_Of the Good and Evil_ Dæmons _or_ Genii: _Whither they are;
what they are, and how they are manifested; also of their
names, powers, faculties, offices; how they are to be
considered._
1. According to the disposition of the mind, or soul, there is a good
or evil _Dæmon_ that accompanies the party visibly, or invisibly;
and these are of such rancks and orders, and names, as the capacity
of the persons soul is, to whom they belong: Their Office is said to
be, fore-warning the person of eminent danger, sometimes by inward
instinct, sometimes by dreams in the night, and sometimes by appearing
outwardly. The _Dæmon_ or _Genius_ changeth its nature and power,
as the person changeth his: and if from good, the party degenerate
to iniquity; then by degrees the good Angel leaves him, and an evil
_Dæmon_ doth naturally succeed: for each thing draws after that which
is like it self.
♦The office of _Dæmons_ or _Genii_.♦
2. Magicians mention three several wayes of enjoying the society of
the _Bonus Genius_; first by intellectual association, when secret and
mental instigations do arise in their hearts, to do this or that, and
to forbear the other: as in the Manuscript of _Nagar_ the _Indian_,
his own testimony of himself is to this effect: _My blessed Guardian_
►Damilkar◄, _hath now so sweetly communicated himself unto me; That by
all the manifestations, whereby a holy_ Dæmon _can attend and converse
with mankind, he appeareth unto me: first in the intellectual way, he
is ever present, and every moment prompts me, what to act, what to
forbear from acting: Ah had he not rushed up through the powers of
my soul, and suddenly warned me in my Travel to_ Quiansi _in_ China,
_through the airy Region, to turn nimbly to the right hand, at an
instant, a mighty Troop of Devils, whose Leader was_ ►Grachnoek◄,
_coming through that tract of air, had crusht me into a thousand
peices_: This is the first degree of its appearing.
♦Three ways of enjoying their society.♦
♦The first way.♦
3. Then he proceedeth in the language of _Sina_, describing the second
way of its manifestation: _And when the deepest sleep hath overpoured
me, I am never without him; sometimes my_ ►Damilkar◄ _stands before
me like a glorious Virgin, administring to me a Cup of the drink of
the Gods, which my Intellectual man exhausteth: sometimes he brings
cælestial Companies, and danceth round about me; and when after the
weariness of the Senses, through contemplation I fell into gentle sleep
on the holy Mountain of Convocation, which is called_ Adan, _he shewed
me the motion of the Heavens, the nature of all things, and the power
of every evil_ Dæmon.
♦The second way.♦
4. Thirdly, he continueth to describe the External appearance of the
_Genius_, to this effect: Damilkar◄ _appears before me at my desire;
for my desires are as his desires: When I slept a long space in my
private dwelling, he appeared outwardly, and watering me with the dew
of the fourth Heaven, I awakned, when he had thrise said_ ►Nankin
Nagar◄; _so the time being come, we mounted through the Air, unto the
holy Mountain of Convocation._
♦The third way of their appearance.♦
5. In this Example the three degrees of the Apparition of the _Bonus
Genius_, or _Good Dæmon_ are excellently deciphered, which is also
the same in the appearance of the _bad Genius:_ and according to the
deepest Magicians, there be _seven good Angels_, who do most frequently
become particular Guardians, of all others, each to their respective
capacities; and also _seven evil Dæmons_, that are most frequent in
association with depraved persons, as Guardians to them.
♦Their number.♦