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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26562	Henry Cornelius Agrippa, his fourth book of occult philosophy of geomancy, magical elements of Peter de Abano, astronomical geomancy, the nature of spirits, arbatel of magick / translated into English by Robert Turner ...; De occulta philosophia. Book 4. English	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.; Petrus, de Abano, ca. 1250-ca. 1315. Heptameron. English.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing A785; ESTC R6621	64,547	120

the figure of the world from the rising of the body of the Planet according to the succession of the Signes through the several degrees and out of the several degrees from the aspects of the Planet himself the calculation being made from the degree of the ascendant In the like maner are constituted the names of the Princes of the evil spirits they are taken under all the Planets of the presidents in a retrograde order the projection being made contrary to the succession of the signes from the beginning of these ●●th House Now the name of the supreme highest intelligence which many do suppose to be the soul of the world is collected out of the four Cardinal points of the figure of the world after the maner already delivered by the opposite and contrary way is known the name of the great Daemon or evil spirit upon the four cadent Angles In the like maner shalt thou understand the names of the great president in spirits ruling in the Air from the four Angles of the succedant Houses so that as to obtain the names of the good spirits the calculation is to be made according to the succession of the signes beginning from the degree of the ascendant● and to attain to the names of the evil spirits by working the contrary way You must also observe that the names of the evil spirits are extracted aswel from the names of the good spirits as of the evil so notwithstanding that if we enter the table with the name of a good spirit of the second order the name of the evil spirit shall be extracted from the order of the Princes and Governours but if we enter the table with the name of a good spirit of the third order or with the name of an evil spirit a Governour after what maner soever they are extracted whether by this table o● from a celestial 〈◊〉 the names which do proceed from hence shall be the names of the evil spirits the Ministers of the inferiour order It is further to be noted That as often as we enter this table with the good spirits of the second order the names extracted are of the second order and if under them we extract the name of an evil spirit he is of the superiour order of the Governours The same order is if we enter with the name of an evil spirit of the superiour order If therefore we enter this table with the names of the 〈◊〉 of the third order or with the names of the 〈◊〉 spirits aswel of the good spirits as of the evil the names extracted shall be the names of the ministring spirits of the inferiour order But many Magicians men of no small Authority will have the tables of this kinde to be extended with 〈◊〉 letters so that by the same tables also 〈◊〉 of the name of any office or effect might be found out the name of any spirit aswel good as evil by the same maner which is above delivered by taking the name of the office or of the effect in the columne of letters in their own line under their 〈◊〉 And of this practice Trismegistus is a great Author who delivered this kinde of calculation in Egyptian letters not unproperly also may they be referred to other letters of other tongues for the reasons assigned to the ●ignes for truly he only in extant of all men who have 〈◊〉 concerning the attaining to the names of spirits Therefore the force secrecy and power in what maner the sacred names of spirits are truly and tightly found out consisteth in the disposing of vowels which do make the name of a spirit and wherewith is constituted the true name and right word Now this art is thus perfected and brought to pass first we are to take heed of the placing the vowels of the letters which are found by the calculation of the celestial figure to finde the names of the spirits of the second order Presidents and Governours And this in the good spirits is thus brought to effect by considering the stars which do constitute and make the letters and by placing them according to their order first let the degree of the eleventh House be substracted from the degree of that star which is first in order and that which remianeth thereof let it be projected from the degree of the ascendent and where that number endeth there is part of the vowel of the first letter begin therefore to calculate the vowels of their letters according to their number and order and the vowel which falleth in the place of the star which is the first in order the same vowel is attributed to the first letter Then afterwards thou shalt finde the part of the second letter by substracting the degree of a star which is the second in order from the first star and that which remaineth cast from the ascendant And this is the part from which thou shalt begin the calculation of the vowels and that vowel which falleth upon the second star the same is the vowel of the second letter And so consequently maist thou search out the vowels of the following letters alwaies by substracting the degree of the following star from the degree of the star next preceding and going before And so also all calculations and numerations in the names of the good spirits ought to be made according to the succession of the signes And in calculating the names of the evil spirits where in the names of the good spirits is taken the degree of the eleventh House in these ought to be taken the degree of the twelfth House And all numerations and calculations may be made with the succession of the signes by taking the beginning from the degree of the tenth House But in all extractions by tables the vowels are placed after another maner In the first place therefore is taken the certain number of letters making the name it self and is thus numbred from the beginning of the columne of the first letter or whereupon the name is extracted and the letter on whi●h this number falleth is referred to the first letter of the name extracted by taking the distance of the one from the other according to the order of the Alphabet But the number of that distance is projected from the beginning of his columne and where it endeth there is part of the first vowel from thence therefore thou shalt calculate the vowels themselves in their own number and order in the same columne and the vowel which shall fall upon the first letter of a name the same shall be attributed to that name Now thou shalt finde the following vowels by taking the distance from the precedent vowel to the following and so consequently according to the succession of the Alphabet And the number of that distance is to be numbered from the beginning of his own columne and where he shall cease there is the part of the vowel sought after From thence therefore must you calculate the vowels as we have

abovesaid and those vowels which shall fall upon their own letters are to be attributed unto them if therefore any vowel shall happen to fall upon a vowel the former must give place to the latter and this you are to understand only of the good spirits In the evil also you may proceed in the same way except only that you make the numerations after a contrary and backward order contrary to the succession of the Alphabet and contrary to the order of the columnes that is to say in ascending The name of good Angels and of every man which we have taught how to finde out in our third book of Occult Philosophy according to that maner is of no little Authority nor of a mean foundation But now we will give unto thee some other ways illustrated with no vain reasons One whereof is by taking in the figure of the nativity the five places of Hylech which being noted the characters of the letters are projected in their order and number from the beginning of Aries and th●se letters which fall upon the degrees of the said places according to their order and dignity disposed and aspected do make the name of an Angel There is also another way wherein they do take Almutel which is the ruling and governing stars over the aforesaid five places and the projection is to be made from the degree of the ascendant which is done by gathering together the letters falling upon Almutel which being placed in order according to their dignity do make the name of an Angel There is furthermore another way used and very much had in observation from the Egyptians by making their calculation from the degree of the ascendant and by gathering together the letters according to the Almutel of the eleventh House which House they call a good D●●on which being placed according to their dignities the names of the Angels are constituted Now the names of the evil Angels are known after the like maner except only that the projections must be performed contrary to the course and order of the succession of the signes so that whereas in seeking the names of good spirits we are to calculate from the beginning of Aries contrariwise in attaining the names of the evil we ought to account from the beginning of Libra And whereas in the good spirits we number from the degree of the ascendant contrarily in the evil we must calculate from the degree of the seventh House But according to the Egyptians the name of an Angel is collected according to the Almutel of the twelfth House which they call an evil spirit Now all those rites which are elsewhere already by us dilivered in our third book of Occult Philosophy may be made by the characters of any language In all which as we have abovesaid there is a mystical and divine number order and figure from whence it cometh to pass that the same spirit may be called by divers names But others are discovered from the name of the spirit himself of the good or evil by tables formed to this purpose Now these celestial characters do consist of lines and heads the heads are six according to the six magnitudes of the stars whereunto the planets also are reduced The first magnitude holdeth a Star with the Sun 〈◊〉 a Cross The second with Jupiter a circular point The third holdeth with Saturn a semicircle a triangle either crooked round or acute The fourth with Mars a little stroke penetrating the line either square straight or oblique The fifth with Venus and Mercury a little stroke or point with a tail ascending or descending The sixth with the Moon a point made black All which you may see in the ensuing table The heads then being posited according to the site of the Stars in the figure of Heaven then the lines are to be drawn out according to the congruency or agreement of their natures And this you are to understand of the fixed Stars But in the erecting of the Planets the lines are drawn out the heads being posited according to their course and nature amongst themselves When therefore a character is to be found of any celestial Image ascending in any degree or face of a signe which do consist of Stars of the same magnitude and nature then the number of these Stars being posited according to their place and order the sines are drawn after the similitude of the Image signified as copiously as the same can be done But the Characters which are extracted according to the name of a spirit are composed by the table following by giving to every letter that name which agreeth unto him out of the table which although it may appear easie to those that apprehend it yet there 〈◊〉 herein no small difficulty To wit when the letter of a name falleth upon the line of letters or figures that we may know which figure or which letter is to be taken And this may be thus known for if a letter falleth upon the line of letters consider of what number this letter may be in the order of the name as the second or the third then how many letters that name containeth as five or seven and multiply these numbers one after another by themselves and treble the product then cast the whole being added together from the beginning of the letters according to the succession of the Alphabet and the letter upon which that number shall happen to fall ought to be placed for the character of that spirit But if any letter of a name fall on the line of figures it is thus to be wrought Take the number how many this letter is in the order of the name and let it be multiplied by that number of which this letter is in the order of the Alphabet and being added together divide it by nine and the remainder sheweth the figure or number to be placed in the character and this may be put either in a Geometrical or Arithmetical figure of number which notwithstanding ought no● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the number of nine or nine Angles The Characters of good Spirits A simple point Round Starry Straight standing line Lying Oblique Line crooked like a bow Like waves Toothed Intersection right Inherent Adhering separate Oblique intersection simple Mixt. Manifold Perpendicular right dexter Sinister Neuter A whole figure Broken Half A letter inhering Adhering Separate The Characters of evil Spirits A right line Crooked Reflexed A simple figure Penetrate Broken A right letter Retrograde Invers'd Flame Winde Water A mass Rain Clay A flying thing A creeping thing A serpent An eye A hand A foot A crown A crest Horns A scepter A sword A scourge But the Characters which are understood by the revelation of Spirits take their vertue from thence because they are as it were certain hidden seals making the harmony of some divinity either they are signes of a Covenant entred into and of promised and plighted faith or of obedience And those Characters cannot by any other means be searched

the name of the spirit and his dignity and place with his office and power Yet very many do compose this book otherwise omitting the characters or image but it is more efficacious not to neglect any thing which conduceth to it Moreover there is to be observed the circumstances of places times hours according to the Stars which these spirits are under and are seen to agree unto their ●ite rite and order being applied Which book being so written and well bound is to be adorned garnished and kept secure with Registers and Seals lest it should happen after the consecration to open in some place not intented and indanger the operator Furthermore this book ought to be kept as reverently as may be for irreverence of minde causeth it to lose its vertue with pollution and profanation Now this sacred book being thus composed according to the maner already delivered we are then to proceed to the consecration thereof after a twofold way one whereof is That all and singular the spirits who are written in the book be called to the Circle according to the Rites and Order which we have before taught and the book that is to be consecrated let it be placed without the Circle in a triangle And in the first place let there be read in the presence of the spirits all the Oathes which are written in that book and then the book to be consecrated being placed without the Circle in a triangle there drawn let all the spirits be compelled to impose their hands where their images and characters are drawn and to confirm and consecrate the same with a special and common Oath Which being done let the book be taken and shut and preserved as we have before spoken and let the spirits be licensed to depart according to due rite and order There is another maner of consecrating a book of spirits which is more easie and of much efficacie to produce every effect except that in opening this book the spirits do not always come visible And this way is thus Let there be made a book of spirits as we have before before set forth but in the end thereof let there be written Invocations and Bonds and strong Conjurations wherewith every spirit may be bound Then this book must be bound between two Tables or Lamens and in the inside thereof let there be drawn the holy Pentacles of the Divine Majestie which we have before set forth and described out of the Apocalypse then let the first of them be placed in the beginning of the book and the second at the end of the same This book being perfected after this maner let it be brought in a clear and fair time to a Circle prepared in a cross way according to the Art which we have before delivered and there in the first place the book being opened let it be consecrated to the rites and ways which we have before declared concerning Consecration Which being done let all the spirits be called which are written in the book in their own order and place by conjuring them thrice by the bonds described in the book that they come unto that place within the space of three days to assure their obedience and confirm the same to the book so to be consecrated Then let the book be wrapped up in clean linen and buried in the middle of the Circle and there fast stopped up and then the Circle being destroyed after the spirits are licensed depart before the rising of the sun and on the third day about the midd●e of the night return and new make the Circle and with bended knees make prayer and giving thanks unto God and let a precious perfume be made and open the hole and take out the book and so let it be kept not opening the same Then you shall license the spirits in their order and destroying the Circle depart before the sun rise And this is the last rite and maner of consecrating profitable to whatsoever writings and experiments which do direct to spirits placing the same between two holy Lamens or Pentacles as before is shewn But the Operator when he would work by the book thus consecrated let him do it in a fair and clear season when the spirits are least troubled and let him place himself towards the region of the spirits Then let him open the book under a due Register let him invoke the spirits by their Oath there described and confirmed and by the name of their character and image to that purpose which you desire and if there be need conjure them by the bonds placed in the end of the book And having attained your desired effect then you shall license the spirits to depart And now we shall come to speak concerning the invocation of spirits as well of the good spirits as of the bad The good spirits may be invocated of us divers ways and in sundry manners do offer themselves unto us For they do openly speak to those that watch and do offer themselves to oursight or do inform us in dreams by oracle of those things which are desired Whosoever therefore would call any good spirit to speak or appear in ●ight it behoveth them especially to observe two things one whereof is about the disposition of the invocant the other about those things which are outwardly to be adhibited to the invocation for the conformity of the spirits to be called It behoveth therefore that the invocant himself be religiously disposed for many days to such a mystery In the first place therefore he ought to be confessed and contrite both inwardly and outwardly and rightly expiated by daily washing himself with holy water Moreover the invocant ought to conserve himself all these days chaste abstinent and to separate himself as much as may be done from all perturbation of minde and from all maner of forraign and secular business Also he shall obser●e fastings all these days as much as shall seem convenient to him to be done Also let him daily between sun-rising and sun-setting being clothed with a holy linen garment seven times call upon God and make a deprecation to the Angels to be called according to the rule which we have before taught Now the number of days of fasting and preparation is commonly the time of a whole Lunation There is also another number observed amongst the Caballists which is fourty days Now concerning those things which do appertain to this Rite of Invocation the first is That a place be chosen clean pure close quiet free from all maner of noise and not subject to any strangers sight This place must first be exercised and consecrated and let there be a table or altar placed therein covered with clean white linen and set towards the east and on each side thereof let there be set two consecrated wax-lights burning the flame whereof ought not to go out all these days In the middle of the altar let there be placed Lamens or the holy paper which we have

conversant or for some alliance alluring those souls into their forsaken Body or for some kinde of affection in times past impressed in them in their life drawing the said Soul to certain places things or persons or for the forcible nature of some place fitted and prepared for to purge or punish these Souls Which places for the most part are to be known by the experience of visions mighty incursions and apparitions and such-like prodigies seen Therefore the places most fitting for these things are Church-yards And better then them are those places wherein there is the execution of criminal judgements And better then these are those places in which of late yeers there have been some publike slaughters of men Furthermore that place is better then these where some dead carkass that came by a violent death is not yet expiated nor ritely buried and was lately buried for the expiation of those places is also a holy Rite duly to be adhibited to the burial of the bodies and oftentimes prohibiteth the souls to come unto their bodies and expelleth them far off unto the places of judgement And from hence it is That the Souls of the dead are not easily to be raised up except it be the Souls of them whom we know to be evil or to have perished by a violent death and whose bodies do want a right and due burial Now although we have spoken concerning such places of this kinde it will not be safe or commodious to go unto them but it behoveth us to take to what place soever is to be chosen some principal part of the body that is relict and therewith to make a perfume in due maner and to perform other competent Rites It is also to be known That because the Souls are certain spiritual lights therefore artificial lights especially if they be framed out of certain competent things compounded according to a true rule with congruent inscriptions of Names and Seals do very much avail to the raising up of departed Souls Moreover these things which now are spoken of are not alwaies sufficient to raise up Souls because of an extranatural portion of understanding and reason which is above and known onely to the Heaven and Destinies and their power We ought therefore to allure the said Souls by supernatural and coelestial powers duely administred even by those things which do move the very harmony of the Soul aswel imaginative as rational and intellectual as are Voices Songs Sound Inchantments and Religious things as Prayers Conjurations Exorcismes and other holy Rites which may very commodiously be administred hereunto The end of the fourth book of Agrippa Heptameron OR MAGICAL ELEMENTS OF PETER de ABANO PHILOSOPHER IN the former book which is the fourth book of Agrippa it is sufficiently spoken concerning Magical Ceremonies and Initiations But because he seemeth to have written to the learned and well-experienced in this Art because he doth not specially treat of the Ceremonies but rather speaketh of them in general it was therefore thought good to adde hereunto the Magical Elements of Peter de Abano that those who are hitherto ignorant and have not tasted of Magical Superstitions may have them in readiness how they may exercise themselves therein For we see in this book as it were a certain introduction of Magical vanity and as if they were in present exercise they may behold the distinct functions of spirits how they may be drawn to discourse and communication what is to be done every day and every hour and how they shall be read as if they were described sillable by sillable In brief in this book are kept the principles of Magical conveyances But because the greatest power is attributed to the Circles For they are certain fortresses to defend the operators safe from the evil Spirits In the first place we will treat concerning the composition of a Circle Of the Circle and the composition thereof THe form of Circles is not alwaies one and the same but useth to be changed according to the order of the Spirits that are to be called their places times daies and hours For in making a Circle it ought to be considered in what time of the year what day and what hour that you make the Circle what Spirits you would call to what Star and Region they do belong and what functions they have Therefore let there be made three Circles of the latitude of nine foot and let them be distant one from another a hands breadth and in the middle Circle first write the name of the hour wherein you do the work In the second place Write the name of the Angel of the hour In the third place The Sigil of the Angel of the hour Fourthly The name of the Angel that ruleth that day wherein you do the work and the names of his ministers In the fifth place The name of the present time Sixthly The name of the Spirits ruling in that part of time and their Presidents Seventhly The name of the head of the Signe ruling in that part of time wherein you work Eighthly The name of the earth according to that part of time wherein you work Ninthly and for the compleating of the middle Circle Write the name of the Sun and of the Moon according to the said rule of time for as the time is changed so the names are to be altered And in the outermost Circle let there be drawn in the four Angles the names of the presidential Angels of the Air that day wherein you would do this work to wit the name of the King and his three Ministers Without the Circle in four Angles let Pentagones be made In the inner Circle let there be written four divine names with crosses interposed in the middle of the Circle to wit towards the East let there be written Alpha and towards the West let there bewritten Omega and let a cross divide the middle of the Circle When the Circle is thus finished according to the rule now before written you shall proceed Of the names of the hours and the Angels ruling them IT is also to be known that the Angels do rule the hours in a successive order according to the course of the heavens and Planets unto which they are subject so that that Spirit which governeth the day ruleth also the first hour of the day the second from this governeth the second hour the third the third hour and so consequently and when seven Planets and hours have made their revolution it returneth again to the first which ruleth the day Therefore we shall first speak of the names of the hours Hours of the day Hours of the night 1. Yayn 1. Beron 2. Janor. 2. Barol. 3. Nasnia 3. Thami 4. Salla 4. Athar 5. Sadedali 5. Mathon 6. Thamur 6. Rana 7. Ourer 7. Netos 8. Thamic 8. Tafrac 9. Neron. 9. Sassur 10. Jayon 10. Aglo 11. Abai 11. Calerva 12. Natalon 12. Salam Of the names of the Angels and their Sigils it shall