TranscriptionLatin
[gloss to «Maginetur etiam circulus…»] Clima sumitur dupliciter, scilicet astrologice et nigromantice. Astrologice, ut hic accipitur. Nigromantice, ut accipit Zoroastes, qui fuit primus magicae artis inventor, ubi ita dicit ad litteram: «Clima sunt etiam admiranda, quae cum carne mortuorum et humano sanguine fideliter dant responsa.» Iuxta quod debetis intelligere quod isti quatuor spiritus magnae virtutis, qui stant in cruciatis locis, scilicet in oriente, occidente, meridie et septentrione, quorum nomina sunt ista: Oriens, Amaymon, Paymon et Egim, qui spiritus sunt de maiori hierarchia, et habet unusquisque sub se XXV legiones spirituum. Unde ista propter nobilem ipsorum naturam appetunt sacrificia ex sanguine humanorum et carne similiter hominis mortui vel gatti[cati]. Sed ars ista Zoroastes non potest fieri sine magno periculo, ieiuniis et orationibus et omnibus quae sunt contra fidem nostram. Unde cum ponitur sanguis humanus in cocha aenea, tales facta invocatione veniunt; et hi spiritus vocantur climata, quia sicut clima est elevatio, sic hi spiritus sunt omnes superius elevati. Non fuerunt climata nisi septem, ratione septem planetarum, eo quod unusquisque planeta dominatur suo climati: nam Saturnus dominatur in primo, Iupiter in secundo, Mars in tertio, Sol in quarto, Venus in quinto, Mercurius in sexto, Luna in septimo. Et gentes habitantes in climate sequuntur naturam planetae dominantis. De hac materia superius dixi vobis, ideo replicare non intendo.
TranslationEnglish
The «clime» is taken in two ways: astrologically and nigromantically. Astrologically, as it is taken here. Nigromantically, as Zoroaster takes it, who was the first inventor of the magic art, where he says thus, to the letter: «The climes are also wondrous things, which with the flesh of the dead and human blood faithfully give answers.» Whereby you must understand that these four spirits of great power, who stand in the crossed places —that is, in the east, west, south and north—, whose names are these: Oriens, Amaymon, Paymon and Egim, who are spirits of the highest hierarchy, and each has under him twenty-five legions of spirits. Wherefore these, on account of their noble nature, crave sacrifices of human blood and likewise of the flesh of a dead man or of a cat. But this art of Zoroaster cannot be performed without great danger, with fasts and prayers and all that is against our faith. Wherefore, when human blood is placed in a bronze vessel, once the invocation is made, such [spirits] come; and these spirits are called «climes», because just as a clime is an elevation, so these spirits are all elevated on high. There were but seven climes, by reason of the seven planets, because each planet rules its clime: for Saturn rules in the first, Jupiter in the second, Mars in the third, the Sun in the fourth, Venus in the fifth, Mercury in the sixth, the Moon in the seventh. And the peoples dwelling in a clime follow the nature of the ruling planet. Of this matter I spoke to you above, so I do not intend to repeat it.
