Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people.

Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.

So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.

I confess that Magic teacheth many superfluous things, and curious prodigies for ostentation; leave them as empty things, yet be not ignorant of their causes. But those things which are for the profit of men -- for the turning away of evil events, for the destroying of sorceries, for the curing of diseases, for the exterminating of phantasms, for the preserving of life, honor, or fortune -- may be done without offense to God or injury to religion, because they are, as profitable, so necessary.

Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people.

A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.

Natural Magick therefore is that, which considering well the strength and force of Natural and Celestial beings, and with great curiosity labouring to discover their affections, produces into open Act the hidden and concealed powers of Nature.