//The disposition of the planets.398.282.The aspects of the planets.☌ Is the best aspect, with good planets, and woorst with evill.The five planetarie aspects:Conjunct.Sextil.Trine.Quartil.Opposit.⁎ Is a meane aspect in goodnesse or badnesse.△ Is verie good in aspect to good planets, & hurteth not in evill.□ This aspect is of enimitie not full perfect.☍ This aspect is of enimitie most perfect.How the daie is divided or distinguished.A daie naturall is the space of foure and twentie houres, accounting the night withall, and beginneth at one of the clocke after midnight.An artificiall daie is that space of time, which is betwixt the rising and falling of the ☉ &c. All the rest is night, & beginneth at the ☉ rising.Hereafter followeth a table, showing how the daie and the night is divided by houres, and reduced to the regiment of the planets.//The division of the daie, and the planetarie regiment.399.283.The division of the night, and the planetarie regiment.The seventh Chapter.400.284.The characters of the angels of the seaven daies, with their names: of figures, seales and periapts.[1st ed.ve]{These figures are called the seales of the earth, without thewhich no spirit will appeere, except thou have them with thee.}//401.285.[fo = foe]The eight Chapter.An experiment of the dead.FIRSTConjuring for a dead spirit.fast and praie three daies, and absteine thee from all filthinesse; go to one that is new buried, such a one as killed himselfe or destroied himselfe wilfullie: or else get thee promise of one that shalbe hanged, and let him sweare an oth to thee, after his bodie is dead, that his spirit shall come to thee, and doo thee true service, at thy commandements, in all daies, houres, and minuts. And let no persons see thy doings, but thy *fellow.* For the cousenor (the conjuror I should saie) can do nothing to any purpose without his cōfederate.And about eleven a clocke in the night, go to the place where he was buried, and saie with a bold faith & hartie desire, to have the spirit come that thou doost call for, thy fellow having a candle in his left hand, and in his right hand a christall stone, and saie these words following, the maister having a hazell wand in his right hand, and these names of God written thereupon, †Tetragrammaton[† Rom.]✠/402.Adonay✠Agla✠Craton✠ Then strike three strokes on the ground,Note that numerus ternarius, which is counted mysticall, be observed.and saie: AriseN.AriseN.AriseN.I conjure thee spiritN.by the resurrection of our Lord Jesu Christ, that thou doo obey to my words, and come unto me this night verelie and trulie, as thou beleevest to be saved at the daie of judgement. And I will sweare to thee an oth, by the perill of my soule, that if thou wilt come to me, and appeare to me this night, and shew me true visions in this christall stone, and fetch me the fairieSibylia, that I may talke with hir visiblie, and she may come before me, as the conjuration leadeth: and in so dooing, I will give thee an/286.almesse deed, andEx inferno nulla redemptio, saith the scripture:Ergoyou lie quoth Nota.praie for theeN.to my Lord God, wherby thou maiest be restored to thy salvation at the resurrection daie, to be received as one of the elect of God, to the everlasting glorie, Amen.The maister 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 appeare to you in the christall stone, in a faire forme of a child of twelve yeares of age. And when he is in, feele the stone, and it will be hot; and feare nothing, for he or shee will shew manie delusions, to drive you from your worke. Feare God, but feare him not. This is to constraine him, as followeth.I conjure thee spiritN.by the living God, the true God, and by the holie God, and by their vertues and powers which have created both thee and me, and all the world. I conjure theeN.by these holie names of God, *Tetragrammaton[* Rom.]✠Adonay✠Algramay✠Saday✠Sabaoth✠Planaboth✠Panthon✠Craton✠Neupmaton✠Deus✠Homo✠Omnipotens✠Sempiturnus✠Ysus✠Terra✠Unigenitus✠Salvator✠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 speake or thinke; so by their vertues and powers I conjure thee spiritN.that now immediatlie thou doo appeare in this christall stone, visiblie to me and to my fellow, without anie tarrieng or deceipt. I conjure theeN.by the excellent name of Jesus Christ A and Ω. the first and the last. For this holie name of Jesus is above all names: for in this name of Jesus everie knee dooth bow and obeie, both of heavenlie/403.things, earthlie things, and infernall. And everie toong doth confesse, that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glorie of the father: neither is there anie other name given to man, whereby he must be saved. Therefore in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, and by his nativitie, resurrection, and ascension, and by all that apperteineth unto his passion, and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee spiritN.that thou doo appeare visiblie in this christall stone to me, and to my fellow, without anie dissimulation. I conjure theeN.by the bloud of the innocent lambe Jesus Christ, which was shed for us upon the crosse: for all those that††Dæmones credendo contremiscunt.doo beleeve in the vertue of his bloud, shalbe saved. I conjure theeN.by the vertues and powers of all the riall 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 doo, I by the holie trinitie, and their vertues and powers doo condemne thee thou spiritN.into the place where there is no hope ofremedie or rest,A heavie sentence denounced of the conjuror against the spirit in case of disobedience, contempt, or negligence.but everlasting horror and paine there dwelling, and a place where is paine upon paine, dailie, horriblie, and lamentablie, thy paine to be there augmented as the starres in the heaven, and as the gravell or sand in the sea: except thou spiritN.doo appeare to me and to my fellow visiblie, immediatlie in this christall stone, and in a faire forme and shape of a child of twelve yeares of age, and that thou alter not thy shape, I charge thee upon paine of everlasting condemnation. I conjure thee spiritN.by the golden girdle, which girded the loines of our Lord/287.Jesus Christ: so thou spiritN.be thou bound into the perpetuall paines of hell fier, for thy disobedience and unreverent regard, that thou hast to the holie names and words, and his precepts. I conjure theeN.by the two edged sword, whichJohnsawe proceed out of the mouth of the almightie; and so thou spiritN.be torne and‡‡ How can that be, when a spirit hath neither flesh, bloud, nor bones?cut in peeces with that sword, and to be condemned into everlasting paine, where the fier goeth not out, and where the worme dieth not. I conjure theeN.by the heavens, and by the celestiall citie ofJerusalem, and by the earth and the sea, and by all things conteined in them, and by their vertues & powers. I conjure thee spiritN.by the obedience that thou doost owe unto the principall prince. And except thou spiritN.doo come and appeare in this christall stone visiblie in my presence, here imme/diatlie404.as it is aforesaid. Let the great cursse of God, the anger of God, the shadowe and darknesse of death, and of eternall condemnation be upon thee spiritN.for ever and ever; bicause thou hast denied thy faith, thy health, & salvation. For thy great disobedience, thou art worthie to be condemned. Therefore let the divine trinitie, thrones, dominions, principats, potestats, virtutes, cherubim and seraphim, and all the soules of saints, both of men and women, condemne thee for ever, and be a witnesse against thee at the daie of judgement, bicause of thy disobedience. And let all creatures of our Lord Jesus Christ, saie thereunto;Fiat, fiat, fiat: Amen.And when he is appeared in the christall stone, as is said before, bind him with this bond as followeth; to wit, I conjure thee spiritN.that art appeared to me in this christall stone, to me and to my fellow; I conjure thee by** The conjuror imputeth the appearing of a spirit by constraint unto words quoth Nota.all the riall words aforesaid, the which did constraine thee to appeare therein, and their vertues; I charge thee spirit by them all, that thou shalt not depart out of this christall stone, untill my will being fulfilled, thou be licenced to depart. I conjure and bind thee spiritN.by that omnipotent God, which commanded the angell S.Michaelto driveLuciferout of the heavens with a sword of vengeance, and to fall from joy to paine; and for dread of such paine as he is in, I charge thee spiritN.that thou shalt not go out of the christall 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 houres and minuts, when and wheresoever I shall call thee, by the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ, or by anie conjuration of words that is written in this booke, and to shew me and my freends true visions in this christall stone, of anie thing or things that we would see, at anie time or times: and also to go and to fetch me the fairieSibylia, that I may talke with hir in all kind of talke, as I shall call hir by anie conjuration of words conteined in this booke. I conjure thee spiritN.by the great wisedome and divinitie of his godhead, my will to fulfill, as is aforesaid: I charge thee upon paine of condemnation, both in this world, and in the world to come,Fiat, fiat, fiat: Amen.This done, go to a place fast by, and in a faire parlor or chamber, make a circle with chalke, as hereafter followeth: and make/405.another circle for the fairieSibyliato appeare in, foure foote from the circle thou art in, & make no names therein, nor cast anie holie thing therein, but/288.make a circle round with chalke; & let the maister and his fellowe sit downe in the first circle, the maister having the booke in his hand, his fellow having the christall stone in his right hand, looking in the stone when the fairie dooth appeare. The maister also must have upon his brest this figure here written in parchment, and beginne to worke in the new of the ☽ and in the houre of ♃ the ☉ and the ☽ to be in one of inhabiters signes, as ♋︎ ♐︎ ♓︎. This bond as followeth, is to cause the spirit in the christall stone, to fetch unto thee the fairieSibylia. All things fulfilled, beginne this bond as followeth, and be bold, for doubtles they will come before thee, before the conjuration be read seven times.I conjure thee spiritN.in this christall stone, by God the father, by God the sonne Jesus Christ, and by God the Holie-ghost, three persons and one God, and by their vertues. I conjure thee spirit, that thou doo go in peace, and also to come againe to me quicklie, and to bring with thee into that circle appointed,And whie might not he doo it himselfe, as well as madamSibylia.Sibyliafairie, that I may talke with hir in those matters that shall be to hir honour and glorie; and so I charge thee declare unto hir. I conjure thee spiritN.by the bloud of the innocent lambe, the which redeemed all the world; by the vertue thereof I charge thee thou spirit in the christall stone, that thou doo declare unto hir this message. Also I conjure thee spiritN.by all angels and archangels, thrones, dominations, principats, potestates, virtutes, cherubim and seraphim, and by their vertues and powers. I conjure theN.that thou doo depart with speed, and also to come againe with speed, and to bring with thee the fairieSibylia, to appeare in that circle, before I doo read the conjuration in this booke seven times. Thus I charge thee my will to be fulfilled, upon paine of everlasting condemnation:Fiat,fiat,fiat; Amen.Then the figure aforesaid pinned on thy brest, rehearse the words therein, and saie, ✠Sorthie✠Sorthia✠Sorthios✠ then beginne your conjuration as followeth here, and saie; I/406.conjure theeSibylia, O gentle virgine of fairies,The fairie Sibylia conjured to appeare, &c.by the mercie of the Holie-ghost, and by the dreadfull daie of doome, and by their vertues and powers; I conjure theeSibylia, 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 queene of fairies, and their vertues, and by the faith and obedience that thou bearest unto them. I conjure theeSibyliaby the bloud that ranne 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 darkenes of the sunne in the time of his death, and by the rising up of the dead in the time of his resurrection, and by the virgineMarie/289.mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the unspeakable name of God,Tetragrammaton. I conjure thee OSibylia, O blessed and beautifull virgine, by all the riall words aforesaid; I conjure theeSibyliaby all their vertues to appeare in that circle before me visible, in the forme and shape of a beautifull woman in a bright and vesture white, adorned and garnished most faire, and to appeare to me quicklie without deceipt or tarrieng, and that thou faile not to fulfill my will & desire effectuallie. For I will choose thee to be my blessed virgine, & will have common copulation with thee. Therfore make hast & speed to come unto me, and to appeare as I said before: to whome be honour and glorie for ever and ever, Amen.The which doone and ended, if shee come not, repeate the conjuration till they doo come: for doubtles they will come. And when she is appeared, take your censers, and incense hir with frankincense, then bind hir with the bond as followeth.The maner of binding the fairie Sibylia at hir appearing.¶ I doo conjure theeSibylia, by God the Father, God the sonne, and God the Holie-ghost, three persons and one God, and by the blessed virgineMariemother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by all the whole and holie companie of heaven, and by the dreadfull daie of doome, and by all angels and archangels, thrones, dominations, principates,potestates, virtutes, cherubim and seraphim, and their vertues and powers. I conjure thee, and bind theeSibylia, 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 theeSibyliaby the bloud that ranne out of the side/407.of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified, and by the vertue hereof I conjure theeSibyliato come to me, and to appeare to me at all times visiblie, as the conjuration of words leadeth, written in this booke. I conjure theeSibylia, O blessed virgine of fairies, by the opening of heaven, and by the renting of the temple, and by the darknes of the sunne 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 GodIf all this will not fetch hir up the divell is a knave.✠Tetragrammaton✠ and by the king and queene of fairies, & by their vertues I conjure theeSibyliato appeare, before the conjuration be read over foure times, and that visiblie to appeare, as the conjuration leadeth written in this booke, and to give me good counsell at all times, and to come by treasures hidden in the earth, and all other things that is to doo me pleasure, and to fulfill my will, without anie deceipt or tarrieng; nor yet that thou shalt have anie power of my bodie or soule, earthlie or ghostlie, nor yet to perish so much of my bodie as one haire of my head. I conjure theeSibyliaby all the riall 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 betweene thee and me, upon paine of everlasting condemnation,Fiat, fiat, fiat, Amen./The ninth Chapter.290.A licence for Sibylia to go and come by at all times.ICONJURE theeSibylia, which art come hither before me, by the commandement of thy Lord and mine, that thou shalt have no powers, in thy going or comming unto me, imagining anie evill in anie maner of waies, in the earth or under the earth, of evill dooings, to anie person or persons. I conjure and command theeSibyliaby all the riall words and vertues that be written in this booke, that thou shalt not go to the place from whence thou camest, but shalt remaine peaceablie invisiblie, and looke thou be readie to come unto me, when thou art called by anie conjuration of words that be written in this booke, to come (I saie) at my commandement, and to answer unto me truelie/408.and duelie of allthings, my will quicklie to be fulfilled.Vade in pace, in nomine patris, & filii, & spiritus sancti.And the holie ✠ crosse ✠ be betweene thee and me, or betweene us and you, and the lion ofJuda, the roote ofJesse, the kindred ofDavid, be betweene thee & me ✠ Christ commeth ✠ Christ commandeth ✠ Christ giveth power ✠ Christ defend me ✠ and his innocent bloud ✠ from all perils of bodie and soule, sleeping or waking:Fiat, fiat, Amen.The tenth Chapter.To know of treasure hidden in the earth.WRITEThis would be much practised if it were not a cousening knacke.in paper these characters following, on the saturdaie, in the houre of ☽, and laie it where thou thinkest treasure to be: if there be anie, the paper will burne, else not. And these be the characters.This is the waie to go invisible by these three sisters of fairies.291.IN the name of the Father, and of the Sonne, and of the Holie-ghost. First go to a faire parlor or chamber, & an even ground, and in no loft, and from people nine daies; for it is the better: and let all thy clothing be cleane and sweete. Then make a candle of virgine waxe, and light it, and make a faire fier of charcoles, in a faire place, in the middle of the parlor or chamber. Then take faire cleane water, that runneth against the east, and set it upon the fier: and *yer[* = ere.]thou washest thy selfe, saie these words, going about the fier, three times, holding the candle in the right hand ✠Panthon✠Craton✠Muriton✠Bisecognaton✠Siston✠409./Diaton✠Maton✠Tetragrammaton✠Agla✠Agarion✠Tegra✠Pentessaron✠Tendicata✠ Then reherse these names ✠Sorthie✠Sorthia✠Sorthios✠Milia✠Achilia✠SibyliaThe three sisters of the fairies, Milia, Achilia, and Sibylia.✠in nomine patris, & filii, & spiritus sancti, Amen. I conjure you three sisters of fairies,Milia, Achilia, Sibylia, by the father, by the sonne, and by the Holie-ghost, and by their vertues and powers, and by the most mercifull and living God, that will command his angell to blowe the trumpe at the daie of judgement; and he shall saie, Come, come, come to judgement; and by all angels, archangels, thrones, dominations, principats, potestates, virtutes, cherubim and seraphim, and by their vertues and powers. I conjure you three sisters, by the vertue of all the riall words aforesaid: I charge you that you doo appeare before me visiblie, in forme and shape of faire women, in white vestures, and to bring with you to me, the ring of invisibilitie, by the which I may go invisible at mine owne will and pleasure, and that in all houres and minuts:in nomine patris, & filii, & spiritus sancti, Amen. ❈ Being appeared, saie this bond following.O blessed virgins ✠Milia✠Achilia✠ I conjure you in the name of the father, in the name of the sonne, and in the name of the Holie-ghost, and by their vertues I charge you to depart from me in peace, for a time. AndSibylia, I conjure thee, by the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the vertue of his flesh and pretious bloud, that he tooke of our blessed ladie the virgine, and by all the holie companie in heaven: I charge theeSibylia, by all the vertues aforesaid, that thou be obedient unto me, in the name of God; that when, and at what time and place I shall call thee by this foresaid conjuration written in this booke, looke thou be readie to come unto me, at all houres and minuts, and to bring unto me theThe ring of invisibilitie.ring of invisibilitie, whereby I may go invisible at my will and pleasure, and that at all houres and minuts;Fiat, fiat, Amen.And if they come not the first night, then doo the same the second night, and so the third night, untill they doo come: for doubtles they will come, and lie thou in thy bed, in the same parlor or chamber. And laie thy right hand out of the bed, and looke thou have a faire silken kercher bound about thy head, and be not afraid, they will doo thee no harme. For there will come before thee three faire/410.women, and all in white clothing; and one of them will put *a* Such a ring it was that advanced Giges to the kingdome of Lydia:Plato. lib. 2 de justo.ring upon thy finger, wherwith thou shalt go/292.invisible. Then with speed bind them with the bond aforesaid. When thou hast this ring on thy finger, looke in a glasse, and thou shalt not see thy selfe. And when thou wilt go invisible, put it on thy finger, the same finger that they did put it on, and everie new ☽ renew it againe. For after the first time thou shalt ever have it, and ever beginne this worke in the new of the ☽ and in the houre of ♃ and the ☽ in ♋︎ ♐︎ ♓︎.The eleventh Chapter.An experiment following, of Citrael, &c:*angeli[* These three wordsItal.]diei dominici.¶Saie first the praiers of the angels everie daie, for the space of seaven daies.OYe glorious angels written in this square, be you my coadjutors & helpers in all questions and demands, in all my busines, and other causes, by him which shall come to judge the quicke and the dead, and the world by fier.O angeli gloriosi in hac quadra scripti, estote coadjutores & auxiliatores in omnibus quæstionibus & interrogationibus, in omnibus negotiis, cæterísque causis, per eum qui venturus est judicare vivos & mortuos, & mundum per ignem.¶Saie this praier fasting, called *Regina* O queene or governesse of the toong.linguæ.✠Lemaac✠solmaac✠elmay✠gezagra✠raamaasin✠ezierego✠mial✠egziephiaz✠Josamin✠sabach✠ha✠aem✠re✠b✠e✠sepha✠sephar✠ramar✠semoit✠lemaio✠pheralon✠amic✠phin✠gergoin✠letos✠Amin✠amin✠.In the name of the most pitifullest and mercifullest God of Israel and of paradise, of heaven and of earth, of the seas and of/411.the infernalles, by thine omnipotent helpe may performe this worke, which livest and reignest ever one God world without end, Amen.O most strongest and mightiest God, without beginning or ending, by thy clemencie and knowledge I desire, that my questions, worke, and labour may be fullie and trulie accomplished, through thy worthines, good Lord, which livest and reignest, ever one God, world without end, Amen.O holie, patient, and mercifull great God, and to be worshipped, the Lord of all wisedome, cleare and just; I most hartilie desire thy holines and clemencie, to fulfill, performe and accomplish this my whole worke, thorough thy worthines, and blessed power: which livest and reignest, ever one God,Per omnia sæcula sæculorum, Amen./The twelfe Chapter.293.How to enclose a spirit in a christall stone.THIS operation following, is to have a spirit inclosedObservations of clenlinesse, abstinence, and devotion.into a christall stone or berill glasse, or into anie other like instrument, &c. ¶ First thou in the new of the ☽ being clothed with all new, and fresh, & cleane araie, and shaven, and that day to fast with bread and water, and being cleane confessed, saie the seaven*[* penitential]psalmes, and the letanie, for the space of two daies, with this praier following.I desire thee O Lord God, my mercifull and most loving God, the giver of all graces, the giver of all sciences, grant that I thy welbelovedN.(although unworthie) may knowe thy grace and power, against all the deceipts and craftines of divels. And grant to me thy power, good Lord, to constraine them by this art: for thou art the true, and livelie, and eternall GOD, which livest and reignest ever one GOD through all worlds, Amen.An observation touching the use of the five swords.Thou must doo this five daies, and the sixt daie have in a redines, five bright swords: and in some secret place make one circle, with one of the said swords. And then write this name,Sitrael: which doone, standing in the circle, thrust in thy sword into that name. And write againeMalanthon, with another sword; and/412.Thamaor, with another; andFalaur, with another; andSitrami, with another: and doo as ye did with the first. All this done, turne thee toSitrael, and kneeling saie thus, having the christall stone in thine hands.O Sitrael,Malantha,*[* sic]Thamaor,Falaur, andSitrami, written in these circles, appointed to this worke, I doo conjure and I doo exorcise you, by the father, by the sonne, and by the Holy-ghost, by him which did cast you out of paradise, and by him which spake the word and it was done, and by him which shall come to judge the quicke and the dead, and the world by fier, that all you five infernall maisters and princes doo come unto me, to accomplish and to fulfill all my desire and request, which I shall command you. Also I conjure you divels,A weightie charge of conjuration upon the five K. of the north.and command you, I bid you, and appoint you, by the Lord Jesus Christ, the sonne of the most highest God, and by the blessed and glorious virgineMarie, and by all the saints, both of men and women of God, and by all the angels, archangels, patriarches, and prophets, apostles, evangelists, martyrs, and confessors, virgins, and widowes, and all the elect of God. Also I conjure you, and everie of you, ye infernall kings, by heaven, by the starres, by the ☉ and by the ☽ and by all the planets, by the earth, fier, aier,and water, and by the terrestriall paradise, and by all things in them conteined, and by your hell, and by all the divels in it, and dwelling about it, and by your vertue and power, and by all whatsoever, and with whatsoever it be, which maie constreine and bind you. Therefore by all these foresaid vertues and powers, I doo bind you and constreine you into my will and power; that you being thus bound, may/294.come unto me in great humilitie, and to appeare in your circles before me visiblie, in faire forme and shape of mankind kings, and to obeie unto me in all things, whatsoever I shall desire, and thatA penaltie for not appearing, &c.you may not depart from me without my licence. And if you doo against my precepts, I will promise unto you that you shall descend into the profound deepenesse of the sea, except that you doo obeie unto me, in the part of the living sonne of God, which liveth and reigneth in the unitie of the Holie-ghost, by all world of worlds, Amen.Saie this true conjuration five courses, and then shalt thou see come out of the northpart five kings, with a marvelous com/panie:413.which when they are come to the circle, they will allight downe off from their horsses, and will kneele downe before thee, saieng: Maister, command us what thou wilt, and we will out of hand be obedient unto thee. Unto whome thou shall saie; See that ye depart not from me, without my licence; and that which I will command you to doo, let it be done trulie, surelie, faithfullie and essentiallie. And then they all will sweare unto thee to doo all thy will. And after they have sworne, saie the conjuration immediatlie following.I conjure, charge, and command you, and everie of you, *Sirrael,[* Sitrael.][† A third variation]The five spirits of the north: as you shall see in the type expressed in pag. 414. next folowing.†Malanthan, Thamaor, Falaur, andSitrami, you infernall kings, to put into this christall stone one spirit learned and expert in all arts and sciences, by the vertue of this name of GodTetragrammaton, and by the crosse of our Lord Jesu Christ, and by the bloud of the innocent lambe, which redeemed all the world, and by all their vertues & powers I charge you, ye noble kings, that the said spirit may teach, shew, and declare unto me, and to my freends, at all houres and minuts, both night and daie, the truth of all things, both bodilie and ghostlie, in this world, whatsoever I shall request or desire, declaring also to me my verie name. And this I command in your part to doo, and to obeie thereunto, as unto your owne lord and maister. That done, they will call a certeine spirit, whom they will command to enter into the centre of the circled or round christall. Then put the christall betweene the two circles, and thou shalt see the christall made blacke.Then command them to command the spirit in the christall, notto depart out of the stone, till thou give him licence, & to fulfill thy will for ever. That done, thou shalt see them go upon the christall, both to answer your requests, & to tarrie your licence. That doone, the spirits will crave licence: and *say;[*i.e.do thou]Go ye to your place appointed of almightie God, in the name of the father, &c. And then take up thy christall, and looke therein, asking what thou wilt, and it will shew it unto thee. Let all your circles be nine foote everie waie, & made as followeth. Worke this worke in ♋︎ ♏︎ or ♓︎ in the houre of the ☽ or ♃. And when the spirit is inclosed, if thou feare him, bind him with some bond, in such sort as is elsewhere expressed alreadie in this our treatise./414.295.A figure or type proportionall, shewing what forme must be observed and kept, in making the figure whereby the former secret of inclosing a spirit in christall is to be accomplished, &c.†[A 4th variation]The names written within the five circles doo signifie the five infernall kings:Seepag. 411. 412. 413.The xiii. Chapter.415.296.An experiment of Bealphares.THIS is proved the noblest carrier that ever did serve anie man upon the earth, & here beginneth the inclosing of the said spirit, & how to have a true answer of him, without anie craft or harme; and he will appeare unto thee in the likenesse of a faire man, or faire woman, the which spirit will come to thee at all times. And if thou wilt command him to tell thee of hidden treasures that be in anie place, he will tell it thee: or if thou wilt command him to bring to thee gold or silver, he will bring it thee: or if thou wilt go from one countrie to another, he will beare thee without anie harme of bodie or soule. Therefore ** Memorandum with what vices the cousenor (the conjuror I should saie) must not be polluted: therfore he must be no knave, &c.he that will doo this worke, shall absteine from lecherousnes and dronkennesse, and from false swearing, and doo all the abstinence that he may doo; and namelie three daies before he go to worke, and in the third daie, when the night is come, and when the starres doo shine, and the element faire and cleare, he shall bath himselfe and his fellowes (if he have anie) all together in a quicke welspring. Then he must be cloathed in cleane white cloathes, and he must have another privie place, and beare with him inke and pen, wherewith he shall write this holy name of God almightie in his right hand ✠Agla✠ & in his left hand this name ✠[Symbols]✠. And he must have a drie thong of a lions or of a harts skin, and make thereof a girdle, and write the holie names of God all about, and in the end ✠ Α and Ω ✠.The conjurors brestplate.And upon his brest he must have this present figure or marke written in virgine parchment, as it is here shewed. And it must be sowed upon a peece of new linnen, and so made fast upon thy brest. And if thou wilt have a fellow to worke with thee, he must be appointed in the same maner. You must have also a bright knife that was never occupied, and he must write on the one/416.side of the blade of the knife ✠Agla✠ and on the other side of the knifes blade ✠[Symbols]✠. And with the same knife he must make a circle, as hereafter followeth: the which is calledSalomonsSalomons circle.circle. When that he is made, go into the circle, and close againe the place, there where thou wentest in, with the same knife, and saie;Per crucis hoc signum✠fugiat procul omne malignum; Et per idem signum✠salvetur quodque benignum,†[† translated in 2 ed, see note]and make suffumigations to thy selfe, and to thy fellowe or fellowes, with frankincense, mastike,lignum aloes: then put it in wine, and saie with good devotion,/‡299.[‡ so & onwards]in the worship of the high God almightie, all together, that he may defend you from all evils. And when he that is maister will close the spirit, he shall saie towards the east, with meeke and devout devotion, these psalmes and praiers as followeth here in order.¶The two and twentieth psalme.O My God my God, looke upon me, whie hast thou forsaken me, and art so farre from my health,Memorandum that you must read the 22. and 51. psalms all over: or else rehearse them by hart: for these are counted necessarie, &c.and from the words of my complaint? ¶ And so foorth to the end of the same psalme, as it is to be founde in the booke.This psalme also following, being the fiftie one psalme, must be said three times over, &c.HAve mercie upon me, O God, after thy great goodnes, according to the multitude of thy mercies, doo awaie mine offenses. ¶ And so foorth to the end of the same psalme, concluding it with, Glorie to the Father and to the Sonne, and to the Holie-ghost, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. Then saie this verse: O Lord leave not my soule with the wicked; nor my life with the bloudthirstie. Then saie aPater nosteranAve Maria, and aCredo,& ne nos inducas. O Lord shew us thy mercie, and we shall be saved. Lord heare our praier, and let our crie come unto thee. Let us praie.O Lord God almightie, as thou warnedst by thine angell, the three kings ofCullen,Jasper,Melchior, andBalthasar, when they came with worshipfull presents towardsBethleem:Jasperbrought myrrh;Melchior, incense;Balthasar, gold; worshipping the high king of all the world, Jesus Gods sonne of hea/ven,417.the second person in *trinitie,[* ? the]being borne of the holie and cleane virgine S.Marie, queene of heaven, empresse of hell, and ladie of all the world: at that time the holie angellGabrielwarned and bad the foresaid three kings, that they should take another waie, for dread of perill, thatHerodthe king by his ordinance would have destroied these †three† Gaspar, Balth[a]sar and Melchior, who followed the starre, wherin was yeimage of a litle babe bearing a crosse: ifLonga legēda Coloniælie not.noble kings, that meekelie sought out our Lord and saviour. As wittilieand truelie as these three kings turned for dread, and tooke another waie: so wiselie and so truelie, O Lord GOD, of thy mightifull mercie, blesse us now at this time, for thy blessed passion save us, and keepe us all together from all evill; and thy holie angell defend us. Let us praie.O Lord, king of all kings, which conteinest the throne of heavens, and beholdest all deepes, weighest the hilles, and shuttest up with thy hand the earth; heare us, most meekest GOD, and grant unto us (being unworthie) according to thy great mercie, to have the veritie and vertue of knowledge of hidden treasures by this spirit invocated, through thy helpe O Lord Jesus Christ, to whome be all honour and glorie, from worlds to worlds everlastinglie, Amen. Then saie these names ✠Helie✠helyon✠esseiere*[* jere. 2nd ed.]✠Deus æternus✠eloy✠clemens✠heloye✠Deus sanctus✠sabaoth✠Deus exercituum✠adonay✠Deus mirabilis✠iao✠verax✠anepheneton✠Deus ineffabilis✠so/doy300.✠dominator dominus✠ôn fortissimus✠Deus✠qui, the which wouldest be praied unto of sinners: receive (we beseech thee) these sacrifices of praise, and our meeke praiers, which we unworthie doo offer unto thy divine majestie. Deliver us, and have mercie upon us, and prevent with thy holie spirit this worke, and with thy blessed helpe to followe after; that this our worke begunne of thee, may be ended by thy mightie power, Amen. Then saie this anon after ✠Homo✠sacarus✠museolameas†[† Two words, and lomeas in engr.]✠cherubozca✠ being the figure upon thy brest aforesaid, the girdle about thee, the circle made, blesse the circle with holie water, and sit downe in the middest, and read this conjuration as followeth, sitting backe to backe at the first time.I exorcise and conjure Bealphares, the practiser and preceptor of this art, by the maker of heavens and of earth, and by his vertue, and by his unspeakable nameTetragrammaton, and by all/418.the holie sacraments, and by the holie majestie and deitie of the living God. I conjure and exorcise theeBealpharesby the vertue of all angels, archangels, thrones, dominations, principats, potestats, virtutes, cherubim and seraphim, and by their vertues, and by the most truest and speciallest name of your maister, that you doo come unto us, in faire forme of man or womankind, here visiblie, before this circle, and not terrible by anie manner of waies. This *circle* Which must be environed with a goodlie companie of crosses.being our tuition and protection, by the mercifull goodnes of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and that you doo make answer truelie, without craft or deceipt, unto all my demands and questions, by the vertue and power of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.The xiiii. Chapter.To bind the spirit Bealphares, and to lose him againe.NOW when he is appeared, bind him with these words which followe. ¶ I conjure theeBealphares, by God the father, by God the sonne, and by God the Holie-ghost, and by all the holie companie in heaven; and by their vertues and powers I charge theeBealphares, that thou shalt not depart out of my sight, nor yet to alter thy bodilie shape, that thou art appeared in, nor anie power shalt thou have of our bodies or soules, earthlie or ghostlie, but to be obedient to me, and to the words of my conjuration, that be written in this booke. I conjure theeBealphares, by all angels and archangels, thrones, dominations, principats, potestats, virtutes, cherubim and seraphim, and by their vertues and powers. I conjure and charge, bind and constreine theeBealphares, by all the riall words aforesaid, and by their vertues, that thou be obedient unto me, and to come and appeare visiblie unto me, and that in *all* On sundaies, festival daies, and holie daies, none excepted.daies, houres, and minuts, whersoever I be, being called by the vertue of our Lord Jesu Christ, the which words are written in this booke. Looke readie thou be to appeare unto me, and to give me good counsell, how to come by treasures hidden in the earth, or in the water, and how to come to dig/nitie301.and knowledge of all things, that is to saie, of the magike art, and of grammar, dialectike, rhetorike, arythmetike, musike, geo/metrie,419.and of astronomie, and in all other things my will quicklie to be fulfilled: I charge thee upon paine of everlasting condemnation,Fiat, fiat, fiat, Amen.He dares doo no other being so conjured I trowe.When he is thus bound, aske him what thing thou wilt, and he will tell thee, and give thee all things that thou wilt request of him, without anie sacrifice dooing to him, and without forsaking thy God, that is, thy maker. And when the spirit hath fulfilled thy will and intent, give him licence to depart as followeth.A licence for the spirit to depart.*GO[* All this par. in much smaller type.]unto the place predestinated and appointed for thee, where thy Lord GOD hath appointed thee, untill I shall call thee againe. Be thou readie unto me and to my call, as often as I shall call thee, upon paine of everlasting damnation. And if thou wilt, thou maiest recite, two or three times, the last conjuration, untill thoudoo come to this tearme,In throno. If he will not depart, and then*[* ? thou]sayIn throno, that thou depart from this place, without hurt or damage of anie bodie, or of anie deed to be doone; that all creatures may knowe, 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 sonne and the holie ghost, descend upon thee, and dwell alwaies with thee, except thou doo depart without damage of us, or of any creature, or anie other evill deed to be doone: & thou to go to the place predestinated. And by our Lord Jesus Christ I doo else send thee to the great pit of hell, except (I saie) that thou depart to the place, whereas thy Lord God hath appointed thee. And see thou be readie to me and to my call, at all times and places, at mine owne will and pleasure, daie or night, without damage or hurt of me, or of anie creature; upon paine of everlasting damnation:Fiat,fiat,fiat; Amen, Amen. ¶ The peace of Jesus Christ bee betweene us and you; in the name of the father, and of the sonne, and of the Holie-ghost: Amen.Per crucis hoc✠signum, &c. SaieIn principio erat verbum, & verbum erat apud Deum; In the 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 saintJohnsGospell, staieng at these words, Full of grace and truth: to whom be all honour and glorie world without end, Amen.
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A daie naturall is the space of foure and twentie houres, accounting the night withall, and beginneth at one of the clocke after midnight.
An artificiall daie is that space of time, which is betwixt the rising and falling of the ☉ &c. All the rest is night, & beginneth at the ☉ rising.
Hereafter followeth a table, showing how the daie and the night is divided by houres, and reduced to the regiment of the planets.//
Hereafter followeth a table, showing how the daie and the night is divided by houres, and reduced to the regiment of the planets.//
The characters of the angels of the seaven daies, with their names: of figures, seales and periapts.
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{These figures are called the seales of the earth, without thewhich no spirit will appeere, except thou have them with thee.}//
{These figures are called the seales of the earth, without thewhich no spirit will appeere, except thou have them with thee.}//
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These figures are called the seales of the earth, without thewhich no spirit will appeere, except thou have them with thee.
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401.285.[fo = foe]
An experiment of the dead.
FIRSTConjuring for a dead spirit.fast and praie three daies, and absteine thee from all filthinesse; go to one that is new buried, such a one as killed himselfe or destroied himselfe wilfullie: or else get thee promise of one that shalbe hanged, and let him sweare an oth to thee, after his bodie is dead, that his spirit shall come to thee, and doo thee true service, at thy commandements, in all daies, houres, and minuts. And let no persons see thy doings, but thy *fellow.* For the cousenor (the conjuror I should saie) can do nothing to any purpose without his cōfederate.And about eleven a clocke in the night, go to the place where he was buried, and saie with a bold faith & hartie desire, to have the spirit come that thou doost call for, thy fellow having a candle in his left hand, and in his right hand a christall stone, and saie these words following, the maister having a hazell wand in his right hand, and these names of God written thereupon, †Tetragrammaton[† Rom.]✠/402.Adonay✠Agla✠Craton✠ Then strike three strokes on the ground,Note that numerus ternarius, which is counted mysticall, be observed.and saie: AriseN.AriseN.AriseN.I conjure thee spiritN.by the resurrection of our Lord Jesu Christ, that thou doo obey to my words, and come unto me this night verelie and trulie, as thou beleevest to be saved at the daie of judgement. And I will sweare to thee an oth, by the perill of my soule, that if thou wilt come to me, and appeare to me this night, and shew me true visions in this christall stone, and fetch me the fairieSibylia, that I may talke with hir visiblie, and she may come before me, as the conjuration leadeth: and in so dooing, I will give thee an/286.almesse deed, andEx inferno nulla redemptio, saith the scripture:Ergoyou lie quoth Nota.praie for theeN.to my Lord God, wherby thou maiest be restored to thy salvation at the resurrection daie, to be received as one of the elect of God, to the everlasting glorie, Amen.
The maister 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 appeare to you in the christall stone, in a faire forme of a child of twelve yeares of age. And when he is in, feele the stone, and it will be hot; and feare nothing, for he or shee will shew manie delusions, to drive you from your worke. Feare God, but feare him not. This is to constraine him, as followeth.
I conjure thee spiritN.by the living God, the true God, and by the holie God, and by their vertues and powers which have created both thee and me, and all the world. I conjure theeN.by these holie names of God, *Tetragrammaton[* Rom.]✠Adonay✠Algramay✠Saday✠Sabaoth✠Planaboth✠Panthon✠Craton✠Neupmaton✠Deus✠Homo✠Omnipotens✠Sempiturnus✠Ysus✠Terra✠Unigenitus✠Salvator✠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 speake or thinke; so by their vertues and powers I conjure thee spiritN.that now immediatlie thou doo appeare in this christall stone, visiblie to me and to my fellow, without anie tarrieng or deceipt. I conjure theeN.by the excellent name of Jesus Christ A and Ω. the first and the last. For this holie name of Jesus is above all names: for in this name of Jesus everie knee dooth bow and obeie, both of heavenlie/403.things, earthlie things, and infernall. And everie toong doth confesse, that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glorie of the father: neither is there anie other name given to man, whereby he must be saved. Therefore in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, and by his nativitie, resurrection, and ascension, and by all that apperteineth unto his passion, and by their vertues and powers I conjure thee spiritN.that thou doo appeare visiblie in this christall stone to me, and to my fellow, without anie dissimulation. I conjure theeN.by the bloud of the innocent lambe Jesus Christ, which was shed for us upon the crosse: for all those that††Dæmones credendo contremiscunt.doo beleeve in the vertue of his bloud, shalbe saved. I conjure theeN.by the vertues and powers of all the riall 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 doo, I by the holie trinitie, and their vertues and powers doo condemne thee thou spiritN.into the place where there is no hope ofremedie or rest,A heavie sentence denounced of the conjuror against the spirit in case of disobedience, contempt, or negligence.but everlasting horror and paine there dwelling, and a place where is paine upon paine, dailie, horriblie, and lamentablie, thy paine to be there augmented as the starres in the heaven, and as the gravell or sand in the sea: except thou spiritN.doo appeare to me and to my fellow visiblie, immediatlie in this christall stone, and in a faire forme and shape of a child of twelve yeares of age, and that thou alter not thy shape, I charge thee upon paine of everlasting condemnation. I conjure thee spiritN.by the golden girdle, which girded the loines of our Lord/287.Jesus Christ: so thou spiritN.be thou bound into the perpetuall paines of hell fier, for thy disobedience and unreverent regard, that thou hast to the holie names and words, and his precepts. I conjure theeN.by the two edged sword, whichJohnsawe proceed out of the mouth of the almightie; and so thou spiritN.be torne and‡‡ How can that be, when a spirit hath neither flesh, bloud, nor bones?cut in peeces with that sword, and to be condemned into everlasting paine, where the fier goeth not out, and where the worme dieth not. I conjure theeN.by the heavens, and by the celestiall citie ofJerusalem, and by the earth and the sea, and by all things conteined in them, and by their vertues & powers. I conjure thee spiritN.by the obedience that thou doost owe unto the principall prince. And except thou spiritN.doo come and appeare in this christall stone visiblie in my presence, here imme/diatlie404.as it is aforesaid. Let the great cursse of God, the anger of God, the shadowe and darknesse of death, and of eternall condemnation be upon thee spiritN.for ever and ever; bicause thou hast denied thy faith, thy health, & salvation. For thy great disobedience, thou art worthie to be condemned. Therefore let the divine trinitie, thrones, dominions, principats, potestats, virtutes, cherubim and seraphim, and all the soules of saints, both of men and women, condemne thee for ever, and be a witnesse against thee at the daie of judgement, bicause of thy disobedience. And let all creatures of our Lord Jesus Christ, saie thereunto;Fiat, fiat, fiat: Amen.
And when he is appeared in the christall stone, as is said before, bind him with this bond as followeth; to wit, I conjure thee spiritN.that art appeared to me in this christall stone, to me and to my fellow; I conjure thee by** The conjuror imputeth the appearing of a spirit by constraint unto words quoth Nota.all the riall words aforesaid, the which did constraine thee to appeare therein, and their vertues; I charge thee spirit by them all, that thou shalt not depart out of this christall stone, untill my will being fulfilled, thou be licenced to depart. I conjure and bind thee spiritN.by that omnipotent God, which commanded the angell S.Michaelto driveLuciferout of the heavens with a sword of vengeance, and to fall from joy to paine; and for dread of such paine as he is in, I charge thee spiritN.that thou shalt not go out of the christall 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 houres and minuts, when and wheresoever I shall call thee, by the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ, or by anie conjuration of words that is written in this booke, and to shew me and my freends true visions in this christall stone, of anie thing or things that we would see, at anie time or times: and also to go and to fetch me the fairieSibylia, that I may talke with hir in all kind of talke, as I shall call hir by anie conjuration of words conteined in this booke. I conjure thee spiritN.by the great wisedome and divinitie of his godhead, my will to fulfill, as is aforesaid: I charge thee upon paine of condemnation, both in this world, and in the world to come,Fiat, fiat, fiat: Amen.
This done, go to a place fast by, and in a faire parlor or chamber, make a circle with chalke, as hereafter followeth: and make/405.another circle for the fairieSibyliato appeare in, foure foote from the circle thou art in, & make no names therein, nor cast anie holie thing therein, but/288.make a circle round with chalke; & let the maister and his fellowe sit downe in the first circle, the maister having the booke in his hand, his fellow having the christall stone in his right hand, looking in the stone when the fairie dooth appeare. The maister also must have upon his brest this figure here written in parchment, and beginne to worke in the new of the ☽ and in the houre of ♃ the ☉ and the ☽ to be in one of inhabiters signes, as ♋︎ ♐︎ ♓︎. This bond as followeth, is to cause the spirit in the christall stone, to fetch unto thee the fairieSibylia. All things fulfilled, beginne this bond as followeth, and be bold, for doubtles they will come before thee, before the conjuration be read seven times.
I conjure thee spiritN.in this christall stone, by God the father, by God the sonne Jesus Christ, and by God the Holie-ghost, three persons and one God, and by their vertues. I conjure thee spirit, that thou doo go in peace, and also to come againe to me quicklie, and to bring with thee into that circle appointed,And whie might not he doo it himselfe, as well as madamSibylia.Sibyliafairie, that I may talke with hir in those matters that shall be to hir honour and glorie; and so I charge thee declare unto hir. I conjure thee spiritN.by the bloud of the innocent lambe, the which redeemed all the world; by the vertue thereof I charge thee thou spirit in the christall stone, that thou doo declare unto hir this message. Also I conjure thee spiritN.by all angels and archangels, thrones, dominations, principats, potestates, virtutes, cherubim and seraphim, and by their vertues and powers. I conjure theN.that thou doo depart with speed, and also to come againe with speed, and to bring with thee the fairieSibylia, to appeare in that circle, before I doo read the conjuration in this booke seven times. Thus I charge thee my will to be fulfilled, upon paine of everlasting condemnation:Fiat,fiat,fiat; Amen.
Then the figure aforesaid pinned on thy brest, rehearse the words therein, and saie, ✠Sorthie✠Sorthia✠Sorthios✠ then beginne your conjuration as followeth here, and saie; I/406.conjure theeSibylia, O gentle virgine of fairies,The fairie Sibylia conjured to appeare, &c.by the mercie of the Holie-ghost, and by the dreadfull daie of doome, and by their vertues and powers; I conjure theeSibylia, 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 queene of fairies, and their vertues, and by the faith and obedience that thou bearest unto them. I conjure theeSibyliaby the bloud that ranne 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 darkenes of the sunne in the time of his death, and by the rising up of the dead in the time of his resurrection, and by the virgineMarie/289.mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the unspeakable name of God,Tetragrammaton. I conjure thee OSibylia, O blessed and beautifull virgine, by all the riall words aforesaid; I conjure theeSibyliaby all their vertues to appeare in that circle before me visible, in the forme and shape of a beautifull woman in a bright and vesture white, adorned and garnished most faire, and to appeare to me quicklie without deceipt or tarrieng, and that thou faile not to fulfill my will & desire effectuallie. For I will choose thee to be my blessed virgine, & will have common copulation with thee. Therfore make hast & speed to come unto me, and to appeare as I said before: to whome be honour and glorie for ever and ever, Amen.
The which doone and ended, if shee come not, repeate the conjuration till they doo come: for doubtles they will come. And when she is appeared, take your censers, and incense hir with frankincense, then bind hir with the bond as followeth.The maner of binding the fairie Sibylia at hir appearing.¶ I doo conjure theeSibylia, by God the Father, God the sonne, and God the Holie-ghost, three persons and one God, and by the blessed virgineMariemother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by all the whole and holie companie of heaven, and by the dreadfull daie of doome, and by all angels and archangels, thrones, dominations, principates,potestates, virtutes, cherubim and seraphim, and their vertues and powers. I conjure thee, and bind theeSibylia, 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 theeSibyliaby the bloud that ranne out of the side/407.of our Lord Jesus Christ crucified, and by the vertue hereof I conjure theeSibyliato come to me, and to appeare to me at all times visiblie, as the conjuration of words leadeth, written in this booke. I conjure theeSibylia, O blessed virgine of fairies, by the opening of heaven, and by the renting of the temple, and by the darknes of the sunne 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 GodIf all this will not fetch hir up the divell is a knave.✠Tetragrammaton✠ and by the king and queene of fairies, & by their vertues I conjure theeSibyliato appeare, before the conjuration be read over foure times, and that visiblie to appeare, as the conjuration leadeth written in this booke, and to give me good counsell at all times, and to come by treasures hidden in the earth, and all other things that is to doo me pleasure, and to fulfill my will, without anie deceipt or tarrieng; nor yet that thou shalt have anie power of my bodie or soule, earthlie or ghostlie, nor yet to perish so much of my bodie as one haire of my head. I conjure theeSibyliaby all the riall 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 betweene thee and me, upon paine of everlasting condemnation,Fiat, fiat, fiat, Amen./
A licence for Sibylia to go and come by at all times.
ICONJURE theeSibylia, which art come hither before me, by the commandement of thy Lord and mine, that thou shalt have no powers, in thy going or comming unto me, imagining anie evill in anie maner of waies, in the earth or under the earth, of evill dooings, to anie person or persons. I conjure and command theeSibyliaby all the riall words and vertues that be written in this booke, that thou shalt not go to the place from whence thou camest, but shalt remaine peaceablie invisiblie, and looke thou be readie to come unto me, when thou art called by anie conjuration of words that be written in this booke, to come (I saie) at my commandement, and to answer unto me truelie/408.and duelie of allthings, my will quicklie to be fulfilled.Vade in pace, in nomine patris, & filii, & spiritus sancti.And the holie ✠ crosse ✠ be betweene thee and me, or betweene us and you, and the lion ofJuda, the roote ofJesse, the kindred ofDavid, be betweene thee & me ✠ Christ commeth ✠ Christ commandeth ✠ Christ giveth power ✠ Christ defend me ✠ and his innocent bloud ✠ from all perils of bodie and soule, sleeping or waking:Fiat, fiat, Amen.
To know of treasure hidden in the earth.
WRITEThis would be much practised if it were not a cousening knacke.in paper these characters following, on the saturdaie, in the houre of ☽, and laie it where thou thinkest treasure to be: if there be anie, the paper will burne, else not. And these be the characters.
IN the name of the Father, and of the Sonne, and of the Holie-ghost. First go to a faire parlor or chamber, & an even ground, and in no loft, and from people nine daies; for it is the better: and let all thy clothing be cleane and sweete. Then make a candle of virgine waxe, and light it, and make a faire fier of charcoles, in a faire place, in the middle of the parlor or chamber. Then take faire cleane water, that runneth against the east, and set it upon the fier: and *yer[* = ere.]thou washest thy selfe, saie these words, going about the fier, three times, holding the candle in the right hand ✠Panthon✠Craton✠Muriton✠Bisecognaton✠Siston✠409./Diaton✠Maton✠Tetragrammaton✠Agla✠Agarion✠Tegra✠Pentessaron✠Tendicata✠ Then reherse these names ✠Sorthie✠Sorthia✠Sorthios✠Milia✠Achilia✠SibyliaThe three sisters of the fairies, Milia, Achilia, and Sibylia.✠in nomine patris, & filii, & spiritus sancti, Amen. I conjure you three sisters of fairies,Milia, Achilia, Sibylia, by the father, by the sonne, and by the Holie-ghost, and by their vertues and powers, and by the most mercifull and living God, that will command his angell to blowe the trumpe at the daie of judgement; and he shall saie, Come, come, come to judgement; and by all angels, archangels, thrones, dominations, principats, potestates, virtutes, cherubim and seraphim, and by their vertues and powers. I conjure you three sisters, by the vertue of all the riall words aforesaid: I charge you that you doo appeare before me visiblie, in forme and shape of faire women, in white vestures, and to bring with you to me, the ring of invisibilitie, by the which I may go invisible at mine owne will and pleasure, and that in all houres and minuts:in nomine patris, & filii, & spiritus sancti, Amen. ❈ Being appeared, saie this bond following.
O blessed virgins ✠Milia✠Achilia✠ I conjure you in the name of the father, in the name of the sonne, and in the name of the Holie-ghost, and by their vertues I charge you to depart from me in peace, for a time. AndSibylia, I conjure thee, by the vertue of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the vertue of his flesh and pretious bloud, that he tooke of our blessed ladie the virgine, and by all the holie companie in heaven: I charge theeSibylia, by all the vertues aforesaid, that thou be obedient unto me, in the name of God; that when, and at what time and place I shall call thee by this foresaid conjuration written in this booke, looke thou be readie to come unto me, at all houres and minuts, and to bring unto me theThe ring of invisibilitie.ring of invisibilitie, whereby I may go invisible at my will and pleasure, and that at all houres and minuts;Fiat, fiat, Amen.
And if they come not the first night, then doo the same the second night, and so the third night, untill they doo come: for doubtles they will come, and lie thou in thy bed, in the same parlor or chamber. And laie thy right hand out of the bed, and looke thou have a faire silken kercher bound about thy head, and be not afraid, they will doo thee no harme. For there will come before thee three faire/410.women, and all in white clothing; and one of them will put *a* Such a ring it was that advanced Giges to the kingdome of Lydia:Plato. lib. 2 de justo.ring upon thy finger, wherwith thou shalt go/292.invisible. Then with speed bind them with the bond aforesaid. When thou hast this ring on thy finger, looke in a glasse, and thou shalt not see thy selfe. And when thou wilt go invisible, put it on thy finger, the same finger that they did put it on, and everie new ☽ renew it againe. For after the first time thou shalt ever have it, and ever beginne this worke in the new of the ☽ and in the houre of ♃ and the ☽ in ♋︎ ♐︎ ♓︎.
An experiment following, of Citrael, &c:*angeli[* These three wordsItal.]diei dominici.
OYe glorious angels written in this square, be you my coadjutors & helpers in all questions and demands, in all my busines, and other causes, by him which shall come to judge the quicke and the dead, and the world by fier.O angeli gloriosi in hac quadra scripti, estote coadjutores & auxiliatores in omnibus quæstionibus & interrogationibus, in omnibus negotiis, cæterísque causis, per eum qui venturus est judicare vivos & mortuos, & mundum per ignem.
✠Lemaac✠solmaac✠elmay✠gezagra✠raamaasin✠ezierego✠mial✠egziephiaz✠Josamin✠sabach✠ha✠aem✠re✠b✠e✠sepha✠sephar✠ramar✠semoit✠lemaio✠pheralon✠amic✠phin✠gergoin✠letos✠Amin✠amin✠.
In the name of the most pitifullest and mercifullest God of Israel and of paradise, of heaven and of earth, of the seas and of/411.the infernalles, by thine omnipotent helpe may performe this worke, which livest and reignest ever one God world without end, Amen.
O most strongest and mightiest God, without beginning or ending, by thy clemencie and knowledge I desire, that my questions, worke, and labour may be fullie and trulie accomplished, through thy worthines, good Lord, which livest and reignest, ever one God, world without end, Amen.
O holie, patient, and mercifull great God, and to be worshipped, the Lord of all wisedome, cleare and just; I most hartilie desire thy holines and clemencie, to fulfill, performe and accomplish this my whole worke, thorough thy worthines, and blessed power: which livest and reignest, ever one God,Per omnia sæcula sæculorum, Amen./
How to enclose a spirit in a christall stone.
THIS operation following, is to have a spirit inclosedObservations of clenlinesse, abstinence, and devotion.into a christall stone or berill glasse, or into anie other like instrument, &c. ¶ First thou in the new of the ☽ being clothed with all new, and fresh, & cleane araie, and shaven, and that day to fast with bread and water, and being cleane confessed, saie the seaven*[* penitential]psalmes, and the letanie, for the space of two daies, with this praier following.
I desire thee O Lord God, my mercifull and most loving God, the giver of all graces, the giver of all sciences, grant that I thy welbelovedN.(although unworthie) may knowe thy grace and power, against all the deceipts and craftines of divels. And grant to me thy power, good Lord, to constraine them by this art: for thou art the true, and livelie, and eternall GOD, which livest and reignest ever one GOD through all worlds, Amen.
An observation touching the use of the five swords.Thou must doo this five daies, and the sixt daie have in a redines, five bright swords: and in some secret place make one circle, with one of the said swords. And then write this name,Sitrael: which doone, standing in the circle, thrust in thy sword into that name. And write againeMalanthon, with another sword; and/412.Thamaor, with another; andFalaur, with another; andSitrami, with another: and doo as ye did with the first. All this done, turne thee toSitrael, and kneeling saie thus, having the christall stone in thine hands.
O Sitrael,Malantha,*[* sic]Thamaor,Falaur, andSitrami, written in these circles, appointed to this worke, I doo conjure and I doo exorcise you, by the father, by the sonne, and by the Holy-ghost, by him which did cast you out of paradise, and by him which spake the word and it was done, and by him which shall come to judge the quicke and the dead, and the world by fier, that all you five infernall maisters and princes doo come unto me, to accomplish and to fulfill all my desire and request, which I shall command you. Also I conjure you divels,A weightie charge of conjuration upon the five K. of the north.and command you, I bid you, and appoint you, by the Lord Jesus Christ, the sonne of the most highest God, and by the blessed and glorious virgineMarie, and by all the saints, both of men and women of God, and by all the angels, archangels, patriarches, and prophets, apostles, evangelists, martyrs, and confessors, virgins, and widowes, and all the elect of God. Also I conjure you, and everie of you, ye infernall kings, by heaven, by the starres, by the ☉ and by the ☽ and by all the planets, by the earth, fier, aier,and water, and by the terrestriall paradise, and by all things in them conteined, and by your hell, and by all the divels in it, and dwelling about it, and by your vertue and power, and by all whatsoever, and with whatsoever it be, which maie constreine and bind you. Therefore by all these foresaid vertues and powers, I doo bind you and constreine you into my will and power; that you being thus bound, may/294.come unto me in great humilitie, and to appeare in your circles before me visiblie, in faire forme and shape of mankind kings, and to obeie unto me in all things, whatsoever I shall desire, and thatA penaltie for not appearing, &c.you may not depart from me without my licence. And if you doo against my precepts, I will promise unto you that you shall descend into the profound deepenesse of the sea, except that you doo obeie unto me, in the part of the living sonne of God, which liveth and reigneth in the unitie of the Holie-ghost, by all world of worlds, Amen.
Saie this true conjuration five courses, and then shalt thou see come out of the northpart five kings, with a marvelous com/panie:413.which when they are come to the circle, they will allight downe off from their horsses, and will kneele downe before thee, saieng: Maister, command us what thou wilt, and we will out of hand be obedient unto thee. Unto whome thou shall saie; See that ye depart not from me, without my licence; and that which I will command you to doo, let it be done trulie, surelie, faithfullie and essentiallie. And then they all will sweare unto thee to doo all thy will. And after they have sworne, saie the conjuration immediatlie following.
I conjure, charge, and command you, and everie of you, *Sirrael,[* Sitrael.][† A third variation]The five spirits of the north: as you shall see in the type expressed in pag. 414. next folowing.†Malanthan, Thamaor, Falaur, andSitrami, you infernall kings, to put into this christall stone one spirit learned and expert in all arts and sciences, by the vertue of this name of GodTetragrammaton, and by the crosse of our Lord Jesu Christ, and by the bloud of the innocent lambe, which redeemed all the world, and by all their vertues & powers I charge you, ye noble kings, that the said spirit may teach, shew, and declare unto me, and to my freends, at all houres and minuts, both night and daie, the truth of all things, both bodilie and ghostlie, in this world, whatsoever I shall request or desire, declaring also to me my verie name. And this I command in your part to doo, and to obeie thereunto, as unto your owne lord and maister. That done, they will call a certeine spirit, whom they will command to enter into the centre of the circled or round christall. Then put the christall betweene the two circles, and thou shalt see the christall made blacke.
Then command them to command the spirit in the christall, notto depart out of the stone, till thou give him licence, & to fulfill thy will for ever. That done, thou shalt see them go upon the christall, both to answer your requests, & to tarrie your licence. That doone, the spirits will crave licence: and *say;[*i.e.do thou]Go ye to your place appointed of almightie God, in the name of the father, &c. And then take up thy christall, and looke therein, asking what thou wilt, and it will shew it unto thee. Let all your circles be nine foote everie waie, & made as followeth. Worke this worke in ♋︎ ♏︎ or ♓︎ in the houre of the ☽ or ♃. And when the spirit is inclosed, if thou feare him, bind him with some bond, in such sort as is elsewhere expressed alreadie in this our treatise./
†[A 4th variation]The names written within the five circles doo signifie the five infernall kings:Seepag. 411. 412. 413.
An experiment of Bealphares.
THIS is proved the noblest carrier that ever did serve anie man upon the earth, & here beginneth the inclosing of the said spirit, & how to have a true answer of him, without anie craft or harme; and he will appeare unto thee in the likenesse of a faire man, or faire woman, the which spirit will come to thee at all times. And if thou wilt command him to tell thee of hidden treasures that be in anie place, he will tell it thee: or if thou wilt command him to bring to thee gold or silver, he will bring it thee: or if thou wilt go from one countrie to another, he will beare thee without anie harme of bodie or soule. Therefore ** Memorandum with what vices the cousenor (the conjuror I should saie) must not be polluted: therfore he must be no knave, &c.he that will doo this worke, shall absteine from lecherousnes and dronkennesse, and from false swearing, and doo all the abstinence that he may doo; and namelie three daies before he go to worke, and in the third daie, when the night is come, and when the starres doo shine, and the element faire and cleare, he shall bath himselfe and his fellowes (if he have anie) all together in a quicke welspring. Then he must be cloathed in cleane white cloathes, and he must have another privie place, and beare with him inke and pen, wherewith he shall write this holy name of God almightie in his right hand ✠Agla✠ & in his left hand this name ✠[Symbols]✠. And he must have a drie thong of a lions or of a harts skin, and make thereof a girdle, and write the holie names of God all about, and in the end ✠ Α and Ω ✠.The conjurors brestplate.And upon his brest he must have this present figure or marke written in virgine parchment, as it is here shewed. And it must be sowed upon a peece of new linnen, and so made fast upon thy brest. And if thou wilt have a fellow to worke with thee, he must be appointed in the same maner. You must have also a bright knife that was never occupied, and he must write on the one/416.side of the blade of the knife ✠Agla✠ and on the other side of the knifes blade ✠[Symbols]✠. And with the same knife he must make a circle, as hereafter followeth: the which is calledSalomonsSalomons circle.circle. When that he is made, go into the circle, and close againe the place, there where thou wentest in, with the same knife, and saie;Per crucis hoc signum✠fugiat procul omne malignum; Et per idem signum✠salvetur quodque benignum,†[† translated in 2 ed, see note]and make suffumigations to thy selfe, and to thy fellowe or fellowes, with frankincense, mastike,lignum aloes: then put it in wine, and saie with good devotion,/‡299.[‡ so & onwards]in the worship of the high God almightie, all together, that he may defend you from all evils. And when he that is maister will close the spirit, he shall saie towards the east, with meeke and devout devotion, these psalmes and praiers as followeth here in order.
O My God my God, looke upon me, whie hast thou forsaken me, and art so farre from my health,Memorandum that you must read the 22. and 51. psalms all over: or else rehearse them by hart: for these are counted necessarie, &c.and from the words of my complaint? ¶ And so foorth to the end of the same psalme, as it is to be founde in the booke.
HAve mercie upon me, O God, after thy great goodnes, according to the multitude of thy mercies, doo awaie mine offenses. ¶ And so foorth to the end of the same psalme, concluding it with, Glorie to the Father and to the Sonne, and to the Holie-ghost, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. Then saie this verse: O Lord leave not my soule with the wicked; nor my life with the bloudthirstie. Then saie aPater nosteranAve Maria, and aCredo,& ne nos inducas. O Lord shew us thy mercie, and we shall be saved. Lord heare our praier, and let our crie come unto thee. Let us praie.
O Lord God almightie, as thou warnedst by thine angell, the three kings ofCullen,Jasper,Melchior, andBalthasar, when they came with worshipfull presents towardsBethleem:Jasperbrought myrrh;Melchior, incense;Balthasar, gold; worshipping the high king of all the world, Jesus Gods sonne of hea/ven,417.the second person in *trinitie,[* ? the]being borne of the holie and cleane virgine S.Marie, queene of heaven, empresse of hell, and ladie of all the world: at that time the holie angellGabrielwarned and bad the foresaid three kings, that they should take another waie, for dread of perill, thatHerodthe king by his ordinance would have destroied these †three† Gaspar, Balth[a]sar and Melchior, who followed the starre, wherin was yeimage of a litle babe bearing a crosse: ifLonga legēda Coloniælie not.noble kings, that meekelie sought out our Lord and saviour. As wittilieand truelie as these three kings turned for dread, and tooke another waie: so wiselie and so truelie, O Lord GOD, of thy mightifull mercie, blesse us now at this time, for thy blessed passion save us, and keepe us all together from all evill; and thy holie angell defend us. Let us praie.
O Lord, king of all kings, which conteinest the throne of heavens, and beholdest all deepes, weighest the hilles, and shuttest up with thy hand the earth; heare us, most meekest GOD, and grant unto us (being unworthie) according to thy great mercie, to have the veritie and vertue of knowledge of hidden treasures by this spirit invocated, through thy helpe O Lord Jesus Christ, to whome be all honour and glorie, from worlds to worlds everlastinglie, Amen. Then saie these names ✠Helie✠helyon✠esseiere*[* jere. 2nd ed.]✠Deus æternus✠eloy✠clemens✠heloye✠Deus sanctus✠sabaoth✠Deus exercituum✠adonay✠Deus mirabilis✠iao✠verax✠anepheneton✠Deus ineffabilis✠so/doy300.✠dominator dominus✠ôn fortissimus✠Deus✠qui, the which wouldest be praied unto of sinners: receive (we beseech thee) these sacrifices of praise, and our meeke praiers, which we unworthie doo offer unto thy divine majestie. Deliver us, and have mercie upon us, and prevent with thy holie spirit this worke, and with thy blessed helpe to followe after; that this our worke begunne of thee, may be ended by thy mightie power, Amen. Then saie this anon after ✠Homo✠sacarus✠museolameas†[† Two words, and lomeas in engr.]✠cherubozca✠ being the figure upon thy brest aforesaid, the girdle about thee, the circle made, blesse the circle with holie water, and sit downe in the middest, and read this conjuration as followeth, sitting backe to backe at the first time.
I exorcise and conjure Bealphares, the practiser and preceptor of this art, by the maker of heavens and of earth, and by his vertue, and by his unspeakable nameTetragrammaton, and by all/418.the holie sacraments, and by the holie majestie and deitie of the living God. I conjure and exorcise theeBealpharesby the vertue of all angels, archangels, thrones, dominations, principats, potestats, virtutes, cherubim and seraphim, and by their vertues, and by the most truest and speciallest name of your maister, that you doo come unto us, in faire forme of man or womankind, here visiblie, before this circle, and not terrible by anie manner of waies. This *circle* Which must be environed with a goodlie companie of crosses.being our tuition and protection, by the mercifull goodnes of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and that you doo make answer truelie, without craft or deceipt, unto all my demands and questions, by the vertue and power of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
To bind the spirit Bealphares, and to lose him againe.
NOW when he is appeared, bind him with these words which followe. ¶ I conjure theeBealphares, by God the father, by God the sonne, and by God the Holie-ghost, and by all the holie companie in heaven; and by their vertues and powers I charge theeBealphares, that thou shalt not depart out of my sight, nor yet to alter thy bodilie shape, that thou art appeared in, nor anie power shalt thou have of our bodies or soules, earthlie or ghostlie, but to be obedient to me, and to the words of my conjuration, that be written in this booke. I conjure theeBealphares, by all angels and archangels, thrones, dominations, principats, potestats, virtutes, cherubim and seraphim, and by their vertues and powers. I conjure and charge, bind and constreine theeBealphares, by all the riall words aforesaid, and by their vertues, that thou be obedient unto me, and to come and appeare visiblie unto me, and that in *all* On sundaies, festival daies, and holie daies, none excepted.daies, houres, and minuts, whersoever I be, being called by the vertue of our Lord Jesu Christ, the which words are written in this booke. Looke readie thou be to appeare unto me, and to give me good counsell, how to come by treasures hidden in the earth, or in the water, and how to come to dig/nitie301.and knowledge of all things, that is to saie, of the magike art, and of grammar, dialectike, rhetorike, arythmetike, musike, geo/metrie,419.and of astronomie, and in all other things my will quicklie to be fulfilled: I charge thee upon paine of everlasting condemnation,Fiat, fiat, fiat, Amen.
He dares doo no other being so conjured I trowe.When he is thus bound, aske him what thing thou wilt, and he will tell thee, and give thee all things that thou wilt request of him, without anie sacrifice dooing to him, and without forsaking thy God, that is, thy maker. And when the spirit hath fulfilled thy will and intent, give him licence to depart as followeth.
*GO[* All this par. in much smaller type.]unto the place predestinated and appointed for thee, where thy Lord GOD hath appointed thee, untill I shall call thee againe. Be thou readie unto me and to my call, as often as I shall call thee, upon paine of everlasting damnation. And if thou wilt, thou maiest recite, two or three times, the last conjuration, untill thoudoo come to this tearme,In throno. If he will not depart, and then*[* ? thou]sayIn throno, that thou depart from this place, without hurt or damage of anie bodie, or of anie deed to be doone; that all creatures may knowe, 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 sonne and the holie ghost, descend upon thee, and dwell alwaies with thee, except thou doo depart without damage of us, or of any creature, or anie other evill deed to be doone: & thou to go to the place predestinated. And by our Lord Jesus Christ I doo else send thee to the great pit of hell, except (I saie) that thou depart to the place, whereas thy Lord God hath appointed thee. And see thou be readie to me and to my call, at all times and places, at mine owne will and pleasure, daie or night, without damage or hurt of me, or of anie creature; upon paine of everlasting damnation:Fiat,fiat,fiat; Amen, Amen. ¶ The peace of Jesus Christ bee betweene us and you; in the name of the father, and of the sonne, and of the Holie-ghost: Amen.Per crucis hoc✠signum, &c. SaieIn principio erat verbum, & verbum erat apud Deum; In the 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 saintJohnsGospell, staieng at these words, Full of grace and truth: to whom be all honour and glorie world without end, Amen.