{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sce/sce27.htm","path":"neu/celt/sce/sce27.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sce/sce27.htm","text":"My LORD, after narrow Inqui\u0192ition, hath delivered many true and remarkable ob\u0192erves on this Subject; yet to encourage a further Scrutiny, I crave leave to \u0192ay,\nTHAT 1. But a few Women are endued with this Sight in re\u0192pect of Men, and their Predictions not \u0192o certane.\n2. This Sight is not criminal, \u0192ince a Man can come by it unawares, and without his Con\u0192ent; but it is certaine he \u0192ie more fatall and fearfull Things than he do glad\u0192ome.\n3. THE Seers avouch, that \u0192everalls who go\nto\nto the Siths, (or People at Re\u0192t, and, in re\u0192pect of us, in Peace,) before the natural Period of their Lyfe expyre, do frequently appear to them.\n4. A VEHEMENT De\u0192yre to attain this Airt is very helpfull to the Inquyrer; and the Species of ane Ab\u0192ent Friend, which appears to the Seers, as clearly as if he had \u0192ent his lively Picture to pre\u0192ent it \u0192elfe before him, is no phanta\u0192tick Shaddow of a \u0192ick Apprehen\u0192ion, but a reality, and a Me\u0192\u0192inger, coming for unknown Rea\u0192ons, not from the originall Similitude of it \u0192elfe, but from a more \u0192wift and pragmantick People, which recreat them \u0192elves in offering \u0192ecret Intelligence to Men, tho generally they are unacquainted with that Kind of Corre\u0192pondence, as if they had lived in a different element from them.\n5. THO my Collections were written long before I \u0192aw My Lord of Tarbett's, yet I am glad that his de\u0192criptions and mine corre\u0192pond \u0192o nearly. The Maid my Lord mentions, who \u0192aw her Image \u0192till before her, \u0192uteth with the CO-WALKER named in my Account; which tho\n\u0192ome\n\u0192ome, at fir\u0192t Thought, might conjecture to be by the Refraction of a Cloud or Mi\u0192t, as in the Parelij, (the whole Air and every Drop of Water being a Mirrour to returne the Species of Things, were our vi\u0192ive Faculty \u0192harpe enough to apprehend them,) or a naturall Reflexion, from the \u0192ame Rea\u0192ons that an Echo can be redoubled by Airt; yet it were more fa\u0192able ((?) fafable in original--JBH) to impute this Second Sight to a Quality infu\u0192ed into the Eye by ane Unction: for Witchies have a \u0192leepie Oyntment, that, when applyed, troubles their Fanta\u0192ies, advancing it to have unu\u0192uall Figures and Shapes repre\u0192ented to it, as if it were a Fit of Fanatici\u0192m, Hypocondriack Melancholly, or Po\u0192\u0192e\u0192\u0192ion of \u0192ome in\u0192inuating Spirit, rai\u0192ing the Soul beyond its common Strain, if the palpable In\u0192tances and Realities \u0192een, and innocently objected to the Sen\u0192es did not di\u0192prove it, make the Matter a palpable Verity, and no Deception; yet \u0192ince this Sight can be be\u0192towed without Oyntment, or dangerous Compact, the Qualification is not of \u0192o bad an Originall. Therefore,\n6. By my Lord's good Leave, I pre\u0192ume to\n\u0192ay\n\u0192ay, that this Sight can be no Quality of the Air nor of the Eyes; becaus, 1. such as live in the \u0192ame Air, and \u0192ie all other Things as farr off and as clearly, yet have not the SECOND SIGHT. 2. A SEER can give another Per\u0192on this Sight tran\u0192iently, by putting his Hand and Foot in the Po\u0192ture he requires of him. 3. The un\u0192ullied Eyes of Infants can naturally perceave no new unaccu\u0192tomed Objects, but what appear to other Men, unle\u0192s exalted and clarified \u0192ome Way, as Ballaam's A\u0192s for a Time; tho in a Witches Eye the Beholder cannot \u0192ie his own Image reflected, as in the Eyes of other People; \u0192o that Defect of Objects, as well as Diver\u0192ities of the Subject, may appear differently on \u0192everall Tempers and Ages. 4. Tho al\u0192o \u0192ome are of \u0192o venemous a Con\u0192titution, by being radicated in Envy and Malice, that they pierce and kill (like a Cockatrice) whatever Creature they fir\u0192t \u0192et their Eye on in the Morning; \u0192o was it with Walter Grahame, \u0192ome Time living in the Paroch wherein now I am, who killed his own Cow after commending its Fatne\u0192s, and\n\u0192hot\n\u0192hot a Hair with his Eyes, having prai\u0192ed its \u0192wiftne\u0192s, (\u0192uch was the Infection of ane evill Eye;) albeit this was unu\u0192uall, yet he \u0192aw no Object but what was obvious to other Men as well as to him\u0192elfe. 5. If the being tran\u0192ported to live in another Countrey did ob\u0192cure the Second Sight, nather the Par\u0192on nor the Maid needed be much troubled for her Reflex-\u0192elfe; a little Peregrination, and going from her wonted Home, would have \u0192alved her Fear. Wherefore,\n7. SINCE the Things \u0192een by the Seers are real Entities, the Pre\u0192ages and Predictions found true, but a few endued with this Sight, and tho\u0192e not of bad Lyves, or addicted to Malifices, the true Solution of the Ph\u00e6nomenon \u0192eems rather to be, the courteous Endeavours of our fellow Creatures in the Invi\u0192ible World to convince us, (in Oppo\u0192ition to Sadduce's, Socinians, and Athei\u0192ts,) of a Deity; of Spirits; of a po\u0192\u0192ible and harmle\u0192s Method of Corre\u0192pondence betwixt Men and them, even in this Lyfe; of their Operation for our Caution and Warning; of the Orders and Degrees\nof\nof Angells, whereof one Order, with Bodies of Air conden\u0192ed and curiou\u0192ly \u0192hap't, may be nixt to Man, \u0192uperior to him in Under\u0192tanding, yet unconfirmed; and of their Region, Habitation, and Influences on Man, greater than that of Starrs on inanimat Bodies; a Knowledge (belike) re\u0192erved for the\u0192e la\u0192t athei\u0192tick Ages, wherein the Profanity of Mens Lives hath debauched and blinded their Under\u0192tanding, as to MOSES, JESUS, and the Prophets, (unle\u0192s they get Convictions from Things formerly known,) as from the Regions of the Dead: nor doth the cea\u0192ing of the Vi\u0192ions, upon the Seers Tran\u0192migration into forrein Kingdoms, make his Lord\u0192hip's Conjecture of the Quality of the Air and Eye a white (while (?)--JBH) the more probable; but, on the Contrary, it confirms greatly my Account of ane Invi\u0192ible People, guardian over and care-full of Men, who have their different Offices and Abilities in di\u0192tinct Counterey's, as appears in Dan. 10. 13. viz. about I\u0192raels, Grecia's, and Per\u0192ia's a\u0192\u0192i\u0192tant Princes, whereof who \u0192o prevaileth giveth Dominion and A\u0192cendant to his Pupills and Va\u0192\u0192alls over\nthe\nthe oppo\u0192ite Armies and Countreys; \u0192o that every Countrey and Kingdom having their topical Spirits, or Powers a\u0192\u0192i\u0192ting and governing them, the SCOTTISH SEER bani\u0192hed to America, being a Stranger there, as well to the invi\u0192ible as to the vi\u0192ible Inhabitants, and wanting a Fimiliarity of his former Corre\u0192pondents, he could not have the Favour and Warnings, by the \u0192everall Vi\u0192ions and Predictions which were wont to be granted him by the\u0192e Acquantances and Favourites in his own Countrey. For if what he wont to \u0192ie were Realities, (as I have made appear,) 'twere too great ane Honour for Scotland to have \u0192uch \u0192eldom-\u0192een Watchers and predominant Powers over it alone, acting in it \u0192o expre\u0192\u0192ly, and all other Nations wholly de\u0192titute of the lyke; tho, without all peradventure, all other People wanted the right Key of their Cabinet, and the exact Method of Corre\u0192pondence with them, except the \u0192agacious active Scots, as many of them have retained it of a long Time, and by Surpry\u0192es and Raptures do often foirtell what in Kyndne\u0192s is really repre\u0192ented to them at\n\u0192everall\n\u0192everall Occa\u0192ions. To which Purpo\u0192e the learned lynx-ey'd Mr. Baxter, on Rev. 12. 7. writting of the Fight betwixt Michaell and the Dragon, gives a verie pertinent Note, viz. That he knows not but ere any great Action (e\u0192peciall tragicall) is don on Earth, that fir\u0192t the Battell and Victory is acted and atchieved in the Air betwixt the good and evill Spirits: Thus he. It \u0192eems the\u0192e were the mens Guardians; and the lyke Battells are oft tymes perceav'd in a Loaft (sic--JBH) in the Nycht-time; the Event of which myght ea\u0192ily be repre\u0192ented by \u0192ome one of the Number to a Corre\u0192pondent on Earth, as frequently the Report of great Actions have been more \u0192wiftly caried to other Countreys than all the Airt of us Mortals could po\u0192\u0192ibly di\u0192patch it. St. Au\u0192tine, (Augustine?--JBH) on Mark, 9. 4. giveth no \u0192mall Intimation of this Truth, averring that Elias appeared with Je\u0192us on the Mount in his proper Bodie, but Mo\u0192es in ane aereall Bodie, a\u0192\u0192umed like the Angels who appeared, and had Ability to eat with Abraham, tho no Nece\u0192\u0192ity on the Account of their Bodies. As lyke wife the late Doctrine of the Pre-exi\u0192tence\nof Souls, living into aereall Vehicles, gives a \u0192ingular Hint of the Po\u0192\u0192ibility of the Thing, if not a direct Prooff of the whole A\u0192\u0192ertion; which yet moreover may be illuminated by diver\u0192e other In\u0192tances of the lyke Nature, and as wonderfull, be\u0192ides what is above \u0192aid. As,\n8. THE invi\u0192ible Wights which haunt Hou\u0192es \u0192eem rather to be \u0192ome of our \u0192ubterranean Inhabitants, (which appear often to Men of the Second Sight,) than evill Spirits or Devills; becau\u0192e, tho they throw great Stones, Pieces of Earth and Wood, at the Inhabitants, they hurt them not at all, as if they acted not malitiou\u0192ly, like Devills at all, but in Sport, lyke Buffoons and Drolls. All Ages have affoorded \u0192ome ob\u0192cure Te\u0192timonies of it, as Pythagoras his Doctrine of Tran\u0192migration; Socrates's D\u00e6mon that gave him [Warning] of future Dangers; Platoe's cla\u0192\u0192ing them into various vehiculated Specie\u0192es of Spirits; Dioni\u0192ius Areopagita's mar\u0192halling nyne Orders of Spirits, \u0192uperiour and \u0192ubordinate; the Poets their borrowing of the Philo\u0192ophers, and add-\ning\ning their own Fancies of Fountain, River, and Sea Nymphs, Wood, Hill, and Montain Inhabitants, and that every Place and Thing, in Cities and Countreys, had \u0192peciall invi\u0192ible regular Gods and Governours. Cardan \u0192peaks of his Father his \u0192eeing the Species of his Friend, in a moon-\u0192hyn Night, riding fiercely by his Window on a white Hor\u0192e, the verie Night his Friend dy'd at a Va\u0192t Di\u0192tance from him; by which he under\u0192tood that \u0192ome Alteration would \u0192uddenly en\u0192ue. Cornelius Aggrippa, and the learned Dr. Mor, have \u0192everall Pa\u0192\u0192ages tending that Way. The Noctambulo's them\u0192elves would appear to have \u0192ome forrein joquing Spirit po\u0192\u0192e\u0192\u0192ing and \u0192upporting them, when they walk on deep Waters and Topes of Hou\u0192es without Danger, when a\u0192leep and in the dark; for it was no way probable that their Apprehen\u0192ion, and \u0192trong Imagination \u0192etting the Animal Spirits a work to move the Body, could pre\u0192erve it from \u0192inking in the Deepth, or falling down head-long, when a\u0192leep, any more than when awake, the Body being then as ponderous as before; and it is hard\nto attribute it to a Spirit flatelie evill and Enemy to Man, becau\u0192e the Noctambulo returns to his own Place \u0192afe. And the mo\u0192t furious Tribe of the D\u00e6mons are not permitted by Providence to attacke Men \u0192o frequently either by Night or by Day: For in our Highlands, as there may be many fair Ladies of this aereal Order, which do often try\u0192t with la\u0192civious young Men, in the quality of Succubi, or light\u0192ome Paramours and Strumpets, called Leannain Sith, or familiar Spirits (in Dewter. 18. 11.); \u0192o do many of our Hyghlanders, as if a \u0192trangling by the Night MARE, pre\u0192\u0192ed with a fearfull. Dream, or rather po\u0192\u0192e\u0192\u0192ed by one of our aereall Neighbours, ri\u0192e up fierce in the Night, and apprehending the neere\u0192t Weapons, do pu\u0192h and thru\u0192t at all Per\u0192ons in the \u0192ame Room with them, \u0192ometymes wounding their own Comerades to dead. The lyke whereof fell \u0192adly out within a few Miles of me at the writting, hereof I add but one In\u0192tance more, of a very young Maid, who lived neir to my la\u0192t Re\u0192idence, that in one Night learned a large Peice of Poe\u0192y, by\nthe frequent Repetition of it, from one of our nimble and courteous Spirits, whereof a Part was pious, the re\u0192t \u0192uper\u0192titious, (for I have a Copy of it,) and no other Per\u0192on was ever heard to repeat it before, nor was the Maid capable to compo\u0192e it of her\u0192elf,\n9. He demon\u0192trated and made evident to Sen\u0192e this extraordinary Vi\u0192ion of our Tramontain Seers, and what is \u0192een by them, by what is \u0192aid above, many haveing \u0192een this \u0192ame Spectres and Apparitions at once, haveing their vi\u0192ive Faculties entire; for non e\u0192t di\u0192putandum de gu\u0192tu. Itt now remaines to \u0192hew that it is not unfutable to Rea\u0192on nor the Holy Scriptures.\nFIRST, That it is not repugnant to Rea\u0192on, doeth appear from this, that it is no le\u0192s \u0192trange for Immortal Sparks and Souls to come and be immer\u0192ed into gro\u0192s terre\u0192trial elementary Bodies, and be \u0192o propagated, \u0192o nouri\u0192hed, \u0192o fed, \u0192oe cloathed as they are, and breathe in \u0192uch ane Air and World prepared for them, then for Hollanders or Hollow-cavern Inhabitants to live and traffick among us, in another\nState\nState of Being, without our Knowledge. For Raymond de Subinde, in his 3d Booke, Chap. 12. argues quaintly, that all Sorts of Living Creatures have a happie rational Politie of there own, with great Contentment; which Government and mutual Conver\u0192e of theirs they all pride and pluim them\u0192elves, becau\u0192e it is as unknown to Man, as Man is to them. Much more, that the Sone of the HIGHEST SPIRIT \u0192hould a\u0192\u0192ume a Bodie like ours, convinces all the World that no other Thing that is po\u0192\u0192ible needs be much wondered at.\n2. The Manucodiata, or Bird of Paradi\u0192e, living in the highe\u0192t Region of the Air; common Birds in the \u0192econd Region; Flies and In\u0192ects in the lowe\u0192t; Men and Bea\u0192ts on the Earth's Surface; Worms, Otters, Badgers, in Waters; lyke wi\u0192e Hell is inhabited at the Centre, and Heaven in the Circumference: can we then think the middle Cavities of the Earth emptie? I have \u0192een in Weems, (a Place in the Countie of Fyfe, in Scotland,) divers Caves cut out as va\u0192t Temples under Ground; the lyke is a Countie of England;\nin\nin Malta is a Cave, wherein Stons of a curious Cut are thrown in great Numbers every Day; \u0192o I have had barbed Arrow-heads of yellow Flint, that could not be cut \u0192o \u0192mall and neat, of \u0192o brittle a Sub\u0192tance, by all the Airt of Man. It would \u0192eem therefoir that the\u0192e mention'd Works were done by certaine Spirits of pure Organs, and not by Devills, who\u0192e continual Torments could not allow them \u0192o much Lea\u0192ure. Be\u0192ides the\u0192e, I have found fyve Curio\u0192ities in Scotland, not much ob\u0192erv'd to be el\u0192ewhere. 1. The Brounies, who in \u0192ome Families are Drudges, clean the Hou\u0192es and Di\u0192hes after all go to Bed, taking with him his Portion of Food and removing befor Day-break. 2. The Ma\u0192on Word, which tho \u0192ome make a Mi\u0192terie of it, I will not conceal a little of what I know. It is lyke a Rabbinical Tradition, in way of Comment on Jachin and Boaz, the two Pillars erected in Solomon's Temple, (1 Kings, 7. 21.) with ane Addition of \u0192ome \u0192ecret Signe delyvered from Hand to Hand, by which they know and become familiar one with another. 3. This Second\nSight\nSight, \u0192o largely treated of before. 4. Charmes, and curing by them very many Di\u0192ea\u0192es, \u0192ometimes by transferring the Sicknes to another. 5. A being Proof of Lead, Iron, and Silver or a Brieve making Men invulnerable. Divers of our Scotti\u0192h Commanders and Souldiers have been \u0192een with blue Markes only, after they were \u0192hot with leaden Balls; which \u0192eems to be an Italian Trick, for they \u0192eem to be a People too currious and magically inclyned. Finally Iris-men, our Northern-Scoti\u0192h, and our Athole Men are \u0192o much addicted to and delighted with Harps and Mu\u0192ick, as if, like King Saul, they were po\u0192\u0192e\u0192\u0192ed with a forrein Spirit, only with this Difference, that Mu\u0192ick did put Saul's Pley-fellow a \u0192leep, but rou\u0192ed and awaked our Men, vanqui\u0192hing their own Spirits at Plea\u0192ure, as if they were impotent of its Powers, and unable to command it; for wee have \u0192een \u0192ome poor Beggers of them, chattering their Teeth for Cold, that how \u0192oon they \u0192aw the Fire, and heard the Harp, leapt thorow the Hou\u0192e like Goats and Satyrs. As there paralell Stories in all Countries and Ages\nreported\nreported of the\u0192e our ob\u0192cure People, (which are no Dotages,) \u0192o is it no more of Nece\u0192\u0192itie to us fully to know their Beings and Manner of Life, then to under\u0192tand di\u0192tinctly the Politic of the nyne Orders of Angels; or with what Oyl the Lamp of the Sun is maintained \u0192o long and regularlie; or why the Moon is called a great Luminary in Scripture, while it only appears to be \u0192o; or if the Moon be truly inhabited, becau\u0192e Tele\u0192copes di\u0192cover Seas and Mountains in it, as well as flaming Furni\u0192hes in the Sun; or why the Di\u0192covery of America was look't on as a Fairie Tale, and the Reporters hooted at as Inventors of ridiculous Utopias, or the fir\u0192t probable A\u0192\u0192erters puni\u0192hed as Inventures of new Gods and Worlds; or why in England the King cures the Struma by \u0192troaking, and the Seventh Son in Scotland; whither his temperat Complexion conveys a Bal\u0192ome, and \u0192ucks out the corrupting Principles by a frequent warme \u0192anative Contact, or whither the Parents of the Seventh Child put furth a more eminent Virtue to his Production than to all the Re\u0192t, as being the\ncertain\ncertain Meridian and hight to which their Vigour a\u0192cends, and from that furth have a graduall declyning into a feeblene\u0192s of the Bodie and its Production. And then, 1. Why is not the 7th Son infected him\u0192elfe by that Contagion he extracts from another? 2. How can continual \u0192troaking with a cold Hand have \u0192oe \u0192trong a natural Operation, as to exhale all the Infections warming corroding Vapours. 3. Why may not a 7th Daughter have the \u0192ame Vertue? So that it appears, albeit, a happie natural Con\u0192titution concurre, yet \u0192omething in it above Nature. Therefore every Age hath left \u0192ome \u0192ecret for its Di\u0192coverie; who knows but this Entercour\u0192e bewixt the two Kinds of rationall Inhabitants of the \u0192ame Earth may be not only beleived \u0192hortly, but as friely entertain'd, and as well known, as now the Airt of Navigation, Printing, Limning, riding on Saddles with Stirrups, and the Di\u0192coveries of Micro\u0192copes, which were \u0192ometimes a great a Wonder, and as hard to be beleived.\n10. THO I will not be \u0192o curious nor \u0192o peremptorie as he who will prove the Po\u0192i-\nbility\nbility of the Philo\u0192opher's Stone from Scripture, Job, 28. 1. 2. Job, 22. 24. 25.; or the Pluralitie of Worlds, from John, 14. 2. and Hebrews ii. 3.; nor the Circulation of Blood from Eccles. 12. and 6.; nor the Tani\u0192manical Airt, from the Blind and Lame mentioned in 2d of Samuel, 5. 6. yet I humblie propo\u0192e the\u0192e Pa\u0192\u0192ages which may give \u0192ome Light to our Subject at lea\u0192t, and \u0192how that this Polity and Rank of People is not a Thing impo\u0192\u0192ible, nor the mode\u0192t and innocent Scrutiny of them impertinent or un\u0192afe. The Legion or Brigad of Spirits (mentioned Mark, 5. 10.) be\u0192ought our Saviour not to \u0192end them away out of the Countrey; which \u0192hows they were D\u00c6MONES LOCI, Topical Spirits, and peculiar Superintendents and Supervi\u0192ors a\u0192\u0192ign'd to that Province. And the Power over the Nations granted (Rev. 2. 26.) to the Conquerors of Vice and Infidelitie, Sound \u0192omewhat to that Purpo\u0192e. Tobit had a D\u00e6mon attending Marriage, Chap. 6. Ver\u0192e, 15; and in Matth. 4. and 5. ane evill Spirit came in a Vi\u0192ible Shape to tempt our Saviour, who him\u0192elfe\ndenyed\ndenyed not the \u0192en\u0192ible appearing of Gho\u0192ts to our Sight, but \u0192aid, their Bodies were not compo\u0192ed of Fle\u0192h and Bones, as ours, Luke, 24- 39. And in Philip. 2. 10. our verie Subterraneans are expre\u0192\u0192ly \u0192aid to bow to the Name of JESUS. Eli\u0192ha, not intellectually only, but \u0192en\u0192ibly, \u0192aw Gehazi when out of the Reach of ane ordinary View. It wants not good Evidents that there are more managed by God's Spirits, good, evill, and intermediate Spirits, among Men in this World, then we are aware of; the good Spirits inge\u0192ting fair and heroick Apprehen\u0192ions and Images of Vertue and the divyne Life, thereby animating us to act for a higher Happines, according to our Improvement; and relinqui\u0192hing us as \u0192trangely upon our Neglect, or our embraceing the deceatfull \u0192yrene-like Pictures and Repre\u0192entations of Plea\u0192ures and Gain, pre\u0192ented to our Imaginations by evill and \u0192portfull Angells, to allure to ane unthinking, ungenerous, and \u0192en\u0192ual Lyfe; non of them having power to compell us to any Mi\u0192demeanour without our flat Con\u0192ent. Moreover, this Life\nof ours being called a Warfair, and God's \u0192aying that at la\u0192t there will be no Peace to the Wicked, our bu\u0192\u0192ie and \u0192ilent Companions al\u0192o being called Siths, or People at Re\u0192t and Quiet, in re\u0192pect of us; and withall many Gho\u0192ts appearing to Men that want this Second Sight, in the very Shapes, and \u0192peaking the \u0192ame Language, they did when incorporate and alive with us; a Matter that is of ane old impre\u0192criptible Tradition, (our Highlanders making \u0192till a Di\u0192tinction betwixt Sluagh Saoghalta and Sluagh Sith, averring that the Souls goe to the Sith when di\u0192lodged;) many real Trea\u0192ures and Murders being di\u0192covered by Souls that pa\u0192s from among our \u0192elves, or by the Kindne\u0192s of the\u0192e our airie Neighbours, non of which Spirits can be altogither inorganical. No le\u0192s than the Con\u0192eits about Purgatory, or a State of Re\u0192cue; the Limbus Patrum et Infantum, Inventions, [which] tho mi\u0192applyed, yet are not Chim\u00e6ras, and altogither groundle\u0192s. For ab origine, it is nothing but blan\u0192h and faint Di\u0192coveries of this SECRET REPUBLICK Of ours here treated on, and additional Fictions\nof Monks doting and crazied Heads, our Creed \u0192aying that our Saviour de\u0192cended \u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u1f85\u03b4\u03bf\u03c5, to the invi\u0192ible Place and People. And many Divines \u0192uppo\u0192ing that the Deity appear'd in a vi\u0192ible Shape \u0192een by Adam in the Cooll of the Day, and \u0192peaking to him with ane audible voice. And Je\u0192us, probably by the Mini\u0192tery of invi\u0192ible Attendants, conveying more meat of the \u0192ame Kind to the fyve Thow\u0192and that wes fed by him with a very few Loaves and Fi\u0192hes, (for a new Creation it was not.) The Zijmjiim and Ochim, in I\u0192a. 13. 21. 22. Thes Satyres, and doolfull unknown Creatures of I\u0192lands and De\u0192erts, \u0192eem to have a plain Pro\u0192pect that Way. Finally, the eternal Happine\u0192s enjoyed in the 3d Heavens, being more my\u0192terious than mo\u0192t of Men take it to be. It is not a \u0192en\u0192e whollie adduced to Scripture to \u0192ay, that this SIGHT, and the due Objects of it, hath \u0192ome Ve\u0192tige in holy Write, but rather 'tis mode\u0192tly deduced from it.\n11. It only now remains to an\u0192ear the obvious Objections again\u0192t the Reality and Lawfullne\u0192s of this Speculation.\nQue\u0192tion\nQUESTION 1. How do you \u0192alve the Second Sight from Compact and Witchcraft?\nANSWER, Tho this Corre\u0192pondence with the Intermediate Unconfirm'd People (betwixt Man and Angell) be not ordinary to all of us who are Superterraneans, yet this SIGHT falling \u0192ome Per\u0192ons by Accident, and its being connatural to others from their Birth, the Derivation of it cannot always be wicked. A too great Curio\u0192itie, indeed, to acquyre any unnece\u0192\u0192ary Airt, may be blameworthy; but diver\u0192e of the SECRET COMMONWEALTH may, by Permi\u0192\u0192ion, di\u0192cover them\u0192elves as innocently to us, who are in another State, as \u0192ome of us Men do to Fi\u0192hes, which are in another Element, when we plunge and dive into the Bottom of the Seas, their native Region; and in Proce\u0192s of Time we may come to conver\u0192e as familiarly with the\u0192e nimble and agile Clans (but with greater Plea\u0192ure and Profit,) as we do now with the Chino's Antipodes.\nQUESTION 2. Are they \u0192ubject to Vice, Lusts? Pa\u0192\u0192ion, and Inju\u0192tice, as we who live on the Surface of the Earth?\nAn\u0192wer\nANSWER. The Seers tell us that the\u0192e wandering Aereal People have not \u0192uch an Impetus and fatall Tendency to any Vice as Men, as not being drenched into \u0192o gro\u0192s and dregy Bodies as we, but yet are in ane imperfect State, and \u0192ome of them making better E\u0192\u0192ays for heroick Actions than others; having the \u0192ame Mea\u0192ures of Vertue and Vice as wee, and \u0192till expecting advancement to a higher and more \u0192plendid State of Lyfe. One of them is \u0192tronger than many Men, yet do not incline to hurt Mankind, except by Commi\u0192\u0192ion for a gro\u0192s Mi\u0192demeanour, as the de\u0192troying Angell of \u00c6gypt, and the A\u0192\u0192yrians, Exod. 12. 29. 2 Kings, 10. 35. They haunt mo\u0192t where is mo\u0192t Barbaritie; and therefoir our ignorant Ance\u0192tors, to prevent the In\u0192ults of that \u0192trange People, u\u0192ed as rude and cour\u0192e a Remedie; \u0192uch as Exorci\u0192ms, Donations, and Vows: But how \u0192oon ever the true Piety prevailed in any Place, it did not put the Inhabitants beyond the Reach and Awthoritie of the\u0192e \u0192ubtile inferiour Co-inhabitants and Colleagues of ours: The FATHER OF ALL SPIRITS, and the Per\u0192on\nhim\u0192elfe\nhim\u0192elfe, having the only Command of his Soul and Actions, a concurrance they may have to what is virtuously done; for upon committing of a foul Deed, one will find a Demure upon his Soul, as if his cheerfull Collegue had de\u0192erted him.\nQUESTION 3. Do the\u0192e airie Tribes procreate? If \u0192o, how are they nouri\u0192hed, and at what period of Time do they die?\nANSWER. Suppo\u0192ing all Spirits to be created at once in the Beginning, Souls to pre-exist and to circle about into \u0192everal States of Probation\u0192hip; to make them either totally unexcu\u0192able, or perfectly happie again\u0192t the la\u0192t Day, \u0192olves all the Difficulties. But in very Deed, and \u0192peaking \u0192uteable to the Nature of Things, there is no more Ab\u0192urditie for a Spirit to inform ane Infant in Bodie of Airs, than a Bodie compo\u0192ed of dull and dru\u0192ie Earth; the be\u0192t of Spirits have alwayes delyghted more to appear into aereal, than into terre\u0192trial Bodyes. They feed mo\u0192t what on Quinte\u0192\u0192ences, and aetheriall E\u0192\u0192ences. The Pith and Spirits only of Women's Milk feed their Children, being arti-\nficially\nficially conveyed, (as Air and Oyl \u0192ink into our Bodies,) to make them vigorous and fre\u0192h. And this \u0192horter Way of conveying a pure Aliment, (without the u\u0192uall Dige\u0192tions,) by tran\u0192fu\u0192ing it, and tran\u0192pyring thorow the Pores into the Veins, Arteries, and Ve\u0192\u0192ells that \u0192upplie the Bodie, is nothing more ab\u0192urd, than ane Infant's being fed by the Navel before it is borne, or than a Plant, which groweth by attracting a livelie juice from the Earth thorow many \u0192mall Roots and Tendons, whose cour\u0192er Pairts be adapted and made connatural to the Whole, doth quickly coale\u0192ce by the ambient Cold; and \u0192o are conden\u0192'd and bak'd up into a confirm'd Wood in the one, and \u0192olid Bodie of the Fle\u0192h and Bone in the other. A Notion which, if intertained and approv'd, may \u0192hew that the late Invention of \u0192oaking and tran\u0192fu\u0192ing (not Blood, but) athereal virtuall Spirits, may be u\u0192efull both for Nouri\u0192hment and Health, whereof is a Ve\u0192tige in the damnable Practi\u0192e of evill Angells, their \u0192ucking of Blood and Spirits out of Witches Bodys (till they drew them into a deform'd and dry Leanne\u0192s,) to \u0192eid their own\nVehicles\n[paragraph continues] Vehicles withall, leaving what we call the Witches Mark behind; a Spot that I have \u0192een, as a \u0192mall Mole, horny, and brown-coloured; throw which Mark, when a large Bra\u0192s Pin was thru\u0192t (both in Buttock, No\u0192e, and Rooff of the Mouth,) till it bowed and become crooked, the Witches, both Men and Women, nather felt a Pain, nor did bleed, nor knew the preci\u0192e Time when this was adoing to them, (there Eyes only being covered.) Now the Air being a Body as well as Earth, no Rea\u0192on can be given why there may not be Particles of more vivific Spirit form'd of it for Procreation, then is po\u0192\u0192ible to be of Earth, which takes more Time and Pains to rarify and ripen it, ere it can come to have a prolific Virtue. And if our Aping Darlings did not thus procreate, there whole Number would be exhau\u0192ted after a con\u0192iderable Space of Time. For tho they are of more refyned Bodies and Intellectualls than wee, and of far le\u0192s heavy and corruptive Humours, (which cau\u0192e a Di\u0192\u0192olution,) yet many of their Lives being di\u0192\u0192onant to right Rea\u0192on and their own Laws,\nand\nand their Vehicles not being wholly frie of Lu\u0192t and Pa\u0192\u0192ion, e\u0192pecially of the more \u0192pirituall and hautie Sins they pa\u0192s (after a long healthy Lyfe) into one Orb and Receptacle fitted for their Degree, till they come under the general Cognizance of the la\u0192t Day.\nQUESTION 4. Doth the acquiring of this Second Sight make any Change on the Acquirers Body, Mind, or Actions?\nANSWER. All uncouth SIGHTS enfeebles the SEER. Daniel, tho familiar with divyne Vi\u0192ions, yet fell frequently doun without Strength, when dazzled with a Power which had the A\u0192cendant of, and pa\u0192\u0192ed on him beyond his Comprehen\u0192ion, Chap. 10. 8. 17. So our SEER is put in a Rapture, Tran\u0192port, and \u0192ort of Death, as dive\u0192ted of his Body and all its Sen\u0192es, when he is fir\u0192t made participant of this curious Peice of Knowledge: But it maketh no Wramp or Strain in the Under\u0192tanding of any; only to the Fancy's of clownish or illiterate Men, it creates \u0192ome Affrightments and Di\u0192turbances, becau\u0192e of the Strongne\u0192s of the Showes, and their Unacquaintedne\u0192s with them. And as for their\ntheir Lyfe, the Per\u0192ons endued with this Rarity are, for the mo\u0192t Part, candid, hone\u0192t, and \u0192ociable People. If any of them be \u0192ubject to Immoralities, this ob\u0192tru\u0192e Skill is not to be blamed for it; for unle\u0192s them\u0192elves be the Tempters, the Colonies of the Invi\u0192ible Plantations, with which they intercommune, do provoke them by no Villainy or Malifice, nather at their fir\u0192t Acquaintance nor after a long Familiarity.\nQUESTION 5. Doth not Sathan interpo\u0192e in \u0192uch Ca\u0192es by many \u0192ubtile unthought In\u0192inuations, as to him who let the Fly, or Familiar, go out of the Box, and yet found the Fly of his own putting in, as \u0192erviceable as the other would have been?\nANSWER. The Goodne\u0192s of the Lyfe, and De\u0192igns of the ancient Prophets and Seers, was one of the be\u0192t Prooffs of their Mi\u0192\u0192ion. 1\n78:1 The original Transcriber has added:\n\"See the Rest in a little Manuscript belonging to Coline Kirk,\" probably the author's son of that name.--A. L.","title":"The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies: The Secret Commonwealth: Conclusions","type":"page"}