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tions; wonderful as they are. ‘anda thoufand others hough unfeen, 
> . whofe effects, t 
are moft fenfibly felt, are fully explained in my Illuftration and Difplay of the Oc 
cult Sciences; where it is plainly fhewn, that, the more we enquire into the pathlets 
ways of nature, the more readily we deduce a radical icaufe for all Sian wer 
Or SYMPATHY AND ANTIPATHY, 
TO smncliftiad the properties: of fympathy and antipathy is, in fact, to cides into 
our.com prehenfion the univerfal fyftem of nature, with her obvious and occult pro- 
perties, and the gradations and confent-of parts of allits.atoms. This ftudy bee 
comes all.men; but more. efpecially thofe’ who practife phyfic, fince their effects 
not. unfrequently preferve life,, or deftroy i it; and,) in the beginning, middle, and 
end, of , difeafes, the refult may. be. always known. \. Sympathy andvantipathy are 
found i in all things; and, if, traced, account for thofe wonderful o¢curences.in na- 
ture, which otherwife appear altogether inexplicable. . All vegetable and mineral 
productions have not only a. wonderful fympathetic power. with, their, own Apecies, 
but fo likewife has all animated nature ; ; and more particularly man, It.is certainly 
true that this celeftial. invifible principle is born with us, and emanates fromthe 
centre of the intelle@ual. foul, combined with. the terreftrial body 5 ia Sa 
through i its nerves, forms an atmofphere around, us, | whereby the fenfations of { 
pathy and antipathy, of | love and hatred, of joy.and grief, and all thejprope ie 
human nature,.. are by a collifion of rays, W which, reciprocally cohere or repel. hate 
ever comes in ‘contact with them, that the effect. is made manifeft co our fenfes, 
Hence it 18, that favoury high-feafoned meats, feen or {melt yexcite the appetite and 
affect the glands a and parts of the mouth; that an, impudent.or: fhameful thing, feen 
or heard, affects the. cheeks with, bluthes ; 3 and. fo, 00 the contrary, if athing, pleafe, 
it affects the praccordia, ¢ and excites. the mutcles of the face and. mouth. to laughter 5 
it affects the glands ‘of the eyes, fo as.t0. ‘occafion ‘tears, and i irritates the 
€. into an. afpect of crying 5. fo. kiffing,. though the delirium or 
the mot. fenfible, irritation falls, upon the genital 
: parts, which 2 are rendered aati fie, and. apt, for_procreation,, as. the fum and < ae 
| of all fablunary enjoyme And hence the _ 
ut, inclination, ‘fympathetic affe ion, 
i se en t blow firuck, we cannot help j 
if it grieve, 
mutcles of the fac 
pleafure is excited by the lips, yet 
bak s 
} an ftars, or, as it. i 
ng alo. So: again, if eithe 
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