Of the Practice and Progress of Magick, as it is now explain’d to be a Diabolical Art; how it spread it self in the World, and by what Degrees it grew up to the Height which it has since arriv’d to

We have pitch’d upon Ægypt to be the Spot where the first hellish Artists study’d this that I now call Diabolical Magick. I shall not keep you long upon the cold Scent. It was practis’d there very early, and very long, before we heard much of it any where else; but when it took a run, when it started from thence, we shall soon hear of it abroad: For however secret the Black Part may be, and however private the Magicians and their great Master the Devil manag’d their Correspondence, yet the Practice of it, and the Game they play’d upon Mankind by it, was always publick and open, as we shall have reason to say, among other Nations, as well as among our own.