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ANIMAL MAGNETISM AND MAGIC. 347
perhaps more concerning the inner nature of Magic than
any other writer, and does not even hesitate to give a
minute description of the processes used in it. 1
a
He : says
" To be observed concerning wax : images if I bear malice
in my will against anyone, that malice must be carried out
by some medium or corpus. Thus it is possible for my
spirit to stab or wound another person without help from
my body in using a sword, merely by my fervent desire.
Therefore it is also possible for me to convey my opponent s
spirit into the image by my will and then to deform
or paralyze it at pleasure. You must know, that the
influence of the will is a great point in medicine. For if a
man hate another and begrudge him anything good, it is
possible that if he curse him, that curse may take effect.
This occurs also with animals and more easily than with
men for the ;
spirit of man has far greater power of resis
tance than that of animals."
And p. 375 :
"
It follows from this, that one image has
magic power over another, not by virtue of the characters
or anything of that kind impressed on the virgin wax;
but the imagination overcomes its own constellation, so as
to become a means for fulfilling the will of its heaven, i.e.
of its man."
of man comes from his
p. 334: "All the imagining
heart. The heart is the sun of the microcosm. And all
the imagining of man passes from the small sun of the
microcosm into the sun of the great Universe, into the heart
of the macrocosm. Thus the imaginatio of the microcosm
is a seed which becomes material," &c.
atgue ardenter desideret et certitudinaliter intendat, atque vehementer con-
sideret se posse nocere, non est dubiwm, guin natura obediet cogitationibiis
anlm<B." (See Kogeri Bacon,
1
"
Opus Majus," Londini, 1733, p. 252.)
Theophrastus Paracelsus, Strassburg edition in two folio vols.,
pp. 91, 353, et segq. and p. 789 j vol. ii. pp. 362, 496.
2 Vol. i. p. 19.
vol. i.