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Likeness of living absent persons is a thing abundant= ly confirmed in History (1). Austin [underlined] tells us of [crossed out] one that went ^to a philosopher for resolution in some intricate Questi= ons, [several crossed out words] of whome he could gett no an= swer, but in the night the philosopher comes to him and resolves all his Doubts: not Long after he de= manded why he could not answer him in the day as well as in the night, the philosopher professed that he was not with him in the night but that he = dreamed of his having such conversation w^th his friend, but he was all the time at home asleep. Paulus and Palladias [underlined] did both of them profess to Austin that one in his Shape at Diverse times & in Diverse places had appeared to them (K) Thyraus [underlined] mentions severall apparitions of [Severall crossed out] absent living per sons. which hapened in his time and which he had the certain knowledge of. A man that is in one =

place cannot [Greek letters: άυτοπςοδώπως ] at the same time be in 

another. It remains[ing crossed out] then that such Spectres [underlined] are prodigious and Supernaturall and not w^thout Diabolicall Operation [s marked out], It has been controverted among Learned men whether inocent persons by the deluding power and malice of the Divel may not be represented as present among witches at their dark assemblyes. The mentioned Thyraus [underlined] sayes that the Divel may and often does represent the

[margin]

4) de avit. Ibi.

(k) de spirituum apparitionily lib. 2. c. 7