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CHAP. III.
THAT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD IS NECESSARY FOR A MACICIAN.
SEEING that the being and operation of all things depend on the Moft High God, Creator of all things, and from thence on the other divine powers, to whom alfo is granted a power of fafhioning and creating, not prin- cipally indeed, but inftrumentally, by virtue of the Firft Great Creator, (for the beginning of every thing is the firft caufe ; but what is produced by the fecond caufe is much more produced by the firft, which is the producer of the fecond caufe, which therefore we call fecondaries.) It is neceflary, therefore, that every magician fhould know that very God, which is the firft caufe and creator of all things, and likewife the other divine powers, (which we call the fecond caufes,) and not to be ignorant of them, and likewife what holy rites, ceremonies, &c. are conformable to them; but, above all, we are to worfhip in fpirit and truth, and place our firm dependance upon that one only God who is the author and promoter of all good things, the Father of all, moft bountiful and wife ; the facred light of juftice, and the abfolute and foie perfection of all nature, and the contriver and wifdom thereof.
CHAP. IV.
OF DIVINE EMANATIONS, AND TEN SEPHIROTHS, AND TEN MOST SACRED NAME! OF GOD WHICH RULE THEM, AND THE INTERPRETATION OF THEM.
GOD himfelf, although he is trinity in perfons, yet he is but one only fimple eflence ; yet we doubt not but that there are in him many divine powers, which emanate or flow from him.
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