except thou Spirit N. do come and appear visibly in this Crystal-stone in my presence here immediately as it is aforesaid Let the great curse of God the anger of God the shadow and darkness of death and of eternal condemnation be upon thee Spirit N. for ever and ever because thou hast denyed thy faith thy health and salvation For thy great disobedience thou art worthy to be condemned Therefore let the divine Trinity Thrones Dominions Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and all the souls of Saints both of men and women condemn thee for ever and be a witness against thee at the day of judgment because of thy disobedience And let all creatures of our Lord Jesus Christ say thereunto Fiat Fiat fiat Amen And when he is appeared in the Crystal-stone as is said before bind him with this bond as followeth to wit I conjure thee Spirit N. that art appeared to me in this Crystal-stone to me and to my fellow I conjure thee by all the royall words aforesaid the which did constrain thee to appear therein and their vertues I charge thee by them all that thou shall not depart out of this Crystal-stone until my will being fulfilled thou be licened to depart I conjure and bind thee Spirit N. by that omnipotent God which commanded the Angel S. Michael to drive Lucifer out of the Heavens with a Sword of vengeance and to fall from joy to pain and for dread of such pain as he is in I charge thee Spirit N. that thou shalt not go out of the Crystal-stone nor yet to alter thy shape at this time except I command thee otherwise but to come unto me at all places and in all hours and minutes when and wheresoever I shall call thee by the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ or by any Conjuration of words that is written in this Book and to shew me and my friends true visions in this Crystal-stone of any thing or things that we would see at any time or times and also to go and fetch me the fairy Sibylia that I may talk with her in all kind of talk as I shall call her by any Conjuration of words contained in this Book I conjure thee Spirit N. by the great wisdom and divinity of his Godhead my will to fulfill as is aforesaid I charge thee upon pain of condemnation both in this world and in the world to come Fiat fiat fiat Amen This done go to the place fast by and in a fair Parlor or Chamber make a ✚ ✚ ✚ Sorthie Sorthia Sorthios circle with chalk as hereafter followeth and make another circle for the fairy Sibylia to appear in four foot from the circle thou art in and make no names therein or cast any holy thing therein but make a circle round with chalk and let the Master and his fellow sit down in this circle the Master having the Book in his hand his fellow having the Crystal-stone in his right hand looking in the Stone when the Fairy doth appear The Master also must have upon his brest this figure here written in Parchment and begin to work in the new of the ☽ and in the hour of ♃ the ☉ and the ☽ to be in one of inhabiters signes as ♋ ♠♓ This bond as followeth is to cause the Spirit in the Crystal-stone to fetch unto thee the fairy Sibylia All things fulfilled begin this bond as followeth and behold for doubtles they will come before thee before the Conjuration be read seven times I conjure thee spirit N. in this Crystal-stone by God the Father by God the Son Jesus Christ and by God the Holy Ghost three Persons and one God and by their vertues I conjure thee spirit that thou do go in peace and also come again to me quickly and to bring with thee into that circle appointed Sibylia Fairie that I may talk with her in those matters that shall be to her honour and glory and so I charge thee declare unto her I conjure thee spirit N. by the blood of the innocent Lamb the which redeemed all the world by the vertue thereof I charge thee thou spirit in the Crystal-stone that thou do declare unto her this message Also I conjure thee spirit N. by all Angels and Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee N. that thou do depart with speed and also to come again with speed and to bring with thee the fairie Sibylia to appear in that circle before I do read the Conjuration in this Book seven times Thus I charge thee my will to be fulfilled upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat fiat fiat Amen Then the figure aforesaid pinned on thy brest rehearse the words therein and say ✚ Sorthie ✚ Sorthia ✚ Sorthios ✚ then begin your Conjuration as followeth here and say I conjure thee Sibylia O gentle Virgine of Fairies by the mercy of the Holy Ghost and by the dreadful day of doom and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee Sibylia O gentle Virgine of Fairies and by all the Angels of ♃ and their characters and vertues and by all the spirits of ♃ and ♠and their characters and vertues and by all the characters that be in the Firmament and by the King and Queen of Fairies and their vertues and by the faith and obedience that thou bearest unto them I conjure thee Sibylia by the blood that ran out of the side of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified and by the opening of Heaven and by the renting of the Temple and by the darkness of the Sun in the time of his death and by the rising up of the dead in the time of his Resurrection and by the Virgin Mary Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the unspeakable Name of God Letragramaton I conjure thee O Sibylia O blessed and beautiful Virgin by all the royall words aforesaid I conjure thee Sibylia by all their vertues to appear in that circle before me visibly in the form and shape of a beautiful woman in a bright and white vesture adorned and garnished most fair and to appear to me quickly without deceit or tarrying and that thou fail not to fulfil my will and desire effectually For I will choose thee to be my blessed Virgin and will have common copulation with thee Therefore make hast and speed to come unto me and to appear as I have said before To whom be honour and glory for ever and ever Amen The which done and ended if she come not repeat the Conjuration till they do come for doubtless they will come And when she is appeared take your censers and incense her with frankincense then bind her with the bond as followeth I do conjure thee Sibylia by God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Gost three Persons and one God and by the blessed Virgin Mary Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ and by all the
teach shew and declare unto me and to my friends at all hours and minutes both night and day the truth of all things both bodily and ghostly in this world whatsoever I shall request or desire declaring also unto me my very name And this I command in your part to do and to obey thereunto as unto your own Lord and Master That done they will call a certain spirit whom they will command to enter into the centre of the circled or round Crystal Then put the Crystal between the two circles and thou shalt see the Crystal made black Then command them to command the spirit in the Crystal not to depart out of the Stone till thou give him licence and to fulfill thy will for ever That done thou shalt see them go upon the Crystal both to answer your requests and to tarry your licence That done the spirits will crave licence and say Go ye to your place appointed of Almighty God in the Name of the Father c. And then take up thy Crystal and look therein asking what thou wilt and it will shew it unto thee Let all your Circles be nine foot every way and made as followeth Work this work in ♋ â™ or ♓ in the hour of the ☽ or ♃ And when the spirit is inclosed if thou fear him bind him with some bond in such sort as is elsewhere expressed already in this our Treatise A Figure or Type proportional shewing what form must be observed and kept in making the Figure whereby the former secret of inclosing a Spirit in Crystal is to be accomplished c. 2 alanta â— 3 Thamaor 1 itrael 4 Ifalaur 5 itrami North South Est West Agla el ya Panthon ✚ dextera dmÌ„i exaltauit me ✚ dextera dmÌ„i fecit untâ—le ✚ dextera dmÌ„i exalfaâ—tine ✚ dextera dÌ„mi fect virtute ✚ Messias Emanuel Alpha et ω CHAP. XXII An Experiment of Bealphares ✚ ✚ ✚ Homo sacarus museo lomeas cherubozca ✚ The two and twentieth Psalm O My God my God look upon me why hast thou forsaken me and art so farr from my health and from the words of my complaint And so forth to the end of the same Psalm as it is to be found in the Book This Psalm also following being the fifty one Psalm must be said three times over c. HAve mercy upon me O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences And so forth to the end of the same Psalm concluding it with Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Then say this verse O Lord leave not my soul with the wicked nor my life with the blood-thirsty Then say a Pater noster an Ave Maria and a Credo Ne nos inducas O Lord shew us thy mercy and we shall be saved Lord hear our prayer and let our cry come unto thee Let us pray O Lord God Almighty as thou warnedst by thine Angel the three Kings of Cullen Jasper Melchior and Balthasar when they came with worshipful presents toward Bethelem Jasper brought myrrh Melchior incense Balthasar gold worshipping the high King of all the world Jesus Gods Son of Heaven the second Person in Trinity being born of the holy and clean Virgin S. Mary Queen of Heaven Empress of Hell and Lady of all the world at that time the holy Angel Gabriel warned and bad the foresaid three Kings that they should take another way for dread of peril that Herod the King by his Ordinance would have destroyed these three Noble Kings that meekly sought out our Lord and Saviour As wittily and truly as these three Kings turned for dread and took another way so wisely and so truly O Lord God of thy mightiful mercy bless us now at this time for thy blessed passion save us and keep us all together from all evil and thy holy Angel defend us Let us pray O Lord King of all Kings which containest the Throne of Heavens and beholdest all deeps weighest the hills and shuttest up with thy hand the earth hear us most meek God and grant unto us being unworthy according to thy great mercy to have the verity and vertue of knowledge of hidden treasure by this Spirit invocated through thy help O Lord Jesus Christ to whom be all honour and glory from worlds to worlds everlastingly Amen Then say these names ✚ Helie ✚ Helion ✚ essejere ✚ Deus eternus ✚ Eloy ✚ clemens ✚ Heloye ✚ Deus sanctus ✚ Sabaoth ✚ Deus exercituum Adonay ✚ Deus mirabilis ✚ jao ✚ berax ✚ anepheneton ✚ Deun ineffabilis ✚ Sodoy ✚ Dominatoz Dominus ✚ on fortissimus ✚ Deus ✚ qui the which wouldest be prayed unto of sinners receive we besiech thee these sacrifices of praise and our meek Prayers which we unworthy do offer unto thy Divine Majesty Deliver us and have mercy upon us and prevent with thy Holy Spirit this work and with thy blessed help to follow after that this our work begun of thee maybe ended by thy mighty power Amen Then say this anon after ✚ Homo ✚ sacarus ✚ Musceolameus ✚ cherubozca ✚ being the figure upon thy brest aforesaid the Girdle about thee the circle made bless the Circle with holy Water and sit down in the midst and read this Conjuration as followeth sitting back to back at the first time I exercise and conjure Baalphares the practiser and preceptor of this Art by the maker of Heavens and of Earth and by his vertue and by his unspeakable Name Tetragrammaton and by all the holy Sacraments and by the holy Majesty and Deity of the living God I conjure and exorcise thee Bealphares by the vertue of all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and by the most truest and speciallest Name of your Master that you do come unto us in fair form of man or woman-kinde here visibly before this circle and not terrible by any manner of wayes This circle being our tuition and protection by the merciful goodness of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and that you do make answer truly without craft or deceit unto all my demands and questions by the vertue and power of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen CHAP. XXIII To bind the Spirit Bealphares and to loose him again NOw when he is appeared bind him with these words which follow * I conjure thee Bealphares by God the Father by God the Son and by God the Holy Ghost and by all the holy company in Heaven and by their vertues and powers I charge thee Bealphares that thou shalt not depart out of my sight nor yet to alter thy bodily shape that thou art appeared in nor any power shalt thou have of our bodies or souls earthly or ghostly but be obedient unto me and to the words of my
to observe the flying of Birds and comprehendeth all such other observations where men do guesse upon uncertain toyes It is found in Deut. 18. and in 2 Chron. 33. and elsewhere Of this Art of Augury Tyresias the King of the Thebans is said to be the first inventor but Tages first published the discipline thereof being but a little boy as Cicero reporteth out of the books of the Hetruscans themselves Some points of this Art are more high and profound then some others and yet are they more homely and slovenly then the rest as namely the Divination upon the entrails of beasts which the Gentiles in their sacrifices specially observed Insomuch as Marcus Varro seeing the absurdity thereof said that these gods were not only idle but very slovens that used so to hide their secrets and councels in the guts and bowels of Beasts How vainly absurdly and superstitiously the Heathen used this kind of Divination in their sacrifices is manifested by their actions and ceremonies in that behalf practised as well in times past as at this hour The Aegyptians had 666 several sorts and kinds of Sacrifices the Romans had almost as many the Grecians had not so few as they the Persians and Medes were not behind them the Indians and other Nations have at this instant their Sacrifices full of variety and more full of barbarous impiety for in sundry places these offer sacrifices to the Devil hoping thereby to move him to lenity yea these commonly sacrifice such of their enemies as they have taken in war as we read that the Gentiles in ancient time did offer sacrifice to appease the wrath and indignation of their feigned gods CHAP. II. Of the Jews sacrifice to Moloch a discourse thereupon and of Purgatory THe Jews used one kind of Diabolical Sacrifice never taught them by Moses namely To offer their children to Moloch making their sons and their daughters to run through the fire supposing such grace and efficacy to have been in that action as other Witches affirm to be in Charmes and Words and therefore among other points of Witchcraft this is specially and namely forbidden by Moses We read of no more Miracles wrought hereby then by any other kind of Witchcraft in the old or new Testament expressed It was no ceremony appointed by God no figure of Christ perhaps it might be a sacrament or rather a figure of Purgatory the which place was not remembred by Moses Neither was there any sacrifice appointed by the law for the relief of Israelites souls that there should be tormented Which without all doubt should not have been omitted if any such place of Purgatory had been then as the Pope hath lately devised for his private and special lucre This Sacrificing to Moloch as some affirm was usual among the Gentiles from whence the Jews brought it into Israel and there of likelyhood the Eutichists learned the abomination in that behalf CHAP. III. The Canibals cruelty of Popish Sacrifices exceeding in tyranny the Jews or Gentiles THe incivility and cruel Sacrifices of Popish Priests do yet exceed both the Jew and the Gentile for these take upon them to sacrifice Christ himself And to make their tyranny the more apparent they are not contented to have killed him once but dayly and hourly torment him with new deaths yea they are not ashamed to swear that with their carnal hands they tear his humane substance breaking it into small gobbets and with their external teeth chew his flesh and bones contrary to Divine or humane nature and contrary to the Prophesie which saith There shall not a bone of him be broken Finally in the end of their sacrifices as they say they eat him up raw and swallow down into their guts every member and parcel of him and last of all that they convey him into the place where they bestow the residue of all that which they have devoured that day And this same barbarous impiety exceedeth the cruelty of all others for all the Gentiles consumed their sacrifices with fire which they thought to be holy CHAP. IV. The superstition of the Heathen about the element of fire and how it grew in such reverence among them of their corruptions and that they had some inkling of the godly Fathers doings in that behalf AS touching the element of fire and the superstition thereof about those businesses you shall understand that many superstitious people of all Nations have received and reverenced as the most holy thing among their sacrifices insomuch I say as they have worshipped it among their gods calling it Orimasda to wit holy fire and Divine light The Greeks called it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Romans Vesta which is The fire of the Lord. Surely they had heard of the fire that came down from heaven and consumed the oblations of the Fathers and they understood it to be God himself For there came to the Heathen the bare names of things from the doctrine of the godly Fathers and Patriarches and those so obscured with fables and corrupted with lyes so overwhelmed with superstitions and disguised with ceremonies that it is hard to judge from whence they came Some cause thereof I suppose was partly the translations of Governments whereby one Nation learned folly of another and partly blind devotion without knowledge of Gods Word but specially the want of Grace which they sought not for according to Gods commandement and will And that the Gentiles had some inkling of the godly Fathers doings may diversly appear Do not the Muscovits and Indian prophets at this day like apes imitate Esay Because he went naked certain years they forsooth counterfeit madness and drink potions for that purpose thinking that whatsoever they say in their madness will certainly come to pass But hereof is more largely discoursed before in the word Kasam CHAP. V. Of the Roman Sacrifices of the estimation they had of the Augury of the twelve Tables THe Romans even after they were grown to great civility and enjoyed a most flourishing State and Common-wealth would sometimes sacrifice themselves sometimes their children sometimes their friends c. consuming the same with fire which they thought holy Such estimation I say was attributed to that of Divination upon the entrails of Beasts c. At Rome the chief Princes themselves exercised the same namely Romulus Fabius Maximum c. insomuch as there was a decree made there by the whole Senate that six of the chiefe Magistrates Sons should from time to time be put forth to learn the mystery of these Arts of Augury and Divination at Hetruria where the cunning and knowledge thereof most abounded When they came home well informed and instructed in this Art their estimation and dignity was such as they were accounted reputed and taken to be the interpreters of the gods or rather between the gods and them No high Priest nor any other great officer was elected but these did absolutely nominate them or else
it with the same and brandishing the same in his right hand he shall begin to conjure the Spirit on this following manner I Exorcize and Conjure thee thou great and powerful Balkin Lord of Glauron Lord of Luridan and of fifteen hundred Legions Lord of the Northern Mountains and of every Beast that dwells thereon by the holy and wonderful Names of the Almighty Iehovah Athanato ✚ Aionos ✚ Dominus sempiternus ✚ Aletheios ✚ Saday ✚ Iehovah Kedesh El gabor ✚ Deus fortissimus ✚ Anaphexaton Amorule Ameron ✚ ✚ ✚ Panthon ✚ Craton ✚ Muridon ✚ Iah Iehovah Elohim pentasseron ✚ ✚ trinus et unus ✚ ✚ ✚ ★ I Exorcize and Conjure I Invocate and Command thee thou aforesaid Spirit by the powers of Angels and Archangels Cherubim and Seraphim by the mighty Prince Coronzon by the blood of Abel by the righteousness of Seth and the Prayers of Noah by the voyces of Thunder and dreadful day of Judgment by all these powerful and royal words abovesaid that without delay or malitious intent thou do come before me here at the circumference of this consecrated Circle to answer my proposals and desires without any manner of terrible form either of thy self or attendants but only obediently fairly and with good intent to present thy self before me this Circle being my defence through his power who is Almighty and hath sanctified the same In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen After the Magician hath thrice repeated this Conjuration Let him immediately set the fire before him and put the Rozin thereon to fumigate at the appearance of the conjured Spirits and at the instant of their appearance he shall hold the Censer of fire in his left hand and the Sword in his right still turning round as the Spirits do For in a little space after the Invocation is repeated he shall hear the noise of Thunders and perceive before him in the Valley a mighty storm of Lightning and Rain after a while the same will cease and an innumerable company of Dwarfs or Pigmies will appear mounted upon Chamelions to march towards the Circle surrounding the same Next comes Balkin with his Attendants he will appear like the god Bacchus upon a little Goat and the rest that follow will march after him afoot Assoon as they come near the Circle they will breath out of their mouths a mist or fog which will even obscure the light of the Moon and darken the Magician that he cannot behold them nor himself yet let him not be discomfited or afraid for that fog will be quickly over and the Spirits will run round the Circle after Balkin their Lord who rides upon a Goat they will continue to surround the Circle till the Magician begin the form of obligation or binding their Leader or King in this form with the Sword in his right hand the Fire and Rozin burning before him I conjure and bind thee Balkin who art appeared before me by the Father by the Son and by the Holy Ghost by all the holy Consecrations I have made by the powerful Names of Heaven and of Earth and of Hell that I have used and uttered in calling upon thee by the Seals which thou here beholdest and the Sword which I present unto thee by this sanctified Girdle and all the sanctified and potent things aforesaid That here thou remain peaceably and of thy present shape before the Northern quarter of this Circle without injury to me in body soul or fortune but on the contrary to answer faithfully unto my demands and not hence to remove till I have licenced thee to depart In the Name of the Father Son and holy Spirit Amen When he is thus obliged he will alight from his Goat and cause his Attendants to remove further into the Valley then will he stand peaceably before the Circle to answer the Magician After this the Magician shall begin to demand into his own possession a Familiar to build or pull down any Castle or strong hold in a night and that this Familiar bring with him the Girdle of Conquest or Victory that the Magician being girded with the same may overcome all enemies whatsoever And further the Spirit is able to inform him of all questions concerning Thunder and Lightning the Motions of the Heavens the Comets and Apparitions in the air Pestilence and Famine noxious and malevolent blasts as also of the Inhabitants of the Northern Pole and the wonders undiscovered throughout the world Likewise if the Exorcist inquire concerning the habitations of starry Spirits he will readily answer him describing their orders food life and past-time truly and exactly After the Magician hath satisfied himself with inquiries and curious questions unto the Spirit there will come from amongst the company a little Spirit of a span long like a little Ethiop which the great King Balkin will deliver unto the Exorcist to continue as a Familiar with him as long as his life shall last This familiar the possessor may name at it pleaseth him The three last who had this Spirit into possession were three Northern Magicians the first Honduros a Norwegian who called it Philenar and commanded it at his pleasure with a little Bell. After him Benno his eldest Son injoy'd the same under the same name And Swarkzar a Polonian Priest was the last who enjoy'd it under the Name of Muncula all which names were imposed upon it according to the pleasure of the Masters and therefore the naming of this familiar is left to the discretion of the Exorcist Now when the Master hath taken this familiar into his custody and service the Spirit Balkin will desire to depart being wearied if the action continue longer then an hour Therefore the Magician must be careful to dismiss him in this following form Because thou hast diligently answered my demands and been ready to come at my first call I do here licence thee to depart unto thy proper place without injury or danger to man or Beast depart I say and be ever ready at my call being duly exorcized and conjured by sacred Rites of Magick I charge thee to withdraw with quiet and peace and peace be continued betwixt me and thee In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen Then the Spirits company will begin to march about their Prince and in a formal Troop will march along the Valley whilest the Magician repeateth Pater Noster c. until the Spirits be quite out of sight and vanished This is a compleat form of conjuring the aforesaid Spirit according to the Rules of Vaganostus the Norwegian CHAP. X. The exposition of Iidoni and where it is found whereby the whole Art of Conjuration is deciphered THis word Iidoni is derived of Iada which properly signifieth to know it is sometimes translated Divinus which is a Diviner or Soothsayer as in Deut. 18. Levit. 20. sometimes Ariolus which is one that also taketh upon him to foretel things to come and is found Levit. 19.
whole and holy company of Heaven and by the dreadful day of doom and by all Angels and Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and their vertues and powers I conjure thee and bind thee Sibylia that thou shalt not depart out of the circle wherein thou art appeared nor yet to alter thy shape except I give thee licence to depart I conjure thee Sibylia by the blood that ran out of the side of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified and by the vertue hereof I conjure thee Sibylia to come to me and to appear to me at all times visibly as the Conjuration of words leadeth written in this Book I conjure thee Sibylia O blessed Virgin of Fairies by the opening of Heaven and by the renting of the Temple and by the darkness of the Sun at the time of his death and by the rising of the dead in the time of his glorious Resurrection and by the unspeakable Name of God ✚ Tetragrammaton ✚ and by King and Queen of Fairies and by their vertues I conjure thee Sibylia to appear before the Conjuration be read over four times and that visibly to appear as the the Conjuration leadeth written in this Book and to give me good counsel at all times and to come by treasures hidden in the earth and all other things that is to do me pleasure and to fulfil my will without any deceit or tarrying nor yet that thou shalt have any power of my body or soul earthly or ghostly nor yet to perish so much of my body as one hair of my head I conjure thee Sibylia by all the royal words aforesaid and by their vertues and powers I charge and bind thee by the vertue thereof to be obedient unto me and to all the words aforesaid and this bond to stand between thee and me upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat fiat fiat Amen CHAP. XVIII A License for Sibylia to go and come by at all times I Conjure thee Sibylia which art come hither before me by the commandement of thy Lord and mine that thou shalt have no power in thy going or coming unto me imagining any evil in any manner of wayes in the earth or under the earth of evil doings to any person or persons I conjure and command thee Sibylia by all the royal words and vertues that be written in this Book that thou shalt not go to the place from whence thou camest but shalt remain peaceably invisibly and look thou be ready to come unto me when thou art called by any conjuration of words that be written in this Book to come I say at my commandement and to answer unto me truly and duly of all things my will quickly to be fulfilled Vade in pace in Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti And the holy ✚ cross ✚ between thee and me or between us and you and the Lion of Juda the root of Jess the kindred of David be between thee and me ✚ Christ cometh ✚ Christ commandeth ✚ Christ giveth power ✚ Christ defend me ✚ and his innocent blood ✚ from all perils of body and soul sleeping and waking Fiat fiat Amen CHAP. XIX To know of Treasure hidden in the Earth WRite in paper these characters following on the Saturday in the hour of ☽ and lay it where thou thinkest Treasure to be if there be any the paper will burn else not And these be the characters This is the way to go invisible by these three Sisters of Fairies IN the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost First go to a fair Parlor or Chamber and an even ground and in no loft and from people nine dayes for it is the better and let all thy cloathing be clean and sweet Then make a Candle of Virgin Wax and light it and make a fair fire of Charcoles in a fair place in the middle of the Parlour or Chamber Then take fair clean water that runneth against the East and set it upon the fire and if thou washest thy self say these words going about the fire three times holding the Candle in thy right hand ✚ Panthon ✚ Craton ✚ Muriton ✚ Bisecognaton ✚ Siston ✚ Diaton ✚ Maton ✚ Tetragrammaton ✚ Agla ✚ Agarion ✚ Tegra ✚ Pentessaron ✚ Tendicata ✚ Then rehearse these names ✚ Sorthie ✚ Sorthia ✚ Sorthios ✚ Milia ✚ Achilia ✚ Sibylia ✚ In Nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti Amen I conjure you three sisters of Fairies Milia Achilia Sibylia by the Father by the Son and by the Holy Ghost and by their vertues and powers and by the most merciful and living God that will command his Angel to blow the trump at the day of Judgment and he shall say Come come come to judgment and by all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and powers I conjure you thre sisters by the vertue of all the royal words aforesaid I charge you that you do appear before me visibly in form and shape of fair women in white vestures and to bring with you to me the Ring of Invisibility by the which I may go invisible at mine own will and pleasure and that in all hours and minutes In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Amen Being appeared say this bond following O blessed Virgins ✚ Milia ✚ Achilia ✚ I conjure you in the Name of the Father in the Name of the Son and the Name of the Holy Ghost and by their vertues I charge you to depart from me in peace for a time And Sibylia I conjure thee by the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the vertue of his flesh and precious blood that he took of our blessed Lady the Virgin and by all holy company in Heaven I charge thee Sibylia by all the vertues aforesaid that thou be obedient unto me in the Name of God that when and what time and place I shall call thee by this foresaid Conjuration written in this Book look thou be ready to come unto me at all hours and minutes and to bring unto me the Ring of Invisibility whereby I may go invisible at my will and pleasure and that at all hours and minutes Fiat fiat Amen And if they come not at the first night then do the same the second night and so the third night until they do come for doubtless they will come and lie thou in thy bed in the same Parlor or Chamber And lay thy right hand out of the bed and look thou have a fair silken Kercher bound about thy head and be not afraid they will do thee no harm For there will come before thee three fair women and all in white cloathing and one of them will put a Ring upon thy finger wherewith thou shalt go invisible Then with speed bind them with the bond aforesaid When thou hast this Ring on thy finger look in
him Deus c. This although it be not so proper to our present purpose yet because we are in hand with the Holy Spirits Deity is not altogether impertinent But why God would have his Name as it were universally bounded within the number of four letters I can give sundry reasons which requires too long a discourse of words by digression and therefore I will conceal them for this time These opinions of Philosophers I have willingly remembred that it might appear that the doctrine concerning the Holy Spirit is very ancient which they have taken either out of Moses writings or out of the works of the old Fathers published in and set forth in Books though not wholly fully and perfectly understood and known and also that our Pneumatomachi may see themselves to be more doltish in divine matters than the Heathen who will not acknowledg that essential and working power of the divinity whereby all things are quickened which the Heathen did after a sort see after a sort I say because they separated the soul of the world which they also call the begotten mind from the most soveraign and unbegotten God and imagined certain differences of degrees and as Cyrill saith did Arrianize in the Trinity So then I conclude against these Pneumatomachi that in so much as they imitate the old Gyants who piling up Pelion upon Ossa and them both upon Olympus attempted by scaling the Heavens to pull Jupiter out of his Throne of Estate and to spoil him of his principality and were notwithstanding their strength whereby they were able to carry huge Hills on their shoulders overwhelmed with those Mountains and squeized under the weight of them even to the death so these Pneumatomachi being Enemies both to the Holy Spirit and no friends to the Holy Church for then would they confess the Trinity in Unity and the Unity in Trinity and consequently also the Deity of the Holy Spirit deserve to be consumed with the fire of his mouth the heat whereof by no means can be slacked quenched or avoided For there is nothing more unnatural nothing more monstrous then against the Person of the Deity I mean the Spirit of Sanctification to oppose mans power mans wit mans policy c. which was well signified by that Poetical fiction of the Giants who were termed Anguipedes Snake-footed which as Joachimus Camerarius expoundeth of wicked Counsellours to whose filthy perswasions Tyrants do trust as unto their feet and James Sadolet interpreteth of Philosophers who trusting over-much unto their own wits become so bold in challenging praise for their wisdom that in fine all turneth to folly and confusion so I expound of Hereticks and Schismaticks who either by corrupt doctrine or by maintaining precise opinions or by open violence c. assay to overthrow the true Religion to break the unity of the Church to deny Caesar his homage and God his duty c. and therefore let Jovis fulmem wherewith they were slain assure these that there is Divina ultio due to all such as dare in the fickleness of their fancies arrear themselves against the Holy Spirit of whom sith they are ashamed hereupon earth otherwise they would confidently and boldly confess him both with mouth and pen he will be ashamed of them in Heaven where they are like to be so farre from having any society with the Saints that their portion shall be even in full and shaken measure with miscreants and Infidels And therefore let us if we will discern and try the Spirits whether they be of God or no seek for illumination of this inlightning Spirit which as it bringeth light with it to discover all Spirits so it giveth such a fiery heat as that no false spirit can abide by it for fear of burning Howbeit the Holy Spirit must be in us otherwise this prerogative of trying spirits will not fall to our lot But here some will peradventure move a demand and do ask How the Holy Spirit is in us considering that Infiniti ad finitum nulla est proportio neque loci angustia quod immensum est potest circumscribi of that which is infinite to that which is finite there is no proportion neither can that which is unmeasurable be limited or bounded within any precinct of place c. I answer That the most excellent Father for Christs sake sendeth him unto us according as Christ promised us in the person of his Apostles The Comforter saith he which is the Holy Spirit whom my Father will send in my Name And as for proportion of that which is infinite to that which is finite c. I will in no case have it thought that the Holy Spirit is in us as a body placed in a place terminably but to attribute thereunto as duly belongeth to the Deity an ubiquity or universal presence not coporally and palpably but effectually mightily mystically divinely c. Yea and this I may bodldly add that Christ Jesus sendeth him unto us from the Father neither is he given us for any other end but to enrich us abundantly with all good gifts and excellent graces and among the rest with the discerning of Spirits aright that we be not deceived And here an end of the first Book BOOK II. CHAP. I. Of Spirits in General What they are and how to be considered Also how farr the Power of Magitians and Witches is able to operate in Diabolical Magick 1. BEcause the Author in his foregoing Treatise upon the Nature of Spirits and Devils hath only touched the subject thereof superficially omitting the more material part and with a brief and cursory Tractar hath concluded to speak the least of this subject which indeed requires most amply to be illustrared therefore I thought fit to adjoyn this subsequent discourse as succedaneous to the fore-going and conducing to the compleating of the whole work 2. The Nature of Spirits is variously to be considered according to the source to which each Caterva doth belong for as some are altogether of a divine and celestial nature not subject to the abominable Inchantments and Conjurations of vitious mankind so others are the grand Instigators stirring up mans heart to attempt the inquiry after the darkest and most mysterious part of Magick or Witchcraft neither is this their suggestion without its secret end that is that by the private insinuation and as it were incorporating themselves into the affection or desire of the Witch or Magician they may totally convert him into their own nature reducing him at last by constant practice to such obdurateness and hardness of heart that he becometh one with them and delighted with their association being altogether dead to any motions in himself that may be called good 3. And if we may credit example which is the surest proof the very imaginations and affection of a Magician doth create an evil Essence or Devil which was not before in being for as the Astral Spirits are
as one that of late hath written against Prophesies saith It is no marvel that when the familiars that speak in trunks were repelled from their harbour for fear of discovery the blocks almighty lost their senses for these are all gone now and their knavery is espyed so as they can no longer abuse the world with such bables But whereas these great Doctors suppose that the cause of their dispatch was the coming of Christ if they mean that the Devil dyed so soon as He was born or that then he gave over his occupation they are deceived For the Popish Church hath made a continual practice hereof partly for their own private profit lucre and gain and partly to be had in estimation of the World and in admiration among the simple But indeed men that have learned Christ and been conversant in his Word have discovered and shaken off the vanity and abomination hereof But if those Doctors had lived till this day they would have said and written that Oracles had ceased or rather been driven out of England in the time of King Henry the Eight and of Queen Elizabeth his Daughter who have done so much in that behalf as at this hour they are not only all gone but forgotten here in this English Nation where they swarmed as thick as they did in Boeotia or in any other place in the world But the credit they had depended not upon their desert but upon the credulity of others Now therefore I will conclude and make an end of this matter with the opinion and saying of the Prophet Vain is the answer of Idols For they have eyes and see not ears and hear not mouths and speak not c. and Let them shew what is to come and I will say they are gods indeed BOOK IX CHAP. I. The Hebrew word Kasam expounded and how far a Christian may conjecture of things to come KAsam as John Wierius upon his own knowledge affirmeth and upon the word of Andraeas Masius reporteth differeth little in signification from the former word Ob betokening Viticinari which is To Prophesie and is most commonly taken in evill part as in Deut. 18. Jerem. 27. c. howbeit sometime in good part as in Isa 3.2 To foretell things to come upon probable conjectures so as therein we reach no further then becometh humane capacity is not in mine opinion unlawful but rather a commendable manifestation of Wisdome and Judgement the good gifts and noble blessings of GOD for the which we ought to be thankful as also to yield due honour and prayse unto him for the noble order which he hath appointed in nature praying him to lighten our hearts with the beams of his wisdome that we may more and more profit in the true knowledge of the workmanship of his hands But some are so nice that they condemn generally all sorts of Divinations denying those things that in nature have manifest causes and are so framed as they foreshew things to come and in that shew admonish us of things after to insue exhibiting signs of unknown and future matters to be judged upon by the order law and course of nature proposed unto us by God And some on the other side are so bewitched with folly as they attribute to creatures that estimation which rightly and truly appertaineth to God the Creator of all things affirming That the publick and private destinies of all humane matters and whatsoever a man would know of things come or gone is manifested to us in the heavens so as by the Stars and Planets all things might be known These would also that nothing should be taken in hand or gone about without the favourable aspect of the Planets By which and other the like devices they deprave and prophane the ancient and commendable observations of our fore-fathers as did Colebrasus who taught That all mans life was governed by the seven Planets and yet a Christian and condemned for Heresie But let us so far forth embrace and allow this Philosophy and Prophesying as the Word of God giveth us leave and commendeth the same unto us CHAP. II. Proofes by the old and new Testament that certain observations of the Weather are lawful WHen God by his Word and Wisdom had made the Heavens and placed the Stars in the firmament he said Let them be for signs and for seasons and for dayes and years When he created the rainbow in the clouds he said it should be for a sign and token unto us Which we find true not only of the flood past but also of the showres to come And therefore according to Jesus Sirachs advice Let us behold it and prayse him that made it The Prophet David saith The heavens declare the glory of God and the earth sheweth his handy work day unto day uttereth the same and night unto night teacheth knowledge It is also written That by the commandement of the the holy one the Stars are placed and continue in their order and fail not in their watch It should appear that Christ himself did not altogether neglect the course and order of the heavens in that he said When you see a cloud rise out of the west straightway you say a showre cometh and so it is And when you see the southwinde blow you say it will be hot and so it cometh to pass Again When it is evening you say fair weather for the skie is red and in the morning you say today shall be a tempest for the skie is red and lowring Wherein as he noteth that these things do truly come to pass according to ancient observation and to the rule Astronomical so doth he also by other words following admonish us that in attending too much to those observations we neglect not specially to follow our Christian Vocation The Physician is commended unto as and allowed in the Scriptures but so to put trust in him as to neglect and distrust God is severely forbidden and reproved Surely it is most necessary for us to know and observe divers rules Astological otherwise we could not with opportunity dispatch our ordinary affairs And yet Lactantius condemneth and recounteth it among the number of Witchcrafts from whose censure Calvin doth not much vary The poor husbandman perceiveth that the increase of the Moon maketh Plants and living creatures fruitful so as in the Full Moon they are in best strength decaying in the wane and in the conjunction do utterly wither and fade Which when by observation use and practice they have once learned they distribute their business accordingly as their times and seasons to sow to plant to prune to let their Cattel blood to cut c. CHAP. III. That certain observations are indifferent certain ridiculous and certain impious whence that cunning is derived of Apollo and of Aruspices I Know not whether to disallow or discommend the curious observation used by our elders who conjectured upon
in Latin is called Filia vocis in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in English the Daughter of speech CHAP. VI. Of Prophesies conditional whereof the Prophesies in the old Testament do intreat and by whom they were published Witchmongers answers to the objections against Witches supernatural actions CHrist and his Apostles prophesied of the calamities and afflictions which shall grieve and disturb the Church of God in this life also of the last day and of the signes and tokens that shall be shewed before that day and finally of all things which are requisite for us to foreknow Howbeit such is the mercy of God that all Prophesies Threatnings Plagues and Punishments are annexed to conditions of Repentance as on the other side corporal blessings are tyed under the condition of the cross and castigation So as by them the mysteries of our salvation being discovered unto us we are not to seek new signes and miracles but to attend to the doctrine of the Apostles who preached Christ exhibited and crucified for our sins his Resurrection Ascension and thereby the Redemption of as many as believe c. The Prophesies in the old Testament treat of the continuance the government and the difference of Estates or the distinction of the four Monarchies of their order decay and instauration of the changes and ruines of the Kingdoms of Juda Israel Aegypt Persia Graecia c. and specially of the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ and how he should be born of a Virgin and where of his Tribe Passion Resurrection c. These Prophesies were published by Gods special and peculiar Prophets endued with his particular and excellent gifts according to his promise I will raise them up a Prophet out of the midst of their Brethren I will put my words in his mouth c. Which though it were specially spoken of Christ yet was it also spoken of those particular Prophets which were placed among them by God to declare his will which were also figures of Christ the Prophet himself Now if Prophesie be an extraordinary gift of God and a thing peculiar to himself as without whose special assistance no creature can be a Prophet or shew what is to come Why should we believe that those lewd persons can perform by Divinations and Miracles that which is not in humane but in Divine power to accomplish Howbeit when I deny that Witches can ride in the Air and the miraculous circumstance thereof by and by it is objected to me That Enoch and Elias were rapt into the heavenly bodily and Habacuck was carryed in the Air to feed Daniel and so falsly oppose a Devils or a Witches power against the virtue of the holy Ghost If I deride the Poets opinions saying that Witches cannot Coelo deducere Lunam fetch the Moon from Heaven c they tell me that at Joshuah's battel the sun stayed and at the passion of Christ there was palpable darkness If I deny their cunning in the exposition of Dreams advising them to remember Jeremiah's connsel not to follow or credit the expositors of Dreams they hit me in the teeth with Daniel and Joseph for that the one of them expounded Pharaoh the Aegyptian Kings the other Nebuchadnezzar the Persian Kings dream If I say with Solomon That the dead know nothing and that the dead know us not neither are removeable out of Abrahams bosome c. they produce the story of Samuel wherein I say they set the power of a Creature as high as the Creator If I say that these Witches cannot transubstantiate themselves nor others into beasts c. they cite the story of Nebuchadnezzar as though indeed he were made a material beast and that also by Witchcraft and strengthen that their assertion with the fables of Circe and Ulysses his companions c. CHAP. VII What were the Miracles expressed in the old Testament and what are they in the new Testament and that we are not now to look for any more Miracles THe Miracles expressed in the old Testament were many but the end of them all was one though they were divers and differing in shew as where the sacrifices of Moses Elias and Solomon being abundantly wet were burnt with fire from heaven c. The variety of tongues at the building of Babylon Isaacs birth of Sarah being by nature past children the passage through the Red-sea Daniels foretelling of the four Monarchies in the fourth whereof he apparently foresheweth the coming of the Lord. All these and many other which are expressed in the old Testament were merciful instructions and notable miracles to strengthen the faith of Gods people in their Messias If you had gone to Delphos Apollo would have made you believe with his Amphibological answers that he could have foretold you all these things The Miracles wrought by Christ were the raising up of the dead which many would impute to the woman of Endor and also to our Witches and conjurors the restoring of the lame to limbs the blinde to sight the dumb to speech and finally the healing of all diseases which many believe our Witches can do yea and as they themselves will take it upon them As for casting out of Devils which was another kind of Miracles usual with Christ Witches and Conjurors are said to be as good thereat as ever he was and yet if you will believe Christs words it cannot be so for he saith Every Kingdom divided against it self shall be brought to nought c. If Satan cast out Satan he is divided c. and his Kingdom shall not endure c Peters Chains fell off in Prison so did Richard Gallisies fetters at Winsor marry the Prison doors opened not to Richard as they did to Peter Elias by special grace obtained rain our Witches can make it rain when they list c. But sithhence Christ did these Miracles and many more and all to confirm his truth and strengthen our faith and finally for the conversion of the people as appeareth in John 6.7 12. insomuch as he vehemently reproved such as upon the sight of them would not believe saying Wo be to thee Corazin wo be to thee Bethsaida if the miracles had been done in Tyre and Sidon which have been done in you they had a great while ago repented c. Let us settle and acquit our Faith in Christ and believing all his wonderous works let us reject all these old wives fables as lying vanities whereof you may finde in the Golden Legend M. Mal. and specially in Bodin miraculous stuffe enough to check all the Miracles expressed in the old and new Testament which are of more credit with many bewitched people then the true Miracles of Christ himself Insomuch as they stand in more awe of the menacies of a Witch then of all the threatnings and curves pronounced by God and expressed in his Word And thus much touching the word Kasam BOOK X. CHAP. I. The interpretation of this
not his law The Day delay'd by length of Night Which made both Day and Night to yaw And all was through that charming gear Which caus'd the World to quake for fear Carmine Thessalidum dura in praecordia fluxit Non fatis adductus amor flammisque severi Illicitis arsere ignes With Thessal Charms and not by Fate Hot Love is forced for to flow Even where before hath been debate They cause Affection for to grow Gens invisa diis maculandi callida coeli Quos genuit fera terra mali qui sidera mundi Juráque fixarum possunt pervertere rerum Nam nunc stare polos flumina mittere norunt Aethera sub terras adigunt montésque revellunt These Witches hateful unto God And cunning to defile the Aire Which can disorder with a nod The course of Nature every where Do cause the wandering Starrs to stay And drive the Winds below the ground They send the Streams another way And throw down Hills where they abound linguis dixere valucrum Consultare fibras rumpere vocibus angues Sollicitare umbras ipsúmque Acheronta movere In noctémque dies in lucem vertere noctes Omnia conando docilis solertia vincit They talked with the tongues of Birds Consulting with the Salt-sea-coasts They burst the Snakes with witching words Solliciting the spiritual Ghosts They turn the Night into the Day And also drive the Light away And what is 't that cannot be made By them that do apply this Trade CHAP. VIII Poetry and Popery compared in Inchantments Popish Witchmongers have more advantage herein than Protestants YOu see in these verses the Poets whether in earnest or in jest I know not ascribe unto Witches and to their Charms more than is to be found in Humane or Diabolical Power I doubt not but the most part of the Readers hereof will admit them to be fabulous although the most learned of mine adversaries for lack of Scripture are fain to produce these Poetries for proofs and for lack of judgment I am sure do think that Actaeons transformation was true And why not as well as the Metamorphosis or Transubstantiation of Ulysses his companions into Swine which S. Augustine and so many great Clerks credit and report Nevertheless Popish Writers I confess have advantage herein of our Protestants for besides these Poetical proofs they have for advantage the word and authority of the Pope himself and others of that holy crew whose Charms Conjurations Blessings Cursings c. I mean in part for a taste to set down giving you to understand that Poets are not altogether so impudent as Papists herein neither seem they so ignorant prophane oe impious And therefore I will shew you how lowd also they lie and what they on the other side ascribe to their Charms and Conjurations and together will set down with them all manner of Witches Charms as conveniently as I may CHAP. IX Popish Periapts Amulets and Charms Agnus Dei a Wastecote of proof a Charm for the Falling-Evill a Writing brought to S. Leo from Heaven by an Angel the vertues of S. Saviours Epistle a Charm against Theeves a Writing found in Christs Wounds of the Cross c. THese Vertues under these Verses written by Pope Urbane the fifth to the Emperour of the Grecians are contained in a Periapt or Tablet be continually worn about one called Agnas Dei which is a little cake having the picture of a Lamb carrying of a flag on the one side and Christs head on the other side and is hollow so as the Gospel of S. John written in fine Paper is placed in the concavity thereof and it is thus compounded or made even as they themselves report Balsamus mundra cera cum Chrismatis unda Conficiunt agnum quod munus do tibi magnum Fonte velut natum per mystica sanctificatum Fulgura de sursum depellit omne malignum Peccatum frangit ut Christi sanguis angit Pregnans servatur simul partus liberatur Dona refert dignis virtutem destruit ignis Portatus munde de fluctibus eripit undae Englished by Abraham Fleming Balme Virgine Wax and Holy-Water An Agnus Dei make A gift than which none can be greater I send thee for to take From Fountain clear the same hath issue In secret sanctified ' Gainst Lightning it hath soveraign vertue And Thunder-cracks beside Each hainous sin it wears and wasteth Even as Christs precious blood And Women whiles their Travel lasteth It saves it is so good It doth bestow great gifts and graces On such as well deserve And born about in noisome places From peril doth preserve The force of fire whose heat destroyeth It breaks and bringeth down And he or she that this enjoyeth No water shall them drown A Charm against Shot or Wastecoat of Proof BEfore the coming up of these Dei's a holy Garment called a Wastecoat for necessity was much used of our fore-fathers as a holy relique c. as given by the Pope or some such Arch-Conjuror who promised thereby all manner of immunity to the wearer thereof insomuch as he could not be hurt with any shot or other violence And otherwise that woman that would wear it should have quick deliverance the composition thereof was in this order following On Christmas-day at at night a Thread must be spun of Flax by a little Virgin-girl in the name of the Devil and it must be by her woven and also wrought with the Needle In the brest or fore-part thereof must be made with Needle-work two heads on the head at the right side must be a Hat and along Beard the left head must have on a Crown and it must be so horrible that it may resemble Beelzebub and on each side of the Wastecoat must be made a Cross Against the Falling-Evill Moreover this ensuing is another counterfeit Charm of theirs whereby the Falling-evil is presently remedied Gaspar fert myrrham thus Melchior Balthasar aurum Haec tria qui secum portabit nomina regum Solvitur à morbo Christi pietate caduco Gasper with his myrrh began These presents to unfold Then Melchior brought in Frankincense And Balthasar brought in Gold Now he that of these holy Kings The Names about shall bear The falling ill by grace of Christ Shall never need to fear THis is a true copy of the Holy-writing that was brought down from Heaven by an Angel to S. Leo Pope of Rome and he did bid him take it to King Charles when he went to the battel at Ronceval And the Angel said that what man or woman beareth this writing about them with good devotion and saith every day three Pater-nosters three Aves and one Creed shall not that day be overcome or his Enemies either bodily or ghostly neither shall be robbed or slain of Theeves Pestilence Thunder or Lightning neither shall be hurt with fire or water nor cumbred with Spirits neither shall he have displeasure of
Glass-vial full of holy Water and set it upon a linnen cloth which hath been purified not only by washing but by sacrifice c. On the mouth of the Vial or Urinal two Olive-leaves must be laid across with a little Conjuration said over it by a child to wit thus Angele bone Angele candide per tuam sanctitatem meamque virginitatem ostende mihi furem with three Pater nosters three Aves and betwixt either of them a Cross made with the nail of the Thumb upon the mouth of the Vial and then shall be seen Angels ascending and descending as it were Motes in the Sun-beams The Thief all this while shall suffer great torments and his Face shall be seen plainly even as plainly I believe as the Man in the Moon For in truth there are toyes artificially conveyed into glass which will make the water bubble and devices to make Images appear in the bubbles as also there be Artificial Glasses which will shew unto you that shall look thereinto many Images of divers Forms and some so small and curious as they shall in favour resemble whomsoever you think upon Look in John Bap. Neap. for the confection of such glasses The subtilties hereof are so detected and the mysteries of the glasses so common now and their cosenage so well known c. that I need not stand upon the particular confutation hereof Cardanus in the place before cited reporteth how he tried with children these and divers circumstances the whole illusion and found it to be plain knavery and cosenage Another way to find out a Thief that hath stoln any thing from you GO to the Sea-side and gather as many pebles as you suspect persons for that matter carry them home and throw them into the fire and bury them under the threshold where the parties are like to come over There let them lie three days and then before sun-rising take them away Then set a Porrenger full of water in a circle wherein must be made crosses every way as many as can stand in it upon the which must be written Christ overcometh Christ reigneth Christ commandeth The Porrenger also must be signed with a Cross and a form of Conjuration must be pronounced Then each stone must be thrown into the water in the name of the suspected And when you put in the stone of him that is guilty the stone will make the water boil as though glowing iron were put thereinto Which is a meer knack of legierdemain and to be accomplished divers wayes To put out the Thiefs eye REad the seven Psalms with the Letany and then must be said a horrible prayer to Christ and God the Father with a curse against the Thief Then in the midst of the step of your foot on the ground where you stand make a circle like an eye and write thereabout certain barbarous names and drive with a Coopers Hammer or Addes into the midst thereof a brazen nail consecrated saying Justus es Domine justa judicia tua Then the Thief shall be bewrayed by his crying out Another way to find out a Thief STick a pair of Sheers in the rind of a Sieve and let two persons set the top of each of their Forefingers upon the upper part of the Sheers holding it with the Sieve up from the ground steadily and ask Peter and Paul whether A. B. or C. hath stoln the thing lost and at the nomination of the guilty person the Sieve will turn round This is a great practice in all Countries and indeed a very bable For with the beating of the pulse some cause of that motion ariseth some other cause by the slight of the fingers some other by the wind gathered in the Sieve to be staid c. at the pleasure of the holders Some cause may be the imagination which upon the conceit at the naming of the party altereth the common course of the pulse as may well be conceived by a Ring held steadily by a thred betwixt the finger and the thumb over or rather in a goblet or glass which within short space will strike against the side thereof so many strokes as the holder thinketh it a clock and then will stay the which who so proveth shall find true A Charm to find out or spoil a Thief OF this matter concerning the apprehension of Thieves by words I will cite one Charm called S. Adelberts curse being both for length of words sufficient to weary the Reader and for substantial stuff comprehending all that appertaineth unto blasphemous speech or cursing allowed in the Church of Rome as an Excommunication and Inchantment Saint Adelberts Curse or Charm against Thieves BY the Authority of the Omnipotent Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and by the holy Virgin Mary Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ and the holy Angels and Archangels and S. Michael and S. John Baptist and in the behalf of S. Peter the Apostle and the residue of the Apostles and of S. Stephen and of all the Martyrs of S. Sylvester and of S. Adelbert and all the Confessors nd S. Alegand and all the holy Virgins and of all the Saints in Heaven and Earth unto whom there is given power to bind and loose we do excommunicate damn curse and bind with the knots and bands of Excommunication and we do segregate from the bounds and lists of our holy Mother the Church all those Thieves Sacrilegious persons ravenous Catchers Doers Counsellers Coadjutors male or female that have committed this theft or mischief or have usurped any part thereof to their own use Let their share be with Dathan and Abiran whom the Earth swallowed up for their sins and pride and let them have part with Judas that betrayed Christ Amen and with Pontius Pilat and with them that said to the Lord Depart from us we will not understand thy wayes let their Children be made Orphans Cursed be they in the Field in the Grove in the Woods in their Houses Barns Chambers and Beds and cursed be they in the Court in the Way in the Town in the Castle in the Water in the Church in the Churchyard in the Tribunal-place in Battel in their Abode in the Market-place in their Talk in Silence in Eating in Watching in Sleeping in Drinking in Feeling in Sitting in Kneeling in Standing in Lying in Idleness in all their Work in their Body and Soul in their five Wits and in every Place Cursed be the fruit of their Wombs and cursed be the fruit of their Lands and cursed be all that they have Cursed be their Heads their Mouths their Nostrils their Noses their Lips their Jaws their Teeth their Eyes and Eye-lids their Brains the roof of their Mouths their Tongues their Throats their Breast their Hearts Bellies their Livers all their Bowels and their Stomach Cursed be their Navels their Spleens their Bladder Cursed be their Thighs their Legs their Feet their Toes their Necks their Shoulders Cursed be their Backs cursed be their Arms
off their phantasms will at last present themselves before the Exorcist in humane form Then the Master must be mindful to take the consecrated Sword and the cup of Wine into his hands the Wine he shall pour into the fire and the Sword he shall brandish in his right arm being girded about with a Scarlet Ribbon after this the Magician shall say Gahire Gephna Anephexaton then the Spirits will begin to bow unto the Exorcist saying We are ready to fulfil thy pleasure So that when the Magician hath brought the Spirits to this length he may ask what ever he desireth and they will answer him provided the questions belong to that order whereof they are Now the properties wherein they excel are these They can give the gift of Invisibility and the fore-knowledge of the change of weather they can teach the Exorcist how to excite Storms and Tempests and how to calm them again they can bring news in an hours space of the success of any Battle Seidge or Navy how farr off soever they can also teach the language of Birds and how to fly through the air invisibly 'T was through the assistance of these airy Spirits that Charchiancungi the Tartarian Emperour did give the Chinois such a desperate rout near the year 1646. for it is reported that he had constantly in his presence two Magicians named Ran and Sionam who perceived every motion of the China's Army and had intelligence by these Spirits of the Emperours private Counsels and Consultations And it is credibly reported by Magicians that wonderful things may be with facility effected through the assistance of these aforesaid Spirits so that the Exorcist must be very affable unto them and gently dismiss them when he is satisfied in this following manner Seeing ye have willingly answered all our Interrogations and desires we give you leave and licence In the Name of the Father Son and Holy-Ghost to depart unto your place and be ever ready to attend our call Depart I say in peace and peace be confirmed betwixt us and you Amen ✚ ✚ ✚ After all these Ceremonies are finished the Spirits will begin to depart making obeysance as they go and then the Master must demolish the Circle and taking up all the Utensils repeat the Pater Noster as they are going away from the place of Conjuration CHAP. VII How to obtain the familiarity of the Genius or Good Angel and cause him to appear ACcording to the former Instructions in conjuring Spirits we must proceed to consult with the Familiars or Genii first after the manner prescribed by Magicians the Exorcist must inform himself of the name of his good Genius which he may find in the Rules of Travius and Philermus as also what Character and Pentacle or Lamin belongs to every Genius After this is done Let him compose an earnest Prayer unto the said Genius which he must repeat thrice every morning for seven dayes before the Invocation The Magician must also perfectly be informed to what Hierarchy or Order the Genius belongs and how he is dignified in respect of his Superiours and Inferiours for this form of Conjuration belongs not to the Infernal or Astral Kingdom but to the Celestial Hierarchy and therefore great gravity and sanctity is herein required besides the due observation of all the other injunctions until the time approach wherein he puts the Conjuration in execution When the day is come wherein the Magician would invocate his proper Genius he must enter into a private closet having a little Table and Silk Carpet and two Waxen Candles lighted as also a Chrystal Stone shaped triangularly about the quantity of an Apple which Stone must be fixed upon a frame in the center of the Table And then proceeding with great devotion to Invocation he must thrice repeat the former Prayer concluding the same with Pater Noster c. and a Missale de Spiritu Sancto Then he must begin to Consecrate the Candles Carpet Table and Chrystal sprinkling the same with his own blood and saying I do by the power of the holy Names Aglaon Eloi Eloi Sabbathon Anephexaton Iah Agian Iah Iehovah Immanuel Archon Archonton Sadai Sadai Ieovaschah c. sanctifie and consecrate these holy utensils to the performance of this holy work In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen Which done the Exorcist must say this following Prayer with his face towards the East and kneeling with his back to the consecrated Table O thou blessed Phanael my Angel Guardian vouchsafe to descend with thy holy Influence and presence into this spotless Chrystal that I may behold thy glory and enjoy thy society O thou who art higher then the fourth Heaven and know'st the secrets of Elanel Thou that ridest upon the wings of the wind and art mighty and potent in thy celestial and super-lunary motion do thou descend and be present I pray thee and desire thee if ever I have merited thy society or if my actions and intentions be pure and sanctified before thee bring thy external presence hither and converse with thy submissive Pupil by the tears of Saints and Songs of Angels In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost who are one God for ever and ever This Prayer being first repeated towards the East must be afterwards said towards all the four winds thrice And next the 70. Psalm repeated out of a Bible that hath been consecrated in like manner as the rest of the utensils which ceremonies being seriously performed the Magician must arise from his knees and sit before the Crystal bare-headed with the consecrated Bible in his hand and the Waxen Candles newly lighted waiting patiently and internally for the coming and appearance of the Genius Now about a quarter of an hour before the Spirit come There will appear great variety of apparitions and sights within the glass as first a beaten road or tract and travelers men and women marching silently along next there will Rivers Wells Mountains and Seas appear after that a Shepherd upon a pleasant hill feeding a goodly flock of Sheep and the Sun shining brightly at his going down and lastly innumerable shews of Birds and Beasts Monsters and strange appearances noises glances and affrightments which shews will all at last vanish at the appearance of the Genius And then the Genius will present it self amidst the Crystal in the very same apparel and similitude that the person himself is in giving instructions unto the Exorcist how to lead his life and rectifie his doings But especially which is the proper work of every Genius he will touch his heart and open his senses and understanding so that by this means he may attain to the knowledge of every Art and Science which before the opening of his Intellect was lockt and kept secret from him After which the Genius will be familiar in the Stone at the Prayer of the Magician CHAP. VIII A form of Conjuring Luridan the Familiar
otherwise called Belelah LVridan is a Familiar Domestick Spirit of the North who is now become servant to Balkin Lord and King of the Northern Mountains he calls himself the Astral Genius of Pomonia an Island amongst the Orcades beyond Scotland But he is not particularly resident there for in the dayes of Solomon and David he was in Jerusalem or Salem being then under the name of Belilah after that he came over with Julius Caesar and remained some hundred of years in Cambria or Wales instructing their Prophetical Poets in British Rhimes being then surnamed Urthin-Wadd Elgin from thence he betook himself unto this Island Anno 1500. and continued there for 50 years after which he resigned his Dominion to Balkin and hath continued ever since an attendant unto this Prince He is a Spirit of the Air in the order of Glauron and is said to procreate as mortals do He is often sent by his Master upon errands to Lapland Finland and Strik-finia as also to the most Northern parts of Russia bordering on the Northern frozen Ocean His office being called by Magicians is to demolish strong holds of Enemies destroying every night what they build the day before to extinguish fires and make their Gunshot that it hath no power to be enkindled for his nature is to be at enmity with fire and under his Master with many Legions he wageth continual warrs with the fiery Spirits that inhabit the Mountain Hecla in Ise-land where they endeavour to extinguish these fiery flames and the inhabiting Spirits defend the flames from his Master and his Legions In this contest they do often totally extirpate and destroy one another killing and crushing when they meet in mighty and violent Troops in the Air upon the Sea and at such a time many of the fiery Spirits are destroyed when the Enemy hath brought them off the Mountain to fight upon the water on the contrary when the battle is on the Mountain it self the Spirits of the Air are often worsted and then great mournings and doleful noises are heard both in Iseland and Russia and Norway for many days after O ye Powers of the East Athanaton of the West Orgon of the South Boralim of the North Glauron I charge and command you by the dreadful Names here mentioned and the Consecration of this terrible Mountain to present your selves one of every sort before this Circle by the power of Immanuel and his holy Name After this hath with fervency been thrice repeated the Exorcist will hear great noises of Swords and fighting Horses neighing and Trumpets sounding and at last there will appear four little Dwarfs or Pigmies naked before the Circle their speech will be antient Irish which afterwards being confined to a Triangle they will interpret the substance thereof will be from whence they came last and what wonderful things they can do Then the Magician must ask them if they know one Luridan a familiar they will answer Hamah ni trulloh Balkin he is Secretary or servant unto Balkin and after the Exorcist hath charged them to bring the said Luridan unto him they will immediately bring him like a little Dwarf with a crooked nose and present him before the Magician in the triangle then the Magician shall bind and tye him with the bond of obligation and with his own blood without any contract of conditions to be performed that he will attend him constantly at his thrice repeating Luridan Luridan Luridan And be ever ready to go whether he will to the Turks or to the uttermost parts of the Earth which he can do in an hour and destroy all their Magazines After the Magician hath so bound him he shall receive from the Spirit a scrole written in this manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the Indenture to serve him for a year and a day and then the Magician shall dismiss him for that time in the form of dismission CHAP. IX How to Conjure the Spirit Balkin the Master of Luridan AS in the former Chapter the Exorcist is instructed to draw the form of the Mountain Hecla within the circle so in this form of Conjuration he must do the same adding these names to be written round the Mountain Mathiel Rahuniel Seraphiel Hyniel Rayel Fraciel These are the names of Olympick Angels governing the North and ruling over every airy Spirit that belongs unto the Northern Climate so that the authority of these names must be used in the calling up of this Spirit because he is a great Lord and very lofty neither will he appear without strong and powerful Invocations Therefore the Magician must make upon Virgin Parchment the two Seals of the Earth and provide unto himself a Girdle made of a Bears skin with a rough side next his body and these names wrote round about in the outerside ✚ Alpha ✚ Coronzon Yah Laniah Adonay ✚ Soncas ✚ Damael ✚ Angeli fortes ✚ pur pur ✚ Elibra Elohim ✚ Omega ✚ per flammam ignis ✚ per vitam Coronzon ✚ Amen ✚ Also he must provide a black Priestly Robe to reach to his ankles and a new Sword with Agla on the one side and On upon the other having likewise been very continent and chast for three days before the execution of his design and when the appointed night approacheth he must take with him an earthen pan with fire therein and a little Viol with some of his own blood as also some of the Gum or Rozin that comes from the Firr-tree And coming to the appointed place in some solitary Valley the circle must be drawn with chalk as the former one circle within another and these powerful names in the circumference Otheos on Panthon ✚ Breshit Hashamaim Vaharetz Vahayah ✚ Lohu ✚ va Bohu ★ ✚ ✚ ✚ ★ magnus es tu ben Elohim qui super alas ventorum equitaris ✚ This Circumscription is accounted amongst Magicians of all the most powerful and prevalent After this the Circle Mountain Fire Turpentine Girdle Garments Sword and Blood must be consecrated according to the foregoing forms of Consecration adding also this to the end of the consecration Mighty art thou O Adonay Elohim Ya Ya Aie Aie Acimoy who hast created the light of the day and the darkness of the night unto whom every knee bows in Heaven and on Earth who hast created the Lohu and the Bohu that is stupor or numbness in a thing to be admired and mighty are thy magnificient Angels Damael and Guael whose influence can make the winds to bow and every airy Spirit stoop Let thy right hand sanctifie these consecrated utensils exterminating every noxious thing from their bodies and the circumference of this Circle Amen Calerna Shalom Shalom Agla on Sassur Lafrac Angeli fortes In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Amen Amen Amen After that he shall sweep the circle gently with a Foxes tayl and sprinkle the same round with his blood dipping also the Sword or anointing
a great he cometh forth like a Souldier riding on a great Horse he hath a Lyons face very red and with flaming eyes he speaketh with a big voyce he maketh a man wonderful in Astronomy and in all the liberal Sciences he bringeth good familiars and ruleth Thirty six Legions Saleos is a great Earl he appeareth as a gallant Souldier riding on a Crocodile and weareth a Dukes crown peaceable c. Vuall is a great Duke and a strong he is seen as a great and terrible Dromedary but in humane form he soundeth out in a base voyce the Aegyptian tongue This man above all other procureth especial love of Women and knoweth things present past and to come procuring the love of friends and foes he was of the order of Potestates and governeth Thirty seven Legions Haagenti is a great President appearing like a great Bull having the wings of a Griffin but when he taketh humane shape he maketh a man wise in every thing he changeth all metals into gold and changeth Wine and Water the one into the other and commandeth as many Legions as Zagan Phoenix is a great Marquess appearing like the bird Phoenix having a childs voyce but berore he standeth still before the Conjuror he singeth many sweet notes Then the Exorcist with his companions must beware he give no ear to the melody but must by and by bid him put on humane shape then will he speak marvellously of all wonderful Sciences He is an excellent Poet and obedient he hopeth to return to the seventh Throne after a thousand two hundred years and governeth Twenty Legions Stolas is a great Prince appearing in the form of a Night-raven before the Exorcist he taketh the image and shape of a man and teacheth Astronomy absolutely understanding the vertues of herbs and pretious stones there are under him Twenty six legions Note that a Legion is 6666. and now by Multiplication count how many Legions do arise out of every particular ✚ Secretum secretorum The secret of secrets Tu operans sis secretus horum Thou that workest them be secret in them CHAP. XII The hours wherein principal Devils may be bound to wit raised and restrained from doing of hurt AMaymon King of the East Corson King of the South Zimimar King of the North Goap King and Prince of the West may be bound from the third hour till noon and from the ninth hour till evening Marquesses may be bound from the ninth hour till compline and from compline to the end of the day Dukes may be bound from the first hour till noon and clear weather is to be observed Prelates may be bound in any hour of the day Knights from day dawning till Sun rising or from evensong till the Sun set A President may not be bound in any hour of the day except the King whom he obeyeth be invocated nor in the shutting of the evening Counties or Earls may be bound at any hour of the day so it be in the woods or fields where men resort not CHAP. XIII The form of adjuring or citing of the Spirits aforesaid to arise and appear WHen you will have any Spirit you must know his Name and Office you must also fast and be clean from all pollution three or four days before so will the Spirit be the more obedient unto you Then make a Circle and call up the Spirit with great intention and holding a ring in your hand rehearse in your own name and your companions for one must alwayes be with you this Prayer following and so no Spirit shall annoy you and your purpose shall take effect And note how this agreeth with Popish Charmes and Conjurations In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ the ✚ Father ✚ and the Son ✚ and the Holy Ghost ✚ holy Trinity and unspeakable Unity I call upon thee that thou mayst be my salvation and defence and the protection of my body and soul and of all my goods through the virtue of thy holy Cross and through the vertue of thy passion I beseech thee O Lord Jesus Christ by the merits of thy blessed Mother S. Mary and of all thy Saints That thou give me Grace and Divine power over all the wicked Spirits so as which of them soever I do call by name they may come by and by from every coast and accomplish my will that they neither be hurtful nor fearful unto me but rather obedient and diligent about me And through thy virtue streightly commanding them let them fufil my commandements Amen Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabbaoth which wilt come to judge the quick and the dead thou which art Α and Ω first and last King of Kings and Lord of Lords Ioth Aglanabrath El Abiel Anathiel Amazim Sedomel Grayes Heli Messias Tolimi Elias Ischiros Athanatos Imas By these thy holy Names and by all other I do call upon thee and beseech thee O Lord Jesus Christ by thy Nativity and Baptism by thy Cross and Passion by thine Ascension and by the coming of the Holy Ghost by the bitterness of thy soul when it departed from the body by thy five wounds by the blood and water which went out of thy body by thy virtue by the Sacrament which thou gavest thy Disciples the day before thou sufferedst by the holy Trinity and the inseparable Unity by blessed Mary thy Mother by thine Angels Arch-Angels Prophets Patriarchs and by all thy Saints and by all the Sacraments which are made in thine honour I do worship and beseech thee to accept these prayers Conjurations and words of my mouth which I will use I require thee O Lord Jesus Christ that thou give me thy virtue and power over all thine Angels which were thrown down from heaven to deceive mankind to draw them to me to tie and bind them and also to loose them to gather them together before me and to command them to do all that they can and that by no means they contemn my voyce or the words of my mouth but that they obey me and my sayings and fear me I beseech thee by thine Humanity Mercy and Grace and I require thee Adony Amay Horta Vegedora Mitai Hel Suranat Yston Ysesy and by all thy holy Names and by all thine holy He-Saints and She-Saints by all thine Angels and Archangels Powers Dominions and Virtues and by that name that Solomon did bind the Devils and shut them up Elbrach Evanher Agle Goth Ioth Othie Venoch Nabrat and by all thine holy Names which are written in this book and by the virtue of them all that thou enable me to congregate all thy Spirits thrown down from heaven that they may give me a true answer of all my demands and that they satisfie all my requests without the hurt of my body or soul or any thing else that is mine through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son which liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost one God world without end
Oh Father Omnipotent oh wise Son oh holy Ghost the searcher of hearts oh you three in persons one true Godhead in substance which didst spare Adam and Eve in their sins and oh thou Son which dyedst for their sins a most filthy death sustaining it upon the holy cross oh thou most merciful when I flie unto thy mercy and beseech thee by all the means I can by these the holy Names of thy Son to wit Α and Ω and all other his Names grant me thy Virtue and Power that I may be able to cite before me thy Spirits which were thrown down from heaven and that they may speak with me and dispatch by and by without delay and with a good will and without the hurt of my body soul or goods c. as is contained in the book called Annulus Solomonis Oh great and eternal vertue of the highest which through disposition these being called to judgement Vachoon Stumulamaton Esphares Tetragrammaton Olioram Cryon Esytion Existion Eriona Onela Brasim Noym Messias Soter Emanuel Sabboth Adonay I worship thee I invocate thee I implore thee with all the strength of my mind that by thee my present Prayers Consecrations and Conjurations be hollowed and wheresoever wicked Spirits are called in the virtue of thy names they may come together from every coast and diligently fulfil the will of me the Exorcist Fiat fiat fiat Amen CHAP. XIV A confutation of the manifold vanities conteined in the precedent Chapters specially of commanding of Devils HE that can be perswaded that these things are true or wrought indeed according to the assertion of Coseners or according to the supposion of Witchmongers and Papists may soon be brought to believe that the Moon is made of green Cheese You see in that which is called Solomons Conjuration there is a perfect inventary registred of the number of Devils of their Names of their Offices of their Personages of their Qualities of their Powers of their Properties of their Kingdoms of their Governers of their Orders of their Dispositions of their Subjection of their Submission and of the wayes to bind or loose them with a note what Wealth Learning Office Commodity pleasure c. they can give and may be forced to yield in spight of their hearts to such forsooth as are cunning in this Art of whom yet was never seen any rich man or at least that gained any thing that way or any unlearned man that became learned by that means or any happy man that could with the help of this Art either deliver himself or his friends from adversity or add unto his Estate any point of felicity yet these men in all worldly happiness must needs exceed all others if such things could be by them accomplished according as it is presupposed For if they may learn of Marbas all secrets and to cure all diseases and of Furcas wisdome and to be cunning in all Mechanical Arts and to change any mans shape of Zepar if Bune can make them rich and eloquent if Beroth can tell them of all things present past and to come if Asmodie can make them go invisible and shew them all hidden treasure if Salmacke will afflict whom they list and Allocer can procure the love of any Woman if Amy can provide them excellent Familiars if Caym can make them understand the voyce of all Birds and Beasts and Buer and Bifrons can make them live long and finally if Orias could procure unto them great friends and reconcile their enemies and they in the end had all these at commandement should they not live in all worldly honour and felicity Whereas contrariwise they lead there lives in all obloquy misery and beggery and in fine come to the gallows as though they had chosen unto themselves the spirit Valefer who they say bringeth all them with whom he entreth into familiarity to no better end then the gibbet or gallows But before I proceed further to the confutation of this stuff I will shew other Conjurations devised more lately and of more Authority wherein you shall see how fools are trained to believe these absurdities being won by little and little to such credulity For the Author hereof beginneth as though all the cunning of Conjurors were derived and fetcht from the Planetary motions and true course of the Stars Celestial bodies c. CHAP. XV. The names of the Planets their Characters together with the twelve signes of the Zodiack their Dispositions Aspects and Government with other observations The Characters of the Planets ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ Saturn Jupiter Mars Sol. Venus Mercury Luna The five Planetary Aspects ☌ ⚹ □ 🜂 ☠Conjunction Sextile Quadrat Trine Opposition The twelve signs of the Zodiack their Characters and Denominations c. ♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♠♎ ♠♠♑ ♒ ♓ Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo. Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces Their Disposition or Inclinations Good signes ♈ ♋ ♉ ♓ ♠Evil signes ♎ ♠♑ ♒ ♊ Signes indifferent ♒ ♠♋ ♓ ♠Very good signes ♈ ♎ ♠Very evil signes ♑ ♊ ♌ ♉ The Disposition of the Planets ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ planets good ♃ ♀ Indifferent ☉ ☽ ☿ Euill ♄ ♂ ♑ ♒ ♠♓ ♃ ♠♈ ♂ ♌ ☉ ♉ ♎ ♀ ♊ ♠☿ ♋ ☽ A fierie Triplicitie ♈ ♂ ☉ ♃ ♉ ♂ ☉ An earthie Triplicitie ♌ ☉ ♃ ♠☿ ♠♃ ☉ ♑ ♄ ♂ A waterie Triplicitie ♋ ☽ ♃ ♀ ♊ ☿ An aierie Triplicitie ♠♂ ♎ ♀ ♄ ♃ ♓ ♃ ☽ ♀ ♒ ♄ ♃ The Aspects of the Planets ☌ Is the best Aspect with good Planets and the worst with evil ⚹ Is a mean Aspect in goodness or badness 🜂 Is very good in aspect to good Planets and hurteth not in evil □ This Aspect is of enimity not full perfect ☠This Aspect is of enimity most perfect How the Day is divided or distinguished A Day natural is the space of four and twenty hours accounting the Night withal and beginneth at one of the clock after midnight An artificial day is that space of time which is betwixt the rising and falling of the Sun c. all the rest is night and beginneth at the Sun rising Hereafter followeth a Table shewing how the day and the night is divided by hours and reduced to the regiment of the Planets The division of the Day and the Planetary Regiment day lord 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 day lord ☉ ♠☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ day lord ☽ ♄ ♃ ♠☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ day lord ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ☿ ♀ ☽ day lord ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ day lord ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ day lord ☿ ♀ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ day lord ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♂ ♃ ☉ ♀ The division of the Night and the Planetary Regiment night lord 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 night lord ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ night lord ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ night lord ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ night lord ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ night lord ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ night lord ♂ ☉ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♂ ♃ ☉ ♀ ☽ ♀ ☿ night lord ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ CHAP. XVI The Characters of the Angels of the seven dayes with their names of Figures Seales and Periapts These Figures are called the Seals of Earth without the which no Spirit will appear except thou have them with thee Michael Gabriel Samael Yaphael Sachiel Anael Calliel vel gaphriel ✚ Emanuel Sabaoth Adonay ✚ panthou ufyon ✚ Messyas ✚ Sother ✚ ✚ Dut tha gen ✚ Lap tenop ✚ Tyâ—ithaoth ✚ otheos yon mala iij la Aries Leo ✚ mala iij Alpha et ω on ely eloy Who so beareth this sign about him all Spirits shall do him homage Who so beareth this sign about him let him fear no fo but fear GOD. CHAP. XVII An Experiment of the Dead FIrst fast pray three dayes and abstain thee from all filthiness go to one that iâ— now buried such a one as killed himself or destroyed himself wilfully or else get the promise of one that shall be hanged and let him swear an Oath to thee after his body is dead that his Spirit shall come to thee and do thee true service at thy commandements in all days hours and minutes And let no persons see thy doings but thy fellow And about eleven a clock at night go to the place where he was buried and say with a bold faith and hearty desâ—re to have the spirit come that thou dost call for thy fellow having a Candle in his left hand and in his right hand a Crystal-stone and say these words following the Master having a Hazel-wand in his right hand and these names of God written thereupon Tetragrammaton ✚ Adonai ✚ Agla ✚ Craton ✚ Then strike three strokes on the ground and say Arise N. Arise N. Arise N. I'conjure thee Spirit N. by the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ that thou do obey my words and come unto me this night verily and truly as thou believest to be saved at the day of Judgment And I will swear to thee an Oath by the peril of my soul that if thou wilt come to me and appear to me this night and shew me true visions in this Crystal-stone and fetch me the fairie Sibylia that I may talk with her visibly and she may come before me as the Conjuration leadeth and in so doing I will give thee an alms-deed and pray for thee N. to my Lord God whereby thou mayest be restored to thy Salvation at the Resurrection day to be received as one of the Elect of God to the everlasting glory Amen The Master standing at the head of the grave his fellow having in his hands the Candle and the Stone must begin the conjuration as followeth and the Spirit will appear to you in the Crystal-stone in a fair form of a child of twelve years of age And when he is in feel the stone and it will be hot and fear nothing for he or she will shew many delusions to drive you from your work Fear God but fear him not This is to constrain him as followeth I conjure thee Spirit N. by the living God the true God and by the holy God and by their vertues and powers which have created both thee and me and all the world I conjure thee N. by these holy Names of God Tetragrammaton ✚ Adonay ✚ Algramay ✚ Saday ✚ Sabaoth ✚ Planaboth ✚ Panthon ✚ Craton ✚ Neupmaton ✚ Deus ✚ Homo ✚ Omnipotens ✚ Sempiternus ✚ Ysus ✚ Lerra ✚ Vnigentius ✚ Salbator ✚ Via ✚ Vita ✚ Manus ✚ Fons ✚ Origo ✚ Filius ✚ And by their vertues and powers and by all their names by the which God gave power to man both to speak or think so by their vertues and powers I conjure thee spirit N. that now immediately thou do appear in this Crystal-stone visibly to me and to my fellow without any tarrying or deceit I conjure thee N. by the excellent Name of Jesus Christ Α and Ω the first and the last For this holy Name of Jesus is above all Names for in this Name of Jesus every knee doth bow and obey both of heavenly things earthly things and infernal And every tongue doth confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of the Father neither is there any other Name given to man whereby he must be saved Therefore in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth and by his Nativity Resurrection and Ascension and by all that appertaineth unto his passion and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee Spirit N. that thou do appear visibly in this Crystal-stone to me and to my fellow without any dissimulation I conjure thee N. by the blood of the innocent Lamb Jesus Christ which was shed for us upon the cross for all those that do believe in the vertue of his blood shall be saved I conjure thee N. by the vertues and powers of all the royal names and words of the living God of me pronounced that thou be obedient unto me and to my words rehearsed If thou refuse this to do I by the Holy Trinity and by their vertues and powers do condemn thee thou Spirit N. into the place where there is no hope of remedy or rest but everlasting horror of pain there dwelling and a place where there is pain upon pain dayly horribly and lamentably thy pain to be there augmented as the Starrs in the Heaven and as the gravel or Sand in the Sea except thou Spirit N. do appear to me and to my fellow visibly immediately in this Crystal Stone and in a fair form and shape of a child of twelve years of age and that thou alter not thy shape I change thee upon pain of everlasting condemnation I conjure thee Spirit N. by the golden Girdle which girdeth the loins of our Lord Jesus Christ so thou Spirit N. be thou bound into the perpetual pains of Hell fire for thy disobedience and unreverent regard that thou hast to the holy names and words and his precepts I conjure N. by the two edged Sword which John saw proceed out of the month of the Almighty and so thou Spirit N. be torn and cut in pieces with that Sword and to be condemned into everlasting pain where the fire goeth not out and where the worm dyeth not I conjure thee N. by the Heavens and by the celestial City of Jerusalem and by the Earth and the Sea and by all things contained in them and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee Spirit N. by the obedience that thou dost owe unto the principal Prince And
seen And yet saith he Paul was wrapt up into the third Heaven and reporteth no such matters But if you read Mr. Deering upon the first chapter to the Hebrews you shall see this matter notably handled where he saith That whensoever Archangel is mentioned in the Scriptures it signifieth our Saviour Christ and no creature And certain it is that Christ himself was called an Angel The names also of Angels as Michael Gabriel c. are given to them saith Calvin according to the capacity of our weakness But because the decision of this is neither within the compass of mans capacity nor yet of his knowledge I will proceed no further to discuss the same but to shew the absurd opinions of Papists and Witchmongers on the one side and the most sober and probable collections of the contrary-minded on the other side CHAP. VIII The Commencement of Devils fondly gathered out of the 14. of Isaiah of Lucifer and of his fall the Cabalists the Thalmudists and Schoolmens opinions of the Creation of Angels THe Witchmongers which are most commonly bastard Divines do fondly gather and falsly conceive the Commencement of Devils out of the 14. of Isaiah where they suppose Lucifer is cited as the name of an Angel who on a time being desirous to be cheekmate with God himself would needs when God was gone a little aside be sitting down or rather pirking up in Gods own principal and Cathedral Chair and that therefore God cast him and all his confederates out of Heaven so as some fell down from thence to the bottom of the earth some having descended but into the middle Region and the tail of them having not yet passed through the highet Region stayed even then and there when God said Ho. But God knoweth there is no such thing meant nor mentioned in that place For there is only fore-shewed the deposing and deprivation of King Nebuchadnezzar who exalting himself in pride as it were above the Starrs esteemed his glory to surmount all others as far as Lucifer the bright morning Star shineth more gloriously than the other common Stars and was punished by exile until such time as he had humbled himself and therefore metaphorically was called Lucifer But forsooth because these great Clerks would be thought methodical and to have crept out at Wisdoms bosome who rather crawled out of Follies breeches they take upon them to shew us first whereof these Angels that fell from Heaven were created to wit of the left side of that massie mold whereof the World was compounded the which say they was Putredo terrae that is the rottenness of the earth Cabalists with whom Avicen seemeth to agree say That one of these begat another others say They were made all at once The Greeks do write That Angels were created before the World The Latinists say They were made the fourth day when the Stars were made Laurence Ananias saith They were made the first day and could not be made the fourth day bacause it is written Quando facta sunt sidera laudaverunt me angeli When the Stars were made the Angels praised me so as saith he they were made under the names of the Heavens There is also a great question among the Schoolmen whether more Angels fell down with Lucifer or remainnd in Heaven with Michael Many having a bad opinion of the Angels honesties affirm that the greater part fell with Lucifer but the better opinion is saith Laurentius Ananias that the most part remained And of them that think so some say the tenth part were cast down some the ninth and some gather upon S. John that the third part were only damned because it is written That the Dragon with his tail plucked down with him the third part of the Stars CHAP. IX Of the contention between the Greek and Latine Church touching the fall of Angels the variance among Papists themselves herein a conflict between Michael and Lucifer THere was also another contention between the Greek Church and the Latine to wit of what orders of Angels they were that did fall with Lucifer Our Schoolmen say They were of all the nine orders of Angels in Lucifer 's conspiracy But because the superior Order was of the more noble constitution and excellent estate and the inferior of a less worthy nature the more part of the inferior orders fell as guilty and offenders with Lucifer Some say The Devil himself was of the inferior order of Angels and some that he was of the highest order because it is written In Cherubim extentus protegens posuite Monte sancto Dei Extended upon a Cherubim and protecting I have put thee in the holy Mountain of God And these say further That he was called the Dragon because of his excellent knowledge Finally these great Doctors conclude That the Devil himself was of the Order of Seraphim which is the highest because it is written Quomodo enim mane oriebaris Lucifer For when didst thou rise in the morning O Lucifer They of this sect affirm That Cacodaemones were they that repelled against Jove I mean they of Plato his sect himself also holding the same opinion Our Schoolmen differ much in the cause of Lucifers fall For some say it was for speaking these words Ponam sedem meam in aquilone similis ero altissimo I will put my seat in the North and I will be like the most High Others say Because he utterly refused felicity and thought scorn thereof Others say Because he thought all his strength proceeded from himself and not from God Others say that it was Because he attempted to do that by himself and his own ability which he should have obtained by the gift of another Others say That his condemnation grew hereupon for that he challenged the place of the Messias Others say Because he detracted the time to adore the Majesty of God as other Angels did Others say Because he utterly refused it Scotus and his Disciples say that it was Because he rebelliously claimed equal Omnipotency with God with whom lightly the Thomists never agree Others say It was for all these causes together and many more so as hereupon saith Laurentius Ananias grew a wonderful conflict between Michael and his good Angels on the one side and Lucifer and his Fiends on the other so as after a long and doubtful skirmish Michael overthrew Lucifer and turned him and his fellows out of the doores CHAP. X. Where the Battel between Michael and Lucifer was fought how long it continued and of their power how fondly Papists and Infidels write of them and how reverently Christians ought to think of them NOw where this battel was fought and how long it continued there is as great contention among the Schoolmen as was betwixt Michael and Lucifer The Thomists say this battel was fought in the Empyreal Heaven where the abode is of blessed Spirits and the place of pleasure and felicity Augustine and many others say That
should say to our Lady-Church And in the Church-yard he saw a great many dead men and some of them he knew of whom he asked What the matter was c. who answered That the Hangman was slain and the Devil challenged his soul the which our Lady said was her and the Judge was even at hand coming thither to hear the cause and therefore said they we are now come together The Priest thought he would be at the hearing hereof and hid himself behind a tree and anon he saw the judicial seat ready prepared and furnished where the Judge to wit Jesus Christ sate who took up his mother unto him Soon after the Devils brought in the Hangman pinnioned and proved by good evidence that his soul belonged to them On the other side our Lady pleaded for the Hangman proving that he at the hour of death commended his soul to her The judge hearing the matter so well debated on either side but willing to obey for these are his words his mothers desire and loath to do the Devils any wrong gave sentence that the Hangmans soul should return to his body until he had made sufficient satisfaction ordaining that the Pope should set forth a publick form of Prayer for the Hangmans soul It was demanded who should do the errand to the Popes Holiness Marry quoth our Lady that shall yonder Priest that lurketh behind the tree The Priest being called forth and injoyned to make relation hereof and to desire the Pope to take the pains to do according to this decree asked by what token he should be directed Then was delivered unto him a Rose of such beauty as when the Pope saw it he knew his message was true And so if they do not well I pray God we may CHAP. XXVII A Confutation of the Fable of the Hangman of many other feigned and ridiculous Tales and Apparitions with a reproof thereof BY the tale above mentioned you see what it is to worship the Image of our Lady For though we kneel to God himself and make never so humble Petitions unto him without faith and repentance it shall do us no pleasure at all Yet this Hangman had great friendship shewed him for one point of courtesie used to our Lady having not one dram of faith repentance nor yet of honesty in him Nevertheless so credulous is the nature of man as to believe this and such like fables yea to discredit such stuffe is thought among the Papists flat heresie And though we that are Protestants will not believe these toyes being so apparently Popish yet we credit and report other appearances and assuming of bodies by souls and spirits though they be as prophane absurd and impious as the other We are sure the holy Maid of Kent's Vision was a very cosenage but we can credit imprint and publish for a true possession or history the knavery used by a cosening varlot at Maidstone and many other such as that was We think souls and spirits may come out of Heaven or Hell and assume bodies believing many absurd tales told by the Schoolmen and Romish Doctors to that effect but we discredit all the stories that they and as grave men as they are tell us upon their knowledge and credit of souls condemned to Purgatory wandering for succour and release by Trentals and Masses said by a Popish Priest c. and yet they in probability are equal and in number far exceed the other We think that to be a lye which is written or rather fathered upon Luther to wit That he knew the Devil and was very conversant with him and had eaten many bushels of Salt and made jolly good cheer with him and that he was confuted in a desputation with a real Devil about the abolishing of private mass Neither do we believe this report That the Devil in the likeness of a tall man was present at a Sermon openly made by Carolostadius and from this Sermon went to his house and told his son that he would fetch him away after a day or twain as the Papists say he did indeed although they lie in every point thereof most maliciously But we can believe Platina and others when they tell us of the appearances of Pope Benedict the eight and also the ninth how the one rode upon a black Horse in the Wilderness requiring a Bishop as I remember whom he met that he would distribute certain money for him which he had purloined of that which was given in Alms to the poor c. and how the other was seen a hundred years after the Devil had killed him in a Wood of an Hermite in a Bears-skin and an Asses-head on his shoulders c. himself saying that he appeared in such sort as he lived And divers such stuffe rehearsed by Platina Now because S. Ambrose writeth that S. Anne appeared to Constance the daughter of Constantine and to her Parents watching at her Sepulchre and because Eusebius and Nicephorus say That the Pontamian Virgin Origen's Disciple appeared to S. Basil and put a Crown upon his head in token of the glory of his martyrdom which should shortly follow and because Hierome writeth of Paul's appearance and Theodoret of S. John the Baptist and Athanasius of Ammons c. many do believe the same stories and miraculous appearances to be true But few Protestants will give credit unto such shameful fables or any like them when they find them written in the Legendary Festival Rosaries of our Lady or any other such Popish Authors Whereby I gather that if the Protestant believe some few lyes the Papists believe a great number This I write to shew the imperfection of man how attentive our ears are to hearken to tales And though herein consists no great point of faith or infidelity yet let us that profess the Gospel take warning of Papists not to be carryed away with every vain blast of doctrine but let us cast away these prophane and old Wives fables And although this matter have passed so long with general credit and authority yet many grave Authors have condemned long since all those vain Visions and Apparitions except such as have been shewed by God his Son and his Angels Athanasius saith That souls once loosed from their bodies have no more society with mortal men Augustine saith That if souls could walk and visit their friends c. or admonish them in sleep or otherwise his Mother that followed him by Land and by Sea would shew her self to him and reveal her knowledge or give him warning c. But most true it is that is written in the Gospel We have Moses and the Prophets who are to be hearkened unto and not the dead CHAP. XXVIII A Confutation of Johannes Laurentius and of many others maintaining these fained and ridiculous Tales and Apparitions and what driveth them away of Moses and Elias appearance in Mount Tabor FUrthermore to prosecute this matter in more words if I say
that all the creatures of God are good and again when God in the creation of the world saw all that he had made was good the Devil is not comprehended within those words of commendation For it is written that he was a murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him but when he speaketh a lye he speaketh of his own as being a lyer and the father of lyes and as John saith a sinner from the beginning Neither was his creation so far as I can find in that week that God made man and those other creatures mentioned in Genesis the first and yet God created him purposely to destroy I take his substance to be such as no man can by learning define nor by wisdom search out M. Deering saith Tha◠Paul himself reckoning up principalities powers c. addeth Every name that is named in this world or in the world to come A clear sentence saith he of Paul 's modesty in confessing a holy ignorance of the state of Angels which name is also given to Devils in other places of the Scripture His essence also and his form is also so proper and peculiar in mine opinion unto himself as he himself cannot alter it but must needs be content therewith as with that which God hath ordained him and assigned unto him as peculiarly as he hath given to us our substance without power to alter the same at our pleasures For we find not that a spirit can make a body more than a body can make a spirit the Spirit of God excepted which is Omnipotent Nevertheless I learn that their nature is prone to all mischeif for as the very signification of an Enemy and as an accuser is wrapped up in Satan and Diabolus so doth Christ himself declare him to be in the thirteenth of Matthew And therefore he brooketh well his name for he lyeth dayly in wait not only to corrupt but also to destroy mankind being I say the very tormentor appointed by God to afflict the wicked in this world with wicked temptations and in the world to come with Hell fire But I may not here forget how M. Mal. and the residue of that crew do expound that word Diabolus for Dia say they is Duo and Bolus is Morsellus whereby they gather that the Devil eateth up a man both body and soul at two morsels Whereas in truth the wicked may be said to eat up and swallow down the Devil rather than the Devil to eat up them though it may well be said by a figure that the Devil like a roaring Lion seeketh whom he may devour which is meant of the soul and spiritual devouring as very novices in Religion may judge CHAP. XXXIII Against fond Witchmongers and their opinions concerning corporal Devils NOw how Brian Darcies he-spirits and she-spirits Titty and Tiffin Suckin and Pidgin Liard and Robin c. his white-spirits and black-spirits gray-spirits and red-spirits Devil-toad and Devil-lambe Devils-cat and Devils-dam agree herewithal or can stand consonant with the Word of God or true Philosophy let Heaven and Earth judge In the mean time let any man with good consideration peruse that Book published by W.W. it shall suffice to satisfie him in all that may be required touching the vanities of the Witches Examinations Confessions and Executions where though the tale be told only of the accusers part without any other answer of theirs than their Adversary setteth down mine assertion will be sufficiently proved true And because it seemeth to be performed with some kind of authority I will say no more for the confutation thereof but referr you to the Book it self whereto if nothing be added that may make to their reproach I dare warrant nothing is left out that may serve to their condemnation See whether the witnesses be not single of what credit sexe and age they are namely lewd miserable and envious poor people most of them which speak to any purpose being old women and children of the age of 4 5 6 7 8 or 9. years And note how and what the Witches confess and see of what weight and importance the causes are whether their confessions be not won through hope of favour and extorted by flattery or threats without proof But in so much as there were not past seventeen or eighteen condemned at once at S. Osees in the County of Essex being a whole Parish though of no great quantity I will say the less trusting that by this time there remain not many in that Parish If any be yet behind I doubt not but Brian Darcie will find them out who if he lack aid Richard Gallis of Windsor were meet to be associated with him which Gallis hath set forth another Book to that effect of certain Witches of Windsor executed at Abington But with what impudency and dishonesty he hath finished it with what lyes and forgeries he hath furnished it what folly and frenzy he hath uttered in it I am ashamed to report and therefore being but a two-penny Book I had rather desire you to buy it and so to peruse it than to fill my Book with such beastly stuffe CHAP. XXXIV A Conclusion wherein the Spirit of spirits is described by the illumination of which Spirit all spirits are to be tryed with a Confutation of the Pneumatomachi flatly denying the divinity of this Spirit TOuching the manifold signification of this word Spirit I have elsewhere in this brief discourse told you my mind which is a word nothing different in Heb. from breath or wind For all these words following to wit Spiritus Ventus Platus Halitus are indifferently use by the Holy Ghost and called by this Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the sacred Scripture For further proof whereof I cite unto you the words of Isaiah For his Spirit or Breath is as a River that overfloweth up to the neck c. in which place the Prophet describeth the coming of God in heat and indignation unto judgement c. I cite also unto you the words of Zacharie These are the four Spirits of the Heaven c. Likewise in Genesis And the Spirit of God moved upon the waters Moreover I cite unto you the words of Christ The Spirit or Wind bloweth where it listeth Unto which said places infinite more might be added out of holy Writ tending all to this purpose namely to give us this for a note that all the sayings above cited with many more that I could alledge where mention is made of spirit the Hebrew Text useth no word but one to wit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth as I said Spiritum ventum flatum halitum which may be Englished Spirit wind blast breath But before I enter upon the very point of my purpose it shall not be amiss to make you acquainted with the collection of a certain School Divine who distinguisheth and divideth this word
doth he constantly deny it to be a creature Now if any ask me why Hilarie was so coy and nice to name the Holy Spirit God whom he denyeth to be a creature when as notwithstanding between God and a creature there is no mean I will in good sooth say what I think I suppose that Hilarie for himself thought well of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit but this opnion was thrust and forced upon him by the Pneumatomachi who at that time rightly deeming of the Son did erewhiles join themselves to those that were sound of judgment There is also in the Ecclesiastical History a little book which they gave Liberius a Bishop of Rome whereinto they foisted the Nicene Creed And that Hilarie was a friend of the Pneumatomachi it is perceived in his Book De Synodis where he writeth in this manner Nihil autem mirum vobis videri debet fratres charissimi c. It ought to seem no wonder unto you dear Brethren c. As for the objection of the Prayers of the Church called the Collects that in them the Holy Spirit is not called upon by name we oppose and set against them the Songs of the Church wherein the said Spirit is called upon But the Collects are more ancient than the Songs Hymns and Anthems I will not now contend about ancientness neither will I compare Songs and Collects together but I say thus much only to wit that in the most ancient times of the Church the Holy Spirit hath been openly called upon in the Congregation Now if I be charged to give an instance let this serve In the Collect upon Trinity Sunday it is thus said Almighty and everlasting God which hast given unto us thy servants grace by the confession of a truth to acknowledg the glory of the eternal Trinity and in the power of the divine Majesty to worship the Unity we beseech thee that through the stedfastness of this faith we may evermore be defended from all adversity which livest and reignest one God world without end Now because that in this Collect where the Trinity is expresly called upon the names of persons are not expressed but Almighty and Everlasting God invocated who abideth in Trinity and Unity it doth easily appear elsewhere also that the persons being not named under the Name of Almighty and Everlasting God not only the Father is to be understood but God which abideth in Trinity and Unity that is the Father the Son and the Holyghost A third objection of theirs is this The Son of God oftentimes praying in the Gospels speaking unto the Father promiseth the Holy Spirit and doth also admonish the Apostles to pray unto the heavenly Father but yet in the Name of the Son Besides that he prescribeth them this form of Prayer Our Father which art in Heaven Ergo The Father only is to be called upon and consequently the Father only is that one and very true God of whom it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Whereto I answer first by denying the consequent The Son prayed to the Father only Ergo the Father only is of us also to be prayed unto For the Son of God is distinguished of us both in Person and in Office he as a Mediator maketh Intercession for us to the Father and although the Son and the Holy Spirit do both together receive and take us into favour with God yet is he said to intreat the Father for us because the Father is the fountain of all counsels and divine works Furthermore touching the form of Praying described by Christ it is not necessary that the Fathers name should personally be there taken sith there is no distinction of persons made but by the Name of Father indefinitely we understand God or the Essence of God the Father the Son and the Holy-Ghost For this name hath not alwayes a respect unto the generation of the Son of God but God is called The Father of the faithful because of his gracious and free adopting of them the foundation whereof is the Son of God in whom we be adopted but yot so adopted that not the Father only receiveth us into his favour but with him also the Son and the Holy Spirit doth the same Therefore when we in the beginning of Prayer do advertise our selves of God's goodness towards us we do not cast an eye to the Father alone but also to the Son who gave us the Spirit of Adoption and to the Holy Spirit in whom we cry Abba Father And if so be that invocation and Prayer were restrained to the Father alone then had the Saints done amiss in calling upon invocating and praying to the Son of God and with the Son the Holy Spirit in Baptism according to the form by Christ himself assigned and delivered Another objection is out of the fourth of Amos in this manner For lo it is I that make the Thunder and create the spirit and shew unto men their Christ making the light and the clouds and mounting above the high places of the earth the Lord God of Hosts is his Name Now because it is read in that place Shewing unto men their Christ the Pneumatomachi contended that these words are to be understood of the Holy Spirit But Ambrose in his Book De Spiritu Sancto lib. 2. cap. 7. doth rightly answer That by Spirit in this place is meant the Wind for if the Prophets purpose and will had been to speak of the Holy Spirit he would not have begun with Thunder nor have ended with light and clouds Howbeit the same father saith If any suppose that these words are to be drawn unto the interpretation of the Holy Spirit because the Prophet saith Shewing unto men their Christ he ought also to draw these words unto the mystery of the Lords incarnation and he expoundeth Thunder to be the words of the Lord and Spirit to be the reasonable and perfect soul But the former interpretation is certain and convenient with the words of the Prophet by whom there is no mention made of Christ but the power of God is set forth in his works Behold saith the Prophet he that formeth the Mountains and createth the Wind and declareth unto man what is his thought which maketh the morning darkness and walketh upon the high places of the earth the Lord God of Hosts is his Name In this sort Santes a right skilful man in the Hebrew tongue translateth this place of the Prophet But admit this place were written of the Holy Spirit and were not appliable either to the Wind or to the Lords Incarnation yet doth it not follow that the Holy Spirit is a creature because this word of Creating doth not alwayes signifie a making of something out of nothing as Eusebius dxpounding these wrrds The Lord created me in the beginning of his wayes writeth thus The Prophet in the Person of God saying
Behold I am he that made the Thunder and created the Spirit and shewed unto men their Christ this word created is not so to be taken as that it is to be concluded thereby that the same was not before For God hath not so created the Spirit fithence by the same he hath shewed and declared his Christ unto al men Neither was it a thing of late beginning under the Son but it was before all beginning and was then sent when the Apostles were gathered together When a sound like Thunder came from Heaven as it had been the coming of a mighty wind this word created being used for sent down for appointed ordained c. and the word Thunder signifying in another kind of manner the Preaching of the Gospel The like saying is that of the Psalmist A clean heart create in me O God wherein he prayed not as one having no heart but as one that had such a heart as needed purifying as needed perfecting and this phrase also of the scripture that he might create two in one new man that is that he might joyn couple or gather together c. Furthermore the Pneumatomachi by these testimonies insuing endeavour to prove the Holy Spirit to be a creature Out of John the 1. ch By this word were all things made and without it nothing was made Out of 1 Cor. 8. We have one God the Father even he from whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ through whom are all things and we by him Out of Col. 1 By him were all things made things in heaven and things in earth visible and invisible c. Now if all things were made by the Son it followeth that by him the Holy Spirit was also made Whereto I answer that when all things are said to be made by the Son that same universal proposition is restrained by John himself to a certain kind of things Without him saith the Evangelist was nothing made that was made Therefore it is first to be shewed that the Holy Spirit was made and then will we conclude out of John that if he were made he was made of the Son The Scripture doth no where say that the Holy Spirit was made of the Father or of the Son but to proceed to come and to be sent from them both Now if these universal propositions are to suffer no restraint it shall follow that the Father was made of the Son than the which what is more absurd and wicked Again they object out of Mat. 11. None knoweth the Son but the Father and none the Father but the Son to wit of and by himself for otherwise both the angels and to whomsoever else it shall please the Son to reveal the Father these do know both the Father and the Son Now if so be the Spirit be not equal with the Father and the Son in knowledge he is not only unequal and lesser than they but also no God for ignorance is not incident unto God Whereto I answer that where in holy Scripture we do meet with universal propositions negative or exclusive they are not to be expounded of one person so as the rest are excluded but creatures or false gods are to be excluded and whatsoever else is without or beside the essence and being of God Reasons to prove and confirme this interpretation I could bring very many whereof I will adde some for example In the seventh of John it is said When Christ shall come none shall know from whence he is notwithstanding which words the Jews thought that neither God nor his Angels should be ignorant from whence Christ should be In the fourth to the Galatians A mans Covenant or testament confirmed with authority no body doth abrogate or adde any thing thereunto No just man doth so but tyrants and truce-breakers care not for covenants In John eight Jesus was left alone and the woman standing in the midst And yet it is not to be supposed that a multitude of people was not present and the Disciples of Christ likewise but the word Solus alone is referred to the womans accusers who withdrew themselves away every one and departed In the sixt of Mark When it was evening the ship was in the midst of the sea and he alone upon land he was not alone upon land or shore for the same was not utterly void of dwellers but he had not any of his Disciples with him nor any body to carry him a shipboard unto his Disciples Many phrases or forms of speeches like unto these are to be found in the sacred scriptures and in authors both Greek and Latin whereby we understand that neither universal negative nor exclusive particles are strictly to be urged but to be explained in such sort as the matter in hand will bear When as therefore the Son alone is said to know the Father and it is demanded whether the holy Spirit is debarred from knowing the Father out of other places of Scripture judgment is to be given in this case In some places the Holy Spirit is counted and reckoned with the Father and the Son jointly wherefore he is not to be separated Elsewhere also it is attributed to the holy spirit that he alone doth know the things which be of God and searcheth the deep secrets of God wherfore from him the knowing of God is not to be excluded They do yet further object that it is not convenient or fit for God after the manner of suters to humble and cast down himself but the holy Spirit doth so praying and intreating for us with unspeakable groans Rom. 8. Ergo the holy Spirit is not God Whereunto I answer that the Holy Spirit doth pray and intreat insomuch as he provoketh us to pray and maketh us to groan and sigh Oftentimes also in the Scriptures is that action or deed attributed unto God which we being stirred up and moved by him doe bring to passe So it is said of God unto Abraham Now I know that thou fearest God and yet before he would have sacrificed Isaac God knew the very heart of Abraham and therefore this word Cognovi I know is as much as Cognoscere feci I have made or caused to know And that the Spirit to pray and intreat is the same with that to make to pray and intreat the apostle teacheth even there writing that we have received the spirit of adoption in whom we cry Abba Father Where it is manifest that it is we which cry the Holy-ghost provoking and forcing us thereunto Howbeit they goe further and frame this reason Whosoever is sent the same is inferior and lesser than he of whom he is sent and furthermore he is of a comprehensible substance because he passeth by local motion from place to place but the Holy Spirit is sent of the Father and the Son John 14 15. 16. It is poured forth and shed upon men Acts 10. Ergo the Holy
food is the Gas of the Water and the Blas of the Air And in their Aspects or countenances they differ as to vigour and cheerfulness They occupy various places of this world as Woods Mountains Waters Air fiery Flames Clouds Starrs Mines and hid Treasures as also antient Buildings and places of the slain Some again are familiar in Houses and do frequently converse with and appear unto mortals 15. They are capable of hunger grief passion and vexation they have not any thing in them that should bring them unto God being meerly composed of the most spiritual part of the Elements And when they are worn out they return into their proper essence or primary quality again as Ice when it is resolved into Water They meet in mighty Troops and wage warr one with another They do also procreate one another and have power sometimes to make great commotions in the Air and in the Clowds and also to cloath themselves with visible bodies out of the four Elements appearing in Companies upon Hills and Mountains and do often deceive and delude the observers of Apparitions who take such for portents of great alterations which are nothing but the sports and pastime of these frolick Spirits as Armies in the Air Troops marching on the Land noises and slaughter Tempest and Lightning c. 16. These Astral Spirits are variously to be considered some are beings separate and absolute that are not constitute to any work or service Others are subservient to the Angels that have dominion over the Influences of the Stars Others are the Astral Spirits of men departed which if the party deceased was disturbed and troubled at his decease do for many years continue in the source of this world amongst these airy Spirits to the great disquietness of the soul of the person to whom they belong Besides the causes are various that such Spirits rest not 1. When by Witchcraft they are inchanted and bound to wander so many years as thrice or fourtimes seven before they can be resolved into nothing 2. When the person hath been murthered so that the Spirit can never be at rest till the crime be discovered 3. When desires and lusts after Wife or Children House Lands or Money is very strong at their departure it is a certain truth that this same spirit belonging to the Starrs will be hanckering after these things and drawn back by the strong desires and fixation of the Imagination which is left behind it Nor can it ever be at rest till the thing be accomplished for which it is disturbed 4. When Treasure hath been hid or any secret thing hath been committed by the party there is a magical cause of something attracting the starry spirit back again to the manifestation of that thing Upon all which the following Chapters do insist more largely and particularly CHAP. II. Of the Good and Evil Daemons or Genii Whither they are what they are and how they are manifested also of their names powers faculties offices how thy are to be considered 1. ACcording to the disposition of the mind or soul there is a good or evil Daemon that accompanies the party visibly or invisibly and these are of such rancks and orders and names as the capacity of the persons soul is to whom they belong Their Office is said to be fore-warning the person of eminent danger sometimes by inward instinct sometimes by dreams in the night and sometimes by appearing outwardly The Daemon or Genius changeth its nature and power as the person changeth his and if from good the party degenerate to iniquity then by degrees the good Angel leaves him and an evil Daemon doth naturally succeed for each thing draws after that which is like it self 2. Magicians mention three several wayes of enjoying the society of the Bonus Genius first by intellectual association when secret and mental instigations do arise in their hearts to do this or that and to forbear the other as in the Manuscript of Nagar the Indian his own testimony of himself is to this effect My blessed Guardian Damilkar hath now so sweetly communicated himself unto me That by all the manifestations whereby a holy Daemon can attend and converse with mankind he appeareth unto me first in the intellectual way he is ever present and every moment prompts me what to act what to forbear from acting Ah had he not rushed up through the powers of my soul and suddenly warned me in my Travel to Quiansi in China through the airy Region to turn nimbly to the right hand at an instant a mighty Troop of Devils whose Leader was Grachnoek coming through that tract of air had crusht me into a thousand peices This is the first degree of its appearing 3. Then he proceedeth in the language of Sina describing the second way of its manifestation And when the deepest sleep hath over-poured we I am never without him sometimes my Damilkar stands before me like a glorious Virgin administring to me a Cup of the drink of the Gods which my Intellectual man exhausteth sometimes he brings caelestial Companies and danceth round about me and when after the weariness of the Senses through contemplation I fell into gentle sleep on the holy Mountain of Convocation which is called Adan he shewed me the motion of the Heavens the nature of all things and the power of every evil Daemon 4. Thirdly he continueth to describe the External appearance of the Genius to this effect Damilkar appears before me at my desire for my desires are as his desires When I slept a long space in my private dwelling he appeared outwardly and watering me with the dew of the fourth Heaven I awakned when he had thrice said Nankin Nagar so the time being come we mounted through the Air unto the holy Mountain of Convocation 5. In this Example the three degrees of the Apparition of the Bonus Genius or Good Daemon are excellently deciphered which is also the same in the appearance of the bad Genius and according to the deepest Magicians there be seven good Angels who do most frequently become particular Guardians of all others each to their respective capacities and also seven evil Daemons that are most frequent in association with depraved persons as Guardians to them 6. These are the seven good Angels or Daemons Iubanladace a mighty Prince in the Dominion of Thrones he cometh unto such as follow national affairs and are carryed forth unto warr and conquest he beareth alwayes a flaming Sword and is girded about having a helmet upon his head and appearing still before the party in the Air he must be sollicited and invocated with Chastity Vows Fumes and Prayers and this his is Character to be worn as a Lamin â— Yah-li-Yah one of the Powers accompanying such as are Virgins and devoted to Religion and a Hetmits life he teacheth all the names and powers of Angels and gives holy Charms against the assaults of Evil Daemons he
is to blast with Mildew Lightning and Thunder any Vegetative proper to their Planet To deprive any Animal of sight or the motion of the nerves under their Dominion And lastly bring Plagues Pestilence and Famine Storms and Tempests or on the Contrary to bring sweet and excellent Influences upon Animals or Vegetatives under their Planetary Regiment if well and honourably dignified 4. Innumerable are the Spirits that inhabit the Aiery Region germinating amongst themselvs as Magicians affirm and begetting one another after a Mystical manner It is their property to be instant in storms and boistrous weather which is said to be joy and delight unto them And in such a season they may with most facility be calld upon and make their appearance which they do accordingly to their age and youthfulness seeming young or old at their appearance answerable to their years Besides they march in mighty Troops through the Aiery Region waging warr amongst themselves and destroying one anothers beings or Existences after which they are reduced to the primary source or nature of the Starrs This is likewise to be observed that according to the Language Vigour Life and Habit of that Region wherein they live such is their Habit Language and Ability one Caterva or Company being ignorant of their Neighbours or Enemies Language so that they have need of the Assistance of such Spirits as dwell in omnibus Elementis to be their Interpreters 5. And doubtless from hence arise the various deceptions thut men are incident unto in their judgments of Apparitions perswading themselves that they are portents and foretokens of Warr and Famine when such numerous Spirits are beheld Fighting or Marching either in the Air Earth or Water whereas it is nothing else but the bare effect of the Natures and Tempers of such Aerial beings to fight and randevouse immediately after sun-set or else later in the Summer evenings which is their principal time of such Conventions And though it must be confest that such Spirits may be and are the Devils Instruments as appertaining to the Kingdom whereof he is Ruler Yet considered in themselves their Nature is wholly harmless as to ought that may be called innate Evill having nothing in them that is eternal as the Soul of Man and consequently nothing in them that is able to make them capable of enjoying Heaven or induring the torments of Hell 6. And it is believed by some that according to the motion of the spheres there are certain companies of Aerial Spirits good and bad that follow them in their motions round the earth the good distilling influences that are good and the bad such influences as are destructive to every thing that is under their Dominion It is also believed that by the assistance of Devils and damned Spirits such Aerial Spirits are given for Familiars to some Magicians add Witches with whom they are said to have actual copulation and the enjoyment of every dainty meat through their assistance being able thereby to go invisible to fly through the air and steal Treasures and Jewels from the Coffers of Princes as also carouse in Wine-sellers and Pantries of those that are most amply provided with the choisest Daynties 7. Subordinate unto these of the Air are the Terrestrial Spirits which are of several degrees according to the places which they occupy as Woods Mountains Caves Fens Mines Ruins Desolate places and Antient Buildings calld by the Antient Heathens after various names as Nymphs Satyrs Lamii Dryades Sylvanes Cobali c. And more particularly the Faeries who do principally inhabit the Mountains and Caverns of the Earth whose nature is to make strange Apparitions on the Earth in Meddows or on Mountains being like Men and Women Souldiers Kings and Ladyes Children and Horse-men cloathed in green to which purpose they do in the night steal hempen stalks from the fields where they grow to Convert them into Horses as the Story goes Besides it is credibly affirmed and beleev'd by many That such as are real Changlings or Lunaticks have been brought by such Spirits and Hobgoblins the true Child being taken away by them in the place whereof such are left being commonly half out of their wits and given to many Antick practices and extravagant fancies which passions do indeed proceed from the powerful influence of the Planet in their nativity and not from such foolish conjectures 8. Such jocund and facetious Spirits are sayd to sport themselvs in the night by tumbling and fooling with Servants aad Shepherds in Country houses pinching them black and blew and leaving Bread Butter and Cheese sometimes with them which if they refuse to eat some mischief shall undoubtedly befall them by the means of these Faeries And many such have been taken away by the sayd Spirits for a fortnight or a month together being carryed with them in Chariots through the Air over Hills and Dales Rocks and Precipices till at last they have been found lying in some Meddow or Mountain bereaved of their sences and commonly of one of their Members to boot 9. Certainly the Lares and Penates or houshold Gods of the antient Heathens were no other then such like Spirits who for several years would keep their residence in one house till upon some displeasure offered or offences done by any of the sayd Family they departed and were never afterwards heard of There are plenty of such examples to be found in Olaus magnus and Hector Boethus in his History of Scotland relating wonderful passages of Robin-good fellows and such as have been familiar amongst mankind 10. Luridan a familiar of this kinde did for many years inhabit the Island Pomonia the largest of the Orcades in Scotland suplying the place of Man-servant and Maid-servant with wonderful diligence to these Families whom he did haunt sweeping their rooms and washing their dashes and making their fires before any were up in the morning This Luridan affirmed That he was the genius Astral of that Island that his place or residence in the dayes of Solomon and David was at Jerusalem That then he was called by the Jewes Belelah and after that he remaind Long in the Dominion of Wales instructing their Bards in Brittish Poesy and Prophesies being called Vrthin Wadd Elgin And now said he I have removed hither and alas my continuance is but short for in 70 years I must resigne my place to Balkin Lord of the Northern mountains 11. Many wonderful and incredible things did he also relate of this Balkin whom he called the Lord of the Northern Mountains affirming that he was shaped like a Satyr and fed upon the Air having Wife and Children to the number of 12 thousand which were the brood of the Northern Faeries inhabiting Southerland and Catenes with the adjacent Islands And that these were the Companies of Spirits that hold continual wars with the Fiery Spirits in the Mountain Heckla that vomits fire in Islandia That their speech was antient Irish and
the Islands and most of the Continent and also by accident though not through any good intention extirpate the race of such as addicted themselves to this infamous sort of Divination In which devastation and bloody inquisition their Idols were discovered with their Oracles and Inchantments far different from the European Conjurers and any of their Ceremonies 15. But that which is the most remarkable in the Infernal proceedings is this That there is not any Nation under the Sun but the Devil hath introduced himself amongst them through their Ceremonies and Worship though quite opposite to one another For in the Kingdom of China by the sacrifice of Blood and Panaak he is Conjured and Exorcized through the repetitions of several Superstitious Invocations to the Sun and Moon In Tartary the Magicians go quite another way to work with Offerings to the Ocean to the Mountains and the Rivers fuming Incense and divers sorts of Feathers by which means the Devils are compelled to appear So that we see how this Proteus can dispose himself in the divers Kingdoms of this World being called by other names in Tartary China the East and West-Indies c. then amongst the European Conjurers Likewise the Greeks and Romans could Invocate Spirits by Prayers unto the Moon and divers Sacrifices of Milk Honey Vervine and Blood And those that are addicted to Conjurations in Christianity have attained to a more lofty and ample manner of Incantation and Conjuring with Magical Garments Fire Candles Circles Astrological Observations Invocations and holy Names of God according to the Kaballa of the Jews 16. So that every distinct Nation hath conformed its Conjuration unto the Ceremonies of that Religion which it professeth And it is to be observed That from a natural cause every Nation hath its Conjurations and Names of Devils from the Constellation under which the Countrey lyeth and from the Air or Wind to which such particular Dominations do belong so that no effect would follow if one Countrey should traditionally inure themselves to the Forms and Exorcisms that are used by another Nation And therefore is it that so many attempts are offered in vain amongst professed Christians to raise Spirits because they have little or nothing from their own Constellation but make use of what they have borrowed from the Greeks and Romans or the ancient Imbecillity of the Aegyptians Priests I mean their simple forms of Invocation 17. But because we are rather upon the discovery of the Infernal Kingdom as it hath no dependence upon the doings of mortal Men therefore we will proceed to discover what the Antients have said concerning it So the next which we fall upon after the description of their Habitations and the manner of their Appearances is their Names and Appellations diversly considered First from the Creation of the World to the coming of Christ they retained the Hebrew names as Belial Baal Baalzebub Lelah Ador Abaddon c. according to the seculum under which they were Invocated assuming names according to the present occasion about which they were imployed 18. Under the Constellation of China they are Invocated by the Names Ran Sinoam Nantam Bal Baltal Sheall the six Governours or Presidents Chancangian the chief of the Devils Po Paym Nalkin Nebo the Devils of the four Winds Tean Tan Pan Adal the Devils of the four Elements And according to the nature of their language or words which do all consist of no more then one syllable so are the Devils named Yea as it is conjectured by many learned Magicians this language of the Chinenses is more Magical and adapted to Conjurations then all the Oriental Tongues because of the consonancy and copiousness thereof together with the numerous and various Characters used by them 19. In the East-Indies and in Tartary the Names are the same with those of China though the Ceremonies differ In Persia Arabia Natolia Aegypt Aethiopia the Names are the same with the Jewish Rabbins But the Greeks and Romans have different from the rest according to their Language and Superstitions The Turks Muscovites Russians Lapponians and Norwegians make use of the Sclavonian tongue in all their Conjurations The West-Indians have very strange and antick Names and Ceremonies of their own nothing depending on the Traditions and Practices of the old World for as is related before the Devil is sufficiently capable of introducing himself through the Religious Superstitions of any Nation whomsoever according to the Constellations although strangers to the Rites and Ceremonies of others 20. But though their Names be conformable to the Language and Climate of that Nation where they are raised or called yet have they divers Names suppose twenty or thirty to one Devil according to the several ministrations they have had from the Creation to this day leaving a several name behinde them at each of their appearances upon the earth for according to the testimony of the Devil himself if credit may be given to Devils they as they are abstractively considered in their own Kingdom have no imposed Names of distinction but are forced to assume them when they rise up in the external principle of this World although in some measure it must be granted that there be some principal Kings and Dukes in the Infernal Hierarchy that have Names establish'd upon them which cannot be transferr'd or altered 21. As for the Names that are recorded in this precedent Discovery of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot Esq being a Catalogue of Devils in their Rancks and Hierarchies they are supposed to be fictitious and totally imaginary being taken out of Bodin or Wyerus which they recorded from the mouth of Tradition and obscure Manuscrips And indeed were there any certainty in this List of Devils it were to be preferred as the most ample and exact delineation that is extant But it is the rather to be suspected because of the little coherence it hath with the former received Names of Devils eitheir in Europe Asia Africa or America 22. But if we would speak of Damned Souls and their Names or Appellations they are farr otherwise to be considered then the Devils for such as their imposed Names were here on earth such is the Name they have in the Kingdom of Darkness after a Magical manner according to the language of nature in the first principle of Darkness as the Saints in heaven retain their Names in a Coelestial manner And also as the Astral Spirit of a Man deceased retains its antient Name according to the Astral source in the principle of the one only Element 23. For as the language of Nature is found in the second Principle it is likewise manifest in the dark Worlds property according to the first Principle of Wrath as also the monstrous shapes of Devils and Damned Souls is correspondent to the Magical postures of their Souls whilst they were alive of which I shall speak more largely when their Shapes are to be described
the first order in the astringency are appeased and provoked when the fumes are put upon a Tripod in the hour of Saturn according to the Planetary division These Fumigations make these Spirits appear like old men with promiss beards and meager looks like Serpents Cats Wolves Badgers Panthers like old Men in Armour like Trumpeters in many ranks and divisions 12. For Spirits under Jupiter they take Lignum Aloes Ashen-Keys Benjamin Storax Peacocks-feathers and Lapis Lazuli mixing the same with the blood of a Stork a Swallow or a Hart the brains being also added The fumes are kindled in Jupiters hour and in a place appropriate to his nature And by this sacrifice the Spirits of the next order are called up like glorious Kings with many attendants and mighty pomp with Heralds before them and Ensign-bearers Trumpeters Guards and all sorts of musical Instruments 13. They make Fumigations unto such Spirits of the order of Powers as are under Mars in the Planetary division with Aromatick Gum Bdellium Euphorbium Load-stone Hellebore white and black and an addition of Sulphur to make them into an Amalgama with Man's blood and the blood of a black Cat which mixtures are said to be exceeding magical so that without any other addition they say this fumigation is able of it self to make such Spirits to appear before the Exorcist at their appearance they come with weapons brandishing and shining Armour being terrible in their looks yet of power inferiour to the Spirits of Saturn though they can likewise shew themselves as Lions Wolves Tygers Bears and all other cruel or ravenous Beasts 14. They do likewise unto the Spirits under Sol being of the order of Thrones Suffumigate Saffron Musk Laurel Cinnamon Ambergriece Cloves Myrrhe and Frankincense Musk and the Balsamick Tree mixed up together with the brain of an Eagle and the blood of a white Cock being made up like Pills or little Balls and put upon the Tripod their appearances are Castles Gardens Mountains Rivers Fisher-men Hunters Reapers Dogs Sheep Oxen and other domestick Beasts 15. Under Venus are the Spirits of the sixth order in the Powers their appearances are very stately like the nature of the Planet like Courtiers Ladies Princes Queens Infants Children and fragrant smells The fumigations appropriate unto them are Roses Coral Lignum Aloes and Sperma Ceti made up with Sparrows brains and blood of Pidgeons to be fumigated with a Song 16. Mercury sendeth Horsemen Fishers Labourers Priests Students Servants c. Also Foxes Serpents Dogs Hares Hyena's Hydra's and other Monstrous Animals unto him they fumigate Frankincense Mastick Cinkfoyl incorporated with the brain of a Fox and the blood of a Mag-Pye 17. Spirits under Luna are like Ghosts and shadows very gastly to behold though in humane shape sometimes male sometimes female Fumigations are offered unto them of Frogs dryed white Poppy-seed Bulls Eyes Camphire and Frankincense incorporated with Gooses blood and the menstruous blood of Women 18. These are the divisions of fumigations neither can it be denyed but that in many Ceremonies of this kind there is great inherent virtue according to the Doctrines of Sympathy and Antipathy whereby every thing is drawn by its like in the Idea whither by words or actions according to the saying In verbis herbis lapidibus latet virtus so that the Ceremonies and Charms with other circumstances used by Magicians are doubtless prevalent to the accomplishment of that work which they undertake to wit The calling up and Exorcizing of Infernal Spirits by Conjurations CHAP. VII Being the Conclusion of the Whole wherein divers antient Spells Charms Incantations and Exorcisms are briefly spoken of 1. BEsides what the Author hath set down there be many other Spells and Charms which Tradition hath left unto Posterity being many of them effectual for the thing intended by them as in the precedent Chapter is set down wherein the Orders of Fumigations are described Besides there are Magical Characters attributed to the Planets whereof Telesms Periapts Amulets and Philters are composed by buryings writings bindings engravings alligations c. to effect various purposes in Astrological hours To conquer Enemies cure diseases overturn Cities stop Inundations render bodies Invulnerable and the like which are all effected by medium's of this kind with the assistance of Imagination 2. Yet are there many natural Compositions which have very stupendious effects of themselves without assistance of Superstition for the commixtion of things is of two-fold force or vertue First When the Celestial vertues are duly disposed in any natural body so that in one thing are couched various Influences of superiour Powers The second is from Artificial mixtures and Compositions of natural things amongst themselves in a certain proportion to agree with the Heavens under certain Constellations This proceeds from the correspondence of natural things amongst themselves whereby things are effected even unto admiration as Agrippa declares Cap. 35. lib. 1. 3. And as unto every Planet certain fumigations are ascribed so unto such Spirits as are under them certain Places are adopted for the Ceromonies of Conjuration which Magicians chose when they set upon their works of Darkness Unto Saturn are ascribed dark melancholy Places Vaults Tombes Monasteries empty Houses Dens Caves Pits Unto Jupiter Theaters Schools Musick houses Judgment seats To Mars Fields where Battels have been fought Bake-houses Glass-houses Shambles Places of Execution To Sol Palaces Mountains Meddows Sunshine Groves and upper Rooms To Venus Fountains Meadows Gardens and the Sea-shore Unto Mercury all publick places belonging unto Cities To Luna Wildernesses Woods Rocks Forrests Ships High-wayes c. 4. In like manner are Spells and Charms adapted to the thing which they must effect according to the matter form and place of their composition as for the procuring of Love they bury Rings Ribbons Seals Pictures Looking-Glasses c. in Stews Baths Beds that in such places they may contract some Venereal faculty When they gather Herbs or other Ingredients they chuse the hour and place when such Planets have Dominion as are over these Herbs which they collect ever remembring to turn their faces to the East or South when Saturnine Martial or Jovial Herbs are gathered because their Principal houses are Southern signs for Venereal Mercurial or Lunary herbs they must look towards the West or North because their houses are chiefly Northern signs Yet in any Solar or Lunar operations the body of the Sun and Moon must be respected in the operation 5. Colours are also much regarded amongst Magicians according to the Planet as black leaden brown unto Saturn saphire vernal green purple golden unto Jupiter red burning violet bloody and iron colours unto Mars golden saffron scarlet c. unto the Sun white fair green ruddy pleasant mixed colours unto Venus Mercury and Luna In like manner they ascribe colours unto the twelve Houses and according to the Planets have also certain compositions for fire