Lesser-Key-Of-Solomon

4 THE LESSER KEy OF SOLOMON
Philo Hebreus saith that true Magick by which we come to the secret
works of nature is so far from being contemptible that the greatest monarchs
& Kings have studied it. Nay amongst the Persians none might reigne
unlesse he were skilfull in this great Art.
This noble science often degenerates, and from Natural becomes Diabolical,
from true philosophy turns to Negromancy which is wholly to be
charged uppon its followers who abusing or not being capable of that high
and mystical knowledge do immediately hearken to the temptations of
Sathan, and are misled by him into the study of the black art. Hence it is
that Magick lyes under disgrace, and they who seeke after it are vulgarly
esteemed Sorcerers. And the fraternity ofthe Rosy Crucians thought it not
fit to stile themselves Magicians, but philosophers, they are not ignorant
Empiricks but learned and experienced physicians whose remedies are not
only lawfull but divine.