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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76997	Paracelsvs Of the supreme mysteries of nature. Of [brace] the spirits of the planets. Occult philosophy. The magical, sympathetical, and antipathetical cure of wounds and diseases. The mysteries of the twelve signs of the zodiack. / Englished by R. Turner, philomathēs.	Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing B3544; Thomason E1567_2; ESTC R209187	70,843	175

reason of the greatness of their sins for oftentimes they bring to men very many good offices and benefits and do undertake and sustaine many hard labours for them Others believe that they will not be seen by us because that when a man seeth them he cryeth out so that they vanish away and will not appear any more Many that do see or hear these Spirits suppose that they are the Spirits and soules of men that have come to an evil death so that they have either desperately drowned or hanged themselves or killed themselves some other wayes and departing from God their Saviour have given themselves to the devil and for that cause do wander about and are reserved by the devil unto the day of the last Judgement There have been some who have supposed that they are vaine Phantasies and that they have fore-shown and presaged much good fortune to those places wherein they have been seen or heard which many times also hath so happened and come to pass but for the most part faith effecteth it for of their own nature they do not bring any fortune unless God compelleth them or our faith And on the contrary they are not able to cause any misfortune unless it be by the permission of God And many do thinke that they are the Inchantments of the Magicians There are others who having seen and heard them about treasures have judged that they are the Spirits of men who have hid treasures in that place and ought to remain there until the the Last Judgement or untill their custody thereof is found out and this opinion they receive from the words of Christ where he saith Where your treasure is there will your hearts be also But I do not see any reason why they should understand the heart for the Spirit but that there is much difference between them wherefore I say that all the Judgements which are spoken of before are but false opinions when as these are to be understood to be halfe-men that bear rule and wander in the four Elements and in the first and pristine times of nature they have been taken and worshipped in stead of God These are they of whom God Almighty admonisheth us in that Commandment of the first Table saying that we shall not have any other Gods but him neither in the waters where the Nymphs are understood nor under the Earth by which he meaneth Sylphes or Pygmies For the Lord our God is a jealous God and for such an offence punisheth the sins of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth generation The Mountain of Venus in Italy was much possessed with these Spirits for Venus her self was a Nymph and that Mountain was by a comparison as her Kingdome and Paradice But she is dead whereby her Kingdome ceaseth to be but where or in what place is there any mention heard to be made of them as in former time when Danhanserus and many others entred in unto them Neither did they Invent these fables they were of such a nature and condition that they loved all men that loved them and hated them that hated them wherefore they gave Arts and Riches in abundance to them who prescribed and bound themselves to them and they know both our minds and thoughts whereby it comes to pass that they are easily moved by us to come to us I do not say this that I would give this Counsel to any one but that the true ground and foundation thereof might be known and the true difference which is between the devil and these Semi-homines The devil hath not any body unless he take any thing to himself from the four Elements for he hath neither flesh nor blood he remaineth perpetual not subject to any infirmities or a finite death wherefore he dieth nor but the Pygmies do nevertheless they are both subject to a natural and everlasting death and are both deprived of everlasting life wherefore whosoever giveth or subscribeth himself unto them the same event happeneth unto him as to them Let every one therefore have a special care unto himself and consider well what he doth before he subscribeth himself for he suddenly doth that whereby he shall alwayes be compelled to be obedient unto them and to fulfill all their commands And if he shall chance to be disobedient unto them or anger them they very much impaire or totally destroy and take away his life there have been found many examples of this kinde to wit sometimes men have been found dead their neckes turned about or otherwise miserably handled where any such thing hath happened it hath hitherto commonly been said that the Devil hath done this for this cause either that the man hath not kept his promise and compact with him or that the time which he covenanted and subscribed himself unto him for is expired and that now he receiveth his last reward But these opinions do not proceed from the fountaine of truth for the office of the Devil containeth no such thing in his power but rather he suggesteth unto men evil thoughts and Cogitations whereby he draweth them away from obeying the will and commandments of God by which means he maketh them to be the greatest sinners and to forget and deny God their Creator and afterwards draweth them into despaire so that they cannot any more be able to pray unto God wherefore the Elementary Spirits are most like unto the devil and oftentimes they are executioners of the wrath and vengeance of God nevertheless they do oftentimes also admonish and warne us and do watch over us and defend us from many dangers and sometimes do deliver some from prison and afford to men many other helps Wherefore such men as are burdened and overwhelmed with grief and sorrowful Imaginations are not to be left alone but ought to be entertained with various and pleasant discourse which may delight their mindes and expel their sorrow The Devils likewise are in these cases not idle but as busie as those terrene Spirits do easily tempt such kinde of men From hence it comes to pass that some people especially women in child-bed have been so oppressed in the night in their sleepe that they have thought themselves to be as it were strangled neither could they possibly cry out or call any helpe but in the Morning have reported that they were Ridden by a hag And they are still accounted to be witches or Inchanters that do this whereas their bodies cannot possibly enter into the chambers where the doores and Windowes are shut but the Sylphes and Nymphes easily can O thou of little faith as doubtful as Peter who sufferest thy self to be tossed with every winde and art easily drowned thou thy self art the cause hereof by reason of thy little dubious and weake faith also thy evil thoughts do draw thee unto this Thou hast also in thy self a secret Magnes that attracteth every like This is the Celestial Load-stone above all others which attracteth Iron and steel

Copulation or else it loseth its virtue We are again forced to complain of envious and perfidious men who envying that in others which they have not themselvs leave nothing perfect that it may the second time appear in this Book that their strength and power is taken away as above is done concerning the signe Gemini By the Protestation of the same Author in this Chapter when he saith That this is the second Seal which he esteemed to be most powerful in the Medicinal Art The envious therefore labor in vain for whether they will or no he will bring into light every thing that they have taken away out of the Books of Theophrastus Paracelsus For that Author before his deth did prudently inclose those Books in divers places in Walls so that if after his death they were lost in one place they might be preserved in another for good men lest that if any should come to the envious hands of wicked men should be perpetually lost or torn in pieces Hereby they were preserved for us whole that in due time the lives of wicked men loving nothing but themselves may appear out of darkness Capricorn Now we come to treat of Saturn and his progeny this Seal is to be made of Gold for Lead hath no operation with other Metals There must be made a Ring of Copper and together with the Seal are both to be made in the hour when the Sun enters Capricorn and is farthest distant from us Let the Seal be engraven on the day and hour of Saturn and when Saturn is in a good Aspect with some other Planet It must be applied when the Moon is decreasing or diminished in light but the hour of the Aspect whether it be of the Moon or any other Planet matters not This Seal may vulgarly be called the Sigil of Favor This Seal throughly heals the Itch or Scurff in the Thighes Our Predecessors could not by Art finde out the Cure of this Disease accounting it uncureable when as this is the best way to Cure it without any other means Aquary When the Sun enters Aquary in the Month of January let the Seal be made in the same hour of these Metals being mixt and melted together of Gold ℥ ss Leadʒ ii of Iron ʒ i. And when the Planet Saturn is in the Ninth House of Heaven let these Signes and Words be quickly engraven one after another you shall not apply it till the Sun is under the Earth and in the hour of Saturn and then it is good being hanged about the Neck against Contractures cold Diseases and Sinewes shrunk it is very profitable to preserve the Memory to get Favors amongst men and very good against all Poyson as may be proved by putting any venemous Spider upon the Sigil it forthwith flieth away and cannot possibly remain upon it Pisces The Seal of Pisces is to be made in February when the Sun enters Pisces of the following Metals ℞ of Gold Iron Copper Silver of each ʒ ii Of Tynne ℥ ss Let them be all melted together and the Seal formed and engraven the same hour of the Suns ingress afterwards let it be applied when Jupiter is well placed in the eighth house of heaven and in the day and hour of Jupiter This is an admirable instrument to loose and expel Choler of which do grow many grievous Diseases as Contractures the Palsie shrinking of the Joynts Burnings c. against which it gives wonderful help to men or women it mitigateth the pain of the Gout takes away the Cramp and all Griefs proceeding from Fluxes This Seal ought to hang down low upon the Navel Here followes some more Common Secrets of Nature of Paracelsus HAving found a Conjunction of Saturn and Mars take a piece of Iron and frame a Mouse of it before the Conjunction passeth over and in the hour of Jupiter engrave upon the Belly of the Mouse these words ALBOMATATOX Afterwards when the Moon is in the 9 or 10 degree of Cancer on the right side engrave 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Afterwards the Moon descending and is in the 9 or 10 degree of the signe Pisces on the left side engrave as followeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and upon the Back thereof from the beginning of the Back-bone unto the Tayle engrave this word with the Character as you see IO NATURA SUA Note that from the signe of Venus unto the Centre of the other Character a Line is to be drawn over-thwart Then prepare a Collary for this Mouse of pure Lead the Moon increasing on the day of Saturn and first hour of the night which is the hour of Saturn and engrave thereon these Characters IL Con. 3. ♃ AB 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This being thus performed fit the Collary in the Conjunction of Saturn with Mars as abovesaid and place it about the Centre or middle of the House all kinds of Mice will flie away that are in the house and if afterwards any Mouse come therein he will not stay there an hour And if any quick Mouse be bound with a thred to this Metallick Mouse he will not live above an hour but will die and swell as if he had eaten Poyson Of Sheep That we may not only have some means to drive away and expel hurtful Creatures but also that we may preserve the profitable When Sheep are Corrupted with their Diseases make a Sheep of Mudd as followeth Take Mudd or Potters Clay from three several places much about the place where you live Also take Sand of a running Water about that place where for the most part Sheep drink beat them all together when the Moon decreases and of this Clay make the Image of a Sheep under that hour wherein the Moon suffers her diminution superscribe these following Signs with the Words here and there upon the Image EFERET † HOGERET † JAGEREL 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sanor Panor Tanor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Set this Sheep in the Sheep-fold sprinkled over with Salt and let the living Sheep lick it And as many as lick it or taste of this Salt shall not be infected nor die with any Murrain or Rot of Sheep And those that are infected by licking thereof shall be Cured Ambrammomis Gorelis Vortix 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Open the Mouth of the Beast and break the Egg upon his Tongue and force him to swallow it and it will forthwith heal it but let him not drink in twelve hours afterwards Against Flyes These Creatures do much infest men's houses in Summer-time and do corrupt and putrifie meat to drive them away do thus make a Coffin of steel and upon the Coffin engrave these Signs which you see in the Figure following And upon the Coffin from the separation of the said Signs and Words let there be engraven three lines tending towards the Cusp one in the new Moon the second in the full Moon and the third