a great he cometh forth like a Souldier riding on a great Horse he hath a Lyons face very red and with flaming eyes he speaketh with a big voyce he maketh a man wonderful in Astronomy and in all the liberal Sciences he bringeth good familiars and ruleth Thirty six Legions Saleos is a great Earl he appeareth as a gallant Souldier riding on a Crocodile and weareth a Dukes crown peaceable c. Vuall is a great Duke and a strong he is seen as a great and terrible Dromedary but in humane form he soundeth out in a base voyce the Aegyptian tongue This man above all other procureth especial love of Women and knoweth things present past and to come procuring the love of friends and foes he was of the order of Potestates and governeth Thirty seven Legions Haagenti is a great President appearing like a great Bull having the wings of a Griffin but when he taketh humane shape he maketh a man wise in every thing he changeth all metals into gold and changeth Wine and Water the one into the other and commandeth as many Legions as Zagan Phoenix is a great Marquess appearing like the bird Phoenix having a childs voyce but berore he standeth still before the Conjuror he singeth many sweet notes Then the Exorcist with his companions must beware he give no ear to the melody but must by and by bid him put on humane shape then will he speak marvellously of all wonderful Sciences He is an excellent Poet and obedient he hopeth to return to the seventh Throne after a thousand two hundred years and governeth Twenty Legions Stolas is a great Prince appearing in the form of a Night-raven before the Exorcist he taketh the image and shape of a man and teacheth Astronomy absolutely understanding the vertues of herbs and pretious stones there are under him Twenty six legions Note that a Legion is 6666. and now by Multiplication count how many Legions do arise out of every particular ✚ Secretum secretorum The secret of secrets Tu operans sis secretus horum Thou that workest them be secret in them CHAP. XII The hours wherein principal Devils may be bound to wit raised and restrained from doing of hurt AMaymon King of the East Corson King of the South Zimimar King of the North Goap King and Prince of the West may be bound from the third hour till noon and from the ninth hour till evening Marquesses may be bound from the ninth hour till compline and from compline to the end of the day Dukes may be bound from the first hour till noon and clear weather is to be observed Prelates may be bound in any hour of the day Knights from day dawning till Sun rising or from evensong till the Sun set A President may not be bound in any hour of the day except the King whom he obeyeth be invocated nor in the shutting of the evening Counties or Earls may be bound at any hour of the day so it be in the woods or fields where men resort not CHAP. XIII The form of adjuring or citing of the Spirits aforesaid to arise and appear WHen you will have any Spirit you must know his Name and Office you must also fast and be clean from all pollution three or four days before so will the Spirit be the more obedient unto you Then make a Circle and call up the Spirit with great intention and holding a ring in your hand rehearse in your own name and your companions for one must alwayes be with you this Prayer following and so no Spirit shall annoy you and your purpose shall take effect And note how this agreeth with Popish Charmes and Conjurations In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ the ✚ Father ✚ and the Son ✚ and the Holy Ghost ✚ holy Trinity and unspeakable Unity I call upon thee that thou mayst be my salvation and defence and the protection of my body and soul and of all my goods through the virtue of thy holy Cross and through the vertue of thy passion I beseech thee O Lord Jesus Christ by the merits of thy blessed Mother S. Mary and of all thy Saints That thou give me Grace and Divine power over all the wicked Spirits so as which of them soever I do call by name they may come by and by from every coast and accomplish my will that they neither be hurtful nor fearful unto me but rather obedient and diligent about me And through thy virtue streightly commanding them let them fufil my commandements Amen Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabbaoth which wilt come to judge the quick and the dead thou which art Α and Ω first and last King of Kings and Lord of Lords Ioth Aglanabrath El Abiel Anathiel Amazim Sedomel Grayes Heli Messias Tolimi Elias Ischiros Athanatos Imas By these thy holy Names and by all other I do call upon thee and beseech thee O Lord Jesus Christ by thy Nativity and Baptism by thy Cross and Passion by thine Ascension and by the coming of the Holy Ghost by the bitterness of thy soul when it departed from the body by thy five wounds by the blood and water which went out of thy body by thy virtue by the Sacrament which thou gavest thy Disciples the day before thou sufferedst by the holy Trinity and the inseparable Unity by blessed Mary thy Mother by thine Angels Arch-Angels Prophets Patriarchs and by all thy Saints and by all the Sacraments which are made in thine honour I do worship and beseech thee to accept these prayers Conjurations and words of my mouth which I will use I require thee O Lord Jesus Christ that thou give me thy virtue and power over all thine Angels which were thrown down from heaven to deceive mankind to draw them to me to tie and bind them and also to loose them to gather them together before me and to command them to do all that they can and that by no means they contemn my voyce or the words of my mouth but that they obey me and my sayings and fear me I beseech thee by thine Humanity Mercy and Grace and I require thee Adony Amay Horta Vegedora Mitai Hel Suranat Yston Ysesy and by all thy holy Names and by all thine holy He-Saints and She-Saints by all thine Angels and Archangels Powers Dominions and Virtues and by that name that Solomon did bind the Devils and shut them up Elbrach Evanher Agle Goth Ioth Othie Venoch Nabrat and by all thine holy Names which are written in this book and by the virtue of them all that thou enable me to congregate all thy Spirits thrown down from heaven that they may give me a true answer of all my demands and that they satisfie all my requests without the hurt of my body or soul or any thing else that is mine through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son which liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost one God world without end
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 night lord ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ night lord ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ night lord ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ night lord ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ night lord ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ night lord ♂ ☉ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♂ ♃ ☉ ♀ ☽ ♀ ☿ night lord ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ CHAP. XVI The Characters of the Angels of the seven dayes with their names of Figures Seales and Periapts These Figures are called the Seals of Earth without the which no Spirit will appear except thou have them with thee Michael Gabriel Samael Yaphael Sachiel Anael Calliel vel gaphriel ✚ Emanuel Sabaoth Adonay ✚ panthou ufyon ✚ Messyas ✚ Sother ✚ ✚ Dut tha gen ✚ Lap tenop ✚ Tyâ—ithaoth ✚ otheos yon mala iij la Aries Leo ✚ mala iij Alpha et ω on ely eloy Who so beareth this sign about him all Spirits shall do him homage Who so beareth this sign about him let him fear no fo but fear GOD. CHAP. XVII An Experiment of the Dead FIrst fast pray three dayes and abstain thee from all filthiness go to one that iâ— now buried such a one as killed himself or destroyed himself wilfully or else get the promise of one that shall be hanged and let him swear an Oath to thee after his body is dead that his Spirit shall come to thee and do thee true service at thy commandements in all days hours and minutes And let no persons see thy doings but thy fellow And about eleven a clock at night go to the place where he was buried and say with a bold faith and hearty desâ—re to have the spirit come that thou dost call for thy fellow having a Candle in his left hand and in his right hand a Crystal-stone and say these words following the Master having a Hazel-wand in his right hand and these names of God written thereupon Tetragrammaton ✚ Adonai ✚ Agla ✚ Craton ✚ Then strike three strokes on the ground and say Arise N. Arise N. Arise N. I'conjure thee Spirit N. by the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ that thou do obey my words and come unto me this night verily and truly as thou believest to be saved at the day of Judgment And I will swear to thee an Oath by the peril of my soul that if thou wilt come to me and appear to me this night and shew me true visions in this Crystal-stone and fetch me the fairie Sibylia that I may talk with her visibly and she may come before me as the Conjuration leadeth and in so doing I will give thee an alms-deed and pray for thee N. to my Lord God whereby thou mayest be restored to thy Salvation at the Resurrection day to be received as one of the Elect of God to the everlasting glory Amen The Master standing at the head of the grave his fellow having in his hands the Candle and the Stone must begin the conjuration as followeth and the Spirit will appear to you in the Crystal-stone in a fair form of a child of twelve years of age And when he is in feel the stone and it will be hot and fear nothing for he or she will shew many delusions to drive you from your work Fear God but fear him not This is to constrain him as followeth I conjure thee Spirit N. by the living God the true God and by the holy God and by their vertues and powers which have created both thee and me and all the world I conjure thee N. by these holy Names of God Tetragrammaton ✚ Adonay ✚ Algramay ✚ Saday ✚ Sabaoth ✚ Planaboth ✚ Panthon ✚ Craton ✚ Neupmaton ✚ Deus ✚ Homo ✚ Omnipotens ✚ Sempiternus ✚ Ysus ✚ Lerra ✚ Vnigentius ✚ Salbator ✚ Via ✚ Vita ✚ Manus ✚ Fons ✚ Origo ✚ Filius ✚ And by their vertues and powers and by all their names by the which God gave power to man both to speak or think so by their vertues and powers I conjure thee spirit N. that now immediately thou do appear in this Crystal-stone visibly to me and to my fellow without any tarrying or deceit I conjure thee N. by the excellent Name of Jesus Christ Α and Ω the first and the last For this holy Name of Jesus is above all Names for in this Name of Jesus every knee doth bow and obey both of heavenly things earthly things and infernal And every tongue doth confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of the Father neither is there any other Name given to man whereby he must be saved Therefore in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth and by his Nativity Resurrection and Ascension and by all that appertaineth unto his passion and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee Spirit N. that thou do appear visibly in this Crystal-stone to me and to my fellow without any dissimulation I conjure thee N. by the blood of the innocent Lamb Jesus Christ which was shed for us upon the cross for all those that do believe in the vertue of his blood shall be saved I conjure thee N. by the vertues and powers of all the royal names and words of the living God of me pronounced that thou be obedient unto me and to my words rehearsed If thou refuse this to do I by the Holy Trinity and by their vertues and powers do condemn thee thou Spirit N. into the place where there is no hope of remedy or rest but everlasting horror of pain there dwelling and a place where there is pain upon pain dayly horribly and lamentably thy pain to be there augmented as the Starrs in the Heaven and as the gravel or Sand in the Sea except thou Spirit N. do appear to me and to my fellow visibly immediately in this Crystal Stone and in a fair form and shape of a child of twelve years of age and that thou alter not thy shape I change thee upon pain of everlasting condemnation I conjure thee Spirit N. by the golden Girdle which girdeth the loins of our Lord Jesus Christ so thou Spirit N. be thou bound into the perpetual pains of Hell fire for thy disobedience and unreverent regard that thou hast to the holy names and words and his precepts I conjure N. by the two edged Sword which John saw proceed out of the month of the Almighty and so thou Spirit N. be torn and cut in pieces with that Sword and to be condemned into everlasting pain where the fire goeth not out and where the worm dyeth not I conjure thee N. by the Heavens and by the celestial City of Jerusalem and by the Earth and the Sea and by all things contained in them and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee Spirit N. by the obedience that thou dost owe unto the principal Prince And
except thou Spirit N. do come and appear visibly in this Crystal-stone in my presence here immediately as it is aforesaid Let the great curse of God the anger of God the shadow and darkness of death and of eternal condemnation be upon thee Spirit N. for ever and ever because thou hast denyed thy faith thy health and salvation For thy great disobedience thou art worthy to be condemned Therefore let the divine Trinity Thrones Dominions Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and all the souls of Saints both of men and women condemn thee for ever and be a witness against thee at the day of judgment because of thy disobedience And let all creatures of our Lord Jesus Christ say thereunto Fiat Fiat fiat Amen And when he is appeared in the Crystal-stone as is said before bind him with this bond as followeth to wit I conjure thee Spirit N. that art appeared to me in this Crystal-stone to me and to my fellow I conjure thee by all the royall words aforesaid the which did constrain thee to appear therein and their vertues I charge thee by them all that thou shall not depart out of this Crystal-stone until my will being fulfilled thou be licened to depart I conjure and bind thee Spirit N. by that omnipotent God which commanded the Angel S. Michael to drive Lucifer out of the Heavens with a Sword of vengeance and to fall from joy to pain and for dread of such pain as he is in I charge thee Spirit N. that thou shalt not go out of the Crystal-stone nor yet to alter thy shape at this time except I command thee otherwise but to come unto me at all places and in all hours and minutes when and wheresoever I shall call thee by the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ or by any Conjuration of words that is written in this Book and to shew me and my friends true visions in this Crystal-stone of any thing or things that we would see at any time or times and also to go and fetch me the fairy Sibylia that I may talk with her in all kind of talk as I shall call her by any Conjuration of words contained in this Book I conjure thee Spirit N. by the great wisdom and divinity of his Godhead my will to fulfill as is aforesaid I charge thee upon pain of condemnation both in this world and in the world to come Fiat fiat fiat Amen This done go to the place fast by and in a fair Parlor or Chamber make a ✚ ✚ ✚ Sorthie Sorthia Sorthios circle with chalk as hereafter followeth and make another circle for the fairy Sibylia to appear in four foot from the circle thou art in and make no names therein or cast any holy thing therein but make a circle round with chalk and let the Master and his fellow sit down in this circle the Master having the Book in his hand his fellow having the Crystal-stone in his right hand looking in the Stone when the Fairy doth appear The Master also must have upon his brest this figure here written in Parchment and begin to work in the new of the ☽ and in the hour of ♃ the ☉ and the ☽ to be in one of inhabiters signes as ♋ ♠♓ This bond as followeth is to cause the Spirit in the Crystal-stone to fetch unto thee the fairy Sibylia All things fulfilled begin this bond as followeth and behold for doubtles they will come before thee before the Conjuration be read seven times I conjure thee spirit N. in this Crystal-stone by God the Father by God the Son Jesus Christ and by God the Holy Ghost three Persons and one God and by their vertues I conjure thee spirit that thou do go in peace and also come again to me quickly and to bring with thee into that circle appointed Sibylia Fairie that I may talk with her in those matters that shall be to her honour and glory and so I charge thee declare unto her I conjure thee spirit N. by the blood of the innocent Lamb the which redeemed all the world by the vertue thereof I charge thee thou spirit in the Crystal-stone that thou do declare unto her this message Also I conjure thee spirit N. by all Angels and Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee N. that thou do depart with speed and also to come again with speed and to bring with thee the fairie Sibylia to appear in that circle before I do read the Conjuration in this Book seven times Thus I charge thee my will to be fulfilled upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat fiat fiat Amen Then the figure aforesaid pinned on thy brest rehearse the words therein and say ✚ Sorthie ✚ Sorthia ✚ Sorthios ✚ then begin your Conjuration as followeth here and say I conjure thee Sibylia O gentle Virgine of Fairies by the mercy of the Holy Ghost and by the dreadful day of doom and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee Sibylia O gentle Virgine of Fairies and by all the Angels of ♃ and their characters and vertues and by all the spirits of ♃ and ♠and their characters and vertues and by all the characters that be in the Firmament and by the King and Queen of Fairies and their vertues and by the faith and obedience that thou bearest unto them I conjure thee Sibylia by the blood that ran out of the side of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified and by the opening of Heaven and by the renting of the Temple and by the darkness of the Sun in the time of his death and by the rising up of the dead in the time of his Resurrection and by the Virgin Mary Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the unspeakable Name of God Letragramaton I conjure thee O Sibylia O blessed and beautiful Virgin by all the royall words aforesaid I conjure thee Sibylia by all their vertues to appear in that circle before me visibly in the form and shape of a beautiful woman in a bright and white vesture adorned and garnished most fair and to appear to me quickly without deceit or tarrying and that thou fail not to fulfil my will and desire effectually For I will choose thee to be my blessed Virgin and will have common copulation with thee Therefore make hast and speed to come unto me and to appear as I have said before To whom be honour and glory for ever and ever Amen The which done and ended if she come not repeat the Conjuration till they do come for doubtless they will come And when she is appeared take your censers and incense her with frankincense then bind her with the bond as followeth I do conjure thee Sibylia by God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Gost three Persons and one God and by the blessed Virgin Mary Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ and by all the
whole and holy company of Heaven and by the dreadful day of doom and by all Angels and Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and their vertues and powers I conjure thee and bind thee Sibylia that thou shalt not depart out of the circle wherein thou art appeared nor yet to alter thy shape except I give thee licence to depart I conjure thee Sibylia by the blood that ran out of the side of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified and by the vertue hereof I conjure thee Sibylia to come to me and to appear to me at all times visibly as the Conjuration of words leadeth written in this Book I conjure thee Sibylia O blessed Virgin of Fairies by the opening of Heaven and by the renting of the Temple and by the darkness of the Sun at the time of his death and by the rising of the dead in the time of his glorious Resurrection and by the unspeakable Name of God ✚ Tetragrammaton ✚ and by King and Queen of Fairies and by their vertues I conjure thee Sibylia to appear before the Conjuration be read over four times and that visibly to appear as the the Conjuration leadeth written in this Book and to give me good counsel at all times and to come by treasures hidden in the earth and all other things that is to do me pleasure and to fulfil my will without any deceit or tarrying nor yet that thou shalt have any power of my body or soul earthly or ghostly nor yet to perish so much of my body as one hair of my head I conjure thee Sibylia by all the royal words aforesaid and by their vertues and powers I charge and bind thee by the vertue thereof to be obedient unto me and to all the words aforesaid and this bond to stand between thee and me upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat fiat fiat Amen CHAP. XVIII A License for Sibylia to go and come by at all times I Conjure thee Sibylia which art come hither before me by the commandement of thy Lord and mine that thou shalt have no power in thy going or coming unto me imagining any evil in any manner of wayes in the earth or under the earth of evil doings to any person or persons I conjure and command thee Sibylia by all the royal words and vertues that be written in this Book that thou shalt not go to the place from whence thou camest but shalt remain peaceably invisibly and look thou be ready to come unto me when thou art called by any conjuration of words that be written in this Book to come I say at my commandement and to answer unto me truly and duly of all things my will quickly to be fulfilled Vade in pace in Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti And the holy ✚ cross ✚ between thee and me or between us and you and the Lion of Juda the root of Jess the kindred of David be between thee and me ✚ Christ cometh ✚ Christ commandeth ✚ Christ giveth power ✚ Christ defend me ✚ and his innocent blood ✚ from all perils of body and soul sleeping and waking Fiat fiat Amen CHAP. XIX To know of Treasure hidden in the Earth WRite in paper these characters following on the Saturday in the hour of ☽ and lay it where thou thinkest Treasure to be if there be any the paper will burn else not And these be the characters This is the way to go invisible by these three Sisters of Fairies IN the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost First go to a fair Parlor or Chamber and an even ground and in no loft and from people nine dayes for it is the better and let all thy cloathing be clean and sweet Then make a Candle of Virgin Wax and light it and make a fair fire of Charcoles in a fair place in the middle of the Parlour or Chamber Then take fair clean water that runneth against the East and set it upon the fire and if thou washest thy self say these words going about the fire three times holding the Candle in thy right hand ✚ Panthon ✚ Craton ✚ Muriton ✚ Bisecognaton ✚ Siston ✚ Diaton ✚ Maton ✚ Tetragrammaton ✚ Agla ✚ Agarion ✚ Tegra ✚ Pentessaron ✚ Tendicata ✚ Then rehearse these names ✚ Sorthie ✚ Sorthia ✚ Sorthios ✚ Milia ✚ Achilia ✚ Sibylia ✚ In Nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti Amen I conjure you three sisters of Fairies Milia Achilia Sibylia by the Father by the Son and by the Holy Ghost and by their vertues and powers and by the most merciful and living God that will command his Angel to blow the trump at the day of Judgment and he shall say Come come come to judgment and by all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and powers I conjure you thre sisters by the vertue of all the royal words aforesaid I charge you that you do appear before me visibly in form and shape of fair women in white vestures and to bring with you to me the Ring of Invisibility by the which I may go invisible at mine own will and pleasure and that in all hours and minutes In Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Amen Being appeared say this bond following O blessed Virgins ✚ Milia ✚ Achilia ✚ I conjure you in the Name of the Father in the Name of the Son and the Name of the Holy Ghost and by their vertues I charge you to depart from me in peace for a time And Sibylia I conjure thee by the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the vertue of his flesh and precious blood that he took of our blessed Lady the Virgin and by all holy company in Heaven I charge thee Sibylia by all the vertues aforesaid that thou be obedient unto me in the Name of God that when and what time and place I shall call thee by this foresaid Conjuration written in this Book look thou be ready to come unto me at all hours and minutes and to bring unto me the Ring of Invisibility whereby I may go invisible at my will and pleasure and that at all hours and minutes Fiat fiat Amen And if they come not at the first night then do the same the second night and so the third night until they do come for doubtless they will come and lie thou in thy bed in the same Parlor or Chamber And lay thy right hand out of the bed and look thou have a fair silken Kercher bound about thy head and be not afraid they will do thee no harm For there will come before thee three fair women and all in white cloathing and one of them will put a Ring upon thy finger wherewith thou shalt go invisible Then with speed bind them with the bond aforesaid When thou hast this Ring on thy finger look in
teach shew and declare unto me and to my friends at all hours and minutes both night and day the truth of all things both bodily and ghostly in this world whatsoever I shall request or desire declaring also unto me my very name And this I command in your part to do and to obey thereunto as unto your own Lord and Master That done they will call a certain spirit whom they will command to enter into the centre of the circled or round Crystal Then put the Crystal between the two circles and thou shalt see the Crystal made black Then command them to command the spirit in the Crystal not to depart out of the Stone till thou give him licence and to fulfill thy will for ever That done thou shalt see them go upon the Crystal both to answer your requests and to tarry your licence That done the spirits will crave licence and say Go ye to your place appointed of Almighty God in the Name of the Father c. And then take up thy Crystal and look therein asking what thou wilt and it will shew it unto thee Let all your Circles be nine foot every way and made as followeth Work this work in ♋ â™ or ♓ in the hour of the ☽ or ♃ And when the spirit is inclosed if thou fear him bind him with some bond in such sort as is elsewhere expressed already in this our Treatise A Figure or Type proportional shewing what form must be observed and kept in making the Figure whereby the former secret of inclosing a Spirit in Crystal is to be accomplished c. 2 alanta â— 3 Thamaor 1 itrael 4 Ifalaur 5 itrami North South Est West Agla el ya Panthon ✚ dextera dmÌ„i exaltauit me ✚ dextera dmÌ„i fecit untâ—le ✚ dextera dmÌ„i exalfaâ—tine ✚ dextera dÌ„mi fect virtute ✚ Messias Emanuel Alpha et ω CHAP. XXII An Experiment of Bealphares ✚ ✚ ✚ Homo sacarus museo lomeas cherubozca ✚ The two and twentieth Psalm O My God my God look upon me why hast thou forsaken me and art so farr from my health and from the words of my complaint And so forth to the end of the same Psalm as it is to be found in the Book This Psalm also following being the fifty one Psalm must be said three times over c. HAve mercy upon me O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences And so forth to the end of the same Psalm concluding it with Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Then say this verse O Lord leave not my soul with the wicked nor my life with the blood-thirsty Then say a Pater noster an Ave Maria and a Credo Ne nos inducas O Lord shew us thy mercy and we shall be saved Lord hear our prayer and let our cry come unto thee Let us pray O Lord God Almighty as thou warnedst by thine Angel the three Kings of Cullen Jasper Melchior and Balthasar when they came with worshipful presents toward Bethelem Jasper brought myrrh Melchior incense Balthasar gold worshipping the high King of all the world Jesus Gods Son of Heaven the second Person in Trinity being born of the holy and clean Virgin S. Mary Queen of Heaven Empress of Hell and Lady of all the world at that time the holy Angel Gabriel warned and bad the foresaid three Kings that they should take another way for dread of peril that Herod the King by his Ordinance would have destroyed these three Noble Kings that meekly sought out our Lord and Saviour As wittily and truly as these three Kings turned for dread and took another way so wisely and so truly O Lord God of thy mightiful mercy bless us now at this time for thy blessed passion save us and keep us all together from all evil and thy holy Angel defend us Let us pray O Lord King of all Kings which containest the Throne of Heavens and beholdest all deeps weighest the hills and shuttest up with thy hand the earth hear us most meek God and grant unto us being unworthy according to thy great mercy to have the verity and vertue of knowledge of hidden treasure by this Spirit invocated through thy help O Lord Jesus Christ to whom be all honour and glory from worlds to worlds everlastingly Amen Then say these names ✚ Helie ✚ Helion ✚ essejere ✚ Deus eternus ✚ Eloy ✚ clemens ✚ Heloye ✚ Deus sanctus ✚ Sabaoth ✚ Deus exercituum Adonay ✚ Deus mirabilis ✚ jao ✚ berax ✚ anepheneton ✚ Deun ineffabilis ✚ Sodoy ✚ Dominatoz Dominus ✚ on fortissimus ✚ Deus ✚ qui the which wouldest be prayed unto of sinners receive we besiech thee these sacrifices of praise and our meek Prayers which we unworthy do offer unto thy Divine Majesty Deliver us and have mercy upon us and prevent with thy Holy Spirit this work and with thy blessed help to follow after that this our work begun of thee maybe ended by thy mighty power Amen Then say this anon after ✚ Homo ✚ sacarus ✚ Musceolameus ✚ cherubozca ✚ being the figure upon thy brest aforesaid the Girdle about thee the circle made bless the Circle with holy Water and sit down in the midst and read this Conjuration as followeth sitting back to back at the first time I exercise and conjure Baalphares the practiser and preceptor of this Art by the maker of Heavens and of Earth and by his vertue and by his unspeakable Name Tetragrammaton and by all the holy Sacraments and by the holy Majesty and Deity of the living God I conjure and exorcise thee Bealphares by the vertue of all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and by the most truest and speciallest Name of your Master that you do come unto us in fair form of man or woman-kinde here visibly before this circle and not terrible by any manner of wayes This circle being our tuition and protection by the merciful goodness of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and that you do make answer truly without craft or deceit unto all my demands and questions by the vertue and power of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen CHAP. XXIII To bind the Spirit Bealphares and to loose him again NOw when he is appeared bind him with these words which follow * I conjure thee Bealphares by God the Father by God the Son and by God the Holy Ghost and by all the holy company in Heaven and by their vertues and powers I charge thee Bealphares that thou shalt not depart out of my sight nor yet to alter thy bodily shape that thou art appeared in nor any power shalt thou have of our bodies or souls earthly or ghostly but be obedient unto me and to the words of my
Conjuration that be written in this Book I conjure thee Bealphares by all Angels and Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by their vertues and powers I conjure and charge bind and constrain thee Bealphares by all the royal words aforesaid and by their vertues that thou be obedient unto me and to come and appear visibly unto me and that in all days hours and minutes wheresoever I be being called by the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ the which words are written in this Book Look ready thou be to appear unto me and to give me good counsel how to come by treasures hidden in the earth or in the water and how to come to dignity and knowledge of all things that is to say of the Magick Art and of Grammar Dialectike Rhetorike Arithmetick Musick Geometry and of Astronomy and in all other things my will quickly to be fulfilled I charge upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat fiat fiat Amen When he is thus bound ask him what thing thou wilt and he will tell thee and give thee all things that thou wilt request of him without any Sacrifice doing to him and without forsaking thy God that is thy Maker And when the Spirit hath fulfilled thy will and intent give him license to depart as followeth A License for the Spirit to depart GO unto the place predestinated and appointed for thee where thy Lord God hath appointed thee until I shall call thee again Be thou ready unto me and to my call as often as I shall call thee upon pain of everlasting damnation And if thou wilt thou mayst recite two or three times the last Conjuration until thou do come to this term In throno if he will not depart and then say In throno That thou depart from this place without hurt or damage of any body or of any deed to be done that all creatures may know that our Lord is of all power most mightiest and that there is none other God but he which is three and one living for ever and ever And the malediction of God the Father Omnipotent the Son and the Holy Ghost descend upon thee and dwell alwayes with thee except thou do depart without damage of us or of any creature or any other evil deed to be done and thou to go to the predestinated And by our Lord Jesus Christ I do else send thee to the great pit of Hell except I say that thou depart to the place whereas thy Lord God hath appointed thee And see thou be ready to me and to my call at all times and places at mine own will and pleasure day or night without damage or hurt of me or of any creature upon pain of everlasting damnation Fiat fiat fiat Amen Amenl The peace of Jesus Christ be between us and you In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen Per crucis hoc ✚ signum c. Say In principio erat Verbum Verbum erat apud Deum In thee beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and God was the Word and so forward as followeth in the first Chapter of Saint John's Gospel staying at these words Full of grace and truth to whom be all honour and glory world without end Amen The fashion or form of the Conjuring knife with the Names thereon to be graven or written AGLA And on the other side this name A Type or Figure of the Circle for the Master and his Fellows to sit in shewing how and after what fashion it should be made Agla eL ya panthon dextera dmÌ„i fecit virtutem ✚ dextera dmÌ„i exaltauit me ✚ dextera dmÌ„i fecit virtutem ✚ dextera dmÌ„i exaltauit me ✚ mellyas emanuel alpha et ω Tetragrammaton Iesus nazarenus Adonay Elfelbey Magister THis is the Circle for the Master to sit in and his fellow or fellows at the first calling sit back to back when he calleth the Spirit and for the Fairies make this circle with chalk on the ground as is said before This Spirit Bealphares being once called and found shall never have power to hurt thee Call him in the hour of ♃ or ♀ the ☽ increasing CHAP. XXIV The making of Holy Water EXorciso te creaturam salis per Deum vivum ✚ per Deum ✚ verum ✚ per Deum sanctum ✚ per Deum quite per Elizaeum Prophetâ—m in aquam miti jussit ut sanaretur sterilitas aquae ut efficiaris sal exorcisatus in salutem credentium ut sis omnibus te sumentibus sanitas animae corporis effugiat a que discedat ab eo loco qui aspersus fuerit omnis phantasia nequitia vel versutia Diabolicae fraudis omnisque spiritus adjuratus per cum qui venturus est judicare vivos mortuos saeculum per igném Amen Oremus Immensam clementiam tuam Onmipotens aeterne Deus humiliter imploramus ut hanc creaturam salis quam in usum generis humani tribuisti bene ✚ dicere sancti ✚ ficare tua pietate digneris ut sit omnibus sumentibus salus mentis corporis ut quicquid ex eo tactum fuerit vel respersum careat omni immunditia omnique impugnatione spiritualis nequitiae per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum qui tecum vivit regnat in unitate spiritus sancti Deus per omnia saecula saeculorum Amen To the Water say as followeth EXorciso te creaturam aquae in nemine ✚ Patris ✚ Jesu Christi Filii ejus Domini nostri in virtute Spiritus ✚ Sancti ✚ ut fiat aqua exorcisata ad effugandani omnen potestatem inimici ipsum inimicum eradicare explantare valeas cum angelis suis Apostatis per virtutem ejusdem Domini nostri Jesu Christi qui venturus est judicare vivos mortuos seculum per ignem Amen Oremus Deus qui ad salutem humani generis maxima quaeque sacramenta in aquarum substantia condidisti adesto propitius invocationibus nostris elemento huic multimodis purificationibus praeparato virtutem tuea bene ✚ dictionis infunde ut creatura tua mysteriis tuis serviens ad abigendos Daemones morbosque pellendos divinae gratiae sumat effectum ut quicquid in domibus vel in locis fidelium haec unda resperserit careat omni immunditia liberetur à noxa non illic resideat spiritus pestilens non aura corrumpens discedant omnes insidiae latentis inimici si quid est quod aut incolumitati habitantium invidet aut quieti aspersione hujus aquae effugiat us salubritas per invocationem sancti tui nominis expetita ab omnibus fit impugnationibus defensa per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium tuum qui tecum vivit regnat in unitate spiritus sancti Deus per omnia saecula saeculorum Amen Then take the Salt in thy
minutes and to talk in my mother tongue plainly that I may hear it and understand it declaring the truth unto me of all things according to thine oath and promise else to be condemned for ever Fiat fiat Amen Also I conjure and constrain the spirit of N. by the golden Girdle which girdeth the loins of our Lord Jesus Christ so thou spirit of N. be thou bound and cast into the pit of everlasting condemnation for thy great disobedience and unreverent regard that thou hast to the holy names and words of God Almighty by me pronounced Fiat Amen Also I conjure constrain command and by the spirit of N. by the two-edged Sword which John saw proceed out of the mouth of God Almighty except thou be obedient as is aforesaid the Sword cut thee in pieces and condemn thee into the pit of everlasting pains where the fire goeth not out and where the worm dyeth not Fiat fiat fiat Amen Also I conjure and constrain the spirit of N. by the Throne of the Godhead and by all the Heavens under him and by the celestial City new Jerusalem and by the Earth by the Sea and by all things created and contained therein and by their vertues and powers and by all the infernals and by their vertues and powers and by all things contained therein and by their vertues and powers I conjure and constrain the spirit of N. than now immediately thou be obedient unto me at all times hereafter and to those words of me pronounced according to thine oath and promise else let the great curse of God the anger of God the shadow and darkness of everlasting condemnation be upon thee thou spirit of N. for ever and ever because thou hast denyed thine health thy faith and salvation for the great disobedience thou art worthy to be condemned Therefore let the divine Trinity Angels and Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Chrumbim and Seraphim and all the souls of the Saints that shall stand on the right hand of our Lord Jesus Christ at the general Day of Judgment condemn the spirit of N. for ever and ever and be a witness against thee because of thy great disobedience in and against thy promises Fiat fiat Amen Being thus bound he must needs be obedient unto thee whether he will or no prove this And here followeth a bond to call him to your N. and to shew you true visions at all times as in the hour of ♄ to bind or inchant any thing and in the hour of ♃ for peace and concord in the hour of ♂ to marre to destroy and to make sick in the hour of the ☉ to bind tongues and other bonds of men in the hour of ♀ to increase love joy and good will in the hour of ☿ to put away enimity or hatred to know of theft in the hour of the ☽ for love good will and concord ♄ lead ♃ tin ♂ iron ☉ gold ♀ copper ☿ quick-silver ☽ silver c. CHAP. XXVIII This Bond as followeth is to call him into your Crystal-stone or Glass c. ALso I do conjure thee spirit N. by God the Father by God the Son and by God the Holy Ghost Α and Ω the first and the last and by the latter day of Judgement of them which shall come to judge the quick and the dead and the world by fire and by their vertues and powers I constrain thee spirit N. to come to him that holdeth the Crystal-stone in his hand and to appear visibly as hereafter followeth Also I conjure thee Spirit N. by these holy Names of God ✚ Letragrammaton ✚ Adonay ✚ El ✚ Ousion ✚ Agla ✚ Iesus ✚ of Nazareth ✚ and by the vertues thereof and by his nativity death burial resurrection and ascension and by all other things appertaining unto his passion and by the blessed Virgin Mary Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ and by all the joy which she had when she saw her Son rise from death to life and by the vertues and powers thereof I constrain thee Spirit N. to come into the Crystal-stone and to appear visibly as hereafter shall be declared Also I conjure thee N. thou Spirit by all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim and by the ☉ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ♀ ☿ and by the twelve signes and by their vertues and powers and by all things created and confirmed in the Firmament and by their vertues and powers I constrain thee Spirit N. to appear visibly in that Crystal-stone in fair form and shape of a white Angel a green Angel a black Angel a Man a Woman a Boy a maiden Virgin a white Greyhound a Devil with great horns without any hurt or danger of our bodies or souls and truly to inform and shew unto us true visions of all things in that Crystal-stone according to thine Oath and Promise and that without any hinderance or tarrying to appear visibly by this Bond of words read over by me three times upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat fiat Amen Then being appeared say these words following I Conjure thee Spirit by God the Father that thou shew true visions in that Crystal-stone where there be any N. in such a place or no upon pain of everlasting condemnation Fiat Amen Also I conjure thee Spirit N. by God the Son Jesus Christ that thou do shew true visions unto us whether it be gold or silver or any other metals or whether there were any or no upon pain of condemnation Fiat Amen Also I conjure thee Spirit N. by God the Holy Ghost the which doth sanctifie all faithful souls and spirits and by their vertues and powers I constrain thee Spirit N. to speak open and to declare the true way how we may come by these treasures hidden in N. and how to have it in our custody and who are the keepers thereof and how many there be and what be their names and by whom it was laid there and to shew me true visions of what sort and similitude they be and how long they have kept it and to know in what dayes and hours we shall call such a Spirit N. to bring unto us these treasures into such a place N. upon pain of everlasting condemnation ✚ Also I constrain thee Spirit N. by all Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principates Potestates Virtutes Cherubim and Seraphim that you do shew a true vision in this Crystal-stone who did convey or steal away such a N. and where it is and who hath it and how far off and what is his or her name and how and when to come unto it upon pain of eternal condemnation Fiat Amen Also I conjure thee Spirit N. by the ☉ ☽ ♄ ♃ ♂ ♀ ☿ and by all the Characters in the Firmament that thou do shew unto me a true vision in this Crystal-stone where such N. and in what state he is and how long he hath been there and
what time he will be in such a place what day and hour and this and all other things to declare plainly on pain of Hell fire Fiat Amen A Licence to Depart DEpart out of the sight of this Crystal-stone in peace for a time and ready to appear therein again at any time or times I shall call thee by vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the bonds of words which are written in this Book and to appear visibly as the words be rehearsed I constrain thee Spirit N. by the divinity of the Godhead to be obedient unto these words rehearsed upon pain of everlasting condemnation both in this world and in the world to come Fiat fiat fiat Amen CHAP. XXIX When to talk with Spirits and to have true answers to find out a Theif THe days and hours of ♄ ♂ ☿ and the ☽ is best to do all crafts of Necromancy and for to speak with Spirits and for to find theft and to have true answer thereof or of any other such like And in the days and hours of ☉ ♃ ♀ is best to do all experiments of love and to purchase grace and for to be invisible and to do any operation whatsoever it be for any thing the ☽ being in a convenient sign * As when thou labourest for theft see the Moon be in an earthy sign as ♉ ♠♑ or of the air as ♊ ♎ ♒ * And if it be for love favour or grace let the ☽ be in a sign of the fire as ♈ ♌ ♠and for hatred in a sign of the water as ♋ ♠♓ For any other experiment let the ☽ be in ♈ * And if thou findest the ☉ and the ☽ in one sign that is called in even number then thou mayst write consecrate conjure and make ready all manner of things that thou wilt do c. To speak with Spirits CAll these names Orimoth Beltmoth Lymock and say thus I conjure you up by the names of the Angels Satur and Azimor that you intend to me in this hour and send unto me a Spirit caded Sagrigrit that he do fulfill my commandement and desire and that also can understand my words for one or two years or as long as I will CHAP. XXX A Confutation of Conjuration especially of the raising binding and dimissing of the Divel of going invisible and other lewd practices THus far have we waded in shewing at large the vanity of Necromancers Conjurors and such as pretend to have real conference consultation with Spirits and Divels wherein I trust you see what notorious blasphemy is committed besides other blind superstitious Ceremonies a disordered heap which are so far from building up the endeavors of these Black Art practitiers that they do altogether ruinate and overthrow them making them in their follies and falsehoods as bare and naked as an Anatomy As for these ridiculous Conjurations last rehearsed being of no small reputation among the ignorant they are for the most part made by T.R. for so much of his name he bewrayeth and John Cockars invented and devised for the augmentation and maintenance of their living for the edifying of the poor and for the propagating and inlarging of Gods glory as in the beginning of their Book of Conjurations they protest which in this place for the further manifestation of their impiety and of the Witchmongers folly and credulity I thought good to insert whereby the residue of their proceeding may be judged or rather detected For if we seriously behold the matter of Conjuration and the drift of Conjurors we shall find them in mine opinion more faulty then such as take upon them to be Witches as manifest offenders against the Majesty of God and his holy Law as apparent violators of the laws and quietness of this Realm although indeed they bring no such thing to pass as is surmised and urged by credulous persons coseners lyars and Witchmongers For these are alwayes learned and rather abusers of others than they themselves by others abused But let us see what appearance of truth or possibility is wrapped within these mysteries and let us unfold the deceit They have made choice of certain words whereby they say they can work miracles c. And first of all that they call Divels and souls out of Hell though we find in the Scripture manifest proofs that all passages are stopped concerning the egress out of Hell so as they may go thither but they shall never get out for Ab inferno nulla est redemptio out of hell there is no redemption Well when they have gotten them up they shut them in a circle made with Chalk which is so strongly beset and invironed with crosses and names that they cannot for their lives get out which is a very probable matter Then can they bind them and loose them at their pleasures and make them that have been lyers from the beginning to tell the truth yea they can compel them to do any thing And the Devils are forced to be obedient unto them and yet cannot be brought to due obedience unto God their Creator This done I say they can work all manner of miracles saving blew miracles and this is to believed of many to be ttue Tam credula mens hominis arrectae fabulis aures Englished by Abraham Fleming So light of belief is the mind of man And attentive to tales his ears now and than But if Christ only for a time left the power of working miracles among his Apostles and Disciples for the confirmation of his Gospel and the faith of his elect yet I deny altogether that he left that power with these Knaves which hide their cosening purposes under those lewd and foolish words according to that which Peter saith With faigned words they make merchandize of you And therefore the counsel is good that Paul giveth us when he biddeth us Take heed that no man deceive us with vain words For it is the Lord only that worketh great wonders and bringeth mighty things to pass It is also written that Gods Word and not the words of Conjurors or the Charms of Witches healeth all things maketh tempests and stilleth them But put case the Devil could be fetched up and fettered and loosed again at their pleasure c. I marvel yet that any can be so bewitched as to be made to believe that by vertue of their words any earthly creature can be made invisible We think it a lye to say that white is black and black white but it is a more shameless assertion to affirm that white is not or black is not at all and yet more impudency to hold that a Man is a Horse but most apparent impudency to say that a Man is no Man or to be extenuated into such a quantity as thereby he may be invisible and yet remain in life and health and that in the clear light of the day even in the presence of them that are
pitiful sight without hurt or danger ibid. To thrust a piece of Lead into ones Eye and drive it about with a stick between the skin and flesh of the fore-head until it be brought to the other eye and there thrust out ibid. To cut half your Nose asunder and to heal it again presently without any salve ibid. To put a Ring through your cheek ibid. To cut off ones head and to lay it in a Platter c. which the Juglers call the Decollation of John Baptist 197. To thrust a Dagger or Bodkin into your guts very strangely and to recover immediately ibid. To draw a Cord through your nose mouth or hand so sensible as it is wonderful to see 198. The Conclusion wherein the Reader is referred to certain patterns of Instruments wherewith divers feats here specified are to be executed ibid. BOOK XIV CHAP. I. OF the Art of Alchymistry of their words of Art and devices to blear mens eyes and to procure credit to their Profession Page 202 CHAP. II. The Alchymisters drift the Canons Yeomans tale of Alchymistical Stones and Waters Page 203 CHAP. III. Of a Yeoman of the Country cosened by an Alchymist Page 204 CHAP. IV. A certain King abused by an Alchymist and of the King's Fool a pretty jest Page 206 CHAP. V. A notable story written by by Erasmus of two Alchymists also of Longation and Curtation ibid. CHAP. VI. The Opinion of divers learned men touching the folly of Alchymistry Page 210 CHAP. VII That vain and deceitful hope is a great cause why men are seduced by this alluring Art and that their labours therein are bootless c. Page 212 CHAP. VII A Continuation of the former matter with a Conclusion of the same ibid. BOOK XV. CHAP. I. OF Magical Circles and the reason of their Institution Page 215 CHAP. II. How to raise up the Ghost of one that hath hanged himself Page 217 CHAP. III. How to raise up the three Spirits Paymon Bathin and Barma and what wonderful things may be effected through their Assistance Page 218 CHAP. IV. How to consecrate all manner of Circles Fumigations Fires Magical Garments and Utensils Page 220 CHAP. V. Treating more practically of the Consecration of Circles Fires Garments and Fumigations Page 221 CHAP. VI. How to raise and exorcise all sorts of Spirits belonging to the Airy Region Page 222 CHAP. VII How to obtain the familiarity of the Genius or Good Angel and cause him to appear Page 223 CHAP. VIII A form of Conjuring Luridan the Familiar otherwise called Belelah Page 224 CHAP. IX How to conjure the Spirit Balkin the Master of Luridan Page 226 CHAP. X. The Exposition of Jidoni and where it is found whereby the whole Art of Conjuration is deciphered Page 229 CHAP. XI An inventary of the names shapes powers government and effects of Devils and Spirits of their several signiorities and degrees a strange discourse worth the reading ibid. CHAP. XII The hours wherein principal Devils may be bound to wit raised and restrained from doing of hurt Page 238 CHAP. XIII The form of adjuring or citing of the Spirits aforesaid to arise and appear ibid. CHAP. XIV A confutation of the manifold vanities contained in the precedent Chapters specially of commanding of Devils Page 240 CHAP. XV. The names of the Planets their Characters together with the twelve Signs of the Zodiack their dispositions aspects and government with other observations 241. The twelve Signs of the Zodiack their characters and denominations c ibid. Their dispositions or inclinations ibid. The disposition of the Planets ibid. The aspects of the Planets 242. How the day is divided or distinguished ibid. The division of the Day and the Planetary Regiment ibid. The division of the Night and the Planetary Regiment ibid. CHAP. XVI The characters of the Angels of the Seven days with their names of Figures Seals and Periapts Page 243 CHAP. XVII An experiment of the dead Page 244 CHAP. XVIII A Licence for Sybilla to go and come by at all times Page 247 CHAP. XIX To know of Treasure hidden in the Earth ibid. This is the way to go Invisible by thâ—se three Sisters of Fairies ibid. CHAP. XX. An experiment of Citrael c. Angeli diei dominici 248. The Seven Angels of the Seven Days with the Prayer called Regina linguae Page 249 CHAP. XXI How to inclose a Spirit in a Crystal-stone ibid. A figure or type proportional shewing what form must be observed and kept in making the figure whereby the former secret of inclosing a Spirit in Crystal is to be accomplished c. Page 251 CHAP. XXII An Experiment of the Spirit Bealphares ibid. The two and twentieth Psalm 252. This Psalm also following being the fifty one Psalm must be said three times over c. ibid. CHAP. XXIII To bind the Spirit Bealphares and to lose him again 253. A Licence for the Spirit to depart 254. A type or figure of the Circle for the Master and his fellows to fit in shewing how and after what fashion it should be made Page 255 CHAP. XXIV The making of the Holy Water ibid. To the water say also as followeth ibid. Then take the Salt in thy hand and say putting it into the water making in the manner of a Cross 256. Then sprinkle upon any thing and say as followeth ibid. CHAP. XXV To make a Spirit to appear in a Crystal ibid. CHAP. XXVI An Experiment of the Dead 257. Now the Pater noster Ave and Credo must be said and then the Prayer immediately following Page 258 CHAP. XXVII A Bond to bind him to thee and to thy N. as followeth ibid. CHAP. XXVIII This Bond following is to call him inso your Crystal-stone or Glass c. 260. Then being appeared say these words following ibid. A Licence to depart Page 261. CHAP. XXIX When to talk with Spirits and to have true answers to find out a Thief ibid. To speak with Spirits ibid. CHAP. XXX A Confutation of Conjuration especially of the raising binding and dismissing of the Devil of going Invisible and other lewd practices ibid. CHAP. XXXI A Comparison between Popish Exorcists and other Conjurors A Popish Conjuration published by a great Doctor of the Romish Church his rules cautions Page 263 CHAP. XXXII A late Experiment or cosening Conjuration practised at Orleance by the Franciscan Fryers how it was detected and the judgment against the Authors of that Comedy Page 264 CHAP. XXXIII Who may be Conjurors in the Romish Church besides Priests a ridiculous definition of Superstition what words are to be used and not used in Exorcisms Rebaptism allowed it is lawful to Conjure any thing differences between Holy Water and Conjuration Page 266 CHAP. XXXIV The seven Reasons why some are not rid of the Devil with all their Popish Conjurations why there were no Conjurors in the Primitive Church and why the Devil is not so soon cast out of the bewitched as of the possessed Page 267 CHAP. XXXV Other gross absurdities of
assaulteth him It is said in the Gospel There was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years who was bowed together c. whom Christ by laying his hand upon her delivered of her disease Whereby it is to be seen that although it be said that Satan had bound her c. yet that it was a sickness or disease of body that troubled her for Christ's own words expound it Neither is there any word of Witchcraft mentioned which some say was the cause thereof There were seven Devils cast out of Mary Magdalen Which is not so grossly understood by the learned as that there were in her just seven corporal Devils such as I described before elsewhere but that by the number of seven Devils a great multitude and an uncertain number of vices is signified which figure is usual in divers places of the Scripture And this interpretation is more agreeable with Gods Word then the Papistical paraphrase which is That Christ under the name of the seven Devils recounteth the seven deadly sins only Others allow neither of these Expositions because they suppose that the efficacy of Christs miracle should this way be confounded as though it were not as difficult a matter with a touch to make a good Christian of a vicious person as with a word to cure the Ague or any other disease of a sick body I think not but any of both these cures may be wrought by means in process of time without miracle the one by the Preacher the other by the Physitian But I say that Christs work in both was apparently miraculous for with power and authority even with a touch of his finger And a word of his mouth he made the blind to see the halt to go the lepers clean the deaf to hear the dead to rise again and the poor to receive the Gospel out of whom I say he cast Devils and miraculously conformed them to become good Christians which before were dissolute livers to whom he said Go your wayes and sin no more CHAP. XIV That it pleased God to manifest the power of his Son and not of Witches by miracles JEsus Christ to manifest his divine power rebuked the winds and they ceased and the waves of water and it was calm which if neither our Divines nor Physitians can do much less our Conjurors and least of all our old Witches can bring any such thing to pass But it pleased God to manifest the power of Christ Jesus by such miraculous and extraordinary means providing and as it were preparing diseases that none otherwise could be cured that his Sons glory and his Peoples faith might the more plainly appear as namely Leprosie Lunacy and Blindness as it is apparent in the Gospel where it is said that the man was not stricken with blindness for his own sins not for any offence of his ancestors but that he was made blind to the intent the works of God should be shewed upon him by the hands of Jesus Christ But Witches with their charms can cure as Witchmongers affirm all these diseases mentioned in the Scripture and many other more as the Gout the Toothach c. which we find not that ever Christ cured As touching those that are said in the Gospel to be possessed of spirits it seemeth in many places that it is indifferent or all one to say He is possessed with a Devil or he is lunatick or phrentick which disease in these dayes is said to proceed of melancholy But if every one that now is lunatick be possessed with a real Devil then might it be thought that Devils are to be thrust out of men by medicines But who saith in these times with the woman of Canaan My Daughter is vexed with a Devil except it be presupposed that she meant her daughter was troubled with some disease Indeed we say and say truly to the wicked the Devil is in him but we mean not thereby that a real Devil is gotten into his guts And if it were so I marvel in what shape this real Devil that possesseth them remaineth Entreth he into the body in one shape and into the mind in another If they grant him to be spiritual and invisible I agree with them Some are of opinion that the said woman of Canaan meant indeed that her daughter was troubled with some disease because it is written in stead of that the Devil was cast out that her daughter was made whole even the self same hour According to that which is said in the 12. of Matthew There was brought unto Christ one possessed of a Devil which was both blind and dumb and he healed him so as he that was blind and dumb both spake and saw But it was the man and not the Devil that was healed and made to speak and see Whereby I say it is gathered that such as were diseased as well as they that were lunatick were said sometimes to be possessed of Devils CHAP. XV. Of the Possessed with Devils HEre I cannot omit to shew how fondly divers Writers and namely James Sprenger and Henry Institor do gather and note the cause why the Devil maketh choice to possess men at certain times of the Moon which is say they in two respects first That they may defame so good a creature as the Moon secondly Because the brain is the moistest part of the body The Devil therefore considereth the aptnest and conveniency thereof the Moon having dominion over all moist things so as they take advantage thereby the better to bring their purposes to pass And further they say That Devils being conjured and called up appear and come sooner in some certain constellations than in other some thereby to induce men to think that there is some godhead in the Starrs But when Saul was releived with the sound of the Harp they say That the departure of the Devil was by means of the sign of the cross imprinted in David 's veins whereby we may see how absurd the imaginations and devices of men are when they speak according to their own fancies without warrant of the Word of God But methinks it is very absurd that Josephus affirmeth to wit That the Devil should be thrust out of any man by vertue of a root And as vain it is that Aâ—llanus writeth of the magical hearb Cynospastus otherwise called Aglaphotis which is all one with Solomon's root named Baaros as having force to drive out any Devil from a man possessed CHAP. XVI That we being not throughly informed of the Nature of Devils and Spirits must satisfie our selves with that which is delivered us in the Scriptures touching the same how this word Devil is to be understood both in the singular and plural number of the Spirit of God and the spirit of the Devil of tame spirits of Ahab THe Nature therefore and Substance of Devils and Spirits because in the Scripture it is not so set down as
affirighted with monstrous appearances and Ideas represented continually to their imaginations And there is not any loathsome taste in the Kingdome of this World either Animal Vegetative or Mineral which they are at any time void of being continually pestered and suffocated with filthy fumes and smoaks of hellish fruits as of Sulphurean stinks and abominations 42. Neither are the other Sences of the Touch and Smell behind in participation of the like Torments which their own iniquities do perpetually excite and create unto them besides they are ever vexing one another and if any be in the same misery with whom they had acquaintance here on eath the very Magical knowledge and perceivance or remembrance thereof doth beyond utterance or conception most miserably afflict and macerate their Souls and all their Sences 43. For the nature of their habitation is such that their torment is exceedingly aggravated thereby because the extremity of the four Elements is there converted into a whole Principle of wrath and vexation The excess of cold and heat drought and moisture are continually raging amongst them by intercourse Neither is there any light or lustre to be seen within their Courts but that which comes from their fiery Eyes as a deadly glance or glimmering being sudden fiery flashes and sparkling as the enkindling of Gunpowder or Aurum fulminans for a similitude 44. And as every kinde of Being feeds upon somewhat of its own nature property and element whither it be Plant Animal or Metalline kinde so the Devils are neither destitute of meat drink nor cloathing according to their own Kingdom and quality having fruits springing and growing before them of hellish sour and poysonous natures which are real and palpable unto them and not imaginary or typical though to us magical and invisible neither is this to be wondered at if we consider the nature of Man's Soul In Media Natura for if it feed not upon the internal and substantial Word which is the very Bread of Life it self it must of necessity ruminate on something else viz. the fruits of Iniquity which it takes in and drinketh up as the Oxe drinks water so that to the soul the sin becomes palpable glutting and satiuting yea so substantial unto the Soul as Dirt or Ink upon fair white Linnen is to our external Eyes neither can the Soul be freed from these spots till the water above the Firmament wash them away 45. Also in respect of the Astral source they are not destitute of food when they bring themselves into the same for the gas of the air and blas of the water is their nourishment while they stay here as is before alledged These influences of the air and water they take into their Limbus and convert into their own poysonous natures as of sweet and wholsome herbs the filthy Toads and other venemous Beasts do make their poyson converting them into a nature like themselves And on the contrary the poysonous herbs are converted into good and wholesome nourishment by other cleanly Beasts 46. And as the Infernal Troops are considered in respect of the four Elements they have a distinct and peculiar tone or language which they exercise and speak one amongst one another as mortals do But they have utterly lost the dignity of their sounds according to the eternal nature And are likewise totally corrupted in their pronouncing or Dialect since they fell from their first caelestial glory so that their speech is harsh doleful and terrible like the fruits they feed upon and the life they dwell in Which depravation is very apparent in the Kingdom of this World in the divided Languages of every Region according to the Constellation under which they are situated The true and magical Language of nature being hid from all the Countreys of the earth 47. But when they appear in the outward Elements they do many times express themselves in Irish Welch Latine or Russian which are the Languages most affected by them to answer unto Conjurations or Compacts So that if any Magician who is ignorant of these aforesaid Languages do at any time Raise or Exorcise such Spirits he must be mindful to confine them to his mother tongue least their gibberish prove altogether unintelligible for as every thing appears in what it most affecteth or is addicted to even so the Spirits have their distinct affections passions and postures both in word habit shape and gesture so that the Magician must be wary in Exorcizing with them that he confine them to a different place posture shape and language to answer their intentions without impediment 48. For they are very variable and unconstant in their dealings with mankind nor will they stand to any thing that hath not bound them by the obligations of Words Characters and Imprecations except the skill of the Exorcist be such that he is able to confine them into a Magical Triad which hath the certain force of obliging or compelling them to utter truth and nothing false in all their Answers or Informations But with such miserable men and women as they have made Covenants and Indentures for body soul and works with such I say they keep no faith nor are they lyable to their commands but on the contrary have them hampered and subjected to their will and power till they have terminated their lives in their destruction 49. Yet have not any of the most potent Princes in the Hellish Power the least ability to destroy the least of the sons of men without the consent of the mind and senses of the Soul for until the will of the Soul be opened unto him his threatnings sleights and stratagems are without any power or force as the nerves of a dead man Although naturally every evil Spirit boasteth as if all the world were at its command and every Soul were subject to its authority and beck with the Goods or Possessions of the external World 50. When any evil Spirit is raised up by Conjurations without League or Compact these Spirits so raised are exceeding fraudulent and deceitful as stubborn servants that do their Masters will by constraint and not by any natural act of obedience unto his Commands But with such as they have compacted they are frequent and officious imploying them as Agents for the destruction of others and their substance and being marryed unto such they are even become one with them being incorporated into them so that they are nothing different from incarnate Devils save that the spark of divine Light which was the gift of God unto repentance is not totally eradicated until the body fall away 51. From such as Covenant with these unconstant Spirits do they daily obtain Fumigations Odours and Offerings or Sacrifices of Blood Fire Wine Ointments Incense Fruits Excrements Herbs Gums Minerals and other Ingredients by which from a Magical cause they have more influence and authority over the bewitched party to insinuate into their affection peircing