An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices ... With a refutation of Dr. Bekker's 'World bewitch'd', and other authors that have opposed the belief of them / By John Beaumont.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1705
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Credit: An historical, physiological and theological treatise of spirits, apparitions, witchcrafts, and other magical practices ... With a refutation of Dr. Bekker's 'World bewitch'd', and other authors that have opposed the belief of them / By John Beaumont. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or Planets* but given by God* it being uni- verfal* and above Nature, This directs the Soul* ftill fuggefting good Thoughts* and en¬ lightens us* tho’ it be not always obferv’d: But when we are purify’d* and live in a Calm* then it's perceiv’d by us; then it fpeaks* as it were* with us* and communicates its Voice* being prefent before in Silence* and labours continually to bring us to facred Perfection. By the Affiftance of this Genius* we may fliuit the Malignity of Fate: Whom if we religi- cmfly -obferve* by an Uprightnefs and Holi- nefs of Life* fas we know Socrates did) the Tlatonicks think we are wonderfully aided by him* both by Dreams and Signs* for putting by Evils* and fecuring Good to us. The Ge¬ nius, or Damon of the Geniture* defcends to us from the Difpofition of the World* and the Circuits of the Stars* that are concern’d in our Generation : This is the Suftainer and Guardian of Life* it procures it to the Body* and takes care of it afterwards* and aids the Perfon for performing that Office for .which the Heavens deputed him at his Birth. Thofe therefore who have received a fortunate Genius* are rendred ftrong* powerful* efficacious* and profperous in their Works : Wherefore by Philofophers* they arc call’d bene Fortunati9 and bens Natl, The Damon of the Profeffion is given from the Stars* to which fuch a Profeffion or Sed* as a Man profeffes* is fub~ je&ed* and which the Soul* when it begins to ufe Election in this Body* and takes upon it Manners* fecretly wifhes *• which Damon is chang’d for a more worthy or lefs, upon the Change of the Profeffion. When there¬ fore the Profeffion agrees with our Nature* ■ P ? W9