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A general account of bonding 7. Talent 8. Power 9. Coincidence of contraries 10. Diversity 11. Mediation 12. Partiality and concurrence of circumstances 13. Instruments 14. Opportunity 15. Differences 16. Variable powers 17. Location 18. Predisposition 19. Diversity of predispositions 20. Condition 21. Reaction 22. Distinction 23. Blindness or ignorance 24. Diligence 25. Weapons 26. Vicissitudes 27. Eyes 28. Enticements 29. Sequences 30. Gates On what can be bound in general 1. Types of things which can be bound. There are four things which rotate around God, or universal nature, or the universal good, or absolute beauty. They rotate in such a way that they cannot abandon that centre, otherwise they would be annihilated, and in such a way that they can be separated from that centre only by the distance of each of their circumferences from its proper centre. These four things, I say, move in a circle around their bonding agent in such a way that they maintain the same order forever. According to the Platonists, they are mind, soul, nature and matter. Mind, in itself, is stable; soul, in itself, is mobile; nature is partly stable and partly mobile; and matter, as a whole, is both mobile and stable. 156
A general account of bonding 2. The condition of that which can be bound. Nothing is bound unless it is very suitably predisposed, for that brightness 5 is not communicated to all things in the same way. 3. The form of that which can be bound. Everything which is bound has an awareness in some sense, and in the nature of that awareness, one finds a certain type of knowledge and of appetite, just as a magnet attracts or repels different kinds of things. Hence, he who wishes to bind ought to focus in some way on the awareness in that which can be bound. For, indeed, a bond accompanies the awareness of a thing just like a shadow follows a body. 4. The comparison of things which can be bound. Let us note that humans are more open to bonding than are animals, and ignorant and stupid men are very much less suited for heroic bonds than are those who have developed an illustrious soul. In regard to natural bonds, the common person is much more susceptible than is the philosopher; as the proverb says, the wise rule over the stars. In regard to the intermediate type of bonds, it happens that the greedy person might boast of being temperate, and the lustful person of being moderate. 5. The distinction of things which can be bound. From what has just been said, it must be noted that the strength of one bond makes another type of bond less forceful or more mild. Thus, a German is less agitated by Venus, an Italian by drunkenness; a Spaniard is more prone to love, a Frenchman to anger. 6. The seed or incitement of the capacity to be bound. A thing is bound in the strongest way when part of it is in the bonding agent, or when the bonding agent controls it by one of its parts. To show this with just one example, necromancers are confident that they exercise control over entire bodies by means of the fingernails or the hair of the living, and especially by means of footprints or parts of clothing. They also evoke the spirits of the dead by means of their bones or any part of their bodies. Hence, it is not accidental that special care is taken in burying the dead and in preparing funeral pyres, and that leaving a body unburied is counted among the most grievous crimes. Also orators create good will with their art when their listeners and judges find something of themselves in it. 5 For Bruno’s use of this term, see Part Three, ‘On Cupid’s Bond and on Bonds in General’, paragraph 1, ‘The definition of a bond’. 157
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On Magic
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