Book II.

upon fpirits by way of admonition and example. It hath alfo fome command^ efpecially upon the miniftering fpirits, and thofe who are of the loweft orders. The third bond is from the intellectual and divine world, which is perfected by religion ; that is to fay, when we fwear by the facraments, miracles, divine names, lacred feals, and other myfteries of religion ; wherefore this bond is the higheft of all and the ftrongeft, working upon the fpirits by command and power ; but this is to be obferved, that as after the univerfal Providence there is a particular one, and after the univerfal foul, particular fouls ; fo, in the hr ft place, we invocate by the fuperior bonds, and by the names and powers which rule the things, then by the inferior and the things themfelves. We muft know further, that by thefe bonds, not only fpirits, but alfo all creatures are bound, as tempefts, burnings, floods, plagues, difeafes, force of arms, and every animal, by afliiming them, either by adjuration or deprecation, or benediction, as in the charming of ferpents ; befldes the natural and celeftial, by rehearfing out of the myfteries and religion, the cure of the ferpent in terreftrial paradife, the lifting up of the ferpent in the wuldernefs ; likewife by afluming that verfe of the 91ft Pfalm, thou JJjalt walk upon the afp and the bafilijk, and fh alt tread upon the lion a?id the dragon .
C H A P. XIX.
BY WHAT MEANS MAGICIANS AND NECROMANCERS CALL FORTH THE SOULS OF THE DEAD
BY the things which have been already fpoken it is manifeft, that fouls after death do as yet love their body which they left, as thofe fouls do whofe bodies want due burial or have left their bodies by violent death, and as yet wander about their carcafles in a troubled and moift fpirit, being, as it were, allured by fomething that hath an affinity with them, the means being known, by which, in times paft, they were joined to their bodies, they may be eaflly called forth
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