Book I.

written ;* likewife it mud be pronounced, or fpoken, in the fante order as it is written, with the intent or will of the operator declared at the fame time of making1 it.
CHAP. IV.
OF UNCTIONS, rillLTEUS, POTIONS, &C. THEIR MAGICAL VIRTUES,
UNGUENTS, or un&ions, collyries, philters, &c., conveying the virtues of things natural to our fpirits, do multiply, transform, transfigure, and tranfmute it accordingly ; they alfo tranfpofe thofe virtues, which are in them , into //, fo that it not only a6ls upon its own body , but alfo upon that which is near it, and affe&s that (by vifible rays, charms, and by touching it) with fome agreeable quality like to itfelf. For, becaufe our fpirit is the pure , fubtil, lucid , airy , and un6tuous vapour of the blood, nothing, therefore, is better adapted for collyriums than the like vapour , which are more fuitable to our fpirit in fubdance ; for then, by reafon of their likenefs, they do more dir up, attract, and transform the fpirit. The fame virtue have other ointments, and confeftions. Hence, by the touch, often plague, dcknefs, faintings, poifoning, and love, is induced, either by the hands or clothes being anointed ; and often by kiding, things being held in the mouth, love is likewife excited.
• It is here to be particularly noticed by us, that, informing of a charm, or \ ABRACADABRA amulet, it will be of no effe£l, except the very foul of the operator is ftrongly and \ BRACADABRA intenfely exerted and imprefled, as it were, and the image of the idea fealed on the \ RACADABRA charm, or amulet ; for, without this, in vain will be all the obfervation of times, hours, \ ACADABRA and conflellations ; therefore, this I have thought fit to mention, once for all, that it may \ CADABRA be almoft always uppermoft in the mind of the operator, for, without this one thing \ ADABRA being obferved and noticed, many who form feals, &c., do fall Ihort of the wilhed-for \ DABRA effedf. \ ABRA
\ BRA \ RA \ A
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Now the fight, as it perceives more purely and clearer than the other fenfes, feals in us the marks of things more acutely, and does, molt of all, and before all others, agree with our fantaftic fpirit ; as is apparent in dreams, when things, feen do more often prelent themfelves to us than things heard, or any thing coming under the other fenfes. Therefore, when collyriums transform the vifual fpirits, that fpirit eafily affe6ts the imagination, which, being affe&ed with divers fpecies and forms, tranfmits the fame, by the fame fpirit, unto the outward fenfe of fight, by which there is formed in it a perception of fuch fpecies and forms, in that manner, as if it were moved by external objedts, that there appear to be feen terrible images, fpirits, and the like. There are fome collyriums which make us fee the images of fpirits in the air , or elfewhere ; which I can make of the gall of a man , and the eyes of a black cat , and fome other things. The fame is made, likewife, of the blood of a lapwing, bat, and a goat ; and if a fmooth Ihining piece of Heel be fmeared over with the juice of mugwort, and be made to fume, it caufes invocated fpirits to appear. There are fome perfumes, or- fuffumigations and un&ions, which make men fpeak in their deep, walk, and do thofe things that are done by men that are awake, and often what, when awake, they cannot, or dare not do 5 others, again, make men hear horrid or delightful founds, noifes, and the like.
And, in fome meafure, this is the caufe why mad and melancholy men believe they hear and fee things equally falfe and improbable, falling into molt grofs and pitiful delufions, fearing where no fear is, and angry where there is none to contend. ■ Such paflions as thefe we can induce by ?nagical vapours , confections , perfumes , colly ries, unguents, potions, poifons, lamps, lights , &c. ; likewife by mirrors, images , enchantments ,. charms, founds and mufic ; alfo by divers rites , obfervations, ceremonies , religion, &c„