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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97219	Magick & astrology vindicated from those false aspersions and calumnies, which the ignorance of some hath cast upon them. In which is contained true definitions of the said arts, and the justification of their practise, proved by the authority of Scripture, and the experience of ancient and modern authors. With observations from several remarkable conjunctions and apparitions: as those three suns that appeared before the Kings death, &c. / Impartially communicated for the publique good. By Hardick Warren, a well-wisher to the most secret occult arts and learning.	Warren, Hardick.	1651 (1651)	Wing W971; Thomason E623_4; ESTC R206369	27,202	39

by the most good and holiest men For C ham the son of Noah who as Cassianus reporteth was knowing not only in this Art but in all the seven Libral Sciences who having a fore-knowledg of the Universal Flood that he might preserve his attainments to after Ages engraved them in 14 Pillars seven of Brick to resist the injury of fire and seven of Brass to oppose the force of water all which others conceive were known to that just and holy man Noah and left by him to his sons So also Abraham that righteous man as Josephus reports was very much learned in these Arts more then any other in that Age if he did not abundantly exceed them all differing from the wisdom of after Times in this that he knew and acknowledged the true Cause and Giver of life and virtue to Nature and all natural things whereas others forgetting this adored the Instruments or second Causes and did attribute proper strength to the things themselves from which the effects were sensible which belongs to that Wisdom which being one and remaining in it self can do all things and reneweth all And Eupolemon doth affirm That Abraham the holiest and wisest of men did first teach the Chaldeans then the Phenitians and lastly the Egyptian Priests Astrology and Divine Knowledg and that he did as Philo saith diligently contemplate the Heavens which the Scripture seemeth to hint out in the promise of God to him concerning the multiplicity of his Seed So also that good man Jacob understood that the Sun in the dream of Joseph had signification of himself and that the Moon was meant his wife and the eleven Stars his sons Also Job that just man was versed in the knowledg of the stars where he denominateth the names of Arturus Orion and Pleiades and also the divisions of the Heavens and Earth in those words and the Climates of the South so that when God pleaded his own Power and Greatness he useth the same Stars or Constellations to convince Job with and also doth declare their Influence upon the Elementary Properties for saith he Canst thou restrain the sweet Influence of the Pleiades or unloose the bands of Orion Canst thou guide Arturus and his sons What the product of their Influence there meant let all Commenters declare and all such as have received a prejudice against this lawful Art contemplate in their minds So likewise Moses a man of God was versed excellently in all the learning of the Egyptians who were a people that were most rare in the knowledg of these Arts more then any other Nations whatsoever So Daniel and the three Children it is said That the King found them ten times better then all the Magicians and Astrologers that were in his Realm which had they not been knowing in both those Sciences they would not have been compared with them for always a wise man maketh comparisons in things of a like nature and how unreasonable and unjust would the Decree have been that Daniel and his fellows should have been slain with the rest of the Wise men of Babel had not they been Professors of the same Sciences For the Scripture saith That the Decree went forth that the Wise men should be slain and they sought after Daniel and his fellows to slay them with the rest And Solomon the wisest of men was excellently acquainted with the natural virtues of things also in their operations and effects with their several Times and Seasons for to every action and thing there is a time appointed by the infinite Wisdom and Fore-knowledg of the first Cause the which time and season in reference to means and event is either good or evil not that there is any evil in Time it self but in respect of those many effects that are by certain means to be produced for all things and actions are manifested in their due times and seasons so that all things follow in their kind each other by a certain eternal continuity and in this regard Time comes to be termed good or evil For this is clear that all creatures have their seasons of beginning of life motion strength c. but not all at one and the same time So in the Heavens all things and actions which are to be brought to pass here below are not conceived in the minds of the Celestial Souls at one and the same time but answerable to those times and seasons in the which they are to be manifested here in this inferior world and therefore for any to expect to have a demonstration from the Heavens of future events before their season shall and must acknowledg that he looked for it in an evil time And thus have I given thee Ingenuous Reader an Impartial Account of the Lawfulness of both these Arts which is the present apprehension that I have of them according to that small measure of knowledg that I have attained to in my private study which is but as it were of yesterday and the first of this nature that I ever attempted to commit to writing which indeed was drawn from me by the importunity of some private friends who are well-wishers to these excellent Arts though but secretly for their own private Exercise and Recreation for my own part did I but apprehend upon a real Experiment that there were in the true and substantial Grounds of this Art any evil and Diabolical Incumbrance I would be the first that should according to my weak abilities manifest it to the world for I am one that as to any Art am not so taken with a blind affection that to conclude it to be absolute and lawful for my affection sake but can and will refrain the Study of any Art or Science of the which my Reason and Experiment is convinced to be unlawful and not convenient for a Christians Exercise I profess I had not appeared in Print had not that small Pamphlet been so long without an Answer and though it doth not contain any solid Argument against either of these Arts yet such is the fond prejudice that many in England hath taken against them that they are ready to conclude that it is indeed so as that Book reports and also that I might draw forth some more able then my self to vindicate these Arts and it is very probable that which I have done toward that end may find censures from many Some may call me a Star-gazer I tell thee whatsoever thou art I can see thy folly and ignorance in the least star and thy great Creators Glory in the smallest beam Others may say That of a Christian I am become a Disciple to Plato I profess I cannot see one seat in his School for thy ignorance whose common Precepts were more divine then thy best Profession and such as thou who termest thy self a Christian not capable to receive And for my self I desire truly to be Philosopher in the right knowledg of the Cause of Causes to be a Platonick in a true apprehension of the Angelical and Intelectual World to be a Star-gazer so that I may really contemplate the Heavens and Celestial Bodies to be a Stoick to attain a great measure of Patience to be a Hermet as to the incombrances of the world and yet to be a Christian in the true reception of the benefit of my Saviours Passion which is the way for me to my Perfection And therefore to all you Students in Magick and Astrology see that you walk humbly with your God be not proud of your attainments for you have received them have a good Conscience in your walkings toward men so shall you be more able to operate truly in these Arts labour to reduce your spirits into the form likeness of those Celestial Powers and then you may receive divine Power and Virtue from them and study to know thy Creator in all those abundance of Creatures that thou seest scattered up and down in the world in which more or less of his Glory and Brightness doth reside and then how happy wilt thou be Let not Covetousness oversway thy Judgment and then both these Arts will be Honorable in spight of all Opposers This is all that I have to write as to this present Treatise and so subscribe my self to be Thine H. W. From my private Chamber in London the nineth of Novemb. 1650. FINIS