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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97219	Magick & astrology vindicated from those false aspersions and calumnies, which the ignorance of some hath cast upon them. In which is contained true definitions of the said arts, and the justification of their practise, proved by the authority of Scripture, and the experience of ancient and modern authors. With observations from several remarkable conjunctions and apparitions: as those three suns that appeared before the Kings death, &c. / Impartially communicated for the publique good. By Hardick Warren, a well-wisher to the most secret occult arts and learning.	Warren, Hardick.	1651 (1651)	Wing W971; Thomason E623_4; ESTC R206369	27,202	39

Cause and also they are as to us Manifestations before-had of their Events But now I shall proceed to the second particular viz. That the Heavenly Bodies have an Influence upon Kingdoms and States and that to the manifestation of their particular fates or changes the which we have found by Experience of late years in this Island verified to the purpose and not only this but that of Ireland all or most of them made out before by M. Lilly and others and by none other way or means but by the Art of Astrology by the which they have to the purpose declared the Events and Effects of the Heavenly Bodies in their Influence and in what particulars they would manifest themselves But for the better clearing of this particular I shall give you one or two ancient Presidents long ago brought to pass As for instance That Star which suddenly appeared in the time of Hipparchus which signified the transferring of the Greekish Empire into the hands of the Romans which was not effected till 63 years after which begun about 42 years before Christ Did not the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the year 1425. which were in Scorpio a treacherous and false Sign find us in England engaged in a War with France Spain at the same time in division about a Successor in the Royal Power and under the effects of the same Conjunction Henry the sixth was crowned at Paris Also under the Conjunction of the two Superiors in the year 1603. in the Sign of Sagitarius did not James King of Scotland come to be King of England And as Mr Lilly saith in that unparalled Piece viz. Englands Prophetical Merlin speaking of this Conjunction useth these words Could a more memorable thing be in this world then for a Scottish King to become Monarch of the English and that without blows considering the former Antipathy betwixt both Nations Was not this in effect a new Monarchy yea and a great one to be King of England Scotland and Ireland And hath not Ireland suffered to the purpose under the effects of these two Lunar Eclipses which was total which happened the last year in the Constellations of Taurus and Scorpio the one being Conjunction with that kingly Star of the first Magnitude called Aldeberion or the Bulls eye of the nature of Mars the other in the Constellation of Scorpio a most viporous Sign with fixed stars of the nature of Mars and Saturn whose effects did and doth still shew themselves powerfully upon that deplorable Island to the great destruction of her Natives all which might have been fore-seen by those that are conversant in contemplating of the Heavens and yet by no combination with the Powers that rule in the dark World And was not that Comet which appeared in the year 1618. a fore-runner of many Changes and Mutations almost all Europe over And I believe that Scotland hath no cause to boast of the Effects of the Conjunction of the two malevolent Planets viz. Saturn and Mars in July last They who are desirous to view things of this nature if their own prejudice doth not detain them they may read those two Books of Mr Lilly's viz. Englands Prophetical Merlin and The Worlds Catastrophe the first published in 1644. the other in 1647. the which will produce variety of Presidents of this nature the which are things of that excellency and worth that to an ingenuous man never the like were extent in Europe I could be more large in this particular but this I hope will satisfie the wise for others I matter not whose stupidity all the Presidents in the world is not able to convince But now I shall descend to the third particular viz. That the Heavenly Bodies have an Influence upon particular Cities and do shew forth some strange Change or Mutation in their Governments Laws Customs Liberties Loss and Profit which are all made out before conspicuously by the superior Bodies according to the determination of the first Cause by whose goodness all Cities flourish and by whose will they again decline in their glory and pomp and then fall into slavery and destruction so it is no wonder if Monarchies Kingdoms and Cities do change their manner of Government and as it were a thing forsaken of its presidential Angel flying to another nature of other power and so always Kingdoms and Cities when they have attained to the height of their glory they then decline and become worse and worse both in their Government and Customs and by that means the conditions of men become contrary so that a spirit of hatred and sedition is generated which produces ruine and destruction or a transferring of the Government thereof unto strangers as was that most magnificent and glorious City of Constantinople from under the Government of Christians now become the Seat Royal of the Paganish Mahomitan which was effected under the Influence of the Conjunction of the two Superiors in Cancer in the year 1444. whose Ascendant is Cancer the Sign of the Conjunction whose Christian Beauty then declined into a Paganish Deformity And did not the same Conjunction produce a vast loss to the Venicians by an Inundation of the Sea to the value of a Million of money whose Ascendant is that watery Sign of Cancer And I believe that London hath no cause to boast of its benefit that it hath received from the effects of the last Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the year 1642. which was in Pisces which beholds the Ascendant of London with a hateful Square and was not Mercury the Lord thereof under the Sun beams and aspected by the Moon with a Square Arguments of no good to redound to it Neither will the slow motion of malicious Saturn through the Constellation of the Twins with the Conjunction of angry Mars which was in July last produce any cause of boasting to the Inhabitants of London either in their Civil Power or Commerce the which some space of time may and will make manifest though not to the conviction of their selfish Opinions yet will prove fatal I fear to their Trade and Commerce the which the declination of their Estates will testifie And I wish O London that thou mayst not feel the effects thereof also in thy Government whose Glory exceeds almost all the Cities in Europe May not the time be and that shortly that thy pomp and beauty in thy Societies may be eclipsed I wish it may not yet I profess I fear it But no more of that Have we not had a clear demonstration of the fading glory of the Royal Power in this Kingdom of late which was hinted nay clearly manifested before-hand in the last Conjunction of the Superiors in Pisces which beheld the Ascendant of our English Monarchy with a hateful opposition and what the product thereof hath been and is like to be let the impartial judg and not only that Conjunction of the Superiors but all those eminent Configurations of late years have manifested the same

Powers under the first Cause For God the chief Cause and Original of all Vertues affords the Seal of the Idea's to the Intelligences his Ministers who like faithful Executors do seal every thing committed to them with the Ideal Vertue by the Heavens and Stars as it were Instruments in the mean time disposing the matter to receive those forms which reside in the divine Majesty as Plato saith to be carryed down by the Stars and the Giver of Forms distributeth them by the Ministry of Intelligences which he hath appointed over his works Governors and Keepers unto whom this ability is entrusted in things committed to them That every vertue of Stones Herbs Minerals and all the rest might be from the Intelligences governing therefore the form and vertue proceeds first from the Idea's and after from the Intelligences governing and ruling and next from the Aspects of the Stars disposing and further from the disposed Compliances of the Elements answering to the Influences of the Heavens by which the Elements themselves are disposed They have then such operations in these inferior things by the express forms but in the Heavens by the vertues disposing in the Intelligences by means mediating in the Architype by the Idea's and exemplary forms All which is necessary to meet in the effects of every thing in the execution of the vertue Then it must needs be that there is wonderful operation in every Herb and Stone but greater in the Stars beyond which every thing gets much to it self by the Intelligence governing but chiefly from the highest cause to which all things being mutually finished do correspond consonant by its harmonial consent as it were with Hymns praising together the highest workman By the true knowledg of what hath been spoken many and great things may be done by the coupling and joyning of the Powers and Vertues of the Superiors with their Patients the Inferiors agreeing and corresponding therewith This is truly Magick and a thing much to be honored and esteemed This is the most high and worthiest Science in the World lawful in all the parts of it free from all evil encumbrances and diabolical practices voyd of Superstition a great means to attain the highest knowledg of that infinite Wisdom and Power who hath created all things in order and form and who ruleth in and over all things by his Ministring Powers whom he hath set over all things in their several orders for the distribution of his Power and Vertue as the first Original of all Power and Vertue to all things according to the fore-decree of the first Cause with a respect had to the matter receiving and this Power and Vertue hath a stedfast cause not by chance or accident but effectual and potent and not failing doing nothing in vain nor fruitless by it those Powers existing in the nature of all things are moved the which Powers are the operations of the Idea's under the chief Cause which do not err but by the impurity and inequality of the matter for celestial Influences may be hindered by the confusion and unfitness of the matter receiving whence the Platonicks had that Proverb That Celestial Vertues were infused according to the desert of the matter Wherefore in those things in the which these Celestial Powers and Virtues are less drowned and incumbered in the matter receiving have more powerful operations and produce more admirable effects when those things are fitly collected prepared and duly applyed to their Patient the which application stirs up that secret and hid virtue of the Agent and produceth the like quality in the thing annexed As for instance Salt the secret virtue of which lieth hid in it self until that there is annexed to it a reciprocal matter which moves and stirs up that virtue so that it is infused into the matter joyned to it the which matter according to the quality of its receivingness is also able to infuse the like property into other things joyned to it So also the Load-stone doth infuse its secret virtue into Iron approaching near to it and doth so fasten the virtue to the Iron that it is able also to draw Iron to it self answerable to that power of Attraction that it hath received from the Load-stone and this arises from that reciprocal property which is in the matter affected the which is wrought upon and moved by the secret virtue of the Agent applyed This also we find to be produced upon the Inferiors by the virtue and influence of the Superiors for the Celestial Powers do work the like in Terrestials for we see that the Moon doth attract the vast body of the waters so that they answer in their ebbings and flowings those diversity of Points that she cuts in the Heavens in her Diurnal Motion So likewise the Heliotropium that sober Herb who corresponds with the motion of the Sun by a secret virtue which doth declare that there is something of the Sun and Moons virtue infused by the which they are wrought to such obedience Doth not the Marigold and many other flowers open their blossoms at the Suns rising as if they did rejoyce at his approach and fold themselves in as if they mourned for his departure All which is from that secret Agreement and Correspondency of their virtues For my own part I am perswaded that all things that are under the Luner Globe in this inferior world subject to generation and corruption they are also in the Celestial world but in a certain celestial manner so also in the Intellectual world but of a far more perfect and better stamp and lastly most perfect in the Architype And in this order every thing below doth answer to its Superior and by it to the highest according to its proper kind and doth receive virtue from them from the Heavens indeed that Celestial Force which some call the Middle Nature or the spirit of the world and from the Intellectual world that spiritual living Vapour being every transcendent virtue qualifying and lastly from the Architype by these means between according to its degree the original force of all Perfection Hence every thing may be fitly reduced from these Inferiors to the Stars from them to the Intelligences of the same and from thence to the Architype out of the order of which all Magick and secret Philosophy doth flow for dayly some natural thing is drawn by Art and dayly some divine thing is drawn by Nature which when some of the learned Egyptians did behold they called Nature it self a Magician that is to say the Magical Force it self in the Attraction of the like by the like and of things agreeing by things that agree and the Greeks called such Attractions by the mutual Agreement of Superior with Inferior between themselves Sympathy As for instance We know that in the El●ments Water agrees with Earth in Coldness Water with Ayr in Moistness Ayr with Fire in Heat Fire with the Heavens in the Materia So Mettals agree with Plants in their

by the most good and holiest men For C ham the son of Noah who as Cassianus reporteth was knowing not only in this Art but in all the seven Libral Sciences who having a fore-knowledg of the Universal Flood that he might preserve his attainments to after Ages engraved them in 14 Pillars seven of Brick to resist the injury of fire and seven of Brass to oppose the force of water all which others conceive were known to that just and holy man Noah and left by him to his sons So also Abraham that righteous man as Josephus reports was very much learned in these Arts more then any other in that Age if he did not abundantly exceed them all differing from the wisdom of after Times in this that he knew and acknowledged the true Cause and Giver of life and virtue to Nature and all natural things whereas others forgetting this adored the Instruments or second Causes and did attribute proper strength to the things themselves from which the effects were sensible which belongs to that Wisdom which being one and remaining in it self can do all things and reneweth all And Eupolemon doth affirm That Abraham the holiest and wisest of men did first teach the Chaldeans then the Phenitians and lastly the Egyptian Priests Astrology and Divine Knowledg and that he did as Philo saith diligently contemplate the Heavens which the Scripture seemeth to hint out in the promise of God to him concerning the multiplicity of his Seed So also that good man Jacob understood that the Sun in the dream of Joseph had signification of himself and that the Moon was meant his wife and the eleven Stars his sons Also Job that just man was versed in the knowledg of the stars where he denominateth the names of Arturus Orion and Pleiades and also the divisions of the Heavens and Earth in those words and the Climates of the South so that when God pleaded his own Power and Greatness he useth the same Stars or Constellations to convince Job with and also doth declare their Influence upon the Elementary Properties for saith he Canst thou restrain the sweet Influence of the Pleiades or unloose the bands of Orion Canst thou guide Arturus and his sons What the product of their Influence there meant let all Commenters declare and all such as have received a prejudice against this lawful Art contemplate in their minds So likewise Moses a man of God was versed excellently in all the learning of the Egyptians who were a people that were most rare in the knowledg of these Arts more then any other Nations whatsoever So Daniel and the three Children it is said That the King found them ten times better then all the Magicians and Astrologers that were in his Realm which had they not been knowing in both those Sciences they would not have been compared with them for always a wise man maketh comparisons in things of a like nature and how unreasonable and unjust would the Decree have been that Daniel and his fellows should have been slain with the rest of the Wise men of Babel had not they been Professors of the same Sciences For the Scripture saith That the Decree went forth that the Wise men should be slain and they sought after Daniel and his fellows to slay them with the rest And Solomon the wisest of men was excellently acquainted with the natural virtues of things also in their operations and effects with their several Times and Seasons for to every action and thing there is a time appointed by the infinite Wisdom and Fore-knowledg of the first Cause the which time and season in reference to means and event is either good or evil not that there is any evil in Time it self but in respect of those many effects that are by certain means to be produced for all things and actions are manifested in their due times and seasons so that all things follow in their kind each other by a certain eternal continuity and in this regard Time comes to be termed good or evil For this is clear that all creatures have their seasons of beginning of life motion strength c. but not all at one and the same time So in the Heavens all things and actions which are to be brought to pass here below are not conceived in the minds of the Celestial Souls at one and the same time but answerable to those times and seasons in the which they are to be manifested here in this inferior world and therefore for any to expect to have a demonstration from the Heavens of future events before their season shall and must acknowledg that he looked for it in an evil time And thus have I given thee Ingenuous Reader an Impartial Account of the Lawfulness of both these Arts which is the present apprehension that I have of them according to that small measure of knowledg that I have attained to in my private study which is but as it were of yesterday and the first of this nature that I ever attempted to commit to writing which indeed was drawn from me by the importunity of some private friends who are well-wishers to these excellent Arts though but secretly for their own private Exercise and Recreation for my own part did I but apprehend upon a real Experiment that there were in the true and substantial Grounds of this Art any evil and Diabolical Incumbrance I would be the first that should according to my weak abilities manifest it to the world for I am one that as to any Art am not so taken with a blind affection that to conclude it to be absolute and lawful for my affection sake but can and will refrain the Study of any Art or Science of the which my Reason and Experiment is convinced to be unlawful and not convenient for a Christians Exercise I profess I had not appeared in Print had not that small Pamphlet been so long without an Answer and though it doth not contain any solid Argument against either of these Arts yet such is the fond prejudice that many in England hath taken against them that they are ready to conclude that it is indeed so as that Book reports and also that I might draw forth some more able then my self to vindicate these Arts and it is very probable that which I have done toward that end may find censures from many Some may call me a Star-gazer I tell thee whatsoever thou art I can see thy folly and ignorance in the least star and thy great Creators Glory in the smallest beam Others may say That of a Christian I am become a Disciple to Plato I profess I cannot see one seat in his School for thy ignorance whose common Precepts were more divine then thy best Profession and such as thou who termest thy self a Christian not capable to receive And for my self I desire truly to be Philosopher in the right knowledg of the Cause of Causes to be a Platonick in a true apprehension of the Angelical and Intelectual World to be a Star-gazer so that I may really contemplate the Heavens and Celestial Bodies to be a Stoick to attain a great measure of Patience to be a Hermet as to the incombrances of the world and yet to be a Christian in the true reception of the benefit of my Saviours Passion which is the way for me to my Perfection And therefore to all you Students in Magick and Astrology see that you walk humbly with your God be not proud of your attainments for you have received them have a good Conscience in your walkings toward men so shall you be more able to operate truly in these Arts labour to reduce your spirits into the form likeness of those Celestial Powers and then you may receive divine Power and Virtue from them and study to know thy Creator in all those abundance of Creatures that thou seest scattered up and down in the world in which more or less of his Glory and Brightness doth reside and then how happy wilt thou be Let not Covetousness oversway thy Judgment and then both these Arts will be Honorable in spight of all Opposers This is all that I have to write as to this present Treatise and so subscribe my self to be Thine H. W. From my private Chamber in London the nineth of Novemb. 1650. FINIS