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powerful fume to be, viz. that which is compounded of the seven aromatics, according to the powers of the seven
planets, for it receives from Saturn, pepperwort, from Jupiter, nutmeg, from Mars, lignum-aloes, from the Sun,
mastic, from Venus, saffron, from Mercury, cinnamon, and from the Moon, the myrtle.
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Chapter xlv. Of Collyries, Unctions, Love-Medicines, and their vertues.
Moreover, collyries and unguents, conveying the vertues of things natural and celestial to our spirit, can multiply,
transmute, transfigure, and transform it accordingly, as also transpose those vertues which are in them into it; that
so, it cannot act only upon its own body, but also upon that which is near it, and affect that by visible rays,
charms, and by touching it with some like quality. For because our spirit is the subtile, pure, lucid, airy, and
unctuous vapor of the blood, it is therefore fit to make collyries of the like vapors, which are more suitable to our
spirit in subtance, for then, by reason of their likeness, they do the more stir up, attract, and transform the spirit.
The like vertues have certain ointments and other confections. Hence by the touch sometimes sickness,
poisonings, and love is induced; some things, as the hands or garments, being anointed. Also by kisses, some
things being held in the mouth, love is induced; as in Virgil we read that Venus prays Cupid
That when glad Dido hugs him in her lap
At royal feasts, crown'd with the cheering grape,
When she, embracing, shall sweet kisses give,
Inspire hid flame, with deadly bane deceive,
He would --
Now the sight, because it perceives more purely and clearly then the other senses, and fastening in us the marks of
things more acutely and deeply, doth most of all and before others, agree with the phantastic spirit, as is apparent
in dreams, when things seen do more often present themselves to us then things heard, or any thing coming under
the other senses. Therefore, when collyries or eye-waters transform visual spirits, that spirit doth easily affect the
imagination, which indeed being affected with divers species and forms, transmits the same by the same spirit
unto the outward sense of sight; by which occasion there is caused in it a perception of such species and forms in
that manner, as if it were moved by external objects, that there seem to be seen terrible images and spirits and
such like. So there are made collyries, making us forthwith to see the images of spirits in the air or elsewhere; as I
know how to make of the gall of a man, and the eyes of a black cat, and of some other things. The like is made
also of the blood of a lapwing, of a bat, and a goat; and, they say, if a smooth, shining piece of steel be smeared
over with the juice of mug-wort, and made to fume, it will make invoked spirits to be seen in it. So, also, there are
some suffumigations, or unctions, which make men speak in their sleep, to walk, and to do those things which are
done by men that are awake; and sometimes to do those things which men that are awake cannot or dare not do.
Some there are that make us to hear horrid or delectable sounds, and such like. And this is the cause why
maniacal and melancholy men believe they see and hear those things without which their imagination doth only
fancy within; hence they fear things not to be feared, and fall into wonderful and most false suspicions, and fly
when none pursueth them; are also angry and contend, nobody being present, and fear where no fear is. Such like
passions also can magical confections induce, by suffumigations, by collyries, by unguents, by potions, by
poisons, by lamps and lights, by looking-glasses, by images, enchantments, charms, sounds and music. Also by
divers rites, observations, ceremonies, religions and superstitions; all which shall be handled in their places. And
not only by these kind of arts are passions, apparitions and images induced, but also things themselves, which are
really changed and transfigured into divers forms, as the poet relates of Proteus, Periclimenus, Acheloas, and
Merra, the daughter of Erisichthon. So, also, Circe changed the companions of Ulysses; and of old, in the
sacrifices of Jupiter Lycæus, the men that tasted of the inwards of the sacrifices were turned into wolves which,
Pliny saith, befell a certain man called Demarchus. The same opinion was Austin [Augustine] of, for, he saith,
whilst he was in Italy. he heard of some women that by giving sorceries in cheese to travelers, turned them into
working cattle. and when they had done such work as they would have them, turned them into men again; and
that this befell a certain priest called Prestantius. The Scriptures themselves testify that Pharao's [pharaoh's]
sorcerers turned their rods into serpents and water into blood, and did other such like things.
Title: Three books of occult philosophy [microform] /
written by Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim ... ;
translated out of the Latin into the English tongue by J.F.
Library: MNCAT U of M Twin Cities
Authors: Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.
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Uniform Title: De occulta philosophia. English
Published: London : Printed by R.W. for Gregory Moule ..., 1651.
Description: [28], 583, [12] p. : ill., port.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 ;
Subjects: Occultism. -- mn
Contributors: French, John, 1616-1657.
Notes: The translator is probably John French. Cf. DNB.
First edition in English.
Cf. Duveen, D.I. Bibliotheca alchemica et chemica. London, 1949, p. 7.
Errata: p. [24].
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