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novapsyche[This book is gigantic. Also, as I told F, it's "shiny with knowledge": it glitters, and it's so densely packed that unfolding all the layers of information is literally an adventure in itself. It's incredibly rewarding. That said, it would be impossible to give a representative sample of what this book has to say, because it says so much.]
"Sound is a breath, voice is sound and animate breath; speech is a breath pronounced with sound, and a voice signifying something: the spirit of which proceedeth out of the mouth with sound and voice...." (p. 336)
"For it [the Sun] is amongst the other stars the image and statue of the great Prince of both worlds, viz. terrestrial and celestial; the true light, and the most exact image of God himself; whose essence resembles the Father, light the Son, heat the Holy Ghost." (p. 365)
"Whosoever in his religion, though false, yet believeth most strongly that it is true, and elevates his spirit by reason of this his credulity, until it be assimilated to those spirits who are the chief leaders of that religion, may work those things which nature and reason discern not; but incredulity and diffidence doth weaken every work not only in superstition, but also in true religion, and enervates the desired effect even of the most strong experiments." (p. 451)
"There are three guides which bring us even to the paths of truth and which rule all our religion, in which it wholly consisteth, namely love, hope and faith.
[...] "But faith the superior virtue of all, not grounded on human fictions, but divine revelations wholly, pierceth all things through the whole world, for seeing it descends from above from the first light, and remains nearest to it, is far more noble and excellent than the arts, sciences and beliefs arising from inferior things: this being darted into our intellect by reflection from the first light." (p. 453)
"Therefore it is God, as Paul saith, from whom, in whom, by whom are all things: for from the Father as from a fountain flow all things; but in the Son as in a pool all things are placed in their Ideas; and by the Holy Ghost are all things manifested, and everything distributed to his proper degrees." (p. 461)
"Sound is a breath, voice is sound and animate breath; speech is a breath pronounced with sound, and a voice signifying something: the spirit of which proceedeth out of the mouth with sound and voice...." (p. 336)
"For it [the Sun] is amongst the other stars the image and statue of the great Prince of both worlds, viz. terrestrial and celestial; the true light, and the most exact image of God himself; whose essence resembles the Father, light the Son, heat the Holy Ghost." (p. 365)
"Whosoever in his religion, though false, yet believeth most strongly that it is true, and elevates his spirit by reason of this his credulity, until it be assimilated to those spirits who are the chief leaders of that religion, may work those things which nature and reason discern not; but incredulity and diffidence doth weaken every work not only in superstition, but also in true religion, and enervates the desired effect even of the most strong experiments." (p. 451)
"There are three guides which bring us even to the paths of truth and which rule all our religion, in which it wholly consisteth, namely love, hope and faith.
[...] "But faith the superior virtue of all, not grounded on human fictions, but divine revelations wholly, pierceth all things through the whole world, for seeing it descends from above from the first light, and remains nearest to it, is far more noble and excellent than the arts, sciences and beliefs arising from inferior things: this being darted into our intellect by reflection from the first light." (p. 453)
"Therefore it is God, as Paul saith, from whom, in whom, by whom are all things: for from the Father as from a fountain flow all things; but in the Son as in a pool all things are placed in their Ideas; and by the Holy Ghost are all things manifested, and everything distributed to his proper degrees." (p. 461)