Lumen de Lumine

Thou hast heard sometimes I suppose of the Beryllistic part of Magic: have a care to apprehend me, and I will shew thee the Foundation. Thou must know the stars can impresse no new Influx in perfect compleat Bodies, they only dispose, and in some measure stir up that influence, which hath been formerly impressed. It is most certain Eugenius, that no Astrobalisme takes place without some prævious Corruption, and Alteration in the Patient, for Nature works not but in loose, moyst, discomposed Elements. This Distemper proceeds not from the stars, but from the Contrarietie of the Elements amongst themselves: whensoever they fall out, and work their own Dissolution, then the Cœlestiall Fire puts in to reconcile them againe, and generats some new Forme, seeing the old one could consist no longer. Observe then that the Genuine Time of Impressions is, when the Principles are Spermatic and callow, but being once coagulated to a perfect Body, the Time of Stellification is past.