_The manner how to fixe the Spirit._
Knowe also, that when the bodie is mingled with moysture, and that
the heate of the fire meeteth therewith, the moysture is conuerted on
the body, and dissolueth it, and then the spirite cannot issue forth,
because it is imbibed with the fire. The Spirits are fugitiue, so
long as the bodies are mingled with them, and striue to resist the
fire & his flame: and yet these parts can hardly agree without a good
operation and continuall labour: for the nature of the soule is to
ascend vpward, whereas the center of the soule is. And who is hee that
is able to ioyne two or diuers things togither, where their centers are
diuers: vnlesse it be after the conuersion of theyr natures, and change
of the substance and thing, from his nature, which is difficult to
finde out? Whosoeuer therefore can conuert the soule into the bodie,
the bodie into the soule, and therewith mingle the subtile spirites,
shall be able to tinct any body.