id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
A63809	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	Pythagoras his mystick philosophy reviv'd, or, The mystery of dreams unfolded wherein the causes, natures, and uses of nocturnal representations ... are theosophically unfolded ... / by Tho. Tryon ...	1691		.xml	application/xml	45320	763	31	THE matters we propose to handle in this Treatise , are abstruce , various , profound and mysterious , since man has so far Eclipsed those glorious Intellectual Beams planted in his nature by the Father of Lights ; since he has interposed such a Chaos of gross Imaginations and Earthly Affections , and Clouds of Bituminous Smoke , fetcht from the Infernal pit , so that he seems altogether inveloped with a pithy Darkness , Dismal as that of Egypt , which might be felt , and is forced ( as the Prophet speaks ) to grope even at noonday , being become almost an utter stranger to himself , and all the marvellous Works of his Creator , insomuch that the most Towering Mortals , that call themselves Philosophers , feed their halffamisht intellectuals with Airy Notions , instead of Solid Speculations ; blunder on , Hoodwinckt by Tradition , in a constant flesh-pleasing Rood of Error , and a Contentious Sophistry of Words , whilst in Truth , they know nothing , as they ought to know of Themselves or their Maker ; of the principals themselves are composed of , or what makes them Men ; much less are they acquainted with the Sympathetical Harmony of the Universe , that true Musick of the Sphears , that Golden Chain which unites Heaven and Earth ; nor indeed do they ken the Reason of the most obvious operations of Nature . For all the time the Body sleepeth , it is as it were dead , and ten hours is but as one minute , but the spirit and soul liveth and acteth , and seeth and apprehendeth things as if it had not any earthly Body , but were already in Eternity ; for near and afar off is all a like unto it , it can as easily visit remote Countries and Regions beyond the Equinoctial or Tropicks , as a mans own House or Garden ; it can sink it self into the deepest of Depths , and also sore aloft and range through all the Coelestial sphears ; the Etherial Spirits of men being thus volatile , and busie when the outward body or senses are dead , or , ( which is all one for the time ) asleep , the Immaterial Beeings , or seperated Souls being of an homogenial Nature , and like state , can easily hold communication therewith by such means as are proper for the intercourse of such spirituous Essences , especially if before the Death of the Body there was something strongly impressed on the Spirit of the deceased , which proves very burthensome until they have by some means revealed it to those to whom they had a desire to impart it before their Death , but by some accident were prevented , or where there is some great sympathy or similitude between the Soul of the deceased , and the Living , and for this last reason , the Souls of strangers sometimes do make application to such sympathizing Souls of the Living whilst the Body lies asleep , and reveal great secrets , or foretel them of things sometimes good , and sometimes evil , that are likely to befal them .	cache/A63809.xml	txt/A63809.txt
