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sense_n	eye_n	faith_n	reason_n	3,499	5	6.1498	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64763	Anthroposophia theomagica or A discourse of the nature of man and his state after death; grounded on his creator's proto-chimistry, and verifi'd by a practicall examination of principles in the great world. By Eugenius Philalethes.	Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666.	1650 (1650)	Wing V143; ESTC R203871	32,225	88

nostri sensitivi our Animal Oyl the Fuell of the Vital Sensual fire without which we cannot subsist a Minute I am now come to the Fourth and last substance the Highest in Scalâ Naturae There is no Fift principle no Quintessence as Aristotle dream'd but God Almighty This Fourth Essence is a moyest silent Fire This Fire passeth thorough all things in the world and it is Natures Chariot in this she rides when she moves this moves and when she stands this stands like the wheeles in Ezekiel whose Motion depended on that of the spirit This is the Mask and skreen of the Almighty wheresoever he is this Traine of Fire attends Him Thus he appears to Moses in the Bush but it was in Fire The Prophet sees him break out at the North but like a Fire catching it self At Horeb he is attended with a mighty strong winde rending the Rocks to pieces but after this comes the Fire and with it a still small voice Esdras also defines Him a God whose Service is Conversant in Winde and Fire This Fire is the vestiment of the Divine Majesty his Back-parts which he shewed to Moses but his naked Royall Essence none can see and Live The Glory of his presence would swallow up the Naturall man and make him altogether spirituall Thus Moses his Face after conference with him shines and from this small Tincture we may guesse at our Future Estate in the Regeneration But I have touch'd the Veyle and must returne to the outer Court of the Sanctuary I have now in some measure performed that which at first I promised an Exposition of the world and the parts therof But in respect of my affectiō to Truth and the dominion I wish Her I shallbe somwhat more particular in the Examination of Nature and proceed to a further Discovery of her Riches I advise the Reader to be diligent and curious in this subsequent part of the Discourse That having once attained to the Fundamentalls of Science he may the better understand her superstructures Know then that every Element is threefold this Triplicity being the expresse Image of their Author and a Seale he hath laid upon his Creature There is nothing on Earth though never so simple so vile and abject in the sight of man but it beares witnesse of God even to that abstruse Mystery his Vnity and Trinity Every Compound whatsoever is Three in One and One in Three The basest Reptill even in his outward Symmetrie testifies of his Author his severall proportions answering to their aeternall superior Prototype Now Man hath the use of all these Creatures God having furnished him with a living Library wherein to imploy himselfe But he neglecting the works of his Creator prosecutes the Inventions of the Creature Laps up the Vomits of Aristotle and other illiterate Ethnicks Men as concerning the Faith Reprobate and in the Law of Nature alltogether unskillful Scribling Blasphemous Atheists Quorum Animas as Agrippa hath it distraht torqueri audiunt videntque Inferi He is much troubled at those Mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation one Denies another Grants them But if they did once see the Light of Nature they might find those Mysteries by Reason which are now above their Faith When I speake of a Naturall Triplicity I speake not of Kitchen-stuffe those three Pot Principles Water Oyle and Earth But I speake of Caelestiall hidden Natures knowne only to absolute Magicians whose eyes are in the Center not in the Circumference and in this sence every Element is Threefold For example there is a threefold Earth first there is terra Elementaris then there is terra C aelestis and lastly terra spiritualis The Influences of the spirituall Earth by mediation of the caelestiall are united to the terrestiall and are the true Cause of Life and Vegetation These Three are the Fundamentalls of Art and Nature The First is a visible Tangible substance pure fixed and Incorruptible of Quality Cold but by Application of a Superior Agent Drie and by Consequence a fit Receptacle of Moysture This is Aleph Creatum the true Terra Adama the Basis of every Building in Heaven and Earth It answers to God the Father being the Naturall Foundation of the Creature as He is the Supernaturall without this Nothing can be perfected in Magick The Second Principle is the infallible Magnet the Mystery of Union By this all Things may be attracted whether Physicall or Metaphysicall be the distance never so great This is Jacobs Ladder without this there is no Ascent or Descent either Influentiall or Personall The Absence of This I conceive to be that Gulph between Abraham and Dives This answers to God the Son for it is That which mediates between Extremes and makes Inferiors and Superiors communicate But there is not One in ten thousand knows either the Substance or the use of this Nature The third Principle is properly no Principle It is not Ex Quo but per Quod omnia This can do all in all and the Faculties thereof are not to be exprest It answers to the Holy Ghost for amongst Naturalls it is the onely Agent and Artificer Now He that knows these three perfectly with their severall Graduations or annexed Links which differ not in Substance but Complexion He that can reduce their impurities to one sincere Consistence and their Multiplicities to a Spirituall Essentiall simplicity he is an absolute compleat Magician and in full possibility to all strange miraculous Performances In the second place you are to learn that Every Element is two fold This Duplicity or Confusion is that Binarius whereof Agrippa in Scalis Numerorum as also both himself and Trithemius in their Epistles Other Authors who dealt in this Science were Pragmaticall Scriblers and understood not this Secretum Tenebrarum This is it in which the Creature praevaricates and falls from his first Harmonicall Vnity You must therefore subtrahere Binarium and then the Magicians Ternarius may be reduced per Quaternarium in Monaden Simplicissimam and by Consequence in Metaphysicam cum supremâ Monade vnionem The Sun and Moon are two Magicall principles the One active the other passive this Masculine that Foeminine As they move so move the wheeles of Corruption and Generaion They mutually dissolve and compound but properly the moon is Organum Transmutationis inferioris materiae These Two Luminaries are multiplied and fructifie in every one particular Generation There is not a Compound in all Nature but hath in it a little Sun and a little Moon The little Sun is Filius solis Coelestis The little Moon is Filia Lunae Coelestis What offices soever the two great Luminaries perform for the Conservation of the great world in Generall These two little Luminaries perform the like for the Conservation of their small Cask or Microcosm in particular They are Mimulae Majoris Animalis Heaven and Earth in a lesser Character God like a wise Architect sits in the Center of All repaires the Ruines