A true interpretation of the witch of Endor, spoken of in I Sam. XXVIII. begin. at the 11th verse / [Lodowick Muggleton].

  • Lodowicke Muggleton
Date:
1724
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Credit: A true interpretation of the witch of Endor, spoken of in I Sam. XXVIII. begin. at the 11th verse / [Lodowick Muggleton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ginatlon there the Familiar Spirit is produced from whence it came, and there it ceafes to be v/hen they are put to Death, or over-power’d by the KnowledgCjand the Power of Faith in other Men, then the Fa¬ miliar Spirit centers in the Imagination again, it being over-power¬ ed by the Power of Faith*, fo like wife, the good Thoughts that doth proceed out of the Heart of Man, they do arife or proceed from the Seed of Faith, concerning the true God, or any heavenly Secret, or temporal judgments, or temporal Bleilingsif the Foreknowledge of thefe Things doth arife, or be foretold by the Revelation of the Seed of Faith, they are and may be called the Spirit of God. Becaule they were foretold and declared by the Revelation of the Seed of Faith, which Seed of Faith is the Seed of God, it being of God’s own Nature, therefore called the Spirit of God, and lb fore¬ told and declared by the Spirit of God: So iikewife, what Foreknow¬ ledge or Declaration of Things, that are above that which is com¬ mon to the Seed of Reafon, (as raifing of Spirits and fuch like j) I fay, they do proceed from the Imagination of Reafon, the Devil ^ and this Rrong Imagination from the Seed of Reafon, is that Familiar Spirit by which Witches do divine or forecel Things- So that the ftroiig Imagination of Reafon, being exercifed about Things that are beyond Trades and Sciences, that are neceffary, needful, and lawful *, fb it becomes a Familiar Spirit, becaufe it proceeds from the Imagination ot Reafoii, and Ciiv.. Sv ed of Reafon being the Devil, and the Devil being the fallen Angel *. for the Devil is Man and Woman *, and the Seed of Reafon is their Seed. And that Seed of Reafon it came from, that Serpent that beguiled £'ve‘^ and that Serpent v/as an Angel, and his Seed was Reafon, and this Reafon in Man is the Devil *, and the Imagination of Reafon is the Father of that Familiar Spirit, by which a Manor Woman doth Divine, Soothfay, raife Shapes, or hearVoices, or any fuch Thing of that Nature, they all proceed from the Imagi¬ nation of Reafon in Man, and the original Being of this Seed of Rea¬ fon. It came from that Serpent-Angel, that was caR down from Heaven unto this Earth, who deceived our ftrft'Parents, as I have abundantly fficwed in £ev. xi. and in the Interpretation of the whole Book of the Revelation. Now I have laid a Foundation for the Reader, that he may the bet¬ ter underhand the Foundation, from whence thele Familiar Spirits that Witches have, do proceed, and how they'are procured, and what Power they have over the ignorant Mind of Man ^ therefore to latisfy the Thoughts of many, who hath defired and requefted of me, that I would interpret fome chief Sayings in the Scriptures, that , fpeaketh
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