On the Magnetic Cure of Wounds

to the patient.

Whence do the attraction and deduction of virtues arise?

Therefore, just as attraction arises from the sympathy of higher and celestial virtues, and their deduction into a terrestrial and lower place, so resistance arises from antipathy. Hence the Platonists called Magic the attraction of one thing by another, arising from a certain kinship of nature.

Now, all parts of this world, like the limbs of a single animal, depending upon one author and principle, are joined to one another by the connection of a single nature. Therefore, just as in us the brain, heart, lungs, liver, and the rest draw something from one another and mutually assist one another, so that if one of them suffers, the others suffer with it, so too the limbs of this vast animal—that is, all the bodies of the world—are connected and similarly borrow