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Title:  Three books of occult philosophy written by Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim ... ; translated out of the Latin into the English tongue by J.F.
Author: Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.
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Who changeth times, who giveth winds and rain,The King of Stars, and the immortall flame. He is called also Arcitenens, burning fiery, golden flaming ra∣diating, of a fiery hair, of a golden hair, the eye of the world, Lucifer, seeing all things, ruling all things, the creator of light, the King of Stars, the great Lord, good, fortunate, honest, pure, prudent, intelligent, wise, shining over the whole world, governing, and vivifying all bodies that have a soul, the prince of the world keeping all the Stars under himself, the light of all the Stars, darkening, burning overcoming their vertue by his approach, yet by his light and splendor giving light and splen∣dor to all things: in the night he is called Dionysius, but in the day Apollo, as if driving away evill things. Therefore the Athenians called him Alexicacon, and Homer Vlion. i. e. the driver away of evil things. He is also called Phaehus from his beauty and brightness, and Vulcan from his fiery violence, be∣cause the force thereof consists of many fires. He is also called the Sun, because he contains the light of all the Stars: hence he is called by the Assyrians Adad, which signifies only, and by the Hebrews Schemesch, which signifies proper. Venus is called the Lady, nourishing, beautifull, white, fair, pleasing, powerfull, the fruitfull Lady of love and beauty, the progeny of Ages, the first parent of men, who in the beginning of all things joyned diversity of sexes together with a growing love, and with an eternall off spring propagates kinds of men and Animals, the queen of all delights, the Lady of rejoycing, friendly, sociable, pittifull, taking all things in good part, al∣waies bountifull to mortals, affording the tender affection of a mother to the conditions of them in misery, the safegard of mankind, letting no moment of time pass without doing good, overcoming all things by her power, humbling the light to the low, the strong to the weak, the noble to the vile recti∣fying, and equalling all things: and she is called Aphrodite, be∣cause in every sexe, she is found to be of every mind: and she is 0