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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
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Then
I
suppose,
replied
the
Empress,
That
those
airy
Vehicles,
are
your
corporeal
Summer-suits.
she
asked
further,
Whether
the
Spirits
had
not
ascending
and
descending-motions,
as
well
as
other
Creatures?
They
answered,
That
properly
there
was
no
ascension
or
descension
in
Infinite
Nature,
but
onely
in
relation
to
particular
parts;
and
as
for
us
Spirits,
said
they,
We
can
neither
ascend
nor
descend
without
corporeal
Vehicles;
nor
can
our
Vehicles
ascend
or
descend,
but
according
to
their
several
shapes
and
figures,
for
there
can
be
no
motion
without
body.
The
Empress
asked
them
further,
Whether
there
was
not
a
World
of
Spirits,
as
well
as
there
is
of
Material
Creatures?
No,
answered
they;
for
the
word
World
implies
a
quantity
or
multitude
of
corporeal
Creatures,
but
we
being
Immaterial,
can
make
no
World
of
Spirits.
Then
she
desired
to
be
informed
when
Spirits
were
made?
We
do
not
know,
answered
they,
how
and
when
we
were
made,
nor
are
we
much
inquisitive
after
it;
nay,
if
we
did,
it
would
be
no
benefit,
neither
for
us,
nor
for
you
Mortals
to
know
it.
The
Empress
replied,
That
Cabbalists
and
Divine
Philosophers
said,
Mens
rational
Souls
were
Immaterial,
and
stood
as
much
in
need
of
corporeal
Vehicles,
as
Spirits
did.
If
this
be
so,
answered
the
Spirits,
then
you
are
Hermaphrodites
of
Nature;
but
your
Cabbalists
are
mistaken,
for
they
take
the
purest
and
subtilest
parts
of
Matter,
for
Immaterial
Spirits.
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