“The Arabian philosophers agree that some men may elevate themselves above the powers of their body and above their sensitive powers,” wrote Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in On Occult Philosophy, “and those being surmounted, they receive into themselves—by the perfection of the heavens and the celestial intelligences—a divine vigor. Seeing, therefore, that all the souls of men are perpetual, and also that all the spirits obey the perfect souls, magicians think that perfect men may, by the powers of their soul, repair their dying bodies (with other inferior souls, newly separated) and inspire them again—as a weasel that is killed is made alive again by the breath and cry of his dam, and as lions make alive their dead whelps by breathing upon them.”
