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Introduction |
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Of the Influences of the Stars |
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The Use and Abuse of Astrology, &c. |
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An Oration to God |
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Of Natural Magic in general |
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The First Principles of Natural Magic |
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BOOK I.--PART I. |
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CHAP. I. Natural Magic defined; of Man; his Creation, Divine Image, and Fall; and of the spiritual and magical Virtue of the Soul |
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CHAP. II. Of the Wonders of Natural Magic, displayed in a Variety of sympathetic and occult Operations, in Animals, Minerals, and Vegetables, treated of miscellaneously |
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Of the Serpent |
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CHAP. III. Of Amulets, Charms, and Enchantments; an Amulet for the Flux of Blood |
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CHAP. IV. Of Unctions, Philters, Potions, &c. |
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Their magical Virtue |
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CHAP. V. Of Magical Suspensions and Alligations; shewing by what power they are efficacious in Natural Magic |
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CHAP. VI. Of Antipathies |
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CHAP. VII. Of the occult Virtues of Things which are inherent in them only in their Lives, and such as remain in them after Death |
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CHAP. VIII. Of the wonderful Virtues of some Kinds of precious Stones |
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CHAP. IX Of the Mixtures of Natural Things one with another, and the Production of Monsters |
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CHAP. X. Of the Art of Fascination, Binding, Sorceries, Magical Confections, Lights, Candles, Lamps, &c. being the conclusion of Natural Magic |
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ALCHYMY. |
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The Secret of the Philosophers' Stone |
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Epistle to Museus |
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Epistle to the Reader |
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Of Alchymy, and its Divine Origin |
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Discovered to Man by Uriel |
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Zoroaster made Gold from the Seven Metals |
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Zoroaster was the Father of Alchymists |
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The Authors who have wrote upon it |
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The comparison of Alchymists |
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What an Adept is |
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Van Helmont's Account of Alchymy |
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Kircher's Account of Alchymists |
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The Description of the Philosophers' Stone |
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Account of a real Transmutation |
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Account of Flammel, the Alchymist |
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History of Butler's Universal Medicine |
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What is not universally understood generally referred to the Black Art |
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Of the Preparation necessary to qualify a Man for the Search of the Philosophers' Stone |
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Of the Prima Materia |
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Ten Lessons, teaching the Transmutation of base Metals into Gold |
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Lesson XI. XII. XIII. and XIV. teaching the Manner of extracting the Prima Materia of the Lapis Philosophorum; and the Use it is of in purifying imperfect Metals, to Change them into good Gold |
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PART II. |
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CHAP I. Of the Four Elements, and their Natural Qualities |
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CHAP. II. Of the Properties and wonderful Nature of Fire and Earth |
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CHAP. III. Of the Water and Air |
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CHAP. IV. Of compound or mixed Bodies; in what Manner they relate to the Elements; and how the Elements correspond to the Souls, Senses, and Dispositions of Men |
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CHAP. V. That the Elements are in Stars, Devils, Angels, Intelligences, and in God himself |
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CHAP. VI. That the Wisdom of God works by second Causes is proved beyond Dispute in this Chapter |
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CHAP. VII. Of the Spirit of the World |
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CHAP. VIII. Of the Seals and Characters impressed by Celestials upon Natural Things |
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CHAP. IX. Of the Virtue and Efficacy of Perfumes; and to what Planets they are attributed |
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CHAP. X. Of the Composition of Perfumes attributed to the Planets |
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General Fumes of the Planets |
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CHAP. XI. Of the magical Virtue of Rings |
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CHAP. XII. That the Passions of the Mind are assisted by Celestials; and how necessary the constancy of the Mind is in every Work |
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CHAP. XIII. How a Man's Mind may be joined with the Celestial Spirits and Intelligences, and with them impress wonderful Virtues upon inferior Things |
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CHAP. XIV. Shewing the Necessity of Mathematical Knowledge; and of the great Power and Efficacy of Numbers in the Construction of Talismans, &c. |
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CHAP. XV. The great Virtues of Numbers, as well in natural as super-natural Things |
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CHAP. XVI. Of the Scales of Numbers; the Scale of Unity |
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CHAP. XVII. Of the Number Two, and the Scale |
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CHAP. XVIII. Of the Number Three, and the Scale |
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CHAP. XIX. Of the Number Four, and the Scale |
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CHAP. XX. Of the Number Five, and the Scale |
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CHAP. XXI. Of the Number Six, and the Scale |
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CHAP. XXII. Of the Number Seven, and the Scale |
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CHAP. XXIII. Of the Number Eight, and the Scale |
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CHAP. XXIV. Of the Number Nine, and the Scale |
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CHAP. XXV. Of the Number Ten, and the two Scales |
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CHAP. XXVI. Of the Numbers Eleven and Twelve, with the Scale of the Number Twelve |
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CHAP. XXVII. Of the Notes of the Hebrews and Chaldeans, and other Characters used by Magicians |
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CHAP. XXVIII. The magical Tables of the Planets, their Form and Virtue; with the Divine Names, Intelligences, and Spirits that are set over them |
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CHAP. XXIX. Of the Observation of the Celestials necessary in all magical Works |
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CHAP. XXX When the Planets are most powerful |
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CHAP. XXXI. Observations oil the fixed Stars, with their Names and Nature |
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CHAP. XXXII. Of the Sun and Moon, and their magical Considerations |
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CHAP. XXXIII. Of the Twenty-eight Mansions of the Moon, and their Virtues |
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CHAP. XXXIV. That some artificial Things, as Images, Seals, and the like, may derive Virtue from the Celestial Bodies |
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CHAP. XXXV. Of the Images of the Zodiac; what Virtues, being engraven, they receive from the Stars |
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CHAP. XXXVI. Of the Images of the Seven Planets; Images of Saturn |
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CHAP. XXXVII. Of the Images of Jupiter |
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CHAP. XXXVIII. Images of Mars |
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CHAP. XXXIX. Images of the Sun |
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CHAP. XL. Images of Venus |
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CHAP. XLI. Images of Mercury |
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CHAP. XLII. Images of the Moon |
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CHAP. XLIII. Images of the Dragon's Head and Dragon's Tail |
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CHAP. XLIV. Images of the Twenty-eight Mansions of the Moon |
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CHAP. XLV. That human Imprecations naturally impress their Powers upon external Things; and how Man's Mind, through a Degree of Dependencies, ascends into the Intelligible World, and becomes like the more sublime Spirits and Intelligences |
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CHAP. XLVI. The Conclusion of Talismanic Magic; in which is included the Key of all that has been written upon the Subject; shewing the Practice of Images, and the Composition of Talismans, by way of Example; and, likewise, the necessary Observations of the Celestials requisite for the Perfection of all Talismanic Operations |
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BOOK II.--PART I. |
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MAGNETISM |
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CHAP. I. Of the Magnetic or Attractive Faculty |
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CHAP. II. Of Sympathetic Medicines |
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CHAP. III. Of the Magnetic or Sympathetic Unguent; the Power of Sympathy, Armary, Unguent; and curing of Wounds, Ecstasies, Witchcraft, Mummies, &c. |
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CHAP. IV. Of the Weapon Salve |
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CHAP. V. Of the Imaginative Power, and the Magnetism of the Natural Spirits, Mummial Attraction, Sympathies of Astral Spirits, and their Bodies, upon which is founded the whole Art of Necromancy |
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CHAP. VI. Of Witchcraft in particular |
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CHAP. VII. Of the Vital Spirit |
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CHAP. VIII. Of the Magical Power, &c. |
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CHAP. IX. Of exciting or stirring up the Magical Virtue |
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CHAP. X. Of the Magical Virtue of the Soul, and the Medium it Acts by |
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The End of the Magnetism |
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CABALISTICAL MAGIC. |
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CHAP. I. Of the Cabala, &c |
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CHAP. II. What Dignity and Preparation is necessary to Him who would become a true Magician |
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CHAP. III. That the Knowledge of the true God is necessary for a Magician |
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CHAP. IV. Of Divine Emanations, and Ten Sephiroths, and Ten most sacred Names of God which rule them, and their Interpretation |
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CHAP. V. Of the Power and Virtue of the Divine Names |
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CHAP. VI. Of Intelligences and Spirits; and of the threefold Kinds of them, and their different Names; and of Infernal and Subterraneous Spirits |
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CHAP. VII. Of the Order of Evil Spirits; their Fall, and different Natures |
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CHAP. VIII. The Annoyance of Evil Spirits, and the Preservation we have from Good Spirits |
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CHAP. IX. That there is a threefold Keeper of Man; and from whence each proceeds |
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CHAP. X. Of the Tongues of Angels, and their speaking amongst themselves, and with us |
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CHAP. XI. Of the Names of Spirits, and their various Imposition; and of the Spirits that are set over the Stars, Signs, Corners of the Heavens, and the Elements |
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CHAP. XII. How the Cabalists draw forth the Names of Angels from Sacred Writ; and of the Seventy-two Angels that bear the Names of God; with the Tables of Ziruph, and the Commutations of Names and Numbers |
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CHAP. XIII. Of finding out the Names of Spirits and Genii, from the Disposition of the Celestial Bodies |
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CHAP. XIV. Of the calculating Art of such Names, by the Tradition of the Cabalists |
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CHAP. XV. Of the Characters and Seals of Spirits |
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CHAP. XVI. Another Way of making Characters, according to the Tradition of Cabalists |
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CHAP. XVII. There is another Sort of Characters, of Spirits received by Revelation |
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CHAP. XVIII. Of the Bonds of Spirits, and their Adjurations and casting out |
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CHAP. XIX. By what Methods Magicians and Necromancers call up the Souls of the Dead |
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CHAP. XX. Of Prophetic Dreams |
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PART II. |
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The Perfection and Key of the Cabala, or Ceremonial Magic |
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The Calculations of the Names of Good and Evil Spirits |
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Of Magic Pentacles, the Manner of constructing them |
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A Pentacle for Victory over Enemies |
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............... against Serpents, Poisons, &c. |
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Deprecations |
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The Consecration of all Magical Instruments and Materials used in this Art |
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Consecration of Water |
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Consecration of Fire |
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Consecration of Oil |
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Consecration and Benediction of Lights |
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Lamps, Wax, &c |
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Consecration of Ground, Circle, Place, &c. |
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Of the Invocation of Spirits; the binding of, and constraining them to appear |
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Description and Use of a Book of Virgin Parchment, or abortive Vellum, in which the Names of Spirits are registered |
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Consecration of the aforesaid Book |
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Invocation of good Spirits in particular |
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The Invocation Prayer |
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The particular Form of Lamens |
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Of receiving Oracles in Dreams |
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Of the Methods of raising Evil Spirits, or Familiars, or the Souls of the Dead, by a Circle |
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The Suffumigations used in raising Ghosts, Shadows, and departed Spirits; and what Places are appropriate to this |
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PART III. |
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The particular Composition of the Magic Circle and of the Forms of the Exorcisms, Benedictions, p. xviii and Conjurations, for every Day and Hour in the Week; and the Manner of working fully described |
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A Table of the Magical Names of the Hours, by Day or Night |
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Angels of the Seasons, &c. |
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Exorcism of Fire |
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The Habit of the Exorcist |
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The Pentacles of Solomon |
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An Exorcism of the Spirits of the Air |
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A Prayer to be said in the Four Parts of the Circle |
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An Oration |
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Of the Appearance of the Spirits |
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Considerations and Conjurations for every Day in the Week |
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The Consideration and Conjuration for Sunday |
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The Conjuration, &c., of Monday |
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The Conjuration, &c., of Tuesday |
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The Conjuration, &c., of Wednesday |
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The Conjuration, &c., of Thursday |
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The Conjuration, &c., of Friday |
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The Conjuration, &c., of Saturday |
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PART IV. |
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Translation of Trithemius; the Translator's Letter |
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The Conjurations of Spirits into a Crystal; the Description of this Instrument; and the Form and Ceremony of a Vision |
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Table for the Inspection of Names of Spirits governing the Planetary Hours by Day and |
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Night |
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The End of the Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer |
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THE BIOGRAPHY. |
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Zoroaster, the Son of Oramasus |
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Hermes, surnamed Trismegistus |
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Apollonius, of Tyana |
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Peter De Abano |
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Apuleius, the Platonic |
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Aristotle |
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Artimedorus, of Ephesus |
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The Babylonians |
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Henry Cornelius Agrippa |
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Albertus Magnus |
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Roger (alias Friar) Bacon |
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Raymond Lully |
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George Ripley |
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John and Isaac Holland |
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Theophrastus Paracelsus |
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John Rudolph Glauber |
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Doctor Dee, and Sir Edward Kelly |
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The Conclusion |
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