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MOSAIC

PHILOSOPHY.

To which is added, after Leaf 153, the Response to the Weapon-Salve Spongeoriginal: "Responsum ad Hoplocrisma-Spongiam". This refers to Fludd’s 1638 defense against William Foster’s 1631 attack on "weapon-salve," a form of sympathetic magic where an ointment was applied to the weapon that caused a wound rather than the wound itself. Fludd argued this was a natural, not diabolical, phenomenon. of Mr. Foster, a priest, etc.

The title "Mosaic Philosophy" refers to a system of thought—popular among 17th-century Christian Hermeticists like Fludd—that sought to derive all true physical and metaphysical knowledge from the writings of Moses in the Old Testament.

There are Two Sections of this Philosophy.
See the Contents of the first Section immediately after the prefaceoriginal: "proæmium", before Leaf ———— 1.
See the Contents of the Second Section at Leaf 66.