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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.
Opening
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
- The Magus or
- Preface
- Introduction
- The First Principles of
- Chap. II: Of the Wonders of Natural Magic, Displayed in a Variety of Sympathetic and Occult Operations…
- Chap. III: Of Amulets, Charms, and Enchantments
- Chap. IV: Of Unctions, Philters, Potions, &C. — their Magical Virtues
- Chap. V: Of Magical Suspensions and Alligations — Shewing How, and by What Power, They Receive Virtue, and…
- Chap. VI: Of Antipathies
- Chap. VII: Of the Occult Virtues of Things Which are Inherent in Them Only in their Life-Time, and Such as…
- Chap. VIII: Of the Wonderful Virtues of Some Kind of Precious Stones
- Chap. IX: Of the Mixtures of Natural Things One with Another, and the Producing of Monstrous Animals, by…
- Chap. X: Of the Art of Fascination, Binding, Sorceries, Magical Confections, Lights, Candles, Lamps, &c.…
- Epistle to Museus
- To the Reader
- Part the First
- Of the Preparation of a Man to qualify him for the Search of this Treasure; and of the first Matter (prima…
- Part II: Of the Manner of Extracting the First Matter of the Philosophers' Stone, and the Use It is Put to…
- The Magus or
- Part the Second: Chap. I
- Chap. II: Of the Properties and Wonderful Nature of Fire and Earth
- Chap. III: Of the Water and Air
- Chap. IV: Of Compound, or Mixed Bodies — in What Manner They Relate to the Elements — and How the Elements…
- Chap. V: That the Elements are in the Heavens, in the Stars, in Devils, Angels, Intelligences, and…
- Chap. VI: That the Wisdom of God Works by the Medium of Second Causes (I. E. by the Intelligences, by the…
- Chap. VII: Of the Spirit of the World
- Chap. VIII: Of the Seals and Characters Impressed by Celestials upon Natural Things
- Chap. IX: Treating of the Virtue and Efficacy of Perfumes, or Suffumigations, and Vapours; and to What…
- Chap. X: Of the Composition of Some Perfumes Appropriated to the Seven Planets
- Chap. XI: Of the Composition and Magic Virtue of Rings
- Chap. XII: That the Passions of the Mind are Assisted by Celestials — and That Constancy of Mind is in…
- Chap. XIII: How Man's Mind May Be Joined with the Mind of Intelligences and Celestials and Together with…
- Chap. XIV: Shewing the Necessity of Mathematical Knowledge, and of the Great Power and Efficacy of Numbers…
- Chap. XV: The Great Virtues of Numbers, as Well in Natural Things as in Supernatural
- Chap. XVI: Of the Scale of Unity
- Chap. XVII: Of the Number Two, and Scale
- Chap. XVIII: Of the Number Three and Scale
- Chap. XIX: Of the Number Four and Scale
- Chap. XX: Of the Number Five, and its Scale
- Chap. XXI: Of the Number Six, and the Scale
- Chap. XXII: Of the Number Seven, and the Scale
- Chap. XXIII: Of the Number Eight, and the Scale
- Chap. XXIV: Of the Number Nine, and the Scale
- Chap. XXV: Of the Number Ten, and the Scale
- Chap. XXVI: Of the Numbers Eleven and Twelve, with the Cabalistical Scale
- Chap. XXVII: Of the Notes of the Hebrews and Chaldeans, and Other Notes of Magicians
- Chap. XXVIII: The Magic Tables of the Planets — their Form and Virtue — What Divine Names, Intelligences…
- Chap. XXIX: Of the Observation of the Celestials Necessary in Every Magical Work
- Chap. XXX: When the Planets are of Most Powerful Influence
- Chap. XXXI: Observations on the Fixed Stars, and their Names and Natures
- Chap. XXXII: Of the Sun and Moon, and their Magical Considerations
- Chap. XXXIII: Of the Twenty-Eight Mansions of the Moon, and their Virtues
- Chap. XXXIV: How Some Artificial Things (as Images, Seals, and Such Like) May Obtain Some Virtue from the…
- Chap. XXXV: Of the Images of the Zodiac — What Virtues, They Being Engraven, Receive from the Stars
- Chap. XXXVI: Of the Images of Saturn
- Chap. XXXVII: Of the Images of Jupiter
- Chap. XXXVIII: Of the Images of Mars
- Chap. XXXIX: Of the Images of the Sun
- Chap. XL: Of the Images of Venus
- Chap. XLI: Of the Images of Mercury
- Chap. XLIII: Of the Images of the Head and Tail of the Dragon of the Moon
- Chap. XLIV: Of the Images of the Mansions of the Moon
- Chap. XLV
- Chap. XLVI
- The Magus
- The Magus
- Chap. I: The Magnetic, or Attractive Power or Faculty
- Chap. II: Of Sympathetic Medicines
- Chap. III: Of the Magnetic or Sympathetic Unguent, the Powder of Sympathy, Armary Unguent, Curing of…
- Chap. IV: Of the Armary Unguent, or Weapon Salve, &c
- Chap. V: Of the Imaginative Power and the Magnetism of the Natural Spirits, Mummial Attraction, Sympathies…
- Chap. VI: Of Witchcraft
- Chap. VII: Of the Vital Spirit, &c
- Chap. VIII: Of the Magical Power, &c
- Chap. IX: Of the Exciting or Stirring Up the Magical Virtue
- Chap. X: Of the Magical Virtue of the Soul, and the Mediums by Which It Acts
- The Cabala
- Cabalistical Magic
- Chap. II: What Dignity and Preparation is Essentially Necessary to Him Who Would Become a True Magician
- Chap. III: That the Knowledge of the True God is Necessary for a Magician
- Chap. IV: Of Divine Emanations, and Ten Sephiroths, and Ten Most Sacred Names of God Which Rule Them, and…
- Chap. V: Of the Power and Virtue of the Divine Names
- Chap. VI: Of Intelligences and Spirits, and of the Three-Fold Kind of Them, and of their Different Names…
- Chap. VII: Of the Order of Evil Spirits, and their Fall, and Different Natures
- Chap. VIII: Of the Annoyance of Evil Spirits, and the Preservation We Have from Good Spirits
- Chap. IX: That There is a Threefold Keeper of Man, and from Whence Each of Them Proceed
- Chap. X: Of the Tongue of Angels, and of their Speaking Amongst Themselves and with Us
- Chap. XI: Of the Names of Spirits, and their Various Imposition, and of the Spirits That are Set Over the…
- Chap. XII: The Cabalists Draw Forth the Sacred Names of Angels from Sacred Writ, and of the Seventy-Two…
- Chap. XIII: Of Finding Out the Names of Spirits and Genii, from the Disposition of the Celestial Bodies
- Chap. XIV: Of the Calculating Art of Such Names by the Tradition of Cabalists
- Chap. XV: Of the Characters and Seals of Spirits
- Chap. XVI: Another Way of Making Characters, according to the Cabalists
- Chap. XVII: There is Another Kind of Characters, or Marks of Spirits, Which are Received Only by Revelation
- Chap. XVIII: On the Bonds of Spirits, and their Adjurations, and Castings Out
- Chap. XIX: By What Means Magicians and Necromancers Call Forth the Souls of the Dead
- Chap. XX: Of Prophetical Dreams
- The Perfection and Key
- Of Magic Pentacles and their
- Of the Consecration of all magical Instruments and Materials which are used in this Art
- The Consecration of
- Consecration of
- Of the Benediction of
- The Consecration of
- Of the Invocation of
- An Invocation of the
- The particular Form of the
- Of Oracles by
- Of the Method of raising
- Of the
- Here follow the
- The Magic and Philosophy of
- A Caution to the inexperienced in this
- Of the making of the
- Biographia Antiqua
- Biographia Antiqua
- Hermes, Surnamed Trismegistus
- Appollonius of Tyana
- Petrus
- Apuleius
- Aristotle
- Artemidorus of Ephesus
- Babylonians
- The Life
- Albertus Magnus
- Roger Bacon
- Raymond Lully
- George Ripley
- John, and Isaac Hollandus
- Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombast De Hoenheym
- John Rudolph Glauber
- Doctor Dee, and Sir Edward Kelly
- The Conclusion