Democritus Platonissans Part 11

_Monad._ See Interpr. Gen.

_Mundane._ _Mundane spirit_, Is that which is the spirit of the world or Universe. I mean by it not an intellectuall spirit, but a fine, unfixt, attenuate, subtill, ethereall substance, the immediate vehicle of plasticall or sensitive life.

_Memory._ _Mundane memory._ Is that memory that is seated in the _Mundane_ spirit of man, by a strong impression, or inustion of any phantasme, or outward sensible object, upon that spirit. But there is a Memory more subtill and abstract in the soul it self, without the help of this spirit, which she also carries away with her having left the body.

_Magicall._ That is, attractive, or commanding by force of sympathy with the life of this naturall world.

_Moment._ Sometimes signifies an instant, as indivisible, as ????a, which in motion answers to an instant in time, or a point in a line, _Aristot. Phys._ In this sense I use it, Psychathan. lib. 3. cant. 2.

stanz. 16; _But in a moment sol doth ray._ But Cant. the 3. Stanz. 45.

v. 2. I understand, as also doth Lansbergius, by a _moment_ one second of a minute. In Antipsych. Cant. 2. Stanz. the 20. v. 2. by a _moment_ I understand a minute, or indefinitely any small time.

O

_Orb._ _Orb Intellectuall_, is nothing else but aeon or the Intellectuall world. The Orbs generall mentioned Psycathan. lib. 1. cant. 3. stanz.

23. v. 2. I understand by them but so many universall orders of beings, if I may so terme them all; for _Hyle_ hath little or nothing of being.

_Omniformity._ The omniformity of the soul is the having in her nature all forms, latent at least, and power of awaking them into act, upon occasion.

_Out-world._ and _Out-Heaven._ The sensible world, the visible Heaven.

P

_Perigee_, } _Psychicall_, } _Pareties_, } See Interpret. Gen.

_Parallax_, } _Protopathy_. }

_Parturient._ See, _Vaticinant_.

_Phantasie._ _Lower phantasie_, is that which resides in the Mundane spirit of a man, See _Memory_.

Q

_Quant.i.tative._ Forms _quant.i.tative_, are such sensible energies as arise from the complexion of many natures together, at whose discretion they vanish. That's the seventh Orb of things, though broken and not filling all as the other do. But if you take it for the whole sensible world, it is entire, and is the same that _Tasis_ in Psycozoia. But the centre of _Tasis_, viz. the multiplication of the reall _Cuspis_ of the _Cone_ (for _Hyle_ that is set for the most contract point of the _Cuspis_ is scarce to be reckoned among realities) that immense diffusion of atoms, is to be referred to _Psyche_, as an internall vegetative act, and so belongs to _Physis_ the lowest order of life. For as that warmth that the sense doth afford the body, is not rationall, sensitive, or imaginative, but vegetative; So this, ????? _i.e._ liquid fire, which _Psyche_ sends out, and is the outmost, last, and lowest operation from her self, is also vegetative.

R

_Rhomboides._ See Interpr. general.

_Reason._ I understand by Reason, the deduction of one thing from another, which I conceive proceeds from a kind of continuitie of phantasmes: and is something like the moving of a cord at one end; the parts next it rise with it. And by this concatenation of phantasmes I conceive, that both brutes and men are moved in reasonable wayes and methods in their ordinary externall actions.

_Rayes._ The rayes of an essence is its energie. See _Energie_.

_Reduplicative._ That is reduplicative, which is not onely in this point, but also in another, having a kind of circ.u.mscribed ubiquitie, _viz._ in its own sphear. And this is either by being in that sphear omnipresent it self, as the soul is said to be in the body _tota in toto & tota in qualibet parte_, or else at least by propagation of rayes, which is the image of it self; and so are divers sensible objects _Reduplicative_, as light, colours, sounds. And I make account either of these wayes justly denominate any thing spirituall. Though the former is most properly, at least more eminently spirituall. And whether any thing be after that way spirituall saving the Divinitie, there is reason to doubt. For what is entirely omnipresent in a sphear, whose diametre is but three feet, I see not, why (that in the circ.u.mference being as fresh and entire as that in the centre) it should stop there and not proceed even _in infinitum_, if the circ.u.mference be still as fresh and entire as the centre. But I define nothing.

S

_Spermaticall._ It belongs properly to Plants, but is transferred also to the Plasticall power in Animalls, I enlarge it to all magnetick power whatsoever that doth immediately rule and actuate any body. For all magnetick power is founded in _Physis_, and in reference to her, this world is but one great Plant, (one ????? spe?at???? giving it shape and corporeall life) as in reference to _Psyche_, one happy and holy Animall.

_Spirit._ Sometimes it signifieth the soul, othersometime, the naturall spirits in a mans body, which are _Vinculum animae & corporis_, and the souls vehicle: Sometimes life. See _Reduplicative_.

_Soul._ When I speak of mans Soul, I understand that which _Moses_ saith was inspired into the body, (fitted out and made of earth) by G.o.d, Genes. 2. which is not that impeccable spirit that cannot sinne; but the very same that the Platonists call ????, a middle essence betwixt that which they call ???? (and we would in the Christian language call p?e?a) and the life of the body which is e?d???? ?????, a kind of an umbratil vitalitie, that the soul imparts to the bodie in the enlivening of it: That and the body together, we Christians would call s???, and the suggestions of it, especially in its corrupt estate, f????a sa????.

And that which G.o.d inspired into _Adam_ was no more then ????, the soul, not the spirit, though it be called ???? ???? _Spiraculum vitae_; is plain out of the text; because it made man but become a living soul, ???

???. But you will say, he was a dead soul before, and this was the spirit of life, yea the spirit of G.o.d, the life of the soul that was breathed into him.

But if ??? implie such a life and spirit, you must acknowledge the same to be also in the most stupid of all living creatures, even the fishes (whose soul is but as salt to keep them from stinking, as Philo speaks) for they are said to be ???? ???? chap. 1. v. 20. 21. See 1 Cor. chap.

15, v. 45, 46. In brief therefore, that which in Platonisme is ????, is in Scripture p?e?a; what s??? in one, t? ??????, the brute or beast in the other, ???? the same in both.

_Self-reduplicative._ See _Reduplicative_.

T

_Tricentreitie._ Centre is put for essence, so _Tricentreitie_ must implie a trinitie of essence. See _Centre_, and _Energie_.

V

_Vaticinant._ The soul is said to be in a _vaticinant_ or _parturient_ condition, when she hath some kind of sense and hovering knowledge of a thing, but yet cannot distinctly and fully, and commandingly represent it to her self, cannot plainly apprehend, much lesse comprehend the matter. The phrase is borrowed of Proclus, who describing the incomprehensiblenese of G.o.d, and the desire of all things towards him, speaks thus; ????st?? ??? ?? p??e? t? ??ta t? ?fet?? t??t? ?a? ???pt??, ?te ??? ????a? ?te ??e?? ? p??e?, d???e?a, pe?? a?t? p??ta ???e?e?

?a? ?d??e? ?? a?t? ?a? ???? ?p?a?te?eta?. _Theolog. Platon. lib. 1.

cap. 21._ See _Psychathan. lib. 3. cant. 3. stanz. 12. & 14._

_The Philosophers Devotion._

Sing aloud his praise rehea.r.s.e Who hath made the Universe.

He the boundlesse Heavens has spread All the vitall Orbs has kned; He that on _Olympus_ high Tends his flocks with watchfull eye, And this eye has multiplide Midst each flock for so reside.

Thus as round about they stray Toucheth each with out-stretch'd ray, Nimbly they hold on their way, Shaping out their Night and Day.

Never slack they; none respires, Dancing round their Centrall fires.

In due order as they move Echo's sweet be gently drove Thorough Heavens vast Hollownesse, Which unto all corners presse: Musick that the heart of _Jove_ Moves to joy and sportfull love; Fills the listning saylers eares Riding on the wandering Sphears.

Neither Speech nor Language is Where their voice is not transmisse.

G.o.d is Good, is Wise, is Strong, Witnesse all the creature-throng, Is confess'd by every Tongue.

All things back from whence they sp.r.o.ng, As the thankfull Rivers pay What they borrowed of the Sea.

Now my self I do resigne, Take me whole I all am thine.

Save me, G.o.d! from Self-desire, Deaths pit, dark h.e.l.ls raging fire, Envy, Hatred, Vengeance, Ire.

Let not l.u.s.t my soul bemire.

Quit from these thy praise I'll sing, Loudly sweep the trembling string.

Bear a part, O Wisdomes sonnes!

Free'd from vain Relligions.

Lo! from farre I you salute, Sweetly warbling on my Lute.

_Indie_, _Egypt_, _Arabie_, _Asia_, _Greece_, and _Tartarie_, _Carmel_-tracts, and _Lebanon_ With the _Mountains_ of the _Moon_, from whence muddie _Nile_ doth runne, Or whereever else you won; Breathing in one vitall aire, One we are though distant farre.

Rise at once lett's sacrifice Odours sweet perfume the skies.