xamples there are fit, _viz._ the light of the
Sunne, the phantasms of the soul. We may collect the genuine sense of
the word by comparing severall places in the Philosopher. +Echei gar
hekaston ton onton energeian, he estin homoioma autou, hoste autou
ontos, kakeino einai, kai menontos phthanein eis to porrho, to men epi
pleon, to de eis elatton. Kai hai men astheneis kai amudrai, hai de kai
lanthanousai, ton d' eisi meizous kai eis to porrho.+ _For every being
hath its Energie, which is the image of it self, so that it existing
that Energie doth also exist, and standing still is projected forward
more or lesse. And some of those energies are weak and obscure, others
hid or undiscernable, othersome greater and of a larger projection._
Plotin. Ennead. 4. lib. 5. cap. 7. And again, Ennead. 3. lib. 4. +Kai
menomen toi men noetoi anthropoi ano; toi de eschatoi autou, pepedemetha
toi kato, hoion aporrhoian ap' ekeinou didontes eis to kato, mallon de
energeian, ekeinou ouk elattoumenou.+ _And we remain above by the
Intellectuall man, but by the extreme part of him we are held below, as
it were yielding an efflux from him to that which is below, or rather an
energie he being not at all lessened._ This curiositie Antoninus also
observes, (lib. 8. Meditat.) in the nature of the sun-beams, where
although he admits of +chusis+, yet he doth not of +aporrhoia+ which is
+ekchusis+. +Ho helios katakechusthai dokei, kai pantei ge kechutai ou
men ekkechutai. he gar chusis autou tasis estin. aktines goun hai augai
autou apo tou ekteinesthai legontai.+ _The sunne_, saith he, _is
diffused, and his fusion is every where but without effusion_, &c.
I will onely adde one place more out of Plotinus. Ennead. 3. lib. 6.
+Hekastou de moriou he energeia he kata phusin zoe ouk existasa.+ _The
naturall energie of each power of the soul is life not parted from the
soul though gone out of the soul, =viz.= into act._

Comparing of all these places together, I cannot better explain this
Platonick term, _energie_, then by calling it the rayes of an essence,
or the beams of a vitall Centre. For essence is the Centre as it were of
that which is truly called Energie, and Energie the beams and rayes of
an essence. And as the _Radii_ of a circle leave not the centre by
touching the Circumference, no more doth that which is the pure Energie
of an essence, leave the essence by being called out into act, but is
+en-ergeia+ a working in the essence though it flow