A key to physic, and the occult sciences / [E. Sibly].

  • Ebenezer Sibly
Date:
1821
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Credit: A key to physic, and the occult sciences / [E. Sibly]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lefs fimple, than important to our welfare; and without knowing thefe, we know nothing that can place us beyond the fagacity of the brute creation. We can nei- ther forefee danger nor fhun it when it is near—we are fubjedt to mifguided treat- ment, and millake, in our medical applications, and advice—we receive intuitive figns and tokens of misfortune or advantage, without knowing how to benefit by the admonition.—In iliort, without this ftudy, our enquiries are vain—our percep- tions are clouded—our views limited, and all our purfuitsare vanity, vexation, and difappointment. The weaknefs of our reafon, and the avocations arifing from the infirmities and neceflities of our fituations, require the moll powerful inllrudlions, and the cleared; perceptions of heavenly and earthly things, for the prefervation of bur fouls and bodies, and for the illumination of our minds; advantages that can in no wife be more completely obtained than by an intimate acquaintance with the Occult Sciences; or, in other words, by a contemplation OF GOD. THOUGH God has given us no innate ideas of himfelf, yet, having furnifhed us with thofe faculties our minds are endowed with, he hath not left himfelf without a witnefs; fmce we have fenfe, perception, and reafon, and cannot want a clear proof of him, as long as we carry any thought of ourfelves about us. To Ihow, therefore, that we are capable of knowing, that is, being certain, that there is a God ; and how we may come by this certainty, I think we need go no farther than ourfelves, and that undoubted knowledge we have of our own exiftence. I think it is beyond queftion, that man has a clear perception of his own being: he knows certainly that he exifts, and that he is fomething. In the next place, man knows, by an intuitive certainty, that bare nothing can no more produce any real being, than it can be equal to two right angles. If, therefore, we know there is fome real being, it is an evident demonftration, that from eternity there has been fomething; fmce what was not from eternity had a beginning; and what had a beginning muft be produced by fomething elfe. Next it is evident, that what has its being from another mull alfo have all that which is in and belongs to its being from another too; all the powers it has mull be owing to, and received from, the fame fource. This eternal lource of all being, mull be alfo the fource and original of all power; and fo this eternal being mull be alfo the moll powerful. Again, man finds in himfelf perception and knowledge: we are certain then that there is not only fome being, but fome knowing intelligent being, in the world. There was a time when there was no knowing being, or elfe there has been a know**
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