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Aristotle thrives by scuffles and the world cries him up, when truth cries him down.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
Be pleased to consider, that obstinacy enslaves the Soul, and clips the wings which God gave Her for flight, and discovery.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
They dwell altogether in the face, their endeavors are meer titillations, & their acquaintance with Nature is not at the heart.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
Ignorance gave this release the name of death, but properly it is the soul's birth and a charter that makes for her liberty.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
Assay nothing without science, but confine your selves to those bounds, which Nature hath prescribed you. p. 70 (last sentence of the book)
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
The peripatetics look on God as they do on carpenters, who build with stone and timber, without any infusion of life. But the world which is God's building is full of spirit, quick and living.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
They are things beyond reasoning sensible, practical truths, not mere vagaries and rambles of the brain.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
Great is their number who perhaps had attained to perfection, had they not already thought themselves perfect.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
If thou wilt not quit thy Aristotle, let not any prejudice hinder thy further search.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
Besides, their Aristotle is a poet in text, his principles are but fancies, and they stand more on our concessions, then his bottom.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
The peripateticks when they define the soul or some inferior principle describe it only by outward circumstances, which every child can do, but they state nothing essentially.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
This is my advice but how welcome to thee I know not.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
Notwithstanding I acknowledge the schoolmen ingenious: they conceive their principles irregular, and prescribe rules for method, though they want matter.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
She hath several ways to break up house, but her best is without a disease. This is her mystical walk, an exit only to return.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
Friar Bacon walked in Oxford between two steeples, but he that would have discovered his thoughts, by his steps, had been more his fool than his fellow.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
Now to return to Jacob, it is written of him, that he was asleep, but this is a Mysticall Speech, for it signifies Death, namely that Death which the Cabalist calls Mors Osculi, or the Death of the Kiss, of which I must not speake one Syllable.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
Their philosophy is like a church, that is all discipline, and no doctrine
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
It is an age wherein truth is near a miscarriage, and it is enough for me that I have appeared thus far for it, in a day of necessity.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
If thou wilt kick and fling, I shall say with the cardinal: Etiam asinus meus recaldtrat (My ass also kicks up his heels) for I value no man's Censure.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)
Now if I should question any sect (for there is no Communion in Christendom) whither these later intimations drive? They can but return me to the first rudiments, or produce some empty pretense of Spirit.
Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650)