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a man can be touched. Such are 

 especially those spirits which have fixed 

 their domicile in the elements, spirits of 

 fire, light, and other light-dispensing 

 objects. Such are the aerial spirits 

 which dwell in the air ; watery spirits in 

 the water; terrestrial spirits, or "earth 

 men " in the earth, especially where there 

 are rich veins of ore. These spirits 

 have reason and sensation, are skilled in 

 the different Arts, and can assume a 

 variety of shapes, until the time of the 

 judgment, which perhaps even now God 

 has pronounced against them.* 



Other spirits which cannot speak, 

 nor exhibit themselves by their own 

 power, are those which dwell in men 

 and animals, in plants and minerals. 



* What is here said about spirits looks like a medley 

 from the works of some theologians who speak of intelli- 

 gence being inherent in fire, air, and the other elements, and 

 are ultimately doomed to eternal fire. The nature and the 

 fate of these spirits we will leave to the omniscience and 

 justice of God ; but as to the material spirits of Antimony, 

 and other visible objects, all that our Author ascribes to 

 them is true ; and the things they accomplish are far more 

 wonderful than the fabulous achievements of any so-called 

 supernatural beings. 



