Book Ii. The Magic And Philosophy Of Trithemius : ADVERTISEMENT. THE Author of this Work respectfully informs those who are curious in the studies of Art and Nature, especially of Natural and Occult Philosophy, Chemistry, Astrology, &c. in the course of which he will discover many curious and rare experiments. Those who become Students will be...
Untitled : THE MAGUS BY FRANCIS BARRETT London, 1801 The Magus is one of the primary sources for the study of ceremonial magic, and for a long time was one of the rarest and most sought after of the 19th century grimoires. Barretts' magnum opus embodies deep knowledge of Alchemy, Astrology, and the Kabbalah...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 34 : CHAP. XI. OF THE COMPOSITION AND MAGIC VIRTUE OF RINGS. RINGS, when they are opportunely made, impress their virtues upon us insomuch that they affect the spirit of him that carries them with gladness or sadness; and render him bold or fearful, courteous or terrible, amiable or hateful; inasmuch...
Book Ii. Magnetism. Title Page : THE MAGUS; OR, CELESTIAL INTELLIGENCER. BOOK II. PART I. CONTAINING MAGNETISM, AND CABALISTICAL MAGIC; DISCOVERING THE SECRET MYSTERIES OF CELESTIAL MAGIC. With the Art of calculating by the divine Names of God; shewing the Rule, Order, and Government of ANGELS, INTELLIGENCES, AND BLESSED SPIRITS...
Book I. The First Principles Of Natural Magic. Part 08 : p. 30 CHAP. III. OF AMULETS, CHARMS, AND ENCHANTMENTS. THE instrument of enchanters is a pure, living, breathing spirit of the blood, whereby we bind, or attract, those things which we desire or delight in; so that, by an earnest intention of the mind, we take possession of the faculties in a no...
Book Ii. Magnetism. Introduction : p. 3 THE MAGUS, CONTAINING MAGNETISM, AND CABALISTICAL MAGIC. TO WHICH IS ADDED A TREATISE ON PROPHECY, PROPHETIC DREAMS AND INSPIRATION. BOOK II. PART I. MAGNETISM. IN our following Treatise of Magnetism we have collected and arranged in order some valuable and secret things out of the writings...
Book Ii. Of The Particular Compositi. Part 02 : p. 106 OF THE PARTICULAR COMPOSITION OF THE MAGICAL CIRCLE; OF EXORCISMS, BENEDICTIONS, AND THE CONJURATIONS OF EVERY DAY IN THE WEEK; AND THE MANNER OF WORKING DESCRIBED. BOOK II. PART III. THE following instructions are the principal and sum total of all we have said, only we have brought it...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 23 : CHAP. XXII. OF THE NUMBER SEVEN, AND THE SCALE. THE number Seven is of various and manifold power; for it consists of one and six, or of two and five, or of three and four; and it hath a unity, as it were the coupling together of two threes: whence if we consider the several parts ther...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Raymond Lully : RAYMOND LULLY, A FAMOUS ALCHYMIST. RAYMOND LULLY, or "Raymon Lull", comes the next in order. He was born in the island of Majorca, in the year 1225, of a family of the first distinction, though he did not assume his chymical character till towards the latter part of his life. Upon his applying...
Book I. Preface : p. xv PREFACE. IN this Work, which we have written chiefly for the information of those who are curious and indefatigable in their enquiries into occult knowledge, we have, at a vast labour and expence, both of time and charges, collected whatsoever can be deemed curious and rare, in regard...
Book Ii. The Magic And Philosophy Of Trithemius. Part 03 : A CAUTION "to the inexperienced in this" ART, "and a Word of Advice to those who would be Adepts". BROTHER, IT is necessary for me to inform thee, that whatever thy desires are in the pursuit of this art, which we call Magic, so wilt thy connexion and answer be. If in the pursuit of revenge, it is...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 30 : p. 102 CHAP. XV. THE GREAT VIRTUES OF NUMBERS, AS WELL IN NATURAL THINGS AS IN SUPERNATURAL. THAT there lies wonderful efficacy and virtue in numbers, as well to good as to bad, the most eminent philosophers unanimously teach; especially Hierom, Austin, Origen, Ambrose, Gregory of Nazianzen...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 39 : CHAP. XLV. THAT HUMAN IMPRECATIONS NATURALLY IMPRESS THEIR POWERS UPON EXTERNAL THINGS--AND HOW MAN'S MIND, THROUGH A DEGREE OF DEPENDENCIES, ASCENDS INTO THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD, AND BECOMES LIKE TO THE MORE SUBLIME SPIRITS AND INTELLIGENCES. THE celestial souls send forth their virtues...
Book I. The Jewel Of Alchymy. Part The First : p. 56 PART THE FIRST. OF ALCHYMY, ITS DIVINE ORIGIN, suffice it to say, that Alchymy, the grand touch-stone of natural wisdom, is of Divine origin: it was brought down from Heaven by the Angel Uriel. Zoroaster, the first philosopher by fire, made pure gold from all the seven metals; he brought...
Book Ii. Magnetism. Chapter Vii. Of The Vital : CHAP. VII. OF THE VITAL SPIRIT, that is, it is the same spirit in the outward man, which, in the seed, forms the whole figure, that magnificent structure and perfect delineation of man, and which hath known the ends of things to be done, because it contains them; and the which as president...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 27 : CHAP. XVIII. OF THE NUMBER THREE AND SCALE. THE number Three, is an uncompounded number, a holy number, a number of perfection, a most powerful number:--for there are three persons in God; there are three theological virtues in religion. Hence it is that this number conduceth to the ceremonies...
Book I. The First Principles Of Natural Magic. Part 05 : CHAP. VI. OF ANTIPATHIES. IT is necessary, in this place, to speak of the "antipathies" of "natural things", seeing it is requisite, as we go on, to have a thorough knowledge of that obstinate contrariety of Nature, where any thing shuns its contrary, and drives it, as it were, out of its presence...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 26 : CHAP. XIX. OF THE NUMBER FOUR AND SCALE. THE Pythagorians call the number Four, Tectractis, and prefer it before all the virtues of numbers, because it is the foundation and root of all other numbers; Whence, also, all foundations, as well in artificial things, as natural and divine, are four...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 38 : p. 172 CHAP. XLVI. THE CONCLUSION OF THE CONSTELLATORY PRACTICE, OR TALISMANIC MAGIC; IN WHICH IS INCLUDED THE KEY OF ALL THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN UPON THIS SUBJECT; SHEWING THE PRACTICE OF IMAGES, and also the place of the Sun and Moon; part of fortune and lord of conjunction or prevention, make...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 22 : p. 128 CHAP. XXIII. OF THE NUMBER EIGHT, AND THE SCALE. THE Pythagorians call Eight the number of justice, and fulness: first, because it is first of all divided into numbers equally even, "viz." into four; and that division is, by the same reason, made into twice two, "viz." twice two twice;...
Book I. The First Principles Of Natural Magic. Part 09 : CHAP. II. OF THE WONDERS OF NATURAL MAGIC, DISPLAYED IN A VARIETY OF SYMPATHETIC AND OCCULT OPERATIONS THROUGHOUT THE FAMILIES OF ANIMALS, PLANTS, METALS, AND STONES, TREATED OF MISCELLANEOUSLY. THE wonders of Animal Magic we mean fully to display under the title of Magnetism. But here we hasten...
Book I. Advertisement : p. 1 ADVERTISEMENT. AS an Introduction to the Study of Natural Magic, we have thought fit to premise a short discourse on the Influence of the Stars, and on Natural Magic in general, showing how far the influences of the heavenly bodies are useful to our purposes, and likewise to what extent we...
Book I. The First Principles Of Natural Magic. Part 03 : p. 39 CHAP. VIII. OF THE WONDERFUL VIRTUES OF SOME KIND OF PRECIOUS STONES. IT is a common opinion of magicians, that stones inherit great virtues, which they receive through the spheres and activity of the celestial influences, by the medium of the soul or spirit of the world. Authors very much...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 28 : CHAP. XVII. OF THE NUMBER TWO, AND SCALE. THE first number is two, because it is the first multitude; it can be measured by no number besides unity alone, the common measure of all numbers; it is not compounded of numbers, but of one unity only; neither is it called a number uncompounded, but more...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 36 : CHAP. IX. TREATING OF THE VIRTUE AND EFFICACY OF PERFUMES, OR SUFFUMIGATIONS, AND VAPOURS; AND TO WHAT PLANETS THEY ARE PROPERLY AND RIGHTLY ATTRIBUTED. IT is necessary, before we come to the operative or practical part of Talismanic Magic, to show the compositions of fumes or vapours, that are...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Doctor Dee : DOCTOR DEE, AND SIR EDWARD KELLY. DOCTOR JOHN DEE, and SIR EDWARD KELLY, knight, being professed associates, their story is best delivered together. They have some title to the philosopher's stone in common fame. "Dee", besides his being deep in chymistry, was very well versed in mathematics...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Appollonius Of Tyana : APPOLLONIUS OF TYANA, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS REMARKABLE MIRACLES, PROPHECIES, VISIONS, RELATIONS, &c. &c, APPOLLONIUS Tyanus, was one of the most extraordinary persons that ever appeared in the world. He was born at Tyana in Cappadocia, towards the beginning of the first century. At sixteen...
Book Ii. Magnetism. Chapter Ix. Of The Exciting : CHAP. IX. OF THE EXCITING OR STIRRING UP THE MAGICAL VIRTUE. EVERY magical virtue therefore stands in need of an excitement, by which a certain spiritual vapour is stirred up, by reason wher the phantasy which profoundly sleeps is awakened, and there begins an action of the corporeal spirit...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 32 : CHAP. XIII. HOW MAN'S MIND MAY BE JOINED WITH THE MIND OF INTELLIGENCES AND CELESTIALS AND TOGETHER WITH THEM, IMPRESS CERTAIN WONDERFUL VIRTUES UPON INFERIOR THINGS. THE philosophers, especially the Arabians, say, that man's mind, when it is most intent upon any work, through its passi...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries : CHAP. XVII. THERE IS ANOTHER KIND OF CHARACTERS, OR MARKS OF SPIRITS, WHICH ARE RECEIVED ONLY BY REVELATION. THERE is another kind of character received by revelation only, which can be found out no other way; the virtue of which characters is from the Deity revealing; of whom there are some...
Book I. The First Principles Of Natural Magic. Part 07 : CHAP. IV. OF UNCTIONS, PHILTERS, POTIONS, &C.--THEIR MAGICAL VIRTUES. UNGUENTS, or unctions, collyries, philters, they also transpose "those" virtues, which are in "them", into "it", so that it not only acts upon its "own body", but also upon "that" which is "near it", and affects that (by visible...
Book I. Title Page : THE MAGUS, OR CELESTIAL INTELLIGENCER; BEING A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY. IN THREE BOOKS; Containing the Antient and Modern Practice of the Cabaliftic Art, Natural and Celeftial Magic, fhewing the wonderful Effects that may be performed by a Knowledge of the Celestial Influences...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 20 : CHAP. XIX. BY WHAT MEANS MAGICIANS AND NECROMANCERS CALL FORTH THE SOULS OF THE DEAD. BY the things which have been already spoken it is manifest, that souls after death do as yet love their body which they left, as those souls do whose bodies want due burial or have left their bodies by violent...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 24 : CHAP. XXI. OF THE NUMBER SIX, AND THE SCALE. SIX is a number of perfection, because it is the most perfect in nature, in the whole course of numbers, from one to ten; and it alone is so perfect that in the collection of its parts, it results the same, neither wanting nor abounding; p. 116 for if...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 20 : p. 132 CHAP. XXV. OF THE NUMBER TEN, AND THE SCALE. THE number Ten is called every number, or an universal number, complete, signifying the full course of life; for beyond that we cannot number but by replication; and it either implies all numbers within itself, or explains them by itself, and its...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Petrus De Abano : p. 155 PETRUS DE ABANO, OR PETER OF APONA, DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND PHYSIC, &c. &c. &c. PETRUS APONENSIS, or APONUS, one of the most famous philosophers and physicians of his time, was born A. D. 1250, in a village, situated four miles from "Padua". He studied a long time at "Paris", where he w...
Book Ii. Magnetism. Chapter Iii. Of The Magnetic : CHAP. III. OF THE MAGNETIC OR SYMPATHETIC UNGUENT, THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY, ARMARY UNGUENT, CURING OF WOUNDS, ECSTASIES, WITCHCRAFT, MUMMIES, neither did he admit any of the theologists, or divines, as assistants in council, how many or how great virtues he should infuse into things natural. But...
Book I. Introduction To The Study Of Natural Magic : p. 3 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF NATURAL MAGIC. OF THE INFLUENCES OF THE STARS. IT has been a subject of ancient dispute whether or not the stars, as second causes, do so rule and influence man as to ingraft in his nature certain passions, virtues, propensities, likewise, if their site...
Book Ii. Magnetism. Chapter I. The Magnetic : CHAP. I. 1 THE MAGNETIC, OR ATTRACTIVE POWER OR FACULTY. AS concerning an action locally at a distance, wines do suggest a demonstration unto us: for, every kind of wine, although it be bred out of co-bordering provinces, and likewise more timely blossoming elsewhere, yet it is troubled while our...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 08 : CHAP. XXXVII. OF THE IMAGES OF JUPITER. FROM the operations of Jupiter they made, for prolongation of life, an image in the hour of Jupiter, Jupiter being in his exaltation fortunately ascending, in a clear and white stone; whose figure was a man crowned p. 161 clothed with garments of a saffr...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 16 : p. 148 CHAP. XXIX. OF THE OBSERVATION OF THE CELESTIALS NECESSARY IN EVERY MAGICAL WORK. EVERY natural virtue works things far more wonderful when it is not only compounded of a natural proportion, but also is informed by a choice observation of the celestials opportune to this ("viz." when...
Book I. The Jewel Of Alchymy. Of The Preparati : Of the Preparation of a Man to qualify him for the Search of this Treasure; and of the first Matter (prima materia) of the Stone. LESSON I. THE preparation for this work is simply this:--Learn to cast away from thee all vile affections--all levity and inconstancy of mind; let all thy dealings be...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. George Ripley : p. 186 GEORGE RIPLEY. GEORGE RIPLEY, an "Englishman" by nation, and by profession a canon or monk of "Britlingthon". His writings were all very good in their kind, being wrote exactly in the style of "Bacon", only more allegorical. As he was no physician, he does not meddle with any thing...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 12 : p. 42 CHAP. VI. OF INTELLIGENCES AND SPIRITS, AND OF THE THREE-FOLD KIND OF THEM, AND OF THEIR DIFFERENT NAMES, AND OF INFERNAL AND SUBTERRANEAL SPIRITS. NOW, consequently, we must discourse of intelligences, spirits, and angels. An intelligence is an intelligible substance, free from all gross...
Book Ii. The Perfection And Key Of The Cabal. Part 10 : The Consecration of WATER. SO in the consecration of water, we must commemorate that God has placed the firmament in the midst of the waters, and likewise that God placed the fountain of waters in the earthly paradise, from whence sprang four holy rivers that watered the whole earth; likewise we...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 16 : CHAP. II. WHAT DIGNITY AND PREPARATION IS ESSENTIALLY NECESSARY TO HIM WHO WOULD BECOME A TRUE MAGICIAN. IT is fit that we who endeavour to attain so great a height should first study two things: "viz." First, how we should leave vain and carnal affections, frail sense and material passions;...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Hermes Trismegistus : p. 150 HERMES, SURNAMED TRISMEGISTUS, OR THE THRICE GREATEST INTELLIGENCER. HERMES Trismegistus, (who was the author of the divine Pymander and some other books,) lived some time before Moses. He received the name of Trismegistus, or Mercurius ter Maximus, "i. e." thrice greatest Intelligencer...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 08 : CHAP. X. OF THE TONGUE OF ANGELS, AND OF THEIR SPEAKING AMONGST THEMSELVES AND WITH US. WE might doubt whether angels or demons, since they are pure spirits, use any vocal speech or tongue among themselves or to us; but that Paul, in some place says, "if I speak with the tongue of men...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 12 : CHAP. XXXIII. OF THE TWENTY-EIGHT MANSIONS OF THE MOON, AND THEIR VIRTUES. AND seeing the Moon measures the whole space of the Zodiac in the time of twenty-eight days, hence it is that the wise men of the "Indians", and most of the antient astrologers have granted twenty-eight mansions to the Mo...
Book Ii. The Perfection And Key Of The Cabal : p. 99 Of the Method of raising EVIL "or" FAMILIAR SPIRITS "by a" CIRCLE; "likewise the Souls and Shadows of the Dead". IT is here convenient that we say something about the means used by exorcists to raise up what are usually termed evil spirits to the circle, and, the methods of calling up...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 04 : CHAP. IV. OF COMPOUND, OR MIXED BODIES--IN WHAT MANNER THEY RELATE TO THE ELEMENTS--AND HOW THE ELEMENTS RELATE TO THE SOULS, SENSES, AND DISPOSITIONS OF MEN. THE next in order, after the four simple elements, are the four kinds of perfect bodies compounded of them, "viz." metals, stones, plants...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Cornelius Agrippa : p. 170 THE LIFE OF HENRY CORNELIUS AGRIPPA, KNIGHT, DOCTOR OF BOTH LAWS, COUNSELLOR TO CHARLES V. EMPEROR OF GERMANY, AND JUDGE OF THE PREROGATIVE COURT. HENRY CORNELIUS AGRIPPA, a very learned man and a magician 1, flourished in the sixteenth century. He was born at "Cologne" on the 14th...
Book Ii. The Perfection And Key Of The Cabal. Part 02 : Of ORACLES "by" DREAMS. BUT natural things and their own commixtures do likewise belong unto magicians, and we often use such to receive oracles from a spirit by a dream; which are either by perfumes, unctions, meats, drinks, seals, rings, thou shalt write upon the figure the name of the effect...
Book Ii. Magnetism. Chapter V. Of The Imaginative : CHAP. V. OF THE IMAGINATIVE POWER AND THE MAGNETISM OF THE NATURAL SPIRITS, MUMMIAL ATTRACTION, SYMPATHIES OF ASTRAL SPIRITS, WITH THEIR BODIES, UPON WHICH THE WHOLE ART OF NECROMANCY IS FOUNDED. MOREOVER, when as the blood is after some sort corrupted, then indeed all the powers ther which...
Book Ii. Of The Particular Compositi : Here follow the CONSIDERATIONS "and" CONJURATIONS for every Day in the Week; and first of The CONSIDERATIONS, "--his ministers, "Tus, Andas, Cynabal". The wind which the angels of the air are said to rule, is the north wind. The angels of the fourth heaven ruling on the Lord's day, which should be...
Book Ii. The Perfection And Key Of The Cabal. Part 06 : The Consecration of PLACES, GROUND, CIRCLE, you must likewise bless the place by sprinkling with holy water and with suffumigations, and commemorate in the benediction holy mysteries; such as these, the sanctification of the throne of God, of Mount Sinai, of the tabernacle of the covenant...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 43 : CHAP. XL. OF THE IMAGES OF VENUS. FROM the operations of Venus they made an image, which was available for favour and benevolence, at the very hour it ascended into Pisces; the form of which was the image of a woman, having the head of a bird, the feet of an eagle, and holding a dart in her h...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 04 : CHAP. XIV. OF THE CALCULATING ART OF SUCH NAMES BY THE TRADITION OF CABALISTS. THERE is yet another art of these kind of names, which they call calculatory; and it is made by the following tables, by entering with some sacred, divine, or angelical name, in the column of letters descending, by...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter : CHAP. VII. OF THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD. NOW seeing that the soul is the essential form, intelligible and incorruptible, and is the first mover of the body, and is moved of itself; but that the body, or matter, is of itself unable and unfit for motion, and does very much degenerate from the soul, it...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 14 : p. 150 CHAP. XXXI. OBSERVATIONS ON THE FIXED STARS, AND THEIR NAMES AND NATURES. THERE is the like consideration to be had in all things concerning the fixed stars. Know this, that all the fixed stars are of the signification and nature of the seven planets; but some are of the nature of one...
Book Ii. The Perfection And Key Of The Cabal. Part 12 : Of MAGIC PENTACLES "and their" COMPOSITION. WE now proceed to speak of the holy and sacred Pentacles and Seals. For these pentacles are certain holy signs and characters, preserving us from evil chances and events, helping and assisting us to bind, exterminate, and drive away evil spirits...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 10 : p. 49 CHAP. VIII. OF THE ANNOYANCE OF EVIL SPIRITS, AND THE PRESERVATION WE HAVE FROM GOOD SPIRITS. IT is the opinion of divines, that all evil spirits are of that nature, that they hate God as well as man; therefore Divine Providence has set over us more pure spirits, with whom he hath entrusted...
Book Ii. The Perfection And Key Of The Cabal. Part 08 : The Consecration of OIL. AND likewise in the consecration of oil and perfumes we are to mention such things as are consonant to this purpose, as of the holy anointing oil mentioned in Exodus, and divine names significant thereunto; such as is the name Christ, which signifies anointed; and whatever...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 14 : CHAP. IV. OF DIVINE EMANATIONS, AND TEN SEPHIROTHS, AND TEN MOST SACRED NAMES OF GOD WHICH RULE THEM, AND THE INTERPRETATION OF THEM. GOD himself, although he is trinity in persons, yet he is but one only simple essence; yet we doubt not but that there are in him many divine powers, which emanate...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 10 : p. 158 CHAP. XXXV. OF THE IMAGES OF THE ZODIAC--WHAT VIRTUES, THEY BEING ENGRAVEN, RECEIVE FROM THE STARS. BUT the celestial images, according to whose likeness images of this kind are framed, are many in the heavens; some visible arid conspicuous, others only imaginary, conceived and set down by...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 06 : CHAP. II. OF THE PROPERTIES AND WONDERFUL NATURE OF FIRE AND EARTH. THERE are two things, (says Hermes) "viz." fire and earth, which are sufficient for the operation of all wonderful things: the former is active, and the latter passive. Fire, in all things, and through all things, comes and goes...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 18 : p. 140 CHAP. XXVII. OF THE NOTES OF THE HEBREWS AND CHALDEANS, AND OTHER NOTES OF MAGICIANS. THE Hebrew characters have marks of numbers attributed to them far more excellent than any other language, since the greatest mysteries lie in the Hebrew letters, as is handled concerning these in th...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 45 : CHAP. XXXVIII. OF THE IMAGES OF MARS. FROM the operations of Mars, they made an image in the hour of Mars (Mars ascending in the second face of Aries), in a martial stone, especially in a diamond; the form of which was a man armed, riding upon a lion, having in his right hand a naked sword erect...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 02 : CHAP. XVI. ANOTHER WAY OF MAKING CHARACTERS, ACCORDING TO THE CABALISTS. AMONG the Hebrews I find more fashions of characters, wher one is most ancient, "viz". an ancient writing which Moses and the prophets used, the form of which is not rashly to be discovered to any; for those letters which...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. The Conclusion : THE CONCLUSION. HAVING collected the most interesting and curious accounts of the lives of those great men, so famous for their speculations in philosophic learning, we draw to a conclusion; having only to add, that we have sufficiently discovered in this biographical sketch whatsoever w...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 18 : p. 31 THE CABALA; OR, THE SECRET MYSTERIES OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC ILLUSTRATED. SHEWING THE ART OF CALCULATING BY DIVINE NAMES; The Rule, Order, and Government of ANGELS, INTELLIGENCES, AND BLESSED SPIRITS; Holy Seals, Pentacles, Tales of the Cabala, Divine Numbers, Characters and Letters Of Miracles...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 06 : CHAP. XII. THE CABALISTS DRAW FORTH THE SACRED NAMES OF ANGELS FROM SACRED WRIT, AND OF THE SEVENTY-TWO ANGELS, WHO BEAR THE NAMES OF GOD; WITH THE TABLES OF ZIRUPH AND THE COMMUTATIONS OF NAMES AND NUMBERS. THERE are also other sacred names of good and evil spirits deputed to each office of much...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 41 : CHAP. XLIII. OF THE IMAGES OF THE HEAD AND TAIL OF THE DRAGON OF THE MOON. THEY made, also, the image of the head. and tail of the Dragon of the Moon, namely, between an rial and fiery circle, the likeness of a serpent, with the head of a hawk, tied about them after the manner of the great letter...
Book Ii. The Perfection And Key Of The Cabal. Part 04 : An INVOCATION "of the" GOOD SPIRITS. IN the name of the blessed and Holy Trinity, I do desire thee, strong, and mighty angels ("here name the spirits you would have appear") that if it be the divine will of him who is called Tetragrammaton, but that thou wilt graciously shew us what things are...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. John, And Isaac : JOHN, AND ISAAC HOLLANDUS. HEY were two brothers, both of them of great parts and ingenuity, and wrote on the dry topics of chymistry. They lived in the 13th century, but this is not assured. The whole art of "enamelling" is their invention, as is also, that of "colouring glass", and precious...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 02 : CHAP. VI. THAT THE WISDOM OF GOD WORKS BY THE MEDIUM OF SECOND CAUSES (I. E. BY THE INTELLIGENCES, BY THE HEAVENS, ELEMENTS, AND CELESTIAL BODIES) IS PROVED BEYOND DISPUTE IN THIS CHAPTER. IT is to be noted, that God, in the first place, is the end and beginning of all virtue: he gives the "seal"...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 11 : p. 157 CHAP. XXXIV. HOW SOME ARTIFICIAL THINGS (AS IMAGES, SEALS, AND SUCH LIKE) MAY OBTAIN SOME VIRTUE FROM THE CELESTIAL BODIES. SO great is the extent, power, and efficacy of the celestial bodies, that not only natural things, but also artificial, when they are rightly exposed to those above...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 15 : p. 35 CHAP. III. THAT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD IS NECESSARY FOR A MAGICIAN. SEEING that the being and operation of all things depend on the Most High God, Creator of all things, and from thence on the other divine powers, to whom also is granted a power of fashioning and creating, not...
Book Ii. The Perfection And Key Of The Cabal. Part 09 : Consecration of FIRE. AND likewise, in the consecration of fire, we are to commemorate that God hath created the fire to be an instrument to execute his justice, for punishment, vengeance, and the expiation of sins; also, when God comes to judge the world that he will command a conflagrati...
Book Ii. Magnetism. Chapter X. Of The Magical : p. 27 CHAP. X. OF THE MAGICAL VIRTUE OF THE SOUL, AND THE MEDIUMS BY WHICH IT ACTS. SOMETHING more we will add, before we dismiss the present subject, which is that if a nail, dart, knife, or sword, or any other iron instrument be thrust into the heart of a horse, it will bind and withhold...
Book Ii. The Perfection And Key Of The Cabal. Part 13 : p. 73 THE PERFECTION AND KEY OF THE CABALA, OR CEREMONIAL MAGIC. BOOK II. PART II. IN this last book, which we have made the Perfection and Key of all that has been written, we have given thee the whole and entire practice of Ceremonial Magic, shewing what is to be done every hour of the day; so...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 11 : p. 46 CHAP. VII. OF THE ORDER OF EVIL SPIRITS, AND THEIR FALL, AND DIFFERENT NATURES. THERE are some of the school of theologians, who distribute the evil spirits into nine degrees, as contrary to the nine orders of angels. Therefore, the first of these, which are called false gods, who, usurping...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Artemidorus : ARTEMIDORUS OF EPHESUS, THE SOMNABULIST, OR DREAMER. ARTEMIDORUS (who wrote so largely upon Dreams) was a native of "Ephesus". He lived under "Antonius Pius", as he informs us himself, where he says, he knew an Athlete, who having dreamt that he had lost his sight, obtained the prize in the games...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 15 : CHAP. XXX. WHEN THE PLANETS ARE OF MOST POWERFUL INFLUENCE. NOW we shall have the planets powerful when they are ruling in a house, or in exaltation, or triplicity, or term, or face, without combustion of what is direct in the figure of the heavens, "viz." when they are in angles, especially...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 03 : CHAP. V. THAT THE ELEMENTS ARE IN THE HEAVENS, IN THE STARS, IN DEVILS, ANGELS, INTELLIGENCES, AND, LASTLY, IN GOD HIMSELF. IN the original and exemplary world, all things are all in all; so also in this corporeal world. And the elements are not only in these inferior things; but are...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 07 : p. 55 CHAP. XI. OF THE NAMES OF SPIRITS, AND THEIR VARIOUS IMPOSITION, AND OF THE SPIRITS THAT ARE SET OVER THE STARS, SIGNS, CORNERS OF THE HEAVEN, AND THE ELEMENTS. MANY and different are the names of good and bad spirits; but their proper and true names, as those of the stars, are known to God...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 40 : CHAP. XLIV. OF THE IMAGES OF THE MANSIONS OF THE MOON. THEY made, also, images for every mansion of the Moon as follows:-- In the first, for the destruction of some one, they made, in an iron ring, the image of a black man, in a garment of hair, and girdled round, casting a small lance with his...
Book Ii. The Perfection And Key Of The Cabal. Part 05 : Of the Invocation of EVIL SPIRITS, "and the binding, of, and constraining of them to appear". NOW, if thou art desirous of binding any spirit to a ready obedience to thee, we will shew you how a certain book may be made by which they may be invoked; and this book is to be consecrated a book...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 19 : CHAP. XX. OF PROPHETICAL DREAMS. I CALL that a dream which proceeds either from the spirit of the phantasy and intellect united together, or by the illustration of the agent intellect above our souls, or by the true revelation of some divine power in a quiet and purified mind; for by this our soul...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Babylonians : BABYLONIANS. UNDER this article of "Babylonians" we shall just give the reader a general sketch of the antiquity of occult learning among the Chaldeans of "Babylon", so famous for their speculations in astrology. "Diodorus Siculus" informs us, that the inhabitants of Babylon assert, that their...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 44 : p. 162 CHAP. XXXIX. OF THE IMAGES OF THE SUN. FROM the operations of the Sun they made an image at the hour of the Sun, the first face of Leo ascending with the Sun; the form of which was a king crowned, sitting in a chair, having a raven in his bosom, and under his feet a globe: he is clothed...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 03 : p. 64 CHAP. XV. OF THE CHARACTERS AND SEALS OF SPIRITS. WE must now speak of the characters and seals of spirits. Characters are nothing else than certain unknown letters and writings, preserving the secrets of spirits and their names from the use and reading of prophane men, which the ancient...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 19 : p. 136 CHAP. XXVI. OF THE NUMBERS ELEVEN AND TWELVE, WITH THE CABALISTICAL SCALE. THE number Eleven, as it exceeds number ten, which is the number of the commandments, so it falls short of the number Twelve, which is of grace and perfection; therefore it is called the number of sins...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 07 : p. 73 PART THE SECOND. CHAP. I. OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS AND THEIR NATURAL QUALITIES. IT is necessary that we should know and understand the nature and quality of the four elements, in order to our being perfect in the principles and ground-work of our studies in the Talismanic, or Magical Art...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Paracelsus : p. 188 PHILIPPUS AUREOLUS THEOPHRASTUS PARACELSUS BOMBAST DE HOENHEYM, THE PRINCE OF PHYSICIANS AND PHILOSOPHERS BY FIRE; GRAND PARADOXICAL PHYSICIAN; THE TRISMEGISTUS OF SWITZERLAND; FIRST REFORMER OF CHYMICAL PHILOSOPHY; ADEPT IN ALCHYMY, CABALA, AND MAGIC; NATURE'S FAITHFUL SECRETARY; MASTER...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Albertus Magnus : p. 180 ALBERTUS MAGNUS. ALBERTUS MAGNUS, a "Dominican", bishop of "Ratisbon", and one of the most famous doctors of the XIII century, was born at "Lawingen", on the "Danube", in "Suabia", in the year 1193, or 1205. "Moreri's" dictionary gives us an account of the several employs which were...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 13 : p. 152 CHAP. XXXII. OF THE SUN AND MOON, AND THEIR MAGICAL CONSIDERATIONS. THE Sun and Moon have obtained the administration of ruling the heavens, and all bodies under the heavens. The Sun is the lord of all elementary virtues; and the Moon, by virtue of the Sun, is mistress of generati...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 09 : p. 52 CHAP. IX. THAT THERE IS A THREEFOLD KEEPER OF MAN, AND FROM WHENCE EACH OF THEM PROCEED. EVERY man hath a threefold good demon as a proper keeper or preserver, the one wher is holy, another of the nativity, and the other of profession. The holy demon is one, according to the doctrine...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 17 : p. 3e CABALISTICAL MAGIC. CHAP. I. OF THE CABALA, and likewise how to prepare our mind and spirit for the contemplation of the greatest and best part of magic, which we call intellectual and divine, because it chiefly takes God and the good spirits for its object; and as the cabalistic art opens...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 13 : p. 39 CHAP. V. OF THE POWER AND VIRTUE OF THE DIVINE NAMES. GOD himself, though he be one only essence, yet hath divers names, which expound not his divers essences or deities; but certain properties flowing from him; by which names he pours down upon us, and all his creatures, many benefits; ten...
Book Ii. The Perfection And Key Of The Cabal. Part 11 : Of the Consecration of all magical Instruments and Materials which are used in this Art. THE virtue of consecrations chiefly consists in two things, "viz." the power of the person consecrating, and the virtue of the prayer by which the consecration is made. For in the person consecrating, there is...
Book I. The Jewel Of Alchymy. Epistle To Museus : p. 53 EPISTLE TO MUSEUS. "Thou, O, Museus! whose mind is high, "Observe my words, and read them with thine eye "These secrets in thy sacred breast repone, "And in thy journey think of God alone; "The Author of all things, that cannot die "Of whom we now shall speak " I TELL thee here, Museus...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Title Page : p. 71 THE MAGUS; OR, CELESTIAL INTELLIGENCER. CONTAINING THE CONSTELLATORY PRACTICE, OR TALISMANIC MAGIC. SHEWING The true Properties of the Elements, Meteors, Stars, Planets, &c., likewise the Nature of Intelligences, Spirits, Dmons, and Devils; the Construction and Composition of all Sorts...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 17 : CHAP. XXVIII. THE MAGIC TABLES OF THE PLANETS--THEIR FORM AND VIRTUE--WHAT DIVINE NAMES, INTELLIGENCES, AND SPIRITS, ARE SET OVER THEM. THERE are certain magic tables of numbers distributed to the seven planets, which they call the sacred tables of the planets; because, being rightly formed, they...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Zoroaster : p. 143 BIOGRAPHIA ANTIQUA. ZOROASTER, THE SON OF OROMASIUS, FIRST INSTITUTOR OF PHILOSOPHY BY FIRE, AND MAGIC. ZOROASTER, the son of Oromasius, flourished in the reign of Darius, the successor of Cambyses. 1 All authors are full of variations in their accounts of this famous person, some making...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 09 : CHAP. XXXVI. OF THE IMAGES OF SATURN. BUT now what images they did attribute to the planets. Although of these things very large volumes have been written by the antient wise men, so that there is no need to declare them here, notwithstanding I will recite a few of them; for they made...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. John Rudolph Glauber : JOHN RUDOLPH GLAUBER. R. GLAUBER, a celebrated chymist of "Amsterdam", accounted the "Paracelsus" of his time: he had travelled much and by that means attained to a great many secrets. He wrote above thirty tracts, in some of which he acted the physician; in others, the adept; and in others...
Book Ii. The Perfection And Key Of The Cabal. Part 07 : Of the Benediction of LIGHTS, LAMPS, WAX, &c. NOW, the blessing of the lights, lamps, wax, &c. is taken from the fire, and whatever contains the substance of the flame, and whatever similitudes are in the mysteries, as the seven candlesticks which burn before the face of God. p. 88 Therefore we...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 42 : CHAP. XLI. OF THE IMAGES OF MERCURY. FROM the operations of Mercury they made an image of Mercury, Mercury ascending in Gemini; the form of which was a handsome young man, bearded, having in his left hand a rod, round which a serpent was entwined--in the right he carried a dart; having his feet...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 05 : p. 60 CHAP. XIII. OF FINDING OUT THE NAMES OF SPIRITS AND GENII, FROM THE DISPOSITION OF THE CELESTIAL BODIES. THE ancient magicians taught an art of finding out the name of a spirit to any desired effect, drawing it from the disposition of the heavens; as, for example, any celestial harmony being...
Book Ii. The Perfection And Key Of The Cabal. Part 03 : The particular Form of the LAMEN.--(For the form of the Lamen see the Plate.) THE invocation being made, the good angels will appear unto you which you desire, which you shall entertain with a chaste communication, and licence them to depart. Now the lamen which is used to invoke any good spirit...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 05 : CHAP. III. OF THE WATER AND AIR. THE other two elements, "viz." water and air, are not less efficacious than the former; neither is Nature wanting to work wonderful things in them. There is so great a necessity of water, that without it nothing can live--no herb nor plant whatsoever without...
Book I. The First Principles Of Natural Magic. Part 06 : p. 34 CHAP. V. OF MAGICAL SUSPENSIONS AND ALLIGATIONS--SHEWING HOW, AND BY WHAT POWER, THEY RECEIVE VIRTUE, AND ARE EFFICACIOUS IN NATURAL MAGIC. WHEN the soul of the world, by its virtue, doth make all things (that are naturally generated, or artificially made) fruitful, by sealing and impressing...
Book I. The First Principles Of Natural Magic : CHAP. X. OF THE ART OF FASCINATION, BINDING, SORCERIES, MAGICAL CONFECTIONS, LIGHTS, CANDLES, LAMPS, &c. BEING THE CONCLUSION OF THE NATURAL MAGIC. 1 WE have so far spoken concerning the great virtues, and wonderful efficacy, of natural things; it remains now that we speak of a wonderful power...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 33 : CHAP. XII. THAT THE PASSIONS OF THE MIND ARE ASSISTED BY CELESTIALS--AND THAT CONSTANCY OF MIND IS IN EVERY WORK NECESSARY. THE passions of the mind are much helped, and are helpful, and become most powerful, by virtue of the heaven, as they agree with the heaven--either by any natural agreement...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 37 : CHAP. VIII. OF THE SEALS AND CHARACTERS IMPRESSED BY CELESTIALS UPON NATURAL THINGS. ALL stars have their peculiar natures, properties, and conditions, the seals and characters wher they produce through their rays even in these inferior things, "viz." in elements, in stones, in plants, in animals...
Book Ii. Magnetism. Chapter Iv. Of The Armary : p. 12 CHAP. IV. OF THE ARMARY UNGUENT, OR WEAPON SALVE, and this is effected by the armary unguent, or weapon salve. From this it appears that the unguent, or weapon salve, its property is to heal suddenly and perfectly without pain, costs, peril, or loss of strength; hence it is manifest th...
Book Ii. The Magic And Philosophy Of Trithemius. Part 04 : THE MAGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF TRITHEMIUS OF SPANHEIM. The Translator's LETTER "to a" FRIEND "of his, a young Student in these occult Sciences". MY FRIEND, KNOWING thee to be a curious searcher after those sciences which are out of the common track of study, (I mean the art of foretelling events...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 29 : p. 103 CHAP. XVI. OF THE SCALE OF UNITY. NOW let us treat particularly of numbers themselves; and, because number is nothing else but a repetition of unity, let us first consider unity itself; for unity doth most simply go through every number, and is the common measure, fountain, and original...
Book Ii. Magnetism. Chapter Vi. Of Witchcraft : p. 18 CHAP. VI. OF WITCHCRAFT. LET a witch therefore be granted, who can strongly torment an absent man by an image of wax, by imprecation or cursing, by enchantment, or also by a foregoing touch alone, (for here we speak nothing of Sorceries, because they are those which kill only by pois...
Book I. The First Principles Of Natural Magic. Part 02 : p. 41 CHAP. IX. OF THE MIXTURES OF NATURAL THINGS ONE WITH ANOTHER, AND THE PRODUCING OF MONSTROUS ANIMALS, BY THE APPLICATION OF NATURAL MAGIC. MAGICIANS, students, and observers of the operations of Nature, know how, by the application of active forms to a matter fitly disposed, and made, as it...
Book I. The Jewel Of Alchymy. Title Page : p. 51 THE TRUE SECRET OF THE PHILOSOPHERS' STONE; OR, JEWEL OF ALCHYMY. WHEREIN THE PROCESS OF MAKING THE GREAT ELIXIR is discovered; BY WHICH BASE METALS MAY BE TURNED INTO PURE GOLD; CONTAINING THE MOST EXCELLENT AND PROFITABLE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE HERMETIC ART; DISCOVERING THAT VALUABLE...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 21 : p. 130 CHAP. XXIV. OF THE NUMBER NINE, AND THE SCALE. THERE are nine orders of blessed angels, "viz." Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominations, Powers, Virtues, Principalities, Archangels, and Angels, which Ezekiel figures out by nine stones, which are the sapphire, emerald, carbuncle, beryl, onyx...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 25 : p. 114 CHAP. XX. OF THE NUMBER FIVE, AND ITS SCALE. THE number Five is of no small force; for it consists of the first even and the first odd; as of a female and male: for an odd number is the male, and the even the female; whence arithmeticians call that the father, and this the mother. Therefore...
Book I. The First Principles Of Natural Magic. Part 10 : p. 13 THE FIRST PRINCIPLES of NATURAL MAGIC. BOOK THE FIRST. CHAP. I. NATURAL MAGIC DEFINED--OF MAN--HIS CREATION--DIVINE IMAGE--AND OF THE SPIRITUAL AND MAGICAL VIRTUE OF THE SOUL. NATURAL MAGIC is, as we have said, a comprehensive knowledge of all Nature, by which we search out her secret...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Roger Bacon : ROGER BACON, COMMONLY CALLED FRIAR BACON. ROGER BACON, an Englishman, and a "Franciscan" friar, lived in the XIII century. He was a great "Astrologer, Chymist, Mathematician", and "Magician". There runs a tradition in English annals, that this friar made a brazen head, under the rising...
Book Ii. The Cabala. Or The Secret Mysteries. Part 21 : CHAP. XVIII. ON THE BONDS OF SPIRITS, AND THEIR ADJURATIONS, AND CASTINGS OUT. THE bond by which spirits are bound, besought, or cast out, are three; some of them are taken from the elemental world, as when we adjure a spirit by an inferior and natural thing of affinity with or adverse to them;...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Aristotle : p. 162 ARISTOTLE, THE PERIPATETIC. ARISTOTLE, commonly called the Prince of Philosophers, or the Philosopher, by way of excellence, was the founder of a sect which surpassed, and at length even swallowed up all the rest. Not but that it has had reverse of fortune in its turn; especially...
Book I. The Jewel Of Alchymy. To The Reader : p. 55 TO THE READER. ALTHOUGH we do not, in any point of science, arrogate perfection in ourselves, yet something we have attained by dear experience, by diligent labour, and by study, worthy of being communicated for the instruction of either the licentious libertine, or the grave student...
Book I. The First Principles Of Natural Magic. Part 04 : CHAP. VII. OF THE OCCULT VIRTUES OF THINGS WHICH ARE INHERENT IN THEM ONLY IN THEIR LIFE-TIME, AND SUCH AS REMAIN IN THEM EVEN AFTER DEATH. IT is expedient for us to know that there are some things which retain virtue only while they are living, others even after death. So in the cholic, if a live...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 31 : p. 99 CHAP. XIV. SHEWING THE NECESSITY OF MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE, AND OF THE GREAT POWER AND EFFICACY OF NUMBERS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TALISMANS, yet, nevertheless, without natural virtues of mathematical doctrines, only works like to naturals can be produced: as Plato saith--a thing not...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Title Page : BIOGRAPHIA ANTIQUA; OR, AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES AND WRITINGS OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN MAGI, CABALISTS, AND PHILOSOPHERS, DISCOVERING THE PRINCIPLES AND TENETS OF THE FIRST FOUNDERS OF THE MAGICAL AND OCCULT SCIENCES: WHEREIN THE MYSTERIES OF THE PYTHAGORIANS, GYMNOSOPHISTS, EGYPTIANS, BRAGMANNI...
Book I. The Jewel Of Alchymy. Part Ii : PART II. OF THE MANNER OF EXTRACTING THE FIRST MATTER OF THE PHILOSOPHERS' STONE, AND THE USE IT IS PUT TO IN PURIFYING THE IMPERFECT METALS, AND TRANSMUTING THEM INTO GOOD GOLD. LESSON XI. TAKE the foregoing instructions as thy principal instrument, and know that our soul has the power, when...
Book Ii. Magnetism. Chapter Ii. Of Sympathetic : p. 8 CHAP. II. OF SYMPATHETIC MEDICINES. IN the year 1639, a little book came forth, whose title was, 'The Sympathetical Powder of Edricius Mohynus, of Eburo,' whereby wounds are cured without application of the medicine unto the part afflicted, and without superstition; it being sifted by...
Book Ii. The Magic And Philosophy Of Trithemius. Part 02 : Of the making of the CRYSTAL "and the Form of Preparation for a" VISION. PROCURE of a lapidary good clear pellucid crystal, of the bigness of a small orange, i. c. about one inch and a half in diameter; let it be globular or round each way alike; then, when you have got this crystal, fair...
Book Ii. Magnetism. Chapter Viii : p. 22 CHAP. VIII. OF THE MAGICAL POWER, and as long as this knowledge (which is of the flesh and blood, gross and material belonging to the external man and darkness) flourishes, the more noble magical power is lying dormant. But because in sleep this outward or sensual knowledge is sometimes...
Book I. The Celestial Intelligencer. Chapter. Part 35 : p. 92 CHAP. X. OF THE COMPOSITION OF SOME PERFUMES APPROPRIATED TO THE SEVEN PLANETS. THE SUN. of each a like quantity; all of which being bruised, and mixed together, so as to make a sweet odour, must be incorporated with the brain of an eagle, or the blood of a white cock, after the manner...
Book Ii. Biographia Antiqua. Apuleius : p. 158 APULEIUS, THE PLATONIC PHILOSOPHER, LUCIUS APULEIUS, a Platonic philosopher, publicly known by the famous work of the "Golden Ass", lived in the second century under the Antonines. He was a native of "Madaura", a Roman colony in "Africa"; his family was considerable; he had been well...