Of their severall Dances, or Figures.

WHat Object soever is presented un∣to them by the senses, they straite dance themselves into that Figure; this is Memory. And when they dance the same figure without the helpe of the out∣ward object, this is Remembrance When they dance figures of their owne inven∣tion, (as I may say) then that is Imagi∣nation or Fancie. Understanding is when they dance perfectly (as I may say) not to misse the least part of those figures that are brought through the senses. Will is to choose a dance, that is to move as they please, and not as they are per∣swaded by the sensitive spirits. But when their motion and measures be not regular, or their quantity or numbers sufficient to make the figures perfect, then is the minde weak and infirme, (as I may say) they Page  32 dance out of time and measure. But where the greatest number of these, or quantity of these Essences are met, and joyn'd in the most regular motion, there is the clearest Understanding, the deepest Judgement, the perfectest Knowledge, the finest Fancies, the more Imagination, the stronger Memory, the obstinatest Will.

But sometimes their motions may be re∣gular; but society is so small, so as they cannot change into so many severall fi∣gures: then we say he hath a weak minde, or a poor soule. But be their quantity or numbers few or great, yet if they move confusedly, and out of order, wee say the minde is distracted. And the reason the minde, or soule is improveable, or decayable, is, that the quantity or num∣bers are increaseable, or decreaseable, and their motions regular, and irregular.

A Feaver in the Body is the same mo∣tion amongst the sensitive spirits, as mad∣nesse is in the minde amongst the rationall Spirits. So lkewise Paine in the Body is like those Motions, that make Griefe in the Minde. So Pleasure in the Body is the like Motions, as make Delight, and Joy in the Minde, All Convulsive Motions Page  33 in the Body, are like the Motions that cause Feare in the Minde. All Expul∣sive motions amongst the Rational Spirits, are a dispersing their Society; As Ex∣pulsity in the Body, is the dispersing of dull Matter by the Sensitive Spirits.

All Drugs have an Opposite Motion to the Matter they work on, working by an Expulsive Motion; and if they move strongly, having great quantity of Spirits gathered together in a little dul Matter, they do not only cast out superfluous matter, but pul down the very Materials of a Figure. But al Cordials have a Sym∣patheticall Motion to the Matter they meet, giving strength by their help to those Spirits they finde tired: (as one may say) that it is to be over-power'd by opposite Motions in dull Matter.