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PART V: THE NOTORY ART OF SOLOMON<br />
diately increase and help your Eloquence, so that you shall be made eloquent<br />
ofspeech by them, and at length attain to the Effects of the powerful<br />
Sacred Names of God: but from whence the power hereof doth proceed,<br />
shall be fully demonstrated to you in the following Chapters of Prayers:<br />
and those which follow next to our hand, we shall lay open.<br />
An explanation ofthe Notary Art.<br />
~ his art is divided into two parts: The first containeth general Rules,<br />
1. the second special Rules.s We come first to the special Rules; that is,<br />
First, to a threefold, and then to a fourfold Division: And in the third place<br />
we come to speak ofTheology; which Sciences thou shalt attain to, by the<br />
Operation ofthese Orations, ifthou pronounce them as it is written: Therefore<br />
there are certain Notes of the Notary Art, which are manifest to us;<br />
the Vertue whereof Human Reason cannot comprehend. The first Note<br />
hath his signification taken from the Hebrew; which though the expression<br />
thereof be comprehended in a very few words; nevertheless, in the expression<br />
ofthe Mystery, they do not lose their Vertue: That may be called their<br />
Vertue, which doth happen and proceed from their pronunciation, which<br />
ought to be greatly admired at.<br />
[general CJWles 3 )<br />
The first precept.<br />
H<br />
ely Scematb, Amazaz, Hemel; Satbusteon, hheli Tamazam, &c. 4 which<br />
<strong>Solomon</strong> entituled, His first Revelation; and that to be without any<br />
Interpretation: It being a Science of so Transcendent a purity, that it hath<br />
its Original out of the depth and profundity of the Chaldee, Hebrew, and<br />
Grecian Languages; and therefore cannot possible [sic] by any means be<br />
explicated fully in the poor Thread-bare Scheme of our Language. And of<br />
what nature the Efficacy of the aforesaid words are, <strong>Solomon</strong> himself doth<br />
2 The special rules are for obtaining mastery ofthe seven liberal arts. The general rules<br />
are prerequisite skills such as memory and eloquence. See Claire Fanger, Conjuring<br />
Spirits, Text! and Traditions ofMedieval RitualMagic (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania<br />
State University Press, 1998), pp. 219-220, for an analysis of the structure of<br />
the text.<br />
3 This heading does not occur in the texts, but is supplied here for clarity.<br />
4 This oration occurs in full at the end.
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