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trc<: gradus medios intcrponunt mcdio modo compof~ros,qui ~ofir~s cu~ diuino quo,
dJmmodo umciam, accp hos gradus fecundum dfenme, u1c~, mtelhgt'nttcr proportio...
ncn proce.:kre opm mmr. Angeli~as c~im animas ab incell~g1b1li mundo pro_ximetmi
cames intell.oab11c lumen fequenubus mfundere per moda dTent1~ petman~tts.Dcin
de d~~onica~animas per modum interminabilis uit~ atcp proceffus. Pofiremo hcroi..
cas fecundum mcntis conue1 Oonis<J; modum. Mitto quod angelicas,fccundum inrtUt..
au'alcm uirtutem aDeo p&ocedere arbitrantur,dcrmonkas fecundhm opificiam,afque
prouidentcm,ideo(p fabricare mu~dana. Hcroi~as fecll:ndum conuetfiuam p~~cipuefa
culc:H m,idcirco purgandarum C1l11marum off1c10 fun gt. Has omnes harmontc(tempc..
,. 3 , a ?<.harmonica faccre,&' I armonicis mirabiltter ob!cctari.Sed de hisanimarum ge..
neri:.i cs conuenicntius in frquentibus pertachbimus.
Species C7 circuittM a11imdrUm {rcu11dimz du ..H fimiliter
· ultimM. C'1(>. 111.
Vatuor font an{marum gt"nf'ra, funt anim::r di tin;c, id eft,:anim~ fph~rarum
mund1,atquety eram,qu~ideodiu n,~dict.1 rur,quon'am&Deoproxim~
font, & co.nmu. m mundi prouidentiam agunc in rcgione perpetua. Sunt
"' 1mcr- profar . , id cf ) anim~ bcfti3rnm proprt~ ,on ms diuin.iratis expcrtes.
_,. 'nd has in pr, {entla dimitr«ltlltIS. Sum inter fy c extrema media duo,anim"
t: • per I)cum fcquenres, c u<lles funt ammx d~monum, hcroum(p fublimium,
qua: ice d in propri, no appdl ntur,nunqua camcn nOeo difcedunc. In primo~
hoc anl "? , r mg ncrc fie princi ,"11a ul po fie a fum,uc aIlic q u idem effemia,hic uero(ut ita
loq·. 1r)idc11r1tas cztera prindpaa <. 1 odammodo fuperer,fub ij func 201m~, quzquan ..
doq; ;cg .mnt' D um,quandu q; relmquun. In his pr in 1pium,quod ipfum alterumap..
pdLltur 1 ali uo 1ammodo fuperarc u1 ef. Talcs irnlt m rtorurn dfmonum heroum~
anin ~, e manifd1:ius hominum anim ,qu~ quum fiot 111 nrium omnium intlmf,OO!l
earn nim habcnr,pcr quam pofsint duo ad1t10dum dmerfa pertcck flmul implert,iddl,
per human, ml ~HlOt'cm imucii diuina,ac ter 1ena corpora ~ubcrn, re. 1 rru mque tamen
ag rec,:;, [ rtcl",p·-d1 1 1~1mnat:~ untuc um ...._. ra eL11c,f:imfacmnr,qtodeodem
tcmpore ncqocunr.Vttmcur aucem uicifsirndrncm rnbus a:crpue moqui–
dc , ob i ndlig bili undo ad fenfib 1lcm,atq; e -onucrfo r.~ trat sferuc. Pra-terea in ipfo
i nrcllig 'bili uanas uici~ im contcm plationis i l t>cics l cr~gun r.Rut fus in fenfib1li regio:
nediucrfas uiuendi fpecics muttlnt. Qllas quid cm uicifs ru in cs Plato mm fapeal1b1,
tum in Ph. dro pr~cipuc defcribit, att 1~ ibi manifdhus,ubi antmas,inquir,alias aliorum
deotU min_ca:lo com ices clTC,atcp in contcmpland;s ideis Gmil m pro uiribus cum Dro
fi ,o difcu r ion cm me: nee peraac e,t~mc ft per ccrlum circa diuina,cum in c~lo circa co:...
Idba,c' fubca:lo circa naturalia gradatim confide1anda. Ee quatenusdcos imitaripof
funt," ccnus Jpud Cuperos [ ennat re. Iccm quum m ul ripliccs dcaufis ad effedus, ;etcp
uictfaim cir~t·irns r pctant, ait ~mimum, qui incuims dt idcam, qu~capuccircuituseft,
in citcuf:u 1Ho, qu t per ipfarn Jropdi idearn continuacur, non cadere, fed tune labi cum
ma' 1s cquus,td efl:.concupifcendi uis incitaca per uim ge crandi, iam foo quodam ttm
pore inua efcenrcm,a concemplando diuertit ad genera1 um. Deinde uicas dinumrrat
noucm,11- quad totfoltlm 0nr,fed qua per fcprem planetas innemep,& aerem ddabu~
tur,dcmum ranfmrg arionesmulra perinferiora,redim·:uCr;~d fopcriora dcfcribit,ub•
multa proculdubio poccica funt p.ottus,quam philoto ·hicc-. lgitur iam ad ordinem ma
~isy?ilofophicu.m nos ~onfe~am~Is.Protedo Pbromci m L1 putant aliquid effe quod
mfint cJm e:c fr mcam_h,.~ 1ct,altqmd quod ex alio,allq u id qu od ex neucro.Rurfus quod
habet ex al10,au t Cld (ummum,au tad imum po ti us de din rc,aut omnino medium pof ..
!1dere Ne.npe D~um infinitatem uir~ manentem ex feapfo penitus pofsidere,ang~lµm
quoq1.:e ma1 entem, !ed ex Deo fufceptam, animas deinde diuinas noflris fupenorrs
infiniram quid em aliunde habere uitam, fed currenteai, currentem tamcn certo quo..
dam ordlne a fpeciebus in fpccies difcurrendo) defedus omnis al obliuionisexper.–
tem. Animas deniq; nofhas uitam habere Gmilicer infinitam fed non modo currentern,
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