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rejoycing thou maiflfay with the A pottles, That the Spirits are obedient unto thee ; fo that at length thou fhalt be cer- tain of the greateft thing of all, That thy name is written in Heaven.

Aphor. 26.

There is another way which is more common, that fe- crets may be revealed unco thee alfo, when thou art unwit- ting thereof, either by God,or by Spirits which have fecrets in their power j or by dreams, or by flrong imaginations andimpreflions, or by theconflellationof a nativity by ce- leflial knowledge. After this manner are madeheroick men, fuch as there are very many, and all learned men in the World, Plat Of zArislrotle, HippocratesyGalen^Euclides, Archi- medes, Hermes TrifmegiTtus the father of fecrets, with the- ophraftus 7 Paracelfu* ; all which men had in themfelves all the vertues of fecrets. Hitherto alfo are referred, Homer, He- fiod, Orpheus, Pjtagoras ; but thefe had not fuch gifts of fe- crets as the former. To this are referred, theNymphes, and fons of CMelufina^ and Gods of the Gentiles, Achilles, o£neafj Hercules: al(o>Cj>rrts, Alexander the great, JulimC<t- far, LhcuIImS) Sj/Ila, Marius.

Ic is a canon, That every one know his own Angel, and that he obey him according to the Word of God ; and lee him beware of the fnares of the evil Angel, left he be in- volved in the calamities of Brute and Marcus Antomus. To this referthebook of Jovianus Tontanxtoti Fortune,andhis Eutichus.

The third way is, diligent and hard labor, without which no greac thing can be obtained from the divine Deity wor- thy admiration, as it is faid,

Tu nihil invito, dices facie'fve Lftfinervd. Nothing canft thou door fay againft Minerva's will.

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