Book II.

any excellent fign or inftrument out of the table of charadters, he poiTefies that dignity. As if there fhould be a crown, it thews a kingly dignity ; if a creft or plume, a dukedom if a horn, a county : if without thefe there be a fcepter, fword, or forked inftrument, it thews rule and authority. Like- wife out of the table of images you fhall find them who bear the chief kingly dignity: from the crown judge dignity ; and from the inftruments, rule and authority.
Lathy, they which bear a human thape and figure have a greater dig- nity than thofe which appear under the forms and images of beatis. They likewife who ride do excel them which appear on foot. And thus, accord- ing to all their commixtures, you may judge the dignity and excellency of fpirits, one before another. Moreover, you mutl understand that the fpi- rits of the inferior order, of what dignity foever, they are always fubjedt to the fpirits of the fuperior order ; likewife that it is not incongruent for their kings and dukes to be fubjedt and minifter to the prefidents of the fuperior order.
O/Magic Pentacles and their Composition.
WE now proceed to fpeak of the holy and facred [Pentacles and Seals. For thefe pentacles are certain holy figns and charadters, preferving us from evil chances and events, helping and affifting us .to bind, exterminate, and drive away evil fpirits, alluring the good fpirits, and reconciling them to us. Thefe pentacles .confift either of charadters of good fpirits of the fuperior order, or of facred pidtures of holy letters or revelations, with apt and proper verficles, which are compofed either of geometrical figures and holy names of God, according to the courfe and manner of many of them, or they are compounded of all of them, or many of them mixed. The charadters which are ufeful for us to conftitute and make the pentacles are the charadters of
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