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A26563	Henry Cornelius Agrippa's fourth book of occult philosophy and geomancy magical elements of Peter de Abano : astronomical geomancy : the nature of spirits : and Arbatel of magick / translated into English by Robert Turner ...; De occulta philosophia. Book 4. English.	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.; Petrus, de Abano, ca. 1250-ca. 1315. Heptameron, or magical elements of Peter de Abano.	1655 (1655)	Wing A785A; ESTC R40727	133,640	309

premio Cast. How is that Poll. These are his words Let not any man conceive that the souls of the dead are judged immediately after death for they are all detained in one common custody until the time shall come wherein the Almighty Judge shall make examination and inquisition of their deeds Then they who shall be found righteous shall receive the reward of immortality but they whose sins and wickedness shall then be detected shall not arise again but shall be inclosed with the wicked in darkness and destined to eternal punishments Cast. St. Augustine subscribeth to Lactantius in his Enchiridion saying that the time which is interposed between the death of mankind and the last resurrection containeth the souls in secret hidden receptacles where every soul receiveth condign rest or misery for the good or evil which he did in the body while he lived Poll. Neither doth St. Ambrose disagree from this in his second book of Cain and Abel he saith that the soul is loosed from the body and after the end of this life is suspended to the ambiguous time of the last judgment Cast. So also some have declared that the soul of Trajanus Caesar did wander about but the soul of St. George was freed from such suffrage Poll. Thou hast even now spoke and that truly that spacious is the sea of various opinions concerning these spirits for so indeed it is but what Port thou toutchest at I desire thee it may not seem troublesome to thee to tell me for I am not as yet satisfied of the certainty hereof by our discourse Cast. That which thou desirest I conceive to be this I hold that these tumultuous spirits are meer images of Satan which are not to be feared neither is their any credit to be given to their answers and are in no wise the souls of the dead which either live with Christ if they have done well or else are bound in chains with Satan if they have done evil Poll. It remaineth that we fift out this Castor for it happeneth now sometimes that my Father appeareth to me in my sleep perhaps that may also seem unto thee to be a Spirit Cast. It may seem so but I will not in any thing contradict thee beyond reason of myself I will add nothing but at leastwise I will annihilate thy opinion with the assertions of St. Augustine Poll. What assertions are those Cast In his 11 book which he intitleth De mortuorum cura he offereth them as a means saying Human infirmaty doth so believe of himself that when he seeth any one that is dead in his sleep he supposeth that he seeth the soul of that dead person but when he dreameth of any one that is alive he then is out of doubt that neither his soul nor his body but the similitude of the man appeared unto him as if they could be ignorant that the souls of dead men do not appear unto them in dreams but only the similitudes of the persons deceased And he proveth both these to be done by two examples which were as Mediolanus whereof the first he sheweth to have been the image of a certain father that was dead who appeared to his son admonishing him that he should not pay again a debt to an unjust creditor which the father had paid him before for he saith the case was thus the father had paid a debt to a certain creditor which after the death of the father the creditor endeavoured by force to recover the same again of his son who was ignorant of the payment thereof to whom the image of his father appeared when he was sleeping and shewed him where the writing was hid Whereupon the son awaking from his sleep sought for the paper in the place he was directed and found it and thereby overthrew the malice of his deceitful creditor The second example is whereby the same St. Augustine sheweth that the living do appear to the living in their sleep for he saith that Eurologius the Rhetorician professing the Rhetorick of Cicero at Carthage he found a difficult and obscure place that was not declared unto him so that waking and sleeping he vexed himself by reason of his ignorance but in a certain night the image of Aurelius Augustine appeared to him and taught him in what manner the dark and difficult place was to be understood Poll. Augustine doth therefore conclude without doubt that they are not souls Cast. He doth so conclude and the greater to strengthen such his judgment he addeth that if the souls of the dead have any interest or council in the affairs of the living he undoubtedly knew that his own pious mother did not desert him not for one night but when she was living followed him both by sea and land neither did he at any time sustain any anguish of heart but comforted his sorrows And that this may not seem too hard a speech the president of Christ teacheth that they do not err who affirm that the good Angels by the appointment of God and divine dispensation do sometimes come to and visit men both living and sleeping and sometimes to the place where souls endure punishment notwithstanding it is not unto all but only unto those who have so lived that God shall judge them worthy of his mercy or unto those upon whom without any respect unto their deserts God will be pleased to glorify his unspeakable mercy that by the prayers of the living they may obtain pardon of their sins and deliverance from the prison of torments Poll. I have sometimes read that the same St. Augustine did write that it is better for a man to doubt of secret things than to contend about things uncertain Cast. That is certainly true neither doth he declare himself to be an offence to those who do leave all these things to the unsearchable judgments of God and labour not to find out the secrets thereof Poll. Because I have easily understood thy answers hitherto I will not desist till thou hast fully resolved me concerning this subject I desire therefore to know whether all miracles which the devils perform are done really or imaginary phant●sies Cast. That they perform many things really and many things only seemingly we have already manifested out of the writings of St. Augustine For that great prelate of the Christian Church writeth in the 11 chapter of his book de Trinitate that it is a very easy thing for the wicked Spirits through the airy substance of their bodies to perform many things which seem wonderful to the souls that are oppressed with earthly bodies to be done He also saith that earthly bodies may be so qualified with art and exercise that in public Theatres they may perform such wonderful things that those who never have seen them will not believe them but that they were done by the assistance of the devil and his ministers to make their bodies of such an airy element that the flesh wonders at Or else which is much

he will read any prayers psalms or gospels for his defence they ought to take the first place After these prayers and orations are said then let him begin to invoeate the spirit which he desireth with a gentle and loving Inchantment to all the coasts of the world with the commemoration of of his own authority and power And then let him rest a little looking about him to see if any spirit do appear which if he delay then let him repeat his invocation as abovesaid until he hath done it three times and if the spirit be pertinacious obstinate and will not appear then let him begin to conjure him with divine power so also that the conjurations and all his commemorations do agree with the nature and offices of the spirit himself and reiterate the same three times from stronger to stronger using objurgations contumelies cursings and punishments and suspension from his office and power and the like And after all the courses are finished then cease a little and if any spirit shall appear let the invocant turn himself towards the spirit and courteously receive him earnestly intreating him let him require his name and then proceeding further let him ask him ●hatsoever he will and if in any thing the spirit shall shew himself obstinate or lying let him be bound by convenient conjurations and if you doubt of any lye make without the circle with the consecrated sword the figure of a triangle or Pentagone and compel the spirit to enter into it and if thou receivest any promise which thou wouldest have to be confirmed with an oath let him stretch the sword out of the circle and swear the spirit by laying his hand upon the sword Then having obt●ined of the spirit that which you desire or are otherwise contented license him to depart with courteous words giving command unto him that he do no hurt and if he will not depart compel him by powerful conjurations and if need require expel him by exorcisms and by making contrary fumigations And when he is departed go not out of the circle but make a stay making prayer and giving of thanks unto God and the good Angels and also praying for your defence and conservation and then all those things being orderly performed you may depart But if your hopes are frustrated and no spirit will appear yet for this do not despair but leaving the circle return again at other times doing as before And if you shall judge that you have erred in any thing then you shall amend by adding or demishing for the constancy of reiteration doth often increase your authority and power and striketh terror into the spirits and humbleth them to obey And therefore some use to make a gate in the circle whereby they go in and out which they open and shut as they please and fortify it with holy names and pentacles This also we are to take notice of that when no spirits will appear but the Master being wearied hath determined to cease and give over let him not therefore depart without licensing the spirits for they that do negl●ct this are very greatly in danger except they are fortified with some sublime defence Oftentimes also the spirits do come although they appear not visible for to cause terror to him that calls them either in the thing which he useth or in the operation it self But this kind of licensing is not given simply but by a kind of dispensation with suspension until in the following terms they shall render themselves obedient Also without a Circle these spirits may be called to appear according to the way which is above delivered about the consecration of a book But when we intend to execute any effect by evil spirits where an apparition is not needful then that is to be done by making and forming that which is to be unto us an instrument or subject of the experiment itself as whether it be an image or a ring or a writing or any character candle or sacrifice or any thing of the like sort then the name of the spirit is to be wirtten therein with his character according to the exigency of the experiment either by writing it with some blood or otherwise using a perfume agreeable to the spirit Oftentimes also making prayer and orations to God and the good Angels before we invocate the evil spirit conjuring him by the divine power There is another kind of spirits which we have spoken of in our third book of occult philosophy not so hurtful and nearest to men so also that they are affected with human passions and do joy in the conversation of men and freely do inhabit with them and others do dwell in the woods and Desarts and others delight in the company of divers domestics animals and wild beasts and othersome do inhabit about fountains and meadows Whosoever therefore would call up these kind of spirits in the place where they abide it ought to be done with odoriferous perfumes and with sweet sounds and instruments of music specially composed for the business with using of songs inchantments and pleasant verses with praises and promises But those that are obstinate to yield to these things are to be compelled with threatnings comminations cursings delusions contumelies and especially by threatning them to expel them from those places where they are conversant Further if need be thou mayest betake thee to use Exorcisms but the chiefest thing that ought to be observed is constancy of mind and boldness free and alienated form fear Lastly when you would invocate these kind of spirits you ought to prepare a table in the place of invocation covered with clean linen whereupon you shall set new bread and running water or milk in new earthen vessels and new knives And you shall make a fire whereupon a perfume shall be made But let the invocant go unto the head of the table and round about it let there be seats placed for the spirits as you please and the spirits being called you shall invite them to drink and eat But if perchance you shall ●ear any evil spirit then draw a circle about it and let that part of the table at which the invocant sits be within the circle and the rest of the table without the circle In our third ●ook of Occult Philosophy we have taught how and by what means the soul is joined to the body and what happeneh to the soul after death Thou mayest know further that those souls do still love their relinquished bodies after death as it were a certain affin●ty alluring them such as are the souls of noxious men which have violently relinquished their bodies and souls wanting a due burial which do still wander in a liquid and turbulent spirits about their dead carcasses for these souls by the known means by which heretofore they were conjoined to their bodies by the like vapours liquors and favours are easily drawn unto them From hence it is that the souls of the dead are

not to be called up without blood or by the application of some part of their relict body In the raising up of these shadows we are to perfume with new blood with the bones of the dead and with Flesh Eggs Milk Honey and Oil and such like things which do attribute to the souls a means apt to receive their bodies It is also to be understood those who are desirous to raise up any souls of the dead they ought to do it in those places wherein these kind of souls are most known to be conversant or for some alliance alluring those souls into their forsaken body or some kind of affection in times past impressed in them in their life drawing the said souls to certain places things or persons or for the forcible nature of some place fitted and prepared for to purge or punish these souls Which places for the most part are to be known by the experience of visions nightly incursions and apparitions and such like prodigies seen Therefore the places most fitting for these things are Church-yards And better than them are those places wherein there is the execution of criminal judgments And better than these are those places in which of late years there have been some public slaughters of men Furthermore that place is better than these where some dead carcass that came by violent death is not yet expiated nor lately buried and was lately buried for the expiation of those places is also a holy rite duly to be adhibited to the burial of the bodies and oftentimes prohibiteth the souls to come unto their bodies and expelleth them far off unto the places of judgment And from hence it is that the souls of the dead are not easily to be raised up except it be the souls of them whom we know to be evil or to have perished by a violent death and whose bodies do want a rite and due burial Now although we have spoken concerning such places of this kind it will not be safe or commodious to go unto them but it behoveth us to take to what place soever is to be chosen some principal part of the body that is relict and therewith to make perfume in due manner and to perform other competent rites It is also to be known that because the souls are certain spiritual lights therefore artificial lights especially if they be framed out of certain competent things compounded according to a true rule with congruant inscriptions of names and seals do very much avail to the raising up of departed souls Moreover these things which are now spoken of are not always sufficient to raise up souls because of an extranatural portion of understanding and reason which is above and known only to the heaven and destinies and their powers We ought therefore to allure the said souls by supernatural and coelestial powers duely administered even by those things which do m●●e the very harmony of the soul as well imaginative as rational and intellectual as are voices songs sounds inchantments and religious things as prayers conjurations exorcisms and other holy rites which may very commodiously be administered hereunto The end of the fourth book of Agrippa HEPTAMERON OR MAGICAL ELEMENTS OF PETER de ABANO PHILOSOPHER IN the former book which is the fourth book of Agrippa it is sufficiently spoken concerning Magical ceremonies and Initiations But because he seemeth to have written to the 1earned and well experienced in this art because he doth not specially treat of the ceremonies but rather speaking of them in general it was therefore thought good to add hereunto the magical elements of Peter de Abano that those who are hitherto ignorant and have not tasted of magical superstitions may have them in readiness how they may exercise themselves therein For we see in this book as it were a certain introduction of magical vanity and as it were in present exercise they may behold the distinct functions of spirits how they m●y be drawn to discourse and communication what is to be done every day and every hour and how they shall be read as if they were described syllable by syllable In brief in this book are kept the principles of magical conveyances But because the greatest power is attributed to the Circles For they are certain fortresses to defend the operators safe from the evil spirits in the first place we will treat concerning the composition of a Circle Of the Circle and the composition thereof THE form of Circles is not always one and the same but useth to be changed according to the order of the spirits that are to be called their places times days and hours For in making a circle it ought to be considered in what time of the year what day and what hour that you make the circle what spirits you would call to what star and region they do belong and what functions they have Therefore let there be made three circles of the latitude of nine foot and let them be distant one from another a hands breadth and in the middle circle first write the name of the hour wherein you do the work In the second place write the name of the Angel of the hour In the third place the Sigil of the Angel of the hour Fourthly the name of the Angel that ruleth that day wherein you do the work and the names of his ministers In the fifth place the name of the present time Sixthly the name of the spirits ruling in that part of time and their Presidents Seventhly the name of the head of the sign ruling in that part of time wherein you work Eightly the name of the earth according to that part of time wherein you work Ninthly and for the completing of the middle circle write the name of the sun and of the moon according to the said rule of time for as the time is changed so the names are to be altered And in the outermost circle let there be drawn in the four angles the names of the presidential Angels of the air that day wherein you would do this work to wit the name of the King and his three ministers Without the Circle in four Angles let Pentagones be made In the inner circle let there be written four divine names with crosses interposed in the middle of the circle to wit towards the East let there be written Alpha and towards the West let there be writt●n Omega and let a cross divide the middle of the circle When the the circle is thus finished according to the rule now before written you shall proceed Of the names of the hours and the Angels ruling them IT is also to be known that the Angels do rule the hours in a successive order according to the course of the heavens and planets unto which they are subject so that that spirit which governeth the day ruleth also the first hour of the day the second from this governeth the second hour the third the third hour and so consequently and when seven

servants animals to be profitable whosoever is in prison to be escaped or speedily to be delivered from thence and preserveth a man from the evil accidents of fortune Populus being found in the first house if a Question be propounded concerning that house sheweth a mean life of a middle age but inconstant with divers sicknesses and various successes of fortune signifies a man of a middle stature a gross body well set in his members perhaps some mold or mark about his left eye But if a Question shall be proposed concerning the figure of a man and to this figure if there be joined any of the figures of Saturn or Rubeus it sheweth the man to be monstrously deformed and that deformity he signifies to proceed from his birth but if in the fifth house if he be encompassed with malevolent Aspects then that monstrousness is to come In the second house Populus sheweth a mean substance and that to be gotten with great difficulty maketh a man also always sensible of laborious toil things stolen are never regained what is lost shall never be wholly recovered that which is hidden shall not be found But if the question be of a thief it declareth him not yet to be fled away but to lie lurking within the City In the third house Populus raiseth few friends either of brethren or kindred foresheweth journeys but with labour and trouble notwithstanding some profit may accrue by them denotes a man unstable in his faith and causeth a man often to be deceived by his companions In the fourth house it signifies a father to be sickly and of a laborious life and his earthly possessions and inheritane to be taken away sheweth profit to be gained by water sheweth treasure not to be hid or if there be any hidden that it shall not be found a patrimony to be preserved with great labour In the Fifth house he sheweth no honest messages but either maketh the messengers to be porters or public carriers he devulgeth false rumours which notwithstanding have the likeness of some truth and seem to have their original from truth which is not reported as it is done it signifies a woman to be barren and causeth such as are great with child to be abortives appointeth an inglorious funeral and an ill report after death In the sixth house Populus sheweth cold sicknesses and chiefly affecting the lower parts of the body a Physician is declared to be careless and negligent in administering physic to the sick signifies those that are affected with sickness to be in danger of death and scarcely to recover at all it notes the deceitfulness of servants and detriment of cattle In the seventh house it sheweth a wife to be fair and pleasant but one that shall be solicited with the love of many wooers signifies her loves to be feigned and dissembling maketh weak and impotent adversaries soon to desert prosecuting In the eight house it denotes sudden de●th without any long sickness or anguish and oftentimes sheweth death by the water giveth no inheritance possession or legacies from the dead and if any be they shall be lost by some intervening contentions or other discord he signifieth the dowry of a wife to be little or none Populus in the ninth house sheweth false dreams personates a man of rude wit without any learning or science in religion he signifies inferior offices such as serve to cleanse the Church or ring the bells and he signifies a man little curious or studious in religion neither one that is troubled with much conscience In the tenth house he signifies such Kings and Princes as for the most part are expulsed out of their rule and dominions or either suffer continual trouble and detriment about them he signifies offices and magistracy which appertain to matters concerning the waters as about the navy bridges fishings shores meadows and things of the like sort maketh Judges to be variable and slow in expediting causes before them declareth a Mother to be sickly and of a short life In the eleventh house he giveth few friends and may flatterers and with Princes giveth neither favour nor fortune In the twelfth house he sheweth weak and ignoble enemies declareth one in prison not to be delivered discovereth dangers in waters and watry places Acquisitio found in the first house giveth a long life and prosperous old age signifieth a man of a middle stature and a great head a countenance very well to be distinguished or known a long nose mu●h beard hair curling and fair eyes free of his meat and drink but in all things else sp●ring and not liberal In the second house he signifies very great riches apprehending all the●ves and causeth whatsoever is lost to be re●overed In the third house many brethren and they to be wealthy many gainful journeys signi●●es a man of good faith In the fourth is signified a patrimony of much riches many pos●essions of copious fruits he signi●ieth that treasure hid in any place shall be found and sheweth a f●ther to be very rich but covetous In the Fi●th house Acquisitio signifies many children of both sexes but more males than females sheweth a woman to be with child and that she shall be delivered without danger● and if a question be propounded concerning an● sex he signi●●es it to be masculine encreaseth gainful profitable embassages and messages but extendeth fame not far after death yet causeth a man to be inherited of his own and signifieth rumours to be true In the sixth house he signifies many and grievous sicknesses and long to continue maketh the sick to be in danger of death and often to die yet he declareth a Physician to be learned and honest giveth many servants and cattle and gains to be acquired from them In the seventh house he signifies a wife to be rich but either a widow or a woman of a well grown age signifies suits and contentions to be great and durable and that love and wedlock shall be effected by lot In the eight house if a man be inquired after it sheweth him to be dead signifieth the kind of death to be short and sickness to last but a few days discovereth very profitable legacies and inheritances and signifies a wife to have a rich dowry In the ninth house he signifieth long and profitable journeys sheweth if any one be absent he shall soon return causeth gain to be obtained from Religious and Ecclesiastical persons or scholars and signifies a man of a true and perfect sciencs In the tenth house he maketh Princes to enlarge their dominions a Judge favourable but one that must be continually presented with gifts causeth office and magistracy to be very gainful signifieth a mother rich and happy In the eleventh house Acquisitio multiplieth friends and bringeth profit from them and increaseth favour with Princes In the twelfth house he signifieth a man shall have many powerful or potent enemies reduceth and bringeth home servants fled away and cattle strayed and