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Loadstone is a precious stone that is believed to possess a variety of magical qualities. When ill one holds it in the hands and shakes it well; it cures wounds, snakebites, weak eyes, headaches, and restores health.
Love is the great loadstone of Life; and without this quality of Spirit, shining through Life's action, everything becomes dull and drear. Goodness and human kindness are the handmaids of Love and Life, and cannot be separated from Reality.
It is well known to all, that there is a Certain vertue in the Loadstone, by which it attracts Iron, and that the Diamond doth by its presence take away that vertue of the Loadstone: so also Amber, and jeat [jet] rubbed, ...
 See also: Death, Spirit, Mater, Moses, Philo
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