Cause Principle Unity

8. The divine names and the names of the divine orders.
9. Markings and symbols.
10. Strong invocations and supplications to make the power of the superior
overcome that of the inferior, for example, to banish evil demons by good
ones, and to banish lower evil demons by higher ones. These demons are
enticed by sacrifices and holocausts; they are frightened by threats, and
they are summoned by the powers of inflowing rays of light.
11. By the power of the threefold world: elementary, celestial and intellectual.
12. The disposition to ask good things from good people, for example,
chastity, honesty, purification and abstinence.
13. The adoption of cults and natural things in which there reside spirits
which are similar to those required for actions.
14. The assessment of cults according to their different qualities.
15. The force of consecration which comes from perseverance, from prayer
and from rituals.
16. A knowledge of feast days and of the days and hours of good and bad
luck.
17. A knowledge of the different objects and methods found in religious
observations in regard to the purity of their locations, and in regard to
ablutions, contacts, endings, clothing, incensing and sacrifices.
18. The use of active and passive powers, for example, in the first or nearly
first elements, and in stones, metals, plants and animals, in accordance with
fourteen conditions.
19. Rings.
20. The techniques of enchantment.
On magic
In addition to these general bonds, others are listed in sixteen articles in
the teachings of Albert. 24 Some of these are mentioned here, while others
are not.
24 Albert the Great (1193?–1280).
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