On the Magnetic Cure of Wounds

Natural Magic.

The exploration and knowledge of things abstruse and deeply hidden in the majesty of nature is natural magic the study of hidden natural forces, arising from the sympathy of things. He who knows their consensus and dissension shall be called skilled in Magic, and by using these things secretly, he can produce results that are admirable and incredible to the common people, so that such deeds are thought to be done only by the aid of demons, because the method of their working is by no means manifest. For this mystery is nothing other than the science of the Sympathy affinity and Antipathy aversion of things above and below.

What is Sympathy?

Sympathy is a certain mutual consensus between physical things, by which they embrace one another in a friendly manner: others call it compassion. Galen, in book 3 of On Simple Medicines, chapter 5, uses the term friendship; Pliny, in book 37, chapter 4, calls it concord; Cicero, in On Fate, uses the most grave