is their mind able to penetrate with that Spiritual Extension into the Extension Material; but like a stupid Beast stands lowing without, as if the mind it self were become wholly corporeal; and if any thing enter they believe it perishes rather and is annihilated, than that two things can at the same time coexist together in the same Ubi. Which are Symptoms of a mind desperately sick of this Corporeal Malady of Imagination, and not sufficiently accustomed or exercised in the free Operations of the Intellectual Powers.
And that also proceeds from the same source, That supposing two Extensions penetrating one another, and adequately occupying the same Ubi, they thus conjoyned are conceived not to be greater than either one of them taken by it self. For the reason of this mistake is, that the Mind incrassated and swayed down by the Imagination, cannot together with the Spiritual Extension penetrate into the Material, and follow it throughout, but only places it self hard by, and stands without like a gross stupid thing, and altogether Corporeal. For if she could but, with the Spiritual Extension, insinuate her self into the Material, and so conceive them both together as two really distinct Extensions, it is impossible but that she should therewith conceive them so conjoyned into one Ubi, to be notwithstanding not a jot less than when they are separated and occupy an Ubi as big again: For the Extension in neither of them is diminished, but their Situation only changed. As it also sometimes comes to pass in one and the same Extension of some particular Spirits which can dilate and contract their Amplitude into a greater or lesser Ubi without any Augmentation or Diminution of their Extension, but only by the expansion and retraction of it into another site.
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