ng but a fixt spirit, the conspissation or
coagulation of the Cuspidall particles of the Cone, which are indeed the
Centrall Tasis or inward essence of the sensible world. These be an
infinite number of vitall Atoms that may be wakened into diverse
tinctures, or energies, into fiery, watery, earthy, &c. And one divine
_Fiat_ can unloose them all into an universall mist, or turn them out of
that sweat into a drie and pure Etheriall temper. These be the last
projections of life from the soul of the world; and are act or form
though debil and indifferent, like that which they call the first
matter. But they are not meerly passive but meet their information half
way, as I may so speak: are radiant _ab intimo_ and awake into this or
the other operation, by the powerfull appulse of some superadvenient
form. That which change of Phantasmes is to the soul, that is alteration
of rayes to them. For their rayes are _ab intrinseco_, as the phantasmes
of the soul. These be the reall matter of which all supposed bodies are
compounded, and this matter (as I said) is form and life, so that all is
life and form what ever is in the world, as I have somewhere intimated
in _Antipsychopan_: But however I use the terme _body_ ordinarily in the
usuall and vulgar acception. And for that sense of the ancients, nearest
to which I have defined it in the place first above mentioned, that I
seem not to choose that same as most easie to proceed against in
disproving the corporeity of the soul, the arguments do as necessarily
conclude against such a naturall body as is ordinarily described in
Physiologie (as you may plainly discern if you list to observe) as also
against this body composed of the Cuspidall particles of the Cone. For
though they be Centrall lives, yet are they neither Plasticall,
Sensitive, or Rationall, so farre are they from proving to be the humane
soul whose nature is there discust.

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_Cone_: Is a solid figure made by the turning of a rectangular triangle,
about; one of the sides that include the right angle resting, which will
be then the Axis of the compleated Cone. But I take it sometimes for the
comprehension of all things, God himself not left out, whom I tearm the
_Basis_ of the _Cone_ or _Universe_. And because all from him descends,
+kath' hupostolen+, with abatement or contraction, I give the name of
_Cone_ to the Universe. And of Cone rather then Pyramid because of the
roundnesse of the figure, which the effluxes of