Integrum Morborum Mysterium (Medical Mysteries)

PART III.

Or the Corporal Kingdom of the West.

CHAP. I. What the morbid corporal meteor In this system, a "meteor" is any atmospheric or spiritual phenomenon that influences the body. from the western region is, and by what means it is accustomed to be created and congealed. 220
II. On the corporal meteors of the western kingdom. ibid.

CONCLUSION, or an ABRIDGMENT

OF BOOK IV. 223

On Leprosy. 224
On Epilepsy. 226
On the Plague. 227
On Burning Fever. ibid.

SECTION I. PART IV.

On the Causes of Diseased Meteors.

SECT. I. PART IV. BOOK I.

Contents. 231

CHAP. I. On the accidental cause of diseases. 232
II. How, through the breaking of the union confirmed on the first day among the holy ones, two most opposing kingdoms were produced in the world, and concerning their contrary effects. 233
III. What sin is, and from where it arises; what the difference is between evil itself and darkness. 234
IV. That evil and sin were not created by God, and consequently, that in and of itself it is nothing, except for the transgression of the law and the effect of violation. 236
V. What Adam was like in his state of innocence and before the fall; and concerning the change of his state and image after his fall, and how his divine image, through error and by reason of sin, was reduced into forgetfulness of itself and into the slavery of the flesh. 238
VI. God works all things in all. How and why sin is a certain deceptive act, introduced into the world by the crafts of the Devil (the radical monad The "radical monad" refers to the single, primary source of all existence—God. so willing it): And that it is the cause of diseases and death. 241
VII. The effects of the blessed knowledge of oneself—namely, certain knowledge that one has within the image of God—are enumerated. How sin and darkness are expelled by this kind of lucid knowledge, through the fear and reverence of God, and consequently how true wisdom is acquired; and that he who falls from this knowledge of himself, and from the fear of Him whose image he is, usually sins against the Holy Spirit. 244

SECT. I. PART IV.

Book II.

On the Material Cause of Diseases.

CAP. I. How water is the universal subject of all things, both natural and preternatural, and contrary to nature: or the "matter from which." 249
II. That in the matter, or substance of the waters before their visible creation, there was an invisible substance, which was nothing else but universal air. For in this, the mystery of the "first matter" is unshelled: and it is proved that it is not absolute nothingness, but something existing and hidden within God himself from eternity. 250
III. In which it is declared that the Universal Water original: aqua Catholica. In this context, "Catholic" means universal or all-encompassing, not a reference to the Church., from which the world—both animal and angelic—was formed, was in the first day of creation in the form of an invisible air,

most pure and lucid, immune from sin, or actual evil and darkness. And that the angels were first created from the same subject; likewise concerning the origin of sin or darkness within them. 252
IV. Concerning the natural or temporal world, and how it is made from the ordering of the lower waters, distinct into regions and spheres: likewise, the logic of its making, generation, and corruption is explained. 254
V. How both spiritual diseases and humoral and corporal ones are accustomed to be procreated in these lower spiritual waters. And that the winds, or windy spirits, are the causes of that alteration of the lower waters (or the mass of air) into a diseased or healthy state, or into meteors, both unhealthy and healthy. 257

SECTION I. PART IV. BOOK III.

On the Formal Cause of Diseases.

CHAP. I. On the species of Leprosy, with several accidents naturally appropriated to them. 261
II. In which you will find the formal description of "unclean" Leprosy explained, joined and compacted with its remaining causes, according to both the Galenic Referring to Galen, the ancient Greek physician whose theories dominated medicine for centuries. manner and sacred reason. 264
III. On the species of "clean" Leprosy, and concerning their descriptions. 270
IV. That the body of a leprous meteor is resolved into melancholic humor in no other way than frost or ice mixed with the mud of the earth is resolved into turbid and muddy water; and what diseases are procreated from such a humor. 273
V. How the melancholic or "boreal" (northern) spirit is contained in the leprous humor, and arises from it by thinning or rarefaction, and concerning its effects. 276

CHAP. I. In which the union of the winds, the golden and peaceful chain and bond of nature in the circle of the winds, and the influence and act of the higher parts upon its parts are treated; also the epileptic meteor arising from the Moon and the western spirit of the world, and finally the relation of all preternatural western meteors to that. 280
II. Concerning the Pagan original: Ethnica. The author uses "ethnic" to refer to non-Christian or "heathen" medical authorities like Galen. description of Epilepsy, and how far it is from the truth in this matter; finally, what discrepancy exists between the description I shall make and that Pagan one. 283
III. On those species of western meteors which are comprehended under the Lunatic or epileptic disease. 286

CHAP. I. On the choice of the Imperial meteor in the southern region, and that the plague is first found to hold a place in the severe execution of Jehovah's vengeance; and what Galen thought about this meteorological plague. 288
II. In which the plague, or pestilence, is described in a certain manner confirmed by sacred letters. 290
III. On several principal meteors, contagious on the part of the south, insofar as they are humoral and are produced from corrupt or contagious air. 292