...The art of Orpheus suggests magic, and magic suggests the control of elemental spirits: those Daemons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With Planet, or with Element. [Il Penseroso] Whatever one thinks of magic, a soul as pure as the Lady...

...thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in...this fleshly nook; And of those demons that are found Whose power hath a true consent With planet or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred...

...astronomy and both Platonic and hermetic philosophy, with the sympathetic correspondences of "those daemons that are found / In fire, air, flood, or under ground, / Whose power hath a true consent / With planet, or with element." But in old age it is visible nature that the contemplative man contemplates,...

...regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook; And of those daemons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With planet, or with element. John Milton: 'II Penseroso ' Prologue The English antiquarian Elias Ashmole...