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The Hiftory of MAGICK. dies, by the great noife of Horfes pañline by hiw),, door every day at watering time, he made rhe), image of a Horle, according to the rules of, chee \, (aid “Book, which being put in che ftreet two ofr), three foot under sround., the Grooms weree chenceforward forc'd to find ont another Way, as). being not ableto makea Horle paffe chat wayi).,,,
Spettatum admiffi rifum teneatis amici ?
For Ichink a man mull be more Agelastus tham)), ever Craffus was, it he can retrain laughing at rhiss), pretty relation, fince that, not co (ay à any chine off), the ab urdity of its circumftances, there could pot pofhibly be found ont another more contrary, Scand. to the Do&rineof St. Thomas, who in all hissi Scsund. — works, and particularly in his Sum, in his Quod-- : gala libct Questions, and in his Treatife of Secret Ver=-) quefist 2.art (HES A4 nee ties, denies, that thefe images cami 34. receive any vertue from the Stars and Conf cu a sions under which they were made, This certains), ly were enough to fhew the i impertinence andi ablurdiry ; it is, co charge this great perlon with), contributing ought to rhe compofition of thele2ll books, chou we fhould not prefle, that 7rirhe-4 mins in his Catal ogue of Ecclefafficall Authours, ki, |” mentions nor any one of them priared with che:h," body of his works, collected into feventeem Tomes; nor take any notice, that fobannes Picasa " lanehs at that book of Necromanticall Imagessandil * Francifcus his nephew, though much a 1ervaneilll “ and favourer ofthe Alchimifts, makes it a oreatt|} queftion , whether thofe Books ofthe A£erallickall Art, are not to be attributed ratherto the Alchy~\h ” mifts then St. Zhemas, To which I may adde yi chats,
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that, as Delrio affirmes, the Commentaries upon the Nativity of one Thomas an Enelifh man» have been publifh’d under his name becaule of the nearnelie there is between thele two Larine words, -duglicus and Angelicus ; fo it may ‘ately be inferr’d, that fince , according to allthe De-
monographers, there have been diverfe other perlons of the fame name that have writ /everall Books in Magick, it were more rationall to | Imagine pte of the Necromanticail image
) fhou! d be rather father’d on them then on Sr, Tho.
| mas of Aguin, ot whom it fhall be faid, in {piehe |, of all Ignoranc e, and tothe defpaire ofthe Au- | thours of chefe calumnities,
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Semper, & in {umemo mens aurea vivet Olympo.
Had we the Book, which Sle Dee, Cittizen of Landon a very great Philofopher and Mathemarici- 17 chili, de an faies he had written in fee of Roger Bacon, 4: lib.
propedcu-
where he fhews that whatever was {aid-of his Sd. -Apho- miraculous operations is rather to be attribured toy riBicor.de |
4 the knowledz of nacure,& che Mathematicks chan-Narwre vis
‘| to any commerce or converfation he ever hadwith “4. “1 Demons; I fhould have as licle ro (ay of himas Of e pales who clear’ d himfelf from the like faccularion in two Apologies. But fince thar Book (at lealt chat I know of ) never yet came *) abroad , I mutt imitate the graflehopper i ine Lli- ) 44, and fupp à? the want of chis broken {tring fi with what isto be had, foro refcue the reputas Wrion of chis Englifh Prams i[can, whoawas a doctor yof Divinity, and i i gn A ftrologer and Mathematician ot histime, from bel 2 con-
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jurers and Magicians. For, {0 tar was he trom making one ot: reheat number , thata man can no
demn’d and burieda among the multitude of Col
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way better ju ftity and defend him, chen by pros: is ducing his own declamations again{t Magick, une!» lawful Ii Books, Characters and fpelis, as you haveiiie ni
them : in the three firlt & Chapters ot an Epiftle he»!
Dif (quit. writ of the Powor of. Art and Nature, Adde toi! atc. 2. ‘this that Delrio is content to obferve only that: quef.t. there were fome pane ous propoñtions in his: Workes, qe as haply was chat which Fraxci{cus |
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prenctiore
er aed, (acess Where he affirmes chat a man may. become a,
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of the Glafle Alms achef,, compofd according to.
the rules of Per/pettive, provided he made u'e off]
it under a good conftellation, and had before! handil Lib.2. de made his bod: y veryeyen , and put it intoa good) Brallig. A temper by Chymistry. Nor indeed am I at alll) Wy arate. fatisiy’d, why Wierus and divers others Demono=.| Abolog: lib. graphers fhould fo readil y charge this Philoi ofo- de Script. pher with the ee of Geo ick, or prohibited | Anglicis. Maoick, when he, whom they all fo mnch ace: b Lib. de knowledge , Johannes Picus of Mirendula, main-
Diis Py) Speke ‘à taines, that he ftudied only the Naturall, Where- c 2. 7» tomay beadded the reliimonies of three famous:
Pofferiori Engl lifh Authors, [a | Lelandus Lb} Selden and! editione Bayly; as alfo chat of Dr.{c] Pits, who lanebs at Cantab. de their foolifh creduli ity who give any credit to this
ib, 1 aye bin Pope Errour, efpect ially. {inc "eas Selden af-
iiss. firmes there’s no Englifh Hiltorian ever made inh of his Magical operations or any. 4brafen!
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Lib. 10. Head, which, the populace believe he made. Symbolor. UW ACL Rene . # pag 453.15
ought in asa creat Magrcian in ail Comedies
and
pon oc occafion whereof Ma'erus obferves thar heel.
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| and that the common report 1S, that he and his | 1 Fellow-Frier 7 howas Bungey were {even years as bout chat Head, meerlyto know of it whether | there were not fome meanes to compafie England if with a wall or Ramparr, whereto itaive anan- | {wer which yet they could not underdand , for 5 : not on parr to receiveit fo {oon, they we re ta- ken up with fomerhing elfe than hearkening to | that Oracle. A very fine relation certainly and fuitable to che falfe witneffe from whom we have ir, if ever ‘e) there were any falfe, chac is, the maulticude, as | having alwayesbzen accounted {uch by all good Authors, e(peciall y [a] Seneca and (b| Laëtantins, a Lib. de 0) The former a firmes, yoy mul}, never appeall to it vita beat. in any thing of Gonfequence, Querendum non nf quod unl go placet, pelfimo veritatitys interpreti: and. : | the other had reafon ro admonifhus, that Puleus ” \\) indottum pompis inanibus gaudet animi[ à, puerihbus ‘| fpeftat omnia , obleékatur "fi volis, nec ponderare fe- | cum nnamquamq, rem potest, This were enough | co { ftifle chat vulgar ftory, fhould Ifay norhing | of al] the impe rtinences chat accompany IC fince | they fo evidently difcover themfeives, I take it cherforeto be enough for my purpole to note of) thac the fruéture and compofition of this head nf i) was a thing abfolutely impoffible for the reafons | I fhall give for icin ae next Chaprer, and with- jh all chac Roger Bacon never minded the making of it, the whole fable having no other ground then sf} common and popular reports. Forit being or- al} dinary old wives calk chat Popz Sy/ve/ter, William of Paris, Robert of Lincolne, and Albertus Magnus | had made fuch difcourfing Srarues, it might ve- ry well be added that Rober Bacon had in like
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The Hiffory of MAGICK. manner made one, fince chat, being a great Ma--|) !" thematician, as may be feen both by the Treaties and inftruments of, his invention he fent to Popeg) iit Clement the fourth and his two Books, printedilt within chele fitteen years 5 of Perfpeitive anclii Glaffes,it 1s not unitkely he did many extraordina-.} 0 ry things by the help of that Science; whereott the cauie being not knownto che vulgar, (which sit! was much more rough-hewn, and barbarous tharmpit' it 18 now) it could do no leffe then attribute them co Magick, But for thac he hath for compurgatorsy
li learned men, and particularly the Je/uits, who L put into their Mathematicall Thefes defended att) |W Port a Afouffon in the year 1622.0n the day of thee) Ji Cannonization of Zgvatimeyand Xavier, That it wass| pofible fora man well ter!d in Opricks and Cat-- optricks ({uch as undoubredfy Bacon was) darsoll ’ quolibet objetto, quodlibet reprefentare per [peculay,) ii
‘ miontem ex atonto, fullam ant afininum caput ex bu- i mano, Elephantem a capillo. see: |
What hath been faid of Bacox, may be alfo api ply’d to Thomas Bungey , who, meerly becaufe heel fin was his Colleaone in {tudies lying under the fame:lliy!| mifprifion, muft be included in the fame defence, hin, And forthis chere is {o muchthe more reafon Al, »
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in that Defrio fayes not any thing of the Book he: En :
Difquifit.t. writ of Natural Magick but that it conrainessiiiy)s'
certain fuperftitious propofitions. Befides hadi he been in the leaft chought guilry of this crime... they would have been more carefull then ro makez Min: bim Provinciall of the Order of St. Francis in En-Mh, oland, as Dr, Pits affirms he was; and withall chattl whatever is faid concerning his Magick, proceedsill! only from his being an excellent Philofopher andil Mathematician, | |
The:
= it es > ETE RR ey Le. Sea The Hiftory of MAGICK, The like folution may ferve vo juttifie Aichael ÿ the Scot , who was no Ignorant perfon as thofe | imagine who never {aw his name but in the books 4} of Demonographers, a people that would have | À a) nothing to fayof him, wereitnorco rank him 4 amongthe Magicians, in imitation haply of the 1: Poet Merlin Coccaius, whotooka pleafure to dif h : | eribe his enchancments, and Daste the Florentine, 5 who {peakes thus of him, at che end of the twen- | tieth Canto of his Hell,
na aaa
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Quel? altro, che ne’ fianchi € cos: poco, Michele Schotto fu, che veramente
Delle Magiche frode feppe il gioco.
— See you that trifling fellow there ? ‘Twas Michael che Scott, who knew his part: Ln all the roguing cheats of Magick Art.
| For,befides that he is cited as a great divine by the iw moft learned of the Carmelites, and Prince of the p. fa: hf Averroifts, Johannes Bacco, it is eafily jndo'd y tent. di- sit) as. well by the two Books we have of his, Of Phy- tin 33- an flognomy , and Questions upon the Sphear of Sacro- si) Gofco, as by his Hiffory of Animals andthe tefti- itl, Mony of Pits, chat he was one of the moft excel- sh lent Philofophers, Mathematicians, and. Aftrolo- jj) gers ot histime ; and upon chat account much «A tavour'd, by the Emperour Frederic AI, vo 0 whom he dedicated all his Books, and foretold if him that he fhould die in a caftle called Frorenzo- 4 La, havingalfo forefeen that himfelf fhould end A his dayesina Church. And indeed it came to if pafssas de Granger in his Commentary upon Dante | | affirmes, when being on a certain day adoring the à body 4
234 The Hiflory of MAGICK. body and blood of Jef Chrift, kneeling neati the place, where a bell was then rolling, the roped!’ drew down with ita ftone, which falling on hiss” barehead, killed himinrhe place, where after=.) wards he was buried. | This layd down,I leave men to judge whether. they who calumniate him wichouc any proof, anal" that rather out of cuftome then any knowledg)’’ they had of him, are to be credited rather then thee Deveo. 4n- Ay hority of Pits, a divine and moderne Author, **" alicis, Gr Et , cr. La , who {peaking of him , faies exprefly, chat chough!)" he was look’d on asa Macician by the Vulgar .,j)") prudentium tamen et cordatorum bominum longe alie\\)\! wd fait judicium qui potins per{picax ejus in [crutan--i Ki dis rebus abditis admirabantur ingenium, landabantii industriam, quam reprebendendam judicabant curi-\ il ofitatene , inf piciebant g, hominis [cientiam, non [af picabantur culpam, And for theformall aucho--ill't rity of Dante and Coccaims , it cannot concludes)! any thine to our prejudice, fince thefe two Poersdhii mighr well derive (uch a narration from the vuloar:flhtil meerly co fweeren and embellith their Poems, andi that Cicero jultly laughs ac thofe who cake thesl Poets forgood fecurity for any thing they fay.) when there is fo creata cifference between the! conditions ofa Poem and that of a History, quipped Lib.de Leg. cum inilla ad veritatem referantur omma , in hoc adits delettationem plerag,. Since then itis eafily difcover’d by what wesh: à In Con. Have already: faid, chat the ordinary judemenranii tur. mifcel. Alling on learned men is to be charg’d with Ma-4, premis. gick I conceive few will wonder, if he who, b Epift. — was called by [al Scaliger, Monftrum fine vitio,andibi\, Poli! 9. By (bj Politian (with the fuffrages of the püblickQui, LR voice) the Phœnix of allthe great Witrs, Picus of, | | Mir andulas\)
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The Hiftor of MAGICK,
LAirandula, could not give Hermolaus Barbarus Ho flender an account of his expence of Six pole years in the reading of Scholafticali Aus afchours, buc that the lutre of his creat learn- ia fing mutt needs fo dazzle thole who meafur'd, pip. de wc with the few sada his years when he began anatom. = {ico break fox th, that fome, as | aj Zara , look’dingenior. | hhlon ir as a miracle, and others, in [b] Targuinb Ofatione 1: swGallurims , are io injurious co him, as notto be- Sees | “Mieve he couldariveco chat wifdome and capa- icity buc by the meanes of Magick, Upon which jaf Imay give my opinion, I conceive I may truly May, thacthole who are fo much prejudic’d againtt athe Learning of this great man, were perfons aueertainly as ignorant as chac Divine, who, as iche (ame Picus affirmes in his eApologie , being Wask'd what the word Cabala fignity’d, anfwer d, it was che name of a wicked man and an abomi- nable Heretick 3 vio had written divers things Malagain [t t Jelus € brit, and that all his followers were called Cabalists. For though it may be faid, .iaply more truely of him than any other, |
Primordia tanta Pix pauci mèruere [enes
Mand that his Learminois to be admir’das well in frefpeét of his age as the time he liv’din > where- lin Letters did but as it were. bud out of the thorns of Barbarifm ; yer is it too great a mi- wittruht and limitation of nature and her forces to yathink fhe could not raife rhisman to fuch afu- Jpreme degree of perfection, as might be a marke Mor all thofe thac wouldbe like him. Mankind Mas a large field wherein Nature exercifes her felf Weverall wayes, fometimes {porting her felf with
| an
Lib, de Vurg.Culice 4500, at Rome, : That .of Poffellus who modest
et Teventii rated in rhe Schooles at 13 years of age, Tharapi/id fabulis
The Hiftory of MAGICK, an Ampliftides, who could not tell as far as foun ti mi a Meletides or a Cecilian ; and fomec! Fes prid ling 11-10 an Alexander,a Cefar, a Su Auguftr ne, ota Picus of Mirandula; ving, act cording to th copinion of Tri/megiftus cold, ally ver, and Jead in cheir Compofition. fc was. i} faying of Neocles in commendation of his Brothe|M" Epicuras, that Nature , in his generation , en ailembled together all che Atomes of prudence im! to his Mothers Belly. And why may we not,witil{iil the fame flourifh, affirm thac fhe may have unüif ted all the exrernall caufes of Aire, climate: W Stars ; diet , towards the co monet ota bodyy?! {o to produce a Mind thar thould-bethe paragorpis of others » atidas it were the mold by which owe thers might bemade. in this was caf that 0 Paulus de la Scale, who, inthe year 1552. main! tained; at Boulougne 1543 Conclufions upon fever} fait. rali fubyects of ali: steterds » and that before he was 22. years ot age, Thae of the young mani! menition’d by Cardinall | Bembus, w ho propafodf||
Of Gefrer and Erafmw, who weremore learned at twenty; then others ordinarily are at fifty. Thatch of Agrippa, who at twenty two interpreted ee Pyman der of Trifmegiftus, andthe Book De ver= Be bo mirifico, That of Maldonat , who was adit mir’dfor his reading of Divinity at twenty feven..f" Anddaftly that of Edward du Monim, Who mayylfi be faidto have been made up all of fire and (pie fy rity fince that, ere he was ariv'd to the twentyil \ wh} fxth year of his age; wherein he was killd , He was fo great a Mafier of the Italian, Spanifh, 1a Bes tine, Greek and Hebrew Tongues, as alfo off fi:
Philolophy;.ll
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“itjology, and had withall fo fluent a vein of poely
sin all chofe Languages, thac he tranflared into
‘Latine verfe, and that in Jeffe then fifty dayes, Dz
“iBartass work of the Creation, and {aw printed
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before his death, five or Gx large Volumes of bis
igPoetry highly celebrated by the oreateft wicts of yithe lait ace, Fumeus, du Perron, Goulu, Daurat,
vi
Morel, Baf, and du Bartas, Since therefore
nt Pliny tells us » that ature rerum vis at 4, majeltas nent lé omnibus fide caret , ft quis modo partes eus ac non ‘iyytotum anime compleitatur, and that we can exem- :WAplity in fo many that came foOnear this Pics of wiMirandula, were it not more rationail to admire inhe extraordinary effects of Nature by Judging of
“Mthe one by che other, then bafelyto tubjestitts
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where is not ought beyond the reach of her power
“land performance >
Lattly, forthe Abbor Trithemius, who is call’d Py Thevet in his life, a fnbrle Philofopher, An in
ir
niMerons Mathematician, afamous Poet, an accom-
(Palh'd Hiftorian, avery eloquent Orator , and emi-
wfert divine; 1 find chat chofe who would make
‘him a Magician, may in che firft place, oround
jweheir fo doingonalittle Book of three or four
heets printed under his name in the year 1612.
_pnticuled, Veterum Sophorum Sigila S imagines | Lg
Wacica, five Sculpture Lapidum aut Gemmarum Nx nomine Tetragrammaton cum fignatura planeta~ Vem, Authoribus Zoroastre, Salomore, Raphaele , \haele, Hermete, Thelete, ex Foan Trithemii ma-
Nrefcriptoerute. Another ground may be his own
yapeaking {o pertinencly of Magick, and his giving
mmleli che title of Magician in fome of his Epi- {
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238 The Hiftory of MAGICK. ftles. Andathirdand laf, his writing the Bool) ;, of Steganography a creatife ftufied with che names. of Devils, and full ofinvocations, and, as very). pernicious, condemn’d chiefly by Charles Boville:d" learned and eminent Divine, who makes it worfee'
; _ then thac of Agrippa or any other Authout, in. Lib. de it- the Epiltle he fent ro Germain Ganay Counfelloy) Pet. de 18 the King, and fince Bifhop of Orleans, fout. p.73. years afcer he had feen and read it in the very Rudi"
and Abbey of the faid Trithemius, This was Ant!" a Lib. .de choriry enough for La] Wierus, |b] Thever, [ce] Dell" in ag rir, |d| Godelman and moit of the Demonogras|™: lives of iJ. Pets to be of the {ame opinion, a lufirious But for my part, I am of another, as conceit!" men. Vino that chofeswho would judge wich more trutilfi ¢D/qes. chan paffion as well of this laftas thetwo former! rhs te proots, will beware how chey blait wich eternal |™! Magis ‘Mlamy the memory of any man efpecially arg! venefic, Ecclehaftick, upon fuch poor orounds as theta light conjectures. which are abfolucely vaine: ili! falfe, and forg’d. For befides. the reafons layedilt down in our 6,Chap. thac Pamphlet of makingg {lh images and Charaters upon Scones under cerrairii Conilellations isa pure impofiure and chéat opis Booksellers, who thought fit to print it as newly lin. retriv'd out of Trithemius’s ftudys whereas, aboveg) lin 120, years before Camillus Lienard made it thed i third Bookof his AGirrour of precious Stones ; beslii| fides t&atit was publith’d by Ludovicus Dulcis iv: a trcatife on the fame fubjeét, as alfo by Rodulphus\ in, Goclinus in above four or Sve feverall impreffions#iy De wener. cr of his Book De Unguento Armario ; {o true is char corrupt, axiome Of Aristotle, that, Ad pauca refpicientes) de facil: enuatiant, But beit fuppol’d chac that litcle creatife had been cranférib'd ont of Trithessh
id 9 MIS o> : +
The Hiftory of dessus’ ss who would thence inferre that a Book of ‘mluperfirious Aftrologie were afufficient tefiimo- af y co condemne chole of Magick who have it in intheir pofleffion, efpecially fince there cannot the impilealt szdscinm be drawn trom five orfix Epifties printed ac che end of T7ithemins’s Polygraphy, to çonfirme that opinion to his prejudice, nay they rather juitifie him, as may appear by the reading fchareof and by [a] Gerard Dorue and |b| James Go- a In clavi er), who thew from their enigmaticall fenfe thar ??#/2/opb. \yaxhey cannot be interpreted of any thing buc Chy- fib Bon ggmmultry. Sothaticmaybe cruely faidchat all the b 716, de Muipicion there is of his being a Magician, as he myfeviis ig Himielt confeflech proceeds only from the publi- voter Gt, “cation of a Lecrer he fent co a Carmelite of Gaunt Ve mämemed Arnoldm Boftins, wherein he fpecifi'd La Many miraculous and extraordinary effects 5 gain Epil a Whereof yet he difcover'd the wayes of perfor- ad Foan- ad Mance in his treatife of Sreganographie. For the nemWeflen ve) JUdgmenc thereof of Charles Boville being pub- 75 if lifh’d about the fame time, people were prelent- alia ly perlwaded chat {uch things could not be taueht wo in any but a Magick Book, and char Trithemius mutt needs be excellently well verfd in Conju- ‘pers .rinz and Invocations, Comment. «hi Nowthe firft chat oppofd this calumny, after ## Paracel. he, who was mof} concern’d init, had clear’d de vita lon. Hhimielf, as well bythe key to chat book, and P paw A diverfe paffiges of his Works, was [a] James of his cy | Gohory, who writt a fhort vindication ofthis Ste- phers. © | ganography, againft the calumnies of Wierus Bovil- © De divi- a le and Cardan, In which defigne he was fecond- bares Sr, A ed by [b] Vigenere, |c Boiffardus and |d| Duretus iftory of
” , > Tongues. { who have fhewn chat Trithemins had no other de- c. 14. fol.
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The Hiftory of MAGICK, much furer waythen that of his Polygraphie , tc write and communicate freely one to anoche:l whatever were more fecret , by the meanes of an invention which could never be fufpeed to have any other then the right {enfe, nor dif-cypher’d by) _. any but him thac hadthe key of ir, This is furs) / ther confirm’d by-one Sigifmond an Abbot of the?" order of St, Bexediét, who writta Book, called." Trithemins (ur ipfins vindex ; and by the divined'"' Adam Tamerss, in an Oration printed by him or!" chat fubject ac Zzgo/$tadr, But more remarkablyl then any, and {o as vo filence all difficulty, is in)” done by Gustavus Selenuswho hath lately civern"’ us an explication of this Steganography in the third book of nine, thathe bath publith’d con--! cerning Cryptographic, For he firft fhews why! Trithemius would make it fo difficule; why: he wouid make ule of that maske of Spirits: and invocations ; ahd then he explaines chem andil gives fuch overtures, as whence we may eafilyy, jucge how fat they difparage their own judoment,,) who with fo little confideration blame thingssy bi! they underitand not, and withall, chat ordinaryyyi« faying is-crue,that thé moft /earwed are not alwayésspilli the moft difcreer, |
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if. F it be true that the Authority ofa many makes : th érrour the lefle cenfurable; and that che num- | A) ‘ber of thofe that erre with us: makes our fanits | vel féem the more exculable , gives our Opinions a} dome ground, and hides the:defets of our per- ai) fwañon ; 1 doubt noc but thofe may éafily make
| fuch an excule their fanuary, who feem ro write ial OUC of no orher defign) than to revive, in their ni) Workes, all chofe calumnies which have been hi- 4) therto maintaimd by vulgarignorance tothe pre- yt judice of the happy memory of -A/bertus Magnus iy) fince chat according to the Satyritt,
——Faciunt hi plura, fed illos Defendit numerus; juntteg, umbone phalanges;
But if che number of thefe Authors were nor Jo: yes lels confiderable than the proofs they bring, I s., Hhould ingennonfly confefs,that it were in me no
Melle cemerity co take a courfe contrary to them, khan ic was anciently in Travellers not to caft a Hone ac thole Pillars and Afercuriés in the high- aies, co give others notice of chem. And fince it 8 not always, according to the fayine ot Pythago- as, the furelt way to follow the mofi beaten track, Be chat the moft common opinionsare ordinarily he moft falfe, 45 being fuch as are rather applau- fed chan examined; I fhall ftand upon rhe fame liberty, which [have taken from the firft Chapter pfthis Apology, to pafle from the vindication of | R Religious
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ral Sty =o
242 The Hiftory of MAGICK, Religious men to chat of Bifhops, and fhew, that it ever great Learning arid the ignorance of à bar-;; barous age prejudic’d any man, Robert Great-head,, |. Bifhop of Liacolze;ot, as others, of Lancaffer; andi), Albertus Magnus Bifhop of Ratisbonne have ult). eau/e to complain, As_co the firfts if we only except certain Demo-{;,, Is confem- NOgraphers, whos upon the account ofa Brazen). one Aman- Head that {pokey which Joh» Gower an Enghf{hn) oan ~ Poet, {aid he hadendeavouredto make, to terver)),.; Selden. him inftead of an Oracle, rank him amongthey) ,.,,, Vol. x. de Magicians; alk Authors agree with Pits, that he}, rcb Angli- Was One of the moft learned men of his time, al,,. Ets. fubtile Philofopher, an excellent Divine, a mam... equally acquainted with the feven liberal Scien::},. ces,and the Latine, Greek, and Hebrew Tonguess),, ;. one that writ a great number of Books, wherecill;,,, rhere are fome remaining in Philofophy. Bez}, fides all which , he was ofio holy and exemplary... a life; that (not to prove it bythe Fable,fo-well}, Difquifl. refured by Delrio, concerning his death,and thai, C4 gt 4 of Pope frroceht fourth) Matthew Paris writes ini, EE his Chronicles,thar he wasin fo much repuratiom, among the Englifh, that they called him, the bolj Prelate, the King’s faithful Counfeliour, the Kcforri mer ef the Monks, the Direttor of Priefts, the Ini) firuttor of the Clergy, the Nurfing-father of Scholl), *' larsand Students; the Preacher of the People, and thi Scourge of Vices, ra ous find for Albertas; 1 am very much oblig’d eq“! vor doc- Pawlas Jovins, chat he had not honour’d him wid rerum, his Elosy, but upon the Title of Great, which waa”; ., given him even while he liv’d:by the univerfaall * Livre ah LE r : Wes 1 A Sooper cOnlent of all Schools, Forifwe confider with |! ment de Pofero, on what perfons, and wpon what ser aT ait, chat"
RER RE RE Pre.
The priffory of MAGICK. 2 | chat title hath been beltow’d, I believe there will | Bt fome miracle init, to fee à ample Éryar of the | Order of St. Dominick wave an Epithet eiven him | noc{o ordinary with Popes, Emperours, and Sove- | raion Princes, had not his works difcover’d his x} delerc to be fo great, and his Learning fo extraor- | 4 dinary, that fuch a recompence might feem in- i | Confderable, if Trifmegiftus had not fo refer vd | che title ot thrice great to himfelf, that ir hath not ‘| been fince communicated to any. . Nor fhail Es PAS ) needto fay with Trithemins, that Nox farrexit poff Sri, ET | ere vir Jimilis ei qui in omnibus Literis, [cienttis et clefiafl. À rebus tam dotkus, eruditus, et expertus fuerit, Nor | yet wich 7 hever, that he was fo curious in che dif- Vit, vir. "| quifition of the Secrets of Nature, that it might “Ar. be faid, one part of his foul was tran{ported into - Athe Heavens, another intothe aire, rhe chird un- "A der theearth, and a fourth upon che waters, and “} tat he had by fome extraordinary courfe, fo nni- ‘fred and contracted covether his whole foul, thac “ nothing chat this world comprehends could “felcapeir. For alltho! Elogies, added to what , 44S commonly faid of him,
Lnclytus Albertus dottiffimus at d, difertus, Quadrivium docuit, ac totum fcibile feïvir,
“Weannot fo well help us to judge of his Learning as fhe reading of his own works which would make ‘imot as many volums as tho of his Ditciple “DAquinas , if they were as well reprinted, It is fhot therefore ro be admir’d, if fo many things may be {aid of him upon the account of his know- ‘edge, which being fo great and extraordinary , wmome may very well be extreamly doubrful , R 3 others
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1. de Rer, bout t2o years fnce, held, though contrary to the opinion ol Polydor Virgil , Magins, Mayerus, Ve
The Hiftory of MAGICK.
others, abfolurely falfe andfi@ious. To confirm thiswehave Joba Matthew de Luna, who living
Pancirollus, Florence, Rivault, Zexoldus,and ail Au:
rhors that writof the invention of Fire-workesy, jp chit Albertus Magnus firt found out the ule oft )jie
Canon, Arquebule and Piltol; For I could nevert
£nd in chele Authors any thing that came neart)
thisopinion fave thar fuch inventions were putin
radti'e in his time, and that by a Germane Afonzk: |
call’d Berthold Schwartz, or by a ceitain Chyraiff, À
who, as Cornazanns, an Author ancient enough,, ff |
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34
conceives, liv’din the City of Cullen, where it iss/
4
certain thac Albertus Maznus \iv'd, ever after hes) had taken che habit of a Dominican,
And this makes me hota litle wonder that thee!)
Alchymilis fould never bethink them of holdinggy),,
this opinion, fince they might have done it with,
wnuch more reafon, than attribute co him the. knowledge of rhe Philofopkers ftone,as hach late-4},
ly done their great favourer and abecter Afajermsis,
who is not afham’d, in his Symbols upon the golden,
table of the 12 Nations,toaffirm, that Sr. Domi nick had it fr, and that thofe to whom he hadi
left it, communicated it to Albertus Magnus
a O
who by the advantages he mace of it, difchare’cd
fhoprick of Ratisbonne, and afterwards raughe ing.)
in leffe chen thre2 years, allthe debrs of his Bi-4,,, | St. Thomas Aquinas, whi'e he was his dilciple:),
To vive chis the sreater Authority, he-highly ces, ”
lebraces three Books of Chyæiffry, which he ace},
tributes to hi, whereoffince there is not any On). them either among the collection of his works 4,
.
er {pecified ii the Catalogue thad: of chem bu} Tris) ©
tb mes ~
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| Trithemins | we are only to take notice of that Z.
245
3, de
{which Fran, Picus taies he writ, Of Quinteffence, 4".
Aro fhew by the forgery of chat, whacaccounr } fhould be made of the others, it being certain thac
| eAlbertus Magnus never contribured athovohr: -Wtowards it.. This may be prov’d, not only from:
{his laughing ac the Alchymilts and their preten- mie “) ded Tranimutations in his third Book of (a) Ai.
Qrerals, as (b) Velcurion, and (c) Gaybert endea- ,
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al by 771.
vour to fhew, fince he there maintains a quite impute contrary opinion; but becaule the Author ofthatz 2: “7:
t | Book calls himfelf therein, a Friar of che Order :
Mot St. Francis, and faies he writ ic in prifon, “| Thele two circumftances, which muit intallibly relate to John de Rupefcifsa,eafily evince, that Home Impoftor made ic his bufineffe to play the | Plagiiry, and {teal it out of a Book he had writren yon chat fubject, ro divulgeand gain it reputati- ‘on under the name of Albertus ALagnus, accor- ‘dine co che ordinary cheat of all Alchymifts, who “make chis cheir common fleight co inveiole peo- fp'e ico a belief of their promifes, and by thae ‘means,
Notlem peccatis, et frandibus addere nubem,
To come then to what is moft effential in this i Chapter, and to what lies in our power to de- liver this eminent perfon out of the Quaomire of the ALagicians, as we have already drawn him our
ofthat ofthe Alchymifts. This were foon done,
IA Culse
“af we would bur appeal ro the judeement of Axetre. Script. tii thony de Sienes, and Father Fuftinian, who wric his Eccl ff.
|
|
Hol Mirandula , who abolutely clear him fr R 3 Unis
= é c * . . = Val ye es. ea t ° adg@icerelt Or paflion, (a) Trithemins, and (6) ].Picus es
| LA" 2 * Rs 3 7 a Ja 4 11 F2 "Late, or to cake witneffes difensao’d trom all in-{* 4#tipa
ae
Bzevius de Se v J Pgn-Eccle f. TOR,
c. 7. b Diquis. A A 5.
The Hi ifiory of MAG ICK thiscalumny. Adding wichal, thar when it is: faidthat Albertus Magnus was addited to Ma- eick, ic mutt be underftood of the Natural, for:
fear left the falfe opinion of the contrary, might:
give many occafion to imagine that it were un-
tawful for us co do what he hath done. But fince all chefe Authorities conclude no.
thing if fome anfwer be not made tothe proofsil
ordinarily produc’d to blaft his innocence (not to)
mention thar even {rom his youth, he had fuch ai
MR
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pirucular devotion to the B. Virgin, that fhe:fh
wrouokr fuch ar an sa ru “land unpol lifh’d one, fhe made it ca- pabl cosfider, that the'e proots have chan char of two Books falfly pub!ifh’d “under
his name, an: d chat per which hath given file g- occafion to thonian
ds of Fables and impertinen-- irequent in Authors.
For
4) Delrio agree in this, that it were an exrraordi-- acy injury co think this eee on Arthor oft
cies
that de p Mirabilibus, ard in thefe words clear himul) of it, Alberto Magno tributus Liber de Mirabi- libus, vamitate et [uperstivione epee fed hess
#0 Dobbins paris fuppofiitias, —Towhich F, Pic
the two Books Frazcifcus (a) Picus, andi) iv
alteration in his mind, that off:
e of ail bre - all chings) we are to») e no other gronndi|!
adces,;thac itis talfly atrributed to him, as mil FT
thers Were, a5, among the re{t, that de Muliernm,Ence Albertusis not fo much as nam’d at the beginning of it, .as he who hath writ a Commencupon it would perfwade us : belidess thac tc is. eafily perceav’d, that che Author of it,, who everbe
caufe he often cites his Authority, quar:el
ene now ijes ae
Was, livdfome time after him, be-- y, Sothacalli alt char intituled; thes} Atirro wrr
fecretiss|
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| Mirrour of Astrology, where is treated of the approved and forbidden Authors that have writ- | cen ofchat Art. This is condemn’d by Gerfon “af and Agrippa as extreamly fuperilitious, and by fh: "und Æ, Picus and divers others, becaufe the Author ot j it Maintains a very erroneous opinion in tavonr of — Magical Books, which, with {ubimiffion to better : | if advice, he holds, {hould be caretully prefery’d, | | becaufe che time then drew near, that, for cer- iu] ain reafons, not fpecify’d,men wauld have occa- ithe), Gon 20 read and make ule of chem hl!) To clear Albertus from all fufpicion of Magick ‘el Wpon the accountof this Book, Ican produce no en] better celtimony chan char of J, Picws, a perfon i], more firto judge of chis diffçulry chan any other, ve], who in his firtt Book again eAffrologers main - s] tains chat st Treatile De Libris licitis et Micitisy was infallib bly writ by À. Bacon, whole cuttome it was to cite and produce fuch'Authors in all 4) his Books, which cannot be obfery’d in Adbertus wii) Magnus, Beldes the {aid À, Bacon was {o {trange- i} ly addiéted to judicial Aftrology, that Henry yal PA fia, William of Parissand Nicholas Orefmus, ail je na eminent Doctors, thought themietves ob-
we
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) ped to inveigh againit his warks, and all the va- M nities of Aftrologers. But be it imagin’d this Î
Book was Writ by Albertus; 4 fee not why his
wh, affirming that AZagical Books fhould be preferv’d
M by Inquifitors » and perfons of like Aurhortry
|) fhould make fomuch noife, fince that about 100
4 years fince, ir was che advice of Revelin not to? Amtipaè,
burn thofe of the Jewes. La ]Trithemins 1S of the a aa
A, lame opini on, & |b] Vafquex faies peremptorily 2. me 1 A chat Mavical Books are neceflary ,’ and Magicians difp, 19.» i p permitted by God f or the greater conviction of4. a PÉRENe Libertines
Toe Hiftory of MAGICK. bertines and Athiefts, who bythis means miefi be drawn to acknowledge there are other fub-
{tances:than what we judge of bythe finger andi
the eye : Quo admiffo, iaies he, facilins in cam (enn) \% tentiam adaucantur ut numen aliguod fateantur, ett)
magis ab Atheslmodeterreantur, quoavidias Ma~\
g'eis artibus indent, quod nifi inter Harericos De»
us permilfet, pene omnes in Athei[mo ver(areutur. Ni Te which concurs allo Lattaxtius,when he faies, that Democritas,£ picurus.& Dicearchas would not
have {o conhdently deny’d the immortality of the: | si
Soul, ago aliquo prafente, gui [ciret certis car-\k a Apud E-wpinibus cieri ab inferis animas, et adeffe, et prabere| fe hugeanis oculis videndas, et loquiet futura pra--||
han. de
Moura 3 1; Set. 2. c, POS
B, hath (sil
17. art.6. — St after all this. Albertus be chare’d wich anyy | tei
b 3. Decad. thing of Magick, it mult be on fome other pre=: Pereer, + tence chen that of thefe to books;fnce it isclear: QUE. G % From what hath been faid, .thac he never had any! t De repis Handinthem, All therefore we have now to do,iss Rg. An- torefuce their errour who are periwaded that bra-
glor.i.2. fen heads madeunder certain Confellations may!
Pes cive.anlwers, and be as ir were euides and Coun- d Apud G :
LAttrne
e ats ri fe. ad i . j } > le Seldeq. de MOTS, upon all occañons, to thofe that had chem | fiji
Diss Syris IN their poffeflion. Among chefe isone [21 Tepesyys
Sÿntag. 1. who affirms that Henry de Pilleine made fucha
14e one at Madrid, broken to pieces aiterward by the € In Exod. F Harmer. °*. 5 “3 Cant.3, is affirm’d by |b] Bartholomew Sibilius, and the
zom.4, Aurhorofehe /wzage of the world, of Virgil: by % Difquil. | © ] Wiliam of Malmsbury, oi Sylvefter : by | d |
order. of John 2, King of Caffile, The fame things}
{Le 4? John Gower, of Robert of Linco. a; by the common) |);
Fe ‘à people of Eng/and, of Roger Bacon; and by Le] ASUIIL, € 5 or ; Fr ad À D du A» * A : De Le SA T oftatus Bithop of Avilla, | t ] George of Venice, F - 241007 5
Li Ts bite | R, “ ; Bant. l.2.c, (3) Delrio, Sibrlus, ib Kaguferns, | 1] Delancre
and,
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‘| and others, too many to mention , a Albertus
“| Magnus; who, as the moft expert, had made an
i”
ij entire manotthe fame metal, and had {pent 30.
| years Without any us rs in forming him
| uncer feveral Alpegts and Conttellations, © For ‘| exampie; he made the eyes, according to the {aid 4 Toffatus, in his Commentaties upon Exodus, | when the Sun was in a Sion of the Zodiack corre-
| fpondent co chat part, caiting chem out of diverfe } Metals mixtcogether, and mark’d with the Cha- | D secters of the fame Siens and Planets, and their 2] everal and nec flary Alpeéts. The lame method | he obfery’din the Head, Neck, Shou! iders, Thighs ‘| and Leggs, all which were fafhioned at feveral | rimes , ‘and being put and fatiened cogether in | the form ofa Man, had the facu! ty co revealeto the faid Albertus the folutions ofal Finegan | pal | difficulties, To which they add (that nothing | be loft of che ftory of che Starue) char itwas bat- | ter’d co pieces by Sr. Thomas, meerely becaule he
| could not endure its excefle of prating.
But to give a more rational account of this
| Androides-of- Alber tus, as alfo of all thefe mira-
: | |
i) may wellbe dednc’d from the 7éraph of the He-
: 14 |
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ne
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nn
| al
culous heads, I conceive the original of chis Fable
brews, by which as Mr, La] Selden afhrms, man Sa aoe are of opinion, chat we mn{t underftandwhatisy, ¢.’2, ) faid in | Lb] Gexefis concerning Labaw’s Gods, andb c.31,
in the firlt book of [ c] Kings concerning thee 4 19. Image which AZichol pur into the bed in Davia’s
À place. For À, Eleazar holds that it was made
ofthe head of a male child, the firit born, and
that dead-born, under whole tongue they apply-
ed a Lamen of Gold, whereon were e -ngrav’d the
M Characters and Infcriprions of certain “Planets ,
which
Peres. qu, decad. 3,6, 2,4. 3.
De civit. del. 8. Le 23 e
The Hiftory of M AGICK. which the Jews fuperfitioufly wandred up and)’ down with,inttead of che #rim and Thammim, oc the Ephod of the high Prieft. And that chis Ori-+|! einal is true and well deduc’d, there isa manife(t: | pndicium in that Henry @ Affia and Bartholom ens: | \ SibiBas affirmychac the Androides of Albertus, and)!!! the Head made by Virgil, were compos’d of} i!!! flefh and bone, yet noc byNature bur by Arcs li But this being judged impoflible by modern Au}! thors, andithe vermne of Images, Annulers, and\\ ll! Planetary Srerlls being in great reputation, memili have thought ever fince (taking their opinion! from Trifimegifius afitming in his Afclepion, that, (lil ofthe Gods, {ome were made by the Soveraion God, and othersby men, who, by fome Art, had! |iit! che power to unice the invifible Spirits ro things vihble and corporeal, as he is explain’d at larce by | blow by St. Auguffine) that {uch Figures were made
ot Copper or fome other Metral, whereors cin, men hadwrought under fome favourable Afpedcts;}ih» of Heaven and the Planers. Which opinion, | tie! fince its the more common)xit is fit we earneit-. fie ly buckle with, and thew chat it was not without: | 9) reafon refuted by Se. Thomas, William of Paris & Nr: Niphus, as falle, abfurd, and erronious, To ik, prove this the more eañly we areto prefuppole, ru chat fpeech is the agtion of fome thing thar is li- i ving, and is not perform’d but by the voice li which ts defin’d by ‘Sc. Thomas, after Ariffotle, | Sonus ab ore animalis prefatus, For it mutt needs lis be oranted, chat, if rheie Heads fpoke, ir was ei4.) ther becaufe they were living and animate, or’ 4)
that the Demons {pikeinthem. “Ifthe former, the Soul whereby they did tc, muñ be vegerarive,
4
fenfitive, or rational,
It conld nor
be vegera~ |
tive, À
Rene RES RE Let CR The Hifforyof MAGICK, nve, becauie, according torhe faculties of the faid Soul ; fuch bodies (hould be ranked among ‘N\) Planes, be nourith’d, increafe and produce their if like. dt could not be fex/tive, for char, befides & 1} the faculties of che vegetative Soul, ic prefuppo- | festwo more, which are particular to it, and ne. ver granted cto chofe Statues, Much lefle then L | Can it be rational, uniefie we grant wichal, chat they could apprehend the Species of things, dif- | courfe, remember them, and, ina word, be like my as,
4 ne. … sl
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Moreover, 1frhefe Heads and Sratues were re- ny} ay fuch, char is, living andanimate , it was ei- at) ther by an accidental form or à fubftantiall; not ) che firlt, ac leat according to che opinion of all #{ Philofophers, who will never grant, that to ‘| difcourle, to fpeak, to reach, to torefee wharis to come ; and {uch effects can depend onan ac- Leident, and not on a Subftance. The latter is lefle poffible, becaufe fuch Statues could nor re-
A ceive chat fubftantial form till they had been de- il VeRted of whac they had before; which there is mf no colour to imagine they fhould have done by af a Gmple tranimutation of figure , fince the form
if of che copper and of their marter was fill {uch as
} it was wont co be. Further, I would eladly (i know, where was their wotion, the firft i#dicium
of lite; where their fexfes, the fluces of all
1 knowledge ; and, ina word, (not to ravel our «} felves into choufands of difficulties, arifing from A the original and operation of that Soul) where J) Were the Parcs and Organs neceflary for their dilcourfe and ratiocinarion.
Mae
Nor’
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Nor does it availe any thing, ro grant that thes!’ Demons have fpoken in them; for it muft be: done either as the Soul.does in our Body, by the fit affitance of its Organs, or as one fhould do thar: |! anlwers in a Cheft, of fome broken pot, Th former way is impoffible fuch Statues being not: |!’ furnifhed with ALZu{cles, Lungs, an Epiglottis, and\ i" what is requifire to a perfect articulation of the:}/" Voice. The latter is as ridiculous, for, ific:ltif be true, why fhould thoie men rake {uch pains to. |! make a Man rather than a Trumpet, or a Head rae ther than a Bottle, fince the Devil might as well (i) anfwer by the one as the orher , andtharit he: hath heretotore utreredhis Oraclesin Statues, it: |) was to engage men to adorethem, to rhe con= tempt of their Creator, whereas there isnot the leaft mention of any Idolatry, inthe Stories of: this. Androides, and thete fine Heads, So thar: Hi we may well conclude with the Royal Prophet, , fui The Idols of the Gentiles are Silver and Gold, they’ pin have mouths and [peak not, nor is there any breath, Nu 14 their noftrils; all we have to do( the reafons of lu
x. 2.de Trifmegiffus being fully retuted by Niphus ) be. fi Demonibus ing to fatisfy the Authority of Toftatus, one of rhe : jis!
moft. ancient and moltauthentiek Patrons of 4/-. Nils bertus’s Androides, that fo we may at length give fin; a. final fentence againit the vanity of all chefe Fa=- jitls bles and. pernicious falfities, | I mult indeed confeffe, chat Tostatus was the Mi:
moft learned,nay the muracle,if I may fo expreffe : Ni; my felf,- of the learned men of his age; fince thaty fui, beiny Counfellour CO the King, great Keferendary Bl tevin, of Spain, and Profeffour, im Salamanca, of Philo- li
fophy, Divinicy, Civil and Canon Law, and all at fin the fame time, he hath nevertheleffe wrirren |
fuch
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sifuch, large and laborious Gocnin enetions chat | were we nor certain he dy’datc forty, they were } enough co perlwade us he had liv’d an entire age, ‘}Buc when I find him afhtming therein many Le td efchings j juttly accounted fabulous by the World, as | #{or inftance, what is faid concerning the birth of : “the Prophet Mers, the Magick of Virgil, a bra- | t fen bead that difcover’d the Jewes i in Spaiz, a cer- 1: rain earth in Hebron that was good to eat, the | A Androides of Albertus Magnus, “ard abundance lof the ji ike y J cannot but look on them as {o ma- Hay black patches of his humanity; nay, if we ap- wefpeal to Scaliger, we mutt ingenuoufly acknow- L.x: de qlecse char hoc oftentationis vitium fuit magis Plantis %g Morris ut globatim congererent omniayion ut nihil reli. Theoph: 1 EUR {ed wt nibil ne[civiffe uiderentur:To re-inforce jwhich Argument,if any fhall with Aristotle init, Ethics L. 73 bac common he cannot be abfolutely falfe Rand conlequentl by, that fo many Authors would Inor have fpoken of the Axdroides ot Albertus, if Homeching had not been in the wind, I {hall final- “My antwer, That my defign is only to fhew that he cou'd noc by the help of née dns Magick, js make a Scatue that fhould give him anfwers in an Mintelligible and articulate voice , upon all the doubs and difficulties he propos’d thereto, as ) well ofthings pre ent as to come; and not abfo- Hiütely to deny that he might compofe fome Head bor Statue of man, like that of Memon, from ‘(which proceeded a {mall fonnd ; and pleafanr ,§ noile, when the rifing Sun came , by his heat, } to rarify and force our, by certain finalt Condu- jits, the aire which in the cold ofche night was |condens d within ir, Or haply chey might be : like thofe Statues of Boërins, whereot Cagfiodorus {peaking
254 The Hiffory of MAGICK,
1.1. pari peaking faid, Aeralla muginnt, Diomedis in err
ar. epifi.4s. Ses buccinant ; aneus anguis sifibilat, aves fimnss lata fritinniunt , et que propriam vocem nefciuntil ab are dulcedirem probantur emittere cantilene : for) fuch I doubt not bue may be made by che help o: that part of Narwral Magick which depends on the Aathemaricks, Ie were therefore much mored!?. rational thus to interpret whatever hath bee. faid ofthis Azdroides, thanto proftitute the ree putation of Albertus Magnus, Robert of Lincolna, andfo many other perfons of confiderable quali... ty tothe judoment ‘of certain Authors, who are), jo eafily’carryed away with che flender affurance! of a common opinion,
Quid. Met. Ge
Bees ,,
Qua veris addere fal[a
Gander, et à misimo [ua per mendaciaicrefcit,
Pa i ;
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S ic was not lawful for every one in the old D Teltament co lend a fhoulder to upholdthe ie 41 Ark of che Covenant ; even thonghic were ready 1 : | vo fall, fo there are a many that tl hink ic were noc 4 | convenient, that all kinds of Writers undertook | the defence of him whom Christ Jefus hath letc las Head and Vicegerent of his militant Church,
«| The reafon is, that being perlecuted by the ene- | my of mankind, who hath taken into his fervice all the modern Hereticks, the better to oppofe him, and fo to {trike at the foundation of apt mal Monarchy ; fuch Chriftian and Carholick Hercules’s, as were Bellarmine, Baronius, and the ornament of Gafco- ny Florimundus Remundus, to whom it properly | belongs ro vindicate the injuries done tothe Suc- | ceflors of Sr, Peter » to purge their Azzals of ere } rours-, and to heal their blindnefle who are im- | prudently carryed away with the forgeries & ca4 humnies of Hereticks, And yet fince, as Tertulli» an faies, every one may bea Soldier in what con- | cerns the defence of Religion; and that God was pleas’d to make ufe of the fling of a poor Shepherd to abate the pride of the Philiftins, we may prefume (yet without fearching into the fe- ) crecs of his will co find out the caufe of ¥zzah’s death , for endeavouting to uphold the Arke) chat , as he permits the Devil to fer upon the Church by the means of rhe moft inconfiderable
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fhould defend her. And chis Ichink ic my duty ey to do, as to what concerns the crime of Magick, | wherewirh the fimplicity of fome ancient Au: thors And the malice of modern Hereticks, woulcd blaft che reputation of thole who have fac ar thee helm thereot in the quality of Popes. Not chat I am {6 unadvifed as to think cheir innocenceel ftands in any need of my pen; firicettis Ps 14 17 enough to relcue it felf 5 with the : affitiance Où the holy $ Spirit who never forlakes its {rom {ucha| an accufation, and ro overcome all the tempefln-d, th ous hurricans of iuch calumnies,
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ve: Vole (uz 4, But being both bythe relation ofa Catholick, gr the title ofthis Apology oblig ‘dco this. duty, El. might well be langh’d ar, 4 prel uming to vindi--f.. cate alltheeminer it per! ons, I fhould tor cet mys, {elf fo far, as not to fay fomething of mu who,,ll by reafon of their 5 are theme it highly 1 confiderablé. And this the racher, indend witliah q pretend to dravy from this s Chapter the fironceft:f,, Arevmentr thac may be, co jifthe all che orhersr i, mentioned in thisBook,whom 50 man will here=t{. after wonder to find chare’d with Magick, when. ff} even thofe who command ns as Liverenants of, | God, andawhom we relpect as the high Prielts 8 À Prelates oi our Phi could nor avoidthar |} reproache Yer as God never permitserrour foto § Incnuate mo any “hime: o Of import ance, bur there | 1s lightenough to dite ‘over it, ifamanwilllook. E but narrowly thereto; fo in this cafe, foma= § ny juñitying circum ances offer them felvesy gf.” and there are {o many progis ro underminethe |,"
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The Hiflory of MAGICK. | Very sround-work of chéfe accüfitions that men | Mmuftneeds be eicher (trangely paffionate Of 1on0- jy) Fant, if, having ever fo little reafon or Judginene x, 1 they donot perceive, that all chofe things which | Concern the Musick of the Popes, are noching but “| Dreames, Caftles in the Aire, Chimaras & Fables. |: Forcobeginwich chofe char are leffe {ufpected, | and by confequence may the moft eatily be vindi- | cated, I conceive the firft chare’d though bu “\flightly, with this crime, was Lee the IIT. to “) Whom is actributed a little Book called, Ench;- \ ridion ~Leonis Papa, contra omnia mundj pericula , Containing abundance ofCroffes, a many nimes [of God, and the Cabala, abundance of myfi- ull and unintelligible words: Whence it hap} comes;rhat [a]Le Loÿer and [ b1Delrio do,with rea-a De (pegs. ‘Mon, laugh ac chofe who think chat Book Was À A AC ent by this Pope to the Emperour Charlemagne, ; Pain ance it containes only a certaine Theurgy Ve Par and tl] manag’d which yet fome have fince endea- “four d to difguife in Zr4/y under the name of Se. WWtbald Bifhop and Conieflour. Bu as for-cthat “fending, cheres no more likelihood inic then in ‘What is related by Emanuel De Moura, w} “} bat there being a certain Scholler in the City offing. r. vomimbra, who heald wounds by vertue of cer- c. 3. art; 1, Maine words and prayers, the common report & 2 ‘Was, chat chey had been firit (ent by Pope Sixtus F. to fohnot Auffria , thet in war agiintt the Pare, to be nf#d in ordet to the curing of his “founded men. For as the faid de Aura affirms , ’fne Scholler gave Him another reafon ofthe y “ne of thofe prayers, fuch as had no cohere: i rich chat of che Common opinion, M Next co Leo TIT, maybe puc chat Monfer ,
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Mob. niv The Hiffory of MAGICK. muft adde all thole inclufvely who had the | Chaire from Sylvester XI, co Gregory W 11, that 4) is about fifteene or lixteene. “Bue finc e Benno , “oy à pis met | Cardinal], who made a Catalogue M of the Popes that we e Magicians, reckons bu
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M ester and Gregory {o to clear them ali rooëether of that calumny, ‘and difcover Row little reafon men 4 have had to be corru pted {o long by the Leaven ead of thiserroneous opinion, For when I ref feét on i che fitit a and mot ancient Authors trom whom uf ee of injurie hach been deriy ‘dagaintt the il fucceffors of St. Peter, I cannot bart ay wich Apu- imi hein » perinjsrinns est ei fiders in pejoribus habere Ml ui 12 melisribus non hahére és, and conte equently \ i fall into a double a udmiration; Firft,atche fie Dp'icicy of a many of our Demonoer ‘aphersand mo- elad derne Hiflorians , whoflitheir Books with fuch Periviall ftories and fab'es raken out of thole An- ig thours wichont anv difcretion. Seco ondly, at the niinverérare malice Of Herericks who, co {atisfie fthe envy and hacred they bare the holy See, nl Gwhole rnirie they have as much confpird as ever § Hannibal did that of Rome) make ic fill cheir bu (@ fineffe to feek out chole calumnies anc repsoat he: tag Whica cood Aurhours cannot furnifh them v Inthe fepulchers and common fhores of Sch date Frat cks, and, as the Civilian Michael | Riccins hath . a@well LR erv ‘d,
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Autores quo[vis excitant, quos licentiofé in ipfos Pon-.\ 1 tifices feripfiffe deprehendunt, Wherher this be {o,,/ , J appeal to chat Colletion which Matthias Flac cius Illyricus hath made in thac great Volume} ; entituled , Catalogus teftivm veritatis, which I cannot more fitly compare to anything chen toi ., thac Poreropolis of Philip of Macedon, For asi), that Cicy was inhabited only by Exiles, Rogues, Cutpuries, pillory’d perfons, and all the dregges:},, and offalls of the Country ; Somay itbe eruely'{, : {aid, that (the depraved paflages onc of the Fa--) thers and Councels only excepred) all that fo vaft Catalogue is only a heap of their fhreds and frag-») ments who had before either kick’dagainft che: | Church; or been cutt off from ic as rotten and||, eanoren’d Members, fuch as, among a million off}, others, was the pretended Cardinall Bexno, who) made ic his bufinesto give ns the reprefentation)| ofa bad Pope in Gregory VII, as Xenophon did thatt} of a Vertuous and accomplifh'd Prince under the:l, perfon of Cyrus. For I can hardly betieve that a mam) )"~ could fay {uch frange things of che wickedelt per--{"" fon in che world, as what chis Anchor faies of {uchf, ~’ a Pope, and upon his account of Sy/veffer 11.) * John XX. XXL, and Benedié IX. who,it we mayy} believe him, did by his Magick, force womenif "1 to run after him chrough Woods and over Moun-.}!""" raines, and gave infallible predictions of rhingss} cocome. And yer thefe fables are nothing in: | 14 comparifon of what he addes concerningthe Arch- | vig
bith Laurence, who perfe&tly underftood rhe:l" finging of Birds, and Gregory V IL, who caft the:
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The Hiflory of MAGICK, 5 friend and Confident Gerard Brazutus, and had fo k Well Learn’d Magick of Theophylaët and Laurence Viye| Sr/veffers difciples, chat he {catter'd fire when lie iis?) fhookhis armes, and fenc ont thunder-cracks our of hisfleeve, But this Avthour {peakes too li- berally to be believ’d, and fince it was his defione | to traduce the Popes, he fhould have done it 1: with more modefty and judgment, and fo nor uy have given La] Delrioand |b) Florimundus Remun-a Difquif. dus occafion to Imagine his Book {uppofiticious “ Fe and foro’d, at the eruption of Larheranifme, cri aa or rather thar he might have avoided the difalte ee, A of the more re‘erv’d and confcientions among thofe of the Reformation, and particularly af Bl Vigner , who hath thele words of him, Cardinal) lor pait. 5 a : ? 2. p, 650, Benno fpeakes after a ftrange manner of the Popes of where he thefe times, as alfo of the meanes whereby they ar- {peakes of | riv’d to that height, I know not whether he be an ie death of | Authour that may be credited, or no. Addetothar 57e" at : . EX ‘ ‘ . bhecnd of | the Cenfure siven of him by * Papyrins Maffon, in 41, a the Hittory he hathwritten with too much liberty 1003. | of Confcience of the Bifhops that have govern’d , ie “| the Church of Rome; for {peaking of Sylvefter and 1% 4- | the injury done him by accounting him à Maet- “A clan, hefayes, Argue hujus fabule ssventorem [u[- 1 | ee
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Noremberg and all the Partifans of the Emperour icatrer’d abroad abunaance of Challenges and Li- bells, as it is US with Princes to be ever well furnifh’d with fuck Advocates and defenders of their Cau! jes be they gond or! bad,
But as this p pretend ed Carainall Bexno, a per! on equally dulcarded both by Proteftants and CAPES Jicks, feems to have.don e all he did out of a Je defigne and purpole, to calumniate Gre egory V i 1 fo,mult:it be hs hee -do'd , that Platinusy an eminent WIIEEE of .the lives .ot Popes hach too creculonfly embraced what was laid before
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already deceiv’din the lite of Pope Joan, Or Godefrey who ent Bote 1es-us wach os fine Ro: mance ot Arthur and his Prophets Aderlin, For
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def A Le } Sy!vester in the year 1320. for it 1s clear thavhe | Des > }. hath eran{laced all hefayes of him, in his Chr id ché MAC 5 b> a eT eh pt LAN eee ee E > ? logicall n Sap pita on, out of this Goa jrey who liv’
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there needs no more than the reading of his own Book , De octts Imzperatoris
is fo extravagant, and at fucl reafon ‘and “both ordinirs nary polioilitys chat che Fables of e#fop, anithe {lories of Aswadis are un morte credible. Bef des, not co makeany diffi- eulcy about the diver! ity of Copnies, and the Additions madetothis A¢artiniy Polonus, ic were more prudence to conclude ot his authority cannot any way prejudice Spleelter not only che loregoing reafon, but alfobecau'e he tires us with fuch abundance of faleulous things in his Je met chit it were no lefle licheneffe ot
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de Infantia Salyatoris, and chofe he makes upon. fi) the hiltory of Pilate, of the Greeks, who wonld|) i! {teal rhe bodies of St. Peter and Sc, Paul; of Syl >| \\ vester’s Dragon, which deftroy’d every day fix:fur choufand perlons, and that of another that wasi. te! of {ach vat bulk chat eight yoke of Oxen were not: iil! ab'e to craw him to the place where he was cay it beburnt. To which may be added thole of Ar-- iv thur of Britain, of the Prophet Aderlin , of Pope: tet Joan, of the Golden Letters of ahundred pound | ji 10 weight a peice, which Char; emaigue befiow'd onu twenty three Monafteries he had founded.&abun-lii dance of the fame fluife good tornothing bue,with! | ‘i the help of a cradle, to rock little Children afleep, fit, And lattly , for Viacent a’ Beauvais , and Ane ver, toxine de Florence who may have ler fall fomewhat: | iy: of che Macick of thefe Popes, Ifhall, with Afe/- lun
dently afirme, that choueh they were creditable: hnon perfons, yer in regardrhey have nor been at the U., paines tO confder well che places whence they ul have taken their Srories ; nor weigh’d the things. | jth». they have Jefe behind them, they are of little or lu, no Autho ity among {uch as cannot brook it, to di, fee the Nob’e name of History upon the Portalls | of thete monlirous Edifices built of Materialls {o Pain confus’d'and different, fo far from being folid fl: audweltlcementec, Ihave been the more laree fi; in anfivering thefe ancient Authors, becauie, Ii, thefe foundations ogce undermid.there’s nothing |, fo eafy as to pull down che fuperitrméture; fuch as are, the Auchorities of Masclerus , Funccins en ie Goldast, Gualterus, du Pleffis, Balaus,the Centue |») riators, and a whole Anr-hill of Lutherans and. }}, Calviaifis. who have with much Curiofity , not |. only |
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| only tranfcrib'd out of chofeAncients,but made on #1] {mall adicions to rhefe plautible relations. Not
“t) thac they were fo fimple & ftupid as to take them
‘| for true, but becanfe they imagin’d all makes for ") them chat hures their adverfaries, and thought this
“S| kind of battery would prove very etfeétual, by the A] delinquency of 2, or 3.Popes.to make a Breach in
| the veneration due to all the reft, and to reproach “#) che whole body with the imperfection of fome one TU) ot its members ; Est enim, as Sidonius faith, hec
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WN) dines devennftent [celera paucorum, i To levell, therefore, this Tower of confufion, “| which, in fome of our Hiftorians & Demonogra- | phers, want of judgment; in Herericks , envy ‘| hatred and malice, have engao’dthem to build u roche difhonour of the Monarch of the Church, ‘| upon che too fimple and eafy credulity of thofe ty ancient Authors, we mutt begin with this Ger- itl Bert, or Sylvefter II. He, they fay, was Mafter “fin Magick co four or five of his fucceffors, where- ii) as chere is moreground to acknowledge that he | was the molt vertuous perfon, and greatet Light “as to all manner of Sciences, of che age he liv’d wil in, it being much more ealy for us ro give an ac- i Counc of his fearning then the place of his ex- ‘iu traction and manner of life, till he arriv’d tothe lin Archbifhoprick of Rheims, Forfome, accord- “ing to the common opinion, affirme, thar he i) was firit a Religions man at Fleury, or St, Bennet’s wupon che Love, Others there are chat hold wthe contrary , grounding cheir opinion upon guy What he faich himfelf in one of his Epiftles to the wi Emperour Orho III. wherein he openly tells wi him, that he had, from his’ Childhood , ferv'd
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co his Son Robert; he conferr’d on him thar Arch=af bifhoprick, whereof being devefted by Fohx: | li X VIL'he retircdinto Germany, toOrho I Lil who committed to this charge Orho II Land savez him, byway of recompencethe Archbifhoprick ot Ravenna, which he peaceably enjoy'd, rilbi chat, his Difciple comingto che Empire; he wasslnii by him ordained Pope and maintained again{t the: Komansinthe dignity of fapreame Bifhop,
Thele things well confidersd, Ifeenor upon what ground AZartinus Polonus and Platinus mis n reprefent himasa Magician, ForI pray, whatrquin likelihood is there he fhould quit his Friers frock iti to go and learne Magickat Toledo, Salamarca'y,)\i or Sevilly the, Metropolis of Azdalazia in Spaing, tile when he never ftirr’dout ofthe Abbey of Flezry 5.) ull he was.caken thence by Hugh Capet yor as heu faith himfelf, {pent his youth im the fervice off fiery Otho I..and 115 Andis ic not more probable he fhould arrive co.allthefe Ecclefiafticall Digeaiy) nities by. che favour of two Kings of France andil\ini three Emperours, to whom he had done great andil iy confiderable fervices, rather then by anyaffiftanceshii; or indufiry..of rhe Devill, whonever yet was’ foo) good a/Makler as to beftow a half-peny om all thesfi 4, Magicians, -notwithfanding their mot remark="))\ ;, able beggery, as [a] Defrio, |b] Bodin) |[c] AMajolegh Remy, andall Authoursknowledee 2 And thiss
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}and rewards according tothe Pfalmiit, The earth jas the Lords and the fulneffe thereof ; he cpu his | han 1d, ANC A filleth every living thing Wit ble fing
pi giveth unto every one, and as, Wie not; 12 his ft hand are riches and glory,
Sp is there any more marrow in what is added, char, having been anfwer’d by the Devil, chat he | fhould not dy till {uch time as he had! laid Mais in
M Aiierufalemyhe was extream lyturpriz’ dupon war- i nine given him chat he ee near his death, when, inot mindinga any thing he faid it 10 the Church ot ig} the A rofje in Hierufalem,whichisin Rome, As it he fhould be ignorant there wasa rien e jin the place of his confant refdence called b chat name, oz fhould not.have reflected on the mthambiguity of Oracles, and would have celebrated | {mare in à place unknownto him, But what is faid of his ed is much more flat and ridiculous, par lealt, 1f. we could but be perfwaded;. thar; as WAZ srtinus Polonus and Platinus afhrm, hemadea Mpublick acknowledgment of his fault, andthat rfafrer he had given a{luted ex preflions of a finceré hand perfe& repentance, he cominitted'a thing jypextreamly {uperfitious ,. ordering: tha :his body pm fhould, after his death, be-put in a, Go: to be ofedra wn by Oxen, without any body roeuide them; opehac it might be buried in che place where th 1ey Bhoulc ld Rop, That happened | belore the Church of Wr. John Lateran , where the forefaid Authors with divers others , affirm that his Sepulchre five es a certain prefage of the death of Popes both
y a fhock and crafhing, of the bones that are \ bwithin, and by a great {weat-and moilineffe of the
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But chis is all pure cheat andimpoflure, nov},,./ only as to experience, never any fuch thing bail, (u ving been obferv’d by any onero this day; buy), al{o as to the In{cription of this Sepulchre com»: pos’d by Sergius IV. which is fo far from makinél. any mention of all thele fables and extravagancess |); that, on the contrary, it is one of the moi confi:#..; derable teftimonies we can have of the vood lifté,,,, | and integrity of this Sy/veffer, And indeed it id... no {mall fhame, thac many Catholicks fhouldfe ;;, much countenance this calumny, when Afarierl nus Scotus, Glaber, Ditmare, H lçandus, Lambert... and Herman Contraé, who were his Conrempo“{, , raries, make not the leat mention of it. Not rec. urge, that itis refuted evenby fome dif paffionatee! Hereticks, as Vigner in his Bibliotheca, and Papy-- rins Maffon in his Hiffory of the Bifhops of Rome: where {peaking of Sylveffer, he faies, Plurimums) miramur confittam de eo fabulam mortalium auress sta penetraffe, ut nunc quog, evel ex plurimorunss\, mentibus non poffit; and fo concludes that all chissl Tragedy came from Cardinal Benno’s invention... Of which opinion is alfo Baronius, whofpeakine |” of him, faies, Ls fuit primus fingende fabule archi-) tellus, cujus authorem nominaffe folism, fit refneil, " tafe. Buc icis withal Vigaer’s judement, that itt) may be very likely the Romans, haply nor {atis--/,"” fyd with Sylveffer, as well for that he was aa) ftranger, as becaule che Emperour had made hina} Pope without their Election,and that he expre(s’di}""'' more earne{inefs and affection for his fervice chama)) their inconitancy would permit, added fome--}*" what to the fulpicion, in chat, he being well} "à vers’d and excellent inthe Afathematicks , theyil our of their ignorance therein, look’d on them"
asi|
as difallow’d and damnable Sciences.
à ESS En à 24 dun M EMA RE Que di
MAGICR And this
The Hiftory of
indeed Lam che more enclin’d with |a] Ciaconus, à In vitis
» Lb] Genebrard, |c] Florimsndus Remundus, and “mi @ | Delris, to aflign for the true caufe of this fufpi-
Poncific. b Lib.chro- log.ad ann,
4cion, in chat we are certain of rwothings which 1002. may confirm us very much, One ts, chat he flou-e Jn bis
virith’d in the gth age after Chrift, which was 49° of 4a-
tichréR,
.ncredibly rude, barbarous, and ignorant, The 4 Dour Mother, thac he was certainly the moft eminent, / 2.quef,
——>
Jor one of che moft eminent perfons of his time, as 19. well for matters of Stace, as for Learning andthe
| Wknowledge of chings divine, humane, and liberal. (Of chis we have pregnant proofs in his own Ep:-
Wiles, andthe Decads of Blonds; befides his in- Decad. 2.
: Wkimate acquaintance with the AZarhematicks , 1-3.
~ Wwhich was {uch rhat he could difcover and difcern
, Mbetter chan any other as ÆApuleins fayes, tempo= Lib.4. Fle-
rum ambitus, ventorum flatus, et Stellarum meatus, fidorum. Wponitruum [onora miracula, [yderum obliqua curri-
Moule, Solis annua reverticula, and with che help
of che AZechanicks, make many rare and {ubril in-
*. fruments.
Ot chat kind were chofe Hydraulick
” Machines which Wiliam of Malmsbury fayes,he 72. de
* Mmade with {uch induftry at Rheims, that by force geftis Reg. Nef che water they made a {weer harmony ; or that dmg. ¢. Los WMC lock , which as Dirmare relates, he made in fuch "manner, thac ic difcover’dthe Pole-Star; and thar
* BBrafen head, which was done with fuch ingenious
“Martifice, that che {aid Willsam of Malmesbury was In his ad- “Whimlelt deceiv'd in it, when he arcributed ir co ditions #p-
§A4Zagick. Adde to this what Oxuphrius {aies, viz, “that he had {een in che Library of the Faraefes ,
| i learned Book of Geometry written by this Ger- '
ox Plati- WS.
=
bert, And for my part (nor to meddle with the
MGppinion of Erfordienfis, and fome others who
make
ae
Saas
purs à PO Re 7 A ANT Ta ee
es
“We. € SE TRE >
270
L.4.c.%. de vita Apolloniz.
4 The Hiftory of MAGICK.
make him Author of Clocks and the Arithmerick now among us) I chink thefe proofs fofficient to
evince, that chofe, who never had heard of Cubes, |
Parallelograms, Dodecaedra’s | Almicanthara’s ,,.
Valfagora’s, Almagripa’s, Cathalfem’s, and otherr) terms, frequent among Methematicians , mich} |’ well imagine they were certain fpirits that he in--| #" vocated, and that fo many extraordinary chingss) #4!
could not proceed but from a man that had fome=-} lit
thing in him extraordinary, and confequently,,|»
that he wasa Magician,
Having been fo large in the vindication of this)
J a 2° : . oe Gervert, or Sylvester I, “vis fit fomething be fatal} ii) for his Schollers and particularly the Archbifhopol tnt
Laurence, who is traduc‘d by the faid Perso, as ham | tit:
ving learnt Magick of Sy/veffer, and cauehe itt
=
Hildebrand or Gregory V 11, This he does with--} Ont alledoine any other proot chan that he was:
very intimately acquainted with both, and un- deritood very well, and could interpret the fing-
z le AR RATE ET Es M ing of Birds , as, for experience fake, he one dayyihin r
didat Rome, before cerriin Prelares upon an
aceidental meeting with a Spatrow, thac by his
Le,
!
chirping acquainted his companions of a Care full} ki of Wheat overturn’d at the Gate called AZajor,,} ls
and that it was much fortheir advancage. Bue
done by Apollonins in Philoftratus, or du Pleffy
»
i
ft
Mornay» Who was fo blinded by pañion as coul,
quote it as true and Authentick wich all che fore="l{,
mentioned of Gregory V1. left he fhould leaves} Out any thing char might fivell up his Z47/ffery of | Tniquity, And yet chis pretended Cardinal 15%
:
: forc’d ro acknowledge in the fame place. that
the queftion is whether be rhe more centurable,,} ii Benno, who forg’d the Rory upon fuch anorher=} ny,
SSSR eT ER Tt The Hiffory of MAGICK, Pope Beneditt 1V. ( whom he hath as little favour for, as any ot the reft) and this Arch- bithop Lawrence were very well skili’d in the Mathematicks, And Baronins fhews, by the rela- tion of Petrus Damianus, chat this Archbifhop was {fo far from having any hand in Magick, thar, on the contrary, he was'a'man of a very holy life, and, upon the account of his good works, after his death, put into che number ot che Bleffed Saints, Which thing, were there nought elle, were enough to aniwerthat {candaions Libel, di- vuie'd by Benno or the Lutherans ro blaft the me: mory and reputation of Pope Jii/debrand, who could expe & no lefle then to be befpatter’d with the detractions ofthat mercenary Author, when he had before felt the indignation of his Perfecu- cor the Emperour 27e#y IV, For this implaca- ble enemy ofhisin twoteveral Affemblies of Bi- fhops in Germany held at Alajance and Brexina, becaule Hildebrand had twice excommunicated him as a Schifmatick, and devefted him of all his Lands and Dioniries, caus’d him tebe declard a perjur'd man, a Murtherer, à Necromancer anda Herenck,, {etting up againtt him, as Anti-Pope, Clement MIT, fometime Bifhop of Ravenna, not omitting any thing he imagined would be preju- dicialtohim. This preceeding ofthe Emperour was that encourag’d the modern Hereticks to be fo outragious againit this Pope, as may appear by che writings and bitrer Satyres of Goldast, Gaultier, Balaus, du Pleffis, and che Centuriators, who call him Sorcerer; Adulterer, Sodomite, and by afimple clinch, Brazd-of- Hell, and all, becaule he was one of the greateft pillars chat ever were ofthe Church, and, co fpeak of him fincerely and without
Annal. To. Ze
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without paffion, he it was that frA put her into! pofleffion of her priviledges, and reicu’d the Pa-. pacy from the flavery ic was in,tothe Emperors,, Nor co note thar he is fo highly celebrated in *1.3.chro. * Genebrard, by a great number of Authors, char, , | nol. adan {ince Aarianus Scotus and St, -Anfelme, who were Chrifli his conremporaries,fay nothing of his Magick, no | |\/\ 075; more than Martinus Polonus, Otho Fri fing enfis, | Hugh of Cluny, Lanfranc, Bernard of Marfeille, Au Platinus, Nanclerns, Maffon , and many more, |): who would not have been filent had they difco- | jis ver’d any fuch ching, it were ab{olute barbarifine, {au in us tocredit whac this Berro faies of himin para ilu) ticular. Upon his cexe havethe Lutherans and ui Calviniffs written their Comments never {peak= {in ine ofthisman, but in the burning feaverofin- fui dignation, and ever dipping the pen wherewith ji they draw him, in the gall of cheir own paffions, ki: purpofely to make him, cie moft filthy and hor, ki rid monfter thacever was elad with humane na- Um ture, never confdering that their attempts are fu da(h’d to pieces againft that Corner-ftene on ln which J, Chrift is pleas’d co build his Church, fi, and chat they gain nothing by all chefecalumnies, li, but fhame and confuñon ro themielves, fince Mu thac,as Tertullian {aith, Telum aliquod in Petram . Wii conftantiffime duritie: libratum, repercuf[oin eum Wu qui emifst reciproco smperu [evit, |
272
CHAP;
+
be Hiffory
ER PR RE TE PE SS
f MAGICK,
CHAP, XX.
Of Fofeph, Salomon, andthe Wife men,
ny V Ere we to judg of a many Auchors with ‘al V arigour futable to thediberty they take
| £0 condemn even the mot eminent 4 en; or be its) fo fevere as tojaccule & convid them of their im- x, pudence by the rettimonies of cheir own tore’d ity} Calumnies: I conceive we might well rely on ie svat Plato {ayes in his Lawes, th
avicis atemera- ions libercy ro pronounce of ivhacis known and
kfunknown with. a like confidence, whereof he rfwho hash once exceeded the limits, will neve wi) Wafterwards be confined thereby.« For if we refleét yon the precedent chapters of chis Apology, it is im feably oblervable, how that divers Hystorsone and ns WDemonographers have taken. fuch 4 {trange free= « dom to charge allforts of men with Magick, rhar, {hot content co have impeach’d Philofophers, Phy: wh, evans, A ftrologers and others, they have pats’d to its Wonks, Bifhops, and Popes, nay {pare not thofe for “whole good life and integrity we have the fecuri- by ofthe Scripture, never confidering the dange- “fous conlequences of fuch an impeachment, a¢ dell in regard of the diforderand {candale would Nccañon to fnch as are devout and truly Chriftian, js of che ill example which perlons of loofe lives {nicht thence rake, according to the faying of Warisberien fis, Fortis
et Citihs nos Corrumpunt exe |
| = 4 * . € f 7 = Wiz pla magnis cum fubeunt animos Authoribus, But me Foe yoce I have not hitherto chare’d them with im- * ;
| are cd the! EAS swMudence , Infhall forbear alfo in this Chapter ,
where
274 The Hiftory of MAGICK. where they are the more excufable, for that what they {ay of the Magick of Fofeph, Salomon, and the Wife men cems to be deriv'd trom the authority of |) | certain Catholick Authors and Doctors, whem | : yet we fhould nor too rigoroufly tax with the lit=: | tle reafon they had toteach any fuch thing, by) reafon oftheir candor, andthe fincerity ot their: doftrine otherwile. | Nocto determine therefore thefe three Quefti--| , ons but with a modefty fuitable thereto, Ichink,, ~ chat if the collection I have been forc’d to make” of fo many fooleries and evident extravaganciés,,| "" hath brediome little choller in me, che belt way) >” were to difcharseit on the ordinary madnefs anal) impiety of our Alembick-Idolaters and Alchy* mifts, Thefe are a fort of people fo firangely be-- forced with the Philofopher’s tone, that, havines found ont the fecret Myfleries thereof under thed"" Metamorphofes;the eÆ neidthe Odijfey,the love 6 pli Theagenes & Chariclea,E pitaphs,Pittures,Sculpturet) dus Antiek., and Fañtaftick reprefencations,and chered "1! being nothing but the Sersprures to make any furry © à cher search in, they have been fo prophane as tt "/: take the facrifice ot che AZa/e,"and rhe miracle oo! “i" ih _ the Jncarnation for Emblems and figures of whaa) 1! Vid. Mic: they found to be literally exprets’d in Gene/is, chi) 0 “us, Sandie | 5 . he ous, batt chapters of che Prophet Efdras,che Canticles,e@ conrad & the Apocalypfe, concerning that Soveraign cran ") otber AL mutation. That,they fay, was a ching infal bi Six chymifis, known to the good’ many Job, who by the afi) #! in ftance of it multiply d his wealth fevenfold ; tt) ", Abraham, who wav’d wars againft 4 Kings ; tt) a Fofeph who of a fudden became fo powerful 5. tt) Mi Mofes who turned the molten Calf into afhes, tt) “ Gideon who reprefented it under a fleece, thong” ln nC
d + =a Ex
ne us “fs *-ber
ORME TIN dre
of MAGICK, notac
eolden oneas that of the -drgonauts; to Sa- lomon. who made no more account of Gold'than of peble-ftones ; co St. Joh», of whom ic is {aid in his Hymne,
The Hiffory
Inexhauftum fert thefaurum,' Qui de virgis fecit aurum, Gemmas de Lapidibns :
and lafily to St, Dominick, who taught it two of the moi learned men of his Orcer, Albertus Magnus, and St. Thomas, All which extrava- gancies confider’d; ic may well be faid,
Prob fuperi, quantuns mortalia vetkoracace Nottis habent !
and admir’d, how fuch impertinencies and bla phemies fhould be harboured in the hollow brains of thefe melancholy perfons, who, for re- compence of their rafhnels or ignorance, deferve no lefle than ro forfeic the name of mex, fince they have loft that which denominates him fuch judgement and reafon,
This premis’d, we come to explicate char paf-
z se t
oO
fage of Genefis, which hath given divers occafion chap. 44,
to imagine, that Fofeph, fon of Jacob, andone highly commended by David as che Image and myftical reprefentation of Chri/?, was addicted to all kinds of fuperititious divinarions, chen in vogue among the -£gyptians, For, from what he caus’d his Stewardto fay tohis Brethren who were come co buy corn in eeypr, {peaking of the
Pfal. 104,
Cup, Zs wot this st in which my Lord driaketh ? and Gt: ¢.44 what he fays himfelfwhen they were brought ** *
T 4 betore
276 The Hifforyof MAGICK. v, 15. befate “er Wotyenot that fuch a man as I am can certainly di ruine? Some have imagin’d that he pro-
tels’d Dis nation, which he perform ‘dby a certain
King of Hydromancy, doing it either imply by
he cup, as is ordinarily done by fome Chryftal
velfel,, looking-vlafle or any thing that 1s clear and{mooth, or by the means of the water that
was in It, as ist the Apoftate did, and thofe
who at chis day (though it be ill and fuperfiri-
oufly done bythem) difcoverthe thief & things
fot, in a Viol or Bottle, Or laftly, he did it by
the infpeétion of certain precious Rones which
were fa(ined within it, But cerraimly it were no
lard matter to deliver this great Favorice of God
trom fo dingerousafufpicion, if we will but fol-
low the common opinion ofall the Doctors of
the Church, who, in ererius would only finde
out a way whereby he might be excus’d from ha-
ino addiéted himfelf ro the praétite of that Di-
vinition , whereco he indeed had norfo much as contributed a thouchr, Nor need wefearch for
aaa ee other explication than that of Petrus Burgens ee a fis, if it be crue, as he affirms, thar mflead of what
aofin. we have in the vulgar tranflation, dx rgxoratis b OQuet. quod non fit fim: lis metin angurandi fcientia & ¢ The Sin Gen. Hebrew Text will. bear Chiss Kuow you not that 2.2 it iseafy for great Lords and Princes, (ach as Lam,
ook ie to confult Sout thfajers and Diviners? wherewith fe ete ad Algy “pe was at that time well furnifh’d, But fince x this e xplication hath noc been yet acknowlede’d, diner" and that the vulgar verfion, authorized by the pe ,, Councel of Trent, admits the words belore reci= es 2 4i-ted, We mays in is AB placewith [al Theodoret, Yin. Sel D | Asgultines ele] Thomas, | à} Toftatus co. ame Torreblar ca; “affirm, That Jofeph {poke
this
Peg banana Ys 8 27,73 ee “pa jus. Le Sr
The Hiflory of MAGICK. this ironically, alluding co the common opinion then current over all Æeypt, nay even in tirange Countries, that he had been-advanc'd to thar dignity by the happy events: of his Predictions; or co diunc his Brethren.and make them the more ouilcy, as having takenaway char bowle or cup, whereon dependedtheconrinuanceas well as che original or his great fortnne,-andthat he foretold things chat fhould certainly come to pafle by the means thereof,
This explication may be thought the more probable, in chatwhen he commanded his Stew- ard toput that veflel into the fack ofthe yeung- elt, he only faidtohim, Pur my cup, rhe filver cup, ën the fack’s mouth of the youngest, and his Corn-
oney, not mentioning ic to be that wherebyhe was wont to prelage and divine. Whereas when he commands him ro purfue them and to bring them ba k, he gave him {rit inftruSions what he fhou'ddo and ‘ay, Up, follow after the men: and having overtaker them, [ay unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good ? Ls not this the Cu 24 which my Lord drinketh 5 and whereby indeed he aivineth 3 yehave done evil in fo doing, Whence it isclear, chat che additionofchele words, aad whereby indeed he divineth, et in gua augurari [olet, was only putin the, more co trighten them, as that one of them fhould rake thar veffel, whereby Jofeph had attain’d fo high a fortune beyond the Ofdinary-fort.of people, Burifynorwithtanding this reafon, the, words of Jofeph and his{ervant are to be underitood withouc any ambages or fiction, we mult confider what Rupertus faies
Gen. 44,
VU. 2.
of it, who obferves that the word avgurari is not L. 9. in in that place taken precilely.ce fignuie or oueffe O44
: 2 at
Epi ftel. 1.4.
Quali, 2, 18 6.44, Gen,
a Antipat, 11. ¢.3. b 11b,36. b:for.
The Hiftory of MAGICK. at fomething, whether by the obfervation of birds or fome orher fuperftitious way, bre in its general acception to torefee or foretell chings to come by any way whatfoever, Thus did Pliny the younger, ule it writing, to Tacitus, Auguror (nec fallit augurium )Hiftorias tuas immortales fn- turas; in which fenie Rupertus and Pererius affirm, chat che fpeech of Jofeph may be raken, without quitting the litteral, in chat by reafon of the gift he had of Prophecy, he might make ufe of the word augurari, and know future events. Which that he did,there needs no fvrther proofthan that of the interpretation of the dreams of Pha- raoh and his Officers. To whichmay be added his detention of his Brethren for three daies in AL Zypt, and then canfing chem to be purfued by his {ervanes at their departure , which might be to intimate that che Jfraelites (hould fojourn chere for the {pace of three Generations, and that when they were to leave it, rhey fhould be pur- fu’d by all chat multitude which was afterwards overwhelmed in the Red Sea,
Whence I leave men ro judge of the probabi- liry there may be that he fhould have writren the Book entituled Speculum JFofeph, mentioned by [a] Trithemius, or that we may believe |b] 7#- ft:ne, who {peaking of the Jewes, faies that Jo- feph envy’d by his Brethren, was fold by them to certain Marchants whocarry’d him into -4g)pt, where ina fhorrtime he learnt the magical Arts, and grew the beft of any for che inrerpretation of dreams and prodigies, being nor ignorant of any thing that could be known, info much that he forecold the great dearth which happened in thar Counrrey, and, for char reafonwas much S voui
4 LT Rats Roi Ber
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vour'd by Pharaoh, From which ftory all chat may be drawn;is, chat he; Tacitus, and others e1- cher {peak at random, or give a paffionate account of chac people, and that God, whois pleas’dto civens a crue hiflory of chem by his faichtul Secre- tary Mofes, would not have us to {tandin need of the Authority ot thofe prophane Authors, as to any ching they might fay confonant co what he hath left in his admirable Books of the Penta- teuch,
It,from what is {aid of Jofeph in the 44. chap. of Genefis , he hath been reproach’d with Magick, I chink there is much more ground to imagire the fame thing of King Solomon, becaule of his ereat and prodigious Idolatry ; confidering the Wifdom he was mafter of betore. For as there is nothing fo certain as that he never practisd any thing chat were fuperfirious ,. while he con- tinued inthe erice of God, anda right admini-
~ “ D ° a Py 5 tration of the favours he had received of him; So
we mult needs acknowledgef ro avoid Lathantius’s mi. LS cenfure; who faies, chat, eadem cacitas eff, et des. s.
vero falfitatis, et mendacio uomen veritatis 1mpo-
yere) that poflibly, forfaken ot God tor his iux-
ury and Idolatry, he might fell himfeli over to, rip, pif. all manner of vices and abhominations, andpar-quifr. c.5. ticularly as [a] Delrio, [b | George of Vemice,b To. À.
and [c] Pireda affirm, tothat of Magick, there being choufands of examples whence may
probl. 487. be,, tom. §.
drawn this conclufon co his prejudice, chat seg. 1. Luxury, Idolatry, and che vanity of Drvinati- prod. 81. Ons,
T 4 Et
Lib. dereb. S4lon.c, 5
Tue Hiftory of MAGICK. Et bene conveniume, & in una [ede mor antur,
For which we have the teflimony of St, Paul, and what is {aid of King Manaffes, inthe O)d Tefta- ment, that he reared up Altars for Baal, and a little after, he obferved times and ufed inchant- ments and dealt with familiar fpvits andWizzards, And fince women are more adicted to Mavick thenmen, asis learnedly fhewn by the Civilian Tivagucanin his Conjugall Lawes by the authori- ties of Cicero, Livy, Quintilian , Diodorus » and diverfe other go0d Authors, I make no queftion, with Pixeda, butthe 700. wives and the 300, Coacubines which Salomon had might eafily en- fnare him in a Labyrinch of Charmes, divinations, drinks, and other fuperfitions practiies, which, if we credit Lucan, (difprov'd indeed by Ovid) have a greater influence on that pafiion then any other, fince that he fayes, |
—— Quss non concordia mixti Altigat ulla thori, blande 4, potentia forme, Traxerunt torti AA agica vertigine fili,
Bur though we fhouldallow this might hap- pen to Salomonthat we have faid , yetare we to beware how we! exceed much further, and too cafily be perfwaded, thac he thould {teal fo muchtime from his pleafures and enjoyments , as it would requireto write fo preata number of Masicall Books as there are under his name, This indeed is {o great, that ro prove theyare falfe attributed rohim, we need mo more then ma ke a Catalogue of {uch es as
ave
atthis day publifh’d -
one — RER EE RE NE kite,
The Hiflory of MAGICK, 281 | have beenfeen and cired by civers Authors, For ) thoneh l'a] Gerebrard make mention but of three, a 156. 1,
| and yb} Pizeda but of 4. Or 5. yetisit eañly fhew Choronolog , } chat cher: area many more: tor _Allerius AL: pus peer” “an his Book of the Adirreur of Aftroiegy quotes mA ‘} five: che fizit dared Liber Almadal , she fe-b Lib, 3. de
cond, Liber 4, Annulornm 5 the third Liver de reb. Salo- novem candarivs ; the fourth, de tribys figuris Spi- mon. c. 28, MY rituune y and the fitth de Sicillis ad Demoniaces.
To chele we may adde four mentioned Dy 2 7rithe> Lib. 1. An “mers 5 intituled, che firt,Clavicula Salomonis adtipal.c, 3, WU! filam Roboam,the {econd Liber Lamene.the third iy Liber Pentaculorum,and the fourth de O fiers: fpiri-
“i tuum, Wherero if we adde théfe three, oz, char of Ravel cited by [a] Reuclin, de umbris
M Idearum, mentioned by Chicus upon the Sphere à 54 10,
bof Sacrobo. co; de H ydromantia ad plium Roboam, dearte can which (b| Grerferus tairh, he faw in Greek in the baliflied, i Duke of Bavaria’s Library, And latily thar > + Tede )\ Teftamentum Salomonis, out of which M, [ ee Gaumin cites, many p2ilages wricteninthe fame ar Le p Language; we finde that without comping that ¢ 22 wotis called bytdi Nicetas , Liber SAlomonins ; here 44 Pfellam. fare thirceen different ones, and yee withall Au- Pim shel frhencick. Which number. mighe well encaoe iP usto make the fame judement of them, as did miMomerime Roger Bacon, whole refleSion there- upon I fnall the rather quote, becanfe itmakes
Momechino for all rhofe for whom I make chis » RApolooy. Quicund, faith he, afferunt guod Sa- Cap. ». de sl Momon compofuit hoc vel illudy ant alii fapientes, A ad 22 \Wygandum est ; guia. non recipiuntur eja(moa: libri rs he cts wiewcloritate Ecclefie,nec à [apientibus [ed à feduttori
1-1 oi dus qui mundum decipiunt ; etiam & ipl novos libros
à.
=
us 4 omponunt,S uovas adinvertiones multiplicants ficut fêrmus
The Hiffory of MA GICK.
[cimus per experientiam, © ut vekementins homi- |
ful 1
nes allicianty titulos praponunt famofos [is .opers- \, bus, & ea magnis anthoribus impudenter afcribunt, ||
This granted takes away all che difficulty may! arife aboutthe Books of Sa/omox , unlefle ic be:
pe veh. Ste about that of Exorcifms, which Pineda affirmes 5)
Les, L. 3. either not to have been written by Salomox ; or; #. *9 chat he did icin the time of his Idolatry. And! yet methinks ic were more rationall, with axe
fenius, Salmeron, Genebrardand Delrie, to grant,
chat, during the time that by his wildome hes), }, knew ail chings , and was fill’d with good afletti-- |,
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on by reafon of his fanétity, hemighe prefcribe:!;;,: certain forms to chafe away Devills, and to ex. ercife people poflefd by them; fuchas were cholet.
Luk. 1X. Math. 12.
pratied bythe Jews, in Sc. Luke, St. AMathem sil js, and che Aéts. Such were alfochole, as Jofephuss Adst9. afñrmes , practis’d fince by Eleazar, who caftl),,
Antig. Fue à Devill out of the body of a poffett'd perfou, Ln), .
daic.1.8. che prelence of the Emperour Feffafian, not byy , righ che vercue ofa root, whichcould naturally havee) no power over Demons and Creatures purely pif.
ricuall, but by che force of his exorcifms ss). : x Angele- wyhichontyhadthat power, as Delrio, {x} Cafe,
graph. mpannus and divers others explaine it.
KL 7.
Se | } mc From thefe two paflages of the Old Teftamenei| we come now to that of che new, which is in thet)
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fecond of A4ath, where mention is made of the)”
wife -men who came fromthe Eattto adore fefwal.. Christ... Thave no defgne to repeac in this places
a number of Fables, {uch as Vipertus, a Dr. 09)
Divinity. and the Canon-Law -hath taken fuel: a ad ant. paines to gather cogether, inthe Hiftory he hati. 1. Cbriflis written: of them, it being enough to my purpaley
b Exercitas . : | Exec > take out of the writings of [a] Baronins |b] Cae)
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The Iiftory of
i fanb on | Maldonat, | d) Bullenger & many other,
. who have written ac large on this tubje&, what is a) fit not cobe omitcedin this Chapter, andin few dEcloge ad words, co dilcover what thefe wife men or Magy Atnob.c. 6
i were,and by what means they had notice to come
Wand adore Jelus Chrift in Bethleem,
For the firft,
athe difficulcy lyes in the fignification of the word
“Wot che Sages off Perfia, | Bterprerations haveall had their patrons and fa-d Lib. de
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Wl Magi, being either ambiguous and equivocall, .! Sithat is,fuch as many be underood of enchanters & a nif. 1. 3. Mocerers;fuchas fignity’d a certain people among ithe Afedes; whoarelo caliedin [a] Herodotus,|b i
D
Strabo,and | c] Epiphanivs; and lattly might be faid Thefe three feverall in-
vourers; |d} Tertullian underftanding that paflage
Wotthe hrit, Epiphanus and Pamgarolus of theie-
) d ‘mot venerable perfons amone the Perfians, fuch “ @/as were inthe fame repucation intheir Country, ‘Mlasthe Brachamans were among the Indians y and
cond, and Maldonat with Cafaubon , of the laft, that is for AZages, thatis, the moit vertuous and
the Druids among the Gawles, Which lait opini-
VA onfeemsto be the more rationall, in thar the
word Magiis Perfian, chat it is che cuome of the Perfians not to accoft Kings without Prefents, that the Evangel: /t {peaks of them as perfons of great
) quality and repuration ; in a word, the Scrip- ture it felf lights asic were tothe truth, when hic fayes, that thefe wife men came from the Eaft, | chere being no Author that ever held chere were
any other Mag: that way chanthofe of Perfia. Yer is there no neceffiry co have any recourie ro the foctifh imagination of Paracel{us,who would have
them im lefle thenthirreen dayes ourof fo re- 10te
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b Geogr. l, eras Clin Epitom.
fidei Catho- lice.
Idololatria.
Lib. de vita
them ride poft upon enchanted Horfes, fo to bring /ong4.
Cap. 9,
a Lib. 1. cont. Cel-
fun.
The Hiftoryof MAGICK, | mote a Country, fince there’s nothing to cond vince us they might not {pend moretimein their: journey, as St. Chryfostome would have ic, ont were not of the neareft parts ofthat Country; bes) fides that Hiftory affords us many inftances of oreater expedition and diligence, andthat chefet wife men rid on Camells,; which go with eafeey{ after the rate of at leaft 100. miles a day. This, difficulty taken away, we are now only! to find out che meanes whereby the wife mem) (ix might be. advertifed of the Nativity of Je/wesheqs: Chriff. In which fearch , we fhall nor’ with cheel) Prifcikianifts, affirme they it knew naturally by, the meer infpection of the Star ; leitwe incurresiai withthem, che cenfure of St, Augustine and Chry*{e.\ fostome, : And there being as hirele ground wicktl,s La] Origene and St. |b] Hierome co chink it was. revealed to them by Demons, as it had beer co thee}, »,
b 14 cap,19 Shepherds by Angels; becaufe this wereto make.
Late.
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them Afagicians | contrary to the truth befored.….. maintained, our fafe(t.courfe is to conclude withh} Maldonat, that they had learn’d it from the pro. phecy of Balaam , that a new Star fhould appeart...., at the birch of the Saviour of the world, accord}... ; ding to what isfaid, Orietur fiellaex Jacob , andil;. in effeathey fhewed-no leffe when they peremp=, corily faid, Where isthe that isborn King of thetl, Fems > for we have feenihis Star, {peaking of chat... Starry as a ching they thought well known among be, che. jews fince it was {o much among che:l.. Gentiles and: Idolaters. But the fubjeét of chissl.. Chapter:is not fo much my bufineffe as that off], Divines; get have Ivavconfidence they will not:l. take iorlh,chat I have done what I have,and there--}, in follow’d-the doëtrine and refolutions of the:| molt:
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Snot eminent among them, fo the better to clear jap che difficulties arinng out of chis Chapter:
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CHAP, XXI, | 7 Of the Poet Virgil,
à Hen Lerioufly refleét on the Condition i of tho'e learned men, who flourith’d four or five ages before the reflauration bf Sciences. and difcipli ines.in ÆEsrope, nothing ‘/@eemes more miraculous to me then that. the mon learned and beft grounded among our Au: IMhors have appear’d amidit. char Barbarilin: like ORoles among thorns, or Diamonds onthe de- “ect Mouncaines, . Andthis:fo much che rather, a thac at chis day when we are encompaffd with Ho creat light as fhould make us judge jof things “ivich more caution, thofe who fhonld make great- et ule chercofare fo dazzl'd therewith chat. they “Mevive many opinions whole firtt Authors we 1Maily declame againit , eicher for their want of ‘Mudament ot ignorance, , Whereof though rhe | pete Chapters of this Apolo ey afford fufli- Stient inftances, yet have Lrelerv’d for this hac Bvhich we have uponthe authority of [a] Bodin a Dems- and de |b| Lanere concerning the Magick of Vir- ay dy, as one.ot che moft pregnant proofsimay be fg mofcre- ‘@iziven of ic, if wein the firk place confderthe re- ance du for Hputacion of thefe two perlons, (che former being tilege con fine of che moft e(teem’d men of his age)and chen, sar ithe litle ground they had co draw chat errour, out PE *"** ofthe workes of certaine Authors, char are but Meche dirtand dreges of the moft Barbarous Wri- ‘lters, and who by the i impertinences of the« rela- tions
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tions teach us chat the great Chancellour offi yt! England, Verslam, had reafon to tell us, chart |y¢
De aug- hoc habet ingenium humanum, ut cum ad [olida nonv\ ment,
Sti-fuffecerit in fupervacaneis G furilibus fe atterat.,
For can there be any ching imagind chat weres) j:: more fantaltick, and difconfonant co commom (i fenfe and reafon, thento fee the Phenix of Latines) jy) Poely impeach’d not of chat Poetical) Magick lue: and tury, which, by che perfe&tion of his workes ll hach charm’d the greateit wits into an imication: | ji,‘ ofhim, fuch as Statins, Syluim, and the Floren) tine Poet ; andgain’d him che Title of moft ex}, cellent Orator with Quinrilian , St. Hrerome lu and Seneca; of Father of Eloquerice’ with Ste: Auguftine ; and to be the only man worthy thes. name of Poet, with J. C. Scaliger; but off: the Geotick, fuperfticiousj;and unlawtull, Whichi! certainly had never been layd to the-charge ofil wi this Ornament of Parnaffus , had ic not been fort) lu a fortof wretched Fabulifts who by che excre—} }, |, fcencies of their pitctfall wricings have rraduc’dil (y. him, which:yer E know noc, whether I ouohetl ji, rather co quarrell with, chan chefe two modernes} jy) Authorsand fome others, quos fama obfcura rest, condit who are{o light of belief, asto rake fucttt! \yi) impottors for lawfull proofs of a calumny that) yj), turnes , much more to their prejudice chant. that of Virgi/, Forhis life isfo well known,,! and whatever he did that were any thing remark--) ,j, able, fo faithfully preferv’d bya many Authors5,) ,., chat we may well be altonifhed at thole, who, att), this day,would make ufe of che forgeries and fabu=*} x, Jous inventions of7.or 8, Barbarian flaves,and che! 1. opinions of the populace, to augment the Ca--} , talogue vf Magicians with the name of this Fo i, and!)
Sr RR Re The Hifloryof MAGICK. Vand co entertain us with choufands of litrle ftortes {and fooleries, which, were they true, could do "no lefle chen make him be reputed one of the _ i) moft expert that ever was inthe Arr. But fince, Il fonche contrary, they are falfe and ridiculous, i ee they deftroy themfelves, there needing no more ” M for their refutarion, then to draw them up all ro- i) gether to find, (it being pre fuppofed that they are ‘Hall equally ro be credited) that Dr. Fauftus,Z ede- "M chias, Trois-e(chelles and the moft famous Conju- {| rers chat ever were, have not done any thing com- “parable to what they fay Virgil hath, and confe- quently char they are not co be believ'd unleffe by » “| fuch as will alfo grant, that
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Omma jam fient, fier: que poffe negantur, Ex nihil est de quo non fit habenda fides.
| But having faid in the firft Chapter of chis Apo- “il Jooy that we are endebted to the Monk Helinan- wie) dus for allthefe fables, as finding (according to i'll) Gefner,who makes him flourifh 1n the year 1069.) wif) no Author more ancient then he chat made any ml) Mention thereof, and meeting fince with the Col- ul Ye&tion of the Lives of the White Friers , whole si) Auchour cices Vincent de Beauvais affirming inhis MM mirrour of Hickory that the faid Monk iiv’d abouc M the yeart209. Iam forc’d ingenuoufly to con- | feffeLwas miftaken, and chat che firit Author of all thefe extravagances, is, inmy judgment no M orherchan that Gervafe, who, Theodoric a Niem AM fayes, was Chancellour tothe Emperour Otho i) TIE to whom be prefented his Book enrituled ii) Octa Imperatoris, This isa piece f'auchr with zib. 2, de things fo abfur’d, fabulous & impoffible, as [have /chifmate wil already obferved thas, I can hardly believe the 5-19.& ** man
The Hifiory of MAGICK. man was in his wits when he wrirtics and that I wrong him mor, I appeal ro the Reader. He: faies then (not ro meldle with any chine but what
is to our prefent purpofe )tharthe wile Virg: fec up) a Brafen Fly on one of the gates of Naples, which,,
for che {pace of 8. years, chat ic remain’d chere, permitted not a fly.ro enter che {aid City, That in the fame place he canfd a Shambles to be made,
wherein meat never fmelcoriwas the léaftrainteds | fi
that he placed on one of che gates of the fame City CWO oreat images of Stone, one whereof was {aid to be bandfome and merry, the other fadand de- formed, having this power, chat ifany one came in on the fide of che former all his affairs profper= ed according co his own defires, ashe who came onthe other, was unfortunate and difappointed in all things. thachelet up, ona high mountain near Vap'es, a brazen Statue, haying ur its: mouth a Trumpet which founded {o loud when the North wind! out of chofe forges of Vulcan, whichareat. this
cay feen near che City of Pouffola, were forc dx back rowards the Sea,. without doing any hurc® or injury to the ‘Inbhabirancs, : That ic wasehe.
made the baths of Calatura di perra bagno > adju- to dil’ homeo, with fair inicriptions in Letters: of Gold, defac’d ince by rhe Phyiitians of Salerma who. were ctoubled that men thould thereby know, what difeafes every bath. conid cure, That the {ame Virgil took {uch a:courfe. chat nomen couldbe hurt in chat miraculous Vasle cut through the mountaine of Pza/lippa, to 20to Naples; and latly that he made a pabliek. fire wherear every one might freely warme himielf, near which he had place'd a brafenArcher with his arrow
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The Hiftory of MAGICK, 289 | arrrow drawne out, and iuch an in/cription, Lf any | one ffrike me TZ wilt (hoot off my arrow, Which at “| Jengch happened, when a certaine toole ttriking 1 ‘AN the (aid Archer, he immediatly (hot him wich his i “A arrow; and fenc him incothe fire, which was pre- “| fenctly extineuifhed, es Tele impertinences were firtt tranferibed out LS 9 ofthis Auchor by Helivandus the Monkinto his By NA Æniverfall Chronicle, and then by an Engiifh man _ “Al One Alexander Neckam a Benediftine Monk, who Lib. 16. Wi) relates {ome of the precedent in his book Of the Ml) Nature and property of things. Towhich he addes, it} that Maples being troubled with an infinite num- uf) ber ot infectious Leaches, it was deliver’d, affoon ‘ity, as Virgil had caufd a golden one to becatt into a meq well : thac he compaii’d his dwelling houfe and wa garden (where it never rain’d) with an im- | moveable ftreame of aire, which was inflead of a 6) Wall, and had buitt in it a brafen bridge,by meanes sit} whereof he went whither he plead, That he sf had made allo à Steeple with {uch miraculous ar- wu) tifice, char the Tower wherein it was thouch, of x) Rone,mov'd in thé fame manneras a certain bell, sie} char wasin it, did, andchat both had the {ame im fhaking and motion. Befidesall which, he had @ made choie Statues call’d the Prefervers of Rome , m# which were warch’d night and day by Prie(ts, for iy @ that afloonasany Nationencerrain’d any choughe x @ Of revolting and taking armes againit rhe Romine : Empire , immediately the Sratue reprelenting k@chac Nation, and adored byir, moved; a bell, w@ 10 had about the neck rung, andwich its finger it pointed acthat rebellious nation, info much Hehaccthe name of it mightic be perceiv'din wri- i) Pung, whichthe Prieft carryinzto the Bmrerour,
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he immediately raif’dan Army to reduce and qui- ecit,
Nor couldthis be miff°d by a certaine Anony- mous Author, who, about 420. years fince, un- dertook to make acollection of the divesof Phi- lofophers and,Poets, For cominoroipeak of Vir-
gil, heconhdently fayes, Hie Philefsphia natu- rali praditus etiam Necromanticus fuit © mira quadam arte hac feciffenarratur. Which premifd, he brings inthe forementioned ftories, which have beem fince coppy’d out verbaim out of the Latine Book of that Axonymus, by Symphorianus Champier , and Albertus de Elib, who hath been fo indifcreet and fimple, asto put them into the fecond parc of his Poetical Marçarite, under the Title of Sentences and Authorities taken out of La- ertins. Nay not content with that, he hathadd- ed thereto the flory of a Roman Curtezan, who having hane’d up Virgil in a basket, half way down a great Tower, he, tobe reveng*d of her , putout of allche fire that wasin Rome, making 1 Withall impoffible to light it again unlefle chey rook it out-of the privy parts of thar abufive wo- man, which yer fo caken could not be communi- cared one toanother, fo that the whole City was oblio’d to come and vifñt her, Add yer this like- ly ftory was no fooner abroad but one Gratian da Pont thought it worth the inferting into his Con- troverfies of the two Sexes male and female 5 printed at 7 honlonfe 1534. as a demonfiration of the malice and wickednefle of women.
Thefe fables I chought fit to faggor up together, and that according to the order.ot rhofe rhat have maincain’d chem,to fhewwhat creditwe fhold give the great numberof Auchors affirming the. fame
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thing, without examining the fufficiency and ins tegricy of him that firit advainc'dir, Bucic would take up abundance of time to fearch narrow iy into the buñneffe of che F/y and Leach ; andit were as much vaine glory as importunityto rake cogether all chat may befaid upon Aftrologicall flamps and Sculptures , which the Greeks cailed Stoecheiodes and the Arabians 7al:(manicks, Such as were thofe of Constantinople and diverfe other {uch gra- ven Stones , on which [a] Cafaubon, |b] Scaliger, thar ee: and |c} Camerarius have already made many ex- gig bi cellenc and curious obfervations, either to exa-b 1 4 letter mine andrefute, as well according to che rules ofhe writ to Polymathy , as Phyfick ana Metaphyfick, all che Mr: Par. above-recited Scories, which need no orheriolu- SE ; tion then a good confident Negative. Andthat giforic. 1 therather, torthac -Ariftotle {ayes very well, de 3.c. 22. fabulofe fophiSticantibus non est dignum cum ftudio intendere ; and inthe firft of his Echicks, A man fhould not {pend his time forrivially asco refute all forts of opinions, but only fuch as have fome probability and appearance of reafon, Since therefore the relations of thefe Authors are fitter co entertaine Old wives, Thracians, and Abderties, chen co fatisty chofe who can judge and diftin- ouifh quid folidum crepet, we will difmiffe chis crue of Barbarians, {uch as are rather to be pitti- ed than cenfur'd, to {atisfie the Aurhorities of cer- taine writers of greater reafon, and confequent- lyfuch as oughtto berreared with more refpeét then che precedent.
Thofe whoread the life of this Poet , thoughc co be written by Tiberias Donatus, Maler to Sr. Hierome, might haply be {stmewhat fnrpriled, and be guilty of fome litle inclination to believe this
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The Hiftory of MAGICK, fupicion may betrue, in chat fpeaking of Virgilts father, helayes, Hunc quidam opificem figulum., plures Magi cujuf{dam viatoris initio mercenarium , mox ob induftriam generum tradiderunt, But it Comment. Were more fafe co follow the judgment of De/rio vol, 1, . agreeing with chat of Lacerda, who will not al- traidiè des\ow that Lite , fuch as we have itnow, to have eoges. been written by that ancient Donatus, “For fince he gives not any reafon of chat criticall cenfure, Ithink, were there no other, this very line e- nough ro make ns account the whole piece coun- terfeit andthat Dosatus would never have com- Lib.3.de micced an errour, which Criaitus, and others pot. Lat. rrearing of the fame fubjecthave avoided. Nor a can ] imagine that Johannes Sarisberienfis would have mention’d this drafen fly that fore’d away all others from Naples, had ic not been, from this ftory, though fabulous, to draw an excellent morallinicriprion, and co reach us by the exam- ple of Auguffus, which he hath in che four ned rer of his Book de sugis curialium, thatthe’ pu lick benefit is tobe preferr’d before any private man’s advantage and tatistaction. Befides,we are not more oblig’dto believe what he fayes by the way and under the caution of a hearfay.concerning thisAy, than what divers Authors have {aid of fo many other places, whence thele licle infects were banifh’d, char their number might well make us doubt whether they ever were from any. For if we credit the Rabéins,there was not one to befeen inthe S/aughter-houfe where the Beañs werekill’d and prepar’d for facrifice, though the place was perpetually full of blood and raw hides, It Calins Rhodiginus, there was not one in the place where che Olympick, games were a" ced;
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The Hiftory of MAGICK. 293 ted ; nor yet in the City of Leucade in Acarnanias It Pliny, che Oxe-market ar Rome; if Solizus ; 5 Hercules’s, Temple ; if Cardan, a certain honte iB at Venice; if Dr. Gervais, the Refettory of the Abbey ot A©aillerais in Poitou, were never a troubled with any. And laftly, if we credit Fuji, i there is but one co be {een all the year long inthe | Shambles of Toledo in Spaine, And for my paits 4 Ichink Scaliger did very Well co laugh ar one righ Q Hit!) chefe Fly-drivers who having madea little place “49+ 4-3. ik) gravd with diverfe figures and Characters » and i) that under a certain conftellation, had no foon- Ny) er plac’dit on a window to cry che experience , if but one fly more confident than the reft, Came YA. and hanfell’d ic wich her ordure. The third whole authority isfomewhat conf- 1} derableis Tofatus Bifhopof Avila, who rankes ae bY Virgil among thofe that practis’d Mecromanc gt ee i and chat becanfe, as he (ayes himfelf, he had EE BA, read in the 16, Book of Helizandms’s Chronoto. ? “#7. my gie, concerning the Fly and Shambles he had ue) made at Naples, Towhichs notco diicourle of ol the feverall wayes there areto preferve diverle ig) things tor alongtime, and fomewhat to excuje ‘bB\ this great perfon, who fhouid have examin’d thefe | two flories before he had believ'd chem, I fhould i] rather affirme, that all che blame is to be Jaid : omchis Helizandus, whohath (o faithfully tran- | WA] fcrib'd and flollen all thefe falficies, lyes, and Le (8 Impoftures out of Dr. Gervafe into his Chronicle à that he hath made it very much like Evyclio’s houle in Plautus, que inaniis oppleta est at, Ya
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the account of fome ridiculous fables : of which
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294 The Hiffory of MAGI CK. as would more then jufifie thetruthof what I fay,were it as eaiy co lay chem down in few words a> it were requifite it fhould be done.
But fincethe Aurhors who have mace menti- on of the Mayick of Virgil are fo many that they cannot be examin’d oneafter another without loffe of much time and abundance of repetitions , we multimitate the Civilians, whotake Autho- rities per faturam , and fo digelting all that re-
a De fhrékr. maine into one Article, fhew, That, [a] Le Loy- * oe 6. er mades mention of his Eccho, |b] Paracel[us of Tom. his Magical i s and figures, \C\ Helmcldus oper.trag, MS Magicall images ana figures, \C| de imagini- Ot his repre!entation of the Ciry of Naples fhut bus 6. 11, : upin a vlafle bottle, | d] Sibylus, and the Authour € 139.4. ot the Book enticuled the Image of the World ; of Ce the head he made co know things to come by; Le] d Peregr, À etrarch, and | {| Theodoric a Niem, of the Vault queft. de he madeat Naples, at therequett of Auguftus ; cad. 3.¢.2. |o| Wigenere, ot his eAlphabet; |h] Trithemius queftione. of his Book of Tables and Calculations whereby to - taie. find ourthe Gesius's of all perfons ; and Jattly vario, ef chofe who have feenthe Cabinet of che Duke f Lib, 3.deot Florence, of an extraordinary great Looking- ferifmat. ¢. glaffe which they affirme to be that in which this Un Poerexerci.d Caroptromancy, To ali which there ie 330 pneeds no other aniwer, than that ail the'e Au- his Cyphers, thorities are too young, ablur’d, and ill ground- h Antipal, ed, and coniequently too light to outweigh 4.63. the Generall filence ofall Authors chat flourifh’d dutins the fpace of ten Ages, and whocertain- ly were extreamly co blame not ro have left us the : Jeaft ob/ervation of all the'e miracles , if there had been any fuch thing, fince they have given us a faithfull account of a ma- py other particularities of leffe ee a ave
The Hiftory of MAGICK. 295 | For what ground is there co imagine chat the | Empzrour Caligula, who did all chat layin bis | power to fupprelle che works of this Latine Ho- 4 À mer, and{o many other Zoilus's who have found _ | fomeching co quarrel at.even in the moft incont- .! À derabie actions of his life, would not have laid … | hold on a buGneffe which might have afforded ! fo much tuell co their detraétion > Or that che | Emperour Aaguftus, who caus’d all Magicall | Booksto be-burnc, fhould fo far forget and con- tradist him(elf as co receive him, being a Masici- an and Necromancer, into the number of his | moft intimate friends and favorites > There were certainly as much reafon to believe that all Sodo- | ; - : | fi ; : Apud En. mitts thar were in the world dy’d the night of our more Saviours birth, and thar as the famous Civiltany de Eufal. Salicetus affirms, Virgil was'one of chat number. Seéf,3.c.4- And yet for what concerns the precedent Au- 247.77: thorities, ic is not to be imagin’d that Pe- trarch , Thesdoric a Niem, Vigeneresand Trithem:- ushave been lo indifcreet as thus bafely to pro- fticute their repucation to che cenlures and facyrs of thofe who are not fo eafily laid afleep wich thefe Fables, For ic is certain that whatever they faythereo’, hath been only to refute them, and co let us know thatthey were not fo credu- Yous as thofe‘others who have furnifh’ dus with i the reft of chofe Authorities, as {uch ascan no | wayexpiate the faulc they have commicred in bee ing fo milerably enfnar’d in the cobwebs of Hear- faies, vagrantreports, and the common opini- WA on of the inhabitants of Maples and places ad- k jacent; who have alwäies attribuced ro the con- jurations of Virgil whatever feem'd co them ever (6 little extraordinary & miraculons, and where- V4 0}

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Tie Hifloryof MAGICK, of they could find our no other beginning, This may be exemplity’d in that admirable cave or grott made 1n the mountain of Pau/:lippo near the City oi Naples, whereof though Strabo ( who jiv'din the time of Scipio, and the taking of Car- thage, according to Arhenaus, or of Augustus and Tiberias, according Lo Patricius) make mention as ot a thing very ancient; yer the Countrey peo- pe thereabours will not be perfwaded but that ic was made by Virgil,at the importuniry of the Emperour Augustus, becaule the top of the mountrin under which it is-cut was jo pelired with Serpents and Dragons, thac chere was not any MAN lo confident as would prefumeto travel over it. So rhat the main ftrefs of the bnfinels con- hits now in knowing whoe gave rhe firf occafion of this{uipicion,, which certainly can be nothing elfe but the know edge of the Mathematicks, wherein Virgil was ‘oexcellent,according to the relation of Adacrobins, Donatus, Lacerda, and the common content of all Authors, that, befides his being an eminent Philofopher and-well experi- enc'd in Medicine , it may nevertheleffe be affire
md, thatthe chiefeft of his perfections, next to Poe}; Was bis acquaintance with Astronomy, and other parts of che Mathematicks, : And thefe ; having ever been more fubje&to be chare’d with Magick than any of the other Sciences. have given lome occalion.to thefe unfett'ed minds to be con. firin’s in that erroneous opinion they had before enrerrain’d of bim, by reafon of his Pharmacen- tria oreighth Eclogne. where he hath fo learned-
ly renreienred. as Apuleius affirms, vitras molles ,
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The Hiftory of MAGICK; ‘¥ would have been very much if he had avoided che {utpicion of the praëtitechereof, epeciaily “§ from chofe, whom ignoranceand the barbarifm lof the Ages they liv’d in, would not fuffer to ! know char he had tranflated it word for word “fouc of Theocritus, To which number we may Madde fome others who are fo ftupid as notto “@ know what advancages a great Wit can make of “kf thefe fictions and embelithments, which certain- yly fhould no mcre prejudice Virgil, than the {or- “ki certes of Circe have done Homer; of Medea, Se- Mueca; Of Camdia, Horace; of Ericthon, Lucan; Wot Tirefias, Statins; of the Theffalianwomen, i) Lucian, and A puleins . of che old Witch, Heliodo- Wh rms; ot Maeffalina, Coccains, of Angelica, Arioffo: iw of Armida, Taffo; or Jaftly Afandraca, the Au- chor of e 4ffrea. Whence it is evident toany one, that, from this Chapter, maybe drawna :@ moft favourable conclufion for all thofe great per- :@ fons for whom we have made this Apology; and if chat if fo many fables, frivolous fufpicions and #4} fleight periwafions have found entertainment in “the ftragling: imaginations of thofe who will 0 @nceds quarrel with common fenfe and the opini- | fon of all the world, to make Virgil a Magician, ) W what J have produc’d before; as.alfoall chat hath ‘Mbeen (aid againtt Zoroaftes, Pythagoras; Numa + M Pompilins, Democritus, Albertus Magnus, andthe Hreft chat have been bronghe upon the ftage and Wuindicated; fhould no way derogate from their , §reputation, nor give any ocher impreflion of their learning and deporrment than fuch as we ought @ to have of fuch as have been
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By what means all thefe erroneous opinions are main-
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not [appres’d,
Hi through all the precedent Chaprerss both by general and particular reafons; ihewn how it might cometo pafle that fo emi- nent and extraordinary perfons have been charg’d with Magick, and confequently deduc’d all. I thought requifite for their vindication; I think there cannot any thing be now expected from me, fave thar; by wayofconcluñon to this Apo: logy, Ifhould fpecifiethe true cau‘es and feveral occafions whereby thefe calumnies are enters tain’d and gain reputation daily, and what prejus diceand inconvenience ( ifome courfe be nor taken) they will do as well the Authors, who maintain them, as. what is co be tfuly believ’d concerning Magicians, and what order is robe taken for the punifhment of chofe whom cheir forceries and miideeds difcover and declare to be fuch, For the former, mechinks the feveral cau- fes of {uch a fulpicion may be reducd principally tothree, The jir/t is,chat all the world is perfwa- ced, and fatisty’d, thae the Arongeft proot and oreateft
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dreateft afurance that cambe had of Truth, de- flends on a general conlent and univer{al appro- tation, which, as Aristotle in the seventh ot his ‘Echicks, affirms, cannot be ablolutely falfe and jained; befides that ic is a ching very plaufible, &
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cher, forfeit our reputation, run into precipices,. and, in a word aliems perimus exemplis, The fecond general Caufe is, that the greareft ji” part of thofe who employ themfelves in the com: - pofition and evulgation of fome piece, fuch ass they are able co work out, do commonly flatrer; yj!) themfelves into a perfwafion of fuch things, tharril!” they may do their buGnefs with greatelteale. And {iit as they write not fo much for any benefit to the» ii! publick, co oblige it by.an exad anatomy of; willl! Truth, as out of ome motive of vanicy or ambi-. jai tion or ro comply with that neceffity which for. siti ces them to fatishe famem non famamyas Thuanug> iii faies ; fo is it their:cuftome to go to work ag {ii flightly and as,cheap as poffibly chey can, not: {ie croubling themfelyes with a long and, difficult . lie evolution of the firft Authors, or fearching inte: lis the occafions they had to fcatter all thefe:tableg : je! &-calumnies ; nor racking their judgement with | | witout the confideration of thofe circumflances which | fhould oblige them to ruminate, recolleGyand re- Ml fleét on things, fo as co bring chemtothe orand: fit} TeftofReafon, and thence draw folid and certain: Vo relolutions. And here certainly they much dif. | hi cover their Weakneffe, and, becaufe the advanta- ges they derive from Nature are very flender,. fhew; how they are led away by example, groping» fi after things by hear-faies and conjectures » With- out ever fifting or examining them as they ought, lim efpecially in this Age, which is more fit to refine Vi and fharpen mens judgements, then all the pre- cedent put together were, by reafon of the ereat revolutions that new happen, through the difco- very of anew world, the difturbances occaGon’d
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SECS oR Te De ANS 4 à The Hiftoryof MAGICK, iby Religion, che reftauration of Letters, the de- siiclination of Se&ts and ancient opinions and fo Mimany range inventions and artifices ; infomuch ‘aMkhac Salomon might now, more truly than ever, (lay, Doth not wifdom cry? and underStanding Pro. 8; Wput forth her voice ? She ffandeth on the top of high «@places,by the way in the places of the paths, She cryeth \tilae she Gates, at the entring of the City ; at the com- shiligeiag in atthe Doors, Whence it may be inferrd, ‘that chere never was a more favourable conjun- mBéture chan chat of che prefent, to raife mens ‘miminds our ofthe Lechargychey arein, and enli- ‘in@ven chem toa retractation, and {o to a contempt tof abundance of falfe and abfurd opinions ; were twithey not, for che reafons before mentioned, in- niidifferent as to the eternizimg their memories by iwtiithe quality of their writings y ont of a conceit that eiehey gaim repucation enough by the quamity, i chereot , which they can {well up as they pleate, without much crouble or difficulty, with the Wafitance of a Method, devoutly obferv’d of tran i {cribing word for word, whatever hath been wWfaid a hundred and a hundred times over by “iW orhers. ri Andro do this, they are much oblis’d tothe wi third and laft caufe of che propagation of all thefe » Mfalfiries, which isa Cuftome lately introduc’d , Wof making oftentation of Polymathy or great rea- A ding, {peaking on any fub'ect of all things, and # upon any occalon of all {ubjects, as if chere were # no other defign in writing than to colle& and «A, faggot cogether.al, that may be faid,and with all M what hath ever been faidon the fubjeét then to be treated of ; it being now the quejtion wiro hits ; tus
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the mark, but who makes moft fhots. So thar igs is not to be admir’d it chofe who exaé}ly obiervedf fuch amechod, are, like Marchants chat cake upp)” all, burthen’d wich many things of no value, anddlii {uch as only corrupt and dilparage others, which)" would be much more in requett and reputation,,|!* “ were they cull’d out of the Chaos and confufñomi!' ofchofe great Volums. Iris certainly a ftrangee))) } ching, that Delrio, Le Loyer, Bodin, de Lancre, God”. delman, who have been, nay yet are, perfons off)! credit and defert fhould write fo paffionately upsy iil’ on the fubjeét of Demons, Sorcerers and Mag iciad ot ans, as never to reject any Story, though ever fay iit fabulous and ridiculous, of ail thole falie and ab.) i (i fnrd ones, which they have wichouc any difcre-4li, tion fhufled in among the true and legitimate, i! Nay had they no more than what we have refi) lt ted, icwere enough ro prejudice and difcredice aii thetruthofthe relt, fince that, as St. dugu/tiner) li à De Civ.dei. well oblerves Solent res ceffe afperfione mendaci-d wie L7.cap.35. yum in fabalas verti, and as St Hierome, Lyersd be are not believ’d when chey fpeak cruth: wvirnefeël x, { eA: [ops herd-boy, who had fo often call’d for hel pp wie againft the Wolf when chere was no need, chat}: he was neither believ’d nor affitted by any wvhemh (i afterwards he playdthe Tyrant in his Flock, ant So chac if we obey the precept of Caffioderusilits Epift. 44. who faies, that infirackus redditur Aximus in futum win