LIST OF CONTENTS


56	Concerning the divination of lightning and thunderbolts, and how portents and prodigies are to be interpreted	72
57	Concerning Geometry, Hydromancy Divination by water., Aeromancy Divination by air or atmospheric phenomena., and Pyromancy Divination by fire.: the divinations of the four elements	73
58	Concerning the resuscitation of the dead, and concerning long sleeping and fasting	74
59	Concerning divination that occurs through dreams	77
60	Concerning frenzy and the divinations that occur while awake; concerning the power of the melancholic humor, by which even demons original: "dæmones"; in this context, intermediary spirits rather than purely malevolent beings. are sometimes drawn into human bodies	78
61	Concerning the formation of man, the external and internal senses, and the mind; concerning the threefold appetite of the soul and the passions of the will	80
62	Concerning the passions of the soul, and their origin, difference, and types	82
63	How the passions of the soul change one's own body by altering its accidents and moving the spirit	83
64	How the passions of the soul transform the body through imitation and likeness. Also concerning the transformation and translation of men, and what powers the imaginative faculty holds not only over the body, but also over the soul	84
65	How the passions of the soul also act outside themselves upon the body of another	86
66	That the passions of the soul are greatly aided by celestial opportunity; and how necessary the constancy of the soul itself is in every work	87
67	How the human soul original: "eius hūanus"; likely an error for "animus humanus." can be joined with celestial souls and intelligences, and together with them impress certain wonderful virtues upon lower things	88
68	How our soul can change and bind lower things to that which it desires	89
69	Concerning speech and the virtues of words	90
70	Concerning the virtue of proper names	same page
71	Concerning complex speeches and poems, and the virtues and constraints of incantations	91
72	Concerning the wonderful power of incantations	93
73	Concerning the virtue of writing, and concerning the making of imprecations and inscriptions	94
74	Concerning the proportion, correspondence, and reduction of letters to celestial signs and planets according to various languages, with a table indicating this	same page

LIST OF THE CHAPTERS OF BOOK II.


1	Concerning the necessity of Mathematical disciplines, and concerning many wonderful works performed by mathematical arts alone	99
2	Concerning numbers, their power and virtue	101
3	How many virtues numbers possess in both natural and trans-natural things	102
4	Concerning unity and its scale	103
5	Concerning duality and its scale	104
6	Concerning the triad The number three. and its scale	106
7	Concerning the quaternary The number four. and its scale	108
8	Concerning the quinary The number five. and its scale	111
9	Concerning the senary The number six. and its scale	113
10	Concerning the septenary The number seven. and its scale	114
11	Concerning the octonary The number eight. and its scale	122
12	Concerning the novenary The number nine. and its scale	124
13	Concerning the decade The number ten. and its scale	126
14	Concerning the undenary Eleven. and duodenary Twelve., with a double scale for the duodenary: Cabalistic and Orphic	130
15	Concerning numbers which are above the duodenary, and their power and virtues	136
16	Concerning the notations of numbers established in certain gestures	138 (corrected to 139)
	Concerning the various notations of numbers among the Romans

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18	Concerning the notations of the Greeks	140
19	Concerning the notations of the Hebrews and Chaldeans, and certain other notations of the Magi	141
20	Which numbers are attributed to letters, and concerning divination through the same	143
21	Which numbers are sacred to which gods, and to which elements they are assigned	144
22	Concerning the tables original: "mensulis"; these are "magic squares" associated with the seven planets. of the Planets, their virtues and formulas, and which divine names, intelligences, and demons are set over them	145
23	Concerning Geometric figures and bodies, what virtue they possess in magic, and which ones correspond to which elements and to the heaven	154 (corrected to 155)
24	Concerning Musical harmony, its forces, power, sound, and song, and whence comes their wonder in working	156
26	Concerning their agreement with celestial things: and which songs and sounds respond to individual stars	158
27	Concerning the proportion, measurement, and harmony of the human body	160
28	Concerning the composition and harmony of the human soul	170
29	Concerning the observation of celestial things, necessary in every Magical work	171
30	When planets are of more powerful influence	172
31	Concerning the observation of the fixed stars and their natures	same page
32	Concerning the Sun and Moon, and their magical principles	174
33	Concerning the twenty-eight mansions The 28 divisions of the zodiac through which the Moon travels in a month. of the Moon and their powers	175
34	Concerning the observation of the true motion of celestial bodies in the eighth sphere, and concerning the method of planetary hours	178
35	How artificial things, such as images and seals, obtain some virtue from celestial bodies	same page
36	Concerning the images of the Zodiac, and what virtues they receive from their stars when engraved	179
37	Concerning the images of the faces In astrology, "faces" or decans are 10-degree subdivisions of zodiac signs. and their virtues, and concerning those images which are outside the zodiac	180
38	Concerning the images of Saturn	183
39	Concerning the images of Jupiter	184
40	Concerning the images of Mars	same page
41	Concerning the images of the Sun	same page
42	Concerning the images of Venus	185
43	Concerning the images of Mercury	same page
44	Concerning the images of the Moon	same page (corrected to 186)
45	Concerning the images of the head and tail of the Moon's dragon The lunar nodes: the points where the Moon's path crosses the ecliptic.
46	Concerning the images of the Mansions of the Moon	same page
47	Concerning the images of the fixed stars known as the Behenian From the Arabic "bahman," meaning "root." These 15 stars were considered particularly powerful in medieval magic. stars	188
48	Concerning geomantic figures, which are intermediate between images and characters, and a table of the same	189
49	Concerning images whose form is not according to the likeness of any celestial figure, but according to the likeness of that which the soul of the practitioner desires	191
50	Concerning certain celestial observations and the practice of some of the same images	same page
51	Concerning characters which are crafted according to celestial standards and imitation, and how they are derived from geomantic figures, with a table of the same	194
52	Concerning characters which are abstracted from things themselves by a certain likeness	196 (corrected to 198)
53	That no divination is perfect without astrology
54	Concerning lot-casting, and when and whence the power of divination comes to it	199 (corrected for philosophers to 200)
55	Concerning the Soul of the World original: "anima mundi"; the spiritual essence thought to permeate the entire universe. and of celestial beings, according to the traditions of poets and philosophers
56	The same is confirmed by reason	201
57	That the soul of the world and celestial souls are rational, and participants in the divine mind	202