all things imitate.
_Chaos_, }
_Chronicall_, } See interpret. Gen.
_Clare_, }
_Circulation_, The terme is taken from a toyish observation, _viz._ the
circling of water when a stone is cast into a standing pool. The motion
drives on circularly, the first rings are thickest, but the further they
go they grow the thinner, till they vanish into nothing. Such is the
diffusion of the species audible in the strucken aire, as also of the
visible species. In brief any thing is said to circulate that diffuseth
its image or species in a round. It might have been more significantly
called orbiculation; seeing this circumfusion makes not onely a circle,
but fills a sphere, which may be called the sphere of activity. Yet
Circulation more fitly sets out the diminution of activity, from those
ringes in the water which as they grow in compasse, abate in force and
thicknesse. But sometimes I use Circulate in an ordinary sense to turn
round, or return in a circle.
_Centre_, _Centrall_, _Centrality_. When they are used out of their
ordinary sense, they signifie the depth or inmost being of any thing,
from whence its acts and energies flow forth. See _Atom-lives_.
_Cuspis_ of the _Cone_. The multiplide Cuspis of the Cone is nothing
but the last projection of life from Psyche, which is #shamayim# a
liquid fire or fire and water, which are the corporeall or materiall
principles of all things, changed or disgregated (if they be centrally
distinguishable) and again mingled by the virtue of Physis or
Spermaticall life of the world; of these are the Sunne and all the
Planets, they being kned together, and fixt by the Centrall power of
each Planet and Sunne. The volatile Ether is also of the same, and all
the bodies of plants, beasts and men. These are they which we handle and
touch, a sufficient number compact together. For neither is the noise of
those little flies in a summer-evening audible severally: but a full
Quire of them strike the ear with a pretty kind of buzzing. Strong and
tumultuous pleasure and scorching pain reside in these, they being
essentiall and centrall, but sight and hearing are onely of the images
of these, See _Body_.
_Eternitie._ Is the steddie comprehension of all things at once. See AEon
discribed in my Expos. upon Psychozoia.
_Energie._ It is a peculiar Platonicall terme. In my Interpret. Gen.
I expounded it Operation, Efflux, Activity. None of those words bear the
full sense of it. The e
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