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 ervice he made, and created all thee things: Wie men conceive it no way irrationall that it hould be poible for us to acend by the ame degrees through each World, to the ame very originall World it elf, the Maker of all things, and firt Caue, from whence all things are, and proceed; and alo to enjoy not only thee vertues, which are already in the more excellent kind of things, but alo beides thee, to draw new vertues from above. Hence it is that they eek after the vertues of the Elementary world, through the help of Phyick, and Naturall Philoophy in the various mixtions of Naturall things, then of the Celetiall world in the Rayes, and influences thereof, according to the rules of Atrologers, and the doctrines of Mathematicians, joyning the Celetiall vertues to the former: Moreover, they ratifie and confirm all thee with the powers of divers Intelligencies, through the acred Ceremonies of Religions. The order and proces of all thee I hall endeavor to deliver in thee three Books: Whereof the firt contains naturall Magick, the econd Celetiall, and the third Ceremoniall. But I know not whether it be an unpardonable preumption in me, that I, a man of o little judgement and learning, hould in my very youth o confidently et upon a buines o difficult, o hard, and intricate as this is. Wherefore, whatoever things have here already, and hall afterward be aid by me, I would not have any one aent to them, nor hall I my elf, any further then they hall be approved of by the Univerall Church, and the Congregation of the Faithfull. 



Agick is a faculty of wonderfull vertue, full of mot high myteries, containing the mot profound Contemplation of mot ecret things, together with the nature, power, quality, ubtance, and vertues thereof, as alo the  know-