chapter concerneth; namelie, the spirit of sanctification, and that

they so ponder places to and fro, as that they reserve unto the holie
spirit the glorious title of divinitie, which by nature is to him
appropriate: esteeming of these _Pneumatomachi_ or _Theomachi_, as of
swine, delighting more in the durtie draffe of their devises, than in
the faire fountaine water of Gods word: yea, condemning them of grosser
ignorance than the old philosophers, who though they savoured little of
heavenlie theologie, yet some illumination they had of the holie and
divine spirit, marrie it was somewhat mistie, darke, lame and limping;
neverthelesse, what it was, and how much or little soever it was, they
gave thereunto a due reverence, in that they acknowledged and intituled
it _Animam mundi_, The soule or life of the world, and (as _Nazanzen_
witnesseth) τὸν τοῦ παντος νοῦν, The mind of the universall, and the
outward breath, or the breath that commeth from without. _Porphyrie_
expounding the opinion of _Plato_, who was not utterlie blind in this
mysterie, saith that the divine substance doth proceed and extend
to three subsistencies and beings: and that God is chieflie and
principallie good, next him the second creator, and the third to be
the soule of the world: for he holdeth that the divinitie doth extend
even to this soule. As for _Hermes Trismegistus_, he saith that all
things have need of this spirit: for according to his worthinesse he
supporteth all, he quickeneth and susteineth all, and he is derived
from the holie fountaine, giving breath and life unto all, and evermore
remaineth continuall, plentifull, and unemptied.

♦[*] Such were the Arrians, Tritheits,[†] Samosatenians, &c.♦

♦[†] [Tritheists]♦

♦_Sus magis in cœno gaudet quàm fonte sereno._♦

♦The hethenish philosophers acknowledged the holie spirit.♦

♦_Cyrill. lib. 1. contra Julianum._♦

And here by the waie I give you a note woorth reading and considering;
namelie, how all nations in a manner, by a kind of heavenlie influence,
agree in writing and speaking the name of God with no more than foure
letters. As for example, the _Ægyptians_ doo call him _Theut_, the
_Persians_ call him _Syre_, the _Jewes_ expresse his unspeakable name
as well as they can by the word _Adonai_ consisting of foure vowels;
the _Arabians_ call him _Alla_, the _Mahometists_ call him _Abdi_,
the _Greekes_ call him _Theos_, the _Latines_ call him _Deus_, _&c._
This, although it be not so proper to our present purpose, yet (because
we are in hand with the holie spirits deitie) is not altogether
impertinent. But why GOD would have his name as it were universallie
bounded within the number of foure letters, I can give sundrie
reasons, which require too long a discourse of words by digression:
and therefore I will conceale them for this time. These opinions of
philosophers I have willinglie remembred, that it might appeare, that
the doctrine concerning the holie spirit is verie ancient; which they
having taken either out of _Moses_ writings, or out of the works
of the old fathers, published and set foorth in bookes, though not
wholie, fullie, and perfectlie understood and knowne: and also that
our _Pneumatomachi_ may see themselves to be more doltish in divine
matters than the heathen, who will not acknowledge that essentiall
and working power of the divinitie wherby all things are quickened:
which the heathen did after a sort see; after a sort (I saie) bicause
they separated the soule of the world (which they also call the
begotten mind) from the most sovereigne and unbegotten God, and
imagined certeine differences of degrees, and (as _Cyrill_ saith) did
Arrianize[*] in the trinitie.

♦_Marsilius Ficinus in arg. in Cratyl. Plat._♦

♦[*] [Arianize]♦

So then I conclude against these _Pneumatomachi_, that in so much
as they imitate the old giants, who piling up _Pelion_ upon _Ossa_,
and them both upon _Olympus_, attempted by scaling the heavens to
pull _Jupiter_ out of his throne of estate, & to spoile him of his
principalitie, and were notwithstanding their strength, whereby they
were able to carrie huge hilles on their shoulders, overwhelmed
with those mountaines, and squized under the weight of them even
to the death: so these _Pneumatomachi_, being enimies both to the
holie spirit, and no freends to the holie church (for then would
they confesse the trinitie in unitie, and the unitie in trinitie,
and consequentlie also the deitie of the holie spirit) deserve to be
consumed with the fier of his mouth, the heate whereof by no meanes can
be slaked, quenched, or avoided. For there is nothing more unnaturall,
nothing more monstrous, than against the person of the deitie (I meane
the spirit of sanctification) to oppose mans power, mans wit, mans
policie, &c: which was well signified by that poeticall fiction of the
giants, who were termed _Anguipedes_, Snakefooted: which as _Joachimus
Camerarius_ expoundeth of wicked counsellors, to whose filthie
persuasion tyrants doo trust as unto their feete; and _James Sadolet_
interpreteth of philosophers, who trusting overmuch unto their owne
wits, become so bold in challenging praise for their wisedome, that in
fine all turneth to follie and confusion: so I expound of heretickes
and schismatikes, who either by corrupt doctrine, or by mainteining
precise opinions, or by open violence, &c: assaie to overthrow the
true religion, to breake the unitie of the church, to denie _Cæsar_
his homage, and GOD his dutie, &c: and therefore let _Jovis fulmen_,
wherewith they were slaine, assure these that there is _Divina ultio_
due to all such, as dare in the ficklenes of their fansies arreare
themselves against the holie spirit; of whom sith they are ashamed here
upon earth (otherwise they would confidentlie and boldlie confesse
him both with mouth and pen) he will be ashamed of them in heaven,
where they are like to be so farre from having anie societie with the
saints, that their portion shalbe even in full and shaken measure with
miscreants and infidels. And therefore let us, if we will discerne
and trie the spirits whether they be of God or no, seeke for the
illumination of this inlightning spirit, which as it bringeth light
with it to discover all spirits, so it giveth such a fierie heat, as
that no false spirit can abide by it for feare of burning. Howbeit
the holie spirit must be in us, otherwise this prerogative of trieng
spirits will not fall to our lot.

♦_Ovid. lib. metamorph. 1 fab. 5. de gigantib. cœlum obsident._♦

♦_Jacob. Sadol. in lib. de laud. philosoph. inscript. Phædrus._♦

But here some will peradventure move a demand, and doo aske how
the holie spirit is in us, considering that _Infiniti ad finitum
nulla est proportio, neque loci angustia quod immensum est potest
circumscribi_: of that which is infinite, to that which is finite
there is no proportion; neither can that which is unmeasurable be
limited or bounded within anie precinct of place, &c. I answer, that
the most excellent father for Christes sake sendeth him unto us,
according as Christ promised us in the person of his apostles; The
comforter (saith he) which is the holie spirit, whome my father will
send in my name. And as for proportion of that which is infinite to
that which is finite, &c: I will in no case have it thought, that the
holie spirit is in us, as a bodie placed in a place terminablie; but to
attribute thereunto, as dulie belongeth to the deitie, an ubiquitie, or
universall presence; not corporallie and palpablie; but effectuallie,
mightilie, mysticallie, divinelie, &c. Yea, and this I may boldlie
adde, that Christ Jesus sendeth him unto us from the father: neither
is he given us for anie other end, but to inrich us abundantlie with
all good gifts and excellent graces; and (among the rest) with the
discerning of spirits aright, that we be not deceived. And here an end.

♦_Peter Mart. in loc. com. part. 2. cap. 18. sect. 33. pag. 628._♦

♦John. 14, 26.♦

♦John. 16, 14. & 14, 16.♦

_FINIS._




[APPENDIX I.]

[The nine chapters forming the beginning of the fifteenth Book in the
third edition, 1665, are numbered Ch. I, etc., and Scot’s Ch. I made
Ch. X, and so onward]




_BOOK XV._




CHAP. I.

_Of Magical Circles, and the reason of their Institution._


Magitians, and the more learned sort of Conjurers, make use of
Circles in various manners, and to various intentions. First, when
convenience serves not, as to time or place that a real Circle should
be delineated, they frame an imaginary Circle, by means of Incantations
and Consecrations, without either Knife, Pensil, or Compasses,
circumscribing nine foot of ground round about them, which they pretend
to sanctifie with words and Ceremonies, spattering their Holy Water
all about so far as the said Limit extendeth; and with a form of
Consecration following, do alter the property of the ground, that from
common (as they say) it becomes sanctifi’d, and made fit for Magicall
uses.

♦Imaginary Circles.♦


_How to consecrate an imaginary Circle._

Let the Exorcist, being cloathed with a black Garment, reaching to his
knee, and under that a white Robe of fine Linnen that falls unto his
ankles, fix himself in the midst of that place where he intends to
perform his Conjurations: And throwing his old Shooes about ten yards
from the place, let him put on his consecrated shooes of russet Leather
with a Cross cut on the top of each shooe. Then with his Magical Wand,
which must be a new hazel-stick, about two yards of length, he must
stretch forth his arm to all the four Windes thrice, turning himself
round at every Winde, and saying all that while with fervency:

♦The form of Consecration.♦

_I who am the servant of the Highest, do by the vertue of his Holy
Name_ Immanuel, _sanctifie unto my self the circumference of nine foot
round about me_, ✠✠✠. _from the East_, ►Glaurah◄; _from the West_,
►Garron◄; _from the North_, ►Cabon◄; _from the South_, ►Berith◄; _which
ground I take for my proper defence from all malignant spirits, that
they may have no power over my soul or body, nor come beyond these
Limitations, but answer truely being summoned, without daring to
transgress their bounds_: ►Worrh.[*] worrah. harcot. Gambalon.◄ ✠✠✠.

♦[*] [? _Mispr. for_ Worrah.]♦

Which Ceremonies being performed, the place so sanctified is equivalent
to any real Circle whatsoever. And in the composition of any Circle for
Magical feats, the fittest time is the brightest Moon-light, or when
storms of lightning, winde, or thunder, are raging through the air;
because at such times the infernal Spirits are nearer unto the earth,
and can more easily hear the Invocations of the Exorcist.

♦The time for Conjurations.♦

As for the places of Magical Circles, they are to be chosen
melancholly, dolefull, dark and lonely; either in Woods or Deserts,
or in a place where three wayes meet, or amongst ruines of Castles,
Abbies, Monasteries, _&c._ or upon the Sea-shore when the Moon shines
clear, or else in some large Parlour hung with black, and the floor
covered with the same, with doors and windowes closely shut, and
Waxen Candles lighted. But if the Conjuration be for the Ghost of one
deceased, the fittest places to that purpose are places of the slain,
Woods where any have killed themselves, Church-yards, Burying-Vaults,
_&c._ As also for all sorts of Spirits, the places of their abode
ought to be chosen, when they are called; as Pits, Caves, and hollow
places, for Subterranean Spirits: The tops of Turrets, for Aerial
Spirits: Ships and Rocks of the Sea, for Spirits of the Water: Woods
and Mountains for Faries, Nymphs, and Satyres; following the like order
with all the rest.

♦The places for Circles.♦

And as the places where, so the manner how the Circles are to be drawn,
ought to be perfectly known. First, for Infernal Spirits, let a Circle
nine foot over be made with black, and within the same another Circle
half a foot distant, leaving half a foot of both these Circles open
for the Magitian and his assistant to enter in: And betwixt these
Circles round about, write all the holy Names of God, with Crosses and
Triangles at every Name; making also a larger triangle at one side of
the Circle without on this manner with the names of the Trinity at the
seven corners, _viz._ ►Yehowah,[*] Ruah Kedesh, Immanuel◄, written in
the little circles.

♦The form of a Circle.♦

♦[*] [sic]♦

[Illustration]

The reason that Magitians give for Circles and their Institution, is,
That so much ground being blessed and consecrated by holy Words, hath
a secret force to expel all evil Spirits from the bounds thereof; and
being sprinkled with holy water, which hath been blessed by the Master,
the ground is purified from all uncleanness; besides the holy Names of
God written all about, whose force is very powerful; so that no wicked
Spirit hath the ability to break through into the Circle after the
Master and Scholler are entered, and have closed up the gap, by reason
of the antipathy they possesse to these Mystical Names. And the reason
of the Triangle is, that if the Spirit be not easily brought to speak
the truth, they may by the Exorcist be conjured to enter the same,
where by vertue of the names of the Sacred Trinity, they can speak
nothing but what is true and right.

♦The reason of Circles.♦

But if Astral Spirits as Faries, Nymphs, and Ghosts of men, be called
upon, the Circle must be made with Chalk, without any Triangles; in
the place whereof the Magical Character of that Element to which they
belong, must be described at the end of every Name.

{ Air, Water, Fire. [Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol]
As {
for { Woods, Caves, [Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol]
Spirits { Mountains.
of {
the { Mines, Desolate [Symbol] [Symbol]
{ Buildings.




CHAP. II.

_How to raise up the Ghost of one that hath hanged himself._


This experiment must be put in practice while the Carcass hangs; and
therefore the Exorcist must seek out for the straightest hazel wand
that he can find, to the top whereof he must binde the head of an Owl,
with a bundle of _St. John’s Wort_, or _Milliès Perforatum_: this done,
he must be informed of some miserable creature that hath strangled
himself in some Wood or Desart place (which they seldom miss to do)
and while the Carcass hangs, the Magitian must betake himself to the
aforesaid place, at 12 a clock at night, and begin his Conjurations in
this following manner.

First, stretch forth the consecrated Wand towards the four corners of
the World, saying, _By the mysteries of the deep, by the flames of_
►Banal◄, _by the power of the_ East, _and the silence of the night,
by the holy rites of_ ►Hecate◄, _I conjure and exorcize thee thou
distressed Spirit, to present thy self here, and reveal unto me the
cause of thy Calamity, why thou didst offer violence to thy own liege
life, where thou art now in beeing, and where thou wilt hereafter be_.

♦The ceremonies of Necromancy.♦

Then gently smiting the Carcase nine times with the rod, say, _I
conjure thee thou spirit of this_ N. _deceased, to answer my demands
that I am to propound unto thee, as thou ever hopest for the rest of
the holy ones, and the ease of all thy misery; by the blood of Jesu
which he shed for thy soul, I conjure and bind thee to utter unto me
what I shall ask thee_.

Then cutting down the Carcass from the tree, lay his head towards the
East, and in the space that this following Conjuration is repeating,
set a Chafing-dish of fire at his right hand, into which powre a
little Wine, some Mastick, and Gum Aromatick, and lastly a viol full
of the sweetest Oyl, having also a pair of Bellows, and some unkindled
Charcole to make the fire burn bright at the instant of the Carcass’s
rising. The Conjuration is this:

♦The Conjuration.♦

_I conjure thee thou spirit of_ N. _that thou do immediately enter into
thy antient body again, and answer to my demands, by the virtue of the
holy resurrection, and by the posture of the body of the Saviour of
the world, I charge thee, I conjure thee, I command thee on pain of
the torments and wandring of thrice seven years, which I by the power
of sacred Magick rites, have power to inflict upon thee; by thy sighs
and groans, I conjure thee to utter thy voice; so help thee God and the
prayers of the holy Church. Amen._

Which Conjuration being thrice repeated while the fire is burning with
Mastick and Gum Aromatick, the body will begin to rise, and at last
will stand upright before the Exorcist, answering with a faint and
hollow voice, the questions proposed unto it. Why it strangled it self;
where its dwelling is; what its food and life is; how long it will be
ere it enter into rest, and by what means the Magitian may assist it
to come to rest: Also, of the treasures of this world, where they are
hid: Moreover, it can answer very punctually of the places where Ghosts
reside, and how to communicate with them; teaching the nature of Astral
Spirits and hellish beings, so far as its capacity reacheth.

♦The answers of the Spirit.♦

All which when the Ghost hath fully answered, the Magitian ought out
of commiseration and reverence to the deceased, to use what means can
possibly be used for the procuring rest unto the Spirit. To which
effect he must dig a grave, and filling the same half full of quick
Lime, and a little Salt and common Sulphur, put the Carcass naked into
the same; which experiment, next to the burning of the body into ashes,
is of great force to quiet and end the disturbance of the Astral Spirit.

♦How to lay the Spirit.♦

But if the Ghost with whom the Exorcist consulteth, be of one that dyed
the common death, and obtain’d the ceremonies of burial, the body must
be dig’d out of the ground at 12 a clock at night; and the Magician
must have a companion with him, who beareth a torch in his left hand,
and smiting the Corps thrice with the consecrated rod, the Exorcist
must turn himself to all the four winds, saying:

_By the virtue of the holy resurrection, and the torments of the
damned, I conjure and exorcize thee spirit of_ N. _deceased, to answer
my liege demands, being obedient unto these sacred ceremonies on pain
of everlasting torment and distress_: Then let him say, ►Berald,
Beroald, Balbin gab gabor agaba◄; _Arise, arise, I charge and command
thee_.

♦Another form.♦

After which Ceremonies, let him ask what he desireth and he shall be
answered.

But as a faithful caution to the practicer of this Art, I shall
conclude with this, That if the Magician, by the Constellation and
Position of the Stars at his nativity, be in the predicament of those
that follow Magical Arts, it will be very dangerous to try this
experiment for fear of suddain death ensuing, which the Ghosts of men
deceased, can easily effect upon those whose nativities lead them to
Conjuration: And which suddain and violent death, the Stars do alwayes
promise to such as they mark with the _Stigma_ of Magicians.

♦A Caution for the Exorcist.♦




CHAP. III.

_How to raise up the three Spirits_, Paymon, Bathin, _and_
Barma: _And what wonderful things may be effected through
their assistance._


The Spirit _Paymon_ is of the power of the Air, the sixteenth in the
ranck of Thrones, subordinate to _Corban_ and _Marbas_.

♦Their order.♦

_Bathin_ is of a deeper reach in the source of the fire, the second
after _Lucifers_ familiar, and hath not his fellow for agility and
affableness, in the whole Infernal Hierarchy.

_Barma_ is a mighty Potentate of the order of _Seraphims_, whom 20
Legions of Infernal Spirits do obey; his property is to metamorphose
the Magician or whom he pleaseth, and transport into foreign Countreys.

These three Spirits, though of various ranks and orders, are all of one
power, ability and nature, and the form of raising them all is one.
Therefore the Magician that desireth to consult with either of these
Spirits, must appoint a night in the waxing of the Moon, wherein the
Planet _Mercury_ reigns, at 11 a clock at night; not joyning to himself
any companion, because this particular action will admit of none;
and for the space of four dayes before the appointed night, he ought
every morning to shave his beard, and shift himself with clean linnen,
providing beforehand the two Seals of the Earth, drawn exactly upon
parchment, having also his consecrated Girdle ready of a black Cats
skin with the hair on, and these names written on the inner side of the
Girdle: ►Ya, Ya◄ ✠ ►Aie, Aaie◄ ✠ ►Elibra◄ ✠ ►Elohim◄ ✠ ►Saday◄ ✠ ►Yah
Adonay◄ ✠ _tuo robore_ ✠ _Cinctus sum_ ✠.

♦The Utensils to be used.♦

Upon his Shooes must be written ►Tetragrammaton◄, with crosses
round about, and his garment must be a Priestly Robe of black, with a
Friers hood, and a Bible in his hand.

When all these things are prepared, and the Exorcist hath lived
chastly, and retired until the appointed time: Let him have ready
a fair Parlour or Cellar, with every chink and window closed; then
lighting seven Candles, and drawing a double Circle with his own
blood, which he must have ready before hand: let him divide the Circle
into seven parts, and write these seven names at the seven divisions,
setting at every Name a Candle lighted in a brazen Candlestick in the
space betwixt the Circles: The names are these, ►Cados◄ ✠ ►Escherie◄ △
►Anick◄ ✠ ►Sabbac◄ [Symbol] ►Sagun◄ ✠ ✠ ►Aba◄ ✠ ►Abalidoth◄ [Symbol]

♦The Circle.♦

When the Candles are lighted, let the Magician being in the midst of
the Circle, and supporting himself with two drawn Swords, say with a
low and submissive voyce; _I do by the vertue of these seven holy Names
which are the Lamps of the living God, Consecrate unto my use this
inclosed Circle, and exterminate out of, it[*] all evill Spirits, and
their power; that beyond the limit of their circumference they enter
not on pain of torments to be doubled_, ►Yah, Agion, Helior, Heligah◄,
_Amen_.

♦The Consecration.♦

♦[*] [_transp._ it,]♦

When this Consecration is ended, Let him sprinkle the Circle with
consecrated Water, and with a Chafing-dish of Charcole, perfume it with
Frankincense and Cinamon, laying the Swords a cross the Circle, and
standing over them; then whilest the fumigation burneth, let him begin
to call these three Spirits in this following manner:

_I Conjure and Exorcize you the three Gentle and Noble Spirits of the
power of the North, by the great and dreadful name of_ ►Peolphan◄ _your
King, and by the silence of the night, and by the holy rites of Magick,
and by the number of the Infernal Legions, I adjure and invocate you;
That without delay ye present your selves here before the Northern
quarter of this Circle, all of you, or any one of you, and answer my
demands by the force of the words contained in this Book._ This must be
thrice repeated, and at the third repetition, the three Spirits will
either all appear, or one by lot, if the other be already somewhere
else imployed; at their appearance they will send before them three
fleet Hounds opening after a Hare, who will run round the Circle for
the space of half a quarter of an hour; after that more hounds will
come in, and after all, a little ugly _Æthiop_, who will take the Hare
from their ravenous mouths, and together with the Hounds vanish; at
last the Magician shall hear the winding of a Hunts-mans horn, and a
Herald on Horseback shall come galloping with three Hunters behind
upon black Horses, who will compass the Circle seven times, and at the
seventh time will make a stand at the Northern quarter, dismissing
the Herald that came up before them, and turning their Horses towards
the Magician, will stand all a brest before him, saying; ►Gil pragma
burthon machatan dennah◄; to which the Magician must boldly answer;
►Beral, Beroald, Corath, Kermiel◄; _By the sacred rites of Magick ye
are welcome ye three famous Hunters of the North, and my command is,
that by the power of these Ceremonies ye be obedient and faithful unto
my summons, unto which I conjure you by the holy Names of God_, ►Yah,
Gian, Soter, Yah, Jehovah, Immanuel, Tetragrammaton, Yah, Adonay,
Sabtay, Seraphin◄; _Binding and obliging you to answer plainly,
faithfully and truly, by all these holy names, and by the awful name of
your mighty King_ ►Peolphon◄.[*]

♦The Conjuration.♦

♦The Appearanees. [_sic_]♦

♦[*] [_sic_]♦

Which when the Magician hath said, the middle Hunter named ►Paymon◄,
will answer, ►Gil pragma burthon machatan dennah◄, _We are the three
mighty Hunters of the North, in the Kingdom of_ Fiacim, _and are come
hither by the sound of thy Conjurations, to which we swear by him that
liveth to yield obedience, if_ Judas _that betrayed him be not named_.

♦The Condition.♦

Then shall the Magician swear, _By him that liveth, and by all that is
contained in this holy Book, I swear unto you this night, and by the
mysteries of this action, I swear unto you this night, and by the bonds
of darkness I swear unto you this night, That_ Judas _the Traitor shall
not be named, and that blood shall not be offered unto you, but that
truce and equal terms shall be observed betwixt us_. Which being said,
the Spirits will bow down their heads to the Horses crests, and then
alighting down will call their Herald to withdraw their Horses; which
done, The Magician may begin to bargain with all, or any one of them,
as a familiar invisibly to attend him, or to answer all difficulties
that he propoundeth: Then may he begin to ask them of the frame of
the World, and the Kingdoms therein contained, which are unknown
unto Geographers: He may also be informed of all Physical processes
and operations; also how to go invisible and fly through the airy
Region: They can likewise give unto him the powerful Girdle of Victory,
teaching him how to compose and consecrate the same, which hath the
force, being tyed about him, to make him conquer Armies, and all men
whatsoever. Besides, there is not any King or Emperour throughout the
world; but if he desires it, they will engage to bring him the most
pretious of their Jewels and Riches in twenty four hours; discovering
also unto him the way of finding hidden treasures and the richest mines.

♦The Magicians Oath.♦

♦The girdle of Victory.♦

And after the Conjurer hath fulfilled his desires, he shall dismiss the
aforesaid Spirits in this following form.

♦The form of discharge.♦

_I charge you ye three officious Spirits to depart unto the place
whence ye were called, without injury to either man or Beast, leaving
the tender Corn untouched, and the seed unbruised; I dismiss you, and
licence you to go back untill I call you, and to be alwayes ready at my
desire, especially thou nimble_ ►Bathin◄, _whom I have chosen to attend
me, that thou be alwayes ready when I ring a little Bell to present thy
self without any Magical Ceremonies performed; and so depart ye from
hence, and peace be betwixt you and us, In the Name of the Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost. Amen._

When the Magician hath repeated this last form of dismission, he will
hear immediately a horn winding, after which the Herald with the jet
black Horses, and the three Spirits will mount upon them, compassing
the Circle seven times, with the Herald winding his horn before them,
and at every Candle they will bow towards the Horses crest, till coming
towards the Northern quarter, they will with great obeysance seem to
march away out through the solid wall as through a City gate.




CHAP. IV.

_How to Consecrate all manner of Circles, Fumigations, Fire,
Magical Garments, and Utensills._


Consecrations are related either to the person or the thing
consecrated. The person is the Magitian himself, whose consecration
consisteth in Abstinence, Temperance, and holy Garments. The things
consecrated are the Oyl, the Fire, the Water. The Fumigations
consisting of oriental Gums and Spices; the magical Sword, Pensils,
Pens and Compasses, the measuring Rule and waxen Tapers, the
Pentacles, Periapts, Lamins, and Sigils, Vests, Caps, and Priestly
Garments; these are the materials to be consecrated.

♦What things are to be consecrated.♦

The sacred Pentacles are as signs and charms for the binding of Evil
Dæmons, consisting of Characters and Names of the Superior order of the
good Spirits opposite unto those evil ones whom the Magitian is about
to Invocate: And of sacred Pictures, Images, and Mathematical Figures
adapted to the names and natures of separated Substances whither good
or evil. Now the form of Consecrating such Magical Pentacles is to
name the vertue of the holy Names and Figures, their Antiquity and
Institution with the intention of the Consecration purifying the
Pentacle by consecrated fire, and waving the same over the flames
thereof.

♦Pentacles.♦

When the Exorcist would consecrate Places or Utensils, Fire or Water
for magical uses, he must repeat the Consecration or Dedication of
_Solomon_ the King at the building of the Temple, the Vision of
_Moses_ at the Bush, and the Spirit of the Lord on the tops of the
Mulberry-trees, repeating also the sacrifice of it self being kindled;
the Fire upon _Sodom_, and the Water of Eternal Life: Wherein the
Magitian must still remember to speak of the seven golden Candlesticks,
and _Ezekiels_ Wheels, closing the Consecration with the deep and
mysterious Names of God and holy Dæmons.

♦Utensils.♦

When particular Instruments are to be sanctified, the Magitian must
sprinkle the same with consecrated Water, and fumigate them with
fumigations, anoint them with consecrated Oyl: And lastly, Seal them
with holy Characters; after all which is performed, an Oration or
Prayer must follow, relating the particulars of the Consecration with
Petitions to that Power in whose Name and Authority the Ceremony is
performed.

♦Instruments.♦

And in like manner shalt thou consecrate and sanctifie every Utensil
whatsoever, by Sprinklings, Fumigations, Unctions, Seals, and
Benedictions, commemorating and reiterating the sanctifyings in the
holy Scripture, of the Tables of the Law delivered to _Moses_; of the
two Testaments in the New Covenant, of the holy Prophets in their
Mothers wombs, and of _Aholiah_, and _Aholibah_, whom the Spirit of God
inspired to frame all sorts of curious workmanship for the Tabernacle.
This is the sum of Consecrationn.[*]

♦How to consecrate.♦

♦[*] [_sic_]♦




CHAP. V.

_Treating more practically of the Consecration of Circles,
Fires, Garments, and Fumigations._


In the Construction of Magical Circles, the hour, day, or night, and
season of the year, and the Constellation are to be considered; as
also what sort of Spirits are to be called; and to what Region, Air,
or Climate they belong: Therefore this method is to be followed for
the more orderly and certain proceeding therein. First, a Circle nine
foot over must be drawn, within which another Circle three inches from
the outermost must be also made, in the Center whereof the name of the
hour, the Angel of the hour, the Seal of the Angel, the Angel of the
day predominant, wherein the work is undertaken. Note, these attributes
are to be inscribed betwixt the Circles round about with _Alpha_ at the
beginning, and _Omega_ at the close.

♦Circles how to be made.♦

When the Circle is composed, it must be sprinkled with holy Water,
while the Magician saith, _Wash me O Lord, and I shall be whiter
then Snow_: And as for the Fumigations over them, this Benediction
must be said; _O God of_ Abraham, Isaac, _and_ Jacob, _bless these
thy subservient creatures, that they may multiply the force of their
excellent odors, to hinder evil spirits and phantasms from entring the
Circle, through our Lord. Amen._

♦Fumigations.♦


_An Exorcism for the fire._

The Exorcist ought to have an earthen Censer, wherein to preserve
the fire for magical uses, and the expiations and fumigations, whose
consecration is on this manner.

♦Fire.♦

_By him that created Heaven and Earth, and is the God and Lord of all,
I exorcize and sanctifie thee thou creature of Fire, that immediately
thou banish every phantasm from thee, so that thou prove not hurtful
in any kind: Which I beseech thee O Lord to confirm by sanctifying
and making pure this creature of fire, that it may be blessed and
consecrate to the honour of thy holy Name. Amen._


_At the putting on the Garments,_

Let the Magician say, _By the figurative mystery of this holy Stole
or Vestment, I will cloath me with the armour of Salvation in the
strength of the highest._ ►Ancor, Amacor, Amides, Theodonias, Anitor.◄
_That my desired end may be effected through thy strength_ ►Adonai◄,
_to whom the praise and glory will for ever belong._

♦Garments.♦

Which Ceremonies being finished, the Exorcist shall proceed to the
practical part of Invocation and Conjuration of all degrees of Spirits,
having every utensil and appendix in readiness for the performance, and
proceeding according to the method in these following Chapters.

♦Practice.♦




CHAP. VI.

_How to raise and exorcize all sorts of Spirits belonging to the
Airy Region._


The Garment which the Exorcist is cloathed withall at the performance
of this action, ought according to the opinions of the chiefest
Magicians, to be a Priestly Robe, which if it can no where be procured,
may be a neat and cleanly linnen Vest, with the holy Pentacle fastned
thereunto upon Parchment made of a Kids skin, over which an Invocation
must be said, and then the Pentacle must be sprinkled with holy Water.
At the putting on the Magical Garment, this Prayer must be repeated:
_By thy holy power_ ►Adonai Sabaoth◄, _And by the power and merit of
thine Angels and Archangels, and by the vertue of holy Church, which
thou hast sanctified, do I cloath me with this consecrated Garment,
that what I am to practice may take effect through thy Name who art for
ever and ever._

♦What sort of Garments must be used.♦

Now as for the time of operation, and the manner thereof, The
Instructions before set down, are sufficient to direct the Exorcist;
only the Acter and his Scholar must be mindful in the way, as they go
towards the place of Conjuration, to reiterate the sacred forms of
Consecrations, Prayers, and Invocations, the one bearing an Earthen
Vessel with consecrated fire, and the other the Magical Sword, the Book
and Garments, till approaching nigh the place where the Circle is to be
drawn, they must then proceed to compose it after the aforesaid manner.
And at last Exorcize the Spirits on this following manner:

♦The manner of Conjuring.♦

_Seeing God hath given us the power to bruise the Serpents head, and
command the Prince of Darkness, much more to bear rule over every
airy Spirit: Therefore by his strong and mighty Name_ ►Jehovah◄
_do I conjure you_, (naming the Spirits), _and by his secret
commands delivered to_ Moses _on the Mount, and by his holy Name_
►Tetragrammaton◄, _and by all his wonderful Names and Attributes_,
►Sadai, Ollon, Emillah, Athanatos, Paracletos◄, &c. _That ye do here
immediately appear before this Circle, in humane form, and not terrible
or of monstrous shape, on pain of eternal misery that abides you,
unless you speedily fulfil my commands_, ►Bathar, Baltar, Archim,
Anakim, Nakun◄. _Amen._

♦The form.♦

When the Exorcist hath finished this Conjuration, he and his companion
shall continue constantly turning themselves to the East, West, North
and South, saying, with their Caps in their hands, ►Gerson, Anek,
Nephaton, Basannah, Cabon◄; and within a little space they will behold
various apparitions upon the ground, and in the air, with various
habits, shapes, and instruments; after that, he shall perceive a troop
of armed men with threatning carriage appear before the Circle, who
after they are conjured to leave off their phantasms, will at last
present themselves before the Exorcist in humane form.

♦The Apparitions.♦

Then the Master must be mindful to take the consecrated Sword, and the
cup of Wine into his hands; the Wine he shall pour into the fire, and
the Sword he shall brandish in his right arm, being girded about with
a Scarlet Ribbon; after this the Magician shall say, ►Gahire, Gephna,
Anepheraton◄; then the Spirits will begin to bow unto the Exorcist,
saying, _We are ready to fulfil thy pleasure_.

So that when the Magician hath brought the Spirits to this length, he
may ask what ever he desireth, and they will answer him, provided the
questions belong to that order whereof they are.

Now the properties wherein they excel, are these; They can give the
gift of Invisibility, and the fore-knowledge of the change of weather;
they can teach the Exorcist how to excite Storms and Tempests, and
how to calm them again; they can bring news in an hours space of the
success of any Battle, Seidge, or Navy, how farr off soever; they
can also teach the language of Birds, and how to fly through the air
invisibly.

♦What these Spirits can do.♦

’Twas through the assistance of these airy Spirits, that
_Chanchiancungi_, the _Tartarian_ Emperour did give the _Chinois_ such
a desperate rout near the year 1646. for it is reported, that he had
constantly in his presence two Magicians, named _Ran_ and _Sionam_, who
perceived every motion of the _China_’s Army, and had intelligence by
these Spirits of the Emperours private Counsels and Consultations.

♦An example of their power.♦

And it is credibly reported by Magicians, that wonderful things may
be with facility effected through the assistance of these aforesaid
Spirits, so that the Exorcist must be very affable unto them, and
gently dismiss them (when he is satisfied) in this following manner;

_Seeing ye have willingly answered all our Interrogations and desires,
we give you leave and licence, In the Name of the Father, Son, and
Holy-Ghost, to depart unto your place, and be ever ready to attend our
call; Depart, I say, in peace, and peace be confirmed betwixt us and
you. Amen._ ✠ ✠ ✠.

♦How to dismiss them.♦

After all these Ceremonies are finished, the Spirits will begin to
depart, making obeysance as they go; and then the Master must demolish
the Circle, and taking up all the Utensils repeat the _Pater Noster_ as
they are going away from the place of Conjuration.




CHAP. VII.

_How to obtain the familiarity of the_ Genius _or_ Good Angel, _and
cause him to appear._


According to the former Instructions in conjuring Spirits, we must
proceed to consult with the _Familiars_ or _Genii_; first, after the
manner prescribed by Magicians, the Exorcist must inform himself of
the _name_ of his good _Genius_, which he may find in the Rules of
_Travius_ and _Philermus_; as also, what _Character_ and _Pentacle_, or
_Lamin_, belongs to every _Genius_. After this is done, Let him compose
an earnest Prayer unto the said _Genius_, which he must repeat thrice
every morning for seven dayes before the Invocation.

♦How to consult with _Familiars_ or _Genii_.♦

The Magician must also perfectly be informed to what Hierarchy or
Order the _Genius_ belongs, and how he is dignified in respect of his
Superiours and Inferiours; for this form of Conjuration belongs not to
the Infernal or Astral Kingdom, but to the Celestial Hierarchy; and
therefore great gravity and sanctity is herein required, besides the
due observation of all the other injunctions, until the time approach
wherein he puts the Conjuration in execution.

When the day is come wherein the Magician would invocate his proper
_Genius_, he must enter into a private closet, having a little Table
and Silk Carpet, and two Waxen Candles lighted; as also a Chrystal
Stone shaped triangularly about the quantity of an Apple, which Stone
must be fixed upon a frame in the center of the Table: And then
proceeding with great devotion to Invocation, he must thrice repeat
the former Prayer, concluding the same with _Pater Noster, &c._ and a
_Missale de Spiritu Sancto_.

Then he must begin to Consecrate the Candles, Carpet, Table and
Chrystal; sprinkling the same with his own blood, and saying, _I
do by the power of the holy Names_ ►Aglaon, Eloi, Eloi, Sabbathon,
Anepheraton, Jah, Agian, Jah, Jehovah, Immanuel, Archon Archonton,
Sadai, Sadai, Jeovaschah◄, &c. _sanctifie and consecrate these holy
utensils to the performance of this holy work, In the Name of the
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Amen_.

♦The form of Consecration.♦

Which done, the Exorcist must say this following Prayer with his face
towards the East, and kneeling with his back to the consecrated Table.

♦The Prayer.♦

_O thou blessed_ ►Phanael◄ _my Angel Guardian, vouchsafe to descend
with thy holy Influence and presence into this spotless Chrystal, that
I may behold thy glory and enjoy thy society O thou who art higher
then the fourth Heaven, and know’st the secrets of_ ►Elanel◄. _Thou
that ridest upon the wings of the wind, and art mighty and potent in
thy celestial and super-lunary motion, do thou descend and be present
I pray thee, and desire thee, if ever I have merited thy society, or
if my actions and intentions be pure and sanctified before thee, bring
thy external presence hither, and converse with thy submissive Pupil,
by the tears of Saints and Songs of Angels, In the Name of the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, who are one God for ever and ever._

This Prayer being first repeated towards the East, must be afterwards
said towards all the four winds thrice. And next the 70. Psalm repeated
out of a Bible that hath been consecrated in like manner as the rest of
the utensils; which ceremonies being seriously performed; the Magician
must arise from his knees, and sit before the Crystal bare-headed with
the consecrated Bible in his hand, and the Waxen Candles newly lighted,
waiting patiently and internally for the coming and appearance of the
_Genius_.

Now about a quarter of an hour before the Spirit come. There will
appear great variety of apparitions and sights within the glass; as
first a beaten road or tract, and travelers, men and women marching
silently along; next there will Rivers, Wells, Mountains and Seas
appear: after that a Shepherd upon a pleasant hill feeding a goodly
flock of Sheep, and the Sun shining brightly at his going down; and
lastly, innumerable shews of Birds and Beasts, Monsters and strange
appearances, noises, glances, and affrightments, which shews will all
at last vanish at the appearance of the _Genius_.

♦Signs of the appearance♦

And then the _Genius_ will present it self amidst the Crystal, in the
very same apparel and similitude that the person himself is in, giving
instructions unto the Exorcist how to lead his life and rectifie his
doings.

♦The Appearance♦

But especially (which is the proper work of every _Genius_) he will
touch his heart and open his senses and understanding, so that by this
means, he may attain to the knowledge of every Art and Science, which
before the opening of his Intellect was lockt and kept secret from him.

After which, the _Genius_ will be familiar in the Stone at the Prayer
of the Magician.




CHAP. VIII.

_A form of Conjuring_ ►Luridan◄ _the Familiar, otherwise called_
►Belelah◄.


►Luridan◄ is a Familiar Domestick Spirit of the _North_, who is
now become servant to ►Balkin◄, Lord and King of the _Northern_
Mountains, he calls himself the _Astral Genius_ of _Pomonia_, an Island
amongst the _Orcades_ beyond _Scotland_. But he is not particularly
resident there; for in the dayes of _Solomon_ and _David_, he was in
_Jerusalem_, or _Salem_, being then under the name of ►Belilah◄; after
that he came over with _Julius Cæsar_, and remained some hundred of
years in _Cambria_, or _Wales_, instructing their Prophetical Poets in
_British_ Rhimes, being then surnamed _Urthin-Wadd Elgin_, from thence
he betook himself unto this Island, _Anno_ 1500. and continued there
for 50 years, after which he resigned his Dominion to _Balkin_, and
hath continued ever since an attendant unto this Prince.

♦The nature of ►Luridan◄.♦

He is a Spirit of the Air in the order of ►Glauron◄, and is said to
procreate as mortals do; He is often sent by his Master upon errands to
_Lapland_, _Finland_, and _Strik-finia_; as also to the most _Northern_
parts of _Russia_, bordering on the _Northern_ frozen Ocean: His office
(being called by Magicians) is to demolish strong holds of Enemies,
destroying every night what they build the day before; to extinguish
fires, and make their Gunshot that it hath no power to be enkindled;
for his nature is to be at enmity with fire: and under his Master with
many Legions he wageth continual warrs with the fiery Spirits that
inhabit the Mountain _Hecla_ in _Ise-land_, where they endeavour to
extinguish these fiery flames, and the inhabiting Spirits defend the
flames from his Master and his Legions.

♦His Office♦

In this contest they do often totally extirpate and destroy one
another, killing and crushing when they meet in mighty and violent
Troops in the Air upon the Sea; and at such a time many of the fiery
Spirits are destroyed, when the Enemy hath brought them off the
Mountain to fight upon the water; on the contrary, when the battle is
on the Mountain it self, the Spirits of the Air are often worsted, and
then great mournings and doleful noises are heard both in _Iseland_ and
_Russia_, and _Norway_ for many days after.

♦The Warrs of Spirits.♦

But to proceed to the form of conjuring this aforesaid Spirit, the
Magician must draw a Circle in a Moonshine night in some solitary
Valley; the Circle must be 18 foot over, and another Circle a foot
distance within the same, being both drawn with chalk, and the
Exorcist being girded about with two Snakes skins tyed together, and
having many Snakes skins tyed to his cap, and hanging down before and
behinde, must also with Chalk draw the form of a fiery Mountain at
one side of the Circle on this manner; And round about the Mountain
these following names must be wrote, ►Glauron, Opotok, Balkin, Opotok,
Urthin, Opotok, Swaknar, Nalah, Opotok◄, ✠ ✠ ✠. After the Mountain is
drawn, he must consecrate the same in these following words, ►Ofron,
Anepheraton, Baron Barathron, Nah halge tour hecla◄, _In the Name of
the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, Amen_. ✠ ✠ ✠. After the Magician hath
consecrated the Mountain, he must write betwixt the circles these
following words; ►Urthin◄ ✠ ►Malc hii◄ ✠ ✠ ►Kiddal Katttron◄[*] ✠
►Agla◄ ✠ ►Glaura◄ ✠ ►Bashemo◄ ✠ ►Phowah◄ ✠ ►Elohim◄ ✠ ►Immannel◄[†] ✠
_Amen_. △ ✠ △ ✠ △ ✠. Which done, he must begin to Invocate the Spirit
on this following manner.

♦The form of the Circle and Ceremonies.♦

♦The Consecration of the Mountain.♦

♦[*] [? Kattron]♦

♦[†] [Immanuel]♦

[Illustration]

_O ye Powers of the East_, ►Athanaton◄; _of the West_, ►Orgon◄; _of
the South_, ►Boralim◄; _of the North_, ►Glauron◄; _I charge and
command you by the dreadful Names here mentioned, and the Consecration
of this terrible Mountain, to present your selves one of every sort
before this Circle by the power of_ ►Immanuel◄, _and his holy Name_.
After this hath with fervency been thrice repeated, the Exorcist
will hear great noises of Swords and fighting, Horses neighing, and
Trumpets sounding, and at last there will appear four little Dwarfs or
Pigmies naked before the Circle, their speech will be antient _Irish_;
which afterwards being confined to a Triangle, they will interpret;
the substance thereof will be from whence they came last, and what
wonderful things they can do; Then the Magician must ask them, if they
know one ►Luridan◄ a familiar; they will answer ►Hamah ni trulloh
Balkin◄, he is Secretary or servant unto ►Balkin◄, and after the
Exorcist hath charged them to bring the said ►Luridan◄ unto him, they
will immediately bring him like a little Dwarf with a crooked nose,
and present him before the Magician in the triangle; then the Magician
shall bind and tye him with the bond of obligation, and with his own
blood, without any contract of conditions to be performed, that he
will attend him constantly at his thrice repeating ►Luridan, Luridan,
Luridan◄, And be ever ready to go whether he will, to the _Turks_, or
to the uttermost parts of the Earth, which he can do in an hour, and
destroy all their Magazines.

♦The Conjuration.♦

♦The Apparitions.♦

♦►Luridan.◄♦

After the Magician hath so bound him, he shall receive from the Spirit
a scrole written in this manner;

♦The Compact.♦

[Illustration]

which is the Indenture to serve him for a year and a day; and then the
Magician shall dismiss him for that time in the form of dismission.




CHAP. IX.

_How to Conjure the Spirit_ ►Balkin◄ _the Master of_ ►Luridan◄.


As in the former Chapter, the Exorcist is instructed to draw the
form of the Mountain _Hecla_ within the circle, so in this form of
Conjuration he must do the same, adding these names to be written round
the Mountain _Mathiel_; ►Rahuniel, Seraphiel, Hyniel, Rayel, Fraciel◄.
These are the names of _Olympick Angels_, governing the _North_, and
ruling over every airy Spirit that belongs unto the _Northern_ Climate;
so that the authority of these names must be used in the calling up of
this Spirit, because he is a great Lord, and very lofty, neither will
he appear without strong and powerful Invocations.

♦The names of Olympick Angels.♦

Therefore the Magician must make upon Virgin Parchment the two Seals
of the Earth, and provide unto himself a Girdle made of a Bears skin
with a rough side next his body, and these names wrote round about in
the outerside, ✠ ►Alpha◄ ✠ ►Coronzon, Yah, Taniah, Adonay◄ ✠ ►Soncas◄
✠ ►Damael◄ ✠ ►Angeli fortes◄ ✠ ►pur pur◄ ✠ ►Elibra, Elohim◄ ✠ ►Omega◄
✠ ►per flammam ignis◄ ✠ ►per vitam Coronzon◄ ✠ _Amen_. ✠. Also he must
provide a black Priestly Robe to reach to his ankles, and a new Sword
with ►Agla◄ on the one side, and ►On◄ upon the other; having likewise
been very continent and chast for three days before the execution of
his design: and when the appointed night approacheth, he must take with
him an earthen pan with fire therein, and a little Viol with some of
his own blood, as also some of the Gum or Rozin that comes from the
Firr-tree.

And coming to the appointed place in some solitary Valley, the circle
must be drawn with chalk, as the former, one circle within another,
and these powerful names in the circumference, ►Otheos on Panthon◄ ✠
►Breschit, Hashamaim, Waharetz Wahayah◄ ✠ ►Tohu◄ ✠ ►va Bohu◄ ⚝ ✠ ✠ ✠ ⚝
►magnus es tu ben Elohim qui super alas ventorum equitaris◄ ✠.

This Circumscription is accounted amongst Magicians of all the most
powerful and prevalent.

After this the Circle, Mountain, Fire, Turpentine, Girdle, Garments,
Sword and Blood must be consecrated according to the foregoing forms of
Consecration, adding also this to the end of the consecration.

_Mighty art thou O_ ►Adonay, Elohim, Ya, Ya, Aie, Aie, Acimoy◄, _who
hast created the light of the day, and the darkness of the night,
unto whom every knee bows in Heaven and on Earth, who hast created
the_ ►Tohu◄ _and the_ ►Bohu◄, _that is stupor or numbness in a thing
to be admired, and mighty are thy magnificient Angels_ ►Damael◄
_and_ ►Guael◄, _whose influence can make the winds to bow, and every
airy Spirit stoop; Let thy right hand sanctifie these consecrated
utensils, exterminating every noxious thing from their bodies, and the
circumference of this Circle. Amen._ ►Calerna, Shalom, Shalom, Agla on
Sassur, Tafrac, Angeli fortes.◄ _In Nomine Patris, Filii, & Spiritus
Sancti. Amen, Amen, Amen._ After that, he shall sweep the circle gently
with a Foxes tayl, and sprinkle the same round with his blood, dipping
also the Sword, or anointing it with the same, and brandishing the
same in his right hand, he shall begin to conjure the Spirit on this
following manner:

_I Exorcize and Conjure thee thou great and powerful_ ►Balkin◄, _Lord
of_ ►Glauron◄, _Lord of_ ►Luridan◄, _and of fifteen hundred Legions,
Lord of the Northern Mountains, and of every Beast that dwells
thereon by the holy and wonderful Names of the Almighty_ ►Jehovah,
Athanato◄[*] ✠ ►Aionos◄ ✠ ►Dominus sempiternus◄ ✠ ►Aletheios◄ ✠
►Saday◄ ✠ ►Jehovah◄, ►Kedesh, El gabor◄ ✠ ►Deus fortissimus◄ ✠
►Anapheraton, Amorule, Ameron◄ ✠ ✠ ✠ ►Panthon◄ ✠ ►Craton◄ ✠ ►Muridon◄
✠ ►Jah, Jehovah, Elohim pentasseron◄ ✠ ✠ ►trinus et unus◄ ✠ ✠ ✠ ⚝
_I Exorcize and Conjure, I Invocate and Command thee thou aforesaid
Spirit, by the powers of Angels and Archangels, Cherubim and Seraphim,
by the mighty Prince_ ►Coronzon◄, _by the blood of_ Abel, _by the
righteousness of_ Seth, _and the Prayers of_ Noah, _by the voyces of
Thunder and dreadful day of Judgment; by all these powerful and royal
words abovesaid, that without delay or malitious intent, thou do come
before me here at the circumference of this consecrated Circle, to
answer my proposals and desires without any manner of terrible form
either of thy self, or attendants; but only obediently, fairly, and
with good intent, to present thy self before me, this Circle being my
defence, through his power who is Almighty, and hath sanctified the
same, In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen._

♦[*] [Athanatos]♦

After the Magician hath thrice repeated this Conjuration, Let him
immediately set the fire before him, and put the Rozin thereon to
fumigate at the appearance of the conjured Spirits, and at the instant
of their appearance he shall hold the Censer of fire in his left hand,
and the Sword in his right, still turning round as the Spirits do.

For in a little space after the Invocation is repeated, he shall hear
the noise of Thunders, and perceive before him in the Valley a mighty
storm of Lightning and Rain; after a while the same will cease, and
an innumerable company of Dwarfs or Pigmies will appear mounted upon
Chamelions to march towards the Circle surrounding the same.

Next comes ►Balkin◄ with his Attendants; he will appear like the god
_Bacchus_ upon a little Goat, and the rest that follow will march after
him afoot.

Assoon as they come near the Circle, they will breath out of their
mouths a mist, or fog, which will even obscure the light of the Moon,
and darken the Magician, that he cannot behold them nor himself; yet
let him not be discomfited, or afraid, for that fog will be quickly
over; and the Spirits will run round the Circle after ►Balkin◄ their
Lord, who rides upon a Goat; they will continue to surround the Circle,
till the Magician begin the form of obligation or binding their Leader
or King in this form, with the Sword in his right hand, the Fire and
Rozin burning before him.

_I conjure and bind thee_ ►Balkin◄, _who art appeared before me,
by the Father, by the Son, and by the Holy Ghost, by all the holy
Consecrations I have made, by the powerful Names of Heaven, and of
Earth, and of Hell, that I have used and uttered in calling upon
thee, by the Seals which thou here beholdest, and the Sword which
I present[*] unto thee, by this sanctified Girdle, and all the
sanctified and potent things aforesaid, That here thou remain
peaceably, and of thy present shape before the Northern quarter of
this Circle, without injury to me in body, soul, or fortune; but on
the contrary, to answer faithfully unto my demands, and not hence to
remove, till I have licenced thee to depart, In the Name of the Father,
Son, and holy Spirit. Amen._

♦[*] [show, not give]♦

When he is thus obliged, he will alight from his Goat, and cause his
Attendants to remove further into the Valley, then will he stand
peaceably before the Circle to answer the Magician.

After this the Magician shall begin to demand into his own possession
a Familiar to build or pull down any Castle or strong hold in a night;
and that this Familiar bring with him the Girdle of Conquest, or
Victory, that the Magician being girded with the same may overcome all
enemies whatsoever,

And further, the Spirit is able to inform him of all questions
concerning Thunder and Lightning, the Motions of the Heavens, the
Comets and Apparitions in the air, Pestilence and Famine, noxious and
malevolent blasts, as also of the Inhabitants of the _Northern_ Pole,
and the wonders undiscovered throughout the world.

Likewise if the Exorcist inquire concerning the habitations of starry
Spirits, he will readily answer him, describing their orders, food,
life, and pasttime truly and exactly.

After the Magician hath satisfied himself with inquiries, and curious
questions unto the Spirit, there will come from amongst the company a
little Spirit of a span long, like a little _Ethiop_, which the great
King ►Balkin◄ will deliver unto the Exorcist to continue as a Familiar
with him as long as his life shall last. This familiar the possessor
may name at[*] it pleaseth him.

♦[*] [as]♦

The three last, who had this Spirit into possession, were three
_Northern_ Magicians, the first _Honduros_ a _Norwegian_, who called it
►Philenar◄, and commanded it at his pleasure with a little Bell.

After him _Benno_ his eldest Son injoy’d the same under the same name.

And _Swarkzar_ a _Polonian_ Priest was the last who enjoy’d it under
the Name of ►Muncula◄; all which names were imposed upon it, according
to the pleasure of the Masters; and therefore the naming of this
familiar is left to the discretion of the Exorcist.

Now when the Master hath taken this familiar into his custody and
service, the Spirit ►Balkin◄ will desire to depart, being wearied if
the action continue longer then an hour. Therefore the Magician must be
careful to dismiss him in this following form:

_Because thou hast diligently answered my demands, and been ready to
come at my first call, I do here licence thee to depart unto thy proper
place, without injury or danger to man or Beast; depart, I say, and_
_be ever ready at my call, being duly exorcized and conjured by sacred
Rites of Magick; I charge thee to withdraw with quiet and peace; and
peace be continued betwixt me and thee, In the Name of the Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost. Amen._

Then the Spirits company will begin to march about their Prince, and
in a formal Troop will march along the Valley, whilest the Magician
repeateth _Pater Noster, &c._ until the Spirits be quite out of sight
and vanished.

This is a compleat form of conjuring the aforesaid Spirit, according to
the Rules of _Vaganostus_ the _Norwegian_.




[APPENDIX II.]

[This second Book of “A Discourse concerning Devils and Spirits”, like
the Chapters in Appendix I, were added to the third edition, 1665, by
some one unknown.]




_BOOK II._




CHAP. I.

_Of Spirits in General; What they are and how to be considered:
Also how farr the Power of Magitians and Witches is able to
operate in Diabolical Magick._


1. Because the Author in his foregoing Treatise, upon the _Nature
of Spirits and Devils_, hath only touched the subject thereof
superficially, omitting the more material part; and with a brief and
cursory Tractat, hath concluded to speak the least of this subject
which indeed requires most amply to be illustrated; therefore I thought
fit to adjoyn this subsequent discourse; as succedaneous to the
fore-going, and conducing to the compleating of the whole work.

♦The reason of this Addition.♦

2. The Nature of Spirits is variously to be considered, according
to the source to which each _Caterva_ doth belong: for as some are
altogether of a divine and celestial nature; not subject to the
abominable Inchantments and Conjurations of vitious mankind; so
others are the grand Instigators, stirring up mans heart to attempt
the enquiry after the darkest, and most mysterious part of Magick, or
Witchcraft: neither is this their suggestion without its secret end:
that is, that by the private insinuation, and as it were incorporating
themselves into the affection, or desire of the Witch, or Magician;
they may totally convert him into their own nature: reducing him at
last by constant practice, to such obdurateness and hardness of heart,
that he becometh one with them, and delighted with their association,
being altogether dead to any motions in himself that may be called good.

♦The nature of Spirits.♦

3. And if we may credit example, which is the surest proof; the very
imaginations, and affection of a Magician, doth create an evil Essence
or Devil; which was not before in being: for, as the Astral Spirits are
believed by many to Germinate and procreate one another, so likewise
are the infernal Spirits capable of multiplication in their power and
essence, according to their Orders, Ranks and Thrones; by means of the
strong imagination in a Witch, or malevolous person, earnestly desiring
their assistance.

♦The original of evil essences.♦

4. Not that the Spirits or Devils so begotten do any whit add or
contribute to the number in general; for as they are capable of
increasing into distinct and separated substances, so are they likewise
again contracted, and as it were annihilated; when the force of that
Imagination is gone, which was the cause of their production: The
nature of a spirit, whither heavenly or hellish, being to dilate, or
contract themselves into as narrow compass, as they please; so that in
a moment they can be as big in circumference as an hundred worlds, and
on a sodain reduce themselves to the compass of an atome.

♦Their Germination.♦

5. Neither are they somuch limited as Tradition would have them; for
they are not at all shut up in any separated place: but can remove
millions of miles in the twinkling of an eye, yet are they still where
they were at first: for, out of their own element, or quality, they can
never come: go whither they will, they are in darkness: and the cause
is within them, not without them: as one whose mind is troubled here in
_England_, can remove his Carcase from the place where it was before;
but should he go to the utmost bounds of the Earth, he cannot leave his
perplexed and tormented minde behind him.

♦Their Habitation.♦

6. As for the shapes and various likenesses of Devils, It is generally
believed, that according to their various capacities in wickedness,
so their shapes are answerable after a Magical manner: resembling
spiritually some horrid and ugly monsters, as their conspiracies
against the power of God, were high and monstrous, when they fell from
Heaven: for the condition of some of them is nothing but continual
horrour and despair; others triumph in firie might and pomp, attempting
to pluck God from out of his Throne; but the quality of Heaven is shut
from them, that they can never find it, which doth greatly add to their
torment and misery.

♦Their shapes.♦

7. But that they are materially vexed and scorched in flames of fire,
is inferiour to any to give credit to, who is throughly verst in their
nature and existence: for their substance is spiritual; yea their
power is greater, then to be detain’d or tormented with any thing
without them: doubtless their misery is sufficiently great, but not
through outward flames; for their Bodies are able to pierce through
Wood and Iron, Stone, and all Terrestrial things: Neither is all the
fire, or fewel of this World able to torment them; for in a moment
they can pierce it through and through. But the infinite source of
their misery is in themselves, and is continually before them, so that
they can never enjoy any rest, being absent from the presence of God:
which torment is greater to them, then all the tortures of this world
combin’d together.

♦Their place of pleasure or torment.♦

8. The wicked souls that are departed this life, are also capable
of appearing again, and answering the Conjurations of Witches, and
Magicians, for a time: according to _Nagar_ the _Indian_, and the
_Pythagoreans_. And it cannot be easily conceived, that their torment
is much different from the rest of the Devils: for the Scripture saith:
_every one is rewarded according to their works_. And, _that which a
man sows, that he shall reap_. Now as the damned Spirits, when they
lived on earth, did heap up vanity, and load their souls with iniquity,
as a treasure to carry with them into that Kingdom, which sin doth
naturally lead into: so when they are there, the same abominations
which here they committed, do they ruminate and feed upon; and the
greater they have been, the greater is the torment, that ariseth before
them every moment.

♦The cause of their torment.♦

9. And although these Infernal Spirits, are open Enemies to the very
means which God hath appointed for mans salvation; yet such is the
degenerate and corrupted mind of mankind, that there is in the same
an itching after them for converse and familiarity, to procure their
assistance, in any thing that their vain imagination suggesteth them
with: to effect which, they inform themselves in every Tradition of
Conjuration and Exorcism; as also in the names, natures and powers of
Devils in general, and are ever restless, till their souls be totally
devoted to that accursed and detestable nature, which is at enmity with
God and goodness.

♦How Magicians deal with them.♦

10. Now to proceed in the description of these Infernal Spirits and
separated _Dæmons_, or _Astral Beings_, as also of those in the
Angelical Kingdom; they that pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven, are
either Angels which are divided into their degrees and orders; or else
the righteous souls departed, who are entred into rest: And it cannot
be, but that the life of Angels and Souls departed, is the same in
Heaven, as also the food that nourisheth them, and the fruits that
spring before them: Nor is it possible for any, how expert so ever in
Magical Arts, to compel either of them, of what degree soever they
be, to present themselves, or appear before them: Although many have
written large Discourses and Forms of Convocation, to compel the Angels
unto communication with them by Magical Rites and Ceremonies.

♦The Orders of heavenly Beings.♦

11. It may indeed be believed, that seeing there are infinite numbers
of Angels, they are also imployed for the glory of God, and protection
of mankind, (but not subject to Conjurations:) And that they accompany
many righteous men Invisibly, and protect Cities and Countries
from Plagues, War, and infestings of wicked Spirits, against which
Principalities and Powers of Darkness, it is their place to contend and
war, to the confusion of the Kingdom of Darkness.

♦That they are not subject to conjurations.♦

12. But such Spirits as belong to this outward World, and are of the
Elemental quality, subject to a beginning and ending, and to degrees
of continuance; These may be solicited by Conjurations, and can also
inform Magicians in all the secrets of Nature; yet so darkly, (because
they want the outward organ); that it is hardly possible for any that
hath fellowship with them, to learn any manual operation perfectly and
distinctly from them.

♦What Spirits may be conjured.♦

13. Many have insisted upon the Natures of these Astral Spirits: some
alledging, _That they are part of the faln Angels, and consequently
subject to the torments of Hell at the last Judgment_: Others, _That
they are the departed souls of men and women, confined to these outward
Elements until the Consummation_: Lastly, others, As _Del rio_, _Nagar_
the _Indian_ Magician, and the _Platonists_ affirm, _That their nature
is middle between Heaven and Hell; and that they reign in a third
Kingdom from both, having no other judgment or doom to expect for ever_.

♦The nature of the Astral Spirits.♦

14. But to speak more nearly unto their natures, they are of the source
of the Stars, and have their degrees of continuance, where of[*]
some live hundreds, some thousands of years: Their food is the _Gas_
of the Water, and the _Blas_ of the Air: And in their Aspects, or
countenances, they differ as to vigour and cheerfulness: They occupy
various places of this world; as Woods, Mountains, Waters, Air, fiery
Flames, Clouds, Starrs, Mines, and hid Treasures: as also antient
Buildings, and places of the slain. Some again are familiar in Houses,
and do frequently converse with, and appear unto mortals.

♦Their degrees.♦

♦[*] [whereof]♦

15. They are capable of hunger, grief, passion, and vexation: they have
not any thing in them that should bring them unto God: being meerly
composed of the most spiritual part of the Elemeuts[*]: And when
they are worn out, they return into their proper essence or primary
quality again; as Ice when it is resolved into Water: They meet in
mighty Troops, and wage warr one with another: They do also procreate
one another; and have power sometimes to make great commotions in the
Air, and in the Clowds, and also to cloath themselves with visible
bodies, out of the four Elements, appearing in Companies upon Hills
and Mountains, and do often deceive and delude the observers of
Apparitions, who take such for portents of great alterations, which are
nothing but the sports and pastime of these frolick Spirits: as Armies
in the Air, Troops marching on the Land, noises and slaughter, Tempest
and Lightning, _&c._

♦Their actions and affections♦

♦[*] [n _reversed_]♦

16. These Astral Spirits are variously to be considered; some are
beings separate and absolute, that are not constitute to any work or
service: Others are subservient to the Angels that have dominion over
the Influences of the Stars: Others are the Astral Spirits of men
departed, which (if the party deceased was disturbed and troubled at
his decease,) do for many years, continue in the source of this world;
amongst these airy Spirits, to the great disquietness of the soul of
the person, to whom they belong: Besides the causes are various that
such Spirits rest not; 1. When by Witchcraft they are inchanted, and
bound to wander so many years; as thrice or fourtimes seven, before
they can be resolved into nothing. 2. When the person hath been
murthered; so that the Spirit can never be at rest, till the crime be
discovered. 3. When desires and lusts, after Wife, or Children, House,
Lands, or Money, is very strong at their departure; it is a certain
truth, that this same spirit belonging to the Starrs will be hanckering
after these things, and drawn back by the strong desires and fixation
of the Imagination, which is left behind it: Nor can it ever be at
rest, till the thing be accomplished, for which it is disturbed. 4.
When Treasure hath been hid, or any secret thing hath been committed
by the party; there is a magical cause of something attracting the
starry spirit back again, to the manifestation of that thing. Upon all
which, the following Chapters do insist more largely and particularly.

♦The distinct orders of starry Spirits.♦




CHAP. II.

_Of the Good and Evil_ Dæmons _or_ Genii: _Whither they are;
what they are, and how they are manifested; also of their
names, powers, faculties, offices; how they are to be
considered._


1. According to the disposition of the mind, or soul, there is a good
or evil _Dæmon_ that accompanies the party visibly, or invisibly;
and these are of such rancks and orders, and names, as the capacity
of the persons soul is, to whom they belong: Their Office is said to
be, fore-warning the person of eminent danger, sometimes by inward
instinct, sometimes by dreams in the night, and sometimes by appearing
outwardly. The _Dæmon_ or _Genius_ changeth its nature and power,
as the person changeth his: and if from good, the party degenerate
to iniquity; then by degrees the good Angel leaves him, and an evil
_Dæmon_ doth naturally succeed: for each thing draws after that which
is like it self.

♦The office of _Dæmons_ or _Genii_.♦

2. Magicians mention three several wayes of enjoying the society of
the _Bonus Genius_; first by intellectual association, when secret and
mental instigations do arise in their hearts, to do this or that, and
to forbear the other: as in the Manuscript of _Nagar_ the _Indian_,
his own testimony of himself is to this effect: _My blessed Guardian_
►Damilkar◄, _hath now so sweetly communicated himself unto me; That by
all the manifestations, whereby a holy_ Dæmon _can attend and converse
with mankind, he appeareth unto me: first in the intellectual way, he
is ever present, and every moment prompts me, what to act, what to
forbear from acting: Ah had he not rushed up through the powers of
my soul, and suddenly warned me in my Travel to_ Quiansi _in_ China,
_through the airy Region, to turn nimbly to the right hand, at an
instant, a mighty Troop of Devils, whose Leader was_ ►Grachnoek◄,
_coming through that tract of air, had crusht me into a thousand
peices_: This is the first degree of its appearing.

♦Three ways of enjoying their society.♦

♦The first way.♦

3. Then he proceedeth in the language of _Sina_, describing the second
way of its manifestation: _And when the deepest sleep hath overpoured
me, I am never without him; sometimes my_ ►Damilkar◄ _stands before
me like a glorious Virgin, administring to me a Cup of the drink of
the Gods, which my Intellectual man exhausteth: sometimes he brings
cælestial Companies, and danceth round about me; and when after the
weariness of the Senses, through contemplation I fell into gentle sleep
on the holy Mountain of Convocation, which is called_ Adan, _he shewed
me the motion of the Heavens, the nature of all things, and the power
of every evil_ Dæmon.

♦The second way.♦

4. Thirdly, he continueth to describe the External appearance of the
_Genius_, to this effect: Damilkar◄ _appears before me at my desire;
for my desires are as his desires: When I slept a long space in my
private dwelling, he appeared outwardly, and watering me with the dew
of the fourth Heaven, I awakned, when he had thrise said_ ►Nankin
Nagar◄; _so the time being come, we mounted through the Air, unto the
holy Mountain of Convocation._

♦The third way of their appearance.♦

5. In this Example the three degrees of the Apparition of the _Bonus
Genius_, or _Good Dæmon_ are excellently deciphered, which is also
the same in the appearance of the _bad Genius:_ and according to the
deepest Magicians, there be _seven good Angels_, who do most frequently
become particular Guardians, of all others, each to their respective
capacities; and also _seven evil Dæmons_, that are most frequent in
association with depraved persons, as Guardians to them.

♦Their number.♦

6. These are the seven _good Angels_, or _Dæmons_.

►Jubanladace◄ a mighty Prince in the Dominion of Thrones, he cometh
unto such as follow national affairs, and are carryed forth unto warr
and conquest; he beareth alwayes a flaming Sword, and is girded about,
having a helmet upon his head, and appearing still before the party
in the Air: he must be sollicited and invocated with Chastity, Vows,
Fumes, and Prayers: and this is his[*] Character to be worn as a
Lamin.

♦The seven good Angels.♦

♦[*] [his is _text_]♦

[Illustration]

►Yah-li-Yah◄ one of the Powers, accompanying such as are Virgins, and
devoted to Religion, and a Hermits life: he teacheth all the names and
powers of Angels, and gives holy Charms against the assaults of _Evil
Dæmons_: he must be addrest unto by Prayer, resignation, and fasting,
with a celestial Song out of the Canto’s of _Nagar_: this is his
Character.

[Illustration]

►Nal-gab◄ appearing to those that are devoted to the knowledge of
Magick; teaching them how to exercise Infernal Witchcraft without
danger, and in despight to the Devils: he must be sought by hours,
minutes, constellations, privacy and blood, _&c._ He hath a bow bent in
his hand, and a Crown of Gold upon his head: this is his Character.

[Illustration]

►Maynom◄ one of the Powers who hath the ability of subservient
administration; that is, at one time to be present with many; he
resembleth a Ew with Lamb, typifying his nature in that appearance.

►Gaonim◄ an Angel, causing his Pupil to go invisible, and transporting
him at his pleasure in a moment, to the outmost parts of the earth.

►Halanu◄ the Instructer in Manual operations, by whom _Bezaliah_,
and _Aholibah_ were divinely inspired for the structre[*] of the
Tabernacle.

♦[*] [_sic_]♦

►Rama-umi◄ who is the Instructer in Cabalistical Magick, and reveals
the secrets of numbers, the names of Angels, and the virtue of _Boim_.

7. These are the seven _bad Angels_ or _Dæmons_.

As the power and capacity of the _good_, proceeds from the strength of
God, in the quality of heaven; so is the force of the _evil Genii_, in
the hellish quality correspondent: for it is to be noted, that these
_evil Angels_ did before their fall, enjoy the same places and degrees
that now the _good_ or _holy Angels_ do: so that as their power is
to instruct men in Government, Abstinence, Philosophy, Magick, and
Mechanick Arts, for a good intent, and for the glory of God: The power
of the _evil_ ones is the very same to inform and instigate unto the
same attainments, as farr as they may be instrumental for the Devil, or
the Kingdom of Darkness therein.

♦The nature of both.♦

8. Their names are 1. ►Panalcarp◄, like a Crocodile with two heads.
2. ►Baratron◄ appearing like a Conjurer in a Priestly habit. 3.
►Sondennah◄ like a Hunts-man. 4. ►Greizmodal◄ accompanying his Pupil
like a Spaniel-Dog. 5. ►Ballisargon◄ the grand Inticer to theeving
and robbery, till he hath brought his followers to destruction. 6.
►Morvorgran◄ who can put on various likenesses, especially appearing
as a Serving-man. 7. ►Barman◄ who most commonly possesseth the soul of
those that are joyned unto him.

♦The seven evil _Genii_, and the manner of their appearances.♦

9. These are the names of the 7 _good_ and _evil Dæmons_; according to
the antient writing, on the Magical Art: who do also to many particular
Cities and Countries, ascribe certain good and evil Angels; the one
whereof protects and defends, the other inflicts Pestilence and Famin
upon them: Like unto which is the story recorded by _Sigbertus_ in
_Chronicis_: _That in the 11^{th} year of the reign of_ Constans, _a
good Angel and a bad were seen by the whole City of_ Constantinople,
_nightly to fly about the City; and as often as by the command of the
good Angel, the other smote any house with a dart in his hand, such was
the number that dyed in that house, according to the stroaks given._

♦An example.♦

10. And indeed it is to be feared, that whosoever have ever pretended,
or do at present alledge, that they enjoy familiarity with a familiar
Spirit; I say its greatly to be suspected, that all such familiars
belong to the Kingdom of Darkness; for such are too too officious,
and ready to attend the depraved desires of mortal men; whereas
if communication with Angels, or good and holy Guardians be at all
attainable, yet such is the difficulty of the attainment, that the
examples thereof, if true, are exceeding rare: But in general, the
writings of Magicians and Naturallists do plentifully abound with
examples of this nature; whether good or evil, is yet to be determined.
I have been told of a certain Country-man, in these dayes, who was
continually pestered with the company of a woman, discerned by none
but by himself: If he was upon Horse-back, she would be behind him: if
at dinner, she sate at his elbow; if lying on his bed, there she was
also present; And if at any time he had taken a journey, or gone about
some unprofitable business, at such a time she accompanyed him not;
and seldom escaped he some mischief when she was absent: But at last,
for all her dutiful pretences, as she accompanyed him, riding through
a deep and swift running River, she tumbled him into the deepest part,
and lay upon him till she had strangled or drowned him.

♦The uncertainty of communicating with Angels.♦

11. Amongst the _Jews_ this kind of Idolatry was frequent, to consult
with and associate themselves unto familiar Spirits, whom they
compelled to do them domestick service, dressing their Camels, lifting
their burthens, and doing their messages: for the attaining their
service they had many blasphemous Forms, and superstitious Ceremonies
and Sacrifices; making the holy Names of God subservient to their
accursed practices: one whose name was ►Baal-Ben-ammin◄, was adjudged
by the Law of _Moses_ to be burnt for the like practices; being
condemned in the time of one _Judah_ a high Priest in the Captivity
for killing an Infant, and with its blood performing Sacrifice to
►Baalzebub◄, with various ceremonies intermixed; by which means his
God had bequeathed unto him a certain Lacky from the Infernal Troop
to attend and serve him for his whole life time: this is to be found
in _Zoar_’s Coment upon _Berosus_, and _Belus_, who affirms, _That at
his tryal he endeavoured to prove, that the same was the good Angel or
Genius given unto him by the mercy of God_.

♦Familiars in the time of the _Jews_.♦

12. Both the _Hebrew Cabalists_ and _Heathen Magicians_, as also those
addicted to Magick in Christianity, have all of them laid down certain
forms of attaining the company of a good, or evil Angel, by number
and astrological Observations, fitted to the rules of Conjuration and
Invocations: And many of the superstitious _Rabbi_’s have affirmed,
_That they were able by such practices, to cause the ghost of_ Adam,
Eve, _or any of the holy Patriarchs to appear unto them_: which was
surely the delusion of Satan to harden their hearts. But in the
Addition to the 15^{th} Book of the _Discovery_ this Subject is more
practically handled; where many forms of obtaining the Society of the
_Bonus_, or _Malus Genius_, are plainly decyphered: so far as with
safety and convenience they could be described.

♦Several men have wrote and methodized the Art of Conjuration.♦




CHAP. III.

_Of the Astral Spirits of men departed: What they are: And why
they appear again: And what Witchcraft may be wrought by
them._


1. As the Astral Spirits separate, which belong not to any deceased
person, do for many years survive, or continue; so if the party
deceased hath departed in discontent, and melancholy, it is often known
that they return again, and causing terrour to families and houses, do
wait for opportunity to disburthen themselves, that at length they may
come into their desired rest.

♦The spirits of men return again.♦

2. The opinion of many is, _That the Devill in their likenesse is all
that appears_: But the more Learned have sufficiently demonstrated,
through Example, and Experience; _That the apparition is really proper
to the person deceased_. Nor can it easily be denyd, That to every
man, and woman, while they live the natural Life, there belongs a
_Syderial_, or _starry Spirit_; which takes its original wholly from
the Elemental property: And according to the weaker, or stronger
capacity of the party, it hath the longer, or shorter continuance,
after the bodyes decease.

♦All men have starry Spirits.♦

3. Such persons as are secretly murthered, and such as secretly murthur
themselves, do most frequently appear again, and wander near the place
where their Carcase is, till the radical moisture be totally consumed:
according to the opinion of _Paracelsus_, after the consumption
whereof, they can re-appear no longer, but are resolv’d into their
first being, or _Astrum_, after a certain term of months, or years,
according to the vigour, or force of that first attraction which was
the only cause of their returning.

♦What sort of persons most frequently re-appear.♦

4. The manner and seasons of their appearing are various: Sometimes
before the person, unto whom they do belong, depart this life, they do
by external presentations forewarn him, near the time, that the day of
death approacheth. As it is reported of _Codrus Laænus_, to whom an
empty, meager Ghost appeared at midnight, signifying unto him, _how sad
and lachrymable a Tragedy was shortly to attend him_; and also adding,
_that he would visit him in the Execution thereof_: which proved not
contrary to the words of the apparition; for at the very instant, when
his Treacherous Wife had stab’d him at the heart, on a suddain he
beheld the same, with preparations for his interment, whilst he yet
survived, after the fatall wound was given.

♦The manner and time of their appearance.♦

5. Sometimes the starry spirit of a person appears to his beloved
Companion, many hundred of miles asunder, who was ignorant of the death
of the party: And it hath often been heard, that when none of the
kindred or family of the said party deceased, have ever been disturbed
by it, or in the least been sensible of its appearing; yet to some of
its most intimate acquaintance, it discovers it self, and importunes
them to perform some ceremony, or other, that it may be returned into
rest; or else discovers some treasure, which was hid by the party
whilest alive, or else some murther which it had commited: But the most
frequent cause of their returning, is when the party hath himself been
privately murthered.

♦The reason thereof.♦

6. For such is the poysonous malice, and bloudy spirit of the
murtherers, that it sufficeth them not to have privately bereaved
them of their Lives; but also by certain earnest Wishes, Curses, and
Conjurations, they do afterwards adjure them, that for such a term
of years, they shall never have power to appear again: Which wishes,
being earnestly given forth, from the hellish root in the murtherer,
do exceedingly torment the murthered parties spirit, taking deep
impression thereon; so that it is alwayes in continual sorrow, and
anguish, till the term of years be expired, and till the murther
be made manifest to the world: after which discovery, it returns
to perfect rest; This is well known to those that are exercised in
Witchcraft, and cruell Murthers, though not common to those that
murther but once.

♦The power of Magitians over them.♦

7. There be many Ancient families, in _Europe_, to whom the Ghost of
their first Progenitor, or Ancestor appears immediately before the
departure of some Heir, or chief in the same family: which assertion
is confirmed by _Cardan_, in an Example of “an Antient family, in the
Dukedome of _Parma_, called the _Tortells_, to whom there belongs an
ancient Castle, with a spatious Hall; near the Chimney of the said
Hall an old decrepit Woman, for these hundreds of years, is wonted to
appear, when any of the Family is about to dye: And it is reported
amongst them that the same is the Ghost of one belonging to the same
name, and family, who for her Riches, was murthered by some of her
Nephews, and thrown into a pit.

♦Example.♦

8. Many such apparitions do for many years continue to be seen in one
particular place; ever watching for opportunity, to discover some
murther, or Treasure hid: And the cause of the difficulty of the said
discovery, consists in the nature of their substance; for could they
make use of the organ of the Tongue, they might quickly discover it:
or if they had the outward benefit of Hands, they might produce the
said Treasure, or Carcase murthered, but this they are seldome able to
accomplish; being destitute of the outward Organs, and mediation of
Hands to hold withall, or Tongue to vent their grievances: And that
this is true, the manner of their appearance doth confirm it: For all
that they are able to effect, if they have been murthered, is commonly
to appear near the very place, where their body lies, and to seem as
if they sunk down, or vanished in the same; or else to appear in the
posture of a murthered person, with mangled, and bloudy wounds, and
hair disshevel’d: But it is rarely known, that any such apparitions
have plainly spoken, or uttered by words, the time of their murther,
with the cause, the persons name, or place; unless the murther, by
circumstances hath been more then ordinary, horrid, and execrable: then
the remembrance of the same doth sometimes enable the apparition to
frame a voice, by the assistance of the Air, and discover the fact.

♦The cause of the difficulty and paucity of appearances.♦

9. But to speake in general concerning apparitions, why they are so
seldome seen; and why such spirits as appear, can not without mans
assistance accomplish their design; It may easily be apprehended, that
all Spirits, or spiritual Substances, and Devills, have their life,
breath, and motion in another source, or Element then this external
world; And as any creature, whom the Element of Water hath nourished,
and bred, can live but short while upon the Land; So its with them,
when they come out of their proper habitations: which is the cause
of the rarity of apparition; it being as difficult for any spirit to
manifest it self in this outward principle, of the four Elements, as
for a man to continue with his head under water: yea it is rather pain,
then pleasure for any spirit, whether good, or bad, to come into this
outward world.

♦More particularly of the same.♦

10. Great is the villany of Necromancers, and wicked Magicians, in
dealing with the spirits of men departed; whom they invocate, with
certain forms, and conjurations, digging up their Carkasses again,
or by the help of Sacrifices, and Oblations to the infernal Gods;
compelling the Ghost to present it self before them: how this was
performed in antient times, by Hags, and Witches, is notably described
in the _Æthiopian_ History of _Heliodorus_, in the practice “of an
antient woman, who coming into the Camp, in the dead of night; where
amongst many slaughtered bodies, the body of her Son was also slain;
whose carkase she laid before her, digging a hole, and making a fire on
each side, with the body in the midst; Then taking an earthen pot from
a three footed stool, she poured honey out of it, into the pit; then
out of another pot, she poured milk; and likewise out of the third:
Lastly, she cast a Lump of hardned dough, in the form of a man into the
pit: the Image was Crowned with Lawrell: then she threw in some of the
Shrub called _Bdellium_: This done, with a sword she ran frantickly up
and down, cutting herself; and with a Lawrell branch sprinkled of her
blood into the fire: at length whispering at her Sons ear, she caused
him to arise, and questioning him of the fortune of his Brother, what
was become of him, he answered dubiously speaking prosperity to two
persons that secretly beheld her, and telling her, That suddain death
for her impiety attended her, which came to passe ere she left the
place; after all these predictions, the Carcase ceased to answer any
more: and tumbled groveling on the ground again.

♦The nefarious practices of _Necromancers_ in an example.♦

11. And although by most men, as also by the Author in his foregoing
Discovery, it is constantly believed, that the Witch of _Endor_ raised
not _Samuel_, nor the Ghost of _Samuel_, as not beleeving that there is
an _Astral Spirit_ or Ghost belonging unto every Man; yet it is very
probable, that by her conjurations she caused his _Sydereal Spirit_ to
appear: which is possible to be effected: and hath been often done: as
_Weaver_ in his _Funeral Monuments_ records of _Edward Kelly_, “who
in the Park of _Walton Ledale_ in the County _Lancaster_, with one
_Paul Waring_, Invocated a Devil, and afterwards digg’d up the Corps
of a poor man, that had been buried that very day, in a place near the
same, called _Law Church-yard_: whom he compelled by Incantations, and
Conjurations to speak, and utter prophetical words, concerning the
master of one of his Assistants.

♦Example.♦

12. According to the state and condition wherein a person dyes, so is
it with their _Astral Spirit_: for if they died in perfect peace, and
had come through the valley of true Repentance; being dead to this
Life before it left them; then their _starry Spirit_ doth enter into
rest, in its proper source, or quality at the instant of their Decease:
nor is it possible for all the Conjurations in Hell, to cause them to
return, or appear again.

♦The state of the Starry Spirit.♦

13. But some might object, That _Samuel was an Holy Prophet, and
attaind unto a perfect Life_; which is thus to be answered, that before
Christ came into the world, none of the most Holy Prophets of God,
did ever attain to that degree of blessednesse, that the Christians
after Christ possessed: for in the time of the Law, a covering, or
vail was spread over the faces of all people: and something there was
that letted, or hindred their souls from any plain and perfect vision,
and fruition of God; otherwise then through types, and shaddows, which
partition wall, the end of Christs Incarnation was to break down.

♦Why the Ghost of _Samuel_ appeared.♦

14. In the writings of _Plato_, there be many strange Relations of the
apparitions of Souls, of their torments, and purgations, of the cause
of their returning, what their nature is, what their substance and
property is, and what their food, and nourishment is: but he mistakes
the _Soul_ for the _Astral Spirit_: for the Soul in its returning
and apparition is farr different; if a Holy Soul appear, it is to
persons like it self, and that in sleep, warning them of dangers, and
discovering heavenly secrets unto them: And if a Damned Soul appear,
it is likewise to such as are of a nature like it self: whom it
instigates, asleep, teaching them notorious Villanies in Dreams; and
provoking them to every wicked cogitation.

♦The opinions of _Plato_.♦

15. The sect of _Pythagoras_ have strange and antick opinions,
concerning Souls, and Ghosts, or starry Spirits: whom they alledge
to be frequently converted into _Gods_, or _Dæmons_, or _Demi-Gods_,
and _Heroes_: (as the _Platonicks_ do,) And that there is a continual
traduction, and transmigration of Souls, from one to another, till
they attain to be deify’d at last; and then that they do frequently
appear, to those that be like themselves; instructing, and forewarning
them: It was also the belief of many wise, and antient Philosophers,
that the _Oracles_ were from such _Dæmons_, as had been the Ghosts, or
Souls of wise and excellent men: as _Apollo’s Oracle_, and the _Oracle_
of _Pallas_, or _Minerva_: which opinions have much of reason and
probability.

♦Of _Pythagoras_.♦

16. It is also the opinion of some, that the particular Spirits of
famous men do after the death of the body, take up some particular
habitations, near such places Cities, Towns, or Countries, as they most
do affect, as Tutelaries, and Guardians unto them; Which is reported
by _Vopiscus_, of _Apollonius Thyaneus_; That when his City _Thyana_
was taken by _Aurelianus_ the Emperour: and when he was in his Tent,
pondering furiously how to destroy the same; the Ghost of _Apollonius_
appeared unto him saying, Aurelianus, _if thou desirest to be a
Conquerour, suppose not to slay these my Citizens_: Aurelianus, _if
thou wilt be a Ruler, shed no innocent blood_: Aurelianus, _be meek,
and gentle, if thou wouldst be a Conquerour_.

♦Of other Philosophers.♦

17. I have heard many wonderful Relations from Lunaticks or such as are
almost natural fools, who have asserted, _That being for many daies
together conversant amongst Faeries in Woods, Mountains, and Caverns
of the Earth, they have feasted with them, and been magnificently
Entertaind with variety of dainties, where they have seen several of
their Neighbours or Familiar acquaintance in the habit they were wont
to weare, notwithstanding they were known to have been dead some years
before_.

♦The Raptures of Lunaticks.♦

18. And many Learned Authors have also insisted upon this particular,
alledging, _That when such as the Faeryes have brought into their
Society do feast and junket with them, though they have a real and
perfect knowledge of their neighbours and acquaintance amongst the
rest, yet their Language they are not able to understand, neither
do these Acquaintance of theirs acknowledge or take notice of them
at all, but do either sit (both they and all the rest) in a profound
and tedious silence, or else discourse in a most stupendious kinde of
Gibberish, not intelligible to strangers_.

♦Their Entertainments.♦

19. But more particularly to illustrate this conjecture, I could name
the person who hath lately appeared thrice since his Decease, at
least some Ghostly being or other, that calls it self by the name of
such a person who was dead above an hundred years agoe, and in his
life time accounted as a Prophet or Prædicter by the assistance of
Sublunary Spirits. And now at his appearance did also give out strange
Prædictions concerning Famine, and Plenty, Warrs, and Bloodshed, and
the end of this world.

♦A strange example.♦

20. By the affirmation of the person that had Communication with him,
the last of his Appearances was on this following manner; _I had been_,
said he, _to sell a Horse at the next Market Town, but not attaining
my price, as I returned home by the way I met this man aforesaid who
began to be familiar with me, asking what news, and how affairs moved
throughout the Country_; I answered as I thought fit; withall I told
him of my Horse whom he began to cheapen, and proceeded with me so far,
that the price was agreed upon; so he turned back with me and told me,
_that if I would go along with him, I should receive my Money_; on our
way we went, I upon my Horse and he on another milk white beast; after
much discourse I askt him where he dwelt, and what his name was; he
told me, _That his dwelling was about a mile off, at a place called
Farran_; of which place I had never heard though I knew all the Country
round about; he also told me, _That he himself was that person of the
Family of_ Learmonts _so much spoken off for a Prophet_; At which I
began to be somewhat fearful, perceiving us in a road which I had never
been in before, which increased my fear and admiration more. Well on we
went till he brought me under ground I know not how into the presence
of a beautiful woman that payd me the moneys without a word speaking;
he conducted me out again through a large and long entry, where I saw
above 600 men in Armour layd prostrate on the ground as if asleep: at
last I found my self in the open field by the help of Moon-light in
that very place where first I met him, and made shift to get home by
three in the morning, but the money I received was just double of what
I esteemed it, and what the woman payd me, of which at this instant I
have several pieces to show consisting of nine pences, thirteen pence
halfpennies, _&c._

21. The variety of Examples throughout the writings of Learned men may
serve as stronge inducements to confirm this particular of _Astral
Spirits_, or _Ghosts_ that belong unto Mortal men, returning after
death untill the cause of their returning be taken away. In Ancient
times before the name of Christianity, there was nothing more frequent
than millions of Apparitions in fields where battails had been fought,
seeming to fight as they had done at first, which the Ancient Heathens
believed to proceed from the want of Burying. And from this arose the
Poetical Romance of the _wandring of Ghosts besides the River Styx for
an hundred years_. And the custome of Solemn Interment amongst them.

♦Apparitions before Christianity, were frequent.♦

22. But with more probability, The Custome of the Funeral Piles used
by the _Romans_, and the Urns to reduce their Corpses into Ashes, was
instituted at first to prevent the torment of the Deceased, least
his Ghost should wander, or return, which doubtlesse from a natural
cause may have the same effect, that the reducing of the carcase into
Ashes suddainly after its decease may prevent the return of the Astral
Spirit; for if it be true what is affirmed by _Paracelsus_, that _the
starry Spirit can continue no longer then the radical moisture in the
body_; it will naturally follow that its appearance is at an end when
the body is burnt, seeing that the moisture is totally exterminate and
consumed thereby. And in some sense the Ceremony may be said to be
Laudable and Judicious, having so beneficial a consequence.

♦Why Funeral Piles were instituted.♦

23. As there is some semblance of a natural cause in the custome of the
Antient urns, so likewise may the Interment of slaughtered bodies by
the like cause prevent the like Appearances; for many are the examples
that I have read of such as appeared to their surviving kindred and
acquaintance, after they had been slaughtered in the Warrs, beseeching
them to perform unto their bodies the Sacred Funeral Rites that their
Ghosts might return into Rest, for which many have consulted with the
Oracles to be informed whether the deceased deserved Burial, because
they held it unlawful to bury Murtherers, Incestuous and Sacriligious,
persons, which Nature her self doth also seem to hold if this following
Relation be not false: which was, “That some Learned men returning from
_Persia_ where they had been to see the King _Cosroes_, by the way
interr’d a dead Carcase which they found unburied: And in the following
night the Ghost of an Ancient Matron, as if it had been the Spirit of
the World or Madam Nature her self, appeard unto them, saying, _Why
Interr ye that nefarious Carcase? let the Doggs devoure it; The Earth
who is the Mother of us all admitts not of that man that depraves his
Mother_: So returning they found the Carcase yet unburied.

♦What the want of Burial causeth.♦

24. To confirm the verity of _Astral Spirits_ proper, and their
returning, I shall conclude this Chapter with the Example of the
famous _Aristeus_ the Poet who “in the Isle _Marmora_ dyed suddainly,
at which instant a certain Philosopher of _Athens_ arriving there,
affirmed, _That he had lately been in Company and discourst with him_.
In the mean time going to Bury him they found him yet alive, but never
after that had he any constant residence amongst Mortals. Seven years
after that he was seen at _Proconnesus_ his native Town, and remaind a
while composing several Poems and Verses called _Arimaspei_, and then
vanished. In _Metapontis_ he was seen 300 years after that, charging
that _Apollo_’s Altar should be erected by the name of _Aristeus
Proconnesius_. The like stories are reported of _Apollonius_, and
_Pythagoras_, whom their followers would have to be _Ubiquitaryes_,
affirming, _That at one instant of time they were seen in several
places thousands of miles in distance_. And though in [*]_Iamblichus_
who hath wrote the Life of _Pythagoras_, in _Philostratus_ that wrote
the Life of _Apollonius Tyanus_, there be many fabulous things reported
as to the _Astral Spirits_ separation, and return unto the body; Yet
I have sufficiently here endeavoured to separate the true from the
more Poetical part in this particular Subject of the _starry Spirits_
belonging to every individual man and woman, and their returning after
the body falls away.

♦The conclusion of this Chapter with an example.♦

♦[*] [sic]♦




CHAP. IV.

_Of Astral Spirits or separate Dæmons in all their
distinctions, names, and natures, and places of Habitation,
and what may be wrought by their Assistance._


1. Having in the foregoing Chapter sufficiently illustrated the nature
of the _Astral Spirits_ proper, that belong to every individual; The
subject of this present Chapter shall be of _Astral Spirits separate_;
which are not constitute to any peculiar work or service, but do
only, according to their nature and temper, haunt such places in the
sublunary world as are most correspendent[*] to their natures, and
existence.

♦Astral Spirits common.♦

♦[*] [_sic_]♦

2. According to the Judgment of Magicians, the Seven Planets have seven
starry Spirits peculiar to themselves, whose natures are answerable
to that peculiar Planet under which they are constitute. And they are
said to be substitute under the seven Cælestial Angels that govern the
influences of the superiour Spheres, being equal in their name and
continuance with that planet whose Spirit they are, that is, till the
Consummation of all things visible.

♦The Spirits of the Planets.♦

3. And in that houre, month, day or year, wherein their Planet hath
the most dominion, then is their efficacy most prevalent, and their
operation the most powerful upon inferiour bodies, whether to the
destruction or prosperity of that animal vegitative or mineral subject
to their Influences, according to the dignification of the Planet at
that instant Dominion; for if ill affected, their nature is to blast
with Mildew, Lightning, and Thunder any Vegetative proper to their
Planet; To deprive any Animal of sight or the motion of the nerves
under their Dominion; And lastly, bring Plagues, Pestilence, and
Famine, Storms, and Tempests, or on the Contrary to bring sweet and
excellent Influences upon Animals, or Vegetatives under their Planetary
Regiment, if well and honourably dignified.

♦The Power of the Planets.♦

4. Innumerable are the Spirits that inhabit the Aiery Region,
germinating amongst themselvs as Magicians affirm, and begetting one
another after a Mystical manner. It is their property to be instant in
storms and boistrous weather, which is said to be joy and delight unto
them; And in such a season they may with most facility be calld upon,
and make their appearance, which they do accordingly to their age,
and youthfulness, seeming young or old at their appearance answerable
to their years. Besides they march in mighty Troops through the Aiery
Region, waging warr amongst themselves, and destroying one anothers
beings or Existences, after which they are reduced to the primary
source or nature of the Starrs. This is likewise to be observed that
according to the Language, Vigour, Life, and Habit of that Region
wherein they live, such is their Habit, Language, and Ability, one
_Caterva_ or Company being ignorant of their Neighbours, or Enemies
Language, so that they have need of the Assistance of such Spirits as
dwell _in omnibus Elementis_, to be their Interpreters.

♦Spirits of the Air.♦

5. And doubtless from hence arise the various deceptions that[*]
men are incident unto in their judgments of Apparitions, perswading
themselves that they are portents and foretokens of Warr and Famine,
when such numerous Spirits are beheld Fighting or Marching either in
the Air, Earth, or Water: whereas it is nothing else but the bare
effect of the Natures and Tempers of such Aerial beings to fight and
randevouse immediately after sun-set, or else later in the Summer
evenings, which is their principal time of such Conventions. And
though it must be confest that such Spirits may be, and are the Devils
Instruments as appertaining to the Kingdom whereof he is Ruler; Yet
considered in themselves, their Nature is wholly harmless, as to ought
that may be called _innate Evill_, having nothing in them that is
eternal as the Soul of Man: and consequently nothing in them that is
able to make them capable of enjoying Heaven, or induring the torments
of Hell.

♦Their Actions.♦

♦[*] [thut _text_]♦

6. And it is believed by some, that according to the motion of the
spheres, there are certain companies of Aerial Spirits good and
bad that follow them in their motions round the earth, the good
distilling influences that are good, and the bad, such influences as
are destructive to every thing that is under their Dominion. It is
also believed that by the assistance of Devils, and damned Spirits,
such Aerial Spirits are given for Familiars to some Magicians
add[*] Witches with whom they are said to have actual copulation,
and the enjoyment of every dainty meat through their assistance,
being able thereby to go invisible, to fly through the air, and steal
Treasures and Jewels from the Coffers of Princes, as also carouse in
Wine-sellers, and Pantries of those that are most amply provided with
the choisest Daynties.

♦Spirits appropriate to the Spheres.♦

♦[*] [_read_, and]♦

7. Subordinate unto these of the Air are the Terrestrial Spirits, which
are of several degrees according to the places which they occupy,
as Woods, Mountains, Caves, Fens, Mines, Ruins, Desolate places,
and Antient Buildings, calld by the Antient Heathens after various
names, as _Nymphs, Satyrs, Lamii,[*] Dryades, Sylvanes, Cobali, &c._
And more particularly the _Faeries_, who do principally inhabit the
Mountains, and Caverns of the Earth, whose nature is to make strange
Apparitions on the Earth in Meddows, or on Mountains being like Men,
and Women, Souldiers, Kings, and Ladyes Children, and Horse-men
cloathed in green, to which purpose they do in the night steal hempen
stalks from the fields where they grow, to Convert them into Horses as
the Story goes. Besides, it is credibly affirmed and beleev’d by many,
That such as are real Changlings, or Lunaticks, have been brought by
such Spirits and Hobgoblins, the true Child being taken away by them in
the place whereof such are left, being commonly half out of their wits,
and given to many Antick practices, and extravagant fancies, which
passions do indeed proceed from the powerful influence of the Planet in
their nativity, and not from such foolish conjectures.

♦Terrestial Spirits.♦

♦[*] [read, _Lamiæ_]♦

8. Such jocund and facetious Spirits are sayd to sport themselvs in the
night by tumbling and fooling with Servants and Shepherds in Country
houses, pinching them black and blew, and leaving Bread, Butter, and
Cheese sometimes with them, which if they refuse to eat, some mischief
shall undoubtedly befall them by the means of these Faeries. And many
such have been taken away by the sayd Spirits, for a fortnight, or a
month together, being carryed with them in Chariots through the Air,
over Hills, and Dales, Rocks and Precipices, till at last they have
been found lying in some Meddow or Mountain bereaved of their sences,
and commonly of one of their Members to boot.

♦Faeries.♦

9. Certainly the _Lares_ and _Penates_, or houshold Gods of the antient
Heathens were no other than such like Spirits who for several years
would keep their residence in one house till upon some displeasure
offered, or offences done by any of the sayd Family, they departed and
were never afterwards heard of. There are plenty of such examples to
be found in _Olaus Magnus_, and _Hector Boethus_[*] in his History
of _Scotland_, relating wonderful passages of _Robin-goodfellows_, and
such as have been familiar amongst mankind.

♦Lares, and Domestick Spirits.♦

♦[*] [_read_, Boethius]♦

10. ►Luridan◄ a familiar of this kinde did for many years inhabit
the Island _Pomonia_, the largest of the _Orcades_ in _Scotland_,
suplying the place of Man-servant and Maid-servant with wonderful
diligence to these Families whom he did haunt, sweeping their rooms,
and washing their dishes and making their fires before any were up in
the morning. This ►Luridan◄ affirmed, That he was the _genius Astral_,
of that Island that his place or residence in the dayes of _Solomon_
and _David_was at _Jerusalem_; That then he was called by the _Jewes_
►Belelah◄, and after that he remaind Long in the Dominion of _Wales_,
instructing their Bards in _Brittish_ Poesy and Prophesies being called
►Urthin, Wadd, Elgin◄: And now said he, I have removed hither, and alas
my continuance is but short, for in 70 years I must resigne my place to
►Balkin◄ Lord of the _Northern_ mountains.

♦_Luridan_ a famaliar Spirit.♦

11. Many wonderful and incredible things did he also relate of this
►Balkin◄, whom he called the Lord of the _Northern_ Mountains,
affirming that he was shaped like a Satyr and fed upon the Air, having
Wife and Children to the number of 12 thousand which were the brood of
the _Northern_ Faeries inhabiting _Southerland_ and _Catenes_ with the
adjacent Islands; And that these were the Companies of Spirits that
hold continual wars with the Fiery Spirits in the Mountain _Heckla_
that vomits fire in _Islandia_. That their speech was antient Irish,
and their dwelling the Caverns of the Rocks, and Mountains, which
relation is recorded in the Antiquities of _Pomonia_.

♦_Balkin_ a Familiar.♦

12. I have read another wonderful relation in a book _de Annulis
Antiquorum_, Concerning a young man from whom the power of _Venus_ was
taken away so that he could not Company with his new marryed Wife.
The Story is briefly thus; “Being busy at play or exercise with some
of his Companions on his marriage day, he put his wedding Ring on the
finger of the Statue of _Venus_ that stood besides the place least
it should be lost; when he had done, returning to take his Ring, the
finger was bended inward, so that he could by no means pluck off the
Ring to his great amazement, at which instant he forsooke the place,
and in the night the Image of _Venus_ appeared unto him, saying, Thou
hast espoused me, and shalt not meddle with any other: in the morning
returning, the Ring was gone, and the finger made straight again, which
troubled him mightily, so that he consulted with a Magician, who wrote
a Letter to some Principal Spirit in that Dominion to which _Venus_
belong’d, bidding the party stand watching at such a place at such an
houre till he saw many troops of Spirits pass by him, and describing
one in a Chariot, of stern and terrible Countenance, to whom he bad
him deliver the Letter; All which he performed, and after the person
in the Chariot had read the contents thereof, he broke out into this
expression, great God, how long shall we be subject to the insolencies
of this accursed Rascal, naming the Magitian: But withal calling to
a most beauteous Woman from amongst the Company, he charged her to
deliver back the Ring which at length she did with much aversness, and
after that he injoyd his Marriage rites without impediment”.

♦A strange example.♦

13. Besides the innumerable Troops of Terrestrial Spirits called
_Faeryes_ there are also _Nymphs_ of the Woods, Mountains, Groves,
and Fountains, as ►Eagle◄,[*] ►Arethusa◄, ►Io◄, ►Menippa◄, ►Irene◄,
&c. who are sayd to be altogether of the fæminine kinde, sporting
and dancing, and feasting amongst the trees in Woods, and bathing in
clean and limpid Fountains; such have been seen by many, and are often
alluded to, by the _Roman_ and _Greek_ Poets. There is also a relation
of a _German_ Prince, “who being exceeding thirsty and weary with
hunting and hawking, lost his Company in the Woods, on a suddain beheld
an opening at a little hillock amongst the trees, and a most beautiful
Maiden offering a Golden Horn full of Liquor, which he received and
drunk, and after rid quite away with the sayd Horn, not regarding the
Virgins tears, who lamented after him; tis sayd that having spilt some
of the sayd Liquor, it fetcht the hair from off his Horses skin, and
the horn is yet to be seen in _Germany_, which I have been told by one
that hath seen and handled it, affirming, _That the Gold for purity
cannot be parallel’d_”.

♦Spirits of Woods, and Mountains.♦

♦[*] [read, _Aegle_]♦

14. Another sort are the ►Incubi◄, and ►Succubi◄, of whom it is
reported, that the Hunns have the original, being begotten betwixt
these ►Incubi◄, and certain Magical women whom _Philimer_ the King
of the _Goths_ banished into the deserts, whence arose that savage
and untamed Nation, whose speech seemed rather the mute attempts of
brute Beasts, than any articulate sound and well distinguished words.
To these _Incubi_ are attributed the diseases of the blood called
the _Nighthag_, which certainly have a natural cause, although at
the instant of time when the party is oppressed, it is probable that
certain malevolent Spirits may mix themselvs therein and terrifie the
soul and minde of the afflicted party.

♦_Incubi_, and _Succubi_.♦

15. And amongst such Spirits as are resident amongst mortals, there
is a very froward kinde, who take delight to pull down what man hath
builded, who have been seen at the building of strong and mighty
Castles to come in the night and tumble all to the ground that
the workmen had reared the day before; of this sort were ►Horon◄,
►Stilkon◄, ►Glaura◄, and ►Kibbolla◄, four pestiferous, and turbulent
Animals that for many years infested the first founders of the
Emperours _Seraglio_: Till one of the holy Musselmans did by certain
Charms, and Exorcisms constrain and bind them, to tell their names, and
the cause of their disturbing, which they declared, and were by him
confined to destroy the mines of Copper in _Hungaria_.

♦A froward kinde of Spirit.♦

16. There is also a Relation extant in the life of _Paul_ the Hermit of
a Satyr appearing to him in the Woods, and discoursing with him that
it was a mortal Creature as he, and served the same God, dehorting the
people to worship them for demi-Gods, as they had been accustomed to;
Like unto this is the Story of the Death of the great God _Pan_; That a
Mariner sailing by the Island of _Cicilia_, was called by his name from
the shore, and by a certain voice was bid to tell the Inhabitants of
the next Island, that the great God _Pan_ was dead, which he obeyed,
and though in the next Island there were no Inhabitants, yet when he
approached he proclaimed, towards the shoar that _Pan_ was deceased,
immediately after which Proclamation he could sensibly hear most
doleful and lachrymable Cryes, and noyses, as of those that lamented
his departure.

♦Example.♦

♦Example.♦

17. ►Ianthe◄, is sayd by Magitians, to be a water Spirit, who is ever
present when any are drownd in the water, being delighted much in the
destruction of mankinde, that it may enjoy the Company of their Astral
Spirits after their decease; for according to the four Complexions or
Constitutions of the body of Man, The Astral Spirit associates it self
with separated substances; The Phlegmatick, to the watry Spirits: The
Sanguine, to those of the Aire; The Cholerick, to the Fire; and the
Melancholy, to the Terrestrial Spirits. But this is only to be supposed
of such persons as dyed in discontent, and restlesness.

♦_Janthe_ a Spirit of the water.♦

18. Of another sort are such _Aquatick Animals_ as in former times have
conversed, and procreated with mankinde bearing divers Children; And at
length snatching all away into the watry Element again, whereof there
are variety of Examples in _Cardanus_ and _Bodin_. Of this sort was the
Familiar of _Paulus_ a Mendicant Frier, called by him ►Florimella◄, and
entertaind as his Bed-fellow for forty years, though unknown and unseen
to any but himself, till upon some unhandsome carriage of the Fryer,
his Companion accompanying him over the _Danube_, leapt into the River
and was never after seen.

♦Watry Spirits that procreate.♦

19. Innumerable are the reports and accidents incident unto such as
frequent the seas, as fisher-men and sailers who discourse of noises,
flashes, shadows, ecchoes, and other visible appearances nightly seen,
and heard, upon the surface of the water. And as the disposition of the
Heavens is according to the constellations, and climates, so are these
spectres appropriate to particular parts, and coasts, from the North to
the Southern Pole. But more especially, abounding in the North, about
_Norweigh Isleland_, _Green Land_, and _Nova Zembla_.

♦Apparitions on the water.♦

20. Neither are the Storyes of the Greek, and Latine Poets all together
to be sleighted in this particular; for many verities are interwoven
with their fictions, they speak of vocal Forrests, as _Dodona_,
of _Talkative_ Rivers, as _Scamander_, of sensitive Fountains as
_Arethusa_, _Menippa_, and _Æagle_; Which more credible Historians
have partly confirmed in the Relation of _Dodona_, asserting that
the trees do seem to speak by reason of the various Apparitions, and
Phantasms, that attend the Forrest. And also in the Story of the
River _Scamander_, which is sayd at this day to afford plenty of
spectres, and prophetical Spirits, that have nightly conversation
with the _Turkish_ Sailers coming by that way with Gallyes into the
_Mediterranean_.

♦Prophetical rivers, and vocal fountains.♦

21. The like is reported of a Castle in _Norweigh_ standing over a Lake
wherein a Satyr appeareth sounding a Trumpet before the death of any
Souldier, or Governour belonging to the same, tis sayd to be the Ghost
of some murdered Captain that hath become so Fatal, and Ominous to his
Successors. But with more probability may be called a Spectre proper to
the place according to the Constellation.

♦Example.♦

22. And it hath been the conjecture of eminent speculators that from
the Loins of such arise the numerous brood of _Elves_, _Faeryes_,
_Lycanthropi_; And _Pigmyes_, sometimes visible, sometimes invisible in
_Green-Land_ and the adjacent rocks where they have no concomitants,
but bears and scurvy-grass to mix, and make merry withal, except they
pass from thence to the _Northern_ parts of _America_, where they shall
find their off-spring adored for Gods, and Goddesses, by the ignorant
Inhabitants about new _Albion_, and as far _South_ as _Mexico_, as is
amply related in the discourses of _Drake_, _Cortes_ and _Purchas_
concerning the conquest and discovery of these Territoryes.

♦Spirits in _Green-Land_♦

23. By Apparitions upon the water many have been tempted to leap into
the Sea in pursuit thereof till they were drowned, of which spectres
there is a sort called by _Psellus_, _Ordales_, who do appear like
Ducks or other Water fouls, till they by fluttering upon the water, do
entice their followers to pursue them so farr that many perish in the
attempt, which doth greatly delight these faithless Spirits who (as
we have said before) do long to accompany their Astral Spirits after
their decease. An Example of this kinde I my self knew, besides the
numerous relations I have had from the mouths of others, which confirm
the opinions of the antient Magicians concerning these water Spirits,
that of all the rest they are the most deceitful, and dangerous, like
the flattering Seas, and swift gliding Torrents, that when they have
wonn any thing, to admire, and sound them, do carry them violently into
the abysse of their own Element.

♦Destroying Spirits.♦

24. But we will leave the waters and insist a little on the nature of
_Igneous_ or _Fiery Spirits_ that inhabit the Mountains in _Hecla_,
_Ætna_, _Propo Champ_, and _Poconzi_; Where the Courts, and Castles of
these puissant Champions are kept. The opinion of some is, _That they
are not Astral, but Infernal Spirits, and Damned Souls, that for a term
of years are confined to these burning Mountains for their Iniquities_:
Which opinion although it be granted, yet we may assert, That for the
most part the apparitions, sounds, noices, clangors, and clamors, that
are heard about the Mountain _Hecla_ in _Island_ and other places,
are the effects of separated Starry beings, who are neither capable
of good nor evill, but are of a middle vegetative nature, and at the
dissolution of the _Media Natura_ shall be again reduced into their
primary Æther.

♦Fiery Spirits.♦

♦What these Spirits are.♦

25. And from natural Causes, it may be easily demonstrated, That there
is great Correspondence betwixt such substances, and the Element of
fire, by reason of the Internal Flagrat and Central Life proceeding
from the Quintessence or[*] one only Element which upholds them,
in Motion, Life, and Nourishment. As every natural, and supernatural
being is upheld, and maintain’d out of the self-same root from whence
it had its original, or rise; So the Angels feed upon the _Celestial
Manna_, The Devils of the fruits of Hell, which is natural to their
appetite, as trash for swine; the Astral beings; of the source of the
stars, the Beasts, Birds, or Reptiles of the fruits of the Eatth,[†]
and the gas of the Air, the fishes of the blass of the Water; But more
particularly, every thing is nourished by its Mother, as Infants at the
Breast, either by exhausting or fomentation.

♦Why they delight in the fiery element.♦

♦[*] [? of]♦

♦[†] [_sic_]♦

26. Such Spirits are very officious in the burnings of Towns, or
Cole-pits, delighting much to dance and exult amidst the flames, and
become Incendiaries worse then the material Cause of the Combustion,
often tempting men in drukeness,[*] to burn their own Houses, and
causing Servants carelesly to sleep, that such unlucky accidents
may happen. As the Story of _Kzarwilwui_ a Town in _Poland_ doth
confirm, which was reduced to ashes by three of these pestilentious
Animals, called ►Saggos◄, ►Broundal◄, and ►Baldwin◄, who after many
open Threatnings for six months together, that they would destroy the
City, and Citizens, did on a dark and stormy night, set all on fire
on a suddain in twenty or thirty several places, which irrecoverably
destroyed the Inhabitants.

♦Spirits that burn Cities.♦

♦[*] [_sic_]♦

27. As for the nourishment of fiery Spirits, it is radical heat, and
the influence of the Aery Region; their sport and pastime consisteth
for the most part in tumbling, and fooling one with another when the
flames are most impetuous, and violent in the Mountains: And it is
likewise credited by some that their office is to cruciate and punish
some Evil Livers, retaining, and tormenting their Souls, or Astral
Spirits for many years after the Bodies decease, which is too empty
a notion to be hearkened unto by any that are well informed of their
natures.

♦Their food and pastime.♦

28. Neither is it to be wondered at that they are so much delighted
with the fiery quality in regard of their affinity and appropriation
with infernal spirits, whose state and being is altogether damnable and
deplorable; for although they have not the ability of attaining either
the Heavenly or Infernal quality, by reason that they are utterly voyd
of the innermost Center, and may be rather called bruits, then rational
Animals, yet because they belong to the outermost [*]principle, such
is their innate Affinity, and Unity with the dark World, or infernal
Kingdome that they do often become the Devils Agents to propagate his
works upon the face of the Earth.

♦Why they delight in the fiery quality.♦

♦[*] Fire]♦

29. By the Instigations of infernal Spirits they are often sent to
terrifie men with nocturnal visions, in the likeness of monstrous
Beasts or Ghosts of their deceased Friends. They are moreover often
abetted to tempt and provoke melancholy people to execute themselves;
besides innumerable wayes they have of executing the pleasures of
[*]iniquous Spirits through malicious Instigations, and secret
Stratagems projected by them to the destruction of mortal men,
especially when the work to be effected by the Devil is too too hard
for his subtle and spiritual nature to bring to pass, because the
same belongs to the Astral source or outward principle to which these
dubious Spirits do properly belong; then are they frequently sollicited
to mediate in such treacherous actions, as the hellish Spirits have
conspired against the Lives of mortal men.

♦Astral Spirits ministers to the devill.♦

♦[*] [_sic_]♦

30. More particularly, These Spirits that belong to the fiery Element,
are most officious in this kinde of service, being naturally such as
the Antecedent matter hath sufficiently demonstrated; but according to
the ranks and Categoryes to which they belong, some of them are more
inveterate, and malicious in their undertakings then the rest. But
every kinde of Astral Spirit is obsequious to the Kingdome of darkness,
that the devilish Spirits can effect little or nothing without their
assistance in this external principle of the Starrs and Elements upon
the bodies or possessions of Mankind; because their bodies are too
crude and rough for the conveyance of their influence, either in
Dreams, Raptures, Philtres, Charms, or Constellations, as the following
Chapter of the nature of Infernal beings shall make plain, wherein the
nature and capacity of every damned Spirit is decyphered according to
the truth of the antient Philosophy.

♦Why the devil requires their help.♦

31. Leave we now the Spirits of the fire, to illustrate the natures of
subterranean Beings, whose Orders, Species, and Degrees, are various;
for they consist in these distinctions, _viz._ Spirits of men deceased,
Souls of men deceased, separated Spirits Astral, separate Spirits
semi-Infernal, Spirits appropriate to the Constellations where any of
the seven metals, _viz. Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sol, Luna, Venus,
Mercury_, are found in the bowels of the Earth; and as farr as the
natures of Minerals are distinct one from the other, so much distant
are these Subterranean Spirits in Nature and Faculty in respect of
their places, shapes, names, and qualities.

♦Subterranean Spirits.♦

32. But they are not all confined unto the metallick Kingdome; for
there are also Spirits of the Mountains, Vallies, Caves, Deeps,
Hiata’s, or Chasma’s of the Earth, hidden Treasures, Tombs, Vaults,
and Sepultures of the Dead. To the last belong the Astral Spirits of
deceased Mortals, that delight to hover over the antient Carcases to
which they belong’d, seeking still to be dissolved, and diligently
enquiring the Cause of their retention; such are resident in silent
Caves, and solitary Vaults, where the deceased lie till the Humidum
Radicale be exciccate, and totally dryd up, after which their tricks
are no more manifest, but are utterly extinguished, and annihilated.

♦Spirits of the Mountains, Caves, and Tombs.♦

33. To the next, belong such Spirits as are Protectors of hidden
Treasures, from a natural Cause, from whence they do exceedingly envy
mans benefit, and accomodation in the discovery thereof, ever haunting
such places where money is conceal’d, and retaining malevolent and
poysonous Influences, to blast the Lives and Limbs of those that dare
to attempt the discovery thereof: _Peters_ of _Devonshire_ with his
confederates, who by Conjuration attempted to dig for such defended
Treasures, was crumbled into Atomes, as it were, being reduced to Ashes
with his Companions in the twinkling of an eye.

♦Spirits of hidden Treasures.♦

34. And upon this particular, we have plenty of Examples of the
destruction of such as by Magical experiments have discovered hidden
Treasures; which instances do rather seem to prove, That such as haunt
these places do more nearly belong to the Infernal, then to the Astral
Hierarchy, in regard that they are so infesting and inveterate to
Mortal men, that the Grand Intention of the Prince of darkness may be
accomplished in their designs.

♦The nature of such Spirits.♦

35. But of all the rest such as haunt Mines and mettle men, are the
most pernicious, and frequent from the same Cause with the former.
The nature of such is very violent; they do often slay whole Companies
of Labourers, they do sometimes send inundations that destroy both
the Mines, and Miners, they bring noxious and malignant vapours to
stifle the laborious workmen; briefly, their whole delight and faculty
consists in tormenting, killing, and crushing men that seek such
Treasures, that mankind may never partake thereof to relieve their
Cares, and worldly necessities.

♦Spirits that infest Mines and Miners.♦

36. Such was _Anæbergius_ a most virulent Animal that did utterly
confound the undertakings of those that laboured in the richest Silver
mine in _Germany_, called _Corona Rosacea_. He would often shew himself
in the likeness of a he-goat with Golden horns, pushing down the
workmen with great violence, sometimes like a Horse breathing flames,
and pestilence at his Nostrils. At other times he represented a Monk in
all his _Pontificalibus_, flouting at their Labour, and imitating their
Actions with scorn and dedignation, till by his daily and continued
molestation he gave them no further ability of perseverance.

♦An Example of a turbulent Spirit.♦

37. Thus, I have hinted the various distinctions, and sub-distinctions
of Astral Spirits proper or common, illustrating their natures
according to the opinions of the Learned; from thence I proceed to say
what the Infernal Hierarchy is, and whereof it doth consist in this
fifth Chapter following.

♦Conclusion.♦




CHAP. V.

_Of the Infernal Spirits, or Devils, and damned Souls treating,
what their Natures, Names, and Powers are_, &c.

1. Leaving the Astral Kingdome, I will now proceed to describe the
natures, and distinctions of Infernal Spirits or Devils, and damned
Souls, who are to be considered according to their ranks, and orders,
exactly correspondent to the Quires, and Hierarchies of the Angels,
or Celestial beings, wherein I will insist upon their names, shapes,
places, times, orders, powers, and capacities, proceeding gradually
from a general narration, to a particular Anatomy of every sort of
Spirit in its proper place and order.

♦What this Chapter treats of.♦

2. As for the Locality or Circumscription of the Kingdome of darkness,
it is farr otherwise to be considered then the vulgar account it,
who esteem the hellish habitation, a distinct Chasma or Gulph in a
certain place, above, under, or in the Center of the Earth, where
innumerable Devils, and wicked Souls inhabit, who are perpetually
scorched, and tormented with material flames of fire. This is the
opinion which naturally all men are addicted and prone unto. But if we
will rightly consider the Kingdome of Heaven and Hell, in respect of
one another, we must look upon the similitude of light and darkness
in this outward world, who are not circumscribed, nor separate as to
Locality from one another; for when the sun arises, the darkness of the
night disappeareth, not that it removes it self to some other place or
Country, but the brightness of the light overpowereth it, and swallows
it up, so that though it disappeareth, yet it is as really there as the
light is.

♦The place of hell or the habitation of devils.♦

3. This is also to be considered in[*] the description of the
Habitations of good, or evill beings, that they are really in one
another, yet not comprehended of one another, neither indeed can they
be, for the evil Spirits if they should remove ten thousand miles,
yet are they in the same quality and source, never able to finde out
or discover where the Kingdome of Heaven is to be found, though it be
really through, and through with the dark Kingdome, but in another
quality which makes them strangers to one another.

♦Illustrated by a similitude.♦

♦[*] [_text_ iu]♦

4. A similitude hereof we have in the faculties of the humane Life,
as to the indowments of the Soul considered in the just, and in the
wicked; for to be good, pure, and holy, is really present as a quality
in _potentia_ with the depraved soul, although at that instant the
Soul be cloathed with Abominations, so that the eye which should behold
God or Goodness is put out. Yet if the soul would but come out of it
self, and enter into another source or principle, in the center it
might come to see the Kingdome of Heaven within it self, according to
the Scripture, and _Moses_,[*] _The word is nigh thee, in thy heart,
and in thy Mouth_.

♦The differerence [_sic_] betwixt heaven and hell.♦

♦[*] [Deut. 30, 19.]♦

5. True it is that the Devils and damned Souls cannot sometimes
manifest themselvs in this Astral World, because the nature of some of
them is more near unto the external quality then of others, so that
although properly the very innermost and outermost darkness be their
proximate abode, yet they do frequently flourish, live, move, and
germinate in the Aery Region, being some of them finite and determinate
Creatures.

♦How the Devils can come into this World.♦

6. But according to their fiery nature, it is very difficult for them
to appear in this outward world, because there is a whole principle
or gulph betwixt them, to wit, they are shut up in another quality
or existence, so that they can with greater difficulty finde out the
being of this World, or come with their presence into the same, then we
can remove into the Kingdome of Heaven, or Hell with our intellectual
man; for if it were otherwise, and that the Divels had power to appear
unto Mortals as they list, how many Towns, Cities, _&c._ should be
destroyed, and burnt to the ground, how many Infants should be kild
by their malicious power! yea few or none might then escape in Lives,
or Possessions, and sound minds, whereas now all these enjoyments are
free amongst mortals, which proves, that it is exceeding hard for evill
Spirits to appear in the third principle of this world, as for a man to
live under water, and fishes on the Land. Yet must we grant, that when
the imaginations, and earnest desires of some particular Wizards, and
envious Creatures have stirr’d up the center of Hell within themselvs,
that then the Devil hath sometimes access to this world in their
desires, and continues here to vex, and torment so long as the strength
of that desire remains which was the first attractive Cause.

♦The great difficulty of their appearance.♦

7. For the very cause of the paucity of appearances in these dayes, is
the fulness of time, and the brightness of Christianity, dispelling
such mists, as the sun doth cause the clouds to vanish, not by any
violence or compulsion, but from a natural cause; even so the Kingdome
of Light as it grows over mans soul, in power and dominion, doth
naturally close up the Center of darkness, and scatter the influences
of the Devil so that his tricks lye in the dust, and his will at length
becomes wholly passive as to man.

♦The cause of few appearances now.♦

8. In the time of the Law, when the wrath and jealousie of the Father,
had the dominion in the Kingdom of Nature, all Infernal Spirits had
more easie access unto mankind then now they have; for before the
Incarnation of Christ, the anger of God had more dominion over the
soul of Man, and was more near in nature unto the same; so that the
Devils could with more facility spring up in the element of Wrath, to
manifest themselves in this outward principle, because the very Basis
and Foundation of Hell beneath, is built and composed of the Wrath of
God, which is the channel to convey the Devil into this sublunary World.

♦The Devils power in the time of the Law.♦

9. But when Christ began to be manifest unto the World, the
multiplicity of Appearances, and possessed with Devils, began
insensibly to decay and vanish. And if any should object, _That betwixt
the space of his Incarnation and his Suffering, such accidents were
rather more frequent than in the times before_: To this I answer, That
the Devil knowing well that his time was but short; and also knowing,
that till the great Sacrifice was offered up, he had leave to range and
rove abroad the Kingdom of this World; therefore he imployed all his
forces and endeavours to torment those miserable souls and captives to
whom Christ came to Preach Deliverance.

♦His power under Christ in the flesh.♦

10. But after the Partition wall was broken down, and the vail of
_Moses_, and of the anger of God from off the soul in the death of
Christ, there was a sensible and visible decay of the Devils prancks
amongst mortals, and that little remnant of Lunaticks and Possessed,
which continued after Christ, did the Apostles relieve and set at
liberty, through the influence and virtue of the promise of the Son of
God (to wit) _the Holy Ghost_, or _the Comforter_, which could not come
until he went away: And on the day of _Pentecost_, whilst they waited
in humility for the fulfilling of his promise, the very effect of
Christs birth and sufferings did first manifest it self, when the Holy
Ghost sprung up amongst them, to the destruction of Sin and Satan.

♦Under Christianity.♦

11. And so long as the purity of Christianity continued in the
Primitive Church, there were very few that the Devil could personally
or actually lay hold of in the Astral Man, for the space of two
hundred years after the death of Christ, until that from Meekness and
Abstinence, the Christians began to exalt themselves in Loftiness and
Worldly Honours; then the Devil began to exalt his head amongst the
Lip-Christians, bewitching them into every Lust; and captivating their
inward and outward faculties at his pleasure. As all along in Popery is
clearly seen.

♦Under Apostacies.♦

12. Yet notwithstanding, the coming of Christ hath prevented the Devils
force in general. Such Nations as have never embraced the Christian
Faith, are still deluded and bewitched by him; because the center hath
never been actually awakened in any of them, so that the Devils power
prevails over them mightily, to seduce them to worship things visible,
and not the true God: For where the most darkness is in Religion
and Worship, or in natural understanding, there his power is most
predominant; As in _Tartary_, _China_, and the _East-Indies_; also in
_Lapland_, _Finland_, and the _Northern Islands_.

♦Under Idolatry.♦

13. In the _West-Indies_ or _America_, his access is very facil and
freequent to the Inhabitants, so that by custom and continuance they
were at the first discovery thereof, become so much substitute and
obsequious to his power, that though they knew him to be a power of
Darkness, yet they adored him lest he should destroy them and their
Children. And unto such a height were they come at the Landing of
_Cortes_, _Drake_, and _Vandernort_, that they could familiarly convert
themselves into Wolves, Bears, and other furious Beasts; in which
Metamorphosis their _Enthusiasms_ and _Divinations_ were suggested, and
such were held in greatest esteem.

♦How power in new-discovered Lands.♦

14. Till upon the Invasion of the _Spaniards_, the greater evil drove
out the less, and the cruel Murthers of that Antichristian tradition,
did both depopulate the Islands and most of the Continent; and also by
accident, though not through any good intention, extirpate the race
of such as addicted themselves to this infamous sort of Divination. In
which devastation, and bloody inquisition, their Idols were discovered
with their Oracles and Inchantments, far different from the _European_
Conjurers, and any of their Ceremonies.

♦His power in _America_.♦

15. But that which is the most remarkable in the Infernal proceedings,
is this, That there is not any Nation under the Sun, but the Devil hath
introduced himself amongst them through their Ceremonies and Worship,
though quite opposite to one another: For in the Kingdom of _China_,
by the sacrifice of _Blood_ and _Panaak_, he is Conjured and Exorcized
through the repetitions of several Superstitious Invocations to the
Sun and Moon. In _Tartary_ the Magicians go quite another way to work,
with Offerings to the Ocean, to the Mountains, and the Rivers, fuming
Incense, and divers sorts of Feathers; by which means the Devils are
compelled to appear. So that we see how this _Proteus_ can dispose
himself in the divers Kingdoms of this World; being called by other
names in _Tartary_, _China_, the _East_ and _West-Indies_, &c. then
amongst the _European_ Conjurers. Likewise the _Greeks_ and _Romans_
could Invocate Spirits by Prayers unto the Moon, and divers Sacrifices
of Milk, Honey, Vervine, and Blood. And those that are addicted to
Conjurations in Christianity, have attained to a more lofty and ample
manner of Incantation and Conjuring with Magical Garments, Fire,
Candles, Circles, Astrological Observations, Invocations, and holy
Names of God, according to the _Kaballa_ of the _Jews_.

♦The variety of Conjurations according to the Countries.♦

16. So that every distinct Nation hath conformed its Conjuration unto
the Ceremonies of that Religion which it professeth: And it is to be
observed, That from a natural cause every Nation hath its Conjurations
and Names of Devils, from the Constellation under which the Countrey
lyeth, and from the Air or Wind to which such particular Dominations
do belong; so that no effect would follow, if one Countrey should
traditionally inure themselves to the Forms and Exorcisms that are
used by another Nation. And therefore is it that so many attempts are
offered in vain amongst professed Christians to raise Spirits, because
they have little or nothing from their own Constellation, but make
use of what they have borrowed from the _Greeks_ and _Romans_, or the
ancient Imbecillity of the _Ægyptians_ Priests; I mean, their simple
forms of Invocation.

♦Why few are able to raise Spirits.♦

17. But because we are rather upon the discovery of the Infernal
Kingdom, as it hath no dependence upon the doings of mortal Men;
therefore we will proceed to discover what the Antients have said
concerning it: So the next which we fall upon after the description of
their Habitations, and the manner of their Appearances, is their Names
and Appellations diversly considered. First, from the Creation of the
World to the coming of Christ, they retained the _Hebrew_ names, as
►Belial, Baal, Baalzebub, Lelah, Ador, Abaddon◄, &c. according to the
_seculum_ under which they were Invocated; assuming names according to
the present occasion about which they were imployed.

♦The Names of Devils in the Time of the Law.♦

18. Under the Constellation of _China_, they are Invocated by the
Names ►Kan, Sinoam, Nantam, Bal, Baltal, Sheall◄, the six Governours
or Presidents: ►Chancangian◄, the chief of the Devils: ►Po, Paym,
Nalkin, Nebo◄, the Devils of the four Winds: ►Lean, Lan, Pan, Adal◄,
the Devils of the four Elements. And according to the nature of their
language or words which do all consist of no more then one syllable,
so are the Devils named. Yea, as it is conjectured by many learned
Magicians, this language of the _Chinenses_ is more Magical and adapted
to Conjurations, then all the _Oriental Tongues_, because of the
consonancy and copiousness thereof, together with the numerous and
various Characters used by them.

♦Their Names in _China_.♦

19. In the _East-Indies_, and in _Tartary_, the Names are the same
with those of _China_, though the Ceremonies differ. In _Persia_,
_Arabia_, _Natolia_, _Ægypt_, _Æthiopia_, the Names are the same with
the _Jewish Rabbins_. But the _Greeks_ and _Romans_ have different from
the rest, according to their Language and Superstitions. The _Turks_,
_Muscovites_, _Russians_, _Lapponians_, and _Norwegians_, make use of
the _Sclavonian_ tongue in all their Conjurations. The _West-Indians_
have very strange and antick Names and Ceremonies of their own, nothing
depending on the Traditions and Practices of the old World; for, as
is related before, the Devil is sufficiently capable of introducing
himself through the Religious Superstitions of any Nation whomsoever,
according to the Constellations, although strangers to the Rites and
Ceremonies of others.

♦In the _East-Indies_.
_Tartaria._
_Greece._
_Italy._
_West Indies._♦

20. But though their Names be conformable to the Language and Climate
of that Nation where they are raised or called; yet have they divers
Names, suppose twenty or thirty to one Devil, according to the several
ministrations they have had from the Creation to this day, leaving a
several name behinde them at each of their appearances upon the earth;
for, according to the testimony of the Devil himself, if credit may be
given to Devils, they, as they are abstractively considered in their
own Kingdom, have no imposed Names of distinction, but are forced
to assume them when they rise up in the external principle of this
World: although in some measure it must be granted, that there be some
principal Kings and Dukes in the Infernal Hierarchy, that have Names
establish’d upon them which cannot be transferr’d or altered.

♦The nature of their Names.♦

21. As for the Names that are recorded in this precedent _Discovery_
_of Witchcraft_ by _Reginald Scot_ Esq; being a Catalogue of Devils in
their Rancks and Hierarchies, they are supposed to be fictitious and
totally imaginary, being taken out of _Bodin_ or _Wyerus_, which they
recorded from the mouth of Tradition, and obscure Manuscrips:[*] And
indeed were there any certainty in this List of Devils, it were to be
preferred as the most ample and exact delineation that is extant. But
it is the rather to be suspected, because of the little coherence it
hath with the former received Names of Devils eitheir in _Europe_,
_Asia_, _Africa_, or _America_.

♦The names of [_sic_] Devils in _Scot_.♦

♦[*] [_sic_]♦

22. But if we would speak of Damned Souls and their Names or
Appellations, they are farr otherwise to be considered then the Devils;
for such as their imposed Names were here on earth, such is the Name
they have in the Kingdom of Darkness, after a Magical manner, according
to the language of nature in the first principle of Darkness; as the
Saints in heaven retain their Names in a Cœlestial manner: And also, as
the Astral Spirit of a Man deceased, retains its antient Name according
to the Astral source in the principle of the one only Element.

♦The names of Damned souls.♦

23. For as the language of Nature is found in the second Principle,
it is likewise manifest in the dark Worlds property, according to the
first Principle of Wrath; as also the monstrous shapes of Devils and
Damned Souls is correspondent to the Magical postures of their Souls
whilst they were alive; of which I shall speak more largely when their
Shapes are to be described. According unto which, as also according to
the rest of their attributes, _viz._ their _Rancks, Numbers, Times,
Powers, Places_, &c. their Names are fitted and conformed according to
the uniformity of name and thing in the principles of the eternal and
external nature.

♦Whence the names of Devils are.♦

24. And as all other Nations have their various Appellations for
Devils and Damned Souls, like their natural tone or language; so we
can mention one Kingdom more admirable then the rest, _viz._ the
Kingdom of _Fiacim_ at the _Northern Pole_, where all the Counsellors
are Magicians; and the Names which they use in Invocations, are
Mathematically disposed in a wonderful harmony and efficacy, to the
performance of Magical operations. So much of the Places and Names
of Infernal Beings; the next to be considered is their Shapes and
Likenesses.

♦The names of Devils in the Kingdom of _Fiacim_.♦

25. The Shapes of Devils are answerable to the cause of their Fall, and
the Dominions to which they belong. Those that belong to the Supreme
Hierarchy, when they are called by Magicians, do at first appear in the
form of fierce and terrible Lyons, vomiting fire, and roaring hideously
about the Circle; from thence they convert themselves into Serpents,
Monkies, and other Animals, till the Magician do repeat the form
of Constriction or Confinement to a Trine or Triangle, as before is
mentioned in the Fifteenth Book of the _Discovery_.

♦The Shapes of Devils.♦

26. After the Conjuration is repeated, they forsake these bestial
shapes, and [*]indow the humane form at first like troops of Armed
Men; till at last by frequent repetitions of other Ceremonies, they
appear as naked Men of gentle countenance and behaviour. Yet is the
Magician to take care that they deceive him not by insinuations; for
their fraudulency is unspeakable in their appearance and dealings with
Mankind; because we may be assured they appear not willingly, but are
by forceable Conjurations compelled: so that they will ever minde their
own ends in medling with man; that is, to deprave his minde, or subvert
the Lives and Estates of others through his means and assistance.

♦As they appear to Magicians in the highest rank.♦

♦[*] [= indue]♦

27. The rest of the Infernal Dominions have various appearances. The
two next Orders affect to represent the beautiful colours of Birds, and
Beasts, as Leopards, Tygers, Pecocks, _&c._ But by Conjurations they
may be likewise reduced to a Manlike form, wherein they will readily
answer every demand within the compass of their capacity, answerable to
the Order unto which they belong: Yet many of them appear in Monstrous
forms, and can hardly be conjured to desert them. Though the Exorcist
Charm them never so wisely, they will shew him a pair of Crocodiles
jaws, or a Lyons paw, with other dreadful menaces, enough to terrifie
any Novice from such Damnable Injunctions as the practice of Magick.

♦In the lower orders.♦

28. But more especially, the opinion of the antients is, That according
to the division of the clean and unclean Beasts in the Law given unto
_Moses_, the Shapes of Devils are disposed in the Infernal Kingdom: So
that the most perverse and potent amongst the Devils represent the most
ugly and mischievous amongst the Beasts, according to this following
division; _viz._ such Devils as ►Astaroth, Lucifer, Bardon, Pownok◄,
who incline men and instigate them to pride and presumptuousness, have
the shapes of Horses, Lyons, Tygars, Wolves. Such as instigate to Lust
and Covetousness have the forms of Hogs, Serpents, and other filthy
reptiles or envious Beasts, as Dogs, Cats, Vultures, Snakes, _&c._
Such as incline to Murther, have the shapes of every Bird and Beast
of prey. Such as Answer Questions humane in Philosophy, or Religion,
have more tolerable shapes, almost manly, but with crooked Noses, like
Mermaids, or Satyres. And of all the rest it is to be observed, that as
not one single Lust or Vice hath dominion without mixture in the evil
Spirits, so they are not of a distinct shape lik one single Beast, but
compounded into Monsters, with Serpents-tails, four eyes, many feet and
horns, _&c._

♦That the Devils are answerable to the unclean Beasts.♦

29. And as in general, these are the shapes of Devils, so the
particular shapes of Damned Souls are to be considered in the same
manner with the rest, only with this difference, that they are more
addicted to metamorphose themselves and vary their appearances. Though,
for the most part, the Damned Souls retain the humane shape after a
Magical manner, so that the greatest part of that numberless number are
in their antient shapes, especially when they appear in sleep to their
surviving acquaintance. Their aspects are very dismal and melancholy
like the Ghosts of the Astral source.

♦The shapes of Damned Souls.♦

30. Now to speak of the Times and Seasons of their Appearance. The
better sort of Magicians to square their times with Astrological hours,
especially of _Saturn_, _Luna_, and _Venus_, in the Moons increase,
and the middle of the night, or twelve a clock at noon: In which hours
they do likewise compose their Garments, Caps, Candlesticks, Figures,
Lamins, Pentacles, and Circles for Conjuration. As for the Times in
respect of their Infernal Courses, the fittest are when they spring up
in the Wrath, or when they sink in the Dispair, which is a mystery to
the learned Conjurers of _Europe_.

♦Their times and seasons.♦

31. In respect of this exterior World, they can most easily appear
in solitary places, when the Sun is down; for they are naturally at
enmity with the Sun, because it stands as a type of the Mediator, or
Heart and Centre which they lost utterly in their fall, and now are
destitute of, like a wheel without an axletree. And indeed, the want
of this is the chief cause of all their torment, and of the rising of
the gnawing Worm, when they consider of their irrevocable sentence, and
irrecoverable loss.

♦Their places of appearance.♦

32. In storms of Hail, or Snow, Wind, Tempest, and Lightning, is
accounted amongst Magicians, a time for Conjuring at an easie rate. And
they say, That such Ceremonies will prove very effectual, if a Conjurer
begin his Exorcisms in the hour and day of _Luna_, in the middest of a
furious storm of Lightning, Rain, and Thunder, in a low Vault or Celler
that is close and retired. Also when the Wind blows high, without Rain,
they say, the Devils are more near the Kingdom of this World, and may
with great facility be sollicited or raised at such a season, because
they delight in all extremities of weather, being themselves the first
cause of the disorder of the properties in the Kingdom of Nature.

♦When Tempests reign.♦

33. But in some Countries they can more easily appear then in
others, according to the Constellations, for they delight much in
the extremities of the two Poles toward _Lapland_, _Nova Zembla_,
_Greenland_, _Tartary_; and in the _South_ towards the Islands
scattered about the confines of _Terra Incognita_. They are likewise
easily Invocated on the shoar amongst lofty Rocks and Precipices, or in
Deserts and Wildernesses far from Towns or Inhabitants. And it is said,
they do much respect the motion of the Seas in their appearance unto
such as solicite them in places _Maritime_ or _Plagiary_.

♦According to the situation of Regions.♦

34. As for their Rancks or Orders, there is some difficulty in the
true discovery thereof, by reason that we know not certainly of what
Orders they were that _Fell_. The opinion of most men is, _That of
every Order many fell_. But those that better know the nature of the
Heavenly Hierarchies, have sufficiently proved, _That of any Ranck or
Order none can fall unless all do follow_. Therefore with more reason
may it be judged, That before the Devils fell, the Hierarchy of Heaven
did consist of three Rancks or Orders; to wit, the Order of ►Uriel◄, of
►Michael◄, of ►Lucifer◄: That of ►Lucifer◄ is totally in _Hell_: The
other which is under ►Michael◄, is the dominion of _Heaven_: The last
which is ►Uriels◄, are more in the dominion of this third principle
of the _Stars_, having the _Planets_ in their dominion, with the
influences thereof.

♦Their Ranks and Orders.♦

35. So that the foregoing Catalogue, transcribed by the Author of this
_Discovery_, is utterly feigned and fictitious, because it makes these
many sorts of Devils to have Dominion over several Legions in several
distinctions of _Seraphims_, _Powers_, _Thrones_, _Dominations_,
_Cherubims_, &c. Whereas the whole Kingdom of Hell consists but of one
only Hierarchy, which is that of ►Lucifer◄ and his _Legions_, reduced
by their exorbitances into that Lacrymable posture wherein they now are
and shall be for ever. Which Doctrine seriously weigh’d will prove the
attempts of Conjurers and Magicians to be utterly vain, and their forms
of Invocation vanity and falshood.

♦In three distinctions.♦

36. Their number may be thought upon more narrowly, if we consider that
they consist of one Hierarchy and no more; yet must we confess that the
limit is not to be put thereunto, because their nature is to Germinate
and Multiply as they please, contracting and dilating themselves
according to the force of their imaginative powers and faculties.
But although this be granted, yet there is a setled number of Devils
that varyeth not. Though of Damned Souls the number is numberless and
unfathomable; yet as to their extent of room or place, it is never the
more because of their multitude, they being able to truss a thousand
Legions into the carcass of a man. As for the opinions of Authors, they
are various; it is believed by some, _That the Starrs are answerable to
their number_; others speak of _the Sands upon the Seashore_: however
it be, this is certain, _They are even innumerable in respect of humane
Capacities_.

♦Their numbers.♦

37. Their Natures are now to be considered as they belong to the
hellish source or quality. In themselves they rest not, neither are
they capable of the length or shortness of time, nor of the alternate
courses of day and night. The wickedness which they committed in
this life, are their continual torment, which do Magically gnaw and
corrode them, rising and boyling up perpetually within them, all the
refrigeration which they have, is by intercourse when the height of
Wickedness begins to stirr them in blasphemies against God, and towring
up above heaven and goodness, in their adulterated Imaginations, which
is unto them as sport and pastime with one another, and lasteth such
a space as with us makes up forty minutes. Neither doth this any whit
advantage them, but rather adds to their torment; for pain discontinued
is the greater: neither would vexation be vexation, if it had no
respite or forbearance; That the contrary might be also manifest,
_Nam contraria juxta se posita majus elucescunt_. Yet is their
torment exceedingly different, so that the torment of one, in respect
of another, is but a Dream or Phansie; I mean, amongst the Damned
Souls, and not the Devils, for the pain and sorrow of the Devils is
greater then the greatest of the lost Souls, by many thousand degrees,
according to the course of nature and reason; for that which falls
highest, suffers most, and _optima corrupta fiunt pessima_.

♦Their natures and properties.♦

♦Their torments♦

38. But wonderful and manifold are the torments which all in general
of the Infernal troops, do suffer according to the various lusts they
reigned in whilst they lived upon the earth. The cruel Murtherers
that died in the boyling source of blood and envy, their torment is
the greatest, they are continually Murthering in their imaginations,
and seeking, like dreaming men, to do what the want of the Organ will
not suffer them; for according to the saying of the wisest upon this
Subject, this is the torment and misery of all the Damned, _That they
are continually wishing and woulding; and in wouldings they generate
Ideas and representations, which are the species of their continual
aggravations and deceiving phansies_.

♦The Variety thereof.♦

39. Those that were buryed in Lust and Gluttony, Drunkenness and
Lasciviousness, are also in miserable torments, yet much inferiour to
the first; they are continually imagining their former pleasures in the
_Magia_ as in a dream, which when they wake, torments them cruelly;
they are often hanging, stabbing, and mangling themselves for love,
and perpetually sinking down in sorrow and despair, if they were such
as died in love, or in the height of their Astral affections, leaving
behind them a heap of desires and lusts, which are the only cause of
all their torment. And we may well compare the passions of Melancholy
persons, or such as in Deserts, Woods, and Mountains, pine away for
love of Women, unto their torments; which indeed being the trouble of
the mind, are absolutely the greatest and heaviest that the source or
property of this World affordeth, I mean, the perturbations of the
minde in general.

♦The Nature thereof.♦

40. Such souls in whom the boyling source of Anger and Rage, hath
had a dwelling or receptacle, if they depart unmortified, do also
enter into a most dreadful kind of torment, which continually ariseth
as a biting Worm and hungry fire to double and accumulate the excess
of despair upon them, if they have much domineered therein whilst
they lived in this World. Also these that reigned in Pride and Envy,
are ever seeking to pluck God from his Throne, and towring up in
their Imaginations, as men that dream, still seeking for the Kingdom
of heaven, to insult and boast therein; but the quality thereof is
utterly occult and estranged from them; so that they can never finde,
taste, hear, nor see it, though it be through and through with their
own peculiar principle. This adds perpetually to their misery, and
ariseth at times with horrible pangs and gnawings, like the irksome and
vexatious pains and aches subject to Mans body, which cease a while and
then begin to shoot and ake by intercourse, as the Gowt, Tooth-ach,
Head-ach, Convulsion, Gripings, and the Stone.

♦Their torment in the source of Anger.♦

41. Thus their torments are in brief described, but indeed the capacity
of Man is not able to reach the description of their cruel miseries,
and continual pangs which they contracted upon themselves; for every
faculty is sufficiently plagued. The Sence of Hearing is disturb’d
with harsh and rugged sounds, which are as an antipathy to that Organ;
as rough and scraping sounds externally offend the ears, and set the
teeth on edge, by affecting the tender fibres of the same. Their Sight
is likewise cruelly offended and affrighted with monstrous appearances
and Ideas represented continually to their imaginations. And there is
not any loathsome taste in the Kingdome of this World, either Animal,
Vegetative, or Mineral, which they are at any time void of, being
continually pestered and suffocated with filthy fumes and smoaks of
hellish fruits, as of Sulphurean stinks, and abominations.

♦In all the five Senses.♦

42. Neither are the other Sences of the Touch and Smell behind in
participation of the like Torments, which their own iniquities do
perpetually excite and create unto them; besides, they are ever
vexing one another; and if any be in the same misery with whom they
had acquaintance here on [*]eath, the very Magical knowledge,
and perceivance, or remembrance thereof, doth beyond utterance or
conception, most miserably afflict and macerate their Souls and all
their Sences.

♦By their acquaintance on earth.♦

♦[*] [_read_, earth]♦

43. For the nature of their habitation is such, that their torment
is exceedingly aggravated thereby, because the extremity of the four
Elements is there converted into a whole Principle of wrath and
vexation. The excess of cold and heat, drought and moisture, are
continually raging amongst them by intercourse. Neither is there any
light or lustre to be seen within their Courts, but that which comes
from their fiery Eyes, as a deadly glance or glimmering, being sudden
fiery flashes and sparkling, as the enkindling of Gunpowder, or _Aurum
fulminans_ for a similitude.

♦The Nature of Hell.♦

44. And as every kinde of Being feeds upon somewhat of its own nature,
property, and element, whither it be Plant, Animal, or Metalline kinde;
so the Devils are neither destitute of meat, drink, nor cloathing,
according to their own Kingdom and quality, having fruits springing
and growing before them of hellish, sour and poysonous natures, which
are real and palpable unto them, and not imaginary or typical, though
to us magical and invisible; neither is this to be wondered at, if we
consider the nature of Man’s Soul, _In Media Natura_; for if it feed
not upon the internal[*] and substantial Word, which is the very
Bread of Life it self, it must of necessity ruminate on something else,
_viz._ the fruits of Iniquity, which it takes in and drinketh up as
the Oxe drinks water, so that to the soul the sin becomes palpable,
glutting, and satiating; yea, so substantial unto the Soul, as Dirt or
Ink upon fair white Linnen is to our external Eyes; neither can the
Soul be freed from these spots till the water above the Firmament wash
them away.

♦The food of Devils.♦

♦[*] [? eternal]♦

45. Also in respect of the Astral source they are not destitute of
food, when they bring themselves into the same; for the gas of the air
and bias of the water is their nourishment, while they stay here, as
is before alledged: These influences of the air and water they take
into their _Limbus_, and convert into their own poysonous natures; as
of sweet and wholsome herbs the filthy Toads and other venemous Beasts
do make their poyson, converting them into a nature like themselves.
And on the contrary, the poysonous herbs are converted into good and
wholesome nourishment by other cleanly Beasts.

♦Their food in the Astral source.♦

46. And as the Infernal Troops are considered in respect of the
four Elements, they have a distinct and peculiar tone or language,
which they exercise and speak one amongst one another, as mortals
do. But they have utterly lost the dignity of their sounds according
to the eternal nature. And are likewise totally corrupted in their
pronouncing, or Dialect, since they fell from their first cælestial
glory; so that their speech is harsh, doleful, and terrible, like the
fruits they feed upon, and the life they dwell in. Which depravation
is very apparent in the Kingdom of this World in the divided Languages
of every Region, according to the Constellation under which they are
situated: The true and magical Language of nature being hid from all
the Countreys of the earth.

♦Their Speech.♦

47. But when they appear in the outward Elements, they do many times
express themselves in _Irish_, _Welch_, _Latine_; or _Russian_, which
are the Languages most affected by them to answer unto Conjurations,
or Compacts. So that if any Magician, who is ignorant of these
aforesaid Languages do at any time Raise or Exorcise such Spirits,
he must be mindful to confine them to his mother tongue; least their
gibberish prove altogether unintelligible; for as every thing appears
in what it most affecteth, or is addicted to; even so the Spirits have
their distinct affections, passions, and postures, both in word, habit,
shape, and gesture; so that the Magician must be wary in Exorcizing
with them, that he confine them to a different place, posture, shape,
and language, to answer their intentions without impediment.

♦What Language they affect.♦

48. For they are very variable and unconstant in their dealings with
mankind, nor will they stand to any thing that hath not bound them by
the obligations of Words, Characters, and Imprecations, except the
skill of the Exorcist be such, that he is able to confine them into a
Magical Triad, which hath the certain force of obliging or compelling
them to utter truth, and nothing false in all their Answers, or
Informations. But with such miserable men and women as they have made
Covenants and Indentures for body, soul, and works; with such I say,
they keep no faith, nor are they lyable to their commands; but on the
contrary, have them hampered and subjected to their will and power,
till they have terminated their lives in their destruction.

♦Their unconstancy.♦

49. Yet have not any of the most potent Princes in the Hellish Power,
the least ability to destroy the least of the sons of men, without
the consent of the mind and senses of the Soul; for until the will of
the Soul be opened unto him, his threatnings, sleights and stratagems
are without any power or force, as the nerves of a dead man. Although
naturally every evil Spirit boasteth, as if all the world were at its
command, and every Soul were subject to its authority and beck, with
the Goods or Possessions of the external World.

♦Their Power.♦

50. When any evil Spirit is raised up by Conjurations, without
League, or Compact; these Spirits so raised, are exceeding fraudulent
and deceitful, as stubborn servants that do their Masters will by
constraint, and not by any natural act of obedience unto his Commands.
But with such as they have compacted, they are frequent and officious,
imploying them as Agents for the destruction of others and their
substance: and being marryed unto such, they are even become one with
them, being incorporated into them, so that they are nothing different
from incarnate Devils, save that the spark of divine Light, which was
the gift of God unto repentance, is not totally eradicated until the
body fall away.

♦When they are called up.♦

51. From such as Covenant with these unconstant Spirits, do they
daily obtain Fumigations, Odours, and Offerings, or Sacrifices of
Blood, Fire, Wine, Ointments, Incense, Fruits, Excrements, Herbs,
Gums, Minerals, and other Ingredients, by which from a Magical cause,
they have more influence and authority over the bewitched party to
insinuate into their affection, peircing even through their bones and
marrow, till they have so habituated them to their service, that the
same becomes their daily bread and sole delight in accomplishing every
villany and abomination which the malicious and subtle instigation of
Satan leads them to.

♦Fumigations made unto them.♦

52. Thus have I Essayed to illustrate the Natures of Infernal Beings,
which notwithstanding is a Subject so intricate and copious in it
self, that great difficulty accompanies the Explication thereof; by
reason of the variety of their natures in the source of darkness,
wherein they live, move, eat, breath, and inhabit, having qualities,
actions, and passions innumerable, to us men-kinde utterly unknown and
incomprehensible: So that to attempt an ample demonstration of this
present Subject, would require deeper speculation then the matter doth
deserve, in regard that there be so many _Protei_ and Changlings in
that gloomy Kingdom, who do never stay or continue in the same nature,
property, and form for an hour together; but may be compared to the
swiftness of the Windes, or the likeness and form of swift running
Waters, that pass away as a thought; and are no more remembered. So
it is with the Spirits of Darkness, whose life is a meer anguish and
inconstancy from one sorrow to another unto all Eternity.

♦The Conclusion.♦




CHAP. VI.

_Treating of the Nature, Force and Forms of Charms, Periapts,
Amulets, Pentacles, Conjurations, Ceremonies_, &c.


1. Before Appearances are made, after forms of Conjuration are
repeated, the Infernal Spirits make various and wonderful shews,
noises, and attempts as fore-runners to their appearance: At the first
attempts of novices in Conjuration, they are accompanyed with noises,
tremblings, flashes, howlings, and most dreadful shriekes, till after
further progress and experience therein they approach nearer unto this
Elemental nature, till by degrees they can manifestly be apparent unto
their Exorcist.

♦Shews before Spirits appear.♦

2. When _Chiancungi_, and his sister _Napala_, did first attempt to
call up Spirits, they begun with the Spirit ►Bokim◄, in the twentieth
degree: they hung a vault under ground with black both on the top and
bottom, lining it therewith; and having drawn the Circle of the Order
of Thrones, with the seven Planets, and their Magical Characters in the
Center, they proceeded to the Ceremonies of Conjuration after they had
frequently repeated the forms of calling, and nothing as yet appeared;
they were grown so desperate therein, that forsaking the Circle, and
every defensive Character or Ceremony, they at last betook themselves
to the most accursed and detestable branch of Magick, which consists of
Compacts, or Confederacy; and having by a solemn League summoned the
aforesaid Spirit ►Bokim◄, they obtain’d 155. years from the Spirit,
Covenanting therewith for body, soul, and works.

♦A Relation of a Magician.♦

3. In which damned life they continued exercising strange wonders in
every Countrey. By the help of this Magician the _Tartars_ did destroy
above 100 sail of Ships belonging unto _China_; many losses did he
bring upon that Kingdom in their Children, Fruits, Corn, Silk, and
Navigation; he could frequently transport himself through the Air, and
carry in one hand a thousand pound weight, to the astonishment of all
that knew him. He had many publick contests with Magicians of other
Countries, being tryals of skill in Magical Art, wherein he was said to
excel all that ever went before him.

♦His Actions.♦

4. Such another was _Lewis Gaufridi_ a _French_ Priest, who had
compacted with the Devil, and served him 14 years in these detestable
works, sacrificing Infants unto him, worshipping him in a filthy shape,
and tempting others to their Magical society or nocturnal Conventions;
in which, as it is reported, they did ever feast and junket with
varieties and dainties, which though they did seem delectable, were yet
notwithstanding gustless and unsavoury.

♦Another Magician.♦

5. Leaving these relations, something shall be said of _Charms_ and
_Spells_, as they are divided in this following manner; first, such
Amulets as being engraven and molded in the fashion of Money, or Coyn,
do serve to provoke any one desired unto love and familiarity, being
hung about the neck in certain Planetary hours. Secondly, Spells or
Charms in Parchment with Magical Characters, as Periapts to Cure
diseases; to make one valiant, memorative, and constant. Thirdly,
Corselets, which are an ancient _Danish_ Charm of Neck-laces, composed
of Thunderstones ingraven with Magical Letters, to resist all noxious
influences, and the danger of Lightning.

♦What Charms are.♦

6. _Pentacles_ are a fourth sort of appendix, which Conjurers,
Charmers, and Magicians use, being made with five corners, according to
the five Senses, and the operation thereof inscribed upon the corners;
the matter whereof they are composed, is fine Linnen doubled, and done
with Cere-cloth between. This figure the Magician holds in his hand,
lifting it up from the skirt of his Garment to which it is annexed,
when Spirits that are raised are stubborn and rebellious, refusing to
be conformable unto the Ceremonies and Rites of Magick.

♦Pentacles.♦

7. Also by the holding forth of _Pentacles_, with these words,
►Glauron, Amor, Amorula, Beor, Beorka, Beroald, Anepheraton◄,
repeated at the instant. The evil Spirits that possess the bodies of
bewitched people are cruelly tortured and amazed, being by the frequent
repetition thereof forced at last to depart by the assistance of the
Exorcism of the sixth Cannon for the order of Seraphims.

♦Their force.♦

8. When Magicians exercise Conjuration by Moon-light in the Mountains
or Valleys, they have another sort of Charm by way of Telesms, which
they bury within a hundred paces of the place where the Circle is
composed towards the _East_, _West_, _North_, and _South_; For such
spells have the secret power to hinder any living creature for coming
near them, till their Exercize be done, except the Infernal Spirit,
whose presence they do so ardently desire.

♦Telesms.♦

9. Such _Spells_ as are made in some Edible matter, with _Characters
upon them_, are given for _Agues_, _Head-ach_, _Epilepsie_, _Mother_,
&c. Especially being powerful in operation, when the party is ignorant
of the Charm taken in; many such I know have taken wonderful effect.
But as for _Philtres_, _Potions_, and _Love-cups_, they proceed rather
from a natural cause; whether their effects be to afflict with Diseases
to Poyson, or to provoke unto Love of a Party whom they disdain:
Neither are such to be numbered amongst Charms; because their effect is
meerly natural, from a natural cause.

♦For Diseases.♦

10. But to insist further upon the nature of Conjuration, Magicians do
much exercise their time in _Fumigations_ unto those Spirits whom they
are about to provoke; their fumes being distributed according to the
nature of the Spirit under any of the seven Planets, which the antient
Conjurers were very punctual in observing, though in these days it be
much forgot, as superfluous, or rather dangerous to insert amongst the
Ceremonies of Conjuration. A division of Fumigations according to the
Influence of the Planets, and Orders of Spirits, we will here set down
in this manner.

♦Fumigations.♦

11. _Fumigations_ for _Saturn_ are made of Frankincense Trees,
Pepperwort Rooots,[*] Storax, and Galbanum; by these the Spirits
►Marbas◄, ►Corban◄, ►Stilkon◄, ►Idos◄, &c. And all of the first order
in the astringency are appeased and provoked, when the _fumes_ are put
upon a _Tripod_ in the hour of _Saturn_ according to the Planetary
division. These _Fumigations_ make these Spirits appear like old men,
with promiss beards, and meager looks; like Serpents, Cats, Wolves,
Badgers, Panthers; like old Men in Armour; like Trumpeters in many
ranks and divisions.

♦For _Saturn_.♦

♦[*] [_sic_]♦

12. For Spirits under _Jupiter_, they take Lignum Aloes, Ashen-Keys,
Benjamin, Storax, Peacocks-feathers, and _Lapis Lazuli_, mixing the
same with the blood of a Stork, a Swallow, or a Hart; the brains being
also added. The _fumes_ are kindled in _Jupiters_ hour, and in a place
appropriate to his nature. And by this sacrifice the Spirits of the
next order are called up, like glorious Kings with many attendants, and
mighty pomp; with Heralds before them, and Ensign-bearers, Trumpeters,
Guards, and all sorts of musical Instruments.

♦_Jupiter._♦

13. They make _Fumigations_ unto such Spirits of the order of Powers,
as are under _Mars_, in the Planetary division with Aromatick Gum,
Bdellium, Euphorbium, Load-stone, Hellebore white and black, and
an addition of Sulphur to make them into an Amalgama, with Man’s
blood, and the blood of a black Cat; which mixtures are said to be
exceeding magical: so that without any other addition, they say, this
_fumigation_ is able of it self to make such Spirits to appear before
the Exorcist; at their appearance they come with weapons brandishing,
and shining Armour, being terrible in their looks; yet of power
inferiour to the Spirits of _Saturn_, though they can likewise shew
themselves as Lions, Wolves, Tygers, Bears, and all other cruel or
ravenous Beasts.

♦_Mars._♦

14. They do likewise unto the Spirits under _Sol_, being of the order
of Thrones, _Suffumigate_ Saffron, Musk, Laurel, Cinnamon, Ambergriece,
Cloves, Myrrhe, and Frankincense, Musk, and the Balsamick Tree mixed
up together with the brain of an Eagle, and the blood of a white Cock,
being made up like Pills, or little Balls, and put upon the _Tripod_;
their appearances are Castles, Gardens, Mountains, Rivers, Fisher-men,
Hunters, Reapers, Dogs, Sheep, Oxen, and other domestick Beasts.

♦_Sol._♦

15. Under _Venus_ are the Spirits of the sixth order in the Powers;
their appearances are very stately, like the nature of the Planet; like
Courtiers, Ladies, Princes, Queens, Infants, Children, and fragrant
smells. The _fumigations_ appropriate unto them are Roses, Coral,
_Lignum Aloes_, and _Sperma Ceti_ made up with Sparrows, brains and
blood of Pidgeons to be fumigated with a Song.

♦_Venus._♦

16. _Mercury_ sendeth Horsemen, Fishers, Labourers, Priests, Students,
Servants, _&c._ Also, Foxes, Serpents, Dogs, Hares, Hyena’s, Hydra’s,
and other Monstrous Animals; unto him they _fumigate_ Frankincense,
Mastick, Cinkfoyl, incorporated with the brain of a Fox, and the blood
of a Mag-Pye.

♦_Mercury._♦

17. Spirits under _Luna_ are like Ghosts and shadows, very gastly
to behold; though in humane shape sometimes male, sometimes female.
_Fumigations_ are offered unto them of Frogs dryed, white Poppy-seed,
Bulls Eyes, Camphire, and Frankincense, incorporated with Gooses blood,
and the menstruous blood of Women.

♦_Luna._♦

18. These are the divisions of _fumigations_, neither can it be denyed,
but that in many Ceremonies of this kind, there is great inherent
virtue according to the Doctrines of Sympathy and Antipathy, whereby
every thing is drawn by its like in the Idea, whither by words or
actions, according to the saying, _In verbis, herbis & lapidibus latet
virtus_, so that the Ceremonies and Charms, with other circumstances
used by Magicians, are doubtless prevalent to the accomplishment of
that work which they undertake; to wit, _The calling up and Exorcizing
of Infernal Spirits by Conjurations_.

♦Why such Ceremonies are of force.♦




CHAP. VII.

_Being the Conclusion of the Whole; wherin divers antient Spells,
Charms, Incantations and Exorcisms are briefly spoken of._


1. Besides what the Author hath set down, there be many other _Spells_
and _Charms_, which Tradition hath left unto Posterity, being many of
them effectual for the thing intended by them, as in the precedent