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take away toothache. The author next proceeds
to show the influence of the various planets over
each other, and over the earth-'not only vital,
but ~angelical and intellectual gifts may be drawn
from above" How they are to be drawn is LETT
in some obscuritr the planets are classed anu re-
classed; the necessity Of placing ones self in con.
junction with the one whose influence it is desired
to conciliatc, is strongly insisted upon; but the ac-
tual modus operandi is not so clear. However, by
"A right understanding of things celestial and ter
restial," notable truths may be discovered. Ihus
the hidden virtues Of the civet cat may be detected,
namely. the power Of her blood, which, sprinkled
on n door is a talisman against sorcery; the power
of her eve, which, administered in n decoctiOn,
renders the person who takes it odious to all and
the power Of her bowel, which, taken internally in
a detection, is a charm against the tyranny Of
princes. So Of swords; a bit, made out Of a sword
wherewith o man has been killed, will tame the
fercest horse, and wine, into which has leen dip
ped n sword with which men have been beheaded,
will cure fever and ague. The stars operate ON
fumes and give to them occult powers. Thus, the
liver of a chameleon, burnt on the top of u house,
raises showers and lightnings; the burnt hoof of a
horse drives away mice; while the fume of sper-
maceti and llgnum alocs, pepperwOrt, musk, saffron
and red styraX, tempered with the blood Of q lap
wig, will, If it be used upon the graves Of the
dead, gather together spirits and ghosts.
In brief, this work of A%grippa's was an ola.
podrida made of the Pythagorean, the Platonic,
and the Cabalistic philosophers; an attempt to fuse
them into n consistent system, and to reconcile
them with the crude popular notions Of the time,
touching natural science-the whole designed to
teach spiritual virtues, and point man h~eavenward.
1t contained, of course, many, statements Which
one can hardly read without a smile; but, rs com
rared with It's contemporaries, it was a prodigy of
learning; and, however mistaken in many of the
tenets it proposed, its main object was worthy and
honorable. The whole purpUrt Of the book was
expressed in a passage which occurs in one Of the
chapters devoted to ossrology. For" says Agrip-
pa, accident can in no case, be a prime sufficient
cause, and we must, in all things, look higher, and
find out a cause which may know and govern the
effect. This is not material but imnaterial, and
may be in mems souls; in departed spirits; in ce-
lestial intelligences; or in God himself. The pow
err of mans mind, strongly exerted, may control
dead matter, and govern even the throwing of the
dice Alright" That is, a doctrine which, if mis-
take not, has been advanced by persons who have
never been called magicians.
The work, not printed but fairly transcribed, was
handed to the most learned men of the day
Trithemius, among others, then at the height Of
his fame-nll with one accord praised it, pronounc.
ed it almost beyond praise. Agrippa, chosen re-
gent of the university at Dole, rising in favor with
the court, happy at home, famous already where
fame was most dearly earned, saw q very bright
and fair life in prospect before him.
Metz was the cherished hvmo of bigotry. They
tortured their Jews to death; they slaughtered
their heretics; they burned their witches. The
first Protestant who tried to preach there-Jean
lie Clerc-was, by the order of Nicholas Savin,
whipped through the streets on several successive
days. This done, his nose was cot off, and his
right hand; a red-hot iron crown was placed on
his head, aDd, thus arrayed, he was burnt alive
A dangerous place, this, for a man who craved ear
nestiv for amy. even the smallest work of Martin
Luther'-who honored Erasmus, and sympathized
%ardently in the intellectual revolution just com.
mencing. The quarrel began upon Il singular is
sue. The monklsh legend related that Anne, the
mother Of the Virgin Mary, had bad three hus-
bands, and by each n daughter, who was called
Mary. This harmless fancy was tercely attacked
as indecent and unwarranted by the pious Fader
u Etaples. On this, all the monkery OF Metz hew
at Faber; called him atheist, infdel; howled for
his expulsion from the church. Agrippa, with
the courage of n generous man, stood forward in
his defence. The storm was diverted from Fabel
to him. Clardlus SaiIni, the chief spokesman OF
the priesthood. worried him with mad barkings
and marvellous gesticulations-with outstretched
hhgers-Wltl names cast forward ana suddenly
sh1'cheu oack agaih-"i'ns rInuihg Oh tne teeth'
loamihg' sp'uhg' stamping leaplhg' cu1nng uf
anu uo"nIwl' tearing Il 'ne sca'P' ana suaWlne
Nv Tue NUNS pu'inNs was oniy u PREDATORY ski
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In q village near, and depending on Metz, there
had lived an old woman, whom Nicholas Savin ha(
burnt for a witch. The poor creature had left t
daughter; and the peasants, reasoning out thit
matter Of witchcratt with what light they had
made up their minds that the blot was hereditary
and that the daughter must be Il witch, too. SO
one night, with much circumstance OF brutality
they dragged the poor girl from her bed, and lock
Ell her up III a close room. When she was brought
before the Judge at Metz, to be tried for witchcraft
Nicolas Savin took a seat on the bench beside the
Judge being at the same time, in virtue OF his office
chief PROSECUTOR. The poor woman's case was al
most hopeless, when the town advocate and orator
Cornelius Agrlppa, suddenly took 1t up. Will
tar more vlgOr and force tlan he had displayed or
his own behalf when Catilinet attacked him, he
denied Sayin,s right to sit upon the bench. Ac
cused by Savin of "tavoring %heresy," he wrote tt
the Judge: THAT rascaliy inqoisitor in fact con
dennis the simple woman as hereto, by thes'
very words, though the cause OF action has beer
hardly stated. seek tar hearing for her while
she Is nntrled ana uncondemned, and the vile SCOT
er calls me i"Vorer OF heresy! lave you admit
tea TINS man TO SIT on the bench with you? Ih'
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