Book called The Way to Blifie : The World

then in the feventh Chiliad will be affumed
up into GOD, fnatcht up by his Spirit,
inafted by his power : The Jerusalem that
comes down from Heaven , will then in a
moft glorious and eminent manner flou-
rifh upon earth j God will, as 1 laid, by
feven, pitch his Tabernacle amongft us :
and for God to be in us and with us, is as
much as for us to be lifted up into God.

26. By Ccwen Cornelius Agrifpa being at
Tar is writ- to a Friend of his at the Court,
the fignification of a faying in Jeremiah :
viz. Our Crown is fallen *, Woe unto usfecaufe
we have finned *, which ( fayes he ) I wi(h
might not be fo truly applied to you j for
truly that verfe, the Numeral Letters be-
ing gathered together, MCVL expref-
feth the year MDXXlV. wherein, ac-
cording to the account, your King was ta-
ken ztPapi*.

27 The number feven engraven in a
Jafperftone, with the parties Name, and
the Numbers attributed to it^the Angel or
the Planet, and day of the week j and this
they fay is good to obtain the favour of a
Lady in Marriage , and the Love of Vir-
gins *, it maketh the bearer fortunate alio
in Gaming , as Tables, Gards,Dice,Horfe-
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racing, Bowling, Shooting, Cock-fight-
ing, &c And by this Number they fay
trill appear a little Maid, cloathed in long
white Garments, with her hairfpreada-
broad, holding flowers in her right hand,
and (he gives vertue to this number, that
the bearer of it (hall go at his pleafure in-
vifible : if it be engraved with his name
and Genius, &c. in a Diamond.

By this Number they give phyftck to
renew Youth,^. but fome do not be-
lieve there is any fuch thing as Spirits h
but we (hall prove their Exiftence and Ap-
parition in the third Book,e^c.

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C H A P. X.

The Slumber of VFif-
dome.

Ofthefignificationof the Number 8, and what
Angels may be called by it> and how they ap-
pear.

i. T Am not angry at theFanatick dif-
Jl poikionsof men, that raile againft
my Writings, viz. Francis O$born> Author
of Advice to a Sony and Elias Ajhmole, Efq;
that made publick my imperfeft Copy ;
and fome others I pky3 being the worm-
eaten memorials of defaced Hiftories
&c.

2. Thefe ignorantly wonder what thofe
Officious Spirits fhould be I fo much talk of
in my book,called the Familiar Spirit. that
fo willingly appeare, and after my dire-
ctions^ offer themfelves to confociate with
a man.

3. O my enemies/ whom I pity, more
thendifpife, I (hall tell you lovingly, as I
fpeak to the capacities of people j They
are Angels uncapable of incorporation
into humane bodies and fouls of thede-

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ceafed, that have affinity with mortality
and humane frailty* and thefe will not
appear to you at all times, but every firft,
third, fifth, feventh, ornineth yeare,
they will come, and for ever accompany
you in a fortunate Jelefme,

4, And eight will bring to you a G eni-
us you (hall know in its proper place :
And Orpheus was ufed to befeech Divine
Jufhce by eight, and he ufually fwareby
eight Deities, viz. Fire, Water, Earth, the
Heaven, Moon, Sun, Planets, the Night :
and ^irg*/ fpeaking of Ma gick^ faith,

1 many times with eight have Maeris fpy'd
Chang'd to a PVolfe, and in the Woods to

bide :
From Sepulchres would foules departed

charm,
And come beare ftanding from anothers

Farm.

5 . The Jiofie Crucians call eight the num-
ber of Juftice and Fulneffe : firft, becaufe
itisfirft of all divided into numbers e-
qualiy even,2>/£. into four, and that divi-
iion is by the fame reafon made into two
times two, viz. two times t\vo twice ; and
by reafon of this equality of Divifion, ic
tooktoitfelfthe nameof Jufticcj butthe
other received the name, viz, of Fulnefs*

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by reafon of the Contexture of the corpo-
real folidity, fince the firft makes a foiid
body. There are eight only viftble Spheres
cf the Heavens*, alfo by it the propercy of
corporeal matter is fignified, which lyrius
comprehended in eight of the Sea -fangs :
this is alfo called the Covenant, or Cir-
cumcifion, which was commanded to be
aone by the Jew? the 8tb day.

6. By eight it is faid, a Gentleman in
the Kings Army at Edge- hill battel (hewed
tr.e effe&s of Spirits, viz. the appearance
of armed men righting and encountring
one againft another in the skie, and hun-
dreds faw thefe things befides him-
felf.

7. And through eight Tfagarith (hewed
the Citizens of krufalent for forty dayes,
or five times eight together3horfmen run-
ning in the aire in cloth of Gold, and ar-
med with Lances, like a band of fouldiers,
and troops of horfmen in array, encoun-
tring and running one againit another,
vith making of fhields, and multitudes of
pkes, and drawing of fwords, and cafting
oidarts, and glittering of golden orna-
ments, and harnefs of all forts : and thus
he->redi&ed the great (laughter of nolefs
thd 80000 made by Antiochus : this is al-
fo recorded in the fecond of Macchabees^
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8. And in eight was feen a Sea-fight o-
ver Sydmoutb in Devonjhirey by Caleb Perkin-
fott) a Captain of a Ship and his company ;
and he predicted a Sea-fight, which hap-
pened betwixt us and the Hollanders.

g. Eight is an evil number, and alwaies
fignifies difeafes, or death ; and in the
old Law there were eight Ornament of
the Prieft, viz. a Breaft-plate, a Coat, a
Girdle, a Mytre, a Robe, an Ephod, a
Girdle of an Ephod, a Golden Plate : hi-
ther belongs the number to Eternity, aid
the end of the World., becaufe it follo^es
the number feven, which is the myneryof
time.

10. By eight Hammel caufed a Spirit,
called JLckerkeH) to appear alwaies in the
fliape of a hand, and haunt thofe that
troubled him, pulling down travellers off
their horfes , and overturning carri-
ages.

1 1 . They fay this number was dedicatee
to Dionyfiu*, becaufe he was born the 8th.
monethj in everlafting memory whereof
Naxos the lfland was dedicated to hin,
which obtained this prerogative, tiat
onelythc women of Naxos mould faely
bring forth in the- eighth moneth,and
their children mould live; where?* the
children of the eighth moneth mother
Nations die, and their mother then

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bringing forth are in manifeft dan-

§er-

12. By^ight artificially chara&redina

proper i\xb)tdi9 Apollonius Tyaneus told the
Epbefians of an old man that was a Spe-
ctre, and how the walking Plague was by
his means in the ^ity here and there ;
whereupon they ftoned the fhape5 and af-
ter a while they uncovered the heap ;
whereupon appeared the fhape of a great
black dog, as big as any Lion ; Yet I know
feme able Araftsm England, that will not
believe but this is Melancholy and fraud
of a Prieft : But the learned Grotius, a man
far from all levity znd vain credulity, is
fo fecure ofche truth of Jyanem his Mira-
cles, and Telefmaticall Numbers, that
he does not ftick to terme rum impudent
that has the face to deny them.

13. In the Infernall world there are 8
rewards of the damned, Prifon, Death,
Judgement, the wrath of God, Drunken-
nefs, Indignation, Tribulation, Anguiih 5
and eight kinds of bleffed men in the Jef-
fer world, the Poor in fpirit, the Merciful,
the Meek, the Viourners, they that hunger
and thirft after Righteoufw efs, the Peace-
makers, they which are perfecuted for
Righteoufnefle fake : eight particular
qualities in the Elementary world, the
heat of the Fire, the moiftnefle of the Air,-

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the coldnefs of the Water, the drineffe of
the Ear^h, the drinefs of the Fire,the heat
of the Aire, the coldnefs of the Earth, t he
moiftnefs of the Water; and eight rewards
of theBleffed; Inheritance, Incorrupision,
Power, Victory, the Viiion of God,Gracc,
a Kingdome, Joy; and the Name of God
in the Original word is written fometimes
with eight letters, Eloha Vadaatb nV?**
rtjm Iehovab Vedaatb r^Tt*1 Fl^m and
thefe Qneftions are refolved by eight.

14. The number eight Jelefmntically en.
graved, as others were in an Onyx ftone,
they fay rendreth a man powerful in good
and evil,fothat he (hall be feared of all ;
andwhofoever carrieth it, they give him
the power of charming difeafes, and he
(hall terrine men by his looks when he is
angry: this makes alfo a man bold and
fortunate in Wars: by this number ap-
pears a Spirit like a man riding upon a Li-
on, having in his right hand a naked
fword : and by. this number they preferve
goods from ftealing, and caufe Thieves to
bring again what they have taken away;
thishelpethalldifeafesin the fecrets and
bowels : by this number rhcy know when
she party will die that is lick.

CHAP.

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CHAP. XI.

'The u^Qimber of chan-
ging ^Bodies.

Of the fignification of the number nines how
tha 1 by nine Julius C asfa r called up Spirits,
and did what he fie a fed: how Ga Heron by
nine went invifible, and bad the focietyofa
familiar Genius.

11. A Nd nine is a powerful number iri
A all things : Julius Cafar made this
number in Gold lelefmatically in the hour
by Artj and carried with him in his
march to the River Rubicon, which divides
Gallia Citerior from Italy, and upon the
Banks fide his Army faw appear at his com-
mand., a Genius, like a proper man, play-
ing on a Reed 5 the ftrangenefs of his
a&ions,as well as the pleafantnefs of his
mufick, had drawu feveral of theShep-^
herds unto hini3 as alfo many of the Soul-
diers j amongft whom were fome Trum-
peters, which this Triton (if I may fo call
him ) or Sea- god, well obferving, nimbly
fnatches away one of the Trumpets out of
i^heir hands, leaps forthwith into the Ri^

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ver, and founding to horfe , with that
ftrength and violence> that he Teemed to
rend the heavens, and made the aire ring
again with the mighty forciblenefs of the
blaft : in this manner he pafled over to the
other fide of the River : whereupon Ctfar
taking the Omen, leaves off all further di-
fputewith himfelf, carries over his army,
enters Italy y fecureof fuccefs, from the fo
manifeft tokens of the favour of the gods.
The number nine is dedicated to the Mu*
fes,by the help of the order of the celefti*
al fpheres,and divine Spirits.

2. And there are nine Spheres; andac.
cording to thefe there are nine Mufes^/z.
Galiope, Vratiia, Volymnia, Terpfichore, Clio,
Melpomene, Erato, Euterpe and Thalia',\vhich
nine Mufes indeed are appropriated to the
nineSpheres,fothat the rirft refembles the
fupreme fphere, which they call Frimum
Mobile ', and fo defcending by degrees, ac
cording to the written order, unto the
laft, which refembles the Sphere of the
Moon.

3 So the Name of GOD in the Origi-
nal Word, is fometimes written with nine
letters, mssaymn'' Jehovah Saboatb9

FaOIM riBOP • and there are in the intel-
ligible World nine Quire of Angels, SeraM
ph\m,Cherubin^ Thrones, Tcminations, Tow-\ i

erij

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ers, Vertues, principalities i Arch-angels, An-
gels ; and nine Angel? ruling the Heavens,
Metattron* Ophaniel, Zaph\iel, Zadkjel, Ca-
tnael, Raphael, Haniel, Michael, Gabriel. In
the Celeftial World Calliope is appropriate
to the Frivnum Mobiles Vrania to the Starry
Heaven, Folymnia to Saturne; Terpfcchore to
Jupiter s\Clio to Mars-, Melpomene to the Sun,
Erato to Venus, Euterpe to Mercury, Thalia
to the Moon : and they engrave nine upon
a Saphir , Emrald , Carbuncle^ Beril , #»/'*,
Chrifolite, Jajper, or 7tf/w$ : but properly
and moft effectually to be refoived of their
Queftions, or to obtain their defires, they
Tcfmatically in an hour engrave it in Sar-
dis or Silver 3 and this will make a man
(they fay) go invifible, as Caleron, Alexan-
ders brother '-in-law fometime did, when
he lay with his brothers Concubine as of-
ten as himfelf ; This number obtaineth
the love of women.

4. And the nineth houre our Saviour
breathed out his Spirit \ and in nine dayes
the Ancients buried their dead; and nine
years Minos received Lawes from Iupiter, as
you may read in my Book, called The Idea
of the Law. and nine was moft efpecially
taken notice of by Homer, when Lawes
were to be given, or anfwers were to be
given, or the fvvord was like to rage ; the
Ajirologers and Geomancers alfo obferve the

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number nine in the ages of men,no other-
wife then they do of feven,which they call
a Climafterical year; which are eminent for
fome remarkable change: yet fomctimes
it fignifies imperfettnefs and uncompleat-
nefs,becaufe it doth not attain to the per-
fection of the number ten, but is lefs by
one 3 without which it is deficient, as Au-
ftin interprets it of the ten Lepers -, nei-
ther is the longitude of nine Cubits of 0gy
King othafan, who is a type of the Devil,
without a Myfterie ; and there are nine
fenfes inward and outward together in
man, viz. Memory, Cogitative, Imaginative)
Common fenfe; Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Ta-
tting, Touching : and nine orders of Devils
in Sheol, viz. Falfe Spirits of Lying,Vefels of
Iniquity, Avengers of Wickgdnefs, Iuglers, or
Lylians, Airy Towers, Furies, [owing Mifcbiefy
Sifters, or Tryers, Tempters, or Infnarers.

I aime at the Celeftial Glory ;
Below the Moon alTs Tranfitory.

15. The number nine, the number of the
Planet, day of the week. Angel of the day,
and hour engraven in Gold, will (they
fay)bring down to you an Angel like a King
crowned, fitting in a Chair, having a Ra-
ven in hisbofome, and under his fret a
Globe ; he wears Saffron-colour'd clothes3

and

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& he, they report,gives vertue to the num-
ber 8c makes the bearer of it invincible &
honorable, &. helps to bring their bufinefs
to a good end, and to drive away vaine
Dreams. This number prevails againft
Feavers and the Plague, and they made
it in a Balanitis-ftom, or a Jtubie : This
number caufeth long life and health : by
this Number Vlato fo ordered himfelf,that
he could by it caufe Nature to end his
dayesat his pleafure, and by departing
upon the fame 81 years after his Birth, to
fulfill of purpofe nine times nine, the
moft perfect Number.

CHAP,

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CHAP. XII.

The 3\(jtmberof Me-
dicines.

Of the figmfication of the number ten , how by
this Number ten , Socrates in a Monitory
Vifwnhada Swan in his tap>and of Plato's
birth and education.

j
i . *T* He Number ten is a Number of ho-
JL nour and preferment, and Pythago-
ras had honour by it. And Plato by this
Number had the knowledge of the more
facred Viyfteriesof God, and the ftateof
the foul of man in this world , and that
other defervedly got to himfelf the title
of Divine, o ©el©- TiKuTav.

2. But as for Miracles , I know none he
did, though fomething highly miraculous
happened,if that Fame at Athens was true,
that SfeufippUsClearchuS) and Anaxilides re-
port to have been , concerning his Birth,
which is, that Ariftoy his reputed Father,
when he would forcibly have had to do
with Peritione^ (he being indeed exceeding
fair and beautiful , fell fhort of his pur-i
pofe,and furceafing from his attempr,thac

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hefaw ApaUo in a Vihon , and fo abftain'd
from medling with his Wife, till (he
brought forth herfon Ariftocles, who after
wascalledP/*t0.

3. But that is far more credible, which
is reported concerning the commending
of him to his Tutor Socrates, who the day
before he came, dreamed that he had a
young Swan in his Lap , which putting
forth apace of afudden , flew up into the
Air, and fung (very fweetly * wherefore
the next day, when Tlato wasbroughtto
him by his Father, t«7^, \muv\iv tqv^uv^
he prefently faid , this is the Bird, and fo
willingly received him for his Pupil.

4. Eut his acquaintance with the Holy
Guide , as it is more credible in it felf, fo I
havealfo better proof: As Ariflobulus the
Jew in Clemens Alexandrians- Saint Am-
brose, Hermipfns in Jofephus againft Appions :
And \z&\y,NutncnnM the Flatonift, who in-
genioufly confeffes , T/ y&s <%t TXharav n
Ma>w 'hTJMi£av ; That is Tlato, but Mofes
in Greek,, as 1 haveelfewhere in my Book
called, The Idea of the Law, alledged a-
mongft Law-givers; the Number ten is
called, every Number,Gompleat,ngnify-
ing the full courfc of life ; for beyond
that we cannot number within it felf, or
explain them by it felf, and its own by-
multiplying them,

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Wherefore it is accounted to be of a
manifold Religion and Power, and is ap-
plied to the purging of fouls : Hence the
Ancients called Ceremonies Denary, be-
caufe they that were to be expected , and
to offer Sacrifices were to abftain from
iome certain things for ten dayes,whence
amongft the Egyptians, it wasthecuftome
for him that would (acritke to J ao (i.e.)
Jabyto faft ten dayes before; which Apt"
tarteftifiesof himfelf,faying, it was com-
manded that I mould for thefpace often
dayes refrain all meat, and be fading.

5. There are ten Sanguine parts of
Man,che lYlenftrue, theSperm,the Plafma-
tick fpirit5the Mafle, the Humours, the Or-
ganical body, the Vegetative part , the
Sensitive part , Reafon, a*ad the Minde ;
There are alfo ten fimple Integral parts
constituting a man, the Bone, the Carti-
lage,Nfrve,Fibre,Ligament,^rteryjVein,
Membrane, Flelh, Skin. There are alfo
ten parts of which a Man coniifts intrin-
fecally, the Spirit, the Brain, the Lungs,
the Heari , the Liver, the Gall, the
Spleen,the JCidnies, the Tefticle?,the Ma-
trix.

6. There are ten Curtains in the Tem-
ple,teu firings in the Pfaltery, ten mufical
inftruments which with Pfalms werefung,
the names whereof weseNeza^ on which

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their Odes were fung : labium the fame as
Organs, ' Mizmor on which thePfalms,SzVs
on which the Canticles , Tebila on which
Orations , Berach on which Benedictions,
#W^ on which Praifes, Hodaiacn which
thanks,^/r? on which the felicity orbliffe
and happinefs of any one , Hallelujah on
which the thepraifes of God only, and
Contemplations: there were alfo ten fi-
gures of Pfalms, a. a. &c.

7. And there were ten Singers, viz.
Adam^Abrabam^Melchifedec^ Mofes, Afaph,
Vavid^Sclomon^nd the three fohs ofCborah
And the name of God in the original
world is written with ten Letter, Crfrj*
n^3Y EAo/K*'£*°9: There are ten Com-
mandements, and the tenth day after the
Afcentionof Chrift, the Holy Ghoftcame
down: There arc ten Names of God,

8. And the Number ten eaft in Gold
was it, in which Jacob wreftling with the
Angel all night overcame , and at the ri-
ling of the Sun was bleffed, and called by
the name of Ifrael. By,and in this Num-
ber Jofbua overcame thirty one Kings,and
by ten in a Carbuncle Vavid overcame

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Goliah , and the Phiiiftin.es ; and in ten
Vaniel efcaped the danger of the Lions.

9. There are ten lYJcflengers that carry
the fouls down from God through the
Heavens, Spheres, Stars, and Planets to
the bodies of men , and thefe be their
names, Ketber^ Heckmach , Binah, He fed, ,
Geburah) lipberetb> Nezah9 Jod, Hefod, Mai-
chutb > this Number is as circular as unity,
becaufe being heaped together,ret urns in-
to an unity, from whence it had its begin-
ning j and it is the end and perfe&ion of
all Numbers,and the beginning of tens as
the Number ten flows into unity back
again,from whence it proceeded *, fo every
thing that is flowing, is returned back to
that from which it had the beginning of
its Flux, fo water returns to the Sea from
whence it had its beginning ; the body
returns to the earth from whence it was
taken; time returns to eternity from
whence it flowed ; the fpirit fhall return
to God that gave it ; and laftly , every
creature returns to nothing, from whence
it was created, neither is it {imported, but
by the Word of God, in whom all things
are hid. .

10. By the Number ren Volomides an
Abbot of Malego m Spain could tell al-
moit at any diftance how the affairs of the
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a&ions there were in all the Nations of
Chriftendome , from whence he got to
himfelf the reputation of a very holy
man , and a Rofie Crucian ; but other
things came to pafle , no lelfe ftrange and
miraculous, as that at the celebrating of
the holy Eucharift s the Prieft fhould al-
wayes want one of his round Wafers ,
which was fecretiy conveyed to this
Prieft or Abbot, by the administration of
Angels, he receiving into his mouth, eat
it in the view of the people,to their great
aftoniftiment , and high reverence of the
Saint.

11. At the elevation of the Hoft , Pfl/o-
mides 6eing near at hand , but yet a wall
betwixt, that the wall was conceived to
open, and to exhibitc Tolomides to the
view of them intheChappel. And thus
when hepleafed he would partake of the
confecrated bread j when this Abbot came
into the Chappel himfelf, upon fome fpe-
cial day, that he would fet off the folem-
nity of the day by fome notable arid con-
fpicuous Miracle; for he would fome-
times be lifted up above the ground three
or four Cubits high , other ibmeumes
bearing the Image of Chrift in his Armes,
weeping favourly, he would make his hair
to increafe to the length and largenefs,
that it would con*e to his heels and cover
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him all over) and the Image of Chrift in
his armes , which anon notwithftanding
would fiirink up again to its ufual iize :
And after this he called an Angel by ten
in Gold Telefmatical engraven , fofhew
the true Religion to him 5 and the Angei
bid him turn Proteftant , in the beft fenfe
of the Church of England-, and after-
wards all his life he preached , and was
created Bifhop in England , and preached
to the Proteftants in France , and known
well by the name of the Biftiop of Sfa-
latta.

12. And all things with the Number
ten, and by the Number ten make a
round, taking their beginning from God,,
and ending in him : God therefore the
firft unity ,or one thing,before he commu-
nicated himfelf to inferiours, diffufed
himfelf into the firft of Numbers , viz,-
the Number three, then into the Number
ten , as into ten Idea's and meafures of
making all Numbers3and all things,which
the Hebrews call ten Attributes and blef-
fed Souls, viz. Haloehy Hakades, Ofhanim,
Aralim, Hafmallim , Seraphim, Mdachim,
Elohim , Ben Elobim , Cherubim lfiim\ and
ten Angels ruling, Meiratton, Jopbiel, Zafh-
kjel,Zadkjel, Camael, Raphael, Haviel, Mi-
chael, Gabriel, the foul of Mefliah : Ten
Spirits-of theWorldthat rule the Spheres

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Refcbithbagallalim, Maflotb, SMatbi,Zedf^y
Madim, Schemes , Nogay Ckocab^Levanab^Ho-
lorn, Jefodoth : ten confccrated Animals,
viz. a Dove, a Libard, a Dj agon^m Eagle,
a Horfc , Lion, Man, Genital*, Bull, a
Lamb: They account ten Divine names,
for which there cannot b?. a further Num-
ber.

13. Hence all tens have fome divine
things in them,and in the Law are requi-
red of God as his own , together with the
firft fruits as the original of things, and
beginning of Numbers , and every tench
is the end given to him, who is the begin-
ning and end of all things : and ten Or-
ders of the Damned in Hell , viz. falfc
gods,lying fpirits, {Villi am Lilly the King of
Swedem Jnglery &c. VefTels of Iniquity,
Tempters or Enfnarers, Sifters or Triers,
Revengers of wickednefs, Furies the Se-
minaries of Evil, Aery Powers, wicked
fouls bearing Rule.

All fpirits were created pure at fir ■/?,
But by xb eir felf- will after were accurfl.

14. The Number ten, and the Letters
and Numbers of Angels, &c. engraven in
a Carbuncle, rendreth a man free .'from
difeafes, and nuketh him in e long, rrefti,
and beautiful, this heipeth ail difeafes in

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IOO the Holy Guide. LlB.2.

the Kidnies,it caufeth the party that bear-
eth it to live fecure from Theeves, for no
Thief can enter his houfe in the night,
nor have power tocarry away a Sheep or
Horfe,&c. if once ftept in the ground, he
fhall not come out again until the party
that owns the ground pleafes : and this
Number you muft character or caft in
Copper , and lay it under the gate in the
earth , and in the ground on the Eaft fide
of the place you wou'd have guarded, be
it Houfe,Garden,or an Orchard,^. And
its faid the Angel that gives vertue to this,
appears like an old man leaning on a
ftaffe, having in his hand a Sword, and he
feems in black Cloaths. By this Number
they know when to begin any work in
this book.

CHAP.

LiB.2. The Holy Guide. 101

CHAP. X1H.

The Slumber of prepa-
rations of gold.

Ofthefignification of the number i r. how by it
wefyow the bodies of Devils, and their na-
tural confHtutions : *pt»vtvs in Pherecydes
Syrus; D^«, n^y, C=3W , r-vy^,
?— — PPM* tftfW« of Spirits haunting fields
fid defolate places : of Theophilus Ful-
wood, who had the continuall fociety of a
Guardian Genius ; Of Plociiius apd O-
lympius. *