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| ADVERTISEMENT | 1 |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Of the Influences of the Stars | ib. |
| The Use and Abuse of Astrology, &c. | 4 |
| An Oration to God | 9 |
| Of Natural Magic in general | 10 |
| The First Principles of Natural Magic | 13 |
| BOOK I.--PART I. | |
| CHAP. I. Natural Magic defined; of Man; his Creation, Divine Image, and Fall; and of the spiritual and magical Virtue of the Soul | ib. |
| CHAP. II. Of the Wonders of Natural Magic, displayed in a Variety of sympathetic and occult Operations, in Animals, Minerals, and Vegetables, treated of miscellaneously | 24 |
| Of the Serpent | 28 |
| CHAP. III. Of Amulets, Charms, and Enchantments; an Amulet for the Flux of Blood | 30 |
| CHAP. IV. Of Unctions, Philters, Potions, &c. | 32 |
| Their magical Virtue | 33 |
| CHAP. V. Of Magical Suspensions and Alligations; shewing by what power they are efficacious in Natural Magic | 34 |
| CHAP. VI. Of Antipathies | 35 |
| CHAP. VII. Of the occult Virtues of Things which are inherent in them only in their Lives, and such as remain in them after Death | 37 |
| CHAP. VIII. Of the wonderful Virtues of some Kinds of precious Stones | 39 |
| CHAP. IX Of the Mixtures of Natural Things one with another, and the Production of Monsters | 41 |
| CHAP. X. Of the Art of Fascination, Binding, Sorceries, Magical Confections, Lights, Candles, Lamps, &c. being the conclusion of Natural Magic | 44 |
| ALCHYMY. | |
| The Secret of the Philosophers' Stone | 51 |
| Epistle to Museus | 53 |
| Epistle to the Reader | 55 |
| Of Alchymy, and its Divine Origin | 56 |
| Discovered to Man by Uriel | ib. |
| Zoroaster made Gold from the Seven Metals | ib. |
| Zoroaster was the Father of Alchymists | ib. |
| The Authors who have wrote upon it | ib. |
| The comparison of Alchymists | 57 |
| What an Adept is | ib. |
| Van Helmont's Account of Alchymy | 58 |
| Kircher's Account of Alchymists | ib. |
| The Description of the Philosophers' Stone | ib. |
| Account of a real Transmutation | 59 |
| Account of Flammel, the Alchymist | ib |
| History of Butler's Universal Medicine | ib. |
| What is not universally understood generally referred to the Black Art | 63 |
| Of the Preparation necessary to qualify a Man for the Search of the Philosophers' Stone | 64 |
| Of the Prima Materia | ib. |
| p. xx | |
| Ten Lessons, teaching the Transmutation of base Metals into Gold | 64 |
| Lesson XI. XII. XIII. and XIV. teaching the Manner of extracting the Prima Materia of the Lapis Philosophorum; and the Use it is of in purifying imperfect Metals, to Change them into good Gold | 68 |
| PART II. | |
| CHAP I. Of the Four Elements, and their Natural Qualities | 73 |
| CHAP. II. Of the Properties and wonderful Nature of Fire and Earth | 75 |
| CHAP. III. Of the Water and Air | 77 |
| CHAP. IV. Of compound or mixed Bodies; in what Manner they relate to the Elements; and how the Elements correspond to the Souls, Senses, and Dispositions of Men | 81 |
| CHAP. V. That the Elements are in Stars, Devils, Angels, Intelligences, and in God himself | 83 |
| CHAP. VI. That the Wisdom of God works by second Causes is proved beyond Dispute in this Chapter | 85 |
| CHAP. VII. Of the Spirit of the World | 87 |
| CHAP. VIII. Of the Seals and Characters impressed by Celestials upon Natural Things | 88 |
| CHAP. IX. Of the Virtue and Efficacy of Perfumes; and to what Planets they are attributed | 89 |
| CHAP. X. Of the Composition of Perfumes attributed to the Planets | 92 |
| General Fumes of the Planets | 93 |
| CHAP. XI. Of the magical Virtue of Rings | 94 |
| CHAP. XII. That the Passions of the Mind are assisted by Celestials; and how necessary the constancy of the Mind is in every Work | 96 |
| CHAP. XIII. How a Man's Mind may be joined with the Celestial Spirits and Intelligences, and with them impress wonderful Virtues upon inferior Things | 97 |
| CHAP. XIV. Shewing the Necessity of Mathematical Knowledge; and of the great Power and Efficacy of Numbers in the Construction of Talismans, &c. | 99 |
| CHAP. XV. The great Virtues of Numbers, as well in natural as super-natural Things | 102 |
| CHAP. XVI. Of the Scales of Numbers; the Scale of Unity | 103 |
| CHAP. XVII. Of the Number Two, and the Scale | 104 |
| CHAP. XVIII. Of the Number Three, and the Scale | 106 |
| CHAP. XIX. Of the Number Four, and the Scale | 108 |
| CHAP. XX. Of the Number Five, and the Scale | 114 |
| CHAP. XXI. Of the Number Six, and the Scale | 115 |
| CHAP. XXII. Of the Number Seven, and the Scale | 117 |
| CHAP. XXIII. Of the Number Eight, and the Scale | 128 |
| CHAP. XXIV. Of the Number Nine, and the Scale | 130 |
| CHAP. XXV. Of the Number Ten, and the two Scales | 132 |
| CHAP. XXVI. Of the Numbers Eleven and Twelve, with the Scale of the Number Twelve | 136 |
| CHAP. XXVII. Of the Notes of the Hebrews and Chaldeans, and other Characters used by Magicians | 140 |
| CHAP. XXVIII. The magical Tables of the Planets, their Form and Virtue; with the Divine Names, Intelligences, and Spirits that are set over them | 142 |
| CHAP. XXIX. Of the Observation of the Celestials necessary in all magical Works | 148 |
| CHAP. XXX When the Planets are most powerful | 149 |
| CHAP. XXXI. Observations oil the fixed Stars, with their Names and Nature | 150 |
| CHAP. XXXII. Of the Sun and Moon, and their magical Considerations | 152 |
| CHAP. XXXIII. Of the Twenty-eight Mansions of the Moon, and their Virtues | 153 |
| p. xxi | |
| CHAP. XXXIV. That some artificial Things, as Images, Seals, and the like, may derive Virtue from the Celestial Bodies | 157 |
| CHAP. XXXV. Of the Images of the Zodiac; what Virtues, being engraven, they receive from the Stars | 158 |
| CHAP. XXXVI. Of the Images of the Seven Planets; Images of Saturn | 159 |
| CHAP. XXXVII. Of the Images of Jupiter | 160 |
| CHAP. XXXVIII. Images of Mars | 161 |
| CHAP. XXXIX. Images of the Sun | 162 |
| CHAP. XL. Images of Venus | ib. |
| CHAP. XLI. Images of Mercury | 163 |
| CHAP. XLII. Images of the Moon | 164 |
| CHAP. XLIII. Images of the Dragon's Head and Dragon's Tail | ib. |
| CHAP. XLIV. Images of the Twenty-eight Mansions of the Moon | 165 |
| CHAP. XLV. That human Imprecations naturally impress their Powers upon external Things; and how Man's Mind, through a Degree of Dependencies, ascends into the Intelligible World, and becomes like the more sublime Spirits and Intelligences | 168 |
| CHAP. XLVI. The Conclusion of Talismanic Magic; in which is included the Key of all that has been written upon the Subject; shewing the Practice of Images, and the Composition of Talismans, by way of Example; and, likewise, the necessary Observations of the Celestials requisite for the Perfection of all Talismanic Operations | 172 |
| BOOK II.--PART I. | |
| MAGNETISM | 3 |
| CHAP. I. Of the Magnetic or Attractive Faculty | 4 |
| CHAP. II. Of Sympathetic Medicines | 8 |
| CHAP. III. Of the Magnetic or Sympathetic Unguent; the Power of Sympathy, Armary, Unguent; and curing of Wounds, Ecstasies, Witchcraft, Mummies, &c. | 9 |
| CHAP. IV. Of the Weapon Salve | 12 |
| CHAP. V. Of the Imaginative Power, and the Magnetism of the Natural Spirits, Mummial Attraction, Sympathies of Astral Spirits, and their Bodies, upon which is founded the whole Art of Necromancy | 13 |
| CHAP. VI. Of Witchcraft in particular | 18 |
| CHAP. VII. Of the Vital Spirit | 20 |
| CHAP. VIII. Of the Magical Power, &c. | 22 |
| CHAP. IX. Of exciting or stirring up the Magical Virtue | 24 |
| CHAP. X. Of the Magical Virtue of the Soul, and the Medium it Acts by | 27 |
| The End of the Magnetism | 29 |
| CABALISTICAL MAGIC. | |
| CHAP. I. Of the Cabala, &c | 33 |
| CHAP. II. What Dignity and Preparation is necessary to Him who would become a true Magician | 34 |
| CHAP. III. That the Knowledge of the true God is necessary for a Magician | 35 |
| CHAP. IV. Of Divine Emanations, and Ten Sephiroths, and Ten most sacred Names of God which rule them, and their Interpretation | ib. |
| CHAP. V. Of the Power and Virtue of the Divine Names | 39 |
| p. xxii | |
| CHAP. VI. Of Intelligences and Spirits; and of the threefold Kinds of them, and their different Names; and of Infernal and Subterraneous Spirits | 42 |
| CHAP. VII. Of the Order of Evil Spirits; their Fall, and different Natures | 46 |
| CHAP. VIII. The Annoyance of Evil Spirits, and the Preservation we have from Good Spirits | 49 |
| CHAP. IX. That there is a threefold Keeper of Man; and from whence each proceeds | 52 |
| CHAP. X. Of the Tongues of Angels, and their speaking amongst themselves, and with us | 53 |
| CHAP. XI. Of the Names of Spirits, and their various Imposition; and of the Spirits that are set over the Stars, Signs, Corners of the Heavens, and the Elements | 55 |
| CHAP. XII. How the Cabalists draw forth the Names of Angels from Sacred Writ; and of the Seventy-two Angels that bear the Names of God; with the Tables of Ziruph, and the Commutations of Names and Numbers | 58 |
| CHAP. XIII. Of finding out the Names of Spirits and Genii, from the Disposition of the Celestial Bodies | 60 |
| CHAP. XIV. Of the calculating Art of such Names, by the Tradition of the Cabalists | 61 |
| CHAP. XV. Of the Characters and Seals of Spirits | 64 |
| CHAP. XVI. Another Way of making Characters, according to the Tradition of Cabalists | ib. |
| CHAP. XVII. There is another Sort of Characters, of Spirits received by Revelation | 66 |
| CHAP. XVIII. Of the Bonds of Spirits, and their Adjurations and casting out | 67 |
| CHAP. XIX. By what Methods Magicians and Necromancers call up the Souls of the Dead | 68 |
| CHAP. XX. Of Prophetic Dreams | 70 |
| PART II. | |
| The Perfection and Key of the Cabala, or Ceremonial Magic | 73 |
| The Calculations of the Names of Good and Evil Spirits | 74 |
| Of Magic Pentacles, the Manner of constructing them | 80 |
| A Pentacle for Victory over Enemies | 81 |
| ............... against Serpents, Poisons, &c. | 82 |
| Deprecations | 83 |
| The Consecration of all Magical Instruments and Materials used in this Art | 85 |
| Consecration of Water | 86 |
| Consecration of Fire | 87 |
| Consecration of Oil | ib. |
| Consecration and Benediction of Lights | ib. |
| Lamps, Wax, &c | ib. |
| Consecration of Ground, Circle, Place, &c. | 88 |
| Of the Invocation of Spirits; the binding of, and constraining them to appear | 89 |
| Description and Use of a Book of Virgin Parchment, or abortive Vellum, in which the Names of Spirits are registered | 90 |
| Consecration of the aforesaid Book | 91 |
| Invocation of good Spirits in particular | 92 |
| The Invocation Prayer | 93 |
| The particular Form of Lamens | 94 |
| Of receiving Oracles in Dreams | 96 |
| Of the Methods of raising Evil Spirits, or Familiars, or the Souls of the Dead, by a Circle | 99 |
| The Suffumigations used in raising Ghosts, Shadows, and departed Spirits; and what Places are appropriate to this | 101 |
| PART III. | |
| The particular Composition of the Magic Circle and of the Forms of the Exorcisms, Benedictions, p. xviii and Conjurations, for every Day and Hour in the Week; and the Manner of working fully described | 105 |
| A Table of the Magical Names of the Hours, by Day or Night | 107 |
| Angels of the Seasons, &c. | 108 |
| Exorcism of Fire | 109 |
| The Habit of the Exorcist | ib. |
| The Pentacles of Solomon | ib. |
| An Exorcism of the Spirits of the Air | 111 |
| A Prayer to be said in the Four Parts of the Circle | 113 |
| An Oration | 114 |
| Of the Appearance of the Spirits | ib. |
| Considerations and Conjurations for every Day in the Week | 116 |
| The Consideration and Conjuration for Sunday | 117 |
| The Conjuration, &c., of Monday | 118 |
| The Conjuration, &c., of Tuesday | 119 |
| The Conjuration, &c., of Wednesday | 121 |
| The Conjuration, &c., of Thursday | 123 |
| The Conjuration, &c., of Friday | 125 |
| The Conjuration, &c., of Saturday | 126 |
| PART IV. | |
| Translation of Trithemius; the Translator's Letter | 131 |
| The Conjurations of Spirits into a Crystal; the Description of this Instrument; and the Form and Ceremony of a Vision | 134 |
| Table for the Inspection of Names of Spirits governing the Planetary Hours by Day and | |
| Night | 138 |
| The End of the Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer | 139 |
| THE BIOGRAPHY. | |
| Zoroaster, the Son of Oramasus | 144 |
| Hermes, surnamed Trismegistus | 150 |
| Apollonius, of Tyana | 152 |
| Peter De Abano | 155 |
| Apuleius, the Platonic | 158 |
| Aristotle | 162 |
| Artimedorus, of Ephesus | 166 |
| The Babylonians | 168 |
| Henry Cornelius Agrippa | 170 |
| Albertus Magnus | 180 |
| Roger (alias Friar) Bacon | 181 |
| Raymond Lully | 184 |
| George Ripley | 186 |
| John and Isaac Holland | ib. |
| Theophrastus Paracelsus | 188 |
| John Rudolph Glauber | 194 |
| Doctor Dee, and Sir Edward Kelly | 195 |
| The Conclusion | 197 |