Book II.

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CHAP. VI,
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OF INTELLIGENCES AND SPIRITS, AND OF THE THREE'FOLD KIND OF THEM, AND' OF THEIR' DIFFERENT NAMES, AND OF INFERNAL AND SUBTERRANEAL SPIRITS.
NOW, confequently, we mult difcourfe of intelligences, fpirits, and an- gels. An intelligence is an intelligible fubftance, free from all grofs and putrifying mafs of a body, immortal, infenfible, aflifting all, having influ- ence over all ; and the nature of all intelligences, fpirits, and angels is the fame. But I call angels here, not thofe whom we ufually call devils, but fpirits fo called from the propriety of the word, as it were, knowing, under- ftanding, and wife. But of thefe, according to the tradition of magicians, there are three kinds ; the firft of which we call fuper-celeftial, and minds altogether feparated from a body, and, as it were, intellectual lpheres wor- fhipping one only God, as it were, their molt firm and liable unity or centre. Wherefore they even call them Gods, by reafon of a certain participation of the Divinity, for they are always full of God. Thefe are only about God, and rule not the bodies of the world, neither are they fitted for the government of inferior things, but infufe the light received from God unto the inferior orders, and diftribute every one’s duty to all of them. The celeftial intel- ligences do next follow thefe in the fecond order, which they call worldy an- gels, viz. being appointed, befides the divine worfhip for the fpheres of the world, and for the government of every heaven and ftar ; whence they are divided into fo many orders as there are heavens in the world, and as there are ftars in the heavens. And they called thefe Saturnine, who rule the heaven of Saturn , and Saturn himfelf ; others Jovial, who rule the heaven of Jupiter , and Jupiter himfelf ; and in like manner they name different an- gels, as well for the name as the virtue of the other liars ; and becaufe the old aftrologers maintained fifty-five motions, therefore they invented fo many intelligences or angels. They placed alfo in the Harry heaven angels who
might