Three Books of Occult Philosophy (De occulta philosophia)

Of Occult Philosophy. Book [. » 4 " | " pe * - F4 my - ” s - | 8, , \ * - ” i. % Gat. rh, * Lone PP... ; Book 1. Of Occult Philosophy. are alive, and hanged about the patient, are said to cure the quartane, So doth the tooth of a Mole taken out whilest she is alive, being afterwards let go,cure the tooth-ach: and Dogs will not bark at those that have the taile of a Weesel rhat is . escaped. And Democritws relates that the tongue of a Chime- + leon, if it be taken from her alive, doth conduce to a good Þ ' success in trials, and is profitable for women that are in travel, . if it be about the outside of the house, for you mast take heed, * © thatit be not brought into the house, because that would be ; most dangerous; Moreover there be some properties that re- : mainafter death : and of these the P/arsnists say, that they * are things in which the Jdea of the matter is less (wallowed up, © in these, even after death that which is immortall in them,doth © not cease to work wonderfull things. So in the Hearbs, and - Plants pulled asunder, and dryed, that vertue is quick,and ope2 rattve which was infused at first intb them by the /dea. Thence » _ © it is,that as the Eagle all her life time doth overcome all other -* birds:

so also her feathers after her death destroy, and con- . fume the feathers of all other birds. Upon the same account | - doth a Lyons skin destroy all other sKkins : and the skin of "the ®* Civer Cat destroyes the «kin of the Panther : and the skin of a 3 Wolf corrodes the skin of a Lamb : And some of these do not _ 2$do it by way of acorporeall contra&, but also sometimes by their very sound.So a drum made of the skin of a Wolf, makes a drum made of a Lamb skin not to sound. Also a drum made Zof the «kin of the fish called Rotcher, drives away all creeping Fthings, at what distance soever the sound of it is heard : and Sthe strings of an instrument made of the guts of a Wolf,and '3deing strained upon a Harp, or Lute with strings made of - *Theeps guts, will make no harmony,

Of Occult Philosophy. . Book I, | that Solary things respeR the heart, & head, by reason that Leo . cles into cold Water, or washthem with Vineger,find present How inferiony things are subjefted to supecrionr bodies, and how the bodies, the attions, and diiþolrions of men are ascribed to If is manifest that all things inferiour are subjero the superiour, and after a manner (as laith Proclss) they are one in the other,viz, in inferiour are supertour, and in superiour are inferiour : soin the Heaven are things Terreltiall, but as in their cause, and in a Celetiall manner ; and inthe Earth arc things Celcstizll, but after a Terrestiall manner,as in an cfteR. So we say that there be here certain things which are Solaty, and certain which are Lunary, in which the Sun, and Noon make a {trong impression of theirvertue, Whence it ts that these kind of things receive more operations, and properties, like to chose of the Stars, & Signes which they arc under: So we know 1s the house of the Sun, and Ares the exalcation of the Sun - 10 things under Zsars are good for the head, and testicles, by reafon of Aries, and Scorpiv. Hence they whole senses failc, and heads ake by reason of drunkenness, if chey put their testi.

help. But in reference to these it is necessary ro know how mans body is distributed to Planers,& Signes. Know therefore that according to the dofrine of the Arabians, the Sun rules ,* over the brain, heart, the chigh,the marrow, the right cyec, and ** the spirit; also the rongue, the mouth, and the rest of the Organs of the senses, as well internall as cxternall ; also the >: hands, feet, legs, nerves, and the power of imagination. That #5 Mercury ruies over the spleen, (tomack, bladder, womb, and right ear, as allo the faculty of the common sense. That S- * twrn rules over the liver, and fleshy part of the stomack, That” - 7upiter over the beily, and navill, whence ic is written by the pj > Y a .) C P - - G Fe Ancients, that the eftigics of a :.avil was laid up in the temple 8 of 7upiter Hammor, Also some attribute to him the ribs, FBook l. Of Occult Philosophy. breast, bowels, blood, arms, and the right hand, and left ear, and the powersnatural . And some set Mars over the blood, and veins, and kidniesthe bag of the gall, the buttocks, the

back, and moticn ofthe sperm, and the irascible power. Again they set Jens over the kidnies, the testicles,the privities, the womb , the leed, and concupiscible power; as also the *Þelh, far, belly, breast, navill, and all such parts as serve to enerall aRs, allo the Os /acrnm, the back bone, and loins ; as "also the head, mouth, with which they give a kils, as a token of ' love. Now the Moon, although (he may challenge the whole þody, and every member thereof according to the variety of che Signes : yet more particularly they ascribe to her the Fri lungs, marrow of the. back- bone, the stomack , the enstrues,and all other excrements, and the left eye, as alse e power of increasing. But Hermes faith, That there are F ven holes in the head of an Animall,distribured to the seven Flanets,v:z. the right. ear to Satwrne, the left to 7apirer, the *Hght noltrell ro ars, the left ro Ven, the right eye to the 8, the lefr ro the soon, and the mouth to Mercury. The severall Signes also of the Zodack take care of their members. Aries governs the head, and face, T aurws the neck, Gemini ec arms, and shoulders, Cancer the breast , lungs, stomack, aþd armes, Leo hearr, stomack, liver, and back, Virgo the :Howels, and bottome of the stomack, Libra the kidnies, thighs, d buttocks, Scorpius the genitals, the privities, and womb, HHArEHs the thigh, and groins, {: apricornus the knees, Aquathe legsand thins, Pisces the feet. And as the triplicities these Signes answer one the other, and agree in Cvzlestials, allo they agree in the members, which is sufftictently manifest 7 experience, because with the coldness of the feer,the belly, 1 brealt are affefed, which members aniwer the same triph-

Tuity ; whence it is, if a medicine be apolyed to che one,it helps c other, as by the warming of the feet, che pain of the belly . *Wascch. Remember theretore this order, 'and know, that ings which are under any one of the'Planets, have a certain rticular aspeR, or inclination to those members that are at- *Wibured co chat Planet, and especially ro che houses, and ex2 50 of Occult Philosophy. Book I. : alrations thereof. For the rest of the dignities, as those tripli. X cities, and markes, and face are of litle account in this; upon #% this account therefore Piony, Balme,Clove-gilliflowers, Citron- #7 pils, sweet Majoram, Cynnamon , Saffron, Lignum Aloes, # Frankincense, Amber , Musk, and Myrrh help the head, $ and heart; by reason of Sol, Aries, and Leo : fo doth #8 reason of eAries, and Scorpio : and lo of the rest. Also all things 7 | under Sarwrne conduce to sadness, and melancholly ; those un- 7 der Jupiter to mirth, and honour ; those under Asars io boldness, contention, and anger ; those under the Sx to glory, A, victory, and courage ; those under Yen to love,lust,and con- ## cupiscence ; those under Mercury to Eloquence; those unde; the Moox toacommon life. Also allthe aRtions, and dispo.#% \A firions of men are distributed according to the Planets. For! Saturne governes old m:n, Monkes,melancholly men,and hid treasures; 'and those things which are obtained with long journies, and difficulty ; but Z-piter,those that are Religious} Prelates, Kings, and Dukes, and such kind of gains that arc} got lawfully : Afars rules over Barbers, Chirurgeons, Phyli.# tians, Sergents, Executioners, Butchers, all that make fires Bakers,Souldiers,who are every where called Matial men, Alf do the other Stars signifie their office, as they are described ini the books of Astrologers. L

; How We shall knowv what Stars naturall things are nnder, anal what things are wunaer the Sun, which are called Solary. 4 A, TOw it is very hard to know, what Star, or Signe ever thing is under : yet it is known through the imitation of their rayes, or motion, or figure of the superiours. Also some! of them are known by their colours and bdours, also some by the effeRts of their operations, answering to some Stars. Sc then Solary things, or things under the power of the Sur are Book I, Of Occult Philsophy. are, amongst Elements, the lucid flame ; in the humours, the purer blood, and spirit of life ;* amongst tasts, chat which is uick, mixed with sweetness. Amongst Metals, Gold by reason of irs splendor,and its receiving that from the Sun which makes ir cordiall, And amongst stones, they which resemble the d. # 2X rayes of the Sun by their golden sparklings , as doth the glit- tering stone Actites which hath power against the Fallingsickness, and poisons : so allo the itone, which is called the eye of the Sun, being of a figure like co the Apple of the eye, from the middle whereof shines forth a ray , it comforts the brain, and strengthens the (1ght; So the Carbuncle which shines by nighr, hatha vertue against all aiery, and vaporous poison : so the Chrysolite stone is of a light green colour, in which,

| ; { when ic is held against the Sun,there shines forth 3 golden Star; and this comforts those parts that serve for- breathing, & helps those that be Asthmarticall, and 1f it be bored through, and the hole filled with the Mane of an Affe, and -bound to the lefet arme, it drives away idle imaginations, and melancholy fears, and puts away foolishness : So the stone called Iris , which is like Crystall in coloyr, being often found with fix corners, when under some roof part of it is held against the rayes of the Sun, and the other part is held in the shadow , ic gathers the rayes of the Sun into it self, which, whilest ic sends them forth, by way of refleRtion, makes a Rain-bow appear on the opposite wall. Also the Stone Heliotropion green like the Jasper, or Emrald,beser with red specks,makes a man constant, renowned, and famous, also it conduceth ro long hfe : And the vertue of it indeed is most wonderfull upon the beams of the Sun, which it is said co turn into blood (e.s.) to appear of the colour of blood, as if the Sun were ecly pled,viz. When It is joyned to the juice of an Rearb of the same name, and be put into a vesscll full of Water : There is alio another vertue of it more wonderfull,and that is upon the eyes of men,whose sight it doth so dim,and dazel,that it doth not suffer him that carries it to see it,& this it doth not do without the help of the Hearb of the said name , which also is call:d Heliotropium,

(e.s. )following the Sun. These vertues doth Albertes Mage, E 2 and Of Occult Philosophy. Book L $ and William of Paris confirm in their writings. The Hyacinth 3 also hath a vertue from the Sun against poisons, and pestiferous A yapours;it makes him that carries it to be safe, and acceptable; -: it conduceth alsoto r:ches, and wit, it strengthens the hear:; 7 being held in the mouth, it doth wonderfully cheer up the 7 mind. Also there is the stone Pyrophylus, of a red mixture, 7 which Albertus Magn, faith +#/crrlapizzs, makes mention ©: of in one of his Epistles unto Oftavirs Argustns, saying, that * there is a certain poison so wonderfull cold, which preserves © the heart of man being raken out from burning, fo that if for 2 any time it be put into the Fire, itis eurned into 2 {tone, and $. this is that stone which is called Pyrophylus, from the fre. It 3% hath a wonderfull vertue against poison, and it makes him: > that carries it, to be renowned and dreadfull to his enemies. '2 Bur above all, that stone is most Solary,which Apollonizs is reported to have found, and is called Pantaura> which draws 0- (2 ther stones to it, as the Loadstone doth Iron, molt powerfull” against all poisons; it is called by some Pantherus, because it is spotted like the beast called the Panther. Ir is therefore also called Pancochras,because it contains all colours.

Aaron cal; it Evanthum. There are also other Solary stones, as the TopxZius, Chrysopasius, the Rubine, and Balagins. So also is Au-* ripigmentum, and things of a golden colour, and very lucid. # Amongst plants also and trees,chole are Solary, which turn to-"& twards the Sun, as the Marygold, and those which fold in cheir® leaves when the Sun is neer upon lerting , but when it riseth # unfuld their l-aves by little and little. The Lote-tree also is 3 Solary,as is manifelt by the figure of the fruit & leaves. So also Pony, Salfendine, Balme,Ginger,Gentian, Diccany, & Vervin, 3

which is of use in prophecying, and expiations, as also driving /# away evill spitits. The Bay-tree also 1s consecrated ro Phzbus, so is the Cedar, the Palm-tree.che ash, the Ivic, and Vine, and 7 whatsoever repell -poisons, and I:ghtnings, and those things *? which never fear the extremities of the Winter. olary allo are Mint, Mastick, Zedoary, Saffron, Balsome, Amber, vu«k; 8 Yel:ow- honey, Lignum aloes, Cloves, Cinnamon, Calamus, # Aromacicus, Pepper, Frankincense , tweec Majoram , and # Book J. * Of Occult Philosophy. Libanotis, which Orphexs cals the sweet perfume of the Sun, Amongst Animals thofe are Solary which are magnanimous, couragious, ambitious of vitoty, and renown : asthe Lyon, King of beasts, the Crocodile, the spotted Wolf, the Ram, the Boar,the Bull, King of the herd, which was by the Egyptians at Heliopolis dedicated to the Sun, which chey call Verites;and an Ox was consecrated to Ap in Memphi, and in Herminthus a Bull by the name of Paths. The Wolf also was consecrated to Apollo, and Latona. Also the beast called Baboon is Solary, Z whichtwelve cimes in a day,viz. every hour barks, and in time 3 ofEquinoRium pisseth twelve times every hour : the same also 2 ir doth in che night, whence che "pyprians dit Engrave him Z upontheir Fountains. Also amongst birds these are Solary, the Phoenix, being but one of that kind, and the Eagle, the uveen of birds, also the Ualtur, the Swan , and those which

2X sing at the rising Sun, and as it were calling upon it to rise, as the Cock, Crow, also the Hawk, which because in the Divinity of the Egyptians is an emblem of the spiric, and light, is by Porphyrinus reckoned amongst the Solary birds. Moreover, all such chings as have some resemblence of the works of rhe Sian, as Worms shining in the night, and the Bertle,which is a creature that lies under Cow- dung, also according to Appions interpretation, such whose eyes are changed according to the '.n course of the Sun, are accounted Solary, and those —_ Z which come of them. And amongst fish, the Sea Calf is chiefly Solary, who doth resilt lightning, also (hell fish, and the fish called Px/mo, both which shine in the night, and the fish called Stella for his parching heat, and the fish called Strombi. that follow their King, and Margari, which alfo have a King, and being dryed,are hardened into a stone of a golden colour, Of Occult Philosophy. Book I, by CHAP. XXIV. What things are Eunary,or under the power of the Moon, »Hese things are Tunary,amongst the Elements,viz. the T Earth. then the Water, as well that of the Sea, as of thc Rivers and all moist things, as the moisture of Trees, and Animals,c{pecially they which are Vhite, as the Whites of Eggs, far, sweat,flegme,and the superfluities of bodies. Amongst calts, salt, and infipid ; amongst Metals, Silver ; amongst stones, Cryltall, the Silver Marcafice, and all those (tones that are Whice, and Green. Alio the stone Selenites (e. i.) Lunary, (hining from a white body,with a yellow brightness, imicating #2 the motion of the Moon, having in itthe figure of the Moon 7 which daily increaseth, or decreaseth -as doth the Moon,

droppings of W ater, also the Berill. Amongst Plants and i Trees, these are Lunary,as the Selenotropion, which turns to- # wards the Moon, as doth the Heliotropion towards the Sun, 3 and the Palme'tree sends forth a bough at every rising of the Moon ; Hyslope also, and Rosemary, Agnus Castu , and the Þ Olive.tree, are Lunary. Alfo the Hearb Chinosta, which in- ® creaseth, and decreaseth with the Moon,viz. in substance. and * number of leaves, 'not only in Sap, and vertue, which indeed Þ} is in some sort common to all Plants, except Onions, which are under the influence of Aars, which have contrary pro- # perties; Asamongst flying things the Saturnine bird, called a Quaile 1s a great enemy to the Moon and Sun. Lunary Animals ® are such as delight to bein mans-.company, and such as do na- ® eurally excell in love, or hatred, as all kinds of Dogs : The | (C hamcleon allo 15s [unary, which alwaies allumes 2 Colour 4ccording.ro the variety of the colour of the objeR : as the Moon changeth her natuse according to the variety of the | Signe Which it 15 found in.Lunary allo are Swine, Hinds, Goats, and all Animals whatsoever, that oblerve, and imitate th: motion of the Moon : As the Baboon, and Panther, which 1s faid to have a spot upon hcr shoulder like the Moon, in-

Book I. Of Occult Philosophy. creasing into a roundness, and having horns that bend inwards, Cats also are Lunary, whose eyes become greater or less, according to the course of the Moon : and those things which are of like nature, as Menstruous blood, of which are made wonderfull strange things by Magicians ; The Civet-Cat also changing her sex, being obnoxious to divers Sorceries, and all Animals that live in water as well as on land : as Otters, and such as prey upon fish. Also all Monstrous beasts, such as without any manifest seed are __—_ oenerated, as Mice, which sometimes are generated by Coition, sometimes of the putrefaRion of the Earth. Amongst fowle, Geese, Ducks, Didoppers, and all kind of watery fowl as prey upon fish, as the Heron, and those that are equivocally produced, as Wasps of the Carkases of horses : Bees of the putrefaRion of Cows, small Flies of putrefied wine, and Bet!es of the flesh of Affes; but most Lunary of all is the two-horned Betle, horned after the manner ofa Bull : which digs under Cow-dung,and there remaines for the space of twenty eight daies, in which time the Moon measures the whole Zod;rck,and in the twenty ninth day,when it thinks there will be a conjunction of their brightness, it opens the dung and casts it into Water, from whence then come Betles. Amongst fish these are Lunary, Zlurus, whose eyesare changed according to the course of the Moon, and whatsoever observe the motion of the Moon, as the Tortoise, the Echeneis, the Crab,Oisters, Cockles, and Frogs.

CHAP. ITY. I hat things are Saturnine,or under the poWer of Satirne. pd} rg things, amongst Elements, are Earth, and also kJ Water: amongst humors, black Choller that is moist, as well natural,as adventitious,adustCholler is excepted. Amonest tasts, soure, tart, and dead. Amongst Metals, Lead, and Gold, by reason of its weight, and the golden Marcafite. Amonglk stones, the Onix, the Ziazaa, the Camonius, the Saphir, the brown Jasper, the Chalcedon, the Loadstone, and all dark, Of Hceult Philosophy. | Book 1, 1 weighty, earthy things. Amongst Plants, and Trees the Daffo. - dill, Dragon-wort, Rue, Cummin, Hellcbor, the tree from 2 whence Benzoine comes, Mandrake, Opium, and those things which stupific,and those things which are never sown,andnevyer bear fruit,and those which bring forth berries of a dark colour, | and black fruit, as the black Fig-rree, the Pinc-tree, the Cy- 7 pres:-tree, and a certain tree used at burials, which never *- springs afresh with berries, rough, of a bicter tast, of a strong smell, of a black shadow, yielding a most sharp pitch, bearing ©? a most unprofitable fruit,never dies with age,deadly,dedicated to Plato, as is the Hearb pas-flower, wich which they were wont Anciently to strow the graves before they put the dead 57 bodies into them, wherefore it was lawfu!l tro make their *? Garlands at feasts with all Hearbs, and Flowers besides pas- =?

flower , because it was mourofull, and not conducing to 7 mirth.” Alsoall creeping Animals, living apart, and solitary, nightly , sad, contemplative, dull, covetous, fearfull, melancholly, that take much pains, flow, that feed'grosly, and such as cx their young, Of chele kinds therefore are the Mole, the Affes, the Wolf, the Hare, the Mule, the Cat, the Camel, the 5 Bear, the Hog, the Ape, the Dragon, the Basilisk, the Toad, | all Serpents, and creeping things, Scorpious,Pismires, and such things as proceed from putrefaRion in the Earth, in Water, 7 or in the ruines of houses, as Mice, and many sorts of % cocks, which are dedicated ro Satzrn, and 7«no. Alfo the % {crich-Owle, the horn-Owle, the Bat, the Lapwing, the Crow, * the Quaile, which is the most envious bird of all. Amongst * fishes, the Ee), living apart from all other fish; the —_— ; the Dog-fish, which devours her young, also the Tortoise, IF Oisters, Cockles, to which may be added Sca-spunges, and all i such things as come of them. 4 — LTD 4x SM * as "—_ 7 ' What things are under the power of Jupiter, aud are called ' PYovial.

4 # Some. under-7piter, amongst Elements, are the Aire : a4 mongst humors, blood, and the spirit of life, also all Ws - things which refpeR the encreafe, nourishment, and vegetati4 on of the life. Amongst rasts such 2s are sweet, and peasant. 3 Amongst Metals, Tin, Silver, and Gold, by reason of their * 4 LF temperateness : Amonegst stones, the Hyacinth, Bertl, Saphir, If *2# the Emrald, green Jasper, and aiery colours : Amongst Plants " 2 and Trees,Sea-preeh,Garden Bafil, Buglofs, Mace,Spike,Minrs, # plar tree, and those which ate called lucky trees, as the Oke, = the tree Zsculus, which is like an Oke, but much bigger, rhe Holm tree, the Beech tree, the Hasle tree, the Service tree, the white Fig tree, the Pear tree, the Apple tree, the Vine;the Plum ctee, the Ash, the Dog-tree,and the Olive'tree, and also Oile. Also all manner of Corn,as Barley, Wheat,also Raising, Licorish,Sugar, and all fuch things whose fweethess ismanifest, and subtitle, partaking somewhat of an astringent, and tharp tast, as are Nuts, Almonds, Pine-apples, Filberds , 'Pistake 2X Nuts, roots of Pe6 wy: Mirabolaus,Rtiubarb, and Manna, Ora- 9 phe adds Storax,//Amorigit Animals such as have fomestatehe 3Ff liness, and wisdom in them, and those whictrare mild, . well N, 3 trained up, and of good dispositions, as the Hart, Elephant, [t IF and chose which are gentle,as the Sheep,and Lambs: 'Amongst y, BF birds, those that are of a temperate complexion, as Hens, togee, Fi ? ther with the Yolk of their Eggs. Also the Partridge, the Il 3X Pheasant, the Swallow, the Pellican, the Cuckow,'the Stork, & birds given to a kind of devotion which are Emblemes of graFX titude. The Eagle is dedicated to 7»pirer, she is the Ensigne of F Emperours,and an Embleme of Jultice,andClemency. Amongst P. &# fish, the Dolphin, the fish called Anchia, the Sheath fish, - 38 reason of his devoutness. CHAP.

CHAP. XXVII. Y mhat things are unaer the power of Mars,and are called Martial. JS things are Mzrtiall, amongst Elements, Fire, together with all adult, and sharp things : Amongst humours, Choller; allo bitter tasts, tart, and burning the tongue , and - causing tears : Among(t Metals, Iron, and red Brass; and all fery, red, and sulphureous things : Amongst Stones the Dia- ** « mond, Load(tone, the Blood-stone, the Jalver the stone that *: consists of divers kinds, the Amethist. Amongst Plants, and : Trees, Hellebor, Garlick, Euphorbium, Cartabana, Armoniack, Radish, the Laurell, Wolfs- bane, Scammony, and all such as are poysonous, by reason of roo much heat, and those which » are beset round about with prickles, or by touching the skin, ' ; burn it, prick it, or make it swell, as Cardis, the Nettle, Crow: | foor, and suchas being caten cause tears, as Onyons, Ascolo- ** nia, Leeks, Multardseed, and all thorny Trees, and the Dog- '* tree, which is dedicated to Mars, And all fuch Animals asare * warlike, ravenous, bo{d,and of clear fancy,as.the Horse, Mule, ** Goat, Kid, Wolf, Libard, the wild Ass ; Serpents also, and % Dragons full of displeasure, and poyson ; also all such as are ** offensive to men, as Gnats, Flies, Baboon, by reason of his % , anger. All Birds that are ravenous, devour flesh, break bones, as the Eagle, the Faulcon, the Hawk, the Vultar ; , and those which are called the fatall Firds, as the Horn- Owl, che Scrich- |

such as make a noise in their swallowing, as Crows, Daws, the 3 monegst Fishes, che Fixe, the Barbell, the Fork-fith, the Fish ® that hath horns like a Kam, the Sturgeon, the Glaucus, all + which are great devourers, and ravenous. - Book 1. Of Occult Philosophy. » CHAP. XXVIIL * phat things are under the power of \'enus, and are called Þ ene- Hese things are under J'ex«, amongst Elements,Aire,and k Water; amongst humours, Flegm, wich Blood, Spirgr, 2% and Seed ; amongst casts, those which are sweet, unAtubus,and 2 deleAable ; amongst Metals, Silver, and Brafs, both yellow, = andred; amonglt Stones, the Berill, Chrysolice, Emald, Sa- * phir, green Jasper, the Corneola, the stone Aetites, the Lazull stone, Corall, and all of a fair, various, white, and green Co- + lour; amongst Plants and Trees the Vervin, Violet, Maiden2 haire, Valerian, which by the Arabian is called Phu'; also ”? Thyme, the gum Ladanum, Amber! grise, Muck, Sanders, Cori- = ander,and all sweet perfumes,and delightfult,and sweer fruits, * 2# as sweet Pears, Figs, Pomegranats, which the Poets say was,in * *F Cyprus, first sown by Yer. - Also the Rose of Lucifer was 2X dedicated to her, also the. Myrtle tree of Hesperus. Moreover X all luxurious, delicious Animals, and of a strong love, as Dogs; Conies, stinking Shezp, and Goats, both female, and-male; 2 which generates sooner then any other Animall, for they fay "3 that he couples after the seventh day of his being brought 's 2 forth;

alfo the Bult for his disdam, and the Calf for his wan3 tonness. Amongft bjrds the Swan,'the Waptail, the' Swallow, "3 the Pellican, the Burgander, which are'very lovinpito- their # yong. Also the Crow, and Pigeon, which is dedicated ro'Ve17, and the Turtle, one whereot was Commanded to be offeted at the purification, after bringing forth. The Sparrow also *Z was dedicated t& ers, which'was Commended in the Law ® to be sed th the purification, after the | eprolie; #wiartiall - discase,then which nothing was of motEf6rcets rebstie/* AIG = the Egypcians called the Eagle Venus, because the is proneto '$ Venery for after she hath been rrod thirteen times in a day, if the Male call her, (he runs to him again. Amongst h(hes, these are Venereall. the lustfull Pilchards, the letcherous Gilthead, the Whiting for her love to her yong, the Crab fighcing for his

Mate,and Tichymallus for its fragrant, and sweer smell. CHAP. - = A Z y - 4 - >——— , - - - = - £37 = = ns. con co * — — ' . << -— ” : , — - —— Þ—— — — « - - -— PE” rx r= weereri— ——— 9 rr —— =— atoms ——- A " - nt__ p——— ” ——— ny bs —— — p - . - py - =. my _ b 4 vu [$] : : ; What things are under the power of Mercury,and are called Mer. Hings under AZercury are these; amongst Elements, Wa- ter, although it moves all things indistintly ; amongst -: humors, those especially which are mixed, as also the Animal| | spirit ; amongst casts chose chat ace various, strange, and mixed : amongst Metals, Quick-filver, Tin, the Silver Marcafite; amongst stones, the Emrald, Achaces, red Marble, Topaze,and | those which are of divers colours,and. various figures natarally, & those that are artificiall, as glass,8 those which have a Colour | mixed with yellow, and green. Amongst Plants,and Trees,the Hazle , Five-leaved-grass, the Hearb Mercury,. Fumitary, - Pimpernell , Majoram, Parsly, and such as bave shorter and. less leaves, being compounded of mixed natures, and divers © colours. Animals also, that are of quick sence, ingenious, strong, inconstant, swifr, and such as become easily acquain- '* ted with men, as Dogs, Apes, Foxes, Weelsels, the Hart, and © Mule ;

and all; Animals that are -of both sexes, and those which can change their. Sex, as the Hare, Civer- Cat, and such * like. Amongst birds,those which are naturally witty,melodious, ® and inconstant, as the Liner, Nightingale, Blackbird, Thrush, Lark, che Gnat-sapper, the bird Calandra, the Parrec, the Pie, the Bird Ibis, the bird Porphyrio, the black Betle with one = horn. And amongst fish, the fish called Trochius,which goes into himself, also Pourconcrell for deccitfulness, and changeable- - ness, and the Fork fish for its industry ; the Muller also that **

shakes off the bait on the hook with his taile, © 7 Book 1. Of Occull Philosophy — x # —————_— = " CHAP. XXX. fer. T hat the Whole [ubIunary World, and these things which are in it, & are distributed to Planets. Na- 13 | ; ost | 4 Oreoverwhatsoeveris found in the whole world is made nall L according to the governments of the Planets, and acnix. ok cordingly receives its vertue. SO 1n Fire the enlivening light fe. thereof is under the government of the Sun,the heat of it under _ d # Mars, in the Earth, the various superticies thereof under the © Moon, and Mercary, and the starry Heaven, the whole mass 11/8 Hi7 ; . thy UP bs of it under Saturne, but in the middle Elements, Aire is under | _ >yi&s | | our 2 Zupiter, and Water the con, but being mixed are under ee 2 Iercury, and Venus. In like manner naturall aftive causes mn 2 observe the Sun, the matter the Moon, the fruitfulness 2 of active causes 7upiter, the fruitfullness of the matter, ns. 8 7 ens, the sudden effeRing of any thing, Mars, and Merents # cxry, that for his yehemency, this for his dexterity, and mani-

p 2X fold vertue : But the permanent continuation of all things is jos 'y ascribed to Saturne.Also amongst Vegetables, every thing that wal bears fruit is from 7-piter,and every thing that bears Flowers $ is from Venrs,all Seed, andBark is from MMercary,and all roots ww *X from 4ztwrre, and all Wood from Mrs, and leaves from the "hy 4 Moon. Wherefore all that bring forth fruit, and not Flowers, 5 2 arc of Satarre and Jupiter, but they that bring forth Flowers, Ag *2 and Seed, and not fruit, are of Yen, and Mercury'; These r F which are brought forth of their own accord without Seed, are "C- & of the Moon, and Saturne; All beauty is from Venus, all hat 2 strerigth from Aars, and every Planer rules, and disposeth © th:c which is !:ke co 1t. Allo in stones,their weight, Clamminess, *# Si:pricknels 15 of Satwrue, rheir use, and temperament of 7upiþ ter, their hardnets trom Mars, their life from the Sun, their 2 beauty andfairnels from YVerzs, their occult vertue from Aer- *# cxry, theu common use from the Asoon. Of Occult Philosophy. Book I. _ cia,Metagonium, Mauricania,andGetulia.The Sz» with Leo go- * s C H A P, XX ; X How Provinces, and Kingdomesr are distributed to Planets,

Orcover the whole Orb of the Earth is distributed by Kingdoms, and Provinces to the Planets, and _ For Macedonia, Thracia, Illyria, India, Arriana, Gordiana, (many of which countries are in the lefser Asia) are under Saturne with Capricorn; but with Aquarizs, mnder him are the | Sauromatian Country, Oxiana, Sogdiana, Arabia , Phazania, Media, &thiopia, which Countries for the most part belong = to the more inward Asia. Under 7upiter with Sagittarins are ©: Tuscana, Celtica, Spaine, and happy Arabia : under him with ©: Pisces, are Lycia, Lydia, Cilicia, Pamphylia, Paphlagonia, Nasamonia, and Lybia. Mars with Aries governs Britany, ©. France, Germany, Bastarnia,the lower parts of Syria, Idumea, \: and Judea : with Scorpio, he rules Syria, Comagena, Cappado- ©: verns Italy, Apulia,Sicilia,Phenicia,Chaldea,& the Orchenians, Venus with T awrus governs the Iles Cyclades,the Seas of litle Asia, Cyprus, Parthia, Media, Persia : but with Libra (he com- #3 mands the people of the {land BraQtia, of Caspia, of Seres, of % Thebais, of Oasis, and of Troglodys. Aercxry with Gemini, t rules Hircania, Armenia, Mantiana, (C yrenaica, Marmarica, # and the lower Egypt : but with Virgo, Greece, Achaia, # Creta, Babylon, Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Ela, whence they of that place are in Scripture called Elamites. The 2foon ® with (Cancer governs Bithivia, Phrygia,Colchica, Numidia Africa, Carthage, and all Carchedonia. These we have in this 3 manner gathered from Prolomies opinion, to. which ac: #% cording to the writings of other Astrologers many more may 3% be added. Bur he which knows how to compare these divisi: ons of Provinces according to the divisions of the Stars, with ® the Ministery of the ruling-Intelligencies, and blessings of the Tribes of Israel, the lors of the Apostles, and typicall seales of F the sacred Scriprure,(hall be able ro obtain great and prophe- |

ticall oracles concerning cyery Region, of things to come. Book 1. Of Occult Philosophy. 1 What things are wnder the S$0nes, the fixed Stars, and their ” Images. $ He like consideration is to be hadin all things concern- ing the figures of the fixed Stars : so they will have the *Z Terrestiall Ram to be under the rule of the Celestiall Aries : > and the Terrestiall Bull, and Ox to be under the Celeftiall > Taxres. So also that Cancer should rule' over Crabs, and Leo over Lyons : Virgo over Virgins, and Scorpio over Scorpions. Capricorn over Goats, . Sagittarius over Horses, and Pisces -# over Fishes. Also the Celcstiall Vr/.4 over Bears, Hydra over #2; Serpents, and the Dog-star over Dogs, and so of che rest. Now | & Apuleius distributes certain and peculiar Hearbs to the Signes, and Planets, viz. to Aries the Hearb Sange, to Taurus Ver- 3 vine that grows straight,to Geminz Vervine that growes bend- ing, to Cancer Comfrey, to Leo Sowbread, to Y:rgo Calamint, to Libra Mug-wort, to Scorpio Scorpion-grals, to Sapittarins Pimpernel, to Capricorn the Dock , to Aquariws Dragonwort, to Pisces Hart-worr. And tothe Planets these,viz. to Saturne Sen-green, to fupiter Agrimony, to Mars Sulphurwort, to the Sun Marygold, to Verns Wound-wort, to Mercxry Mulleine, to the soon, Peony. But Hermes, whom Albertus follows, distributes to the Planets these,viz. to Saturne the Daffodill, to Z«piter Henbane, to Mars Rib-wort, to the $wn Knotgrass, to Venzs Vervine, to Mercury Cinquefoile, to the Moon, Gool foot. We also know by experience that Asparagus is under eAries, and Garden-bafill under Scorpio;

us, and Garden Basill rubbed betwixt two stones, produceth Scorpions. Moreover I will according to the doarine of Hermes, and Thebit reckon up some of the more eminent Stars, whereof the first is called the head of egol,, and amongs stones, rules over the Diamond, amonegft Plants, black Hellebor,and Mugworrt. The second are the Plgiades,or seven Of Occult Philosophy. Book I. ; Stars, which amongst stones, rule over Crystall, and the stone | Diodocus; amongst Plants, the Hearb Diacedon, and Frankin- | cense., and Fennill - and amongst Metals, Quick-tilver. The 7 third is the Star «Al/deboran, which hath under it, amongst ©? stones, the Carbuncle, and Ruby : amongst Plants, the Milky © Thistle, and Matry-filva, The fourth is called the Goat-Star, + which rules,among(t stones, the Saphir, amongst Plants, Horehound, Mint, Mugworrt, an4 Mandrake. The fifth is called the * great Dog-star, which amongst stones, rules over the Berill: a. ® monest Plants, Savin, Mugwort, and Dragonwort : and a» Þ moneglt Animals the tongue of a Snake. The (sixth iscalled the b lesser Dog-star, and amongst stones, rules over Achates ; amonegst Plants the Flowers of Marigold, and Penyroial. The #7 seyenth is called the Heart of the Lyon, which amonglt stones, © rules over the Granate ; amongst Plants,Sallendine, Mugwort, and Mastick. The cighth is the Taile of the lesser Bear, which 3% ..amoneglt stones, rules over the Loadstone,amongt Hearbs,Suc. ** © cory, whole leaves, and Flowers turn cowards the North, also Mugwort, and the flowers of Perwinckle ; and amongst Ani- % mals the cooth of a Wolf. The ninth is called the Wing of the 3 Crow, under which,amonegst stones, are such stones as are of ® the Colour of the black Onyx stone : amonp(t Plants the Bur, Quadraginus, Henbane,and Comfrey ; and amongst Animals Z the tongue of a Frog. The tenth is called Spica, which hath # under it, amongst stones, the Emrald : amongst Plants, Sage,

is called Alchamech, which amongst stones, rules over the Jasper : amongst Plants the Plantain. The twelfth is called El- f pheia, under this, amongst stones, is the Topaze ; amongst 3 Plants, Rosemary, Trifvile, and Ivy. 1he thirteenth is cajled the Heart of the Scorpion, under which,amonglt stones, ts the /® Sardonius, and Amythilt ; amongst Plants long Ariltolochy, % and Saffron. The fourteenth is the Falling Vultur, under which,amongst stones,is the Chrysolice : among(t Plants Succo- 2% ry,and Fumitary. The hifreEnth is the Taile of Capricorn,un- & der which,amongst stones,ts the Chalcedone : amongst Plants, Majoram, Mugwort, and Nip, and che root of Mandrake, | More: | i. Book I. Of Occult Philyophy. ne 4 Moreover this we must know,that every stone,or Plant, or AFFnimall, or any other thing is not governed by one Star alone, he 'Whbur many of them receive influence, not separated, but conoft | oyned, from many Stars, So amongst stones,the Chalcedony Iky 5s under Satzrne, and Mevcnry, together with the Taile of ar, corpion, and Capricorn. The Saphir under 7-piter, Satyrne, re- and the Star Alhajoth ; Tutia is under 7-p:ter, and the Sun the *Fand Moon, the Emrald under 7»piter, Venus, and Mercury, *Fand the Star Spica. The Amethyst, as saith Hermes, is under

The 8 e "gb , ; — — — = _— —- O_o ——_ Of the Seals, ana Charatters of Natural! things, W, By A Ll Stars have their peculiar Natures, properties, and conler ditions, the Seals and Characters whereof they produce :0- 3Whrough cheir rayes even in these inferiour things, viz, in Elen- FFments, in Stones, in Plants, in Animals, and their members, ts, whence every thing receives from an harmonious disposicion, xe, FFand from its Star shining upon ir, some particular Seal, or Of Occult Philosophy. Book I. CharaRer stampt upon it, which is the si1gnificator ofthat 3 Star, or harmony, conteining in it a peculiar vertue differing # from other vertues of the same matter, both generically, spe: 5 cifically, and numerically. Every thing therefore hath its | CharaQer pressed upon it by its Star for some peculiar effeQ, especially by that Star which doth principally govern it; And3 these Characters co7.tain, and retain in them the peculiar na. tures, -vertues, and roots of their Stars, and produce the like # operations upon other things,on which they are refleRed, and stir up, and help che influencies of their Stars, whetherthey be# Planets,or fixed Stars, and figures, and Celestiall gnes,viz. a "% oft as they (hall be made in a fit matter, and in their due, and accustomed times. _ Which ancieng wise men con(idering, such®® | aslabqured much in che finding out of the occult properties of!

things, did set down in writing the images of the Stars, their figures, Seals, Marks, CharaQers, such as nature her self did describe by the rayes of the Stars, in these inferiour bodies, some in stones, some in Plants, and joynts,and knots of boughs and some in diver#members of Animals. For the Bay-treeythe® Lote-tree, the Marygold are'Solary Plants,and in their roots Y and knots being cut off,shew the CharaQters of the Sun, so allo® in the bone, and shoulderblades in Animals : whence there a.% rose a spatulary kind of divining (45.e.) by the shoulder-blades and in stones, and stony things the CharaRters, and images 0% Celestiallthingsare ofcer found. Bur seeing that in so great: diversity of chings there is nor atraditionall knowledge, only in a few things, which humane understanding is able to reach:# Theretore leaving those things which are co be found out in Plants, and Stones, and: other things, as also, in the member of divers Animals, we shall limit our selves to mans nature on-&8 ly, which seeing it is the compleacelt image of thi: whole uni-#* verse, containing in it self the whole heavenly ba mony, wlll iT without all doubt abundantly afford us the Seals, and Chi raQers of all the Stars, and Celestiall influencies, and those 3% the more efhcacious, which are less differing from the Celesti-x all nature. Bur as the number of the Stars is known to Gol alone, so also their effeRs, and Seals upon these inferiout | things:

I $Book 1. Of Occult Philosophy. that WFthings : wherefore no humane intelleRt is able to atrain to the ring knowledge of them. Whence very few of those things became spe: $M known tous, which the ancient Philosophers,& Chyromancers its Farcained to, partly by reason, and partly by experience, and Fea, ®ZFhere be many things yet ly hid in the treasury of nature. - We And-Fhall here in this place note some few Seals, and Characters of na-*Whelaners,such as the ancient Chyromancers knew in the hands * like of men.. These doth ?aliar call sacred, and divine letters, seeand9Jng that by them.according to the holy Scripture is the life of y b: men wric in their hands. And there are in all Nations, and. . 4{FT.aoguapes alwaies the same, and like to them, and permanent; andFo which were added, and found out afterwards many more, sachs by the ancient, so by latter Chyromancers. And they that s of Fvould know them mult have recourse to their Volumes. Ir is hei: $Fufficient here to shew from whence the CharaRers of Nature dilZMWave their originall, and in what things they are to be en-, lie, Muired afcer. . Of Oceult Philosophy. Book 1.

There follow the Figures of Divine Letters. The Letters, or Chara&ers of 5aturne, Tt A A NRIVW The Letters, or Chara{ters of [upiter. The Letters, or CharaCers of Mars. The Letters, or Charalters of the Sun. | Dal Ewe: E WY ICOOAA The Letters, or ( harafters of Venus. T he Letters, or Charatters of Mercury, 3X YL o9WV #7 T he Letters, or Charaflers of the Moon. Book I. Of Occult Philosophy. Mow by Naturall things, and their vertues we may draw forth, and attraft the influencies, and vertnes of Celestial bodies, [ Ow if thou defirest to receive vertue from any part of the World, or from any Star, thou (shale (those things being used which belong to this Sta: ) come under its peculiar influence, as Wood is fit to receive Flame, by reason of Sulphur, Pitch, and Oile. Nevertheless when thou dost to any one specics of things,or individual, rightly applymany things, which are things of the same subjc scattered amongst themlelves, conformable to the same 1dea, and Star, presently by this marter so opportunely fitted, a singular gift is infused by the 7gea, by meahs of the soul of the world. I say opportunely fitted, iz, urder a harmony like to the harmony, which did infuse a certain _— into the matter. For alchough things have some vertues,fMh as we speak of, yet those vertues do so ly hid that there is seldom any efteR produced by them :

bur as in a grain of Mustardseed bruised, the sharpness which lay hid is stirred vp: and asthe heat of the fire Coth make letters apparently scen, which before could not be read, that were writ with the juice of an-Onion or milk : and letters wroce upon astone with the fat of a Goat, and alcogether urperceived, when the stone 13 put into Vineger, appear and shew themselves. And as a blow with a stick stirs up the madness of a Dog, which before [ay asleep, so doth the Celeitiall harmony dilclole vertues lying in the water, stirs them up, (trengtheneth them, and makes them manifest, and: as I may fo tay, produceth that into AR, which before was only in power , when things are rightly exposed to it ina Celeltiallteaion. As forexample ; If thou dost defire to attract vertue from the Sun, and to seek thole things that are Solary, among(t Vegetables, Plants, Metals, Stones, and Animals, these things are to be used, and taken

chiefly, which in a Sulary ordcr are higher. For these are ow. —— —— p a * - a - Lp ub, al i” $4 0 : T. Wt " "4 : A. ) Pe / aq" | : \ of 4 Of Occult Philosophy. Book I. . more available : So thou fhalt draw alsingular gift from the Sun through the beams thereof, being seasonably received to. gether, and through the spirit of/ the world, Of the Mixtions of naturall things one With another, and their ; benefit. | T is most evident,that in the inferiour nature all the powers I of superiour bodies are not found comprehended in any one thing, but are dispersed through many kinds of things amonegst us : 'as there are many Solary things, whereof every one-doth not contain all the vertues of che Sun: but some have some properties from the Sun, and others othersome. Where. fore it is sometimes necessary that there be mixtions in operations, thatif a hundred or a thousand vertues of the Sun were dispersed through so many Plants, Animals;& the like,we may gather all these together, and bring them into one form, in which we shall see all the said vertues, being uniced, conrained. Now there is a twofold vertue in commixtion,onevit, which was first planted in its parts, and is Cek(stiall, the 0ther is obtained by a certain, and arrtificiall mixtion of things mixt among{t themselves, and of the mixtions of them according to certain proportions, fuch as agree with the heaven under a certain Constellation ;

And this vertue descends by a certain hkenels, and aptness that is in things amongst themselves towards their superiours, and as much as the following do by degrees correspond with them that go before, where the patient is fitly applyed to its agent. So from a certain composition of Hearbs, vapours, and such like, made according to naturall Philosophy, and Astronomy, there results a certain common form,endowed with many gifts of the Stars: as in the honey of Bees, that which is gathered out of the juice of innumerable Flowers, and brought into one form, con-

Book I. Of Occult Philosophy. tains the vertue of all, by a kind of divine, and admirable art of the Bees. Yet this is not to be less wondred at which E#- doxas Gindius reports of an artificiall kind of honey, which a certain Nation of Gyants in Lybia knew to make out of Flowers, and that very good, and not far inferiour to that of / the Bees. For every mixtion, which consists of many severall things, is then most perfeR, when it is so firmly compacted on all parts, that it becomes one, is every where firm to it self, and can hardly be dissipated : as we sometimes see (tones, and divers bodies to be by a certain naturall power conglutinated, and-united, that they seem to be wholly one thing : as we see two trees by grafting to become one, also Oisters with stones by a certain occult vertne of nature, and there have been seen some Animals which have been turned into stones, and so united with the subltance of the stone , that they seem to make one body, and that also homogeneous. So the tree Ebeny is one while wood, and another while stone. When therefore any one makes f mixtion of many matters

under the Celestiall influencies, then the variety of Celestiall aRions on one hand, and of naturall powers on the other hand, being joyned together doth indeed cause wonderfull things, by ointments,by collyries,by fumes,and such like,wh:ch iz, are read inthe book of (hiram:ss , eArchyta, Democritus, and Hermes, who is named <Alchorar, and of many others, ' Of Occult Philosophy. Book 1. CHAP. XXXVI. | Of the Union of mixt things, and the introduttion of a more noble form, and the Senses of life. Oreover we must know, that by how much the more noble the form of any thing is, by so much the morc prone, and apt it is to receive, and powerfull ro at, Then the vertueg of things do then become wonderfull, viz, when they are Put to matters that are mixed ,and prepared in fit seasons,to make them alive, by procuring life for them from the Stars, as allo a senlible foul, asa more noble form. For there is so great a power in prepared matters which we see do then receive life, when a perfect mixtion of qualities seems to break the former contrariety. For so much the more perfe@ life things receive, by how much their temper is more remote from contrariety, Now the Heaven, as a prevalent cause doth from the beginning of every thing to be generated by the concoftion, and perteR digestion of the matter, rogether with life, bestows Cclestiall influences, and wonderfull gifts, according to the Capacity that is in that life, and senfible soul ro receive more noble, and sublime vertues., For the Celestiall verrue doth otherwise lye asleep , as Sulphur Kept from Flame, but in living bodics ic doth alwaics burn, as kindled Sulphur, then by its vapour it fils all che places that are nextto it;

so | certain wonderfull works are wrought, luch as are read in the book of Nemith,which is cituled a Book of the Laws of Pluto, because such kind of monstrous generations are not produced according to the Laws of Nature. For we know that of Worms are generated Gnats,of a Horse Waspes,of a Calf,and Ox Bees, of a Crab, his legs being taken of, and he buricd in the ground , a Scorpion ; of a Duck dryed into powder, and pur into Water, are generated Frogs; but if it be baked in a \ Pie, andcur into pieces, and put into a moilt place under the ground, Toads are generated of it : of the Hearb Garden Basil] bruised berwixt rwo stones, are generated Scorpions, and of the hairs of a menstruous Woman put under dung, are

LY . > *%*4$ " + : = "4+ . > WS * I» 4a ®< *% LY <4] = F _ ug i Book 1. Of Occult Philosophy. p bred Serpents ;- and the hair of a Horse taile put into Water, receiveth life, and is turned into a pernicious Worm. And there is an art wherewith by a Hen fitting upon Eggs may be gcnerated a forin like to a man, which I have seen, &knew how ro make, which Magicians fay hath in it wonderfull vertues, and this they call che rrue Mandrake, You mult therefore know which,and what kind of matters are either of nature, or art, begun. or perfe&ted, or compounded of more things, and what Celestiall influencies they are able to receive. For a Congraity of naturall things is sufficient for the receiving of influcence from Celestiall ; because when nothing doth hinder the Celestials ro send forth. their lights upon inferiours, they suffer no matter to be destirnte of their vertue. 'Wherefore as much matter as is perfect, and pure, is not unht. to receive the Celcstiall influence. For that is the binding and continuity of the matter to the soul of the world, which doch daily flow in upon things naturall, and all things which nature hath prepared, that it is impossible that a prepared matter should not receive lite, or 4 more noble form.

neon ine <———— ——_— __— wm. _ How by some certain naturll,and artificial preparations We may attratt certain Celestiall, and vitall gifts, Latozists,cogether with Hermes, say, and Farchns Brach- manus, and the Vecubals of the Hebrews confess, that all sublunary things are sabjeR to generation,” and corruption, and that also there are the same things in the Celestiall world, but after a Celestiall manner, as also in the intelleuall world, but in a far more perfec, and better fashion, and manner, but in the most perfeRt manner of all in the examplary. And after this course, that every inferiour should in its kind answer its superiour, and through this the supream itself, and receive from heaven that Celcstiall power which they call the quintel- Of Occult Philosophy. Book [- quintessence, or the spirit of the world, or the middle nature, and from the inrellecuall world a spirituall and erlivening vertue transcending all qualities whatsoever , and laltly from the exemplary or originall world, through the mediation of the other, according to their degree receive the originall wer of the whole perfcAtion. Hence every thing may be | aptly reduced trom ghefe inferiours to the Stars, from the Stars | to their Intelligencies, and from thence to the first cause it * self; from the series, and order, whereof whole Magick, and all-occult Philotophy flowes : For every day som: naturall thing is drawn by art, and some divine thing drawn by nature, which the Egyptians seeing, called Nature a Magicianess, (z.e.

) the very Magicall power it self, in the attraRting of like by like, and of sutable things by sucable. Now such kind of atrraRions by the mutuall correspondency of things amongst themselves, of superiours with inferiours, the Grecians called ovundNzy + So the earth agrees with cold water, the water with moist Aire, the Aire with Fire, the Fire with the Heaven in water ; neither is Fire mixed with water, but by Aire, nor the Aire with the Earth, but by water. So neither is the soul unired to the body, bur by the spiric , nor the undestanding to the spirit but by the soul. So we see when nature hath framed the body of the infant, by this very preparative (he presently fercherh the spirit from the Universe. This spirit is / the instrument to obtain of God the understanding, and mind in the soul,and body, as in wood the dryness is fitted to rcceive ole, and the oile being imbibed is food for the Fire,the Fire is the vehiculum of light. By these examples you see how by some certam nacurall, and artificial preparations, we are in acapacity to recelve certain Celestiall gifts from above. For (tones, and Metals have a corcespondency with Hearbs, Hearbs with Animals, Animals wich the Heavens, the Heavens with Intelligencies, and those with divine properties, and attributes, and with God himself, atter whose image, and liknels all things are created. Now the first Image of God is | the world, of the world, man , of man,beasts of beasts, the

Zcophyron {5.e. ) half Aniamll, and half Plant ; of Zeophy- m_ , - UQ - * » ©) cn ay” 5 JI wwe mwMmepw Book 1. Of Occult Philosophy. ton, plants, of plants, metals, of merals, stones, And again in things spiri:uall, che Plant agrees with a bruit in Vegetation, 2a bruit with a man in sense, man with an Angel in understanding an Angell with God in immortality. Divinity is annexed to the mind, the mind to the intefleR, the intelleR to the intentton, the intention to the imagination, Cee +007 to the senses, the senses at last to things. For this is the band, and continuity of nature; that all superiour vertue doth flow through every inferiour with a long, and continued series difperling its rayes even to the very last things; and inferiours throvgh their superiours, come -to the very supream of all. For so inferiours are successively joyned to their superiours, that there proceeds an influence from their head, the firlt cause, asa certain string stretched out , ro the lowermost things of all, of which string it one end be touched, the whole doth presently shake, and such a touch doth sound to the other end,

and at the motion of the inferiour, the superiour alse is mo- ved, to which the other doth answer, asstrings in a Lute well How we may draw not only Celestiall, and witall, but also cer- tain [ntelle:tuall and divine gifts from above. M Agicians teach that Celestial ics may through inferiors being conformable to superiors be drawn down by op- portune influencies of the Heaven; and so also by these Celestial.the Celcstial Angels,as they are servants of the Stars,may be procured,and conveyed tg us. famblich:es, Proclus, and Syne- sius,with the wholeSchool of Platonists contirm,that not only Celestiall, and vitall, but allo certain IntelleRuall, Angelicall, and divine gifts may be received from above by some certain matters,having a naturall power of divinity (3. e. ) which have Of Occult Philosophy. Book I. have a naturall correspondency with the superiors, being rightly received, and opportunely gathered together according to the rules of Naturall Philosophy, and Altronomy : And Mercurins T rismegisius writes,that an Image rightly made of cerrain proper things, appropriated to any one certain Angel, will presently be animated by that Angel. Of the same also » Austin makes mention in his. eighth book De Civitarte Det. For this is the harmony of the world,that things superceleltiall be drawn, down by the Celeltiall, and super-naturall by naturall , because. there is one operative vertue that is diffused through all kinds of things, by which vertue indeed, as manifest things are produced out ot occult causcs;

fo a Magician doth make use of things manifest,co draw torch things that arc occult,viz.through the rays of the Stars,through fumes, lights, sounds, and naturall things, which are agreeable to Celestial ; in which,besides corporcall qualities, there 1s a kind of reason, sense, and harmony, and incorporeall, and divine measures, and orders. So we read that the Ancients were wont often to receive some divine, and wonderfull thing by certain naturall things : sothe stone that is bred 1n the Appie of the eye of a Civert Cat, held under the tongue of a man, is said to make him to divine, or prophelie : The same is Sclenites, the Moon stone reported to do, so they say that the lmages of Gods may be called up by the stone called Anchitis, and that the Ghosts of the dead may be, being called up, kept up by the stone Synochitis. The like doth the tearb Aglauphotis do, which 1s called Marmorites, growing upon the Marbles of Arabia, as faith P/iay, and the which Magicians use, Also there is an Hearb called Kheangelida, which Magiciang drinking of, can prophefie. Moreover there are some Hearbs by _ which the dead are raised to life ; whence Yar: the Historian tels,that with a certain Hrard cailed Balus, a young Drag0n being killed, was made alive again, alfo that by the fame a certain man of Ti//am,v/hom a Dragon killed, was restored to life : and Zuba reports,that in Arabia a cer:2in man was by a certain Hearb reltared to life. Bur whether or no ny such things can be done indeed vpon man by the veriue of carbs,

Book I. Of Occult Philosophy. or any other naturall thing, we shall discourse in the follow - : ing Chipter. Now it is certain, and manifelt that such things j- can be done upon other animals. So if flies, that are drown- : ed, be put into warm ashes. they revive. And Bees being , drowned, do in like manner recover life in the juice of the | s hearb'Nip;and Eels being dead for want of warer,if with their whole bodies they be put under mud in vineger, and the blood | I ofa Vultur being put to them, will all of them in a few dayes ; recover life. They fay that if the fish Echeneis be cut into | peices, and cast into the sea, the parts will within a little rime ; come together, and live. Also we know that the Pellican doth That we may by some certain matters of the werld stir np the Goas of the world, and their ministring spirits. Nc man 1s ignorant that evill spirits, by evill, and prophane Arts may be raised up as P/e/{xs faith Sorcerers are wont to do, whom molt detestable, and abominable filthiness did follow, and accompany, such as were in times past inthe sacrifices of Priapzs, and in the worship of the 1do/! which was called Fazor, to whom they did facrifice with cheir privy members uncovered. Neither to thele is that unlike ( it it be true, and not a fable ) which is read concerning the deteltable heresy of old Church-men, and like to these are manifest in Witches and mischeivous women, which wickednesles the foolish dotage of women is subjeR to fall into.

By these, and such as these evill spirits are raised. As a wicked fpirir spake once to /ohn,of one { ynops a Sorcerer ; all the power, faith he, of Satan dwells there, and he is entred into a confederacy with all the principalicies together, and likewise we, with him, and (ynops obcys us, and we again obey him. Again, one the contrary tide, no, man is ignorant that supercelettia[l Angels or spirits may be gained by us through good, works,

; Of bindings, What sort they are of, andin what wayes they are Wort to be done, VV E E havespoken concerning the vertues, and wonderfull efficacy of natucall things. It remains now that we undeistand a thing of great wonderment - and itis a binding of men into love, or hatred, fickness or health, and {uch like. Also the binding of thieves, and robbers, that they cannot steale in any place ; the binding of Merchants, that they cannot buy, or sell in any place ; the bindirg of an army, that they cannot pass over any bound ; the binding of ships, that no winds, though never so {trong, shall be able to carry them our of the Haven. Also the binding of a nyll, that it can by no force whatsoever be turned round : The binding ofa Cisterne, or fountain, that the water cannot be drawn up out of them : The binding of the ground, that it cannot bring forth fruit : The binding of any place,that nothing can be builr upon it : The binding of fire, that though it be never so {trong, can burn no combultible thing that 1s put to it. Also

Book 1. Of Occult Philosophy. 79 e the bindings of lightnings, and tempests, that they shall do no S huct. Also the binding of dogs, that they cannot bark. Also the j- binding of birds, and wild beasts, that they shall not be able le to fly, or run away. And such like as these, which are scarce * c- credible, yet ofren known by experience. Now there are such ts kind of bindings as these made by Sorceries, Collyries, Unn- BY ovents, love potions,by binding to,and hanging up of things, by pt rings, by charmes, by strong imaginations, and passions, by 1g images, and charaRters, by inchantments, and imprecations, by u- | lights, by sound, by numbers, by words, and names, invocam, tions, sacrifices, by swearing, conjuring, consecrations, deyo» ic BY tions, and by divers superstitions, and oblseryations, and such Of Sorceries and their power. ro He force of Sorceries is reported to be fo great, that 3 Þ/xk are believed to be able to subvert, consume, and 0- change all inferiour things,according to Virgi/s Muse, SA Meeris for me these hearbs in Pontns chose, nd end curious drugs, for there great plenty groWs; ey 1 many times, with these, have Meeris sþide

\at Chang'dto a wolfe, and in the Woods to hide : Wy, From Sepulchres Would souls departed charm, PS, And Corn bear standing from anothers Farm. ry an Wy Alloin an other place, concerning the companions of Ulysses, f2 WW whom ng T he cruell Goddess (irce there invests be With fierce aspeits, and chang d to savage beasts, And a litle after, Of Occult Philosophy. — Book 1, Phen love from Picus Circeconld not gaine Him With her charming wand, and hellish bane (hang'd to a bird, and spots his speckled my With Tandry Colotrs ———— Now there are some kind of these sorceries mentioned by Lucan concerning that Sorceress The;7ala, calling up »hosts where he saith, Here all natures produtts unfortunate ; Fome of mad Dogs, Which waters fear and hate ; Guts of the Lynx ; Hyena's knot imbred ; T he marrow of a Hart with $ erpents fea ' Were not wanting ; #0 ot the [ea Lamprey Which st ops the ships ; nor yet the Dragons eye. And such as Apnlerns tells of concerning Pamphila, that certain maid brought the haires of a goat ( cut off from a bag or botle made with the $skin thereof ) instead of Fonkiah young mans haires : Now (he ( faith he ) being our of her wits for the young man, goeth up to the tyled rough, and in the upper part thereof makes a great hole open toall the orientall, and other aspeRs, and most fic for these her arts, and there privately worships, having before furnished her mournfull house with sutable furniture, with all kinds of spices, with plates of Iron, with {trange words engraven upon them, with sternes of (hips that.

were cast away, and much 1x mented, and with divers members of buryed carkasses cal! abroad : here noses, and fingers, there the fleshy nailes of those that were hanged, and in another place the blood ot them that were murdered, and their skulls mangled with the teeth of wild beasts ; chen she ofters sacritices{ their. inchanted entralls lying panting ) and sprinkles chem with divers kind of liquors; sometimes with fountain water, somecimes with cowes milk, sometimes with mountain honey,and mead : Then

5 the ties those haires into knots, and layes them on the fire, | with —— ——— -— RR. Q= © = wm, wm.” win own Book I. Of Occult Philosophy. with divers odours to be burnt, then presently with an irrestable power of Magick, and blind force of the Gods, the bodies of those whose haires did smoke, and crash, assume the spirit of a man, and feel, and hear, and walk, and come whither the stink of their haire led them, and insteed of Beorins the young man, come skipping,and leaping with joy, and love into the house. Anti» also reports, that he heard of some women Sorcerefles, that were so versed in these kinds of arts, that by giving cheese to men, they could presently turn them into working cattell, and the work being done, restored them inro men again- Of the Wonderfull vertues of some kinds of Sorceries, Ng” I will (hew you what some of the Sorceries are, that by the example of these there may be a way opened for the consideration of the whole subje&t of them. Of these therefore the first is menstruous bloud , which , how much power it hath in Sorcery, we will now consider ; for, as they fy, if it comes over new wine,it makes it soure, and if it doth but touch the Vine it spoyles it for ever, and by its very touch it makes all Plants, and Trees barren, and they that be newly set, to dye;

it burns up all the hearbs in the garden, and makes fruit fall off from the Trees, it darkens the brightness of a looking glass, dulls the edges of knives, and razors, dims the beauty of Ivory,and it makes Iron presently rusty ,it makes brass rust, and smell very strong : ic makes dogs mad, if they do but talt of it, and ifthey being thus mad (hall bite any one, that wound is incurable : it kils' whole hives of Bees, and drivcs them from the hives that are but touched with it- it makes linnen black that are boyled, it makes Mares cast cheir foal if they do but rouch ir, and makes women miscarry if they be but smeared with ic : it makes Affles barren as long as they eat of the corn that hath _ rouched with it. The a or

Of Occult Philosophy. Book 1. of menstruous clothes, if they be cast upon purple garments that are to be washed, change the colour of them, and takes away colours from flowers. They say that it drives away tertian, and quartane Agues, if it be pur into the wooll of a black Ram, and tyed up in a filver braceler,as also if the soles of the atients feet be noynted therewith,and especially ifir be done G the woman her self the patients not knowing of it ; more- Þ over it cures the fits of the falling sickness. But most especially it cures them that are affraid of water, or drink after they are bitten with a mad dog, if onely a menstruuos cloth be put under the cup. Besides, they report, that if menstruon; women shall walk naked about the standing corn , they make _ all cankars, worms, beetles, flyes, and all hurtfull chings fall off from the corn : but they mult take heed that they do it before Sun rising, or else they will make the corn to wither. Also they say they are able to expell hail, rempests, and light: nings, more of which P/izy makes mention of. Know this,that they are a greater poylon if they happen in the. decrease of

the Moon, and yet much greater, it they happen betwixt the ' decrease, and change vi the Moon : Bur if they happen in the Eclype of the Moon or *un , they are an incurable poyson, But they are of greatelt force of all, when they happen in the first years, even in the years of virginity, for if they do but crouch the posts of the house there can-no mischeif rake effeRin it, Alio they say chat the threads of any garment touched therewith, cannot be burnt, and if they be cast into the fire, it wil spread no further. Also it is faid that the root of Peony being ?iven With Caitor, and smeared over with a menstruous cloth cureth the falling (ickness. Moreover if the {tomack of a Har: be burnt or rosted, and to it be put a perfuming made with! menstruous cloth, it will make crass- bows uselels'for the killing -of any game : The haires of a menstruous woman pul under dung, breed erpents : and if they be burncy will driv? away Serpents With their smell. So great a poysonous force 1s in them, that they are poylon to poysonous creatures, There is also Hippomanes, which amonglt Sorceries is not the leal taken notice of, and it is a liccle venemous piece of flesh s

Book I. Of Occult Philosophy. big as a fig, and black, which is in the forchead of a Colt newly foaled,which unless the Mare her self doth presently ear, she will never after love her foals, or let it suck. And for this cause they say there is a molt wonderful power in it to procure love, ifit be powdered, and drank ina cup with the blood of him that is in love. There 1s also another Sorcery, which is called by the same name, viz. Hippomanes, viz. a venemous humour, —_ out of the share of a Mare what time she desires a horse, of which Y:irg:4 makes mention, when he sings Hence comes that poison Which the Shepherds call Hippomanes, and from Mares groines doth full, : T he wofull bane &f cruel stepdames use + td om eAnd With a charme 'mongs} powerfull drugs infuse. © Of this doth 7J«verall the Satyrilt make mention. Hippomanes, poysons that boyled are, and charmes Are given to Sons in law, with such like harmes. Apollonics allo in his Argonanticks makes mention of the heard of Promethens, which he saith gmn_ from corrupt blood dropping upon the earth, whilest the Vultur was gnawing upon the liver of Prometheus upon the hill Caucasus. The flowre of this hearb, he faith, is like Safforn, having a double stalk hanging out, one frther then another the length of a cubit, the root under the earth,as flesh newly cur, sends forth a blackish juice as it were ofa beech ;

with which, saith he, if any one shall after he hath performed his devotion to Proserpina, smear over his body, he cannot be hurt either with sword, or fire. Also Saxo Gramaticus writes, that there was a certain man called Froton, viho had a garment, which when he had pur on he could not be hurt with the point or edge of any weapon. The civet Cart also abounds with Sorceries : for, as Pliny reports, the posts of a dore being touched with her blood, the Arts of Juglers, and Sorcerers are so invallid, that the Gods cannpt be called up, and will by no means be perswaded totalk with them. Allo that they thar are noynted with the ashes of the ankle bone of her left foot,

= 7M | being Eo Of Occult Philosophy. | Book + being JecoRed with the blood of a W eesell shall become odious to all. The same also is done with the eye, being decoRted, Also it is said that the straight gut is administred against rhe injustice, and corruption of Princes, and great men in power, and for success of Veritions, and to conduce to ending of suits, and controversies, it any one hath never so lictfe of it abom ' him, and that if it be bonnd unto the left arm, it is such x present charm, that ifany man do but look upoh a woman, it will make her follow him presently ; and that the $Kih of her forchead doth withstand bewitchings. They say allo that th: blood of a Basilisk, which they call the blood of Satwern, hath such great force in Sorcery, that it procures for him that car. ryes it about him, good success of his Petitions, from great me in power, and of his prayers fiom God, and also remedies diseases, and grant of any priveledge. They fay also that a tyke,if ic be pulled out of the letr care of a dog, and if be it altogether black, hath great vertue in the prognostick of life, for if the sick party shall answer him that brought it in, who stan. ding at his feet, & (hall ask of him concernipg his disease, ther: is certain hope of life, ,and chat he shall dye, if he make nt answer. They fay also, that a stone that is bic with a mac dog hath power to cause discord, if it be put in drink, and that he shall not be barked at by dogs, that puts the tongs of a oy in his shooe iinder his greac toe, especially if che heart of the same name, viz, hounditongue be joyned 'with ir, And

that a membrane of the secondines of a dog doth the seme; and that dogs will (shun him that hath a dogs heart. And Pliny reports that there is a red toad that lives in bryer: ang brambles, and is full of Sorceries, and doth wonderful| things: for the lictle bone which by in his left side, being cast y into cold water, makes it presently very hor, by which alfo che rage of dogs is restrained, and their love is procured, if it be pur in drink ; andifir be bound 'to any one, ir stirrerh up luit, On the contrary, the litle bone which is on the right fide, makes hot water cold, and that it can neyer behot again, unless char be taken out, also ic is said to cure quarrane ifitbe bound to the fick ina snakes $kin, as also all other fea. Book I. Of Occult Philofophy. vors.and restrain love,and lust, And that the spleen,and heart is an effeQuall remedy against the poisons of the said Toad. Thus much Pliny writes. Also it is said that the sword, with which a man is slain, hath wonderfull power in Sorceries : For if the snaffle of the bridle, or spurs be made of it, they fay that with these any horse, though never so wild, may be tamed, and gentlcd : and that if a Horse (should beshod with shooes made with it, he would be most swift and fleet, and never, though never so hard rod,tire.

But yet they will rhat some Characters,and names (hould be written upon it. They say also, if any man (ball dip a sword, wherewith men were beeaded, in wine;zand the fick drink thereof, he (hall be aured of is quartane. They say also that a cup of liquor being made with he brains of a Bear, and drank out of the skull,(hall make him hat drinks it, be as fierce, and as raging as a Bear, and think himself to be changed into a Bear, and judge all things he sees o be Bears, and so to continue in that madness, untill the orce of that draught shall be diffolyed, no other distemper deing all this while perceived in him. |

Of Perfumes, or Sufsumigations their mannez, and poWer. Ome Suffumigationsalso,or perfumings,that are proper to JI the Stars, are of yu force for the opportune receiving ff Celestiall gifts under the rayes of the Stars, in as much as hey do strongly work upon the Aire, and breath. For our death is very much changed by such kind of vapours, if both apours be of another like : The Aire also being. through the aid vapours easily moved, or affected with the qualities of inertours, or Celestiall, daily, and quickly penetrating our rreast,and vitals,doth entcatty reduce us to the like qualiies; Wherefore Suffumigations are wont to be used to them hat are about to Sooth-say,for to affeR their fancy,which inveed being appropriated to any certain Deities,do fit us to re3 ccive Of Occult Philosophy. Book 1. ceive divine inspiration : So they say that fumes made with Lin-feed, and Flea-bane feed , and roots of Violets, and Parsly, doth make one to fore- see things to come, and doth conduce to prophecying. Let ho man wonder how great things suffumigations can do in the Aire, espectally when he shall with Porphyrivs consider, that by certain vapours exhaling from proper fuffumigattons, airy spirits are presenely raiscd, as alfo Thandrings, and Lightnings; and such like things, As the Liver of a Chamelton being burnt on the top of the house, doth, 3s it is manifest, ratfe showers, and Lightning. In like manner the head, and throat, if they be burnt with Oken wood, canfe Storms, and Lightnings.

There are also suffumigations under opportune influencies of Stars, that make * the images of spirits forthwith appear in the Aire,or elswhere. So they say, that if of Coriander, Smallage, Henbane, and Hemlock be made a fume, that spirits will presently come toether; hence they arecalled the spirits Hearbs. Also it is said that a fume made of the root of che reedy Hearb Sagapen, with the juice of Hemlock, and Henbane, and the Hearb Tapsas Barbatus, red Sanders, and black Poppy, makes spirits and strange (hapes appear : and if Smallage be added to them,chaseth away spirits from any place, and deltroyes their visions, In like manner a fume made of Calamint, Peony, Mints, and Palma Christi, drives away 8ll evil fpirits, and vain imaginations. Moreover it is said that by certain fumes certain Animals are gathered together;and pur to flight,as Pliny mentions concerning the stone Liparis, that with the fume thereof alt beasts are called ont; so the-bones in the upyer pare of the throat of a Hart, beg burnt, gather #1] the-Serpents rogerher,byr the | horn of the Hart berng barre doth with its fume chase them all away. The ' sme doth- # fame of the feathers vt Pexcocks. Also the Jungs of an Ae being burnt, puts all poifonous things co flight ; the fame of the burnchoof of a Horse drives away Mice, the same doth thehoof of a Mule, with which also if it de the hoof of the left foot, Flies are driven away ; And they fay, if a house, or any place be smoaked with thegall of a Cutle fish, made into a confeRion with red Skyzaz, Roses, and | Herorax Lignum

Book 1. Of Occult Philosophy. Lignum-aloes, and it then there be some Sea Water,or blood calt into that place, the whole house will seem to be full of Water, or blocd; and if some Earth of plowed ground be cast chere, the Earth will seem to quake, Now such kinds of yapours We mult conceive do inte& any body, and infuse a vert ue into it, which doth continue long, even as any contagious, or poisonous vaPour of the Pestilence,being kept for.two yeers in the Wall of a houle, inte the inhabirants, and as the contagion of Pettilence, or Leprofie lying hid in a garment, doth long afcer infeRt him that wears ict. Therefore were cercain sufumigations uled roimages, rings, and fach like instru ments of Magick, and hid crealures, and as Porphyrivns faith, very effcAually. So they say, if any one shall kde Gold, or Silver, or any other prerious thing , thei Mopn-being :ingonjunRion with the Sun,and shall tame the place wicthConiander, Saffron, Henbane, Smallage , and black Poppy, of each a like quantity, braifed together, and tempered with the juice of Hemlock, that which is so hid (hatt never be found, ortaken away , and that spirits shall continually keep ic : and if any ane shall endeavour to take it away, he (hall-be hurt-by them, and (hall fall into afrenfie. And Hermes saith, that there is nothing like the fume of Sperma Ceri for the raising of spirits ;

wherefore if a fume be made of thar, and Lignum-aloes, Pepperwort, Musk, Saffron, 'red Storax tempered together, with the blood of a Lapwing,ic will quickly gazher airy (pirits together, and if it be used abourrheigraves of the dead, it gathets rogether spirits, and the Gholts of the dead. So, as-often as we direR any work to the Snn,we mult-make suffamigations with Solary things, if to theMoan, with Lunaty things, and so of the rest. And we must mow, that as there t5a-conceariety and enmity in Stars, and spits, foalle in fuftumigations wnco. the fame. So there is a contrariety berwixt Lygnum-aloes, and Sulphar, Frankincense, and Quick-filver, and ipixits that arc raised by the fume of Lignum-aJoes, are allied by che burning of Sohpkus. As Procta gives an examplciag spiurir which was wontto appear in cheiform of a Lion 5 buc by the irting of a Qock betore.it, vanished —_— there is a contrarie-

| | 4 ty 23 "op of Oceult Philosoply. Book I. ty betwixt a Cock, and a Lyon, and fo the like consideration, and practise is to observed concerning such like things. T he Composition of some fumes appropriated to the Planets. WVV* make a suffumigation for the S*» in this manner, | viz, of Saffron, Amber-gryse, Musk, Lignum-aloes, Lignum-balsaim, the fruit of the Laurell, Cloves, Myrch, and Frankincense, all which being bruised, and mixt in such a proportion as may make a sweet odour, mult be incorporated with the brain of an Eagle, or the blood of a white Cock,after the manner of Pils, or Trochiscks. Frog dryed, the eyes of a Bull, the seed of white Poppy, Frankincense, and Camphir, which mult be incorporated with Menstruous blood, or the blood:of a Goose. For Satwrze take the seed of black Poppy, of Her bane, the root of Mandrake, the Load-stone, and Myrrh, and make them up with the brain of a.Cat, or the blood of a Bat. | Fer 7-piter take the seed of Ash, Lignum-aloes, Storax, the gum Benjamin, the Lazule stone, the tops of the feathers of 1 Peacock, and incorpotate them with the blood of a Stork, ora Swallow, or the brain of a Hart.

For Mars take Euphorbium, Bdellium, gum Armoniack, the roots of both Hellebors,theLoad stone,and a little Sulphur, and incorporate them all with the brain of a Hart, the blood of a Man, and the blood of a black Cart. For Yenws take Musk , Amber-gryse , Lignum-aloes, red ses, and red Corall, and make them up with the brain of parrows, and the blood of Pigeons. For Mercury take Mastick , Frankincense, Cloves, and the Hearb Cinquefoile, and the stone Achates, and incor- Book I, Of Occult Philosophy. porate them all with-the brain of a Fox,. or Weesel, and the blood of a Pie. Besides,toSatwrne are appropriated for fumes all odoriferous roots,as Pepper-wort root,&c. and the Frankincense tree : to 7upiter odoriferous fruits, as Nutmegs, Cloves : to Mars all odoriferous wood, as Sanders, Cypress, Lignum-balsaim, and Lignum-aloes : to the Sy, all Gums, Frankincense, Mastick, Benjamin, Storax, Laudanum , Amber-gryse, and Musk ; to Venus Flowers, as Roses, Violets, Saffron, and such like : to Mercwry all the Pils of Wood and fruit, as Cinnamon, Lignum Caflia, Mace, Citron pill, and Bayberries, and whatsoever seeds are odoriferous; to the soo the leaves of all Vegetables, as the leaf Indum, the leaves of the Myrtle, and Bay-tree. Know also, that according to the opinon of the Magicians,in every | © omar love,goodwill,and the like, there must be a good fume, odoriferous, and pretious; and in every evill matter, as hatred, anger,milery, and the like, there

* must be astinking fume, thatis of no worth, The twelve Signes also of the Zoazack have their proper fumes, as eAries hath Myrrh, T7 awrss, Pepper-wort, Gemini, Mastick, (Cancer, Camphir,Leo, Frankincense, Virgo Sanders, Libra,Galbanum, Scorpio, Opoponax, Sagittarius, Lignum-aloes, Capricornus, Benjamin, Aquarius, Buphorbium, P3/ces, red Storax. But Hermes describes the most powerfull fume to be, viz. that which is compounded of the seyen Aromaticks, according to the powers of the seven Planets, for it receives from Satmrne, Pepper-wort, from 7«piter, Nutmeg, from Mars, Lignumaloes, from the Sw», Mastick, from Yenws Saffron , from Mercury, Cinnamon , and from the 40on, the Myrtle. Of Occult Philosophy. Book 1. CHAP. XLV. 7 f Collyries, Vuitions, Love- Medicines, and their vertaes. Oreover Collyries,and Unpuents conveying the vertues of things Naturall, and Celeftiall ro our spirit, can mul. tiply, rranfmure, transhgure. and transform it accordingly, as also trarispose those vertues which are in them into it, char so it cannot aR only vpon its own body, but also npon that which is neer it, and affte<& char by visible rayes,charmes,and by rouching it, with some like quality. For because our spirit is rhe fubrile, pure lucid, airy, and unRtuons vapour of the blood; it is therefore ht ro make Collyries of the like vapours, which * are more sutable ro our spirit in substance, for then by reason of their likeness, they do rhe more strr up, attraR, and transform the spirit. The like vertues have certain oifitments, ar other confetions. Hence by the touch somerimes lickneks, Poisohitgs, and love is indaced ; some things, as the hands, or 2xrttrents being anointed : Also by kisses, some things being held in the month, love 15s induced, as in /irgil we read that Venus prayes (pid |

7 hat when plad ro him in her 1p At royall feasts, crown'd with the cheering Grape, Fhen sve tmbracing , shall sweet kisses give, T»spire hid Flame, with deadly bane deceive, He wonltl -=— ———— Now the (ight, becaule it perceives more purcly, and cleerly then the other senses, and fastening in us the! marks of things more acutely, and deepl;', doth moit of all, and before others agree wich che Phantaltick spirit, as is apparent in dreams, / when things seen do more ofcen preseat themielves to us then things heard, or any thing coming under the other senscs. Therefore when Collyries transform visiall spirits, tha spirit doth easily affeR che imagination, which indeed being Book I. Of Occult Philosophy. affe&ed with divers species, and forms, transmits the same by the same spirit unto the ontward sense of sight , by which occafion there is caused in it a perception of fuch species, and forms in that manner, as if it were moved by externall objeas, that there seem to be seen terrible images, and spirits, and such like : so there are made Collyries, making us forthwith to see the images of spirits in the Aire,or elswhere,as I know how ro make of the gall of a man, and the eyes of a black Cat, and of fome other things, The like is made also of the blood of a Lapwing, of a Bat, and of a Goat, and they say, if a smooth shining picce of Steel be smeered over with the juice of Mugwort, and made to fume, it will make invocated spirits to be seen in it.

So alfo there are some seffumigations, or unions, which make men speak in their {lcep, to walk, and to do those things which are done by men that are awake, and sometimes todo those things, which men that are awake cannot,or dare not do. Some there are that make ns to hear horrid,or deleRable sounds, and fuch like, And this is the cause why Mania-

call, and Melancholy men believe they fee, and hear those things without, which their imagination doth only fancy within, hence they fear as - not to be feared, and fall into wonderfull, and most false suspicions, and fly when none pursuech them, are angry, and contend, no body being prefenr, and fear where no fear is. Such like passions alfo can magicall confeRions induce, by Suffumigations, by Colfyries, by Unguents, by potions, by poisons, by lamps, and lights, by look. ing glasses, by images, enchantments, charms, - sonads, and Musick. Also by divers rites, observations, ceremonies, rehions, 2nd superstitions; all which (halt be handled in their piaces. And not only by these kind of arts, paflions, apparitions, and images are induced, but alfo things themfelves, which are really changed, and transfigured into divers forms, as the Poet rclates of Proteus, Periclimsenus, Acheloas, and Merra, the daughter of Eri/ichthon : Soalfo Circe changed the companions of V!yses,& of old inthe facrifices of Jupiter Lycans, the men that tasted of the inwards of the sacrifices, were turn. ed inco Wolves, which P/iny faith, befell a — Of Occult Philosophy. Book 1, called Demarchs, the saine opinion was Austin of: for he Gith, whilest he was in 7ra/y, he heard of tome women that by giving Sorceries in cheeic to travellors, curned them into working Catle, and when they had done such work as they would have them, turned them into men again, and that this betell a certain Father called Prestantivs. The Scripcures themselves testify that Pharas's Sorcerers turned their rods into Serpents, and water into blood, and did {uch like things. .

MM a re, — CHAP. XLVI, Of naturall alligations, and suspensions, V Hen the soul of the world, by its vertue doth make all things that are naturally generated, or artificially made, fruitfull , by infusing into them Celestiall properties for the working of some wonderfull effeRs, then things themselves not only applyed by suffumigations, or Collyries, or o\nements, or potions, or any other such like way, but also when they being conveniently wrapt up,are bound to,or hang ed about the neck , or any other way applyed, although, by never so easy a concaRt, do impress their vertue upon us, By these a!ligations 0g ts 10ns,wrappings up, applications, and contaAts the Accidents of the body, and mind are changed into sickness, health, boldness, fear, sadness, and joy, and the like : They render them that carry them,gratious, or terrible, acceptable, or rejeed, honoured, and beloved, or hatefull, and abominable. Now these kind of passions are conceived to be by the abovesaid, infused no otherwise, then is manifest in the grafting of trees, where the vitall vertue is sent, and Communicated trom the trunk to the twig graffed into it, by way of contaR and alligation ; so in the female . Palmecree, when she comes neer to the male,her boughs bend to the male, and are bowed : which che gardners seeing, bind ropes from the male ro the female, which becomes seaipht again, as if it had by this continuation of the rope received the

Book 1. Of Occult Philosophy. the vertue of the male. In like manner we see, that the cramp. fish beirg touched afar off with a long pole, doth presently stu;''y the hand of him that toucheth it. And if any shall to: the sea Hare with his hand or stick, doth presently run out of his wits. Also if the fish called Stella, as they say, being fastncd with the blood of a Fox and a brass nail to a gate, evill medicines can do no hurt. Also it is said, that if a woman take a needle, and beray it with dung, and then wrap it up in earth, in which the carkass of a man was buryed, and hall carry it about her in a cloth which was used ar the funerall, that no man shall be able to ly with her as long as (he hath it about her. Now by these examples we fee, how by certain alligations of certain things, as alfo suspentions, or by a simpke contat, or the continuation of any thread, we may be a to receive some vertues thereby. It is neceflary that we know «the certain rule of alligation, and suspension, and the manner

which the Art requires, viz. that they be done ander a certain, /and furable constellation, and that they be done with wyer, or silken threads, with hair, or sinews of certain animals; And things'that are to be wrapped up mult be done it the feaves of hearbs, or the skins of animals, or fme clochs, and rhe like, according to the sutableness of things : as if you would procure the folary vertue of any thing, this being wrapped up in bay leaves, or the skin of a Lion, hang it about thy neckwitha golden thread, or afilken thread of a yallow-colour, whilest the Sun rules in the heaven : fo thou shalt be endued with the Solary: vertue of that thing. Bur if thou dost desire the yertue of any Saturnine thing, thou (halt in like maner take that thing whilest Satzrn raignes, and wrap it up in the kin of ar: Abs, or in a cloth used art a funerall, efpecially if thou defirest it for sadness, and with a black thread hang it abour thy neck. -In like manner we must conceive of the reft. Of Occult Philosophy. Book I. CHAP. X LVIT. Of Rings, and their compositions,

Ings also, which were alwaies much csteemed of by the Ancients, when they are opportunely made, do in like manner impress their vertue upon us, in as much as they do affe the spirit of him that carries them with gladness or (adness, and render him courteous, or terrible, bold, or fearfull, amiable, or hatefull ; in as much allo as they do fortihe us against (ickness, poisons, enemies, evill spirics, and all manner of hurtfull things, or at least will not suffer us to be kept under them. Now the manner of making these kinds of Rings, is this, vis. when any Scar ascends fortunately, with the fortunate aspet, or conjunftion of the Alsoor, we mult take a stone, and Hearb that is under that Star, and make a Ring of the Metall that is surable to this Star, and in it fasten the tone, putting the Hearb, or root under it ;- not omitting the inscriptions of images, names, and CharaRers, as also the proper suffumigations, but we shall speak more of these in another place, where we shall creat of Images, and CharaQers. So we read in Philostratus Farchus , that a wise Prince of the Indians bestowed seyen Rings made after this manner, marked with the vertues, and names of the seven Planets to Apollonixs,oft which he wore every day one,distinguishing them according to the names of the dayes, by the benefit of which he lived above one hundred and thirty years, as also alwaies retained the beauty of his youth.

In like manner Hoses the Law: giver, and ruler of the Hebrews, being skilled in the Egyptian Magick, is said by Zosephres to have made Rings of love, and oblivion. There was allo,as faith Ari/orle, amongst the Cirenears aRing of Barts, which could Procure love and honour. We read also that Exdamus a certain Philosopher made Rings against the bites of Serpents, bewitchings, and evil spirits. The same doth 7o/ephws relate of Solomon, Also we read in Plato that Gyg4, King of Lydia had a King

Bookl. Of Occult Philosophy. of wonderfull, and strange vertues, the seal of which, when he turned roward the palm of his hand, no- body could see him, but he could see all things : by the opportunity of which Rin he ravished the Queen, and flew the King hs Master, _ killed whomsoever he thought stood in his way, and in these villanies no body could see him, and at length by the benefit of this Ring he became King of Lydia, Of the wertne of places, and What places are sutable to every Star. Here be wondersull vertues of places accompanying them, either from things there placed, or the influences of the Stars, or any other way. For as Pliny relates of a Cuckow, in what place any one doth first hear him, if his right foot be marked about, and that foot-step digged up,there will no Fleas be bred in that place where it is scattered. So they say that the dust of the track of a Snake being gathered up and scattered amongst Bees, makes them return to their hives. So also that the dust, in which a Mule hath rolled him- - self, being cast upon the Body,doth mitigate the heats of love, and that the duit wherein a Hawk hath rolled her self, if1t be bound to the body ina bright red cloth, cures the quartzne. So doth the stone taken out of the nelt of a Swallow, as they lay, presen:ly relieve chose that have the falling sickness, and being bound to the parry, continually preserve them, especially if ir be rolled in the blood, or heart of a Swallow.

And it is reported, That if any one having cut a veine. and being fasting, (hall go over a place where any one lately fell with the fit of a Falling sicknels, that he (hall fall into the same disease. And Pliny reports, that to fasten an Iron naile in that place where he that fell with a fir of the Falling lickness first pitched his head, will free him from his diseale. So they say that an Hearb

growing upon the head of any image, being gathered, and bound Of Occult Philosepby. — Book 1. bound upin some part of ones garment with a red thread, shall presently allay the headach ; and that any Heard gathered out of the brooks or rivers before Sun riling, that no body see him that gathers it, shall cure the Tertian,if it be bound to the left arm, the sick party not knowing what is done. But amone(t places that are appropriated to the Stars, all stinking places, dark, underground, religious , and mournfull places, as Church-yards, tombes, and houses not inhabited by men, and old,tottering, obscure, dreadfull houses, and solitary dens, caves, and pits, also fish-ponds, standing pools, fennes, and such like are appropriated to Satwrne. Unto Papiter are ascribed all priviledged places, Conlistories of noble men, Tribunals,Chaires, places for Exercises, Schools,and all beautifull, and clean places, scattered, or sprinkled with divers odours. To Mars, hery, and bloody places, furnaces, bake: houses, shambles, places of execution, and places where there have been great battailes fought, and slaughters made, and the like. To the $X», light places; the Serene Aire, Kings Pallaces, and Princes Courts, Pulpits, Theators, Thrones, and all kingly,and Magnificent places. To Yenz, pleasant fountains , green Meadows, flowrishing Gardens, garnished beds, stews (and according to Orphems) the sea,the sea (hore, baths, dancing-places, and all places belonging to women. To Mercnry, shops, schools, ware- houses, an Exchange for Merchants, and the like.

To the oos, wildernefles, woods, rocks, hils, mounrains, forrests, fountains, waters, rivers,seas, sea-shores, ships, groves, high-waies, and granaries for Corn, and such like, Upon this account they that endeavor to procure love, are wont to bury for a certain time the instruments of their art, whether they be rings, images, looking-glasses, or any other, o# to hide themin a stew house, because in that place they will contract some venerall faculty, no otherwise then things that stand in {tinking places, become (tinking, and those in an Aromacticall place,become Aromarticall,and of a sweet savour, The four corners of the Earth also pertain to this matter. Hence they that are to gather a Saturnall, Martiall, or Joviall Hearb, must look towards the East, or South, partly because

Book I. Of Occult Philosophy, E they desire to be orientall from the Sun, and partly, because their principall houses, viz. Aquarizs, Scorpins, Sagittarins are Southern signes, so also are (apricorzxs, and Pisces, Bur they that will gather a Venerall, Mercuriall, or Lunary Hearb, must look towards the Welt, because they delight to be western, or else they mult look Northward, because their principall houses, vi4. Taurus, Gemins, Cancer , Virgo are Northern signes, so in any So/ary work we must look towards the East, or South, but rather cowards the Solary body, and light. ”, WY . YH. » > RI oy Of Light, (olours, Candles, and Lamps, and to What Stars, Houses, and Elements severall colours are ascribed, F- also is a quality that partakes much of form, and is a simple a, and a representation of the understanding : ir is first diffused from the Mind of God into all things, but in God the Father,the Father of lighr,ic is the first crue lighe;then inthe Son a beaucitull overflowing drightness, and in the Holy Ghost a burning brightness, exceeding all Intelligencies; yea, as Dyonisues, saith , of Seraphins, In Angels therefore ir js.a shining intelligence diffused, an abundant joy beyond all bounds of reason, yet received in divers degrees, according to the Nature of the intelligence that receives ic; Thenit descends into Celestial bodies, where it becomes a store of life, and an effcuall propagation, even a visible splendor. In the hre acertain naturall livelinessinfused into it by the heavens. And lastly in men, it is a clear discourse of reason, and knowledge of divine things , and che whole rational: but this is mani-

f Occult Philosophy. | Book 1, manifold,cither by rcason of the disposition of the body,as the Peripateticks will have it,or which is moretrue,by reasonof the ]00d pleasure of him that bestows it , who gives it to every one as he pleaseth. From thence it passeth to the fancy, yet above the sense, but only imaginable, and thence to the sence, but especially ro that of the eyes; In them it be- * comes a visible clearness, and is extended to other perspicuous bodies, in which it becomes a colour, and shining beau. ty,but in dark bodies it is a certain beneficial) and generative vertue, and penetrates, to the very center, - Where the beames of it being colleted into a narrow place, it becomes a dark heat,tormenting, and scorching, so that all things perceive the vigour of the light according to their capacity, all which joyning to it self with an enlivening hear, and pasling through all things, doth convey its qualities, and vertues through all things. Therefore Magicians forbid the Urin of asick man to be sprinkled in the shadow of a lick man, or to be uncovered against the Su» or the soo, because the rayes of the light penetrating, bringing suddenly with ic the noxious qualitics of the (ick bodies, convey them into the oppolite body,and afteR that with a quality of the same kind.” This is the reason why Enchanters have a care- to cover their Enchantments with their shadow.

So the Civer Cat makes all Dogs dumb with the very touch of her shadow. Also there are made artificially some Lights, by Lamps, Torches, Candles, and such like,of some certain things, and liquors opportunely chosen, according-to the rule of the Stars, and composed amongst them. selves according to their congruity, which whenthey be lighted, and (hine alone, are- wont to produce - fome wonderfull, and Celeftiall effeAs, which . men many times wonder at, as Pliny reports ont of Anaxi/aus, of a poison of Mares after copulation,which being lighted in Torches, doth monstrously reprefent a (sight of Horse heads: the like maybe done of Affes,and flies, which being tempered with wax;& lighted; make astrange frzhe of flies : and the skin of a Serpent lighted in a Lamp, makes Serpents appear. And theysay when Grapes are in their

Book T. Of Occult Philosophy. flower, if any one shall bind a Viall to them full of Oile, and shall let it alone till they be ripe, and then the Oile be lighted in a Lamp,it makes Grapes to be seen. And so in other fruits, If Centory be mixed with Honey, and the blood of a Lapwing, and be put in a Lamp, they'that stand about will seem a great deal bigger then they are wont : and if it be lighted in a clear ' night, the Stars will seem to be scattered the one from the other: Such force allo isin the inke of the Cuttle fish, that it being put into a Lamp,makes Black.mores appear. It is also reorted,that a Candle made of some certain Saturnine things, if being lighted;ic be extinguished in the mouth of a man newly dead, will afterwards, as oft as it shines alone, bring great sadness, and fear upon them thac (tand about it. Of such like Torches, Lamps, doth Hermes speak more of, also Plato, and Chyrannides, and of the latter writers e1bertus in a Certain Treatise of this particular thing. Colours also are a kind of lights, which being mixed with things, are wont to expose them to those Stars, to which they are agreeable. And we shall afterwards speak of some colours, - Which are the lights of the Planets}, by which even the na. tures of fixed Stars themselves are understood, which also may be applyed to the flames of Lamps, and Candles.

But in this place we shall relate how the colours of inferiour mixt things ate distributed to divers Planets, For all colours, black, lucid , earthy , leaden, brown, have relation to Satyrne, Sapnire, and airy colours, and those which are alwaies green, clear, purple, darkish, golden , mixed with Silver, belong to F«piter. Red colours , and burning , fiery, flaming , violet, purple, bloody, and iron colours, resemble Mars. Golden, Saffron, purple, and bright colours, resemble the $7. Bur all white, fair, curious, green, ruddy, betwixt saftron, and purple, resemble Fen, Mercery, and the Moon. Moreover amongst the houses of the heaven, the first, and seventh hath white colour : the second, and twelfth / oreen: the third, and eleventh saffron : the fourth, and the | tenth red : the fift,and ninth honey colour : the (ixt,and eighth, H 2 black,

Of Occult Philosophy Book 1, black. The Elements also have their colours, by which Na. rurall- Philosophers judge of the complexion and property of their nature ; For an earthy colour, caused of coldness, and drynessis brown, and black, and manifests black choller, ang a Saturnine nature ;- the blew tending towards whiteness, doth denore flegme : for cold makes white, moisture and drynes; makes black : reddish colour shews blood, but fiery , flaming, burning hot,shew choller, which by reason of its subtilty, and aptness to mix with others, .doth cause divers colours more; for if it be mixed with blood,and blood be most predominant, it makes a florid red; if choller predominate, it makes a redish colour; if there be an equall mixrion,it makes a sad red. But if adust choller be mixed with blood, it makes a Hempen colour, and red, if blood predominate, and fomewhat red if choller prevaile 31 but if it be mixed with a melancholy humour, it makes a black colour, bur with malancholy, and flegme to. gether, in an equal] proportion, it makes a Hempen colour : If fegme abound, a mud colour, if melancholy, a blewith; but if- it be mixed with flegme alone, in an equall proportion, it makes a citrine colour; if unequally, a pale, or palish. Now all colours are more prevalent, when they be in fitk, or inmerals, or in perspicuous substances, or precious stones; and in those things which resemble Celestiall bodics in coloux,especially in living things.

Book I, Of Occult Philosophy. CHAP. L Of Fascization, and the Art thereof. Ascination is a binding, which comes from the spirit of che \W itch,through the eyes of him chat is bewitched,entering to his heart, Now the instrument of Fascination is the spitic, viz, 4 Certain pure, lucid subtile vapour, generated of the purer blood, by the heat of the hearr. This doth alwaies send torth through the eyes,rayes like to it self ; Those rayes being sent forth, do carry with them a spirituall yapour, and thac vapour a blood, as it appears in bleer, and redeyes, whose rates being sent forth to the eyes of him that is opposite, and looks upon them, carries the vapour of the corrupt blood, to- -ether with it self, by the contagion of which, it doth infeR the eyes of the beholder with the like disease. So the eye being opened, and intent upon any one with a strong imagination, doth dart its beams, which are the Vehiculum ot the spirit into the eyes of him that is oppolite to him, which tender spirit strikes the eyes 0! him that is bewitched, being stirred up from the heart ot him that strikes, and possesserh the breast of him that is stricken, wounds his heart, and infeAs his fpirit. Whence eApuleixs faith, Thy eyes sliding down through my eyes,into mine inward breast, stirs up a most vehemen* burning in m Marrow. Know therefore that men are then most bd when with often beholding they direR the edge of their sighr to the edg of their sight that bewitch them, and when their eyes are reciprocally intent one upon the other, and when rates are joyned to raics, and lights to lights, for then the sptrit of the one is joyned to the ipiric of the other, and fixeth its sparks :

So are strong ligations made, and so most vchement loves are inflamed with the only raies of the eyes, even witha ccrcain sudden looking on, as it it were with a dart, or stroke penctrating the whole body, whence thea the spirit, and amorous olood being thus wounded, are carried forth upon the lover, and enchanter, no otherwise then the blood, and _ H 3 0

Of Occult Philosophy. Book 1. of the vengeance of him that is slain,are upon him that slayes him. Whence Lacrerius sang concerning those amorous bewitchings. T be body [mitten 1s, but yet the mind Is Wonnded with the darts of Cupid blind. All parts do Simpathize i th wound, but know T he blood appears in that which had the blow, , So great is the power of Fascination,especially when the vapours of the eyes ate subservient to the afteRion. Therefore Witches use collyries, ointments, alligations, and such like, to affeR, and corroborate the spirit this or that manner. To procure love,they use venerea]l collyries, as Hippomanes, the blood of Doves, oc Sparrows, and fach like. To.induce fear, they use Martiall Collyries, as of the eyes of Wolves,the Civet Cart,and the like. To procure misery or sickness, they use Saturnine, and so of the rest. | Of certain observations ,proaucing wonderfull Vertues. Hey say that certain as, and observations have a certain power of naturall things, that they believe diseases may be expelled,or broughe chus, and thus. So they fay that quartanes may be driven away if the parings of the nails of the sick be bound to the neck of a live Eel ina linnen clout, and she be ler go into the water, And Pliny saith, that the paring of the lick mans na'les of his feet, and hands being mixed with wax, Cure the quartine, tertian, and quotidian Ague, and if they be before dun riling fastened to'another mans gate, will cure such like difeates. In like manner ler all the parings of the nailes be put into Pismires caves, and they say that that which begun to draw the nailes first must be taken, and bound co the

Book 1. Of Occult Philosophy. neck, and by this means will the disease be removed. They the back with ones hands, any disease may be cured, and in quartanes a piece of a naile from a Gibber, wrapt up in Wooll, and hanged about the neck, cures them ; also a Rope doth the like; that is taken from a Gallows, and hid under ground, that the Sun cannot reach it. Also the throat of him that hath a hard swelling, or imposthume, being touched with the hand of him that dyed by an immature death, is cured thereby. Also they say ,that a woman is presently eased of her hard tr2vel, if any one shall put into the bed, where the woman in travel is, a stone, or dart, with which either of these Animals, viz. a Man, a Boar, or a Bear were at one blow killed. The same also, as they say, doth a spear that is pulled out of the body of a man, if it (hall not first touch the ground; et WF allo they say that Arrows pulled out of the body of man, if a- Wl they have not touched the Earth, and be put under any one lying down , will procure love ; Also they say that the falling sickness is cured by meat made cf theflesh of a wild beast, lain in the same manner as a man isslain. Also they say that a mans eyes that are washed three times with the water wherein he hath washed his feer, shall never be sore or bleer.

It is said that some do cure diseases of the groin with threed taken out of the Weavers Loom, being tyed in nine, or seven knots, the name of some Widow being named at every knot. Also the zin Wl »pleen of Catle extended upon pained Spleens, cures them, if ay WF he that applies it, saith that he is applyimg a medicine to the ar- Wl Splcen to cure, and ease it : After this, they say, the patient he WY must be shut into a sleeping room, the dore being sealed up nd WF with a Ring, and some verse be repeated over ninetcen times, ns WF The Urine of a green Lizard cures the same disease, if ir be ich WF hanged up in a pot before the patients bed-chamber, so that 4 if WW be may,as he comes in and out,touch it with his hand. Also a vill WM Lizard killed in the Urine of a Calf, as they say, restrains his che WM Just that put it in ; bur he that shall put his own Urine into a ich Wl Dogs Urine,is faid to be made thereby dull to venerous aQts, ard to feel a benummedness in his loins, They fay,that if ones H 4 own

say that by Wood stricken with lightning, and cast behind | Of Occult Philosophy. Book T. own Urine be dropped upon the foot in the morning, it is a remedy against all evil medicines. And a little Frog climbin upa tree, if any one (hall spit in his mouth, and then let him escape, is said to cure the Cough. Itisa wonderfull ching, but easy to experience, what Pliny speaks of, If any one shall be sorry for any blow that he hath given another afar off, or nigh at hand, if he shall presently fpit into the middle of that hand with which ke gave the blow, the party that was smitten (hall presently be freed from pain. This hach been approved of in a four-footed bealt that hath been sorely hurt. Some there are that aggravate the blow before they give it. In lixe maner spicle carried in the hand, or to spit in the shooe of the right foot before it be pat on, is good when any one paslech through a dangerous place. They fay that-Wolves will not come to a field, if one. of them be taken, and the blood let by lictle and lictle out of his legs, being unbroken, with a knife, and sprinkled about the oursides of the field, and he himself be buried inchat place, from which he was first drawn. The Methanenses, Citizens of Trezenium,accounced it as a present re:

medy for preserving of Vines from the wrong of the Somchern wind, having alwaies found it by most certain experience; if whilelt the wind blows, a white Cock should be pulled to picces in the middle by two men, both which keeping their part,mult walk. round the Vineyard, and both meeting in the place from whence they began their Circuit, must in that place bury the pieces of the Cock. They fay also that if any one shall hold a Viper over a vapour with a staffe, he shall prophecy , and chat the staffe wherewith a Snake was beaten is good again(t diseases of breeding women. These things Pliny recites. It is said also in gathering of roots and hearbs, we mult draw three circles round about them, first with a, sword, then dig them up,taking heed inthe mean time of a contrary wind, Also they fay, that if any ane (hall measure a dead man witha rope, firlt from the Elbow to the biggest finger, then from the (houlder co the same finger, and afterwards trom the head. to the feer, making thrice those mensurations, if any one afterward shall be measured wich the same rope,in the same maoer,

5 0Q m | —— Ln * F = evS* BZ" -7»a — ttt... MW. 6 —_— Book 1. | Of Occult Philosophy. he shall not prosper, but be unfortunate, and fall into misery, and sadness. And A/bertus out of Chyranns faith, that if any woman hath enchanted thee to love her, take the sheet she lies in, and piss through her hcod, and her right sleeve, our of doors, and che enchantment will be quitted. And Pliny faith, that to fit by women great with child, or when a medicine is iven to any one of them, the fingers being joyned together like the teeth ofa Kemb, is a charm. This was known by experience in Alcumena breeding Hercrles : and so much the worle, if that be done about one, or both knees. Also to fit cross legged, is Sorcery, therefore it was forbiden to be done in the Counsels of Princes, and Rulers, as a thing which hindred all a&ts. And it is said, if any one stand- ing before the door call the* man by his name, thar is lying with a woman, and he aniwer , if then he fasten a knife, or needle on- the door, and break it, the edge being downward, he that is in the bed with the woman cannot couple with her as long as those things (hall be there,

of the Conntenance,and Gesture, the Habit , and Fignre of the Body, and What Stars any of these do anfwer; whence Phy fognomy, and Metoposcopy, and Chyromancy, Arts of drvination, have their grounas. He countenance, gesture, the morion, setting, and figure of the body, being accidentall. to us, conduce to the receiving of Celestiall gifts, and expose us to the superiour bodies, and produce certain efteAts in us,no otherwise then in Hellebor, which when thou gachereft, if chou pullest the leaf upward, ic draws the humors upward, and causeth vomiting; if downward,it causech purging, by drawing the humour downward. How much also the countenance, gesture,do affect the (ight, imagination, and Animall spirit, no man is ignorant. So they that. couple for generation, for the Of Occult Philosophy. Book t. the molt part are wont to make an impression on the children that are then begotten, of that countenance which they themselves then form, or imagine : Soa mild, and cheerfull coun. renance of a Prince in the City,makes the people joyfull :i but fierce, and fad, terrifies them : to the gesture,and countenance of any one lamenting,doth calily move to pitty : So the shape of an amiable person,doth easily excite to love. Thou must know that such like gestures, and hgures, as harmonies of the body do expolc it no otherwise to the Celeltials, then odours, and the spirit of a Medicine , and internall passions do the soul.

For as Medicines,and passions of the mind are by certain dispositions of the Heaven increased . so also the gesture, and motion of the body do get an efficacy by certain influences of the heavens. For there are gestures resembling Satwrne, which are melancholy, and fad, as are beating of the breast, strikin of the head : also such as are Religious, as the bowing of the knee, and a fixt looks downward,as of one praying,allo weeping, and such hike,as are used by an Austere,and Saturnine man, such an one as the Satyri/t describes, saying,

With hang'd doWn head, With eyes fixed to the ground, Hu raging words bites in, and muttering sound He aoth express with powting lips —— * A cheerfull, and honest countenance, a worshipfull gesture, clapping of the hands,as of one rejoycing,and praising;also the bending of the-knee , with the head lifred up, as of one that is worshipping, are ascribed to F«piter. A sowre, fierce, cruell, angry, rouph countenance, and gesture, are ascribed ro Mars. Solary are honourable, and couragious gestures, and countenances ; also walkings abroad, bending of the knre,as of one honoring aKing with one knee, Yerercal,are dances,embraces, laughcers,amiable,and cheerfull countenances. Afercariall are inconstant, quick, variable, and such like gestures, and countenances. Zxnary are such as are moveable, poisonfull, and childish, and the lixe. And as we have spoke of gestures,so also are the (hapes of men distin, For Saturne bespeaks a man to Book 1. Of Occult Philosophy. be of a black, and yellowish colour, lean, crooked, of a rough skin, great veines, hairy all over his body, little eyes, ota frowning forechead,of a thin beard, great lips, cycs iatent upon the ground ,, of a heavy gate, striking his feet together as he walks, crafty, witty, a seducer, and murderous, Topiter fignifies a man to be of a pale colour, darkish red, 2 handsome body, good stature, bold, of great eyes, not black alcogether, large pupill, short nostrils, not equall, great teeth before, curld hair, of good disposition, and manners.

CIars makes a man red, ofa red hair, round face, ye!lowtth cyes,of a terrible, and sharp looks, b1d, jocund, proud, crafty. The Sm makes a man of a tauny colour, betwixt yellow and black, dasht with red , of a short stature, yer of a handsome body, withour much hair, and curld,of yellow eyes, wile, faithful, desirous of praise. Yen (ignifies a man to be tending towards blackness, but more white, with mixture of red,of a handsome body, a fair, and round face, fair hair, fair eyes, the blackness whereof is more intense, of good manners, and honest love,also kind, patient, and jocund ; Aercwry lignifies a man not much white, or black, of a long face, high forehead, fair eyes, not black, to have a streighr, and long nose, thin beard, long fingers, to be ingenious, a tubrile inquifitor,turn-coat,and fabjc& to many forcunes. The Asoon fignifies a man to bein colour white,mixed with a licle red, of a fair stature, round face, with some marks irit, eyes nor fully black, frowning forehead, also kind, gentle, sociable. The Signes also, and faces'of Signes have their figures, and shapes, which he that would know, must se*k them out in books of Astrology. Laltly,upon these figures, and geltures, Phystognomy, and Metoposcopy,arts of divination do deperd : Allo Chyromancy, foretelling future events,not as caules, bur as (ignes through like cfteRs,caused by the same cau(e, And alchough these divers kinds of divinations may scem to be done by inferiour, and weak fignes, yet the judgements of them are not tobe slighted,or condemned, when prognostication is made by them, nor out of superstition, but by reason of the harmoniacall correspondency of all the parts

of the body. Whosoever therefore doth the more exatly | imitate "a Of Occult Philosophy. Book 1, imitate the Celestiall bodies, cither in nature, study. aRion, motion, gesture, countenance, passions of the mind, and op. portunity of the season, is so much the more like to the heavenly bodies, and can receive larger gifts from them. Of Divination, and its kings. Ef Ras are some other kinds of divinations depending up. on naturall causes, which are known to every one in his art, and experience,to be in divers things; by which Physicians, husbandmen, shepheards, Mariners,and every one of these out of probable (ignes do Prognosticate, Many of chele kinds eAristotle made mention of in his Book of Times. Amongst which Azguria, and eAuspicia are the chicfest, which were in former time in such esteem amongst the Komanes, that they would do nothing that did belong to private or publique bust ness, without the counscl| of the Azgwres: Cicero allo in his Book of Divinations largely declares, that the people of Txscia ' would do nothing without this art. Now there are divers kinds of Axspicia's + for some are called Pedestria (1, e.) which are taken from four footed beasts : Some are called Auguria, which are caken from birds : Some are Celcstiall, which are taken from thundrings, and lightnings ; some are called

{ adaca(3.e. ) when any tell in che temple, or ellwhere ; Some were sacred, which were taken from facritices. Some of thele were called Pzac#/a, and fad Awspicia, as when a sacrifice ef caped from the Alcar, or being smitten made a bellowing, or | fell upon another part of his body then he thould. To these is added Exanguration,viz. when the rod fell out of the hand of the Amupnre, with which it was the custome to view, and take notice of the Ax/picium. Afichael Scotzs makes mention of twelve kinds of Anpriria's, viz. Six on the right hand, the names of which he saich are Ferzxova, Ferverrs, ( onfert, Book 1. Of Occult Philosophy. Emponenthem, Sonnasarnova, Sonnasarverus : and the other six on the lefr hand, the names of which are, Confernova, ({onfervetrs , Viaram, Herreaam, Scussarnova, Scassarvetns. Then expounding their names, he faith, Fernova is an eAwourium; When thou goelst out of thy house for to do any bust ness, and in going thou seest aman, or a bird going, or flying, so that either of them set himself before thee upon thy lete hand, that isa good signification in refrence to thy business. Fervetus is an eAugurium; wh2n thou shalt go our of thy house for to do any business, and in going thou hndeit or scest a bird , or a man resting himself before thee on the lefer side of thee, that is an ill hgn in reference to thy buliness :

Viaram is an Au9ourium;when a man or a bird in his journey,or flying passerh before thee, coming from the right side of thee, and bending toward the left, goeth out of thy (1ght, that is a 90d sign concerning thy buliness. Confernova 15 an eAugnrium; When thou dost first find a man, or a bird going, or flying, and then he rests himself before thee on thy right (1de, thou seeing of it, that is a good sigh concerning thy business ; Confervetus is an eAugarinm ; when first thoa hndelt, or seest a man, or a bird bending from thy right (ide, iris an ill frpn concerning thy business. Scimasarnova is an Aupgurinm ; when a man, ora bird comes behind thee, and ourgoeth thee, bur before he com:s at thee, he rests, thou secing of him on thy right (ide, it is to thee a good lign. Scimasarvetis is ah Angurium; when thou seelt a man, or a bird behind thee, but before he comes to thee he rests in that place, thou seeing of it, it isa good sign. Scussarverie is when thou seelt a man, or a bird passing by thee, and resting in a place on thy left fide, it is an evill sign to thee. Emponenthem is when a mari, or a bird coming from thy left side, and passing to thy right,goeth out of thy sight without resting, itisa good (ign. Harter is an Augurium; if a man or a bird coming from thy right hand, passing behind? thy back to thy left , and thou (halt see him resting any where, this is an evill sign. Thus much Scorzs. The Ancients tid also prognosticate from sneefings,of which Homer

in the seyengeenth book of his Geez makes mention, because ldyfs they Of Occult Philosophy. Book I | ' they thought they proceeded from 3 sacred place,viz.the head, in Which the intelleR is vigorous, and operative, Whence al. so whatsoever speech came into the breast, or mind of a man rising in the morning unawares, is said to be some-presage, and ———y — — -— - O—— Of divers certain Animals, and other things which have a i C1 fication 1» Auguria's, | A' L the As/picia which first happen in the beginning of any enterprise are to be taken notice of : as if inthe beinning of thy work thou (halr perceive that Rats have gnawn thy garments, desist from thy undertakings ; If going forth thou shalt stumble at the threshold, or in the way thou shalt dash thy foot against any thing, forbear thy journey ; If any ill omen happen in the beginning of thy business, put off thy undertakings, least thy intentions be wholly frustrated, or accomplished to no purpose ; but expeR and wait for a fortu: nate hour for the dispatching of thy affairs with a better omen, We see that many Animals are, by anaturall power imbred in - them, propheticall. Doth not the Cock by his crowing diligently tell you the hours of the night, and morning, and with his wings spread forth chase away the Lion; ws many | birds with their singing, and chattering, and flies by their sharp pricking foretell rain, and Dolphins by their often leaping a: bove the water,fore-run tempeits. It would be too long tore. late all the passages, which the Phrygians Clilicians, Arabians,