face of God is his true Essence in the intelligible world, which no man ever saw, except the _Messihe_, _I did set the Lord alwayes before mee_, _Psal._ 16. 8. And his posteriour parts are his effects in the Sensible world. The soule likewise cannot bee discerned and knowne, but by the functions it exerciseth in the body whilst it is annexed thereunto: _By which Plato was moved to thinke that soules could not consist without bodies, no more then fire without water._ So that after long revolutions of times, they should come againe to incorporate themselves here below: whereunto adheres that in the 6 of _Virgils Æneads_. All these when they have turned for many yeares, God cals them to the floud of Lethe, by great troopes, Being forgetfull that they must review the upper convexe, And begin againe to bee willing to returne into bodies. But this savours a little of new-birth, and _Pythagorean_ changings of soules into bodies, in which _Origen_ was likewise out of the way, as may be seene in his booke of Princes, and in Saint _Jeromes_ Epistle to _Avitus_. But more sincerely _Porphyrius_, although in the rest an impious adversary, a Calumniator of Christianisme; that for the perfect beatitude of soules, they must shunne and fly all bodies. So that, when the soule shall bee repurged from all corporal affections, and when it shall returne to its Creator, in its first simplicity, it hath no great desire to fall againe into the hands and calamities of this age, when the option should be left unto it free. From the Intelligible world then, it runnes downe into the Celestial, and from thence to the Elementary, all that which the spirit of man can attaine from the knowledge of the admirable effects of Nature, which Art intimates, in what shee can, whence by the revelation of these rare secrets, by the action of fire, the most part is magnified, the glory and magnificence of him who is the first motor and author thereof; for mans understanding according to _Hermes_, is as a Glasse where we come to shave off, and to abate the cleare and luminous rayes of the Divinity, represented to our senses by the Sunne above, and the fire his correspondent here below; which inflame the soule with an ardent desire of the knowledge and veneration of his Creatour, and by consequent of his love, for men love nothing but what they know.