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CHAP. V.
OF MAGICAL SUSPENSIONS AND ALLIGATIONS SHEWING HOW, AND BY WHAT POWER, THEY
RECEIVE VIRTUE, AND ARE EFFICACIOUS IN NATURAL MAGIC.
WHEN tie foul of the world, by its virtue, doth make all things (that are naturally generated, or artificially made) fruitful, by fealing and impreff- mg on them celeftial virtues for the working of fome wonderful effect, then things themfelves not only applied by collyry, or fuffume, or ointment, or any other fuch like way ; but when they are conveniently bound to, or wrapped up, or fufpended about the neck, or any other way applied, although by ever fo eafy a contact, they do imprefs their virtue upon us : by thefe alligations, &c., therefore, the accidents of the body and mind are changed into ficknefs or health, valour, fear, fadnefs or joy, and the like ; they render thofe that carry them, gracious, terrible, acceptable, rejected, honoured, beloved, or hateful and abominable.
Now thefe kinds of pafiions are conceived to be infufed no otherwife than is manifefi; in the grafting of trees, where the vital life and virtue is communi- cated from the trunk to the twig engrafted into it, by way of contact and alli- gation : fo in the female palm-tree, when the comes near to the male, her boughs bend to the male, which the gardener feeing, he binds them together by ropes acrofs, but foon becomes flraight, as if by the continuation of the rope file had received a propagating virtue from the male. And it is faid, if a woman takes a needle, and bewray it with dung, and put it up in earth in which the carcafs of a man has been buried, and carry it about her in a piece of cloth ufed at a funeral, no man can defile her as long as the carries that.
Now by thefe examples we fee how, by certain alligations of certain things, alfo fufpenfions, or by the moft fimple contafr or continuation of any thread, we may be able to receive fome virtues thereby ; but it is neceffary to know the certain rule of magical alligation and fufpenfion ; and the manner that the art requires is this, viz. that they mull be done under a certain and fuitable conftellation 5 and they mull be done with wire, or filken threads, or finews
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of certain animals ; and thofe things that are to be wrapped up, are to be done in the leaves of herbs, or (kins of animals, or membraneous parchments, &c. For, if you would procure the folary virtue of any thing, this is to b# wrapped up in bay-leaves, or the fkin of a lion, hung round the neck with gold, filk, or purple or yellow thread : while the fun reigns in the heavens, fo fhalt thou be endued with the virtue of that thing. So if a faturnine quality or thing be defired, thou fhalt in like manner take that thing, while Saturn reigns, and wrap it up in the (kin of an afs, or in a cloth ufed at a funeral, efpecially if melancholy or fadnefs is to be induced, and with a fad, or afh, or leaden, or black fdk or thread, hang it about thy neck ; and fo in the fame manner we muft proceed with the reft.
CHAP. VI.
OF ANTIPATHIES.
IT is neceffary, in this place, to fpeak of the antipathies of natural things , feeing it is requifite, as we go on, to have a thorough knowledge of that ob- ftinate contrariety of Nature, where any thing fhuns its contrary, and drives it, as it were, out of its prefence. Such antipathy as this has the root rhubarb againft choler ; treacle againft poifon ; the fapphire Jlone againji hot biles , feverifh heats, and difeafes of the eyes ; the amethyji againft drunkennefs ; the jafper againft the bloody-flux and offenfive imaginations ; the emerald, and agnus cafus againft luft ; achates , or agates , againft poifon ; piony againft the falling ficknefs ; coral againft the ebullition of black choler, and pains of the ftomach ; the topaz againft fpiritual heats, fuch as are covetoufnefs, luft, and all manner of love exceffes. The fame antipathy is there, alfo, of pif- mires againft the herb organ, and the wing of a bat, and the heart of a lap- wing, from the prefence of which they fly. Alfo, the organ is contrary to a certain poifonous fly which cannot refill the fun, and refills falamanders, and loaths cabbage with fuch a deadly hatred that they cannot endure each other.
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