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A26563	Henry Cornelius Agrippa's fourth book of occult philosophy and geomancy magical elements of Peter de Abano : astronomical geomancy : the nature of spirits : and Arbatel of magick / translated into English by Robert Turner ...; De occulta philosophia. Book 4. English.	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.; Petrus, de Abano, ca. 1250-ca. 1315. Heptameron, or magical elements of Peter de Abano.	1655 (1655)	Wing A785A; ESTC R40727	133,640	309

holy things to dogs nor to cast pearls befo●e swine Observe this Law and the eyes of thy Understanding shall be opened to understand secret things and thou shalt have whatsoever thy mind desireth to be divinely revealed unto thee Thou shalt have also the Angels and Spirits of God prompt and ready in their nature to minister unto thee as much as any human mind can desire Aphor. 2. In all things call upon the name of the Lord and without prayer unto God through his only-begotten Son do not thou undertake to do or think any thing And use the Spirits given attributed unto thee as ministers without rashness and presumption as the messengers of God having a due reverence towards the Lord of Spirits And the remainder of thy life do thou accomplish demeaning thyself peaceably to the honour of God and the profit of thyself and thy neighbour Aphor. 3. Live to thyself and the Muses avoid the friendship of the multitude be thou coveteous of time benificial to all men Use thy gifts be vigilant in thy calling and let the word of God never depart from thy mouth Aphor. 4. Be obedient to good Admonitions avoid all procrastination accustom thyself to constancy and Gravity both in thy words and deeds Resist the temptations of the tempter by the word of God Flee from earthly things seek after heavenly things Put no confidence in thy own wisdom but look unto God in all things according to that sentence of the Scripture When we know not what we shall do unto thee O God do we lift up our eyes and from thee we expect our help For where all human refuges do forsake us there will the help of God shine forth according to the saying of Philo. Aphor. 5. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy strength and thy neighbour as thy self and the Lord will keep thee as the apple of his eye and will deliver thee from all evil and will replenish thee with all good and nothing shall thy soul desire but thou shalt be fully endued therewith so that it be contingent to the salvation of thy soul and body Aphor. 6. Whatsoever thou hast learned frequently repeat and fix the same in thy mind and learn much but not many things because a human understanding cannot be alike capable in all things unless it be such a one that is divinely regenerated unto him nothing is so difficult or manifold which he may not be able equally to attain to Aphor. 7. Call upon me in the day of trouble and I will hear thee and thou shalt glorify me saith the Lord. For all Ignorance is tribulation of the mind therefore call upon the Lord in thy ignorance and he will hear thee And remember that thou give honour unto God and say with the Psalmist Not unto us Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give the glory The second Septinary Aphor. 8. Even as the Scripture testifies that God appointeth names to things or persons also with them hath distributed certain powers and offices out of his treasures so the Characters and names of Stars have not any power by reason of their figure or pronunciation but by reason of the virtue or office which God hath ordained by nature either to such a name or character For there is no power either in heaven or in earth or hell which doth not descend from God and without his permission they can neither give or draw forth into any action any thing they have Aphor. 9. That is the chiefest wisdom which is from God next that which is in spiritual creatures afterwards in corporal creatures fourthly in nature natural things The spirits that are apostate reserved to the last judgment do follow these after a long interval Sixthly the ministers of punishments in hell and the obedient unto God Seventhly the Pigmies do not possess the lowest place and they who inhabit in elements and elementary things It is convenient therefore to know and discern all differences of the wisdom of the Creator and the Creatures that it may be certainly manifest unto us what we ought to assume to our use of every thing and that we may know in truth how and in what manner that may be done For truely every creature is ordained for some profitable end to human nature for the service thereof as the holy Scriptures Reason and Experience do testify Aphor. 10. God the Father Almighty Creator of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible in the holy Scriptures proposeth himself to have an eye over us and as a tender father which loveth his children he teacheth us what is profitable and what not what we are to avoid what we are to embrace then he allureth us to obedience with great promises of corporal eternal benefits and deterreth us with threatning of punishments from those things which are not profitable for us Turn over therefore with thy hand both night and day those holy Writings that thou mayest be happy in things present and blessed to all eternity Do this and thou shalt live which the holy Books have taught thee Aphor. 11. A number of four is Pythagorical and the first Quedrate therefore here let us place the foundation of all wisdom after the wisdom of God revealed in the holy Scriptures and to the consideration 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 office of every creature unto ourselves 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 by 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

nature which things many false wicked Magicians fe●gn Sixthly All the deceitful imitations and affections of the devil are also to be avoided whereby imitateth the power of the Creation and of the Creator that he may produce things with a word that they may not be what they are Which belongeth only to the Omnipotency of God and is not communicable to the creature Seventhly Let us cleave fast to the gifts of God of his holy spirit that we may know them and diligently embrace them with our whole heart and all our strength Aphor. 41. We come now to the nine last Aphorisms of this whole Tome wherein we will the divine mercy assisting us conclude this Magical Isagoge Therefore in the first place it is to be observed what we understand by Magician in this work Him then we count to be a Magician to whom by the grace of God the spiritual essences do serve to manifest the knowledge of the whole universe and of the secrets of nature contained therein whether they are visible or invisible This description of a Magician plainly appeareth and is universal An evil Magician is he whom by the divine permission the evil spirits do serve to his temporal eternal destruction and perdition to deceive men and draw them away from God such was Simon Magus of whom mention is made in the Acts of the Apostles and in Clemens whom St. Peter commanded to be thrown down upon the earth whereas he had commanded himself as it were a God to be raised up in the air by the unclean Spirits Unto this order are also to be referred all those who are noted in two Tables of the Law and are set forth with their evil deeds The subdivisions and species of both kinds of Magick we will note in the Tomes following In this place it shall suffice that we distinguish the Sciences which is good which is evil whereas man sought to obtain them both at first to his own ruin and destruction as Moses and Hermes do demonstrate Aphor. 42. Secondly we are to know That a Magician is a person predestinated to this work from his mothers womb neither let him assume any such great things to himself unless he be called divinely by grace hereunto for some good end to a bad end is that the Scriptures might be fulfilled It must be that offences will come but woe be to that man through whom they come Therefore as we have before oftentimes admonished With fear and trembling we must live in this world Notwithstanding I will not deny but that some men may with study and diligence obtain some species of both kinds of Magick if it may be admitted But he shall never aspire to the highest kinds thereof yet if he covet to assail them he shall doubtless offend both in soul body Such are they who by the operations of false Magicians are sometimes carried to Mount Horeb or in some wilderness or defarts or they are maimed in some member or are simply torn in pieces or are deprived of their understanding even as many such things happen by the use thereof where men are forsaken by God delivered to the power of Satan The seventh Septinary Aphor. 43. The Lord liveth and the works of God do live in him by his appointment whereby he willeth them to be for he will have them to use their liberty in obedience to his commands or disobedience thereof To the obedient he hath proposed their rewards to the disobedient he hath propounded their deserved punishment Therefore these spirits of their free will through their pride and contempt of the Son of God have revolted from God their Creator and are reserved unto the day of wrath and there is left in them a very great power in the creation but notwithstanding it is limited they are confined to their bounds with the bridle of God Therefore the Magician of God which signifies a wise man of God or one informed of God is led forth by the hand of God unto all everlasting good both mean things and also the chiefest corporal things Great is the power of Satan by reason of the great sins of men Therefore also the Magicians of Satan do perform great things and greater than any man would believe although they do subsist in their own limits nevertheless they are above all human apprehension as to the corporal and transitory things of this life which many ancient histories and daily examples do testify Both kinds of Magick are different one from the other in their ends the one leadeth to eternal good and useth temporal things with thanksgivings the other is a little sollicitous about eternal things but wholly exerciseth himself about corporal things that he may freely enjoy all his lusts and delights in contempt of God and his anger Aphor. 44. The passage from the common life of man unto a Magical life is no other but a sleep from that l●fe and an awaking to this life for those things which happen to ignorant and unwise men in the●r ●●mmon life the same things happen to the willing and knowing Magician The Magician understandeth when the mind doth meditate of himself he deliberateth reasoneth constituteth and determineth what is to be done he observeth when his cogitations to proceed from a divine seperate essence and he proveth of what order that divine seperate essence is But the man that is ignorant of Magick is carried to and fro as it were in war with his affections he knoweth not when they issue out of his own mind or are impressed by the assisting essence and he knoweth not how to overthrow the counsels of his enemies by the word of God or to keep himself from the snares and deceits of the tempter Aphor. 45. The greatest precept of Magick is to know what every man ought to receive for his use from the assisting Spirit and what to refuse which he may learn of the Psalmist saying Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way in keeping thy word O Lord. To keep the word of God so that the evil one snatch it not out of the heart is the chiefest precept of wisdom It is lawful to admit of and exercise other suggestions which are not contrary to the glory of God and charity towards our neighbours not inquiring from what Spirit such suggestions proceed but we ought to take heed that we are not too much busied about unnecessary things according to the admonition of Christ Martha Martha thou art troubled about many things but Mary hath chosen the better part which shall not be taken from her Therefore let us always have regard unto the saying of Christ Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you All other things that is all things which are due to the mortal Microcosme as food raiment and the necessary arts of this life Aphor. 46. There is nothing so much becommeth a man as constancy in his words