Lumen de Lumine

This, and many more miraculous sympathies proceed from the Attractive nature of the Prester: it is a spirit that can doe wonders, and now let us see if there bee any possibility to come at him. Suppose then wee should dilapidat or discompose some Artificiall Building, stone by stone: There is no question but we should come at last to the Earth whereupon it is founded. It is just so in Magic: if we open any Natural Body, and separat all the parts thereof one from another, we shall come at last to the Prester, which is the Candle, and secret Light of God. Wee shall know the hidden Intelligence, and see that inexpressible Face, which gives the outward Figure to the Body. This is the Syllogism we should look after, for he that hath once past the Aquaster, enters the Fire-world, and sees what is both Invisible and Incredible to the common Man. He shall discover to the Eye the miraculous Conspiracy that is between the Prester and the Sun. Hee shall know the secret Love of Heaven and Earth, and the sense of that deep Cabalism, Non est planta hic inferius cui non est stella in Firmamento superius, & ferit eam stella, & dicit ei Cresce. There is not an Herb here below, but he hath a star in Heaven above, and the star strikes him with her Beame, and sayes to him Grow. He shall know how the Fire-spirit hath his Root in the Spirituall Fire-Earth, and receives from it a secret Influx upon which he feeds, as Herbs feed on that Juice and Liquor, which they receive at their Roots from this Common Earth.