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of whom the Pfalmift philofophically fays (for true philofophy is one with true piety) "darkness and clouds are round about him" and Solomon repeats the fame," the Lord faid that he would dwell in the thick darkness."

Religion teaches the filial cultivation or worship of this remoteft caufe of human action, first practically; fecondly, doctrinally; the firft, refpecting the heart or will of man, which ever and always regulates his practice; the fecond, his head or understanding, whofe office it is to explain the manner, and aflign the reafens of his practice.

Now, Magic, fubordinately to Religion, teaches the focial cultivation of thofe principles or beings, which are the medium of communication between God and man, confidering the last as a genus, or between the pureft fpirit and the inertelt matter, confidering man individually.

Now, there arifes another diftinétion, fpiritual magic and natural magic. To explain this I must call to the reader's recollection (for I fhall not fay inform) that as there is no man without life or fpirit as well as body, (every inftance of putrefaction proving, that the last cannot exift without the firft) fo it is, the principle being exactly the fame, equally a fact, and equally the fubject of experience, that no part of a man, in ternal or external, can exift without its own proper fpirit. Thus the blood informed by fpirit, circulates and is warm; nay, fo great, fo independent is this fpirit, that polar cold cannot abate, nor tropical funs increafe its determinate warmth. But feparate the body or external appearance of blood from its fpirit, either by extravafation or difeafe, and corruption, palfy, and death, enfue. Sinews, nerves, bones, perith, on a feparation from their own fpirit, though the man in general lives. Embalming and prefervation of bodies is effected by the infufion of external fpirits congenial to the original and internal spirit.

Now then, Spiritual Magic practical

operates on the Spirit of man; and on the fpirit of his component parts: the fame fpeculative, teaches how to operate thus. Natural Magic practical operates on the Matter of man, either wholly or partially the fame fpeculative, teaches how to do this, and GOOD Magic how to do thefe beneficially.

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But there is another fubdivifion of Natural Magic. It must be remembered, that as man is three-fold, fo are his members; that is, there is a fpiritual, innermoft or remoteft, a natural or external, and a medium between these two extents, viz. an internal. this triplicity or trinity is effential to exiftence, for there can be nothing without a beginning, a middle, and an end, whether a being of space or a being of time. Mr. Swedenborg, before me, has very elaborately explained this in his "Treatife of the Holy Scripture."

This fubdivifion has produced its correfpondent in the faculty of phyfic. The chymift applies himself and his art to the internal or medium; the druggift and apothecary to the matter or external only, fo far forth as he can: for after all his efforts to avoid chemistry, he must truft his patient to the chymical powers of a grain of opium, or calomel, not to the mechanic ones of a wheel and a lever: the chymift, the harneffed academician, after ftrutting all his life in the chains of defpotic experiment, fearing or abufing the activi ty of metaphyfics, and spurning the fuperftitions of magic, finds, after years of precife abstraction and attempted reduction to terra damnata in his crucibles, a SPIRIT EXHALE AT LAST: rather in

deed, than allow the poffibility of underftanding that, which they do not chuse to try to understand, the phyficians of the day apply to diseases beyond their art, a name by which they mean to express the boundary of all art, ne vous; but which without regarding their vapouring at all who attempt to pafs, it is the direction and will be the effect of this one eflay to throw down, trample on and an

nihilate.

The true Magician a true Chriftian.

nihilate. It is curious to observe, how a word experimentally used by their great predeceffors, to exprefs the perfection of manly ftrength, has been infenfibly converted by the difpirited modern phyficians of to day, on the fame ground of experience to exprefs every weakness of mind and body. The ancients felt the feat of their itrength to be in mind; they invigorated as they fpiritualifed; they expreffed their idea of ftrength by the feat of the moft fubtle fpirits, the nerves; they enlarged, they grew firm as they approach divinity. I will not trace the contrast. I will fay though, that I mean the parallel of the modern phyfician's fcience to apply to the modern clergyman's religion; not excepting the best man and first preacher in this class.

I now proceed to another clafs or scale, not confifting of many, but the few of as much importance as all the reft put together. Ifpeak exactly true, anatomically correct.

The clafs I am now with, Magicians, do not in religion as chymifls in fpirituals, fpeculatively deny its poffibility or fneer at its principles; but rather like phyficians or apothecaries, who do not profefs chymistry, fully and fincerely acknowledge its existence, but try to practice without it as much as they can. But apothecaries cannot adminifter drugs which do not operate by a higher and chymical Power, fo cannot the magician operate but through the fuperiour influences of religion, infpired from the Remoteft GOD.

As a parallel to thefe, are thofe myftics, nay even receivers of Swedenborg, whofe practice has been hugging the ground like a worm, while their intellect has been balking in fome of the brighteft beams of divine íplendors.

Thus have I brought this fcience from vifionary to a foundation, and a foundation not less folid than the throne of GOD. I have quoted fcriptures which, oppofite to the vulgar fenfe of the learned, who attribute firmness to the

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footing fhewn by the flender rays of their own understanding, and fluctuation to the region of clouds above them, reft implicitly on this region of clouds as containing the Throne of GOD: the place of David's fheet-anchor was indeed covered with waters, but was protected from winds; it is within the veil, but is "both fure and ftedfast.”

The putting the mind of man into motion by the deepest or moft efficaci. ous or moft mental means, which the perfon can devife, is fpiritual Magic Practical; the devifing or knowledge of thefe means is fpiritual Magic fpeculative or fcientific.

As man embraces in his form (that of God) the forms, and confequently the principles or fpirits of all creation, it follows that, when thefe fprings are touched in him, they are touched in all creation. Hence at his fall, at the moment that his mind ceafed to be the garden of GOD, the ground brought forth thorns and brambles : hence at his renewal in peace and love, "the wolf fhall dwell with the lamb." Hence too, it follows that, as the magician may be diftinguishingly, a martial, mercurial, or folar fpirit, a lunar, vencreal, faturnine, or jovial, fo laws, governments, kingdoms, tempefts, thundes, lightnings, love, winds, popular commotions, deftruction of buildings, fires, are all in the power of the Magician, as far as he is in the power of GOD. In a word, whatever human powers can do in body, man can cause to be done by his fpirit; nay, nothing can be done without this caule, as body is efficient through fpirit only. Therefore the true magician is the truc chriflian, and alone acknowledges, as fuch, that "all things are his, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things prefent or things to come, all are his, and he is Christ's, and Chrill is GOD's.”

I COR. iii. 21, 22, 23.

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INGENIOUS AMUSEMENTS,

PHILOSOPHICAL, PHYSICAL, AND

MATHEMATICAL.

By Pinetti and other celebrated Artists.

PAPER 111.

Curious Method of restoring to Life, in two Minutes, a Fly that has been drowned even twenty-four Hours.

THIS wonderful experiment, like many others, is produced by a very fimple caufe. Take a fy, put it in a glafs or cup full of water; cover it fo as to deprive the fly of air; when you perceive it to be quite motionlefs, you may take it out and put it on a place expofed to the fun, and cover it with falt in two minutes it will revive and fly away.

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To make a Colour that will appear or difap. To render hideous the Faces of all the pear by Means of the Air.

TAKE a smelling-bottle; put in it fome alkali volatile, in which you have diffolved fome copper filings: this will produce a blue colour. Prefent then the smelling-bottle to one of the company, defiring him to ftop it; and, to their great aftonishment, the colour will difappear as foon as the fmelling-bottle is ftopped: you will make it eafily reappear by taking off the cork, which will be not lefs furprifing.

A Method of drawing a deformed Figure, which will appear well proportioned from a certain Point of View.

DRAW any thing you may fancy on a thin white pafteboard; then prick it; afterwards put the fame on an horizontal furface, which we will fuppofe to be another pasteboard. Put a lighted candle behind that drawing, and draw on the horizontal furface the lines given by the light this will give a deformed defign. This being done, take away the drawing that was pricked and the canVOL. I.

Company.

DISSOLVE fome falt and faffron in fome fpirits of wine; dip a little tow in it and fet fire to it. At this light, those who are of a fair complexion will appear green, and the red of the lips and cheeks.turn to a deep olive colour.

Method of Engraving in Relief on the

Shell of a new-laid Egg.

CHUSE an egg that has a thick fhell; wash it well in fresh water; then

dry it very carefully with a linen cloth; this being done, put fome tallow or fat in a filver fpoon; then hold it on the fire; when the fat is melted and very hot, it will ferve inftead of ink, for drawing with a new pen whatever you like. This being finifhed, you are to take the egg by the two ends between two fingers, and then lay it gently in a tumbler filled with good white wine vinegar; wherein, after remaining for three hours and an half, the acid of the vinegar will have eaten enough of the thickness of the fhell; and as it cannot

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have the fame effect on thofe places that are covered with the fat, all the drawing will have preferved its thickness, and will form the relief that is wanted, the operation fought for.

By this means one may draw on an egg a coat of arms, a mofaic piece, medallion, or any other defign whatever,

How to fhoot a Swallow flying, with a Gun loaded with Powder, as ufuai; and after, to find Means to bring it to life again.

LOAD your gun with the ufual charge of powder, but inflead of fhót put half a charge of quickfilver; prime and fhoot if your piece bears ever fo little near the bird, as it is not neceffary to touch it, the fwallow will find itfelf ftunned and benumbed to fuch a degree, as to fall to the ground in a fit. As it will regain its fenfes in a few minutes, you may make ufe of the time by faying, that you are going to bring it to life again; this will aftonifh greatly the company; the ladies will no doubt intereft themselves in favour of the bird, and intercede for its liberty: fympathizing with their feelings for the little pri foner, may be the means of fome of them fympathizing with yours.

To make a Calve's Head bellow as if alive, when dreffed and ferved up.

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men, there are three fuins very different from each other, and very difproportionate; yet I wish to divide them among three perfons, fo that they may have an equal fum each, and yet without altering any thing in either of the fums, This will appear very difficult, yet nothing fo fimple and eafy; one fingle addition will fuffice to prove to you that the amount of each fum will be the fame, and that the fhares will not enrich much the refpective perfons: here is the proof;

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Here then is my divifion made, and each perfon will have only 18, as Į in-have proved by the foregoing example.

THIS is effected by a fimple and nocent ftratagem; it confifts in what follows take a frog that is alive, and put it at the farther end of the calve's head, under the tongue, which you will let fall over it; taking care not to put the frog there till the calve's head is going to be ferved up.

The heat of the tongue will make the frog croak; which found, coming from the hollow part of the head, will imitate the bellowing of a calf as if it were alive.

A puzzling Quetion to be propofed for

Selution. Taken from Ozannan.

SET down three fums on paper; and fay to the company, Ladies and gentle

By this we fee, that nothing more is required than to be attentive in setting the fums, to make the numbers fo that each fum may amount only to 18.

You may make the fame queftion on whatever fum you pleate, only obferv. ing, as above, that the amount of the numbers you fet may not exceed the fum you defire to belong to each perfon that is to have a share.

How to difpofe two little Figures, fo that one shall light a Candle, and the other put it out. From Dean's Legerdemain. TAKE two little figures of wood or clay, or any other materials you pleafe,

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