My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and fit for magicall uses. You may ferment them with gold and silver, by keeping the stone and metal in fusion together for a day, & then project upon metalls. This is the multiplication of ye stone in vertue. To multiply it in weight ad to it of ye first Gold whether philosophic or vulgar.

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.