The learned Æolists maintain the original cause of all things to be wind, from which
principle this whole universe was at first produced, and into which it must at last be
resolved, that the same breath which had kindled and blew up the flame of Nature
should one day blow it out.
This is what the Adepti understand by their anima mundi, that is to say, the spirit, or
breath, or wind of the world; or examine the whole system by the particulars of Nature,
and you will find it not to be disputed. For whether you please to call the forma
informans of man by the name of spiritus, animus, afflatus, or anima, what are all these
but several appellations for wind, which is the ruling element in every compound, and
into which they all resolve upon their corruption. Further, what is life itself but, as it is
commonly called, the breath of our nostrils, whence it is very justly observed by
naturalists that wind still continues of great emolument in certain mysteries not to be
named, giving occasion for those happy epithets of turgidus and inflatus, applied either
to the emittent or recipient organs.
By what I have gathered out of ancient records, I find the compass of their doctrine took
in two-and-thirty points, wherein it would be tedious to be very particular
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