The seventh is a destroyer, Captain of the Furies, causing warres, tumults, combustions, uproares, mentioned in the Apocalyps and called Abaddon. The eight is that accusing or calumniating Devil, whom the Greeks call διάβολος, that drives men to despaire. The ninth are those tempters in several kinds, and their Prince is Mammon.

Psellus makes six kinds, yet none above the Moon; Wierus in his Pseudomonarchia Dæmonis, out of an old book, makes many more divisions and subordinations, with their several names, numbers, offices, &c. but Gazæus cited by Lipsius will have all places full of Angels, Spirits, and Devils, above and beneath the Moon, ætherial and aerial, which Austin cites out of Varro l.7. de Civ. Dei c.6.

The cœlestial Devils above, and aerial beneath, or as some will, gods above, Semidei or half gods beneath, Lares, Heroes, Genii, which clime higher, if they lived well, as the Stoicks held; but grovel on the ground as they were baser in their lives, nearer to the earth: and are Manes, Lemures, Lamiæ, &c.

They will have no place void but all full of Spirits, Devils, or some other inhabitants: Plenum Cœlum, aer, aqua, terra, & omnia sub terra, saith Gazæus; though Anthony Rusca in his book de Inferno, lib.5. cap.7. would confine them to the middle Region, yet they wil have them every where. Not so much as an haire breadth empty in heaven, earth, or waters, above or under the earth.

The air is not so full of flies in summer, as it is at all times of invisible devils: this Paracelsus stiffely maintaines, and that they have every one their several Chaos, others will have infinite worlds, and each world his peculiar Spirits, Gods, Angels, and Devils to governe and punish it.

Singula nonnulli credunt quoque sydera posse Dici orbes, terramque appellant sydus opacum, Cui minimus divum præsit ——

Gregorius Tholosanus makes seven kindes of ætherial Spirits or Angels, according to the number of the seven Planets; Saturnine, Jovial, Martial, of which Cardan discourseth lib.20. de subtil. he cals them substantias primas, Olympicos dæmones Tritemius, qui præsunt Zodiaco, &c. and will have them to be good Angels above, Devils beneath the Moon,

their several names and offices he there sets down, and which Dionysius of Angels, will have several spirits for several countries, men, offices, &c. which live about them, & as so many assisting powers cause their operations, will have in a word, innumerable, as many of them as there be Stars in the Skies.

Marcilius Ficinus seems to second this opinion, out of Plato, or from himself, I know not, (still ruling their inferiours, as they do those under them again, all subordinate, and the nearest to the earth rule us, whom we subdivide into good and bad angels, call Gods or Devils, as they help or hurt us, and so adore, love or hate)

but it is most likely from Plato, for he relying wholly on Socrates, quem mori potius quam mentiri voluisse scribit, out of Socrates authority alone, made nine kindes of them: which opinion belike Socrates took from Pythagoras, & he from Trismegistus, he from Zoroaster, first God, secondly Ideæ, 3. Intelligences, 4. Arch-Angels, 5. Angels, 6. Devils, 7. Heroes, 8. Principalities, 9. Princes:

of which some were absolutely good, as Gods, some bad, some indifferent inter deos & homines, as heroes and dæmones, which ruled men, and were called genii, or as Proclus and Iamblicus will, the middle betwixt God and men, Principalities and Princes, which commanded & swayed Kings & countries; and had several places in the Spheares perhaps, for as every spheare is higher, so hath it more excellent inhabitants:

which belike is that Galilæus à Galileo and Kepler aimes at in his nuncio Syderio, when he will have Saturnine and Jovial inhabitants: And which Tycho Brahe doth in some sort touch or insinuate in one of his Epistles: but these things Zanchius justly explodes, cap.3. lib.4. P. Martyr. in 4. Sam.28.

So that according to these men the number of ætherial Spirits must needs be infinite: For if that be true that some of our Mathematicians say: if a stone could fall from the starry heaven, or eight Spear, and should passe every houre an hundred miles, it would be 65 yeares, or more, before it would come to ground,

by reason of the great distance of heaven from earth, which contains as some say 170 Millions 803 miles, besides those other heavens, whether they be Crystalline or watery which Maginus addes, which peradventure holds as much more, how many such spirits may it containe? And yet for all this Thomas, Albertus, and most hold that there be far more Angels then Devils.

But be they more or lesse, Quod supra nos nihil ad nos. Howsoever as Martianus foolishly supposeth, Ætherii Dæmones non curant res humanas, they care not for us, do not attend our actions, or looke for us, those ætheriall spirits have other worlds to raigne in belike or businesse to follow.

We are onely now to speak in brief of these sublunary Spirits or Devils: for the rest, our Divines determine that the Devil had no power over stars, or heavens; Carminibus cœlo possunt deducere lunam. &c. Those are poetical fictions, and that they can sistere aquam fluviis, & vertere sydera retro, &c. as Canidia in Horace, ’tis all false.

They are confined until the day of judgement, to this sublunary world, and can work no farther then the four Elements, and as God permits them. Wherefore of these sublunary Devils, though others divide them otherwise according to their several places and offices, Psellus makes six kinds, fiery, aerial, terrestrial, Watery, and subterranean Devils, besides those Fairies, Satyrs, Nymphs, &c.

Fiery spirits or devils are such as commonly work by blazing Stars, Firedrakes, or Ignes fatui; which lead men often in flumina, aut præcipitia, saith Bodine, lib.2. Theat. naturæ fol.221.

Quos inquit arcere si volunt viatores, clara voce Deum appellare aut pronam facie terram contingente adorare oportet, & hoc Amuletum majoribus nostris acceptum ferre debemus, &c. likewise they counterfeit Suns and Moons, Stars oftentimes, and sit on Ship Masts: In navigiorum summitatibus visuntur; and are called Dioscuri,