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heart_n	animal_n	spirit_n	vital_a	2,664	5	11.2180	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43289	A ternary of paradoxes the magnetick cure of wounds, nativity of tartar in wine, image of God in man / written originally by Joh. Bapt. Van Helmont and translated, illustrated and amplified by Walter Charleton.	Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.; Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.; Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699.	1650 (1650)	Wing H1402; ESTC R30770	135,801	208

convenient and appropriate subject Not that the celestial orbs do in that punctilio of time infuse the verticity for then it would descend and be impressed upon the steel without the intention consent or observance of the smith which cannot satisfie experience for if the Stars did transmit their influence at some certain hour and in some determinate position then might the Characteristical and sigillary science of the celestial orbs be allowed to put on triumphant wreaths which we pass by But that Constellation which descends upon the steel and it may be upon every magical image and seal is derived from the Microcosmical Heaven that is from our own Olympus vain and unsuccessful therefore have been those Magical seals and pentacles which were not framed and configurated by the magician in an high ecstasie and exaltation of his phansie for all inferior Entities and Phansies are compelled to do homage to the transcendent magick of ours by which prerogative Sapiens dominabitur astris a wiseman shall regulate and countermand the influence of the Stars to the dominion of whose sceptre the Parent of Nature hath subjected whatever is contained in the vast Amphitheatre of Heaven What we have here alleaged concerning the phansie impressing a verticity upon the steel as we have learned from the authentick testimony of many judicious pens and from our own frequent experience so may it be confirmed ten thousand times to the observation of any whose curiosity shall encline him to the easie trouble of the experiment Thus the leaves of Asarum and the tops of Elder submit and conform unto the phansie of the decerptor who impresseth upon the plant and the plant upon the leaves a magnetical virtue which in operation shall justly respond to the position of the hand that gathered them when otherwise the leaf being decocted as the needle heat again in the fire and given in a potion the virtue of the phansie impressed upon it would of necessity perish if the Magnetism were not cherished and maintained from the integral plant That the blood of any Animal decocted and ready cooked for the trencher doth yet contain the soul of that Animal is true but that virtue doth not depend upon the impression of humane and forein phansie but ariseth immediately from the proper endowment of its own phansie By the same reason also doth a dart thrust through the heart of a horse killed by the execrable magick of a witch binde up and hold captive the vital spirit of that witch and twisteth it together with the mumial spirit of the horse that so both may be torrified together and by that torment as by a sharp goad the witch may be driven to betray her self and that at length by the justice of the magistrate the base miscreant detestable to God and pernicious to man may be eternally exiled from the conversation of mortals and cut off according to the Law of God For if the operation be determined to any external object the magical soul doth never attempt it without a convenient medium and for this reason she makes use of the dart or nail transfixed through the heart Now this position that man is endowed with a power of acting per nutum or moving any object at remote distance being proved by convictive evidence it is also sufficiently confirmed by the same natural example that this transcendent energy was conferred upon him by the wise indulgence of his Creator and therefore by the Charter of his Nature doth justly belong unto him Their conjecture hath ever had a strong hautgoust of absurdity who have hitherto conceived that Satan hath moved altered and transported any thing and really applied Actives to Passives in locomotion onely per nutum while they have taken for granted that the Devil was the first and grand Motor in the forementioned motions that by those corporeal extremities requisite to contaction he could violently snatch away transmit or any way move at least an aëreal body which they fondly imagine though destitute of a soul. Absurd I say is it to believe that Satan since his exile from the presence I mean the merciful influence of Divinity and fall from the glory of his own essence doth still retain a magical dignity whereby he can really act upon any natural subject and produce what effect soever he please onely by intuition because in the primitive excellence of his once Angelical nature he received such an endowment but that the same prerogative was taken from and ever since denied unto man and given to the Devil the most vile and despicable of Creatures and that if there be any such real effects performed by man they are to be ascribed to a servile compact with the devil Open the eyes of your reason for Satan hath hitherto proudly triumphed in your so great and so dangerous ignorance with so high content as if you had made his altars smoke with the grateful incense of glory and dignity and devested your self of your own native prerogative pulled out your own eyes and offered them in sacrifice to him We have said that every magical virtue doth lie dormant and want excitation which holds perpetually true if the object upon which the energy is discharged be not neerly disposed and qualified to admit it if the phansie of it doth not promptly conform unto the impression of the Agent or also if the Patient be equal in strength or superior to the Agent But on the contrary where the object is conveniently proximly and obediently qualified to entertain the magical influx as steel is to receive the magnetical infusion of a loadstone or plainly weak and conscious to it self as are the homicide adulterer theif and witch there the patient without much excitation the sole phansie of the outward man being deduced into action and adliged to any convenient medium at the first assault surrenders its self and obeys the Magnetism I say the magician ever makes use of a medium for thus unless a pregnant woman hath extended her hand to her own thigh forehead or buttocks the infant in her womb shall never be stigmatized in his thigh forehead or buttocks Thus do the words or forms of Sacraments ever operate because ex opere operato from the work performed But why exorcisms do not alway succeed in their operations the defect is not in God but onely because the unexalted and dully-excited minde of the Exoreist doth blunt the edg of the Charm and render the words invalid and ineffectual For which reason no man can be a happy and perfect Exoreist but he who hath learned the art to excite the Magick of his own phansie or by practise can do it ecstatically without that knowledg It may be you 'l say that our Armary unguent acquires no other magnetical virtue then that which redounds to it from the phansie of him that compounds it you are mistaken However should we allow you that error for truth your cause could receive no support or advantage thereby

frailties we shall finde no ground left us to erect any structure of pride upon The act therefore of the praevious touch of the Witch is purely naturall although the excitation of this magicall virtue depend upon the auxiliary concurrence of Satan in as near an interest as if the Witch had cut the throat of the horse with a sword which Satan had put into her hands This act of the Witch is naturall and corporeall as the other praecedent act is naturall and sprituall For indeed man doth naturally consist no lesse of a spirit then a body nor is there reason why one act should be accounted more naturall then the other or why the body the courser part of man should be allowed a power of action but the spirit the more noble and coelestiall part in its relation of being the Image of God accounted idle unoperative and altogether devoid of any activity peculiar to it self yea the Vitall spirits in most exact propriety of language are the immediate actors of sensation motion memory c. but the body and dead carkasse cannot in any respect whatever owne those faculties wherefore every action stands more relatively and properly regardant to its Agent then to the body which at best is no more then the transitory lodging of the Agent And thus it is evidenced that there passeth a spirituall radius or gleame of magicall virtue from the Witch to the man or horse appointed for destruction according to that Axiome That no action 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 spirituall which by an example ready provided to our hand we can both prove and illustrate For if the heart which is the presence-chamber of the vitall spirit of a horse slain by a witch taken out of the yet warme and reaking carcase be empaled upon an arrow and roasted upon a broach or carbonadoed immediately the vitall spirit of the witch without the intervention of any other medium and anon the whole witch since not the body but onely the spirit is capable of sensation becomes tormented with the unsufferable pains and cruelty of the fire which truly could by no meanes happen unlesse there praeceded a conjunction or reciprocall intercourse of the spirit of the Witch with the spirit of the horse For the horse after strangulation retaines a certain mumiall virtue so I call it whenever the virtue of the vitall nectar or blood is confermentate with the flesh which is the originary implantate spirit such as is never found resident in bodies that are extinct by voluntary deaths in any chronique disease or other ataxy irregularity or disruption of the inferiour harmony that is the temperament of the body to which the spirit of the Witch is associated as joynt commissioner In the reaking and yet panting heart therefore the spirit of the Witch before it shall by the dissolution of the praecedent conspiracie or divorce of the united spirits by putrefaction have returned backe into her bosome is imprisoned and held captive and the retreat of it praevented by the arrow transfixed and by the torrefaction of both spirits together and hence comes it to passe that the witch is afflicted and throwne into a horrid agony in her sensative spirit This effect admits a change or double construction from the intention of the experiment For if revenge be the motive or incitement to the experimentator then is the effect unwarrantable and inconsistent with the charitable rules of Christianity but if an honest and conscientious designe to compell the Witch to detect her self to betray her to the justice of the Magistrate to procure security to our neighbour and our selves by the remove of so impious blasphemous and nocuous a vassall of Satan that the greater glory to God and peace and benevolence to men may redound from the discovery then undoubtedly the effect cannot be disallowed or condemned by the most rigid precise or puritanicall judgement We are not to conceive that all the spirit of the Witch sallyed forth and transmigrated into the heart of the Horse for so the Witch her selfe had perished falne into an eternall swoune but that there is a certaine univocall participation or identicall traduction of the spirit and vitall light of the Witch in an equall analogie to the Plastique spirit or sole delineator and architect of the most curious and magnificent fabrick of man which in every distinct emission of the geniture or seed is covertly ambuscadoed and propagated sufficient to the procreation of a numerous issue the originary spirit of the father yet remaining unimpaired and conserving its individuall integrity For in sooth that participation and inheritance of the vitall light is magical and a rich and fruitfull communication of the specificall essence by the fertill virtue of that benediction delivered by the Protoplast of all seminall formes Let all Animalls and Vegetalls bring forth seed and hence is it that one individuall seed produceth ten myriads of other seeds aequivalent and as many seminall spirits comprehending the whole specificall essence by the same mysterious way of traduction whereby one Tapor is lighted by the flame of another But what the proper nature of this Magneticall spirit and what the Magicall entity begotten in the wombe of phansie may be I shall more largely declare in the processe of our discourse For it becomes me to retreat from my digression and now to progresse in that path which directly leads to our intended scope Nor is there any pretence of reason why any should conjecture that this reaction or rebound of magicall power upon the heart of the Witch is only imaginary and a chimaera of licentious phanfie or a plainly superstitious and damnable imposture and delusion of Satan since by this token the witch is infallibly detected and volent nolent compelled to appear in publick which in one of our praecedent suppositions we have sufficiently demonstrated to be è diametro opposed to the intention of Satan for the effect holds constantly good and never failes to succeed upon experiment as having its fundamentall causalities laid in reason and the spirituall nature of the inward man but not at all built upon superstitious supporters Hath not many a murdered carcase by the operation of the same magneticall spirit suffered a fresh cruentation upon the Coroners inquest in the presence of the Homicide and very often directed the Magistrate to a just and infallible judgement of the crime although the blood before that minute stood congealed and frozen in its cold rivulets The reason of this life in death this plea of the grave and loud language of silent corruption which hath empuzled the anxious disquisitions of many subtile heads we conceive to be thus in a man dying of a wound the inferiour virtues which are mumiall for these are not subject to the restrint of

praevious digestions which we call putrefactions once dissolved as it were emancipated from the bondage of corporeity comes forth free expedite and ready for action Wherefore when the Wound by the ingression of the offensive aër hath admitted an adverse and extraneous quality from whence the blood immediately aestuates and ferments in the lips of the Wound and otherwise is converted into a purulent matter it happens that the blood in the Wound freshly made doth by reason of this exotick quality suffer some degree of putrefaction which blood then received upon the weapon is emplastered with the Magnetick Unguent by the mediation of which gradual putrefaction the Ecstatick power of the blood formerly latent in potentia is drawn into act which because it holds a commerce and secret friendship with that body from whence it was effluxed by relation of its hidden ecstasie hence is it that this blood constantly carries an individual respect and determinate amity to the other blood yet running in the veins of the same body For then is it I say that the Magnet sets it self a work in the Unguent and by the concurrence and mediation of the Ecstatick power for so I christen this quality in defect of a more convenient Epithite sucks out the noxious tincture from the lips of the Wound and at length by the mumial balsamical and attractive virtue acquired in the Unguent the Magnetism is consummate and the Cure perfected Lo now you have the true and positive reason of the Natural Magnetism in the Unguent deduced from Natural Magick to which the Soul of Reason and Light of Truth is pleased to assent in that sentence Where the treasure is there the heart is also For if the treasure be in Heaven then the heart that is the spirit of the internal man is fixed upon God who is the true Paradise who onely is the life of eternal life But if the treasure be laid up in transitory and fading things then also is the heart and spirit of the outward man chained to things that must perish and confess their dust Nor is there cause why you should infer any mystical signification or second intention by understanding not the spirit but the cogitation and naked desire for the heart for that would sound frivolous and absurd that where-ever a man should place his treasure in his cogitation there also would his cogitation be placed and Truth it self interprets this present Text literally and without enfolding any mystery or deuteroscopy and by an example annexed manifestly shews the real and local presence of the Eagles with the Carcase And in this signification also the spirit of the internal man is said to be locally in the Kingdom of God which is very God himself within us and the heart or spirit of the external man locally dwells about its treasure What wonder that the astral spirits of fleshly minded men should long after their funerals appear wandring about such places as their treasures are hidden in by which apparitions the whole Nectromancy of the Antients emancipated itself I say therefore that the external man is singly an Animal governed by the reason and will of the blood but in the interim not barely an Animal but also the image of God Let Logicians therefore hence observe how defectively and improperly they use to define man from his power of ratiocination But of this subject more largely elsewhere For which consideration I shall in this place opportunely insert the Magnetism of Eagles to Carcases newly slain for Fowls of the aër are not endowed with so much acuteness of the sense of smelling that by the nostril they can receive an invitation in Italy to come and feast on dead bodies in Africa For neither can an Odor be diffused to so vast a circumferential distance since both the great latitude of the Sea interposed must of necessity hinder and the elemental propriety of the Odor subject to diminution and impairment in so long a tract of aër forbid so huge an expansion of the Atomes streaming from the odorible Body nor is there any ground whereon to build your conception that birds can by their sight discover carcases at so large distance especially when they lie Southward behinde some high Mountain But what need is there for us by the tedious force of words to inculcate the Magnetism of Fowl since God himself the Alpha and Omega of Philosophy hath in express terms decreed the process of intercourse or commerce betwixt the heart and its treasure to be the same with that betwixt Eagles and their prey of dead bodies and so on the contrary interchangeably For if Eagles were carried on to their prey the Carcases by the same incitement of appetite whereby all Quadruped Animals are goaded on to their pastures assuredly he would have said in a word that Animals are directed and congregated to their food by the same motive that the heart of a man sallies forth and invades its treasure Which would contain a most gross falsity for the heart of man progresseth not to its treasure with design to devour it and sate it self therewith as Animals are by the swinge of appetite rapt on to their food And therefore the comparison betwixt the heart of man and the Eagle holds not good in the final cause or attractive for which they tend to desire of fruition but in the manner and processe of tendency namely that they are equally invited allected carried on by Magnetism really and locally to their determinate objects Wherfore the spirit and will of the bloud effused out of the wound adhering to the weapon and together with it embalmed in the Vnguent instantly tend and egresse towards their peculiar treasure the residue of bloud yet running in its proper conservatory the veines and enjoying a community of life with the inward man But the Pen of Divinity in a peculiar Elogy writes that the Eagle is allured to the Carcases of the slaine because he receives his summons and invitation from the originary implanted and mumiall spirit of the carcase but not from any odour exhaling from the body under the arrest of putrefaction For this Animal in assimilation appropriates to himselfe onely this mumiall Spirit and hence is it in Sacred Writ said of the Eagle My youth shall be renewed like an Eagle In regard the renovation of its youth proceeds not from the bare eating the flesh of a carcase but from an Elixir or essentiall extract of the spirit balsamicall exquisitely depurated and refined by a certaine singular digestion or concoctive faculty proper only to this Fowle for otherwise Dogs Ravens and Pies would also receive an equall benefit of rejuvenescence which experience assures us to be false You will say we have travelled far indeed to fetch home a reason to support and illustrate our Magnetisme But what will you infer hereupon if you confesse that what seems far remote from the capacity of your intelligence must