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cause_n	effect_n	natural_a	supernatural_a	1,915	5	10.5176	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75719	Theatrum chemicum Britannicum· Containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. / Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon, by Elias Ashmole, Esq. Qui est Mercuriophilus Anglicus. The first part.	Vaughan, Robert, engraver.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682.; Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692.	1652 (1652)	Wing A3987; Thomason E653_1; ESTC R205904	256,178	516

Apprehensions The latter of which might as well say Jacobs practising to make his Lambs of a Py'd Colour was performed by the assistance or ministry of the Devill and as well condemne the use of Phisick because the Devill has taught Witches divers harmfull and uncharitable uses of Herbs Mineralls Excrements c. And as in some dull ages and among some Grosse Spirits it has proved dangerous to be Learned Witnesse our Renowned Roger Bachon whom Together with Artepheus Arnold de villa nova who were Philosophers of known reputation credit Wierus reckons among the Deplorati ingenii homines all whose Workes fairely written and well bound were by Religious pretending Sciolists dam'd as Devilish with long Nailes through them fastned to desks in the Franciscan Library at Oxford and there with Dust and Moths consumed Even so our other famous Country-man Profound Ripley was also abused who after his death is said to have been branded with the name of a Necromancer Pope Silvester the second pas'd for a Magician in the worst sence because he understood Geometry and about 150. yeares agoe so blind an age was it that to know Greeke and Necromancy were one and the same thing in opinion of the Illiterate However let the Ignorant scoffe and attribute that to Deceipt and Illusion which is the proper worke of Nature produced by exquisite knowledge I am confident the ingenously learned will approve and admire it But to teare off that ugly vizard which Envy has placed before the Face of so Divine a Beauty and to make way for the meaning of our Author I thinke it necessary in the first place that I touch upon the Word that gives a name to the Prosessors And that is Magus primitively a Persian word which onely signifies or imports a Contemplator of Heavenly and Divine Sciences a studious Observer an expounder of Divine things a name saith Marcellus Ficinus gratious in the Gospell not signifying a Witch or a Conjurer but a wise man and a Priest And in truth a true Magician acknowledges God to be the true Cause and Giver of life and vertue to Nature and all Naturall things of the Causes of which things as also of Divine is the whole scope and effect of all their Writings and Discourses In the Next place that I give the Definition of Magick because as Myrandula sayes it is an Art which few understand and many reprehend and therefore of necessity to be clearly evinced Receive it from a learned hand you le finde it worth your observance Magick is the Connexion of naturall Agents and Patients answerable each to other wrought by a wise Man to the bringing forth of such effects as are wonderfull to those that know not their causes Thus Hee Paracelsus called it a most secret and hidden Scyence of supernaturall things in the Earth that whatsoever is impossible to be found out by mans Reason may by this Art And shortly after to cleere it from imputations adds that t is in it selfe most pure and not defiled with Cerimonies nor Conjurations as Necromancy is Agreeable to both but more copiously delivered is that of Corn Agrippa who affirmes Magick to containe the profoundest Contemplation of most secret things together with the nature power quality substance and vertues thereof as also the knowledge of whole nature That instructs us concerning the difference and agreement of things amongst themselves whence it produceth its wonderfull effects by uniting the vertues of things through the application of them one to the other and to their inferiour sutable Subjects joyning and knitting them together throughly by the powers and vertues of superiour Bodies This briefly is an account of that Learning whose Operations and Effects being full of Misteries was by the Ancients esteemed as the highest and sacred Phylosophie the fountaine of all good doctrine Animadverto saith Pliny summum Literarum claritatem gloria●que ex hac scientiâ antiquitus penes semper petitam What hath been hitherto said will not I presume offend the Eares of the most Pious for here is no Incantations no Words no Circles no Charmes no other fragments of invented Fopperies nor needs there any Nature with whom true Magicians only deale can worke without them she findes Matter and they Art to helpe and assist Her and here 's All. To instance the Generation of Froggs Lyce Wormes Insects c. The worke of a Philosopher is therein onely to strengthen the Seeds of Nature for she alone Workes and so to quicken them that they hasten the worke of Generation and by such meanes Tho. Aquinas supposes Pharo's Magitians produced Froggs insomuch as it seems to the Ignorant not to be the Worke of Nature that usually operates more leasurely rather the Power of the Devill But they who are learned in those Arts marvell not at such working but Glorifie the Creator To whose Honour alone these Operations must chiefly tend for he is best praised in his workes and we knowing him in and by these visible things may through such knowledge understand his more Secret and Invisible things and thereby be better inabled to Glorifie him then men otherwise can Now I deny that any measure of understanding in naturall Magick how large soever or the utmost and ●arthest search we can possibly make into that pure and primitive knowledge of Nature to be a prying in●o those Hidden Secrets which God would have concealed and ranked among the number and nature of those things he has prohibited us to search into as I know there are that will tell you it is and they such as weare the Coat● and would be loath to want the reputation of Schollars And this is fully manifested from Adam who before his Fall was so absolute a Philosopher that he fully understood the true and pure knowledge of Nature which is no other then what we call Naturall Magick in the highest degree of Perfection insomuch that by the light thereof upon the present view of the Creatures he perfectly knew their Naures and was as able to bestow names sutable to their Qualities and Properties For This was a larger and cleerer Ray of the Light of Nature then all the industry of man since the Fall was able to hope for or attaine unto and to attest the allowance bestowed upon him by God himselfe Nor was it this Naturall knowledg that introduced his Fall or can be any Offence or Sin in us were it possible to arrive at his Perfection No certainly Adams transgression for which he fell was of a higher Nature even that proud inquiry into the knowledge of good and evill with no lesse intent then to make a totall defection from God and depend wholly upon himselfe and his free will Besides t is worthy Observation that God in constituting Moses to be a Governor over his owne people seemed as willing to make choyce of such a one for that high Office as was learned in all the Sciences then in request with the Egyptians among whom Magick was the