To theſe is added Capnomancy, ſo called ſrom ſmoak, becauſe it ſearcheth into the flame, and ſmoak, and thin colours, ſounds, and motions, when they are carryed upright, or on one ſide, or round, which we read in theſe Verſes in Statius.
Let us implore the Gods for divine aid.
She makes acute, red, rowring flames, and bright,
Increas'd by th'aire, the middle being white;
And then he makes the flames without all bound,
For to wind in and one, and to run round.
Like to a Serpent
Alſo in the Æthnean Caves, and Fields of the Nymphs in Apollonia, Auguries were taken from fires, and flames; joyful, if they did receive what was caſt into them, and ſad, if they did reject them. But of theſe we ſhall ſpeak in the ſollowing Chapters, amongſt the anſwers of the Oracles.
CHAP. LVIII.
Of the reviving of the dead, and of ſleeping, and wanting victuals many years together.
THE Arabian Philoſophers agree, that ſome men may elevate themſelves above the powers of their body, and above their ſenſitive powers; and thoſe being ſurmounted, receive into themſelves by the perfection of the Heavens, and Intelligencies, a divine vigour. Seeing therefore all the ſouls of men are perpetuall, and alſo all the ſpirits obey the perfect ſouls; Magicians think that perfect men may by the powers of their ſoul repale their dying bodies with other inferiour ſouls newly ſeparated, and inſpire them again; As a Weeſell that is killed, is made alive again by the breath, and cry of his Dam; And Lions make alive their dead Whelps by breathing
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