Section 36

How ordinary a fault this was amongft the Tranfcribers of former times An. 1471 and may appeare byCbaucer, who (1 am confident) tooke asgreate care as any man William Caxton to be ierved with the beft and heedefulleft Scribes, and yet we finde him com- the firft that playning againft Adam his Scrivener for the very fame : practifed it
(1) £>oofteatjape 3B motets tojojfeerenefo), See Straw
31 1 1 0 C Direct ano efee to r ttb be ant> (crape, s«rv. ? 2 ?.
31ud all is tfyoiote tljp neglesetice an* rape, 1) chamr to
But as in other Ami zndSciences the fault is fcarce pardonable, fo cheifly bU Scrivener. in Hermetqtx learning, where the Injury may prove irreparable,
(m) Htft ttyattBgiita of fome one billable, m) orip.x 1-
£^ ag make t^isf l^ofee twpsofftable.
Pag.jj.i.ij- Hf3Bfl)ttlT)e&)rite31 Wtem^ feattp breafe
Cljcrcfoje^outlj to £9 out!; J ttmft nee^es fpealie.
THisispart of the letter which Norton's Matter wrote when he invited him to come and receive the Secret by mrdcf&ioutb, far without breach of hisOdffeJie dutft not commit it to writing, left he might cafl the Children* $rcad to Voggs.
In like manner tAri/lotle refufedto communicate to Alexander by Letters things apperteyning to thlsMiftery, untill zperfotiall meeting might allow him to do it viva voce:, for thus writes Lydgate out of Arifiotlcs Seer eta fecretorum.
Cfcere be decree* of ^atcrte ijtl> an& foSot, !£2fein iftaton concttyt) anfe fceree, TOtyt)} Alyfandre beffreofo; toftnotees ®t Ariftotles a eert^n prebitee , ifrat fpf etfiefc cioo0 in \)$m fyiff feept %t, ^tycb&asMape&ofgrete proot&ettce, ^liije ^mftlff came to bt'0pref ence.
And this was for fear hhWritings mould come to the view of fuch whofe£)e r G were not worthy the perufall of iofublime Secrets, and thereby furYer under the ^* 2' contempt of the prophane Vulgar, ox by wicked men L-eabufedto wic\edufes. /For a Secret discovered will not faile of doing Injuryto one party or.an other) which (if by his meanes it mould happen,) might render him CrimiuU before
However theauneient Pbilofopbers have-' ufed writings , and they as well obfeure as obviotu. whereby the Ignorant might be more Ignorant, but the Wife ««- G br.. derftmiituLprejitt^tbe one be deceived, the other (publiminghisy^ro?w«fw//P/yt/p//»e and) being therefore taxed by Akx- tnder (becaufe he alone had learned them of him) anfwered Sefcritfitfc, &*
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nMifmpfijjC} edidijfe pidem fcdlegentibu* non inietligtntibm. 'They have taken much patxies by o/fcnjgmaticalland Parabolkall difcoveries {'according to cheic arfe&ed Ideoms) to point out the 7?bilofcphcrs Mercury, andf with an wuvocatt confentj aflerted the wonderous operations of an tAgent and Patient united Anonymi. but we'wuft not loo\e for the Name oftb&t in plainc words wbitb bitberto never, my man durji name: For that they have lockcup in fir into pectoris, and pur- pofely deprived ofligbt.
Their chiefeft ftudy was to wrap up their Secrets in Fables, and fpin out their Fancies in Vdiles w.djbadows ,whok Radii feems to extend every way, yet fojthat they all meete in a Common Center, and point onely at One thing.
o) cbauc, ProL ° ) ^nT> #w* n »*ote tfcat ebett Cfcangcljff,
to his owne Cftattelfetfc titf-tfee gains of JSefo Cljrift.
Xtk. ifrefagt^ not ai titf ng a* ftt* felioS» oetfee,
10 tit my t^e ieffe $g* Sentence i$ ail Cot^. SNio a*i accotfcen in!)«r jS)ente»ee> 3L! be therein ijer telling oif er ence. iFo? feme of^etn famemoje ant) fomeleffe, C&Ijen tijei l)i £ Qinom pafeion ejepr eO>« 3R meane of #at&49ati)eto£lukean&3!ofyi, H5ut Doubtleffe^etr Sentence ig .all one. pj Z?e cbim. And to this efFed is that of Count Trevifan. (p) He that well under (lands the
Mr. fecunda PhilofophersJMJSmle tbey agree in all things, but fucb as ire not the Sonns of pars Pa*. 28. Art will tbinfi tbty clajb mojlfouly.
Pag.55 .1 .1 j. $® tfie i&eire unto ti)i$ %x%
3 frill ton roafee— »
THere has ever beenea continued Sueccfiion of Pbilofopbers in all e/4g«", al- though the beedleffe world hath feldome taken notice of them 5 For the Auncients ufualiy (before they dyed) ^Adopted one or other for their Sonnsy whom they knew well fitted with fuch like qualities, as are fett downe in the letter thx. Hor tort sM after wrote to him when he fent to make him his Heire unto this Science. And otherwife then for pure vermes fake, let no man ex- pect to attaine it, or as in the cafe of Tonfile,
q; Or din. %) ^ej^tejaf^&tUtttsfccnoftoje,
Pag.4 1 . $Matni£ to fcifriofe it, tfcat &a£ tuber oone before-
Rewards nor Terrors ("be they never fo Munificent or Vreaifull) can wreft r) w/rfpag. J J. thts/iecrrt out of the bofome of aPbilofopber.zmongfk others, witnefle (r)r^w»tff
Now under what 7>ci and Ingagements this Store* is ufualiy delivered^ fwhen beftowed by word of moutb) may appeare in the weighty Obligations oifthat 04^ which Cbanwck toolje before he obtained it , for thus fpake his Pftzfle? to him :
mill
(4-4-0
tfi Will tm» Mtt) mee to $0 o?rolio be content ^)Bw. of P£*\
jfatt^fuH^ toieeeibe tye bieffefc Sacrament te/*.cap.?.
^pont^(0£>at^t^at3I fljall^eregoa gibe, ^f o; »e 45 olD tie j&tlber as long a0 £a& Itbe, ifteitycr fejiobe poti bears toS»art>0 poor &tntte, j$c££et to no great Jflpati pjefermeRt to wirme, fCbatpoufcifdofe tfje ^etret tfeat 31 fball pon tsacJj, ffizitiMtyMtiting, ttofrbvnofagft jbpeecijes IBut oneip to tym Sw^tcb ^ou be fare, Ik art? ebcr teatcbeo after t te &ctvzt$ cf B attire, Co ^im pon map r efceale tbe ^ecreW of tljte Srte, ^Snber t\)t Ccbertng of & lyil of op*jjc before ttytef ^toilb^ee
(oepart. And this 0
x) ^jertje fyon$>t to befabeb from tfjepttt of l£cH. r) Ghap.ibia.
And if it fo fell out, that they met not with any, whome they conceived in all refpe&s worthy of thtk Adoption ^Qthey then refigned it into tkc bands of God, $) Or£'plg»37« who beft knew where to beftow ic.However,they feldome left the World before they left fome mitten Legacy behind them, which (being the ijfue of their Braine) ftood in roomeand place of Children, and becomes to us both Pd- rent TUidScboQlraafler, throughout which they were fo univerfally \inde, as to call all Students by the deare and affectionate Tytle of Sons (t J (Hemes giving t) in 'PflBlttt* the firft Prefident) wifliing all were fuch3 that take the paines to tread their Fathers fteppsj and induftrioully follow the Rules and Dictates they mad* over to pofterhy,and wherein they faithfully difcovered the whole Mjflery *
u) %$ lawftttfp a0 bv tljeir fealtp ttyt map, \x)OrMn, pa«i«.
IB % ipeence of t^c ojeafcf nil 31 ttfcge at Borneo t>a^
In thefc Legitimate Children they lived longer then in thth Adopted Sonsfot though thefe certainly perifhed in an Age, vex their Writings fas if when they dyed their Souls had beenTranfmigrated into them)feemed as Immot wB3enougb at leaft to perpetuate their Memories, ii\} Time mould be no more. And to be the Father of fueh Sons, is fin my Opinion) a moft noble happinefle.
w) Let domes get Heires, and Wealth ', when I am gone, w) Rand.T!ocmt
And the greate Bugbear egri fly death pig«6$ •
Shall fnatch this Idle breath, If la Poem leave, that Poem ts my Son.
pag 34. li-3 J. 3 maoa alfo tfje mtviv of tyfe,
i m%i
THt Conjecture has much of probability in it which fpeakes this the Wife of Will, Cannings, who was U zymes Major of ErifloH, contemporary wicbi Norton, and whole wealth was farr beyond the beft of thole tymes, as appeares
Mmm by
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" by that notable Worke of his in building Stmt Miry ofRadtiiff without the " Walls of Briftoll, into which Cbmb there is a Stately afcent upon many « tfwiw, fo large wkhall3 fo finely and curioufly wrought, with an arched « Roofe over head of ftone, artificially tmbowedj a Steeple alfo of an exceeding aJ'2*W. f0, « height, that all the parifticftttwifct in England which hitherto I have feene a?*7. cc ('faith judicious (a) Camden) in my judgement it furpaffeth many degrees.
h) Camb.Brit. The hidWiUim earnings aifo(^ Inftmttd3(lfaacfin faith very much (e) fo, a? 8. augmented) the Cfl&%e of Weftbury neere BW/f&ff (not Jong before (d) foun-
c)'£fom dcdbyjfifr» Carpenter, Bifhop of Worcester) and in bis old age tooke upon
fo. 467. bim the Sacer detail fkn8iw and became Ztof thereof,
d) Go^.pag- 3*7.
Pag-3S.li.4. #»* DeMsat Teuxbury Ufi:## fceafc
$4.5&t7*47* \7\7IthIntW0(iaye$afl:ertheW vi&°*1 which EafaMte^wfc obteyned ▼' V ow et^eene Margaret 2t\dPrince Edvf (the Wife znd Son o( Henry the
K^attheearneltlolicitationota'Jfnr/jwno witnltood nis entrance into; Church, whither Hee and many more were fled for SanMmry, till the faid Pardon was obteyned. A juft punifhment for betraying fo honeft a PhUofa pberzs Valton into the hands of fo imminent danger, as the Su/ry at the iattes end oft hefecofid PflfJftT mentions.
SCTi ! 1 ' i — ! ft 3
Pag.39.11.1. TonfileSjajffHU/abmivctmt^e jflrc.
THe great Letter E fet in pi. 6. wherein thzGryfoon h? cut,mouid have been placed the firfb Lerttr of the Lint: But this miftake was comitted in my abfencefrom the Preffe, for which thcTrinter beggs pardon, as alfo the Es- paverfa giving the ^rj^Wf hinder Fectf, thofe cUwt $nes of a H fcf the tinguedpams of a I/orr.
What was contained within the lower compafle of the faid F. which in the Origfaatt Manufcrip was like a Capitall Secretary T. feemes fin my judge- ment) a Coateoi Ames, toe although k was not drawne in the forme of a fbield or Scwbeon^ yet within the compare of the Letter (which I take to be the field) was A%ure3 a Gryphon Rawpm, w*th Wings delayed, Argent. But to whatFiw'i/ it belongs I cannot yet learne*
Pa. s *•!* * . Brifc S»i)Oft ^arname atyen tlje disuse of C ogne wag Jjas.
2) Atk 1 46$. "TpHis alteration of our EnglijbCeyne was in the fgjfth. of Edmrd the 4tk
J[ the value of Money at one rife was never fo great before or lincejfor he
h)Ston» Annal made of an (b) eld Noble of Gold a RjtfC, and from the value of 6 sv 8 d. with
.^i^SHry. 46.adding 8. d. in allay x^td it to 10 s. (and fo other Coynes in like proportion)
and yet that Nfi&teivas by H. 4. made 4 d. in value lefie then the Rofe Hobit
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of Six* MUtf Aa^,x |H« ** &) Sold ^hereof as is aftoed
unwritten-verity) was made by Projection or Multiplication AlcbimicaU of &»'- pag.l7 v cc mftWii L»I/>, in the Twer of twfon, and befides the Tradition, the Inscription K s* «« is fome proofe, for as upon the one fide there is the %ings Image upon a j% « to notifie that he was Lord of the Seas, with this title fee upon the reverfe, a »c ctofltfiMfX with Lioneux, inferibed, Ie(»s 4«ft>» tranftens per medium eorum « ifot, that is, as Jefus paflfed invifible and in moft fecret manner by the midft £C of ibirifes, fo that Gold was made by invifible and fecret An midft: the Ig* mnnt, Mayerm conffrmes this, and faith Qi) Raymond made moft pure Gold k) S/m&.*ht. in the fower which is ye* called Raymonds noble, obr\\i fummaqi indicatura,P*g>41*' fome of which himfelf had feen.Tis alfo worth ebferving that^)there was noU Camb.Rem. Gold coyned in England before the faid Edward the third's Reigne An. 144$. Pag-172- . & Raymond Lully was long in England before that, for (m) An. 1 5 3 2. he wrote w)See the rat- bis rf/fown*m Nw/jffwww in §tyfeftfar&* Cfo*refr neere the Ttwer of London, ter end of his andZtetoci it fwith other of his #>fc«) to Edmrd the third, and it may be TeflMto pie-fumed he was fome while there before he wrote the fame: For, that he was brought over by Cremer Abbot of Weftminfter , afterwards made knowne to the King, and didfurniihhim with much Gold, as /hall appeare hereafter in the Annotations upon l&f$»ealilHt&.
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Pa.6ili7 ^tttt^et^dfe^iftcitf amons ^cteiiceflfaii -£ojt^c ^elpc of t%\9%xtt, if* ^agic& ttattttaU,
IUdiciall Aftrologie is the ltyy of Haturall Magtc\, and N««f all VAagic\ thfc Z)oo« that leads to this Bleffed Stone.
Howbeit, the Ignorance and Malice of fome times, and the' common Cuftome of ours has moft falfly and abufively called Necromancy (and what other Arts are raifed from the DoSi-ine of Vivcls,) Magick ; without affording that jufc and due diftinction which ought to be made betweene them: and what grea- ter Injury to learning then without Dift in ftion to confound Laudable tyoitm Udie, withwhatisJ^iow and Z)evilifb> For, if there be any thing in (what we call j Magick , other then a (canbivgino tbofe bidden venues which God in beenpleas'd to beftow upon created things ('though clofcly Iockt up by the generallCurfe) whereby we may aptly and naturally apply Agents toPatients, I fay, if in it there be any thing elfe, they are only §abdl\falfeboods that melter and fhroud themfelvs under that Tytlc.znA which would gladly beefteemed Leaves of that Plant, from whofe Root they never fpmng* And therefore is it not leffe abfurd, then ftrange, toffee how fome Men (who would have the World account them learned, and whome I beleive to be fo learned, as to have read and found what Latitude is due to the word Magm , how it is accepted by ,the tfudmow, and what a vaft difference there is, betweene the VoBrine of aM gicien, and the abufe of the Word) will not forbeare toranke True Magicians with Conjurers, Necromancers and Witches (thofe geand Impoftors) who(n)vi« n) Ttrieel.dt. clently intrude themfelves into Magicb^ m if Swine fhould enter into a f aire and de- occult Phil, cap, licatc Garden, andfbeingin league with the Vevill) make ufe of his Affi- u. ftance in their wor\es, to counterfeit and corrupt the admiral! wifdome of the ' Magi, betweene whom there is as large a difference as betweene Angels and Devils Mm mi The
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The Mi^here intended,and which I ftnVe to "VindksittMyVivifteXrue, 9) Giff.Gm'hs.°ftlteM/ifdQmQ(Naiuret8L indeed comprehedeth the whokPbilofopby cf 'Nature \ pag.66* fcein8 00 3 Tcrfecl knowledge of the mrfa ofGod,and tbeirEffeols. h is that*
p) Bac.adv. fo, wjuch {p)reduces all naturall Phiiofophy /row variety of Speculations to the mag- 3$. nitude of workes, and (q) wbofc Mifteries are far greater then the naturall Phy-
q) Dr.Getis lofophy now in ufeand reputation will reach unto. For by the bare application of %erm.i6 Aftives to TaJJives it is able to exercife a kind of Empire over Nature , and worke wonders z and 'tis from the ignorance of fueh marvelous Operations that the Tgnoram, {vi\ the molt learned in other thiugs (as well as the lllite- rate) if they be not learned in this,) either by an unwarrantable adoration e- fleeme them as Miracles, which onely are the worlds of Naturall or Mathe- matical Philofophy: or'elie (which is an Erf our as wide on the left hand,) forth-' with cenfure and flander thofe truly Naturall as Diabolically becaule Wonder- ACm I 2 7 ^ ^r47^e and heYond the r^w&e of their Apprebcnfions. The latter of which rjwn.l .$/. Qjightas- well fay fr) ^frftr praftifing to make his Lambs of a P/d Colour was performed by the afliftance or miniftry of the Devill, and as well con- demnethe ufe of Pbific^y becaufe the Devill has taught Witches divers harm- full and uncharitable tifes of Herbs, Miner alls, Excrements, &c.
And as in fome dull ages, and among fome Groffe Spirits it has proved dan- gerous to be Learned, Witm flfe our Renowned .Roger Bacbon, whom (To- gether with Artepheus,Arnold,de villa nova,who were Tbilofopbers of known re- $)De TrejHgw?ut^'lon & credit) fs)//7/^ reckons among theP ephmiingenii homines (t)all Dam. li.a.ca.4. w^ Worses fairely written and well bound3were by Religion pretending Sciolifts pag.140. dm^ ™ Vevilifb, vHtb long Nailes through them fajfned to des\s in the Francifcan
t) Hcldcnpref Library at Oxford ,zrid there with Duft and Moths confumed : Even fo our other toHopt.Concord^mmsCountry-mm profound Ripley-} was alio abufed, (u) who after hh a) Bale Cent.S. Mb bfaid to have been branded with the name of a Necromancer. PopeSUveker M.631 the fecondpiC'd. for a Magician (in the worft fence) becaufe he underftood
Geometry , and about 1 fo. yeares agoe (To blind an age was it,) that to know Gree\e and Necromancy were one and the fame thing, in opinion of the Il» #*fWe.However,iet the Ignorant fcoffe and attribute that to Deceipt and IlluB&n which is the proper worke of Nature produced by exquifite knowledge^ lam confident the ingenoufly learned will approve and admire it.
But to teare ofi'that ugly vizard which Envy has placed before the Pace of {o Divine beauty, and to make way for the meaning of our Author, I thinke k necefiary (in thefuft place,) that I touch upon the Word, that gives a name to the Projectors 3
And that is Magus ('primitively a Perfiatt word) which onely iignifies or imports a C^Umpiat or of Heavenly and Divine Sciences, a (iudious Obferverr w)Par:prim.to. an expounder of Divine things, a name ('faith (wj Marcellus Ficinus) gratious-in 57 J« tbegofpel^notpgnifyivga Witch or a Conjurer, but a wife man and a Trieff.
And in truth a true Magician, acknowledges God,to be the true Caufe and Gi- ver of life and vertuc to Nature, and all Naturall things, of the Qui{ts of x) Magiapra* which tfciags (u alfo of (x) Divine) is the whole fcope and effefi of all their sipua&pars Writings and Difcourfes :
Tbcologia. In the Next place,that I give the Definition of Magic\ (becaufe zs(y)Myran~
y)T/c.M/r.fo» Mifayes) it is an Art winch few under (f and and many reprehend, and therefore
§k " of neceflicy to be clearly evinced:) Receive it from a learned hand 1
..yoHle finds it worth your ©bfemnee. ~ M&
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&tagick> hi tb* Connexion ofnaturall Agents and Patients, anfwerable each to ether, wrought by a wife Man to the bringing forth of fucbeff eels m are wonder full to thofe that \mw not their cau[es e Occult, and hidden Scyenceoffupematurall things in the Earth, tint whatfoever is impefti- JPM.cap.i i. bit to be found out by mans Reafon way by this Art. And Jhortly after to cleere it from imputations adds, that iis in it felfe mofl pure and not defiled with Ce- rimonies nor Conjurations at Necromancy is.