LIST OF CHAPTERS

LIST OF CHAPTERS FOR BOOK III.

1 Concerning the necessity, virtue, and utility of Religion same page 211
2 Concerning silence and the concealment of those things which are secret in religion 211
3 What dignity is required so that one might turn out to be a true Magus, and a worker of wonders 213
4 Concerning the two supports of ceremonial Magic: religion and superstition 215
5 Concerning the three leaders of religion who lead us to the path of truth 217
6 How by these leaders the human soul climbs into the divine nature and is made an effecter of miracles 218
7 That it is necessary for a magus to have knowledge of the true God, and what the ancient magi and philosophers felt concerning God 219
8 What the ancient philosophers felt concerning the divine trinity the orthodox faith 221
9 What is the true and most holy [doctrine] concerning God and the Holy Trinity 223
10 Concerning the divine emanations which the Hebrews call Numerations original: "Numerationes"; referring to the Sephiroth, others call attributes, and the Gentiles called gods and divinities: and concerning the ten Sephiroth the ten creative attributes of God in Kabbalah, and those ten most sacred names of God presiding over them, and the interpretation of the same 224
11 Concerning the divine names, and their power and virtue 227
12 Concerning the influence of the divine names through each medium into these lower things flow 232
13 Concerning the "members of God," and concerning their influence into our own members the symbolic mapping of divine attributes to the human body 234
14 Concerning the gods of the nations, and the souls of the celestial bodies, and to which divinities certain places were once sacred 235
15 What our own Theologians think concerning the celestial souls 238
16 Concerning intelligences higher spiritual beings and demons original: "dæmonibus"; intermediary spirits, not necessarily evil, and their threefold kind, and their various surnames, and concerning hellish and subterranean demons 239
17 Concerning the same according to the opinions of Theologians 242
18 Concerning the orders of evil demons, and their fall and various natures 243
19 Concerning the bodies of demons 246
20 Concerning the infestation of evil demons, and the protection afforded to us by good demons 248
21 Concerning obeying one's own genius a personal guardian spirit or guiding inner nature, and investigating its nature 250
22 That there is a threefold protector for every single man, and from what sources each proceeds 252
23 Concerning the language of angels, and their conversations both among themselves and with us 253
24 Concerning the names of spirits, and their various imposition, and concerning the spirits who preside over the stars, signs, corners of heaven, and elements 254
25 How the Hebrew Kabbalists original: "mecubales" elicit the sacred names of angels from the holy scriptures, and concerning the seventy-two angels who bear the name of God, with the tables of Ziruph a method of rearranging Hebrew letters, and of the commutations of letters and numbers 256
26 Concerning finding the names of spirits and geniuses from the disposition of the celestial bodies 266
27 Concerning the calculatory art of such names from the tradition of the Cabalists practitioners of Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah) adapted for Christian or magical use 267

28 How sometimes the names of spirits are taken from the things themselves over which they are set 271
29 Concerning the characters and seals of spirits 272
30 Another method of making characters, handed down by the Cabalists 273
31 Yet another method of characters, and concerning the seals of spirits which are received by revelation alone 276
32 How good demons are drawn to us, and how evil demons are conquered by us 278
33 Concerning the bonds of spirits, and their adjurations and exorcisms 280
34 Concerning the order of souls and heroes 281
35 Concerning mortal and earthly gods 283
36 Concerning man: how he was created in the image of God 284
37 Concerning the human soul, and by what means it is joined to the body 289
38 What divine gifts man receives from above from the individual orders of the heavens and intelligences 290
39 How celestial influences, though they are good by nature, are corrupted in these lower things and become the causes of evils 291
40 That a divine character is impressed upon every man, by whose vigor he can reach the point of working wonders 295
41 What [becomes] of man after death: various opinions 294
42 By what reasons Magi and Necromancers diviners who consult the spirits of the dead thought they were able to call forth the souls of the dead 304
43 Concerning the power of the human soul in the mind, reason, and idolum the "image" or astral vehicle of the soul 306
44 Concerning the degrees of souls, and their destruction or immortality 309
45 Concerning prophecy and frenzy original: "furore"; a state of divine inspiration or ecstasy 310
46 Concerning the first type of frenzy, from the Muses 311
47 Concerning the second type, from Dionysus 313
48 Concerning the third type of frenzy, from Apollo 314
49 Concerning the fourth type of frenzy, from Venus 316
50 Concerning rapture and ecstasy, and the prophecies which happen to those seized by the "falling sickness" epilepsy and fainting, and those things which happen to the dying same page 316
51 Concerning the prophetic dream 318
52 Concerning lots and omens possessing the certainty of oracles 320
53 How one wishing to receive oracles ought to dispose himself 321
54 Concerning cleanliness and how it is to be observed 323
55 Concerning abstinence and fasts, and chastity, solitude, and tranquility of mind and its ascent 325
56 Concerning penitence and almsgiving 327
57 Concerning those things which, administered from without, lead to expiation ritual cleansing or atonement 328
58 Concerning adorations and vows 329
59 Concerning sacrifices and offerings, and their types and modes 331
60 What imprecations and rites the ancients were accustomed to use for sacrifices and offerings 334
61 How these things are to be exhibited both to God and to the lower divinities 335
62 Concerning consecrations and the reason for them 336
63 What things are called sacred, and what consecrated: and how these things stand between us and the gods; and concerning sacred times 338
64 Concerning certain religious observations, ceremonies, and rites of fumigations, unctions, and the like 341
65 The conclusion of the entire work 343

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