A collection of several philosophical writings

...is unconscious original: "imperceptive" itself, being the natural reflection of that which is knowing or perceptive. It is the lowest level of substantial spiritual activity from the all-wise God, containing within it certain general modes and laws of nature for the good of the universe. However, the eye of particular Providence is not present within it. Otherwise, why would a tile fall upon the head of a person passing by in the street, regardless of whether they are going to a play or a sermon? And how do we explain those "bungles" in the production of monsters referring to birth defects or biological "errors", or those inept and self-defeating attempts of this Spirit in certain experiments regarding the discovery of a vacuum? A major scientific debate of the 1600s. More believed "nature abhors a vacuum" because of the Spirit of Nature's actions, but noticed the results were often messy or inconsistent. I have particularly noted these things in my Antidote Referring to his book, An Antidote against Atheism.. Therefore, neither omnipotence nor omniscience acts directly in such cases, but rather this unconscious Spirit of Nature. Its lack of perception is no more an obstacle to its natural and formative original: "plastical" operations than the soul's lack of a prior idea is a hindrance to its occasional perceptions—as I have already suggested in my preface to my treatise on the Soul's Immortality.

A logical conclusion original: "consectary" concerning the guidance of souls by the Spirit of Nature.

When these things are well considered and allowed, the special office of this Spirit of Nature in conducting souls during their "state of silence" A period when a soul is dormant or between bodies.—to bring life to prepared matter and so raise animals into life—will be easily understood as a suitable employment, no more difficult than its other tasks. For how much harder is it to imagine that the Spirit of Nature may direct or carry down a silent soul than it is to move a dead stone to its fit and natural place? For the dormant spirit and the dead stone are equally easy to take hold of, as the Spirit of Nature penetrates them both alike. A body moves so easily within this Spirit of the world that one cannot imagine any mechanical power acting upon it; instead, only that which is truly called sympathetic must be the tie where any hold is taken. This tie catches and lets go in order to direct and transmit things to their proper places in the various parts of the world for the good of the whole, according to that essential law which is the form and being of this Spirit of Nature—the final ideal or all-forming outflowing original: "Omniform Efflux" from God.

Nor is it, as I have already said, any more marvelous that a dormant soul should be carried away and conducted to duly prepared matter by this unconscious Spirit of Nature than it is for a dead stone or senseless magnetic particles to be guided by it. For the thing by which the soul is caught so fast by its particular body is not its perceptive part, but its "plastic" or natural part; otherwise, in a fit of anger original: "in a pet", a soul might easily leave the body without the need for hanging, drowning, or stabbing. Why then may not a Spirit that has subtler fingers than the finest matter—I mean the Spirit of Nature—lay hold on that unconscious part of the soul, or on the soul itself in its state of silence or lack of perception? And why could it not, through the sympathy and shared activity of its own essence, carry the soul away to such services as either the soul itself had deserved or the universe required? While I will not assert all these things as absolute truths, I dare to pronounce them as intelligible and logical as the union of the soul with the body—which experience forces us to understand whether we want to or not.

That the ancient Jewish Cabbala consisted of what we now call Platonism and Cartesianism, made further probable from the lineage of the Pythagoric School.

14. As for my Conjectura Cabbalistica More's work "A Conjectural Essay of Interpreting the Mind of Moses, according to a Threefold Cabbala.", I have nothing new to note there, except for what I have recently added: the appendix to the defense of my Philosophic Cabbala. In that work, I believe I have cleared that Cabbala of all imaginable objections of any importance. Among other things, I have plainly proved that it contains not only Platonism, but also that which...