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A64761 Anima magica abscondita or a discourse of the universall spirit of nature, with his strange, abstruse, miraculous ascent, and descent. By Eugenius Philalethes. Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666. 1650 (1650) Wing V142; ESTC R3720 27,836 76

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in a Third Element where the violence of this Tyrant cannot reach but his Anima There is also a better way for if thou canst temper him with the Spirit of Heaven thou hast alter'd him from a corrupting to a generating fire Sublime the middle Nature fire per Trigonum Circulum till thou com'st to a Breach of Inferiors and Superiors Lastly separate from the Magicall compounded Earth that Principle which is call'd Terra Media because it is middlemost between the Vnarius and the Binarius for as it attaines not to the simplicity of the First so it is free from the Impurities of the Second This is the true Petra Chrystallina a bright virgin Earth without spot or Darknesse This is Terra Maga in aethere clarificata for it carries in its Belly Winde and Fire Having got this fundamentall of a little new world unite the heaven in a triple proportion to the Earth then apply a Generative heat to Both and they will attract from above the Star-fire of Nature Sic habebis Gloriam totius Mundi Ergo fugiet a Te omnis Obscuritas Now because the Law of Nature is infallible and confirm'd to the Creature by Gods Royall Assent think not therefore there is any Necessity upon God but what he hath inacted in General he can repeal in any particular Remember who translated the Dew from the Earth to the Fleece and from the Fleece to the Earth God bestowes not his Blessings where they are to turn to Curses He cursed the Earth once for Adam's sake take heed he doth not curse it again in thy work for thy sake It is in Vaine to look a Blessing from Nature without the God of Nature for as the Scripture sayth without Controversie the lesser is blessed of the Greater He must be a good steward that shall overlook the Treasuries of God Have therefore a Charitable Seraphick soul Charitable at Home in being not Destructive to thy self● as most men are Charitable abroad in a Diffusive goodnesse to the poor as many are not There is in every true Christian a spice I can not say a grain of Faith for then we could work Miracles But know thou that as God is the Father so Charity is the Nurse of Faith For there springs from Charitable works a Hope of Heaven and who is he that will not gladly believe what he hopes to receive On the contrary there springs no Hope at all from the Works of Darknesse and by Consequence no faith but that Faith of Divels To believe and tremble Settle not then in the Lees and Puddle of the World have thy Heart in Heaven and thy Hands on Earth Ascend in Pietie and descend in Charity for this is the Nature of Light and the Way of the Children of it Above all Things avoyd the Guilt of innocent Blood for it utterly separates from God in this Life and requires a timely and serious Repentance if thou would'st find Him in the Next Now for thy studie in the Winter Time thy Chamber is the best Residence here thou mayest use Fumigations and spicie Lamps not for superstition but because such recreate the Animal Spirits and the Braine In the Summer translate thy self to the Fields where all are green with the Breath of God and fresh with the Powers of Heaven Learn to refer all Naturals to their Spirituals per viàm Secretioris Analogiae for this is the way the Magicians went and found out Miracles Many there are who bestow not their Thoughts on God till the World failes them He may say to such Guests Quum Nemini obtrudi potest itur ad Me Do thou think on Him first and He will speak to thy Thoughts at Last Sometimes Thou may'st walk in Groves which being full of Majestie will much advance the Soul Sometimes by clear Active Rivers for by such say the Mystick Poets Apollo contemplated Omnia quae Phaebo quondā meditante beatus Audiit Eurotas c. So Have I spent on the Banks of Ysca many a serious Hour 'T is Day my Chrystal Usk now the sad Night Resignes her place as Tenant to the Light See the amazed mists begin to flye And the Victorious Sun hath got the skie How shall I recompence thy streams that keep Me and my Soul awak'd when others sleep I watch my stars I move on with the skies And weary all the Planets with mine Eyes Shall I seek thy forgotten Birth and see What Dayes are spent since thy Nativity Didst run with ancient Kishon canst thou tell So many yeers as holy Hiddekel Thou art not paid in this I 'le leavie more Such harmles Contributions from thy store And dresse my Soul by Thee as thou do'st passe As I would do my Body by my Glasse What a clear running Chrystall here I find Sure I will strive to gain as clear a Mind And have my spirits freed frōdross made light That no base Puddle may allay their Flight How I admire thy humble banks Nought 's here But the same simple vesture all the yeer I 'le learn simplicity of Thee and when I walk the streets I will not storme at Men Nor look as if I had a mind to crie It is my valiant Cloth of Gold and I Let me not live but I 'm amaz'd to see What a Clear Type thou art of Pietie Why should thy Flouds inrich those shores that sin Against thy Liberty and keep thee in Thy waters nurse that rude Land wch inslaves And Captivates thy free and spacious waves Most blessed Tutors I will learn of Those To shew my charity unto my Foes And strive to do some Good unto the Poor As thy streams do unto the Barren shore ' All This from Thee my Ysca yes and more I am for many Vertues on thy score Trust me thy waters yet why wilt not so Let me but drink again and I will go I see thy course anticipates my Plea I 'le haste to God as Thou dost to the Sea And when my eyes in waters drown their beams The Pious imitation of thy streames May every Holy happy hearty Teare Help me to run to Heav'n as Thou do'st there This is the way I would have thee walk in if thou doest intend to be a solid Christian Philosopher Thou must as Agrippa sayth Vivere Deum Angelos reject all Things Quae Coelo dissimilia sunt otherwise thou canst have no Communion with Superiors Lastly Unus esto● non Solus Avoid the Multitude aswell of Passions as Persons Now for Authors I wish thee to trust no moderns but Michael Sendivow and that other of Physia Restituta especially his first Aphonisticall part The Rest whom I have seen suggest Inventions of their own such as may passe with the Whymzies of des Chartes or Bovillus his Mathematicall Roses To conclude I would have thee know That every day is Annus Contractus That every yeer is Dies extensus Anticipate the yeer in the day and lose not a day in the yeer Make use of Indeterminate Agents till thou canst fi●de a Determinate One The Many may wish well but One onely Loves Circumferences spread but Centers contract so superiors dissolve and Inferiors coagulate stand not long in the sun nor long in the shade where Extremes meet there look for Complexions Learn from thy Errors to be Infallible from thy Misfortunes to be constant There is nothing stronger then Perseverance for it ends in Miracles I could tell thee more but that were to puzzle Thee learn this First and Thou mayst teach me the Last Thus Reader have I published that knowledge which God gave me ad fructum Bonae Conscientiae I have not Busheld my Light nor buried my Talent in the Ground I will now withdraw and leave the stage to the Next Actor Some Peripatetick perhaps whose sic probo shall serve me for a Comaedie I have seen scolds laugh'd at but never admir'd so he that multiplies Discourse makes a serious cause Ridiculous The onely Antidote to a shrew is silence And the best way to convince Fools is to Neglect Them Faelices Animae Quibus Haec cognoscere primū Inque Domos Superas Scandere Cura fuit Credibile est Illos pariter Vitiisque Jocisque Altius Humanis exeruisse Caput Si Tu Iehova Deus meus Illuminaveris Me Lux fient Tenebrae meae FINIS To his ever honour'd friend the Learned Author SIR YOur book now finish't Let a shallower Pen Ad these few drops to your vast Ocean Not by my shaddowing praise t' eclipse the glory Of your high worth this book must tell that story To truth-beleiving Soules whose Eagle-eyes Can penetrate these hidden Mysteries But you thrice honor'd sir my groveling minde Have rais'd to higher Pitch to tell how kinde How rare a freind how deare how choise a Treasure My Fates have blest me with above the measure Of vulgar thought how this diviner ray Of your bright soul would fill with clearest day The darkened world did not earth-shadowing mist With thickest clouds heavens influence resist But who from envies sordid mire Is washt is clad in pure attire Of innocence a light shall see unthral'd from errors Sophistry Will kindle that magnetick fire Which shall concenter wild desire And fix the roving thoughts in one Inseperate TRIVNION Hee l then disdaine the slymie Earth A house too mean for nobler birth His heaven-rais'd soul will then aspire To bear a part in th' Angels quire Dear so fare well Let seekers thirsty flames Refresht by these your soul-reviving streames Eccho you Praise with thankfull elogies Your ever-living name immortalize SIR Your own beyond Expresses H. B. Gen Wis. Exod. Isai. Is. xlv In Gen. Ioan. Trith Gal. 4.22
ANIMA MAGICA ABSCONDITA Or A Discourse of the universall Spirit of Nature With his strange abstruse miraculous Ascent and descent By Eugenius Philalethes Stapul in Dion Est autem Vniversum speculum Unum ad Quod astans Amor suum efformat Idolum Dû a Digon Hêb Dhû Hêb Dhim LONDON Printed by T.W. For H. B. 1650. To the Reader NOw God defend what will become of me I have neither consulted with the stars nor their Vrinals the Almanacks A fine Fellow to neglect the Prophets who are read in England every Day They shall pardon me for this {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} There is a Mystery in their profession they have not so much as heard of Coelum stellatum Christianum a new Heaven fansied on the old Earth Here the Twelve Apostles have surpris'd the Zodiak and all the Saints are rang'd on their North and South sides It were a pretty vanity to preach when Saint Paul is ascendent and would not a Papist smile to have his Pope elected under Saint Peter Reader if I studied these Things I should think my self worst imployd then the Roman Chaucer was in his Troilus I come out as if there were no Houres in the Day nor Planets in the Houres neither do I care for any thing but that Interlude of Perendenga in Michael Cervantes Let the old Man my Master live and Christ be with us all Thou wilt wonder now where this drives for I have neither a Conde de lemos nor a Cardinal to pray for I pray for the Dead that is I wish him a fair Remembrance whose Labours have deservd it It happened in exposing my former Discourse to Censure a custom hath strangl'd many Truths in the Cradle that a Learned Man suggested to me some bad Opinion he had of my Author Henricus Cornelius Agrippa I ever understood it was not One but many in whose sentiment that miracle suffer'd It is the Fortune of deep writers to miscary because of obscurity Thus the Spots in the Moon with some Men are Earth but 't is more probable they are water There is no Day so clear but there are Lees towards the Horizon so inferior Wits when they reflect on higher Intellects leave a Mist in their Beames Had he liv'd in Ignorance as most do he might have past hence like the last yeares Cloudes without any more Remembrance But as I believe the Trueth a maine Branch of that End to which I was born so I hold it my Duty to vindicate him from whom I have receiv'd it The world then being not able to confute this mans Principles by Reason went about to do it by Scandal and the first Argument they fastend on was that of the Iews against his Sviour Thou art a Samaritan and hast a Divel The Chief in this Persecution is Cicognes and after him Delrio in his Fabulous Disquisitions But Paulus Iovius stirr'd in the Vomit who amongst other mens Lives hath put my Author to Death It is done indeed Emphatically betwixt Him and his Poet whom he hir'd it seems to stitch verse to his Prose and so patch'd up the Legend Quis sayth he in Henrici Cornelii Agrippae sedato vultu portentosum Ingenium latuisse crediderit In his subsequent Discourse he states his Question and returns my Authors best parts as a Libell on his memorie But that which troubles him most of all is That Agrippa should prove his Doctrine out of the Scriptures Then he inculcates the solemn Crambe of his Dog-Devill whose Collar Emblematically wrought with Nails made the Ruffe to his Familiar For a Close to the story he kills him at Lyons where being neer his Departure he unravell'd his Magick in this desperat Dismission Abi perdita Bestia qui me totum perdidisti This is the most grosse Lie and the least probable in every circumstance that ever was related Devils use not to quit their Conjurers in the day of Death neither will they at such Times be exterminated This is the hour wherein they attend their Prey and from seeming servants become cruell Masters Besides is it not most gross That any should dog this Devil from Agrippa's Lodging to Araris where sayth this Prelate he plung'd himself Certainly spirits passe away invisibly and with that dispatch no mortall man can trace them Believe this believe all the Fables of Purgatory Now Reader thou hast heard the worst lend a just Eare and thou shalt hear the Best Iohannes Wyerus a profest Adversarie to Ceremonial Magick and sometimes seccretary to Cornelius Agrippa in his Daemonomania speaks thus He wonders that some learned Germans and Italians were not asham'd to traduce his Master in their publick writings That he had a Dog whose Call was Mounsieur he confesseth and this Spaniell during his service he us'd to leade when Agrippa walk'd abroad in Loro ex pilis concinnato At revera saith he Canis erat Naturalis Masculus To which also Agrippa coupl'd a Bitch of the same colour call'd Madammoyscelle It is confest he was fond of this Dog as some men are and having divorc'd his first wife would suffer him for a Sarcasm to sleep with him under the sheetes In his study too this dog would couch on the Table by his Master whence this great Philosopber inter supellectilem Chartaceam certe insignem delitescens sayth Wyerus would not somtimes stir out for a whole week together So studious was he for the good of posterity who have but coldly rewarded him for his pains I have observ'd also in his Epistles That when he was resident at Malines his Domesticks us'd to give him an account in their Letters how his dogs Far'd so fond was he of those Creatures But to come to the rest of the Legend Paulus Iovius tells you he died at Lyons ignobili tenebroso in diversorio But Wyerus who had more Reason to be inquisitive after his masters death tells me he died at Granople and that in Domino not desperatly as his Enemies would have it Here now was a Ioviall stride from Gratianopolis to Lugdunum Sure this Paul was a scant Geographer But Reader it is not my Intention to conceale any thing in this matter know therfore that Agrippa had another dog his Filioli and this last died in more respect then most of his masters Adversaries For my author by some secret meanes having strangely qualified him divers learned men writ Epitaphs upon him whereof some have been published and are yet extant Out of this Fable of the Cerberus Baptista Possevinus pumpt these verses Vivens quem cernis Tumulum nè fertè meretur Os placidum stygii Rex fuit iste Lacus Quare etiam Custodē habuit dū viveret Orci Cui nunc in Tenebris praeda daret Comitem Ast Hic st Ingeniū moderari scisset ad Auras Tantum isset Quantum Tartara nigra subit Thus have they all-to-be-divell'd him but why may not Trueth run in verse aswell as scandal Sic Agrippa