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times, fuch as Plotinus, Porphyry, Jamblichus, and Proclus, were 

 great believers in Divination. In this work he fpeaks of fcveral 

 kinds of Divination ; but to all of them he prefers that by Dreams, 

 becaufe it is conftanlly carried about with us, requires no ap- 

 paratus, or expence, nor any thing clfe but a conflant attention to 

 our Dreams, and to what happens in confequence of them. For this 

 purpofe, he recommends it to every one to keep Night Journalst 

 (iTrii^ujcTtJtf, as he calls them), as well as «?iii/*if»^ff, or Day Journals ; 

 by which, fays he, we have the hiftory of our whole life. And it 

 is evident from what he fays, that it was his own practice *. 



The feat of Dreams, according to him, is the Phantafia ; In which 

 he agrees with all philofophers, and alfo in another thing, that the 

 Phantafia belongs to the ^-^xij o"" -Animal Lifcy confidered as diftind 

 from the Nodj, or Jntelkd. This J-wX" ^^ holds to be embodied with 

 a thin vehicle of air, or aether, which he calls n^u/ita, or the o^"/** 

 7rfwToi/j in oppofition to the (rwf<.« {(rj(,«Tov, or Trtj ipA»)/ii« ofT{£U(J«, that is, the 

 outward body, which he hkens to an oyfter'sftiell inclofmg us. As the 

 intelled, fays he, contains in it the forms or fpeciefes twv oi/twi/, that 

 is, of things really exifting, fo the ^\)-/r\ contains in it the forms twk 

 yiwptvitfv, that is, of things which have no permanent exiftence, but 

 are perpetually in generation and corruption, fuch as all material 

 things. All thefe the Mind has in itfelf, but has the perception only 

 of fuch of them as are produced and exhibited to the Mind by the 

 Phantafia, which he confiders as the Organ by which the ^\>yi\ per- 

 ceives its objetSlst' As all material things are in time^ they are di- 

 {lin"-uilhed, according to the threefold divifion of time, mto prefenty 

 pnjl, vind future. And of all the objeds of each of the three kinds 

 there are Forms, according to him, in the Phantafia : For, though 



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