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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

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 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} LONDON Printed by J. C. for John Harrison at the Lamb at the East-end of Pauls 1655. The PREFACE To the unprejudiced Reader AS the fall of man made himselfe and all other creatures subject to vanity so by reason thereof the most noble and excellent Arts wherewith the Rational soul was indued are by the rusty canker of Time brought unto Corruption For Magick it selfe which the ancients did so divinely contemplate is scandalized with bearing the badg of all diabolical sorceries which Are saith Mirandula Pauci intelligum multi reprehendum ficus canes igno●os semper allatrant Few understand many reprehend and as dogges barke at those they know not so doe many condemne and hate the things they understand not Many men there are that abhor the very name and word Magus because of Simon Magus who being indeed not Magus but Goes that is familiar with evill Spirits usurped that Title But Magieke and Witchcraft are fat differing Sciences whereof Pliny being ignorant scoffeth thereat for Nero saith Pliny who had the most excellent Magicians of the East sent him by Tyrida●es king of Armenia who held that kingdome by him found the Art after long study and labour altogether ridiculous Now Witchcraft and Sorcery are workes done meerely by the devill which with respect unto some covenant made with man he acteth by men his instruments to accomplish his evill ends of these the histories of all ages people and countries as also the holy Scriptures afford us sundry examples But Magus is a Persian word primitively whereby is exprest such a one as is altogether conversant in things divine and as Plato affirmeth the art of Magick is the art of worshipping God and the Persians called their gods {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} hence Apollonius saith that Magus is either {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is that Magus is a name sometime of him that is a god by nature somtimes of him that is in the service of God in which latter sence it is taken in Matth. 2. 1 2. when the wise men came to worship Jesus and this is the first and highest kinde which is called divine Magick and these the Latines did intitle sapientes or wise men for the feare and worship of God is the beginning of knowledge These wise-men the Greeks call Philosophers and amongst the Egyptians they were termed Priests the Hebrews termed them Cabalistos Prophets Scribes and Pharisees and amongst the Babylonians they were differenced by the name of Caldeans by the Persians they were called Magicians and one speaking of Sosthenes one of the ancient Magicians useth these words Et verum Deum merita majestate prosequltur angelos ministros Dei sed veri ejus venerationi novit assistore idem daemonas prodit terrenos Vagos humanitatis inimices Sosthenes ascribeth the due Majesty to the true God acknowledgeth that his Angels are ministers and messengers which attend the worship of the true God he also hath delivered that there are devils earthly and wandring and enemies to mankind So that the word Magus of it self imports a Contemplator of divine heavenly Sciences but under the name of Magick are all unlawful Arts comprehended as Necromancy and Witchcraft and such Arts which are effected by combination with the devil and whereof he is a party These Witches and Necromancers are also called Malefici or venefici sorcerers or poisoners of which name witches are rightly called who without the Art of Magicke do indeed use the helpe of the devill himselfe to do mischiefe practising to mix the powder of dead bodies with other things by the help of the devill prepared and at other times to make pictures of wax clay or otherwise as it were sacr amentaliter to effect those things which the devil by other means bringeth to pass Such were and to this day partly if not altogether are the corruptions which have made odious the very name of Magick having chiefly sought as the maner of all impostures is to counterfeit the highest and most noble part of it A second kind of Magick is Astrologie which judgeth of the events of things to come natural and humane by the motions and influences of the stars upon these lower elements by them observ'd understood Philo Judaeus affirmeth that by this part of Magick or Astrologie together with the motions of the Stars and other heavenly bodies Abraham found out the knowledge of the true God while he lived in Caldea Qui Contemplatione Creatur arum cognovit Creatorem saith Damascen who knew the Creator by the contemplation of the creature Josephus reporteth of Abraham that he instructed the Egyptians in Arithmetick and Astronomy who before Abraham's coming unto them knew none of these Sciences Abraham sanctitate sapientia omnium prest antissimus primum Cal●●os deinde Phoenices demum Egyptios Sacerdotes Astrologia Divina docuerit Abraham the holiest and wisest of men did first teach the Caldeans then the Phoenicians lastly the Egyptian Priests Astrologie and Divine knowledge Without doubt Hermes Trismegistus that divine Magician and Philosopher who as some say lived long before Noah attained to much Divine knowledg of the Creator through the studie of Magick and Astrologie as his Writings to this day extant among us testifie The third kinde of Magick containeth the whole Philosophy of Nature which bringeth to light the inmost vertues and extracteth them out of Natures hidden bosome to humane use Virtutes in centre centri latentes Vertues hidden in the centre of the Centre according to the Chymists of this sort were Albertus Arnoldus de villa nova Raymond Bacon and others c. The Magick these men profess'd is thus defined Magia est connexio a viro sapiente agentium per natur am cum patientibus sibi congruenter respondentibus ut inde opera prodeant non sine corum admiratione qui causam ignorant Magick is the connexion of natural agents and patients answerable each to other wrought by a wise man to the bringing forth of such effects as are wonderful to those that know not their causes In all these Zoroaster was well learned especially in the first and the highest for in his Oracles he confesseth God to be the first and the highest he believeth of the Trinity which he would not investigate by any natural knowledge he speaketh of Angels and of Paradise approveth the immortality of the soul teacheth Truth Faith Hope and Love discoursing of the abstinence and charity of the Magi Of this Zoroaster Eusebius in the Theologie of the Phoenicians using Zoroaster's own words Haec ad verbum scribit saith Eusebius Deus primus incorruptibilium sempiternus