Part III.

CEREMONIAL MAGIC.
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Their familiar Shapes.
THEY generally appear with a tall, lean, flender body, with an angry countenance, having four faces, one on the back of the head, one in the front, and one on each fide, nofed or beaked, likewife there appears a face on each knee of a black thining colour ; their motion is the moving of the wind, with a kind of earthquake y their fign is white earth, whiter than fnow.
Their particular Shapes are ,
* A king, bearded, riding on a dragon.
An" old man with a beard..
An old woman leaning on a crutch.
A hog ; a dragon ; an owl.
A black garment ; a hook or fickle.
A juniper tree.
Thofe are the figures that thefe fpirits ufually afiiime, which are generally terrible at the firfi: coming on of the vifions, but as they have only a limited power, beyond which they cannot pafs, fo the invocator need be under no apprehenfions of danger, provided he is well fortified with thofe things we have directed to be ufed for his defence, and above all, to have a firm and conftant faith in the mercy, wifdom, and goodnefs of God.
* Thofe fpirits who appear in a kingly form, have a much higher dignity than them who take an inferior (hape ; and thofe who appear in a human fliape, exceed in authority and power them that come as animals; and again, thefe latter furpafs in dignity them who appear as trees or inftruments, and the like : fo that you are to judge of the power, government, and authority of fpirits by their afluming a more noble and dignified apparition.
2ND OF THE THIRD PART, AND* OF CAE AUSTICAL AND CEREMONIAL M AGt C,
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THE
MAGIC AND PHILOSOPHY
OF
HEMIUS OF SPAN HEIM
CONTAINING HIS BOOK OF
SECRET THINGS,
AND
DOCTRINE OF SPIRITS:
With many curious and rare Secrets (hitherto not generally known ;)
THE ART OF DRAWING SPIRITS INTO CRYSTALS, &e.
With many other Experiments in the Occult Sciences, never yet publiihed in the Englifh Language,
TRANSLATED FROM A VALUABLE LATIN MANUSCRIPT,
Br FRANCIS BARRETT,
STUDENT OP CHEMISTRY, NATURAL AND OCCULT PHILOSOPHY, THE CABALA, & C,