Three Books of Occult Philosophy/Index

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An Index of all the Chapters
which are contained in this Work.

Book I.

CHAP. I.

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OW Magicians Collect vertues from the three-fold World, is declared in these three Books.

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Chap. 2. What Magick is, what are the Parts thereof, and how the Professors thereof must be qualified.

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Chap. 3. Of the four Elements, their qualities, and mutual mixtions.

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Chap. 4. Of a three-fold consideration of the Elements.

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Chap. 5. Of the wonderfull Natures of Fire, and Earth.

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Chap. 6. Of the wonderfull Natures of Water, Aire, and Winds.

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Chap. 7. Of the kinds of compounds, what relation they stand in to the Elements, and what relation there is betwixt the Elements themselves, and the soul, senses, and dispositions of men.

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Chap. 8. How the Elements are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Divels, in Angels, and lastly in God himself.

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Chap. 9. Of the vertues of things Naturall, depending immediatly upon Elements.

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Chap. 10. Of the Occult Vertues of things.

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Chap. 11. How Occult Vertues are infused into the several kinds of things by Idea's, through the help of the Soul of the World, and rayes of the Stars: and what things abound most with this Vertue.

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Chap. 12. How it is that particular Vertues are infused into particular Individuals, even of the same Species.

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Chap. 13. Whence the Occult Vertues of things proceed.

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Chap. 14. Of the Spirit of the World, what it is, and how by way of medium it unites occult Vertues to their subjects.

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Chap. 15. How we must find out, and examine the Vertues of things by way of similitude.

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Chap. 16. How the operations of several Vertues pass from one thing into another, and are communicated one to the other.

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Chap. 17. How by enmity and friendship the vertues of things are to be tryed, and found out.

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Chap. 18. Of the Inclinations of Enmities.

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Chap. 19. How the Vertues of things are to be tryed and found out, which are in them specifically, or in any one Individuall by way of speciall gift.

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Chap. 20. The naturall Vertues are in some things throughout their whole substance, and inother things in certain parts, and members.

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Chap. 21. Of the Vertues of things which are in them only in their life time, and such as remain in them even after their death.

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Chap. 22. How inferior things are subjected to superior bodies, and how the bodies, the actions, and dispositions of men are ascribed to Stars, and Signs.

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Chap. 23. How we shall know what Stars naturall things are under, and what things are under the Sun, which are called Solary.

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Chap. 24. What things are Lunary, or under the power of the Moon.

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Chap. 25. What things are Saturnine, or under the power of Saturn.

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Chap. 26. What things are under the power of Jupiter, and are called Jovial.

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Chap. 27. What things are Under the power of Mars, and are called Martial.

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Chap. 28. What things are under the power of Venus, and are called Venereall.

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Chap. 29. What things are under the power of Mercury, and are called Mercuriall.

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Chap. 30. That the whole sublunary World, and those things which are in it, are distributed to Planets.

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Chap. 31. How Provinces, and Kingdoms are distributed to Planets.

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Chap. 32. What things are under the Signs, the fixed Stars, and their Images.

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Chap. 33. Of the Seals, and Characters of Naturall things.

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Chap. 34. How, by Naturall things, and their vertues, we may draw forth and attract the influences, and vertues of Celestial bodies.

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Chap. 35. Of the Mixtions of naturall things one with another, and their Benefit.

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Chap. 36. Of the Union of mixt things, and the introduction of a more noble form, and the senses of life.

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Chap. 37. How, by some certain naturall, and artificiall preparations we may attract certain Celestiall, and vitall gifts.

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Chap. 38. How we may draw not only Celestial, and vital, but also certain Intellectual, and divine gifts from above.

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Chap. 39. That we may by some certain matters of the world stir up the Gods of the world, and their ministring spirits.

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Chap. 40. Of bindings, what sort they are of, and in what wayes they are wont to be done.

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Chap. 41. Of Sorceries, and their power.

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Chap. 42. Of the wonderfull vertues of some kinds of Sorceries.

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Chap. 43. Of perfumes, or Suffumigations, their manner, and power.

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Chap. 44. The composition of some fumes appropriated to the Planets.

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Chap. 45. Of Collyries, Unctions, Love-Medicines, and their vertues.

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Chap. 46. Of naturall alligations, and suspensions.

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Chap. 47. Of Rings, and their compositions.

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Chap. 48. Of the vertue of places, and what places are sutable to every Star.

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Chap. 49. Of Light, Colours, Candles, and Lamps, and to what Stars, Houses, and Elements severall colours are ascribed.

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Chap. 50. Of Fascination, and the Art thereof.

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Chap. 51. Of certain observations producing wonderfull Vertues.

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Chap. 52. Of the Countenance, and Gesture, the Habit, and Figure of the Body, and to what Stars any of these do answer; whence Physiognomy, and Metoposcopy, and Chiromancy, Arts of divination, have their grounds.

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Chap. 53. Of Divination, and its kinds.

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Chap. 54. Of divers certain Animals, and other things which have a signification in Auguria's.

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Chap. 55. How Auspica's are verified by the light of Naturall instinct, and of some rules of finding of it out.

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Chap. 56. Of the Soothsayings of Flashes, and Lightnings, and how monstrous and prodigious things are to be interpreted.

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Chap. 57. Of Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy, four Divinations of Elements.

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Chap. 58. Of the reviving of the dead, and of sleeping, and wanting victuals Many Years together.

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Chap. 59. Of divination by dreams.

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Chap. 60. Of Madness, and Divinations which are made when men are awake, and of the power of a Melancholy humor, by which Spirits are sometimes induced into mens bodies.

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Chap. 61. Of the forming of Man of the external Senses, and also the Inward, and the mind: of the threefold appetite of the Soul, and passions of the Will.

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Chap. 62. Of the Passions of the Mind, their Original, difference, and kinds.

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Chap. 63. How the passions of the mind change the proper body, by changing the Accidents, and moving the spirit.

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Chap. 64. How the passions of the mind change the body by way of imitation from some resemblance; Also of the transforming, and translating of men, and what force the imaginative power hath not only over the body, but the soul.

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Chap. 65. How the Passions of the Mind can work out of themselves upon anothers Body.

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Chap. 66. That the Passions of the Mind are helped by a Celestiall season, and how necessary the Constancy of the mind is in every work.

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Chap. 67. How mans mind may be joyned with the mind and Intelligences of the Celestials, and, together with them, impress certain wonderfull vertues upon inferiour things.

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Chap. 68. How our mind can change, and bind inferior things to that which it desires.

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Chap. 69. Of Speech, and the vertue of Words.

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Chap. 70. Of the vertue of proper names.

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Chap. 71. Of many words joyned together, as in sentences, and verses; and of the vertues, and astrictions of charms.

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Chap. 72. Of the wonderful power of Inchantments.

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Chap. 73. Of the vertue of writing, and of making imprecations, and inscriptions.

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Chap. 74. Of the proportion, correspondency, reduction of Letters to the Celestiall Signs, and Planets, according to various tongues, with a Table shewing this.

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Book II

CHAP. I.

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F the neceſſity of Mathematicall learning, and of the many wonderfull works which are done by Mathematicall Arts only.

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Chap. 2. Of Numbers, and their power, and vertue.

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Chap. 3. How great vertues Numbers have, as well in Naturall things, as in Supernaturall.

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Chap. 4. Of Unity, and the Scale thereof.

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Chap. 5. Of the Number of Two, and the Scale thereof.

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Chap. 6. Of the Number of three, and the Scale thereof.

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Chap. 7. Of the Number of Four, and the Scale thereof.

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Chap. 8. Of the Number Five, and the Scale thereof.

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Chap. 9. Of the Number ſix, and the Scale thereof.

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Chap. 10. Of the Number Seaven, and the Scale thereof.

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Chap. 11. Of the Number of Eight, and the Scale thereof.

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Chap. 12. Of the Number of Nine, and the Scale thereof.

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Chap. 13. Of the Number Ten, and the Scale thereof.

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Chap. 14. Of the Number eleven, and the number twelve; with a double Scale of the Number twelve Cabiliſticall, and Orphicall.

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Chap. 15. Of the Numbers which are above twelve, and of their powers, and vertues.

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Chap. 16. Of the notes of numbers, placed in certain geſturings.

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Chap. 17. Of the various notes of numbers obſerved amongſt the Romans.

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Chap. 18. Of the notes or figures of the Græcians.

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Chap. 19. Of the notes of the Hebrews, and Caldeans, and certain other notes of Magicians.

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Chap. 20. What numbers are attributed to letters; and of divining by the ſame.

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Chap. 21. What numbers are conſecrated to the Gods, and which are aſcribed, and to what Elements.

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Chap. 22. Of the tables of the Planets, their vertues, forms, and what Divine names, Intelligences, and Spirits are set over them.

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Chap. 23. Of Geometrical figures and Bodies, by what vertue they are prwerful in Magick, and which are agreeable to each Element, and the Heaven.

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Chap. 24. Of Musicall Harmony, of the force and power thereof.

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Chap. 25. Of sound, and Harmony, and whence their wonderfulness in operation.

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Chap. 26. Concerning the agreement of them with the Celestial bodies, and what harmony and sound is correspondent of every Star.

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Chap. 27. Of the proportion, measure, and Harmony of mans body.

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Chap. 28. Of the Composition and Harmony of the humane soul.

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Chap. 29. Of the Observation of Celestials, necessary in every Magical Work.

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Chap. 30. When Planets are of most powerfull influence.

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Chap. 31. Of the Observation of the fixt Stars, and of their Natures.

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Chap. 32. Of the Sun, and Moon, and their Magicall considerations.

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Chap. 33. Of the twenty eight Mansions of the Moon, and their vertues.

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Chap. 34. Of the true motion of the heavenly bodies to be observed in the eighth sphere, & of the ground of Planetary hours.

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Chap. 35. How some artificiall things as Images, Seals, and such like, may obtain some vertue from the Celestial bodies.

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Chap. 36. Of the Images of the Zodiack, what vertues, they being engraven, receive from the Stars.

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Chap. 37. Of the Images of the Faces, and of those Images, which are without the Zodiack.

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Chap. 38. Of the Images of Saturn.

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Chap. 39. Of the Images of Jupiter.

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Chap. 40. Of the Images of Mars.

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Chap. 41. Of the Images of the Sun.

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Chap. 42. Of the Images of Venus.

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Chap. 43. Of the Images of Mercury.

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Chap. 44. Of the Images of the Moon.

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Chap. 45. Of the Images of the head and Tayl of the Dragon of the Moon.

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Chap. 46. Of the Images of the Mansions of the Moon.

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Chap. 47. Of the Images of the fixed Behenian Stars.

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Chap. 48. Of Geomanticall Figures, which are the middle betwixt Images and Characters.

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Chap. 49. Of Images, the figure whereof is not after the likeness of any Celestial figure, but after the likness of that which the mind of the worker desires.

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Chap. 50. Of certain Celestial observations, and the practise of some Images.

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Chap. 51. Of Characters which are made after the rule and imitation of Celestials, and how with the table thereof they are deduced out of Geomantical figures.

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Chap. 52. Of Characters which are drawn from things themselves by a certain likeness.

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Chap. 53. That no Divination without Astrology is perfect.

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Chap. 54. Of Lottery, when, and whence the vertue of Divining is incident to it.

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Chap. 55. Of the soul of the World, and of the Celestials, according to the traditions of the Poets, and Philosophers.

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Chap. 56. The same is confirmed by reason.

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Chap. 57. That the soul of the world; and the Celestial souls are rationall, and partake of divine understanding.

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Chap. 58. Of the names of the Celestials, and their rule over this inferiour world, viz. Man.

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Chap. 59. Of the seven governers of the world, the Planets, and of their various names serving to Magicall speeches.

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Chap. 60. That humane imprecations do naturally impress their powers upon externall things; And how mans mind through each degree of dependencies ascends into the intelligible world, & becomes like to the more sublime spirits, and Intelligences.

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Book III.

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F the necessity, power, and profit of Religion.

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Chap. 2. Of concealing of those thing which are secret in Religion.

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Chap. 3. What dignification is required, that one may be a true Magician and a worker of miracles.

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Chap. 4. Of the two helps of Ceremoniall Magic, Religion and Superstition.

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Chap. 5. Of the three Guides of Religion, which bring us to the path of Truth.

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Chap. 6. How by these guides the soul of man ascendeth up into the Divine nature, and is made a worker of Miracles.

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Chap. 7. That the knowledge of the true God is necessary for a Magician, and what the old Magicians and Philosophers have thought concerning God.

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Chap. 8. What the Ancient Philosophers have thought concerning the Divine Trinity.

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Chap. 9. What the true and most Orthodox faith is concerning God and the most holy Trinity

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Chap. 10. Of divine emanations, which the Hebrews call Numerations, others attributes; The Gentiles gods and Deities; and of the ten Sephiroths and ten most sacred names of God which rule them, and the interpretation of them.

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Chap. 11. Of the Divine names, and their power and vertue.

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Chap. 12. Of the influence of the divine names through all the middle causes into these inferior things.

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Chap. 13. Of the members of God, and of their influence on our members.

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Chap. 14. Of the Gods of the Gentiles, and souls of the Celestial bodies, and what places were consecrated in times past, and to what Deities.

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Chap. 15. What our Theologians think concerning the Celestiall souls.

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Chap. 16. Of Intelligences and spirits, and of the threefold kind of them, and of their diverse names, and of Infernal and subterraneal spirits.

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Chap. 17. Of these according to the opinion of the Theologians.

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Chap. 18. Of the orders of evil spirits, and of their fall, and divers natures.

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Chap. 19. Of the bodies of the Devils.

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Chap. 20. Of the annoyance of evil spirits, and the preservation we have by good spirits.

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Chap. 21. Of obeying a proper Genius, and of the searching out the nature thereof.

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Chap. 22. That there is a threefold keeper of man, and from whence each of them proceed.

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Chap. 23. Of the tongue of Angels, and of their speaking amongst themselves, and with us.

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Chap. 24. Of the names of Spirits, and their various imposition; and of the Spirits that are set over the Stars, Signs, Corners of the Heaven, and the Elements.

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Chap. 25. How the Hebrew Mecubals draw forth the sacred names of Angels out of the sacred writ, and of the seventie two Angels, which bear the name of God, with the Tables of Ziruph, and the Commutations of letters and numbers.

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Chap. 26. Of finding out of the names of spirits, and Genius's from the disposition of Celestial bodies.

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Chap. 27. Of the calculating Art of such names by the tradition of Cabalists.

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Chap. 28. How sometimes names of Spirits are taken from those things over which they are set.

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Chap. 29. Of the Characters and Seals of spirits.

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Chap. 30. Another manner of making Characters, delivered by Cabalists.

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Chap. 31. There is yet another fashion of Characters, and concerning marks of spirits which are received only by revelation.

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Chap. 32. How good spirits may be called up by us, and how evil spirits may be overcome by us.

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Chap. 33. Of the bonds of spirits, and of their adjurations, and castings out.

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Chap. 34. Of the Animasticall order, and the Heros.

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Chap. 35. Of the Mortall and Terrestrial Gods.

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Chap. 36. Of man, how he was created after the Image of God.

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Chap. 37. Of mans soul, and through what means it is joyned to the body.

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Chap. 38. What Divine gifts man receiveth from above, from the several orders of the Intelligences and the heavens.

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Chap. 39. How the superior Influences, seeing they are good by nature, are depraved in these inferior things, and are made causes of evil.

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Chap. 40. That on every man a divine Character is imprinted, by the vertue of which man can attain the working of miracles.

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Chap. 41. What concerning man after death, diverse Opinions.

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Chap. 42. By what wayes the Magicians and Necromancers do think they can call forth the souls of the dead.

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Chap. 43. Of the power of mans soul, in the mind, reason and imagination.

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Chap. 44. Of the degrees of souls, and their destruction, or Immortality.

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Chap. 45. Of Soothsaying, and Phrensie.

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Chap. 46. Of the first kind of phrensie from the Muses.

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Chap. 47. Of the second kinde from Dionysius.

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Chap. 48. Of the third kind of phrensie from Apollo.

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Chap. 49. Of the fourth kinde of Phrensie, from Venus.

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Chap. 50. Of rapture, and extasie, and soothsayings, which happen to them which are taken with the falling sickness, or with a swoune, or to them in an agonie.

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Chap. 51. Of Propheticall Dreams.

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Chap. 52. Of Lots and marks possessing the sure power of Oracles.

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Chap. 53. How he that will receive Oracles must dispose himself.

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Chap. 54. Of cleanness, and how to be observed.

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Chap. 55. Of abstinence, fastings, chastity, solitariness, the tranquillity and ascent of the mind.

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Chap. 56. Of Penitency, and Alms.

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Chap. 57. Of those things which being outwardly administred conduce to Expiation.

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Chap. 58. Of adorations, and vows.

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Chap. 59. Of sacrifices and oblations, and their kinds and manners.

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Chap. 60. What imprecations and rites the ancient, were wont to use in sacrifices, and oblations.

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Chap. 61. How these things must be performed, as to God, so as to inferiour dieties.

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Chap. 62. Of consecrations, and their manner.

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Chap. 63. What things may be called holy, what consecrated, and how these become so betwixt us and the Dieties; and of sacred times.

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Chap. 64. Of certain Religious observations, ceremonies, and rites of perfumings, unctions, and such like.

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Chap. 65. The Conclusion of the whole work.

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FINIS.

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