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CEREMONIAL MAGIC.
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being refolved into letters, it fpeaks the word iylaa, i. e. health : in the faith and virtue of which figns, both kings obtained a great vi&ory againft their enemies. So Judas, who by reafon of that, was afterwards firnamed Macha- beus, being to fight with the jews aga.in{kj4ntiochus Eupator , received from an angel a notable fign, odd, in the virtue of which they firft flew i i-,ooo, with an infinite number of elephants, then again 35,000 of their enemies : for that fign did reprefent the name of Jehovah , and was a memorable emblem of the name of feventy-two letters by the equality of number ; and the expofition thereof is rvrvo 6*0 TD3 'O, a e. who is there among thee ftrong as Jehovah f See Plate, iig. F.
CHAP. XVIII.
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OF the bonds of spirits, and their adjurations, and castings OUT.
THE bond by which fpirits are bound, befought, or caft out, are three j fome of them are taken from the elemental world, as when we adjure a fpirit by any inferior and natural thing of affinity with or adverfe to them ; inafmuch as we would call up or caft them out, as by fumigations of flowers, herbs, animals, /now, ice, or by hell, fire , and fiuch like -, and thefe alfo are often mixt with divine praifes, and bleffings, and confecrations, as appears in the fong of the Three Children, and in the pfalm, Praifeye the Lord from the heavens, and in the confecration and bleffing of th z pafichal taper. This bond works upon the fpirits by an apprehenfive virtue, under the account of love or hatred, inafmuch as the fpirits are prefent with, or favour, or abhor any thing that is natural or againft nature, as thefe things themfelves love or hate one another. The fecondbond is taken from the celeftial world, viz. when we adjure them by their heaven, by the ftars, by their motions, rays, light, beauty, clearnefs, excellency, fortitude, influence and wonders, and fuch like and this bond works
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