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Title:  A ternary of paradoxes the magnetick cure of wounds, nativity of tartar in wine, image of God in man / written originally by Joh. Bapt. Van Helmont and translated, illustrated and amplified by Walter Charleton.
Author: Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.
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acts of satan. I wil say this further, that men which walk in their sleep, do by the conduct of no other Motor or guide, then that of the Spirit of the Bloud, that is of the outward man, walk up and downe, clime wals and praecipices, and performe many other actions difficult and impossible to men awake: I say, by a magicall virtue naturall to the outward man. That Saint Ambrose was visibly present at the exsequies of Saint Martin, though corporally at home in his owne Chamber ma∣ny Leagues distant. Yet he was visibly present at the celebra∣tion of his holy brothers funerall, in the visible spirit of the exteriour man, and no otherwise: for when many holy Fathers of the Church have seen the transaction of many secret and distant things, this hath been performed without the circum∣scription of time and place, in that ecstasy which is only of the internall man, by the superiour powers of the soule, collected and twisted into unity, and by an intellectuall vision, but not by a visible presence. For otherwise the soule is never divorced from the body, unless in earnest once and ever, and then is not capable of a reunion until the resurrection: which reconnexi∣on notwithstanding is otherwise familiar and naturall to the spirit of the outward man, divorced pro tempore in some ecstasy.In so great a Paradox it can hardly suffice to erect a firme 86. building of belief upon one single pillar of reason: wherefore we conceive it our duty, to frame a second basis for the more substantiall supportment of our doctrine of Magnetisme, and to advance to the explanation of that mysterious cause, by which this Magneticall alliciency is performed also betwixt bodies devoid of animation, not by any Animall, but a cer∣taine Naturall sensasion. Which that we may more seriously enterprise, and solidly performe, we are obliged by way of praeparation to praemise an enquiry, what Satan can of his own power contribute to, and by what meanes he can coope∣perate in the meerly nefarious and impious actions of Witches and Conjurators: for from hence will it clearly appear, to what particular and just cause, whether Naturall or Diabo∣licall, every effect arising from abstruse originals, ought pro∣perly to be ascribed. And finally, what kinde of spirituall power that is, which tends to and arrives at an object remo∣ved 0