Part XV.

f Loc. dt‘
'that it ts fcen with a Beauty by Sacred Perforts, \ ^here they imcld not have them come, chafing and glides up and down pleafantly -and gracicufly them away by things Antipathetical to them, as
through the Depths of the World, f This will not deceive the initiated Ferfon, but whatfoever (jue-
they allure them by things Sympathetical.
From theje Alatcrial Daemons, ^ upon thofe * ppi, de Da-
g PfcL in Orac. 21.
h Pfel. in Orac. 25.
(Bon YOU (hall \ropofe, the anjwer will be mofi ' that worfhw them, defcend certain Jury Irradiati- mn. ^true^ ^ \etts, like thofe they call falling biars, gliding up
’ When thou feeft (faith the Oracle) a tind down, which thofe^mad Per Ions t-rm Appari- . Sa'-red Fire without I tens of God-, but there is nothing true, firm, or
Form finning flajhingly thro the Depths certain in them, but cheats,like thofe of Jiiglers, of '‘the whole World 'which the common People term Wonders, becaufe
hear the voice of Fire. ^hey deceive the eye ^ for being removed far * Pfel. in
\ from the Beatitude of Divine Life, and defiitute^’^'^' p When thou beholdeji the Divine Fire void oj of IntelMiiial Contemplation, they cannot prefig- Fiture brkhtly gliding up and down the World, nifie futures,but allthat they fiy or Jkew is falje and Pracioufly fmiling. Men to this voice, as and not folid, for they know Beings bringing a mof perfect Prefcience. ! iheir outfides, but that which knoweth futures
But /; iheje things zvhich appear to initi1ned\porticularly, ufeth Notions indivifible and not fi- Pe if ons,asThunder, Lightning, and all elf e what- 'gured. foever,are only Symbols or Signs, not the Nature of God.
a pfel. de Damon.
CHAP. VJIi.
Material Damons how to be repulfed.
AS it is one property of Theurgy toevocate and procure a Converfation with good Demons, fo is it another, to repulfeand chafe a- way the Material Daemons, which, as they con¬ ceive maybe effeeted feveral ways-, either by i Words or AHions.
By Words : For as a Alareus delivers the Chaldaick Ofimon) thefe material Damons fear¬ ing to be fent to Abyjfes and fubterraneal Places, and ft ending in awe of the Angels who fend them thither, if a Man threaten to fend them thither, and pronounce the names of thofe Angels whofe Office that is, it is hardly to be exprejfed how much they will be affrighted and troubled -, fo great will their aft onifiment be, as that tloey are not able to difeern the P erf on that menaces them, and thd it be fome old Worn an, or a little old Alan that threa¬ tens them, yet fo great is their fear, that they de¬ part as if he that menaces were able to kill ’m.
A n,. n By Addons: For the Bodies of D
fame b Author) are capable of being firuck, and are pained t hereby -, S enfe is not the Property of Compounds, but of Spirits I hat tiling in a Alan
which feeleth , is neither the Bone, nor the Nerve, but the Spirit which is in them: whence, if the Nerve be prejfed or feized with cold, or the like, there arifeth, pain from the Emiffion of one Spirit into another -, for dis impoffible that a compound Body fiiouldin it fclf be fenfible of Pain, but in as much as it partakes' of Spirit, and theref ore being cut into pieces, or dead, it is abfolutely infenfible -,
, becaufe it hath no Spirit. In like manner a D.emon being all Spirit is of his own Nature fenfible in every part -, he immediately feethand heareth -, he is obnoxious, to fuffering by touch -, being cut af un¬ der he is pained like folid Bodies j only herein dif¬ fering from ''em, that other things being cut a fun¬ der can by no means or very hardly be made whole again,whereas the Damon immediately comes toge¬ ther again, as air, or water parted by fome more folid Body. But tho'‘ this Spiritfoyn again in a mo¬ ment, at the time in which the difjedien is made Pis pain'd-, for this reafon they are much afraid of Svoords -, which they who chafe 'em away knowing, fiick up pointed Irons or Svoords in thofe places
THE
Fourth Section.
Of the Gods, and Religious Worjhip of the Chaldasans.
N the lafi: place, as to the Explication of the Chaldaick DoUrine, e^ecia-Uy of that part, which concerns their Afhaphim) it is necellary w^e give account of the Gods of the Chaldaans, and of their Religious Worfhip.
And tho’ Mr. Selden hath reduced all the A- fiatick Gods under the common name of Syrian, in his excellent Treatife upon that Subje£l j yet we (hall take notice of liich only as were pro¬ per to Afjyria, (whether as being Worlhippcd no where elfe, or from thence brought into Syria and other Countries) conceiving the reft nothing pertinent to the Chaldaans or Babylonians.
The Religious Worfhip of AxtChaldaans may be reduced to three Kinds ; The firft, a Wor¬ fhip of the true God, but after an Idolatrous manner ; The fecond, of Daemons, or Spirits; The third, of the Celeftial Bodies, and Ele¬ ments.
C H A P. 1.
Of their Idolatrous Worfhip of the True God.
THe firft kind of the Chaldaick Worfhip was of .the True God, tho’ ^ter an Idolatrous manner ; The Author of the Chaldaick Summa¬ ry affirms, that they held one Principle of all things, and declare that it is orie and good, • That by this one and good they meant the True God,
(to whom alone thole Attributes belong) may be gathered from a Eufebius, who faith,(fpeak- ,
ing doubtlels of the Followers of ZoroafierfihdX in the fir ft place they conceive God the Father arid King ought to be ranked-, for this reafon the. Delphian Oracle attefted by Porphyrius, joyns 'them with the Hebrews j
Chaldees and Jews wife only, Worfiipping Purely a Self begotten Qedand King.