Philosophy reformed & improved in four profound tractates.: The I. discovering the great and deep mysteries of nature: by that learned chymist & physitian Osw: Crollivs. The other III. discovering the wonderfull mysteries of the creation by Paracelsvs: being his philosophy to the Athenians. / Both made English by H. Pinnell, for the increase of learning and true knowledge.
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Philosophy reformed & improved in four profound tractates.: The I. discovering the great and deep mysteries of nature: by that learned chymist & physitian Osw: Crollivs. The other III. discovering the wonderfull mysteries of the creation by Paracelsvs: being his philosophy to the Athenians. / Both made English by H. Pinnell, for the increase of learning and true knowledge.
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Croll, Oswald, ca. 1560-1609.
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London :: Printed by M.S. for Lodowick Lloyd, at the Castle in Cornhill,
1657.
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"Philosophy reformed & improved in four profound tractates.: The I. discovering the great and deep mysteries of nature: by that learned chymist & physitian Osw: Crollivs. The other III. discovering the wonderfull mysteries of the creation by Paracelsvs: being his philosophy to the Athenians. / Both made English by H. Pinnell, for the increase of learning and true knowledge." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A74670.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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TEXT 23.
Such kind of Evesters also will be corrupted, yet shall
they not perish without something e∣ternall. Nor shall the Evesters
themselves be so much regarded, for they shall fully and wholly dwell
with or in those things to whom they be∣long. Hence let every man now
advise with him∣selfe, that above all things he admonish and learn to
know himselfe.
The nature and number of the Evesters is infinite. These lead men about
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in their sleep, fore-shew good and evill, search out
the thoughts, perform work and do business without bodily motion. So
wonderfull a thing is the Evester, the mother of all things in the Prophets, Astronomers, and
Physitians. If the understanding come not from the Evester, there can be
no knowledge of nature. As theft poyn∣teth to the gallowes, and the clouds to
rain, and urine to the disease, so the Evester sheweth all things
without exception, From it the Sybills and Prophets spake, but as it were
drowsily and dreamingly. After this manner are the Evesters in the four
worlds, one being alwayes a presage to another, communicateth an image and a
mi∣racle: which by there disolution and regenera∣tion will be much more to be
admired. Nor shall we forbeare to say, that the Evester is an Eternall
relict, the support of religions, and the operation of the Celestialls.
Nothing but felici∣ty, blessednesse, the cheifest good and the last
judgment move and stir us up to seek and search more narrowly and exactly
after the difference between those two, (things or Evesters) that is,
between the true and false: which is to be con∣sidered and known, not
spiritually, but natu∣rally.