Part I.

CEREMONIAL MAGIC.
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and allured by the like vapours, liquors and favours, certain artificial lights being alfo ufed, fongs, founds, and fuch like, which moves the imaginative and fpiritual harmony of the foul; and facred invocations, and fuch like, as belong to religion, 'ought not to be nelgedted by reafqn of the portion of the rational foul which is above nature..
Necromancy has its name becaufe it 'works on the bodies of the dead, and gives anfwers by the ghofls and apparitions of the dead, and fub- terraneous fpirits, alluring them into the carcafles of the dead, by certain hel- liffi charms, and infernal invocations, and. by deadly facrifices and wicked oblations.
There are two kinds of necromancy : railing the carcafles, which is not done without blood ; the other fciomancy, in which the calling up of the ffiadow only fuffices. To conclude, it works all its experiments by the carcafies of the flain and their bones and members, and what is from them ; for there is in thefe things a fpiritual power friendly to them : . therefore they eafily allure the flowing down of wicked fpirits, by reafon of the fimi- litude and property of every familiar, by whom the necromancer, ftrengthened by their help, can do much in human and terreftrial things, and kindle unlawful lulls, caufe dreams, difeafes, hatred, and fuch like palfions ; to which alfo they can confer the powers of the foul, which as yet being involved in a moill and. turbid fpirit,. wandering about their call bodies, can do the fame things that the wicked fpirits commit, feeing therefore they experimentally find, that the wicked and impure fouls violently plucked from their bodies, and of men not expiated, and wanting burial, do llray about carcafles, and are drawn to them by affinity. The witches eafily abufe them for effecting witchcraft, alluring thefe unhappy, fouls, by the appofition of their body, or by the taking of fome. part thereof, and compelling them by their devililh charms, by entreating them by the deformed carcafles difperfed through the wide fields, and the wandering lhadows of thofe who want bu- rials, and by the gholls fent back from Acheron , and the guells of hell, whom untimely death has precipitated into hell, and by the horrible defires of the damned and proud devils, revengers of wickednefs. But he who
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