here let us place the foundation of all wisdom after the wisdom of God revealed in the holy Scriptures and to the Considerations proposed in Nature Appoint therefore to him who solely dependeth upon God the wisdom of every creature to serve and obey him nolens volens willing or unwilling And in this the Omnipotency of God shineth forth It consisteth therefore in this that we will discern the creatures which serve us from those that are unwilling and that we may learn how to accommodate the wisdom and offices of every creature unto our selves This Art is not delivered but divinely Unto whom God will he revealeth his secrets but to whom he will not bestow any thing out of his treasuries that person shall attain to nothing without the will of God Therefore we ought truly to desire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from God alone which will mercifully impart these things unto us For he who hath given us his Son and commanded us to pray for his holy Spirit How much more will he subject unto us the whole creature and things visible and invisible Whatsoever ye ask ye shall receive Beware that ye do not abuse the gifts of God and all things shall work together unto you for your salvation And before all things be watchful in this That your names be written in Heaven this is more light That the spirits be obedient unto you as Christ admonisheth Aphor. 12. In the Acts of the Apostles the Spirit saith unto Peter after the Vision Go down and doubt not but I have sent them when he was sent for from Cornelius the Centurion After this manner in vocal words are all disciplines delivered by the holy Angels of God as it appeareth out of the Monuments of the Aegyptians And these things afterwards were vitiated and corrupted with humane opinions and by the instigation of evil spirits who sow tares amongst the children of disobedience as it is manifest out of St. Paul and Hermes Trismegistus There is no other manner of restoring these Arts then by the doctrine of the holy Spirits of God because true faith cometh by hearing But because thou mayst be certain of the truth and mayst not doubt whether the spirits that speak with thee do declare things true or false let it only depend upon thy faith in God that thou mayst say with Paul I know on whom I trust If no sparrow can fall to the ground without the will of the Father which is in heaven How much more will not God suffer thee to be deceived O thou of little faith if thou dependest wholly upon God and adherest only to him Aphor. 13. The Lord liveth and all things which live do live in him And he is truly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who hath given unto all things that they be that which they are and by his word alone through his Son hath produced all things out of nothing which are in being He calleth all the stars and all the host of heaven by their names He therefore knoweth the true strength and nature of things the order and policy of every creature visible and invisible to whom God hath revealed the names of his creatures It remaineth also that he receive power from God to extract the vertues in nature and hidden secrets of the creature and to produce their power into action out of darkness into light Thy scope therefore ought to be that thou have the names of the Spirits that is their powers and offices and how they are subjected and appointed by God to minister unto thee even as Raphael was sent to Tobias that he should heal his father and deliver his son from dangers and bring him to a wife So Michael the fortitude of God governeth the people of God Gabriel the messenger of God was sent to Daniel Mary and Zachary the father of John Baptist And he shall be given to thee that desirest him who will teach thee whatsoever thy soul shall desire in the nature of things His ministry thou shalt use with trembling and fear of thy Creator Redeemer and Sanctifier that is to say the Father Son and holy Ghost and do not thou let slip any occasion of learning and be vigilant in thy calling and thou shalt want nothing that is necessary for thee Aphor. 14. Thy soul liveth for ever through him that hath created thee call therefore upon the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve This thou shalt do if thou wilt perform that end for which thou art ordained of God and what thou owest to God and to thy neighbour God requireth of thee a minde that thou shouldst honour his Son and keep the words of his Son in thy heart if thou honour him thou hast done the will of thy Father which is in heaven To thy neighbour thou owest offices of humanity and that thou draw all men that come to thee to honour the Son This is the Law and the Prophets In temporal things thou oughtest to call upon God as a father that he would give unto thee all necessaries of this life and thou oughtest to help thy neighbour with the gifts which God bestoweth upon thee whether they be spiritual or corporal Therefore thou shalt pray thus O Lord of Heaven and Earth Creator and Maker of all things visible and invisible I though unworthy by thy assistance call upon thee through thy only begotten Son Jesus Christ our Lord that thou wilt give unto me thy holy Spirit to direct me in thy truth unto all good Amen Because I earnestly desire perfectly to know the Arts of this life and such things as are necessary for us which are so overwhelmed in darkness and polluted with infinite humane opinions that I of my own power can attain to no knowledge in them unless thou teach it me Grant me therefore one of thy spirits who may teach me those things which thou wouldst have me to know and learn to thy praise and glory and the profit of our neighbour Give me also an apt and teachable heart that I may easily understand those things which thou shalt teach me and may hide them in my understanding that I may bring them forth at out of thy inexhaustible treasures to all necessary uses And give me grace that I may use such thy gifts humbly with fear and trembling through our Lord Jesus Christ with thy holy Spirit Amen The third Septenary Aphor. 15. They are called Olympick spirits which do inhabit in the firmament and in the stars of the firmament and the office of these spirits is to declare Destinies and to administer fatal Charms so far forth as God pleaseth to permit them for nothing neither evil spirit nor evil Destiny shall be able to hurt him who hath the most High for his refuge If therefore any of the Olympick spirits shall teach or declare that which his star to which he is appointed portendeth nevertheless he can bring forth nothing into action unless he be permitted by the Divine power It
dignity of some Princely office sheweth treasure to be in the place enquired after but of less worth and value then is supposed and causeth it to be found In the fifth House he giveth obedient children endued with good manners and in whom shall be had the greatest joy and comfort of old age signifies a woman with child to bring forth a daughter sheweth honourable Embassages and declares rumours and news to be altogether true and leaveth a good and ample fame after death In the sixth House it sheweth the sick shall recover denoteth good servants good and profitable cattel and animals In the seventh House Laetitia giveth a wife fair beautiful and young overcometh strifes and contentions and rendreth the success thereof to be love Laetitia in the eighth House giveth Legacies and possessions and a commendable portion with a wife if a Question be proposed concerning the condition of any man it signifies him to be alive and declares an honest quiet and meek kinde of death In the ninth House Laetitia signifies very few journeys and those that do apply themselves to travail their journeys either are about the Messages and Embassages of Princes or Pilgrimages to fulfil holy vows sheweth a man to be of a good religion of indifferent knowledge and who easily apprehendeth all things with natural ingenuity In the tenth House it raiseth Kings and Princes to honour and great renown maketh them famous by maintaining peace during their times signifies Judges to be cruel and severe honest Offices and Magistracy signifies those things which are exercised either about Ecclesiastical affairs Schools or the administration of justice sheweth a mother if she be a widow that she shall be married again In the eleventh House Laetitia increaseth favour with Princes and multiplies friends And in the twelfth House Laetitia giveth the victory over enemies causeth good servants and families delivereth from imprisonment and preserveth from future evils Puella in the first House signifies a person of a short life weak constitution of body middle stature little fat but fair effeminate and luxurious and one who will incur many troubles and dangers in his life-time for the love of women In the second House it neither encreaseth riches nor diminisheth poverty signifies a theef not to be departed from the City and a thing stollen to be alienated and made away if a Question be of treasure in a place it is resolved there is none In the third House Puella signifies more sisters then brethren and encreaseth and continueth good friendship and amity amongst them denoteth journeys to be pleasant and joyous and men of good conversations In the fourth House Puella signifies a very small patrimony and a Father not to live long but maketh the fields fertile with good fruits In the fifth House a woman with child is signified to bring forth a woman-child denotes no Embassages causeth much commerce with women and some office to be obtained from them Puella in the sixth House signifies much weakness of the sick but causeth the sick shortly to recover and sheweth a Physitian to be both unlearned unskilful but one who is much esteemed of in the opinion of the vulgar people giveth good servants handmaids cattel and animals In the seventh House Puella giveth a wife fair beautiful and pleasant leading a peaceable and quiet conversation with her husband notwithstanding one that shall burn much with lust and be coveted and lusted after of many men denoteth no suits or controversies which shall depend before a Judge but some jarres and wranglings with the common people one amongst another which shall be easily dissolved and ended In the eighth House if a Question be of one reputed to be dead Puella declareth him to be alive giveth a small portion with a wife but that which contenteth her husband In the ninth House Puella signifies very few journeys sheweth a man of good religion indifferent skill or knowledge in sciences unless happily Musick aswel vocal as instrumental In the tenth House Puella signifies Princes not to be very potent but notwithstanding they shall govern peaceably within their Dominions and shall be beloved of their Neighbours and subjects it causeth them to be affable milde and courteous and that they shall alwayes exercise themselves with continual mirth plays and huntings maketh Judges to be good godly and merciful giveth Offices about women or especially from noble women In the eleventh House Puella giveth many friends and encreaseth favour with women In the twelfth House Puella signifies few enemies but contention with women and delivereth Prisoners out of prison through the intercession of friends Amissio in the first House signifies the sick not to live long and sheweth a short life signifies a man of disproportioned members of his body and one of a wicked life and conversation and who is marked with some notorious and remarkable defect in some part of his body as either lame or maimed or the like Amissio in the second House consumeth all substance and maketh one to suffer and undergo the burden of miserable poverty neither theef nor the thing stollen shall be be found signifies treasure not to be in the place sought after and to be sought after with loss and damage In the third House Amissio signifies death of brethren or the want of them and of kindred and friends signifieth no journeys and causeth one to be deceived of many In the fourth House Amissio signifies the utter destruction of ones Patrimony sheweth the Father to be poor and Son to die Amissio in the fifth House sheweth death of children and afflicts a man with divers sorrows signifieth a woman not to be with childe or else to have miscarried raiseth no fame or honours disperseth false rumors In the sixth House Amissio signifies the sick to be recovered or that he shall soon recover but causeth loss and damage by servants and cattel In the seventh House Amissio giveth an adulterous wife and contrarying her husband with continual contention nevertheless she shall not live long and it causeth contentions to be ended In the eighth House Amissio signifies a man to be dead consumeth the dowry of a wife bestoweth or sendeth no inheritances or legacies In the ninth House Amissio causeth no journeys but such as shall be compassed with great loss signifies men to be inconstant in Religion and often changing their opinion from one sect to another and altogether ignorant of learning In the tenth House Amissio rendreth Princes to be most unfortunate and sheweth that they shall be compelled to end their lives in exile and banishment judges to be wicked and signifies Offices and Magistracy to be damageable and sheweth the death of a Mother In the eleventh House Amissio signifies few friends and causeth them to be easily lost and turned to become enemies and causeth a man to have no favour with his Prince unless it be hurtful to him In the twelfth House Amissio destroyeth all enemies
Quatenus constringuo vosi ut hic ante circulum visibiles affabiles permanetis tamdiu tamque constantes nec sint licentia mea recedatis donec meam sine fallacia aliqua veredice perficiatis voluntatem per potentiae illius virtutem qui mare posuit terminum suum quem praeterire non potest lege illius potentiae non pertransit fines suos Dei scilicet altissimi regis domini qui cuncta creavit Amen Then command what you will and it shall be done Afterwards license them thus †In nomine Patris †Filii †Spiritus sancti ite in pace ad loca vestra pax sit inter nos vos parati sitis venire vocati Visions and Apparitions THese things duly performed there will appear infinite Visions and Phantasms beating of Organs and all kinds of musical Instruments which is done by the Spirits that with the Terror they might force the Companions to go out of the Circle because they can do nothing against the Master After this you shall see an infinite Company of Archers with a great multitude of horrible Beasts which will so compose themselves as if they would devour the fellows nevertheless fear nothing Then the Priest or Master holding his hand toward the Pentacle shall say Avoid hence these iniquities by vertue of the Banner of God and then will the Spirits be compelled to obey the Master and the Company shall see no more Then let the Exorcist stretching out his hand to the Pentacle say Behold the Pentacle of Solomon which I have brought before your presence Behold the person of the Exorcist in the middle of the Exorcism who is armed by God and without fear and well provided who potently invocateth and calleth you by exorcizing come therefore with speed in the virtue of these names Aye Seraye Aye Seraye defer not to come by the eternal Names of the living and true God Eloy Archima Rabur and by the Pentacle here present which powerfully reigns over you and by virtue of the Celestial Spirits your Lords and by the person of the Exorcist being conjured make haste to come and yield obedience to your Master who is called Octinomos This being performed there will be hissings in the four parts of the world and then immediately you shall see great motions and when you see them say Why stay you wherefore do you delay what do you prepare your selves and be obedient to your Master in the name of the Lord Rath 〈…〉 or Vachat rushing upon Abrac Abeor coming upon Aberer Then they will immediately come in their proper form and when you see them before the Circle shew them the Pentacle covered with fine linnen uncover it and say Behold your conclusion if you refuse to be obedient and suddenly they will appear in a peaceable form and will say Ask what you will for we are prepared to fulfil all your commands for the Lord hath subjected us hereunto and when the Spirits have appeared then you shall say Welcome Spirits or most noble Kings because I have called you through him to whom every knee doth bow both of things in Heaven and things in Earth and things under the Earth in whose hands are all the Kingdoms of Kings neither is there any that can contradict his Majesty Wherefore I bind you that you remain affable and visible before this Circle so long and so constant neither shall ye depart without my licence until you have truly and without any fallacy performed my will by virtue of his power who hath set the Sea her bounds beyond which these cannot pass nor go beyond the Law of his Power to wit of the most high God Lord and King who hath created all things Amen †In the Name of the Father †and of the Son †and of the holy Ghost go in peace unto your places peace be between us and you be ye ready to come when ye are called These are the things which Peter de Abano hath spoken concerning Magical Elements But that you may the better know the manner of composing a Circle I will set down one Scheme so that if any one would make a Circle in Spring time for the first hour of the Lords day it must be in the same manner as is the figure following The figure of a Circle for the first hour of the Lords day in Spring-time Varcan Rex Tus Andas Cynabal Michel Michail Dardid Huratapel Talui Caracasa Cor Amatiel Commissores Spughguel Amaday Abraym Aquista Yayn ✚ Tetragrammaton ✚ Adonay ✚ ✚ Eloy ✚ ✚ Agla ✚ Alpha et ω It remaineth now That we explain the Week the several dayes thereof and first of the Lords day Considerations of the Lords day THe Angel of the Lords day his Sigil Planet Sign of the Planet and the name of the fourth Heaven Michaīel ☉ ♌ Machen The Angels of the Lords day Michael Dardiel Huratapal The Angels of the Air ruling on the Lords day Varcan King His Ministers Tus Andas Cynabal The winde which the Angels of the Air abovesaid are under The North-winde The Angel of the fourth Heaven ruling on the Lords day which ought to be called from the four parts of the world At the East Samael Gabriel Baciel Vionatraba Atel At the West Anael Burchat Pabel Suceratos Vstael Capabili At the North. Aiel Sapiel Aniel vel Aquiel Matuyel Masgabriel At the South Haludiel Vriel Machasiel Naromiel Charsiel The perfume of the Lords day Red Sanders The Conjuration of the Lords day COnjuro confirmo super vos Angeli fortes Dei sancti in nomine Adonay Eye Eye Eya qui est ille qui fuit est erit Eye Abraye in nomine Saday Cados Cados Cados alte sedentis super Cherubin per nomen magnum ipsius Dei fortis potentis exaltatique super omnes coelos Eye Saraye plasmatoris seculorum qui creavit mundum coelum terram mare omnia quae in eis sunt in primo die sigillavit ea sancto nomine suo Phaa per nomina sanctorum Angelorum qui dominantur in quarto exercitu serviunt coram potentissimo Salamia Angelo magno honorato per nomen stella quae est Sol per signum per immensum nomen Dei vivi per nomina omnia praedicta coniuro te Michael angele magne qui es praepositus Diei Dominicae per nomen Adonay Dei Israel qui creavit mundum quicquid in eo est quod pro melabores adimpleas omnem meam petitionem juxta meum velle votum meum in negotio causa mea And here thou shalt declare thy cause and business and for what thing thou makest this Conjuration The Conjuration of the Lords day I Conjure and confirm upon you ye strong and holy Angels of God in the name Adonay Eye Eye Eya which is he who was and is and is to come Eye Abray and in the name Saday Cados Cados Cados sitting
Hours of the night Angels of the hours 1. Yayn Raphael 1. Beron. Michael 2. Janor Gabriel 2. Barol Anael 3. Nasnia Cassiel 3. Thann Raphael 4. Salla Sachiel 4. Athir Cassiel 5. Sadedali Samael 5. Mathon Sachiel 6. Thamur Michael 6. Rana Sachiel 7. Ourer Anael 7. Netos Samael 8. Tanic Raphael 8. Tafrac Michael 9. Neron Gabriel 9. Sassur Anael 10. Jayon Cassiel 10. Aglo Raphael 11. Abay Sachiel 11. Calerna Gabriel 12. Neron Samael 12. Salam Cassiel THURSDAY Hours of the day Angels of the hours Hours of the night Angels of the hours 1. Yayn Sachiel 1. Beron. Gabriel 2. Janor Samael 2. Barol Cassiel 3. Nasnia Michael 3. Thanu Sachiel 4. Salla Anael 4. Athir Samael 5. Sadedali Raphael 5. Maton Michael 6. Thamur Gabriel 6. Rana Anael 7. Ourer Cassiel 7. Netos Raphael 8. Tanic Sachiel 8. Tafrac Gabriel 9. Neron Samael 9. Sassur Cassiel 10. Jayon Michael 10. Aglo Sachiel 11. Abay Anael 11. Calerna Samael 12. Natalon Raphael 12. Salam Michael FRIDAY Hours of the day Angels of the hours Hours of the night Angels of the hours 1. Yayn Anael 1. Beron. Samael 2. Janor Raphael 2. Barol Michael 3. Nasnia Gabriel 3. Thanu Anael 4. Salla Cassiel 4. Athir Raphael 5. Sadedali Sachiel 5. Maton Gabriel 6. Thamur Samael 6. Rana Cassiel 7. Ourer Michael 7. Netos Sachiel 8. Tanic Anael 8. Tafrac Samael 9. Neron Raphael 9. Sassur Michael 10. Jayon Gabriel 10. Aglo Anael 11. Abay Cassiel 11. Calerna Raphael 12. Natalon Sachiel 12. Salam Gabriel SATURDAY Hours of the day Angels of the hours Hours of the night Angels of the hours 1. Yayn Cassiel 1. Beron. Raphael 2. Janor Sachiel 2. Barol Gabriel 3. Nasnia Samael 3. Thanu Cassiel 4. Salla Michael 4. Athir Sachiel 5. Sadedali Anael 5. Maton Samael 6. Thamur Raphael 6. Rana Michael 7. Ourer Gabriel 7. Netos Anael 8. Tanic Cassiel 8. Tafrac Raphael 9. Neron Sachiel 9. Sassur Gabriel 10. Jayon Samael 10. Aglo Cassiel 11. Abay Michael 11. Calerna Sachiel 12. Natalon Andel. 12. Salam Samael But this is to be observed by the way that the first hour of the day of every Country and in every season whatsoever is to be assigned to the Sun-rising when he first appeareth arising in the horizon and the first hour of the night is to be the thirteenth hour from the first hour of the day But of these things it is sufficiently spoken ISAGOGE An Introductory Discourse of the nature of such Spirits as are exercised in the sublunary Bounds their Original Names Offices Illusions Power Prophesies Miracles and how they may be expelled and driven away By Geo. Pictorius Villinganus Dr. in Physick In a Discourse between CASTOR and POLLUX CASTOR THe Greeks do report that Castor and Pollux have both proceeded from oâ—e egge but this I scarcely credit by reason of the difference of your mindes for thou affectest the heavens but she meditates upon the earth and slaughters Pollux And from thence perhaps was derived that argument That liberty of lying was alwayes assigned to the Greeks Castor Principally Pollux But it is not to be supposed that the Greeks are vain in all things but as many others when they speak out of a three-footed thing whereof also the Poet Ovid speaks in verse Nec fingunt omnia Graeci Castor In this Proverb I protest they are most true without any exception that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is One man to another is a Devil Pollux Wherefore believest thou this to be most true Castor Castor Truly that man to man is a devil and a ravening wolf daily events do most certainly prove if we do but note the treacheries that one man invents daily against another the robberies thefts plunderings rapes slaughters deceits adulteries and an hundred vipers of this nature the fathers persecute the son with a serpentine and poisonous biting one friend seeks to devour another neither can the guest be safe with his host Pollux I confess it is truth thou speakest but for ought I hear thou dost misunderstand the Etymologie of the word compared in this Proverb for Daemon here is not an horrible or odious name but the name of one that doth administer help or succor unto another and whom Pliny calleth a God Castor Therefore dost thou affirm the word Daemon in this Proverb to signifie any other then a cunning and malicious accuser Pollux Thou hast not shot besides the mark for that there are more Daemons then that sublunary one which thou understandest every one may easily perceive who hath not negligently read the opinions of the most excellent Plato Castor I desire therefore that thou wouldst not conceal such his writings but that I may apprehend the marrow thereof Pollux I will embrace such thy desire for truly I do delight to treat with thee concerning this subject mark therefore and give attention Plato divided the orders of Devils or Spirits into three degrees which as they are distinct in the greatness of their dignity so also they are different in the distance and holding of their places And the first order he ascribeth to those Spirits whose bodies are nourished of the most pure element of Air wrought and joyned together in a manner as it were with splendid threeds not having so much reference to the element of fire that they may be perspicuous to the fight neither do they so much participate of the earth that they may be touched or felt and they do inhabit the Coelestial Theater attending and waiting on their Prince not to be declared by any humane tongue or beyond the commands of the most wise God But the other degree is derived from those Spirits which Apuleius termeth rational animals passive in their minde and eternal in their time understanding the apostate Spirits spread abroad from the bounds and borders of the Moon unto us under the dominion of their Prince Beelzebub which before the fall of Lucifer had pure clarified bodies and now like unto the former do wander up and down after their transgression in the form of an aiery quality Castor These I do not conceive are understood in the Greek Proverb for these do hurt and are the accusers and betrayers of men But proceed Pollux The third degree of Spirits is of a divine deitie which is called by Hermes A divine miracle to man if he do not degenerate from the Kingly habit of his first form whom therefore of this kinde the Greeks and Plato have called Daemons that is God and that man may be like unto God and profitable and commodious one to another and so also the Syrian being witness we have known Plato himself to have been called Daemon because he had set forth very many things of very high matters for the good of the Commonwealth and so likewise Aristotle because he very largely disputed of sublunaries and all such things as are subject to motion and sence Homer calleth God and
may more be spoken but thou hast understood the relations of them already in the foregoing discourse From all which we may easily convince the opinions of those who deny that the Spirits can walk or make any motion but of how much truth we may hold the assertions of them who do suppose that these tumultuous Spirits are neither devils nor phantasms but the souls of the dead now hearken unto Poll. Are there they who are of that opinion Cast There are they who are of both opinions for they do declare that these are the souls of them who have departed from their bodies laden and clogged in their sins which are therefore heard to be more or less turbulent in houses according as they have any sensible ardent spark of that sin more or less so that except in the mean time they are expelled and driven away from thence or expiated by Alms or Intercessions they are compelled to a certain bound of liberty wandering thereabouts in expectation of the last Judgement Poll. Wherefore Cast. Because I believe that the souls of them which sleep in Christ do live with Christ and do not wander about the earth and the souls of them who are oppressed and burdened with the grievous weight of their sins since they are the members of Satan are bound with Satan in the chains of darkness expecting judgement in hell Poll. But Firmianus a Writer of no mean judgement thinketh the contrary in his Book which he hath written de Divino premio Cast How is that Poll. These are his words Let not any man conceive that the souls of the dead are judged immediately after death for they are all detained in one common custody until the time shall come wherein the Almighty Judge shall make examination and inquisition of their deeds Then they who shall he found righteous shall receive the reward of immortality but they whose sins and wickedness shall then be detected shall not arise again but shall be inclosed with the wicked in darkness and destined to eternal punishments Cast St. Augustine subscribeth to Lactantius in his Enchiridion saying That the time which is interposed between the death of mankinde and the last resurrection containeth the souls in secret hidden receptacles where every soul receiveth condigne rest or misery for the good or evil which he did in the body while he lived Poll. Neither doth St. Ambrose disagree from this in his second book of Cain and Abel he saith That the soul is loosed from the body and after the end of this life is suspended to the ambiguous time of the last judgement Cast So also some have declared that the soul of Trajanus Caesar did wander about but the soul of St. George was freed from such suffrage Poll. Thou hast even now spoke and that truly that spacious is the sea of various opinions concerning these Spirits for so indeed it is but what Port thou touchest at I desire thee it may not seem troublesom to thee to tell me for I am not as yet satisfied of the certainty hereof by our discourse Cast That which thou desirest I conceive to be this I hold that these tumultuous Spirits are meer images of Satan which are not to be feared neither is there any credit to be given to their answers and are in no wise the souls of the dead which either live with Christ if they have done well or else are bound in chains with Satan if they have done evil Poll. It remaineth that we sist out this Castor for it happeneth now sometimes that my father appeareth to me in my sleep perhaps that may also seem unto thee to be a Spirit Cast It may seem so but I will not in any thing contradict thee beyond Reason of my self I will adde nothing but at leastwise I will annihilate thy opinion with the assertions of St. Augustine Poll. What assertions are those Cast In his 11 Book which he intituleth De mortuorum cura he offereth them as a means saying Humane infirmity doth so believe of himself that when he seeth any one that is dead in his sleep he supposeth that he seeth the soul of that dead person but when he dreameth of any one that is alive he then is out of doubt that neither his soul nor his body but the similitude of the man appeared unto him As if they could be ignorant that the souls of dead men do not appear unto them in dreams but only the similitudes of the persons deceased And he proveth both these to be done by two examples which were at Mediolanus whereof the first he sheweth to have been the image of a certain father that was dead who appeared to his son admonishing him that he should not pay again a debt to an unjust Creditor which the father had paid him before for he saith the Case was thus The father had paid a debt to a certain Creditor which after the death of the father the Creditor endeavoured by force to recover the same again of his son who was ignorant of the payment thereof to whom the image of his father appeared when he was sleeping and shewed him where the Writing was hid Whereupon the son awakening from his sleep sought for the Paper in the place he was directed and sound it and thereby overthrew the malice of his deceitful Creditor The second example is whereby the same St. Augustine sheweth that the living do appear to the living in their sleep for he saith That Eurologius the Rhetorician professing the Rhetorick of Cicero at Carthage he found a difficult and obscure place that was not declared to him so that waking and sleeping he vexed himself by reason of his ignorance but in a certain night the image of Aurelius Augustine appeared to him and taught him in what manner the dark and difficult place was to be understood Poll. Augustine doth therefore conclude without doubt that they are not souls Cast He doth so conclude and the greater to strengthen such his judgement he addeth That if the souls of the dead have any interest or counsel in the affairs of the living he undoubtedly knew that his own pious mother did not desert him not for one night but when she was living followed him both by sea and land neither did he at any time sustain any anguish of heart but comforted his sorrows And that this may not seem too hard a speech the president of Christ teacheth that they do not erre who affirm that the good Angels by the appointment of God and Divine dispensation do sometimes come to and visit men both living and sleeping and sometimes to the place where souls endure punishment notwithstanding it is not unto all but only unto those who have so lived that God shall judge them worthy of this mercy or unto those upon whom without any respect unto their deserts God will be pleased to glorifie his unspeakable mercy that by the prayers of the living they may obtain pardon of their sins
newer family which may be illustrious and do great things 3. The third is to excel in military affairs and happily to atchieve to great things and to be an head of the head of Kings and Princes 4. To be a good house-keeper both in the Country and City 5. The fifth is to be an industrious and fortunate Merchant 6. To be a Philosopher Mathematician and Physitian according to Aristotle Plato Ptolomy Euclides Hippocrates and Galen 7. To be a Divine according to the Bible and Schooles which all writers of divinity both old and new have taught Aphor. 25. We have already declared what a secret is the kindes and species thereof it remaineth now to shew how we may attain to know those things which we desire The true and onely way to all secrets is to have recourse unto God the Author of all good and as Christ teacheth In the first place seek ye the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you 2 Also see that your hearts be not burthened with surfeting and drunkenness and the cares of this life 3. Also commit your cares unto the Lord and he will do it 4. Also I the Lord thy God do teach thee what things are profitable for thee and do guide thee in the way wherein thou walkest 5. And I will give thee understanding and will teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt go and I will guide thee with my eye 6. Also if you which are evil know how to give good things to your children how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give his holy Spirit to them that ask him If you will do the will of my Father which is in heaven ye are truely my disciples and we will come unto you and make our abode with you If you draw these seven places of Scripture from the letter unto the Spirit or into action thou canst not erre but shalt attain to the desired bound thou shalt not erre from the mark and God himself by his holy Spirit will teach thee true and profitable things he will give also his ministring Angels unto thee to be thy companions helpers and teachers of all the secrets of the world and he will command every creature to be obedient unto thee so that cheerfully rejoycing thou maist say with the Apostles That the Spirits are obedient unto thee so that at length thou shalt be certain of the greatest thing of all That thy name is written in Heaven Aphor. 26. There is another way which is more common that secrets may be revealed unto thee also when thou art unwitting thereof either by God or by Spirits which have secrets in their power or by dreams or by strong imaginations and impressions or by the constellation of a nativity by celestial knowledge After this manner are made heroick men such as there are very many and all learned men in the world Plato Aristotle Hippocrates Galen Euclide Archimedes Hermes Trismegistus the father of secrets with Theophrastus Paracelsus all which men had in themselves all the vertues of secrets Hitherto also are referred Homer Hesiod Orpheus Pythagoras but these had not such gifts of secrets as the former To this are referred the Nymphes and sons of Melusina and Gods of the Gentiles Achilles Aeneas Hercules also Cyrus Alexander the great Julius Caesar Lucullus Sylla Marius It is a Canon That every one know his own Angel and that he obey him according to the Word of God and let him beware of the snares of the evil Angel lest he be involved in the calamities of Brute and Marcus Antonius To this refer the book of Jovianus Pontanus of Fortune and his Eutiches The third way is diligent and hard labor without which no great thing can be obtained from the divine Deity worthy admiration as it is said Tu nihil invita dices faciésve Minerva Nothing canst thou do or say against Minerva's will We do detest all evil Magicians who make themselves associates with the devils with their unlawful superstitions and do obtain and effect some things which God permitteth to be done instead of the punishment of the devils So also they do other evil acts the devil being the author as the Scriptures testifie of Judas To these are referred all idolaters of old and of our age and abusers of Fortune such as the heathens are full of And to these do appertain all Charontick evocation of Spirits as the work of Saul with the woman and Lucanus prophesie of the deceased souldier concerning the event of the Pharsalian war and the like Aphor. 27. Make a Circle with a center A which is B. C. D. E. At the East let there be B. C. a square At the North C. D. At the west D. E. And at the South E. D. Divide the several quadrants into seven parts that there may be in the whole 28 parts and let them be again divided into four parts that there may be 112 parts of the Circle and so many are the true secrets to be revealed And this Circle in this maner divided is the seal of the secrets of the world which they draw from the onely center A that is from the invisible God unto the whole creature The Prince of the Oriental secrets is resident in the middle and hath three Nobles on either side every one whereof hath four under him and the Prince himself hath four appertaining unto him And in this manner the other princes and nobles have their quadrants of secrets with their four secrets But the Oriental secret is the study of all wisdome The West of strength The South of tillage The North of more rigid life So that the Eastern secrets are commended to be the best the Meridian to be mean and the East and North to be lesser The use of this seal of secrets is that thereby thou maist know whence the Spirits or Angels are produced which may teach the secrets delivered unto them from God But they have names taken from their offices and powers according to the gift which God hath severally distributed to every one of them One hath the power of the sword another of the pestilence and another of inflicting famine upon the people as it is ordained by God Some are destroyers of Cities as those two were who were sent to overthrow Sodom and Gomorrha and the places adjacent examples whereof the holy Scripture witnesseth Some are the watch-men over Kingdoms others the keepers of private persons and from thence any one may easily form their names in his own language so that he which will may ask a physical Angel mathematical or philosophical or an Angel of civil wisdom or of supernatural or natural wisdome or for any thing whatsoever and let him ask seriously with a great desire of his mind and with faith and constancy and without doubt that which he asketh he shall receive from the Father and God of all Spirits This faith surmounteth all seals and bringeth them
into subjection to the will of man The Characteristical maner of calling Angels succeedeth this faith which dependeth onely on divine revelation But without the said faith preceding it it lieth in obscurity Nevertheless if any one will use them for a memorial and no otherwise and as a thing simply created by God to this purpose to which such a spirituall power or essence is bound he may use them without any offence unto God But let him beware lest that he fall into idolatry and the snares of the devil who with his cunning sorceries easily deceiveth the unwary And he is not taken but onely by the singer of God and is appointed to the service of man so that they unwillingly serve the godly but not without temptations and tribulations because the commandment hath it That he shall bruise the heel of Christ the seed of the woman We are therefore to exercise our selves about spiritual things with fear and trembling and with great reverence towards God and to be conversant in spiritual essences with gravity and justice And he which medleth with such things let him beware of all levity pride covetousness vanity envy and ungodliness unless he will miserably perish Aphor. 21. Because all good is from God who is onely good those things which we would obtain of him we ought to seek them by prayer in Spirit and Truth and a simple heart The conclusion of the secret of secrets is That every one exercise himself in prayer for those things which he desires and he shall not suffer a repulse Let not any one despise prayer for by whom God is prayed unto to him he both can and will give Now let us acknowledge him the Author from whom let us humbly seek for our desires A merciful and good Father loveth the sons of desires as Daniel and sooner heareth us then we are able to overcome the hardness of our hearts to pray But he will not that we give holy things to dogs nor despise and contemn the gifts of his treasury Therefore diligently and often read over and over the first Septenary of secrets and guide and direct thy life and all thy thoughts according to those precepts and all things shall yield to the desires of thy minde in the Lord to whom thou trustest The fifth Septenary Aphor. 29. As our study of Magick proceedeth in order from general Rules premised let us now come to a particular explication thereof Spirits either are divine ministers of the word and of the Church and the members thereof or else they are servient to the Creatures in corporal things partly for the salvation of the soul and body and partly for its destruction And there is nothing done whether good or evil without a certain and determinate order and government He that seeketh after a good end let him follow it and he that desires an evil end pursue that also and that earnestly from divine punishment and turning away from the divine will Therefore let every one compare his ends with the word of God and as a touchstone that will judge between good and evil and let him propose unto himself what is to be avoided and what is to be sought after and that which he constituteth and determineth to himself let him follow diligently not procrastinating or delaying until he attain to his appointed bound Aphor. 30. They which desire riches glory of this world Magistracy honours dignities tyrannies and that magically if they endeavour diligently after them they shall obtain them every one according to his destiny industry and magical Sciences as the History of Melesina witnesseth and the Magicians thereof who ordained That none of the Italian nation should for ever obtain the Rule or Kingdome of Naples and brought it to pass that he who reigned in his age to be thrown down from his seat so great is the power of the guardian or tutelar Angels of the Kingdoms of the world Aphor. 31. Call the Prince of the Kingdom and lay a command upon him and command what thou wilt and it shall be done if that Prince be not again absolved from his obedience by a succeeding Magician Therefore the Kingdom of Naples may be again restored to the Italians if any Magician shall call him who instituted this order and compel him to recall his deed he may be compelled also to restore the secret power taken from the treasury of Magick A Book a Gemme and magical Horn. which being had any one may easily if he will make himself the Monarch of the world But Judaeus chused rather to live among Gods until the judgement before the transitory good of this world and his heart is so blinde that he understandeth nothing of the God of heaven and earth or thinketh more but enjoyeth the delights of things immortal to his own eternal destruction And he may be easier called up then the Angel of Plotinus in the Temple of Isis Aphor. 32. In like maner also the Romans were taught by the Sibyls books and by that means made themselves the Lords of the world as Histories witness But the Lords of the Prince of a Kingdom do bestow the lesser Magistracies He therefore that desireth to have a lesser office or dignity let him magically call a Noble of the Prince and his desire shall be fulfilled Aphor. 33. But he who coveteth contemptible dignities as riches alone let him call the Prince of riches or one of his Lords and he shall obtain his desire in that kinde whereby he would grow rich either in earthly goods or merchandize or with the gifts of Princes or by the study of metals or Chymistry as he produceth any president of growing rich by these meanes he shall obtain his desire therein Aphor. 34. All manner of evocation is of the same kinde and form and this way was familiar of old time to the Sibyls and chief Priests This in our time through ignorance and impiety is totally lost and that which remaineth is depraved with infinite lyes and superstitions Aphor. 35. The humane understanding is the onely effecter of all wonderfull works so that it be joyned to any Spirit and being joyned she produceth what she will Therefore we are carefull to proceed in Magick lest that Syrens and other monsters deceive us which likewise do desire the society of the humane soul Let the Magician carefully hide himself alwaies under the wings of the most High lest he offer himself to be devoured of the roaring Lion for they who desire earthly things do very hardly escape the snares of the devil The sixth Septenary Aphor. 36. Care is to be taken that experiments be not mixed with experiments but that every one be onely simple and several for God and Nature have ordained all things to a certain and appointed end so that for examples sake they who perform cures with the most simple herbs and roots do cure the most happily of all And in this manner in Constellations Words and Characters Stones and such like