Sagittary.
This Sigil is to be made in the hour of the Suns ingress into Sagittary (which annually hap∣pens on the 12 or 13 day of November) on the first degree of the ingression: let it be signed in the hour of Jupiter, and applied in the same Page 149 hour, the Moon encreasing. This is the second Seal, that I knew after long search and enquiry; and which, according to the Art that I profess, I have often used to the shame and scorn of my Adversaries, that they have stood amazed like Asses, and durst not open their mouths. There must be a silver Ring to hang it in, and it must be made of pure
We are again forced to com∣plain of envious and perfidious men, who envy∣ing that in o∣thers, which they have not themselvs, leave nothing perfect; that it may the second time ap∣pear in this Book, that their strength and power is taken a∣way, as above is done concerning the signe Ge∣mini; Page 150 By the Protestation of the same Au∣thor, in this Chapter, when he saith, That this is the second Seal which he esteemed to be most powerful in the Medicinal Art. The envious therefore labor in vain; for whether they will or no, he will bring into light every thing that they have taken away out of the Books, of Theophra∣stus Paracelsus. For that Author before his deth did prudently inclose those Books in divers pla∣ces in Walls; so that if after his death, they were lost in one place, they might be preserved in a∣nother, for good men; lest that if any should come to the envious hands of wicked men, should be perpetually lost, or torn in pieces. Hereby they were preserved for us whole, that in due time the lives of wicked men, loving no∣thing but themselves, may appear out of darkness.
