{"collection":"ritual-magic","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Three_Books_of_Occult_Philosophy_Book_1_Chapter_72/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Three_Books_of_Occult_Philosophy_Book_1_Chapter_72","id":"wikisource_Three_Books_of_Occult_Philosophy_Book_1_Chapter_72","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Three_Books_of_Occult_Philosophy/Book_1/Chapter_72","summary":null,"tags":["Pages_using_center_block_with_class_parameter","Pages_with_translator","Subpages"],"text":"CHAP. LXXII.\n\nOf the wonderfull power of Inchantments.\n\nTHey say that the power of inchantments, and verses is so great, that it is believed they are able to subvert almost all nature, as saith Apuleins, that with a Magicall whispering, swift Rivers are turned back, the slow Sea is bound, the Winds are breathed out with one accord, the Sun is stopt, the Moon is clarified, the Stars are pulled out, the day is kept back, the night is prolonged, and of these sings Lucan,\n\nThe courses of all things did cease; the night\nProlonged was, was long before 'twas light;\nAstonied was the headlong world, all this\nWas by the hearing of a verse\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n\nAnd a little before.\n\nThessalian verse did into's heart so flow,\nThat it did make a greater heat of love.\n\nAnd elsewhere.\n\nNo dregs of poison being by him drunk,\nHis wits decay dinchanted\u2014\u2014\u2014\n\nAlso Virgil in Damon,\n\nCharms can command the Moon down from the Skie,\nCirces Charms chang'd Ulisses company.\nA cold Snake being charm'd, burst in the Meads.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n\nAnd in another place.\n\nCharms bear Corn standing from anothers Farm.\n\nAnd Ovid in his book, sine Titulom saith.\n\nWith charms doth with'ring Ceres dye,\n\u2003Dried are the fountains all,\nAcorns from Okes, inchanted Grapes\n\u2003And Apples from trees fall.\n\nIf these things were not true, there would not be such strict penall Statutes made against them, that should inchant fruit. And Tibullus saith of a certain Imchantress,\n\nHer with Charms drawing Stars from Heaven, I\nAnd turning th' Course of rivers, did espy,\nShe parts the earth, and Ghosts from Sepulchers\nDraws up, and fetcheth bones away from th' fires,\nAnd at her pleasure scatters Clouds i'th' Air,\nAnd makes it Snow in Summer hot, and fair.\n\nOf all which that Inchantress seems to boast her self in Ovid, when she saith,\n\n\u2014\u2014At will, I make swift streams retire\nTo their fountains, whilest their banks admire;\nSea toss, and smooth; clear Clouds, with Clouds deform.\nWith Spells, and Charms I break the Vipers jaw,\nCleave Solid Rocks, Oakes from their seasures draw,\nWhole Woods remove, the airy Mountains shake,\nEarth for to groan, and Ghosts from graves awake,\nAnd thee O Moon I draw\u2014\u2014\n\nMoreover all Poets sing, and Philosophers do not deny, that by verses many wondersull things may be done, as Corn to be removed, Lightenings to be commanded, diseases be cured, and such like. For Cato himself in Country affairs used some inchantments against the diseases of beasts, which as yet are extant in his writings. Also Josephus testifies that Solomon was skilled in those kind of inchantments. Also Celf Africanas reports, according to the Egyptian doctrine, that mans body, according to the number of the faces of the Zodiack Signs, was taken care of by so many, viz. thirty six spirits, whereof each undertake, and desend their proper part, whose names they call with a peculiar voice, which being called upon, restore to health with their inchantments the diseased parts of the body.","title":"Three Books of Occult Philosophy/Book 1/Chapter 72","tradition":"ritual-magic","translated_text":null,"word_count":505}