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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26562	Henry Cornelius Agrippa, his fourth book of occult philosophy of geomancy, magical elements of Peter de Abano, astronomical geomancy, the nature of spirits, arbatel of magick / translated into English by Robert Turner ...; De occulta philosophia. Book 4. English	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.; Petrus, de Abano, ca. 1250-ca. 1315. Heptameron. English.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing A785; ESTC R6621	64,547	120

conversant or for some alliance alluring those souls into their forsaken Body or for some kinde of affection in times past impressed in them in their life drawing the said Soul 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 mighty incursions and apparitions and such-like prodigies seen Therefore the places most fitting for these things are Church-yards And better then them are those places wherein there is the execution of criminal judgements And better then these are those places in which of late yeers there have been some publike slaughters of men Furthermore that place is better then these where some dead carkass that came by a violent death is not yet expiated nor ritely 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 judgement 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 right and due burial Now although we have spoken concerning such places of this kinde 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 a perfume in due maner 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 congruent inscriptions of Names and Seals do very much avail to the raising up of departed Souls Moreover these things which now are spoken of are not alwaies sufficient to raise up Souls because of an extranatural portion of understanding and reason which is above and known onely to the Heaven and Destinies and their power We ought therefore to allure the said Souls by supernatural and coelestial powers duely administred even by those things which do move the very harmony of the Soul aswel imaginative as rational and intellectual as are Voices Songs Sound Inchantments and Religious things as Prayers Conjurations Exorcismes and other holy Rites which may very commodiously be administred 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 learned and well-experienced in this Art because he doth not specially treat of the Ceremonies but rather speaketh of them in general it was therefore thought good to adde 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 if they were in present exercise they may behold the distinct functions of spirits how they may 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 sillable by sillable 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 alwaies one and the same but useth to be changed according to the order of the Spirits that are to be called their places times daies 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 Signe ruling in that part of time wherein you work Eighthly The name of the earth according to that part of time wherein you work Ninthly and for the compleating 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 bewritten Omega and let a cross divide the middle of the Circle When 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 Planets and hours have made their revolution it returneth again to the first which ruleth the day Therefore we shall first speak of the names of the hours Hours of the day Hours of the night 1. Yayn 1. Beron 2. Janor. 2. Barol. 3. Nasnia 3. Thami 4. Salla 4. Athar 5. Sadedali 5. Mathon 6. Thamur 6. Rana 7. Ourer 7. Netos 8. Thamic 8. Tafrac 9. Neron. 9. Sassur 10. Jayon 10. Aglo 11. Abai 11. Calerva 12. Natalon 12. Salam Of the names of the Angels and their Sigils it shall

the name of the spirit and his dignity and place with his office and power Yet very many do compose this book otherwise omitting the characters or image but it is more efficacious not to neglect any thing which conduceth to it Moreover there is to be observed the circumstances of places times hours according to the Stars which these spirits are under and are seen to agree unto their â—ite rite and order being applied Which book being so written and well bound is to be adorned garnished and kept secure with Registers and Seals lest it should happen after the consecration to open in some place not intented and indanger the operator Furthermore this book ought to be kept as reverently as may be for irreverence of minde causeth it to lose its vertue with pollution and profanation Now this sacred book being thus composed according to the maner already delivered we are then to proceed to the consecration thereof after a twofold way one whereof is That all and singular the spirits who are written in the book be called to the Circle according to the Rites and Order which we have before taught and the book that is to be consecrated let it be placed without the Circle in a triangle And in the first place let there be read in the presence of the spirits all the Oathes which are written in that book and then the book to be consecrated being placed without the Circle in a triangle there drawn let all the spirits be compelled to impose their hands where their images and characters are drawn and to confirm and consecrate the same with a special and common Oath Which being done let the book be taken and shut and preserved as we have before spoken and let the spirits be licensed to depart according to due rite and order There is another maner of consecrating a book of spirits which is more easie and of much efficacie to produce every effect except that in opening this book the spirits do not always come visible And this way is thus Let there be made a book of spirits as we have before before set forth but in the end thereof let there be written Invocations and Bonds and strong Conjurations wherewith every spirit may be bound Then this book must be bound between two Tables or Lamens and in the inside thereof let there be drawn the holy Pentacles of the Divine Majestie which we have before set forth and described out of the Apocalypse then let the first of them be placed in the beginning of the book and the second at the end of the same This book being perfected after this maner let it be brought in a clear and fair time to a Circle prepared in a cross way according to the Art which we have before delivered and there in the first place the book being opened let it be consecrated to the rites and ways which we have before declared concerning Consecration Which being done let all the spirits be called which are written in the book in their own order and place by conjuring them thrice by the bonds described in the book that they come unto that place within the space of three days to assure their obedience and confirm the same to the book so to be consecrated Then let the book be wrapped up in clean linen and buried in the middle of the Circle and there fast stopped up and then the Circle being destroyed after the spirits are licensed depart before the rising of the sun and on the third day about the middâ—e of the night return and new make the Circle and with bended knees make prayer and giving thanks unto God and let a precious perfume be made and open the hole and take out the book and so let it be kept not opening the same Then you shall license the spirits in their order and destroying the Circle depart before the sun rise And this is the last rite and maner of consecrating profitable to whatsoever writings and experiments which do direct to spirits placing the same between two holy Lamens or Pentacles as before is shewn But the Operator when he would work by the book thus consecrated let him do it in a fair and clear season when the spirits are least troubled and let him place himself towards the region of the spirits Then let him open the book under a due Register let him invoke the spirits by their Oath there described and confirmed and by the name of their character and image to that purpose which you desire and if there be need conjure them by the bonds placed in the end of the book And having attained your desired effect then you shall license the spirits to depart And now we shall come to speak concerning the invocation of spirits as well of the good spirits as of the bad The good spirits may be invocated of us divers ways and in sundry manners do offer themselves unto us For they do openly speak to those that watch and do offer themselves to oursight or do inform us in dreams by oracle of those things which are desired Whosoever therefore would call any good spirit to speak or appear in â—ight it behoveth them especially to observe two things one whereof is about the disposition of the invocant the other about those things which are outwardly to be adhibited to the invocation for the conformity of the spirits to be called It behoveth therefore that the invocant himself be religiously disposed for many days to such a mystery In the first place therefore he ought to be confessed and contrite both inwardly and outwardly and rightly expiated by daily washing himself with holy water Moreover the invocant ought to conserve himself all these days chaste abstinent and to separate himself as much as may be done from all perturbation of minde and from all maner of forraign and secular business Also he shall obserâ—e fastings all these days as much as shall seem convenient to him to be done Also let him daily between sun-rising and sun-setting being clothed with a holy linen garment seven times call upon God and make a deprecation to the Angels to be called according to the rule which we have before taught Now the number of days of fasting and preparation is commonly the time of a whole Lunation There is also another number observed amongst the Caballists which is fourty days Now concerning those things which do appertain to this Rite of Invocation the first is That a place be chosen clean pure close quiet free from all maner of noise and not subject to any strangers sight This place must first be exercised and consecrated and let there be a table or altar placed therein covered with clean white linen and set towards the east and on each side thereof let there be set two consecrated wax-lights burning the flame whereof ought not to go out all these days In the middle of the altar let there be placed Lamens or the holy paper which we have

before described covered with pure fine linen which is not to be opened until the end of these days of the Consecration You shall also have in readiness a precious perfume and pure anointing oyl and let them be both kept consecrated There must also a Censer be set on the head of the altar wherein you shall kindle the holy fire and make a perfume every day that you shall pray You shall also have a long garment of white linen close before and behinde which may cover the whole body and the feet and girt about you with a girdle You shall also have a veil of pure clean linen and in the fore-part thereof let there be fixed golden or gilded Lamens with the inscription of the name Tetragrammaton all which things are to be sanctified and consecrated in order But you must not enter into the holy place unless it be first washed and arayed with a holy garment and then you shall enter into it with your feet naked And when you enter therein you shall sprinkle it with holy water then you shall make a perfume upon the altar and afterwards with bended knees pray before the altar as we have directed But in the end of these days on the last day you shall fast more strictly and fasting on the day following at the rising of the sun you may enter into the holy place using the ceremonies before spoken of first by sprinkling your self then with making a perfume you shall signe your self with holy oyl in the forehead and anoint your eyes using prayer in all these Consecrations Then you shall open the holy Lamen and pray before the altar upon your knees as abovesaid and then an invocation being made to the Angels they will appear unto you which you desire which you shall entertain with a benign and chaste communication and license them to depart Now the Lamen which is to be used to invoke any good spirit you shall make after this maner either in metal conformable or in new wax mixt with species and colours conformable or it may be made in clean paper with convenient colours and the outward form or figure thereof may be square circular or triangular or of the like sort according to the rule of the numbers in which there must be written the divine names as well the general names as the special And in the centre of the Lamen let there be drawn a character of six corners in the middle whereof let there be written the name and character of the Star or of the Spirit his governour to whom the good spirit that is to be called is subject And about this character let there be placed so many characters of five corners as the spirits we would call together at once And if we shall call onely one spirit nevertheless there shall be made four Pentagones wherein the name of the spirit or spirits with their characters is to be written Now this table ought to be composed when the Moon is increasing on those days and hours which then agree to the Spirit And if we take a fortunate star herewith it will be the better Which Table being made in this manner it is to be consecrated according to the rules above delivered And this is the way of making the general Table serving for the invocation of all good spirits whatsoever Nevertheless we may make special Tables congruent to every spirit by the rule which we have aboâ—e spoken of concerning holy Pentacles And now we will declare unto yâ—â— another Rite more easie to perform this thing that is to say Let the man that is to receive any Oracle from the good spirits be chaste pure and confess'd Then a place being prepared pure and clean and covered everywhere with white linen on the Lords day in the new of the moon let him enter into that place clothed with clean white garments and let him exorcize the place and bless it and make a Circle therein with a sanctified cole and let there be written in the vttermost part of the Circle the names of the Angels and in the inner part thereof let there be written the mighty names of God and let him place within the Circle at the four angles of the world the Censers for the persumes Then let him enter the place fasting and washed and let him begin to pray towards the east this whole Psalm Beati immaculati in via c. Blessed are the undefiled in the way c. by perfuming and in the end deprecating the Angels by the said divine names that they wil daign to discover and reveal that which he desireth and that let him do six days continuing washed and fasting And on the seventh day which is the Sabbath let him being washed and fasting enter the Circle and perfume it and anoint himself with holy anointing oyl by anointing his forehead and upon both his eyes and in the palms of his hands and upon his feet Then upon his knees let him say the Psalm aforesaid with Divine and Angelical names Which being said let him arise and let him begin to walk about in a circuit within the said Circle from the east to the west until he is wearied with a dizziness of his brain let him fall down in the Circle and there he may rest and forthwith he shall be wrapt up in an ecstasie and a spirit will appear unto him which will inform him of all things We must observe also that in the Circle there ought to be four holy candles burning at the four parts of the world which ought not to want light for the space of a whole week And the maner of fasting must be such that he abstain from all things having a life of Sense and from those things which do proceed from them and let him onely drink pure running water neither let him take any food till the going down of the sun And let the perfume and the holy anointing oyl be made as is set forth in Exodus and the other holy books of the Bible It is also to be observed that always as often as he enters into the Circle he have upon his forehead a golden Lamen upon which there must be written the name Tetragrammaton as we have before spoken But natural things and their commixtures do also belong unto us and are conducing to receive Oracles from any spirit by a dream which are either Perfumes Unctions and Meats or Drinks which you may understand in our first book of Occult Philosophy But he that is willing always and readily to receive the Oracles of a Dream let him make unto himself a Ring of the Sun or of Saturn for this purpose There is also an Image to be made of excellent efficacie and power to work this effect which being put under his head when he goeth to sleep doth effectually give true dreams of what things soever the minde hath before determined or consulted on The Tables of Numbers do likewise confer to

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