Sensitive, or Rationall, so farre are they from proving to be the humane
soul whose nature is there discust.
C
_Cone_: Is a solid figure made by the turning of a rectangular triangle,
about; one of the sides that include the right angle resting, which will
be then the Axis of the compleated Cone. But I take it sometimes for the
comprehension of all things, God himself not left out, whom I tearm the
_Basis_ of the _Cone_ or _Universe_. And because all from him descends,
καθ’ ὑποστολῆν, with abatement or contraction, I give the name of _Cone_
to the Universe. And of Cone rather then Pyramid because of the
roundnesse of the figure, which the effluxes of all things imitate.
_Chaos_, }
_Chronicall_, } See interpret· Gen.
_Clare_, }
_Circulation_, The terme is taken from a toyish observation, _viz._ the
circling of water when a stone is cast into a standing pool. The motion
drives on circularly, the first rings are thickest, but the further they
go they grow the thinner, till they vanish into nothing. Such is the
diffusion of the species audible in the strucken aire, as also of the
visible species. In brief any thing is said to circulate that diffuseth
its image or species in a round. It might have been more significantly
called orbiculation; seeing this circumfusion makes not onely a circle,
but fills a sphere, which may be called the sphere of activity. Yet
Circulation more fitly sets out the diminution of activity, from those
ringes in the water which as they grow in compasse, abate in force and
thicknesse. But sometimes I use Circulate in an ordinary sense to turn
round, or return in a circle.
_Centre_, _Centrall_, _Centrality_. When they are used out of their
ordinary sense, they signifie the depth or inmost being of any thing,
from whence its acts and energies flow forth. See _Atom-lives_.
_Cuspis_ of the _Cone_. The multiplide Cuspis of the Cone is nothing but
the last projection of life from Psyche, which is שׁמים a liquid fire or
fire and water, which are the corporeall or materiall principles of all
things, changed or disgregated (if they be centrally distinguishable)
and again mingled by the virtue of Physis or Spermaticall life of the
world; of these are the Sunne and all the Planets, they being kned
together, and fixt by the Centrall power of each Planet and Sunne. The
volatile Ether is also of the same, and all the bodies of plants, beasts
and men. These are they which we handle and touch, a sufficient number
compact together. For neither is the noise of those little flies in a
summer-evening audible severally: but a full Quire of them strike the
ear with a pretty kind of buzzing. Strong and tumultuous pleasure and
scorching pain reside in these, they being essentiall and centrall, but
sight and hearing are onely of the images of these, See _Body_.
_Eternitie._ Is the steddie comprehension of all things at once. See Æon
discribed in my Expos. upon Psychozoia.
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