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-it be received with Saturn with a fortunate afped, and let the name of the fpirit be written upon it. Let the fame likewife be . made in Libra amend- ing, Venus being received from Mercury in Gemini in the ninth houfe, and write upon it the angel of Venus. Again, you may make the fame image Aquarius afcending, Saturn fortunately pofleffing the ninth in his ex- altation, which is Libra ; and let there be written upon it the angel of Saturn. The fame may be made Cancer afcending, the moon being received by Jupiter and Venus in Pifces, and being fortunately placed in the ninth houfe, and write upon it the fpirit of the moon.
There are likewife made rings of dreams of wonderful efficacy ; and there are rings of the fun and Saturn ; and the conftellation of them is when the fun or Saturn afcend in their exaltations in the ninth, and when the moon is joined to Saturn in the ninth, and in that*fign which was the ninth houfe of the nativity ; and write and engrave upon the rings the name of the fpirit of the fun or Saturn ^ and by thefe rules you may know how and by what means to conftitute more of thyfelf : but know this, that fuch images work nothing (as they are limply images) unlefs they are vivified by a fpiritual and celeftial virtue, and chiefly by the ardent defire and firm intent of the foul of the operator. But who can give a foul to an image, or make a Hone, or metal, or clay, or wood, or wax, or paper to live ? certainly no man 3 (for this arcanum doth not enter into an artift of a fluff neck,) he only hath it who tranfcends the progrefs of angels, and comes to the very architype himfelf.
The tables of numbers likewife confer to the receiving of oracles, being duly formed under their own conftellations. Holy tables and papers likewife ferve to this effed, being efpecially compofed and confecrated ; fuch as the Almutel of Solomon, and the Table of the Revolution of the name Tetragram - maton and thofe things which are of this kind, and written to produce thefe effeds, out of various figures, numbers, holy Scriptures, and pidures, with infcriptions of the divine names of God and names of holy angels ; the compofition whereof is taken out of diverfe places of the holy Scriptures, Pfalms, and verficles, and other certain promifes out of the divine revelations and prophecies^,