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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And thus the procreations proceeded one out of another by the great separation. From those procreations arose other generations, which have their mysteries in those procreations, not in like manner as the separation of the things aforesaid, but as a mistake, or abortion, or excesse. Thunder comes from the proceations of the Firmament, because that consisteth of the Element of fire. Thunder is as it were the harvest of the Stars at that very instant of time when it was ready to work according to its nature. Magicall tempests rise out of the aire, and there end: not as if the Element of aire begot them, but rather the spirit

of the aire. The fire conceives some things bo∣dily, as the Earth doth the Gnomes. Likewise ordure comes from men and beasts, not from the earth. Lorind riseth from the originall of water, yet it is not of the water. Many other things also proceed out of the store either through mistake or in due time. Deformed men, wormes, and many more such like generations proceed from the impressions. The infection of countries, the plague, famine, is from the fatall stormes. Beetles, cankers dalnes, breed in dung. By Lorind is found out the Prophesie of that country, which is a kind of presage or guessing at strange, wonderfull, and unheard of things to come.

Notes

• Whence thunder is.
• Whence Lo∣rind is.
• Crooked men, ••orms, plague famine.
• Beetles, can∣kers, Dalni.
• What Lorind for esheweth.