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all things here below confift of Matter and Form, it is only one 

 part of the compofition, viz. the Form, that appears in the Phantafia; 

 and it is the Forms of things prefent, paft, and future, in the Phan- 

 tafia, which make our Dreams. 



From this account of the Phantafia given by our author, it is evi- 

 dent that it is the very fame with what Ariftotle calls the Common 

 Senfe, by which the Mind perceives whatever is reported to it by 

 the Senfes. And, indeed, our author exprefsly fays fo in page 103. 

 where he calls the Phantafia the MmtrxTov xiv^nm^iov^ and the «t(r6>io-)r 

 •«r6»i<ri«i' ; and fays that the outward fenfes are only fo many por- 

 ters, which inform this fuperior Senfe who it is that knocks at the 

 door. 



Our Dreams, being thus compofed of things paft, prefent, and future, 

 are, with refpe<fl to things future, of two kinds; the one plain and di- 

 redt, requiring no interpretation j the other myfterious and enigmati- 

 cal, and which, therefore, need to be expounded. The firft of thefe, he 

 fays, is Divine, proceeding from Minds fuperior communicating with 

 our Minds : And particularly, he mentions one Divinity, that he calls 

 ©£0f f yxoTntiix, ox Mundane God * , by which I fuppofe he means the 

 4/UX1 Tou MiriAoyx)^ or the Soul of the World, which was the third perfon 

 of Plato's Trinity. Such Dreams, he fays, can only happen to fuch 

 as have their '^m'x/i and their Phantafia purged from every thing grofs 

 and earthly, by philofophy, virtue, and a pioper diet and manner 

 of living ; or, if they happen to any other, it muft be for feme 

 very good reafon, and on fome great occafiou !• But the latter 



kind 



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