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 208 Arbatelo/ CMagick,

There is a feu en- fold preparation to learn the CMagick^ <^4rt.

The firft is,to meditate day and night how to attain to the true knowledge of God, both by his word revealed from the foundation of the world ; as alfo by the feal of the cre- ation, andof the creatures ; and bye he wonderful effects which the vidble and invifible creatures of God do (hew forth.

Secondly,it is reqnifte,that a man defcend down into him- felf, and chiefly fludy to know himfelf ; what mortal pan he hath in him, and what immortal ; and what part is proper to himfelf, and what diveife.

Thirdly, That he learn by the immortal pare of himfelf,to worfliip, love and fear the eternal God, andtoadorehim in Spirit and Truth ; and with his mortal part, to do thofe things which he knoweth to be acceptable to God, and pro- fitable to his neighbours.

Thefe are the three firft and chiefeft precepts of Magick, wherewith let every one prepare himfelf that covers to ob- tain true Magick or divine wifdom, that he may be accounted worthy thereof, and one to whom the Angelical creatures willingly do fervice, not occultly onely, but alfo rnanifeftly, and as it were face to face.

Fourthly, Whereas every man is to be vigilant to fee co what kinde life he (hall be called from his mothers wombe, that every one may know whether he be born to Magick, and to what fpecies thereof, which every one may^perceive eafily that readeth thefe things, and by experience may have fuccefs therein ; for fuch things and fuch gifts are noc given but onely to the low and humble.

In the fifth place we are to take care, that weunder- ftand when the Spirits are affifting us, in undertaking the greateft bufinefs ; and he that understands this, itismani-

feft,

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