DE MISTERIIStelligentiam ſacramento alioquin & actio eorum intellectualis foret: &daretur a nobis. contra uero & nobis non intelligentibus: hæc propriūopus peragunt, & deorū poteſtas quo hæc referūtur: īeffabiles ex ſe ipſa-proprias agnoſcit imagines non a noſtris intelligētiis excitata. Vniuer-ſales .n. cāæ a particularibꝰ effectibꝰ nōmouētur: unde nec ab intelligē-tiis noſtris diuina principaliter mouentur ad operandum: Sed intelligētias & affectionē optimā puritatēqꝫ præcedere neceſſariū ē tāꝗͣ cōcās qͣſdā. Quæ uero prīcipaliter diuinā prouocāt uolūtatē ipſa ſūt. ſacramētadiuīa: atqꝫ ita diuīa a ſeipſis īcitātur, neq: ab ullo ſubdito prīcipiū actionis accipiunt. Ne putes igitur totā ī nobis auctoritatē eē efficacis ratio-nis. ī ſacramētis: neqꝫ ī ueritate ītelligētiæ noſtræ uerū eorū opus abſoluiuel hæc ex noſtra deceptiōe mētiri. Nā nec ēt ſi nouerimꝰ quæ genus qdlibet propriæ cōſeꝗūtur: ſubito cōſeꝗmur ipſā eorū ī oꝑe ueritatem.Abſqꝫ cognitiōe ꝗdē nūꝗͣ aduēit efficax unitas ad diuīa: neqꝫ tamen-idē ē oīno. Quaꝑꝑ neqꝫ diuīa puritas ꝑ rectā cognitiōem efficitur: ſicutcorporis puritas ꝑ ſanitatē ſed ſuꝑ cognitionē unita ē & purificata puritas. i. ꝑ ptātē cognitiōe ſuꝑiorē. Neqꝫ igitur aliud ꝗcꝗͣ ī nobis humanumaddiuiarū actionū finē aliꝗd cōfert. Cōclude ſnīam Iamblichi ægyptioꝝ aſſyrioꝝ ſicut ī agricultura medicīa: arte imaginū: coitu humāohō materiā o portune coaptat. cā uero ſuꝑior uniuerſalisqꝫ adhibet for-mā ſic ī ſacrificio quādo fiūt ſymbola. atqꝫ ſynthemata .i. ſignacula: & ſacramēta. ſacerdos adhibet materialia quædā quo ordīe decus īſtituit. Deus āt uim efficacē īprimit ſacramētis.Vaticiniū quid & unde.Aticiniū ipſum nec abarte, nec a natura nec a naturblibꝰ uel a-nimalibus rōnibus motibꝰ ue efficitur: neqꝫ fit ullo mō. ſed utrīqꝫ ſempiternū ē miſſū ad nosuſqꝫ diuinitus. totaqꝫ ptās præſa-ga refertur ad deos & oīs huiꝰ auctoritas cōſiſtit ī eis: atqꝫ īde traditur diuiniſqꝫoꝑibus ſigniſue ꝑficitur. ſpectacula ꝗdē habet diuīa: & cōtēplatio-nes uera ſcientia præditas. Cætera uero cuncta uel ut inſtrumenta ſubi-ciuntur. miſſo diuinitus præſagii dono. quæcūqꝫ ad animam pertinētaut corpus: uel in totius natura ſunt, ſiue naturis. Ioca uero & talia quædam ad uaticinium exiguntur uice materiæ. nō decet uaticinium deducere ſine cauſa .ſ. aᵇ quibuſdam nullā ī ſe hærentibus præſcientiam. Sed adiis continentibus in ſe terminos totius ſciētiæ rerum. contem plari de-cet uaticinium diſtributum circa totum mundum & circa omnes diui-ſas in mundo naturas, ſic utique cauſa uaticinii præcipua eſt & cōmu-uiſſima: poſſidenſqꝫ in ſe ipſa quæcūque ſui participātibus exhibet: preb iiii