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look upon brutes in the act of copulation, it fympathetically affeets the fame organs 
in themfelves, and excites ro lafcivioufnefs and luft. 
Some pérfons, we find, are fo delicately organized, as to become violently ena- - 
moured-with an object at firft fight, without ever having exchanged a fingle word; 
and itoften happens that there is no alternative but death or the immediate enjoyment 
of the beloved perfon! This is produced by.a fympathy of fouls, united by a com- 
bination of felf-reflected rays, which reciprocally cohere from the male to the fernale, 
and from the female to the male, by the action of the intelleual foul on the folids 
and fluids of the body ; and, as this combination or collifion of rays is formed ac- 
cording to the different principles from whence it acts, and the organs of fenfe on 
which it ftrikes, fo it excites a fweet vibratory delirium in the brain, which contti- 
tutes that ardent affection and longing. defire for the perfon, whofe genial efuvium 
had thus drawn forth or excited the paffion of love. And, it is by this alone, we can - 
account for thofe perfections of beauty and merit difcoverable by one man’s fenfes, 
to which another will continue for ever infenfible and blind. 
— It is from a fimilar cafe that we define the longing of a pregnant woman, and 
‘its effect upon the foetus; for, as like produces its like, and the child takes its 
frame from the external members of its parents in the act of coition, fo there is a 
fympathy and concordancy betwixt the child’s members and thofe of its mother, 
therefore, whatever member the mother touches at the time her foul-is drawn forth 
_4n longing after fome elementary fubitance, the fame member of thé child receives” 
the impreffion, and an external mark is produced, according to the nature and qua- 
lity of the thing longed for. But, this impréffion can only take-place before the em- 
_ ryo has quickened; for, till then, the child is paffive, and the generative effence of 
the mother aCtive, whence follows a confent of patts; but, when the light of life 
is kindled in the feetus, it lives in its own Rice and j is no longer pop to this 
: alfeétion, nor fo liable to abortion. 
. te might here adduce ten thoufand curious inftances of the effects of f ympathy 
and antipathy, as well from natural hiftory as from the Occult Sciences; but, as 
thi 5 WOL akc be foreign to my purpofe, and too much enlarge the prefent publication, I 
eferve avery full difcuffion of this furbjeét for a work I fhortly intend to publifh, 
intituled Bes Sey to Phyfic and the Occult Sciences; in which I fhall lay down 
ack rules as to prevent a poflibility of miftaking the patient’s cafe, or of failing of 
a cure, if the lamp of life be not too far exhaufted; and hall alfo more Particularly 
elucidate the aftrologi fcience, in order to throw new lights on fome interefting parts 
of my former publications ; and alfo to illuftrate the fcience of Animal Magnetifm, 
= 1s — founded on the ee of fympathy and antipathy. 
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