not to take notice of the incogi- tancy, or partiality of our Helmont, in afcribing the honor of the invention of Hoplocrifm , or the Cure of Wounds by unction of the weapora, to his Matter Varacelfns : When we * Produ Porta, (land confirmed, upon evidence of fubfhntial and conviclive fiM». Mag. Arguments, that this fecret is much younger then Paracelfm, n * tUYal - cap. as bearing no date of its revealment beyond thofe yeers , ^a/«o» pTo- wherein he had long confefTed his dufl , and experimentally cut ab'eppido confuted his own arrogant Treatife of the art of fpinning Ateftino, repe;- out the thread of Mam life to a length equal with the clue t*m(uif}'eumm of Time , and making our vital Oyl of the fame durable f^Tlhc a and invincible temper, with that which maintaineth ^-t umula&hira flames of Eternal Lamps *. For firfl , upon ftricT: ( and cam luccnula introth tedious) lecture of all the leaves of the extant Works aibuc ardms, ofParacelfajjit cannot meet with any the leaf! mention of it: $*/* rufticUfnar, nor indeed the grave Libavins before us, as he foiemnly pro- ™ r Zo$£ l &~ fefTeth, in Apocalypfeos Hermetic*, parte priore, & cap. ultim. rupta mox eva- And to thofe, who have appealed to pofthume Manufcripts, taut fiamma. and gloried in their inheritance of fome Papers bequeathed v ^mamc^- to the fecret cuftody of Opporinus^ his Amanuenfis ; we muft f* m de ™ aera - withfiniles rejoyn, that a fober and well ordered belief can se'^'zo' V as 102 Tht Traitjlaters Supplement. as foon fwallow down the monftroUs figment of the Book^ * confide Ma- f Adam, * which the impious credulity of Alagicians doth VuwVh,hf con ^ ent ty deliver to be given, by the Archangel Mattel, tb'uenova 'an unt0 mm > irnmediately upon his exile from Paradife, and msgia Pa'acel- contrition for his fin, and from Adam devolved to Seth, from ficapoflit po- him to Enochs from him to Noah, thence to Sent, afterwards b.vi } &c. c.6. to Abraham, Ifaac, Jacob, Levi, Caath >j Amram,Mofes$ofhua, ^' J * and fo down to the Prophets and holy Seers fucceflively ; whereby they were in a moment illuminated, the veil of fin withdrawn from the eye of their reafon, and all thofe moun- tains of flefhly luft, which hindered the profpect of the in- tellect, levelled, fo that they beheld Nature face to face, and freely gazed upon all her beautiful parts, in thenakednefc of their Effaces, and Porw^ devefted of all corporeity. A- gain, though an Argument drawn from the printed fheets of Paracelfus be of no confiderable validity, in regard he is fo ridiculoufly fubject to felf-contradidion , through all his works, that a witty Ad verfary might eafily beat him out of the Schools with his own weapons; yet it may be lawful for us,from the mafterpeice of his pen, his tract of Chirurgery, to colled fome proof, that he was wholly a ftranger to the doctrine or praclife of HopPochrifm. For in tbatdifcourfe, reducing all the feveral kindes of Vulnerary remedies to a conftant method, he is pofitive, that there is no other Cura-ti- on of a wound, but what is performed, either by means of the Natural Balfam, or by the appofitionof Brajfidclla upon the green wound, or by Aiagorreo ; the firft of which is Natural and the fame that all rational Phyficians allow, the fecond LraJfiAellkal, fo denominated from the Herb Adder (tongue, or Ophioglojfum, which he was pleafed to nickname Brtjfidella, the third Magical, for Afagorrco, in the interpretation of Dorntprs, is Aiedicamentum Adagicum: and who can finde amongfr thefe differences any room for the intrufion of the Sympathetica! Armary Unguent ? Laftly, if the exceeding Candor of any, willing to palliate this lapfeof our Helwont, recur to Authority, and transfer the guilt upon Baptifia Porta (from whom, in probability, this erroneous tradition was derived downto our Century) who fathers the invention upon The Tranjlmrs Sufflcmnt. 103 upon Paracelftu, in thefe words : Vngmntum Armarium , GrtcU QTfr!oyp.:imilian, and preferred him the form of the Sympathetica! Unguent. Nor can the aflertion of Crollius ( who drank as deep of the fpitle of Paracelfus, as his predecelTor Porta) that this fecret wa.s firft imparted to the King of Bohemia, be made good : Since * Maximilian obtained not the Scepter of that Kingdom, un- til the yeer, 1 56*2. as we are inftruded by the almofl: omni- fcient Libavitts, whofe pen hath been large upon thisfubjed, in Apocalyps. Hermetic* part, prior, cap. uhim. But whoever was the true Father of this modern produdi- io& , fhould he obtain a parol from the grave, and return .again to converfe with men, we may with rea/on doubt that he would hardly now know the Minerva of his own brain; V z but 1 04 The Tranjlttors Supplement. but would borrow that exclamation of Hercules returned from his Avernal expedition, Vnde rs.m foedo cbfti p*dere nati ? qua clades domum gravat ? fo much hath the fqualid difeafe of Reformation disfigured it, and varied that originary come^ !inefs,which was retrained to a determinate number of felect ingredients, into as many uncouth drefles, as the licentious Phanfie of every Commentator thought fit to prefentit in, every fecond hand adding, abstracting, or altering what fim- ples it pleafed. For in Libaviw his conteft with Ctolliuf and Severinut, about the Dihoti of Hoplochrifm , we finde no fewer then thirteen feveral and different Forms of the Mag- netick Unguent enumerated ; and in the private ftudies of many Noblemen (who have thought their Cabinets infinitely enriched with this Jewel , and valued it equal with that pre- cious trifle, the Countefs of Kent s Powder) we havefeen many other diflenting from the original in all, but the title. So that while fome have ufurped the liberty to multiply the (Imples, and run through the whole feries of Vulnerary remedies : others have contracted the whole Magnetical Energy into one fingle mineral ; as may be exampled in the fo much magnified Sjmpathetickjporrder, that wears the name of Sir Gilbert Tal- bot ,which we afTuredly know to be nothing but Roman Vitriol % . calcined with Promethean * Fire. In this we are tender not domofubLa- t0 nave tnc "" ncerit y °f our thoughts expofed to the danger um, wot boy. of mifapprehenfion. Wherefore to provide ag'ainft miftake, lib.x. Carmm. we profefs in the ears of the world, that we have not, in this od - 1' our diflike of innovating the receipt, tacitely been injurious to the juft freedom of any judicious pen, in making fober enquiries, profitable enlargements, and modeft corrections of any piece delivered down from the hand of more antient Learning ; for the happy induftry of our Forefathers hath not precluded, but opened the door of Exploration , and our fight muft needs be confeffed weaker, if franding upon their fhoulders we fee not farther : nor confined the Magne- tical Virtue to that juft number and quantity of Simples, found in the primitive compofition of the Unguent ; for we cannot be destitute of valid reafons to allure us, that the fame admirable effect might arife from many other Vulnerary medicaments, The Trarfftators Supp lenient. 105 medicaments, as well in the operation of their fingle Effen- tial Forms, as of the neutral Quality rehiring from their conjunction into one compound Salve : but onely infinuated our wifhes, that every fick Phanfie might not be tolerated to exercife an arbitrary power of innovation over fuch well compofed Medicines, which by the conftancy of their effects fufftciently affert the maturity of their firfr. contrivers know- ledg, and manifeft their own perfection ; as alfo that the Adverfaries to the Doctrine of Magnetifm had wanted that advantage and encouragement of contradiction, which the unneceffary variety of prefcripts of. the Armary Unguent hath unadvifedly given them. But our proper bufmefs is to furnifti the Reader iefs acquainted with the Books of Phyfi- cians, with the faithful Copies of the mod ancient, authen- tick, 'and rational defcriptions of the Sympathetick Unguent •. withinduftry omitting thofe, which feem to offend the no- ftrils of more precife Philofophy with the ingtateful fmell of Superftition. The Prototype or Original of the Unguent vulgarly im- puted to Paracelfus • but in probability contrived long after * m hoc his death, by the hand of Barthol. Corrichterm \ Phyfician cov (i af} qi0 'd to Maximilian the fecond, in whofe Court it was rlrft divulg- deh&bwumk- ed and pratfifed, is thus drawn. fimmulta jHperltujofacom' '«»•',*■'■/• 1 , „ t>, mentiti fit : it- Of the Mofs grown on a humane skull two ounces: Mimy fan, ut Cwdum half an ounce : Humane fat depurated two ounces : Oyl of Live bcaedift&s car- ■feed twelve drachmes : Qy I of Rofes, and Bole Armeniack^ ana tarrboiJijl*t,fo~ one ounce. Mix them, and by frequent agitation incorporate «^««* ? " M ~ them into an Vnguent. Into which a (flinter of wood ', or the ^^ po^'{olk • weapon ft ained with the patients blood, is to be immerfed : the cccafiim rct,o- wound, during the time of its fanation, being defended from the cedendo '. & . injury of aer, bound clofely up with clean fwathes^ andmundi- tifflCjOitafjead fed with the urine of the patient. But to the efficacious confection ^/^ f f/^ cf the Armary Vnguent, to cure a wound by untTion of the inftru- auoquc Vnguen- ment of the harm, though not dift ained with the blood, we are to tumtitidaFara- admix to the former, of Virgin'Honey (we Jbould rather cboofe C ^A the- be ft Mel Atticum, or Homey of Athens, for its excellence worthily efteemed by the Antients) two ounces i the fat of a. Bull V 3 ont emm io6 The TfAnfldtm Supflemem. 2. * Civ'di vi% ttmfwa, qnn- ■tum ma ejl li- b,-Mum circtier fefqultrium aut trium : ai'Ai fexlarius e(l unciarum oiic- decm,& refpon dec carubao Rotembnrgo til harino. one drachme* And this we conceive to be the fame, which our Helmont intended : as the obfervation of every diligent Reader cannot but cou'etl. Baptijla Porta, in Magia Natural. /.8. r.ia. compoundeth it , of the Mofs of an unburicd Cranium : the fat of man, each two ounces : Mumy, Humane blood,each half an ounce ; Cyl of Line feed, and Turpentine, each one ounce : Bole Armen, as much. Incorporate all thefe, in a clean Marble Morter, into an Unguent : whofe ufe and effect exactly cor- refpond to the former. The moll: magnified (becaufe, indeed, mod diificult and ce- remonious) method of compounding the Unguent, defcribed by Ofwaldus Crollius, in Bajilica Chymica , together with a Panegyrick of its excellencies, runs thus : tyi Of the Fat of a -wild Boar, and a Bear (the elder the Beafts, the more efficacious their fat) ana four ounces. When thefe Fats have been, for the Jp ace of half an hour,decocled in good red wine, they are to be effufed into pure, clean, cold water, and the floating untlmus fubfiance to be skimmed off rvith a convenient infiru- ment, but the ponderous refidence in the bottom to be ejected, as excrementitiotu and ufe left. This done , R of thefaireft Earth- worms, frequently purified in white Wine, two fext arte s * : Let them be tor ri fed in a well vernijhsd earthen pipkin, in an Oven clofe luted, provided they burn not, and then be finely pulverated : Of this powder Ifc one ounce : t he-brain of a wilde Boar exjiecated: red odoriferous Sanders : Mumy : the Bloodftone • ana one ounce* Finally, ty. of the moffy periwig of the skull of a man, de- firoyedby violent death, /beared off in the increafe of the Moon, and her exigence in a propitious houfe of Heaven, of Venus, if : poffible , but on no condition of thofe two malevolent Planets, Mars and Saturn, the quantity of two Nutmegs* To aH thefe decently pulverized and fe arced conjoyn the for ef aid Fat, and confufe them, according to the art of the Apothecary, into an in- comparable Vngueni , to be conferved with extraordinary dili- gence in a Glafs or Gallipot, c/ofely fealed up, and.if it>grow dry, with long keeping, to be remollied and humectated with Virrin The Tr an [tutors Supplement* 1 07 Virgin Honey* All this is to be performed while the Sun is quar- ter ei-in libra. ■ 1 Somewhat different from all thefe is the Compofition of Ofwaldtts Gabelchoverns , recorded in Pratlica Germanica : which contains of the "Fat .of a Septennial Boar, and Bear, each, one pound : .afterwards melted in-boyHng fed Wine, andaffufed into cold water, for the better depuration and collection of them : of the powder of aBIoodftone, half an ounce : of red aromatical Sanders, fix drachmes : of Earth- worms prepared with wine, two drachmes ; of Ufnea, a gre# quantity : Married all together into an Unguent, by an artifi- cial hand. The ufe is the fame with the former of Crollim. No lefe variation, as weJl in the number, as quantity of the ingredients, may we obferve in that famous defcription,which Pancratitu Gallus, chief Phyfician to the Duke of Saxony, in great privacy, communicated to Libav'ms : it being confe&ed of the Fat of a Male Bear, and wilde Boar, in the quantity of two ounces apiece j boy led aad clarified in red Wine : of red Saunders. Bloodftone prepated,each two drachmes : of Earth- worms cleanfed in Wine, one ounce : of Ufnea two drachmes : of the dried and powdered roots of the greater Confound, or major Cumfry, and Colcothar, each half an ounce : Com- mix them exadly, with a filver fpatule, into an Unguent. Jhc io8 The Tranfla tor's Landskip , Or Abftraa of H S L M N^T S Theory of Magnetifm. I'M fatisfi'd, chat Sympathies combine At diftance : that diiperfed Mumies twrne. That our Souls z£tper nutum ; when awake From that Enchantment, the firfl/w did make : And that this native Magick of the mind, Is the fole Devil and Witch ♦ if once refin'd By Ecftajie. That ^eafons but the Brat Of Senfuality ; and is loft with that. That none can chain up Aflral Energy, Orcircumfcribe Radial Aclivity : And Magnetifm extends its arm as far, And potent, as the mod triumphant Star. That Earth hath Heaven in't. That Atoms may, At vaft remove, their Virtual Forms dilplay. Thj Heat and (old are languid Agents, when Seminal TinBures (though oblcure to men) Are brought in play - for thcfe, like Angels, cure Onely by th' touch invijible, procure Natural Miracles, and eas'ly in an hower, Cicatrize Wounds, that (corn Chirurgeons power. nrL~, I op Thac nice DiVines, who fcruple at this Art y Commit implicite Stcriledg j and impart Gods honor unto Satan : while wife Zzal Call's it lafe Tfytural Magick thus to heal. All this I now aflent to ; but invite Each wifcr head, to makeme's Profelyte. My Mercury is not fixt : my Virgin Faith Scorns to fubmit to what an Author faith, Barely becaufe he faid it. To enquire, To doubt, is to advance our Judgment higher. For I've been told, That Kjiowkdg moft doth lie Enfhrin'd in Sceptical lS[eutralitie. W. C X The Ill Nativity of T a r t a r in W i n e. ■ The Summary. i. K Fifhing for Whales. 2. The fpirit of W'ne> depretfed by XTLcold, retires to the center of its veflel. 3 . How Vineger dif- fers from Wine. 4. Wine in the fuperficies of aveffel,why lefsgene- rons. 5. The Concretion of Tartar in Hogsheads. 6. How it affixes it felf to the fides of a veflel. 7. It U coagulated in fixing. 8 . The premifes are made good. 9. The error of a Chymick Axiome. 10. Thereafonor Wine coagulated in Tartar, holds no analogy to that of Excrements coagulated in the Microcofrn. 1 1 . The difference betwixt Tartar, and the Stone concreted in the body of Man.i 2. Tar. par not altogether, or truly, the excrements of Wine. 1 3 . A grand error of ParacelfHs. 14. Tartar of Wine totally differs from any coagulated recrement in difcafes. 1 5. A fecond lapfe of Paracelfm. 1 6. Why Tartar is riot incruftated on the Lees, in the bottom of a vefTel. 17. Wines diftinguifht by their Tartar. 18. Tartar nejthtr Wine, nor the dregs of Wine. 1 9. Why an Alcale, ©r Lixival Salt, extracted from Wine, or Tartar, doesdiftolve Tartar. 20. The dregs of Wine, in fome part the material of Tartar. 21. How ill the re- femblance holds 'twixt Tartar, and coagulations in the Microcofra. 21. Tartar to be referred to coagulated Salts, not to Stones, or excrements, lEfore I attempt the explofion of that neceflity, 1 which Taracclfus vainly imagined r,o himfelf, of the conftitution of Tartar in all aliment, for the difcovery of the caufes of moft chronicle difeafes ; and that the folly of that fiction may be more clearly demonftrated , I have thought good , to- premife an Enquiry into the original of Tartar in wine : Since from thence (according to the new belief of vulgarity) moft difeafes derive their Chafes, and borrow their Appellations. X2 The 1 1 2 The Nativity of i. The Cantabi (now Bifcons) natives of a Province in Spain,. before their converfation with the Hollander, in a voyage for •the fifhing of Whales , being on the coafts of Groenland (which Modern Travellers conceive loft) among the vaft Quickfands, called Atalaya, furprifed by intenfecold, had their decoded Wines, of themfelves generous and excellent, frozen to Ice. Inftrucled by this exigent, they beat off their hoops from their vefTels, and expofed, to the open aer, the naked conglaciated Wines ; with defign, that the refidue of Liquor might be totally frozen : This accordingly fucceed- rng, they boared the Ice, and at the Centre of it found a clear, tranfparent Liquor, of the colour of an Amethyft, be- ing the pure fpirit of Wine, a fiery and vital ellence , un- capable of conglaciation. This difcovery taught them under- ftanding - y for they drank the Ice, melted at the fire, reftoring to it a fmall quantity of this efTential vital Ne&ar. The (lory is introduced for this end , that hence it may be obferved, That the fpirit of Wine, bj a natural tendency, flies from cold, as from his proper enemy • and gently withdraws itfclf, from its former manfion, into the Centre of the Wine. But on the con- trary , Wines are therefore expofed to the heat of the Sun, that they may grow Acide, and the fpirit exhaling, leaves be- hinde it a flat, cadaverous fubftance, devoid of fpirit and life, which is Vineger. But fince it is far more noble andufeful, that the fpirit of Wine fhou Id retreat into the Centre, then periih by exhalation , therefore hath neceffity, forthecon- fervation of Wines , hinted the invention of cold , deep Ccllers. The Auftrian Wines ftill operating on themfelves by an uncelTant, tumultuous heat of Ferment at urn ,■ are, .for the mofi part, grofs andvifcid. For which.reafon, theCellers at Vienna are ordinarily digged to no lefs then a hundred foot in depth. The Spanijh Wines alfo, would furTerthe fame reftlefs ebullition, and conflict betwixt their Hetero- geneities , were they not prevented by the admixture of a Lime, which the Spaniard calls Hiefco, at the very inftant of g; their flowing from the Wine Prefs. Whence refults it a clear and unqueftionable truth, that the fpirit of Wine, in cold Cellers, retreating from its adverfary, cold, returns to the heart T Attar in Wine. 113 heart of the Liquor, astoafaferefuge, and there conceals it felf. Wine, therefore, in the cortex, or outward circum- ference of it felf, is tel's generous, as having fewer fpirits, then in the middle, or inmofl: retiring room. Hence it is a 3. necefTary confequent, that as, by reafon of the exhalation of fpirits, Wines fet in the Sun, grow acide, and phlegmatick; fo alfo, proportionably, the exterior Cortex of Wine in a coldCeller, muft be more acide, then the Centrals. And . thus, when the mufts of Wines are frefhly brought in from thePrefs, lodged in Store-houfes, and have fuffered Fermen- tatisn, the fpirit by and by flying from cold, concentres it felf; and therefore the fuperficies of Wine, having already entred fome degree of Acidity , immediately begins to ope- rate on the dregs, floating on the yet troubled and unclarified mate of Liquor. For an abfolute impoflibility it is, that there can be any the lead Acidity ; which having once met with a proportionate object, does not immediately begin to operate ©n it. This really is the Law, and unavoidable neceffity of Na' turals. By example. Vineger, how flat and weak foever, having once touched upon the ftone concreted in the head of a Creafifh, vulgarly (but erroneoufly) called Crabs eye, can by no means contain it felf, but mufl: immediately act, to the dtflblution of it, and refolve it into a clear, diaphanous Liquor. The Acidity of Wine, having once fated it felf on the dregs, and fpentmuch of its activity, by degrees, inclines it felf to coagulation. But coagulate it cannot, without a confpiracy with, and aflifhnce from the Fracid Odor of the veflel, impregnate with a fpirit, or power of Fermentation ; whereby it may, in fome meafure, admit of putrefaction. And for this onely reafon, is the Coagulation made at the fides of the vefTel, to which it affixes it felf; according to that familiar Chymick^ Axhme : Omnis (piritus dijfohens , eadem atlione (jua corpora dijfolvit, coagulatur : Every di(fol- ven't Jpirit is it felf coagulated, in the fame action » wherein it dijfolves other concreted bodies. The more acide Wine, there— ^ fore, in the extremities of it felf, diiTolves the dregs ; and at the fame inftant, the acide diftolvent fpirit is coagulated, together with the newly diffolved fxces, and foon applies it X 7 felf I j^ The Nativity of felf to the neereft fide, or concave of the veflel. And this, left both (thediflblvent and diflblved) might not be hindred from coagulating; but on one fide, at lead, they might not - be invironed by Liquor : And thus, by this progrefs and fucceflion of natural motions, there is affixed anew pro- duction of Coagulation, T^-r^r. Obferve alfo, 'that before thecompleat act of Coagulation, there is no exiftent Coagu- l at um ; and therefore the acide fpirit in the verge of the mafs of Wine, having newly difiblved the dregs, in a moment, before the ad of coagulation finiiht, feazes on the veiTcl, and by a Cement, or glue, native and proper to it felf, there fixes, and cenftantly adheres. Otherwife depreiTed by gravity, ic would immediately fink to the bottom. And this new Entity \ thus coagulated , is the Tartar of Wine ; of which our Difcourfe. 8. That thefe are fober, folid truths,we have dear and demon- ftrable evidence from Vineger it felf. For Wine infolated to a calefaclion of the veflel, may produce Tartar • but Vineger never. And yet Wine and Vineger are one and the fame matter, differing onely in thofe qualifications, heat and cold ; in the former , indeed, with Tartar , in the latter with- out it. g t From the premifles,there breaks forth a considerable truth; that ourforementioned Axiome, by Chymicki concluded of eternal verity, grofly fails in that it makes the diflblution of any concreted body, to be done in the inftant of time, and numerical adion, with the coagulation of the fpirit diiToI- vent. For if there intervened not, in fome fhort interval of time, a diverfity, and fucceflion of motions, the Coagulation could not foder it felf to the circumambient planks of the veflel, as is there arTufed by liquefaction ; but would of ne- ceflity, if it were coagulated at the inftant of diflblution, fink down to the loweft region, in the form of a fimple coagula- tion, and not cement it felf to the walls of the hogfhead. But on the other fide, in the bottom, the peculiar region of the jo. Lees, there is never found any Tartar. Here alfo accurs to our ferious confideration, a fecond and more weighty verity : that the Analogy, or refemblance, which the vulgarity of Phyficians Tartar inWtne. 115 Phyficians conceives, betwixt the Tartar in Wine, and thofe preter-natural Coagulations in the body of man, is erroneous, vain, and altogether impertinent; and therefore the name, hiftory, manner and end of Coagulation of Tartar in Wine, are fooljfhly and unfitly accommodated to the caufes of difeafes. All which I (hall demonftrate to ample fatisfaction, when I come to difcover that grand and popular delufion of the Exiftencc of Tartar in our meat and drink. Allowing to Wine onely a fertility of Tartar. For that we acknowledg to be no Alien, no fon of an exotick mother, from the concur- rence of forein principles, intruded into Wine, having its production contrary to, or befides the ordinary and fimple nature of Wines : neither owing its original to the adjuncts of the primitive MaleditHon delivered in Paradife, by divine providence, for the expiation of thofe Crimes committed by man, in the heat and diffraction of Wine. Again, neither is the Tartar of Wine ever coagulated by any originary activity, or power of coagulation , proper to its own nature (though Varacefftis dreamt fo :) but then undergoes Coagmentation, when the circumferential Acidity of the Wine, hath newly exhausted much of its Energy, and wafted it felf, by a pro- fufc operation on the dregs. That is, the AElive being fwal- 11- lowed up in the embraces of the Paffive : the Acide fpirit im- bibed, and fubdued to obedience, by thefrefhly difTolved Fjccs ; then, and not till then, contrives and fets about the ad of Coagulation, not with defign or power to make a real, true flone, but a counterfeit, fuch as afterwards may be again difTolved in hot water, as an Acide fait in liquor, which for thatreafon, the vulgar call Cremor Tartari. All which do very ill correfpond with thofe preter-natural Coagulations in the bodies of men : and yet they are, in a drunken fiction of Paracelfus, by an imaginary analogy of efTence and identity whhTartar, in all meat and drink, grofly obtruded on the faith of vulgar Phyficians,wholly over-run by thatepidemick, lazy, evil, fubfeription. Here alfo we are fallen on a third Magnate or Violentnm. That Tartar is not an excrement of 12, Wine, unlefs on one part, which is the dregs difTolved : which truly Paracelfus was not ignorant of, who does very frequently Ii6 The Nativity of frequently extol the Medicinal faculties of Tartar, far above thole of Wine it felf, as inheriting many more and nobler en- i j. dowments. Wherefore he very abfurdly refers Tartar of Wine, by an identity of eflence, and formation, to the fame Claflisof Entities, with thofe folid Concretions indifeafed. bodies ; which yet, in many other places, himfelf concludes to be a meer excrement, yea, the forrowful fruit of that curfe of the Larth, pronounced by God, in Paradife, Brjers and ti:orns jhult thou bring forth, and calls, Ens Cacedonium, in pvrofaphyrico cnte rerun. The Tartar of Wine therefore, and that which is erected in the Schools, for the material caufe, and foundation of moft Chronick difeafes, if any fuch were in realky of Entity, can keep no concord in their Original Forms, even according to the doctrine of Parace/fus himfelf, if we accept the former, as a preternatural production, di- rected, by the deftiny of its being, to the generating difeafes, as to its proper end. And thus alfo, hath he mod impertinent- ly, and at belt, but by the favor of a Metaphor, reduced the caufes of difeafes to Tartar : Since they no way agree, either in their matter, efficient, manner, or caufe of Coagulation, in the term of the Coagulatum, Object, or Originals. For nei- ther gravel, nor the ftone is capable of diflblution in boiling water ; as the Tartar of Wine is. This ufurpation therefore, of name and propriety, is wholly metaphorical, rafli, and fri- ij. volous$ and an aiTertion tacitely injurious to divine wifdom and providence, by polluting the purity of all fublunary crea- tures, with the bold imputation of a Curfe, as if in the to- tality of their natures, they were nothing but Compoiitions, amafled out of the feeds of Tartar. And to fo high a pitch of impudence hath this error flown, that men dare imagine Tartar in the very marrow of Animals ; which yet they allow incoagulable, nor did ever Parac e /fits finde any where, but in his own wilde imagination. And fo the refult of all is, that he falls upon a manifeit contradiction, makingTartar to be no Tartar, that is uncapable of Coagulation: fo that, not onely every coagulable and folid body, but alfo every liquid fubitance, that is every created nature, fubject to the influence of the lower orU, would be nothing but Tartar, by divine Tartar inline, uj divine Vengeance, deftined to thepunifhment of the firirfin. No (boner hath the Mm ft fuflfered Fermentation, parted with its former fweetnefs. and aflumed the perfection and digni- ties of Wine, but the whole Mafs of Terrenity, the Lees, falls to the bottom of the veflel j and then begins the new made Acidity of the Wine, in the circumference, to execute its power diffolutive , on the earthly refidence in the bot- tome. For the more effential portion of the Wine , the fpiritual Nectar, by a gentle and gradual concentration, crowding in- to the middle, forfakes the protection of the Superficial round of the Liquor: This done, and the extremity of the Wine thus deftitute of Vitality and radical heat, foon grows acide, and not meeting with any fit object neer it, whereon to dis- charge its activity, but onely the dregs in the lowed region of the Wine, immediately aiTaults them, and by degrees difiblves them : And thus the Acidity is both confirmed and inlarged. Butfince every Acidum, by reafon of its corroding Energy, doth operate in a perpetual Ebullition : hence is it, that that Acidity, which had dived to the bottom, when it hath opera- ted on the Lees, doth reafcend from thence, and fix it felf in a higher manfion, the circumftance of the veifel. And for this i& caufe, is the generation of Tartar done, by (ucceffive, gradM*l y and flow motions. For the fame reafon alfo cannot Tartar be concreted and affixed to the bottom ; hindered by that in- quietude, and tumultuation of perpetual Ebullition. Hence I7 ; is it, that rich and generous Wines, being not eafily fubject to this deftitution of fpirits, unlefs on an aiTault of intenfe cold, do not foon grow acide, nor yeeld any considerable quantity of Tartar. But old Rhenifh Wines eafily pall, grow fick, and loofe their grateful and vigorous tafte j in regard their activity of eagernefs is, for the molt part, devoured by their Lees ; and yet they continue wholfom and friendly to the ltomach, in that their fpirits are not exhaulted to an equal proportion of their dregs and acidity. But red French Wines,unlels nourifht by their Lees , ( which for this effect, Vintners call, the Y Mother, n 8 The Nativity of A/other, or Nurfe of Claret} dilTolve their own Tincture, continually preying on it by their fubtilty and eagernefs. And this is the caufe, why Claret Wines, if not very rich, and ex- cellently vigorous, at the age of two yeers grow pale and dif- coloured. For the Tincture of Wines, is a fubftance fami- liarly fubjectto reparation. But ftrong, generous, and fpiri- tual red Wines, in that they more (lowly growacide, hold good to the age of many yeers. On the contrary, fmall White Wines, if not fequeltred from their Lees, in fhort time, grow flat and cadaverous. For their Lees drawn off, theif Acidity wanting a proportionate matter, to imploy its corro- five faculty upon, the Wine continues good, fprightful,h~rm, 18. and in its primitive integrity. From thefe experiments, we naturally collect, That Tartar, in the acception of its entire nature, is no longer either Wine, or the dregs of Wine; bp;t a Neutral, &r third Nature, refultingfrom the conjunction, and co'efficiencj of both. That this is thus, is demonftrable from the Mechanick experiment, that a greater quantity of Tartar may bediiTolved in ten ounces of Rain water, then in two hundred of Wine, though never fomuch itirred in boyling. The reafon belongs to the Acidity of Wine to which the Tar- tar ows its Coagulation. zp, To conclude ; fix ounces of the fait of Tartar, will dif- folve feven ounces of crude Tartar ; becaufe the Lixivium, or Lee of that Salt imbibes and fucks up the Acidity of Tartar. ith That Tartar confiits of the Lees of Wine, and not Wine one- \y, we need no other evidion,but that experiment of Printers, who indifferently ufe Tartar or the Lees of Wine, for the Matter ingredient in their Composition of Ink: the fame effect arifing from either, on good reafon, preventing the election of cither , and confefling a plain confanguinity , if not an identity of the Caufes. Again, in diftillation, they both belch up one and the fame Acide Odor, and yeeld one and the fame OyK Onely Tartar is not diiTolved in cold water : becaufe the feculent and earthy fubftance of the dregs.does fo clofely environ and fhroud the Salt, that the cold water is not of force futticient, to transfix that counterfcarfe,or penetrate theatomical parts of the Concretion, and by confeqnence,not todiflblveik Now Tartar in Wine, up Now fincc Tartar hath its originary principles and nativi- as ty, no where but in Wines, grown lightly Acide, by a de- iertion of fpirits, flying from circumftant cold,to the Centrals of the Liquor : Hence let the fo much illuminated (that is infatuated^ Difciples of Paracelfiis be intruded, how ill the fpeculation of Tartar does quadrate, even with thofe difeafes, for whofe fake chiefly it was firfl invented and embraced. For plain it is, the frone concreted in the body of man, can never be difTolved in boyling water • as Tartar commonly is. For which consideration, Tartar is more juftly to be lifted in * 3 ; the number of Salts, or Juices coagulated by Salt, thea of Stones : t diametro, contrary to the doctrine of Paracelftts. Y i Trie 121 The Image of G O D • O R, Helmonfs Vifibn of the Soul, EngliQied. The Summary, i. *"Tr» He fear of God, the beginning : and Charity,the end of Wif- X dom. 2. Man made in the Image of God. 3. Threefortsof Atheifts. 4. A with of the Author. 5. The intellection of the minde, intellectual. 6. The intimate integrity of the minde fuffereth from caduce faculties, without the pafllon of extinction. 7. The action of the minde fcarce perceptible in us. 8. Atheifts of the firft Claflis de- ride the image of God, in man. 9. Atheifts of the fecond Clanls, have lately fprung up. 1 o. The Atheiflical ignorance of fuch is manifefted, 11. A variety of vital Lights. 1 2. How the minde dif- fers from Angels. 13. An intellectual vifion of thc'Authors. 14. All optation vain, without God. 1 5. The mifery of the Author.i 6. A vifion of the foul, feparate from the body. 1 7. That the minde hath a figure. 18. The minde an immortal fubftance, reprefenting the figure of God. 10. A vulgar error, concerning the Image of God. 20. The error of fuch, who conceive thelmageof God to be fcated in the ternary of faculties, 21. The doctrine of Taulerus oppofed. 22. The Image of God never yet difcovered, nor pofitivcly defcri- bed, becaufe incomprehenflble. 2 3 . The minde fubject to damna- tion, onely by accident. 24. After death, is no more Memory, or Reminifcence. 2 5. The will was fuperadded to the minde, acci- dentally, after its Creation. 2(5. In Heaven, the Will is ufelefs and fruftraneous. 27. In Heaven the Will appears no power, or Faculty : but a fubftantial and intellectual effence. 28. If the Minde be the Image of God. this was anciently known to Plato. 29. The definition of the Minde. 30. Reafon not the Image of God. 3 1. The Authors opinion. 32. Thefe two Quiddities lie obfcuredin the foul, by reafon of the corruption of our nature. 33. The love of the foul is excited onely by an Ecftafie 5 nor otherwife in thefeTalami- tiesof Nature. 34. A precifionof the Intellect. 3 5. AiiObjcction fblved. 36. That triplicity, or ternary of diverfe Faculties in the Y 3 Minde,. I2 2 The Image rf God h Minde, is exprefTed alfo in every fyfteme , orcompofition of the world, 3 7. A more noble and exa& fimilicude, then that of a Tri- nity of Faculties, rcquifite to make out the Image of God in man. 38, The defcription of the Minde, rehearfed, 39. How the Minde may furvey it felf. 40. The original of the Imagination, conlritu- tive. 41. The Minde underftandeth far otherwile, 42. The prero- gative of the Minde. 43, An explication of living love. 4.4. The difcrepancies of intellections in Mortals. 45. Why that amorous defire, or divine Love, cannot ceafe in Heaven. 46. The defcription of thatdefire. 47, How fin may be harbored in thedefireof the Minde. 48. The love of the Minde is a fubftance, even in men, that have not yet confefled their duft. 49. How great a cloud of dark- nefs is drawn over the primitive fplendor of the Intellect, from the corruption of Nature, by the original (in, 50, The Image of God, defaced and demoliflied in the fons of perdition. Ifdom begins at the Fear of God ; and the Fear of God begins at the meditation of death, and eternal i« $$$$ hfe- B ut the end of Wifdom many conceive, with the Stoicks , to be the knowledg of a mans felf; but I account the ultimate end of wifdom, and the Crown of the whole courfe of our life , Charity , which alone will faithfully accompany us, when all other things (hall have de- ferted us. And although felf-cognition, in our opinion, be onely a medium to the fear of God ; yet from that, muft our Tractate concerning long life, alTume its beginning; in this relation, that the cognition of life prefuppofeth the cognition of the Soul, fince the life and foul (which we have more then 2# once intimated) are Synonymaes. Tis of Faith, that man was created, of nothing, after the Image of God , into a living Creature ; and that his minde (hall never perifh; while, in the mean time, the Souls of Bruits fuffer annihilation, fo foon as they ceafe to live. The weighty reafons of which difference I have declared, in my dilcourfe of the Original of Forms. But hitherto is it not manifefted, beyond difpute, wherein that fimilitude of Man with God, our Archtype, or prime exemplar, dothconfift. For in the Soul alone, many determine this majeftick Pourtraiclure. I (hall deliver what I conceive ; yet under an humble protefhtion and fubjedion to Or , Helmonu vifion of the Sen/. 1 2 ? to the cenfure of the Church. Thus it is. The Original of Forms being , in fome degree of comprehenfion , already known ; it is juft we make a grand enquiry concerning the Minde of At an. But, ferioufly, no cognition is more weighty then that, whereby the foul comprehends her felf : Yea, and hardly is any more profitable ; in this intereft, that Faith doth efhblifh her foundation upon the unperifhable, and in- delible fubftance of the Soul. I have found, indeed, many demonftrations, concerning this verity, divulged in Books: but none at all propter quid, touching the Cardinal jQuiddity, in relation to Atheifis, denying one fingle, and from all Eter- nity conftant, Deity. Plato, infooth, hath decreed three or- ders of Atheifts. (1 .) Afirfl, which beleeveth no gods at all. (2.) Afecoxd) which indeed doth admit of gods • but fuch as are incurious of our condition here below, and idle contemn- ers of the trifling affairs of Mortals. (3.) A third, which although it beleeve, that there are gods, and fuch as are both knowing and obfervant of the fmalleft occurences in the World; yet imagineth them fo exceeding merciful,that they are flexile, by the ringer of the weakeft prayer. And this kinde is moit frequent among Chriflians, and even fuch, who pro- fefs themfelves the moft perfect in our days: and on this prefumption, they dare any thing, and beleeve Religion to be no more but an engine of mature policy, to coerce the peo- ple, with the terror of Lares, the obligation of Faith, and the penalty of Hell. For thefe impofe heavy burthens on the {boulders of others, which themfelves touch not with one of their fingers ; drain the purfes of their difciples, proftitute Heaven for money to dying men, and continually intrude themfelves into fecular affairs, in regard they opinion, that Religion cannot fubfift without State-policy- My highefl wifli fhosld be, that they had once, though but in a moment, tailed what it is to underftand intellctluallj-jthat fo they might perceive fenfibly, as it were by the touch, the immortality of theMinde. Iconfefs, 1 have not invented rules, or a method, whereby I might be able to illuftrate the intellect of anothet man. I proteft therefore juftly, that fuch who ever ftudy, making difquifitions concerning truth, but can never attain the. 124 ^^ lma &* °f Go & 5 theknowledgof it, in refpect, being puffed up with Learn- ing, they have no Chanty, do fofter fecret Atheifm. But j. this one myftery I have learned , That the minde doth not at all underftand by the mediation of the Pbanjie^ nor by figures and images; unlefs the miferable, and afflicting difcourfe of Reafon be annexed ; but when the Soul comprehends her own nature, Reafon falls off from her , and the image of her felf fails her, by which (he might reprefent her felf to her felf: therefore the Soul can, by no means, apprehend her felf by the difcourfe of Reafon, nor by Images. For after that I had known, that the verity of an E fence , and the verity of the Intellect were one and the fame : I certainly knew that the intellect was a certain immortal Entity, far removed from all frail and periftiable things. The Soul, indeed, is not per- ceived ; yet we firmly beleeve her to dwell within us, not to be idle, not to be weary, nor affiicled with difeafes. Therefore 6. Jleep, madnefs, and ehriety^ are not fymptomes of the immortal foul fuffering exorbitancy ; but the attendants of life and onely paflions of the fenfitive Faculty ; fince bruits alfo fre- quently endure the fame paflions. For juft it is that the/'w- mortal Being owe thefe difturbances to her adligement to ca- duce and mortal things. For as the minde inhabiteth within us, and yet is not perceived by us : So neither are her con- tinual and uninterrupted operations fubjed to fenfation ; becaufe if they were fenfiblc, verily they could not have been fpiritual and meerly abftracted. And although it appear to us, that we underftand nothing by the total fequeftration and abftraction of difcourfes from all things corporeal, which can fall under the comprehenfion of our fenfe, minde, and intel- lect ; and that in the very beginnings of our Contemplations : yet really, the ivine Juftice doth conferve in Being. The Soul, indeed, from the minute of her creation forwards to the future, hath an eternal permanence ; not from her own effence, but from her native eternity, freely conferred upon her by the bounty, and con- ftantly conferved by the providence of her Maker. M .. Suffice it therefore, that the Soul bt^fpiritual and vital fubftance ; and a luminous Creature. And fince there are many kindes and fpeeies of vital lights, this light of the minde dif- fers from all other vital lights, in this, that it is a (piritual and immortal fubftance ; but all other vital lights are not fub- ftances Formal, though they be Forms fubftantial ; and there- fore, by the Chymiffry of Death, they are reduced into their ancient nothing , no otherwife then is the flame of a Tapor j£ a extinct. But the Minde differs from Angels • in refpect it is framed in the fimilitude and reprefentative figure of the eter- nal God, for the foul hath that light and luminous fubftance from the gift of her Creation, fince (he her felf is that vital light : but an Angel is not that fubftantial light, nor hath he any light genial and inherent to his effence, but is onely a mirror of the increated light j and fo in this particular falls ftiort of the excellence and perfection of the Divine Image, Otherwife an Angel, fince he is an incorporeal fpirit, were he luminous from the right of his own effence, would exprefs the Image of God more perfectly then man. Moreover,what- cverGod doth beftow more love upon, that is more noble; but he hath loved man, much more then the Angels ; for not to the redemption of the Angelical nature did heaffume the figure of z-Cacadxmon, as the thrice glorious Lamb of God, ihe Saviour q£ the world, affumed the nature of a Servant. Nor Or, Helmont'/ vifton of the Soul, 1 27 Nor can this Doctrine be daggered by the opposition of that, The meaneft in the Kingdom of Heaven u greater then John the Baptifi : For the Son of Man is not inferior, in dignity of effence, to the Angels, though he was pleafed to become a little lower then the Angels j for in the calamitous condition of his life, he was made a little lower then the Angels^ as alfo was fohn the Baptift. And for this reafon, an Angel is con- stantly called a minifiring Spirit . but is no where read a friend of God, the Son of the Father, the delight of the Son of Man, or the Temple of the Holy Spirit, wherein the thrice glorious Trinity takes up his Manfion. For that is themaje- ftick prerogative of the Divine Image, which the Light Eter- nal doth imprefs upon every man that comes into this world. In the year 1 6 1 o. after a long wearinefs of contemplation, 1 3 , that I might acquire fome gradual knowledg of my own minde, fince I was then of opinion, \h2Xfe If- cognition was the complement of rvifdom, fain by chance into a calm fleep, and rapt beyond the limits of reafon, I feemed to be in a Hall furficiently obfcure. On my left hand was a table, and on it a fair large Vial, wherein was a fmall quantity of Liquor : and a voice from that Liquor fpake unto me : Wilt thou Honor and Riches ? At this unwonted voice, I became furprized with extream amazement. I walked up and down, ferioufly con- fidering with my felf, what this fhould defign. By and by, on mv right hand , appeared a. chink in the wall, through whien a light invaded my eyes with unwonted fplendor : which made me wholly forgetful of the Liquor , voice, and former counfel. Then penfively returning to the Vial, I took it away with me ; and attempted to tafle the Liquor, but with tedious labor I opened the Vial, and aiTaulted with extream horror I awakened. But my ancient intenfe defire of knowing the nature of my foul , in which I had panted uncefTantly tor thirteen whole yeers together, constantly remained with me. At length, amidft the anxious afflictions of various for- tunes, when yet I hoped a Sabbath of tranquillity from the fe- curity of an innocent life tranfacled, in a vision I had the fight , of my foul. It was a tranfeendent light, in the figure of a man, Z 2 ivhofe x 2 g The Image if God • ivhofe whole was homogeneous, actively difcerning, afubfiance' But spiritual, Cryftalline, and lucent by its own native fplendor. enftirined it was in a fecond nubilouspart, as the husk or ex- terior cortex of it felf, which whether it did emit any fplen- dor from it felf, I could hardly diftinguiftr, by reafon of the fuperlativefulgorof the Cryftalline Jpirit irrfhrowded within it. Yet this I could eafily difcern, that there was no fexual imprefs ,.hvx onely in the cortex orftirine. But the mark of theCryftal wis light ineffable, fo reflexed, that theCryftal Image it felf became incomprehenfible : and that not by nega- tion or privation (fince thefe are terms onely accommodate to our imbecillity) otherwife then this, that it prefented a ma- jeftick Ens, which cannotoe.exprefTed by words ; yet fo fine- ly, that you could not have comprehended the quiddity of the thing beheld. And then was it revealed unto me, that this light was the fame, which I had a glimpfe of twenty three yecrs before. And thefe things I faw by an intellectual vifion, in my minde ; for had the eye of my body once beheld this refplendent exceflive ob jecfyt would for ever after have ceafed from vifion, and conftantly have celebrated a blinde mans holy day. And thus my dream difcovered unto me, that the beauty of the humane Soul doth far tranfeend all conception of thought. At that inftant I comprehended thus much, that my long defire of. feeing my foul was vain and fruitlefs j and iAt thereupon I did acquieice. For however beautiful the Cry- fialline Jpirit did appear; yet my foul retained nothing of perfection from that vifion, as at other times flhe was wont to do after anintelleclual vifion. And fo 1 came to be inftrutfed,' that my minde, in, this fomnial vifion, had as it were acted the part of a third perfon ; nor was the difcovery fufficiently fatisfadory to compenfate fo earned and infatiate a defire of exploration- ^, But as to the Image of God imprejfed uptn the Sou/ ; accord- ing to my (lender capacity, I confefs, I could never conceive any thing, whether a body, or jpirit, whether in my phanjie, or the moft pure, and abftracted fpeculation of my intellect, which in the fame ad of meditation, did notreprefent fome certain f gun f under which it flood objected to my concep- tions. Or, Helmont'/ vifton of the Soul, 1 2 p tionf. For whether I apprehended it by imagining an Ide* probably correfpondent to its effence, or whether by concei- ving that the intcllctl did tranfmute it felf into the objett un- derftood j ftill it occurred unto my thought inverted in fome figure. For although I could familiarly underftand the minde . under the notion of an incorporeal and immortal fubftance : yet could I not, while I meditated upon the individual exi- gence of it, confider the fame devoid of all figure; yea, nor fo, truly, but it would refpond to the figure of a man. Since iC, when ever the foul being fequeftred doth fee another Soul t Angel, orCacodtmon, requisite it mu*ft be, that (he perfectly know, that thefe are presented to her, to the end (he may diftinguifh it Soul from an Angel, and the Soul of Peter from the Soul of fud.u. Which diftindion cannot be made by the fenfe of rafting, fmelling, hearing, touching } but onely by the proper vifton of the Sou/; which vifion neceffarily impli- eth an alterity or difference of figure. Since an Angel \s(o far reftrained to locality, that at once he cannot ponefs two different places : in that alfo there is included as well zfigu- ral, as a local circumfcription. Thence I confidered the minde of man figurated after this manner. The body of man, accepted under that diftincl notion, 17," cannot give to itfelf the figure of a man ; and therefore hath need of am external Sculptor or Delineator, which (hould be fecretly ambufcadoed in the material mafs of the feed, and defcend upon it from above. Yet this, in fo much as it is of a material condition, and far below the finenefs of a fpiritual nature, cannot derive theplaftick or conformative virtue no more from it felf, then from the grofs mafs of the body : necefTary it is therefore, that there be fome precedent or elder principle, which muft be wholly and purely immaterial, yet real,. and operative, to which may be juftly attributed the power of figuration or delineation, by a figiilary impreflion upon the Archem, or Regent Spirit of the Seed. The Soul of the Genitor^ therefore, when it defcends to vifit and relieve the inferior faculties,and makes a progrefs to furvey the Seed, in a paroxyfm of carnality, doth upon the mafs of feed, en-> grave and adumbrate the imprefs and figure of itfelf (which/ Z 3 in 1 x 3 the image of Cod . in fober truth, is the onely caufe of the fecundity of feeds) and thence is that comely and magnificent ftruclure of the Infant. Otherwife if the Soul were not figurated, but the figure of the body did arife fpontaneoufly : a father maimed in any one member could not beget a fon but maimed in the fame member ; in regard the body of the Gcnerant hath loft its primitive integrity, and is become imperfect, at leaft in the imp I ant ate jpir it of that member. If therefore the figure be imprefled upon the feed ; undoubtedly it muft receive that image or model from fome other more vital and elder principle , alien to it fclf. But if the foul imprefs that figure upon the feed, fhe will not counterfeit an exotick, or ftrange image; but accurately pourtray the fimilitude of her felf. For by this means alfo Beafts, by the fouls modelling of her own picture, conftantly maintain their fpecies. And although the minde of man, if we relate to its original, far tranfcend the Laws of Nature ; yet by the fame method or way, whereby it firftentred the portal of Nature, was incorporated and af- fociatcd to her, it is conftrained to progrefs in traduction, and is conftantly adliged to the obfervanceof her rules and pre- fcriptions ; in this refpedt, That the progrefs and end of vital eventrations is always nnivocal. Nor otherwife could it want many and grofs abfurdities, that fo excellent an operation, as is the generation of man, fhould be performed without the confent and cooperation of the Soul. Which if it be thus, it is alfo of inevitable necefli- ty, that the fecundity be given to the feed by the Soul, by the communication of its figure, and other vital determina- tions requisite to fpeciflcation. Which verily doth not come to pafs otherwife, then by the figillation or engravement of the Soul upon the feed, whereby the matter of the feed doth obtain a requifite maturity and adumbrated figure : that at length it may acquire from the Creator the formal light of life, or foul of its fpecies , whofe fimilitude is exprefted in the figure. 18. Moreover, we apprehend it as matter of Faith, that our foul is a fpiritual fubftance, that fhall never know annihilati- on : the fabrication of which fubftance out of nothing be- longeth Or , Helmonu vifim of tb( Seal. \ 3 1 longeth to the Almighty God alone. Who fincehehath vouchsafed to adopt onely the foul of man tothelmageof himfelf: it appears alfo a genuine confequence, that the /'w- menfe and ineffable G od is alfo of humane figure ^ and that by an argument drawn a pofleriori, if arguments be of any vali- dity in this incomprehenfible fubjeet. Since the body is like wax, whereupon the imprellion of the image of the Soul is imprinted: but the Soul hath her image and eflential per- fection from him, whofe (lamp or fimilitude fhe wears. But * ip, on confideration that the body of man doth frequently be- come fubject to mutilation and monftrofity ; hence have moil Divines conceived that the glorious Image of the Deity is wholly confident in the Rational Faculty : not at all confider- ing, that the reprefentative Divinity of man doth in a more perfect and proxime relation confift in the Soul, and fo in the Body formed after the exemplary character of the Soul ; not perpending, that the Rational Faculty is but Handmaid and fubfervient to the Intelletl, no part at all of its eflence, nor adliged to it by the infeparability of union, or identity t which we have to fatisfadion demonftrated in our Treatife, of the Venation of Sciences. Now if any error be in the confirma- tion of the body, in the womb of the Conceptrix i that error is not adferiptive to any imperfection of the Image of God t but to the incapacity of the material principles, and other ex- ternal caufes, invading the PUftick^ virtue of the feed, and perverting its exact delineation of the parts. But the more Learned number of Chriftians doth hold it of Faith, that the Soul doth proximly exprefs the Image of the Trin-une God, in the univocaljimplicity of her fub fane e , and the Trinity of her Faculties, namely, the Intellecl, *r*7/,and Memory. Which io t analogy ever founded, in the ears of my reafon, fo ridiculous and empty as an old wives dream ; and improper to make good the proxime, (irtgular, and excellent reflex of the God- head in the Soul : fince the term, Image, doth include a fimi- litudeof E fence and Figure, and nOtonely a bare parity of numbers. Again, if the Soul, inher fub fa nee, reprefent the thrice facred Deity ; but the Inte/letl, Will, and Memory re- flect the Trinity of Perfons ; neceffary it is that thefe three faculties > 1 2 2 The Image of Ged • faculties are not proprieties, or accidents of the Soul ; but the very umvocal fubftance of the minde ; or elfe, that the pour- tradure doth ill quadrate and refpond to the Prototype, or prime exemplar, whofe image it is beleeved to be. I confidcr- ed moreover, that not onely the minde of man, but even the whole man was framed after the Image of God ; and that it was a bloody abfurdity to compare the perfons of the Trinity to the Memory, or fVill: fince no perfon of the mod Holy ' Godhead, can in any latitude of refemblance, reprefent the Will, nor the Will the Perfon, none the Memory, or the Me- mory none ; as alfo that no one,feparated from the other two, can hold any analogy to the Intettccl. And then, that the three faculties of the Soul are ever accepted under the notion of Accidents : but, infooth, Accidents fall (hort of expref- fingthe Image,inany neercr relation,then the naked Ternary °f J2f*Hfications, heaped together upon the fubfhnce of the Soul. In which fenfe, the Soul doth exprefs the Im7 : or at leaft hath hitherto denied the Image of God to be propagated and diffufed through, not onely the whole man , but even through the whole Soul. Verily,the ears of my Faith are not eafily open to this Doctrine of the Duality of the immortal Sou! ; nor the alterityof thofetwo parts : efpecially when in here(fence,the Soul ought to refemble the Image of the mod fimple Divine Nature. I fhould much rather aflent, that the minde of man doth carry the refcmblance of the moft immenfe Godhead, in the moft fimple unity, and indivifible Homogeneity of (pirit, under tU fymbol of immortality , of indiffolution, and identity, beyond all connexion or alterity. Wherefore my affertion is,that the glo- zi. rious Image of God is neither feparate, norfeparabie from the Soul ; but the very j»iW upon a more intimate fcrutiny, I do not finde the Memory to be any fingular and diftind power of the Soul : but onely the bare manner of recognition. For fuch, who have (hallow memories, to relieve this infirmity do, by the help of the imagination (Vicegerent to the intellect) contrive for themfelves an artificial memory, and that far more retentive then otherwife their natural me- mory could have been. Moreover, the Will alfo taketh an eternal farewel of the Soul in death : why, becaufe it is not ejfentiaJ, but acci- dentally advenient to the Soul Since GW, fo foon as he had •flnifhea his Creation of man, confrituted him in the abfolute power of his own Free Will ; which in fober truth, accord- ing to my apprehenfion, doth plainly import, that the Will is not, by any peculiar manner, ejfential to the Soul, from the firft of her Creation : but onely annexed to her, by way of concejfion, or trufi, as a talent to the hand of a fer.vant ; to this end, that man might have free power to choofe what path beft liked him, to unravel his life in. Otherwife I deny not, but in the whole fcene of things, there can be no- one more pernicious then a free and unregulated wjll^ as being that onely, which introduceth all variance and difcord betwixt God and man. This faculty, therefore, rrrafifbe for ever exiled from the beatitude of Eternity . for the liberty of willing being taken away, the will it telf doth alfo of neceflity periih t and or, HelmontV vifion of the Soul. 135 and of what ufe can the power of Volition be, when there is no longer remaining any occafion to will ? And on this bafis the Schoolmen found their dodtfine, that in Heaven the will is confirmed^ or rather wholly evacuated by death : that is, the beatified Souls in Paradife, have no power to will, nor will to will, but what is conform to the will of the higbe/l ; and thofe who are compleat in Charity and G lory , retain no power of willing any thing which is not of Charity. The Will there- fore expires, when the liberty of Volition is diflblved ; and •by fequel, the Will can be no ejfential, but temporary and caduce power of the Soul ; fince it cannot be of ufe or ad- vantage to that Soul, which in the confummation of beati- tude and higheft fruition, hath fufTered an utter evacuation of defire and hope : when it can no more be deduced into aft, but mud be a bare optation, which cannot be admitted in the 26. ftate of blifs, where is a full fatiety and abundant pofTefllon of all defiderable good. Sufficient let it be for us - t by the power of Volition in this life, to thefaurize, or make provifion for the life to come. Now after this tranfitory power of Volition is aboliftied, 27. in the next life there fpringeth up, and rnanifefteth itfelf, a fnbftantial fVill, in no refpecl: an alien to the intellect and cfTence of the minde ; and therefore having a being abfolute- ly diftincT: from the accidental and variable /f *'//. For as the Imagination is aliened in Phrenfies, diftracled in perturbations of the Animal Faculty ,and eternally fufpended at thedifunion of the Soul and body : even fo is the power of Tree Will for ever abrogated by death. Andthuslcametobeleeve, that the Image of God in man isfeated inthefpiritualfubftance of the Soul; and not in the ternary of its Faculties. In a word, the Analogy (lands thus. God is an Ens incre ate, jingle, incomprehenfible, eternal, infinite, omnipotent, good, a fnper fub- ftantial Light and Spirit. But the Soul is a Creature, Jingle, indivifible, dependent, immortal \Jimple, and from the date of her creation eternal, a fubftance foiritual and lucid. Finally, in God %%. there can be no accidents : but all and every one of his Attri- butes are the very indiftinft and mofl fimple eflence of the Divine Spirit : which Plato his Parmenides in fome meafure A a 2 understood. X 2 5 The Image of God • underftood. And fo the Soul, fincefhe is the reprefentative of God, doth alfo admit no accident in her nature : but her whole fubftance mud be a fimple light, and the very intellect. For as fmoak afcending from flame, is in figure and matter the fame thing with flame ; even fo the Soul is the naked, pure, and fimple intellect r And the luminous Jhadow of the increated light. tp. So that as the eye doth behold nothing more truly, and more neerly then the Sun, and all other ob jecls by the Sun ••. even fo the beatified Soul underftandeth nothing more neerly then that light, by whofe eradiation (he is illuminated, and upon which (be doth totally and immediately depend. And as the eye of our body cannot endure to gaze upon the exceflive lufrreof the Sun: fo cannot the Soul by intelleclion com- prehend the glorious EJfence of God, much lefs while, in this vale of ignorance, fhe ftands obliged to the obfcure mediati- on of her tranfitory Faculties. Otherwife the intellect, eman- cipated from the thraldom of flefh, doth by the acl of intel- lection acquire the figure of the object underftood ; in fo much as it transformeth it felf, by commigration, to that unity tf Light, which penetrateth, and by penetrating invigorateth it with beatitude. And thus, the Soul doth principally and primarily contemplate the immenfe Nature of God, in the acl of intellection ; and for this end was (he created the true and real- reprefentative of the Divine E fence. ao, They who opinion the Image of God to be feated in the rational faculty of man, depend upon this Argument. The Law is the Image of God ; but this Law is engraven upon our Souls, by Reafon : therefore, is the Soul the Image of God, as (he is onely rational. But fuch confider not, that according to the intent of this Sophifm, the Soul, indeed, would contain the Image of God j but yet the Soul her felf would be the Law it felf elTentially. Which abfurdity is too palpable to efcape the obfervation of any, who (hall but perpend, how much the Law and the Soul differ in the fuppofitionality of Eflence : and that the conflitution and engravement of the Law fucceeded the Creation of the Soul. Verily, I abhor me- taphorical locutions in ferious and abftrufe fubjecls* As if diefe words, God created man in his own likenefs , would naturally Or, Helmont U vifion of the Soul. 137 naturally bear this onely interpretation, that God gave man the ufe of reafon : and that fuch who enter this fcene of mor« tality, with native idiotifm, or a durable infatuation of rea- fon, about them, have forfeited their plea to this grand prero- gative of mankinde, the Intake of the immenfe Deity. Again, to impute the Image of Goo* to Reafon, istopropbane and blafpheme the Sacred Majefty of God, as I have amply de- clared in my difcourfe of the Venatimof Sciences :. When there is no adequation of reafon to God, no comparifon be- twixt a tranfitory and uncertain faculty, and an eternal omni- fcient fubftance. But omitting the opinions of other men, I (hall prefume the liberty to declare my own. The Intellect hath a Will coequal, and fubftantially united 3 ■* to it felf ; not fuch as may be accounted a power or accident ; but thievery light intellectual, a fubftance (piritual, an ejfence jpiritqal and indivifible, onely diftinguifhed from the intellect &y fuppojitianality , not reality of ejfence. Befide thefe, I finde alfo in the Soul a third native propriety, which in defect of a more proper appellation, I name Love,or conftant Dejire • not of acquiiition, poffelTion, or fruition; but of Complacency : which is equally effential to the Soul with the other two, the Intellect, and the intellectual fViH, and equally fimple in unity of fubftance. Which Ternary of proprieties meet in the fina- gle and indivifible fubftance of the Soul, and make one perfect unity. But this Love is no #ffof the rvill fingly; but pro- • ceedeth from the intellect andfubftantial will together, as- a diftinct and glorious act : for even in this life, we may love thole things, which our understanding concludeth not to be amiable, and which our will advifeth us not to love : and fre- quently we love objects, that tranfeend the comprehension of the underftanding,and wilt, as in anEcftafie both the intellect, and will are fufpended, and confopited, during the abstraction of the minde, for fo long have they refigned their fcepter to Love. Nor is this Love a pajjion: but an Ejfence dominant, and an Act glorifkant. The Will therefore, and Love y of this 3 *. place, hold no community at all with the fenfual and tranfi- tory will of man, or of flefh and blood : in regard they are eflentiaL tides, by which (in our great poverty of words) we A a 3 endevour 13$ Thclmgeef X3od^ endevour to demonftrate , wherein the minde of man doth reprefent the Image of God : forafmuch as the intellect en- franchifed from the body doth intuitively mderftknd, intend, and from the abyfs of the minde, love God, in one entire and never-difcontinued ad: of love, or defire of complacency, ac- cording to the fimplicity of her fubftance. But fo long as we -fojourn in walls of flelh, we come not fo neer beatitude, as once to ufe our fubftantial and purely intellectual intellect ; butmoft of our obfcure cognition of any Entity is derived from the information of Phanfie, which,as Viceroy, ufurpeth the throne of the intellect. For (as before) in an ecftatical rapture, the intellect, will, and memory keep holiday, and are as it were loft in a fomnolent inactivity ; the ardent act of Love onely remaining vigorous and operative : yet fo diftincl from the three former, that it cannot fubfift without the in- tellect ^ and fubfiantial will; fince, when the Soul is totally homogeneous in her fubftance, fhe would plainly lofe that her abfolute fimplicity, if any one of the three could fubfift without eflential dependence on the other. Love therefore, while the other two proprieties continue bound up inanEo- ftatical (lumber, doth as it were afcend to the fuperficies : or rather, in terms of neerer fimilitude, the other two are as it were imbibed and overwhelmed in Love. While we fojourn in the Tents ofKedar, in this vale of mifery, Love is elder then Defire ; becaufe it is a pallion of the Amatory Facu lty, which proceedeth from that fuppofitionaiity of the Soul (which is true love indeed) and reprefenteth the idea or refemblance of the corporeal Faculty : and hence is it, that all the affeclions arc, by invincible propensity, rapt on to irregularity and con- fufion. But in the Citizens of New ferufalem , this Love knows no priority, or distinction from Defire : neither is it a Faculty, nor Habit, nor Act of willing, nor fubfifteth with- out the Intellect. 34. And thus the Intellect U a formal Light ; and the very fub- ftance of the Soul, whofe Cognition is perfectly intuition, rrirh- cut the help of eyes, which dijcerneth t willeth, and defireth, in the unity of itfelf, whatever -it comprehendeth within it [elf, and judgeth by volition. Nor doth it then any longer remember by are- Or , Hdmont'x vifi on of the SouL 139 a repetition of the fpecies,or image of the object once known ; nor is it any more induced to the cognition of an EfTence, by circumftances i but then becometh the onely and exact cog- nition of all intelligible objects, and the intuitive afpect, with- in it felf. Yet fo, that it knows one object more prefentially then another, while the Intellect refledeth it felf upon the objects underftood, in the diftinct Unity of Verity : even as it frequently happens in the artifical Memory, where that re- cordative memory is no diftinct ad from the inductive judg- ment of the intellect. And will this not be more genial and proper to the minde, when once delivered from the tedious, turbulent, and complex way of underflanding by the imagi- nation ? Nor can the (lability of thefe our aflertions be ?^, (haken by this objection, that frequently in exorbitances of the Brain,the Memory doth perifh, and yet the fudgment con- tinue firm and found ; and on the contrary ,the Judgment doth fufFer impairment and defolation, and yet the Memory con- ferve its integrity and tenor, as many Drunkards perfectly remember all pafTages as well before, as in and after their Wine : in regard thefe are Heterogeneal Facft/ties of the fenfriive Soul, feated in diftinct provinces of the body, and. fubject to intenfion and remiflion according to the exact and irregular temperament of the Organs. And to inanimate ?$, Creatures alfo, according to our obfervation, there undenia- bly belongeth a kinde of imperfect and obfeure cognition of their particular objects : as alfo a blindefenfe and dull affecti- on of the mod convenient and adequate ; which Creatures have, for this determinate election of their determinate ob- jects, lately acquired the name of Sympathetica^ : and this dark perception of the moft accommodate objects, ferveth them in ftead of the fenfe of Vifion, and faculty of reafon. Befides this, there is alfo implanted in thefe inanimate >fympa- thetical Creatures a certain Virtue, or Vital endowment, of infallible- valor, and energy \ as to thofe ends ordained by the Creator. There is alfo a third power conferred upon Crea- tures of this qualification, refu king from theconfpiracy, and coefficiency of the two former : which fitteth as a filent Gounfellor, and dtfpenfeth commands w them, either to ad- vance njo The Image of God; vance towards the amiable and beneficial, or retreat from the offensive and harmful object. In which the moft blear-ey'd reafon cannot but behold a certain natural fen fation,^ affecti- on of determinate objects: yea, and what is more, zdipke andaverfation. Which Climax, or threefold degree of mn- intelleflual cognition, is more mani felt in the moftftupid forts of JnfeSls, as alfo in Fools and Mad men; who are no fub- jecls to the prudent fcepter of the Intellect, but fubordinatc to the duller advifoes of fenfe, and conform to the provoca- tions of onely vifual light. And yet in thefe there is moreover a fecond power, or aft of their virtues fpecifical and functions . vital : for the onely exercife whereof they were ordained. And thirdly, there is comprehended in them afarmorecon- fpicuous act of Addrefs or Application, and Avcrfation or Avoidance : which arifeth from the inftinct of their Forms. All which natural proprieties do yet more powerfully declare themfelves in fenfitive Creatures : for to thefe belongeth a certain fenfitive Imagination, with a gradual difcourfe of ob- fcure reafon, which fupplieth their defeft of an Intellect, and is more or lefs refplendent and confpicuous in every fingle fpecies : fo that fagacity, voluntary election, and memory in fuch fall under the apprehenfion of a comparative intellect : their objects being yet changed, according to the variety of matter, propenfe to variations, distinctions, and Angularities. Moreover, in fuch there is anemanative oreffluxive power collaterally annexed to their virtues ; whereby their Souls are more or lefs propenfe to the exercifes of their element, be- nign, and wholfom, or wilde and destructive endowments, or qualities efTential. And finally,they are enriched with a native defire of complacency, of abhorrence or diflike, and of concttpi- fcence, immediately enfuing upon their consideration of the good or evil of the object : which power or propenfity is fo firmly counited to the fenfitive foul, that it feems almoft im- poflible to obfervation, that any man ftiould at once fee two ftrange perfons together, and not inftantly become more affected to one then the other. And thefe things, which are fufficiently operative even in meerly Corporeal and inanimate natures, of confefled efficacy in fenfitive, and in b©th admit of Or, HelmontV vifton of the Soul. 141 of more or lefs acutenefs, according to the obedient or re- fractary predifpofition of the recipient : cannot but be, for the fame reafon, of more clarified and fublime energy in man. Finally, it is-not the fenfe of our thoughts, that the Image 37. of God in man fhotold fall under fuch grofs difparagement, as to be confidered as dependent on any Ternary of Faculties ; which naturally belongeth alfo to other inferior natures in this fcene of the world. Becaufe the dignity of the Image of the mod glorious fehovab is not, in any the largefl latitude of Analogy, participated by any other Creature whatever : fince the Divine Image is peculiarly radicated in the humane Soul, and equally proper to it with its very efTence : but all other proprieties of the Soul are not of the efTence of theMinde; but productions and fubfequent acts. Nor can it (land with the Majefty of the Divine Image, to be defumed from fo poor an original as qualities ; for the proprieties and excellencies of all other created forms concur, and are as it were colli- quated or melted together into theelTence of the Soul, by virtue of the Divine Image. But if thefe be accounted as at- tributes and productions : that mu(l be charged upon the mife- rable manner, and cuftomary abufe of underftanding, ac- cording to the capacity of the Vulgar. For in equitable truth, 38*. the minde is one (ingle act, purejiimple/ormaljhomogeneous, and indivifible j in which the Image of God doth fuhfift proximely and eflentially. So that in this Image, all faculties do not onely lay afide the nature of Attributes : but alfo col- lect and binde up their fuppofitionalities into an unity in- diftinct. Why, becaufe the Soul is a certain fubftantial light within her (elf j or a fubftance fo lucid, that in fuppofitiona- lity of e(Tence,it cannot be diftinguiftied from the very light : and her intellect isfo the light of the Minde, that the very Minde is the meer lucid intellect. And in this felf-light the ?£• Minde, once uncaptived from the opacity of flefli and blood, doth wholly and intimately furvey it felf, and underftand its own nature: and therefore hath no need either of brain or heart ; in which material Organs, the fubftance of the Minde doth feem to (loop unto the aflumption of the progeny or (lock of proprieties j that is, the Soul is diffufed or emiflively Bb expanfcd *4 2 t TbelmAgt$f Cod^ expanfed into fcveral tra.nfitory Faculties. To fpeak more plain- ly ; in the body, when the Intellect isabftracled infpeculati- on, it makes ufe of corporeal Organs, to which it is obliged : and aftumes a certain / 'irtus qualitative, called Imagination ; . 0t which from the conjunction or fociety of the power phanta- fiicaL and concurrent fplendorof the intellect, fuflfering fome degradation in the Organs, fpringeth up, by a certain com- bination, into the forementioned qualitative Faculty. And hence comes it to pafs, that this Faculty groweth weary by long and intenfe Imagination, feemeth wholly vanquifhed by difficult, knotty, andabftrufe meditation,and frequently fub- mits to dementation or madnefs : nay, as the obfervarion of Phyficians telleth us, with one nights penfive fhidy, and anxi- ety of thought, the hair of young heads hath put on the filver Livery of old age. But theminde, once emancipated from the pedantifm of flefh and blood, is never weary with continued intellection. Moreover, the Imagination in this life is.not onely fubjeel to lafTation : but from the magazine of it fejf hath not any intellective (pedes ; which it hath not drawn in from fenfible objects. And therefore the Intellective Faculty, which concurreth and cooperateth with the phan- tafiical function of the Senjltive Soul, followeth theconfri- tution or temperamental difpofition of the Organ, and arbi- trary dictates of the Scnfitive Life : no otherwife then in Naturals the effect followeth the weaker part of their Caufes. 4 1:# But the Soul, whatfoever is requifite for Cognition, Com- memoration, or Volition, either for one fingle act, or many, hath wholly from it felf, and borroweth it from no other forein Caufality concurrent. For the good fubfhntial Will of a Soul advanced to beatitude, arifeth not from the object underftood : but from the radical goodnefs of her own For- mal love, which is, indeed, no proper pa#Ion of the foul, no habit, no propenfion, nor any quality ; but a fubfhntial act of goodnefs, by which the blelTed Soul xsfukfiantiaUy-, uni- * 2 ] vocally, and homogeneally, not qualitatively good. And this prerogative it enjoyetb, becaufe it is the Typical Image of Di- vinity. But bodies, of their own accord, perpetually fall into the attributes of forms, heterogeneity, viciijitudev and at length or, HelmontV vifion of the SottL *43 length into diflblution. Therefore Love or Defire of the 43. Minde, is no function of the Appetitive faculty : but is a part of the fubfhntial Minde, or rather the very Minde it felf, flowing from the Intellect and Will. Which three are, by the hand of the Creator,married indhTolubiy into an eternal unity, in the pureft and moft abfolute identity and fimplicity of fubftance. Yet in Mortals they are ieparate and drftincl:, as well inrefpecl of the necefllty of Organs, and difparity of functions ; as the collateral fociety and conjunctive operation of the Senfitive Soul : Since now we frequently defire thofe a a things, which the Intelletl judgeth not defiderable, and the W*7/wouldwi(h never to enjoy. ButnecefTary itisthatfuch things,whofe operations are diflferent,fhouId be alfo different in the root of their Beings, by a manner of diftin: Hence is the Soul contiually pofFeffed with an high hatred of God, and his blefled Army of Saints and Angels ; together withdefperation, malediction, damnation, and the vindictive tortures of thofe infernal executioners. Omay the Mercy of Omnipotence^ upon the fole motive of his own infinite goodnefs and clemency , vouchfafe to break thofe fnares laid in all the paths of our life, to precipitate us into this mifery, that muft finde neither remedy, releafe, nor end . Amen, FINIS. 3 ?<,■ 3 84