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That Beaumont himself held a commerce with Aërial and Heavenly Spirites… That Schools and Professors of this noble Art, had been frequent in all Parts of the World, and still were so in Spain, at Toledo, Cardona, Grenada and other Places: That they had also been formerly celebrated in Germany, but for the most part had failed, ever since Luther had sown the Seeds of his Heresy, and began to have so many Followers: that in France and in England it was still secretly preserved, as it were by Tradition, in the Families of certain Gentlemen; but that only the initiated were admitted into the Sacred Rites; to the exclusion of profane Persons…
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A woodcut after Hans Burgkmair, “The Young White King Being Instructed in Black Magic; His Opposition Against It” ~ 16th century