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ANIMAL MAGNETISM AND MAGIC. 353
agere extra se et imprimere virtutem aliquam, influentiam
deinceps perseverantem, et agentem in objectum longissime
P. Pomponatius also says : Sic contigit, tales esse homines,
qui habeant ejusmodi vires in potentia, et per vim imaginativam
et desiderativam cum actu operantur, talis virtus exit
ad actum, et afficit sanguinem et spiritum, quce per evapora-
tionempetunt ad extra et producunt tales 1
effectus.
Jane Leade, an English mystic visionary of Cromwell s
time and pupil of Pordage, has given us some very curious
disclosures of this kind. She is led to Magic in a very
singular way. For, as the doctrine of their becoming one
with the G-od of their religion is a fundamental cha
racteristic of all Mystics, so is it with Jane Leade also.
Now, with her however, the human will has its share in the
omnipotence of the Divine will as a consequence of the
two having become one, and accordingly acquires magic
power. What other magicians therefore believe to be due
to a compact with the Devil, she attributes to her becom
ing one with her G-od. Her Magic
is therefore in the
highest sense white Magic. Besides, this alters nothing
as to the practice and results. She is reserved and mys
terious, as people had to be in those times;
still it is
easy to see that the thing is not a mere theoretical corol
lary, but that it has sprung from knowledge and expe
rience obtained in another way.
It is in
"
her
the chief passage ;
" 2
Revelation of Revelations that we find
but the following one, which is rather
an abridgment than a literal quotation and is contained
in Horst s
book :
"
"
Zauberbibliothek," 3
Magic power enables its possessor
1 De incantationibus. Opera Basil. 1567, p. 44.
comes from the same
to rule over
2 German translation, Amsterdam, 1695, pp. 126 to 151, especially
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the pages headed the power of calm will."
8 Horst,
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Zauberbibliothek
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(Library of Magic), vol. i. p. 325.
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