Several Tracts Pertaining to the Archidoxa

The other, however, which is far more excellent and higher above it in its great power and virtue, is shaped as follows.

A hand-drawn pentagram (five-pointed star) with syllables written within the points: "The", "tra", "gram", "ma", and "thon.", which together form the word "Tetragrammaton".

With these two characters, the Israelites and the Nigromantische necromantic Jews achieved and brought about much, which are even now kept highly hidden by many. For these two are of such great power and might that everything that characters and words are capable of doing, this one alone is capable of doing. And I would gladly know where there might be any other character above it in all necromantic books in which such an arcanum secret/mystery lies hidden against all evil spirits, against the Devil, against all sorcery, and against the magical intrusions that occur through the ascendants of the stars. They also redeem someone who is already bewitched, be it in mind and thoughts—that is, if someone must do something against his will and nature, or in bodily harm. If they are administered at the right hour and time, such as in the influence of Jupiter ♃ and Venus ♀, and are given to eat upon a gingerbread or the like, he is also secure from it for twenty-four hours. Although there are still more such things that help just as well in such needs, which I will indicate hereafter when I treat of the storm. In sum, these two characters are of such great power, I say, that if the Nigromanti necromancers knew their power and virtue, and also believed in them, they would let all other characters, words,