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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51308	Observations upon Anthroposophia theomagica, and Anima magica abscondita by Alazonomastix Philalethes.	More, Henry, 1614-1687.	1650 (1650)	Wing M2667; ESTC R2776	38,634	104

be onely a charm to fox fishes And I pray you Philalethes make triall of the experimrnt Pag. 19. Lin. 29. It is the Magicians Back-doore Here I cannot but take notice at the great affectation of Philalethes to appear to be deeply seen in Magick But I suppose if he were well searched he would be found no Witch nor all his Back-doore of air worth the winde of an ordinary mans back-doore Pag. 20. Lin. 2. The air is our Animal oil the fuill of the vitall Now Eugenius you are so good natured as to give Aristetle one of his two elements again that you wrested from him If this be our animall oil and fuell of the vitall it is plain our animall and vital spirits are from the air and that the air is one element amongst the rest And your moist silent fire that passes through al things must be a principle of all things and may well be attempered heat to your forenamed oil So that Aristotle and you that before seemed as disagreeing as fire and water now in a love fit again embrace as close as your Apulejus his Psyche and Cupid But why will you be thus humorous Mr. Eugenius and be thus off and on to the trouble of others and your self Pag. 21. Lin. 9. Performed an exposition of the World An excellent performance Which if a man take a narrow view of he will finde to amount to no more then this That God made a dark Masse of Matter out of which hee extracted Chymist like first an Empyreall body then an Aereall c. Which is a very lank satisfaction to the noble reason of man Nay Anthroposophus I beleeve you have spoke such stuff that will amount to little better then a contradiction to free reason For you make as if the Masse did contain in a far less compass above all measure all that was after extracted Where fore there was for these are all bodies either a penetration of dimensions then or else a vacuum now and the ascending particles of the Masse lye some distance one from another Besides I observe that in you that I doe in all others that Phantastically and superstitiously force Philosophy out of the sacred Writ which is intended curtainly for better purposes For like Ovid in his Metamorphoses who after a long pursuit of a Fabulous story at last descends to something in Nature and common use as that of Daphne turned into a Lawrell which tree is in Nature and according to the accustomary conceit of the Heathens was holy to Apollo so these running a Wild-Goose chase of Melancholy imaginations and phansies think it evidence enough for what they have said to have the thing but named in some Text of Scripture Nay even those that are so confident they are inspired and live of nothing but the free breathings of the Divine Spirit if you observe them it is with them as with the Lark that is so high in the air that we may better hear her then see her as if shee were an inhabitant of that Region only and had no allyance to the Earth yet at last you shall see her come down and pick on the ground as other birds So these pretended inspired men though they flye high and seem to feed of nothing but free truth as they draw it from Gods own breathing yet they took their ground first from the Text though they ran a deal of phansyfull division upon it and if a man watch them he shall finde them fall flat upon the Text again and be but as other Mortalls are for all their free pretensions and extraordinary assistences But le ts leave these Theosophists as they love to be called to themselves and trace on the steps of our Anthroposophus Pag. 22. He exhorts us in the foregoing page to be curious and diligent in this subsequent part of his discourse as being now about to deliver the Fundamentalls of Science But Anthroposophus you are so deeply Magicall that you have conjured your self down below the wit of an ordinary man The Fundamentalls of Science should bee certain plain reall and perspicuous to reason not muddy and imaginary as all your discourse is from this to your 28 page For in this present page and the former setting aside your superstitious affectation of Trinities and Triplicities which teach a man nothing but that you are a very phantasticall and bold man and lift at that which is too heavy for you you doe nothing but scold very cholerickly at the Colliers and Kitchen-maides and like a dog return again to the Vomit I mean that vomit you cast awhile agoe on Aristotle Is that so elegant an expression that you must use it twice in so little a space where is your manners Anthroposophus Pag. 23. Lin. 14. 24. The Magnet the Mystery of Union Not one of ten thousand knowes the substance or the use of this Nature Yet you tell it us in this page that it will attract all things Physicall or Metaphysicall at what distance soever But you are a man of ten thousand Anthroposophus and have the Mystery questionlesse of this Magnet Whence I conclude you King or Prince of the Gypsies as being able at the farthest distance to attract mettall out of mens purses But take heed that you be not discovered lest this Jacobs Ladder raise you up with your fellow Pick-pockets to Heaven in a string Pag. 24. This page is filled with like Gypsie gibberish as also the 25th yet he pretends to lend us a little light from the Sun and Moon Which he calls the great Luminaries and Conservatours of the great World in generall How great Anthroposohus doe you think would the Moon appear if your Magick could remove you but as far as Saturn from her will shee not appear as little as nothing Besides if Fugenius ever tooted through a Galileo's Tube he might discover four Moons about Jupiter which will all prove competitours with our Moon for the Conservatour-ship of the Universe But though Eugenins admits of but one great broad-faced Sun and Moon yet he acknowledgeth many Mimules or Monky-faced Suns and Moons which must be the Conservatricules of the many Microcosms in the great World Certainly Anchroposophus the speculum of your understanding is cracked and every fragment gives a severall reflection and hence is this innumerable multitude of these little diminutive Suns and Moons But having passed through much canting language at the bottome of the page we at last stumble on the Philosophers Stone which he intends I suppose to fling at Aristotle and brain the Stagirite at one throw Lin. ult. A true Receipt of the Medicine R. Limi coelestis partes c. Come out TomFool from behinde the hangings that peaks out with your Divels head and hornes and put off your vizard and be apert and intelligible or else why doe you pretend to lay the Fundamentalls of Science and crave our diligence and attention to a non-significant noise and buzze Unlesse you will be understood it

so little as an Epistle and therefore would insinuate that it was an Oration made to the Fratres R. C. I suppose at their meeting at Fryer Bacons brasen head in Oxford Well! be it what it will be my observation here Anthroposophus is that you would also by your addresse to the Fratres R. C. make the world beleeve that you are now mellowing apace and are not much unripe for admission into that Society And then Anthroposophus would be a rare Theomagician indeed But enough of this vein of mirth and levity Now Philalethes your brother Tel-troth intends to fall more closely on your bones and to discover whether you have not a greater minde to seem to be wise then to be so indeed or to make others so But yet you may assure your self I will only find flaws not make any in you but rather candidly passe over what may receive any tolerably good interpretation nor touch the soar anywhere but where I may hope to heal it either in your self or others And that this may be done without any tedious taking a peeces of what you have put together I shall fairly passe from page to page without any Analytical Artifice And truly from the first page to middle of the fourth page of you to the Reader there be many pretty smart elegant humorous contextures of phrases and things But there presently after Fryer Bacons Fool and his fellow you fall upon our Peripateticks as such superficiall Philosophasters because they cannot lay open to you the very essence of the soul Why Anthroposophus can you tell the very essence of any substantiall thing Hereby you show your self very raw and unexercised in meditation in that you have not yet taken notice what things are knowable what not And thus may you have as ill a trick put upon you for want of this discerning as the old dim and doting woman had that with her rotten teeth endeavoured to crack a round pebble stone instead of a nut which was a thing impossible Nor will any mans understanding be it as sharp as it will enter the bare essence of any thing But the nearest wee can get is to know the powers and operations the respects and fitnesses that things have in themselves or toward others Which is so true that any man in a little search will presently satisfie himself in the evidence thereof From the middle of this fourth page to the middle of the six is continued a dance of Anticks or various ridiculous shiftings and postures of phansie to make Aristotle and his followers contemptible But such generall railings as they are mis-beseeming the Writer so they teach the Reader nothing but that the Authour of them is a Mome or a Mimick and more like an Ape by far then him that he compares to one If this man clap the wings so when hee has really got the foil for hitherto hee has charged Aristotle with no particular piece of ignorance but of what is impossible to be known what would he doe if he had the victory The second particular taxation for generals I hold nothing Dolosus ambulat in universalibus is that the Peripateticks fancy God to have made the World as a Carpenter of stone and timber But this is false because they give an inward principle of motion to all naturall bodies and there is one continuity of all as much as of the parts of water among themselves But their grand fault is that they doe not say the World is Animate But is not yours far greater Anthroposophus that gives so ridiculous unproportionable account of that Tenet The whole World is an Animal say you whose flesh is the earth whose bloud is the water the air the outward refreshing spirit in which it breaths the interstellar skies his vitall waters the Stars his sensitive fire But are not you a mere Animal your self to say so For it is as irrationall and incredible as if you should tell us a tale of a Beast whose bloud and flesh put together bears not so great a proportion to the rest of the more fluid parts of the Animal suppose his vitall and animal spirits as a mite in a cheese to the whole globe of the earth And beside this how shall this water which you call bloud be refreshed by the air that is warmer then it And then those waters which you place in the outmost parts towards his dappeld or spotted skin the coelum stellatum what over-proportionated plenty of them is there there In so much that this creature you make a diseased Animall from its first birth and ever labouring with an Anasarca Lastly how unproperly is the air said to be the outward refreshing spirit of this Animal when it is ever in the very midst of it And how rashly is the Flux and Reflux of the Sea assimilated to the pulse when the pulse is from the heart not the brain but the flux and reflux of the Sea from the Moon not the Sun which they that be more discreetly phantasticall then your self doe call Cor Mundi Wherefore Anthroposophus your phansies to sober men will seem as vain and puerile as those of idle children that imagine the fortuitous postures of spaul and snivell on plaster-walls to bear the form of mens or dogs faces or of Lyons and what not And yet see the supine stupidity and senslesnesse of this mans judgment that he triumphs so in this figment of his as so rare and excellent a truth that Aristotles Philosophy must be groundlesse superstition and popery in respect of it this the primevall truth of the creation when as it is a thousand times more froth then His is vomit My friend Anthroposophus is this to appear for the truth in a day of necessity Certainly shee 'll be well holpe at a dead lift if shee find no better champions then your self Verily Philalethes if you be no better in your Book then in your Preface to the Reader you have abused Moses his Text beyond measure For your Principles will have neither heaven nor earth in them head nor foot reason nor sense They will be things extra intellectum and extra sensum mere vagrant imaginations seated in your own subsultorious and skip-jack phansy only But what they are we shal now begin to examine according to the number of pages Anthroposophia Theomagica Pag. 2. Lio. 11. So have all souls before their entrance c. But hear you me Mr. Anthroposophus are you in good earnest that all souls before their entrance into the body have an explicite methodicall knowledge and would you venture to lose your wit so much by inprisoning your selfe in so darke a dungeon as to be able to write no better sense in your Preface to the Reader But I 'le excuse him it may be he was riding before his entrance into the body on some Theomagicall jade or other that stumbled and flung him into a mysticall quagmire against his will where he was so soused and doused and