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Cornelius Agrippa · J.F. (1651)
THE third and last Book of Occult Philosophy treats of Ceremonial or Intellectual Magic — of the divine names, the orders of intelligences and spirits, religion, and the dignification of man. Translated out of the Latin into the English tongue by J.F., London, 1651. The seventeenth-century spelling of that printing is preserved throughout. It is a very excellent opinion of the Ancient Magicians (most Illustrious Prince) That we ought to labour in nothing more in this life, then that we degenerate not from Excellency of the mind, by which we come neerest to God and put on the Divine nature: least at any time our mind waxing dull by vain idleness, should decline to the frailty of our earthly body and vices of the flesh: so we should loose it, as it were cast down by the dark precipices of perverse lusts. Wherefore we ought so to order our mind, that it by it self being mindfull of its own …
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