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The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer

Francis Barrett · 1801 · 116,481 words

Barrett’s great compendium of natural magic, the occult virtues of stones and herbs, talismans, the Kabbalah and ceremonial magic, drawn largely from Agrippa, which inspired the English magical revival.

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The Magus or

MAGUS,

OR

CELESTIAL INTELLIGENCER

;

BEING

A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF

OCCULT PHILOSOPHY

.

IN THREE BOOKS;

Containing the Antient and Modern Practice of the Cabaliftic Art, Natural and Celeftial Magic, &c.; fhewing the wonderful Effects that may be performed by a Knowledge of the

Celestial Influences, the occult Properties of Metals, Herbs, and Stones,

AND THE

APPLICATION OF ACTIVE TO PASSIVE PRINCIPLES

.

EXHIBITING

THE SCIENCES OF NATURAL MAGIC;

Alchymy, or Hermetic Philosophy;

ALSO

THE NATURE CREATION, AND FALL OF MAN;

His natural and fupernatural Gifts; the magical Power inherent in the Soul, &c.; with a great Variety of rare Experiments in Natural Magic:

The constellatory practice, or TALISMANIC MAGIC;

The Nature of the Elements. Stars, Planets, Signs, &c.; the Conftruction and Compofition of all Sorts of Magic Seals, Images, Rings, Glaffes, &c.; The Virtue and Efficacy of Numbers, Characters, and Figures, of good and evil Spirits.

MAGNETISM,

AND CABALISTICAL OR CEREMONIAL MAGIC;

In which, the fecret Myfteries of the Cabala are explained; the Operations of good and evil Spirits; all Kinds of Cabaliftic Figures, Tables, Seals, and Names, with their Ufe, &c.

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Contents

  1. The Magus or
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. The First Principles of
  5. Chap. II: Of the Wonders of Natural Magic, Displayed in a Variety of Sympathetic and Occult Operations…
  6. Chap. III: Of Amulets, Charms, and Enchantments
  7. Chap. IV: Of Unctions, Philters, Potions, &C. — their Magical Virtues
  8. Chap. V: Of Magical Suspensions and Alligations — Shewing How, and by What Power, They Receive Virtue, and…
  9. Chap. VI: Of Antipathies
  10. Chap. VII: Of the Occult Virtues of Things Which are Inherent in Them Only in their Life-Time, and Such as…
  11. Chap. VIII: Of the Wonderful Virtues of Some Kind of Precious Stones
  12. Chap. IX: Of the Mixtures of Natural Things One with Another, and the Producing of Monstrous Animals, by…
  13. Chap. X: Of the Art of Fascination, Binding, Sorceries, Magical Confections, Lights, Candles, Lamps, &c.…
  14. Epistle to Museus
  15. To the Reader
  16. Part the First
  17. Of the Preparation of a Man to qualify him for the Search of this Treasure; and of the first Matter (prima…
  18. Part II: Of the Manner of Extracting the First Matter of the Philosophers' Stone, and the Use It is Put to…
  19. The Magus or
  20. Part the Second: Chap. I
  21. Chap. II: Of the Properties and Wonderful Nature of Fire and Earth
  22. Chap. III: Of the Water and Air
  23. Chap. IV: Of Compound, or Mixed Bodies — in What Manner They Relate to the Elements — and How the Elements…
  24. Chap. V: That the Elements are in the Heavens, in the Stars, in Devils, Angels, Intelligences, and…
  25. Chap. VI: That the Wisdom of God Works by the Medium of Second Causes (I. E. by the Intelligences, by the…
  26. Chap. VII: Of the Spirit of the World
  27. Chap. VIII: Of the Seals and Characters Impressed by Celestials upon Natural Things
  28. Chap. IX: Treating of the Virtue and Efficacy of Perfumes, or Suffumigations, and Vapours; and to What…
  29. Chap. X: Of the Composition of Some Perfumes Appropriated to the Seven Planets
  30. Chap. XI: Of the Composition and Magic Virtue of Rings
  31. Chap. XII: That the Passions of the Mind are Assisted by Celestials — and That Constancy of Mind is in…
  32. Chap. XIII: How Man's Mind May Be Joined with the Mind of Intelligences and Celestials and Together with…
  33. Chap. XIV: Shewing the Necessity of Mathematical Knowledge, and of the Great Power and Efficacy of Numbers…
  34. Chap. XV: The Great Virtues of Numbers, as Well in Natural Things as in Supernatural
  35. Chap. XVI: Of the Scale of Unity
  36. Chap. XVII: Of the Number Two, and Scale
  37. Chap. XVIII: Of the Number Three and Scale
  38. Chap. XIX: Of the Number Four and Scale
  39. Chap. XX: Of the Number Five, and its Scale
  40. Chap. XXI: Of the Number Six, and the Scale
  41. Chap. XXII: Of the Number Seven, and the Scale
  42. Chap. XXIII: Of the Number Eight, and the Scale
  43. Chap. XXIV: Of the Number Nine, and the Scale
  44. Chap. XXV: Of the Number Ten, and the Scale
  45. Chap. XXVI: Of the Numbers Eleven and Twelve, with the Cabalistical Scale
  46. Chap. XXVII: Of the Notes of the Hebrews and Chaldeans, and Other Notes of Magicians
  47. Chap. XXVIII: The Magic Tables of the Planets — their Form and Virtue — What Divine Names, Intelligences…
  48. Chap. XXIX: Of the Observation of the Celestials Necessary in Every Magical Work
  49. Chap. XXX: When the Planets are of Most Powerful Influence
  50. Chap. XXXI: Observations on the Fixed Stars, and their Names and Natures
  51. Chap. XXXII: Of the Sun and Moon, and their Magical Considerations
  52. Chap. XXXIII: Of the Twenty-Eight Mansions of the Moon, and their Virtues
  53. Chap. XXXIV: How Some Artificial Things (as Images, Seals, and Such Like) May Obtain Some Virtue from the…
  54. Chap. XXXV: Of the Images of the Zodiac — What Virtues, They Being Engraven, Receive from the Stars
  55. Chap. XXXVI: Of the Images of Saturn
  56. Chap. XXXVII: Of the Images of Jupiter
  57. Chap. XXXVIII: Of the Images of Mars
  58. Chap. XXXIX: Of the Images of the Sun
  59. Chap. XL: Of the Images of Venus
  60. Chap. XLI: Of the Images of Mercury
  61. Chap. XLIII: Of the Images of the Head and Tail of the Dragon of the Moon
  62. Chap. XLIV: Of the Images of the Mansions of the Moon
  63. Chap. XLV
  64. Chap. XLVI
  65. The Magus
  66. The Magus
  67. Chap. I: The Magnetic, or Attractive Power or Faculty
  68. Chap. II: Of Sympathetic Medicines
  69. Chap. III: Of the Magnetic or Sympathetic Unguent, the Powder of Sympathy, Armary Unguent, Curing of…
  70. Chap. IV: Of the Armary Unguent, or Weapon Salve, &c
  71. Chap. V: Of the Imaginative Power and the Magnetism of the Natural Spirits, Mummial Attraction, Sympathies…
  72. Chap. VI: Of Witchcraft
  73. Chap. VII: Of the Vital Spirit, &c
  74. Chap. VIII: Of the Magical Power, &c
  75. Chap. IX: Of the Exciting or Stirring Up the Magical Virtue
  76. Chap. X: Of the Magical Virtue of the Soul, and the Mediums by Which It Acts
  77. The Cabala
  78. Cabalistical Magic
  79. Chap. II: What Dignity and Preparation is Essentially Necessary to Him Who Would Become a True Magician
  80. Chap. III: That the Knowledge of the True God is Necessary for a Magician
  81. Chap. IV: Of Divine Emanations, and Ten Sephiroths, and Ten Most Sacred Names of God Which Rule Them, and…
  82. Chap. V: Of the Power and Virtue of the Divine Names
  83. Chap. VI: Of Intelligences and Spirits, and of the Three-Fold Kind of Them, and of their Different Names…
  84. Chap. VII: Of the Order of Evil Spirits, and their Fall, and Different Natures
  85. Chap. VIII: Of the Annoyance of Evil Spirits, and the Preservation We Have from Good Spirits
  86. Chap. IX: That There is a Threefold Keeper of Man, and from Whence Each of Them Proceed
  87. Chap. X: Of the Tongue of Angels, and of their Speaking Amongst Themselves and with Us
  88. Chap. XI: Of the Names of Spirits, and their Various Imposition, and of the Spirits That are Set Over the…
  89. Chap. XII: The Cabalists Draw Forth the Sacred Names of Angels from Sacred Writ, and of the Seventy-Two…
  90. Chap. XIII: Of Finding Out the Names of Spirits and Genii, from the Disposition of the Celestial Bodies
  91. Chap. XIV: Of the Calculating Art of Such Names by the Tradition of Cabalists
  92. Chap. XV: Of the Characters and Seals of Spirits
  93. Chap. XVI: Another Way of Making Characters, according to the Cabalists
  94. Chap. XVII: There is Another Kind of Characters, or Marks of Spirits, Which are Received Only by Revelation
  95. Chap. XVIII: On the Bonds of Spirits, and their Adjurations, and Castings Out
  96. Chap. XIX: By What Means Magicians and Necromancers Call Forth the Souls of the Dead
  97. Chap. XX: Of Prophetical Dreams
  98. The Perfection and Key
  99. Of Magic Pentacles and their
  100. Of the Consecration of all magical Instruments and Materials which are used in this Art
  101. The Consecration of
  102. Consecration of
  103. Of the Benediction of
  104. The Consecration of
  105. Of the Invocation of
  106. An Invocation of the
  107. The particular Form of the
  108. Of Oracles by
  109. Of the Method of raising
  110. Of the
  111. Here follow the
  112. The Magic and Philosophy of
  113. A Caution to the inexperienced in this
  114. Of the making of the
  115. Biographia Antiqua
  116. Biographia Antiqua
  117. Hermes, Surnamed Trismegistus
  118. Appollonius of Tyana
  119. Petrus
  120. Apuleius
  121. Aristotle
  122. Artemidorus of Ephesus
  123. Babylonians
  124. The Life
  125. Albertus Magnus
  126. Roger Bacon
  127. Raymond Lully
  128. George Ripley
  129. John, and Isaac Hollandus
  130. Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombast De Hoenheym
  131. John Rudolph Glauber
  132. Doctor Dee, and Sir Edward Kelly
  133. The Conclusion

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Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive

Public domain: Public domain worldwide (1801).

What’s included: Both books with all their parts, as transcribed by sacred-texts. The engraved plates, seals and tables are not included.

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