Mosaicall philosophy: grounded upon the essentiall truth or eternal sapience / Written first in Latin, and afterwards thus rendred into English. By Robert Fludd, esq.

Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637. Philosophia Moysaica. English

Date:: 1659

Credit: Mosaicall philosophy: grounded upon the essentiall truth or eternal sapience / Written first in Latin, and afterwards thus rendred into English. By Robert Fludd, esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Mcnftme, in women, as ,alfo rtertlit, in them; Feavors, Hefticks, Athrophv or 2ft* a,n<,fchllke> by this naturali magical! means beamed and that atdiftance, and without any immediate contact And, to conclude P ,’ y fleetjui aftitnieth .that this magneticall kind of cure which is effefled by natural! Magick, dothexcell in vertue all other Phylicall fecrets, which maybe e«S or feparated, either out of Herbs, or Root s, or Minerals * aca I will now come to the fecond Part or Member of thisBook , which fpeakerh the antipatheticall effe&s of this Mummiall experiment. P kethof The Second Part or Member of this Book, which handlcth the pra&ice of -Antipathy. CHAP. I. In this Chapter the Author expreffeth 3 how bj the[elf-fame internallyfpirit in the ere** ture ,as we! „ Sympatheticall effeds may be produced!Herl t Z fee down the reafon, why a fpirit athat is tnfefted and corrupted with a p0y- * J,jnJjme c°nd tioni is mofi venomous and contagious unto his kind. * 1 * * 1 * \ * - V1 S it is certain, that like doth naturally aflfeft his like • for Na turedoth rejoyce at the prefence of his nature, and nature doth correct and corroborate his nature ifirb-fAnn/ 5 full of vivifying and wholfome fpirirsTso alfo nature* ifb. poyfoned and infefted by a venomous nature, will, bf uni ting ,t fell untoafound and wholfome nature, quicSvcof rupcand inquinate it, andfoby fucha kind of alortive and xT , . depraved union , antipathy is placed infixed nf £| K owhow this is pofTible in nature, I will in few words relate unro vo/ a^ ^* rme doth magnetically effed and allure unto it her like ; fo, if that W whirh”-* fucketh unto it be mquinated with corruption, the faid attra&ino fD;r;r k 1C verio found, will quickly tafte of the bitter with the fweet name?v nf rh & and fo will alfo be corrupt equally with that fnirir whirl, • y,of rhe P°yfon, it, in which the infection dwelleth, being forced unawares to’enterumftrife “dT lent ion, and antipathy into his tabernacle unawares; even as we fee a found ’rv^' m the Animal, which chirlling after his like fpirituall celefliall fond c- vererh occultly in the aire, toSe refrelhed by it, doth n„ „ar= draw h°' with it , namely, a peftilent and corrupt fume, whereby it is ont-Xd^FT* med with a putredinous fire, fo that it was not the appedte or t^fireofthe^o H d fpirit to .draw in that poyfon unto it, but the fpirit like it felf that was no„fon.dd And again, each fpirit which is incumbered with any antipatheticall ,„d °nCck rail accident, defireth to (hake off contentions antiffi aS to « T' peacefull fympathy which it enjoyed before; but findin-4 felfnmh^ thac cleave ant/adhere unto good Ll found fpirits for rs reliefb“thi «?pt'° /«m»r; and if more found fpirits of his like were jovned unto irrhfnm- eafiliet conquer and expell his antipatheticall adversary. So alfo we 11',e blear-ev-d perfon by darting his infectious beams for rellf a7a ?eafon b e T flance becommetha flame, which farteth on fire the found fbinr ,,n! i, c i it applierh: for fpiritaall poyfons are likefecret flames of malignant fire ‘wt? fore as fpirits are by union joyned together and mulciplved Hkeovlei’fU . e oy le, fo do th the infeftious flame incrSafe, and feed eqL^l y up0n t^m £h T° asrhe found fpincdefirerh the fociety of his like, to^omforMr ' F°f ted fpirit fo deli red, doth alfo covet rhe found fpirit toalflfl r aofln rtf/ C°rmp“ So corruption is fucked in by them both # and them and forfaketh them not, untill it hath penetratedand their bowells, andpoyfoned their very entrails Andwemuflnor ,nt^ eve.n «0pvyfonedlpiriilZtdoth foonertakeholdof and$