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.

  • Jan Baptist van Helmont
Date:
1650
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    endevour to demonftrate , wherein the minde of man doth reprefent the Image of God : forafmuich as the intelle@ en- franchifed from the body doth intuitively underftand,; intend, and fromthe aby(s of the minde, love God) in one entire and never-difcontinued act of love, or defire of complacency, ac- cording to the fimplicity of her fubftance. But fo long as we fojourn in walls of , We come riot foneer beatitude, as once to: ufe our. /p^(lantia] and purely intelleftualintelled ; but molt of our obfcure cognition of any Entity-isderived from theinformation of Phaafe, which,as Viceroy, üfurpeth the throne of the i#relle, For (as before) inan ecftatical rapture, the intellect, will, and memory keep holiday, and are as it were loftiin a fomnolent inactivity’; the ardent a& of Love onely remaining vigorous and operative : ‘yet fo diftin& from the three former, that. it cannot fübfift without the ;a- tellett, and fubftantial will; fince, when the Soul. is totally homogeneous in her fubftance, fhe would plainly lofe that her abfolute fimplicity, if any one of the three could fubGt without effential dependance onthe other: Love therefore, while the other two proprieties continue bound up inan Ec- ftatical lumber, doth as it were afcend to the fuperficies : or rather, in terms of neerer fimilitude, theother two are as it were imbibed and overwhelmed inLove. Whilewe fojourn inthe Tents of Kedar, inthis vale of mifery ;Loveis elder then Defire'; becaufe it.is.a:paffion of the-A matory Faculty,which proceedeth from that fuppofitionality of the Soul: (which is true love indeed) and reprefenteth he idea.or refemblance of the corporeal Faculty: and hence is it, that all the affections are, by invincible propenfity, ‘rapt on toirregularity and‘con- fufion; But in the Citizens-of Wew ferulalem , this ‘Love knows no priority, or diftinction from Defire : ' neither is it a Faculty, nor Habit, nor Adof willing, nor fübfifteth with- out the. 7»telle&., r5 nf: And thus the Jwrellett- ss aformal Light, andi the Wery fub- tance of the Soul, -whofeCo nition ts perfettiby Gntaition, with- -ont:the help rt eyes, which difcerneth, willerh, and de freth, tithe snity of stifelf, whatever it comprdbeudetb. soitbi it Jeff, unk qudgerhby volition. Nor-doth it then'any'longer remember by a re-