Integrum Morborum Mysterium (Medical Mysteries) (1631) - Page 21

SECTION IV.

In which the Eastern meteors In this context, a "meteor" refers to any atmospheric, spiritual, or bodily phenomenon, such as a fever or a storm. are formally defined or described in their entirety.

CHAPTER I. The division of the Eastern Empire into its kingdoms: The election or discovery of the Prince, or head of that Meteorological Empire, under whom the remaining ignited meteors of the microcosm The "microcosm" is the human body, viewed as a miniature reflection of the universe. are subjected. 293
II. In which the true formula for describing a fever is explained, and how only the divine power, through its ministers, intervenes in its eastern property of fire: hence, it is clearly shown to be the radical stirrer and author of fevers. 295
III. Concerning other preternatural Outside the ordinary course of nature. meteors from the Eastern part, both humoral Related to the "humors" or bodily fluids like blood and bile. and corporal, which are included under the dominion of fever. 298

VOLUME I. TREATISE II. SECTION I.

Part IV. Book IV.

On the efficient cause of morbid meteors.

PREFACE: On the efficient cause in general, and its division. 300

BOOK IV. SECTION I.

CHAPTER I. The reasoning is demonstrated: how God is one and three-fold, the sole principal cause from whom all things, through whom all things, and in whom all things exist; and that He works all things in everyone, and is all in all; and finally, that there is nothing in any world that He Himself is not. 301
II. On the ministry of the name Jehovah, which is the essential and consequently general name of God, which includes under itself all His other surnames based on their properties, and consequently extends its power through the entire Kabbalistic Tree of the Hebrews: Finally, that it contains within it both His wrathful effects (punishing through disease and death) and His kind and merciful effects. 304
III. On the various attributes of the one divine essence contained under the general Four-Lettered Name of God original: "Tetragrammato," referring to the name יהוה (Jehovah), and that according to the doctrine of the Kabbalists, they are 10 in number; and how this ineffable and essential name יהוה The Hebrew Tetragrammaton (Jehovah). contains within itself all those surnames of God in the Sephirotic Tree The "Tree of Life" in Kabbalah, representing the ten attributes or "Sephirot" of God.. 306
IV. On those two properties of Jehovah, in one of which He contracts and hides Himself under the surname Elohim, and in the other declares and manifests Himself under the surname Elohim the Mighty original: "Elohim gibor" in His wrath; and on the various diseases arising from them. 308
V. He presents many examples drawn from the Sacred Page The Bible. by which it is proved that the God Jehovah produces and creates diseases in both the macrocosm and microcosm through a fourfold cardinal breath in the world—partly in His contracting property and partly in His expanding one. 312
Epilogue to this Section. 314

BOOK IV. SECTION II.

On the organic efficient cause of diseases of the first order.

CHAPTER I. That God, who is the principal efficient cause, works immediately through His Angelic organs, both for the benefit of mortals and for their punishment. What an organic efficient cause is; similarly, the essence of an Angel is lightly treated here. 316
II. How God uses the Dark Angel as an organic minister in His "privative" Referring to the withdrawal of light or life. will (so to speak) or property, by which He strikes mortals with disease and death

just as He is accustomed to move in His "positive" property in the Light Angel for the preservation of health and life; and that the same act of divinity exists in both said Angels, just as the same holy monad The "monad" refers to the ultimate, indivisible unity of God. exists in God, both hidden and revealed. 317
III. Which demonstrates that the influx of God from any Sephirotic gate is different for each Archangel presiding over the stars (both fixed and wandering) as if it were their life and soul; and that the higher Angels pour and rain power and soul into the lower ones. Finally, the radical reason for life, diseases, and death is explained here. 318
IV. On the multitude of evil angels who serve the will of a severely angry Jehovah no differently than those [good] ones serve His kindness and mercy; and how their troops are subjected to one of the aforementioned Archangels. 321
V. On the principal striking Angel The "Slayer" or "Destroying Angel." and his two deputies, namely the Prince of the Air and the King of Terrestrial Demons; similarly, the four leaders of the Prince of the Air, along with the three kingdoms of that abyss, are treated in this chapter. 326
VI. How Jehovah strikes with His curse, or the turning away of His kind nature from a creature, and that by hiding Himself He provides liberty and vigor to His dark spirits to exercise their malignant properties upon the creature; similarly, by the emission of His wrathful countenance, He gives the power of wounding to His light spirits. 333
VII. How demons sometimes take on the forms of visible creatures, and in their abstract or spiritual and invisible breath, they harm and infect with poison no differently than in their invisible form. Similarly, that every creature—whether perfectly or imperfectly mixed—that is harmful or poisonous is so because of an evil demon taking such a form. Finally, by what reasoning God so moves in them and governs them that they harm and strike at a certain time and in a proposed subject, in both invisible and visible form. 333
VIII. That evil spirits original: "cacodæmones" not only cause preternatural meteorological changes in the air, but also in many forms—according to their location in the world, their habitation, and consequently their property—harm men abandoned by God and afflict them with various diseases. 339
IX. How the angels of the winds are the effectors of all things in this sublunary world, whether it be to produce morbid or healthy meteors in both worlds The macrocosm and microcosm., and how the four elements are nothing other than the effects of the four Angels of the four winds blowing in the air, as if in a common and mercurial medium. 342
X. In which the acts of the dark spirits of the northern region and their effects are clearly described. 346
XI. On the acts of the western spirits or demons, and their morbid or unhealthy effects. 349
XII. On the acts of the malignant demons or spirits from the Southern part, and their morbid or unhealthy effects. 350
XIII. On the acts of the malignant demons or spirits serving the Eastern region, and their morbid as well as unhealthy effects. 351
XIV. In which he carefully treats the utility of this doctrine of his regarding the method of evil spirits in inducing diseases, and proves that it is fitting for a Christian, above all, to give his ears to the serious contemplation and consideration of this kind of teaching, for several reasons expressed in this chapter. 355

BOOK IV. SECTION III.

On the stellar efficient cause of diseases.