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PEVI OTE COOU IU TE 
| Comury. X. 
se, He Philofophy of Pyshagord rien was fullof nee 
| fition) did fir plant a Monftrous Imagination, which 
afterwards was, by the School of Plato, and others, 
watred and nourifhed. It was,~That the World was one 
Tyana, a Pythagorean Prophet, pine That the Ebb- 
ing and Flowing of the Sea wasthe Refpiration of the 
| World, drawing in Water as Breath, and putting it 
Bioth again. They went on, andinferred, Thatif the World were a Living 
| Creature, it hada Soul and Spirit; which alfo they held, calling it Spirisus 
| Mundi, the Spirit or Sout of che World; by which, they did not intend God, 
. | (for they did admit of a Deity befides) but onely the Soul, or t flential Fm 
lof the Univerfe. This Foundation being laid, they might build upon it what 
| they would; forin a Living Creature, though never for great (asfor example, 
{in a great Whale) the Senfe and the Affects of any one part of the Body 
inftantly makea Tran{curfion throughoutthe whole Body: So that by this 
they did infinuate, that no diftance of place, nor want orindifpofition of 
| Matter, could hinder Magical Operations ; but that (for example) we 
jist here in Europe have Senfe and Feeling of that which was done in 
| China, and likewile, we might work any effect without and againft Matter : 
| And this not holden by the co-operation of Angels or Spirits, butonely by 
| the Unity and Harmony of Nature. There were fome alfo that ftaid not 
‘there, but went further, and held, That if che Spirit of Man (whom they 
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}cailthe WMicrocofm) do give a fit touch to the Spirit of the World,by ftrong | 
Imaginations and Beliefs, it might command Nature ; for Paracelfus, and 
fome darkfome Authors of Magick, do afcribe to Imagination exalted the 
Powerof Miracle-working Faith. With thefe vatt and bottomlefs noe 
Men have becn cin part) entertained. 
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entire perfec Living Creature ; insomuch, as eApollonius of | 
iVirtues, and 
the Force of 
Experiments 
in Confort; 
touching 
Tran[{mifsion 
and Injlux of 
immateriate 
Imagination. 
er mc reppin ne re ple ee, 
man 
