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Of the immortality of mans soul, and the nature of it and other spirits.…
Of the immortality of mans soul, and the nature of it and other spirits. Two discourses, one in a letter to an unknown doubter, the other in a reply to Dr. Henry Moore's Animadversions on a private letter to him, which he published in his second edition of Mr. Joseph Glanvil's Sadducismus triumphatus, or, History of apparitions by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simons, 1682
OF THE NATURE OF SPIRITS: › Section 33-34: Ad SECT. XXXIII, XXXIV.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And that a Spirit is in its Contraction impenetrable, let your words testify, p. 312.
And that a Spirit is in its Contraction impenetrable, let your words testifie, p. 312.
[Greek or Hebrew] I define thus: A Power in a Spirit of offering so near to a corporeal Emanation from the Centre of Life, that it will so perfectly fill the Receptivity of Matter into which it has penetrated, that it is very difficult or impossible for any other Spirit to possess the same, and of hereby becoming so firmly and closely united to a Body, as both to actuate and be acted upon, to affect and be affected thereby.
〈non-Latin alphabet〉 I define thus: A Power in a Spirit of offering so near to a corporeal Emanation from the Center of Life, that it will so perfectly fill the Receptivity of Matter into which it has penetrated, that it is very difficult or impossible for any other Spirit to possess the same, and of hereby becoming so firmly and closely united to a Body, as both to actuate and be acted upon, to affect and be affected thereby.
So here is a Spirit when it hath filled a Body, that can no more be penetrated by another Spirit or Body; and so in this contracted state is impenetrable. So that this is but bringing diffused parts closer together, and then no other can be in the same place. And is this the necessary Form of a Spirit?