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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Creation
Philosophy, Medieval
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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 14, 2024.
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TEXT 19.
The Element of the aire hath many procrea∣tions in it, all
which are yet meer aire. Every Philosopher should well understand this,
that no Element can begat another thing out of it selfe but that which it is
of it selfe. Like ever be∣getteth its like. So then, seeing the aire is invisi∣ble, it can bring nothing
visible out of it selfe. And whereas it is impalpable, it can produce
nothing that may be touch'd. Therefore (as I may so say) it doth
melosinate. And though that be from the aire, yea be the very aire, and
nothing else; yet the
conjunction is made in another Element, which is the Earth. For here
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may a conjunction be made from the aire to a man, as it
cometh to passe by Spirits in all witch∣crafts and inchantments. The same
may be said here as was of the Nymphs, who though they live in the Element of
water, and are nothing but water,
yet have they freedome to converse with things on the Earth, and to generate
with them. The like compaction also is there from the aire, which may be
seen and felt; yet as a procreation of the first separation, but onely as
a consequence. For as a beetle is bred of dung, so may a monster of the
airy Element assume a bodily shape with airy words, thoughts and deeds,
by a mixture with that which is earthy. Neverthelesse such kind of
miracles and conse∣quences doe at last decay againe into the aire, as
Nymphs turn into water, just as a man by rot∣ting is consumed and turned to
earth, because he came from thence.