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Philosophy reformed & improved in four profound tractates : the I. discovering the great and deep mysteries of nature (1657)

Croll, Oswald, ca. 1560-1609, Pinnell, Henry, Paracelsus, 1493-1541 · London: : Printed by M.S. for Lodowick Lloyd ... · leaf 274

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now how n^iuch was bcftow-edon them whereby they might do either goodor evill, though they had it not (immediately)from him. Moreover, the creatures are alwayegged on and provoked rather to e^ill, compeldthereto by the fates, ftars, and by the iofernali cvili.one; which by no means could have bin,… … Mans inclma« cion is to 23 7he fecond Boo^of ^hilofophy^ yet ncverchelefle the creature hath not fo muchwifdome as to know good or cvill, to underftandthe eternal! and n[iorcall. For there arc manyfooles and mad men^ fcarce a mfe man of a then-fand^ mofi are falfeT^rofhets^ Teachers of lies^Mafters…

Paracelsus, 1493-1541 · Philosophy, Medieval · Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric

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