On Occult Philosophy

opens the mouth, blinds the eyes, and lures money from the purse, and yet all of it is not worth a penny. Therefore, the Ceremoniæ ceremonies that the Jew Solomon described in his book, which the Nigromantici necromancers call the Clavicula Salomonis Little Key of Solomon, should not be cited or used. For God does not desire it; He has given us something else in its place: faith, which perfectly sanctifies all things. Although I do not wish to reject all sanctifications here, but only those that the ceremonialists use against fantastic spirits. Yet in magical medicines, this is not disputed. And especially the consecration of the sacraments, of matrimony, of baptism, of the body and blood of Christ upon the altar, should be held high and firm until the coming of the last day, when we shall all be perfectly sanctified and clarified with the heavenly body.