An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices ... With a refutation of Dr. Bekker's 'World bewitch'd', and other authors that have opposed the belief of them / By John Beaumont.

  • John Beaumont
Date:
1705
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Credit: An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices ... With a refutation of Dr. Bekker's 'World bewitch'd', and other authors that have opposed the belief of them / By John Beaumont. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will eafily Underhand, I have related no in¬ credible things. The fame Author , in his Dialogue, intitl’d Tetim , or of Humane Coun~ Cels, where he makes Tetim and Ramy Inter¬ locutors, makes Ram fay, I believe Cardan has - a Genius for his Companion , which difco- verd himfelf late to him , being wont before to admonifh him by Dreams and Noifes; and beneath , fo many and fo wonderful things have happen’d to him, in his Life, that I am forc’d to believe, being intimate with him, he has a great, powerful, and rare Genius, fo that he is not Matter of his Adtions; but thole things he defires, he has not, the things he has he did not covet or hope for. At the end of his fourth Book of Wifdom, he writes as follows, concerning the Genii of o- ther Men. All great Men feem to be led by fome Divine Spirit, or Daemon ; Socrates, be¬ fore his Death, had warning of the Day in a Dream, Dion faw a SpeBre in his Houfe, what was it open’d Caius Cafars door the Night be¬ fore he was flain ? What was it faid to Brutus, as he was alone, I am thy Evil Genius, thou ft alt fee me again at Philippi ? What was that auguft Figure feen by CaJJius in his Tent, that was like to Caefar ? What foretold Sylla in his Dream, of his imminent Death ? Or what was it he heard fp Pleafant in a clear Sky ? What from a MaufoUum call’d Nero before his Death ? What admonifh’d Caligula of his Death in a Dream ? Why did Antony hear the departure of Bacchus from Alexandria, the Night before his Death? What mixt afleeping Potion for Adrian in a Dream before his Death ? Certainly, the ]Damon that was in thefor Humane Nature,when highly exal-