TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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Introduction

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Of the Influences of the Stars

ib.

The Use and Abuse of Astrology, &c.

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An Oration to God

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Of Natural Magic in general

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The First Principles of Natural Magic

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BOOK I.--PART I.

CHAP. I. Natural Magic defined; of Man; his Creation, Divine Image, and Fall; and of the spiritual and magical Virtue of the Soul

ib.

CHAP. II. Of the Wonders of Natural Magic, displayed in a Variety of sympathetic and occult Operations, in Animals, Minerals, and Vegetables, treated of miscellaneously

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Of the Serpent

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CHAP. III. Of Amulets, Charms, and Enchantments; an Amulet for the Flux of Blood

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CHAP. IV. Of Unctions, Philters, Potions, &c.

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Their magical Virtue

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CHAP. V. Of Magical Suspensions and Alligations; shewing by what power they are efficacious in Natural Magic

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CHAP. VI. Of Antipathies

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CHAP. VII. Of the occult Virtues of Things which are inherent in them only in their Lives, and such as remain in them after Death

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CHAP. VIII. Of the wonderful Virtues of some Kinds of precious Stones

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CHAP. IX Of the Mixtures of Natural Things one with another, and the Production of Monsters

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CHAP. X. Of the Art of Fascination, Binding, Sorceries, Magical Confections, Lights, Candles, Lamps, &c. being the conclusion of Natural Magic

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ALCHYMY.

The Secret of the Philosophers' Stone

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Epistle to Museus

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Epistle to the Reader

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Of Alchymy, and its Divine Origin

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Discovered to Man by Uriel

ib.

Zoroaster made Gold from the Seven Metals

ib.

Zoroaster was the Father of Alchymists

ib.

The Authors who have wrote upon it

ib.

The comparison of Alchymists

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What an Adept is

ib.

Van Helmont's Account of Alchymy

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Kircher's Account of Alchymists

ib.

The Description of the Philosophers' Stone

ib.

Account of a real Transmutation

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Account of Flammel, the Alchymist

ib

History of Butler's Universal Medicine

ib.

What is not universally understood generally referred to the Black Art

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Of the Preparation necessary to qualify a Man for the Search of the Philosophers' Stone

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Of the Prima Materia

ib.

p. xx

Ten Lessons, teaching the Transmutation of base Metals into Gold

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Lesson XI. XII. XIII. and XIV. teaching the Manner of extracting the Prima Materia of the Lapis Philosophorum; and the Use it is of in purifying imperfect Metals, to Change them into good Gold

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PART II.

CHAP I. Of the Four Elements, and their Natural Qualities

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CHAP. II. Of the Properties and wonderful Nature of Fire and Earth

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CHAP. III. Of the Water and Air

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CHAP. IV. Of compound or mixed Bodies; in what Manner they relate to the Elements; and how the Elements correspond to the Souls, Senses, and Dispositions of Men

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CHAP. V. That the Elements are in Stars, Devils, Angels, Intelligences, and in God himself

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CHAP. VI. That the Wisdom of God works by second Causes is proved beyond Dispute in this Chapter

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CHAP. VII. Of the Spirit of the World

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CHAP. VIII. Of the Seals and Characters impressed by Celestials upon Natural Things

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CHAP. IX. Of the Virtue and Efficacy of Perfumes; and to what Planets they are attributed

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CHAP. X. Of the Composition of Perfumes attributed to the Planets

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General Fumes of the Planets

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CHAP. XI. Of the magical Virtue of Rings

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CHAP. XII. That the Passions of the Mind are assisted by Celestials; and how necessary the constancy of the Mind is in every Work

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CHAP. XIII. How a Man's Mind may be joined with the Celestial Spirits and Intelligences, and with them impress wonderful Virtues upon inferior Things

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CHAP. XIV. Shewing the Necessity of Mathematical Knowledge; and of the great Power and Efficacy of Numbers in the Construction of Talismans, &c.

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CHAP. XV. The great Virtues of Numbers, as well in natural as super-natural Things

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CHAP. XVI. Of the Scales of Numbers; the Scale of Unity

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CHAP. XVII. Of the Number Two, and the Scale

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CHAP. XVIII. Of the Number Three, and the Scale

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CHAP. XIX. Of the Number Four, and the Scale

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CHAP. XX. Of the Number Five, and the Scale

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CHAP. XXI. Of the Number Six, and the Scale

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CHAP. XXII. Of the Number Seven, and the Scale

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CHAP. XXIII. Of the Number Eight, and the Scale

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CHAP. XXIV. Of the Number Nine, and the Scale

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CHAP. XXV. Of the Number Ten, and the two Scales

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CHAP. XXVI. Of the Numbers Eleven and Twelve, with the Scale of the Number Twelve

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CHAP. XXVII. Of the Notes of the Hebrews and Chaldeans, and other Characters used by Magicians

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CHAP. XXVIII. The magical Tables of the Planets, their Form and Virtue; with the Divine Names, Intelligences, and Spirits that are set over them

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CHAP. XXIX. Of the Observation of the Celestials necessary in all magical Works

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CHAP. XXX When the Planets are most powerful

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CHAP. XXXI. Observations oil the fixed Stars, with their Names and Nature

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CHAP. XXXII. Of the Sun and Moon, and their magical Considerations

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CHAP. XXXIII. Of the Twenty-eight Mansions of the Moon, and their Virtues

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p. xxi

CHAP. XXXIV. That some artificial Things, as Images, Seals, and the like, may derive Virtue from the Celestial Bodies

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CHAP. XXXV. Of the Images of the Zodiac; what Virtues, being engraven, they receive from the Stars

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CHAP. XXXVI. Of the Images of the Seven Planets; Images of Saturn

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CHAP. XXXVII. Of the Images of Jupiter

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CHAP. XXXVIII. Images of Mars

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CHAP. XXXIX. Images of the Sun

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CHAP. XL. Images of Venus

ib.

CHAP. XLI. Images of Mercury

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CHAP. XLII. Images of the Moon

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CHAP. XLIII. Images of the Dragon's Head and Dragon's Tail

ib.

CHAP. XLIV. Images of the Twenty-eight Mansions of the Moon

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CHAP. XLV. That human Imprecations naturally impress their Powers upon external Things; and how Man's Mind, through a Degree of Dependencies, ascends into the Intelligible World, and becomes like the more sublime Spirits and Intelligences

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CHAP. XLVI. The Conclusion of Talismanic Magic; in which is included the Key of all that has been written upon the Subject; shewing the Practice of Images, and the Composition of Talismans, by way of Example; and, likewise, the necessary Observations of the Celestials requisite for the Perfection of all Talismanic Operations

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BOOK II.--PART I.

MAGNETISM

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CHAP. I. Of the Magnetic or Attractive Faculty

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CHAP. II. Of Sympathetic Medicines

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CHAP. III. Of the Magnetic or Sympathetic Unguent; the Power of Sympathy, Armary, Unguent; and curing of Wounds, Ecstasies, Witchcraft, Mummies, &c.

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CHAP. IV. Of the Weapon Salve

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CHAP. V. Of the Imaginative Power, and the Magnetism of the Natural Spirits, Mummial Attraction, Sympathies of Astral Spirits, and their Bodies, upon which is founded the whole Art of Necromancy

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CHAP. VI. Of Witchcraft in particular

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CHAP. VII. Of the Vital Spirit

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CHAP. VIII. Of the Magical Power, &c.

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CHAP. IX. Of exciting or stirring up the Magical Virtue

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CHAP. X. Of the Magical Virtue of the Soul, and the Medium it Acts by

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The End of the Magnetism

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CABALISTICAL MAGIC.

CHAP. I. Of the Cabala, &c

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CHAP. II. What Dignity and Preparation is necessary to Him who would become a true Magician

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CHAP. III. That the Knowledge of the true God is necessary for a Magician

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CHAP. IV. Of Divine Emanations, and Ten Sephiroths, and Ten most sacred Names of God which rule them, and their Interpretation

ib.

CHAP. V. Of the Power and Virtue of the Divine Names

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p. xxii

CHAP. VI. Of Intelligences and Spirits; and of the threefold Kinds of them, and their different Names; and of Infernal and Subterraneous Spirits

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CHAP. VII. Of the Order of Evil Spirits; their Fall, and different Natures

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CHAP. VIII. The Annoyance of Evil Spirits, and the Preservation we have from Good Spirits

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CHAP. IX. That there is a threefold Keeper of Man; and from whence each proceeds

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CHAP. X. Of the Tongues of Angels, and their speaking amongst themselves, and with us

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CHAP. XI. Of the Names of Spirits, and their various Imposition; and of the Spirits that are set over the Stars, Signs, Corners of the Heavens, and the Elements

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CHAP. XII. How the Cabalists draw forth the Names of Angels from Sacred Writ; and of the Seventy-two Angels that bear the Names of God; with the Tables of Ziruph, and the Commutations of Names and Numbers

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CHAP. XIII. Of finding out the Names of Spirits and Genii, from the Disposition of the Celestial Bodies

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CHAP. XIV. Of the calculating Art of such Names, by the Tradition of the Cabalists

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CHAP. XV. Of the Characters and Seals of Spirits

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CHAP. XVI. Another Way of making Characters, according to the Tradition of Cabalists

ib.

CHAP. XVII. There is another Sort of Characters, of Spirits received by Revelation

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CHAP. XVIII. Of the Bonds of Spirits, and their Adjurations and casting out

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CHAP. XIX. By what Methods Magicians and Necromancers call up the Souls of the Dead

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CHAP. XX. Of Prophetic Dreams

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PART II.

The Perfection and Key of the Cabala, or Ceremonial Magic

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The Calculations of the Names of Good and Evil Spirits

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Of Magic Pentacles, the Manner of constructing them

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A Pentacle for Victory over Enemies

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............... against Serpents, Poisons, &c.

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Deprecations

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The Consecration of all Magical Instruments and Materials used in this Art

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Consecration of Water

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Consecration of Fire

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Consecration of Oil

ib.

Consecration and Benediction of Lights

ib.

Lamps, Wax, &c

ib.

Consecration of Ground, Circle, Place, &c.

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Of the Invocation of Spirits; the binding of, and constraining them to appear

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Description and Use of a Book of Virgin Parchment, or abortive Vellum, in which the Names of Spirits are registered

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Consecration of the aforesaid Book

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Invocation of good Spirits in particular

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The Invocation Prayer

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The particular Form of Lamens

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Of receiving Oracles in Dreams

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Of the Methods of raising Evil Spirits, or Familiars, or the Souls of the Dead, by a Circle

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The Suffumigations used in raising Ghosts, Shadows, and departed Spirits; and what Places are appropriate to this

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PART III.

The particular Composition of the Magic Circle and of the Forms of the Exorcisms, Benedictions, p. xviii and Conjurations, for every Day and Hour in the Week; and the Manner of working fully described

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A Table of the Magical Names of the Hours, by Day or Night

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Angels of the Seasons, &c.

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Exorcism of Fire

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The Habit of the Exorcist

ib.

The Pentacles of Solomon

ib.

An Exorcism of the Spirits of the Air

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A Prayer to be said in the Four Parts of the Circle

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An Oration

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Of the Appearance of the Spirits

ib.

Considerations and Conjurations for every Day in the Week

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The Consideration and Conjuration for Sunday

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The Conjuration, &c., of Monday

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The Conjuration, &c., of Tuesday

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The Conjuration, &c., of Wednesday

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The Conjuration, &c., of Thursday

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The Conjuration, &c., of Friday

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The Conjuration, &c., of Saturday

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PART IV.

Translation of Trithemius; the Translator's Letter

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The Conjurations of Spirits into a Crystal; the Description of this Instrument; and the Form and Ceremony of a Vision

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Table for the Inspection of Names of Spirits governing the Planetary Hours by Day and

Night

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The End of the Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer

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THE BIOGRAPHY.

Zoroaster, the Son of Oramasus

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Hermes, surnamed Trismegistus

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Apollonius, of Tyana

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Peter De Abano

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Apuleius, the Platonic

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Aristotle

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Artimedorus, of Ephesus

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The Babylonians

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Henry Cornelius Agrippa

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Albertus Magnus

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Roger (alias Friar) Bacon

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Raymond Lully

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George Ripley

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John and Isaac Holland

ib.

Theophrastus Paracelsus

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John Rudolph Glauber

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Doctor Dee, and Sir Edward Kelly

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The Conclusion

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