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A51291	Democritus Platonissans, or, An essay upon the infinity of worlds out of Platonick principles hereunto is annexed Cupids conflict, together with the Philosophers devotion, and a particular interpretation appertaining to the three last books of the Song of the soul / by H. More ...	More, Henry, 1614-1687.	1646 (1646)	Wing M2648; ESTC R7173	32,981	64

I enlarge it to all magnetick power whatsoever that doth immediately rule and actuate any body For all magnetick power is founded in Physis and in reference to her this world is but one great Plant one {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} giving it shape and corporeall life as in reference to Psyche one happy and holy Animall Spirit Sometimes it signifieth the soul othersometime the naturall spirits in a mans body which are Vinculum animae corporis and the souls vehicle Sometimes life See Reduplicative Soul When I speak of mans Soul I understand that which Moses saith was inspired into the body fitted out and made of earth by God Genes 2. which is not that impeccable spirit that cannot sinne but the very same that the Platonists call {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a middle essence betwixt that which they call {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and we would in the Christian language call {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and the life of the body which is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a kind of an umbratil vitalitie that the soul imparts to the bodie in the enlivening of it That and the body together we Christians would call {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and the suggestions of it especially in its corrupt estate {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} And that that which God inspired into Adam was no more then {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the soul not the spirit though it be called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Spiraculum vitae is plain out of the text because it made man but become a living soul {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} But you will say he was a dead soul before and this was the spirit of life yea the spirit of God the life of the soul that was breathed into him But if {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} implie such a life and spirit you must acknowledge the same to be also in the most stupid of all living creatures even the fishes whose soul is but as salt to keep them from stinking as Philo speaks for they are said to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} chap. 1. v. 20. 21. See 1 Cor. chap. 15. v. 45 46. In brief therefore that which in Platonisme is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is in Scripture {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} what {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in one {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the brute or beast in the other {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the same in both Self-reduplicative See Reduplicative T TRicentreitie Centre is put for essence so Tricentreitie must implie a trinitie of essence See Centre and Energie V VAticinant The soul is said to be in a vaticinant or parturient condition when she hath some kind of sense and hovering knowledge of a thing but yet cannot distinctly and fully and commandingly represent it to her self cannot plainly apprehend much lesse comprehend the matter The phrase is borrowed of Proclus who describing the incomprehensiblenesse of God and the desire of all things towards him speaks thus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Theolog Platon lib. 1. cap. 21. See Psychathan lib. 3. cant. 3. stanz. 12. 14. The Philosophers Devotion SIng aloud his praise rehearse Who hath made the Universe He the boundlesse Heavens has spread All the vitall Orbs has kned He that on Olympus high Tends his flocks with watchfull eye And this eye has multiplide Midst each flock for to reside Thus as round about they stray Toucheth each with out-stretch'd ray Nimbly they hold on their way Shaping out their Night and Day Never slack they none respires Dancing round their Centrall fires In due order as they move Echo's sweet be gently drove Thorough Heavens vast Hollownesse Which unto all corners presse Musick that the heart of Iove Moves to joy and sportfull love Fills the listning saylers eares Riding on the wandering Sphears Neither Speech nor Language is Where their voice is not transmisse God is Good is Wise is Strong Witnesse all the creature-throng Is confess'd by every Tongue All things back from whence they sprong As the thankfull Rivers pay What they borrowed of the Sea Now my self I do resigne Take me whole I all am thine Save me God! from Self-desire Deaths pit dark Hells raging fire Envy Hatred Vengeance Ire Let not Lust my soul bemire Quit from these thy praise I 'll sing Loudly sweep the trembling string Bear a part O Wisdomes sonnes Free'd from vain Relligions Lo from farre I you salute Sweetly warbling on my Lute Indie Egypt Arabie Asia Greece and Tartarie Carmel-tracts and Lebanon With the Mountains of the Moon From whence muddie Nile doth runne Or whereever else you won Breathing in one vitall aire One we are though distant farre Rise at once lett 's sacrifice Odours sweet perfume the skies See how Heavenly lightning fires Hearts inflam'd with high aspires All the substance of our souls Up in clouds of Incense rolls Leave we nothing to our selves Save a voice what need we els Or an hand to wear and tire On the thankfull Lute or Lyre Sing aloud his praise rehearse Who hath made the Universe FINIS

Ahad Aeon Psyche with all graces deckt Whose nature well this riddle will detect A Circle whose circumference no where Is circumscrib'd whose Centre 's each where set But the low Cusp 's a figure circular Whose compasse is ybound but centre 's every where 9 Wherefore who 'll judge the limits of the world By what appears unto our failing sight Appeals to sense reason down headlong hurld Out of her throne by giddie vulgar might But here base senses dictates they will dight With specious title of Philosophie And stiffly will contend their cause is right From rotten rolls of school antiquitie Who constantly denie corporall Infinitie 10 But who can prove their corporalitie Since matter which thereto 's essentiall If rightly sifted 's but a phantasie And quantitie who 's deem'd Originall Is matter must with matter likewise fall What ever is is Life and Energie From God who is th' Originall of all Who being everywhere doth multiplie His own broad shade that endlesse throughout all doth lie 11 He from the last projection of light Ycleep'd Shamajim which is liquid fire It Aether eke and centrall Tasis hight Hath made each shining globe and clumperd mire Of dimmer Orbs. For Nature doth inspire Spermatick life but of a different kind Hence those congenit splendour doth attire And lively heat these darknesse dead doth bind And without borrowed rayes they be both cold and blind 12 All these be knots of th' universall stole Of sacred Psyche which at first was fine Pure thin and pervious till hid powers did pull Together in severall points and did encline The nearer parts in one clod to combine Those centrall spirits that the parts did draw The measure of each globe did then define Made things impenetrable here below Gave colour figure motion and each usuall law 13 And what is done in this Terrestriall starre The same is done in every Orb beside Each flaming Circle that we see from farre Is but a knot in Psyches garment tide From that lax shadow cast throughout the wide And endlesse world that low'st projection Of universall life each thing 's deriv'd What e're appeareth in corporeall fashion For body 's but this spirit fixt grosse by conspissation 14 And that which doth conspissate active is Wherefore not matter but some living sprite Of nimble Nature which this lower mist And immense field of Atoms doth excite And wake into such life as best doth fit With his own self As we change phantasies The essence of our soul not chang'd a whit So do these Atoms change their energies Themselves unchanged into new Centreities 15 And as our soul 's not superficially Colourd by phantasms nor doth them reflect As doth a looking-glasse such imag'rie As it to the beholder doth detect No more are these lightly or smear'd or deckt With form or motion which in them we see But from their inmost Centre they project Their vitall rayes not merely passive be But by occasion wak'd rouze up themselves on high 16 So that they 're life form sprite not matter pure For matter pure is a pure nullitie What nought can act is nothing I am sure And if all act that is they 'll not denie But all that is is form so easily By what is true and by what they embrace For truth their feigned Corporalitie Will vanish into smoke but on I 'll passe More fully we have sung this in another place 17 Wherefore more boldly now to represent The nature of the world how first things were How now they are This endlesse large Extent Of lowest life which I styled whileere The Cuspis of the Cone that 's every where Was first all dark till in this spacious Hall Hideous through silent horrour torches clear And lamping lights bright shining over all Were set up in due distances proportionall 18 Innumerable numbers of fair Lamps Were rightly ranged in this hollow hole To warm the world and chace the shady damps Of immense darknesse rend her pitchie stole Into short rags more dustie dimme then coal Which pieces then in severall were cast Abhorred reliques of that vesture foul Upon the Globes that round those torches trac'd Which still fast on them stick for all they run so fast 19 Such an one is that which mortall men call Night A little shred of that unbounded shade And such a Globe is that which Earth is hight By witlesse Wizzards the sole centre made Of all the world and on strong pillars staid And such a lamp or light is this our Sun Whose firie beams the scortched Earth invade But infinite such as he in heaven won And more then infinite Earths about those Suns do run 20 And to speak out though I detest the sect Of Epicurus for their manners vile Yet what is true I may not well reject Truth 's incorruptible ne can the style Of vitious pen her sacred worth defile If we no more of truth should deign t' embrace Then what unworthy mouths did never soyl No truths at all mongst men would finden place But make them speedie wings and back to Heaven apace 21 I will not say our world is infinite But that infinitie of worlds ther be The Centre of our world 's the lively light Of the warm sunne the visible Deitie Of this externall Temple Mercurie Next plac'd and warm'd more throughly by his rayes Right nimbly 'bout his golden head doth flie Then Venus nothing slow about him strayes And next our Earth though seeming sad full spritely playes 22 And after her Mars rangeth in a round With firie locks and angry flaming eye And next to him mild Iupiter is found But Saturn cold wons in our utmost skie The skirts of his large Kingdome surely lie Near to the confines of some other worlds Whose Centres are the fixed starres on high 'Bout which as their own proper Suns are hurld Ioves Earths and Saturns round on their own axes twurld 23 Little or nothing are those starres to us Which in the azure Evening gay appear I mean for influence but judicious Nature and carefull Providence her dear And matchlesse work did so contrive whileere That th' Hearts or Centres in the wide world pight Should such a distance each to other bear That the dull Planets with collated light By neighbour suns might cheared be in dampish night 24 And as the Planets in our world of which The sun 's the heart and kernell do receive Their nightly light from suns that do enrich Their sable mantle with bright gemmes and give A goodly splendour and sad men relieve With their fair twinkling rayes so our worlds sunne Becomes a starre elsewhere and doth derive Joynt light with others cheareth all that won In those dim duskish Orbs round other suns that run 25 This is is the parergon of each noble fire Of neighbour worlds to be the nightly starre But their main work is vitall heat t' inspire Into the frigid spheres that 'bout them fare Which of themselves quite dead and barren are But by the wakening warmth of