Cause Principle Unity

Index
doctorates 26–7
natural viii–xi
and theology 81–3
physical magic 107, 108
physicians see doctors; medicine
physics vii, 130
physiognomy 161
Pierre de la Ramée 54n
planets viii, xxii
Plato x, 11, 84
on bonding 169
on forms 49
on God 41
on matter 70, 110
specification 94
Phaedrus 114n.
Republic 68–9
Timaeus 41, 68–9
Platonists viin., viii, xiii, xix–xx, xxviii, 6, 8,
27, 35, 38, 93, 95, 127
on bonding 146, 165, 166, 174–5
pleasure 160, 161, 174
Plotinus 38, 41, 76, 81, 114, 142, 169
point 10, 11, 67–8, 94–5
poisonous magic 106
poisons 134
Porphyry 126
Vita Plotini (Life of Plotinus) 142
potency / possibility
absolute 65–9, 70
and act xi–xii, xiv–xix, 8, 10, 39, 68–70,
81–5, 88
active or passive 65
coincidence xiv–xvi, xxix, 8, 66–9
contrary 100
of matter xvii, 8, 65–70, 75, 77–85, 173
praise 176
prayer 136
Presocratics x
prestidigitation 105
Priapus 162 n.
priests 25, 28, 107
principle/s 84–5, 130
and cause 5, 33–7, 109–10
eternal 61
formal 6, 7, 40, 55, 61, 75
geometric 95–9
material 7, 61–2, 69–70
opposite resolved 11, 93, 95–100
prime / first / optimal / universal xxiii, 5,
66, 67, 69
of reality 118
spiritual xviii–xix
substantial 94–6
proof 58
prophecy 106–7
Protagoras 73
Psellus: De daemonibus (On Demons) 127
Psylli people 135
Pythagoras 6, 11, 27, 45, 61, 90, 94, 127, 129
Pythagoreans 38, 83, 165
Pythian magic 106
Ramus, Peter 54n
reality / actuality xii, 83–5
principles of 118
reason xvi, xix, 7–8, 69–70, 75
and bonding 162, 163, 174
see also intellect
reflection 119, 129
Reformation x, xx–xxi, xxv
reincarnation xxvii
Rheticus, Georg Joachim: Narratio ix
rhubarb 121
Romans 24–6, 128
Rome
Congregation of the Index viin.
Inquisition viii, xxxii–xxxiii
University viii, xxxii
sacrifice 128
sanguinity 161
science xxi
see also alchemy; chemistry; medicine;
physics
seed 92, 112, 139–40
self-love 159
sense, internal 110–11
senses 146, 155, 168
see also smell; sound; vision
sex 32, 160–1, 163–4, 174
Sidney, Sir Philip xxxi
smell 119, 168
Socrates 64, 152, 169
Solomon 45 n., 46, 90, 169
songs 135–7
Sophists 46, 72
soul/s xi, 130
of animals 117
and body 40–1, 43, 111–14, 116–17, 126
and bonding 175
as principle 55–6
rational xi–xii
of the universe 6
183