Tenth Chapter
In the Revolution, how a magus can redeem a soul who is not in the reign of God makes him take a body to reach the beatitude.
Concerning the revolution (artificial incarnation) of the spirits, these, when they find themselves prisoners of darkness, are ready to take on once again a form. They love man, and since man as soul and spirit can host them, they gladly obey him, as they know they contribute to their redemption. Nevertheless, to perform this operation – as I have already told you – a man must know himself (1) and be a magus. Then he can do what he wants, as in his soul lie all the ideas of this and future world, and the Great Spirit operates in him through it, as the beloved ancient had understood. Hence they have taught us that, for a spirit to become a man again, that’s to say to take his image, he needs to be strong, break the chains within himself, and make a junction to the Great Spirit of Jehovah. Then, when he owns this power, man can move all the superior and inferior strengths and create, together with God, all the Spirit products. While the man who has lost his image and is in the wrath of god will not succeed, it is no use his try. Only he who is with God can perform actions together with Him.
It is evident that in nature, a continued metamorphosis occurs, that nature incessantly transforms a thing into another. So do know that this is the greatest secret of the divine magnetic magic. Only man merged with the Spirit of God can feel the soul’s power and the spirits’ supernatural harmonies.
So take some earth from a decomposed body whose nothing has been lost and put it in a great glass alembic. But this earth must come from a virgin or an adolescent, as with the earth of an adult man or a woman, the operation cannot be performed; you will find a great difference. With a virgin, you will obtain a good-looking nymph who also becomes very intelligent, more than other people. When you put the earth in an alembic, combine 2 drams ( 1/4 ounce) of sal sapientiae miscrocosmi. Then have a vein opened, take only one ounce of blood, and pour immediately on the earth; close the alembic and make it stay moderately warm for four weeks. Past this time, add another ounce of blood that just leaked out from your vein; in this way, your spirit will enter the earth, magnetically combine with it, and condense in a round sphere.
When you see this sphere, let some air go into the glass, so the life doesn’t asphyxiate but can attract influxes from the superior region as from nature. After another four weeks, take another ounce of your blood, pour it still warm into an alembic, and plug it with cotton. Place the glass in an oven easily carried and able to keep moderately warm; when there is Sun, put it at Sun, and overnight, if the weather is fine, in the open. Thus the morning you will see that the matter is clustered and made a sphere and your glass has opened at the top, you will have the guaranteed indication the spirit of the body has entered its earth. Then ask God to make you able to keep this spirit. Otherwise, it will break the glass with noise. So you should pray with ardor, take the oven with the glass in your room, and care that nobody can come close or touch it. Put in your mouth 1 grain of a lapis medicinalis which has been prepared with 1 grain of earth or 1 grain of rainwater; penetrate God with the strength of your spirit and for seven times convey your breath into the glass with all your strength; so after a while in the glass, something will take action. Plug the glass with cotton and care that nothing can fall into it.
After four weeks, have a vein opened again, take 1 ounce of your blood and pour it still warm into an alembic. Keep all at moderate warm for the other six months. This time passes, the nourishment will lack the fruit, and it begins to cry. Then break open the glass, pull out the fruit, wash and clean it with warm water, band and take care of it as any other child. This way, after seven years, it will reach the size of one in his twenties.
if, instead, you want to give birth to a dog or a similar animal, do the following: take the earth from an animal, whatever is, putrified and decomposed. Put into a clean alembic, bleed yourself, amalgamate with the earth 1/2 of your still-warm blood, and get the glass at a moderate warm for fourteen days and fourteen nights. Then add another 1/2 ounce of your blood. Repeat this operation four times. Two months past, take one dram ( 1/8 ounce) of lapis medicinalis prepared to start from your blood, grind it well, put it in the alembic, and let it act for four days and four nights. Then take from an animal as that you have previously taken the earth, as much blood as an animal needs to stay alive. Pour it still warm into an alembic; so the earth will rise in the blood and come to the surface: Wrap some wool around the glass and keep it warm till the animal has no more nourishment. Then break the glass and bring the animal to a warm place till he gets used to air and cold. Then feed it with chewed bread, open its jaws, and loosen up its tongue. In this way, it will learn to talk. You can teach it many languages and have it in your service for all you need. Being generated with the essence, it will obey you with great devotion. It will protect you from any enemy and accompany you even in death.
if you want instead to use the earth of a decomposed man and an animal’s blood, do the following: pick the earth of a person who didn’t surely die in the grace of God. Put this earth into an alembic, and add 1 dram (1/8 ounce) of lapis microcosmi and 1 dram of lapis macrocosmi subtly ground.
Then take from big dogs or similar animals all the blood their veins contain and pour onto the till warm earth. Place the alembic on a movable oven and bring it outdoors to the sun and moon conveying their beams. Keep it this way, at moderate warm, for three months. But if after seven days you find the alembic opened, this is a sign that the spirit has come back to its body, so the great God allowing, can rid the world of darkness. Such a soul prefers to be an animal than a prisoner of darkness and fear. It has a strong desire for flesh and blood and wants them back again. This time passes, the fruit will be developed and be hungry. Thus bring the animal to a warm place and wrap it up in linen till it familiarizes itself with air. Chew the bread for it and feed it, and give him warm broth till he begins to eat and drink on his own.
After four months, it can already be at your service. It will teach your language, and you can send it to all the hidden places. It can pass through all the closed doors and mountains, and no spirit can resist it but give way. A soul reborn in this way can also go, if you wish and for your love, to very far countries and do in them what you wish. With this genus, you can talk of the future; it is also ready to serve you in all, but you cannot use it against God’s justice.
In the same way, you can prepare a dove. take a dead dove around a year old, put it into a stone vessel, cover and bury it in a place where nobody can find it. After four months, dig out and unearth the stone vessel; inside it, you will find earth. Put this earth into an alembic, pour 1/2 pound of your blood on it, and proceed as I have taught you. After some time, during which you will have imbibed the earth with your blood and operated as I have taught you in the second operation, pour the still-warm blood of a dove again on the earth. As such, you took the earth. Go on like that till you get what you wish for. Ancient did use these doves for many secret things.
Now I will teach you what a magus should do to transform and modify himself, or better to rejuvenate all his person naturally, to have new hair and nails and thus to have all his body changed, making it turn into a boy in his twenties, even if you are already in your nineties. In this way, our old renewed themselves often for hundreds of years.
Eleventh Chapter
How does a magus have to operate to modify his nature and become young again.
If you wish to recover the lost strength to be young again and strong like an eagle, both in mind and in body, you must know the following:
If you want to change all your person, get a room in a place where nobody knows you and thus can not get in the way. In fact, for at least eight-ten weeks, you should breathe clean air and live in a warm temperate room. You should not eat acid and indigestible food. You should drink only tea and light beer daily, neither too much fresh nor too much mature. Two times a week, you should take a good sweat, so take every morning one dram of a lapis medicinali prepared out of your blood and 1/2 dram of a lapis medicinalis prepared to start from earth or rainwater, mix them, take 1/2 grain and then fasts for 4 hours. Stay covered for two hours, then get up and wear another shirt. Mind your room must be a good arm. Go on like that for eight-ten weeks. In the fourth week, your hair, all your piles, nails, and all teeth will start to fall, and you begin to discharge impurities and mucus so abundant that you will be amazed. In the sixth week, you should take only starchy foods, vegetables or fruit prepared with milk and butter, oat bran, bread, almonds, and similar food easy to digest. In the eighth and ninth weeks, if you’ll get hot, when the fire of nature turns on and powerfully expels everything, drink lemon juice with sugar and good almond milk.