Book I.

fupport ; only keep in the rules we have prefcribecl in the beginning' of this little treatife — Fear God, and love thy neighbour as thyfelf ; be not haily to reveal any fecrets thou mayeft learn, for the good fpirits, both day and night, will be thy inftru61ors, and will continually reveal thee many fecrets. Think not that thou canft either profit or benefit fo much by the inftru&ion of thofe who profefs great advantages in claflical education and high fchooling ; be affined they are, in fpiritual knowledge, much in the dark : for he who defires not fpiritual knowledge cannot attain it by any means, but by, firft, coming to God j fecondly, by purifying his own heart ; thirdly, by fubmitting himfelf to the will of the Holy Spirit, to guide and direct him in all truth, to the attaining of all knowledge, both human and divine 5 and by arrogating no- thing to our own power or ftrength, but by referring all to the mercy and goodnefs of God. — Amen.
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THE
THE
MAGUS;
OR,
CELESTIAL INTELLIGENCER.
CONTAINING
THE CONSTELLATORY PRACTICE,
OR
TALISMANIC MAGIC .
- L_ SHEWING
The true Properties of the Elements, Meteors, Stars, Planets, &c. &rc. ; likewife the Nature of Intelligences, Spirits, Demons, and Devils j the Conllruction and Compofition of all Sorts of Magic Seals, Images, Rings, Glaffes, Pictures, &c. &c. ; the Power and Compofition of Numbers, Mathematical Figures, and Characters of Spirits both good and evil.
THE WnOLE OF THE ABOVE ILLUSTRATED BY A GREAT VARIETY OF
Beautiful Figures, Types, Letters, Seals, Images,. Magic Characters, fyc.
FORMING A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF
DELIGHTFUL KNOWLEDGE AND ABSTRUSE SCIENCE ;
Such as is warranted never before to have been published in the English Language,
BY FRANCIS BARRETT,
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STUDENT OF CHEMISTRY, OCCULT PHILOSOPHY, THE CABALA, &C. &C. &C.
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1801.
13
PART THE SECOND.
CHAP. I.
OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS, AND THEIR NATURAL QUALITIES.
It is neceffary that we fhould know and underftand the nature and quality of the four elements, in order to our being1 perfect in the prin- ciples and ground-work of our ftudies in the Talifmanic, or Magical Art.
Therefore, there are four elements, the original grounds of all corporeal things, viz. fire, earth, water, and air, of which elements all inferior bodies are compounded ; not by way of being heaped, up together, but by tranfmuta- tion and union ; and when they are deftroyed, they are refolved into elements. But there are none of the fenfible elements that are pure ; but they are, more or lefs, mixed, and apt to be changed the one into the other : even as earth, being moiftened and diffolved, becomes water , but the fame being made thick and hard, becomes earth again and being evaporated through heat it pafles into air, and that being kindled into fire, and this being extinguilhed, into air again, but being cooled after burning, becomes earth again, or elfe ftone, or fulphur ; and this is clearly demonftrated by lightning. Now every one of thefe elements have two fpecifical properties : the former whereof it retains as proper to itfelf ; in the other, as a mean, it agrees with that which comes directly after it. For fire is hot and dry — earth, cold and dry ; — water, cold and moift — and air, hot and moift. And fo in this manner the elements, ac- cording to two contrary qualities, are oppofite one to the other : as fire to water, and earth to air. Likewife, the elements are contrary one to the other on another account : two are heavy, as earth and water — and the others are light, as fire and air ; therefore the Stoics called the former, paflives — but the latter, aftives. And Plato diftinguifhes. them after another manner, and