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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    setherial Region, and confequently in the Stars themfelves; and more efpecially in the Sun, from which all inferior things are fomented, as it were, by Rays of a vivifying Soul transmitted to them ; whence alfo they thought thefe kinds of Subftances compos'd of a fubtle Body, fuch as an aerial Body is; and that Angels, Damons, and Souls were from % particle of the mundane Soul. Which Sub¬ ftances Apukius fays, are plac'd in the aerial Region of the World, that they might pro¬ cure a more eafie Commerfe betwixt Gods and Men, and more readily unfold the Secrets of the Gods, &c. Ludovicus Fives, writes thus : Plato in his ^ p Tim aw and Cratylus, calls the beft part of our Mind a Damon; His words are thefe • You know what they are whom Hefiod calls Damons■, viz. that golden Race of Men, of whom he fays thus: ♦ Bnt after Fate this Race has took away, They re pure terrefirial Damons call'd, and they Are Mens blest Guard, all Evils keep away. Tho I think that Race was call'd Golden^ not that it confifted of Gold, but that it was good and excellent; and, I conceive, we are call'd an Iron-Age in comparifon of that;, but if any one now living be good, Hefiod number d him among his Golden Men. And what are the Good but the Prudent • and I conceive he call’d them Damons from their Prudence and Skill in Affairs, the Name it felf, in our ancient Tongue, ftiewing it. There¬ fore it's well fa id of him, and moft of the reft of the Poets, that when a good Man