#TORMENTUM DARK SORROW DAMNATION FREE#

#TORMENTUM DARK SORROW DAMNATION FREE#

But let them dispute how they will, set downe in Thesi, giue precepts to the contrary we find that of t Lemnius true by common ex∣perience: No mortall man is free from these perturbations or if he be so, sure he is either a god, or a blocke. will exclude all feare from a wise man: others except some other pa Aubanus of a nation in Aphricke, so free from passion, or rather so stu∣pid, that if they be wounded with a sword, they will onely looke backe. The Stoicks are altogether of opinion, (as n Lipsius, and o Piccolomineus re∣cord) that a wise man should be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, without all maner of passions and perturbations whatsoeuer, as p Seneca re∣ports of Cato, the q Greekes of Socrates, and r Io. All Philosophers impute the miseries of the Body to the Soule, that should haue governed it bet∣ter, by command of Reason, and hath not done it. Vives will haue such turbulent commotions proceed from Igno∣rance, and Indiscretion. The Body is not corrupted but by the Soule. And so doth l Philostratus, non coinquinatur corpus, nisi consensu animae, In so much, that it is most true which Plato saith in his Charmi∣des: omnia corporis mala, ab animâ procedere, that all the h mis∣chiefes of the Body, proceede from the Soule and as Demo∣critus in i Plutarch vrgeth, damnatam tri animam à corpore, that if the Body should in this behalfe bring an action against the Soule, surely the Soule would be cast and convicted, k that by her supine negligence, had caused such inconveniences, as hauing authority ouer the Body, and vsing the Body as an in∣strument, as a Smith doth his hammer, saith Cyprian, impu∣ting all those vices and maladies to the Minde. ∣ons and perturbations, miraculous alterations, as Melancho∣ly, Despaire, cruell diseases, and sometimes death it selfe.which are ordinary symp∣tomes of this Disease: so on the other side, the Minde most effectually workes vpon the Body, producing by his pa For as the Body workes vpon the Mind, by his bad humors, disturbing the Spirits, sending grosse fumes into the Braine and so per consequens disturbing the Soule, and all the facul∣ties of it, with feare, sorrow &c. A most frequent and ordinary cause of Melancho∣ly, g fulmen perturbationum, as Piccolomineus cals it, this thunder and lightning of perturbation, which causeth such violent and speedy alterations in this our Microcosine, and many times subverts the good estate and temperature of it.

Passions and perturbations of the Minde, how they cause Melancholy.ĪS that Gymnosophist in f Plutarch, made answere to A∣lexander, demanding which spake best, euery one of his fellowes did speake better then the other: may I say of these causes, to him that shall require which is the greatest, euery one is more grieuous then other, and this of passion the grea∣test of all.

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