Anima Magica Abscondita

definitions, though looked upon as rare, profound, and philosophical determinations, instruct us in nothing more. Away then with this Peripatetic philosophy The school of philosophy founded by Aristotle, known for teaching while walking., this vain babbling, as Saint Paul justly styles it; for sure enough he had some experience of it at Athens during his dispute about the Resurrection. Let us no more look on this Olla Podrida Spanish: "rotten pot"; a stew of many ingredients, here meaning a confused jumble of ideas., but on that Spirit which resides in the elements. For this Spirit produces real effects by the subsequent rotations of corruption and generation The natural cycle of decay and new growth., but the spirit of error, which is Aristotle’s, produces nothing but a multiplicity of notions.

Observe then, that this Stagirite Aristotle, who was born in the city of Stagira. and Nature are at a great distance from one another: the one ends in works, the other in words. His followers refine the old notions, but not the old creatures. And verily, the mystery of their profession consists only in their terms; if their speculations were exposed to the world in a plain dress, their sense is so empty and shallow that there is no one who would acknowledge them as philosophers. In some discourses, I confess they have Nature before them, but they do not go the right way to apprehend her. They are still in the chase, but never overtake their game. For who is he among them whose knowledge is so entire and regular that he can justify his positions by practice? Again, in some things they are quite "beside the cushion" An idiom meaning "completely mistaken" or "off the mark."; they scold and