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205 



work bchiud them Bui: are Energies meerly • for their Working upon Mir- 

 rours, and P laces of £«fo doth not alter any thing in thofe Bodies ; But it is 

 the fame ABion with the Original, onely RepercuJJed. And as for the Shaking 

 oitvindcns, or Rarefying the ^/V by Grwf Tvw/fj • And the Kmcaufed by 

 Burning- Giafes; They are rather Concomitants of the Audible, awdVifible Spe- 

 cies, than the £jjftfs of them. Sixthly, they feem to be of fo 7>#ifcr , and 

 a Nature, as they affc& onely fuch a Rare, and Attenuate Subfiance,as 

 is the ty/Wr of hiving Creatures. 



IT is mentioned in fomc Stories, that where Children have been Expofedpt 

 taken away young from their PjTWtf ; And that afterward they have 

 approached to their Pa rents prcfcnce, the Parents ( though they have not 

 known them) have had a Secret Joy, or other Alteration thereupon . 



There.was an Egyptian South-Sayer, thai rha.de Anthon.imhe\eeve,that his 

 Geniw (which otherwife was Brave, and Confident) was,in the Prefence of 

 OtlaviantiS Ctfar, Poor,and Cowardly: And therefore he advifed him,to ab- 

 fent himfelf (as muc h as he could,) and remove far from him. The South- 

 Sayer was thought to be fuborned by Cleopatra,to make him live in *AZgypt, 

 and other Remote Places from Rome . Howfoever the Conceit of a Predomi- 

 nate or Mattering Spirit of one Man over Another } is Antient,and Received 

 ft ill, even in Vulgar Opinidn. 



There are Conceits, that fome Men? that are of an III, and Melancholy 

 Nature , doe incline the Company, into which they come,to be Sad, and III 

 difpofed^And contrariwife, that Others, that are of a Jovial Nature,do dif- 

 pofe the Company to be Merry and Cheer full. And again, that fome Men are 

 Luckie to be kept company with,and Employed ; And others Vnlucky. Certain 

 ly, it is agreeable to Reafon, that there arc s at the leaft, fome Light Effluxi 

 ons from Spirit to Spirit, when Men are in Prefence one with another,as well 

 as from Body to Body. , 



It hath been obferved, that Old Men who have loved Young cempany, and 

 been Converfant continually with them , have been of Long Life; Their 

 Spirits ( as it feemeth,) being Recreated by fuch company. Such were the 

 Anttent Sophifls, and Rhetoricians ; Which ever hadyoung Auditors , and Di 

 fciples ; As Gorgias , ^magoras , Ifccrates , &c Who lived till they were an 

 Hundred years Old. And fo likewife did many of the Grammarians, and 

 School- Majlers; fuch as was Orb/!iuS,&c. 



Audacity and Confidence doth , in Civil Bufinef?, fo great Effe&s, as a 

 Man may (reafonably) doubt 5 that befidcs the very Daring and Earnefinefi. 

 and Perfifting, and Importunity , there fhould be fome Secret Binding, and 

 Stooping of other MehS Spirits to fuch Persons. 



The Afyeftions (no doubt^do make the Spirits more Powerful! and ABive- } 

 And efpccially thofe AjjeSions, which draw the ty*Wtt into the : 

 Which are two: Love, and Envy, which is called Ora/^ Malm. As {or 

 the Platonics (fome of them) go fo farre, as to hold that the Spirit of the 

 Lover, doth pafs into the Spirits of the Pcrfon Loved ; Which caufeth the 

 defire of Return into the Body, whence it was Emitted : Whereupon fol- 

 loweth that Appetite of ContraB and ConjunBion , which is in Lovers. And 

 this is obferved likewife , that the AfpeBs that procure Love, are not Ga- 

 inings, but Sudden Glances, and Dartings of the Eye. As for Envy, that cmit- 

 tcth fome Malign and Pcyfonow Spirits , which taketh hold of the Spirit 

 of Another • And is likewife of greateft Force , when the Cafl of the Eye 

 is Oblique. It hath been noted alfo,that it is moft Dangerous, where the 



T Envioui 



Experiments 

 in Confort , 

 touching E- 

 mifionol lm- 

 matt date Ver- 

 tues from the 

 Minds and 

 Spirits of Men } 

 cither by Af- 

 feftions, or by 

 lm*gintitions 3 

 or by °' hcr 

 ImpreJJtons. 



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941 



944 



