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becaufe ic doth handfomcly open the Nature of th cGjueflion * 
I returne to that I faid-, That Experiments of Imagination , mult 
bepra&ifed by Ochers,and not by a Mans Selfe. For there be 
Three Meaner to fortifie Beleefe : theFirft is Experience ; The 
Second is ; And the Third is Authority : And thacof 
thefe, which is farre the moft Potent , is Jutboritie :For Beleefe 
vpon Reafon or Experience will Stagger. 
For Authority, it is of two Kindes : Beleefe in an Art 5 And Beleefe in 
a Man. And for Things of Beleefe in an Art , A man may cxercife them 
by Himfelfe • But for Beleefe in a Man, it mud be by Another. Therefore, 
ifajld^beleeuein Afirologie, andfinde a Figure Prof^erous - Orbe- 
leeuein Naturall Magicke, that a Ringwith inch a Stottc, or fuch a 
Peece of a Liuing Creature, Carried, will doe good ; It may helpe his 
Imagination : But the Beleefe in a Man is farrethe more Attiue. But how- 
totiieiddd Authority muft. be out of a Mans Selfe, turned (as was laid,) 
either vpon an Art , or vpon a Man : And where Authority is from one 
Man to another, there the Second mu ft be Ignorant , and not Learned,, or 
Full of Thoughts-, And fuch are (for the moft part) all witches,and Super. 
Jlitious Perfons-, Whofe Beleefes, tied to their Teachers,and Traditions are 
no whit controlled, either by Reafon ox Experience : And vpon the fame 
Reafon, in Magi eke, they vfeffor the moft part,) Boyes, and Young People -, 
whofe Spirits eafilieft take Beleefe and Imagination. 
Now to fortifie Imagination , there be three Waves: The 
Authority whence the Beleefe is deriued j Meaner to §}uicken 
and Corroborate the Imagination , And Meanes to Repeat it, and 
Refrefb it. 
For the Authorhie , wee haue already fpoken 5 As for the Second • 
Namely the Meanes togpuickenyind Corroborate t\\Q Imagination-fid c fee 
what hath beene vfed in MagichfU there be in thofePra&ifes any thing 
that is purely Naturall -f) As Tefoments -, characters -, Words- } Seales-,Some 
Parts oi Plants, or Liuing Creatures- } Stones-,Choice of the Home - Gejlures 
and Motions - Alfo Incenfes, and Odours -, Choice of Society, which increa- 
feth Imagination, Diets and Preparations for fome time before. And for 
words, there haue beene euer vied, either Barbarous words, > of no Scnfe, 
left they fhould difturbe the Imagination-, Ox words of Similitude, that 
may lecond and feed the Imagination: And this was euer as well in Hea¬ 
then Charmes, as in Charmesoflattex Times.There are vfed alfo Scripture 
words j For that the Beleefe,that Religious Texts,and words,haue Power, 
may ftrengthen the Imagination. And for the fame Reafon, Hebrew 
Words , ( which amongft vs is counted the Holy Tongue , and the Words 
more My flic all,) are often vfed. 
For the Refreshing of the Imagination,(winch was the Third Meanes 
of Exaltbtgit •) Wee fee the Pra&ifes of Magi eke, as in Images of Wax 
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