former è diametro to the latter when in sober verity they are both one and same though commonly received under distinct appellations Thus the leaf of a rose hath a distinct virtue which the stem or yellow iust in the middle of the rose hath not and that virtue ariseth not to the leaf from the three Grand principles united or any one of them paramont in the conjuncture but immediately resulteth from its Vital Form which when it is destroyed amitteth its primitive and acquireth other secondary virtues as in example a grain of Corn in its primitive vitality nourisheth but when degraded from that first life it fructifies Thirdly there is another Magical power proceeding from the phansie of the life of the integral compositum and this is implanted in bruites and the exterior man which being spiritual is more absolute in soveraignty then the former but yet not advanced to the zenith or highest pitch of energy though sometimes by much excitation and a strong phansie introduced by a real entity it ascend to a very great height of activity and by a neer emulation rival the true Magick of the inward man Again the Soul of every Bruite enjoyeth a power of creating a real entity and of transmitting the same by the mandate of the Will to an object at very large distance of this sort of magical bruites are the Basilisk a dog many fishes described by Olaus Magnus c. such also is the virtue inhabitant in the blood of many Animals and hence doth Holy Writ deliver expresly that the Soul so journs in the blood though extravenated though decocted on the fire yea and for ought can be alleaged to the contrary though totally altered by corruption Finally there is also a Magical virtue as it were abstracted from the body which is wrought by the excitement of the interior power of the soul and from this arise most potent procreations most noble impressions and effects of supreme vigor and efficacy For introth Nature in most of her operations playes the Magician and acts by the energy of her own phansie and since this activity is by so much the more potent by how much the more spiritual therefore is the term or appellative of Magick exactly analogous and concordant Of all which gradually different species of magical virtue there is hardly any one that stands not in need of excitation For that of the lowest Classis requires excitement and eduction by some previous warmth or gently fomenting heat by which there is educed a certain vapor or spiritual effluvium by reason whereof the phansie restrained in a profound sleep and drowsie inactivity is awakened into action and then begins a mediatory encounter between the corporeal spirits which is of Magnetism excited by a precedent touch But that of the highest Classis such as belongs to bruits and men receives excitement from an intellectual conception and that of the inward man is not at all excited unless by the Holy spirit and by his excellent gift the Cabal but that of the outward man by strong imagination by assiduous and intense speculation yea and in Witches by Satan But the magick of the extravenated blood wherein the soul hath taken up her quarters which lies lurking onely in potentia is excited and invited into act either by a more strong imagination exalted conceive it of the magician making use of the blood as a medium and fixing his newly accensed entity thereon or conceive it by the ascendent phansie of the Armary unguent the excitatrix of the proprieties latent in the blood or by a previous destination of the blood to corruption whereby the Elements are disposed to separation and the Essences which know no corruption and the Essential phansies which lay obscured in the potentia of the proprieties sally forth into action The phansie therefore of any subject whatever hath obtained a strong and vigorous appetite to the spirit of its peculiar object in order to the locomotion attraction expulsion or repulsion of it now in this and no where else we acknowledge Magnetism as the natural magical endowment of that subject conferred upon and firmly implanted in it by the wise bounty of God There is therefore a certain formal propriety segregated and manifestly distinct from the Sympathetique and abstruse qualities in this particular relation that the phansie which is the motrix of those qualities doth not directly tend to the Locomotion but onely the Alteration of the object And thus though we grant that every Magnetism be either Sympathetical or Antipathetical yet notwithstanding the inversion will fail that every sympathy must be Magnetical But we retire from our digression to the grand mark our intentions level at By this time I conceive it is clearly understood that there resideth a phansie and magical appetite not onely in the blood but even in the superfluous humors meats and excrements since the various and numerous progeny of diseases affordeth convictive manifestoes of it For pregnant women labor with an absurd and ridiculous appetite to strange and unusual meats and Cachectical Virgins by a natural oestrum or libidinous fury of the exorbitant womb do with extraordinary celerity though not without great inamoenity and paleness digest what ever they long for but indeed not from reason of similitude of substance nor from any consanguinity of humane nature requiring that particular meat their irregular appetite so ravenously covets but seduced by the exotique phansie of the vitious humors accumulated in the vessels of the womb and restagnated or belched up into the stomach which over-mastering the true and natural appetite goadeth them to this absurdity by the expulsion of which noxious impurities we have frequently cured such perversions and absurd appetites or else we have mitigated and composed them by permitting the irregular and frantick phansie of such humors to sate it self by fruition In the blood therefore there inhabiteth a peculiar phansie which in regard it is of more vigorous energy therein then in other things therefore doth Divine History in a singular and emphatique Elogy call the blood though strongly decocted and ready cooked for the table the Mansion of the soul. And in regard this phansie of the blood is capable of traduction and may be devolved to posterity for this reason is it that the manners gestures conditions and genius of the Grandfather are revived and become resplendent in his issue long after the resolution of him into dust Nobility took its first rise from well-deserving Virtue hence most nobility be without just merit suspected to be encreased by the continued and successive propagation of the family unless the heroick inclinations and virtues of gallant ancestors obscured by mortality might with probability of hope be expected to finde a resurrection and shine again in their â—…late posterity Again doth not the enmity conceived betwixt the Woolf and sheep remain firmly impressed upon their pelts Wherefore the phansie of an
A Ternary of Paradoxes OF THE Magnetick Cure of Wounds Nativity of Tartar in Wine Image of God in Man Lumen de lumine In â—…ermino Concursus The second Impression more reformed and enlarged with some Marginal Additions 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 Ampliated BY WALTER CHARLETON Doctor in Physick and Physician to the late King Suspecta apud plures hujusmodi Sanationis Facilitas atque celeritas permanebit adhuc dudum vulgi enim labile otiosum ingenium in arduis ac insolitis ad judicia ejusdem semper tenoris promptum ob facilitatem ideóque flaccidum est Diabolicae enim fraudi tantam restitutionum benignitatem libentiùs consecrat quà m Divinae bonitati humanae naturae conditori Amatori Salvatori pauperúmque patri Butler LONDON Printed by James Flesher for William Lee dwellingin Fleetstreet at the sign of the Turks 〈…〉 To the truly Noble by the right of Blood Virtue and Learning VVILLIAM Viscount Brouncker of Lyons Baron Brouncker of Newcastle c. My very good Lord AMong other Disparagements of this life collected and sum'd up in my frequent retirements and concentrations of my Minde my Thoughts have more then once glanced on the exceeding vanity of that Heroick disease incident to the best tempered Souls the insatiate Appetite of posthume Glory And though I must not but confess this originary Feaver elemented in the innate Ardor and Scintillations of those Sparks of Divinity which now lie raked up in the Mass or Chaos of our eclipsed Nature and that by the light of these secret Flashes may be discovered the Immortality of that Semideity or noble Essence for a while immured in walls of Clay yet when I make reflections on the unconcernment and happy insensility of the Soul once fled home to an indissoluble Union with the Soul of Beatitude as to the trifling affairs of the swarm of Mortals here below and that all Relations to the visible and perishable World are lost in utter oblivion at the instant of her Transition to the invisible intellectual and immaterial I cannot but smile at the Delusion of this Ambition of having our Memories survive our Ashes and listing our Names in the Legend of Fame by the ingravements of memorable and worthy Actions as seeming to be no more then a provident Fraud of impaired Nature whereby man is handsomly deluded into the attempting Actions of such difficulty or danger as if presented without the specious disguise of Honor must appear absolutely destructive at least to the Tranquillity and sober Fruition of our selves if not also to our Conformity unto that Catholique Maxime deeply impressed upon the radical Principles of our Essence Philautie or Self-conservation For what individual Knowledg can wâ—… have of Caesar Or what intelligence can he hold with the spirits of those who sacrifice the most of Veneration to his Memory Or did the incense of humane Honor ascend so high aâ—… to approach the Mansion of the Souls of Heröes devested of Mortality which can no more be granted then that a man on our Hemisphere should be sensible of the wagging of a straw in the Antipodes yet what could the Access of that Nothing contribute to that state of Blessedness whose measure is immensity wherein to imagine either Defect Satiety or Mutation would be a Conceit savoring too much of Sensuality and of bloody advantage to the absurd Metaphysicks of the Alcoran And how much more noble a plea to the immarcescible Laurel shall that modest head obtain which in all Anxieties and Difficulties of Virtue drew encouragement onely from the simple and naked loveliness of Virtue then that fond ambitious one whose sufferings were caused by no better a Flame then the Ignis Fatuus of Applause and desires knew no other attractive but Vain glory This Meditation my dear Lord as it could never stifle the irradiations of my Genius or render me less sensible of the incitements of Virtue to enterprise something that might be grateful in the nostrils of Posterity when my Dust shall be offensive so hath it wrought my resolutions to that Stoical temper that while I fix one eye of Reason on that domestick Security and internal Serenity which necessarily redounds from the severe practice of Goodness in this life and the other of Faith on that infinite Compensation ordained to reward our pious endevours in the next I can comfortably acquiesce in the secret discharge of my duty to God and the World at least in the sincerity of intention and though I should arrive at such unexpected Felicity as to be an instrument or accessory either in the discovery of some Magnale in Knowledg or in the Contribution of some Benefit conductive to the repair of the Common breaches of Humanity yet I dare confidently hope I should have no ear open to the invasion of Popular Euges nor admit any dream of happiness in the estimation of succeeding Ages Now though the too acute Severity of some may here be furnished with latitude enough either to charge this my Theory of Aversation from Praise on my being conscious of such Fragility Lapses and Imperfections of my Pen as might conclude that the best part of my Judgment lies in the politick Concealment of my Name or deny me qualified with abilities of reducing it into Practice yet I have this Comfort left to take Sanctuary in that I may without ingaging your Lordship into the Patronage of a falshood appeal unto your judicious integrity for determination whether my Scepticity even in such Notions as my self hath to the most precise anatomical subdivision of each subject and abstracted perpension of each minute particle thereof not much below the accurate Method invented by the Stoicks and lately revived into use by the most ingenious Mons. Des Cartes examined and transmitted to the World for indubitate and irrefragable Truths be not evidence strong enough to make good that I prefer the manifestation of any one single Verity to all other sinister interests in this Vale of Error and therefore should embrace and assimilate the decisive Contradiction of riper heads with joy equall to that of benighted Mariners at the eruption of their faithfull Pilot the North starre as the Soveraign Remedy to my former Wandrings To the other branch of the praesupposed Scandall may justly be opposed your Lordships privacie to my obstinate reluctancy against the Advisoes of my Honoured Friends urging mee to a publick Appropriation and Avowance of some papers not long since dispersed through Europe without the protection either of Author or Dedication as also my denyall of Light to some Philosophicall Enquiries whose Conception Formation and Maturity though of inconsiderable value in the account of more perfect Learning cost mee the profusion of so much Time and Oyle as if summed up by the Algebra of Candor might well have purchased the
of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naturae sunt Medicatrices I allow her to be the prime and proxime Causatrix of all Sanation and all Medicaments no more but Auxiliatory or Adjuvant by the modification of excessive preternatural Qualities and remove of Impediments is not always able to play the Chiron to her self but in this Case owes much of the honor of her safety and conquest to the assistant power and amicable coefficiency of the Vitriol The same also I desire should be understood of the Magnetical manner of operation proper to the Armary Uâ—…guent though I apprehend the Ingredients of that Magnale to work rather by a Confermentation of Analogous Mumies united If I have not thrown this Peble home nor directly to the mark â—…was because I had neither time to take full aym nor elbow room to extend their sinews of Reason so far as my self desired The other I am confident will hit our Enemy in the forehead If the Effect of Hoplochrism be not constant and â—…vocal but doth ordinarily confess an Alterity or Variation from Good to Evil conform to the friendship or enmity of any Third Natural Agent associated at the Arbitrary Election of the Experimentator that is if from the Counter-activity of intemperate Heat Actual or Potential of any venenate oâ—… deleterious Quality corrosive and septical Medicament putrefactive Acidity c. consubstantially applied unto and confermentate with the Mumy of the blood and magnetically sympathetick Remedy there immediately arise 〈◊〉 Reincrudescence of the Wound and a Recidivation or return of all oppressive symptomes dependent then is it established beyond the question of any the most Pyrrhonian Incredulity that the Sanation of Wounds at distance is not rightly adscriptive to the single power of Nature converting the blood successively distilling from its intersected Conduâ—…ts into a genial Balsam but more properly attributary to the confederate virtue of the Vnguent or Powder idiosyncratically opposed to the essential hostility of that Acid Vulture which ravenously devours the Caâ—…bium or rorid destillament ordained for the Vegetation and Reunition of the wounded part But the Hypothesis is uncontroulable upon the evidence of Sir K. D. his Experiment in tossing the life of Master Howel from hazard to safety from safety to hazard and back to durable safety again at pleasure therefore is the Inference also sound and justifiable For the propense submission of Nature to the fury of a deleterious influence transmitted from a remote Enemy by the mediation or convoy of the Mumial Effluviums shot from the extravenated blood back to its vital fountain doth implicitely manifest her emolument and relief received by the same invisible transvection from the grateful and congenerous deradiations or individuated Magnetism of a remote Friend Since Contraries ever imply the necessary existence each of other Another Block there is at which not onely the herd of Fools but even the greatest Clerks use to stumble in their quest of this Secret Requisite it is say they that every Natural Agent be immediately applied to its determinate Patient otherwise its specifical Activity though neer so potent and expedite must be lost in a fruitless expence and unsatisfaction of its particular end but the Sympathetical Remedy is not topically approximated to the Wound therefore must it be either no Natural Remedy or a vain and inefficacious one at best But this Argument though at first appearance plausible weigheth not one grain in the ballance of more exact Reason against our theory and may be easily blown out of the way by this distinctive Answer If it be understood that every Natural Agent ought immediately immediatione suppositi to touch the Patient upon which its virtue is proximely to be discharged but remoâ—…ely by thâ—… mediation of otherbodies interjacent by which the Power of the Active is communicated to the distant Passive wâ—… willingly grant the truth of the Major to be solid and undeniable in regard iâ—… sufficâ—…h to the support of our Magnetism that the Active touch upon the Passive oâ—… Object proper and remote immediatione virtutis And therefore we cannot but smile at the weakness and incongruity of the Minor because the Sympatheâ—…k Remedy ought immediately immediatione suppositi to touch that subject upon which its virtue is first received but not the part affected on which the virtue is secondarily and ultimately received and terminated by the interposition of accommodate instruments whether bodies situate at convehiâ—… intervals or continuate by succession of parts For thus by the same extension of a medium do we warm our hands at the fire and the Sâ—… transmits his vigorous influence and heat to our 〈◊〉 Globe And in this degree of affinity are Sympathetical Medicaments allied unto â—…lesti â—…nfluences insomuch that not onely the Aâ—… but vast Rocks of Adamant Walls and any the most compacted and opace bodies are subjects qualified to admit and convoy this Magnetical Virtue to its peculiar object no less then any the most potent Astral Transmission Vpon which ground if any stick at the vast and unlimitted extension of that Sphear of Activity assigned by the immense Bounty of Nature â—…nto Sympathetical Râ—…dies and yet can 〈◊〉 concâ—… an â—…finite Oâ—… of 〈◊〉 unto â—…elestial Influxes he hath very great cause either to lament his Ignorance of those or repent his Credulity of these And I profess that if my rude â—…ar may have the liberty to judg Principium Actionis Sympathetica est Facultas influentiis affinis 〈◊〉 per irradiationem in objectum sibi appropriatum sounds as like an Axiom of constant truth as Idem Accidens non migâ—… de subjecto in subjectum Hitherto hath my imployment been to clear the Prospect by the necessary remove of such Doubts as seemed very much to obscure the resplendent lustre of Magnetism and render the Excellencies of Sympathetical Remedies imperceptible especially to those purblinde Moles whose imperfect opticks could never endure to â—…y into the mysteries of the Intellectual and Spiritual World but think the debt of their Creation fully discharged in a slight and superficial speculation of the Material and never were admitted to a neerer privacy with Nature then to have touched the 〈◊〉 of her upper garment And my now task should be to endevour an ample presentment of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Causes of Hoplochristical Sanation But of this I can here hold forth no more then a thin blew Landskip or Abridgment chiefly in respect the more learned pencils of Bapt Porta Severinus Hortmannus Kircherus Cabeus Rob. de Fluctibus that Torrent of Sympathetical Knowledg and the choisest flower in our Garden Sir K. Digby have already enriched the World with ample and elegant descriptions of the manner how Sympathetically Magnetick Agents transmit their Spiritual Energy unto determinate Patients at vast and indeterminate distance and secondarily because in my precedent Declarement of the Magnetical operation of Vitriol I unavoidably fell upon a plain though narrow delineation of the same subject Consider
Helmont accompanied with his excellent Notes candid Animadversions and opportune Enlargement HElmont though dead is now reviv'd Your Pen Like Aesons Bath instill's fresh youth agen Into his pale and elemental Clay His Tomb By your fair Midwifery becom's a Womb From whose now re-impregnate sperm He Buds forth into a second Infancy Your Sheets new swath him Sir where he appears More vigorous in this youth then in his years We 're now convinc'd that Sympathies combine At distance that dispersed Mumies twine That Nature on one string like coupled Beads Her Rosary of twisted Causes threads Since what of those he first asserted true Gathers new strength and Argument from you Those active Flames which thaw'd your Brain do thence Espouse his widowed Earth with Heat and Sense Those Spirits which that publike Mint o' th' Blood The Liver back retails to th'purple Flood Still through their azure Limbecks and entrust New Sap and Verdure to his wither'd Dust. Sure when the Soul of Helmont shook away The Frippery and Luggage of her Clay She seem'd to steal into your Brest and there To fix herself as in her second Sphere Yet lest two inmate Souls both so immense They cannot be unactive chain'd in Sense Or close immur'd in walls of Flesh should rent Uncircumscrib'd the brittle Tenement They virtually diffuse themselves and come Into this Book by an Effluvium Within whose Pages they 'l joynt Tenants dwell As in some nere to be demolisht Cell And when the Wardrobe of your Dust shall be Dispers'd themselves into more Dust then ye This to your Names from Times impressions safe Shall stand at once both Urn and Epitaph Thom. Philipot OF THE MAGNETICK CURE OF WOUNDS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Summary 1. FAscination Sympathy and Magnetisme differ 2. The Sympathetick Unguent one the Magnetick another 3. Mumie what 4. Philosophy immediately subject to the reprehension of reason onely 5. The difference of Law and Philosophy 6. From an ignorance of the Cause Magnetism ascribed to the Devill 7. Who the interpreters of Nature 8. Why Chymicks only fit to unridle the mysterious oracles of Nature 9. He is tacitely guilty of pride who from an ignorance of the cause beleeves a Naturall effect to be Diabolicall 10. Who are the Devils Flatterers 11. Magnetisme no new invention 12. The Armary Unguent 13. The intention scope ingredients and manner of the application of the Unguent good 14. The Unguent why not unlawfull 15. Nor superstitious 16. Superstition what 17. Why the manner of the Unguents operation unknown to the Censor concludes nothing against it 18. Magnetisme what 19. Some effects of the Loadstone 20. The Magneticall cure of otherwise incurable diseases perfect 21. Milk burned dryes up the breasts 22. Vitrioll destroyed by Magnetism 23. Mumie operates from Italy as far as Bruxels 24. The Carline Thistle in the shadow attracteth wonderfully 25. The same numericall disease may change subjects 26. From Magnetism flowers follow the Sun 27. Mumiall Philtres how they may be magneticall 28. The secret mystery of the blood is the Chymist's Loadstone 29. Herbs how and why magneticall 30. Asarabacca and Elder magneticall 31. An implicit compact the refuge of the ignorant 32. Sympathy praesupposeth sense 33. The Mumie of a dead brother long since impressed upon a chaire yet magneticall 34. A Saphire in magnetisme rivals the Unguent 35. A Saphire by the touch of one Carbuncle cures many others 36. Why the grand Praelates of the Church wear caerule rings 37. Man hath a magnetick virtue 38. A Zenexton or Amulet against the Plague 39. Necessary it is that one and the same Accident passe from subject to subject 40. Magnetisme a coelistiall quality 41. A thiefe or murderer and an honest man or woman yeeld the same mosse 42. Whence and what the seed of the mosse 43. The fruit of the aër 44. The mosse a production of fire 45. In the mosse also is the back of the magnet the scope being changed 46. God in miracles follows the course of Nature 47. God by reliques approves the Magnetisme of the Unguent 48. Supernaturall Magnetisme warranteth naturall 49. A lock of the mosse worn in the forehead is defence against a sword but of the stole of Saint Hubert against the biting of a mad dog 50. A lock neatly inserted into the forehead is a praeservative during life from the biting of a mad dog 51. Pepper degenerateth into Ivy. 52. How we are to judge of persons 53. Paracelsus the Monarch of Secrets 54. Every thing hath its peculiar heaven 56. Whence every naturall inclination 57. Whence diseases are astrall in man and portend foule weather 51. Whence diseased men have a foreknowledge of tempests 59. What causeth the flux and reflux of the Sea 60. Whence the winds are stirred up 61. The heavens doe not cause but onely denounce future events 62. Every seminall Entity hath its own peculiar firmament and the virtue of its influence 63. The Vine not the stars troubleth the Wine 64. Antimony observes an influence 65. The Loadstone directeth it selfe but is not attracted to the pole 66. Glasse magneticall 67. Rosin magneticall 68. The power of Garlick over a Loadstone and why the same over Mercury 69. The power operative on a distant object is naturall even in sublunaries and magneticall 70. Every Creature lives suo modo by the peculiar information of his own essentiall forme 71. What the Unguent can attract from the wound at distance 72. Every Satanicall effect is imperfect 73. Why Satan cannot cooperate with our Unguent 74. What may be called the will and phansie of the flesh and of the outward man 75. A twofold Ecstasy 76. The ecstatique virtue of the blood 77. Corruption educeth that dormant virtue into action 78. The essences of things not subject to Corruption 79. The designe of Spagyricall putrefaction 80. The Cause of Magnetisme in the Unguent 81. The heart attracted by treasure magnetically 82. The originall of Necromancy 83. What man is in the notion of Animal and what in the notion of the Image of God 84. How an Eagle is invited by the magnetism of a Carcase 85. How the blood in the Unguent is allected to its treasure and why Eagles flock together to a Carcase magnetically 86. Sensation Animal and Sensation Naturall different 87. The effects of Witches impious 88. The power of the Witch is Naturall and what that power is 89. Where in Man the magicall power is seated 90. Whether man hath a dominion paramount over all other Creatures 91. Why a man is indowed with a power of acting per nutum 92. The magicall faculty of man what 93. This magicall activity lyes ambuscadoed in man severall wayes 94. The inward man the same with the outward fundamentally but materially diverse 95. What is the Vitall spirit its science and endowment 96. In a Carcase extinct by a voluntary death there is no inhaerent spirit 97. The division of spirits according to the doctrine of Physicians 98. The Soule operates
his will who can do all things by the single efficiency of a Fiat does sometimes make use also of natural means Thus let the sweat in the Sudary or Stove of Saint Paul be also a Magnetical Unguent but the sweat of the sick persons or the insensible effluvium exhaling from them be the blood of the wounded sprinkled upon a piece of wood and put into the box of Unguent immediately all harm and evil depending on the wound is from all parts of the body attracted magnetically And this effect is by so much the more powerfully wrought by how much more efficacy the supernatural magnes is endowed withal For in both truly there is the same reason and the same manner of the causes operation the difference lies onely in this that in the material world the effect succeeds upon a requisite conjunction and co-efficiency of corporal means the blood and the Unguent but in the supernatural by a holy magnetism arising from the sacred reliques of the Friends of God which in this relation undoubtedly deserve our venerable esteem That these miracle-producing reliques might in the manner of their operations by a neerer similitude approach to the nature of the Magnetical Unguent God the soul of mercy moved with compassion towards our frail and calamitous estate hath in some of them called up a fountain of oyl perpetually pouring forth streams of Balsam To this end that every where relieved and supported by magnetical remedies we might for certain be assured that the Magnetical cure of wounds is received from God and both in the supernatural and natural world doth proceed in an equal order of causes in an equal pace and manner of operations and by the conduct of the same Director and Guide Hence is it that fresh and new reliques work more and more noble miracles when they are carried about or applied to the Patient by the touch because it is of unexcusable necessity that the magnes be first rub'd touch't and stir'd if we will have it to attract I return to thee O Usnea the noble issue of celestial seed for whoso hath enjoyed a convalescence from the Hydrophobia by the lock of wooll and other pious rites observed is not onely himself for ever after protected from a rabid dog but what is far more noble he can grant to any other person bitten by a mad dog a supersedeas to prorogue the time of the Venoms energy for many moneths until the Patient can with convenience take a journey to the shrine of St. Hubert the poyson in the mean time charmed into an inactivity and the fermentation of the humors suspended Nature hath also granted another magnetical magnale cozen german to the former The Zinzilla which is an excrement of the Diaphragma or Midriff degenerating into an inflammation and Apostem when once it hath like a Zone environed the chest of the Patient becomes fatally destructive but it is safely and with great celerity cured if the place be outwardly though but slenderly anointed with the blood of another who has once recovered from the same disease For he who hath once recovered from that disease hath not onely obtained a pure balsamical blood whereby for the future he is rendered secure and free from any recidivation of the same evil but also infallibly cures the same affection in his neighbor and by the cutany external contact of his own blood by the mysterious power of Magnetism transplants that balsam and conserving quality into the blood of another You may object if the Magnetism or grand magnetical arcanum lie onely in the Usnea then all other ingredients of the composition are fruitless vain and unnecessary Physicians soon salve this doubt by replying that some of the ingredients are efficients paramont and principal others of inferior virtue and subordinate some are conjoyned as impediments to obtund and refract the violence of contrary intense qualities others as spurs to excite the dormant and others to advance and promote the weaker and less active Magnetism to a higher and more noble entelechy And that these reasons support the necessity of a multiplicity of simples in the confection of the unguent On this consideration as it was a flat impertinency to argue that if the usnea chiefly comprehend the magnetism then is man to no purpose exenterated to furnish the Unguent with some other ingredients so also would it be a direct absurdity to plead that if the usnea on the single stock of its own endowment be not enriched with sufficient magnetism nor the fat nor the blood c. therefore will not that magnetism which we attribute to the unguent also be found in the whole composition since single ingredients cannot impart that virtue to a composition which they formerly did not contain in their primitive constitutions and simple natures I must ever now and then be compelled to act your part and contrive arguments and cavillations for you against my self But however it had been your duty formerly to have been instructed from vulgar and rustick experiments that in a compound medicine there doth frequently emerge and result a new third quality which was never before in the least measure couched in the single essences of the ingredients For example it would become you to have observed that neither Vitriol nor Galls are sejunctively black but married in the composition of Ink they immediately beget a perfect deep black You may again object if the Usnea hath acquired its magnetism from the mumial virtue of the bones and the seminal influence of celestial orbs then of consequence may the same be gathered not onely from sculls but from all other bones of the sceleton But this illation is also ridiculous for Nature her self confesseth a subjection and conformity to the condition of the soyl and for that reason Pepper new gathered transplanted into Italian ground degenerates into Ivy Hellebore set in the Tridentine fields quite looseth its purging faculty and Poppies with us are wholly devoid of any deleterious or deadly quality however our Countrey be ten times colder then Thebes it self Therefore the usnea varies in its efficacy according to the various soyl or matrix of bones wherein it is conceived and nourished For if lightniug melt money the purse remaining untouched and of ten companions sitting close together choose one out of the middle and strike him into ashes and this happen not casually or by chance but by the permission of that Providence which will not have so much as one leaf drop uncommanded from the tree and by whose onely power all virtues are founded and established it can seem no wonder also that one distinct magnetical seminality of usnea be from the celestial sphears distilled upon the scull and a second seminality of another peculiar classis upon the other bones of the Sceleton Onely the bone of the head is of excellent use against the Epilepsie but so are not any of the other bones Then to
the body of the Magnet to the Pole And thus when there hath been found and presented to the view of reason onely one influential virtue in sublunaries conced it in the Loadstone diradiating and in one continued thread of atomes arriving at an object seated at remote distance which cannot upon any pretence be ascribed to Satan it will also be sufficiently demonstrated that there may be many other influential proprieties equivalent to this of the Magnet wholly and purely natural as in the forecited examples and the Armary Unguent Now since the Magnet or Iron excited by the Magnet do by instinct of their own pilot and the spontaneous direction of themselves convert to the Pole there must of necessity be conceded some certain Quality eradiated and extended from the body of the Magnet to the Pole which in regard we assuredly know it to be done without any Corporeal effluvium we denominate a spiritual quality in this particular dissenting from our Divine who places a Spirit in irreconcilable difference to all corporeal nature as an essence wholly preternatural But Physicians oppose a Spirit against the more gross compage or more material and less rarified substance of a hody And in this distinctive notion we say that the light of the Sun the influx of celestial bodies the narcotical ejaculation of the Torpedo the fatal optick emission of the Basilisk c. are qualities purely and wholly spiritual why because they are darted at and strike upon an object at great distance not by the communion or association of substantial evaporation but are as by a medium of imperceptible light deradiated and shot from their Subject to a fit and determinate object These things thus conceded and made indubitate by arguments of reason and experiment it is sufficiently manifest that our Divine when yet he understood not Goclenius hath nevertheless carped at him and indeed many times when he deserved it not 1 Because Goclenius placed a spiritual quality in so course 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 such spiritual qualities are by the mediation of a certain sensation of the universal or mundane spirit the grand and sole causant of all sympathy transmitted to a remote and determinate object This Archeus or universal Spirit our Divine interprets to be some Cacodaemon some cursed genius but by no law that I understand except that of his own licentious judgment since in real verity it is a more pure and vital breath of Heaven a Spirit which comprehends and cherishes within it self the Sun and all the herd of lesser Stars a minde or intelligence which diffused through all the limbs or parts of this great Animal the World doth inform and regulate the whole and so by a certain commerce communion and conspiracy of otherwise-discordant parts and an harmonious marriage of the distinct virtues of single essences doth order and govern the vast engine of the Universe according to the unanimous consent of all who have read and commented on the true History of Nature To example the Solissequous flowers sensibly observe the travel of the Sun and the Sea conforms to either Lunestice and swells her obsequious tides high in the full but shrinks them low again in the Wane of the Moon In sum all Creatures by their life let us the master-piece and abridgment of all do homage to the Majesty of that King to whom all things live essence existence and sensation visibly attest the majesty liberality and presence of the great Creator For which consideration our Divine is deservedly to be checked in that he hath with insufferable audacity thrown rebukes at our Physician whom yet he understood not writing in a philosophical stile For such a piece of difficulty was it to observe 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 performed by the absent Unguent But in troth I might without injury to the modest rules of disputation return that when your self shall fully resolve us for what reason the Loadstone doth attract iron and convert it self to the Pole then shall I also satisfie 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 substituted our selves to relieve the insufficiency of Goclenius in this particular abstrusity we shall in the sequence of our discourse by a didactical or scientifical Analogism demonstrate unto you by what means the Magnetical attraction of the Unguent is performed if at least I shall to satisfaction inform you what can be by the Vnguent attracted from the Wound We are to observe therefore that in a Wound there succeeds not onely a bare solution of continuity or disunion of the part but also that there is an exotick or forain quality whereby the lips of the Wound being enraged and provoked to a certain excandescence by and by grow tumid and apostemate yea the whole body from thence becomes afflicted with Fevers and a grievous syndrome or concurse of dangerous symptomes for thus an Eg whose shell is but slenderly crackt soon putrefies and turns adle when otherwise it might have been a long time conserved Now this extraneous and peregrine quality the Armary Vnguent immediately sucks out of the Wound whereupon the lips of the Wound being at length oppressed and impeded by no Accident are delivered from all pain and sickly aestuation of spirits and suddenly hasten to accretion incarnation and consolidation Nature her self is the sole Chiron that by the Soveraign balsam of the vital blood doth reunite the severed parts and soder up the incontiguity the Physician is onely her servant to be assistant to her in the remove of those impediments which otherwise might oppose and infringe the power of her action nor does the Medicine deserve the attribute of Sarcotical or by its own virtue regenerate flesh in a Wound but then to full satisfaction of our hopes executes the commission of its faculty when it hath removed those accidental remoraes that did retard and hinder the operation of Nature all which impediments the Armary Vnguent upon its own single stock of power doth securely and effectually take off and banish Your rejoynder will be that the Armary Unguent in probability of reason ought not to exhaust the forementioned quality rather then the natural vigor of the body and strength of the veins and that the blood since it continues uncorrupt in the Unguent ought to procure health and not any indisposition to the wounded party according to the example of the Carline Thistle above mentioned I respond that there is a plurality and variety of Magnetisms for some attract Iron some Straws some Lead others Flesh the purulent
also to you seem far fetched truly the book of Genesis teacheth us that the Soule of every living creature dwels in the bloud of it as in its proper mansion For in the bloud there inhabite certaine noble and vital powers which as if they were endowed with animation cry loud to heaven for revenge yea from the hands of Judges here below demand vindictive justice to be done upon the homicide which since they cannot be denyed to be naturall Citizens of the blood I see no reason why any man should reject the magnetism of the bloud and unjustly reckon its rare admirable effects among the ridiculous acts of satan I wil say this further that men which walk in their sleep do by the conduct of no other Motor or guide then that of the Spirit of the Bloud that is of the outward man walk up and downe clime wals and praecipices and performe many other actions difficult and impossible to men awake I say by a magicall virtue naturall to the outward man That Saint Ambrose was visibly present at the exsequies of Saint Martin though corporally at home in his owne Chamber many Leagues distant Yet he was visibly present at the celebration of his holy brothers funerall in the visible spirit of the exteriour man and no otherwise for when many holy Fathers of the Church have seen the transaction of many secret and distant things this hath been performed without the circumscription of time and place in that ecstasy which is only of the internall man by the superiour powers of the soule collected and twisted into unity and by an intellectuall vision but not by a visible presence For otherwise the soule is never divorced from the body unless in earnest once and ever and then is not capable of a reunion until the resurrection which reconnexion notwithstanding is otherwise familiar and naturall to the spirit of the outward man divorced pro tempore in some ecstasy In so great a Paradox it can hardly suffice to erect a firme building of belief upon one single pillar of reason wherefore we conceive it our duty to frame a second basis for the more substantiall supportment of our doctrine of Magnetisme and to advance to the explanation of that mysterious cause by which this Magneticall alliciency is performed also betwixt bodies devoid of animation not by any Animall but a certaine Naturall sensasion Which that we may more seriously enterprise and solidly performe we are obliged by way of praeparation to praemise an enquiry what Satan can of his own power contribute to and by what meanes he can coopeperate in the meerly nefarious and impious actions of Witches and Conjurators for from hence will it clearly appear to what particular and just cause whether Naturall or Diabolicall every effect arising from abstruse originals ought properly to be ascribed And finally what kinde of spirituall power that is which tends to and arrives at an object removed at large distance or what is the action passion and velitation or reactive encounter betwixt Naturall Spirits or wherein consists the superiority and praerogative of man above other inferiour Creatures and by consequence why our Unguent compounded of human Mumies should also cure the wounds of horses I shall explain the matter by an example Let us therefore grant a witch who can vigorously torment an absent man by an image of wax by imprecation incantation or onely by some praevious touch for in this place we have nothing to doe with Veneficious Witches properly called Sorcerers in regard they execute their malice and destroy onely by poyson which every common Seplasiarie and petty Apothecary can imitate that this action is Diabolicall no man will doubt However it pleaseth us to distinguish how much Satan and how much the Witch can contribute to this mischiefe The first Supposition First you shall take notice that Satan is the sworne and irreconcileable enemy of mankinde and so accounted by all unlesse any please to esteem him a friend and therefore that he doth most readily without any the least haesitancy or negligence attempt and procure what mischief soever lies within the reach of his malice or power against us The second supposition Next you shall observe that although he be a mortall adversary to Witches also in so much as 't is essentiall to him to maintain a most destructive hostility against all the Sons of Adam yet in respect they are his confest slaves and sworn Subjects of his own black Kingdome he never unlesse against his will and by compulsion detects them never betrays them into the hands of the Magistrate nor exposes them to the scorne and reproches of other persons and that for three reasons 1 Since he is the Grand-father of pride he very well knowes that by the detection of his favorites there is much detracted from his reputation authority and dominion 2 Since he is an insatiate Nimrod an implacable persecutor of soules he is not ignorant that by the punishment and flames which justice inflicts upon his Zanies many other men else willing and prompt to list themselves in his regiment and fall under his jurisdiction are discouraged deterred and quite averted 3 Because he often observes many a Witch whom with an obtorsion or wresting round of her neck and secret stopping of her breath he could heartily wish to destroy converted by her punishment to become an Apostate from him and repenting at sight of the flames and by this meanes snatched out of his clutches From the former of our propositions I conclude that Satan if he were able singly by his own power to destroy man whom the guilt of mortall sinne hath made obnoxious to the tyranny of death would upon no motive whatever be induced to suspend and procrastinate the execution or his destructive malice but he doth not therefore he cannot destroy him But yet the Witch doth very frequently murder man and hence also it is clear that the Witch hath a power to destroy him no otherwise then an assassine hath a power at the liberty of his own will to cut the throat of him that is fallen into his hands and therefore in this detestable action there is a certain power peculiarly belonging to the Witch which depends not upon Satan and by consequence Satan is not the principall efficient and grand executor of the homicide for otherwise if he were the prime executor he could in no respect stand in need of the Witch for a Coadjutrix and Assistant but would ere this time by his own single power have cut off and swept into the grave the greatest part of mankinde Most miserable and deplorable indeed were the condition of the posterity of Adam which should lie in subjection to so horrid a tyranny and stand obnoxious to the fate of his arbitrary cruelty but we have the Almighty Preserver of men more faithfull in his mercies towards us then to subject the workes of his own hands to the arbitrary dominion of Satan Therefore
our will and operate not in conformity to the diâ—… ates of reason have deeply impressed upon themselves a certaine Character of revenge and hence is it that at the approach of the assassine the bloud whose fountaine death had sealed up begins a tumultuation and ebullition in the veines and violently gusheth forth being as in a furious fit of anger enraged and agitated by the image or impresse of revenge conceived against the murderer at the instant of the soules immature and compulsive exile from the body For indeed the bloud after death retaines a peculiar sense of the murderer being present and enjoyes a certaine though obscure kind of revenge because it hath its peculiar phansie and for this reason not Abel himselfe but his innocent bloud cries loud in the eares of divine justice for revenge This also is the cause why the Plague is so frequent a concomitant to seidges and why the beleaguered see the revenge of their dead acted upon their enemies by the surviving Magick of their friends bloud for the magicall spirit of the inward man in the heat of the encounters sallyes hath conceived a character and impression of revenge and sometimes the defendants especially th common Souldier being by want and other extreame miseries reduced to desperation 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 surviving Officers who engaged them in the calamity and might had their charity been but halfe so weighty as their wealth have relieved their famine by which earnest curse there are more strong and durable impressions engraven on the sidereall-spirit of the dying man chiefly of a great bellyed woman which survive the funerall of the body This posthume spirit call it Ghost if you please immediately after death taking a vagabond progresse in the lower region of the ayre applies it selfe to the contrivement of such spirituall means of revenge and ruine as lye within the sphear of its activity and having once designed the way most readily advances to execution And Plagues of this originall are most fatall aswell in the universality of contagion as destruction sparing no sex age or constitution but impartially blasting all as if immediately shot from the quiver of incensed Divinity But our pen is tender and feares to divulge the mysterious cause why such spirituall plagues scorne to obey the empty and frustaneous help of corporeal remedies for to reveale the reciprocall connexion of mumies the concordance of their interchangeable and cooperating faculties might prove unsafe and offensive to vulgar heads in regard of the whole Nectromancy of the Antients was originally founded on this basis For the same reason also God in the Levitical Law severely prohibited the suspension of the bodies of Malefactors upon the Gibbet expresly commanding their remove before the Sun went downe upon them You will answer that Camp-plagues are generated from the odious and unwholsome nastinesse of the Souldier and from the unburied excrements of men and entrails of beasts polluting the ayre with putrid and malignant vapours but to this erroneous opinion we oppose the example of Coriars Tanners and such who imploy their industry in the sordid manufacture of glew made of skins dissolved by putrefaction for all these are observed for the most part so farre are they from being obnoxious to the infection of the Plague to enjoy the blessings of health and longavity so conspicuous and admirable is the finger of Divinity in the spirit of the Microcosmé Doe you desire to be informed why the blood of a Bull is toxicall and poysonous but that of an Oxe though brother to the Bull safe and harmelesse the reason thus the Bull at the time of slaughter is full of secret reluctancy and vindictive murmurs and firmly impresseth upon his owne blood a character and potent signature of revenge But if it chance that an Oxe brought to the slaughter fall not at one stroke of the Axe but grow enraged and furious and continue long in that violent madnesse then he leaves a depraved and unwholsome tincture on his flesh unlesse he be first recalmed and pacified by darknesse and famine A Bull therefore dyes with a higher flame of revenge about him then any other Animall whatever and for that transcendent excandescence his fat but by no meanes his blood lest the humane blood in the unguent be subdued and overawed by this exotique tincture of the Bulls blood is an ingredient wholly necessary to the composition of the Armary unguent where the weapons which made the wound are not besprinkled with the blood of the Patient For if we expect a perfect cure from the dressing of the weapon truely the mosse and other its fellow ingredients will prove insufficient to worke a cure when the weapon is not distained with blood effused from the wound Since there is required a more violent and efficacious namely a taurine impression and an aëreall communication of florid honey And thus have wee to the satisfaction of the most incredulous and prejudicate made it out that the admirable efficacy of the Unguent ought to be imputed not to any auxiliary concurrence of Satan who could performe the cure without the use of honey and Bulls blood but to the communion of Naturall qualities by the energy of the posthume Character of Revenge remaining firmly impressed upon the blood and concreted fat Our Adversaries will whisper and secretly exult that the power of our Magnetical Unguent could have hardly been supported but by Analogical Arguments drawn from the abstruse operations of Witches from the impostures of Satan and the spiritual magick of the invisible world which is a science onely imaginary of no solid concernment or weight in the ballance of reason and a dangerous if not damnable error Nevertheless not any sinister obliquity or perversion of truth nor any indirect design in us by specious similitudes to impose upon the weaker credulities of the illiterate but the gross 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 instructed by evil then good hath compulsively directed our pen to observe this method in the explanation and probation of our thesis However what we have represented in this scene concerning Satan and his familiar Zany the Witch affords no encouragement or ground for others to hope a perfect conformity or resemblance of the power of our Unguent with that of Witches for neither the spiritual faculty of the Vnguent nor the ecstatique phansie of the blood are excited by the manuduction or impulsion of Satan The mark we shot at was that there is inhabitant in the Soul a certain Magical Virtue infused by the primitive bounty of her Creator naturally proper and of right belonging to her by that just title that Man is the image and
noble effigies of the Deity and that this virtue is qualified with a celestial activity and semidivine prerogative of operation that is a power of acting per nutum intuitively spiritually and at vast distance and that too with much more vigor and efficacy then by any corporeal helps and assistance The reason briefly and plainly thus the soul is the diviner particle and more noble moity of man far overweighing the body both in dignity of essence and extraction therefore also is the activity competent to it spiritual Magical and of superlative validity That the Soul by the dictates of this Virtue which hath suffered a consopition and abatement of its primitive agility by the counter-magick of the forbidden Apple in Paradise doth regulate manage and move onely her own peculiar body but the same being exsuscitated and awakened again into action she extends her dominion beyond the narrow limits of her earthly cloyster to an object at distance and becomes so longimanous as to operate onely per nutum by intuition conveyed through convenient mediums for upon this point is founded the whole basis of Natural Magick but in no respect upon the brittle and sandy foundation of Benedictions Ceremonies and vain superstitions for these vain and impious observances were all introduced by him who hath ever made it his study to conspurcate and defile the best things with the sophistication of his tares And in this sense we have not trembled at the name of Magick but with the Scripture understood it in the best interpretation and yet we have allowed it to be indifferently imployed to a good or evil end namely by the lawful use or abuse of this power And so under this term we comprehend the highest ingenite cognition of natural things and the most vigorous power of action equally natural to us with Adam not wholly extinguished nor obliterated by original sin but onely obscured and as it were consopited and therefore wanting expergefaction and excitement And therefore we declare that Magnetism is not exercised by Satan but by that which hath no dependance upon Satan and consequently that this power which is peculiarly connatural to us hath been abusively fathered upon Satan as if he were the sole patron and promoter of it that this Magical Faculty lieth dormant in us charmed into a somnolent inactivity by the opiate of the primitive sin and therefore stands in need of an Excitator to promote it into action Whether this Excitator be the Holy Spirit by illumination as the Church commemorates to have happened in the Eastern Magi and frequently happens in many devout persons even in our days or Satan for some previous oppignoration and compact with Witches in whom this excitation is wrought as by a Coma vigil or Catoche and is therefore imperfect in regard of the manner evil in regard of the end obscure in regard of the means and nefarious in regard of the Author nor doth the versipellous or Protean impostor endure that the Witch should know this power to be her own natural endowment on purpose to hold her the more strictly obliged to himself and lest the exercise of so noble a faculty once excited should be employed to any other atchieveme but what is impious and destructive to mankinde and so he keeps the reins in his own hand nor can the Witch know how at her own pleasure to excite this dormant Magick who hath wholly prostituted the freedom of her Spirit to the will of another tyrant That man of himself without the auxiliary concurrence of any forrein Causality can where and when he please by the practise of the Cabalistique Art awaken and excite this grand Virtue into action and such who have attained to this renovation of their impaired nature are honored with the title of Adepti Obtainers or Acquirers the select vessels of God whose wills stand in humble and full conformity to the dictates and advisoes of the Holy Ghost That this Magical Virtue is also naturally inherent in the outward man namely in flesh and blood but yet in a far less measure and of a more feeble energy yea not onely in the outward man but even in Brutes in some proportion and of inferior vigor for so the Book of Moses hath positively observed unto us that the soul of every beast is lodged in its blood and therefore he deservedly forbids it to be listed in the bill of humane fare and perchance in all other created natures since every single entity contains within the narrow tablet of its own nature an adumbration or landskip of the whole Universe and on this hint the Antients have left it on record unto us that there is a God that is an universal Entity in all things That this Magick of the outward man no less then that of the inward man doth want excitation nor doth Satan excite any other Magick in his base miscreant vassals then that of the outward man for in the interior closet of the Soul is seated the Kingdom of God to which no Creature hath access We have further demonstrated that there is a mutual connexion between spiritual Agents and that spirits as they combat which we have shewn in the example of the Witch so also they hold a friendly and amicable correspondence each with other which we prove by the testimony of Magnetical experiments and proper arguments for the fascination and ligation of souls as in the amours of David and Jonathan c. Finally we have stretched the sinews of our reason to manifest that man enjoyes a dominion paramount over all other corporeal Creatures and that by his own natural Magick he can countermand the Magical virtues of all other sublunaries which royal prerogative and predomination some others have erroneously and abusively transferred upon the power of charms and incantations By which Hierarchy we have to satiety of satisfaction made it manifest that all those admirable and abstruse effects are wrought which the rustical and too corporeal Philosophy of others hath ascribed to the dominion of Satan That those who are ignorant of most things we have delivered should yet remain dubious and unsatisfied in many things is necessarily certain wherefore we have determined to make a summary rehearsal of all chiefly that so what we have spoken in the former part of our dispute concerning the duello or conflict of spirits and the reciprocal amity or mutual conspiration of their united virtues may receive the clearer explanation It is a task worthy our sweat and oyl to discover and handsomely define the arms militia and encounters of spirits and their Commonwealth in order whereunto we are with great sobriety of judgment and acuteness of reason to perpend the example of a pregnant or great bellied woman who when she hath intently and with violence of desire fixed her minde upon a Cherry immediately there is impressed upon the fruit of her womb the model or pourtract of the Cherry in
that something assumes an ideall entity as its ultimate forme and complement Which perfection once obtained the Spirit which before was purer and more refined then the aethereall aër becomes subtilitated like light and assumes an ambiguous or midle nature between Corporeall substances and incorporeall But it is sent ambassador whithersoever the Will directs it or thither at least whither the innate infallible science of spirits doth command it according to the intentions and scopes of the taskes to be performed the ideall entity therefore being now ready prepared for its journey becomes a light understand it in some latitude of sense and shifting off corporeity confesseth no restraint or circumscriptive laws of places times or dimensions And this refined and exalted semisubstance is neither the Devill nor any effect nor any conspiration of his but a certain spirituall action of the inward man plainly and purely naturall and haereditary to us This mysterious wisdome who ever entertaineth with that solemnity of judgement and praeparation of nature and unpraejudicate thought which becomes the gravity of a mind greedy of magnalities shall easily understand that the materiall world is on all sides governed regulated and coerced by the immateriall and invisible and that all corporeal created natures are placed at the footstoole of man as being subordinate to the regality of his will And this very thing truely is the Cause why even the mumie the fat the mosse and the humane blood namely the Phansy naturally existing in them in the Unguent should domineer over the blood of a Dogge of a Horse c. shed upon a piece of wood and buried in a pot of the Unguent Yet we have not said enough concerning the Magnetisme of the Unguent We shall therefore now pursue a hint which we started in our praecedent lines That the Magnetisme of the Loadstone and other inanimate Creatures is performed by a certain Naturall sensation the immediate Authrix of all sympathy is a truth unquestionable For if the Loadstone direct it selfe to the Pole it must have a certain knowledge lest it become subject to deviation and error in its direction and how I beseech you can it have that requisite knowledge if it be not sensible of its owne locall position In like manner if it convert to iron placed at great distance and neglect the Pole of necessity it must first know the situation of the iron Wherfore the single Magnet is endowed with various senses and also with imagination nor will it be enough that it be provided of sensation unlesse we also adde the provokement and goads of occult friendship and Philauty or selfe-love and so that the Loadstone is endowed with a certaine Naturall phansy by the power of whose impression all Magnetismes in the whole Catalogue of Creatures are performed For by one phansy it is directed to iron and by another to the Pole for then is its virtue diffused onely through a small space of the aër to the object near at hand but that Phansy is changed when it praevents an abortion restraines the impetuous flux of Catarrhes or hinders the falling downe of the intestine in a rupture and by a third phansy different from both the former doth the Loadstone attract any thing of glasse melted by fire for any the smallest fragment of a Loadstone injected into a good quantity of glasse while it is in decoction of green or yellow turns it into perfect white For albeit the Loadstone it selfe be of a deep though something shadowed sanguine tincture and be wholly destroied and consumed by the fire that dissolves the glasse yet notwithstanding while it retaines any relict of its vital essence it exhausteth the tincted liquor even from the candent glasse and devoureth the tincture of it and thus we discerne that the attraction of the Loadstone is not determined onely to iron but also extends to that aerial part which otherwise could not without great difficulty be divorced from the body of the glasse and to this purpose is it commonly used by Glasse-makers The phansy of Amber delights to allect strawes chaffe and other festucous bodies by an attraction we confesse obscure and weake enough yet sufficiently manifest and strong to attest an Electricity or attractive signature for married to the mumie of our bodies it appears superiour to the humane Magnet draws counter to it and by that interest entitleth it selfe to the dignity of a Zenexton or preservatory Amulet against contagion But Amber mixed with Gummes its imagination being then transplanted attracteth the Venome and bullets out of wounds for the pleasure and desire of attraction is varied on either side that is according to the various contemperation and allay of the humane mumie and of the Gummes But alas What wonder can it be unlesse amongst those who being ignorant of all things foolishly admire all things that inanimate creatures should be inriched with an imaginative faculty when that infinite Essence who is all life and the very Soule of Uitality hath created all things in perfection and so praevented all expectation of deficiency and inutility in the least peice of his handy-worke nor can the subtilest Curiosity finde out any one peice in the innumerable list of Creatures wherein the reflex of his Divinity is not conspicuous for the spirit of the Lord fill's the whole earth yea this expression that he comprehends all things carries the emphaticall and significant force of the word Doe we not beleive that there was a large stock of malignant science ambuscadoed into the forbidden fruit and that our unhappy Protoplasts together with the aple swallowed downe that science and received it into the very entralls and profundity of their nature and doth not this science praesuppose a phansy peculiar to it For thus some simples induce an Amenty or short alienation of the reason others cause a constant madnesse or Maniacal fury not by a distraction of the brain or a dissipation of the Animall spirits for then the strength and vigour of the maniacall persons would of necessity suffer impairement and decay which never happens but rather on the contrary they become much stronger and almost invincible but indeed by the exotick and distractive phansy of those peculiar simples introduced which over-masters our phansy and subdues it to full obedience sometimes only pro tempore as in periodicall deliriums phrensies c. and sometimes for ever as in Lunaticks and Maniacks or Bedlams Doth not the rabies or madnesse of Dogges by this meanes transmigrate into men the Maniacall phansy of the Fury beeing transplanted into the slaver or salivous froth of the doggs tongue which soone conquers and triumphs over the blood of any Animal into which it hath insinuated it selfe through any the most slender puncture of of the skin for then the primitive and genuine Phansy of all the blood in the wounded body surrenders up its inferiour power becomes subordinate and compulsively assumes the Hydrophobical phansie of
Animal pervicaciously surviving death is impressed not onely upon the blood but also whoever sleeps under the coverture of a blanket made of the skin of a Gulo or Glutten a beast of incredible because insatiate voracity very common in Swedland is forced continually to dream of feasting hunger voracity and the ensnaring of wilde beasts according to the natural condition of that animal while it was living and thus onely by an external coverlet the phansie of the beast which during life so journed in the skin is devolved and traduced unto a man that sleeps beneath it And thus also by the ministery of the Phansie of the blood comes it to pass that the blood extravenated being received upon the sword or weapon is introduced into the Magnetick Unguent For then the phansie of the blood before unactive and somnolent being by the virtue of the magnetical unguent excited and there finding the balsamical and medical virtue of the unguent earnestly covets the newly-induced quality to be communicated to it self throughout and from thence by spiritual magnetism to exhaust and drain out all the forein quality that had invaded the wound which when it cannot sufficiently perform upon the single stock of its own strength it implores the aid of the most of the blood fat and mumy which by coalition degenerate into such balsam that by no other means but it s own phansie becomes medical magnetical and also attractive of all the forein quality out of the body whose fresh blood abounding with spirits is applied unto it whether it be the blood of a man or any other Animated Creature The phansie therefore is reducible and ecstatical from part of the blood freshly and immediately after the effusion brought unto the unguent but the magnetical attraction begun in the blood is perfected by the medical virtue of the unguent But the unguent doth not attract the evil and depraved tincture or inquinament of the wound unto it self and so put on as much contagion as was enclosed in Pandoraes box but onely works a salutiferous alteration on the spirit of the newly effused and freshly applied blood makes it medical balsamical and rouzeth up its dormant virtue whence there results to it a certain medical and magnetical virtue which makes a speedy return to the body from which the blood issued forth with full commission and power to cure its cousin german the spirit of the blood yet flowing in its proper conduits throughout the whole man For it sucks out of the wounded party the exotick and dolorous impression diminisheth it by a medical power exileth it which medical virtue being the puissant conqueress of the evil is partly excited in the blood and partly ingenerated in the same by the unguent that is by the spirit of the unguent upon the magick of its phansie i. e. its created endowment thus exercising imperial power and efficacious soveraignty over the spirit of the blood In another case the blood enclosed in an egge shell putrefying with all its vigor about it and so as it were redeemed from the bondoge of corporeity and the spirit delivered from all impediments by previous putrefaction becomes attractive by the mediation of the mumy of a dog and really transfers that disease which was before seated in the phansie and astrality of the excrementitious impurities in the patient into the dog that devours it for no other reason but this that the magnetism cannot be advanced to perfection of operation without the intercession of the balsam of the unguent We have observed if it happen that the wounded party hath received many wounds at once that it sufficeth to have the blood effused out of any one of the wounds and that by the single application of that blood all the other wounds are cured together because that blood observes a correspondence and sympathetical concordance with the spirit of the whole man and from the same educeth the offensive extraneous quality communicated not onely to the lips of the wound but also to the whole body for from one wound there ordinarily is kindled an universal fever throughout the whole body of man Hitherto have I suspended the revealment of a grand mystery namely to bring it home to the hand of reason that in man there sits enthroned a noble energy whereby he is endowed with a capacity to act extra se without and beyond the narrow territories of himself onely per nutum by his single beck and by the natural magick of his phansie and to transmit a subtil and invisible virtue a certain influence that doth afterward subsist and persevere per se and operate upon an object removed at very large distance by the discovery of which sole mystery all that we have hitherto treated concerning the ideal entity conveyed in the arms of a spiritual emanation and sallying abroad to execute the mandates of the will concerning the magnetism of all Creatures proceeding as well from humane phansie as from the native and peculiar phansie of every thing and also concerning the magical superiority of man over all other sublunary bodies will receive illustration and shine bright in the eye of our understanding T is a meridian truth too clear to be eclipsed by controversie that of steel there may be made a needle which invigorated by the confriction of a loadstone doth point out the pole to Seamen but in vain is the steel hammered into a needle and placed at free range in the navigatory Compass to level at the north Star unless there hath preceded a fit and requisite affriction of the loadstone Which assertions since they sound loud enough to pierce the ears of the deafest incredulity it remains convenient that we frame and qualifie a Mariners needle solo nutu onely by the magnetism of our phansie and magick of intuition On the anvil therefore whereon the steel is hammered into a figure of a needle let the north point be chalked out and that in a strait line then stand you when you play the Vulcan with your back to the north that so when the steel is beating under the hammer you may draw it out into a needle towards your self and the north I say therefore that such a needle thus positionally and intuitively framed will acquire a vigorous polarity and punctually observe the north Star without any forein impregnation or magnetical infusion and indeed without any variation to which the ordinary needles invigorated by the loadstone are subject which carries with it a very great mystery Moreover that needle which is made upon the foresaid line by chance and without the knowledg or intention of the Fabricator continues bare steel devoid of all verticity and directs not to the pole Hence is it a natural Consequence that the imagination of the Fabricator in the very moment of the needles nativity when the glowing heat of the fire is somewhat abated and the steel but obscurely red doth impress this magnetical faculty into the steel needle as a
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
the Exotick Tincture from whence in excess of time comes a Binsical Death i. e. from the sole disease and exorbitancy of the minde the Magical virtue of the Dog being excited and exalted above the non-excited but somnolent Phansie of the Animal By the same mysterious traduction in all respects is the Phansie of the Tarantula impressed upon man by a slender thrust of his sting and the wounded suffering an immediate alienation of their reason fall into a violent fit of dancing and capering high levoltoes onely the poyson of the Tarantula differs from that of the mad dog in this particular that this operateth by a magical power excited and so by magick truly and without the favor of a metaphor so called but that acteth by a magical power non-excited and somnolent as the same difference is undeniably manifest in Monkshood Aconite c. deleterious plants which are speedy and inevitably destructive in very small quantity in regard no Animal endevours to secure or defend it self against the biting of a mad dog since the magical power of his excited phansie being diffused is binding and obligatury against which neither the teeth nor horns of any beast can make the least prevalent resistance which cannot be affirmed of the Venome of the Tarantula In the outward man therefore as also in all his fellow Animals the Magical power is latitant and as it were consopited nor is it capable of excitation onely in man though we confess with greater facility and to higher atchievements but even in many other Animals consorted with man at the Creation Again it sufficeth not that the Spirit of one individual maintain and observe this law of concord and monomachy or duello with the Spirit of another individual but moreover there dwells a certain universal or mundan spirit in the whole world i. e. in all things within Trismegistus Circle which we Christen the Magnum magnale which exsisteth the universal Pander of all sympathy and dyspathy the invisible Mercury or common Intelligencer and the Promotor of all natural actions and by whose mediation or convoy the Magnetism is as by the most convenient vehicle transported and wafted to an object at vast distance This is made good by an autoptical demonstration for if upon the miniking of a tuned Lute you place a slender straw hanging with a doubtful extremity i. e. equilibrated in the aër and at convenient distance in the same room strike the minikin of another Lute when there succeeds a consonance in the eighth note you shall see the straw to tremble but when the notes concord in an unison then the minikin of the untouched Lute impatient of delay will quaver caper for joy echo the same aër and by a nimble subsultation throw off the offensive straw What will you impute this effect to Satan and make him the Fidler Now you shall never observe the straw to rebound from the string though all the strings of the other Lute be unanimously strongly and neer at hand plaid upon for it is not the bare and simple tone that compels the untouched string to quaver for then every tone would cause the same effect but it is onely the universal spirit the Common Mercury inhabiting in the middle of the universe and being the faithful executor and adjutor of all natural actions transports promotes and causes the Sympathy But why tremble we at the name of Magick since the whole action is Magical nor hath any natural Agent a power of activity which is not emergent from the phansie of its peculiar form and that magically too But in regard this phansie in bodies devoid of voluntary election is onely of a determinate and limited identity therefore have some vulgar heads erroneously and dully imputed the effects of such restrained bodies not to the phansie of them but a Natural propriety out of an ignorance of Causes substituting the effect in the room of the Cause When indeed every Agent doth operate on its proper object by a praesensation or distinctive foreknowledg of it whereby it is directed not to discharge its activity rashly and at random but onely on its own peculiar object For the diffusion or emission of activity necessarily succeeds the sensation of the object and the effect results from an excitement of the phansie by transmitting of the ideal entity and conjoyning it with the radius or gleam of the passive entity And this in our dialect hath ever been the Magical action of natural bodies yet in most accommodate language and just propriety of denomination this Magical and phantastique activity belongs principally if not solely to Creatures ennobled with a power of election I shall muster up the Creatures and guide our disquisition through every Classis of them All formal proprieties flowing from the forms of the three universal principles Sal Sulphur and Mercury or the salt Unctuous fat and liquor whereof every body is composed and into which it is by corruption of the corporeal harmony again resolved and the Mercury or liquor is so often diverse and differently qualified as there are different species of compound bodies which same variety of impregnation we are to conceive also of the other two Sal and Sulphur All specifical proprieties I say are derivatory from the phansies of these forms which in regard they are very corporeal and deeply immersed in the bosome of Elements therefore are they called Formal and occult proprieties out of a gross ignorance of the forms which in another and introth more Philosophical acceptation are Magical effects produced by the phansie of the said forms but we confess less noble and more corporeal yet abundantly satisfactory to those ends which by the primitive destiny of their Creation they regard To this series belongs the subductive virtue of Cathartick or Purgative the somniferous faculty of Hypnotick or dormitive medicaments c. Besides these there are other nobler Proprieties taking their original from the phansie of the forms of the whole Compositum and these are diffused through and inherent in the whole Compositum by reason of the Form of it such are the Magnetism of the Loadstone the virtue of Tinctures and all specifical and appropriate Medicaments which are occasioned by reason either of the whole homogeneous neixture or the particular form of some integral part but not of any single or divided principle such as these are naturally inherent in the trunck leaves root and fruit of plants and not in any one of the three principles diacritically separated from the compage or conjuncture Thus also Antimony while it remains in its primitive form and native integrity is enriched with noble and excellent qualities which it could never aspire unto in its solitary and divided principles But these are also closely enshrowded in Corporeity and therefore the natural magick lies covertly ambuscadoed and obscure in them and hath been thought wholly attributary to Nature by an unjust and unadvised distinction of Nature from Magick opposing the