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argument is coupled with a derivation of causes, which is 
rational; or when it is only grounded upon a coincidence 
of the effect, which is experimental: whereof the latter 
for the most part is superstitious; such as were the hea- 
then observations upon the inspection of sacrifices, the 
flights of birds, the swarming of bees; and such as was , 
the Chaldean astrology, and the like. For artificial divin- 
ation, the several kinds thereof are distributed amongst 
particular knowledges, The astronomer hath his predic- 
tions, as of conjunctions, aspects, eclipses, and the like. 
The physician hath his predictions, of death, of recovery, 
of the accidents and issues of diseases. The politique 
hath his predictions; O urbem venalem, et ctto perituram, 
st emplorem invenerit! which stayed not long to be per- 
formed, in Sylla first, and after in Cesar. So as these 
predictions are now impertinent, and to be referred over. 
But the divination which springeth from the internal 
nature of the soul, is that which we now speak of; which 
hath been made to be of two sorts, primitive and by 
influxion. Primitive is grounded upon the supposition, 
that the mind, when it is withdrawn and collected into 
itself, and not diffused into the organs of the body, hath 
some extent and latitude of prenotion; which therefore 
appeareth most in sleep, in ecstasies, and near death, and. 
more rarely in waking apprehensions; and is induced and 
furthered by those abstinences and observances which 
make the mind most to consist in itself. By influxion, is 
grounded upon the conceit that the mind, as a mirror or 
glass, should take illumination from the foreknowledge of 
God and spirits: unto which the same regiment doth like- 
wise conduce. For the retiring of the mind within itself 
is the state which is most susceptible of divine influxions ; 
save that it is accompanied in this case with a fervency 
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