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Polychtcst Instances, Magical Instances. Now the use of these 

 Instances, wherein they excel common Instances, lies cither in the 

 informative part, or in the operative, or in both. As regards the 

 informative, they aid either the sense or the understanding : the sense, 

 as the five Instances of the Lam ft : the understanding, either by 

 hastening the exclusion of the Form, as the Solitary Instances ; or by 

 narrowing and indicating more nearly the affirmative of the Form, as 

 the .Migrating, Ostensive, Accompanying, and Subjunctive Instances ; 

 or by exalting the understanding, and leading it to genera and common 

 Natures ; cither immediately, as the Clandestine and Singular 

 Instances, and those of Alliance; or in the next decree, as the 

 Constitutive ; or in the lowest, as the Conformable ; or by setting the 

 understanding right when led away by habit, as De^ ialing Instances ; 

 or by leading it to the great form or fabric of the Universe, as 

 Limiting Instances; or by guarding it against f.dsc forms and 

 causes, as Instances of the Cross and of Divorce. In the operative 

 part they cither indicate, or measure, or assist practice. They indicate 

 it by showing with what we should begin, that we may not do what is 

 already done, as Instances of Power ; or to do what we should aspire, if 

 means were granted us, as the Suggestive Instances. The four .Mathe 

 matical Instances measure practice; the Polychrcst and Magical 

 assist it. 



Again, out of these twenty-seven Instances we must make a collec 

 tion of some (as we have said above) now at starting, without waiting 

 for a particular investigation of Natures. Of this kind arc the 

 Conformable, Singular, Deviating, Limiting Instances ; also those of 

 Pcnvcr, of the Door^ the Suggestive, the Polychrcst, and the Magical. 

 For these either assist and cure the understanding and senses, or 

 prepare the way for practice generally. The rest need not be inquired 

 into until we come to make Tables of Presentation for the work of the 

 interpreter concerning some particular Nature. For the Instances 

 marked and endowed with these Prerogatives areas a soul among the 

 common Instances of Presentation ; and, as we said in the beginning, 

 a few of them serve as well as many ; and therefore, when we con 

 struct our tables, they must be investigated with all zeal, and recorded 

 therein. It will be necessary to mention them in what follows, and so 

 we have been obliged to treat of them beforehand. Hut we must now 

 go on to the Sn/&amp;gt;/&amp;gt;orts anil Rectifications of Induction, and then to 

 Concretes and Latent Processes and Intent Structures, and the rest, as 

 we have set forth in order in the twenty-first Aphorism : that at 

 length (like honest and faithful guardians) we may hand over to men 

 their fortunes, now that their understanding has been emancipated 

 and, as it were, come of age ; whence there cannot fail to follow an 

 improvement in man s condition, and an increase in his power over 

 Nature. For man, by the fall, fell at once from his state of innocence 

 and from his kingship over creation. lloth of these misfortunes, how 

 ever, can, even in this life, be in some part repaired ; the former by 

 Religion and Faith, the latter by the Arts and Sciences. For the 

 curse did not make Creation entirely and for ever rebellious ; but in 



