BOOK II.

TALISMANIC MAGIC
Of the Four Elements, and their
Natural Qualities • . . 51
Of the Properties and wonderful Nature of Fire and Earth .... 53
Of the Water and Air 54
Of compound or mixed Bodies ; in what Manner they relate to the Elements ; and how the Elements correspond to the Souls, Senses, and Dispositions of Men .... 57
That the Elements are in Stars, Devils, Angels, Intelligences, and
in God himself 58
That the wisdom of God works by second Causes is proved beyond
Dispute in this Chapter 60
Of the Spirit of the World .... 61
Of the Seals and Characters im- pressed by Celestials uponNatural
Things 61
Of the Virtue and Efficacy of Per- fumes ; and to what Planets they
are attributed 62
Of the Composition of Perfumes at- tributed to the Planets 64
General Fumes of the Planets ... 65
Of the magical Virtue of Rings . . 66
That the Passions of the Mind are assisted by Celestials; and how necessary the constancy of the Mind is in every Work 67
How a Man’s Mind may be joined with the Celestial Spirits and In- telligences, and with them im- press wonderful Virtues upon in- ferior Things 68
Shewing the Necessity of Mathe- matical Knowledge ; and of the great Power and Efficacy of Num- bers in the Construction of Talis- mans, &c 69
The great Virtues of Numbers, as well in natural as in Super-natural Things
Of the Scales of Numbers ; the Scale
of Unity 71
Of the Number Two, and the Scale . . • 73
Of the Number Three, and the Scale 74
Of the Number Four, and the Scale 75
Of the Number Five, and the Scale 79 Of the Number Six, and the Scale 80 Of the Number Seven, and the Scale 81 Of the Number Eight, and the Scale 89 Of the Number Nine, and the Scale 89 Of the Number Ten, and the two
Scales 90
Of the Numbers Eleven and Twelve, with the Scale of Number Twelve 92 Of the Notes of the Hebrews and Chaldeans, and other Characters used by Magicians • 96
The magical Tables of the Planets, their Form and Virtue ; with the Divine Names, Intelligences, and Spirits that are set over them . . 97
Of the Observation of the Celestials necessary in all magical Works . 106 When the Planets are most power- ful 107
Observations on the fixed Stars, with their Names and Nature . . 107 Of the Sun and Moon, and their
magical Considerations 108
Of the Twenty-eight Mansions of the Moon, and their Virtues . . . 109 That some artificial Things, as Im- ages, Seals, and the like, may de- rive Virtue from the Celestial
Bodies 113
Of the Images of the Zodiac ; what Virtues, being engraven, they re- ceive from the Stars 113
Of the Images of the Seven Planets, 114
Of the Images of Jupiter 115
Images of Mars 115
Images of the Sun 116
Images of Venus 116
Images of Mercury 117
Images of the Moon 117
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Images of the Dragon’s Head and Dragon’sTail 117
Images of the Twenty-eight Man- sions of the Moon 118
Magic Seals ; that human Impreca- tions naturally impress their Powers upon external Things; and how Man’s Mind, through a Degree of Dependencies, ascends into the Intelligible World, and becomes like the more sublime Spirits and Intelligences .... 120
The Conclusion of Talismanic Magic ; in which is included the Key of all that has been written upon the Subject; shewing the Practice of Images, and the Com- position of Talismans, by way of Example; and, likewise, the necessary Observations of the Celestials requisite for the Per- fection of all Talismanic Opera-
tions 124
MAGNETISM.
Magnetism 129
Of the Magnetic or Attrattive Faculty 131
Of Sympathetic Medicines .... 132
Of the Magnetic or Sympathetic Unguent ; the Power of Sympathy, Armary, Unguent; and curing of Wounds, Ectasies, Witchcraft,
Mummies, &c 134
Of the Weapon Salve 134
Of the Imaginative Power, and the Magnetism of the Natural Spirits, Mummial Attraction, Sympathies of Astral Spirits, and their Bodies, upon which is founded the whole
Art of Necromancy 136
Of Witchcraft in particular .... 139
Of the Yital Spirit 141
Of the Magical Power, &c ... . 142
Of exciting or stirring up the Magi- cal Virtue 143
Of the Magical Virtue of the Soul, and the Medium it Acts by . . . 144 The End of the Magnetism . . . 145