_Atom-lives._ The same that Centrall lives. Both the terms denotate the
indivisibility of the inmost essence it self; the pure essentiall form I
mean, of plant, beast or man, yea of angels themselves, good or bad.
_Apogee_, }
_Autokineticall_, }
_Ananke_, } See Interpret. Gen.
_Acronycall_, }
_Alethea-land_, }
_Animadversall. That lively inward animadversall._ It is the soul it
self, for I cannot conceive the body doth animadvert; when as objects
plainly exposed to the sight are not discovered till the soul takes
notice of them.
B
_Body._ The ancient Philosophers have defined it, Τὸ τριχῇ διάστατον
μετ’ ἀντιτυπίας. _Sext. Emperic. Pyrrhon. Hypotyp. lib. 3. cap. 5._ Near
to this is that description, _Psychathan_, Cant. 2. Stanz. 12. lib. 2,
_Matter extent in three dimensions._ But for that ἀντιτυπία, simple
trinall distension doth not imply it, wherefore I declin’d it. But took
in _matter_ according to their conceit, that phansie _à Materia prima_,
I acknowledge none, and consequently no such _corpus naturale_ as our
Physiologist make the subject of that science. That Τριχῇ διάστατον
ἀντίτυπον is nothing but a fixt spirit, the conspissation or coagulation
of the Cuspidall particles of the Cone, which are indeed the Centrall
Tasis or inward essence of the sensible world. These be an infinite
number of vitall Atoms that may be wakened into diverse tinctures, or
energies, into fiery, watery, earthy, &c. And one divine _Fiat_ can
unloose them all into an universall mist, or turn them out of that sweat
into a drie and pure Etheriall temper. These be the last projections of
life from the soul of the world; and are act or form though debil and
indifferent, like that which they call the first matter. But they are
not meerly passive but meet their information half way, as I may so
speak: are radiant _ab intimo_ and awake into this or the other
operation, by the powerfull appulse of some superadvenient form. That
which change of Phantasmes is to the soul, that is alteration of rayes
to them. For their rayes are _ab intrinseco_, as the phantasmes of the
soul. These be the reall matter of which all supposed bodies are
compounded, and this matter (as I said) is form and life, so that all is
life and form what ever is in the world, as I have somewhere intimated
in _Antipsychopan_: But however I use the terme _body_ ordinarily in the
usuall and vulgar acception. And for that sense of the ancients, nearest
to which I have defined it in the place first above mentioned, that I
seem not to choose that same as most easie to proceed against in
disproving the corporeity of the soul, the arguments do as necessarily
conclude against such a naturall body as is ordinarily described in
Physiologie (as you may plainly discern if you list to observe) as also
against this body composed of the Cuspidall particles of the Cone. For
though they be Centrall lives, yet are they neither Plasticall,