BOOK I. — PART I.

Chap. I. Natural Magic defined; of Man ; his Creation, Divine Image, and Fall ; and of the fpiritual and magical Virtue of the Soul. . f . . ib. Chap. II. Of the Wonders of Natural Magic, difplayed in a V ariety of' fympathetic and oc- cult Operations, in Animals, Minerals, and' Vegetables, treated of mifcellaneoufly . ...->. 24
Of the Serpent 28
Chap. III. Of Amulets, Charms, and Enchant- ments ; an Amulet for the Flux of Blood. . . 30
Chap. IV. Of UnCtions, Philters, Potions, &c. 32
Their Magical V irtue - 33
Chap. V. Of Magical Sufpenfions and Alliga- tions ; ihewing by 'what power they are effica- cious in Natural Magic. 34-
Chap. VI. Of Antipathies 35
Chap. VII. Of the occult Virtues of Things which are inherent in them only in their Lives,
and fuch as remain in them after Death 37
Chap. VIII. Of thewondetful Virtues offome Kinds of precious Stones. 39
ALCHYMY.
The Sec-^t of the Philofophers’ Stone 51
Epifile to .lufeus 53
Epiftle to the Pie-vder. ... 55
Of Alchymy, and its Divine Origin 56
Difcovered to Man by U riel ib.
Zoroafler made Gold from the Seven Metals. . ib. Zoroafter was the Father of Alchymifis. ..... ib.
The Authors who have wrote upon it ib.
The comparifon of Alchymifis 57
What an Adept is ib.
Van Helmont’s Account of Alchymy 58
Kircher’s Account of Alchymifis ib.
The Defcription of the Philofophers’ Stone. . . ib.
Account of a real Tranfmutation 59
Account of Flammel, the Alchymift ib.
Hiftory of Butler’s Univerfal Medicine ib.
What is not univerfally underfiood generally
referred to the Black Art 63
Of the Preparation neceflary to qualify a Man for the Search of the Philofophers’ Stone. . . 64
Of the Prima Materia ib.
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Ten Leffons, teaching the Tranfmutation of bafe
Metals into Gold 64
Leflon XI. XII. XIII. and XIV. teaching the Manner of extracting the Prana Materia of the Lapis P hilosophorum ; and the Ufe it is of in purifying imperfedl Metals, to Change them into good Gold 68
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