Three Books of Occult Philosophy (De occulta philosophia)

The Scale of Unity. In the exemplary world, Ine Divine eflence, the fountain of all verrues, and pewer,Whose name is expressed with one most limple Letter, 'In the Celestial world. The soul of the world. One supreme Intelli.| ence, the fi: it Creature, he fountain of lives, | One my of Stars,fountain of lite, One subjeR, and inst ment of all vertues, nas} turall,and supernatural.,; In the lesser world. WW One fust living, and la ; dying. One Prince of Rebelli on, of Angels, and datl| nels, Book [T. Of Occult Philosophy. CHAP.V. Of the Number of T wo, and the Scale thereof. He first Number is of ewo, because it is the first Multitude, it can be mersured by no number besides unity alone, the common measure of all Numbers: It is not compounded of Numbers,but of one unity only ; neither is it called a number uncompounded, but more properly not compounded : The Number of three is called the first Number uncompounded : Bur the Number of cwo is the first branch of unity, and the first procceation : Hence it is called generation, and 7#r0, and an imaginable Corporation, the proof of the firlt motion, the first form of parity : the number of the first equali.

ty, extremity, and distance berwixt, and therefore of pecu-_ liar equity, and the proper a thereof, because it consilts of two equally poysed: and it is called the Number of Science, and Memory, and of light, and the number of man, who is called another, and the lefser World : itis also called the number of charity, and mutuall love, of marriage, and society, asit is said by the Lord, Two shall be one flesh. And Solomon faith : It is better that two be together then one, for they have a benefit by their mutuall society : If one (hall fall, he shall be supported by 'the other. Wo to him that is alone, because when he falls he hath not another to help him : and if two sleep rogerher, they shall warm one the other ; how shall one be hot alone? and if any prevaile against him, two refilt him. Andiit is called the number of Wedlock and Sex; for there are two sexes, Masculine, and Feminine : and two Doves bring forth two Eggs, our of the first of which is hatched the Male,out of the second the Female. Ic is also called the midle, that is capable, that is good, and bad, partaking, and the beginning of division, of Multicude, and distinction. and signifies matter. This is also sometimes the number of discord, and confusion, of misfortune, and uncleanness, whence

daint Hierom against Fovianus laith, that therefore it was nor Of Occult Philofopby. — Book [1 spoken in the second day of the creation of the world, and ' God said, That it was good, because the uumber of wo i; evill. Hence also it was;that God commanded that all unclean Animals should go into the Ark by couples : because as I faid, the number: of two, is a number of uncleanness, and it is most unhappy in their Soothsayings, especially if those things, from whence the Soothsaying is taken, be Satwrnall, or Martiall,for these two are accounted by the Astrologers unfortunare. It is also reported,that the number of two doth cause apparictions of Ghosts, and fearfull Goblins, and bring mischiefs of evill spirits to them that travell by night, Pythagoras (as Ensebins reports ) said, that Unity was God, and a good intellet; and that Duality was a Divell, and an evill intelleR, in which is. a materiall multitude : where. fore the Pythagorians say, that two is nota number, bur a certain confusion of unities. And Plutarke writes, that the Pyrha gorians called unity Apollo,and two, strife, and buldness ; and three, Justice, which is the highest perfeRtion, and is notwithout many mysteries. Hence there were cwo Tables of the Lay in $a, ewo Cherubins looking to the Propitiatory in Aoser, two Olives dropping oyle, in Zachariah, two natures in Christ, Divine, and Humane; Hence Moses saw two appearances of God,viz. his face, and back-parts, also two Teltaments, tewo commands of Love, two first dignities, two first people, two kinds of Spirits, good, and bad, two inrelleQuall creatures, ' an Angell, and soul, rwo great lights, two Solltitia, two equino&tals, two poles, two Elements, producing a living soul,viz. Earth, and Water.

Book IT. — Of Occult Philosophy. The Scale of the Number of two. The names of G6d ex-/ W; [a the exemplary | 1 lah orefsd with two letters, world, hs _ wt [n the TntelleRuall |AnAngell. The Soul. .|/Two incelligible subworld, | | ances, | [atheCelestiall world.]The Sun; The Moon. |Tya great lights. | | | In the Elementary [The Earth, The Water, | Two Elements produc. world. | ing a living soul, [n the lesser world, [The Heart, The Brain, |Two principall seats of | the soul, [n the Infernall soul, [Beemeth Leviathan |Two chief of the divels. Weeping, gnashing of {Two things which teeth, - |Christ threatens ro the | CHAP. VI, Of the Number of three, ard the Scale thereof. # | HE number of three isan incompounded nugiber, a holy number, a number of perfeRion, a most powerfull number. For there are three persons in God, there are three Theologicall vertnes in Religion. Hence it is that this number conduceth to the Ceremonies of God, and Religion, thar by the solemnicy of which, prayers, and sacrifices are thrice re- peated, Whence Y;rgi/ (ings, | N 2 Odd Of Occult Philosepby. — Book I Oad numbers to the God delightfull are.

And the Pythagorians use itin their sanRifications, and puri cations, whence in Virgl, T he [ame did cleanse, and wash With Water pure Thrice h:s companions —— Andiit is most fit inbindings, or I:gations, hence that of 7/;ygjt Ivwalk a round First with these threads, Which three, and severall are, ' Bout th' «Altar thrice I shall thy image beay. And alittle afcer ; Knotr, Amaryllis, tye,of colonrs three, T hen say, these bonas I knit, for Venus be. And we read of 1edea. She spake three Words, Which causd sweet sleep at Will, T he troubled Sea, the ragir:g Waves stand still, And in Pl:zyit was the custome in every medicine to (pi with three deprecations, andhence to be cured. The number three is perfected with three Avgmentations,long, broad, and deep, beyond which there is no progression of dimension whence the fist number is called square. Hence it is said tharto a body thatghath three measures, and co a square number,nething can be added. Wherefore Aritorle in the beginning of his speeches concerning Heaven, cals it as it were a Law, aecotding-to which all things are disposed. For Corporeall, and spirituall things consist of three things,viz. beginning,middk, and end. By three(asT resmegists saith )the world is perfedted: HeMarmene, fiecessicy, and order ( 5.e. ) concurrence of r__ whi

nd = A S ww DYoc_x wc > PR. = £.£ = cou . _ Book IT. © Of Occult Philofoply. '8. which many call fare, and the execucian of them to the fruit, or increase, and a due diftribution of the increase. The wholc measure of time is concluded in three,vsz, Past, present, to come; All magnitude is contained in three;line,superficies,and body, every body consists of three Intervals, length; bredth, thickness. Harmony contains three consents in time, Niapason, Hemiolion , Diatessaron. There are also three kinds of souls, Vegetative, sensitive, and intelleRuall. And as saith the Pro» phet, God orders the world by number, weight, and measure, and the number of three is deputed to the Ideall forms thereof, as the number of two is to the procreating matter, and unity to God the maker of ir. Magicians do constitute three Princes of the world, Oromasis, Mitru,e Arammw: (5.c.) God, the Mind, and the Spirit. By the three square or solid, the three numbers of nine of things produced are distributed,vsz. of the supercelestiall into nine orders of Intelligencies : of Celestiall intonine Orbs : of inferiours into nine kinds of generable, and corruptible things. Lastly in this ternall Orb, vsz. twenseven, all Musficall proportions are included, as Plato, and Proclus , do at large discourse. And the number of thiee ath in a harmony of five, the grace of the first voyce. Also inIncelligencics there are three Hierarchies of Angelicall fpiits.

There are three powers of Intelleuall creatures, memory,mind, and will. There are three orders of the blessed, viz, of Martyrs, Confessors, and Innocents. There are three quaternions of Celestiall Signs, viz. Of fixt, moveable, and ommon, as also of houses;vxz. centers, succeeding,and falling. here are also three faces, and headsin every Sign, and three Lords of each triplicity. There are three fortunes amongst the Planers. Three graces, amongst the Goddefles. Three Ladies of deftiny amongst che-infernall crew. Three Judges. Three furies. hree- headed Cerberus. We read also of a thrice double Heate. Three moneths of the Virgin Nana. Three persons in he arial Divinicy. - Three times, of Nature,, Law, nd Grace, Three Theologicall vertpes, Faith, Hope, and

harity, Jonas was three days in the Whales belly ; and fo many was Christ in the grave. N 3 The Of Occult Philosophy. —Book II, | [ihe nd of dai. The _ Holy God with [In the Ori The Father | The Son. Ghost, three letters, ginal world. Wn Ine hies of Ar In theIneel |Supreme. | idle, [Lowest of all2o 1% leQual world Innocents. | Martyrs. Confetlors, [Thee degrees of the blefled. T kree quater- | nions of Moveable. |Fixr. Signs. ln the Ce-lC mers. |>ucceeding. Three quater-|þ lestial world.|Of the day. Noguenall. '| * Fa of Three Lords of the Tripli- | | Cites. on ——————————_— I, SC —— In the Ele: [Simple. Compound. | Thrice com-|Three degr mentary ed, pounded. of Elements, world. The head, in T he belly, | which the The breast, where the fa Three parts, [n the Ieffer{Intelle& my is as wa of gene sanswering tht world. rows, an - [heart, the seatsration is, andrhree-fold | 7 wering to f life answer \the enicall world. the intelle- ing ro the Ce. members, anRuall world. [|citiall world. (wering the Elemental world. Cresiphone. mall furies. Rhadaman=- CHAP. VII, * Of the Number of Foxr, and the Scale thereof.

'T fi Pythagorians call che Number of four TetraQis, and prefer it-before all che vertues of Numbers, because it is the foundation, and root of all other numbers ; whence also all foundations, as well in artificial] things, as naturall, and divine, are four square, as we (hall shew afterwards : andir fienities solidity, which also is demonstrated by a four square figure. For the number four is the first four square plain, which consists of two proportions, whereof the hirlt is of one to two, the latter of ewo to four, and it proceeds by a double procession and proportion, viz, of one to one, and of ewo to ewo, beginning at a unity, andending at a quaternity : which proportions differ in this, that according to Arithmatick, they are unequall to one the other : but according to Geomery are equall, Therefore a four square is ascribed to God the ather, and also contains the my(terie of the whole Trinity - vr by its single proportion, viz. by the first of one to one, the unity of the paternall substance is signified, from which rroceeds one Son, equall to him; by the next procession, [lo simple, viz. of ewo to two, is tignified by the second procession the Holy Ghost from both, that the Son be equall o the Father by the first procession ; and the Holy Ghost be quall co both by the second proc. sion. Rence that super- | xcellent, and great name of the divine Trinity in God is ritten with four leeters, viz. Jod, He, and Vas; He, where It is the aÞ'ration He, (gnifies the - proceeding of the spirit

from both : for He being duplicated, rerminates both: syllables, and che whole name, bur 15 pronounced Fovg, as some ill, wherce that ous of the heathen, which the Ancients ud pifture with four ears, whence the number four is the tounan, and head of the whole divinity, And the Yychagorians all it the perpetuall fountam of - nature : for there are fouc degrees in the 5cale of nature, wiz. to be, to live, to be sen- 184 Of Occul: Philosophy. Book [ I, sible, to understand. There are four motions in nature, v2, ascendent, descendent, going forward,circular. There are four Corners in the heayen, viz. rising, falling, the midle of the heaven, and the botrome of it. There are four Elements under Heaven, viz. Fire, Aire, Water, and Earth ; according to these there are four triplicities in Heaven : There are four first qualicies under the Heaven, viz. Cold, Heat, Drinefs, and Moystness,from these are the four Humours,Blood, Flegm, Choller , Melancholy, Also the year is divided into four parts, which are the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter ; also the wind is divided into Eastern, Weltern, Northern, and Southern, There are also four rivers of Paradise, and (6 many infernall. Also the number four makes up all knowledge:first ir fills up every fimple progress of numbers with four termes, viz. with one, two, three, and four consti. euting the number ten. Ir fills up every difference of num- - bers, the first even, and conteining the first odd in it.

It hath in Musick Diateslaron, the grace ofthe fourth voice. Also it conteins the instrument of four firings, and a Pythagorear Diagram ,. whereby . axe foundout first of all mulicall tunes, and . all harmony ,of Musick. For Double, Treble , fourtimes double, one and halfe, one and & third part, a concord of all, a double concord of all, of five,of four, and all consonancy is limited within the bounds of the, number four. It doth also contein the whole of Matheticks-in fonr terms, viz. ou , line, soperficies, and profundity. Ie comprehends all nature in four terms, viz, sub» stance, quality, quantity, and motion. Alfoall naturall Phyto , #0. which are the seminary vertues of nature, the n«» eurall springing , the growing form , and the compositum, _ Allo ick ts comprehended in four bounds, viz. being, essence , vertue, and ation. Morall o»-9g7 -aag comprehended with four vertues, viz. prudence , justice, fortitude, temperance, It hath' also the power of justice : henee a foutfold law, of providence from God: fatall, fromthe foul of the world ; of nature from Heaven : of prudence, from man. There are also four judiciary powers inallthings being, = 1 \ 4

Book [ 1. Of Occult Philosophy. the intelleR, discipline, opinion, and sense. It hath also great power in all mysteries. Hence the Pythagorians did ratifie the number four with an oath, as if it were the cheifest ground thereon their faith was grounded, and their belief might be onfirmed. Hence it was called the Pythagorians oath, which s cd in these verses. I with pure ninale by th anmber four do swear That's holy, avid the fount am of nature Eternall, parent of the mind ——— Also there are four rivers of Paradise ; four Gospels received om four Evangelists throughout the whole Church. The brews — the cheifelt — God written with fout ters. 0 the Egyprienc, ans, Perfians, Mapicians, abnmitans, Greed, T wuscant , Cn Se of dd with only four letters, viz. thus, Thef, Alla, Sire, rf, Abas, Os, Esar, Dews. Hence the Lacedemonians ere wont to paint Fpiter with four wings. Hence allo in Iphens his divinity, it 1s said that Neptanes Chariots are rawn with four horses. There are also four kinds of divine ries, proceeding from several deities, viz. from the 3suses, Dionyfrt, Apollo, and Venus. Also the Prophet Ezekiel = de the river Chobar, and four ims in ur wheels. Alfo in Daxiel, four great beasts did ascend om the Sea, and four winds did fight. And in the Revelatifour beasts were full of eyes, before, and behind : standing und about the Throne of = An Er | wg! er to hurt the Earth, and the Sea, di upon mp cagk of the Earth, holding the four winds, that

hat answer - Elements, in Seeds. Flowers. | ————————— — ; eee What in Me-, Gold, and I-JCoyper, and Quicksilver. [Lead Silver. tals. Dd; Tin. —_ www CC ; =P $ | Clear, and : What in Rowes, Bright, an Light » and Longealed, =|Heavy;S dark. en nn nies | on bs ws is Elements ad Got Four Ru M ind. The Spirit- The Soul. ati Sas ET whom WRWde"E He BHEe is the Law of . Phantasy. Sense. prudence. Four powers of The Itmellc [pn ; the Soul. Reason Four Judiciary 7... _ . ©, "7 Faich, Science; Opinion. Experience. Four morall ver- ; rues- Justice. Temperance. [Prudence. Fortitude, swering to the $;ohe. Hearing. Tast,and smel.|Touch. Elements. ” | Four Flementrs of mans body. Flcsh. Humours. Bones. —— Animall. ,. [vitall; Generative. |Naurall. Rm enter, fs Flegne. |Melancholly. our Manncrs df complexion. Violence- Nimblene 6, ulness ; Slownelss. nt aveis, oftentive d the Elements-| $amact.. INT | OI BRIPD [Inthe jofernall Azta ze). Azacl. Mahazacl. {world,where is the Law of our i wrath, and pu - Kvers. Phlegeton. Cocytus, Iryx : ——, nishmenc. our Princes © | Irs, upon the|Oriens- Paymon, Amaymon. he four a o | 138 " Of Occult Philosophy.

CHAP, VIII, Of the Number Five, and the Scale thereof. He number five is of no small force, for it consists of; first even, and the first odd, as of a Female, and Mal For an odd number is the Male, and the even the Fem Whence Arithmeticiaxs call that the Father, and this the ther. Therefore the number five is of no small perfeRion, vertue, which p_ from the mixtion of these number Tt is alfo the jult midle of the universal number,v5z. ten. For yon divide the number ten,there will be nine and one,oreig and two,or seven and three,or (ix and four, and every colled on makes the number ten, and the exaRt midle alwaies ist number five, and its cquadistant; and therefore it is c by the Pythagoreans the number of Wedlock, as also of just because it divides the number ten in an even Scale. There five senses in man, sight, hearing, smelling, tasting*; Hve'p ers in the soul, Vegetative, Senfitive , Concupiscible, [i scible, Rationall : five fingers on the hand : five wander Planets in the heavens, according to which there are five-k terms in every sign. In Elements there are five kind mixt bodies,viz. Stones, Metals, Plants, Plant-Animals, mals, and fo many kinds of Animals, as men, four-foot beasts, creeping, swimming, flying, And there are five k by which all things are made of God, viz. Essence, the fan another, sense, motion. The Swallow brings forth but young, which she feeds with equity, beginning wich the elde and so the rest,according to their age.

Also this numberhu =m power in cxpiations - For in holy things it drives2 vels. In naturall chingg,it expels poysons.It 15 allo called! number of fortunateness, and favour, and it is the scale of Holy Ghost, and a bond that binds all things, and che numbe of the crols,yea eminent wich the principall wounds of Cn whereof he vouchsafed to keep the scars in his glorifycd bod The heathen Philosephers did dedicate it as facred co /ferrs elicen

Book IT. = Of Occult Philosophy, © esteeming the vertue ofit to be so much more excellent then the number four, by how much a living thing is more excellent then a thing withour life. For in this number the Father Noah found favour with God, and was preserved inthe floud of waters. In the vertue of this number e4braham, being an hundred years old, begat a Son of Sarah, being ninety years old, and a barren Woman, and past child bearing, and grew pp to be a great people. Hence in time of grace the name of divine omnipotency is called upon with five letters. Forin ime of nature the name of God was called upon with three letters. Y1W FSadai : in time of the Law, the inefable name of God was expressed with four letters Ny insteed ff which the Hebrews express NN Adonai : in time of grace he incffable name of God was with five letters MW3w? Ihesw, hich is called upon with no less mysterie then that of three The names of God with five Letters. henames of krist with five Letters, *pirics of che krst| Spirits of the (e- irits of the third

ierarchy called|cond Hierarchy Gods, or the Sons|called Intelligen” of God. cies. Mienchy, called Angels which are sent. Five wandring rars,Lords of the Tearras. Five kinds. of corruptible things, Five kinds of mixt] A ,jmall, dodies, | Souls of Celestiall bodies. In the exam -« plary world. In the Intelle&ual werld. In the CeleRiL all world. A mixed b dy. Terrible darkness. Unquenchable [Hear. In the lefer world, In the infer-| nall world. ook IT. © Of Occult Philosophy. CHAP. IX. Of the Number fix, and the Scale thereof. Ix is a number of perfeRion, because ir'isthe most perfeR Jin nature, m the whole covurfe of nnambers, from one to n, and it alon? is so- perfeR, that in the colleRton of its arts it results the same, neither wanting, nor abounding. vr if the parts thereof, viz. the midle, the third, -and fixe rt, which are three, tewo,one, be gathered together, they perWy fill up the whole body of six, which perfeRion all the Wher numbers want : Hence by the Pythagorians it 18 said to altogether applyed co generation, and Marriage, and is led the Scale of the world. For the world is made of the mber fix, neither doth it abound, or. is defeftive. Hence

t is, because the world was finished by God the (ixt day. For sixt day God saw all the things which he had made, and were very good. Therefore the heaven, and the earth, d all che Host thereof were finished. Ir is also called the numr of man, because the fixt day man was created : and it is also number of our redemption, for the (txt day (rst suffered our redemption: whence there is a great affinity betwixt > number fix and the Cross , labour , and servitude : ce it is commanded in the Law, that in fix days the rk isto be don&g(ix days AMarmna is to be gathered,six years 2round was to be sown,and that the Hebrew servant should e his Master fix years; (ix days the glory of the Lord appea» upon Mownt Sina,covering it with a cloud : the Cherubins Li1x wings,6. circles in the Firmament, Artick, Antartick,cewo picks, EquinoRiall, & Eclipticall, fix wandring Planets, S4- Jupiter, Mars Yenus, Mercury,the Moon, running through laticude of the Zodiach , on both sides the Eclyprick. There ix substantificall qualities in the Elements,viz. Sharpness, nness, Motion,and the contrary to these Dulness, Thickness, , There are six differences of position, Upwards, Down-

ds, Before, Behind, on the right (ide, one the cf: 1de.There ix naturall offices, wichout which nothing can be,viz. Mag- de, Colour, Figure, [ntervall,Standing,Motion. Also a tolid re of any four square thing hath (ix superficies. There are ones of all harmony, viz. 5. Tones, & 2,half cones which e one tone, which is the sixt. T be The Scale of the N [n the examplary world. | Names of fix. Letters." In the intelli- Seraphin. gible World. | In the Celesiall World. | | | In the Ele- Reft. mental world. | In the leffer world. wh:ch are not scnt to inferiours. V ertucs. wy orders of Angels, Six planers wandring through the latirude of the Zodizxck from rhe' Eclyprick. | Six subRantificall qualities cf Elements. Six degrees of men, Six divels, the authors of all calamities, | CHAT. IX Of the Number Seaven, and the Scale thereof. He number seaven is of various, and manifold power, for it consists of one, and (1x, or of two, and five, or of three d four, and it hath a Unity, as it were the coupling together fewo threes : whence if we consider the severall parts theref, and the joyning together of them, without doubt we shall onfess that it is as well by the joyning together of the parts hereof, as by irs fulness apart. most full of all Majesty. And e Pythagorians call it the Vehiculum of mans life, which it oth not receive.

from its parts so, as it perfeRts by its proper oht of irs whole, for ir contains body, and soul, for the dy consists of four Elements, and is endowed with four alities : Alsg the number three respeRts the soul, by reason its threefolT power, viz. rationall, irascible, and conpiscible. The number seaven therefore, because it consists of ee, and four, joyns the soul to the body, and the vertue fthis number relates to the generation of men, and it causerh an to be received, formed, brought forth, nourished, live, d indeed altogether to subsilt. For when the genitall seed received in the womb of the woman, if it remain there aven hours after the effusion of it, it is certain that it will ide there for good : Then the first seaven dayes it 1s coaguted, and is fit to receive the shape of a man: then it produ2th macure infants, which are called infants of the seaventh oneth, ;. e. because they are born the seaventh moneth. frer the birch, the seaventh hour tryes whether it will live rno: for that which shall bear the breath of the aire after at hour is conceived will live. After seaven dayes it casts off ic reliques of the Navell. After twice seaven dayes its sight begins to move afcer the ght - inthe third seaventh it turns its eyes, and whole face cely. Affer scaven moneths it breeds teeth : Affer the ond seaventh monethir = withoart fear of falling : — c

Of Occult Philosophy. Book Il | the third seaventh monerh ir begins to speak : Afffeer the fourth seaventh moneth it stands strongly, and walks : afte the fifth seaventh moneth it begins to refrain sucking its Nurk; Affcer seayen years its first reeth fall, and new are bred fitter tor harder meat, and its speech is perfefed : After the second seaventh year boys wax ripe, and then is a beginning of gene. ration : Atthe third seaventh year they grow to be menig stature, and begin to be hairy, and become able, and (tron for generation : At the fourth seaventh year they begin tg birnish, and cease to grow tall. r : In the fifth seaventh yer they attain to the perfeRti n of their strength : The (ix leave year they keep their strength; The seaventh seaventh yeu th:y attain to their urmost descretion, and wisdome, and the perfeR age of men. But when they come to the tenth seavent year. where the number seaven is taken for acompleat numb then they come to the common tearm of life, the Propher la ing, Our age is seaventy years. The urmost hight of mans bod is seaven feet. There arc allo seaven degrees in the bod

- Which compleat the dimension of its alritude from the bot tome to the top , viz. marrow , bune, nerve, vein, arte flesh, «Kin. There are (eaven, which by the Greeks are calle black members, the Tongue, the Heart, the Lunges, ti Liver, the Splcen, and ewo Kidnies. There are allo seawt principle parts of the body, the head, the breast che hands, feer, and the privy members, It is manifest concerning break and meat, that without drawing of the breath the life col doth not endure above fjeaven Cours : and they that are stat ved with famine, live not above seaven dayes. The Veins all, and arteries ( as Phylitians say ) are moved by the feavet number. Aliso judgements in diseases are made with great? manifestation upon the seavenh dayes, which Physicians cl criticall, 's. e. judiciall. Alf» of seaven portions God Creats the soul, as divine Plato witnefs:ch in 7imew. The soulall receives the body by tcav'n degrees. All difference of vol proceeds to the seaventh degree, after which chere is che fat revolution. Again, there are seaven modulacions of the voy Ditonus, Semiditonus,Diutessaron, Diapente with a cone, Vik Zook IT. Of Occult Philosophy. yente With a half time, and Diapason. There is also in Cestials a most potent power of the number seven. For seeing here are four corners of the Heaven Diametrically lookin "ne towards the other, which indeed is accounted a most full, and powerfull aspeR, and consists of the number seven, For tis made from the seventh Sign, and makes a Cross, the most zowerfull figure of all,of which we (hall speak in irs due place.

ut this you must not be ignorant of, that the number seven ath a grearCommunion with the Cross. By the same 5.050 mn nd number the solstice is distant from Winter, and the Winter quinoRium from the Summer, all which are done by seven igns. There are also seven Circles in the Heaven,according to he longitudes of the Axel tree. There are seven Stars about the rticke Pole,greater, and lefer,called Charls-Wain, also seven tarscalled the Pleiades, and seven Planets, according to those yen dayes constithtirig a week. The Moon is the seventh of the planets & next to us observing.this number more then the rest, his number dispensing the motion, and [light thereof, For in wenty eight dayes it runs round the Compass of the whole Zodiack, which number of dayes, the number seven, with ics ven tearms,viz. from one to seven, doth make,and fill up,as uch as the several numbers, by adding to the Antecedents,and akes four times seven dayes,in which the Moon runs through, nd about all the longitude, and laticude of the Zodiack by ealuring, and measuring again: with the like seven of dayes it ispeoseth its light,bychanging it; For the first seven dayes unto he middle as it were of the divided world, it increaseth ; the cond seven dayes it fils its whole Orb with light ; the third y decreasing is again contracted into a divided Orb ; bur af- 'r the fourth seven

dayes, it is renewed with the last diminuon of its light, and by the same seven of dayes it disposerh he tmcrease, and decrease of the ea, for in the first seven of e increale of the Moon,it is by little Ieflened ; in the second y degrees increased : bur the third is like the first, and the durch doth the same as the second. lt 15allo applyed ro Sa- », which ascending from the lower, is the seventh Planer, hich betokens rest, to which the seventh day is ascribed, O 2 which

Of Occult Philosophy. Book [| which signifies the seven thousandth, wherein (as 7ohnyi nefseth.) the Dragon, which is the Divell, and Satan, b bound, men shall be quiet, and lead a peaceable life, Moreon the Phythagorians call seven the number of Virginity , beciiz rhe frls is that which is neither generated, or generates, ne ther can it be divided inco two equall parts, fo as t be generated of another number repeated , or beiy doubled to bring forth any other number of it felf, which contained within the bounds of the number ten, which is m nifestly the first bound of numbers, and therefore they dedic red the number seven to Pallas. It hath also in Religion mc potent signs of its esteem, and it is called the number of oath. Hence amonglt the Hebrews. to {wear is called Sept nare, (4. e. ) to protest by seven. So Abraham,when he mu a Covenant with Abimelech, appointed seven Ewt Lambs a teltimony. It is also called the number of blessedness, or rest, whence that, ' O thrice, and four times blessed ! viz. in soul, and body. The seventh day the Creator ret from his work, wherefore this day was by Moses called: Sabbath (4. e..) the day of rest ; hence ic was that Christ re ed the seventh dy in the grave. Allo this number hach a gre communion with the Cross, as is above (hewed, as also wt Christ.

For in Christ 1s all our blesledness, rest, and feliat besides,it is molt convenient in purifications. Whence Aj #4 saith, and I pur my self forthwith into the bath of t Sea, to be purified, and put my head seven times undert Waves. And the Leprous person that was to be cleansed, sprinkled seven times with che blood of a Sparrow; and lj the Prophet, as it is written in the yn Book of | Kings, (aith unto the Leprous _ Go, and wash thy seven timesin Zorday, and thy flesh shall be made whole, 3 thou shalt be cleansed, and it follows a little after, And washed himself seven times in Fordan, according to the Pt phers saying, and he was cleansed. Also it is a number of Pentand

m— — > ty a nn A, ys aA wa as 9 ffXx% #4 _ wm, @'$ ot ih PTitc.c.,. 3}, nad mw wy &5 ©, .-, =©® = = -— oe Book [ I. of Occult Philosophy. pentance, and remission : Rence was ordeined the seaventh years repentance for every (in,according to the opinion-of the wise man, saying, And upon every (inner seaven fold : Also the seaventh year there were granted remissions, and after full seaven years there was giving a full remission, as is read in Leviticus. And Christ with seaven petitions finished his speech of our satisfaRion ; hence allo it is called the number of liberty, because the seaventh year the Hebrew servant did challenge liberty for himself. Itis also most sutable co divine praises. Whence the Prophet saith, Seaven times a day do I praise thee, because of thy righteous judgements. Ir 1s moreover called the number of revenge, as saith the Scriprure, and Carr shall be revenged seaven fold. And the Psalmist faith, Render unto our Neighbours seaven fold into their bosome, their reproach, Hence there are seaven wickedrefles, as saith So/omon, and seaven wickeder spirits taken, are read of in the Gos-

ll. It (1gnihes also the cime of the present circle, because it is finished in the space of ftaven days. Also it is consecrated to the Holy Ghost, which the Prophet 1/aiah describes to be seaven fold, according to his gifts, viz. the spirit of wisdom, and understanding, che spirit of counsell, and (trength, the spirit of knowledge, and holiness, and the spirit of che fear ofthe Lord, which we rcad in Zachariah to be the seayven eyes of God. There are allo seaven Angells spirits standing in the presence of God, as is read in Tobias, and in the Revelation ; seaven Lamps did burn, before the Throne of God, and seaven golden Candlesticks, and in the midle thereof was one like to the son of man, and he had in his right hand seaven Stars. Allo there were seaven spirits before the Throne of God,and seaven Angclls stood before the 1 hrone,and there were given to them leaven Trumpets. And he saw a Lamb having leaven horns, and seaven eyes,and he saw the book sealed with feaven Seales, and when the seaventh seal was opened, there was made (tlence in heaven. Now by all what hath been said, it is apparent that the number seaven, among(t che other numbers, may leservedly be said ro be most full of all efficacy. Moreover,

the number seayen hath great conformity with the number O 3 twelve; Of Occult Philosophy. "Book 11, ewelve; Fort as three, and four make seaven, fo thrice four make twelve, which are the numbers of the celestiall Planets, and signs, resulting from the same root, and by the number three partaking of the divinity, and by the number four of the nature of inferiour things. There is in sacred writ a very great observance of this number, before all others, and many, and very great are the mysteries thereof ; many we have decreed to reckon up here,repeating them out of holy writ,by which it will easily appear, that the number seaven doth signif a certain fulness of sacred mysteries. For we read in Genefss,that the seaventh was the day of the rest of the Lord; & Emoch,a pious, holy man, was the seaventh from Adam, and that there was another seaventh man from: Adam, a wicked man , by name Lamech, that had rwo wives ; and that the fin of Cas (hould be abolished the seaventh generation : As it is writtet, Cain (hall be punished seaven fold : and he that shall slay Cam, shall be revenged seaven fold, tro which the Master «f the History colleAts, that there were seaven sins of Cai Also of all clean beasts seaven, and feaven were bronght into the Ark, as also of Fowles: And after seaven day the Lord rained upon the Earth, and upon the seaventh dy the fountains of rhe deep were broken up, and the waters coveredthe Earth.

Also Abraham gave to »Abimelech (caven Ew Lambs : and Jacob served seaven years for Leah, and seavet more for Rachel: Ind seaven dayes the people of //rae! be wailed the death of 7acob. \' orcover,we read in the same plac of seaven Kine, and feaven Ears of Corn, scaven years ( . plenty, and seaven years of scarcity. And in Exod, the Sad both of Sabboths, the holy rest to the Lord, is commanded! be on the seayehth day. Also on the seaventh day Aoses cealed to pray. On the seaventh day there shall be a solemnity of tt Lord, the seaventh year the servantshall go ont free : fea dayes let the Calf, and the Lamb be with irs damm ; the & venth year let the ground that hath been sown fix years, bei rest:the seaventh day shall be a holy Sabboth,and a rest:the i yenth day, because it is the Sabboth, shall be called holy: Leviticus the seaventh day a'so shall be more observed,

——_ ll i... th. — > &0 a wa. oc. .c £2 —— — tt. tits. th. tht Mh— a __—_ Book I. Of Occult Philosophy. | be more holy : and the first day of the feaventh moneth shall be a Sabboth of memoriall. Seaven dayes (hall the sacrifices be offered to the Lord, seaven dayes shall che holy dayes of the Lord be celebrated, seaven dayes in a year everlastingly in the generations, In the seaventh moneth you shall celebrate feasts, and shall dwell in Tabernacles feaven dayes : seaven times he shall sprinkle himself before the Lord, thar hath dipped his finger in blood: he thac is cleansed from the Leprosy,shall dip seaven times in the blood of a sparrow : feaven days (hall (he be washed with running water, that is menstruous : seaven times he (hail dip his finger in the blood of a bullock : seaven times 1 will smite you for your sins: In Dexteronomy scaven people possessed the Land of promise. There is also read of a seaventh year of remission, and seaven Candles set up on the South side of the Candlelticks. And in Numbers it is read, that the sons of /-acl offered up seaven Ewe L2mbs without spor, and that seaven dayes they did ear unleavened bread, and that sin was expiared with seaven Lambs, & a Goat, and that the seaventh day was celebrated, and holy, and the firlt day of the seaventh moneth was observed , and kept holy, and the seaventh moneth of the feast of Tabernacles, & seaven

Calves were offered on the seaventh day, and Faalam e- rected seaven Altars ; seaven dayes Afary the filter of Aron went forth keprous our of the Camp, seaven dayeshe that tou» ched a dead Carkass was nnclean. And in Foshrra seaven prielts carried the Ark of the Coven:nt before the Host, and seaven dayes they went round the Cities, and feaven trumpets were carried by the seaven Priests,and on the seaventh day the seaven Priests sounded the Trumpets. And in the book of judges, «Abessa raigned in 1/rael seaven years, Samp/on kept bis nuptialls seaven dayes, and the seaventh day he put forth a Riddle to his wife, he was bound with seaven green withs, seaven Jocks of his head were shaved off, seaven years were the children of s-ae/ opprefsed by the King of Madern. And in the books of the Kings, E/ias prayed seaven times, and at the seaventh time, behold a lictie cloud ! seaven dayes the children of 1/-ae! pitched over against the Syrians, My =» Of Occult Philosophy. Book [1 seaventh day the battel] was joyned : seaven years famine was threatened to David for the peoples murmuring ; and seaven times the child neesed, that was raised by E1i/oa, and seaven men were crucihed together in the dayes of the firk harvest . Naaman was made clean with feaven washings by Elisha, the seaventh moneth Golias was slain. And in Hestn we read, that the King of Persia had three Exnuchs :

and in Tobias sceaven men were coupled with Sars the daughter of Ragwel: And in Daniel Nebacaazexzars Furnace was heated seaven times hotter then-it was uscd to be, and seaven Lion were in'the den, and the seaventh day came Nebucadnezzy, In the book of fob there is made mention of sraven sons of Fob, and seaven dayes and nights obs friends fate with him on the Earth ; and in the same place, In seaven troubles no evill (hal rouch thee. In Ezraweread of Artaxerxes his scaven cour sellers : and in the same place the trumpet sounded : the sez venth moneth of che fealt of tabernacles were in Ezraes time, whilest che children of 1/-4c/ were in the Cities : and onthe fist day of che seaventh moneth E/aras read the Law to the people, And in the Plalmes David praised the Lord seave times in a day : silver istryed seaven times; and he render to our neighbours seaven fold into their bosomes, And Sole mon (aith, chat widdom hath hewen her self seaven Pillars; seaven men that can render a reason, seaven abomination which'the Lord abhors, seaven abdominations in the heatrt of an enemy , seaven overscers, seaven eyes beholding. /U/aia numbers up seaven gifts of the Holy Ghost, and seaven women shall cake hold on a man. And in eremiah, she that hath born scaven, languitheth, she hath given up the ghost. In Exekzel, the Prophet conrinucd fad 'for seaven dayes.

In Zs ehariah seaven lamps, and seaven pipes to thase seaven lamps and seaven eyes running to-and fro throughout the whok Earth, and seaven eyes upon one stone, and the fast ofthe seavench day is turned into ioy. And in Micah, seaven (hep herds are raised against the Assyrians. Also in the Gospel we read of seaven blefsednesses, and seaven verties, to which

seaven vices are opposed; scaven petitions of the Lords pray: _ Book [ I. Of Occult Philosophy. r. seaven words of Christ upon the cross, seaven words of be blessed Virgin Mary, seaven loaves distributed by the ord, seaven baskets of fragments , seaven brothers having ne wife, seaven disciples of the Lord that were hihers, seaven ater Pots in Cara of Galile, seaven woes which the Lord hreatens tothe Hypocrites, seaven divels cast our of the unlean woman, and feaven wickeder divells taken in after that which was cast out, Also seaven years {hris# was fled into t: and the seaventh hour the Fevour left the Governors »n, Andin the Canonicall Epiltles, 7ames deicribes sraven eprees of wisdom, and Peter seaven degrees of Vertues, ndin the As are reckoned seaven Deacons,and seaven disciles chosen by the Apostles. Also in the Revelations there arc any mysteries of this number : for there we read of seayen andlesticks, seaven Stars, seaven Crowns, feaven Churches, aven Spirits before the Throne , seaven Rivers of Zeype, aven Seales, seaven Markes, seaven Horns, seaven Eyes, ven Spirits of God, seaven Angels wich seaven Trumpets, aven horns of the Dragon, seaven heads of the Dragon, hich had seaven Diadems : allo seaven plagues, and (eayen als, which were given to one of the seaven Angells, seaven xeads of the scarlet Beast, feaven Mountains , and scaven ings sitting upon them, and seaven thunders uttercd their | oyces.

ee this number hath much power, as in natuall, so in sacred, Ceremoniall, and also in other things : herefore the seaven days are related hither, alio the seaven lanets, the seaven, Stars called Flciades, the seaven Ayes of the Norld. the seaven changes of man, the seaven liberall Arts, nd so many mechanick, and so many forbidden, seaven olours, seaven Metalls, seaven hotes 1n the head of a man, aven Pair of nerves, seaven Mountains 1n the City of Rome, aven Romane Kings, seaven Civill Wars, feaven wile men in he time of Jeremiah the *Prophet, and seaven wile men of reece. AlsoRome did: burn feaven days by Nero. By seaven ings were slain ten thousand Martyrs, There were feaven cepers, seaven Pprincipall Churches of Rome, and so many

onalteries did Gregory build : So many sons Saint Feliciry broughe Of Occult Philosoply. Book I fances in the Mass; seaven Sacraments, and sfeaven orders the Clergy, and a boy of seaven years may be ordained h the lesser order, and may obtein a benetice fine Cura. Ther are seaven penitentiall Psalmes, and feaven commands of t second table, and feaven hours were eAdam, and Eve in radise, and there were seaven men foretold by an Angell be fore they were born, viz. 1/mael, Isaack Sampson, Jeremin, John Baptist , Fames the brother of the Lord, and Chr Jesus, Lastly, this number is most potent of all,as in good, evill ; of this Livy,the molt ancient Poet sang, T he seaventh light 15 come, and then all things T”absolve the father of all light begins T he seaventh;' s of all things original, The first seaventh, seaventh seaven we call Perfett, with Wandring Stars the heavens po d, And with as many circles areroundroll'd, In the originall world. In the Intelligible world. In the Ce. lestiall world. In the Elementary world. In the lefler world. —_ = 0 - ca In the infernall world. Arartita, NY NON p 1 TR ox/pas | OPT | 885 Zaphiel. | Zadkiel. Camaecl. | OY 2 , NDOW PI D'IND YT Jupiter. Mars, BEES. BER The Lapwing The Eaole, [The Vulcur, The Cutle. |1 he Dolphin, The Pike. fish. * [The Hart. The Wolf. The Mole. |Tin. Iron. Lead. The Saphir, The Dias: Ll he Onyx, mend, Theright The Head, The right foot. The left ear, h3ndThe right car, The right No. srell.

Cn — — — — The gates of The shadow death. 'of death, The Swan, The Sea-cal The Lion, Gold. [ he Ca;. buncle, The heart, I he right Thepit of & iruttion. 48 of the Number seven, Aer Ehele «PAN NWN The name of God wich scyen letters. Seren Angels RINT R901 W7) whick stand in the Haaiel, Michael. Gabriel. presence of God. £5: HO0RE}, FAA Ch DOT Re ma INI 955 Seven Planets. Venus. Mercury. The Moon. *-4 Seven Birds of £ Planets. The Dove, The Stork. The Owle. ; Thimallus. | The Muller, | The Sea-Car, | 2542 Fish of the The Goat. The Ape. Car, Q —_— ws of Copper. Quick-flver. | Silver. Pg”. s op The Emrald. | The Achates. | Crystall. mbar IPPEW [ lanets. Seven $rones of the Planets. Seven integral! Theprivy members (d:[tribuImembers. The lefe hand, | The left foot, red to the Planets, The left no- | The month, | Thelefr eye. | Seven holes of the ftrill, head distributed to the Planets. Seven an apr The clay of ; of infernals, which death, F Perdirion, The Lay of \ Rabbi Joseph of; way [NaN on, arth. _ | Castilia the CabaNV lift desctibes in the

| Garden ot Nurs, | Of Occult Philosophy. Book 1], CHAP. XI. Of the number of Eight, and the Scale thereof. He Pythaporians call eight the number of justice , and fulness : first, because it is first of all divided into num. * bers equally even, viz, into four, and that division is by th same reason made into twice two, viz. by twice two twice: and by reason of this equality of division, it cook to it selfth name of justice, but the other received the name, vzz. of ful. ness, by reason of the contexture of the corporeall solidity, since the first makes a solid body. Hence that custome of 0+. phens, (wearing by eight dieries, if ar any rime he would be seech divine justice, whose names are these. Fire , W ater, Earth, the Heaven, Moon, Sun, Phanes, the Night. Ther: are also only eighf visible Spheres of the heavens : also byi the property of corporeall nature 1s signified which-0r. pheus camprehends in eight of his Sea songs. This is also callel the covenant or circumcision, which was commanded to ht done by the fewes the eight day. There were also in th? old Law eight ornaments of the Priest, viz. a brealt-plate, a coat a girldle, a myter a robe,at Ephod, ' a girdle of the Ephod, a golden plate ; | hithe belongs the number to eternity, and the end of the world becaule it follows the number seven, which is the mysterie of ' time :

hence also the number of blefiedness; for Christ tex cheth so many degrees of blessednesses,as you may see in Ms thew : It is allo called the number of safety, and conservation, for there were so many souls of the sons of Fesse, from whict David was the eighth. Allo Zacharias, the farher of Zohn, re ceived his speech the eighth day. [hey fay this number was dedicated to Dionyfire, because he was born the cighth monetk in everlasting memory whereof, Naxos the Hand was dedicxel to him, which obtained this prerogative, that only the wo- - men of Naxos sh uld safely bring torthin the eighth moneth, and their children should live. whereas the children of tht eighth moneth in other Nations dy, and their mothers then bringing forth are in manifest danger.

Of Occult Philosophy. Book Il CHAP. XIL Of the N amber of Nine, and the Scale thereof. He number nine is dedicated to the Muses, by the help the order of the Celestiall Spheres, and divine spirits Hence there are nine movable Spheres, and according to tho there are nine Muses, viz. Calliope, Urania, Polymnia, Te plichore,Clio, Melpomene,Erato, Euterpe, Thalia, which nin Muses indeed are appropriated to the nine Spheres, so thatt first resembles the supreme Sphere, which they call Primum bile , and so descending by degrees, according to the writte order,unto the last, which resembles the Sphere of the Moon, viz, Calliope is appropriated to the Primum mobile;Uraniat the Starry Heaven, Polymnia toS.ct4rn,Terplichore,to Zupit Clio to Mars, Melpomene to the Sus, Erato to Fenw, þ terpe to Mercary, Thalia to the Moon. There are also nine orders of blefled Angels,viz. Ser phim, Cherubim, Thrones, Domination, Powers , Vertu Principallities, Archangels, Angels, which Ezekiel figu out by nine Stones, which are the Saphir, Emrald, Carbun Berill, Onyx, Chrysolite, Jasper, sopaze, Sardis: number hath also a great, and Occult mysterie of the Cro For the ninth hour our Lord Jesus Christ breathed out Spirit, And in nine dayes the Ancients burycd their d and in so many yeers they say Ainea received Laws from piter in a Cave; whence this number was molt especially tak notice of by Homer, when Laws were to be given, ori : \wers were to be given, or the sword was like to rl * The Astrologers allo take notice of the number nine ind : Apes of men, no otherwise then they do of seven, wi they call ClimaRericall years, whch are eminent for ( remarkable change. Yet sometimes it signifies imperfeRtn | and incompleatness,because it doth not attain to the pert on of the number ten, bur is less by one, without whichil deficient,as Austin interprets it of the ten Leapers : Neithel

the longitude of nine Cubits of Og King of Balan,who isat) of the divel, without a mysterie, b - The Scale of the Number nine. The names of God with nine letters, /Nine Quires of Aagels. Nine Angelsruling the Heavens. Nine stones representing the nine Quires of Angels 26200 Nine senses inward, and outward Nine orders of divels. - I oe I I hs Jehovah Saboath, T'NISY 17177? The Star- [ry Heaven. Thesj phere of Saturn, Jehovah 7 idkeny, 15ÞP' ma The sphere of Jupiter, Spirits of Vessels of LY © ww — 0 f wic ed. nels. Sn = P AAS - The Re of Mars. 'Principa* Verrue. ' P (Jie Raphael. Hanjel. ; The sphere; T he sphere of the Sun. of Venus. | ; Furics, Auery POW- sowing _ -. a. S El\ohim Gibor, N21 DITINR T1 he sphere of the Moon. ta the l riginall Of the Number Ten, aid the Scale thereof. HE numberten is called every number, or an univerl number, compleat,(ignify ing the full course of life : { beyond that we cannot number, but by replication ; and either implics all numbers within it self, or explains them! it self, and its own, by multiplying them : wherefore it accounted to be of a manifold Religion, and power, and: applyed to the purging of fouls. Hence the Ancients, calk Ceremonies Denary, because they that were to be exp&t and to offer sacrifices, were to abltain from song certs things for ten dayes.

Whence amongst the Egyptians! was the costome for him chat would sacrifice to o, toi ten dayes before, which eApz#lei;rs restifhes of himself, fayin It was commanded that I should for the space of ten dat refrain all meat, and de fasting. There are ten sanguine pun of man, the Menitrues , the Sperm, the Plasmarick (pit the Mass, the Humours, the Organicall body, the vegetati part, the sensitive part, reason, and themind. ' There arei so ten {imple integrall parts constituting man , the bor cartilage, nerve, fibre, ligament, artery , vein , membrar! flc(h, sKin. There are also ten parts of which a man conlit intrinsecally; The spirit, the brain, the lungs, the heart, i liver, the gall, the spleen, the kidnies, the telticles, the Matrt There were ten Curtains in the Temple, ten strings inti Pfaltery ; ten musicall instruments with which Psalms wet sang , the names whereof were, Neza, on which their Oi were sang, Nablum, the same as Organs, Mizmor , on whit the Psalms, Sir, on which the Canticles, Tehila, on which\ rations, beracha, on which Benediions , Halel, on _ | Praile

Book I I. Ot Occult Philosophy. - raises : Hodaia, on which Thanks, Asre on which the Felici- ; of any one , Hallelujah, on which the praises of God only, 4 Contemplations. There were also ten fingers of ”salms, 'sz. Adam, «Abraham, Ielchisedech, Moses, Asaph, Da- 1. Solomon, and three sons of Chora, there are also ten nmandements ; And the tenth day afrer the ascension of hist the Hoiy Ghost came down, This lastly is 2 number ,« in which 7aceb wrestling with the Angel all oht overcame, and ac the rising of the Sun was blessed, d called by the name of //-ae/ In this number Josou' ercame thirty one Kings, und Dumrd overcame Goliah, d the Phil-stines, and *2axe/ escaped the danger of the ons. This -nnmber alio 1s as circulat as unity, becaule being zped together, returns mto a unity, from whence it had beginning, and it is the end, and pertcRion of all num- rs, and the beginning of tens. As the number ten flows k into a unity , from whence it proceeded fo every thing at is lowing is returned back to that from which it had 2 beginning of its Flux. So water returns to the Sea, sm whence it had its beginning, the body returns to the mh, from whence it was taken : time returns into Erery, from whence it flowed, the spirit shall recurn to d that gave it; and lastly every creature returns to no-

ng, from whence it was created , neither is it {upportbur by the word of God, in whom all things are hid ; and things with the number ten, and by the number cen, make vund, as saith Procls, taking their beginning from God, lending in him, God therefore that firlt unicy, or one ng, betore he communicated himself to inferiours, diffused nlelf first into the first of numbers,viz. The number three, ninto thenumber tcn, as into ten 7adea's, and measures of king all numbers, and all things, which che Hebrews call | Attributes, and account ten divine names: For which le there cannot be a further rumber. Hence all tens have ne divine thing in them, and in the Law are required of dd as his own, together with the first fruits, as-the origi- of things, and beginning of numbers, and everytenth is * Of Occult Philosophy. Book 1] as the end given to him, who is the beginning, and end ofi things, The Stale of the Number ten. vv inks, NI [T he name Jchova of. cen letters col- | The Name Jehovah of te leRed. letters. x | » PT % [TI971MMWx I..4 Jehovahe))< hova Elo- |E|. Elohim gibor. m25n [m. DN TANAI Jdochmah- By -_ Hesed |Geburzh, inah.,

Ten orders of the Of Occult Philosophy. Book [ 1. Of the Number eleven, and the number twelve; with a duybl: Scale of the Number twelve (. abilisticall, aad Orphicall. ME number eleven as it exceeds the number ten, which L the number-of the commandements, so it fals short of the number twelve, which is of grace and perfeRion, there: fore it is called the number of sins, and the penitent, Hence inthe tabernacle there were commanded to be made eleven ” Coats of hair which is the habit 0: those that are penitent, and lament for their sins, whence this number hath no Com. munion wich Divine or Celc{tiall things, nor any attraRion, or scale tending to things above : neither hath it any reward: bur yer sometimes it receives a gratuitous favor from God, z he which was call. d the eleventh hour to the vineyard of the Lord trcccived the {fame reward as those who had born th burden, and hrac of the day. Now the number twelvei divine, aad that v-hereby the Celestials are measured ; it is al. so the number of the Signs inthe Zodiack over which there ar: twelve angels as chic?, 1ppor cd by the [Irrigation of the grex name of God. In twelve ycers allo Z-piter perfeRts his courle, and th:Moon daily runs through twelve degrees. There are allo twclve chief joynts in the body of man,viz. in hands,elbone, shoulders, thighs, knees, and verteb.z of the feet.

Ther: 7s also a great power of the number twelve in divine mysterie, God chose twelve families of 1/-ae/, and set over them twelve Princes; so many (tones were placed in the midst of 7-9-4, and God commanded chat so many should be set on the breal: Gf the Priest; ewelve Lyons did bear the brazen Sea that wi m1de by Solomon : there were fo many fountains in Helim, a... so many spies seat to the land of promise, and so many Ao-[tles of Chrilt set over the twelvetribes, and twelve thou {1nd people were ser apart and chosen ; the queen of Heaye! crowned with twelve Stars, and in the Gospel ewelye a

| Book I I. Ot Occult Philosophy. | ofthe fragments were taken up , and twelve Angels are ser | over the twelve gates of the City, .and twelye stones of the heavenly Jerusalem. In inferior things many breeding things | proceed after this number; so the Hare and Coney being most fruitfull, bring forth twelve times in the yeer, and the Cammel is so many moneths in breeding, and the Pea-cock brings forth twelve Eggs. : fn names of God with ' Of Occult Philosophy. The Scale of theNumber twelve. The great name returned back into twelve bannets. Twelve orders of the blessed $plrics, Twelve Angels ruling 0ver the signs, Twelye figns of the Zo- T welve Moneths, : | Malchl> Asmodel. diel, | The head. The neck, camned, and of Divels. Twclve degrees of the The brest.j The heart, [The belly. Kevengers of wick. PR | Book 11. Of Occult Philosophy. —_—y In = Oth- — R ina | © bIPAMNDR AN 45 J | m1 | TW [Om [ng [MI | on 2 T In the In. , |W'rincipa- |Archan- !Angels, Martyrs. Confes- le ties, gels, sors, orld, | WZuicl. [82cbicl., ————_ Gabicl. Barchiel, TW |

bers of man distributed to | Fr: | the signs, | Kel TheB — he Buy Book IT. —Of Occult Philosophy. | | [In the inDiana. Juno, Neptune, telligible Scorpius, |Sagittark |Capricorn Aquarius, |Pisces, leftiall us, * world. In the EO&Rober. |Novem- January. February, lemeatall ber, ber world. Bex-tree, [Dog tree. [Palm-treo Pine.rree. Ram-thorn £ | In the lesKidniles, |Genitals. [Hamnes, 'Knees, Leggs: ' ser world. Of Occult Philosophy. Book [1. Of the Numbers Which are above twelve, and of their power s,and VEYLiUHES. H E -other numbers also which are above twelve, are enE þ dowed with many, and various eftcQs, the vertues where. of you mult understand by their originall, and parts, as they are made of a various gathering together of simple numbers, or maner of multiplication. Sometimes as their (1gnisications arise Fr from the lessening, or exceeding of another going before, especially more perfeR, so they contain of themselves the Gen of certain divine mysteries. So you see the third number a. bove ten,shews the mysteries of Chrilts appearing to the Gen. tiles, for the thirteenth day afcer his birth a Star was a guide to the wise men. The fourteenth day doth typitie Christ,who the fourteenth day of the first moneth was sacrificed for 1s; upon which day the children of 1/7-4e/ were commanded by che Lord to celebrate the Passeover, This number Atathew doth so carefully observe, that he passed over fome generations,that he might every where observe this number in the generations of Chrilt, The fifteenth number is a token of spirituall ascenfions, therefore the song of degrees is applyed to that in fifreen P/almes.

Also fifteen yeers were added to the life of king Hezekiah : and the fifteenth Gay of the seventh moneth was observed, and kept holy. The number sixteen, the Pytha- f gorians Call the number of felicity. It also comprehends all che h Prophets of the old Testament,and the Apostles,and Ev angelists of the new. The number cighteen, and rw enty, Divines 1n- P rerpret to be unhappy, for in che former, {/rael served Eglon

, A ww 3a ep "oo Re une ou ine II q c King of A76ab; in the other Faced lerved, and 7o/eph was fold, . And lastly, amongst creatures chat have many fecr,there is none s that hath above twenty feet. 1he ewenty tiyo fignitics the ful- WH ness of wiidom,and io many are the CharaQers ot the ttebie letters, and so many Looks duth the vid Teltament contain. Wl x To the number twelity cight, the favour of the Moon 1s defioned, Book {OA Of Occult Philosophy. 223 signed, for the motion thereofis distant from the course of other Stars,& as it were alone is compleared the ewenty eighth day, when it returns to the same point of the Zodiake from whence it came. * Hence rwenty cight Mansions of the Moon, having (1ngular vertue, and influence, are numbred in the heayens. The number thirty is memorable for many mysteries, Our Lord Jesus Christ was baptized the thirtieth yeer of his Age, and began to do miracles, and toteach the Kingdom of God. Also John Baptist was thirty yeers old when he bean to preach in the wilderness, and to prepare the wayes of the Lord. Also Ezekiel at the same Age began to prophecy;and Zoseph was brought out of Prison on the thirtieth yeer of his Age, and received the government of Egypt from Pharoah, The number thirty two, the Hebrew DoQors ascribe to wildom,and so many paths of wisdom are described by Abraham.

But the Pythagorians call this the number of Jultice, because it is alwaies divisible into two parts, even unto a unity. The number fourty, the Ancients did honour with great observation, concerning which they did celebrate the feast Teflarosten : It is said that it doth conduce to the account of birth, for in fo many daies the seed is firted, and transformed in the womb, untill it be by its due , and harmoniacall proportions brought unto a perfect organicall body,being disposed to receive a rationall foul. And so many dayes they say women be, after they have brought forth, before all chings are letled within them, and they purified, and so many dayes infants refrain from smiling, are infirme, and live with a great deal of hazard. This also is in Religion a number of expiation, and penitency, and {1gnifying great mylteries. For in the time of the deluge the Lord rained fourty dayes, and nights upon the earth : T he children of 1/-ael lived fourty yeers inthe wilderness; fourty dayes the destruRtion of Nireveh was put off, The lame number was accounted as holy in the fasts of the Saints : For Moses, Elias, and Christ fasted fourty dayes. Christ was arried fourty weeksin the womb of a Virgin, Christ tarcycd fourty dayes after his birth at Ferhelem before he was presen-

ted inthe Temple: He preached fourty months publickly:he lay fourty Of Occult Philosophy. | Book [1. fourty hours dead in the Sepulchre,the fourtieth day after hi resurreRion he ascended into heaven, all which Divines say, were not done without some occult property, and mysterie of this number. The number fifty signifies remission of ins, of servitudes,and also liberty. According in the Law,on the fi. tieth year they did remit debts,and every one did return to hi own possessions. Hence by the yeer of 7«b1/ee,and by the P/aln of repentance it shews a sign of indulgency, and repentance, The law also, and- the holy Gholt are declared in the same; For the fifrieth day after 7/-aels going forth out of Egypt, th Law was given to Moses in mount Sinai: The fiftieth day afte the resurreQion,the holy Ghost came down npon the Apostle in mount Sion ; Whence also it is called the number of grace, and attributed to the Holy Ghost. The number (1xry, was hoh to the Egyptians, for it is proper to the Crocodile,that as (he in sixty dayes brings forth (ixty eggs,and so many dayes (its them, so she is said also to live so many yeers, and to har so many teeth : and so many dayes every yeer to rel solitary without any meat. The number seventy- hath alsoin mysteries,for so many yeers the fire of che sacrifice in the Baby. lonian Captivity lay under the water, and was alive :

so may yeers Feremiah foretold the destruRtion of the Temple, and many yeers the Babylonian Captivity endured,and in so man yeers the desolation of Jerusalem was finished. Also there wer seventyPalms in the place where the children of 1/-ael pitchel their Tents. The Fathers went down to Egypt with seventy souls. Also seventy Kings with their fingers,and toes cut off di - gather meat under the table of Advnibezeck seventy sons cane forth of the loins of 7eas, seventy men,all sons of 7ero, seventy weights of filver were given to Abimelech, and so many met Abimeleth slew upon one stone ; Abdon had seventy sons, al Nephews,who rod upon seventy Foals of Affes ; ' Solomon hil seventy thousand men which carried burdens. Seventy (od of King efhab were beheaded in Samara ; seventy yeers,t cording to the P/almist,are the Age of man. Lamech (hall avenged seventy seven fold ; Thou shalt forgive thy brotht if he offend against thee,seventy seven times, Also the _ eyel

Book I I. Of Occult Philosophy. seventy seven times. Also the number seventy two was famous for so many languages, for so many Elders of the Synagogue, for so many interprers of the old Testament,for\so many Disci. les of Christ : It hath also a great Communion with the umber twelve; hence in the heavens, every sign being divided nto six parts,there result seventy two fives, over which so may angels bear rule; and so many are the names of God; and yery five is set over one Idiom with such efficacy, that the srologers, and Physiognomists can know from thence from that Idiom every one ariseth. Answerable to these are so any manifest joynts in mans body, whereof in every finger nd coe there are three, which rogerher with the twelve Prin. al reckoned before in the number twelve make up seventy 0. The number a hundred in which the sheep that was und, was placed, which also passeth from the left hand to e right,is found holy : and because it consists of tensit shews ompleat perfeion. But the Complement of all numbers is thousand which is the four square measure of the number ten, nifying a compleat, and absolute perfeRion. There are altwonumbers especially celebrated by Plato in his Repub. d not disallowed by eAristorle in his Politicks, by which eat mutations in Cities are foretold : These are the.square ten, and the four square measure thereof, viz. the fourty r above a hundred, and seven hundred twenty eight above ousand, which number is fatall : to which when any City,oc )mmon Wealth hath attained, ir (hall afrerward with a comat four square measure decline : bur in squares it undergoeth hange, bur for the better, if it be governcd with prudent ipline, and then it (hall not with fate, þut imprudency l. And let thus much sufhce for numbers in patrticu-

Rn OT TIS ms as Of Occult Philosophy. Book 1 Of the notes of »nmbers, placed in certain gestutjngs. fy, ay =, @ = my $ bend A Have often read in books of Magicians, and-their work and experiments certain, wonderful, & as they seemed ro me ridiculous gesturings, and 1 did think they were cergain occu agreements of the divels,by reason of which I did rejeR them: but after 1did more serioufly examine the matter, then Idif presently understand that they were not the compatts divels ; but that' there lay in them the reason of numbers, þ which the ancients did by the various bending forward, anl backward; their hands, and fingers represent numbers, b whose gesturings the Magicians did filently (ignifie words w known by sound, various with nombers, yet of great verti; by their fingers joyned together, and sometimes changed, al did with sacred filence worship\the Gods that rule overtk world. The rites whereof Martianus also makes mention d in his Arithmerick, saying, The fingers 6f the Virgin werem ved all manner of wayes, who after she went in, did bya presfing seven hundred and seventeen numbers with her benl cd fingers call upon 7«piter, But that these things may bet better understood, 1 (all bring something out of the saying of Beda who faith, When thou sayest one,bend in the litle ft zcr on thy left hand, and set it in the middle of the Paln:

when thou sayelt two, place the next finger to the litle fing in the same place; when three, the middle finger after the manner; when four, thou shalt lifr up thy little finger; » five, the next to it after the same manner ; when (ix, middle, that finger alone which is called the ring finger, be fixt on the mddle of the Palme : when thou sayest seven, th (halt put =_ thy little finger above the root of t Palm, the relt in the mean time being lifred up ; andbyi when thou sayelt eight, thy ring finger; when thou sayeltni thou shalt ser thy middle finger contrary to them ; when! sayeft ten, thou shall set the naile of thy fore-finger, of!

© bus gw a © $f ww, © Rx= Wy Ati. i. — Book TI. Of Occult Philosophy, middle joynt of thy thumb. When thou sayest rwenty, thou shalt put the top of thy middle finger close betwixt the joynts of thy thumb, and forefinger. When thou sayelt thirty, thou halt zoyn the naile of thy thumb, and fore-finger lightly rogether. When thou saycst fourty, rchou (halc bring the inside of thy thumb to the outside of thy fore. finger, both being lifted up. When thou sayest fifry, thou shalt bend thy thumb with the outward Joynt,like to the Greek Gamma, to the Palme. When thou sayest sixty,compass about thy thumb being bended 25 before, with thy fore-finger bowed over it. When thou sayest &yenty, thou shalc supply thy fore- finger being bowed abouc asbcfore, with thy thumb ltretched at length, the naile thereof being lifred up beyond the middle joynt of thy fore-tinger. When thou sayest eighty , chou shalt supply thy fore- finger bowed about as before, with thy thumb {stretched forth at length, the naile thereof _ ler upon the middle joynt of the fore-finger. When thou sayest ninty, thou shall ser the naile of thy fore-finger bent into the root of thy thumb retched out. Thus much for the lefr hand, Now thou shale make 100..0n thy right hand, as thou didlt ten on thy left;and 260, on thy right, as thou didst ewenty on thy left; 2000. on thy right, as thou didst ewo on thy left, and so ro 9000, Moreyer when thou sayest 20000. thou shalt put thy lefc hand up-

ard on thy brest, thy fingers only being lifred towards Heaen. When thou sayest 20000. thou shalc put the same spread forth upon thy breast. When thou sayest 30000, thou shalt ut thy thumb on the same hand downards, on the cartilage of the middle of thy brest; When thou sayest 40000. thou shalt lay the same upright, and stretched forth on thy navell. 'hen thou sayest 50000. thou shalt lay thy thumb of the same hand downard on thy navell. When thou sayest 60200. thon a't hold thy left thigh with the same, being downards. When ou saycst 70000. the same thou (halt put upon thy thumb right. When thou sayest $0000. thou shalt put the same lownward on thy thigh. When thou sayelt goooo. thou shalt hold thy loyns with the same, thy thumb being turned downwards, But when thou sayest 1c0000, or 20co000, and so un- | Of Occult Philosophy. Book [1 to 900000, thou shalt in the same order as we have spoken, fill them up on the right part of thy body. Bat when thoy sayest 1000000. thou shall joyn both chy hands together, and clasp thy fingers one within the other, Let chese suffice which have been observed out of Bedz; Thou shalt finde more of these in Brother Luke of Saint Sepulchers, in his great Arithmetick,

Of the various notes of numbers observed among st the Romans, HE notes of numbers are made diverse wayes in diver nations. The Romans did figure them by these following notes, which Valerius Probus describes concerning the ancient letters, and which are (till in use,viz. One, Five, Ten. Fifty. A hundred. TWohundred, Five handrid BE, : Gp: 5 C. wn OG D. A thowsand. Five thousand. M. S.s. *CX9. 1099- ICC.Y. T en thousand. Fifty thousand. CCI99- CMy. 9MC. IMI. I. 19595- DJ. L. eA hundred thousand. T wo hundred thousans ECCI9)) pv - CNT © ops" Five hundred thousand. A thousand thousand. DM. 4q9- D. CMy. Cqo. mM. S. There are also other notes of numbers now a dayes used « mongst Arithmeticians, and Calculators, which according t0 the order of numbers are made after this manner. 1.2.3. 4.5.6.7. 8.9. to which is added a note of privatio! signed with the mark © which although it fignifie — if | wy ——— wed, a th — —_— a. th. a th. Mi. Mi ' Of Occult Philosophy. = 229 ber, yet makes others co fignitie, either tens, or hundreds, or ' thousands, as is well known to Arjthmeticians, Also WW there are some that mark the number ten with a line downWH ward, and another mallecross it; and five by that line which \ WM couchewh the other, bur doth not go cross it, and 2 unity by that

which is put by it self, as you may fee in this example, T signifies ten, + 1pnifies ten and five, g signifies | lutcen, y of ten and seven; and the round © being put by it self signifies a hundred ; but being joyned to others,signifies so many hundreds as the numbers are to which it is pur, % thus, 00 or thus 110 signifies two hundred, thus 000 or thuy 1110 three hundred F five hundred, T ten hundred or athousand, And these notes are commonly seen added in Magicall CharaQers, Q g | CHAP, I dim. ol <a—_——— © Of Occule Plalyoply, __ Book 11 Of the notes, or figures of the Gracians. H E Grzcians use the Alphabeticall letters for their notes T& numbers, and that three wayes; fult by every Elemen according to the series of the Alphabet s1gnifying the numbe: of its place. For in the order of which any number doth possesle the place of the Alphaber, it represents the numbe thereof, as here you may see. | Lk. 3.3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10, 11, 12.-#$—14, 15, 16, 27, ik « C 7 S $ 4 3, 2 RY oe 1 - e mT e f I9. 30, 33, 33. 33. 34,

| rv Þ 2 + And this is the first order of numbers amongst the Greek, Secondly, the Greeks divide the whole Alphabet into thre Classes, whereof the first beginning from Alphs, is of units The second beginning from Iota is of tens, The third beginin fxom Rho is of hundreds ; and this order by the latter of tht Greeks is instituted after the imitation of the Hebrews. Nov because their Alphabet wants by that rule, three letters, its neceflary to add to them three figures, and to interlc them with the letters, by which,viz. they —_ the (ixt, th nineticth, and the nine hundreth, as is manifest in the following Classes. &. 2. 3, 4+ $5. 6, 7, 8.' 9. 10, 20, 39. 40, 50, 60, 90, 8. ASA Br RnO1 KA-MIN- x 0 19 100. 220, ZOO, 400, 500, 600, 700, Boy. goo. P 5 os ye. OS ES INOS « Now if to any of these letters there be £15 {cried the {rrok 0 Book I I. Of Occult Philosophy. | of an acute tone, then it signifies so many thousands, as in these examples. Afzer the third manner,the Greeks use only six letters in signifying their numbers,viz. 1, for an Unite, 11 for the number five, because it is the head of the word wiv: (5.e. )five. 4 Gr the number ten,from «a. H for a hundred from #«ariy. X for a thousand, from the word xyi>/2. M for ten thousand from

{«, From which fix letters joyned in number after their manr usito four, or to other numbers, they make other numbers, delides 11 which is not multiplyed, nor joyned to it self, bur wayes signifies the fives of others, as*appears in the fol- —_—S 8.6 57 $ " BE OY a, I3 84 11 13x 10208 IT Ts TItk diets Titi A Ar Art Al 4 . © MX | ailts All Alli 24a Aal so 69 106. 200 5000 1000 5000 10000 50000. Ts HA HH X fg M. {aj Of Occult Philosophy. Book 11, Of the notes of the Hebrews, and C aldeans, and certain other notes of Magicians. T HE Hebrew letters also have marks of numbers, but fr more excellently then any other languapes , since the oreatest mysteries lie in Hebrew letters, as is handled concern, ing these in that part of (abaly which they call Notariacon Now the principall Hebrew letters are in number twenty two, whereof five have divers other certain figures in the end of! word, which therefore they call the five ending letters, whid being added to them aforesaid make twenty feven, which be ing then divided into three-degrees, signific the unites, which are in the first degree ; tens which are in the second, and hun: dreds which are in the third degree.. Now every one of then if they be marked with a great CharaQer, signifies sp many thousands, as here | |

Now the Classes of the Hebrew numbers are thefe, | | 40. 30. - 20, v © Þ 9 Any 5 > 900, 800, 700, 6CO, FOO, 400, 300, 200. 100 r — jj 3 7 Book 1. Of Occult Philosophy. 202 - Now there are some which do nor use those finall letters, bur instead of them write thus, her 1000, gc, Yoo. 700. £OO, 500, y N |9Mp nm mw. nn mp fir And by those simple figures by the joyning them together the WM they describe all other compound numbers, aseleven,ewelve, rn. abundred and ten, a hundred and cleven, by adding to the -n. WJ camber ten,'those which are of unites; and in like manner to xo, Wl be relt after their, manner; yet they defcribe the fifteenth of: WJ number not by ten, and five, but by nine, and (1x,viz. thus nid MI 2 and-that out of honor to the divine name I) which imports be WY fifecen, lest it hovld happen that the sacred name should be a- - ni MY bused ro prophane things. Also the Egyptians, £Athiopians, un. Wy Caldeans, and Arabians, have their marks of numbers,which \cn i also often times happen amongst Magicall CharaRers. He any therefore that would know them, must seek them, of them that are skilful of these letters. For the Caldeans mark the numbers with che letters of their Alphabet after the manner

end of the first book. Moreover I found in two molt anNi cient books of Aftrologers, and Magicians, certain most elegant marks of numbers, ;which I thought good to se_down n this place; Now-they were in both Vokums such, __ + 24%, BUD RK eG 0. RD x "y | IIFTTEEFL 00, 55 F-28 ih F " . ry *z41 Of Occult Philosophy. - Book], Now by these mark turned to the left hand are made rens,after this manner: 20 30 40 oO 60 10 5 70 80 90 IST TLIEL And by those markes which are turned downwards on the the right band, are made hundreds; on the left thousands, wi; thus. 300 300 400 500 600 700 Boo 9go0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 Gooo 7000 8000 9000 And by the composition, and mixture of these markes othe mixt and compounded numbers also are most elegantly made, as you may perceive by these few, According to the example of which we mult proceed in other compound numbers ; And so much suffice for the marks of BooklIT. Of Occult Philosophy. = et | CHAP. XX. what numbers are attributed to letters; and of drvining by the / 4mts

HE Pythagorians fay (eAriftotle, and Ptolemy are of { Jhrathts ) that the very Elements of letters have some certain divine numbers, by which colleRed from proper names of things, we may draw conjeRures concerning occult things to come. Whence they call this kind of divination Arithmancy, because,viz. it is done by numbers, as Terentianus hath made mention of it in these verses. Names are, they say, made of bnt letters fe Unfortunate, of mary, do foreshew Success; so HeRor aid Patrocius /lay, $0 HeRor to Achilles Was a prey, Also Plizy faith, That there was added to what Pythagora: inyented, an uneven number of vowels of imposed names, which did beroken lameness, or want of eyes, and such like misfortunes, if they be assigned to the right (ide parts; bur aneven number to them of the left. And eAlexandrinus the Philosopher taught, How that by the number of letters we may her I 9d out the ruling Stars of any one that is born, and whether the husband or wife (hall dye first, and know the prosperous, de or unhappy events of the rest of our works. His traditions which were not disallowed by Pro/emy the Astrologer we (hall 21 here add, and put under, But those numbers, which are de-

puted to each letter, we have above shewed in the Greek, and = KFHebrew letters, the Alphabet being divided into three Classes, whereof the first is of unites, the second of tens, the third of \ tundreds, And secing in the Roman Alphabet there are want- ng four ro make up the number of twenty seven Characters, ther Wtheir places are supplyed with 1, and V simple consonants, ; of Fain the names of Joh», and Valentine, and hi, and hu afpirate \ P, consonants as-in Hierom, and Huilhelme, although the Germans Of Occult Philosophy \ Book ll. Germans for hx the asperate use a double v v; the true Italians, and French in their vulgar speech put G joyacd with U instead thereof, writing thus, Yuilhelms, and Guiuthelm:s. I. SS, 8, Ob 6. -Þ. , 36% 20. 30. 40. & RB. QC.D.E.;' FF. GH. 1. KL O. P. @ RR; ST. V. X.: Yo Lo 3: Ve ib 900. But if thou desirest to know the ruling Star of any one that; born,compute his name, and afboth his parents, through ea letter according to the numberabove written, and divide the sum of the whole being gachered rogether by nine,substraRing

it as often as thou canst; and if there remaine a unity, or four, both signifie the S#; if two or seven, both signifie the Aso but three, Japiter; five, Mercary;lix, Venus; eight, Satwrue;ning, Mars; and the reasons thereof are shewed else where, In like manner if thou defirest ro know the horoscope of any one that is born, compute his name, and of his Mother, and Father, and divide the whole colle&ed together by twelve if there remain a unity, it signifies the Lyon; if 7#nos dewce, Aqnarine; if the Vestall three, Capricorn; if four, Sagittarius; if five, Cancer if Ven (ix, Tarrm;it Palladian seven, Aries; if Vwlcans eight, Libra; if Mars his nine, Scorpio; if ten, Virgo ; if eleven, Pisces; if Phebus twelve, they represent Gemnes; and the rex sons of them are given elswhere. And let no man wonder that by the numbers of names many things may be Prognosticated, seeing (the Pychagorian Philosophers, and Hebrew Cabalisty testifyins the same) in those numbers lye certain occult mysteries v:iderstood by f:w : for the most High created all things by; number, measare, aud weight, from whence the truth of lerrers, and names had its originall, which were not insticuted catuaily, vat by a certain rule ( although unknown. = us.)

Book I I. Of Occult Philosophy. 27> Hence 7oh» in the Revelation saith, Ler him which hath under. ad 8 standing compute the namber of the name of the beast, which isthe number of a man. Yet these are not to be understood of those names, which a disagreeing difference ef Nations, 0. Wl and divers rites of Nations according to the causes of places,or Y education have put upon men ; but those which were inspired _* Winto every one at his birth, by the very Heaven with the con0. MW junRion of Stars,and those which the Hebrew Mecubals, and 1]. WW wise men of Eg yp: long since tanght to draw from the generation of every one. . hat wumbers are consecrated to the Gods, aud which are ascrib- ed, and to what Elements. ml Grover the Pythagorians have dedicated to the Element, and dieties of Heaven sacred numbers; for to the ire they have affigned the number eight, and co fire five, to the earth six, to the water twelve. Besides,unity is ascribed to he Sun, which is the only King of the Stars, in which God put his Tabernacle ; and that this also is of Z«piter,doth the Cauative power of fris ideal and intelleQuall species testifie, who 6 the head, and the father of the Gods, as unity is the beginung, and parent of numbers : The nymber two is ascribed to the Moon, which is the second great light, and figures out the foul of the world, and is called F#0, because betwixt that and mity-chere is the fist conjunRion, and neer fellowship ; it is so ascribed to Satarn, and Mars, two unfortunate Planets with the Astrologers ; so.the number three is asfribed to 7#- viter, the S»n, and Venw,viz. three fortunate planets, and is deputed to Vesta, Hecata,and Diena; hence they lay,

T breefold is feeate, three months Diana The Virgin hath-—— 238 | Of Occult Philofophy. Book Il, The number .three therefore -is dedicated to this Virgin whom they say to be powerfull in Heaven, and in Hell. The number four is of theSun,which by that number constitutes the corners of the heavens,and distinguisheth seasons : it is also x. scribed to Cy/lenins, because he alone 1s called the four square God, The numbec five consisting of the first even, and the fif odd, as of female, and male,both sexes, is assigned to Mercmr, it is also attributed to the Celestiall world, which beyond th four Elements is it self under another form, the fife, The nun, ber (ix, which consists of two threes, as a Commixtion of boy sexes, is by the Pythagorians ascribed to generation, and my. riage, and belongs to J'enws, and 7uno, The number seven is re{t, and belongs to Saturn; the same allo doth dispenceth motion, and light of the Moon, and therefore is called by th name of Tritonia the Virgin, because ic begets nothing. It asligned to Minerva, becaule it fron of nothing ; alsoq Pallas the Virago, becaule it confilts of numbers,as of maksal femalcs. This also Plutarckalcribes to: Apollo, The numbe cight, by reason it containes the mysterie of justice , is1 scnbed to Zupiter ; it is also dedicated ro Yalcan, for of tt first motion, and number two, which is 740 drawn twiceit to itself, it consists ;

It is also attributed ro Cybele the mothe of the Gods, to whom every four square is attributed. P! tarck afsigns it to Bacchms,or Dionysus, who is said to be bot the eighth moneth : others, because Infants of the eight mone do not live, have attributed it to Saturn, and the three Lad of destiny. The\number nine belongs to the A7oongthe utmd receptacle of all Celestiall influences , and vertues, as alsoits dedicated tothe nine Males, as also to Mars,from whom isth end of all things. The number ten is Circalar, and belongs the Swn,after the same manner as unity; also ir is attributed! 7anus , because it is the end of the first order, and fre whence begins the second unity ; it is also ascribed to th world. In like manner the number twelve, because the Su going round twelve (ignes, distributes the yeer into twelt moneths, is attributed to the world, the Heaven, and the Sur The number eleven, because it is semicircular, is atcributed ti the Moon,and also deputed to Neptwre.

Book IT. — OF Occult Philosophy. Of the tables of the Planets, their vertues, forms, aud What Divine names, Intelligencies, and Spirits are set over thews. ; | Tis affirmed by Magicians, that there are certain tables of | bros distributed to the seven planets, which they call the sacred tables of the planets, endowed with many, and very reat vertues of the Heavens, in as much as they represent thar Tine order of Celestiall numbers, impressed upon Celestials by the 1des's of the divine mind, by means of the soul of the world, and the sweet harmony of those Celestiall rayes,-signifying according to the proportion of effigies,supercelestiall Intelligencies, which can no other way be expressed, then by the marks of numbers,and Charaters, For materiall numbers, and figures can do nothing in the mysteries of hid things, buc representatively by formall numbers, and figures, as they are governed, and informed by intelligencies, and divine. numerations, which unite the extreams of the matter, and spirit to, the will of the elevated foul, receiving through oreat affeRion, by the Cehestiall power of the operator,a power from God, applyed through the soul of the universe, and observations of Celestiall constellations, to a matter fit for a

form, the mediums being disposed by the skill, and industry of Magicians ; But ler us hasten co explain the caoles severally, The first of them is assigned to Satary, and conlilts of a square of three, containing the particular numbers of nine, and in every line three every way, and through each Diameter making fifteen. Now the whole sum of numbers is fourty five. Over this are of Divine names ser such names as fill up the num- ders with an Intelligency to what is good, with a spirit to what is bad, and out of the same numbers is drawn the feal, or CharaRer- of Satwry, and of the spirits thereof, such-as we shall beneath ascribeto its table. They say that this table be- Ing with a fortunate Satwrn engraven on a plate of lead, doth help to bring forth, or birth, and to make-a man safe , and powerfull, and to cause success of petitious with princes, and powers: butif it be done with an unfortunate Sat», thatit hinders buildings, plantings, and the like,and casts a man from honours, and dignitfes, and causes difcords, and rr and disperses an Army. The second is called the table of 7»; ter, Which consists of a Quaternian drawn into it self, con. taing sixteen particular numbers, and in every line, and Diame. ter four, making thirty four, Now the Sum of all is 136. jAnd there are over it divine names with at Intelligence to good, with a spirit to bad, and out of it is drawn the CharaRter of ?epiter, and the spirits thereof. They say that if it be imprel. sed upon a Silver plate with 7apitey being powerfull, and rul.

ing,it conduceth to gain, and riches, favor, and love, peace,and concord, and to appease enemies, to confirm honors, dignities, and counsels, and diflolve enchantments if it be engrayen on acorall. The third table belongs ro Aars, which is made of a square of four containing twenty five numbers, and of these in every (ide and Diameter five, which make (ixty five, and the sum of all is 325. And there are over it Divine name with an Intelligence to good, with a spirit to bad,and out of it is drawn the CharaQer of Mars, and of his spirits. These with Mars being fortunate, being engraven on an Tron plate, or iword, makes a man potent in war, and judgments, and peritions, and cerrible to his enemies, and viRtorious agains them;and if engraven upon the Stone Corre6la,it stops blood, and the mestrues;bur if ic be engraven with Aars being unforrunate, on a place of red Brals,it hinders buildings, caits down the powerfull from dignities, honors, and riches, and cauleth discord, strife, and hatred of men, and bealts, chaserh away Bees, Pigeons, and Fish, and hinders Mils, and renders them unfortunate that go torth to hunting, or fighting , and causeth barreneis in men and-women, and other Animals, and strikesa terror in all Enemies, and compels them to submit. The fourth cable is of rhe Sun, and is made of a square of fix, and

contains thirty six numbers, whereof fix in every fide, and Di- | ameter,produce 111, and the sum of all is 666.. There are over it 240 Of Occult Philosoply. — Book 11, KR WE "ER * wg. a aan an nm vp fo oo TT :. oc... — —— OI” | — = <. A. ts Book [ 1. Ot Occult Philosophy. it divine names with an Intelligency to what is good, and spi. it to What is evil, and out of it are drawn Characters of the Svn, and of the spirits thereof. This being engraven on a Golden plate with the Sun being fortunate , renders him that wears it to be renowned, amiable, acceptable, potent in allhis works, and equals a man to Kings, and Princes,clevating him to high fortunes, inabling co do whatsoever, he pleaseth : but with an unfortunate Sun, it makes a tyrant, and 3 man to be proud, ambitious, unsatishable, and to have an ill | cnding. The fifth table 1s of Yerxs, confisting. of a (quare of seven drawn into it felf,viz.. of fourty nine numbers, whereof seven on cach fide and Diameter make 175. and the sum of allis 1225, And there arc over it divine names with an Intelligency to good, and spirit toevil; And there is drawn out of it the Charater of Yen«s, and of the spirits therevf, This being engraven ona Silver plate, Ven#s being fortunate, procureth concord, cendeth strife, procureth the love of women, conduceth to conception,is good againlt barrencfs,caufeth abilicy for generation, dissolves enchantments, and causeth peace between man, and woman, and maketh all kind of Animals and Cattle fruitful;and being put into a Dove-houlse,causeth an increase of Pigeons.

It conducerh to the cure of all melancholy distempers,and causcth joyfulness;and being carryed abour travellers makes them fortunate. Bur if it-be formed upon Brass with an unfortunate Yerxs,it cauleth contrary things to all that hath bin above said. The (ixt table is of 1Mercary resulting from the square of eight drawwinto it self, containing sixty four numbers, whereof eight on every (1de and by both Diameters make 260. and the sum of all 2080. and over it are set diyine names With an Intelligency to what is good, with a spiric to what is evil, and from it js drawn a Character oi Alercury, and of the spirits thereof; and if it be with AZercnry being fortunate engraven upon Silver, or Tin, or yellow Brals, or be writ upon Virgin Patchment, it renders the bearer thereof gratefull, and fortunate to do what he pleaieth : it bringeth

Y gain,and | rin poverty, conduceth to memory,understand.- vination, and to the underitanding of occulc things RY of wn Cc ——— CDC I ee as Of Occult Philosophy. " Bookll. by dreams: andif it be an unfortunate /Merenry, doth al things contrary to these; The seventh table ts of the Moon, of a square of nine multipled into it self, having eighty one num bers, in every (ide and Diameter nine, producing 369. an( the sum of all is 3321. And there are over it divine name; with an Intelligency to what is good, and a spirit to whatiz bad. and' o it are drawn the CharaRers of the Moon, and the spirits thereof. This fortunate Moon being engraven or Silver, renders the bearer thercof grateful, aimiable.pleasan; cheerfull, honored, removing albmalice, and il] will. Ir c2ul eth security in a journey, increase of riches, and health of body drives away enemies and other evil things from what plic thou pleaselt; and if it be an unfortunate Moon engraven in; plate of Lead, where ever it (hall be buried , it makes thi place unfortunate, and the inhabicants thereabouts, as al{ Ships, Rivers, Fountains, Mills, and it makes every man utfortunate, against which ic shall be direRly done, making hin fly from his Country, and that place of his abode where it (hl be buried, and it hinders Physitians, and Orators, and all me whatsoever in their office, against whom it (hall be mad: Now how the seals, and CharaRtrs of the Stars, and spirit are drawn from these tables, the wise searcher, and he whid

(hall underftand the verifying of these tables , Chall eafl; find out, | Mookll., — — Of Occule Philosophy. Divine names answering to the numbers of Saturn. ' i 45, Jehovak extended, N71 IN 70M 0 i... Agicl. The Intelligence of Satu/n. WIN J\ "1 Zazel, The spirit of Saturn. : 51x < Divine names an/Wering tothe numvers of Jupiter, 0! Abab, | NIN n; W's | ALL. ui =o d "6 Johphiel. The Intcllizence of Zupzter, MI. Ft: z6 Hilmael. The spirit of 1ypiter, Ix203 in Names answering to the numbers of Mars. hy Hehe leeter of the Holy Name. | : M a0 k 5. 5 Adonai '”IN Ba: ; Grzphicl The Intelligence of Mars. . 'DX"1 hin 25 Barzabel 1 he spirit of Mars. NINE (hal Names answering to the numbers of the Sun, men Vau the letter of the Holy Name. ? W1 He extended the letter of the Holy Name, Ne Eloh "8 P10 11 Nachiel The Intelligence of the $7, 29) /hict i Sorath T he spirit of the $17, AD eallr N awes,ansWwering.to the numbers of Venus, - NIN p Hagiel The Intelligence of Pcs. 0027 7 Kedemel. T ke spirit of Yen. "R01P {2 Pne Seraphim The Intelligencies of Yeung. D'gSW 13 Names ans wering to the numbers of Mercury. * A;b io 2d, | | vie Do eight extended " Doni 'J7

% Tapkthartharath The spiric of Mercury. . IT"\ITT183 Names answering to the numbers of the Moon. Hod is Elim 958 9 Hasmodai, the spirit of the Moo. "NTDwnN :1 Xhedbarschemoth Schartathan, the spirit of the spirits of the Moon. WD WM AT AIATW ; The Intelligency of the Intell1gence of the Moon. 21 * Malcha betkariifim hed bereah (chehalim 244 Of Occult Philosophy. Ts Book 11 T he T able of Saturn in hx compass, In Hebrew note, The Seales or Charafers Of the Intelligence of Saturn, Of the Spirit of Satur, The Table of Jupiter in his compass. In Hebrew mit a Wl 6 EE The Sealer or (harafters Of the Intelligence of Jupiter. T he Spirit of Jupite The Table of Mars i his compass. In Heb TT: un r1TIeorew notes. [0:13 | 7 12013 | \N | fn Ee T Sk Tm. 8-44 EL LLERIEALL ESEZEILELR Wo jus 'r 14]23) MY LA'E fa 6 ATITSEY 351 1is[wlalm lt The Seals or C hiraBters Of M f Mars. Of the Intelligence of Mars, Of the Spirit of Mars. 246 Of "Vcout Philosophy. - Book [1. In Hebrew noter, TheT able of the Sun in h:« compass. ” | 1, I, 3.53.39, 2.5 1 'wli2nmln "Tr 0 4 Bhs o | M13 14 | 16 —

EE 7 _ 9 BY | 4? © ' 19 oth 4 EE ——ea————— — ——— T he Seals or Charallers rit of the Sun, Of the Sun. Of the intelligence of the Sun. Of the Spirit of the IL NY ' of \/ JN. | Book [ I. Of Occult Philosophy. The Table of Venus in her Compass. | The Seals ,or ( haratters Of the Intelligence Of Venus, Of Venus. Of Occule Plylojophy. — Book LL The Tableef Venus in ! sebrew notes- CHESS LOIEKELIkN » |\m[r [22 |& | + [Own [7 |» XN? | 7 na [32 [wn MFEIFFIFMILNE [mln ELMFEILI Of the Spirit of Venus, Of the Hitelligences of Venus Book IT. Of Occult Philosophy... The Table of Mercury in his c ompass. S199 is TigsioJds ys 3: ME”. fa | 52 11 .| 10 So 43 | 23 1 22 44 | 4g ' 19 | 18. 45 32 | 34 ( 38 29] 25 : 3+] 39 if 40 [26 i x7 37 | 36 "20-4 3% 7-0 - FEE gn 9 | 55 | 54 2 | 13 51 | 50 1 16 we _ Wed The Seals or Chara(ters Of the Intell;igency þ 0f Mercury. Of Mercury.

no | &. _I3 | 1] y mimlyo. bf Wl Wn Wk Of the Spirit of the spirits Of the Intelligence of the Iv. of the Moon. telligences of the Moon. Book IT. Of Occult Philosophy. of Geometrical Fignres and Rodics, by what vertue they are powerful in Magick, and Which are agreeable to each Element, and the Heaven. Eometricall Figures also arifing from numbers, are conceived to be of no lefs power. Of these first of all,a Circle | doth answer to Unity, and the number ten ; for Unity is the Center, and circumference of all things; and the number ten being heaped together returns into a Unity from whence it had its beginning, being the end and complement of all nambers. A circle is called an i-finitc 1:ne in which there is no Terminus a quo, nor Termini 47 11:em, Whose beginning and end is inevery point, whence allo a circular motion is called infinite, not according to time, hurt according to place ; hence a Circular being the larges? and perfectest of all is judged to be most fir for bindings and conjurations ; Whence they who adjure evil spirits, are wont to eaviron themfelves about with a circle. A Pentangle also, as w:th the vertne of the number five hath a very great command over evil spirits, so by ts lincature, by which it hach within five obtuse angles, and without five acutes, five double triangles by which it is surrounded.

The interior pentangle containes in it great myst -. ries,which also is so to be enquired after, and understood ; of the other figures ,viz. triangle, quadrangle,sexangle, seprangle, oRangle,and the rest,of which many,as they are made of many and divers inseRions, obtain divers significations and vertues according to the divers manner of drawing, and proportions of lines, and numbers. The Egyprians, and - Arabians confirmed that the figure of the Crols hath very great power, and that is the most firm receptacle of all Celestial-powers, and '*Nelligencies, because it is the rightest figure of all, containing foure right angles, and it is the first description of the superficies, having longitude and Jaticude: And they said it is inspired

with the fortitude of the' Celestials, because their fortitude: Of Occult Philosophy. Book | 0 results by the (traitness of angles and rayes : And stars are then most potent when they possess four corners in the figure of the heaven, and make a cross, by the projeRtion of. their rayes mutually, Ic hath moreover, (as we shewed before); very great correspondency with the numbers 5. 7. 9>molt po. rent numbers. It was also reckoned by the Epyptian Priefts, from the beginning of Religion amongst sacred letters, signi: fying amonlt them allegorically the life of ferure (alvatiop. [: was also impressed on the PiRute of Serapis, and was Hitd in oreat veneration amongst the Greeks. Bur what here belong ro Religion we shall discuss elsewhere. This is to be observed, whatsoever wonderfull thing figures work when we write them in Papers, Plates, or Images, they do not doit butby the vertue acquired from sublimer figures, by a certain afteqs on which a natural apicude or resemblance procures, in pack 2s they are exaRtly configured to them, as from an opps wall the Eccho is caused, and in a hollow glass the colleRic of the solarie rayes, hich afterward refleing upon at- oppo» site body, either wood, or any combultible thing, doth forthwith burne it : or as an Harpe cavseth a resounding in ans. ther Harpe, whictfis no otherwise but because a surable and 1 like figure is set before ic, or as two strings on a Harpe being rouched with an equall distance of time, and modulated to the same intention, when one is touched the othershakesalso:

Alfo the figures,of which wehave spoken, & what charaRersso- \ evercoficerrt the vertyes of the Celestial figures as they (hall be | opportunely impressed upon things, those ruling, or be rightly. framed, as one figure is of affinity with, and doth express an othcr. And as these are spoken of figures, so-also they are to be- understood of Geometrical bodies, which are a Sphear, a Tetracedron, Hexacedron, ORocedron, Icocedron, Dodeca cedron, and such like, Neither must we pass over what fhigures\ Phythagoras and his followers, Timews, Locrus, and Plato asligned to the Elements and Heavens : for first of all they assigned to the earth a four square, and a square of eight | _ angles, and of twenty four plains, and (ix bases in form a Dice:to the fire,a Pryamis of a four triangular basis, and ” 0

Book IT. Of Occult Philosophy. 255. so many solid angles,and of ewelve plaines; to the aire Ota: 7. dron,of eight triangular bases, and fix solid angles, and twenty four plains - and lastly, to Water they have assigned Icocedron twenty bases, twelve solid angles: To the Heaven they have.afsigned Dodecacedron of twelve five cornered bases, and twenty solid angles, and fixty plaines. Now he which OD. the powers, relations, and proprierties of these figures, and bodies, shall be able to work many wonderful things in Natoral and Mathematical Magick, especially in Glasses. And I knew how to make by them wonderful things, in which my one might see whatsoever he pleased at a long distance, / | | CHAP. XXIV. Of Musical Harmony, of the force and power thereof. Ulical Harmony also is not destitute of the pifts of the Srars ; foritis a most powerful imaginer of all things, which-whilst it follows opportunely the Celestial bodies, doth wonderfully allure the Celestial influence, and doth change the affeRions, intentions, gestures, morions, ations and dispositions of all the hearers, and doth quietly allure dem to its own properties, as-to gladness, lamentation, to oldness, or rest, and the hke ; also it allures Beasts, Serpents, Birds, Dolphins to the hearing of ics pleasant tunes. So Birds re allured with Pipes, and Harts are caught by the same. Fish nthe lake of Alexandria are detighted with a noise. Mufick th caused friendship betwixt Men and Dolphins.

The sound fthe Harp doth lead up and down the Hyperborean Swans. lelodious voyces tame the 1n4;an Elephants : and the very tements delight in Mufick. The H#/efian fountain otherwise Im, and quier, if the Trumpet sound, riseth up rejoycing, d swells over its banks, There are in Lyaia those which ney call che Nymphs Ilands, which at the found of a Tramper dthwith come into the middle of the sea, and turning round * ad a dance, and then are returned to the shores; M. Farro Niftes that he saw them. And there are more wonderful things

Of Occult Philosophy. Book Ill, — - —— — - — — -————O— W—— — — ——————— things then these. For in the shore of erica the sea sound, like a Harpe. A certain {tone of /7egarts makes a found like Harpe every time the string of a Harpe is [truck ; so.great is the power of Musick, that it appealeth the minde, raiseth the spirit, stirreth up souldiers to /ight, and refresherhche weay, calls back them that are desperate, refresheth travellers.” And the eArabians (ay, that Camels carrying burdens are refreshed by the singing of their leaders. In 1;ke manner, they that cary 2reat burdens, sing, and are thereby strengthened and refresh: ed : for singing causeth delight and {trength, paciheth the an: ory, cheareth up those that are sad and heavy, pacificth ene. mies, moderates the rage of mad men, chaseth away vain ims 2inations.: Hence it 1s that Democritus and T heophrastns if. tirm that some diseases of the body, and minde may thus)x cured, or caused. So we read that Therpanaer, and Arion Lesbos cured the Lesbians,and Fonians by Mulick ; and 1/meni of T-cbes cured divers of very great discases by Musick ; Mor: over, Orpheus, Amphion, David, Phythagoras, Empeaul Asclepiages, Timothews, were wont to do many wonder things by sounds : Sometimes they did stir up dull spirits) familiar sounds; sometimes they did restrain wanton, furid angry spirits by more grave tones. So David with a Harp mt derated Sax!

in a rage. So Phythagoras recalled a luxuri yong man from immoderate lust.So 7 :mothers stirred u | Alexander to a rage, and again reprefied him. Saxo abe Gra Cor ipmunlkan Mabianzin his History of the Danes, tells of a certan Music E4 who boasted that he could by his Musick make every one th heard it ro be mad ; and when he was constrained by the Kia command to perfor m the same, he endeavoured to work leh rall wayes upon the atteAions ; and first, by a tone of Music gravity filled the hearcrs with a kinde of sadness and unsen blenels; then by a more lively sound he made them rejoyce,al dance ; and Jattly, he by a more earnest Musick, reduced the to fury and madness. We read allo, thac they in eApaiat! were touched with a kinde of dangerous Spider, were astoril ed uncill they heard a certain sound, at the hearing of whi every one riseth up and danceth, And it is believed ( Gli bell

l Book L I. d; Wl being witness) that they that are pained with the Sciatica, are e1 Ml cased at the sound of a Pipe. Also Theophrastizs reports, that the I the sound of a Flute cures the biting of Spiders. And Democrsthe WY :#s himself confesserh that the Conlort of Pipers, hath been a ar, Ml cure for very many discases. nel ay | CHAP. XXY, iT! Oreover we shall not deny, that there .is in Sounds a vertue to receive the heavenly gifts ; if with Pythagoras ” U 1d Plato we thought the heavens to consist by an Harmonial 1enBWompolition, and to rule and cause all things by Harmonial \ot-BWones and motions : Singing can do more then the sound of in oc Wnstrument, in as much as it arising by an- Harmonial consent, rom the conceit of the minde, and imperious affeRion of the r1008efrated and well tempered Air, the acrious spirit of the ur008he affeRion and minde of the Singer with it , It moveth the > ufcRion of the hearer by his affeRiion, and the hearers phantaWe by his phantasie, and minde by his minde, and (trikerh the (1cuinde, and striketh the heart, and pierceth even to the inic Uirards of the soul, and by little and little, infuseth even dispotions: moreover it moveth and stoppeth the members and the k levWumors of the body. From hence in moving the affeRions harulicWnony conferreth f much, that not onely natural, but also arnJeifcial and vocal Harmony doth yield a certain power both to 'Cc1Whe souls and bodies : but it is necessary that all Consorts prod thieed from fit foundations, both in stringed instruments, in [14 Uipes, and yocall singings, if you would have them agree well tonlWopether : for no man can make the roaring of Lions, the { wiowing of Oxen, the neighing of Horses, the braying of Affes, '(1She grunting of Hogs to be harmonious : | neither can the

bel G | strings Of Occult Philosophy. Book ll strings made of Sheess and Wolves guts, be brought to ary agrcement, because their foundations are dissonant ; bur the many and divers voyces of men agree togcther, becaufe they have one foundation in the species or kinde : fo many bird, aprce, because they have one nizh genus or kinde, and a re. semblance from above ; also artitictal! instruments agree with natural voyces, because the simihtude that 1s betwixt them, i; either true ard manifest, or hath a certain analogy. But ever harmony is either of sounds or voyces. Sound is a breath voycec is a {ound and animate breath ; Speech is a breath pro nounced with sound,and a voyce (1gnifying lomething : the (pj, rit of which proceedeth our of the mouth with sound ard voyce ; Chaludins saith that a voyce is lent forth out of then. ward cavity of the brealt and heart, by the asliitance of th spirit. By which, together with the tongue, forming, ar striking the narrow passages of the mouth, and by the othe vyocall organs, are delivered forth articulate sounds ; th elements of speech, by which Interpreter the sectct motions, the minde are Jaid open : but Laftantins faith, that the natur of the voyce is very obscure, and cannot be comprehend:

how it is made, or what it is. To conclude, All Musick cor silteth in voice, in found, and hearing ; sound without Air cu not be Audible, which though it be neceflary for hearing, ye as Aire, it isnot of it {elf audible, nor to be perceived by a sense, unle!s by accident;for the Sight secth it nor, unless ith colourcd, nor the Ears unless souriding, nor the Smell un odoriferous, nor the Taste unless it be fapid, nor the Tout unless it be cold or hot, ard so fourth: Therefore thou; sound cannot be made without Air, yctis not sound of then cure of Air, nor air of the nature of sound, but air is the bot of the life of our sentitive spirit, and ts not of the nature of a sensible objx&, but of a more {1mplc and higher vertue ; but is meet that the sensitive soul should vivifie the air joyned to! and in the vivificated air, which is joyned co tbe spirit. perce the species of objeRs pur forth into aQRt, and this 1s done int living air,but in a subcile and Diaphanous the vilible species, an ordinary air the audible, ina more gross air the species

Other senses are percgived, CHA rd il Concerning the agreement of them with the Celestial bodies, and | y What harmony and sound is correspondent of every Star. wit | x | N, 1 Ut understanding now, that of the seven Planets, Satzrn, very Mars, and the Moon have more of the voice then of the th, i Harmony. Satwrn hath fad, hoarse,heavy, and flow words, and P10 sounds, as it were pressed ro theCenter; but Mars, rough,tharp, : (0- threarning great and wrathful words : the foo oblerveth a and mean berwixt these two ; but Jupiter, Sol, Venus and Mercury, c 1-8 do possess Harmonies ; yet 7#piter hath grave, constant, fixed, Fiefi rect, merry, and pleasant * aarang Sol vencrable, settled, pure and sweer, with a certain grace;but Yexxs lascivious, luxurious, delicate, voluptuous, dislolute and fluent : Alercury hath Rarmonies more remiss, and various, merry and pleasnt, with a certain boldness : but the Tone of particulars, nd proportionated Consorts obeyeth the nine Asuses. Frpster hath the grace of the oQtave, and also the quinte, viz. the Diapason with the Diapente : So/ obtains the melody of the Rave voice, vis. Diapason ; in like manner by fifzeen Tones, Disdiapason ; YVenxs keepech the grace of the quinte or Di-

ppente. /sercury hath Diatessaron ; viz. the grace of the quarte: Moreover the ancients being content with four rings, as with the rumber of Elements, accounted Mercury he Author of them, as Nicomachns reports, and by their Base rings would resemble the earth, by their Pachypas or middle he water; by their note Diezengmenor, or Fyperboleon the re; by the Paranete or Synemmenon, or treble, the Air ; but terwards 7erpander the Lesbian finding out the seventh ing, equalled them to the number of the Planets. Moreover, hey that followed the number of the Elements, did affirm, hat the tour kinds of Musick di agiee to them, and also to he four humors, and did think 131 Dorian mulick to be conso- ant to the water and phlegm, the Phrygian to choler and S 2 hre, Of Occult Phylosrphy.. - Book], fire, the Lydian to blood and air; the mixt Lydian to melancholy and earth : OthersrespeRing the number and vertue of the Heavens, have attributed the Dorian to the Swun,the Phy. gian to Mars, the Lyaian to Lupiter, the mixt Lydian to Sa. trern, the Hypophrygian to Mercury, the Hypolyaian to Ven, the Hypodorian tothe Moon, the Hypo mixed Lyaian to the mixed Stars : Moreover they refer these modes of Mulick to the Muses, and the strings ro the H:avens,but notin that order as we have declared concerning the nine Muses, amongst our numbers and celestial souls ;

for they fay Thalia hath no Har. mony, therefore ascribe her to Silence, and the Earth ; but {tio with the IMoon move after the Hypodorian manner, the (tring Proslambanomenos gg Ajre.Calliope and Mercny possess the Hypophrygian maner, and the Chord, Hypate= Hyps tan, or B, Mi. Terpsichore with Venus the Hypolydian manner, ard Parahypote, Hypaton ; and for MMelpomene and the Doria manner with Licanos, Hypaton, or D.Sol. Re. are applicd tothe Sun, Erato with Mars keep the Phrygian fashion, and the Hypatemise, or E.ls.mi, Enterpe, and the Lydian Musick, and Pachyparemeson agree with Jupiter ; Polymnia and Satm keep the mixt Lydian manner, and Lichanos Meson D.Sol.k, To Urazia and the fixt Stars the Hypo mixt Lydiax Musick,aol the string Mese, or A.le.mi.re.are ascribed, as we reade then

expressed in thefe Verses. Silent Thalia me to th' Earth compare, For she by Musick never doth ensnare, After the Hypodorian Clio þnys, Persephone /ikewi/e doth strike Ge Base strings, Calliope also doth Chord second towch, ' Usng the Phrygian ; Mercury as mwch : Terplichore strikes the third, and that rare, The Lydian afick makes so Venus fair, Melpomene, and Titan do with a grace The Dorian Mufick use in the forth place, T he fift ascribed is to Mars the god Of War, and Erato after the rare mode Book [T. = Of Occult Phylosophy. Of tl! Phrygians, Exterpe doth also have The Lydian, and sixt ffring;and /o doth Jove. Saturn the seventh doth use with Polymny, eAnd causeth the mixt Lydian melody. Urania al/o 4oth the eight create, And musick Hy po-Lydian elevate. Moreover there are some who find out the harmony of the Heavens by their distance one from another. For that space which is betwixt the Earth and the Moon,viz an hundred and twenty (1x thousand /ta/ian Miles, maketh the Intervall of a Tone; But from the Moon ro Mercury being halt chat space, maketh halt a Tone; And so much from Mercury co Venus maketh another halt Tone; Bur from thence to the Sun, as it were a threefold Tone and a half, and makes Diapente; But from the Moon to the Sun, maketh a twofold Dzatessarox with a half; Again from che Sun to Mars is the fame space as from the Earth to the Moon,making a Tone;

from thence to Zupiter half of the same making half a [one ;So much likewise fromZ#- per co Saturn, conlticuting an half Tone , from whence to the starry firmament is also the space of an halt Tone, Therefore there is trom the Sun to the fixed Stars a Diatessaron distance of two tones and an half, but from the'Eartch a peret Diapason of six perteRt cones; moreover allo from the proportion of the motions of the planets amonglt themselves, and with che eight Sphere, resulterh the sweerelt Harmony of all; for the proportion of the motions of Saturn to Fupiters motion, i; two fuld and an half; of Z-piter co Mars, alix fold proportion ;- of fars to the Sun, Venus and Mercury, which 0a mannec finith cheir courte in che fame time, is a double proportion; their motions to the Moon have a twelve-fold P ropertion; bur Satzrns proportion to the {tarry Sphere is a

thouland and two hurd:cd. tt it be true which Prol/omy lth,vsz. thar, that Heaven 15 moved contrary to the primum wile in an hundred yecrs, one dogree. Therefore che proper otion of the Moon bein» more iwitt, maketh 4 more acute lound then the starry firmamenc, Which is che slowest of all, S 3 and Of Occult Philosophy. Book 11. and therefore causeth the most base sound ; But by the violent motion of-the primum mobile, is the most swifr, and acute sound of all; but the violent motion of the Moon is molt slow and heavy, which proportion and reciprocation of moti. ons ycelds a mcst pleasant Parmory; from herce there are nat any longs, sounds, or musica!l irstrumer.ts mere powerfullin moving mans affe&ions, or introducing magicall impressions, then those which are composed of rumvers, measures,and pro portions, after the example of the Heavens. Also the Rarmg. ny of the Elements is drawn forth from their Bases, and Anles, of the which we have spoken before; for between Fire and Aire, there is a double proportion in the Bases, and one and an halfin solid Angles;again in Planes, a double; there ati eth hence an Harmony of a double Diapatfon, and a Diapente, Betwixt the Aire and Water, the proportion 1n their Basess double, and one and an half ; hence Niapason,and Diapente: but in their Angles double; Hence again Diapason; but be. tween Water and Earth the proportion in the Bases, is threefold and a third part more; from hence ariserh Diapason, Di pente, Diatefsaron; but in the Angles one and an half, agut constituting Diapente. To conclude, betwixt Earth and Fir, in the Bases the proportion is one and an half, making Di pente; but in the Angles, double, causing Diapason ; bu be 'rween Fire, and Water, Aire and Earth, there is scarce ary consonancy, because they have a perfeR contrariery in ther qualities, but they are united by the intermediate Element.

Book [1. Of Occult Philosophy. © ” CHAP, XXVII, - Of the proportion, measure, and Harmony of mans body. " —; man is the most beaurifull and perfeRest work of & God, and his Image, and also the Icfler world; therefore he by a more perfe composition, and sweet Harmony, and = more sublime dignity doth cortain and maintain in himself all oy numbers, measures, weights, motions, Elements, and all other se things which are of his composition ; and in him as it were in ut the lupreme workmanship, all chings obtain a certain high conbot dition, beyond the ordinary confonancy which they have in 0Ol compounds. From hence all the Ancients in time palt did _ number by their fingers, and shewed all numbers by chem; and , be they scem to prove that from the very joynts of mans body all W- unbers measures, proportions, and Harmonies iwere inventJM. ; Hence according to this measure of the body, they fram- —_ d, and contrived ct eir temples, pallaces, house:,Theaters;also Fn heir (hips, engins, and every kind of Artifice, ard every part Di"* member of their editices, and bmldir.gs, 2s columnes, cha- ters of p\llars, bases, butrresses,feer of pillars. and all of this 1G, joreover God himself taught Noah to build the ckeaccordirg tothe measure of mans body, and he made be whole tab;ics of the world propornonadble ro mans body; rom hence it 1s cal;ed the great world, mans body the lefle;

Therefore tome wiv have written of the Microcosme or of an, mature the body by fx freer, a foot by ten degrees,every Kar by fre manares; from hence are numbred (1xty degrees, ne make ihiee hanceed minuies, tothe which are compared 0 many Geometrical cudits, by which AZ7e/es describes the 'rke; for as the body of man is in length chree hundred miues, in breath fifty, in height thirty; so the icngth'of the Ie was three hundred cubits, the breadth fitty, and the clpht thirty; that the proportion of the length to the breadth elix fold, to the heighth ten fold, and the proportion of the readth to the: height about two thirds. in like manner the S 4 measures