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  • Title: A Book of Magic, with Instructions for Invoking Spirits (Selection)
  • Author: Anonymous
  • Editor: Christopher Matusiak

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    Author: Anonymous
    Editor: Christopher Matusiak
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    A Book of Magic, with Instructions for Invoking Spirits (Selection)

    A good construction for a spiritte

    I conjure thee spirit etcetera which are heere before mee by the father the sonne & the holy ghoast & by these names of God + Saday + Tetragramaton + Tetragramay + Adday + Algramay + by all the names of God that thou gave noe power to hurte nor resiste vs neither in our harte, soule, nor bodye, neither to disobey vs nor to departe from our sighte vntill you geve vs an Aunswere to all our interrogatories, without anie lyenge deceipte, crafte or falsehood, & I conjure thee spirit in the name of Sainte Mary the Virgin Mother of Iesu Christes by the heade of your prince, by my christianitie, & by the mighty goverment that our Lord Iesus Christ hath over vs that you nor none for you have power to hinder my sight, but that I maie see & knowe you in the faire forme of a child of 3 yeeres of age soe that you mayest have noe power to departe from the sight vntill thou be licensed by mee, In the name of the father & the sonne & the holy ghost. Amen. finis.

    for the grounde

    In the name of our Lord Iesus Christ & by his license I conjure thee wicked spirit & all thy fellowes if any more be with thee, by the vertue of the father, the sonne & the holy ghost 3 persones & one God, & by the vertue of our blessed Ladye the virgine & all other saintes & virgines, & by the 9 orders of Angells which are ministers vnto the Majestie of our Lord Iesus Christ viz Gabriell, Raphaell, Cherubines, & Seraphines, Trones, dominations, principates potestates, with all their fellowshipe & by all the vertues & mighty powers of heaven & earth, & by the vertue & power of the sea & all that therin is, & by the vertue of Salomones seal scepter & ringe here present & by the virginitie of saint katherine, saint margarett, saint barbara, & all the rest holie vnpolluted virgins & saintes, & by the vertue of the dreadfull daye of Iudgment, & by the vertue of all patriarcks, prophetts, Apostles Martires confessoures, & by the vertue of the 4 Evangelists Mathewe, Marcke, Luke, & Iohn, I bind you spirrit or spirrits by all the holie waies that the Apostles followed our Lord Iesus Christ, & I conjure you spirrit or spirrits in any be here within this ground or within an 100 foote especially by these holy & hye names of our Lord Iesus Christ + Agios + otheos + yskyros + Athanatos + panton + craton + etysus + Emanuell + Tetragramaton + by the vertue of the blessed sacrament of the alter, & by the vertue of the 7 sacraments & by the vertue of all holy prayers & words that ever the greate prieste Aaron or anie other prieste of his order sayed or spake, that you spirit or spirits by this my adjurement & conjuration, & Immediatly flye from hence & being departed, to come hither vntill 15 dayes from this present howere be fully completed & ended./ & that thoue or you spirites goe & departe hence from this ground so farr of that thou spirrit or spirrits neither see vs nor heare vs, & that to a place where God will that you be agreeable to his good pleasure, & our salvacion & also that duringe the tyme of our worckinge here now at anie other tyme & in anie other place noe trouble nor molestacion happen or chaunce either to me or anie of my fellowes now presente, & therto I conjure thee spirit or spirits by the vertue of the holy name + Ebrea + Stulpha + Alpha + Draco + & by the vertue of the blessed passyon of our Lord Iesus Christ, & by the vertue of his blessed blood that he bleed in the sayed his holy passion, & namely by the greate vertue of the water & blood that came & yssued from his hart, & by the vertue of the speare that pearcinge his side it made the same wounde also I conjure thee or your sp[i]rits by the vertue of the crowne wherwith he was crowned, & by the vertue of the 3 nayles wherwith his hands & feet were to the crosse fastened, & by the scourges that his tender & blessed bodye was scourged with, & by the blessed sacred words that he spake on the crosse + heloy heloy + Lamazabatham + deus meus deus meus vtquid derelequisti me, alsoe I conjure thee spirrit or you spirrits by our Lord Iesus Christ glorious resurrection, & by the steappes he tooke when he harrowed hell, & by the vertue of his wonder full asscention into heaven, & by his sittinge one the right hande of his father, & by his comminge at the laste day to Iudgment where in all shall rise as well the good as bad, the happie as vnhappie, the saved as damned, & the mercy shewed to Mary Magdalene & by the vertue of the holy ghost that he sent downe to his Apostles, & by the vertue of the assumption of our Lady Saint Marye & by all hir vertues & by all that God made, & by the vertue that God gave to words, hearbes & stones & each other thinge as well in heaven as in earth, as in the sea as without the sea, Iterum I conjure thee spirrit or you spirrits in the name of our Lord God which Moyses bare in his fore heade & Aaron one his brest, alsoe I conjure thee spirrit & spirrites what kinde so ever yee bee of fiere, water, earth, or ayere, malginaunt or Infernally by all the conjurations Invocations vincles & Lycenses that ever Cyprian, Salomon, Alexander, Aristotle, Bacon, Bungi, Lumbarte, Wale Cornelius or any other spake or wrote, & by the dreade that thou spirit or you spirits have in thine or your Lord, & by the vertue of the 4 Kinges of the ayere & theyre 4 princes vnder them, & by the love & dread that thou & you have in our Lord Iesus Christ to whom all knees doe bowe, I conjure thee spirit or you spirits by the vertue of this conjuration & all others in this book conteyned, & by the vertue of all the conjurations that ever were made are made or shalbe made that thou spirit or you spirits which be keepers of this treasure heere hidden or layed that you obaye me & my conjuration & that by the vertue & power of our Lord Iesus Christ & that you neither trouble nor molest me nor my fellowes, nor hurtt me nor them, neither in bodye nor in soule, but as verely but as verely [sic] as our Lord Iesus Christ saied to his disciples, Pax vobis soe verely peace be between thee spirit & thy fellowes if there be anie, & peace be betweene thee and thy fellowes & vs, & I charge thee they fellowes & vs that thou or yee flee from this grounde, & from the treasure hidd or layed in this grounde, & that you doe not drawe it nor move it noe waye out of the place where nowe it is nor alter nor chaunge it by noe delusion nor crafte, & that in the paine of endles damnation & the paine of the greate curse that God shalle give at the greate day of dome, Iterum I conjure thee or you spirits that your trouble nor vexe me nor my fellowes in the time of our worckinge & that by all the holy words before rehearsed that thou spirrit or spirrits from hence peaceably in all haste departed goe for the space & tyme of 15 days & 15 nightes even from this selfe same howere thou or yee do exempt your selves & goe & remaine in the place whervnto God hath & shall appointe you, & without returning duringe the saied tyme to trouble molest or grieve me or any of vs with worde fantasye vision or illusion, either with fyer water winde or blassing, but to suffer vs to take it & carrie it awaye & applie it to what vse we shall thincke it most meete without your molestacion, either wakinge or sleepinge, eatinge or drinckinge, restinge or walkinge, now present or in tyme to come, whervnto I conjure thee or you spirits by the vertue of all that wordes that ever Christ spake or man wrote, in this conjuration rehearsed or hereafter may be rehearsed I charge & commande you o thou spirit or you spirrits, & that by the vertue power & might of God the father his word & holy spirit, & as certainly as the promised seed brake the serpents heade & as Mary the Virgine have the seed & as Eline the most Christian Queene found the holy crosse, even soe sertainly wee maye finde that we seeke fore here hidd or layed & the same processe & enjoye even to the good pleasure of God, the profitt of the poore, & to the salvation of our owne soules whevnto I say Amen ./ fiat fiat fiat ./

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