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Of Occult Philoſophy.
Book I.

any thing, as of good or evill, convenient or inconvenient. Now theſe kind of apprehenſions are of three ſorts, viz. Senſual, Rationall, and Intellectuall. And according to theſe three, are three ſorts of paſſions in the Soul; For when they follow the ſenſitive apprehenſion, then they reſpect a temporall good or evill, under the notion of profitable, or unprofitable, delightſull and offenſive, and are called naturall, or animall paſſions. When they follow the rational apprehenſion, and ſo reſpet good or bad, under the notions of Vertue or Vice, praiſe or diſgrace, profitable or unprofitable, honeſt or diſhoneſt, they are called rationall, or voluntary paſſions. When they follow the Intellectuall apprehenſion, and reſpect good or bad, under the notion of juſt or unjuſt, true or falſe, they are called intellectuall paſſions, or ſyndereſis. Now the ſubject of the paſſions of the ſoul, is the concupitive power of the ſoul, and is divided into concupiſcible, and iraſcible, and both reſpect good and bad, but under a diſſerent notion. For when the concupiſcible power reſpects good, and evil abſolutely; Love or Luſt, or on the contrary, hatred is cauſed: When it reſpects good, as abſent, ſo deſire is cauſed; or evill, as abſent, or at hand, and ſo is cau ſed horror, flying from, or loathing or if it reſpect good, as preſent, then there is cauſed delight, mirth, or pleaſure; but if evill, as preſent, then ſadneſs, anxiety, grief. But the iraſcible power reſpects good or bad, under the notion of ſome diſſiculty; to obtain the one, or avoid the other, and this ſometimes with confidence: and ſo there is cauſed Hope or Boldness; but when with diſſidency, then Deſpair, and Fear. But when that iraſcible power riſeth into revenge, and this be onely about ſome evill paſt, as it were of injury or hurt offered, there is cauſed Anger. And ſo we ſind eleven paſſions in the mind, which are, Love, Hatred, Deſire, Horror, Joy, Grief, Hope, Deſpair, Boldneſs, Fear, and Anger.

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