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rerum futurarum. Ilia vero optime cernitur in somnis, 

 ecstasibus, confiniis mortis ; rarius inter vigilandum, aut cum 

 corpus sanum sit ac validum. 1 Hujusmodi vero status animi 

 procurator fere aut adjuvatur ex abstinentiis, atque illis rebus 

 quae animam a muneribus corporis exercendis maxime sevocant, 

 ut sua natura absque impeditionibus exteriorum gaudere possit. 

 Divinatio vero per Influxum hoc altero suppositionis funda- 

 mento nititur; quod anima, veluti speculum, illuminationem 

 quandam secundariam a prasscientia Dei et spirituum excipiat; 

 cui etiam idem, qui priori, status et regimen corporis confert. 

 Eadem enim animas sevocatio efficit, ut et sua natura impensius 

 utatur, et divinorum influxuum sit magis susceptiva ; nisi qucd 

 in Divinationibus per Influxum anima fervore quodam atque 

 tanquam numinis prassentis impatientia (quaa apud priscos Sacri 

 Furoris nomine vocabatur) corripiatur ; in Divinatione autem 

 Nativa, quieti potius et vacationi propior sit. 



Fascinatio autem est vis et actus imaginationis intensivus in 

 corpus alterius: (vim enim imaginationis super corpus proprium 

 ipsius imaginantis superius perstrinximus.) In hoc genere 

 schola Paracelsi, et ementitas Naturalis Magiae cultores, tarn 

 fuerunt immodici ut imaginationis impetum et apprehensionem 

 Miracula-patranti Fidei tantum non exa3quarint. 2 Alii ad 

 similitudinem veri propius accedentes, cum occultas rerum 

 energias et impressiones, sensuum irradiationes, contagionum 

 de corpore in corpus transmissiones, virtutum magneticarum 

 delationes, acutius intuerentur, in earn opinionem devenerunt, 

 ut multo magis a spiritu in spiritum (cum spiritus pras rebus 

 omnibus sit et ad agendum strenuus, et ad patiendum tener 

 et mollis) impressiones et delationes et communicationes fieri 

 poterint. Unde increbuerunt opiniones factaa quasi populares 

 de Genio superiori, de hominibus quibusdam infaustis et 

 ominosis, de ictibus amoris et invidiae, et alias his similes. 



1 A curious illustration of this remark is mentioned in the geography ascribed to 

 Ibn Haukal. When a prince among the Khazars was made Khakan, he was strangled 

 with a piece of taffeta, and asked, when he could scarcely breathe, how long he had 

 to reign. He answered so many years ; and if he reached the term, was then put to 

 death. This was also a Turkish usage, except that it does not seem that they put the 

 prince to death if he lived as long as he had foretold. See Klaproth, Tableaux Hist, 

 de VAsie, p. 273. 



On the subject of natural divination see Campanella, De Sensu Rerum, iii. 7 11. 

 He say? of himself: " Ast ego, cum mali quippiam mihi imminet, inter somnium et 

 vigiliam audire soleo vocem clare loquentem mihi ' Campanella, Campanella,' et inter- 

 dum alia addcntem, et ego attendo nee intelligo quis sit." 



* See Paracelsus's tract De Vi imaginativd and many other parts of bis writings. 



