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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

all things to pass in Nature in this inferior world except those immediate Acts in which all these Mediums are suspended and the first Cause works of himself and these Works are called by us Miracles because there is nothing of Nature found to co-operate in the work or in that the Creator of all things doth not work in and by these means mediating But when these Mediums have received those patterns of working then they shew forth the Intentions and Decrees of the first Cause either by the ordinary Motion Aspects and Position of the Celestial Bodies which is the common course of the first Cause in Nature or else in a more extraordinary way as by unusual Apperitions as of Comets or Blazing Star three Suns Men and Horses in armour in a hostile manner fighting Balls of Fire Swords Spears and other weapons of war forms of monstrous Men and Beasts and many other ways too tedious to be here denominated all which are the Works of the Intelligential Angels which are the fore-runners of some strange Accidents or Change to befall the World in general or some Kingdom State Cities Families or Persons who had their first beginnings under such or such a determinate Horoscope and Celestial Constellation who with their beginnings receive a wonderful virtue of working or suffering yea in such a manner that it becomes obedi●nt to that power ruling it in the Heavens as our bodies are obedient to our Souls so that when the Celestial Bodies are moved to any Change or Variation then are those things which are subject to that or that Celestial Body or Constellation moved and changed answerable Now this intensive work or change which is determined in the first Cause is made manifest in the Heavens some space of time more or less before it is brought to pass upon these Inferiors here below so that those that are learned in the Liberary of Heaven sees before-hand what is like to come to pass upon such or such a Kingdom State Family or persons Now for him that is versed in the knowledg of their Effects to declare what the intention of the first Cause is in reference to any of these particular ones should be ●ccounted and termed a Conjurer Witch and the like what do they but as much as in them is to stigmatise the secondary Causes who are servants to the first Cause to wit God who hath made and framed them by his unspeakable Wisdom in such a series and order of correspondency that they answer to all things more or less here below as they agree with the Intelligences and Idea's of all things above so that they do necessarily work and so necessarily produce their proper effects upon those things that they govern in this inferior world either to love and concord or to strife and enmity which we call good and evil and the cause why they operate not so strongly and effectually is because of the unequality of the matter for in such things in which the superior hath not that Rule and Domination as in others in those they work more slowly and imperfect which is not because of the inability of their influence and virtue but because of the unsuitability of the Subject for they rule in some things more in others less yet they produce their effects in all suitable to the correspondency of the matter with them so that there is nothing in the inferior world which is not more or less agreeing with these Celestial Influences and Heavenly Virtues But now I shall descend to Particulars as to declare the particular Effects of the superior Influences upon particular ones But first That they have relation to the World in general take but that one Instance of Petrus de Aliaco concerning the Universal Flood who quoting Albumazer who did by Calculation of the Motions of the two superior Planets to wit Saturn and Jupiter did find that they did come to Conjunction in Cancer a watery Sign and in the fourth House of Heaven the which Sign was as the same Author doth affirm the Horoscope of the Heavens first motion viz. when the Creation was finished and all Celestial bodies had received their power of motion in the which they were to continue for the product of those determinate effects upon the world according to the intention of the first Cause In this particular Instance a curious eye may see much by the which Conjunction as some learned Authors doth aver that that just man Noah had the fore-knowledg of the general Deluge For as the said Aliaco confirmeth that although Noah did well know the Flood by divine Revelation yet this Conjunction being notorious he could not be ignorant of the second Causes from the first Cause for that was not only a Sign but a working Cause by its power received from the first Cause which is God himself and also that by the windows of Heaven Moses meant this watery Conjunction The Authors words are these It pleased God saith he to ordain by the course of the Heavens such a Constellation by the which all men might see therein their own destruction coming and so forsake those wicked ways wherein they walked and call upon God for mercy And of the same Judgment was the learned Parisiensis who understood that by the windows of Heaven were meant the great Conjunction of those two superior Planets or these watery Constellations Cancer Pisces Pleiades Hyades and Orion and of the Planets Venus and the Moon which are the forcible Causes of the greatest Inundations His own words are these I perceive not what the Prophet of the Hebrews meaneth by these words the windows of Heaven unless he meaneth thereby those Celestial Powers by whose influence are engendered the Rain and Inundations of Waters such as are the water Signs of Cancer c. The which Conjunction happened according to the opinion of Albumazur 279 years 248 days and 9 hours before that it did shew its effects upon the inferior world And thus it pleased God that in the Course of his unsearchable Wisdom that this Conjunction should be at such a time by which means there was vigour and faculty added for the operation of every virtue by which violent Eruptions of Springs and Fountains was caused from the abundance of the treasure of their waters taking retention from the Clouds and condensing ayr into water a change familiar in these Elements by the Ministry of his Angels the which is the ordinary way of the first Cause for the producing of his determinations upon the inferior world I mean by such secondary Causes as was the Conjunction of these two superior Planets viz. Saturn and Jupiter the effects of which resulted into that Universal Deluge or general overflowing of the whole Earth with the Element of Water But this shall suffice for the due proof of the first particular to wit That the Celestial Bodies have an Influence upon the World for the producing of strange effects as they are Instruments under the first

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 LONDON Printed J. M. for N. Brook at the Angel in Cornhill 1651. To the Author Mr H. W. WHen Reason Fancy Wit and Grace In tender years take each their place These make the man all these I see Coneur in this thy Book and thee Dear Friend I 'le vow thy Book I must call Not Sublunary but Celestial For sure th' Intelligences mov'd thy Brain And were the Primum Mobile of thy strain Thy Star a glorious Sun and gives more light Then can b' obscur'd by foulest Envies spight And for thy Book the praise it gets of mine Is only this it 's excellent good and thine By W. A. COme Carping Momus spend thy spleen in vain Pour out thy Envy like the Ocean main And see if thou canst crown the Hystery Of this small Piece with its Divinity And Natures purest Workings which I own With the first Cause all which is clearly shown In this same Book all which appears to me In the pure Art of Magick and Astrologie So it shall have my serious approbation I have the Book but it my admiration By J. R. To the Reader Courteous Reader THou art in this following Treatise though but small informed with the substantial Grounds of those almost infinite Arts to wit of Magick and Astrology both which by reason of a fatal deprivation of these latter times and the most of men have fallen under the most detestable Notions that it were possible to brand them withall the which did arise by reason of those many wicked and abominable Practises of some men whose whole Soul hath been let forth to its Liberty to converse with the Reprobate Powers of Darkness whose Diabolical Practises have been by them shrouded under the Name of Magick and Astrology when as indeed they have not in the least measure been acquainted with the true knowledg either of the Creator or of those most glorious results of his wisdom and power in those many excellent Creatures which are the Images of his Glory and in the which more then the most of men are acquainted with he takes pleasure to be conversant for his delight is in the inhabitable parts of the Earth and his chief Recreation if I may so speak without offence amongst the poor degenerate Sons of men whose love is such that he hath in a most condescending way wrapped himself about with the whole Creation that none might be ignorant of his Excellency and in this way many of those Hermitick Spirits who renounced the vain beauty of the meanest of the Appearances of the World came to have those most excellent and admirable Manifestations which produce admiration in me when I consider that we who profess our selves to know and to converse with our God in a more immediate way yet come short of some of those holy Souls who were ignorant of all but this indwelling of the first Cause in the creature But I must expect and that from those that are not a little learned in their own Opinion and no lesse knowing in the Mysteries of God in their conceits to be all to be Devil'd for my labour in this work but to such I say that their gross Ignorance shall be punished with Tantalus torment and their Sisypus Robberies of us the Commonalty under their specious pretence of a divine Right with an endless toyl Reader these are the Arts and especially that of Magick which as to our English Nation hath worn the Ring of Gyges and walked invisible but now thou hearest it speaking in thy own Dialect not tyed in a Gardian knot of impossibilities but may be experimented by thee if thy secret Genus can but soar so high but sure I am with polluted hands and a fond conceit of thy self in respect of thy knowledg thou art not able to do any thing in it there is more divine correspondency required then thou art aware of or may be then thou art capable to receive Thou must not expect with a swinish affection to draw celestial Virtues with thy earthly gruntlings no if thou canst attain a divine Rapture and bring thy Soul and its Attendants from that dark Dungeon of Earth and loosened from those cursed Fetters of sin thou art the man which art fit to receive power from those blessed Intelligences and mayst do wonders in thy generation I have in the Magical part of this Treatise followed the method of that most admirable Agrippa whose learned Works I do profess I honor above all the Books in the world except the Sacred Writ What I have writ is not agreeable to those fond and foolish Doctrines of many old doting women who that they might be thought to have a divine Power that as Apuleius saith they can throw down the Heavens lift up the Earth harden Fountains wash away Mountains raise up infernal Spirits command Ghosts cast down the Gods extinguish the Stars and enlighten even Hell it self whereof many I confess are as well of a falacious opinion as superstitious diligence and pernicious and deadly endeavor for when that they cannot appear in publique under the practise of a wicked and Diabolical Art yet they are so audacious as to presume to think that they are capable to cloke themselves under the honorable Name of Magick the which hath caused amongst the most of men an inveterate hate to the very name which is exceeding good and commendable I wish that those who are but slenderly acquainted in the Principals thereof may not bring a dishonor upon it by their boasting of abilities to produce Wonders and are not able to operate any thing but what is common to every Nature it is such a Mystery that it is found out and attained but by a very few but grosly abused almost of all Therefore I commend this small Treatise only to the true Sons of Minerva who are alone able to judg of it and whose Censure I only value if any imperfection be in it let this take off the blot of my dishonor to wit my tender years which indeed are not many and the shortness of time that I have been conversant in the Study of this worthy Mystery and not only so but my being unacquainted with the way of publique Writing it being the first that ever I attempted to publish not being born to such an end but for a private Contemplation for which end I composed it but by reason of the exceeding importunity of a loving Friend and a Well-wisher with my self