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OP SOME PERFUMES APPROPRIATED TO THE SEVEN PLANETS,
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Take mulk, ambergris, lignum aloes, red rofes, and red coral, and make them up with fparrow’s brains and pigeon’s blood.
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Take maftich, frankincenfe, cloves, and the herb cinquefoil, and the agate {tone, and incorporate them all with the brain of a fox, or weafel, and the blood of a magpie.
GENERAL FUMES OF THE PLANETS.
To Saturn are appropriated for fumes, odoriferous roots : as pepper- wort root, & c., and the frankincenfe tree. To Jupiter , all odoriferous fruits : as nutmegs, cloves, &c. To Mars , all odoriferous woods : as fanders, Cyprus, lignum baifam, and lignum aloes. To the Sun , all gums : as frankincenfe, maftich benjamin, ftorax, laudanum, ambergris, and mufk. To Venus , flowers : as rofes, violets, faffron, and the lil of wood or fruit : as cinnamon, lignum caflia, mace, citron peel, and bay- berries, and whatever feeds are odoriferous. To the Moon, the leaves of all vegetables : as the leaf indum, the leaf of the myrtle, and bay tree. Know, alfo, that, according to the opinion of all magicians, in every good matter (as love, good-will, &c.), there muft be a good perfume, odoriferous and pre- cious ; — and in evil matters (as hatred, anger, mifery, and the like), there muft be made a ftinking fume that is of no worth..
The twelve Signs of the Zodiac alfo have their proper fuffumigations viz., Aries, myrrh ; Taurus, pepper-wort ; Gemini, majhch ; Cancer, camjihire ; Leo, franhincenfe ,■ Virgo, fanders ; Libra, galbanum ; Scorpio, oppoponax ; Sagittarius, lignum aloes s Capricorn, benjamin ; Aquarius, cuphorbium •> Pifces, red fiorax. But Hermes defcribes the moft powerful fume to be, that which is compounded of the feven aromatics, according to the powers of the feven planets : for it receives from Saturn, pepper-wort $ from Jupiter, nut- meg j
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meg-,; from Mars , lignum-aloes ; from the Sun, maftich ; from Venus , faf- fron ; from Mercury , cinnamon ; and from the Moo n, myrtle.
By a clofe obfervation of the above order of fuffumigations, conjoined with other things, of which we fhall fpeak hereafter (neceffary to the full accomplifh- merit of Talifmanic Magic), many wonderful effects may be caufed, efpecially if we keep in eye what was delivered in the firft part of our Magic, viz. that the foul of the operator mull go along with this ; otherwife, in vain is fuffumi ga- llon, feal, ring, image, [ii£ture, glafs, or any other inftrument of magic : feeing that it is not merely the difpofition, but the act of the difpofition, and firm and powerful intent or imagination, that gives the effect,. — We thall now liaften to fpeak, generally, of the conftru&ion of rings magical, and their wonderful and potent virtues and operations.
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OF THE COMPOSITION AND MAGIC VIRTUE OF RINGS.
RINGS, when they are opportunely made, imprefs their virtues upon us, infomuch that they affeft the fpirit of him that carries them with gladnefs or fad- nefs ; and render him bold or fearful, courteous or terrible, amiable or hateful ; inafmuch, alfo, as they fortify us againft * ficknefs, poifons, enemies, evil fpirits, and all manner of hurtful things ; and often, where the law has no effect, thefe little trifles greatly aflift and corroborate the troubled fpirit of the wearer, and help him, in a wonderful manner, to overcome his adverfaries, while they do won- der how it is that they cannot effect any hurtful undertaking againft him. Thefe things, I fay, are great helps againft -Wrathful, vicious, wordly-minded men, inafmuch as they do terrify, hurt, and render invalid the machinations of thofe who would otherwife work our mifery or deftruftion. All which we are neither afraid nor afhamed to declare, well knowing that thefe things will be hid from the wicked and profane, fo as that they cannot draw the fame into
* The Author will engage to teach any that are curious in thofe Ihidies, the particular compofition of Talifmanic Rings ; whereby they may be enabled to judge themfelves of the effects that are to be produced by them.
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any abufe, or privy mifchief toward their neighbour ; we having referved fome few things in this art to ourfelves— not willing to throw pearls before fwine. And however Ample and plain we may defcribe fome certain experiments and operations (fo as that the great-mouthed fchool philofophers may mutter or feoff thereat), yet there is nothing delivered in this book but what may be, by an underftanding thereof, brought into effeCt,. and, likewife, out of which fome good may be derived. But to proceed.
The manner of making of thefe rings is thus - when any ftar afeends in the horofeope (fortunately), with a fortunate afpeft or conjunction of the moon, we proceed to take a Jione and herb, that is under that ftar, and like- wife make a ring of the metal that is correfponding to the ftar ; and in the ring, under the ftone, put the herb or root, not forgetting to inferibe the effect, image , name, and character, as alfo the proper fuffurne. But I fhail fpeak more of thefe in another place, where 1 fpeak of images and characters. Therefore, in making of rings magical, thefe things are unerringly to be ob- ferved as we have ordered 5 — if any one is willing to work any effeCt or expe- riment in magic, he muft by no means negleCt the neceffary circumftances which we have fo uniformly delivered. I have read, in Philoftratus Jarchus, that a Prince of the Indians bellowed feven rings, marked with the virtues and names of the feven planets, to Appollonius, of which he wore one every day,' diftinguilhing according to the names of the days -, by the benefit of which he lived above one hundred and thirty years, as alfo always retained the beauty of his youth. In like manner, Mofes, the Lawgiver and Ruler of the He- brews, being Ikilled in the Egyptian Magic, is faid, by Jofephus, to have made rings of love and oblivion. There was alfo, as faith Ariftotle, among the Cireneans, a ring of Battas, which could procure love and honour. We read, alfo, that Eudamus, a certain philofopher, made rings again!! the bites of ferpents, bewitchings, and evil fpirits. The fame doth Jofephus relate of Solomon. Alfo we read, in Plato, that Gygus, King of Lydia, had a ring of wonderful and ftrange virtues ; the feal of which, when he turned it towards the palm of his hand, no body could fee him, but he could fee all things j, by the opportunity of which ring, he ravilhed the Queen, and flew
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