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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76997	Paracelsvs Of the supreme mysteries of nature. Of [brace] the spirits of the planets. Occult philosophy. The magical, sympathetical, and antipathetical cure of wounds and diseases. The mysteries of the twelve signs of the zodiack. / Englished by R. Turner, philomathēs.	Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing B3544; Thomason E1567_2; ESTC R209187	70,843	175

moisture oftner then before and change the same into its own substance turning the whole quantity of the matter into the substance it self wherefore the Treasures of the Earth are unspeakable the world cannot compare unto them witness Augurellus The Conclusion This secret was kept by the most ancient Fathers amongst their most occult and hidden secrets who kept the same lest it should come to the hands of wicked men who might thereby be inabled the better and more fully to accomplish their wickedness and evil ends We therefore do require you whosoever shall attain to this gift of God that you will imitate the Fathers and secretly use and preserve this divine Mystery for if you tread it under your feet or cast Pearls before swine you shall receive a great judgement from God the great Judge and Revenger of all things But unto those whom God by his singular and special Grace hath given abstinency from all vices this Art shall be more fully revealed then to any other for with one such man shall more wisdom be found then among a thousand sons of the world by whom this Art shall never be found out Whosoever shall finde out this secret and attain to this gift of God let him praise the most high God the Father Son and Holy Ghost the Grace of God let him onely implore that he may use the same to his glory and the profit of his Neighbour This the merciful God grant to be done through Jesus Christ his onely Son our Lord Amen Theophrastus Paracelsus OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY The Prologue IN this ensuing booke we do intend to treat of the greatest and most occult secrets of Philosophy and of all those things which do appertain to Magicke Nigromancy Necromancy Pyromancy Hydromancy and Geomancy Clearely and fully demonstrating and setting forth every thing that may be investigated effected and brought to pass thereby this Philosophy in the practice thereof is much abused by Ceremonies and other abuses and hitherto the foundation thereof hath been built falsely upon the sand whereby the whole Artifice and instruments thereof are overthrowne with the least winde and sometimes the Artificers themselves especially the Nigromancers are taken away out of the very middest thereof with the windes that is with the Spirits and are vanquished overcome and carryed away It is therefore necessary that the foundation of these and of all other Arts be laid in the holy Scriptures upon the doctrine and faith of Christ which is the most firme and sure foundation and the chiefe corner stone whereupon the three principal points of this Philosophy are grounded The first is prayer whereunto agrees this word of holy Scripture Ask seeke and knocke c. By which we are to seeke unto God and faithfully believe his promises and doing this with a pure heart and minde it shall be given unto us and we shall finde what we seeke after and those things which before remained occult and secret shall be made open and manifested unto us The second thing founded therein is faith which is able to remove Mountains into the Sea for unto the faithful all things are possible as Christ hath spoken The third point is founded in our imagination which afterward is kindled in our hearts and then aptly agreeth and concordeth with the faith aforesaid Therefore all Ceremonies Conjurations Consecrations and such like vanities are to be rejected and cast away with all vain foundations the true corner-stone is the foundation that is onely to be imbraced in our hearts that is every thing which proceedeth and springeth from the holy Scriptures the light of nature and fountain of truth we will write therefore in most briefe and plain words the most occult and secret things which neither Cornelius Agrippa nor Peter de Abano much less Tritemius never understood or wrote of Neither let any one raise scandall upon this my writing of Philosophy but first rather let him well peruse and ponder every word and then it will appeare from whom I speake and whether I have this knowledge from the Devil or from the experience of the pure light of nature Theophrastus Paracelsus OF Occult PHILOSOPHY CHAP. I. Of Consecrations SEeing God the greatest of all good did in the beginning of the Creation of the World plentifully and abundantly bless and sanctifie all things which are therein both Places Instruments and all Creatures that have their being upon the Earth There is no need of other Blessings and Consecrations for he is Holiness himself wherefore all things that he ordained and made are also consecrated by and through him Therefore no humane things do need any more or other Consecrations but may better nay best of all be without them especially such as setting Crosses in the way Crosses Circles Swords Vestures Candles or Lights Waters Oyls Fire Fumigations Characters Writings Books Pentacles Seals of Solomon Crowns Scepters Girdles Rings c. and many other things of the likekinde which the Ceremonious Nigromancers do use against the Phantastick Spirits as if they could not be compelled and bound by any other means whereas Faith is the chief and principal Foundation against them As often as the Ceremonial Nigromancers say that this is consecrated and blessed or that many Masses are celebrated thereupon Wherefore they all say that they are of power against the devil and the malignant Spirits who are terrified with fear and dread thereof and flie there-from c. and dare not come neer it O you very arch-Fools and ignorant men of no worth even unworthy of the name of men who do give Faith and credit to such monstrous and palpable lyes when you see notwithstanding examples thereof before your eyes when so much lightning falls upon the Temples that it burns and destroyes the Altars which chiefly happens by the Tempests raised with Inchantments also when the Devil and the malignant Spirits are seen to raign about these places and are heard by the Magitians what they speak Therefore Negromancy with all its Ceremonies is absolute wickedness a Viper used amongst Juglers a wicked work which blindeth the eyes of the spectators deceiving them of their Money but in truth is not to be esteemed worth a half-penny scarce a straw or rush wherefore are not to be induced or made use of herein as Judeus Solomon in his book hath written which the Nigromancers call The Key of Solomon For God would not have them to be used but hath given another thing instead thereof to wit Faith which perfectly consecrateth all things Nevertheless I would not have all Consecrations to be rejected but onely those Ceremonies which are assumed to be used against the phantastick and malignant Spirits But I do not desire that any thing should be derogated from those Magical Ceremonies and Operations which are made for Physical uses neither especially the Consecrations in Matrimony and in the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper which are to be kept and observed by us in the highest esteem and

are not to credit all Letters Characters or Words but to keep to those onely which are true and have been often proved and taken out of the Foundation of Truth That we may come to these and declare what Words or Characters are just and true we shall onely in the first place detect and unfold two although there may be found many other yet nevertheless these are most especially and principally to be accounted and esteemed of before all other Characters Pentacles and Seals note the delineation of them which is thus Two Triangular Figures cutting one another thorow with a cross are so painted or engraven that they do include and divide themselves into seven spaces within and do make six corners outwardly wherein are written six wonderful Letters of the great Name of God to wit Adonay according to their true order This is one of those Characters whereof we have spoken There is another which excelleth the former in power and virtue and this hath three Hooks cutting one another through by a cross and are so delineated that by their mutual intersection they include six spaces and outwardly five angles wherein are written five syllables of the supream name of God to wit Tetragrammaton also according to their true order I would have put down the Figures themselves but because you may happily finde them in many other places and Books I have the rather omitted them By these two Characters some of the Israelites and Nigromancers of Judea obtained many things and they are now esteemed of great price amongst very many and held as great secrets for they are of so great virtue and power that whatsoever is possible to be done by Characters and Words the same may be effected by them or one of them I would gladly know where and in what place in all the Books of the Nigromancers may be found any other wherein there is made the like against the malignant Spirits Devils Inchantments of the Magitians by all the deceits and devices of the Sorcerers For they do deliver him that is already inchanted either in his minde or understanding so that he is forced or compelled to act any thing against his own natural will or nature or if he suffer any loss or hurt in his body by the administration of these made in their just and due time and hour and being taken in his mouth with a Wafer Pancake or such-like thing in four and twenty hours he shall be free from the Inchantment There are also many other thing which are helpful in such cases as those which shall be by me laid down hereafter when I come to speak of Tempests and the Seasons Briefly these Characters are of so great force and power that if the Nigromancers did but know and believe their power and and virtue they would forthwith reject and cast away all other things even all their other Characters Words Names Signs Figures Pentacles consecrated Seals of Solomon Crowns Scepters Rings Girdles and such-like Ceremonies whatsoever and wherein hitherto they have reposed any hope thinking by them to secure themselves from their dangerous experiments and operations when they would invoke conjure or think to compel and force the Spirits Truely those which we have spoken of are the true Pentacles to be had and used against all unclean Spirits which they do all fear even they which wander in the Elements Nevertheless Faith doth strengthen and confirm all these things But some may carpingly object although undeservingly and say That I break the third Commandment of God of the first Table of Moses wherein it is forbidden of the Lord God for any one to take his name in vain But who amongst any wise men can be able to say That I have done this or that I have herein offended God whenas I use not this for that purpose nor after the same manner as the Nigromancers and Inchanters but onely for the extream necessity and help of men and in those diseases and infirmities wherein no Medicines no Aurum potabile nor quintessence of Gold neither Antimony nor no such secret can help them although they are of very great virtue and efficacy It becometh a Physitian to know the original cause of all diseases that he may know which proceeds from evil meat or drink as from Apples Herbs and other fruits of the Earth and it is expedient for him to know the secrets of Herbs and Roots c. whereby the disease may be cured But if it happen under the cause of Minerals such diseases are to be expelled by the secrets of those Metals which the secrets of Herbs and Roots do not admit of and have not power to do In like manner if diseases do proceed from the influences of Heaven neither of the secrets aforesaid are able to profit any thing in the cure thereof but it must be expelled by Astronomy and the heavenly influences as it is written of Parsicaria Lastly if any disease or grief happen or be inflicted upon any man in a supernatural manner by Inchantment or some Magical Sorceries none of those three remedies aforespoken of will help them but there must be a Magical remedy whereby it may be expelled as we have before delivered Many men who have in this kinde been made miserable through inchantments have also hitherto been forsaken and cast off by the Ignorant Physitians because these things hitherto were hidden unto them And if they chance to be told them of others they will answer that if they should use them they should act against God and take his name in vain and that this which I have done hath no truth in it But if I should use these things to the hurt or prejudice of man I should Blaspheme against God or if I should Conjure any Spirits man herbe roote or stone c. by his name it might then justly be said that I did take his name in vain and offend God but not before Let the Divines themselves also and the Sophisters speake what they list to these things the thing which I speake will not be found contrary to the truth although herein their opinions may be very contrary unto me they will call me Inchanter Nigromancer and a contemner of the Commandments of God which Calumnies and reproches I do not at all care for for it will be most certainly made manifest that their exceptions against me will appeare no otherwise then those of the Jews and Pharisees who carped against Christ because he healed the sicke on the Sabbath day For they said unto him that Christ had broke the Sabbath and the commandment of God the like they did with David when he was forced and oppressed and did eat the shew-bread But amongst these fault-finders and slanderers how or what shall be done that will please them all But the Ignorant will not cease to talke until the beasts or stones can teach them which we must expect will be a long time and then they will hold their peace CHAP. IV.