Library of the Sages — Valentine, Khunrath, Hollandus, Bernard

nonetheless supernatural visions. But the others that are done by conjurations are neither natural nor supernatural, but rather diabolical. Therefore they belong to nigromance necromancy and must be rightly forbidden to all good Christians. Also, such means that are against the Holy Scripture and the divine word are rejected by true natural Cabalistes Kabbalists. For this reason I say that one must make a certain distinction to find a true order of natural and supernatural things.

In the same way, among supernatural things also belong all aquatic spirits, such as sirens, succubi, and other water nymphs and that which depends on them. Likewise also the terrestrial spirits, and those that inhabit the air, who let themselves be seen and heard, and sometimes announce death or some other accident. They also sometimes announce, by their appearance, riches and fortunes in certain places. Among these belong the spirits of fire in the form of a burning candle. All these are only spirits and have an impalpable body. However, they are not such spirits as the true infernal spirits who watch for the soul of man like an eternal jewel: namely, that

Lucifer, that infernal Devil and his own who were rejected with him. But these are such spirits who, above nature, have been presented to man as wonders. They maintain themselves only from the elements and are nourished and fed by them, but at the passing and end of this world, they will pass away and vanish. Also, since there is no soul in them for us, I will speak no more of this. I will save this until another time when I shall discourse more at length when I write of spiritual visions, which are held by the majority of the world to be non-natural, yet they are truly natural, but are found in their operations and marvelous qualities to be supernatural.

To make my word more certain, I say that several things can also be found in medicine which show their virtue by a magnetic operation and form. This is done only by a spiritual attractive virtue that is drawn by means of the air, because the air is the medium between the medicine and the illness. This is in the same way that the magnet original: "aymant" always turns toward its south pole, even though such a star is assigned to it from several thousands