BOOK I.

NATUKAL MAGIC.
Natural Magic defined; of Man; his Creation, Divine Image, and Fall; and of the spiritual and magical Virtue of the Soul ... 9
Of the Wonders of Natural Magic, displayed in a Variety of sym-
pathetic and occult Operations, in Animals, Minerals, and Vege- tables, treated of miscellaneously
Of the Serpent 17
Of Amulets, Charms, and Enchant- ments; an Amulet for the Flux
of Blood 21
Of Unctions, Philters, Potions, &c.
Their magical Virtue 23
Of Magical Suspensions and Alliga- tions ; shewing by what power they are efficacious in Natural
Magic 24
Of Antipathies 25
Of the occult Virtues of Things which are inherent in them only in their Lives, and such as remain
in them after Death 27
Of the wonderful Virtures of some Kinds of precious Stones .... 28
Of the Mixtures of Natural Things one with another, and the Pro- duction of Monsters 29
Of the Art of Fascination, Bind- ing, Sorceries, Magical Confec- tions, Lights, Candles, Lamps, &c. being the conclusion of Natural Magic 30
ALCHYMY.
Epistle to Museus 37
Of Alchymy, and its Divine Origin . 39
Discovered to man by Uriel .... 39
Zoroaster made Gold from the Seven
Metals 39
Zoroaster was the Father of Alchy-
mists 39
The Authors who have wrote upon
it 39
The comparison of Alchymists . . 40
What an Adept is 40
Van H elmont’ s Account of Alchym y 40 Kircher’s Account of Alchymists. . 41
The Description of the Philoso- phers’ Stone 41
Account of a real Transmutation . 41
Account of Flammel, the Alchymist 41 History of Butler’s Universal Medi- cine 42
What is not universally understood generally referred to the Black
Art 44
Of the Preparation necessary to qualify a Man for the Search of
the Philosophers’ Stone 44
Of the Prima Materia 44
Ten lessons, teaching the Transmu- tation of base Metals into Gold 44 Lesson XI. XII. XIII. XIV. teach- ing the Manner of extracting the
liable of Contents.
Prima Materia of the Lapis Phil- osophorum; and the Use it is of in purifying imperfect Metals, to Change them into good Gold . . 48