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To the ume effeCt do conduce, likewife. Holy prayers and deprecations as \v*ell to God as to the blefied angels ; the deprecations of which prayers are to be compofed, as we have before fhewn, according to fome religious fimilitude, making mention of thofe tilings which we intend to do ; as out of the Old Teftament of the dream of Jacob, Jofeph, Pharoah, Daniel, and Nebuchad- nezzar : if out of the New Tefl'ament, of the dream of Jofeph ; of the three wife men, or magi, of John the evangelift Deeping upon the bread: of our Lord j and whatever of the like kind can be found in religion, miracles, and revelation. According to which the deprecation may be compofed ; if when he goes to Deep it be with a firm intention, and then, without doubt, they will afford a wonderful efi~eCt.
Therefore he who is defirous of receiving true oracles by dreams, let him abDain from fupper, from drink, and be otherwife well difpofed, fo his brain will be free from turbulent vapours ; let him alfo have his bed-chamber fair and clean, exorcifed and confecrated if he will ; then let him perfume the fame with fome convenient fumigation, and let him anoint his temples with fome unguent efficacious hereunto, and put a ring of dreams upon his finger; then let him take one of the images we have fpoken of, or fome holy table, or paper, and place the fame under his head ; then, having made a devout prayer, let him addrefs himfelf to Deep, meditating upon that thing which he defires to know ; fo Diall he receive a moD certain and undoubted oracle by a dream, when the moon goes through that fign which was in the ninth houfe of his nativity, and alfo when Die goes through the fign of the ninth of the revolu- tion of his nativity, and when Die is in the ninth fign from the fign of per- fection.
This is the way whereby we may obtain all fciences and arts whatfoever, whether alchemy, magic, or elfe, fuddenly and perfectly with a true illumina- tion cf our intellect ; although all inferior familiar fpirits whatfoever conduce to this efteCt, and fometimes alfo evil fpirits fenfibly inform us intrinfically and extrinficallv.
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