DE OCCULTA

when they wish to summon, conjure, or subdue a spirit. These, however, are to be held as the true and proper pentacula pentacles against evil spirits, before which they will all shudder and fear, as many of them as there are and who dwell in the four elements, yet faith confirms everything.

Now, someone might say to this, and accuse me (though unjustly), that I am a breaker of the third commandment of God in the first table of Moses, where God says: You shall not take the name of God in vain. But what sensible human can say with truth that I have here taken the name of God in vain, misused it, or angered God with it? For I do not misuse it like the sorcerers, but rather I help a human with it in his greatest distress, where otherwise no further help is possible. For against this, neither aurum potabile potable gold, quinta essentia auri fifth essence of gold, quinta essentia fifth essence, nor tinctura antimonii tincture of antimony, nor other such arcana secret medicines can do any help.