[230] De Vita Propria, ch. xxii. p. 63.
[231] "Multa de dæmonibus narrabat, quæ quam vera essent nescio."—De Utilitate, p. 348.
[232] De Varietate, p. 351.
[233] Ibid., p. 658.
[234] In his counsel to his children, he writes: "Do not believe that you hear demons speak to you, or that you behold the dead. Seek not to learn the truth of these things, for they are amongst the things which are hidden from us."
[235] Cardan alludes to Niger in De Varietate, p. 641: "Referebat aliquando Josephus Niger harum rerum maximé peritus, dæmonem pueris se sub forma Christi ostendisse, petiisseque ut adoraretur."
[236] De Subtilitate, p. 530.
[237] "Nolim ego ad trutinam hæc sectari, velut Porphyrius, Psellus, Plotinus, Proclus, Jamblicus, qui copiose de his quæ non videre, velut historiam natæ rei scripserunt."—De Subtilitate, p. 540.
[238] Opera, tom. i. 672.