Magneticum Naturae Regnum

...is bound to [the world], so in the whole genus of living beings, plants, and minerals, nothing can be observed that is imbued with some particular virtue which is not subject to it as to its empress. Hence, whatever possesses the command of this Nature, it is sustained by perpetual constancy, by right reason, and by a fitting law, nor does it ever deflect from the path prescribed for it or from the law given to it. From this, all things in the world participate, since there is no thing, however small, in which there does not reside some power directed by it, by which it may conserve and guard that which gave it birth, so that it may be preserved in its being, fortified against all inconveniences and actions contrary to its nature. This immutable power of Nature implanted in individual things, since it is not always of the number of those which philosophers call manifest and elementary qualities, for that reason we have deemed it—as most often termed an occult and hidden quality, by the Arabs colcodea, by the Hebrews an instrument of divine power (that is, a hidden form operating in all things), and by others a sympathetic and antipathetic quality—not incongruously to be called Magnetism; since every such virtue existing in things, according to a certain analogy of the magnet, usually comes to pass through a certain attraction and repulsion: which attraction, just as it consists in a certain love by which things with natural appetite desire to unite similar, good, and friendly things to themselves, so the repulsion consists in a certain hatred by which they imitate the removal of dissimilar, evil, and inimical things from themselves.

All virtues of natural things imitate magnetic force.