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Book I
Of Occult Philoſophy.
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ton, plants, of plants, metals, of metals, ſtones. And again in things ſpirituall, the Plant agrees with a bruit in Vegetation, a bruit with a man in ſenſe, man with an Angel in underſtanding an Angell with God in immortality. Divinity is annexed to the mind, the mind to the intellect, the intellect to the intention, the intention to the imagination, the imagination to the ſenſes, the ſenſes at laſt to things. for this is the band, and continuity of nature, that all ſuperiour vertue doth flow through every inferiour with a long, and continued ſeries, diſperſing its rayes even to the very laſt things; and inferiours through their ſuperiours, come to the very ſupream of all. for ſo inferiours are ſucceſſively joyned to their ſuperiours, that there proceeds an influence from their head, the firſt cauſe, as a certain ſtring ſtretched out, to the lowermoſt things of all, of which ſtring if one end be touched, the whole doth preſently shake, and ſuch a touch doth ſound to the other end, and at the motion of the inferiour, the ſuperiour alſo is moved, to which the other doth anſwer, as ſtrings in a Lute well tuned.


CHAP. XXXVIII.

How we may draw not only Celeſtiall, and vitall, but alſo certain Intellectuall, and divine gifts from above.

MAgicians teach that Celeſtial gifts may through inferiors being conformable to ſuperiors be drawn down by opportune influencies of the Heaven; and ſo alſo by theſe Celeſtial the Celeſtial Angels, as they are ſervants of the Stars, may be procured, and conveyed to us. ſamblichus, Proclus, and Syneſius, with the whole School of Platoniſts confirm, that not only Celeſtiall, and vitall, but alſo certain Intellectuall, Angelicall, and divine gifts may be received from above by ſome certain matters, having a naturall power of divinity (i. e.) which

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