Part I.

CEREMONIAL MAGIC.
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conjurers and witches, and feduce the people by their miracles, as the ferpent feduced Eve, and their prince is Satan, of whom it is written in the Revelation, ** that he feduces the whole world, doing great figns, and caufing fire to defcend from heaven in the fight of men feducing the inhabitants of the earth by thefe figns, which are given him to do.” Sixthly, the aerial powers offer themfelves and join themfelves to thunder and lightning, corrupting the air, caufing peftilencies, and other evils ; in the number of which are the four .angels of whom the the Revelations fpeak, to whom it is given to hurt the earth and the fea, holding the four winds from the four corners of the earth ; and their prince is called Meririm : he is the meridian devil, a boiling fpirit, a devil raging in the fouth, whom Pauly to the Epbejians, calls “ the prince of the power of the air, and the fpirit which works in the children of difobe- dience.” The feventh manfion the- furies poffefs, who are powers of evil, difcords, war,, and devaluation j whofe name in the Revelation is called in Greek, Apollyon ; in the Hebrew, Abaddon, that is, destroying and wafting. In the eighth place are the accufers or inquifitors^ whofe prince is Aftaroth, that is, a fearcher out ; in the Greek language he is called Diabolus, that is, an accuSer or calumniator ; whicli in the Revelation is called the “ accufer of the brethren, accufing them night and day before the face of God.” More- over, the tempters and enfnarers have the laft place ; one of which is prefent with every man, which we call the evil genius, and their prince is Mammon, which is interpreted covetoufnefs. But we of the Cabala unani- moufly maintain that evil fpirits do wander up and down this inferior world, enraged againft, all whom we call devils ; of whom Aujlin, in his firSt book of the Incarnation of the Word, to Januarius, fays, concerning the devils ancj his angels contrary to virtues, the ecclefiaftical preachers have taught that there are fuch things, but what they are, and who they are, he has not clear enough expounded : yet there is this opinion among them, that this devil was an angel, and being made an apoftate, perfuaded many of the angels to fall with him, who to this day are called his angels. Greece, notwithstanding, thinks not that thefe are damned,^ior that they are all purpofely evil ; but that from the creation of the world the difpenfation of things is ordained by
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