DAEMONOLOGY. FIRST BOOK.

1 Samuel 28

PHI. The reasons are these: first, you may consider that Saul, being troubled in spirit and having fasted for a long time before (as the text testifies), and having come to a woman who was rumored original: "bruted" to have such knowledge to ask for such important news—he having such a guilty conscience for his heinous offenses, and especially for that same unlawful curiosity and horrible turning away from God original: "defection"—and then the woman crying out suddenly in great wonder original: "admiration" at the strange original: "vncouth" sight that she claimed to have seen, revealing him to be the King (though he was disguised and had denied it to her before): it was no wonder, I say, that his senses being thus distracted, he could not perceive her faking original: "faining" of her voice, as he was himself in another chamber original: "chalmer" and saw nothing. Next, what could be, or was, raised? The spirit of Samuel? That is profane and against all theology. The Devil in his likeness? That is just as improbable original: "vnappeirant", for either God would not permit him to come in the shape of His Saints (otherwise the Prophets in those days could never have been sure what spirit spoke to them in their visions), or else he could not foretell what was to happen afterward; for prophecy proceeds only from GOD, and the Devil has no knowledge of things to come.

EPI. Yet if you will notice the words of the text, you will clearly find that Saul saw that apparition. For even granting original: "giving you" that Saul was in another chamber during the making of the circles and conjurations The ritual magic used to summon spirits. necessary for that purpose (as no one of that craft will permit any others to watch at that time),