"In those kinds of affects, the Corporeal Soul being carryed away, as it were by Violence, both Divorces it self from the Body, and being modified according to the Character of the Idea imprinted, is wont to take a New Species, either Angelical, or Diabolical; mean while the Understanding, inasmuch as the Imagination suggests to it only discorderly and monstrous Notions, is wholly perverted from the use of the right Reason."
An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits: Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and Other Magical Practices. Containing an Account of the Genii
Beaumont, John (c.1640â€“1731)
<u>An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits: Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and Other Magical Practices. Containing an Account of the Genii</u> (London: Printed for D. Browne; J. Taylor; R. Smith; F. Coggan; and T. Browne, 1705). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004873093.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;