Basilii Valentini Tr. De rebus

as if it were altogether contrary to nature, whence very many will descend to the most serious mutual altercations, whether this remedy is natural or not, possible or not, or whether it is a charm; but this controversy is to be settled by these facts, that the cure itself is natural, but the mode of operating is supernatural and spiritual, since it is done by a certain sole attractive and incomprehensible reason. Next, that this mode of curing proceeds without charm is proved by this very fact, because it is joined with no charm nor any other contranatural medium, while GOD the creator and His word crying out against it, but it is entirely natural, resulting from its supernatural, invisible, incomprehensible, spiritual, and attractive virtue, which, having obtained its origin from the stars, perfects its operation through the Elements.

Finally, I can vindicate this cure from the charge of being a charm, since it is established that the Devil prefers to rejoice in the calamity and misfortune of the human race rather than to provide any help for the health of men, which otherwise does not consist at all in his powers without divine permission. Many things would still have to be added to this magnetic form, but to avoid various errors, I now stop and press silence, until I have handed down certain things concerning the natural miracles of the world.

Coarse and rude minds, yet stuffed with the opinion of Philosophy and all who are of corrupt senses, know no distinction in these things, but the wise and skilled can most easily distinguish natural things from supernatural.

Let anyone note and contemplate this by a grosser