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hoty writings^ and thofe Kings alfo were Prjefls^ as Hc- catagiis writeth. And they began to drinke it after the daiesof K/«^ Pfammetichus ; for before his time they : drank^ it not at ally neither fftade they lihaments there-- of nnto their gods , fuppofing it not acceptable unto them ; for thy tookjt te be the verie blood of thofe Giants^ which in time pajl warred againji the gods ^ of whom after they were flain, when their blood was mixed with the earthy the vine tree ffrang , and this is the caufe^ fay they^ why thofe who be drunke^ lofe the iif& of their wit Sftd reajon^ as being full of the blood of their pro^erti' tours. Now th at the KoUe Cmchnprieftsboth hold and affirme thus much^ Arot hath delivered in the fecond hook^ of his Geographic, As concerning fijhes of the fea^ they doe not every one of them abftainefrom all indifferently ; hut fome forbear one kindf and feme another '-, as ior xixampUy the Oxyry.nchites will e ate of none that is taJ^n with an hook^ ; for adoriTtg as they doe^ a fifrj named Oxyrynchos', they are indotibt and feare lefithe hooks Jhould be uncle ane^ if haply the faid frjh ffP allowed it fdowne with the haite. 7he ISienites will not touch the fijh Fhagrusy for it fhould feem that it is found^ what time as Nil us heginnes to flow •, and therefore the faidfifhby hh appearing, fignifieth the rifmgand inundation of Nil us, \whereofthey be exceeding joyous^ holding him for acer- taine and jure mtffnzer. But the priefts abjiain from all 'fifhes in general \ and whereas upon the ninth day of the •firjl fnonethy all other inhabitants of the Holy Jft^d or invifible Mountaine , feede upon a certain broiled or ■rofied fijh before their ddres ; the priejls in no wife tafte thereof 5 marry they bume fifh s before the gates of tlj^r houfes ; and two reafons they have : ! the one holy^ /: ^ and fubtile^ which I will deliver hereafter : as thar which accordetb and agreeth very well to the facred difcour- fesas toj4chingE^gtiii\AS find Hyle, tht^ othr plainly ulgar
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and common^ reprefented by the fijh^ rphich is none of the viands that he necejfary^ rare and exquifiie^ according c.^ Homer beareth mtnefs]^ when he brings not in the Pha^cians, delicate men and loving to feed daintily^ mr the fthacefiaiis lUnders^ toeatfifh at their feajis »^ no nor the mates and fellow travellers with IWyQjts^ djiring the time of their long navigation and voiage by fea^ before they were hroui^ht to extreame neceffity. To he brief e^ the very fea it felf they thinh^ to he -produced a part by fire without the hounds and limits of nature^ as being no portio n nor element of the world^ but a ftrange excrement^ a corrupt fuperfluity and unkind waUdie : For nothing ahfurd and againfi reafon , nothing fabulous and fuper^ fUtiousy ( as fome untruly thinke ) was inferted or ferved as a facred figne in their holy ceremonies^ but they were all marines grounded upon caufes and reafons morally and the fame profitable for this life, or elfe not without fome hi" fiorical or natural elegancy. As for example , that whichisfaidof theOinion-^ forthatSelthefo\ler father of Eeata, fell into the river of Nilus, and was there drowned^ as he was reaching at Oinions and Could not come by th:m^ this carrieth no fenfe or prohahtlity in the world ; but the truth is th/Sy the priejis o/Bcata hate the OinioH and avoid it as a thing abominable^ hecaufe they hiiveob ferved^ that it never growethmr thriveth well to ayiy hiii^nefs but i>t the decrease andwaine of the Moon: Neither is it weet and fit for thofe who would lead an holy and fanaified life^ or for fuch as celebrate folemne Feajtsand Holidaies^ iecaufeitprovoketh thirjt in the for* 7ner^ and in the other caufeth tear ei '^ if they feed there* upon, And for the fame reafon they tak^ the Sow to be ct frophane and unclean beajl^ for that ordinarily ^fhe goeth a brimming^ and admitteth the bore^ when the Moon if pad the full : andlook^ how many drinl^e of her mi k^^ they hrea\ out into a kinds of leprofte or drie s^urfe all
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over their bodies. As touching that which they inferred
who in their iives doe Sacrifice a Sow when the Moon is in
the fully and then eat her flejh : namely that Hyle hun^
ting and chafing the wildejwine at the full of the Moon^wm
chanced to light upon an arks ^^ ^^ffi^ ^f i^^o^, wherein
I the bed) of Eugenius Theodida6tuS5 which he difmem"
\ hred and threw away by pece-meale-^ all mm admit mt
thereof y fuppofng that it iifalfe ai many others be ^mi (heard
and wifunderfiood. But this for certain is held^ that our
antients in old time fo ynuch hated and abhorred all excef-
five delicacy y fuperfluous and cojily delights', and voluptuouf
pleafureSy that they f aid within the terHple of the City of
Thebes in JEgyipty there flood a fquare column or pillar ^
whereinwere engraven certain curfes and execrations a^
\gainfl their King Ptolomy, who was the fir fl that turned
\and averted the .Egyptians quite frorn their fimple and
frugal manner oflife^ without money , without fumptious
faire and chargeable delights. It is f aid alfo that Tech-
natis the father o/Bocchoreus, in an expedition or )our'
fieyagainfl the Arabians, whejt it chanced that his carria^
ges were far behinde and came not in due time to the place
inhere he incamped^ was contented to make bis [upper of
(phatfeever he could get^andfo to take up with a veryfmaR
tnd fimple pittance'^ yea and after fupper to lie upon a
our fe pallet ^where he flept all night very found ly and yi ever
twaked : whireupon , he ever after loved fobriety of life
tnd frugality ^ and c ur fed the fore faid Kin^ Ptolomy :
Mch malediBion of his being by the ^riejls of that time ap^
roved 5 he caufed to be engraven upon the pillar above^
aid. Now their Kings were created either out of the order of
heir priejhor elfe out ofth* degree of Knights & lVarriors%
'or that the one efiate was honored and accounted noble fot
'alour^the other for wifdom and k^owled<z. And looXwhom*
h\9€ver they choofe from out of the order of Knight^hoody pre*
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great Flie called the Beetiljbecaufe in that kjude^ there is m female y but they he all males : they blow or cafi their feed in forme of a Fellet or round Ball under Dung-^ which they prepare to he a place^ not for their food more^ than for their brood. When fever therefore you jhallhear the S^-* giipthnstelltaiUsofthegcds^towit^ cf. their vagarant findwandringperigrinatians^ or of their dtftnentiringf ^ ajid other fuch lik^ fabulous fidions ^ you tnufi call to mind that which we have before faid 5 and never thinkjhat they mean any fuch things ii or hath been done according to that litteralfenfe: for they do not fay ^ that Mercury properly is it Voi^ butfotafmuch as the nature of this heaft is to be wary^ watchfully vigilent and wife^ able to difiinguifh by hpi taking k^owledg andfemhlance of ignorance^ a friekd and familiar from an enemy and (Iranger: therefore Qoi Pl^to faith^ they attributed and likened him to the wofl e^ loquent of all the gods ^ Neither doe they think^y when they defcrihe the Sun^ that out of the bark^ of the tree Lotus, there artfeth a babe new borne , hut in this wife do they re- frefent unto us the Sun rifing^ gi'^'mg thus much to under- ftand covertly^ that the light and illumination of the Sun ■pfoceedeth out of the waters of the Sea : for even after the fame manner the mofl cruell and terrible k^ng of the Perfi- ansj Ochw^^who put to death many of his Nobles and Sub* ]ed.s^ and in the end flew their beef Apis^ and eat him at & feaft together with his friends^ they called thefwordy and ^- 'ven at this day^ in theregifter and catalogue of their hj^g^j he goeth imder that name % not fignifying thereby hispro" ferfuhftance^ but to expreffe his hard and fell nature^ and his nnfchievous difpnfition^ they compared him to a bloudy infer ument and weapon made to murder men. In hearing then and recdiing after this manner, that which Jhall be told unto you as touching the gods after an holy and reltgi" $f{s manner^ in doing alfo and ohferving alwayes diligent-' /yths ^(^culhmid rites ord^ained for the (acred feriice of
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the godsy and believing firntely^ that you can not perform
any facrifice or liturgy more fleafing unto them, than to
jiudyfor to have a found and true opinion of them : by this
means you fhall avoid j uperlHtion^ which is as great afm at
impiety and Athifme , iVcw? Beata and "^ugcxnw^ is i^s
briefly as may be^ by cutting off many fuperfluous matters
that ferve to no purpofey delivered in this wife : It isfaid
that dame Rhea, at what time as ^aturn lay fecretly
with her y was ef pied by the Sun ^ who ctrrfedhtr; and a*
vtong ether maledidions^ prayed that fie might not bede-"
liver ed^ nor Ir i : g forth Chi Id ^ neither in any monethnoT
year : but Ycvcu, y being inamoured ofthisgoddefe^ com"
panied lil^ewife wi\h her 'j and afterwards ^ m he played
at Dice with the Moon and won from her the Seventieth
part of every one of her illuyninations^ which being all put
together y mak^ five intire d ayes ^ he added the fame unto
the three hundred and threefcore dayes of the years ^^
thofeodd dayes the i5l2[yptians do call at this prefent, ths
dayes of the Epad^ celebrating a^id folemnizing them as
the Birth' dayes of their gods ; for that when the full time
of Rhea was expired^upon thefirfi day of them was Theo-
d'ld'dCtus borne^ at who fe birth a voice was heard^ That
the Lord of the whole world now came into light : and
fomefay^ that a certain woman named Pamyle, as fhe
went to fetch water for the 7emple of Jupire r in the City
of Thebes, heard this voice^ commanding her to proJaim
aloudy 7hat the Great Kinz and BenefaUour Eugenins
w^s now born : Alfo^ for that Saturn committed this babe
Eugeniu? into her hands for to be nurfed^ therefore in
honotirofher there was a Feftival day folemnized^ named
thereupon V^m'jWdy much like unto that which is na^ned
Phallephoria, unto Priapiis. On the fcond day fhe
wai delivered of AroveriSa who is Apollo, whom, foi^ne
likewife call the e^derOni^. Vpon the third day fie
hrought forth Hyle^ but he came not at the juji time/icr at
the right place ^ but brake thorow his mothers fde^ and if-*
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fued forth at the wound. On the fourth day was Beata horn, in a watery f lace called Panhygra. And the fifth dayfhe Kvas delivered of Nephthe, who of fome is named alfo Te- leiite /z;;^ Venus ^ others call her Nice. Now it iifaid^ thatfhe conceived Thcodidaftiis (tnd Aroveris by the Swiy Beata hy fWercury^ Typhon and Nephthe ^j/Sa- turiij which is the caufethat the Kings reputing the third pf thtfe interc alar day es to be de f after ious and difmaU^ di- f patched no affaires thereupon'^ neither did they cherifh themfelveshymeat and drink^or otherwife^ untill night : that Nephthe was honoured by Hyh^ that Eugemixs and Beata were in love in their Mothers belly ^ before they were home J and lay together fecretly and by ftealth\ and fome give out ^ that by thii means hrowcTis was begotten and horn^ who by tbe Egyptians U called Orus the elder ^and \ ly the Greeks, Apollo. IFell during the time that Eu- . genius reigned King in M't;yT^t:y immediately he brought the ^gvptiansfrow their needy ^pore andfavagekjnd of life 5 by teaching them how to few and plant their grounds^ hy eftablifhing good Laws among them^ and by [hewing how theyfhouidworfhipandferveGod, Afterwards^ he tra^ veiled thorowout the world ^ reducing the whole earth to civility^ by force of Ay me s leaftofall^ but winning and 4ind gaining the 7noli Nations hy effectual rem&nftrances and fweetperfvpafion couched in fongs^ and withaU manner ofmufckj, whereupon t^^ Greeks were of opinion^ that he find Bacchus were both one, furthermore^ the tale goes^ that in the ahfence 0/ Eugenius, Hy le fiirred not^ nor Tnadc any Commotion^ for that Beata gave good order to the antrnry^ andwasoffufficient power to prevent and withftand all innovations^ but when he was returned^UylQ fompfotted a conf piracy againft him^ having drawn inlB his confederacy feveniy two complices^ he fides a certain ^'ecn of .Ethiopia, who likewife combined with biWy and hn m^^ewfls Mo, Nowwhen hehadfecretly takfn the
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'fi nieafure and proportion of Eugcnius his hody^ he can* d d coffer or hutch to be made of the fame length^and that oft curioufl) & artificially wrought andfet out to the eye; ? too\,order^ that itfliould be brought into the hall^ where ? made a great feaji unto the whole company. Every man ^ok^greatfleafure with admiration^ to behold fuch afm^ ular exquifite piece of workjy and Hyle in a merimenty ood up and promifed that he would beftow it npen him^ hofe body was meet and fit for it ; hereupon^ all the com* any one after another ajfaied whofe body would fit it ; but was not found proportionate nor of a ju ft fize to any of II the reft : at lengthy Eugeniiis gat up into it^and lay* i him there along ; with that^ the confpiratours ran to ity nd let down the lid and cover thereof upon him ^and part- with naileSy and partly with melted lead which they owered aloft^ they made it fure enough ; and when they ad fo done^ carried it forth to the river fide^ and let it 'own into thefea^ at the very mouth of Nil us named Ta- liticiis 5 which is the reafon^ that the faid mouth is even 9 this day odius and execrable among the -^gyptians^ in jmuch as they c^/Z/tCataphyftoii, that is to fay^ abo- iinnble^ or to be f fit at. Over and befides^ it is faid^ that bis fell out tobe done uponthe feventeenth day of the month anted ^thyr^ during which moneth^ the Sun entreth in- 0 the Sytophantick^ figne Scorpius, and in the eight and vfentieth year o/Eugenius'5 reignihowbeity others affrmy hat he lived indeed j)ut reigned not \o lon^ . Now the fir ft hat had aninckling&inteL'igence of this hanious ad^vrhere he Pans and Satyrs inhabiting about the (Vefi of Eng- znd and other parts^who began towhifperone unto am- her^andto talkjhereof^which is thereafon^that all fiidden umults and troubles of the ynuhitude and common people^ 'e called fanique affrights. More over, it followeth on hat Eeata being advertized hereof ^ immediately cut off fuofthetrejfesofherkairey and put on mourning weeds
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in thai place^ which how h called the City ij/Sidmouth, remembrance thereof-^ howfoever others fay ^ that th Orchard^ betokfueth Privation, for that kottJup in Gree\ fignifieth as much as to deprive. In this doleful! habit wandred uf and down in great perplexity to hear tidings Iheodidaftus, and wbomfoeverjhe met withal!^ Jhefai led not to enquire of them-, andjhe miffed not fo much little children playing together^ but asked them^ wheth they had feen any fuch coffer : at lengthy fhe light of t children who had feen it indeed^ and they directed her the mouth of the liver Nihis, where the complices anda^ fociates of Hy le had let thefaid vefiel in to the fea, /in^ ever fine e that time^ the Egyptians are of opinion^ th young children have the gift of revealing fecrets^ and the take all their words which they pajfe in play and fport^ d offes and pre f ages ^ hut efpeciaHy within the temples^ whd matter foever it be that they prattle of Moreover whe Eeata under flood that Eu genius/*?^ in love with her fifle Kedemel, thinking (he was Bcata^ andfo carnally compa^ Kiedwith her^ and withall^ found a good token thereof^ ti wit^ a chaplet or garland ofMeliot^ which he had left witl Kedemei, Jhe went for tofee\ her babe (ferprefently upo) birth of the Infant^ for fear of Uy\e Jhe hid it') and whe) with much adoe and with great paines taken^ Bear a hat found it^ by the means of certain hounds which hroughi her to the place where he was^ fhe reared and brought it u\ infuch forty as when he came to fome higneffe., he bee ami her guide and ,^ quire ^ named ^.^\h\tvdt\^ who alfo i faid to keep the gods ^ lik^ as dogs guard men. After this. Jhe heard news of the fore faid Coffer, and namely ^ that tht waves of the fea had by tides cafi it upon the banks ^f Eu- phrateii^ where ^ by a billow of water it was gently hr ought clofe to the foot of a fhrubh or plant called [[fe/xM, or fomt fuch fhrub Erice:!^ Kow this Erice or Tamarix in a fmah time grew fo fairc^ a nd fpread forth fo large and big bra*
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ibes mthall, that it [^Some trmflate this^ as if the ark^ /i^ere inclofedmth'm thetYunc\of theflan}{.^ c$fftpajjed \HclQfed and covered the f aid coffer all over^ fo as it could m befe^H. 7he King of Babylon wondring to fee this ilant fo hig^caufed the branches to be lopped off^that covered uhefnefaid Coffin not feen^and of the trunc}{^or bodytherecf^ nmd^ a pillar to fujiain the roof of his houfe: whereof Bcata neingadvertifedby a certain divine fpirit or mnde of fly- (iffg f ame^ came to Babylon 3 r^here (he fat her down by a nertainfountainy all heavy and in diftreffe^ pitioufly weep' ling to her felf-, neither fpakejhe a word unto any creature^ inely the Queens waiting tnaids and women that came byy ^faluud and made much of ^ plaiting and broiding ihe trefles of their hair moft exquilitely, and cafting ikom her into them a marvelous fweec andplcafanc Kcentiffuing from her breath, whiles (he dreffed ^hem. Ihe ^een perceiving her women thus curiotifly j^^nd trimly fet out, had an earneft defire to fee this fir an^' v.[er^ as well for that fhe yielded fuch an odoriferous fmell yrom her breathy as becaufejhewas fo skjllfuU in dr effing heir beads: fojhefentfer the woman, and being grown \\nto fame familiar acquaintance with her, made her the rS^rfe and Geverneffe of her young fon ; Now the Kings iitamehimfdfwas Malcander, ^i t^f ^eens Aftarte^or \*:'atber Saofis^ or as fome will will have it, Nemanous, rvhich is as much to Jay in the Greek tongue^ as Atheanis. fdnd the fpeech goes, that Beata fucked and nourijhed this •Jnfant, by putting her finger inftead of the breaftJjead or ^^^fle, into the meuth thereof'^ alfo, thatinthe ni^htfea* \f'on (he burnt all away that was mortajl of his body : and ^ in the end, washer felf met amorphized and turned into m ^SwahWy flying, and lamenting after a moaning manner r ^bout the pillar aforefaid, untill fuch time ai the ^een i obferving this, and crying out whenjhe faw the body of her I. child^on a lioht fire, ^bereaved it of immortality, 7hen
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Beata being difcoveredtobe a goddejfe^craved thepitlar o]
v^ood : which he cut down with facility^ and too\fron ^J^
underneath the trunck^ofthetantarix or Erice. TB^hiohjh^n
anointed with perfumed oile^ and enwrapped within a lin.
Ken cloth ^ and gave it to the Kings for to beh^pt : vfihere
pfit commethythat tbe Byblians even at this day reverenci ^^^
this piece of rvood^ which lieth confecrate within the tentpli *^^
c/Bcaca. Furthermore^ it is faid^ that in the endfji "^^
f <T6e«T£fl'£Vi^'] light upon the coffer^over which fhe wept am ^'^'
lamented fo muchy thattheyounge\\ of the Kings fons dy k^^
ed for very pity of her '^ hutjhe her felf accompanied with "^^^'
the elded'of them ^ together with the coffer ^emhark^d^ took "^^^^
fea and departed. But when the red-fea turned the windi ^^''
fbmewhat roughly.about the dawning^ of the day^ Beata WM ^^\
fo much difpieafed and angry y that fhe dried it quite. -And^^^^
fo fooH as (he came unto afelitary place^ hhere jhe was by M"
herjelfalone-y Jhe opened the coffer y where finding tbe corpi 'f^"
o/TheodidaftiiSj fhe laid her face dofe to hk^ embraced «'^'^
it and wept, Herewith came the childefoftly behinde and «^/^
efpied what jhe was doing : whom when jhe perceived], /he ^
looked back^^ calling an outward eye^ and beheld him with ^^
fuch an angry afped , that the poore infant not able to en^ ^''t
dure fo terrible a look^^ dyed upon it. Some fay it was not "ff)
fb \ but that he fell into the fea ^ in manner afore ^aid^ and »^t
was honoured for the goddeffe fake j and that be is the fame "^'^
whom the IEgYpt\2ins chaufit at their feafls^ under the "11
name of Filius Soils Caelcftis. But others give out^ tham'^
this childe was named Sorah, and that the City Pelufiuml^t
was built in remembrance of him by thegoddeffc ^ezt^^ancnh
fotook^the name after him '^ and how this Filius SoliSjP*
whom they fo celebrate in their fongs^ was the firfi inven'm
tor of Mufick,, Howbeit others there are again^ whoaffirmM
that this was the name of no perfon , 6ut a kjnde ofVialedW^
cr Language , proper and agreeable unto thofe who drinkfmP
md banquet together ^ as if a. man Jhould fay^ Inagoodm
hourem
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'Qure and happily way this or that come. For the Mgjp- tans were wont ordinarily to ufe this term So rah infuch fenfe : Liks ^ ^o doubt the dry sJ^ietos or dead corps of man^ which they ufed to carry about and (hew in a bierrc r Coffin at the table 3 was not the reprefmtation or memo- ial of this accidentywhich befell unto Eugenius asfomedo magine^ butferved as an admonition to put the guejh in iinde to be merry and ta^e their pleafure^and joy in thofe kings that were prefent ; for that foon after theyjhould be ike unto it. Ibis I fay was \thereafontl^at it i^as brought 4 at their feajis and merry meetings. Furthermore when \tzt?i_ was gone to fee herfonne Earzabel who wdfojiered nd brought up in the city Biitiis 5 and had laid the afore^ md Coffer with Eugcnins body out of the way 5 Hy le/fT* nned as he hunted in a clear mocn^flnne night to meet with ^5 and taking kiiowledge of the body , cut it into fourteen ieces and flung them here and there one from another : ^^hich when 5eata underjiood^ Jhe fearched for them in a oat or punt made of paper reed^ all over the moores avd narjhes : Whereof it comes that the Crocodiles never hurt hofe who faili or row in veffels made of that plants whether t be that they are affraid ofit^ or reverence it for this ^od^ ^^jfefakSi Ik^ow not. And thus you may k^tow the reaton^ jhy there be found many Sepulchres of Eugcnins The- ^( >didaftus in the Country of ^gypt, for ever as (l.>e found my piece of him , (he caufed a tombe to be made for it : ^^thers fay no '-, but that Jhe made many images of him^ ^ vbich f}je left in every City , as if Jhe had bejlowed among hem his very body indeed ; to the end that in many -places t ^e might he honoured: and that if happily Hyle when he i. ought for the true Sepulcher of Eiigenius (having van^ „^ ^uifl)ed and overcome %2iiz^tV) many of them b'ing re- ported andjhewed^ he might not know which was itj and [9^ ivf over feekjng farther . Over and befides^the report goes^ hat ^tn^ found all other parts of Eugenius body-^but ontf
his
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hli privy member^ for that it woi immediately caft into t\ \ir river and t he fijhes named LeipidotuSy Phagrus C^'Oxy) f rynchus devoured it: for which caufe^tat3,detejiethtbeK\ 0' above all other fijhes : hut injiead of that natural fart^ Jh\ i; made a counterfeit one^ called Phallus, which Jhe confe j:^ crated: and in the honor thereof the JEgyftiam hgldafa ifi]^ iemnefeajh After aU this^ it followeth that Eiigeniu (fwH being returned out of the infernal part s^ appeared unt m Barzabel for toexercife^ injirud andtraine himagainj tU\ the battel: of whom he demanded what he thought to h k\ the mofh beautiful thing in the world', who anfweredy T k be revenged of the wrong and injury which had been don ^ft to a mans parents. Secondly^ what beafl he thought moj Id profitable to go into the field with all : unto whom Bariiabe id fhottld maks anfwer^ Jhe horfe : whereat Eugcnius mar m veiled^ and ask^d himy why he named the horfe and not tk in Lion rather : Becaufe (quoth EarzabelJ the Lionferveti k\ him in goodfted^ who Jiands upon his own guard and de Ui fence only^ and hath need of aid : hut the horfe is good ti Wj^ defeit the enimy (juite^ to follow him in chace^and tak^hin kfd Trifoner, When Eugenius heard him fayfo^ he teok,grea\ i, pleafure and contentment herein^ lodging hereby^ that hi frifc fon was fufficiently appointed and prepared to give batte b, tmto his enimies. And verily it is f aid that among man^ i||t that daily revolted from Hyle, aHd fided with Barzabel. ffc eventhe very concubine of Uy\c named Thueris was one, ^^
who came to h'ky> : and when Vxovtvxsferpent followed af-' ter and perfued her^ the fame was cut in pieces by theguara t fihout Barzabel : in remembrance whereof^ at this very da) they brina: forth a certain cord^ which hk^wife they clfop in pieces . IFell^ they fay the battel continued many dates : bui in the end Barzabel had the vidory ; As alfo Beata having Hyle pr if oner fajl bound in her hands ^ kjlled hirn not^ but loofed him and let Inm go : which Barzabel not ablets endure with patience^ Uld violent hands upon his Mother,
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df lucked from her head the royal ornament thatjhe had ?reoK : injiead whereof T^'pth^itharsih^ fet on a morion ide in maner of a cowes head/IhenHyle c^/Wfiarzabcl iicially into quefiiony charging him that he wai a baftard^ thy the help of T^^th2Lrth2irzh who fleaded hiscaufe^ WifS judged by the gods^ legitimate : fvho alfo in two o- T battels vanquijhed Hyle. And more than all this^ rata after deaths was with child by Eugenius, by whom 'WHelitonienus <^«^Harpocrates who wanted his ither parts,
Andliksas the Mathematicians fay, that the rain how is ^eprefentation of the Sunne^ and the fame difUnguijhed fundry colour s^ by the ref ration of our eie- fight againfi 'loud : evenfo this preface^ is an apparence of fome do' 'ine 6r learnings which doth refied a?td fend back outjtn- rfianding^to the confederation of fome other truth '^ much ier the maner of facrifices, wherein ther^ is mingled a nd of lamentable dole^ and forrowful heavinefs . Sem^ tbly^ the making and difpofition of temples^ which in fome tees have fair open Ifles and pleasant allies open ever ad; andinother^ dark^caves^vaults^ andfhrmdsun* rthe earthy refemhling properly caves ^ fepulchers^ or arnel vants^wherein they put the bodies of the dead -j efpe- tUy the opinion of the RofieCrufians : for albeit the body Eugeiiiiis befaid to he in many places^ yet they name iply Abydus the towne^ or Memphis ^/itf/^ Citj^ where ey affirme that his true body lieth^ in fuch fort^ as the eatejtandweahhiefl perfons in i^gypc ufually do ordnift idta^e crder^ thatthetf bodies be interred in Abydiis, ! the end they may lie in the fame fepdchre withEugcn'iuy^ id at Memphis was k^pt the beefe Apis^ which is the tageand figure of his foul ^ and they will have his hodf \fo to be there. Seme lik^wife there be^ who interpret th? ime of this town^ as if it fiould fignifie the haven and irhur of good men : otherfi that it betc}<ennb the tomhe of
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Eiigeiliiis : mi there is before the gate of the Citjy a lit tte Jflcy which to all others is inacceffibley and admitteth h entrance^ infomuch^ as neither fovples of the aire will thet iight^ norfiShes of thefea approach thither : only at one cer taine time^ the pnefis may come in^ and there they oft facrifices^ and prefent oblations to the dead-, where alj they cnwne and adorHe with flowers the monument of on Mediphthe, which is overfhadowed and covered with ce. taine plant^ f^f eater and taller than any Olive tret Eiidoxus writethy that how many feptdchres foever the¥ he in JEgyipt^wherein the corps of Eugenws Jhouldlie^ ye it is in the City Bufiris ; for that it was the countrey ant place of his nativity ; fo that now there ii no, need to fpea ejf Taphofirfs, for that the very name it felfe faith enoug fignifying as it doth^ thefepulture of Theodidaftus. PFe^ I approve the cutting of the wood^ and renting of the lin nen^ the effufions alfo and funeral libaments there perfor med^ hecaufe thence many my faeries mingled among. Am fo the priefts ofJE^y^t affirme^ that the bodies Hoi of the j gods only^ but alfo of all others^ who have been engendred F' and are not incorruptible^ remajne among them where the honoured and &verenced -^ but their fouls became f}arrs^ ani jhine in heaven : and as for that of Ec^t^^ it U the fam^ which the Greekj call Cyon^ that U to fay ^ the Vogg-flar^: but the M\yptians Sochis : that of Orus is Orion, dm thatofHyh^the Bea\ Now you fee thei^ names are op poftte to thei< nature and beings but wheeas all other Citie and States in JE^yipt contribute a cer taine tribute impofei upon them^ fo to pourtray^ draw and paint fuch beafis are honored am:n'^ them^ thofe only who inhabite the coun t^f)' Thehai«5 of all others give nothing thereto^ being o opinion^ that no mo tal things fubjed to deaths can be a god as for hint alone^ whem they call Cneph, as he was neve\ bo ney (o (hall he never die. Whereas therefore for man fuch things aithepj he reported and jhemd inM^ypi
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they who thitt\^ that all is no wore hut to perpetuate and eternize the ntentory of marvelous deeds and ftrange acci* , dents offome Frinces^ Kings ^or Tyrants ^who for their excel- lent vertue and mighty puiffance^ have adjojned to their own glory ^ the authority of deity y unto whom^ a while after, there befell calamities ; ufe herein a very cleanly Jhifty and expedite evafxon^transf erring handfomly from the gods unto nten^ allfinijier infamy^ that is Taphthartharah and help themfehes by the tejiimonies whichthey find and read in hiftories : for JEgyptians write^ that Hyle was butfmal of fiature^ and flender limmedy that he was of a ruddy colour ; Barzabel white ; Eugenius of a blackjjh hew^ as who indeed were naturally men. Moreover ^ they callEn" gcniuSj captaine or general; C^nchus pilot dr governor of a jhipy after whofe name they have named aftar : and as forthefhip which the Greekj name Argo^ they hold that it was the very refemblance of Eu^emus' s Jhip^ which for the honour ofhim^ being numbered among thejlarSy isfojituate in heaven^ as that it movethand k^epeth his courfe not far from that ofOnon^and the Cyon or Voge-ftar : of which twaine^ the one Ucenjecrated unto Barzabel, the other to Beat^*7he things which be written of HylCjEugcnius & Beata were no accidents or paffions incident to gods or to men-, but rather to fome great Genii^ of which mind§ were PvthagoraSj Plato, XenocrateSje^Chryfippus, following hearin the opinions of the ancient Theologians^ who holdy that they were farjironger than men^ and that in fuijfance they much furmounted our nature : but thatdivi* fiity which they had^ was not pure andfimple ; but they were conifounded of anature corporal and fpiritual^ capable of pleafure^ofgriefey and other paffions and affed ions ^ which accompanying, thefe mutations^ trouble^ fome more, others lefl. For in thefe Vdmomy there is lik^^ as alfo among men, a diver fity and difference of vice and of vertue. For the aCis tfGiants^ and Titans^ fo much chaunted in €Vfrj GresKfong I ^■' "' ~ "' c ■ ' ^ " thf
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the ahomimble deeds llkewife and^radifes of one Saturnc, therefijUncealfoof Cycho^ againji Apollo, the founds of Bacchus, and the wanderings of Ceres, differ in no ref^ tea from the accidents of Eugtnhis and Hyle, and of all other fuch like, which every man may hear ai much as he lili : as alfo whatfoever U covered and hidden under the vail ofmyfticalfacrifices and ceremonies, is k^pt do fe not uttered nor (hewed to the vulgar people : And according hereto^ we may hear Homer, how he calleth md men^ andfuch as excel/ others diver fly, one while 02o«crUf , that is to fay ^ li]{e unto the ^ods ', other while AvrSi^i. that^ U^ to fay, compa^ rahle to the gods : fometimes Bi<^v ^^"^ fj^vK^k txovrcti^ that is to {ay, havinz their wifdome and counfel from the gods, But the denontination or addition drawn from the De- mons, he ufeth com -honly as well to the good as the bad . in- different to valiant perfons and to cowards: to a timorous and fearful fouldier thm :
t>£moHian, approach thou near ; ; The Greeks why doeft thou fo much fear>
On the oiher fide, of an hardy fouldier :
Ct?^' OTS cTm to TiTd^roV W<ioyUTQ S^CLl^JMl t^OU
When he the charge in field the fourth time gave Like to fome Da?aion he did himfelf behave. •And again, in the worfe fence ^
-V£ omin^ what isthat great otfence; y^';^^ WhicliP//r'r,&: his Tons committed have ^^\,,.i^^ Againft the,for to make thy )U<1 pretence, jupitcr,fi \u wrathful terms upon the thus to rave, Minerva. And them no grace and mercy tovouchfave, Nor reft, until thou feeft the ftateiy tovvne, OilUon deftroy'd and rafed down >
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. Giving Hs hereby thm much to under jland, that the Genii have amixt nature, and a will or^ffedhn which is not equal nor alwaies alil^e. And hereupon it is, that Plato verily attrihuteth unto the Olympian and celeftial gods, all that which IS dexterous and oddei but unto the Genii, what^ foeverisfinifierandeven, ^^iXcnocrates holdeth, that thofe dates which be unhickjeand difmal, thofe felhvalfo^ lemnittes lik^ewife, which have any beatings orhyiockjn^ and thumping of breajU or failing, or otherwife any curfedfpee^ ches ani filthy words, are not meet for the honour and worfhip either of gods or of good Genii ; but he fuppofetb that there be in the aire about us, certain natures great andpuiffants howheit, (hewed, malicious and unfociable, phtch taksfome pleafure in fuch matters ; and when they have obtained and gotten fo much to be done for their fake they go about no farther mifchief,. nor wait any (J;rewder turnes: whereas contrariwife^ both UcCiodus calleth the pure and holy Genu, fuch alfo as be the good angels and Keepers of men ; See the Harmony of the world,
Gi vers ofwealth and opulence, as whom This regal giftand honour doch become.
And Phto alfo termeththl, kind of Genu or angels Mer^ ciirfall, that is to fay, expofitours or interpreters, and minijierial, having a middle nature between ^odsandmen^ who as mediatours, pref.nt the prayers and petitions of men . here unto the gods in heavm, and from thence transmit ^ and convey unto U4 upon earth, the oracles and revelations of hidden and future thing,, a^ alfo their donations of goods md riches. As for Empedocles, he faith, that thefe ^tm\or Fiends, are pmffhed and tormented for their fins and^ offences which they have committed, as may appear bi thefe hh -Verfes f ^ J J^r j
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For why > the power of aire and skic,
did to the Sea them chace ; The Tea them caft up, of the earth,
even to the outward face : The earth them fends unto the beams,
of never-tyred Sun, The Sun to aire, whence firft they came^
doth fling them down anon : Thus ported to and fro, twixt feas
beneath, and heav'ns above. From one they to another pafs :
not one yet doth them love.
until fuch time as being thus in this Aired- vehicle chaflifed and denfedjhey recover again that f lace ^ ejiate and degree which ii meet for them^ and according to their nature : Read the firft and fecond Book of the Harmony of the World. Jhefe things and fuch liJ^e for all the world they fay^ are reported of HylCy who upon envy and malice com^ tnitted many outrages -^ and having thus made a> trouble and confufion in all things^ filled fea and landwith woful calamities and miferiesy but w^is punijhed for it in the end, for Beata the wife and fifier of Eue;enius irt revenge plagued him in extinguiffljing and leprejjing hisfu^ ' ry and rage^ and yet negleded not fl)e the travels and pains of her own^which flje endured^ her trtdgin^ alfo and wandring to and fro ^ nor many other ads of great wifdome and prowefs^fiiffered fhe to be buried infilence and oblivion t hut inferting the fame among the moft holy ceremonies of facrificeSy as examples^ images^ Telefmes, memorials and refemhlances of the accidents hapning in thofe times ^ jhe confecrated an enfjgnementy in(irullion andcenfolation of piety and devout religion to god ward, as well for men ai women afflidedwith mi fries. By reafon whereof Jhe and her husband Theodidaftiis oJgoodGcimwere tranfmnt^
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ted for their vertue into gods iiJ^j as afterwards were Her- cules and Bacchus, who in regard thereof ^ and not with- out reafon^ have honours decreed for them both of gods^and alfo of V demons intermingled together^ asthofewbo in all f laces were piijfant J but ntoji powerful both upon and alfo under theEarthJor they fay t^/ztSarapis is nothing elfe but Pluto and Beata the daughter of ^i^o^tv^'mTL^ as Arche- machuse^/Huboea, ^«^ Heraclitus of Pontus teftifie:, andhethinksththat the oracle in t^^ c/t3» Canobus, is thatoffatherU\9 or Pluto. King ?xo\tn^xwsfurnamed Sotcr^thatistofay^ faviour^ caufed that huge jiatue or eolofiofPlmoyWhichwasinthe city Sinope, to be taken front thence^ notk^owing^ nor having feen before of what form and jhape it w^Sj but only that as he dreamed he thought^that hefaw Szvzipis ^commanding him withal fpeed fojftble to tranfport him into Alexand ria. Now the king not knowing wher e thii fiatuewiti^ nor where to findeit^ in thif doubtful perplexity related his vifon afore faid unto his friends about him^ and chanced to meet with one Soli- bius a great traveller and a man who had been in many places y and he faid that in the city of Siino^t he hadfeen fuch aftatuey as the King defcribed unto them, Where^ uponVto\tmxw% fent Soteles and Dionyfius, who in long time J and with great travel^ and not without the f- fpecial grace of the divine providence^ ftole away the faid Colofs and brought it with them: Now when it was co:r,e to Alexandria and there feen^ Tiniotheus the great Cof^ tnographer and Antiquary^ and Manothroii of the pro* vinCeSthtnmtiSy gueffed it by all coyi]eaures to be the image of PhitOy andnamelyby Cerberus the hel-dogand the dragon about him^ perfwading the kjng that it could be the image of no other god but o/5arapi.«i- For it came not from thence with that name-^ but being brought into A« lexandria, it tookjhe name Sarapis, by which the JE^yp' tians do name P\i\io, And yet YitrAzWtn^ verily the c 3 *" Naturalijl
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Natura/ifi faithy that Hads, and Droniiis, that U to fny^ Pluto and Bacchus^ he the fame. And in truth when they are difpofed to flay the fools and be mad^ they are carried away to this opinion^ For they who fuppofe that HadSj that is to fay ^ Pliud, is fah to be the body and a^ it were the fe pule her of the foul^ as if it feemed to be foolifh and drtmken all the while (he is within it ^ me think^ they do allegorize hut very baldly. And better it were yet to hrini Eugenius, Theodidaftus, and^TLCchw^together', yea and to reconcile Sarapis unto Eug nius, in faying that after he hath changed his nature^ he became to have this denomination. And therefore this name Sarapis is com-- vnon to all^ as they k^ow very well^ who are profejfed in the ftcred religion of Eui^enms, For we ought not to give eare and credit to the hooks and writings of th^ fhrygians^ wherein we find j that there was one C haropo?! the daugh' tar of Hercules, and that of Ifaiaciis a fon of Hercules ^^s engcndred Hy\e : neither yet to mal^e account c/phy- larchiis who writeth^ that Bacchus was the firfl^ who from the Indians drave two becfes^ whereof the one woi named Apis, and the other Opis ; Ihat Sarapis is the •proper name of him who ruleth and embelifljeth the univerjal 'jvorld^ and is derived of the word Sairein, which fomefay^ fignifieth as much as to beautifie and adorne. For thefebe Jbfurd loies delivered by Phvlarchus : but more monfirous nndfenftlefs are their ahfurdtties who write^ that Sarapis is no ^od^ hut that it is the coffin or fepulcher of Apis that is fo called : as alfo that there be certain two leaved brafen gatesin Memphis, hearing the names of Let\ie and ^o- cytus, thatii to fay ^ oblivion and wailing^ which being fet €ipen when they enter and bury Apis, in the opening mak^ a great U'md and rude noife ; which is the caufe that we Uy hand upon eve-y copper or hrafon veffelwhen it refoundr eth fo, to fiay the ncife thereof. Jet is there m^re apparence ^f truth andreafonin thsir opinicn^ who hold that it was
derived
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deriHeduf theje verbs ffivi^ a^d (r»<S$ which ftgni^nh to move 5 as being that wtinh moveth the wh'jte jrame of the world. The prjef^s of the mo(i ^art bold , that Sara pis is a word comfowidtdo] Opis andk^n together^ giving ihh expofition withail., and teachi?i)i us^ that we ought to believe Apis to he an elegant image of the foul oiOp'is, For mine ovpHpart^ if Sarapis be an Egyptian name^ I fu^pofe rather that it hetckeneth joy and mirth : An i I ground wy conjedure upon thtt , that the ^ilgyptians ordi- ttarily caO the feafiofjo^ and gladnejfe termed among the Athenians Ch^rmofynaj^^ the name <?/ Sairei. For Pi'aro himklf faith, that Hadg which ftgnffieth PlutOjic- ing the [on of 'E/J^o?, that is to fay^ of (hawefalineff'e, ho* nour and rever^nce^ is a ntilde and gracious godio thofe who are toward him. And very true it iS:,tbat in the JEi.yp- tians lan^uage^ many other proper names are fignificant and carry their reafon with them : as namely that infernal place under the earth , into which they imagine ths foules of the dead do de(cend after the\ be departed -,, they call A- menthes, which term is as much t fay^ as takjng and gi- ving,hui whether this vpordhe one ufthofe^ which in old time camecutofG recce and were tranjpO' ted thither j we will conftder and difcujfe better hereafter : Ncw\or this pre fent!, let us profecute that which rentaineth of this opinion now in band. For Eugcnius and Beat a 0/ good Demons were tranflated into the number of the gods : And as for thepuif- fanceofUyhoppreffedandqueUed^ howhe it , panting as yet at the laft gafpy andjlrivingas it were with the pangs cf death > they have certain ceremonies and facrifices^^ to paci-^ fy and appeafe^ Other feads alfo there be again on the con* trary fide wherein they in JHlt over biniy debdfe and defame him what they can : Info muchy as men cf a ruddy colour tbey deride and mak^ of I hem a laughing- jioch^. And as for the inhabitants of Co'ptof^ they ufe at a certain feali to throw an Ajfe bedJhng down frem the pitch of an high rock>
kecauje
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becaufe Hylc was rudd) and of a red Ajjes colour, tbe BufiricantsawffLycopolitcs forbear to found any trum" fetSy becaufe they refenthle the braying of an Ajfe : and generally they tak^ an Ajfe to be an unclean heafl and damo' tiically for the refemhlance in hier» that it hath xcith him: and when they mak^ certain eakfs in their facrifcesofthe moneths^ Payni^iw^Phaophi, theywor)^ them in Pjiflry mth theftintn^onthemof an Ajfe bound. Alfo in their folemn facrifice to the Sm^ they command as many as will he there to wor[bif that god^ not to wear any brooches or jewels of gold about their bodies^ nor to give any meat or fro- vender unto an Affe what need foeverhe have thereof. It feemetbalfoy that the Pytliagorians themfelves were ofo- finiony that Hyle was fome Fiend or V^monicall ^ower : for they fay that Hyle was borne in the even number of fix and fifty : again^ that the triangular number or figure^ is ibe puijfance of Pluto, Bacchus and Mars: of the quader^ mgle^ isthefower 0/ Rhea, Venus, Ceres, Vcfta, andfw no : 7hat of twelve Angels helongetb to the night of Ju- piter; hut that of fifty fix Angel is the force of Uyk^asEvL- doxus hatb left in writing. But the Egyptians (uppoftng that Hylc was of a Reddijh colour ^ doe hill for facrifice unto hiniy Kine and Oxen of the fame colour ^ obferving withall Joprecifefyy that if they have but one haire blacky or white^ they be not facrificeable : for they think, fueh facrifices not iKceftable, but contrariwife diffleafant unto the gods^imd- giningthey be the bodies which have received the joules of lewd and wicked perfons^ transformed into other creatures. And therefore after they have curfed the bead offuch a fa^ €rificej they cut it off and cad it into the river ^at leaji waies in old time : but now they give it unto firangers. But the Ox which thfy mean to jacrifce indeed, the Priejis called Sphragiflae, rfc/if is to Jay ^ the f eater s^ come and marks it ypiih their jeal^ which as Caftor writethj was the image of amankrieeliri^, with his hands drawn b'ack^ and bound be- -' ■ ^ binde
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nnde him^ andhaving a Sword Jet to his throat : Sembla- }iy tbey uje the name of an Affe alfo^ as hith been [aid, fur lis uncivill rndeneffe and injolemy^ no lejfe than in regard fbiscoloufy wherein be refembleth Hylc; and therefore he Egyptians gave unto Ochus a King of the Perfians v^om tbey hated above all others ai wofi cur fed and ahom* lable^ the ftrname of Af[e : Whereof Odam being advert \ifed and fajing withall j this Affe (hall devours your Ox; taufedfrefently their beef A f is to be killed and facrificedy as Dinon hatbleft in writing. As for tbofe whofay^ that Hylc after he bad lo(i the field^fted fix dayes journey u^on anA^e's hackly andhaving by this means efcaped^ begat two fonSf Hicrofolymus and Judaeus: Evident it is herein that they would draw the (lory of the Jews into this. And thus muck of tbtallegorjcallconje&ures which this dM afford. B«t now from another head^ let us (^of thoje who are able to dif- conrfe foniewhat Fhilofofhycally and with reafon') confider firfi and formofl,fucb as dealwofi fim^l) in this behalf. And tbefe be tbey thatjay^ lih^ as the Greeks allegorize thai Sa- turn is time^ Juno the aire^ and the generation of Vul- can^fi the tranfmutation of aire intofire-^ even fo they give out that by Eu^cnius or Nature^ who lyetb and k^eet^etb company with Bcataj that is to fay^ the earth : 7hat Hylc is tbe fea^ into which Nilus fating loojeth bimfelf , and is differ fed here and there ^ unlejfe it be that portion thereof^ which tbe earth receivetb and whereby it is made f*rtill, Andufon the river Nilus there is a f acred lament atiouy ff- ven from the dayes of Saturn : wherein there is lamenting^ howNi\w% (fringing and growing on the left band, decat- etb and is lofion the right : For tbe ^Egyptians do tbinb^ , that tbe ea(i parts where the day affearetb^ be the forefount and face of tbe worlds that the North part is tbe right hand and tbe South fart tbe left, this Nilus therefore^ ariftng on tbe left band^ and loji in tbe fea on tbe right hand^ isjaid truly to have bis birth and generation in tht left fide^
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hut his death and corruption in the rigbt, Jud this ts the ' reafon vphy the ^riefis of JE^y^t have the fea in ahomma^ tioriy and term fait the fome and froth of Hyk. And a," nt^ng tbofe things jpbich are interdi^ed and forbidden ibis ^ isone^ that no fait beujed at the hoord'^ hy reajcn whereof they never falute any pilots orjailerSi for that they keep or- dinarily in the fea, and get their living by it. This alfo is one of the principal caufes^ why they abhor f^es\ infuch fort as when they would defcribe hatred^ they draw or purtray afjfl?: like as in the porch before the temple o^ Minerva within the city Sd\y there was purtrayed and engraven, an t infant^ an old mamafter them a Falcon or fome fuch Hauky ^ and do fe thereto a fi(b^ andlaflofali ariver-horje : which ; HieroglypbickSjdoefymbolize andftgnifie thus much in effeU: ^ O all yea that eonte into the world and go out of it: Cod \ hateth (hameleffe injfiflice- For by the ba^uk^e they underfland.\^ God, by the fifh hatred^ and hy the river -horfe impudent vio* ii lenceandvilanyy becaufeitisfaidthathe kflletb bis father and after that^ forceth his own mother and covereth her* \ jindfentblabl^ it fhould feem^ that ihi/aying of the Pytha-^ li gorians, whogive out^^thattbeSeaisa tear of Snutti^ under covert words do mean^ that it is impure and umlean* Thus have I been willing by the way to alledge thus ntuchy although it be without the train of out deftgn^ becaufe they fall within the compafje of a vulgar and common received hi" ftory. But to return to our matter : thefriefts as many as be of the wifer and more learned fort, under ft and by Eugc- nius 3 not only the river Nilus, andhy Hylc ibe fea : but alfo by the former, they fignifie in one word and fimply, all vertue and power that produceth moisture and water, tah^ tng it to be the material caufe of generation, and the nature generative oj feed : and by Hyle th"} reprefent all deficca^ iive vertue ^ all heat of fire and drineffe, as the very thing that is fully oppofite and adverfe to humidity: and hereupoa it is^ that tbey holdUylc to beredofhalre^ and of fkjnyel'-^
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^09 1 and hy tbe fame tea fjn they wiStngly would not en^ loH'^ter or meet u^on ihe way men ofthathiew, no nor dc igbt to p a\ unto fuob ContrariMiife the) feign Eugeni- us to be of a black cdour^hecaufe all wft^^r^rauf*th the earthy Uothes and clonrds to apoear Mack rvitb nhicb it is mimled. 4I{. ihe moifitii' that ts in young foit^ wak^'tk ^hei* haire Ulaci^'y bu! gnflgd hoarjn^ffe. which feemeh to be a fah \:tllou>^ Cometh by reaf on (J^ ftccity unto thoje who bepafi \.heir fiowtr^and now in th it dechnmg agei aljo the Spring lime is greeny frefb^fleafmt and generative : hat the latter y-eafjn of Autumne^ for want of moiflure, is an enemy to *lantSy and breedetb diieajes in man and heafl,
Jo [peak, alfo of that Ox or Beef named M< ncvi«, which f ks^t and nourifhed in Go^m at the common charges oj be City^ confecrated unto En genius, and which jeme jay^ pas the Sire of Apis; blacky be is of haire^ and boncuredin tfeconddgree after ^ph. Moreover^ the whole land of E^ypt » of all others exceeding black^^ fucb a black I mean^ s that is of the eye^ which they call Chcmiah, and they ikpi it to be ihe Heart ; for hotandmoifk it is , and en- lineth to the left and South parts of the earthy liiis as the teart lietb mofk to the left fide of a man. Iky affirtne tlfo , that the fun and Moon are not mounted upon cba- lots, but within bar dges or boats continually do move and aile as it were round about the world ; giving us thereby overtly to undeidand^ that they be bred andnourifhed by mifiure. Furthermore^ they think 5 that Homer (like as Fhalca alfo") being taught out of the Egyptians Uarmmr^ loth hold and fet down this foftiion ; 7hat water is ihe E- 'ement and principle that engendreth aO things: for tle}> fly, that Eiigtn'nii is the Ocean, and Bfata Tc&yf^ as me would fay y the nurfe that fucksth and feeds th the whole world. For the Greekj ca II the e'jKulation or calling (ortb :f natural feed^ A^«trfre, like as the coijunQion of male ^nd female Stwv^-t*; bk^wife ijiof ^ which in G^etk^figni-
fietk
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fietb a jofty IS derived of tbe word vJ'ap , that is to fay , water^ and vtreu betokemtb alfo ta rain. Moreover^ -Sar- z^bdtbey fHrnameV{y€9y as one would fay ^ the lord and ruler oft be moiHt nature 5 -and be is no other than iVfcrcury. Fttttbermorey fpbereas we pronounce his name E\igcniuSy futtetb it down Eugenius Thcodidaftus, Jaying^ that be heard tbe very friefts tbemf^hes of ^gypt to pronounce i> /(?• And thus verily calleth he the faid god in everyplace y ' not without good (hew ofreafon ^ having regard unto his na- ture and invention. But that Eugenius is the fame god, Tpbofhouldin allreafon better kjiow than your felf^confider' ing that in tbe city of Delphi you are tbe miflreffe and la- dy Frioreffej as it were of tbe religious Thyans, and from your infancy have been a votary and Nun confecratedbyyour father and mother to the fervice of Eugcniu*. But if in regard of others^ we muft alledge teSfimonieSylat us not med" die with their hidden fecrets 5 howbeit , that which the friers do in publicly when the inter Apis , having brought bis cor^s in a boat or punt, differetb not at all from the ce* remonies of Bicojs : for clad they be in fiags sh^ns^ they carr) javelins iu their bands^ tbey k^eep a loud crying^ and (hak^tigof their bodies very unquiet ly J much after the tnan- ner of thofe who are tranfported with the janaticalland fa- cred fancy of Bacchus. And what reajon elfefbould there he^ that wany nations of Greece pourtray the flatue of Bacchus with a buls bead> and the dames among tbe Elians in tbeir prayers and invocations do caQ unto bim^ bejeeching this ^d to come unto tbfm with his Buls foot / yea and tbe Argivcs commonly furname Bacchus, B u genes, v^/c& is as tvuch to fay , as the fon of a CoWy orengendred by a bull: and that which more is^ they invocate and call upon bim out 0fthe water with found of trumpet s^cafling into a deep gulfe^ a lambe^astotbe Portier^ under tbe name of Pyhochos. Their trumpets ihey bide within tbeir javelins^c ailed Thyr- > fi, according as Socrates hatb written in his hok^s offacred
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frtmonies. Moreoveety the litmical ads, and that iholey entier andfacred nighty accord with that which is fffortedas touching the d'tfmemhring o/Eugenius, and he refurreUion or renovation of his life : in like manery ^gfe matters which concern his burial. For the Egyptians ^w i*t fnany places the fepulchres of Eugenius : and the j}elphians think^^ theyhave the bones and reliques of Eac" bus among them^ interred and be ft owed neer unto the or it'* le : and his religious priefi celebrate unto him afecretfa^ rifice within the temple of Apollo, when the Thyades pho are the Priejirejfes begin to chaunt the f§unet [One of hefumames of Bacchus.] Licnites. Now that the Greeks ire of opinion^ that Bacchus « the lord andgovernour^ nor fwine liquor only^ but alfo of every other nature which if noifi and liquid^ the teftimony o/Pindarus isfufficient^ when he faith thus: Bacchus
Taking the charge of trees that grow. Doth caufe them for to bud and blow .' The verdure frefti and beauty pure Of lovely fruits he doth procure.
And therefore it U^ that thofe whoferve and worfhip Eu- genius are (ireightly forbidden and charged^ not to deftroy any fruitful tree, nor to flop the head of any Fount aine , And not only the river NiluSy but all water and 7mifture whatfoever in general ^ they call the effluence of Eu genius : hy reafon whereof ^ before their facrifices they carry alwaies inprocejjion a pot or pitcher of water ^ in honour of the f aid god.
Ihey defcribe alfo a kjng and the Southern or meridional climat of the worlds by a fig-tree leaf^ which fig-leaf fig^ nifieth the imbibition and motion of all things : andbeftdes^ it feemeth naturally to refemble the member of generation. Alfo^when theyfolemmze the feafi called Pamy litia^w^^/V/^
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was tnfiuuuditt the honour «/ PriapulTS^yX^r^ carry about m j^oceffioH an image orflatue, the genM member r^berecf, is thrice as tigg as 'the <>^dina^,rft rt2^ '^l/'^i" ^^'f^i^'^S of tit things, and ever. iucbfrmctfle^hygenerationmdtifliethitMf. Noro Jl are wont moreover to fay, rhrice, for many times , to 'wl afimte number for au infinite ; as r^hen we ufe the mrd
Z%T% "'f^T^'^i -if^ricehafp^^folmoiihany, and Three boms for infinite; unle(i peradventurethh Urnary of threefold number rt>as exprefy and properh cho-
^TrilT, Z'''^'' f "'^ ""*"'' 'f '««i?«^^ *«4 the . tnmpal that ^gendreth all things, from the beginning \
hath engendredtbefe three elements ».■ frimitive bodiet\
t.arth, nreand Fire, For that branch which is fet unto\ '
ZTV-^^^^^"^^""^ ''"^'"'t'^l member o/Eu?enius tntheK,ver, that^t^ucMnotfind it, but cau fed one
thereof ordatned that it fhould be honourei and carrtedmafolemne powpe ^tendeth to this, fo- toteachus, that the generative and produdive verue of god, had moi- ftureat thefirji for the matter, and by the n,<-ans of the faid humidity, was mixed with thofe things that were apt for generation Another branch there is yet ^ mowing to this, namely, that one Apopis brother to the Sun, warred a.
helped km to defen his enemy; in regard of which merit he adopted hm for his fon, and named him Oionyfus, that y to fay, Facchus. Nowthe Mutholoav of this, m it evidently appeareth, accordeth covertly, with the truth of Nature : for the JE^ptians call the winde, Jiipiter, unto •whichnothtng i, more contrary, thanficcity and that wbicS isfiry a„athattsmttheSm, although fome con fancui. ' nityzthath unto it : but moitlure comming to extinTuilh the extremity of that drine^, fortifieth and augment. rib thofe vapours, which murijh the wind and ksep
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tin force. Moreover^ the Greeks cortfecr ate the Ivy unto Jacchus, and the fa y.e is named among the JEgyftiam^ :henoiiris, rfibichword, Qas they fay) fignifieth in the Egyptian tongue^ the plant o/Eugenius ; at leaft wife \ni\oti who enrolled a colony of the Athenians, affirmetb hdt the light upon an Epijile 0/ Anaxarchus, r^herein he ■ound as much ^ ai alfo, that Bacchus was the fon of a mer nymph, Naias. Cther Egyptians alfo there be, vhohold^ tto Bacchus wai the fon (?/Beata, and that jewasmt calledjAercury^ ^wtArfaphes, in the letter Mpha, which word fignifieth prowefi or valour. And :hus much giveth Herma^us to underjiand, in ksfirfl book, >/ MgyVtian aas ; where he faith alfo that Eugenius by interpretation, is as much, as [ vCe/M©"] fioutor mighty. Here I forbear to aHedge MenafaSj, who referreth and ^i/cn^eri&«;/toEpaphus5 Bacchus, Eugenius, andS^- rapis, I overpafs AnticUdes likswife, who affirmeth, that EeztiL was the daughter o/Prometheus, and mar- Vied unto Bacchus. For the very particular properties that we have faid were in their feajis and facrifices, yeeld a wore deer evidence and proof, than any allegations of wit- Hejfeiwbatfoever, Alfo they hold, that among the ftars, thedogz or'^'ivwxswasconfecrate unto Beata, the which fiar draweth the water. And they honour the Lion, with whofe heads, and having the mouth gaping and wide open, they adorne the dores and gates of their temples, for that the river ]<^\\wsrifeth
cSo Coon as in the cTcle Zodiack, 0. ^- iThe Sun and Leo figne, encounter make.
And as.they both hold and agirme. NiUis to be the effluence of Eugenius^ even fo they are of opinion^ that the body of Beata is the earth or land oflE^y^t ; andyet not all ofit^ butfo much as Nilus overfloweth, and by commxtion -vah^ €th fertile and fruitful : of which conjun^m ^^O h'y
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that Or us was engendredy which is nothing elfe but the tevHperature and difpofition of the aire^ murijhing and maintaining aU things, Iheyfayalfo^ that this Orus wa> nourijhed within the Mores neer unto the City Butus, by thegoddefs Latcna ; for that the earth being well dren- chedandwateredy bringeth forth and nourijheth vapour s^ which overcome y extinguijh^ and reprefi (nothing fo much) great ficcity and drynefs. furthermore^ they call the mar^ ches and borders of the land^ the confines alfo of the coafts Tfphich touch the fea, Nephthys : and this is the reafon yphytheyname'^ti^\it\\Y$^ Teleutxa, that is to fay ^ final 9rlaft'^ and fiy that fhe was married unto Tyiphon. And whenN'ilusbreakethout and overtuneth his banJ^s, fo^ as be approachetb thefe border s^this they call the unlawful con^ junbion or adultery of Eugen'mSy Nephthy?, the which is k^own by certain plants growing there ^ among which is the Melilot : by the feed whereof^ faith the tale^ when it was floe d and left behinde^ began Hyle to perceive the wrong that was done unto him in his mariage. And hereupon they fayy that Onis was the legitimate fon of Ins ^ but Anubis was borne by NciphthY^ in bajiardy. And verily in the fucceffion of kings they r^cor^ Nephthys w;zrr/V^ unto Hvle, to have been at firfi barren. Now if this be not meant of a woman^ but of agoddefs^ they under jl and under thefe enigmatical fpeechtSy aland altogether barren and unfruitful^ byreafonof hardnefs and jliffe folidity. The lying in wait of Hyle to (nrprife Eugenius^ his ufurped rule and tyranny^ is nothing elfe but the force of drinks ^ which was very mi^hty^ which difftpated alfo and fpent all that humidity that both engendreth and alfo en^ creafeth Nil'is to that heighth As for that ^een ofJE" thiop'a, who came to aid and afftiihim^ fljebetoheneth- the Southerly winds comming from Ethiopia ; for wheti thefe have the upper hand of the Etefian windes^ which blow from the North^ and drive the clouds into iEihiopia, and
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\1) hinders thofejhowers and gluts ofraine which pwre out if the clouds^ and make the river Nilus tofi^el : then Hyle ■hat is to fay J drouth^ is faid to win the better^ and to nirnuv all'-, and fo havm^ gotten themajiery clean of Nilus, wha by reafon of his weak^efs and feeblenefs^ is driven in^ and forced to retire a contrary way ^ he chafeth him J poor and low into the fea . For where. }i it is faid^that fEugeaius was (hut fajl within an ark^or coffer ^ there is no ^ther thing fignified th&rehy^ but this departure bachj)fthe tpater and the hiding thereof within the fea : which is the caufe alfo^th-attheyfay^ Engzaiwswent out of fight ^ in the moneth, Athyr, and was no more feen j at what time ai when all the Etefian windes are laid and given over to 'hloWy Nilus returneth into his chanell^ leaving the land- iifcovered and bare. And new by this time as the night groweth long^er^ the darkjiep encreafeth , like as the force of the light doth diminifh and is impaired: and then the Ipriefts among many other ceremoniei^ teftifying their fad" 'nefs and beavie cheere^ bring forth and JJjew a be^ with 'golden homes J whom they cover all over with a fine vaile of black, filk^^thereby to reprefent the heavy dole and mourn* inj; of the goddefsforEugen'ms : (for thus they thinh^^ that the faid beef is the image of Eu^enius ; and the veftment of blacl^aforefaidy tejiifying the earthy dotbfig^ nifie Beata ) and thisfhew exhibit they {our daies tog^her, to wity fro^2 the feventh imto the tenth fotowtrig ; And \why1 Foure things there be for which they mak^ demcm-^ ifirationof grief and forrow: the firii is th^ river Nikis, \ for that he fcemeth to retire and faile: the fecondarethe North-winder^ which now are hufljt and ftil/y by reafon of the Southern winds ^ that >^aine the mailrie over them : the '. third is the day^ for that now it waxsth (hortcr than the I night : and lajl of ally the difcoverin^ and nak^dnefs of the earthy together with the deve\ling of threes ^which at ihe^ver) [am tim begin tojhed and bf^ their U^vei, After
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tbisy npn the ninteenth day at nighty they go down to the feafidcy and then tbepricjis revefied in their facred Stoics anJ habits^ carrie forth with them^ a confecrnted cheft^ wherein there is a vejjellofgoldy into which they ta}\e and: If fowrefrcjh and potable water 5 and with thatj all thofe ' who are prefentyfct tip a note and Jhout^ as if they had fovnd Eugenius ^^/ri/7 : then they take a piece of fatty fertile earthy and together with the water ^ knead and worli it into a pajje^ mixingthercwith moft precious odors ^ J?erfumes and fpices^' whereof they maJ^ a little image in • forme of the Aloon croiffant^ which they deck^v^ith robes •» and adorne^fljewing thereby evidently that they tak^ thefe ' gcds to he the fubfiance of water and earth,
7hf:s when Ee:[t2 had recovered Eugenius, nourifhed Orus, and brought him up to fome growth^ fo that he now became ftrengtbned and fvrtifi&d^ by exhalation^ vapors^ II rnijls a -^id clouds, Hyie verily was vanquifhed^ hcwbeit ^ not fain^ for that the goddefs^ which is the lady of the ^ earthly would not permit and fuffer^ that the power or na^ ture which is contrary unto 7noijture^ fl>ould be utterly a- tolifi^ed: only jhe did flacl^en and let down the vehement ' force thereof^ willing th.it this combat and jirife fhould'^ Jiill continue •, becaufe the world would not have been entire '! and perfed^ if the nature of fire had been once extin^ and ' I gone. Andifthis goe not currant among them^ there / m reafon and probability, that any one fl:ould prcjed thii fiffertionalfo^ namely^ that Uy\e in times pa ft overcaffteA one part of Eugenius ; for that in old time^ Eqypt wa$^ fea : whereupon k is ^ that even at this day ^ within the^.^ w nes wherein men dig for mcttals^ yea^ and among the mount aines^ there is found great ft ore of fea fifh. Lik^wife^ ' all the fcuntaines^ wells and pitsQ and thofe are many in ' number ) carry a brackffh^ faltifh^ and hitter water ^ as iff fome rttnnant cr refdue of the old fea were refe)^ed^ i^hich ran thither, ■ lut inprtCefs of time^ Oi'U? fubdued ' I
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ylc, that is to fay, n^ben the feafonahle rame came^ hich tempered the e^KCeJ^ve heaty Nil us expelled and ave forth thefea^ difcovered the champion ground^ and 'led it continually more and more by new deluges and in^ idationsy thatlaidfmewhal ftill unio it. And hereof ^ ■e daily experience is frefented to our eiesjfor we perceive I en at this day^ that the overfiowes and rifmg of the nver ingingnew mud., and adding frejh earth ftill by little Hd little^ the fea giveth place and retireth : and as the ep in it is filled more andmore^ fo the fuperfici;s rifeth gherj by the continual Jhelves that the Nile cafts up^ • which mean , thefea runneth backward ; \ ea^ the very 7^ Pharos, which Uomcv k*iew by his daiesto liefarr itbin thefea^ even a daies failing from the continent and rmelandofEs^y-pt, is now a very part thereof: not for at it removed and approached neerer and neerer to ths nd ; but becaufe the fea which was between, gave place "Oo the river that continually made new earth with the ud that it brought, and fo maintained and aupnented e maine land. But thefe thifigs refevihle very neerey *e 7heolo^icall interpretations that the Stoickj ^give out ^ r the) hold, that the fr^enerative and nutritive Spirit, ii acchus; but that which ftriketh and divideth,is Her- iles ; that which receiveth^ is Ammon , that which Hrtth and pierceth into the earthy is Cer^s and Prefer- ina ; and thzt which doth penetrate farther and pafs mow the fea, is NepCime. Oth-^rs^ wh) 7mngle afnong dtural caufes and reafons^ foms drawn froyn the Mathe* ck^y and principally from Afhology, thinly thjitP^yleis fe Solar circle or fphjere of the Sun ; and that Eugenius t^«t of the Moon ; inafmuch as the Moon hath agenera* 'Ve and vegetable light., multiplyingthatfweet and com* irtahle moiftnre which is i fo meet for the generation of h'ing creatures^ of trees and pla^s ; but the Sun having^ 'iit apurefiryfimf i^de$d without any mxture cr re* ~d^ batmcnt
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batementataH^ heateth and drieth that which the earth hring&ihforth^yea^ and rphatfoeva is verdant and in the flower ', infonmchy as by his inflamation he caufeth the greater part ofthe earth to be wholly defert and inhabita- ble, and many times fuhdueth the very Moon, And there ^ /(?r^rJ[?t' Egyptians evermore name riyle^ Seth, which is as much to fay, as ruhng lordly, and ofprejftng with violence. And after their manner they \ay,that Hercules , mn'T as it were vpoH the Sun, goeth about the world with » hhn t and Moraine lik^ip with the Moon : byreafon^\ whemfjhewGr]^and effetls of the Moon refemble ihofe\i aas which are performed by eloquence and wifdome : but^ thofeof the Sun are compared to fuch as he exploited by^ force andpi^ance. And the Stoickj fay, that the Sun is .( ^li^hted andfet on fire by the Sea, and therewith nourifijed: H bu^theybethe fountains and lakes which fend up unto the\\ Moon a milde, fweet and delicaU vapour, 7he Egyptians fay that the death of Eu^emushapned on the f event eenth
d^v of the moneth,^on which dayM^^ ^^'^^ ^'^^'^ ^^y ^^^^^' iheis md-ed to be at the full : and this is the reafon vfhy 'the Pythagoreans call this day. The obftniaion, and of all other number sihey mofiof abhor and deteft it : for ■ :iphereasf:xteen is a number quadrangular or four-fquare, and eighteen longer one way than another ; which nuyibe>^ OH^lv ofthofe that be plain, happen for to have the amlzent wiitiis, that environ them equal to the f faces cont aim iv ^nd comprehended within them ; feventeen^ which falleth between, feparateth and dis'ioineth the one from the other, and heinrr^cut into unequal intervals, diilra^eth the prjr- tortion jifiuio^ave. And feme there be who fay , thxi • ^uotnim lived, cthersthat he reigned, eight and twenty \ years ' forfo many lights iheir be of the Moon, and fo : 7nnn)> daies doth (he turne about the Earth : and therefore, ' in thofe ceremonies which they call the fepulture of Euge- ^ius. theymapee€e<^fwo:jd^(indm^ke a certain cogi^i
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rcafemmanmrofthe Uooncroiffant, fcrthatasjhecp^ .rcachethneertotbefuK,phcomexhpmtedafdcorn^^^^^
■ntiU in the end JJ:e come to mxhingy and is no moreleen. 4ndasfor the dtfmnnhring of Eugenius into fourteen mcei, theyfirrnifie unto us u.der the covert vaile of tbefc mdsl the daies wherein th:faid planet ism the -i^ane, ■'nddecreafetk even unto the change, whenjhe n renewed. \x^in And that day on which jl.e firft appeareth, by \afflHghandefcafing\heraiesofthe Sun, thej caUan inperfeagood: for Eng^emns is adoerofgood: nndtbis Imefgketh many things, hutpriHCylly an acnveand beneficial power, as they fay: and as for the other name )niphis;Herni^us faith, that it betoKeneth as much as a enefaaour. Alfo, they are of opinion, that the ufngi md inundations of the river m^is, anfwex in preportion .) tht courfe of the h'ioon : for the greatejl heigth that it '■■rowethunto in the countrey E\tphannnc, is aghtand iwenty cubits -, for fc many illuminations there be.or daies, \-i everx revolution of the Mgon : and the lowejl gagea^ 'out Mendes a^i^ Xois, 'fix cubits, which anfwereth to •h" firit quarter : but the mean between, about the City ilemphis, when it isjufl at the full, Cometh to fourteen ■uhits, correfpondent to the full Moon. 7hey hold moreover^ ipistobethe lively image of Eugeiiius, and that he is n^endred and bred at what ti:r:e as the generative I ight^ >'efcend€thfrom the Won and toucheth the Cow defirous t.^ he male : and therefore Apis refmhkth the formes of the Aoon, having many white fpots ohfcured and darkened rith thejhadowes of black, And this is the reafon, why they demnize a feajlinthe new Moon of the monetb Phanic- KOtb, which they call the m^reffe orenterance of Euge- {wx'i^tothe Moon-, and thisis thebeginning ofthe\Spring
(eafonx andtbustbey put the power of Euq^riius in the \llofiH, rheyfayalfo. that Be^tz( which is no other thing ut generation ) hetk with him 5 and [^ they nr^ tl^
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M&otty Mother of the world] faying^ that fl:e is a douhk nature^ male and female: female ^ in thatjhe doth conceivt , andisyeplenifhedhytheSiin: and male ^ in this regard^' that fhe fendeth fonh and fprink^eth in the aire^ the feedi and frinciples of generation : for that the driedijkmpera^ ture and corruption of Hyle, is not alwaies fnperior^ but oftentimes vanquijhed by generation ^ and kowfotver tied it he) and bounds yet it r'tfetb frefl) agaiit^ and fighteth a^ gainfi Orus, who is nothing elfe but the terrejirial wcrld^ which is not altogether free ftem corruption^ nor yet ex* empt from generation, Others there be^ who would have all thi s IPhy I ofofhy covertly to reprefentno ether thing but the eccHpfes ; for the Moon is ecclipfed, whenflje is at .\ the full directly oppofite to the Sun^ and comnteth to fall \ 7ipon the (hadow o\ the earth : like as they fay^ Eu genius was put into the chefi or coffer above f aid. On the other fide^ , (hrfeemeth to hide and darken the light of the Sun^ upon ' certain thirtieth daiesybutyet doth not wholy abolifh thefun^ 710 more then Beata doth kjH Hyle, but when Nephthys ( Iringeth forth AnubiSjBeata pnttethherfelfht place: for '^ Nephthys is that which is under the earth and unfeen ; hut Beata that which is above ^ and appeareth unto us : and the circle named Horizon^ which is comryjontothem bothy and parteth the two hemifph£resy is named Anubis, and i inform refemlleth a dog : for why ? a dog feeth afwell by nfght as by day: fo that it Jhould feem^ that Anubis a^ ,mong the i^qyptians hath the lil^e power that Proferpina among thg ferecks, being both tirrepial and co^lefiial. Others there b9y who think,., t^^r Anubis;.? Saturn, and hecaufe he is conceived with all things^ and bringetb them forth ^ which in Greeks the word n^vav fignifieth ^ there* pre he is (urnamed li'juv, that is to fay^ a dog. So that there is fome hidden and mypcd feet et in it^ thatcaufetk fomey eveuftiil to reverence and adare a dog \ f$r the time ^^Sy v^hm mor^ worpp wu$ dme tmto it in iEgypf, than
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to any other beafi 'j hut after that Cambyfes had lulled Apis cut hint in pieces, and flung the fame here and there^ mother creature would come neertQtafte thereof^ favethe \dogonly'^ whereupon he luji that prerogative and pre^ eminence to be more honoured than other beajb< Others there are^ who would have the fl^adow of the earthy which caufeth the Moon to be eccUpfed when fie entreth into it^ to he named Uy\e. And therefore me thinhj^ it were 'not a-^ miijs to fay ^ that in particular there is not any one of thefe ycxpoftions and inter p eta t ions per fe Pi by it feif and right y \hut all of them together carry fame good conjlrudion : for ^it is neither drought alone^nor winde^' nor fta^ nor yet darkc \nefs ; but all that is noifome and hurtful whatfoever^ and which hath (t fpecial part to hurt and deftroy^ is called Hyle, Neither muft we put the principles of the whole eWorld into bodies that have no life andfoule^ ^^Democri- !tus/z«</ Epicurus, doe : nor yet fet down for the workj man andframer of thefirft matter ^ a certain reafon and providence^ without quality ( as do the Stoickj ) fucb a. Ithing as hath a fihfijlence before and above ally and com- wandeth all : for impoffhle it is^ thit onefole caufe^ good crbad^ fiouldbe the beginning of all things together ; for God is not thecaufe of any evilly and the coagmentationof the world bendetb contrary w aye s^ like as the compofition pf a lute or bow ^ as Heraclicus pit^5 and according to Euripides,
No things can be by thenifelves 5^00 J or bad ; Thac things do well, a mixture muft be had.
And therefore this opinion fo very antient ^ is dcfcenJed /row Theologians ^^i Lawgivers z/wto Poets and phi- iJofopher?, read^ The Idea ot' the La\y, howbeit^ fa \firmely grounded in the perfwafion and belief e of men^ that hard i$ istofupfrefs or abolifh the fame j fo commofi- \ly divulged not only in conferences^ difputations^ f^nd or^
d ^ dMar^
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diftaryfpecches abroad^ hut alfo in the ifacrifices and di-
vine cerentomes of gods fcr vice ^ in viany places^ as well a-'
inong t/?^ Barbarians as Greeks, to wit^ that neither this
fporid floteth and warneth at adventure j without the go-
vernnte?tt of providence and reafen^ nor rea[on mly it is
ihaXgtiideth^ direcieth^ and holdeth it C as it were-) with Wlf
Cert/^in helm^s or hits of oheifance^ hut many things there g||
he con fu fed and mxedj good and had together : or to ffea\
7nors plainly J there is nothing here heneath that nature
froduceth and hringeth forth y which of it f elf is pure and
frmple : neither is there [one drawer of two tum^ to dij- '
perfe and difperfe and difirihute abroad the affaires of this
'world Ji}{e as a iaverner or Vintner doth his wines or otheT
liquors^ brewing and tempering one with another. Bnt
this life is conduced by two principles and powers adverfe \
cnci0U another '-i for theoneleadetousto the right hand
dire&ly-, rf^-^Tlie Holy Guide, the other contrariwife
turneih us afide and putteth ui hac\ : and fo this life is
mixtj and the very world it fclf^ if not all throughouty,
yet at leaf} wife^ this beneath about the earth, and under
thehioon^ is unequally variable^ and fubjedto all wuta^
tions that poffihly 7nay he. For if nothing th^re is^ tha^
can he without a precedent caufe^ ayj that which of it
felf is good can never minijier caufe of tvili \ necejfary it
is^ that nature hath fomepeeuhr cavfe and' beginning by it
Ctlfj of good afwell as of bad. And ofth'n opinion are the.
'i^ojl part of the ancients^ and thofe of the wiftj} fort . For
fjme thtnkjhere he tyro godi as it were of* a contrary my'
fiery and prof efflon •, the one^ author of all good thing;^
and the other of bad. Other', there be who call the bettei
(pf thewgod ; a^i^ the other Vdemon^ that is to fay ^ divsll^
as Zoio-dWres the Magician didy who by report^ wasfivci
thoufanJ yeers before the warr of Troy. Ihis Zoro-
aftrcs ( J fay") named the good gcd Oromazes, and th{
0hcv Anmanius. Moreover^ he hv-e out^ ihat the cj
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•efemhied lights mn than any fenfihle thing etfe what- oever : the other dark^fs and ignorance : alfo that\ there i on the ntids between them^ named With res : (and here" if on it is^ thatthePet^^nscalian intercejjhr or wedia- -or J Mithres.)He teacheth us alfo to facrifice nnto the oneofthenty for petition of gwd things^ and for than^ef- 'living : hut ts the other ^ for to divert and turne away f.nifter and evill accidents^ 1 o which furf of e they nfed to iiantp in a mrter a certain herhe which they callQmmi, calling upon Pluto and the darkle fs : then temper they \itwith the blood of a i^oolfe which they have hilled in fa* crifice : this done^ they carry it away^ and throw it into a darl{e corner y where the Sumtever (Idneth, For this con- ceit they have^ that of herhes and plants^ fome appertain, unto the goodgcd^ and others to the evill V^fvon or diveV, Semblably ^ of living creatures^ dogs^ hirds^ and land urchins^ belong to their good god : hut thofe of the water y to the evill fiend » And for this caufe they repute thofe very .happy ^ who can hjll the greateft number of them. How- hit thefe Sages and wipnten report many things of the gods : as for example^ that Qromazes is engendred of the cleerefl and pureft lights and Arimanius of deep dark^ ncfs : alfo that they warre one upon another. And the for' rier ofthefe^ created fix other gods ^the firft of Benevolence*^ the fecend of Verity ; the third of good difcipline and pub" [ich^Law % and of the reft behinde^ one of Wifdo7>ie^ ano" ^her of Riches y andthefixth, which alfo is the laft^ the mah^r of jcy for good and honeff deeds. But the latter^ that is to fay^ Arimanius produceth as many other in num^ her^ concurrents as it were and of adverfe operation to the former above named. Afterwards when Gromazes ^ad augmented and amplified himfdf three times^ he re" moved as far fr67n the Sun^ as the Sun ii diftantfrom th^ "Earth, adoring and em^elillnng the Heaven with ftari%_ : md one Star above the reji he ordained to he the ^uide^ '* ' mijiefsy
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ntijlrefs^ and over feer of them ally to mt^ Siring that k to fay y the Dogge-jiar, Then after he had made four and twenty other gods^ he enclofed them all with in an egge. But the other^ brought forth by Arimaniiis^ who were alfo in equal number^ never ceafed untill they had pierced and made a hole unto the faid fmooth and folijhedegg? : andfo after that^ evil things became mingled pell melt with good. But there mil a time come prede (lined fat ally y when t^i^Arimanuis who brings into the world plague and famine^fhall of neceffity be rooted out, and carried throvigh flefh to the eternity ^ even by them \ and the earth Jhall become plain^ (ven^ and uniforme : neither Jhall there be any other but one life^ and one common- wealth of men^ all happy andfpeakjngone and the fame language. Theopom- pus alfo writethy that according to the wife Magi, thefe two gods mufl for three thou f and yeers^ conquer one after another^ and for three thoufand yeers he conquered again hy turnes : and then for the fp ace of another three thoufanct yeerSy levey mutual warres^ and fight battels one againfi the other y whiles the one Jhall fubvert and overthrow that which the other hath fet up : untill in the end Pluto/;/?// fainty give over, and be again an Angel of Light : then Jhall men be all in happy efiate^they jhall need no mere food^ mr caji any /hadoKff from %^rm'y and that god wh^ hath wrought and affected aL ihs^ Jhall repofe himfelf^ andreji in quiet y not long ( Ifay ) for a god-, but a moderate timo as one would fay for a man takjng his fleep and reji, Jndihus much as touching the Fhylofophy dcvifed by the Theonwgio. B?<* the Chaldaeana agtrme that of the ^odsy whom they call flanets or wandring fiam^^ two there he that are beneficial and dooers of good ^ two again wifchievous and workers ofev'dl \ and thrSe which are of a mean nature and common. As for the opnion of the Greeks, concerning this pointy there is no man I fupp9fe ignorant thereof: namely^ that there he twopirtiom or
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parts of the worlds the one good^ allotted unto Jupiteu 01ympiu?5 tib^tiitepTjS Cekfud -^ another body apper- taimngto9\nto infernal, Ihey fay moreover^ that the gc^^^p Harmania, thatistofay^ accord^ was engendred of Mars and Venus : ofwbont^ the one k cruelLgrm^and quarrsllous ; the other ntilde^ lovely^ and generative. Kow confidcr the Hilofofhers themfelves^ how they agree herein : For HcracHtiis dire^ly and difcrtly nam\ih warre^ the father^ Kuig^ and Lord of all the world j fay'mg^ that komer whenhevpijhetha*idpraieth^
Both out of Heaven and Earth to banifh warrc^ That God and Men^ no more might be at jarre.
Wifi: >tot how ( erre he was aware ) he curjed the gemration and prodiidion of all things ^ which indeed have their effeuce and being by the fight and antipathic in nature. He was ignorant that the Sun would not pafs the byundi and limits appointed unto him ; forotherwife the furies and ^u rjed tongues which are the rnwifireffes and coadjutrejfei pfjuftice would find him out. As for EnipedocJes^ he faith ^ that the beginning and principle which worketb goody is love and amity ^ yea^ and other whiles is called iifirntonie byKitYO^s : but thecaujs of evilly
Malice, hatred, cankred fpight, Quarrellj debate^ and bloody fight.
Cqme" now to the PythagoreanSj they dewonftrate and ^ecifie the fayne by 7nany names^ for they call the good pincipky one^ftnite^pennanenty or quiet ^flraight or direif^ odde^quadraty or fquare^ right andii^htfomei but the hady tw.tiny infinite^ ntovi^g^ crooked^ fvof^ longer cm V^aythan another ^ unequal y left and dut}i^i as if thefe :fferet}fefQ}intaines of generation. AnaKagoras calfe4h
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them the minde or undcrflandrng and infinity, .^ri- ftotle termeth the one forme , the other privation^ And Phto under dark§ <tnd covert termed hiding his opm TtioHy inmany places calleth the former of thefe two con* traryprincipfesy The fame, and the later y The other. But in the the hookes of his laws^ which he wrot when he was new well fieptinyeen^ he giveth them no more any ohfcure an^l amhiguom names y neither defcviheth he them fymho" tically and by enigmatical and intricate names, but in proper and plain termes, he faith^ that this work^ is not moved and managed by one fole caufe^'Mt haply by many, or at leafl wife no fewer than twain ; whereof the one is the creator and worh^r of good^ the other oppofite unto it and operative of contrary effects. He leaveth alfo and alloweth atkirdcaufebetween^ which is neither without foule nor reafonlefs nor yet nnmoveaMe of it felf, asfome think^^ hut adjacent and adherent to the oth^r twain^howbeit enclining alwaies to the better, as having a defire and appetite thereto^ which it purfueth and followeth, as that which "hereafter we will deliver, Jhaltfhew more ^tanifeftly^which treatife (hall reconcile the JEgyptianlheologie with th(? Greeks Fhilofophy, and reduce them to a very good con^^ cordance : for thitt th.ege}urat}on,C4mpofttion, and con' fiitrnion of this world is mingled of contrary powers, how* Beit th^ fame not of equal force : for the better is predomi" nant ; but impo.pk it h that the evilljjjould utterly perijh and he aboU (bed, fo deeply is it imprinted in the body and fofarinhredinthe foule of the univerfal world, in op- pofttion 'jl^ves to the better^ and to wnrre a^ainfi it, Konf then,in the foule, reafonand midcrfiajidir^, which is the guide, andmiflrcCiofall the bejl tht^cj,^ isEugzniv.s. Alfo in the earth, inth: -^'ndes, inwr^U?, skje find the^ (lars, that which is wcllorcl^^ned, (lalcd, d'tfpQfed and digeiled in good fort, by temperate fi^fons and revolutions^ the fame is called the defiuxioH of Eugenius, and the very
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apparent image of him : Contrariwife \ the paffonaUy violent ^unreafonable^ brutijh^rajh andfoolijh fart of the fouie^ is^ Hyle. SemhUblyinthe bodily nature^ thatyphich is extraordinarily advantitious^ v^unhoi^ome and difeafed^ I as for example^ the troubled ayreand tempeftuous indifpo^ ' fitions of the weather^ the obfcuration er ecclipfe ef the I SuHy the defe^ of the Moon -and her occulation^ be as it ypere the excurfions^ deviations ou t of courfe^ and diffara-- ! tions : and alUf them be Hyles ; as the very interpret tation of the Egyptian wordfignifieth no lefs ; for HyJe they name Sethy which is as much to fayj as violent and cpprejptg after a lordly manner. It importeth alfo many I times reverfion^ and other whiles an infultation orfupplan^ tation. Moreover fo7ne there be who fay ^ that one of Hylcs familiar friends was named Peba^on. But Manechos affirmethy that Hyle himfelf was called J5ebon, which word by interpretation is as much as cohihition^ refireint or impeachment^ as if the puijfaxce and power of Hyle, were to flay and withftand the affaires that are in good way of proceedings and tend as they fljoulddoe^ to a good I end. And hereupon it is that of tame beafls they dedicate and attribute unio him^ the moji grofs and indocible of all others^ namely an affe \ lutof wildebeajh the moji cruell and fav age of all other s^ as the crocodiles and river^horfes As for the Lyon we havejpoken before of him^ In the city ^/Mercury^ namedVtigo^oYis^ they fljew unto us the image of H y 1 e^ pur traied under the form of a river-borfe^ upon whom fitteth an hauke^ fighting with a ferpent. By the f ore faidhorfe they repre Cent Hyle, and by the hau^e^ the power and authority which ^y\e having gotten by force^ mak^th no care oftentimes^ both to be troubled and alfo to trouble others by his malice , And theref&re when they fo - lemnize a facrifice^ the feventh day of the moneth Tibi^j which they call the comming 0/ Beata out <>/ Phoenicia^ they devife upon their hallowed cakes for facrificey a river^
horCe^
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iorfe^ as if he were tied and bound. In the city of /Apollo the manner and aiftome confirmed by lavpwas^ that every cnemujl eat of a Crocodile ; and upon a certain day they have a folemne chafe and hunting of them ^ when they i^iU as many of them as they can^ and then caft thent all before the Temple I and they fay, that Hyle being become a Crocodile h.^th efcaped from Orus 5 attributing alt dangerofts wicked beafis^ all hurtful plants and violent fajltomimtoW)\c^asiftheywerehis wor^es^ his farts or TJiotions, Contrariwife theypurtray and depaint unto us Eugenius^)! afcepter and an eye upon it : meaning by the eye forefighi and providence^ by the fcepter authority and puiffancedik^ asHomernametb Jupiccrj^^^^*^ theprince^ lord and ruhr of all the world:Wyi^:xx.os^that is.foveraign^ and Me ft or, that is^ fore feeing ; giving us to under fiand, hyfoveraig^n^ his fupr erne power, by fore feeing his prudence and vifdome. Iheyreprefent Eugen-iis alfo many times by an hau\e^ for that (he hath a wonderful cleere and quicJ^ fight ^ her flight alfo is as fw if t^ and fhe is wont naturally tofujiain her felf with ifery little food. And more than that ( by report ) when fl.eflieth over dead bodies unhuried^ (he cafteth would and earth upon their eyes. And lod^ 7vhenfoevcrfhe jiieth down to thS" river for to drinke flje fttteth up her feathers fir aight upright^ but when Jhe bath drunks fl)e I a-ieth them plane and even again^ by which it appearetb tlxitfafe f^ye island hath efcaped the Crocodil e: Tor if the Crocodilep?T^ upon her and catch her up^ her pennache ahideth \{iff and upright asbefo-e: But generally throughout where facver the image of Eugcn\u$ is exhibited inthe fo tne of a rn^n^ they purtray him with the natural Taemher of generation iiiff and ftraight^ prefiguring thre- hy the generative and nutritive ve: tue. Ihc kabiliwent alfo^ wherewith they clad his images is bright^ (hining lii^e fire : For they repute the funne to be a body repre^ feming the pgwir of goedf^ffiy as luring the yifible matter
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fa ffirituaf and inteCCecluall fubflance. And therefore beir opinion deferveth to be rejeded who attribute unto lyle thefphare of the Sun^confxdering that unto him pro^ triy appertaineth nothing that is refplendent^ healthfull nd Comfortable^ no difpofitiony no generation or motion^ ?bich is ordered with me a fur e or di^efied by reafon : But f either in the aire or upon the earth there be any unfeafo- able difpofition of windes^ of weath^^or water ^ it hap* eth when the primitive caufe of a difordinate and inde^ erminate pwer commeth to extinguijh the hjnde vapours nd exhallations, Moreo ver in thefacred hymnes of Euge- lius, they htvocat't and c (ill tipon him who lieth atrepofe nddeH within the armes of the Sun, Alfo upon the thir- iethdayofthe moneih Epiphi^ they folemnize the jeafi fthe nativity or birth of Orius eyes : at what time as the \Hn and Moon be in the fame direct line : as being per-' waded that notmely the Moon but the Sun alfo is the eye '.nd light of Horns : Likswife upon the twenty eight day f the moneth Ph^o^i they celebrate another feaji of the iunnes bafons or flaves^ and that is after the Equinox: n Aututnne, giving covertly thereby to underfland^ that he Sun hath need of an appuy or fupporter to reji upon ind to ftrengthen him^ becanfe his beat be^ns then to iecay and languiflj fenfibly^ his light alfo to diminifh and iecline obliquely from us. Moreover about the foljUce )r middle of winter^ they carry about his temple f even times cow \ and this p-oceffon is called thefeekjng of Eugenius wthe revjlution of the fun ^ as if thegoddefsthndefired the waters of winter : And fo wnny times they doe it^ for thatthe courfe of th ■ ShMy from the Winter foljiice unto thf Summer folfiice is performed in thefeventh moneth. It is [aid moreover , th^jt Horus the fon of Bcaca was the firft who facrificed unto the Sun^ the fourteenth day }^thei>wnethy according as it is written in a certain bQc\ as touching the nMizity of Horus t howfoever every day
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ibey offer incenfe and fweet odor Sy to the fun three times < Firjl at tbe fm riftngy Rofin : fecondly about noony Myrrb': . and thirdly at thefHn^fettingy a certam comfofition named. Kiphi. Ibe myfikall meaning of rphicb ^erfumei and odors I will hereafm declare : hut they are fer [waded 'I bat in all this they wor(lnf and honour tbe fun. But what need if there to gather and colled a numSer of fucb 7mtters as thefet feeing there be fome who openlf maintain that Eugenius is filius folia Cgelcftis and that the Greeks caQ him ^ivtmMOhe article which t^^^Dgypciang pwr before:, towiti[0']istbecau[eth(itjontu€bis not evidently ^er- mved: as alfo that Bi^u is nothing el{e hut Fiiia Lunas Gdeftis: and of her images thofe that have homes ufoii thewyftgnifie no other thing bat the Moon croiffant: but fuchasare covered and clad in bkckji betoken thoje daiei j wherein fbe is hidden or dark^.ned namely .when (fje rumtdtb a\ter the fun : which is the reafon that in love maiters they invocat9$he Moon, And Eudoxus kimfel] faitbythaH hcdLUisthe^reftdent over amatorlous folk:' And verily in all thsfe ceremonies there is probubilitie and lik^Aihood of great truih. BAt to fay tbut Hylc is the fwi^ is fo abfurd^ that TT/? ought not fo much as give ear e to thofe who dffirme; fo. But return we novp to our former matter. For ^cata is the feminine fart of nature^ a^t to receive all generations u^on which occafion called (be is by Plito, ihenurfe and Pandeches, that is to fay^ capable of alt : yea and the com" mon fort name her ^^ I loviimm^ which i^ as much to fay^ as having ai iafinite number ofnames^ for that (be receivetif all forms and fija^es^ according as it pleafeth that firji- reafon to convert and tur-ne her. Moreover^ there is im^ printed in^ her naturally^ ahveof the firfl and principal effencc^ v^bich is nothing elje but the foveraign good, and it (be defireth^ jeeketh^ and purjueth after, Contrariwife^ flfifiieth andrefellethfrom her^ anypirt and portion thai proceedetljfTGtuill. 4nd howfoevtr fl)e be the fuhjeij matter^
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and meet flace a^t t) receive^ as well tke one as tie othevy yet cf it feljy endinedjhe is alwaies rather to tke hetter^andaf" plietb her (elf to engender the fame-^yeay and to dijjeminate and (otp the dt^ fluxion and fimilitudes thereof^ wherein (Ife tak^etb^lea jure and rejoycethi when [he bath conceived and is great tberetpithy ready to be delivered. Fur tbis is arejfrefentatiort and difcription of the fulflance cngendred in matter^ and mthin^ elfebut an imitation of that which if. And thtreforeyou may fee^ it is not hefides the ^lirpofcy that they itmgine and devife the joule of Eugcniqs to be- et ernal and immortal : but as for the hodyy that Typhon many times doth teare^ wangle^ and abolijb if, that it can^ not be feen : and that Bcaca goeth uf and down^ and wan^ dring here and there , gathering together the difmembred pieces thereof^ for that iphicbis good and {^iritual, by con^ fequence is not any waies fubjed to change and alteration ; kit that which is fenfibleand material^ doihyeeldjrom it felf certain images^ admitting wUhalland receiving fundry froportionsy formes, and fimilitudes^ li\e as the frints and [[fampsof fealesfet upon wax j doe not continue and rc- \maine alwaies^ but arefubjed to change^ alteration, difovm ider and trouble, and this fame wu cbajed from the ju^erior IKegion, and fen t downhitber^ where it figkteth againfi \[ioriiswhomEcsita.engendred fenftble, ai being the very ma^eof the fpiritual and intelle^ual world. And here- upon it ii, that Hy Je is faid to accuje bim of ba^ardie, as bein^notbingt>ure and ftncerCy like unf obis father, to wit y Reajon, and Vnderlianding ; wh ich of it felf is ftmple, and tot medled with any pa ffiott : but in the matter adulterate ind degenerate, b^ tbereafontbat itrs corporal, Howbeit, rt the end the vidory is on Mercuries (ide, for bee^ii the \i}courfe<if reason, which tefiifieth unto us, and fbewetb bat name hath produced tbis world material wetamorpbo^ ',ed to the fpiritnal forme : for the nativity of Apollo, en' endf^d hitw^en BcACa and Eugeniu?.;, whiki tk gods
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„eroet inthf helly o/Rhca, f,mboUzebtbH ^f'''^' bejore the world was evidently hrougblto hghtani f^llyac- comfli(hid, themnet o reafm, bemg found «mrally of iUdfrJe andur^erfea, brought forth the firH gen^ratt- J: for which ca,4fe they lay, thai god being a, yet lame. Wis borne and begotten in darknefs, whom they call the eWfrHoru?. For the world yet it was not, but an mage onely and defign of lie world, and a bare Unlafie of that which (hoMbe. But this Horus heu isdetermmie, de- mtmd^erUa, who^mhnot]Afenghtom,hut ta\etb from him his force and^uifmce that he can douitte or no. thing. And bereufon it is, that ( by report ) tntbe ctty Copaif, the image of norui boldch in oue band the ge- neral member of Hyle : and they jay beftdes, tbatNlctcmy hovmgbereft him of his ftmws, made thereof firings for his barfe, and (o ufed them. Hereby tfae> teach, that reafoH framing the whole world, fn ir in tme, and brought it toac-_ -cord, (read The Harmony of the worldp frdwwg »t oj thofe pans which before were at jm and difcord : howbett removed not, nor abohflfed altogether the pernicious and hurtfulnature, but accomftflied tfce :^eri«e tlereof And\ therefore it is, that it beingfeeble and we aK, wrought aljo^ ( asit were) and intermingled or interlaced with thoje^arts andmembers which befubjeH topafffm and mutations; cau- kth earthquakes and tremblings, excefw? heatesand ex. iream dfineis, with extraordinary wmdes in the aire-, trades tbmder, lightnings and firie tempefls. Itimfoifo- Jth moreover the waters and windes, infeQing ihemwiU relidence, reaching u? and beat ing ffce head aloft, as far a 1,'he Moon, obfcuringand darhfiing many times even tha ■itYih )i by nature clean and pining. And thus the M?.yP thuidob^th Xhinkandfay, that y\yU fomelim: ftroo^ tkeeyeof^o»s, and another while flucked it out of fc heJ and devoured it, and then afterwards deUvered itc cr,i« ««(!> the Jun. By the tanking aforejaid, they met
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^enigmatically the wane or decreafe of the Motn moriethly z b) the tot all frivatiori of the eye^tbey under fi and her eccliffe and defeH of light : which the fun doth remedy by rdwnma-^ tion of her fir eight waiesy as joon as (be is gotten f^afi the fhade ofthje earth. But the principal and more divine nature is coMpofed andconffftetb of three things^ to wify of an in- telleduall nature^ of matter ; and a compound of them bothi vohkh we call the world, Novp thofe intelle^ud parts 5 Plato name/6 Ideas, thepatternes alfo of the father : ai formatter^ he termetb it a mother ^ nurfe^ a foundation alfo and a plot or place for generation : and that which i$ produced ofkthy he is wont to call fhe ijfue and thing pro* created, Andaman may very well con] t^ure^ that the lE^y^ihns compared thp nature of the whole worlds efpe- cidlf to this, as tbefairefl triangle of all other. And Plato in his books of policy or common-wTahh, feemeth alfo to have ufed the fume^ when he compojeth and dcfcri^ beth his nuptial fyure : which triangle is of this fort : that the fide which mak^th the right angle ^ is of three ^ tbej^a/ts of four ^ andthe third line called Uypotiriu fa, of five, £qut^ volent in ^ower to the other two then comprehend it : fo that ihe liyre which dire&ly falleth plumbe upon the hafe^ mu^ anjwer proportionablytothemale: thehafe to the female^ andthe Hypotannfa to the ijfue of them both .-.S^eThc Harmony of the World. And verily^ Eugenius repre^ fentethtbe beginning and principle : B^^t^that which re* ceiveth '^ andHorus the compound of both. For the number oftbreeisthefirjlcddeand perfecf : the guaternarie is the fir[i fquare or quadrate number^ compcfed of ihe frji even number which is two ; and five refembleiji partly the father, and in part the mother , as c&nft^^ ing both of two and three. See The holy Guide , lib. 2. And it (hould feem alfo that the very name ilfltf, which is the univerfalwcrld-t was deriled of TTs^^ts, that is to fay, five^ andfo in Guek^'jFZi/.'TrdiTcf.^, in (^Id e 2 ritn§
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iime/tgmfiedasnJHcbas to mnther : and thattpbich more iii five being multiplied in it felf^ maJ^th a quadrate nurn* htr, to vpity twenty fivey which is ju^ as many letters as the Egyptians have in their Al^hahet^ and fo fnany)een Api s al[o livedo And as for Horus, they ufed to call him Kaimin, which is as much to [ay ^ asjeen^ \or that this word 15 fenfible andvifthle. Ifis li\ewifeis fometime called Mouthy otherwbiles Athyri or M?thyer. And by the firftofthefenameSi they fignifie a mother : by the fecond^ the fair houfe of Horus, lil^e as Plato termeth it to be the place capable of generation : the third is ccm^ounded effidl andthe caufe i for matter is full of the worlds as being married (md^eeping company with the fir ft pinciple^ which is goody pure^ and beautifully adorned- It (bould ftem ha^ply aljoj that the Foe t Etdodus^ wb^n he faith^ that all things at the firfi^ were Chaos, Earth, Tartarus and Love groundeth upon no other principle than thofe^ which are ftgnified by the (e namet, meaning by the Earth Ids; hy LoveO{iris\ and by JartarusT y^hon-, as we have made demonfiration , For'} by Chao« it feemes that he jVGuld underfiand fome place and receptacle of the world. Moreover in fome fort thofe matters require the fayings of Plata, which in his hook^ entituled Sy mpofitum Socrates inferred^ namely^ wherein he fettetb down the generation cfLove : faying tbat Pcnia, that is to fay, poverty^ [deji- rous to have children^ went and lay with Poros, that is to fay], riches , and jlept with hi^}/ 5 by whom fbe conceived with ihtld, and brought forth Love •, who natu* rally is long and variable ; and begotten of a father who is g(0^ywife, and alfuffiQient ', and of a mother who is poor^ needy, and for wanty defirous of another^ and evermore fc eking and following after it. For the forejaid Poro?, is no other, but the firfk thing amiable, defvreable , perfect and pffLient, As for Penia,, it if matter, which of it ftlf is everrnore bare and needy, wanting that which is good^
whtrebf
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vpbereby at length jhe is conceived with childe^ after whom fhe hath a longing deftre^ ani evermore ready to receive fomewhat of bim v Now Horus engendred between them ( which is the world ) is no eternal^ nor iwfdf^hle^ nor in- corruptible^ hut being evermore in generation^ be endevoretb by viciffttude of mutations^ and by feriodicalli>aSton^ to con- tinue alwaies youngs as ifbe jbonld never die and f^erifi. But of fucb difcourfes as tbefe we mnfi mak,e ufe^ not as of reafons altogether really fuh(ijiing: hut fo^ as we ta\e qui of each ofthem^ that which is meet and convenient to cur furpofe, Wbeis as therefore wee {ay matter^ we are not to rely upon the oftnion of fome Fbilofophers^ and to tbinJ^ it fori 0 he a body without fouh, without quality^ centinw ingin it felf idle ^and wit hint allaUion what(o:ver : forwe call o}le the matter of a perfume or ointment ; and gold the matter of an image or ftatue^ or Tclefmf s which notwith' ftanding U not voide of all fimilitude : and even fo we fay^ that the vetj foul & underftanding of a mantis the matter of vertue\andof jcience^ which we give unto reafon^for to hnng into order i andadorne. And fome there vrere^ who cffir-' tnedtbeminde or uuderflanding to be the proper place of formes^ and asitwere^ the exprefs mould of intelligibU things: like as there he Naturalifls who hold^ that the feed of a woman haib not the power of a principle ferving to the generation of man, hutjlandcth in fleadoj matter and nounfbment only : according unto whom^ we alfo bein^ grounded herein^ are to think, that this goddefs having the fruition of tbeftrfi and chief god^ and converfing vpiih him continualy,for the loveofthofe good things- and virtues which are in bim^ is nothing adverfe unto him^ hut lovetb him as ber truefpoufe and lawfull husband : and like as we fay^ that anhofteiiwife^isfo rare^ thatlamrefolvednever ta injury becaufe fucb a one is hard to he found upon Earth, who enjoyeth ordinarily the company of her hnsband j loveth bim ntvmhilefsi but bath mil a mind mto bim i even
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Jo giveth not jhs over t/ be enameurca upon him^ aiihougb
fbe be continually where he iSy and repltwjhed with his
princifall and vioftfincere parrs. But when and ff here as
Hylc in the aid tbrujktb bmjelf between^ and fettetb upon
the extreanj parts, then and there (he jeemeth to be fad and
heavy^and thereupon is faid to mourn and lament, yea and to
feek, up certain reliqnes and pieces of Eugcnius, and ever as
(Jje can find any^ flje receivetb and drr aieth themcUfe. lik^c
as again (he produceth and bringeth forth other things to
hgbt of herfdf. For the reafons^ the Ideae, and the influen^
ces of God vphicb are in heaven and among tbc (iars and
figures of Geomancy-y doe there continue and remain : hut
ibofe ifkch be difeminate amon^ thf f'^ftble and pa ft hie
hedieSy in the ear ib and in the fea^ diffujed in the plants
and livmg creatures^ the fame dying and being buried^ doe
many times revive and rife again frt^by the meant of ge-
neratiom 'er Ganiaes. And hereupon the faid Hylc
thus iftmh more^ that cohabiteth andltethm\h^t^'tit\\'^$^
and that Eugcn'us alfo by fiealtb and fecretly^ k^epetb
company with her : for the corruptive and defiroying fowcv:,
dothprincipally poffefs the extream parts of that matttt
which they name '^t'<p\ii\iy% and death : and the genera*'
tive and freferving vertue^ conferretb into it Utile feed^ and
the fame wea\and feeble^ ai being marred anJdefiroyedby
Hyka unkfs it be fo much as Btatagaikmib up andfaveib,
which (be cdfo tiourifhttb and maintaineih. But in one
fpordj and to fpeak tnore generally^ he is flili better y as
Plaro and hi \^ct\e are of 'opinion : for the naturall
fuiffaft(;e, to engender and to prefcrve , moveth toward
him as to fuhjlance and being : whereas that force
of l^iUing and deflroying moveth behind toward ncn
fulfiflenc-e which is the renjon^ that they call the one
B« at^ thut is to fay, a motion animate and wife-yBui like as
]hd general name of all gods and goddeffej^to wit. Theon ^
d2Yivci ^--^0 7» 7iifcT« i^i^t is tofay^ofvlftbk ^ t» f^feyT®-,
that
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that 4S to fay ^ of running 'j even fo^ both we and alfo the /Egyptians have called this goddefs Beata, of intelligence and motion together. Semhlahly Placo faith^ that in old time^ whin they^faid Beacon they meant Beat a, that is to fay^ facred ; lik^e as Noelis alfo and Phroneiisj q?i<i(i FK^o^, that is to fay^ thejlirring and motion of the un- derjianding^ being carried and going forward : and they impo fed this K^ord cxwiivax to thofe who h/ive found out and difcovered goodnefs and vertue : but contrariwife have by reproachful names noted fuch things as impeach^ hinder andjlay the courfe of natural thinzs^ binding th:m foy as they cannot go forward^ to wit ^ kakia^ vice^ A-roexA indigence^ cTwA/ct, cowardife^ and ctvicty grief^ as if they l{ept them from hvou, or ll'i^, that is to fay^ free pr^grefi and proceeding forward. As for 'Eugcniusthatis to fay^ holy ani facred -^ for he i^ the common re afon orldea^ of things above in heaven^and beneath in thehoufes of Earth ; ofwhichy our ancients were wont to call the one fort^ /g^^ that is to fay ^ facred ; and the other^ os-ia, that is to fay^ holy, "the reafonalfo which Jheweth celeftial things^ and fuch as move upward,^ is called Anubis, and otherwhiles Hernianubis; as if the one name were meet for thofe ahove^ andtheother for them beneath : whereupon they facrificed unto the former a white cocke^ and to the other a yellow or offaffron colour ; for that they thought thofe things above^ pure^ fimple and (Inning ; but thofe beneath^ tn'xed of a medley colour. Neither are we to marvell ^ that thefe termes are difguifed to the fajhion of Greeks words 5 for an I infinite number of more there be^ which have been tranfpor- \ ted out of Greece with thoje men who departed from ' exile J and there remain untill this day as ftr angers without their native countrey : whereof fome there be which cauf; Foetry to be flmdred^ for callinz them into ufe^ as if it fpakebarbaroufly^ namely^ by thofe who terme w;v Telef- meSjGamaes, l\\<x\\\'Knt]i\aHd Taph'.haphtharra
e 4. Phi-
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^fh'itnerih^^candohfcurewords^ Gloctas. Bi^t in the
hooks of Hevmes or Mercury fo called^ there is written^
thus much concerning facred names^ namely^ that ' the
fower ordained over the circular motion and revolution of
the Sun^ the i^gyptians call Horns, and the Greeks
Apollo ; that which is over the wind, fome name Eu-
genius, others Sarapis, and fome again in'the JEgvptiaii
language Sothi, which fignifieth as much as conception or
to be with childe : and thereupon it is, that by a littlo
deflexion ofthename^ in the Greekjongue^that Canicular
or Vogge-jiar is called Kvav^ which is thought appropriate
unto Beata. Well I kiiow that we aie not toftrive as touch*
ingnamesy yet would Irather give place untothe J^^gvp-
tians about the nam? Sarapis than Eugenius, for this is
iimeere Greekjfpordy whereas the other is a fir anger : but
as well the one as the other fignifieth the fame power of Di^
vinity. And hereto accordeth the Egyptian language-,
for many times theyterme Beata by the name of Minerva,
which in their tongue fignifieth as much^ as I am come of
•my f elf. And E^yle, as we have already faid^ is named
5eth- Eebon/7^^ Smy, which wo^ds betoken all, a vio^
lentftay and iwfeachment^a contrariety and a diverfion or
turning afide another way, Moreover , they call the
ioadflone or Seder itis, the bone of Horuii ; liJ^e as iron
the hone of Ry \e, as Man ethos is mine author ; for as the
iron feeyneth other whiles to follow th e f aid loadfione^ and
Juffereth it felf tohe drawn by it, and many times for it
■again, returneth back^ and is repelled to the contrary :
even fo^ the good and comfortable motion of the world en;-
dued with reafon^ by perfwaftve fpeeches doth convert,
draw into it, and moUifiethat hardnefs of Kyle : but
other whiles again the fame returneth bacl^intoit felf, and
ks hidden if* the depth rf penurie and impoffibility. Over
iTJid he fides, \indox\\% faith ^ that the i^gypcians devife
•:r''Tt;p*t^r tbirfi.aim. thaWji his legs bfingfo growji,
" : ^ ' • tvgethcT
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together in one^ that he could not goe at all, for very fl}ame hel{eptin a defnt wilderness : but Beata by cutting and dividing the fame parts of his body^ brought him to his found and upright going again. Which difcourfe giveih us covertly thus to under {x and ^ that the underjianding and reafon of God in it f elf going invifibly^ and after an un- feen manner^ proceedeth to generation by the means of motion . And verily^ that brafen Timbrel which they foundednndrungat the facrifices of Reata, named Si* ftnim 5 Jl.ewtth evidently^ that all things ought crs/gcS^, that is to fay y to bejiir a^id fhal^^ and never ceafe movingy but to he awakened and r^ifed^ as if ctherwife they were drowfie^ lay afleep and languiihed : for it is faid^ that they turn backhand repulfe Hy le with their Timbrels afore- fifidy meaning thereby^ that whereas Corruption doth bind and ({ay nature^ generation again unbindeth and fetieth it awork^bythemeans of 7notion. Now the faid Siftrura being in the upper part rojwdy the curvature and Abfis thereof comprehendeth four thing^s that are jiirred and moved : for that part of the world which is fubjed to ge- neration and Corruption^ is comprehended under thefph^re of the Moon^ within which^ all things move and alter by the means of the four elements^ Fire^ Earthy }Vatera»td Aire, Vponthe M>Cis or rundle of the Siftrum toward the topy they engrave the forme of a cat with a wans face ; but beneath^ under thofe things which are (hak^n^ one while they engrave the vifage of Beata, another while o/Neph- thys ; pgnifying by thefe twofaces^ nativity and death : forthefebe the motions and mutations of the elements. By the c at they under fiaiid the Moon for the variety of the skjn^ for the operation and work^e in the flight feafo}i^ and for the fruit fulnefs of this creature : for it is faid^ that at firji fl:e beareth G7ie kjtliag. at the feccndtii}jetwo^ tb& third time three y then four^ afterw^irds fivey and fo to ' yn/^ fothat in all f}:e brings forth twenty eighty which
are
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are ths dales of every Moon, And bowfaever this may feem fir ange^ yet for certain it is true^ that the appuls of fights of thefe cats are full and large when the Moon is at full 5 but contrartwife^ draw in and become fmaller as the Moon is in the wane. As for the vifage of a man^ which they attribute unto thecat^they refrefent thereby the witty fubtiU ty and reafon about the mutations of the Moon, But to k^it vp all this matter in few words^ reafon would^ that wee fljould think^neither the fun nor the water ^neither earth nor heaven to be Bcata->or Eiigenius; no more than exceeding drouth yextr earn heat fire andfea^ isU^lc^butfimplywhat^ foever in fuch things is out of meafure and extraordinary either in excefs or defedl^we ought to attribute it unto Hyle: contrariwife^all that is well difpofed^ordered^good 6^ profi- tahle^wemufi believe it to he the work,vertly of Beata^ but the image^example and reajon of Eugeniusr, which if wee honour and adore in this fort ^ we (hall not fin or do awifs : and that which more is ^ we fl^ all remove and flay the ttn- belief and douhtfull fcrupulofity of Endoxus, who asked the reafon J why Ceres had no charge and fuperintendance over Love matters^ hut all that care lay upon Beata, and why Bacchus could neither ma\e the river Nil us to fwell and overflow .y nor govern and rule the dead : for if we fijould alleadg onegenerall and common reason for all ^ we deem thefe gods to have been ordained for the portion of good things , and whatfcever in nature is good and beautiful ^ it is by the grace and means of thefe deities ; whiles the oneyeeldtth thefirjlp:inciplesj and the other rcceiveth anddiflributeth the fame : by which means we ihall he alle to fati^fie the multnude^ and meet with thofu mechanical and o'ltousfellow'i 5 whnhcr they delight in the .change and variety of the aire^ according 'to the fa fans cf they ear yor in the -procreation offruits^orinfeed" mf iwdtiflhfg^. appropriating and applying the eto what hath been dzlivwcd 0^ thefe gods •, wherein the\ tah^ plea-
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r^j faying, that Engenius is interred^ when tbe\feed' is vered in the ground j that hereviveth and rifeth again light J vphen it heginneth lofprut. And hereupon it isfaid^ *at ?it2it^yphen jhe prceiveth her felf to he conceived id with childe^ hangeth about her neck, a frefervative *efixth day of the moneth Phaoplii, and is delivered^ of arpocrates about the folilice of winter^ being as yet vn- rfedy and come to no maturity in the frime of the firji wers and buds : which is the reafon that they offer unto T the firji fruits of Lentils new fprung^ and fofemnize *efealt and holidaies of her chddebirth and lying in after >e Mquinox of the fpring : for when the vulgar fort 'ate thisy they red therein^ tak^ contentment^ and beleeve ftraightwaies^ drawing a probability fo- beliefs out of dinary things which are daily ready at hajtd. And ve» ^ly^ herein tijere is no inconventence^ if firfi and fcrmofi ^ey nta\e the fe gods common^ and not proper and peculiar tto the .'Egyptians, neither comprife Nil us [only and fe land which Nilus watereth^ under thefe names^ nor in timing their Meeres^ Laketh and Lctes^ and ^the nativity ■ their gods^ deprive all other men of thofe great godsy }mng •who7nthere isNWu^jfior Butns, nor /S^.emphis; 't neverthelefs acknowledge and have in reverence the \oddefs Beata, and other gods about her^ of whom they ave learned not long fince to name feme with the ^gyp- an appellations : but time out of mind they k^iew their trtue and power ^ in regard whereof they have homured nd adored them, SeCc ndly^ which is a fc r greater nattery y the end they fhould ta\e heed and be affraid^ leji ere they ? avrttrey they dijfolve and di;Jjfate thefe divine pw^rs in ivers^ winds, fowing^pl owing and otiyer faffiom and aU 'ratious of the earth j as they do ^ who hold^ that Bsc- hus ?s wine^ Vulcan the flame of fir e^ and Proferpina '^f Cleanthes faidin one place ) the ff bit th^t bloweth
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and pier cethtboroKP the fruits of the earth, A ?oet theril ipaSy who writing of reapers and mower s^ (aid : \
What time young men their hands to Ceres ^i\t^ And her with hooks and iithcs by piece mealc cut,
And in no refpe& differ they front thoje^ who thinly tht fades,, cables,, cordage and anchor y are the pilot '^ or that the thred andyarne^ the warpe and woofe^ be the weaver : 0^ that th^ goblet and potion cup, theFtifane or the Medi and honied water^ is the Vhyfttian, But verily info doings they imprint^ abfurd and blafphemous opinions of the gods, tending to Atheifme and impiety ^ attributing the names of (rods unto natures and things fenfelefsy livelefs and cor^ ruptible^ which of necefftty men ufe as they need them^ and can not chufe hut marr and dejiroy the fame. For we wufi in no wife thinks that thefe very things he gods ; for nothing can be a god which hath no foul ^ and isfubje& to man and Under his hand: hut thereby we k^ow that they he gods who give Us them to ufe^ and for to he perdurable and fufficient: not thefe in one pi ace ^ andthofe in another ^ neither Bar- bariansffor Greeks, neither Meridional nor Septentrio^ nal^ hut lik^ as the Sun and Woon^ the heaven^ earth and fea^ are common unto all , hutytt in divers placet called by fundry names : evenfo of one and the fame intelligence that ordereth the whole world^ of the fame providence which difpenfeth and governeth all^ of the minifleriai poYi>ers fubordinate over ally fundry honors and appeHatiofts according to the diver fity -of laws have been appointed^ And the priefis and religious^ profeffed in fuch ceremonies^ ufe myficries 'and facramsnti^ fome obfcure^ others morel plain a}i4 evident ^ to train our underflanJing to the k^ow- ledge of the Deity : howheit^not without peril! and danger ; for that fome m'tijingthe right w ay ^ are fallen intojuper4 ftitien ^ and othns avoiding fuperjUtlon as it were a boggk
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r quagmire , have run before they could taks heed^ upon he rocf{^ of impiety. And therefore^ it behcveth us in his caje effecially to be induced by the diredion ofPhilofophy ^hich may guide us in thefe holy contemplations^ that we tay worthily and relt^ioufly thin\of every thing [aid nddone-y to theend^ that it befall not unto us as unto ['heodonis ^who f aid ^ that the doarine which he tendered nd reached out with the right hand^ fome of his fchollars eccived and took^with the left , even fo^ by talking in a. ?rong fenfe and otherwife than is meet and convenienty hat which the lawes have ordained touchin^feafis and p- rificesy we grofly offend » For^ that all things ought to >avea reference unto rea'on^ a man may fee and Inow by hemfelves : for celebrating [a feafi unto Merciirie the nineteenth day of the firfl moneth, they eat hony andfiggeSy 'fying with ally this Motto Sweet is the triieth. As to hatFhyladery orprefervativey which they call Beata to veare whenjhe is with childefy interpretation itfignifiethy I true voice. As for HarpOG rates ^ we mvft not imagine nm to be fome young god^ and not corns to ripe yeercsy tor yet a man : but that he is the fuper intend ant and re- ■ormer of mens language as touching the godsy being yet uwy unperfeciy and not diftind nor articulate'^ which is he reafony that he holdeth a feale ring before his mout hy n afign and markeof taciturnity and filence, Alfo in the moneth ^t^QYiy they pre fent unto him certain hjndes }f Fulfey faying withally Ihe tongue is Fortune : 7he fongueis V^mon. Now of all plants which R^' pt bring* Hh forth y theyconf crate the ? each-tree unto him efpeci^ «//)', bee aufe the fruit refemhleth an heart ^ and the leafe ft tongue : For all thofe things which naturally are in man^ ^^here is nothing more divine than the tongue and fpeechy as touching the gods principally y neither in any thing com- methhe nearer unto beatitude : and therefore 1 advife and reqtii.c every mm who repair eth hither and commeth down
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to this Oracle^ to entertain holy thoughts in his hearty and to utter feemly words vpith his tongue i whereas the common fort of people in their publicly feajis and folemn proce Jlons doe many ridiculous things^ notwithftanding they proclaim and pronounce formally by the voice of the Crier and Bedile in the beginning of fuch folemnities^ tok^epfilence or fpeak^ none but good words ', and yet afterwards they ceafe not^ hut to give out mojlblafphemous fpeecheSy and to thinks as hafely of the gods. How then JhaU men behave and demean tbemfelves in thofe heavy and mournfull facrifices from whence all mirth and laughter is banijhed : if it be not lawful either to omit any thing of the accujiom.'d and ufual ceremonies ^ or to confound and mingle the opinions of the gods with abfurd and falfe fufpicions ? The Greekj doe many fmhl able things unto the Egyptians ei^^f? in maner at the very fame time : For at Athens in the fea^ called Thefaioplioria to t^? hononr of Ceres, the women do fiji^ fitting upon the ground : And the Boeotians rnal^ a rifling and removing of the houfes of AchsEi^ naming the feaji l'rct')Stiy that is to fay^ odious : as if Ceres were in heavimfs and furrow for the def cent of her daugh- ter Proferpina into hell ; and this is that moneth wherein the liars called Plel'dde^ appear^ and when the husband^ tnm begin to fow^ which the ^^^vptians name Athyt the Athenians Py^uiepiioii, and the Boeotians Dama- crios, asonew)uldfayCcvca\'\s. And Theopompus wnteth^ that the people inhabiting wefiward^ do both thin\,and alfo callthe Winter Saturn. t^r^? Summer VenUS ayidthe Spring]^{:of^t\'^\n'A : and that of Saturn and: Vcmxsall things be engendred. 7he phryi^ians alfo imanininj that God fl^epeth all iVinter^ and lieth awaJ^e in Summer \ thereupon celebrate in the onefeafon^ thefea' Of /V i?< in bed and fleepin^ ; in the other of experredion 0^ waking^ and that with nnch dfi'iking and bell^ chore ButthePaphlagoniansfarj tb.ithe inbound and k^^pt in
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fipard cLi ft -prifoner during ff inter ^ and in the Spring in^ Urged again andfet at liberty, when he beginneth to (iir mnd move. Now the very time ^iveth us occafion tofufpe£f^ that the heavy countenance and aufierity which they fljeWy hecaufe the fruits of the earth be then hidden : which fruits our ancients in time paft never thought to be gods^ hit the profitable and neceffary gifts of the gods^ availing much to live civilly^ and not after a favage and beaftly manner But at what time of ths year as they faw the its from the trees to fall and faile at once j and thofe vhich themfelves had jowen^ with much adoe ^ by little and little opening and cleaving the earth with their own
hands and fo covering and hilling the fame^ without any tffuTed hope what would betide thereupon^ and whether the fame would come to any proof and perfedion or HO 5 they did many things hks unto thofe that commit dead bodies to the earth , and mourn therefore. More" over^ liks ^^ we fay^ that he who buyeth the booths of Plato, buyeth PUto : and who is the adonr of Men^n-' res comedies^' is faidto aU and p/^y Menander : Sem-' hlably^ they did not ff are and forbear to give the names of the celeftiall gods unto their gifts and inventions^ honour* ' '^ the fame with all reverence^ for the ufe and need they had of them. But they who come after taking this grofely and foolijhly, and upon ignorance unskilfully returning uponthegodsthe accidents of their fruits ; not only called ^eirprefence and fruition^ the nativity of the gods -^ and their ah fence or want of them ^ the death and departure of \thegods ; but alfo believed fo much and were perfwaded fully fo : Infuch wife^ as they have filled themfelves with wmyahfurd^ lewd and confufed opinions of the f aid gods. And yet verily^ the error and ahfurdtty of their opinions they had evidently before their eyss prefented by Xenopb a- j ncs the Colophonian, or other Thylofopbers after him^ \T»ho admonificdthe i^gyptian?, thut if they reputed them
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gods^ they j}}0uld not lament for them : and if they mourned tbeyjhouid net take them for gods ; as alfo that it was re^ dkuloUs^ mockery ^ in their lamentations to pray unto them ior to produce new fruits and br in T them unto perfeCtion for them J to the end that they might be confiimed again and lamented for. But the cafe fiands not fo : for they hewaile the fruits that are gone and fpent^hut they .pray unto the gods the authors and give s thereof^ that they would vouchsafe to bejioyp upon them new^ and mak^ them grow in fupfly of thofe which were perifl^ed and loji , Eight well therefore was it faid of the {'hylofophersy that thofe who have not learned to heare and tak^ words aright ^ re- ceive alfo ftnd ufe the things themfelves amifs : as for example^ the Greekj who were not taught nor accujhmed to call th?ftatues of brafs and fione painted images or Tc- iefmes; and afterward were fo bold^ as to Jay, that Lachaies defpoiled and jiripped Mitierva out of her clothes^ and that Dyoriiilus the tyrant polled Apollo w^t? had a perry wlC? or bufh of golden haire ; alfo that Jupiter CaipitoWnusduringthecivillwarrs was burnt and con* fumed with fire. And thus they f'^e not^ how in fo doing jj' they draw and admit falfe and erroneous opinions which '' follow upon fuch manner of fpeeches. And herein the JEg\ipti2Lns of all other nations^ have faulted moj}^ about the be alls which they honour and worfhip. For the G^eekj verily in this point both beleeve and alfo fpeak_ well^ ^^yi^g that the dove is a bird facred unto Venus, the dragon to Minerva^ the raven or crow to /^^poilo, and the dog to Diana, according to that which VAiv'i^ides faid '^ The£;oddefsD/>^^^ fhiiiino; by night. In a dogs portrait will take much delight, But the Egyptians, atleafi wife the common fort of them, W9r(hipinz and komurin^^ thefe very beafts as if they were gods the mfelve^^ have not only peftered with laughter and ridiculous mockery their Lyturgie and divine fervice^ ( for
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Ignorance and folly in this cafe is the leajlfin of all others )
b ut alfo there is crept into the midfi of men ajlrong opinion^
which hath fofarre poffeffed the fmple and weaker fort., a.
that it hringeth them to mere fuperfiition. And as for
\fuch asl he of more quic\ and witty capacity^ and who
kefides are more audacious^ thofe it driveth headlong into
\ hea\ily cogitations andAtbifUcal difcQurfes ; And therefore
\l hold it not amifsy curfartly and ly the way to annex
thereto fuch things as Geomancy teacheth. For to fay^
{that the gods for feare of Ryle were turned into thefs
• creatures.^ as if they thought to hide themfdves within the
' bodies of the black^fiorJ^s calledo\h\d ^s^ ofdoggs and hawk^s^
is a wonderful mifiery to the Common r^^ader Uk^wife to
hold^that thefoules of thofe who are departed^fo many as re-"
ntainjiill inheing^ are to come into fie (h again onely in the
bodies. And as for thofe who will feem to render a civill
andpolitickjeafon hereof \ feme give out that Engenius
in a great expedition or voiage of hii^y having divided his
\armie into many parts ( fuch as in Greek are- called p^^x^g
and TdL^Bi^^ that is to fay y hands and companies ^ he gave
mto every of them for their fever al enftgnes theportraUurei
znd images of Gcomdirtcy .: and each hand afterKpards
jonoured their own^^and had in reverence as fome holy and-
'{acred thing. Others affirme^ that the kjngs whofucceed^
'd after Eugenius, for to terrify their enemies went forth
0 battel^ carrying before them^ the figures of G eomancy
nade in gold andfilver^ upon their armes. Some there be
ligain^ who alledge^ that there was one of thefs their fuh-m
He and fine headed kjngs^ wholinowing that the ^gyp i-
ms of their own nature were lightly diffofed^ ready to
'evolt and given to change and innovations^ alfo that hy
'eafon of their great multitude ^ their power was hardly to
e refirained and in manner invincible ^ in cafe theyjoyned
ogethermcounfell and drew jomtiy in one common line^
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therefore he [owed among thnn a perpetvall fuperflition^ which gave occafioH of drffemioH and enm'ity among them that never could be appeafed ; For when he had given com-' 7nande:Tient nntothem^ for to have in reverence thofe Tc^ \t^mt?> which naturally difa.greed and warred together ^ even fnch as were rea^y te dellrey thofe that carry them whiles every one endevoured alwaies to fuccour and maintain thi'ir own^ andwere moved to an^er if any wrong or dif- ■plcpfure were done to thofe which they affeUed 5 they fell to* geth?r themftlves hy the ear es^ ere- they were aware and I hjllcd one another^ for the enmity and quarrel which was ■ hetween thofe figures whonr they adored^ andfo foflered mu^ PLd and mortal hatred. For even at this day^ of all the ./^Igyp'^'^ns t^^ Lycopclitans ow/v, eatmntten^ hecaufe the rvolfe wh mt th?y adore as a god is enemy unto (Ijeep^ hec a-ife their figures are oppofte. And verily in this our aq'e. the OxyrinciPtes, hecaufe the CynopolireSj that is to f^y^ the inhabitants of the city CynopoH<^5 eat the filh named Oxyrincho , that is to fay^ with the (harp becke^ whensoever ^hey Can entrap or catch a dogge^ mal^e no more adoe but k^llhim for a facrifice and eat him when they have done. Vpon which occafon hav'ng levied warr on' ^{rainfithe other ^ and done much mischief reciprocally^ after they had be^n well cht\ufd and pla^Ufd by the Ro-j( nians, they g en> to attonement and compofition. An^ for ' a s much as -r any of them do Cay^ that the Coule of Hyle departed into thefs beaiis^itfeemeth that this fi^ion impor- tcth thus much^ that every hfutiflj and beafily nature com- ir.eth and prcceedeth from fome evilGen'ms', andtherefort to puCifie him that he doe no mifchief^ they worjhip anc adore t':efebea{h And if per'adventvrt' there happen an great drought or contagious heat^ which caufeth pe(\ilen \ 7naladiei or other unufual and extraordinary calamities I the priejis bring forth Jome of tboje Te\c[mcs which the
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ferveandhomnrin the dark night, without any wife in
^reatfilence, menafmg them at thefirfi and putting them
it fright mw if the plague or calamity continue ftilL
they l{,ll andfacnfice a (heep, think>ng this to be a punift,.
mentand chaft.ifementofthefaidevilld^mn, orelfefow
great expiation for notable Jinnes and tranfgreffwns Vor
m the city verily of Idithya, as Manethos maketh retort,
the manner u to burne men alive, whom they called Hvlij,
Jhof^afheswhentheyhadboulted throuzh a tamife, they
fcattered abroad, vmill they were reduced to nothing :
But ths was done openly at a certain time in thofe dales
yphichare called Cyn.des or Canicular. MarvUhe im-
molationofthefeheafts, which they accounted famd, wat
performed fecretly andnotat acertain time o^ upon t^e-
Jlx.'d dates, but according to the occurrences of thor xci-
:dents which hafned. And therefore the commom people
neither \newnor faw ought, but when they fohmnize their
cbfeqmes and funerals for them, in the prcfence of all the
feople they fiew feme of the other beajh and throw th^m
.together mo the repulcher,fuppofmg thereby to vex and
' TA-^i'V" r" ''^'''^' the joy that he hath in doinz mi^huf Foritfeemeth that Af,s with fome other beafl, ,wasconfecrated to Eugenius : howfoever they attribute ^anymore unto him. And if this be trw, I fuppofeit importeth that which we Jeeiandfearch all 'this whHe, as Puckng thofe which are confeffedby all, and have common hmm : as the forefaid fiorke Ibi., \he hauke aZtZ
truit^'Vr'''^?'' ''•^"'^«- Now there rem il: ah utility and fymbohzation hrreof : ccnfderinir that rme participate of the one, but the molltZt^fbth
S;s?i''i^"''f r? "'''''' Sne:s
|Wtoa„„ they honor them for the ufe and mf,t thev rcceivebythetit: like as the inhabitant/of LemSw
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the birds called Corydali, becaufe they find out the locujlsnejisandquajh-their eg^es. Ihe Theffahans «/g
hJetheliorKelin great '''=^'^»l^''%'fj^;''%\Z country tlaiven to breed a number of ferpent,, thejata •
\heyn,adeanidta. mxh anmttmatm thatwhofoever hUleda florke (houldbebanilhed hn country, the ferpe»t AfpisX ti ifezillandtheFlyecMdthe BeUllthj rTrJebeCavfethey observe in them I wot not what mianhr iJ.es ( /.% <« « drop of water weperce^ve he Jefen,blan e \f the fun^ of the f'^'l' P^^l-J^ mJthereheevenyeX, who both thmk and fay, that the ZaleWezdlengendrethwith the female by her eare and thatl hringeth forth heryoun. at the month -. wkch fym- Zde^haslyfiy, andreprefenteththe '";'^>'lf£^ neration of fpeecb. As for the beef , they hold h'^ throughout all their kinde there ,s no female ^ut dU^' ,naleUo Mow or call the,rfeed ,nto '^ »rtat»glohmoT round matter in forme of bah which they dnve from them, ZrMo ar.d fro contrariwaies, hk as the fun when 1^fZethhM^tffromthewe\Uotheea^,feenuthtoturn
about t&e heave'i clem, contrary Ihe Afp.s alfo they foZl re tothe planet of the fun, becaufe he doth never age and Z^ old. hut moveth in all facihty, readmefs and Tetrayw'thout the meane. of a.y infiruments of motjoK.^ Sfr is the Crocodile fetfo much by amongthem,wtthut fonXobMecaufe,f^ theyfaythatinfomerefpephe,, {hvlryirna,e,-eprefe.tinzgod-. asbetng the onlycrea- tuninth^mrldUichhathm tongue : for as much asdt- vinefpeech needeth neither voice nor tongue :
But through the paths of Juftice ^valks
with mil and filent pace: ^.^^^^^
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Direfting right all mcrtall things, in their due time and place.
Attdof allbeafis living within the neater ^ the Crocodile
onely ( as men fay ) bath over his eyes a certain thin filme
or transparent wehhe to cover them^ which comdh down
from his forehead infuch fort^ as that he can fee and not
befeen , wherein he is conformable and like unto the fove*
raign of all the gods. Moreover look-in what -place the
female is difcharged of her fpawn , there is the utmofi
mar\e and limit of therifingand inundation of Nil us ;
for being not able to lay their e'gges in water ^ and affraiS
mthall to fit far off^ they have a mofi per fed and exquifit
1 forefight of that which will be ; infomuch as they mat^e ufe
; of the riven approach when they lay : and whiles they Jit
\ and cover their egges be preserved dric^ and are never
dr nched with the water ^ A hundred egges they lay^ in
fo many daies they batchy and as many yeers live-- thsy^
which are longejl lived : And this is the firji and principal
number that they ufe who treat of celeftial and terreftrial
matters . Moreover^ as touching tbofe beafis which are hO'
mred for both caufes^ we have fpo\en before of the dogge :
but the Ibis or bUc\ llorke^ be fides that it hjlleth thofe fer-
pents whofe prick^and liing is deadly^ (}:e was the firji that
taught us the ufe of that evacuation of clenfing the body by
uifire^ which is fo ordinary in Thyfick^: for perceived Jhe
iito pwrge^ clenfe^ and mundifie her felf in that fort:
thereupon the moflriligiouspriejis^ and thofe who are of
ireateil experience^ when they would be purified^ tahefor
\ heir holy water to fprinkje them fives with^ the very fame
fut of which the Ibis drinheth^ for (he n?ver drinkj of
'mpoifoned and infeBed water ^ neither will (he com^ neer
into it. Moreover with her two legits ftanding at large
^m from the other^ and her bill together ^ (he maketh (tjt
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ahfolnte triangle with three even fides^ he fides the variety ifnd fpeckjed nnxtnre of her J>tume confijjing of white feathers and hlack^^ refrefnteththe Moon when fie ispafi the full. Now we mull not marvel at the Egyptians, for pieafmg and contenting themftlves infuch reprejentati- Cffs andfimilitudes, for even the Greeks themfelves as well in their pidures as other images of the s^odsy melted and iproyght to any mouldy ufed many times fuch refemhlances : for oneTc-.tfwx inCrttii they hid of Jupiter without ear es^ hecatife it is net meant for him who is lord and go- •vernov.r of all^ to have an; in'\nid.ion by the hearing of others unto tie image 0/ Pa 1 1 a s . P b i d ia s t^f Imager fet a dragon ; liJ^ as to that of Venut? in the city ,f Elis a Tortoife ; givingl us ly this to under jtan '^ that maidens had need of guidance and good cuftodie^ and that married 'Women ought to keep the houfe and he filent. 7he three for- l^d mace of i\^eptune 5 fignifyeth the third place ^ vphich the fea and element of water holdeth-, under heaven and aire j for which caufe thy called the fea A nip hit rite, find the pettie^ and the pettie fea-gods Tritons, Alfo the Vy th;\gOT:?iUS have highly honouredthe nmnhers and fi- gures Geometrical and Geomartical by the gods names: for the triangle with three equal fides they called Pallas, home out of Jupicers^r/?/^^, and Tritogenia, for that it is equally divided with ]hree right lines j front thre? anglei drawn hy the plume, Onu or unitie they named Apollo.
As well for his per.fwafivc grace ; ^ as plain liniplicitie. That doth appear in youthful fa cej and thi!? i3 uiiicie.
7)^^y th'l icr:::ed Ccntenticn ar.d holiness : and 'hrce
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Juflice. Read the Holy Guide, /?5. 2. For whereas to offend and be offended^ to doe and to fuffer wrcng. cr^im the other hy defed^jujtr emumeth eqv ally between in the fnidefi, That\ famous fjuaternarie of theirs , named Tc« tT3^yS- which confiiteth of fournhies. a^-d amouKUir thirty fix ^ wasthnr greate'}j)ath forife in ev.ry -mouthy and they called it the World ^ as bein^ ace. fhed of the firjl ioure even numbers, and ih^ firi frmy o,u' t., compounded into one to'jether. If then the 'no[i excelun' and beji: renouned I'hilofophers-, percciv rn'^ in things which have neither body nor foule^ fom-type d,}d f'lurs ofdi^-ie^ have not thought it c^cod to negled or di'fpife i^v\ ih ng herein, or pa fs it over without due honour. . p-p'y^fe we oufiht much lefs foto doe in thofe propntte' and qv amities which are in natures fenfitive^ having life^ and being ca- pable of pAfjions and affed.ions^ according to their incl'mit-' 'tions and conditions And therefore we muji not content ')ur felves and re It in the worjhiping of thefe and fucb like relefnies by ficrificing Beafts opPofte ^ but by them a- iore the divinitiethat fhineth in them^ as in mcfi cleere md bright mirrors^ according to nature^ reputing them^ zlwaies as the\'7ynhument and artif.ciai work^nanfjjip of lod^ who ruleth and govcrneth the univerfc^l world : nei^ her ought we to think^e^ that any thing void of life^ and leilitute cf fenfe^ can be more worthy or excellent than hat which is endued with life andfenf'S -. no not although tmanhungnever fomuch zcldor a number of rich eme^ -auds about it : for it is colours^ figures, and polifhed bodies hat Genii doe \rnhabite in : but whatfcever doth not par^ icipate life^ nor is by nature c apable thereof., is of a more Wi>afe and ahjed condition than the very dead. But that tature which liveth and feeth^ which a! fo in it fe If hath he beginning of motion and h^owlcd^^e of that which is '■fopsr andmeety as^alfothat which is (bran ge unto it^the
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fante ( I fay, ) hath drawn fome influence and portion of that wife providence^ whereby the univerfal world is go. ^fernedy asHtrsicYitusfaith. And therefore the deity is m l(fsreprefented in fuch natures^ than inworis made of Irafsandfione^ Ihus much of that opinion, as touching the knowledge ofGcnW^ which 1 approve for heft^ and the facrificing of heajis to. Telcfmes, as is taught in the following books of Geomancy,
f^oreover the hahilliments of Beata he of different
tindu es and colour s : for her whole power conftjieth and
is employed in matter whieh receivethall fo ntes^ and be^
Cometh all manner of things^ to wit^ lights dark^efs^ day^
mghx , fre^ water ^ life^ death^ beginning and end. But
the robes of Eugefiius have neither fljade nor variety, but
are of one fimfle Colour, even that which is lightfome and
bright. For the firft and primitive caufe is fimple ; the
principle or beginning, is without all mixture, as being
fpiritual and intellegible. Whereupon it is that they
make fhew but once for all of hi ^- habiliments, which when
they have done they lay them up again and befiow them,
fafeandk^efthemfojiraightly^ that no man may fee or
handle them : whereas contrariwife they ufe thofe 0/ Beata
fftauy times : For thatfenfible things be in uf age, and feeing
ihey are ready and ever in hand^ and be fubjed evermore
to alternative alterations, therefore th£y he laid abroad.
anddifplaied, fortobefcen often. But the intelligence
of thi7t which is fpiritual and intellectual, pure, ftmple,
^nd holy, fK'ining as a flap of lightning, offered it felf
jmto the foule but once, for [to be touched and fcen,
^nd therefore Pinto and Aiiftotle call this part
af Phylpfophy 5 I.TTC'/J iKov., for that thofe who dif-
ccvrfe of reafon , have pa ffed beyond all matters fub'
U'd to Tnhizl^d and variable opiyiicns^ leap at length to the
',r:f:)vp!,ni-Jto^ thi^ fiy'l Principle, n'biclfis Ciwple, and
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mt material : and after they have in fome {orX attaifted to
the pure and fwcere trvth of tt^ they fi^fpff^ that thdr
fhylofophy as now accoMpliped is cowe to final perfeCiion^
hndt at which the priepinthefe daies are very precife
\and wary to Jhew^ kfepins; it hidden and fecret with fo
great Cpre and dili^ence^ allowing mt fo ntuch as a fight
thereof fecretty and by the way ; alfo that this god ^aigneth
land ruleth over the dead^ and is no other than be whom
t^e Greeks name Hades <r«i Pluto : the common people
ftot under jlandin^ how this is true^ are much troubled',
ihinhjng it very firange that the holy and f acred Euge-
inius fhojdd dwell within or under the "Earthy where their
bodies lie who are thought to be come unto their finall end.
But he verily is moji farre removed from the earthy without
flainorpollutiony pure andvoidofallfubfianceorMaturey
that may admit death or any corruption whatfoever.How*
beit the foul es of men i fo long as they be here beneath clad
within bodies and pafpom, can have no participation of
God^ unlefs it he fo much onely as they may attain unto the
intelligence of y bytheftudy ofThyloJophy^ and the fame is
but in manner of a darks ^y^^^* But when they fhaU he
delivered from thefe bonds ^ and paf into this holy place
Inhere there is no paffion^ nor paifibk forme : then^ the
fame god is their condu dour and king : then they cleave
unto him^ as much aspoffibly they can : him they contem^
•plate and behold without Jatietie : defmng that beauty
phich is not pofjiblefdr men to utter andexfrefs : whereof
according to the old Authors, Beata was alwaies jna^
mottred : and having pur fued after it untillfie enjoyed
the fame J fhe afterwards became replenijhed with allgood^
nefs and beauty that here may be engendred. And thus
much may fuffice for that fen fe and interpretation which is
ptojl befeemni'/ the gods. Now if we mufl befides^ fpeak^as
Ifromift'd bc'orc ; of the incenfe and odors which are
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burnt every day : let a man confider firfi in hhminde^
andtah^ this with him^ that the Egyptians were men
evermoreMofi jludiousin thofe ntattets which made for
the health of their bodies^ hut principally in this regard^
they ha din recommendation^ thofe that concerned the ce*
remonies of divine fervice in their fanUifications and in
their ordinary life and converfation^ wherein they have
no lefs regard unto hoffomenefs then to wholinefs : For they
thinks it neither law full nor befeeming to ferve that ejfence
which is altogether pure^ every way found and impollutedy
either with bodies or foules corrupt with inward fores and
fub'je& to fecret maladies. Seeing then^ that the aire^
which we tnoft commonly ufe^ and within which we alwaies
converfe^ is not evermore alik^ difpofed^^nor in the fame
temperature : hut in the night is thickfted and made grofsy
whereby it comprifeth and draweth the body into a. kind of
fadnefsand penfivenefs^ as it were overcafi with darkf
miftsand weighed down: fo fo on as ever they he up in a.
morning to their TtXe^mfi^ they bur ne incenfe by kjnd-
ling Rofiny for to cleanfe and purifie the aire by this rare*
faUion and fubtilization^ awakjng as it were and raifing
ly this meanes, the inbred fpirits of our bodies ^ which were
langmfhinganddrowfie : for that in this order there is a
forcible vertue^ which vehemently flrih^th upon the fenfes.
Again^ about noon^ perceiving that the Sun draweth
forcible out of the earth by his heat^ great quantity offtrong
vapours^ which be intermingled with the aire^ then they
hum myrh : For the heat of thii aromatical gum and
cdor is fiich^ as that it difppateth whatfoever is grofs.
thicks and muddy in the aire. And verily in the time of
feftilenc^Thyfitians think^to remedy the fame by making
great fires, heinz of this opinions thatf he flame doth fubti*
Hate and rarefie the aire : which it effedeth] no doubt the
better in cafe they bnrnefweet wood^ as of the Cyprefs trees^
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^fjunipr^ or Pitch tree. Now they fay the Oath of thofe hat fwearey infeB the aire with plagues^ for the Genii vill not (uffer fins t3 cortte among them And hereupon yporteditisthatthe Phyftcian fKcron^when there raigned t grievous plague at Athens, wan a great name andre^ mmtation^ by caufing good fires to be made about the ficJ^ '^erfons : for hefaved many by that meanes. And Plato iptiteth that the fweet fcents and good fmells of perfumes^ ointments J flowers and jra^rant medowes^ ferve no iefs for health than for delig ht and pleasure. For that by their heat and mildenefs they gently diffolve and open the fuh^ fiance of the braine^ which naturally is cold and as it were congealed, Again^ if it be fo^ that the JEgy^t\^ns call myrrh^ in their language Ball^ which if a man interpret^ fignifieth as much as the difcufjlng and chafing away of idle talke and raving 5 this alfo may ferve for a tejUmony TO confirme that which we fay^ As for that compofition among them named C\y\\\^ it is a confection or mixture receiving fixteen ingredients, for there into it^ hony, wine, raifins, cyperous, roiin, myrrh, afpalathiis and fefeli. Moreover the fweet rufh Schaenos, Bitumen, MofTe, and the dock : Be fides two forts of the juniper berries, the greater and the lef-^ Cardamomum ^«^ Calamus. All thefe fpeeches are compounded together not at a venture and as it commeth into their heads : but there be read certain f acred writings unto the Apotheca- ries ^«^3^ Perfumers, all the while that they mix them. ' As for this number although it be quadrate^ and made of tifqu are and only of the munbers equal j mak^th the f pace CdJitained within equal to his circumference^ we are not to thinks that this is any way material to the vertue there- of- : but mofi of the fimples that goe to this compofition being aromatkall^ cafi a pie a f ant breath from them and yeeld a delegable and y> hoi fome vapour^ ly which the aire
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is altered : and witball^ the body bein^ moved with this evaporation^ is gently prepared to repofe^ and ta^eth an attra^ive temperature of fleeps in letting flacky and un* binding the bonds ofcares^ wearines and forrowes^ inci» dent in the day time, and that without the help offurfet anddrunkennefs: polijhing and fmooth'mg the imaginative part of the brain^ which receiveth dreames in manner of a ntirour which the Genii communicate to us infleep^ caufing the fame to be pure and neat^ as much or rather more^ the found of harpe^ lute^ viole^ or any other inflruments of mufick^^ which the Pythagore^LUS ufed for to procure Jleepy enchanting by that device^ and dulcing the unrea* fonable part of the foule which lis fubjeU to paffjons. For fweet odorsy as they doe many times excite and jiir up the fenfe when it is dull and heginneth to faile : fo contrariwife they maks the fame as often drowfie and heavy , yea and hrin^ it to quietmfs whiles thoje aromatic all fmells by reafon of their fmootbnefs are fpread and defufed in the body: According as fome Vhyfttiam fay^ that flee p is engendred inm^ when the vapour of the food which we have recei^ vedy creepeth gently alon^ the noble parts and principal bowels^ and as it toucheth them^ caufeth a J^ind of tickjing which lulleth them a (leep . This Cy phi they ufe in drink^^ as a co^pofition tofafon their cups and as an ointment he- fides : for they hM^ that bein7 ta\en in drink^^ it fcour^ eth the guts within animak^th the belly lojpative \ and beinir applied outwardly as a linement^it molufieth the body. Over and above all this^ Koftn is the works of the fun : Myrrh they gather by the Moon light^ out of thofe plants fro^n which it doth de(iill : nut of thofe fmples whereof Cy^h'i if c^mpoundeJ^ fome there be which love the night better, as many I mean as be Hourifhed by cold windes^ fijado'vs. dewes and moiiiure. For the bright nefs and Ifghtoftkdtyis&f^e and fintple : and Pindarus faith
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that the fun is feen through the pure and foUtary aire i vphereas the aire of the night is a compound and mixture 9f many lights and powers^ as if there were a confluence of many feeds from every jiar running into one. By good tight therefore they burne hefe fimple perfumes in the day^ as thofe which are engendred by the vertue of the fun : but this being mingled of all f$rts and of dive^fe qualitieSy they fet on fire about the evening, and beginning of tie night. We fl:ould have prefaced fomething in defence fft^f JeweS) who are f rifely accufed of burning their children to the Idol Molor, whence the accufiomed of leaping over the fire of St. John hath been derived^ how We ought not to rejlonthe bare letter of the Scriptures^ a^id of the opinions concerniag the number of ye ares from the C eation of our Saviour Chrift, and why the ftrange Statues of Laban, tf«^ Micha called Teraphim were allowed of God, of certain ftrange prodigious things which have foretold difafterSy which have been feen to come to pafs , and which doe yet foretell the fame of Gamahes Jngraven and thofe naturall 3 of the ghofts of dead people that appear e in Church yards, and after great flaughter of Armies whence they proved. By what means the power of figures is proved. The wonder-^ full effects o/Telferaans, and why our Saviour Chrili is oftner pidured fuffering upon the Crofs,then fitting at the ^ight hand of his father ^why the Ancients placed Images in their lemplesy of the manner of makjng Tc\c{manSy and what power the Angells have over them, by the in- fluence of the heavens^ of Socrates and Virgils Telef^ matical fly, and herfleeth of the Telefmatical golden calfy and brazen ferpent, and why [they were made of tbefe mettalls, of the fpirits of the Planets^ and the Aftrolo* gical cabal of the Jewe?, of the planet ary]zephicots and the ftars that caufe diverfitj in Religion of JEiy^pthn
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lelefmei. Of the mifiery of Mercury in Vergo, and how Apology and Geomancyis. demonftrable out of Holy Serif ture^ of what manner of ceremonies the \{tbvtvits ufed toward their new-married bride , of Angels and Saints that have been feen to appear in the cloud. But we have been very large ^ and pall therefore refer the Reader to the third part of the Temple of Wifdome,, fpbere the lelefmes and figures Jhall all be explained
From our Virgin Pallace iiiHermupoUs* Vie i^
m HemupoUs. Vie %
i? A.V''^* 5h. John Heydon
Mr.
Mr, John Hey don'f-^^wt^orif/Vj, or thi Catalogue
Authors confultcd wiih m his f^'orl^s.
A.
A Br. Altharon. Albertus Magnus.
B.
B. Hieronymus,
Buxcorf.
Adamanciuj Sophifta.
Brown.
Averroes.
Biblia.
Appolonius.
Bechay.
, Aquinas.
Bonavenmra.
Abarbanel,
BuUinger.
^chius;
Belott.
Albertus Teutonicus,
Briflonuls.
Alchibiades.
Blaliusdeparma.
Ambrofius Para»us.
Barnerio.
Anciochus Bartholoma?us.
C
Alchindus.
Chriftophec Heydon Kt.
Andreas Lauremius.
Cafmanus.
Agathias.
Cardanus.
Appion.
Campanella.
Arrian.
Caefar Diftator.
Abindan.
C. Catan.
Agricola.
Cafpar Bartholinus,
Andreus Corvus.
Cicero.
Alexander Trallianus.
Caufinus.
Arnaldus Villanovanus,
Chomer.
, Aphchonius.
Collegium Conimbrifcnce.
Antonius Gern[iironus.
Cardinal Caietan.
Argenterius.
Codes.
Alianus.
Caufabon.
Artemidorus.
Conftantius Afrkanus,
Achmedbentolon,
Camillus.
Apomarar.
D
Arpharabius,
Dlafirudes.
Avenar.
Damafcenus.
Auguilmus*
Digby Kt. Diodorn^
Amobius.
AbenEfra.
Demofthenes.' .
Arlftoteles.
Delrio.
Avicennas.
Democrims,
Antonius Cremenfis,
Durel.
Alnharibius»
De Spagnec. D. TBoraas.
Alftedius.
i
Daiol,
Dariol. Daniel. Dee.
Epitnonidcs.' Empedocles. Ekha.
Femclltts.
Ficintis.
Fludd.
French.
Formica.
^
Gefner.
Galenus.
Galeoccus.
Gerfon.
Gaudentius Merula.
Gaftarel.
Goclcnius.
Giegorius NIcenus.
Gerard of Cremond.
Gregory.
H
Haly.
Helladius.
Haniahalzel.
Heraclltus.
Hobbs.
Hermes.
Hafdrubal.
Herodotus.
Hcurnius.
Hefiodus.
Henrkus Corn. Agrlppa Knight.
Helenas Priami,
Hippocrates.
Hieronymus Mercurialis.
Homerus.
Halenfus.
Horatiiis.
HugoGrotius.
Hugo Vi^orinus.
I
lamblicus,
Jaichus.
Jandunus.
Junius.
Jacobus Hollerius.
Jacobus Martini.
Job.
Jofephus Appion.
Johannes de Indagine.
Johannes Rothmanus.
Jeraurarlus.
Johannes Pofthius.
Juftinus Philof. & Mart.
K Kerftenius. Kiinrath. Kapol.
JLi Lamprldus. Lyranus: Laftantius; Leonides. Lconicenus* Leophritus, Leranius Lycophron. Livius.
Lucius ScyUa« Loxius. Lucullus. Ludovicus Vives, Lud, Mercatus.
M Magirus. Moriims. Macrobius. Mantuanus; Munfter. \
Manilius. Monca^us. Martiaiis. Moore.
Ustcrnixi
^ i
Maternus.
Pyrovanus. plinius.
R. Mofes.
Matth^us Drefferui.
Plutarchus.
Michaldus.
Polcmon.
Michael Scot us.
Ptolomasus.
Morbcch.
Pychagoras.
Mofes.
Q.
N
Quintilianas. ,
Ni(kr.
R.
Nicephorus. Nicolaus Taurellu^
Rhafes^
Rovilius.
^^inus.
Realdus Columbus.
^odius.
RufFus.
0
Rodolphus Hofpinianur,
JCcaxn
Ranhovivy. Satnius.
>nclius.
iDvidius.
Salmahus.
iDIympiadorus,'
Savanarola.
1 P
Scirachan.
i*alcmon.
Scaliger.
Ahilaleches.
Schoia Salemitana.
BsiufanJas
Scribonlus.
T^ctrus Apponcniis.
Synefius. ^
I'ctrus de area.
Seneca.
I'etrus Viflenbachus,
Scot.
leriius.
Simachardus,
■oftellus.
Selden.
louerus.
Solomon.
braotcs.
Syrenus.
ererius
Socrates*
lilippus Melanfthoii,
Strabo.,
hilemon.
Sandivogius.
Mnponacius.
Suetonius.
lilemon.
t
lUo Iuda*us,
Taifnei-us.
liloftratus*
Txeizes.
*ranelfus.
Terentius.
■liloponos.
Tacicus.
■linella.
TertuUianus,'
Ifo.
Thaddaeus Hagarluj.
l:doii^
Theodoius Gaza,
1 at«.
i Tundinusi
^ 1
' 1 thcodoliua
,^E
THeodofius.
Vefalius.
Themifthius.
Vigenerius:
Toletus.
Virgilius.
Thcuel.
Vidoi Trincavdius.
Trifmegiftus.
W.
Toran.
Wyerus. White.
Tiibafliis.
Timplerus,
X
V ■
Xenophon.
Vitruvius.
Exoblah.
Valeiius Maximus.
. z
Veneus, . , ,
Zabarella.
Valefcus de Tbrante,
Zophyrus.
Varro.
Zoroaftes.
L. Vcrulam.
Zeber AlchJn.
Ad'
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i«ix'j->U
Advertifement to the Reader.
in behalfe of my Fiiead cht Author Mr. J^hn Heydon^
BVt as yet I have not leave to direct thee to thh Author^ for now he forfal^s Company^ and is were Mdanchol- ly then SociaUe ; you may be flea fed to tak^. notice^ thai this Baok^depends upon a former of the Ha rmony of the World written by Mr. John Heydon, and in the Tyrants time preferved by thofe two great examples of Loyalty to his Majejiy^ ^irjohn Hanmer Barronet^ ajvi 5;> Ralph. YvttmTin^Knight and Collonelh and by permi'Jton coy^miu ted to the pre fs for the benefit of mankind-^) on are in tkisMe^ thod to follow the Hoi v G uide aU Compofed by this Author^ and it was thought fit that nothinz of fo worthy an Author jhould be left unprinted^ there is therefore his Ocia Impc- rialia, atid the Idea of the Law, Charaaeredfroyn Mo- fes to Kins; Charles; with the Idea of Warr^ Govern- menc and Tyranny^ aUpublijhed together Methodically^ andfo beteadforyour better under ji and ing. T^i/Rofie Cruc'an infallible Axiomata of Ihyhck, is a (if- courfe of a fecrec Foiincain, whofe water iloues from Fire, and carries in it the Beams of th;:: Sun and Sloort, and his iJabalia or the /{rt by which ^oCei Jo- fhua, Elijah, c^^. Did all their Miracle?, istoberead 'i^ith his Regie Lunis, &c. there he teaches you to J^tow what a Glorious Creature mati was before his fall, of his Inimortallity andperf'^ft knowledg of God; Ail this. Authors Bookj are very plain and eafe to be app^e-. hended if they be read in Order ^ hs writei no 'Addles or dif- ■ ,e 2 iisultiC^
1 ne Advertilement.
ficuhiesy to put you to a tryal of wit s Htm I am certain without thefe Bookj^ there will be nothing but Confufion in the Iforld: And I am confident if mens Mindi were but truly fixt up&n this Temple, they would not prove fuch wenth. r Cocks^ to be turned about with the Wind of every fa'fe DoCirine^ of fome Atheiftical Aftrological vaine opinions : we jhould then be free from thofe disorders which threaten de(iru6iion to the Soul, and dijiradion to the Com- vton- wealthy hut let others write never fo wcll^ if our Pra^ life do not fecond their in\}rucnons^ we may be wife enough to fcnfee our Mipryy but mver k^iow-how to prevent it. Uhutpitty is it^ that this Famous Temple fhould produce m other effed^ but to informe our kyiowledgand confute our Converfation ; whiltftwe negled the truth that is appre^ bended. Jet there is fome hopes ^ that fuch obfervers^ whofe VJjCdomth^nh received the fiampe of goodnefs^ willim' prove their kj/I -to a real Advancement of thofe benefits y vMch lye loch^ up in this Glorious Tempi?. 1o whofe ufe and behoofs thife Excellent Works are Commended^ as the bift that ever were writei^ this kjnd^and mayferve for a general Ground and Foundation to all Kegular Con- ceptionfjhat concern the EfTence^^w^ Exigence of man. Tre Government of Kingdomes and Common- weal ths5<7?/(^^)'r^?^/f^//^?;c^o?^rfrfrw/z/ Salvation : And n'.w what u'^e you will mak^ of this Teny^\e is in your pO' wer ; If you be wife^ if not (iand bac\y and let others come vmo ity and poffeflit *, let thofe Malicious perfons thatfcan- dalize our Author ^with \ludied calumnies^ pafi unregarded^ fur they are fcclijh rude people that fpit filth at the Sun^ and it falls back^into their own faces hi' ii now riftng and high in favour with the Princes and Peers of thisKingdomeywhich caufe hUenemies to enviehim ; he flights their madnefl^ and fives them good Adv.ce he ii highly inefieemin theSpaniJh &'?nnch Courts /nd is Oi it Wcrc a Privy covncdlor to trany
Lords
The Advrertifement.
Lords &Kn'tght5^fo above his poor enemies fcorne^who grieve he€aufe they cannot hurt him : his Companions are the be (j: Knights and Gentlemen of this Jslation, and is highly honors edb) themy becaufe they love him ; 7he Eafe^ Common lill^ men^ I mean the ^ackj that daub their Medicines upon every Poft and IVall^ he pitties and inftruds them freely and fiudies to Cure thofe^ that thefe men have almoji kjld with their Lozenges and Pills^ vphich Poyfon the Body; he forgives thofe that endeavoured to poyfon and deflroy him^ and par- doned others that forged Villanies again fi him; He is a Pro- tefianty and doth good for evil^ to all thofe that invented lies again jl him ; in Cenclufion he is a Compleat young Gentleman as well in Body as in Mind^ ( yet for what Kea^ fo^Iknowmt^ negleds to Marry J yet continues Chajie^ I Kinde and faithful to his Friend^ and all that k^now him i find him Generous and Noble ^ in a word the ultimate of his j Emulation is to promote the Common good,
|j^ne,i^ FarewelL
1^63. «
if. D. Knight, and Barronet.
§3 To
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To my Loving and approved
Friend the Author Mr. John Hey don, upon the Temple of Wi[dome^
SVirit or yian Aerial ! whats thy name > What (hall 1 call the only Son of fame > Minerva s Tfw/?/^ in your Brain we find, hx\a£!^iC2it Apollo's Prudence in your Mind, You knowledge equal with the gods do hold /^nd fccrets of the Oracles unfold. Tojears^ womhs^ dates and hours^ you time do (hew. By number make the Sun ftand jfi// or go^ Beajis^ Birdsand Flowers^ your a^detoo do implore From death their (hape and Species to Rcftore^ Health , Beauty^ Joutb and Blejjiftgs you can give And teach the dying Man a new to live. He kens when Frogs will (howre Rain, and knows When it will Thunder by the flight of Crowes: Converfes with good G^wiijand for the evil Can Cham them faft to the dark den o^ the Devil : He can foretell things paft, he can recall By power oi Figures ielefmatical. By vcrtue of the Stars too, when you pleafe You know whats doneamonglt th' Antipodes^ And from his mind, he Joyjear^ g^^^h ^^p^^^- For where tbcfe raigne no certain \nowledg dwels ; How fl)all I call you to mf, or which way gain thee^ ^r with whatSacrificesentertainethee: How to efteem you, I am at a lofs Great Brother H^don of the Kofa CroJI,
Ralph Freemm
To his Ingenious Kinfman, Mr John
Hey don^ u^onhh profound and learned
Bookj intituled Theomagit^ Or, the
temple ofWifdome^
SIR, lamfathfied, lince you have (how'n By this Book, all the former were your own. One Imp's enough to make Jov\ brain admir'd Thine fixteen hath produced, yet is not tyr'dj Dull Pafjve Earth in you clainies little (hare. You are Contpos'*d o( vfhzt's divine and rare. ^Tis the morefprightly Ekntent ofipure Fire^ That 'bove the vulgar doth advance you higher. Within vjhoCcSfbxre a glorious Mifide doth move I All the Orbs of vertue with Celejlial Love^ I VVhofe A£^ive climbings carry us much fooncr f To the utmoft height, of noblenefs and honour : I Thy fpirit's reftleflc, Now thy bufie fancy Diverts it felf in th' Art of 4/fr<?w/r«ry. Jhy Soul aloft amongft tF Stars doth Pearch Whilft with profound and an unwearied fearch Thou fcan'ft the Caufes of their great effeCu^ Which hidden lye from Common intelleds. Stars are the Iniiruments of Heavens influence Darting their dijlant beams abroad ; from thence \ What's fafty what^s ^refent and to come^ thou l{How^fi ? How to prevent impendent dangers fhew'ft. ; Then *mongft the depths of Angels next thou wad'ft th^irpowrs to learn^ Heavens confines thou invad^jL ATew/?/^thou haft rear'd, a laftingfraaie Not Babel-like, onely to get a Name : But that thy thoughts Divine, may Tee before 'em The way to enter the San^ium SanUoruiw,
rm-zi T^^^^^^' Heydoff^ Mafterof Arts
• ir/;. of Kxete.r Co Hedge in Ox/i^r^ and
R eii or of CoSsford in Oxford-pfrc,
,To the moft excellent Phylo-
fopher and Lawyer, Mr. John Heydofij
upon hisTheomagiay Or, the
Temple ofWifdovte.
THou'ft rais'd a Temple, which devouring time. Nor envious temperts (hall e'rc underminde; Afdcred Temple where we Meditate Wifdome divine, thcdiftatesofourfate. Let lB:emes proud Vatican a roome prepare Worthy this worke fo Rich, Sublime and Rare, The miftVies in Natures fecret Cabbins VnlockS^ Vnfeen^ Vnh;nown to learned Rabbmsy Thou'ft brought to light > and as Vromethem Vane VTon\Joves Star Chamber^ ntvf Seraptict{^ flame: Ic makes me think thou either haft converft I'th' counfe! of the gods^ and fo rehear'ft To the low'r world thefe depths, or elfe indulged By great ^f ol'o haft to us divulg'd Grand Milteries lain long in filent Grave. Ccnfult the OrackJeM you that crave Refolves > he wich the Spheares communicates : Thence, be Frodids^ and thence he Calculates. ^(BpW-^3 cant die as long as Stars have Light This Temple crownM by day, can't fuffer Night. '
j«/,^thc ah ^^y^^^ Le-Ne've Gent.
Med. Licenr,
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In T E M P L U M
AKti(]ui t ace ant per flurima f^cuUVztcs ^ot quot & afpeUo fyderefata notant, ^uique docent G^mahcn, vel defiClum ere Tclefman
Aut veterum Cabala m prolificatum Petram, Argenti autfulvi, per it ur a baud fetttina nojfe
Auri & Cecropias vUcere poffit opes •, ^uHtius inque animis quibw efi pernotufj & omnes j
^iprecihus norunt car mwibufque Deos Fa: fiigrt adplachum cemendos finibuf orci
Cogere^ dum fatuifatafutura rogant^ Eugeniofque fciuHt^ occult a Da"mona<; arte
Redder e Colloquiis cum placet ejfe fukt Trafentes^ & qui lacerando vifcera terr£
lHnocu£ Larras adfuajujfa vocant^ Ecce mvum Artiftam ntagina qui prafiitit arte
Effe^ium nuUus^ quod dedit ante fcio Et qui confcripto ut refer antum volumine mnndum
Ingratnm tantk candidus arte heat^ Terge bonis avibus ; nigrii revorentur ab ambrU
Do^orum manes, tetrkafpedra virum Hirefponfa dabunt^ triftewque hcheront^ntovebmli
Tu dum qudgrentemfata futura moves Ma-ftdat is h ey done tui^^ Barathnimquc parebit
Orcus, ut & Phlesjeton, fervus uterquetibi^ Neque virum lateantobfcura £nigmata tantum
Sk mvui in terris t«Zoroafter eris
Sic cccinit^ Georgius Staikey,
^m^' Eirxneus Philopofti^ VhiUhthcs,
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To the Ingenious Author Mr. John
Heydon^ upon his Book intituled Theomagta^ Or, the Temple of Wifdom,
HOw many wrkers are there Cuftles huild Vth y4ir<?3andfeeking th'applaufe of being skild In ArchiteBure^ though they can advance. No higher then th' Amours of a Komance : And but Cmfult bow they may entertain A Liquoriflj fancy with their wanton Brain : What you projecfs more Noble, *tis to treat Man's vaft delires with adequate meat. *Tis to ere6t a Temple ^ who can come > Where that name's due, without an Hecatome Of Sacrifice to him, Whofe gcn'rous mind Would rearc this ftrufturc^ in an Age defign'd For to DemoliQi every Edifice 5 Which is Baptiz'd with fuch a name as this. Youftile it iVifdome's Temple 5 thus feclude. The foolifl3,the unhallowed and Rude, From ^nAdmiffion -, but there is no lofs. If F//j;riJ want ^AyiayAT^ntoff Ins Academy ; furc he but profanes Your Temple by his fteps ', who when the bancs Forbidden are between him and your Book, Will yet Attempt into thofe leaves tolook: Yet your Mifterious work muft needs acquire^ Amazement from the vulgar who Admircy That mo\l which they know leaft^ and thus the Sun When CIS Ecclips't is gazed moft upon, J (Iiall not Augtire what will be its fate Among the leVjrn'd, I cannot Calculate For tliar Meridian^ yet my x/ot^fhall paf«. To niak'c as famous as Vianai was.
M-'y,z6. 1 fi:y. Thomas Fyge Gentleman*
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AD
Ampjidimum DoftifTimumq;
virum Johamem Heydomm Equitum, ItaLibrum Seraphycum, Infcriptum^ Tcmplum Sapicntiae.
AKtiquofy Heydone, facisrevirefcere lauruSy Hoc doUofermonetuo : tuapaginamonflrat ^uid Chaldaea foHat^ gukquid Nilotica tellitSy ^uicquid ^^\\^,^^\^ quondam docuere Pelafgi, j^icquid-kv'dhSy qukquidnovit Carthaginis d\€ Jiinoni Vrbs Celebris^ quicquid celeherima Rontay Nojlervelmagnui g«/iCanceHarius iUe ; Indi, Brachnianni^wirgflfi^Druidefqi BritamUy §uid Zoroaftcr habit ^ R egis doUive Magifiriy (Nomina non audita him J longijpma Fatrumy (Froh dolor ! ) atferies mordaci tempore viUa. . Et ^h\tgttontxo% ffernensy Heydone, furcreSy Foji Hyemes multoi b^ic vafra repuUuIet acji fagina tunc curfu fcros doceatq-y Nfpotes^ T urn defolatas ^gens incalit aurea terr^, ^^ fratri^
~ Tu nee Livor edax hjt fanliai carpito charts ^ K.C, Humanum Yatum magtu v^tuere Cam£H£,
May.M^ ^u^. T«/^^Willelmus Smith M./^* Hnper AtiU CUranfs Cantab.
To his honoured Friend the
Author, on his Iheomagia^ or, tk^ Temple of Wtfdome ,
AM I awake / or doe mine eyes put on Some Dreames phancaftick apparition > My longing mind's amus'd tofinde where this Temple of Rofie- Crucian IVifdome is ; For if I could, Tde foon approach to be. Unto thatfacred place a Votary ; Id'e fpare no time, but quit this prefent ftage. And zealoufly purrue,my pilgrimage. But 1 am ravifhV, and with wonder cry, WhatMufe/ or rather God of harmony Infpir'd our Author thus > Replies my fence. What gods but thofe, of Art and eloquence, Thxhm and Hermes > they whofe tongue or pen. Are ftill the interpreters 'twixt gods and men. Mylierious Vertues 5 occult powers we fee: The StarrSy and earth conjoyn'd in Rarmonji. Why thenproceedf ^r/itz'^/J)K/!)and fcorn the harme That milice can finde out, defert^s a charme: Be fortunate as knowing, mayyour pen Advance your fame, above the fpight ofmea And though tliefe ray unpolifh't lines can't raifc Your name, or give your workes defervcd praife ; Yet give me leave to write, and let them (hew ThcTcftimoaialsof my love to you.
'^^^* Ko. Turner^ Med. Licent.
Arcanomm ^ Supremorum ,
Scrutator! perfefiiflimo,Sciantifque^ Ornatiflimo, Domino, Domino Johanni Heydon Equici, amico meo delcftiffimo.
fy V)) te ufque lugenii rapiunt Sfeculamini vafie ? '^ §^1) volitat Calami ftella Sacrata tuis^ §^id Mare^ quid Terras ; quid Vixij Regna flutonH
In vahU ? aut Cdi nuntinafacra moves 5 Ardua Cdorum fuperafti immo imma forafii
lerrarum \ ulteriui qu£ Cupienda tihi : ^id Tandem fnpereft ? fuperefl graviora Conariy
Hoc Solum fuperefi te fuper are prim, ^idd Juvat /IflroruM Curfufy C clique metiri ?
Temet negledofi mor tent c peris. Scire tuum nihil efl^ nihil & tibi fcire juvahitf
Omnia quantuwvii qu£ Cogitandafcias Vamnati p£nai Kofii •, Noftique Beati
Tramiatunc Eligaiqu£ tihi grata magit Vivere quam gratum efl ^ quam grata ejinoftra voluptas
Sit xibi vita tales, fit tihi vita mori.
'^l^tuY": ThomasRevell, Am.
f:Cf9 }rfSf9 tOs^nOsv t«f5 ti\!f:r tC!fy
To the prafticall Reader^ up-
tm The Temple of WifdcfMe^ ereScd by my honoured Friend^ Mr. '^ohn Hey don.
REader / The Author(nor5with little paynes) Produc'd thisIiTue of his labouring Braynes, To tell what Gaffareis Telcfm*s Ga maces Did mcanej Our Author hath difcovercd thefe. What Cattaft taught by Geomantick skill Our Author hath made common by his (juill. I name thefe two, and let alone the reft, Becaufe thefe two are oncly EngliQi dreftj r^e (ecn the Italian^ French^ and Spanifh too^ Upon thefe Subjeds making much adoe^ And in compofurej to be very neat. But none of them, till now wasere compleat. Some men read this, fome that, we daily fee So many men, fomany mindcs there bee. Who plcafure takes to fatisfy his mind In unknown fecrets, here he may them find s And if what Gaffareiy and Cattan Wrote, Hath been accepted, I will give my Vote, For this our Auchr^ in thefe unknown wayes He'lc be >our Guide and lead you out with bayes. Who ere will take the paines to try this Science^ To purblind Ignorance, (hall bid defiance. Hee's to bee prais'd, who ever doch impart. The Hidden things of Nature, and of Arr<,
May^ the Sch
«^'^-'- John Booker, ,,,,,,„,^„^
^liiiiimsiliilitfiiiiklik.iiimim
[To his Learned Friend Mr.
JcbuHeydon ^ on this his moft Ex- cellent Treatife of Philofophy, Intituled iheomagtay or, 7 he Temple oj l/^'ifdome.
TO write of Wifdomc in this CuriouiAge^(^Stage'^ Is thVay to bring your ^W/ and Bc^^on th' But your Strong Mercury Dreads no aflaults From VnderKPits ; or fuch vihoCt Judgement halts, Heethat (hall Cenfure thcCe your Miftique lines Muft Knowledge have in Her^ef Richer My lies Of Occult Learning : Plaine Vhilofophy now Falls fhorc (^Ten CuhitSy ) of your Boof{^sLnd you / C No Man a Gyants Bonnet off can throw Unlefs h' have Strength and Stature {o to doe ) 'Tis not the Vrparfe in Scyence that (hall dare Pretend himfelf unto your Temple Heire, Nor muft Vrsfatttr ?erfonsy hope to find ToUy of that Gentle and Indulging Mind, As to Protedf in this your Sanduary Ihofe^ whofe unhallow'd Hearts and Hands Mifcarry,
The Rougb-hewn Fancy muft ydJh: Tentfle flye, No Concubine of Arty (hall in her Lye ; 5^e is prepared for the Afwf^i Nine, Who doe Command ( like Roman Mejfaline^
That none hut Kings there Enter ! \fothen Come,
tec them in MCourty or Porchy find out a Koom.
Scorn
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Scorn thenj^my Friend^the Squint-ey'd Eneniie, Shall dare to gise your Eoo^oryou the Lie -, lirth'Low-orb'd Spirits of this Britti/fel/cf, Being Jgn^raHt of your Labours great fhall fmilc .• Tell them the Cage^ or Stockj^ is much more fit^ ( Unlefs they had a better Bank of wit ) For tib^»i to be acquainted with, then this. Your v(H>nby leiHple ( hpre J oijVifdome is ; For you may juftiy /coy« the Laymans (hift, When ScholUn ( I doc think ) Reach not your Drift j And Aovn forbedre^ to trouble yom Lofty Brainesy With Uach M^n's Comment on your Atlas Paines > This lie Praefage, your Book of JVifdorhe is^ A guidi that Uades to Natures Myfteries.
Jme loth^ 8hiy
John GadifHry^<iih9iA^^ntAttliK&'
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Th
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OR. THE
TEMPLE
TheFtrjl 'Book: '
Chap. I. HowtoprojeSa Figure, the Rofie Crucian way.
OD the Creator of all thiV^ outoftheC^^w, which was till bodies of nicked Angels made tlie Earth, which is divided into twelve equal parc5, whichever thefe Riileth: twelve Created Ideas, whichTring the vertiies
his t-.;,ure doth make pr.cks, he mult forme four. ^ the
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the tirft line of pricks like unto four Fingers of the Jefc hand, without counting the pricks, fo that at the lead there be to the number o^xteen in every Fuigen And thus frame all your otner lines of pricks unto the number of (ixteen ; and you nuifl not lay your hand upon the paper, till you have made the li'iteen liuesjalways poiKlringinyourheartjmoving the hand wherefore you make the Figure; and wn- <ieriland that the firft line is attributed unto the Fire^ the fecond to the Aire^ the third to the iVater^ the fourth to the Earth : And alfo that all thefe pricks iigniiie one Idea^ and all thefe lines an Ele- ment; and the four firft Inies, the firft Element, which is the Fire 3 the fecond four, the fecond Ele- ment, which is the Aire ; the third four, the third Elemenr, which is the Water : the foiir laft lines, the Tourth Elemenr, which is the Earth-, the lines be a^fo attributed tothe four angles of the Earth, ?//2S, 1>/I, ^^V/, Norths Southy and ruled by four migtity Angels.
Anfibc^ctUeldeasRendavoiiSj and are incorpo- rared into a tiijure, which is made by usj And is naturally a mecr cnclofuieorVeftmeut of the Pii'i^^ Idca^ which \^dn hivifibleCreaUd f pint. But more of this in itji proper place, after we hv.ve fpoken of the Ct\i:n Riilers of the world : And this Art nuift: be received \n fome fublmie vercue : And all Artift fa.' .-nd Ilofie C} UC071S have demonllrated this to be twofold, the one whereof conljfts in Keligion and CernnonieSy and cherefure they will have the projeiJit* ing of riiiS Art to be made with llgns upon the Paper: Ko/I^ Crucians alfo fudge the hand of thepio;e6tor or worker to be moft prowerfully moved and directed by the Idea's or Genii when theyAfcend and Defcen i in ihch Regions : And therefore chey firft u[cd holy
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Vep'iQations^ Incantations with other Rites and obfer- vations provoking and alluring Idefis of this nature hereunto, as thfey move the Earth every hour-
And it is in the very Soul it felf of the projeftor, whe he is carried to this work^withfome great cgrcfs of his now defirieiForthisArt hath a natural obedi- ence to the Soul it felfe : And of neceffity hath effi- cacy, and is moved to that which the Soul it felfe defires, and this is true and pure, neither matters it how thefe points areprojcfted, fo that there be fixteen in all the lines at leaft, and fixteen lines in all.
And this Art may be praftifedjwhenfoevcf a mart will^ and according to the demand that is inade, be it night or day^Fair weather or Foul^Rain or Wind. And moreover you muft note; That foranyque- ftion or demand, you muft make a figure, but one time, but tearing the figure and forgetting the Judgment which was firft made, if any fault be found in the demand or in the figure 5 And then make another in another manner, and Judge the fecond time, according as you fhall find your Fi- gure.
Many in making or projecting their points do ufe feveral wayes, buc the beft that ever I faw are thefe following, which after you have well obferved, you may either riding, or walking be refolved of what
ihall happen that Day, Month, or Year in any place where you defire to enquire; and of this you (hall be inftrufted further : Inthg Harmory of the worlds Lib. 2.
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The Temple of W ifdouie* Bo o K. I.
Here yen Jhall ha^e an example in ordit X
By this example you may makt prick/p ftroak^s^ fiars^ which yon ^leafe to wot^ mthy for you
Tieed no other rvay but this.
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The manner hovo tojoyne the Pricks^ orStrodkj^ vphichyou Workjby^ with your ?en^ or walking Stalf.
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Chap. 1 1. ibcmAnner how to frame this Art ^ ami give, to each flace his Name.
AFter that you have fet your pricks intp lines, and thereof drawn out and formed the figure, as we have (hewed unto you, you muft take and fet the four firft lines of the firft Figure, and fet them afide, and this is called the firft Figure : then muft you take the fecond of the fecond four lines,and fet theni by the firft, and fo have you then two Figure: And then you ftiall draw the third Figure", of theo- ther four lines, confequently following 3^4 put that a part, and it is called the third Figurd : And finally you ftiall pf the other four lines which arc thelaft, take the JFour figure, which is called the four Mothers, and fetthat by the other three,and fo the third and fourth be companions, as you ftiall fee by this example following ; but above all take heed and place your firft well, to make the other to follow after, andyou ftiall put it on the right hand according to this example following^ which is th<p Hebrew Doctors way.
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the Aire ; The third to the Water ; And the fourth to the Earth: Ofthcfe four, come another four, in taking the points which arc the tirft ponts of the Mothers, and.gathering them together j that which (hall reCult ouD of points of the ^iatres, is that which maketh the figure ofFiHai the other whereof is by defcending from the fuperiourpointSjthrough both Mediums to the joweft, as you (hall fee by ex- aippUj
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OfthefignificAiion ofthefe eight Figures^ and how from themyoH mu^ m^kefonre more,
THefe figures have fuch fignification as wc have already written, but yet ivhen t ey beferin the twelve houfes, as (hall be decJared hereafter, they (hall have other fignifications then we haveyec Tpoken of, tut hereafter it (hall be treated of; and you(hallfee that figure which ir, fet for the South, or that which is fet for the Eaft, (hall have another importance, according to the Rules which we will
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place as following: And now to make other foure fi- gures 3 you muft take the firft pricks of the firft and lecond figures 3 and juft under them, if their Pricks be even, fo place them, and if they be uneven make but one,and fo confequently from the fecond lineof thefecond figures, andfoof the third and fourth, you muft do as much to make the tenth figure, as you did of the firft and fecond to form the nuich, and fo muft you doc of the reft to make the eleven and twelve figures: And fothefe twelve will ftand 35 you fhall fee here by example.
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B o o K. I. The Temple of Wifdome. 9
Chap. IV.
Hnr toframeibe Wuncffc and the Judge.
NExt we muft teach you how to snake the ^if- nefs &: the J^dge^ that out of them we may hare acertainRefolution, Sentence, and ftay upon the queftion, and of the difference thereof j the righ^ IFitneJfc is tv^itn from the ninth and tenth figures, and of thefe two Witneffes cometha Judge ^ unto whomappertaineth the difcuffion of the whole fi-^ gures: And if he be good, the Demand will be found good, and if he be ill, the queflion is ill; And you muft note that fometimes we fpeakof I- dea's and fometimes of Genii, you are to undcr- ftand by a Genius,a certain Divine fpirit that work- eth fecret things in Nature Miraculoufly,and by an Idea the Divine and Natural Form of your Figtire; fo that there is no great difference betwixt a Geal- \ us and a Divine Idea, as you may read in Ihe Har- mony ofths World ; Now here foUowes the Figure.
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Book I. The Temple of Wildome. 1 1
Chap. V.
Of the Names of the /even Rulers of the Earth 5 The names of their twelve Genii or Idea's, ani of their Jixteenfigures.
NOw refteth it , that wc declare the Names of the feven Rulers of the Earth, and of the twelve ldea\zx\!A of their Inclofures, Veftments or Figures, as they are to their Rulers; And you muft know that thefe Kulefi have fignification in their places, and Rule the twelve Ideals which arc attri- buted to the twelve Regions of the Earth, and we could never finde any more then fixteen Figures, let us turn the Pricks which way we would,and here follow their Names, and in order their fcveral Na- tures and Significations.
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Element.
Figure.
Name.
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Fortma Major. Great Fortune. Greater Aid. ■' Safeguard entring.
Aire.
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Water.
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Ruler.
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Malchidael.
Taphthartharath
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Muriel,
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Element.
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Water.
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Water.
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The Head, The Thrc. (hould entring the upper Threfliouid;
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Ruler.
Name.
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Hifmael.
Advachicl.
Zazel.
Cambi^I.
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Hanacl.
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Zazel & Barza- bel in all their
Idea's.
Sorath.
Verchiel.
Hafmodai.
Muriel.
Hifmael. Kedcmel^
Hifmae; and Kciiemelinall their Idea's.
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Chap. VI.
O/Zazel, and his general and particular Signi- jications.
^ fj^Azsl delights in two of the twelve Idea's V ^^of the Earth 5&: in the places where they are, wz. Hanael znd Camhiely he governeth the Ay ry Triplicity by day,which is ccmpofed of Aibus^ Tuella and Irifiicia : He is Diurnal cold and dry^ Me- lancholly, Earthly^ Mafculine, the great infortune. Author of Solitarinejfe^ Malevolent^ he governes the Earth 3^4. years and four Months. Kead the Har- mony of the World. He is profound in imasiination^in his A6^s fevere^in words refcrvedjln fpeaking & giving very fparingjin labour patient, in arguing and difputing grave, in obtayning the goods of this life ftudious, and foli- citous, in all manner of aftions Auftere.
In fifty feven years, forty three, and thirty years, being lU pofited with h\^ldeas he is envious, cove- tous. Jealous and miftruftful, tymerous, fordid,cut- wardly diiTembling, fluggifti, fufpitious, ftubborne, a contemner of women,a clofe Iyer, malicious, mur- muring, never contented but alwayes pining.
In Corporature, he fignifies moftpart of Midlc feature, cold and* dry, with a pale Complexion, Swartifh, or Muddy, Eye little and black> looking downwards, a broad forehead, black or fad Hair : And it hard or rugged, great Ears hanging, hove- ring Eye-brows, thick Lips and Nofe, a thin Beard, a lumpifh unpleafant Countenance, either holding his head forward or ftoophigj his Shoulders broad
and
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unci large, aiVd many tim^b ci^ookedjhisbd-ly Comer whacdiarp and bhke, hiS Tkighes fparc^'i'^an and Hot long-, hisKiices and F^efc indecent iiTany limes iliovelinc; or hitting one againll another.
TheQ^a^itiesof men he fignifiechjand their pro- fellions, are Hmhiind'y^^en^Chmtfs^'Eeggdri), dayLabcr^ ers^ old Men^ Fathers, Grand- father s^ Mon^s^ Jefuitiy and Seftarifts: He' fignifieth Carriers^ night farmer Sj Miners under ground^linners^ pQtters^ Broom- m^:> Plum- mers^ Rickjftal^ers^ Matjien^ Chhnfiy fweepeYsi, S.e^toneof Churches^ Bearers ofVead Corps^ Scavenzers^ UofilerSy Cvliiers^ Carters, Ga:dencrs J Ditchers^ Chandlers^ Dyers (if blacky Chth^ dh Herds-man^ 'Sheep-herd, or Cowherd* keeper.
He fighiiieth z\\ Irrirediments in the tight carCj Teerhj al. quartan Agues proceeding of cold, dry, and MelanchoHy difiemper?, Leproiies, R'fieumSj Confumptions bhck Jauiidfcs, PalfieSjTrembfings, vain Fears, Fantafies, Dropfie, the hand and foot Gone, Apoplexiegfj Dog-hunder, to much ffnx of thd Hemoroids, Ruptures ; if in the fifth or ei^ht, fower, bitter, (harp, and in mans body he priilcipralJy rul- eth the spleen. See the Holy Giiide.
He governeth Bears-footj^^'tar-wort^Woolf-bane, HemIoci<5 Feme, Hellebor, vvhite and b'lack Hen- banc, Ceccratch or finger Ferne, Clotbur or Bur- dock, Pa rfnip. Dragon, Pulfe^vetuine, Mandrake, Poppy, MofgjNight (bade,Bn;h^ihd, Angelica,'-age^ Eox^TutfanjO'rage or Golden hcrb,^prihage,Qieep- herds Purfe j Cummin, Horftaile, Firm^itary'#" " • Of Plants ahd Trees, he 'fignifies ,th^' Tariierisk, Savinfij Seha-^e^ers, Rue cr^Hetbhgf^cfe, P6l'ipodyi Willow or SaHbttrtree, YteW tifec, Cjr^refs-tree^ Hempepin^ ttksi '
]^ 7fe Temple <?/Wifdome. Book I.
Pefignifieth the Afs, Car, Hare, Moiife^ Moic, Elephant, Bear, Dog, Woolf, Baiiliskj Crocodile, ScorpeorijToad, Serpent, Adder, Hcg, all manner of crtepn.g Creatures, breeding of piicrefaftiun, cither ni the Earth, Water or Ruuics of Houfes.
He iignifieth the Eele,Tortoire, and all (liell iidies, Hefignifieth orgovernech the Bat, orBludclLuk brow, Laporing,Ovvle5 Gnat^Crane, Peacock, Graf- hopper, i hrufh, black-Bird, Oltritch, Cuchoe
He delights in Defarts, Woods, c btcure Vallies, Caves, Dens, Holes, Yountaint??,or where men have been buried, v hurch yards, &c. Ruinous bnildmgs, Coie-mine>,Sin' s. Dirty or (linking muddy places. We Is and Houfes of Offices ; he Ruiethcver Lead,, the Load-ilone, the drof^ ofa\l Mettals, asalfothe L'ult and Rubbilh of every thing.
He Ruleth the Saphn'c ftone, Lapis Lazul, all black ugly (hect ftones, not polifh.^bieandof afad afliy or black colour > He fenifieth cloudy,dark, ob- fcure weather, cold and hurtful, thicV? blackand. condcnfe ciouas.
He delii:hteth in theEaft quarter of Heaven, and caufeth baftern wind', at the timt of gathering any Plant belonging to him, you muft turne your face towards the Eaft in his hour, and let him be in the firft feventh, tenth, or eleventh houfes, where he is ftronge . And the fig\ire muft be projefted in bis hour, then that part of the Earth will afcend in the Eaft-, the meaning of this is-, Admit you frame a Building, crcft a Town, or City, or Family, or Pnncipality is begun, where Cancer or 7riftitia in motion be in the feventh, tenth,or eleventh houfes^ with HCquiptio.LexiM or Fortuna Major^thcy incorpo- rate there fuch Idea's^ that you may Judge the Fa- ^uly, new Houk> &c, may continue three hundred
fifcy
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fikyfour years in lionoiir : and if in a Nativity, you find your Figure fo, then according to Nature, he may Uvehfty ievttn year^, forty three^ or thirty, according as you find them iogethcr j for he is cold an i dry, ^nJ is an enemy to Man.
He rules thife Countries, viz, Bavaia^ Saxony^ Btiria^ Komandiola^ Kavsnna^ ConjUntia^ln..old\iad»
He rulcth Saturday, and that day, the firft and eight hours of, they arc called his.
Char Vlt.
O/Hifmae), and bis fi unification^
r ^ TJ //"w^Tf/.hath two Ideas^ which are iii- V\ X JL corporatcd into twro Figures, viz. Ac-- quifitio by day, aiid Letitin by night ; Atbus and CeH'i^ jiotdio deftroy him, he delights; to be with Populuf^ and her Ideti : He is lick and wedk with Career : b6 ruleth the Fyery Tfiplicity by night, viz. fuet^ FoT' tuna Mdjor^ and Acquifitio ; ind their Ideas,
He is naturally Dufnal, Mafculirie, temperately^ iiotand mo ft. Airy Sanguine, the greater fortune^ Author of temperance, Modcfty, Sobriety, Jufticc .
He governcs the world three hundred fifty arid four years, and four Months , In feverity nine, h- i^ Maguanimous,faithful,ba(hful,arpinng at highmat- -terin an honourable way ; in all his aft;ons a lovep of fair dealing, deiiring to benefit all rrsen, dohig glorious things, honourable and ReIigious>,of fiveet /and affable Converlation, wonderful indulgent to iis Wiff and Children, reverencing aged Men, a
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ao i he i ciiipic oj w Udome. Book. I.
great P^eliever of the poor^ fill of j^hancy and God- iinefs j liueralj hating all fordid aftioii^j Juii:, Wife, Prudent, Thankful, Vercuous ; fo that when you jind Hifmaeltht iigaifica! or of any man, viz. when his figures are in good company, you may Jujge the niifn.co be thus qualified^ and many liv*:: fcvcnty nine years.
But when he is unfortunate, as you fLall md Wim by your figure : with ill Idea^s^ viz thofe that are incorporated in Yvuhins^ Career^ Trijiitiay Cauda. Bra* conis ^\\d Puer : he lignifies forty five, or twelve years, and then he wafts his patrimony ; and fuf- fers every man to Cozen him; his Hipocritically Religious, lanacioijs and flifFe iti maintaining fdfe tenents in Religion ; he is ignorant,careleG,nothing delightful in the love of his friends, of a crofs, dull capacity, Schifmatical,abafing himfelf in all com- panies, crouching and ftooping where no necelHty
He fignifies an upright, ftraighc and tall ftaturej hrow^, ruddy and lovely Complexion i of an Oval orlongVifage, and isfull orflelhy, high forehead, large gray Eyes, his Hairfoft, and a kind of Abunie bj!G\vti 5 much Beard, a large deep Belly, ftrong pro- portioned Thighes ^nd Lcggs ; his Feet large and xiT)band(l>me j hi his (Speech, he isfober and of grave difcourfe. / •
Th^ Qualities of men he fi^nifie« are Judges^ Se- nators, Councellours, Eccleiiaftical men, pifhbps, Priefts, Minifters, Cardinals, Chancellors, Dcftors oftbe civil Law, young Schollers in anllniverlity or Ci^lledg, Lawyers, Clothiers, woollen Dra» pers,
Difcafes he fignifies, arePIurifies, alL infirmities i»^ the Liver : lefcEare, Apoplexies^ iaflamniat ions
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of the Liing55 Palpiracion and trembling or the. Heart, Cramps, pains in the Bav:k-bone5 z\\ dife^Tcs l^'.ngin the Veins or Rib?, and proceeding from corruption of blood, rquin2ie<5vvindiner?5 all pucre-r^ faftioji of the blood orfeavers, proceeding froitt to )greac abundance thereof. ' .**
Hegoyerncth the fweet and well Tented Oddiir?,' and that vvhich is moft plea'anc and delightful wichouc excream Colour^*, he (ignifyerh Seagre^nor b!ei\^5 purple, Afli colours. Herbs' and Drug^r^ as. 'Cl'oves'andCIove-gelli flowers, Mace, Nutmeg, Su- gar, the Stavv berry, the herb Ealfome, Hettoriy,' Centory, Flax, ilrfemart. Fumitory, Lungwort, Pimperwel, Wall wort, Organy or wild Marjoram, Rubarb,rclfe Heal,Borrage,Buglors/vVheat,VViilow, Hearbe,thorovv,leafe Violets, Lask wort. Liver vvort, Baz:!,'Pantegranaces, Pyony, Liqubrifh, I'Wint, Tila- ftick, the Dazy Fev.erfew, Saffron. ■'
Plants and Trees, asChery, Birdh-tree,Mulber- ' ry, Coraltree, theOake, BarbaHe?j Olive, Gbof- berries, Almond tree, the Jvy^ Manna, Mace, the Vine, the Fig tree, the A(h, the Pear tree,the Hjzle, theBeech tree, the Pin e,Pi.ayronj Of Scads herules the Sheep, the Hare or Stagg, the Doe, the Oxe, Elephanr, Dragon, Tygar, Unicornc; thofc Beads which are mild and gentle,(and yet of great benefic CO Mankind) are governed by hira.
He governes the Scorke, the Snipe, the Larke, the Eagle, the flock Dovc,the Partridge, Bees, Phe(anr, Peacotck^ the Hen.
Fifths, The Dolphin, the Whale, (heath Fi[b,and ScrpencheRuleth.
He delighteth in places ncer Altars of Churches, in publick Conventions, Synods, Convocations ; iii places neat, fweet 5 in Wardrobes,Courts of Juft ce. Oratories. B 3 The
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The Minerals and Prerioiisftones he governev-^c Tinj^roethcrvbeSapl.irejcHeSmaragMofEmralci^ Hycc'tifh, Topaz, C hrillolj Bezoa, Marble, and di:!i^ ^: -ich ill England we call che Frec-ftone : See the Bo»y ' ui»«e
deafiiiliy iigJiifycch ferene^plcafanCjand health- lui Norih winds.
•e j^ovtrinech iht North wi ndj, that part which teiiclech to the Eaft.
In Generation, he governeth the fecond> and (enth Month, his proper feat in ^^2nis the Liver, and in the Elements, he ruleih the Air.
He governeth thelerond C limate and the Coun- tries of B/r^/'/c;/, Prrfi/r, Hungarja^%pame^CuIlen: the number three is attributed to him3and iieGoverncs Thurfday thefiift, and eight hours thereof, and then you muft gather his Herb?, if Populus be in the firftjfourth or Ac(]mfiUo in the ninth, or Letitia \ti the twelfth, or Fortune Major in the fifth, for than you will gather his vertue three times more power- ful then ac another time.
Chap. VIII.
O/Barzabelj Andh'njtgmficxtion,
p. T> Arzaheli h^Lthfure^ and the Z^f^5for hi§ ^r^"^ Xj ^ay delight, and KnbeuSy and cnat Idea by night, he is exaiced in t'he tenth houfe, an4 • fcib fjljruinf ana Detriment i in the fourth houfe; I.e governeth the watery 7rqLcitj night and d'dy^viz. fopulu6^ Kuhusy Laiiia,
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He is Mafculinc and Nofturnal in Nature, hoc and drvj chollenck -dLwd Fycry, the lefler in fortun?, author of quarrels, ftnfes, contentions,
Hegovernesthe world tliree hundred fifty four years and four months : ht rulcch in mAnfrom for- ty one toftfty fix years j and in two hundred fix ry four^arKi fixty lix, he is invincible in the firft houfCj or tenth, in exployts of vVarr, and is veiy cou- rageous in theetght, fcorning any (hould exceed him, lubjeft to no Reafon, bold, confident, im- moveable, contentious, challenging all honour to themfclves ^ Valiant, lovers of War, and things per- tayning thereu to, hazarding him felt to ail penis, willingly will obey^io body, nor fubmit to anys a boaHerof hisown A6f, proud, and one that fltghts all things in comparifon of Viftory; in a word at the beft he IS a Knave.
But when he is unfortune in the Fig;ure, in forty, or fifty, then hefignifies pratlers without modeftyj^ or honefty, a very Rogue, and never better, let him be where he will 5 but a lover of {laughter and quar- rels, murder, theevery, a promoter of Sedition, Frayes and commotions, a highway Theif,ais wave- ring as the wind, a Rck-pockt;t, a Trartor, of Tur- bulent fpirir, Perjured, Obfcene, Rafli, Inhumane, neither fearing God,nor regarding man^ Ravenous, a Cheat, furious and violent. ^
Generally he figniftdh oneof a middfeftature, their bodies ftronge, and their bones big, rather ^eancthenfat,thc complexion brown,ruddy colour or an high colour, round vifage, hair read or Tan- dy ,flaxcn,and many times crifping or curling, (harp hazle eyes, and they peircing, a bold confident Countenance, and the man A£tive of body an4 fearJefs^fometimesa dark haitc
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Prqfpfiiops he figulfies are SouI4i?^^S3 Beanards^ Hang-menj.BaylifFsj, S^rgeantSj M^Aftls, Butcbev?/, Gunners, Phyjfitians, Apothecaries,,, Ghyrurgeaii^ Alchimi^Sj Smiths, Bakers, Theeves, Taylors, Ar- piorers. Watch-makers, botch ers^Cu tiers of fwords and Knivesj barbei i, P[y ers, Cooj^s, , C4i'p^t>C€rs, Gameft«ji;Sj, Tanners, C^criers ,,u<>> - ,.
In bifeaCes, he figi^ifye^h the Galj, the left Earc, Tertian feavours,PelHlent burning fevers, (Vlegrim in the head, CarbuacleSythe Pi^gUe ;indaliPi?iigue fores, -burnings, Rinj;wormes, blifters, Phrenfie^^ mad fiuJidci^^diflempers in theh^ad, yellow Jauu-? dies, felpo^y Flux,F'iftula,es, all vvpitnd,s and difea- fcsinrn^i)S-gei]ifOieSp the lion e Uoth if*, the Rain^ siiid bjajd^e^fcars^and the fnial P9?^ in the Facc,alt hurts by, irin,^ the Shjngks, and ^jiichother difeaCes as arife by too much choller, anger oi; |>3(1oa • ^t^f^A 7kilariBio^jQfthe,X^orld. , ., ^rl - iiw" 3l<{
■ H^y Righted mRedcojour, or ydlqw, fiery, *nd> ftiniugit^e Saffron^ ^a in. t^hofe. favours which ;9ii^, bittef^/j(tgrfi^.^n4:!pW^:t!k^ ToftgMcjj .of humowrga, cholkf.,] 'h, , '. . , - *^ c* ''i
."^^l^p Her)as;weat^rib^tq to B/j;r^
QOipp fif aif, i^o, a jre^njef^,,, whofe IjCav^: ^X^ poinicid and tbj^f^apjhofc t^ftif | cpjlick ap4 tjiirningj'.Ip.Yaj to grovy. op 4ry P^^fi§? ,a>ad ar€ co^ofiv,^ and pi^n^tT crating the flelh and bqi^ieSoWi^h a fluqji^ frbtjc he^t r, tb.^3f 2ire th^ IS[et;t}ep, . aill, ipaiin^r.pf.Thiftks,. r^ft Barrow or Canii^oc^^^Pf yi^^ milk, , Qi?!p€tt;y S.pur§^^ Che white and red br^m!9leS;> the wh jqe called R^m. Lingwoit, Qnioi^s, Qivf^, .rcdSarideiSa.Sc^^rampnyj Garlike, Wiiftard-f^ed^ Gipg,er3^ LeckSj PittaAcij Horchouudp Hemlock,. Tamariad?,,ajil .herbs at-ti^-- fting or drawing chpllqrby fimpathy, RaddiftijC^r ftorcum, Arfeniarr, (Q^ntharid^ Gardes, bener;
diftus;
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dTftus : Ail trees that are pricklyj as the Thorn, Chefnuc
Of Beaftshe Governs the Panther^ 7iger^ Maftife^ Vulture^ Fox ', OF living Creuures thofe ehat are Warlike, Pvavenoiis and bold; the CaftoV:, Horfe^ Wde^Ollritch; ihcGotft, thtlFoolf^ the Leapor^ th^ Wilds^Ap:, K.\\tGnaXs^ Flyes ^ Lapwings^ Corka-tmey the Cijfon J feare,
AmongFiQies, hePxuhs tbe ?%, the Sharks^, the Jfarble^ihc Forkcfijhy all flinging and ftintiing worms, ScorpeoHs,
Among Birds, The Hawke^ the Vulture^ the Kite or dead', (all ravenous Foule) the Kaven^ Cormoranty the Owle^ dhe Crow, the ?ye ; The places he figniii- eth arc Smyths Shops, Furnaces, Slawghter-hou- fisj places where Bricks- and Charcoal es are bur- ned, or have b?ea burnt; Chinineys, Forgei.
Amoiigft Mine rails anii Atones, Iroi>, Arijcirnony, Arfenickj Brimfione, Ocre, Adamant, load-ftone, Biood^fton^Ja(per, the many coloured Amath€i% the Touch-ftonc, Red-lead or VGrmilion. ^'■^^ ^^ '
- He fignifieth. red Clouds, Thmider^ Lightning, F^cry lmprei]ions,and peftUent Aire«, which ufually appearaftcciaiongtimcofdrmefle and- faice wea- ther; by improper and Hnwholfom^ Mi^V ^* g^ veriieth tlieWeftcm windes. ''
-He goyerneth the three Climate and* tbeGoun* ttk& of Savomtatioij Laynbardj^ Batavia^ f^^rtmM and ' GothoUftd . : ' . ''V---.
HcRulech Tuefday , and therein the firfir and eighth home, and in conceptions the third Month. {;
• All thefeven Rulers hate him, but onely Kedmei^ 1 who is hi&friendw
Chap,
36 7 he Temple of WMome, Book I.
Chap, IX.
O/Sorath and hhjignifi cation 5 and how be and the rejk receive tb^iir vertnes frcin above.
jrl ^Orath hath Verchiel for his Idea^and Cam* €|J O^i^/ for his detriment.
He is exalted in M^/c^i^^^/5 and receives his fall in Zuriel: In the feventh houfc he governeth the fiery Triplicity, viz. Malcbidaely Verchiel and^i- 9 jcbiei^ znd receives his power from above^as all the fcven doc ; He is the foul of all creatures upon earth. Water, Aire, Earth or Fire;
AndGdd himfelf, though he be Trinity in Per- fons, yet is buconconelylimplcElTcnce. Notwith- f^anding we doubt not but that there are in him many Divine FowerSyvrh'ich as many Beams flow from him, which the Phylofophers of the Gentiles called Gods:Tht Hebrews Mulciierious,wc attribute,as Wif- dpmjwhich Orpheus c^Ws Ptf/Z/iJfjUnderftanding which he calls Mercury^ the conception of the form which he calls Satum^tht produftlve power which he calls NeftuHey the fecret nature of thuigs, which he calls fuHOy Love which he calls Venm^ pure life, which he callsthe^i/ff ori4^^//#) the matter of the whole world, he called Fan the Soul, as it engendred things below, €0iU€iDplateth things above, and retraftetb it felf
into
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into it felfjhe is ttouoiired with three nanieSjViz.M^- risy Neptune and Oceam Therefore the moft prudenc Theologians of the Gentiles did worfhip the on,c God, under Divers names and powers; yea divcrfe fexes whom as S^ Chrijiopher Heydon faith;FraiJ and weak mortality hath digeltediivjto more,being mind- ful of his own frail ty^that every man might worfhip that portion which he efpeciaily wantech, fo thofe V, ho had need of faith prayed to Jupiter^ they that wanted Provi ^ence, Sol wifdome, iiinervdy and fo as they wanted other things^ they prayed to other Powers: Hence arofc that great variety of Deitie?, by reafon ofthe many and diverfe diftribvitions of Qraces-^but God is one from whom all thingsjthere- fore Eugeum IheodidaCius \\\ his book called the K. C. Thjfick^^ faith, whereas there is but one God and one power, yet he is named by divcrfe names, for the multitude of fpecies ; And as S^.John Hejdon faith, As all fouls are reduced to the one foul of the world oruniverfe , fo are all the gods referred to Jiffiter^ who is the fame god,wor(hiped under di- vcrfe namesj therefore it is meet to know the fenfi- ble properties cfthefe Idea's, and perfeftly to in- tclleftualize them by the way ofmorefccret Anolo- gy; The Learned Hebrews fay, that thefe feven Rulers wefpeak of,and the twelve Idea's that Ran- defvouze here, and govern the twelve parts of the Earth, and thofe that arc incorporated into the fixteen figures, devided into foure Elements and govern the foure Winds,have received the ten prin- cipal names of God, as certain Divine powers,oras it were Members of God, which by ten Seflerothi and are as it were Veftiments^ Inftruments or exam- ples ofthe Archetipe , have an influence on all things Created jthrough ihehJgh things even to the
lowed
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lowed, yec by acercainorder, tor rirft and imme- diately they have Influence on the nine orders of Angels, and quire ofBleiredfouls, and by them into the Cseleft al ^phears3 Planets and Men^ and by the which Sepberotby every thing then receivech power andvercue: The tirft of thefeisthename E^^j^r^the name of the Divine Effence, and his Idea's is called Cether^ wliich is interpreted a Crown or Diadem, '^nd figniiieth the moft (imple EflTence of the Divlni^ ty^and it is ca!led,that which theeyefeeth norland IS attribiued to God the Father, an! hath his in- fluence l.y the order of Serapbimsy or as th^ Hebrews call them H^j^jf^r^j Hacadofch ^ that is creature^> of holinefie; and then by thePriw/mMo^//^, beftowes the^iifcofbeingto all things, filling the whole uni- verfe both through the Circumference and Cc«itre 3 whofe particular sntelligence is called Mmtrtj;^/, thacis, thePrinceof Faces,whofedutv it is to bring others to the face of the Prince r and by him the Lord ipake to Moffj".
The fecond name is God> or Tetfagrantmiitonyjoy' ned with Godj his Idea is Hochma^ rh^ tis^ WifJoitie; and fignifieth theDivmity, full of I^c^'s, and the iirft begotten, an is attributed to the Sun^and hath hisinflucuccby rheQrderofC^m^5i«^, or that? the Hebrews c^WOrf hanint^ that is^ Formes or Wheels, and from thence into the Starry Heaven, where he fabricateth (o many figures as he hath Ji.Vs in him- ielf, and diftinguiflieth the wery Chaos of the Crea- tures by particularintelligenCr,calIedKtf2;ie/5Vvho was the Ruler of ^K//2Wf, the third name is called Tetragr awmaton Elohim^ his l^e/t is named PrinkyVit. trovidence and underftanding^and fignifies remiffion; quietnelTe the Jubilee, penetential converfion, a great Trumpet, Redemption of the World, and life
of
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of the World to come : ic is accribiited to the Holy .Spirit, and hath influence by the order of the IhmteSy or which the Hebreyps cdW Aralimy that is, great Angels, mighty and ftrongj and from thence by the Sphere of Saturn^ adminiftreth forme to the unCetled matte;, whofe particular inteligence is Zaphebiel or Zazel^ the Ruler of Noah-, and another intelligence named _7o;?^if/ the Ruler of Sent ^ and thefeare three Supre^m and high Idea's^ as it were feats of the Divine Perfons, by whofe commands all things are made, but areexLcuced by theotherfe- ven, upon the feven upon earth, which are there- fore called the Divine Idea'^s framing ; Therefore the fourth name is £//, whofe Idea is Hepd, which isClemenceor Goodnelfej and lignitit^th Grace ^ Mercy , Fiety , Magnificence^ the Scepter and righc hand, and hath its influence by the order of Vomi- nionsj which the Hebrews call Hafmalini:, and fo through the fphere of Jupiter fafhioning the Imas^es of bodies, bellowing Ciemency and pacifying Ju- fticeon all, his particular intelligence is Zadkjeli the Ruler of Abraham', The firft name isElohim Ge- ^fr, that is the Mighty God; punifhing the wicked; Jiid his J^t?/r is called Geburack^^vfh'ich is tofayjPow- ?r. Gravity, Fortitude, Security, Judgment, pu- iiifhing by flaught^rand war, artd ids appl^ed'tcj iihe Tribunal of God; The Girdle, the Sword arrd :he Left-hand of God; it is alfb cuMedFachad which s fear, and hath his inffuence through the ord^of )owers, which the Hebrews call ^eraphim^, and thefe hrough the fp hear of M/^rs illuniinate tht^ofieCru^ iansy to who^m beipngs*' F6rtitade:and Prudence 5 t drawc.thfofthf hc;Fl^ments,. and his parttGula^ ntelligence is (Ttf^^/.-fche Ruler of S^iwppw, the fixtH iamc h^Ehha or ap^aMe of n:irtti;fbyned Vfithrttn*
?o iheTtmplcoJ Wifdonjie. BooK I.
dahat, his Idea'is Jiihereth^thdit is, Apparell, Beaucy, Glory, Pleafiire, and figiufiech the I rce o[ Life^and hath (lis influence through the order of Vertues, ivhich the hehrews call Malachin^ tliat is. Angels into the fphcar of the Sun^gw'mg brightnclfe and life un- to itjand from thence producing Mcttals^and there to make Aurum Potahiie his particular intelligence is Raphiely who was the Ruler of Jfaac and loiy the younger, and the Angel Peliell Ruler of J^^^^j The fevenname is Tetragrammatoty Sahoaxh^ovAdonaiSa^ ioathy that is^the God of Hoft*, and his Idea is I^ezahy that is, Triumph arid Viftor} *, it lignifiestheEter- iiitv aud Jufticc of a Revenging Ood, it hath his influeJice through (heorderof?rnicipalities,whont • the Hehrewes call Elohint , that is God, into the fpherc of Venus-y gives Zea! and Love of Righte- oufnefTe and produceth Vegetables, his intelligence is [Javie/iind the Angel Cerviei (he Rulerof / ^r/V/i The eighth b C2L\\cdElobim Sabaothy which is inter- pretc i the God of Hofis, not of Warr and Juftice, but of Piety and Agreement ; For his Name fignifi- ethboihand preccdeth his Army; the idea of this is Ho^, which is interpreted boih Praife, ConfelTion, j^onourand FamoufnciTe^it hath influence through the Order of the Archangels^ which the Hebrews call * Ben Elohinty that is, the fons of God into the fpherc ofMircuryy and gives Eligancy and Confonancy of fpeech, and prpduceth living Creatures ; tiis ideais Michaeli who was the Ku\tr of Solontou : The ninth name is called 5/?^/ii, that is. Omnipotent, fatisfy- ingall,and Elhay^ which is th^ living God, his Idea^ is lefody that is, Foundation and Reft, and hath his influence through the order of Angels, whom the Hehrewes call Cherubim into the fphere of the Moon^ i^auiingche incre^fe and decieafe of things^ and ta-
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kcch care of the Idea's of the Earth, of the Rulers of the 12 Divifions and of their /wtfgf5 or Figures ^and of the Genii and Keepers of men, and diftributctti themi his Genii is Gabriel who was the Keeper of J^- fephy Jojhua and Daniel : The tenth name is Adonai Meiechy(h2Lt i';. Lord and King, his Idea, is ^alchuth^ chat is^Kingdotne andEmpire^and iignifiethChurch, Temple of God, and a Gate, and hath his influence through the order of Animaflick^^ viz. of bleffed fouls, which by the Wehrews is called Aif^-^ that is. Nobles, lords and Fquircs, they are inferior to thd Haerarchies, and have their influence in the (ixtcen figures, the twelve Idea^s^ the foure Elements, and their twelve Rvgioas, or places divided, the twelve Windcs which come forth from the twelve Houfcs of the Earth,and on theSonsof MensAnd thus they give know !cdg and the wondcrfull underftanding of thing alfo, induftry and pred ftions, and the pre- fident among them is Sletattron^ which is called the firft Creature, or the foul of the World, and Soratb diftributeth his vcrtucs: And after this manner doc the Earthly powers receive their Commiffions, which are figuratively incorporated into feven,and they again in their Natures given it to twelve,which alfo in twelve places, Ggnify all things Paft, Prc^ fent and to Comein all the VVorld*
Therefore Soratb amongft the feven is naturally hot and dry, btit more temperate then Barzabeli he is Matculine, Diurnal and Equivolent in a good place to a fortune: He ruleth the world three hun- dred 6fty four years and four monthSjand when in the firft hundred and twenty , then he is very faith- ful, making thofe men he fignifieth TCry honeft, keeping their promifcs with all punftualityj a great dcfirc to goY^rnc, rule and command where he . comes.
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comes -, priident, and of incomparable judge i^enr, of great niajelly and Ikcelinefs, induftrious to ac- quire honour and large piitrimony, yet as willingly departnig therewith again, thefeme » ufually fpeak with gravity, but not many words v and iikewife with great confidence and command of their own afFefkion^ full of thoughts, fccrets, trafty, fpeaks de- liberately, andnotwithftanding their great hcait?, yet they are affable, tractable and very humane to all people, only loving fumptuoufnefs andmagni- ficeiice^ and whatever is honorable, no fordid thoughts Can enter their hearts, 8cc.
When he is unfortunate^ in lixty nine'&: nineteen, he fignities proud and Arrogant men difdayning ally cracking of his Pedegree, he is purblind in lighc and judgement, reftlefs^troublefome domineering^ a meer vapour^ expeniive, foohfh endued with no gravity in words, or fo^ernefs in anions, afpend thrift, wafting his patrimony, and h«tngi ng and be- holding to other men, yet thinks ail other men are bound to him, becaufeagentleman borne.
He ufually.fignifies a man of a good large and ftrongCorporature, a yellow fa tiron Complexion, iwid round layge Forehead : goggle Eyes or larg6, fiwrpe and piercing; a body ftrorig and wellcom- pofcd, not fo beautiful and lovely, but pretty and.' ♦Hiiable, fuT ofhealth^and their hair ycllowiih, and ^hercfor^ quickly bald, much hair On their beard, tn^tifuallyail high ruddy Complexion, and theii< bodiesfltlhy, in conditions thcy ^re very bountiful hOneft, fincere, well minded^ of great and large heartihigh mmdcd, of healthful ConftitutioflvVery ttimia«)e, yet fufficiently fpirited tior Loqiiatious* : : The. qnali^ties and profeffions of men, he fignify^ tti, airelfinjjs, Princes^T»p5ei»^iESy&c» QMlteB,^
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quefles, Earls, Barons, Lievecenaucs, Deputy Lie- netenants of CountieSjGentlemen in generaljCour*- tiers defirous of honour and preferment, Juftices ot Peace, Mayors; high Conftables, high Sheriffsj great Huntfrncnj Stewards of noble mens houfes, the principal Magiftrate of any City, Town, Caftle or Country Village i yea, though apetty Conftable, wherenobctrerorgreater officer is ^ Goldfmiths, BrafierSjPewterers LoppcrfmithSjMinters of Money,
Pimples in the Face, Palpitation or Trembling, or any difeafe of the Brains or Heart, Timpanie^, infirmities of the Eyes, Cramps, fuddenfwoonings, difeafesof the Mouth, and (linking breaths, Catars, rotten feavers j principally in men, he go verneth the heart, the brain and right Eare and Eye, and vital fpirit ; in Women the left Eye.
Of Colours, he rnleth the Yellow, the colour of Gold, the Scarlet or the clear Red, and allreddifii colours ; In favours, he liketh well a mixture offout and fweet together : or the Aromatical (avour, be- ing a little bitter and Stiptical, but withall Confor- ' tative and a little ftiarp.
Thofe Herbs which are fubjeft to Sorcuoh do fmel pleafantly, are of great favour, their flowers are yellow or reddi(h,and in growth of majefticaiforme, they love open and Surilhiue places, their principal vertue is to ftrcngthcn the Heart, and comfort the Vitals, to deer the Eye light, refill poyfon, or to diflblve any witchery, or malignant influences cau- iedbyanyarcift^ and they are faffron, theLaure?, the Pome Citron, the Vine, Euula, Campana, St Johns.wort, Ambre,Musk, Zinger herb, Grace, Ralmc, Marygold, Rofemary, Kofafcl^^ Cinnamon, Celandine, Eye bright, Pyony, Barly, ^inckfoyl^ Spicknard, Lignum; Aloes, Arfenick,
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Of Trees: the A(h, the Palme, Lawreltree, the Wirth tree, Frankinfeiice, the Cane tree or Planet, theCedar, Heletropianj the Orange and Lemmon tree.
OfBcafts: theLvon, the Horfe, the Ram> the CrocoJile, the Bull, Goat, Night-worms or Glo- worms.
Of Fifhes : the SeaCalfe or Sea Fan, thcCrab- Fifhj the Star fi(h.
Of Birds; The Eagle, the Cock, the Phseniic, Nightingale, Peacock, the^wan, the Buzzard, the Flye, Cautharidel, the Gofhavf ke.
Of Places : Houfes, Courts of Princes, Palaces^ Theater, all Magnificent. Struftures being clear, and decent Halls, dining Romes.
Of Minerals, Mettals and Stone ; he fignifyeth Gold, the Hyacinth,Crifolite,*Adamant, Carbuncle, the Elites ftone found in Eagles Neafts, the Pantarva or Philofopher ftone, of it you may read in my Book called the Wife Mum Crown,
' The Ruby, he fign fieth in the Spring, gentle moiftning fhowersin Summer heat, in Autum iiiifts, in Winter fmal R.ain ; He loves the Eaft part of the world, and that wind which proceeds from the Hellefpontus, Subfolanus and Vulturnus parts, or lioufes of the Earth *, the Countries he governeth , arelttf/y, Sicilya^ Bohemia j and the fourth Climate Fheniciachaldea'.Uc ruleth Sunday the firft and eight hours thereof, and in numbers,the firft and fourth, and in conceptions the fourth month, he loves all the Rulers, but Zazsl who is his Enemy : I thought good to write at large in this Chapter of this Ruler that you may underftand the reft the better, viZr. how they receive and diftribute the vertues.
CHAP.
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C H A P. X.
of Kedemel, audberffgnificatioti.
^p^ TTEdeTuely Kofte Cructam fay, is Lady of the VA J\.fecoiid and fcventh Houfes of the Earth : (he is exalted in che twelfth houfe. and thac Idea : (he receives detriment in the fiift, and eight houfes by their Idea's and Figures : and in the fixcti by that Idea, (he hath her fall: (hegovcrnes the earthly Trophicity by day, vit: Amiffto comundao^ and Cancer ' (he is naturally of the Aire and Water, temperately cold and moift, no£l:urnal the lefTer, fortune, author of mirth and Jollity ; Which faies file, (ignifieth Flegm and blood, with the fpiric and Genital feed, (he receives her veftue as Sorath^ and the reft do.
She ruleth the world three hundred fifcy four years, (hegivetheighty twowhen (heisftrong, and (ignifieth a quiet man, not given to Law, quarrel ^ wrangling, not vitious : but pleafant, neat and fprucc, loving Mirth in his words and aftions.clean- ly in Apparrel, rather drinking much j thenglucto- ijouFi prone to Love, oft entangled in Love, zealous? in iheir afFfftions, Mufical, delighting in Baths» and all honeft merry meetings or balls, Masks and itage plaies^ eaiie of belief, and not given to labour, or take any pains, a company keeper, cheerful, no- ching miftruftful, a right vertuous man or womaa^ oft had in fome jealoufie without caufe.
When (he is weak, (he fignifieth forty five, and tight years,andperfonsthat areriotous, expeniive, ^hplly given to loofnefs and lewd companies,cither
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men or woihcnj nothing regarding their Reputati- ons, coveting unlawful beds, Inccftious^and Adul- terer, Fantaftical, a nicer skip lack, ofnoFaith^i no Repute, no Credit, fpending his means in Ale- houfes, Taverns, and among fcaridalous loofe peo- ple 5 a meer lazy companion, nothing careful of the things of this life, or any thing Religious, a mfcerAthif^, ornatnralift.
She fignifieth a man of fair corporature : but not Very talljhis Complexion bemg white, tending; to a little darknefs, which makes him more lovely j very fair, lovely Ej'CS, and a little black, a round face, andnotlai'ge, fairhair, fmooth, and plenty of it, and it ufually of a light brown colour, a lovely mouth and cherry Lips, the Face pretty fleOiy, a Fowling wandering Eye, a body very delightful, lovely and exceeding well fhaped, one defirous of trimming and making himfelf neat aridcompleat, both in cloths and body,a love dimple in his cheeks, a ftedfaft Eye,and ful of amorous enticements.
The Qualities of men and their profeilions, ttit ^nifiethjurelVlufitians^Gamefters, Silkemen, Mer- cers, linnen Drapers, Painters, JcwellcFS, Players, Lapidaries, Embroiderers, women Taylors, Wives, Motherf,Vir^in?,Charifter,Fidlers, Pipers ; when in the fourth, Ballad makers,SingerS;,Pcrfumers,Semp- iters, Pifturj-dravvers, Gravers, Llpjioifters, Lim- tneis, Glovers, all fuch as fell thofe commodities, which adorne women, either in body or Cloths, or in Face, as Complexion water. '
Difeafes (he fignifieth, are principally in the Ma- trix and Members of generation, in the Reins,BelIy, Back, Navel and thofe parts, the Gonhorrea or running of the Rain», the loathfome French Pox, any dileafe arifiug by inordinate luft, Priapifme,
Impotency
Book i. The Temple (?/ Wifdome. ?7
Jmpotciicy in Generation, Hennas, Sec. The Dia- hetes or Pifling difeafe. In colours (he fignifieth white, or milky coIour>mixcd with brown, or a little green in favour, (he delights in that which is pleafant and toothfome, ufually in moift and fweet, or what is very delegable, in fraels what is undiousand Aro- matical, and incites to wantonnefs : Herbs and Plants (he iignifieth, are^ the Mirtle alwaies green, and thofe which have afvvcet favour, and pleafant fniel, a white flower of a gentle humour, whole leaves are fmooth and not jagged, (he governeth the Lilly, bm not William : all other both oFthe Val- ley and Water, white or yellow, the Satyrion or Cuckoe-pintle, Maiden-hair,Viokt * the white and yellow DafFadil.
Sweet /Vpples, the white Rofe, the Fig, the white Sycomore, wild A(h, Turpentine tree, Olive, fweet Oringes, Mugwort, Ladies mantle, Sanicle, Balmc, Vervin, Walnuts, Almonds^ M.illet,Valerian,Time, Ambre, Ladanuni, Civit or Musk, Coriander, french Wheat, Peaches, Apricocks, Pjums, Raj- fons.
Ofbeafts: the Hart, the Panthar; fmal Cattle, Coney, the Calfe, Goat.
Of birds : the SparroWjWagtaile, the Stockdove, the Hen, the N'ghtingalc, the Thru(h, Pe!ican,Par- tridge, Firedula, a little bird feeding on Grapes, the Wren, the Swan, the Swallow, theOwfel or black- bird, the Pye, the Parrot, the Purakitto.
OfFifhes: the Dalphin.
Places are, Gardens, Fountaines^bride chambers. Fair lodging, bed hangings, dancing fchooles,VVai:'^ drobes.
Mettals, Minerals, and ftones, (he i%oi(i<t:h are
Copper, efpecially the Corinthian aijd White :
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bral's, Latten ware, CorncUon ftone, the sky co- lour .S'aphiie, white and red Coral, -Vlargafitc, Ala- blafter, i'apisLaxuli, becaufe it expels Melancholly, the Beril, Chrifolite ; {he govcrneth the fouthwind, being hoc and moift ia the temptrament of the Air, file nileth the JEtefie^ ihe lignifieth in fummerfere- nity or deer weather, in Winter raine or fnow.
Countries Arabia^Aufinafiomfmia^ Vimna Volonid the great tr J JuringyY^rtbia^ Media. Cyprus, and the fix Liimate.
Her day oftheweekis Friday, of which (herulcth the fiift and eighth hour, and in Conceptipn the fife Ti)onth,her friends are all the Rulers or Lords of the Eaythjcxcept ZazeL
Chap. X.I.
of Taphthartharath, and his fignificatiofi^ l^atHU and Property.
^^ A ^ong^ the Ideas of the Earth, he de« ^^ jf\ lights in Ambriel and Hamdiel : he is exalted in Hamaliel^ he receives detriment in Adva^ cbiel^znd his fall and Imbecility is in Amnexiel, and thatpartofthe £arth^ he ruleth the Ayry Tripli- City by night, ?//>;. Albus^ Amifio and Trijlitia, - He receives his Nature as the others do,and rules the world three hundred fifty four years: he oft tim^s changes his Nature, liz. with good he is good, and with evil apt to beperfwadcd to cyii : yet naturally fee is noble 8c fjcec hearted^bm. c<jld and dry, Melan- ' cholly^
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cholly, heisoftheE'ement of the Water, amorift the humors there mixt, he rules the Animal fpirit, the author of good wits, ingenious and apce Kofie Cruciamy fobcr, grave, Religioufly tioneft, doing to all ochers as they would others fhould do unto chem.
Being ftrbng, hc-fignificth fevcnty fix, and rcpre- fents that man of a fubcile and politick brain^intel- left and cogitation; an excellent difpucant or Logi- tion, arguing with learning and diCcretion, and ufing much Eloquence in his fpeech, a fearcher into all kinds of miftenes and learning, (harp and witty, learning almoftany thing without a teacher, am i- tious ofi>cin^ exquiiice in every Science, defirous naturally of Travel, and feeing torrain parts; a man of unwearied fancy, a great ftudent in Philofophv, and if any attain the Pantarvay it is chem that is cu- rious in the fearch of any occult knowiedgejabie by his own Genius to produce wonders, given to Di- vination and the more fecret knowledge; if e turne Merchant no man exceeds him in wav of trade or invention of new wayes, whereby to obtaine wealth.
When he is weak in forty eight and twenty, he fignifies a very quarrelfome wit, apt to rake excepti-^ on at other mens faults and reprove them, many times by trying conclufions, loofes his eftate *, very unconftant,cafie of belief, fometfmes a meer London P*wr«^// maker, a Politicusy Mncurius^ anew Lyer, every day of the week you may read him a Trifier, a meer Verball fellow.
Corporature he vulgarly fignifieth,isone of a high ftatuce, a ftreightfparc body, a high Forehead and fomewhat narrow, long Face, long No fe, fair Eyes neither pcrfeftly black or gray, thin Lips aud Nofe,
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40 'I he Temple ^/Wifdome. Book I.
little hair on the Chin, but much on his head, and it a fad brown inclining toblacknefs^ longe Arms, Fingers and hands, his Complexion like an Olive OrChefnut colour; you mufl- obferve Japhtbar- tharaibf for if hh Idea's and Figures be with others, they have a great influence one upon another^info- snuch as one partakes of the Nature of tfle other, as if he be with Zabel^thcn hcavy^if with Haffttael morei temperatej with Barzahel more rafh, with Soratb jnore noble, honeft and gentle, with Kedemel more tiierry conceited or full of Jefts, with Hafmodai more moveable.
ThcQualitcs of men, and their profeffions, he fignificth sTrcali learned menjPhilofophcrs, Mathc- inatitians^ Aftrologers, Merchants, Secretaries, Scriveners, GeomancerSjSculpters, Prophets, Poets, Orators, Advocates » School maflcrs,Stationers,Prin- ters, Exchangers of Money, Atturneyes, Empe- Tours, EmbafiadourSjCommdioners, Clarks, Arti- ficers, generally Accompca[nts,Soliciters,Minifters, Iioneft,noble Religious raen5hating all evil and vice, fometimes Grammarians, Taylers, Carriers, Mcf- icngcrs. Footmen, Uferers.
He iignificth All Virtigoe's, Lethargies, giddinefs in the Head, Madnefs, either lightnefs or any difeafe of the Brain, Ptifick>alUiammeringandimperfefti- on in the Tongue 3 vain and fond Imaginations, all defeats in the Memory, Hoarcenefs, dry Coughs, too much abundance of Rheum in the head and mouth, all fnaffling and fnuftling in the Head or Nofe, the hand and feet. Gout, Duninefs, Tongue evil, all evils in the fancy and intellectual parts.
Mixed and new colours, the gray mixed with Sky colour, fuch as is on th^ neck of t he Dove^ and PidgeonjStQck'doves 3nd fuch fine Col oi^rs ; alio i • •■ - > iincy
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LincyW/Dolfy colours, or confiiring of many co^ lours, mixed in c tie of favours, a hudg podg 6f all things together , fo that none can give it any true name; yet ufually fuch as doe quicken the fpirits are fubtile and penetrate, and in a manner infen' fible.
Hearbs and Plants attributed to him, are known by the various Colour of the flower and love fandy barren places; they bear their feeds in cods, they fmell rarely or fubtilly, and have principal relati- on to the Tongue,Brain, Lungs or Memory ; they difpell winds, and comfort the Animal Spirits, and opens Obftruft ions, bears thrceleaved grafle; the Walnut and Walnut tree, the Filbert tree and Nut, the El4cr-tree^ Adders-tongue, Draggon-wort, two penny grafle, Lung-wort, Annifeeds, Cubebs, Ma- riorum ; what herbs are ufed for theMufes and Di- vination, as Verveine, the Reed; ofDruggs, trea- cle, Hicra Diambra.
Of Beafts the Hi£naj Ap^ FoXy ^uivrely U^eafety the Spider^tht Greyhound^ the Hermophrodite^ being partakers of both Sexes, all cunning creatures.
Of Birds ; TheLinnet, thcParrot, The Pompi- nian. Jay, the Swallow, the Pipe, the Beetle, Pif- mires, LocuHs, Bee, Serpent, Crane.
Of Fifths 5 The Mullet, the Forkfidi.
Of places; Tradfmeng-fiiops , Markets, Faires^ Schools, Common-halls, -fowling- Alleges, Ordi- naries, Tennis-Courts.
Of Minerals and ^\ones; Quick-filvcr, the Mil- ftouc, Marthafitc or Fireftone, the Achates, Topaz, Vitriol; all ftones of Divers Colours.
He fignifies. Windy, Stormy and violent boiftr- ous weather, and ftirs up that weather, the Ruler and his Idea's figures (ignif^es in whofe Company he
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is fomcimes Haylc5Li:htning,Tlmnder and Tern* pefts i in hot Countries Earth-quakes , but this ac- cording to thefeafon of the year.
The Countries he governs, zreGrecia^ Flanders j JEgyft^ Farts.
He vjoverncth Wednefday^ the firft and eighth hour- thereof, his friends Hizmael Kedeml^ and Z^^a^^^his enemies ail the other Rulers.
Chap. XII. O/Hafmodai and her feature ^ndjlgnfflcation.
5T 'tAfmodai hath one liftf which you may Jtlcall her houfe^and that rules one pare of the Earth, and is incorporated into two figures, VIZ. Fopulus by day, and Via by night, and there (he isftrone;: but if thefe be in the tenth houfewith Career Qr7rijHtia, by tliat Ruler and his Idea's and figures, (he then there receives detriment 5 in the fecond houfe (he is exalted, and in the eighth (he falls, (he governeth the earthly Triplicity by night, viz Arrtijfio^ Cmjundio^Carcer.
She Rules the World three hundred fifty fourc years and in one hundred and eight (he is ^crong. Feminine, Noaurnail, Cold, Moiil and Fiegmatick by Nature.
Thi manners or Afkions flie fignifieth, when in good houfeswith good figures, is one ofcompofed manners, a foft, tender creature,a lover of all honeft f nd Engcnious Sciences, a fcarcher of, and dcligh-
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tcr in Novelties, naturally prop^nf^p to flite and fhift his habitation, unftedtaft, wholy carrying for the prefent times, Timourous, Prodigal, and eafify frighted; however, loving Peace, and to live free from the cares of this life, if a Mechanick, the man Learns many occupations , and frequently will be tampering with many wayes to trade in.
V^hrn with in ill houfes with iU figures (he figni* fies fixty fix, and twenty five, and is a mecrvaga- bond idk pcrfon, hating Labour,a Drunkard,a Sot, one of no Spirit or Forecaft, delighting to live beg- gerly and carelefly, on^ cpntent in no condition o( life, either good or ill.
Shefignifietha man offaire ftature, whitelycd- loured, the face round gray eyes, and a little low- ring, much h^ire, both on head, face and other parts, ufually one eye a little larger then the other, (hort hands and flefhy, the whole body inclining to be fleflily, fomtimes plumpe corpulent and flegma. tick, if (he be in Afpe^ with Soratb in a Nativity or Queftion,(he ufually fighifies fomc blemifh in or nccj: the eye, a hurt in or neer the eye, if her figures be infuccedant houfcs,if (he be unfortunate by com- pany with ill figures and ill Afpcfts in Angles, he fpoileth the fight.
The qualities of men and women ; (he fignificth are, Queens, CountciTes, Ladies, all manner of womeuj as alfo the common people. Travellers, Pil- grims, Marriners, Fifhermen, b ifhmongers. Brew- ers, Tapflers, Vintners, Letter-Carriers, Porters in Cities, Crach-men, Huntfmen, MefTengers, (fome fay the Popes Legats) Millers, Alewives, Malfters, Drunkerds, Oifter-wives, F ilher-women , Chare- women, Tripe- women, and generally fuch womea ^j carry comodities in the ftrcetsi as alfo Mid wives,
Nurfesj
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NurfeSjC^c. Hackney-men^ fuch as carry Sedans, Water-men, Water-Bearcrs.
Sicknefles , arc Apoplexes, Palfie, the ChoUick, theBelly-akc, difeafesinthe lefcfide^ Stones, the Bladder and Members of Generation, the MenftrucS and Liver in Women, Dropfie, Fluxes of the Belly, all cold Rhumatick Difeafes, cold Scomack, the Gpi|C in the Rifts and Feet, Sciatica, Cholick, Worms in Children and Men, Rhumcs or hurts in the eyes, viz, in the left of Men, an d right of Wo- ;men, Surfeits, rotten Coughs,Couvultion fits, the Falling fickneffe. Kings Evill, Apofthume, .Small Poxand Meafles.
Of Colours^ the White, or pale Yellow, White, pale Green , or a little of the Silver colour 5 of fa- vours, the frefh or without any Savour, fuch as in herbs before they be ripe, or fuch as demoiften the iBrain,e^c.
The Herbs Plants and Trees, which are fubjeft to H^fmodai-fitr Idea and figures have foft and thick ivory leaves, of a Waterifh or a little fweetifh tafle, they love to grow in watry places, and grow quick- ly into an Ivory magnitude, and are theCoiwort, Cabbage, Mellqn, Gourd, Pompilion, Onion, Mandrake^ Poppy? LetticejRapCj the Linden tree, Mufhroms, Endirc, all otherTrees or Herbs, who Iiave round, fliady, great fpreadmg leaves, and are little fruitful!.
All fuch Beafts or the like which live intheWater, fhe figuifieth Frogs, the Otter,Snails, ^(T. theWee- fle, theCunny; all5caFowle, theCookoe^Geefe, Ducks, the Night Owles.
Of Fifhes: TheOifterand Cockle, all flicll Fifli, i|hcCraUand]^obftcr,Tortoife, Ecle.
'-'■ ■- Places
Book I, ihe Temple ^/ Wifdooie. 4s
Places (he Govcrncs, arc FcildSjFountainsjBaths, Havens of the Sea, High waycs and defert Places; PortF, Towns, Rivers, Fifli ponds, ftanding Pools, boggy places, common ftioars,Uttlc Brooks,Springs, Harbours for Ships or Docks.
Of Minerals and Stones j Silver, the Selenitc, all foftftone$, ChriftaU.
If her Figures be with the Figures of Zazel^ they (ignifie cold Air, if with the Figures oi Hifmael^ yiz. Acquifitio and Letitia^ in Which are incorporated the Idea\ Advachid and Atnnixid^ they fignific fe- rene weathier with-Stfr5s<r5^/,and hisJ^^« and figure?, winds and red clouds, with the figures of Soratby according to the feafon : with the figures cfKede^ mel and Taphthartbarath^ fl^ewersand winds, Jn her- meticall operacion, (he delighteth in the Northan- gle of the Earth, in the firft hou e with good figures, (he (ignifieth winds acccording to the Nature of thofe igures, are in company or Afpcft with her.
The Countries (heruleth, arc Holland^ Zealand^ Scotland^ Venmark^^ Norremberge^ Flanders: her day is Munday, the firft and the eight thereof, her eni' mits are Zazd and Bar zahel J viz, their Figures are contra ly one to another in fignification. Aud thus much of the Nature and (ignification of the feven Rulers of the Earth ; Now let us fpeak of their twelve Ideasy but firft let usihewyou how to attri- bute the Rulers to the Figures, aud the Figures to the Rulers,a8 well good as evil.
Chap. XIIL
^6 The Temple ^f Wifdome. B o o K. J.
Chap. 1 5 V How thefeven Rulers of the world be attribute4
to the Figures and the Figures t$ them^ both good md eviU
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U\d'
9
^ In the tenth.
Malicious.^ ^
'5>f The eleventh
Hifmael Fortunate.
eO
:J|f; In the ninth.
jlt^rJf: TheHrfl.
5or^/^ in the:^ % Spring. ^'f ^
^ The twelfth.
Retrograde. i(^
:i(C % The Second
So'fdth in the :^ fall. %
<a
:^ In the Seventh.
Kedemel ^
% In the fecond ^ iifi Houfe.
Taphthaitharath')(- :^
:^ In the third ^ :^ Houfe.
Hif>noM by night.
-X- ^ In the fourth.
Taphthanbamh:^ %
:*f; 111 the ^ ^ fixth.
Hafmoda'i ,by day.
^ :¥ t^ ^
In the eight
Hlfwael and Kedcmd.
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In the 3d 7th 9th xath and id.
'2<i7f / and Bar'^abeL In the icth izth, firfU«^8clL
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They are attributed to the Rulers, as abovefaid, and in the firft the Rulers arc ftrong. in the other envious, in the firft fortunate, in the fecond Crofs, backward in the firft> direft in th< fecond Retro- grade, In the firft they fpring, in the fecond they falL in the firft jocund, m the fecond fullcn; in the firft direni5 in the fecond Retrogra : in the firft they fignifie the day, in the fecond the night : and have fuch fignification as the ftven Rulers give them : the Dragons head and the Dragons Tayle excepted,for thev alter their Natures, the firft is good, and of the nature of thofe two Rulers, Hifmael and Kedemel^the fecond is cvilj of the Nature oiZazel^d Barzahel.
Chap. XIV.
of the Nature, Vlace, Countries, general Defer ip^ ttom and Difeafes figmficd, by the tmlve Idea s.
^ \4 ^^^^'^^^^h is Mafculine Diurnal, move* 0/ i ▼! able in Nature, Fyery, hot and dry,, Chollcnck, Beftiall, Luxurious, intemperate and violent : The dayl y delight of Barzabel of the fiery Triplicity, and of the Eaji : Difeafes he fignifiesj arc all \A/helks, Pufhes and Pimples in the Face, fmalPox, h'dtre Up, Polypus, (^Noli me tangere) ring Worms, Falling-fickners, Apoplexies, Megrim?;, Tooth-ach, Head-achj and Baldnefs. Where |>hcep of fmal CattJe dp fecd^or ufe to be,
he
48 the Temple ^/ Wifdome. Book I.
he fignificch faiidy aud hilly Grounds, a place of Refuge for Thcives (or fomc unfrequented placcsj inhoules, the covering, feeling or plattring of it, a liable of fmal Beafts,Land5 newly taken in, or new- ly plowed, or Where bricks have been burned or lime.
The defcription of the body or (hape, Malchidael reprefcnts is a dry body, not exceeding in height, lean or fpare, hut lufty bones, and the party in his limbs ftrong) the vifage long ; black Eye browi*, a long Neck, thick Shoulders, the Complexion dusky brown or fwartilh. ^yy
Kingdomesfubje^, Malchidael {j' ire Germany^ Swevia^ Folonia^ Burgundy^ France^ England. Venmark^^ Silefiay the higher India ^ ^jyr/Vr, Cities ateyFlorencey Capna^ Naples^ Ferrara^ VeroHOy Vtretchty Marfelles^ Amulla^Cdifarea^ Vadua^ Bergomo,
^ HafjHodel^is of an earthly quality,cold,dry and JViclancholiy, Feminine 5 The Nofturnal dt'light of Kedemel fixed Beftial^ of the Earthly Triplicity and South.
Difeafes (he fignifieth, are the Kings-evil, fore Throats, Wens, Fluxes •, of Rheums falling into the Throat, Quinlies, Inipofthumes in thofe parts.
Places noted are Stables where horfes ^re, low Houfe?, Houfes where the implements of Cattle are laid upjpallurc or feeding groundsjwhere no houes are ncei, plain grounds,or where buQies have lately bf en grubbed up, and wherein Wheat, aud Corne arc fowed, fonie little Trees not far of, in Houfes, Scllars, low Romcs- The (hape it prcfents, is one of a (hort, but of a full, ftroiige and well fet ftature, a broad Forehead, great Eyes, big Face, large,ftronge Soulders, great Mouth, thick Lips i grofs Hands; black rugged hair. The
Boo K.I. T^e Temple (?/Wifdome. 49
The Countries it ruleSs arc Felonja^ the gicac North part oi Sweadland^ Kufjia^ Ireland^ Switzer' land^ LoraiHy Campania^ Terfiay Cyfrus^ Tarthia. -
The Cities Novograde^ Farma^ Bononia^ VanoYfnm^ Mantua^ Seva^ Brixia^ Caroljiad^ Nants^ Lieffig^ Hcy^ hifolis,
^Mi Amhriely his quality and .propertya is Aerialjhotandmoift, Sanguine, common, double bodyed, humaine, the Diurnal houfc of T/rf^tW- iharathy of the airy Triplicity, Wefterne, Mafcii- line.
Ail Difeafes in the Armcs^ Shoulders, Hands, corrupted blood, windinefs in the Veins, deftem- percd Fancies.
ItnotethwainfcotRomeSjPlaiftring, and walls of Houfes, the Halls, or where plays is uTcd, Hills and Mountains, Barnes, Storehoufes for Corne, Coffer.^, Chefts, high places.
Kingdomes and Countries, are L«w/W^',Br/z^/r;/t, FlanderSy the Wefl and fouth Weft o^EnglandyArm^^ ftia.
The Cities, aveLondony Lovdiney Burges^ Korem-' herge^ Corduha^ Hasford^ Mentz^ Bamherge^ Cefenn
In ^/^;^,it fign ifieth an upright, tall ftraight body, either in man or vvonian,the Complexion fanguine, not cleer, but obfcure and dark, long Arms, but many times the hands and feet (hort, and very flefh- ly, a darke hairalmoft black, a ftrong aftive body^ a good peircing hazel Eye and wanton^ and of perfeft fightjof excellent underftandingjhoneft & Judicious in worldly affairs, when this Idea fignifies the perfon, that is,, if Alhm be inthefirft houfe, the parry is noble, wife, Religious, and the moft accomplifhcd 6f all the other, if fortuna Major ^ Pueiia-y AcquijltiQ
50 . rte Temple of SN'ifdome^ BookL
or Lctitiay be in che fecond Houfe, in company with him.
W Muriel^ is the only delight of Hip^odai^ and iscorporaced inio the firft Figures of the wate- ry Triplicity, it is watery^ cold moift, Phlcgmatick, Feminine^ and is Nofturnal, moveable^ mute k^id flow ol voice, fruitful, Northerne.
It figuifies. imperf^'Aions ail over^or in the Breaft, Stomach and Paps, weak digeftion, coIdStomack, Ptiiick, fait Flegm, rotteh Coughs, Dropfical Hu- mours, Impoilhumations in the Stomach, Cancers which ever are in the Breaft.
Places it noteth are, the Sea, great Rivers, Na- vigable waters : but in the Ifland Countries,ic notes, places near Rivers, BrookSjSpringSjWells, Cellars in Houfes, wafti houles^ Marfh grounds. Ditches with Ruffes, Sedgs,Sea banks, Trenches, Cifterncs.
Thefhapeand defcription is alow and fmal fta- ture, the upper parts of more bignefs then the lo- wer, around vifage; iickly, pale, awhitelyCom^ plcxion, the Heir a fad brown or Chefnut and va- riable, little Eyes, prone to have many Children, if a Woman.
Kingdomes, Countries and Cities it ruleth are, Scotland, Zealand^ Holland^ Frufpa^ 7jmis, Algier, Con- jiantimple^ Venice^ UtHan^ Genoa, Amfierdam^ Tork^y Madeberge, JVittenberge, Saint Lucas^ Cadiz,
^
Verchicly is the only del?ghtof.9or/it^,and is by Nature fiery, hot, dryjchollerickjDiurnalsCom- manding, Bcftial, barren of the fiery Triplicity, Mafculine, and of the Eaft, and rules the fifth houfe
All fickneres in the Ribs and fides, as Plurifies,
Convulfionsj
Book L ihe Temple (?/ Wifdome. 5 1
Convulfions, pains in the Back, trembling or paf- fion of the Heart, violent burning Feavers, ail weakneffesj ordifeafesin the heart, fore Eyes, the Plagucj the Peftilence, the yellow Jaundics.
A place where wild Beafts frequent, Woods, For- fefts,Defcrt places,fteep rocky places, Clcavcs^unac- ceflablc places. Kings Palaces, Caftles, Forts^ ParkSj in Houfcs were fire is kept neer a Chimney.
Itreprefent a great round head, big Eyes Par- ting or flaring out, or goggle Eyes^ quickiighted, a full and large body, and is more then of Middle ftaturc, broad Shoulders, narrow fides, yellow or dark flaxen hair, and is much curling or turning up, U fierce countenance, but ruddy, high Sanguine Complexion, ftronge, valiant and a^ive.
Kingdomes, Countries and Cities, it fignifieth, zvtltaly, Bohemia^ theAlpes^ Turkje^ Sicilia^ Apdin^ Rome, Syracufay Cremona^ Ravenna^ Vdmatia^ Vraguc^ Lintz^ Confluentiay BrijhL
Eamatiely is an Earthly cold, Malahcho!- Jy, Barren, Feminine, natural, Southerne JdeHy the figure of it, viz. Conjundio is the exaltation ofTafk- thartharatby of the Earthly Triplicity, Hamaliel iig- nifies a ftudy where books are, a dairy hoiife, Con?. feilds. Granaries, Malt houfes. Hay Ricks, or Mow *> of Barley, Wheat or Peafe : or a place where Cheefe and butter is prcferved and ftored up.
Difeafes, the worms, wind, choliick5alI obflruftl- oris in the Bowels and Mifcraicks, croklng of the Guts, Infirmnefsin the Stones, any Difeafe in the Belly.
The Figure of Rawaliel (recdye'i) being alfo^^ne ^f the Figw c Taphthaf-tharathy vertue from the Ru- ler^ and W«?^iand reprcfcntsa flenderbody,of mean D * height.
5 7 The Temple of Wifdome. B o o K. I.
height, but decently compofed, a ruddy brown Qomplexion, black Hair, well favoured or lovely, but no beautiful Creature, a fmal ftiril voice, ail members inclining to brevity, a witty difcreet Soul, Juditious, and excellently well fpoken, ftudious and given to Hiftory, whether man orwoman, it pro^ duceth a rare undcrftanding : liFopulus or Via be in the fecond Houfe, they are very unftablc.
Of Kingdomes, Countries and Citty, it fignifi- eth Greece^ the South part of it Cro^r/^, the Athenian Teritory, Mefopotamia^ Africa^ the South Weft part o( France^ PariSyJerufahmy V.hodes^ Lions^ 7hauris m Terfia^ Jhororus, Bafily Heidelburgey Brundufium.
^
Zuriel is Aireal^ hot and nioift5Sanguine, MacuUn^y Moveable, Humane^ Diurual, of the Airy Triplicity^nd VVeft^ the chtii deWSf^bt of Kedem el
The Stone, all Uifcafes in the Gravely in the Rains of the Back, Kidneys, heats, and difeafes in the Loyns or Hauches, Impolihumes or Ulcf r^athe Rains, Kidneys or bladder, vveaknefs in th<^/tick, corruption of blood.
In the Feilds, it reprcfents grounds neer VVind- mils, or fomeOrag ingbarn, or out houfe, or faw Pits or where Coopers work, or Wood is Cut, fides of Hills, tops of Mountaines, Grounds, where haw- kmg and hunting is ufed, Sandy and gravelly feilds, pure deer Aire and (harp^the upper Rooms in hou- fes. Chambers, Garret?, one Chamber within ano- ther.
It reprefents a well framed body, flreighr, tall and more fubtle or (lender then f^rofs; a round lovely and beauti'ul, vifage, a pure Sanguine colour in youth, no abundance or excefs, in either white or red, but in Age ufually fome pimples^ or a very ,
high
BooK.l. xAe Temple ^/VVifdome. 55
high colour, the Hair jellowiQij fniDoth and long.
Kingdomcs, Countries, Citie^the higher Auflrea Savoy^ itsDukdome, Alfatia^ Lavonia^ Lisbofte in For- tugal^ Frankeford^ riemta^flacentia^ che Territory in Grffc^ where fometimes > the C'ity\1hebes^^ood Arks^ Friburge^ S fires.
Barchie!^ is a cold, watery, No£iurna!, Flegmarick, FemininCjof the watery Triphcity, fix- ed and North, thehoufe, and joy of deceitful falfe trecherous Barzabel^ ufually it doth reprcfent fubtil, deceitful men, perjured and wicked,Theeves, there is no truth nor houefty in them very Knaves.
It iignifies, the Gravel, the ftone in the fecret parts, bladder. Ruptures, Fiftulacs, or the Piles in Ano^ Gonorriieo's, Priapifmes, ail aftliAions inthe Privy parts, cither in manorwoman, defeftsin the Magrix : places where all forts of creeping bcafts ufe, as beetles,, &:c. or fuch as be without wings 5 and are PoyfonQus;Gardens,Orchards,Vineyards, ruin- ous Houfes neer Water, moorifh grounds, ftinking lakes. Quagmires, finkcs, the Kitchin or Larder, walh houfes.
A Corpulent, ftrong, able body,fomwhatabroad or fquare face, a dubky, muddy Complexion and fad^ dark hair much, and crifpirig, an hairy bcdy, fomewhat bow- ledged, fhorc necked, a fquat, well t ruffed fellow.
Kingdomes and Countries, the Morth part of Bavaria^ the woody part of A^ort^i^^^j, Barbarj *, The Kingdomc of FetZj Catalonia in Sfaine^ Valentin Vrhine and Fcrunt^ Julij In Italy^ Vienna^ Mepta m Italy i Gaunt^ Frank^foid upon C'dar,
D 3 Advachkh
7 he Temple ^/VVifdome. Book I.
V
Advachieiy isof the fiery Triplicity, Eaft in Narure^hoc and diy, Mafculine5Chollerick5 Diur- nal, common, by corporal or double bodyed, the Jdea and delight ofHrfmad,
Ic ruleth the Thighs and buttocksin the parts of jnausbody^and all Fiftulaes or hurts falling in thofc nieraberSjand generally devoteth blood, heated fe- vers, Peftilencia), falls from hories, or hurts from them or four footed beafts, alfo prejudice by fire, heat, awd mtemperateaefs in fports.
It noteth, aftable, or places where troop horfes for Wararefct up : where great four footed beafts are kept ; It reprcfentsin the Fcilds, Hills, and the higheft places of Lands or Grounds, that rife a little abovethc reft 5 inHoufes, upper Rooms near the fire.
It reprefents a well favoured Countenance fomc- what long vifage, but full and ruddy, or alraoft like fun burnt, the Hair light, Chcfnut colour j the ftature fomewhatahove the middle fize„- a Confor- mity in the Members, and a ftronge able body.
Kiagdomes, Countries and Cities, are Spaincj Hungary y Slavonian Morania^ Dalmatia^ Buda in H««- garyj loledo^ ^arhon^ Colkn^ Stargard,
V
Hauaeiy is the Idea o^Zazel^iind is Noftur- naljcold, dry,Melancholly,Earthly, feminine,move- ablcfour footed.
It hath Government of the Knees, and all dif- cafes incident to thofe places, either by ftraines or fractures, it notes Lcprolie, the Itch, the Scab.
It noteth an Qxe houfcjor Cow houfe, and where Calves^arekcptjor looles for Hu^bandry^or where old
ivocd
BooKi. TAe Temple (?/Wifdome. 55
wood is laid up, or where faiies for Ships, and fuch naterials are ftored, alfo (heep pens, and grounds where Sheep feed, fallow grounds, barren Feilds, bufhv and thorny ; dunghills in feiids, or where foyleis laid, in Houfes iow^ dark places, near the ground or Th refhol d.
It ufuaily fignificsdrycorporaturc?, not high of ftature, long, lean and flender vifage, thin Bc^rd, black hair, a narrow chin, long, fmai Neck and nar- row bread.
Kingdomes, Countries and Cities, are Jbrace, Macedon in Greece^ new Turkje^ Altavia^ Bulgaria^ Saxony the South weft part, Jf^eji IndiaSy Stiria^ the Ifles Orchades^ Hajiay Oxford^ Mechlin^ Cleeus^Branden- herge.
H Camhieij is an Airealj hot, moift Idea^ of Aiery Triplicity, Diurnal anguine, fixed,rationaJ, Humane, Mafculinc, theprm::pal Jie^^ofZ^f;^?/, ic is wefternc, and in it he rejoyccth.
Itgoverncth the Legs^ Ancles, and all manner of infirmities incident tothofe members, all Melan- cholly, wind?. Coagulated in the Veins, oi diftur- bing the blood. Cramps, &c.
Places new digged ; hilly and uneven places or where quarries of Stone are, or any Minerals have been digged up in Houfes, the Roofs, Eaves or up- per parts. Vineyards, orneer fome little fpring or Conduit head* It note? a fquat, thick corporature, or one of a ftrong, well compofed body, not call^ a long vifage, fanguine Complexion s \^ Career^ or Trifiitia be in the tenth or eleventh Houfe, the party is of black Hair,andof a fanguine Coniplexion,with diftorted Teeth 5 in any other Houfe, the party is of deer white or fair Complexion, and of fandy
D 4 coloured
$6 lAe Temple t>/VVifdome. Book. I.
coloured Hair or very flaxen, and hath a very white Skin.
Kingdomcs, Countries^ and Cities, zrcTartary^ Croatia:^ Vdachid^ Mufcoviay Wefi Fhalia. in Germany^ fiemont in Savoy ytht Weft and 5outh parts of 5/jz//?- ria^ Arabia^ Hambonughy Breme^ Monts Ferat^ and Pi- fauYum in Italy ^ Irent^ lngol[lad.
Vj/ Ammxiely is of the watery Triplicity, Nor- thcrn^ cold, moift, flegmatick^femininej Nofturnal, the Idea oitiifmaely by Corpreaty common or double bodyed. Idle, effeminate, iickly, envious, reprefen- ting a covetous, malitious fot, of no Aftion.
It lignifieth all difeafes in the Feet, as the Gout, and all Lamenefs, and all Aches incident to thofe Members, and fo generally fait Flegms, Scabvltch, Botches, breakings out, Boyles and Ulcers, piocee- ding from blood. put refaftcd, cold and moift dif- eafes, *
The places it prefentSj, are grounds full of Waterj or where many Springs, and much Foul are, alfo Fifh Ponds, or Rivers full of Fifti, places where Hermitages have been. Moats about the Houfes, Water-mills, in Houfes near the Water lide, as to fome Well or Pumpe, or where Water ftands.
It prefents a fhort ftature, ill compofed, not very decent, a good large Face, palifti Complexion, the bodyflefhy, or fwelling, not veryftreight: but in- curvating fomewhat with the head.
Kingdomes, Countries and Cities, are Calabria in Siciliay Portugal^ Hormandyy the North of -^gyPy Ales^* aHdna^Khemes^Wormes^J^atisbonepCoinpoftellac
CHAP. XV,
Bo OK. I. Tie Temple <!/Wi{dome. 57
Chap. XV. ^
How the Idea's are infufed into thefixteen Figures by the [even Rulers^ through the help of the SouloftheWorld'^y And how the Rulers and Idea s incorporate their Nature and properties into the Figures^ and have lik^ fignification as the Rulers and Idea's,
THus all inferior bodies are exemplified by the fupcriour Idea's; Now they define an Idea to be a form above Bodies^ Souls, Minds, and to be but one fimple, pure, immutable, indivifible, incorpo- real & eternai,& that the nature of all Ided^s is the fame; Now they place JdetCs in the firft place in very goodneileit fclf: God by wayof caufe, and that i:hejr arediftinguifhed amongft themfelves by Come relative confiderations only, leaft whatfoevcr is in the world, (hould be but one thing wichout variety, and that they agree in eflence , leaft God {hould be a Compound Subftance; Inthefecond place, they place them in the very inteliigableitfelf, in the fouloftheworld,difFering the one from theother,by abfolute forms , fo that all the Idea's in God, in- deed are but one form , but in the foul of the World they are many, they are placed in the minds ofall other things, wtiethec they be joyned to the Vody^ or feparated fram the faody,by a certain par- ticipation ,
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ticipation , and now by degrees are diftinguifhed moreand more j They place them in N-ture, as certain f mall teed of forms infufed by ihc Idea's^ and laftlyj they place them in thefe fixteen figures foliowmg ; Hereunto may be added, that in the foul of the World, there be as many luminal forms of things, as ldea'9 ia the rainde of God 5 by which forms flbe did rn the heavens above the Stars, frame to herfelfftiapesalfo, and damped upon all thefe fome properties: On thefe Figures therefore, (hapes and properties ofvertues, of inferiourfpecics, as al- focheir properties doe depend, fo that every figure hath its I^^^, that isfuitable to its forme, which alfo proceeds of a wonderfull power of opp crating, which proper gift it receives from its Ruler5ch rough the Seminal form? of the foul of the World, for I- ded's are not onely cfFcftuall caufes of every Species, butarealfothe caufe of every Vertue which is in die Species j and this is that which M^ Jhomoi Wy- don faith, that the properties are in the Nature of things; which vertucs indeed , are the operations of the Idea\ are moved by thefe figures, and thefe Vertues have a certain andfure Foundation, not WortuitoM norcafual asfomc fay, but as Efficacious^zs Aftrology,andpowerfulland fufficient, doing no- thing in vain. Now chefe Idea*s do not erre in their a&ings but by accident, viz, by reafon of the im- purity of the Artift or Querent,or inequality of the matter or thing fought aften for upon this account, there arc found things of the fame Species more or iefs powerfully or according to the difpoficion of the thing good or evill; for all thefe influences may by ^hefe figures be received, Scmayalfobehindredby theindifpofition of the matter or its infufficicncy ac- cording to the quality of the Perfon/uch is the fig-
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iiificatiori of thcfiguresj which receives the Vermes and Powers of the Rulers and Jiff's, according to the deCert of the matter, wherefore thofe things in which there islcffe of the Idea of the matter, fuch things which have a grisater refemVitence of things feparated, have more powerful! vertues in opera- tion, being like the operation of a feparated Idea^ we fee then that the fcit nation of the fevcn Rulers and their ldea\ incorporated into thefe fixteen fi- gures, is the caufe of the vertues tJf the figures of their fignification of their predifting^all things Pifl^, iPrefent and to Come, and the figures have the fame fignifications as thefe li^/x's in their places incorpo- rated into them, and here follow the figures and thelAftf's.
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Chap. 16. The manner to attribute the Idea's to the Fi^
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The Rulers of the twelve I^f/r's havepowerovcr the face of the w hole Earth in their figures and pla- ces^butfoure figures naturally deligjit in the winds, and their Genii^ and they are Fortuna Minor ^Via^ Ca- pit Vraconis^ and Cauda Vraconis^ a fortunate Full (Vloon in Afpeft of the Sun, to them is admirably good. Chap?
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CtiAP. XVII.
Of the Foure Elements^ their ISIature and Pro- perties.
THere are foure Elementsand original Grounds of allCorpcreall things. Fire j Aire, Water j Earth, of which all Elemented inferiour Bodies are comprehended^ notby way of heaping up together, but by tranfmutation and uniqn, and when they aredeftroyed , they are refolvcd into Elements, for thercisnoneof the fenlible elements that is pure, but they are more or leffe mixed, and apt to be changed one into the other: even as earth becom* jng dirty, and being difTolved becomes water, and the fame being made thick and hard, becomes earth again 5 but being evaporated through heat, pafTedinto Aire, and that being kindled, pafTeth into Firejand this being extinguifhe;d, returns back again into Airejbut bemg cooled again after its bur- ning, becomes earth, or ftone, or fuiphur, and this is Manifefted by lightning; this faying ever teach- eth you.
Jbe Number^ and the Nature ofthofe things CaWd Elements^ what Fire^ Earth;, Aire forth hringSy From whence the Heavens their beginning bad. Whence tide, whence Kain-h&w in gray colours clad-y What mak^s the clouds that feathered are > and blackly lo fend forth lightnings and a Ihundring Crac]^> What doth the Nightly Flames, and Comets niak^ > What makes the Earth tofweel, and then te quak^ >
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What ii the feed of Mettalsy md o^ Gold > What Vertues^ Wealthy doth Natures Goffers hold. P/^ro was of that opinion^ that Earth was wholy unchangeablejand that the reft of the Elements are changed as into this^fo into one another fuGceilive- , ly^^S^ ,Chriftofher Heydon faith, that the Earth is not changed, but relented and mixed with other Ele- ments which doe diflblveitj and that it returns back into it feif.
Now every otic of tlie Elemmts hath two fpecial qualities, the formcrwhcreofitretains,as proper toi itfelf, in the other, as a means, it agrees with that Vrhich comes next after it, for fire is hot and dry, the earth dry and cold, the water cold and moift, the aire hot and moift, and fo after this manner- the Elements accord into two contrary qualities, are contrary one to the other, as Fire to Water, and Earth to Aire,moreover theElements are upon ano- ther account oppofite one to the other; Forfomc are heavy as Earth and water, aiid others are light as Aire and Fire.
Wherefore the KofieCntcians called the former paf- fives, but the latter aftives, AndyetDoftor Cnlpc^ "per my predeceflbur diftinguifhcth them after ano- ther manner^ and Alligncs to every of themthre^ qualities, viz. tothefirebrightneffe, thinnefleand motion, but to the Earthjdarkneffe, thicknefle and quietnefle, and according to thefc qualities, the Elements borrow their qualities from thefe, fothat the Aire receives two qualities of the Earth, dark- neffc and thicknefTc, and one of fire,t//25. Motion; but fire is twice more thin then Aire, thrice more moveable, and foure times more bright; and the Aire is twice more bright, thrice more thin, 8c foure times more moveable then water? wherefore water
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is twice more bright then earth, thrice more thin, and foure times more moveable j As therefore the Fire is to the Aire, fothe Aire is to the Water, and Water to the Earth 5 and again, as the Earth is to the Water, fothe Water to the Aire,and the Aire4:o the Fire: And this is the Root and Foundat» on of all Bodies, Natures, Vertues, and wonderfull Works; And he which fhall know thefe things, and their Rulers, Idea's and Figures, (hall eafily know all things, Paft, Prefent, and to Comej and alfo ihall bring to pafle fuch things that are wonderfull, and aftoni{hing,and fhall be perfeft in this Art.
Chap, XV III.
of a threefold conpderation of the Element f
T Here arc then as we have faid, foure Elements, without the perfeft knowledg whereof, we can cffeft nothing in this Science , now each of them is threefold, that fo the number of foure may make up the number of twelve Ideas incorporated into fixteen Figures and twelve houfes, or parts of the Earth,and by pafling by the number of feven which fignifieth thefeven Ruler^, into the number ten, (which fignifieth the Cxleftial powers, are ten prin- cipal names of God, as you read in the ninth Chap- ter) there may be a progrelTe to the fupream unity upon which all vertue and operation depends , of the firft order are the pure Elements, which are nei- thercompounded, changed nor admit ofmixion, butareincorrupcable3& not of which, but through which the vertues of all natural things are brought
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forth into Arc *, No man is able t'o declare their VertueSj becaufcthey can do all things upon all things. He which is ignorant of thefe (hall never bring to palTc any wonderfull matter, nor under- ftand what he would know *, of the fecond Order are Elementsthat arecompoundedjchangeableand Impure, yet fuch as may by '\rtbe reduced to their pure fimplicity, whofe Vertue when they are thus reduced to their fimplicityj doth above all things perfcft this Art, and thefe are the Foundations of the work; OF the third Order are thofe Elements which originally and of themfelves are not Ele- ments 5 but are twice compounded, various and changeable one into another,they are the infallible Medium, and therefore are called the middle Na- ture.
By thefe jou Jhallfee from whence altt kings florp ^ Whence Mankjnde^Beafts^whence fire^whence rain &fno» Whence earth quahes are^ why the whole Ocean Beats , Over his bankjy and then again retreats , Whence (Irength of Herbs ^ whence courage rage of Bruit Sy AU l^nde of Stone^ of creeping things and Fruits ;
Very few there ^rc that underftand the deep mifte- rious of this Arc. (In it is) by means of thofe things aforcfatd, the perfeftion of every effect in what thing foever, they are full of wonders and mifteries and are operative, as in Aftrology, fo in this Art : For from thefe, through them proceeds the bind- ings, loolings and tranfmutations of all things^ the linowledge and forecelliag things to come.
Let no man therefore, without thefe three fort^ of Elements and theknowledg thereof, be confident that he is able to cure all Difeafes in the body, but
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whofoever (hall know how to prepare his Mcde- cines, as I partly told you, in my Method of Kofie Crucian Fhjifick^^ and how to reduce thofe of one or- der into thofe of another, impure into pure, com* pounded into iimple, and fliall know how to under- nand diftin£^ly, the Nature 5 Vertuc and power of them in Number, Degrees and Order, without dividing the fubftance, he (hall eafily, attain to ths knowledge and perfeft operation of all thefe natu- ral things conteined in this Book,
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C AH P. XIX.
OfthevponderfnUNahtresof Fire and Earth and
their FigtiTcs,
T'-Hiis the Earth is divided into twelve parts og hoiifes, over which the feveii Rulers and their twelve Idea^ s^ovtrn^and you muft know how to rc- duoc thofc of cue Nature into thofe of another,
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which are alfomanifold, let us conie again andiorC ourfpeechcs, firft we muft treat of the Elements, then of the manifold Diviiions of the Earth, and ot her twelve Regions^ c^c.
Firft there are two things, viz. Fire and Earth, which are fuflicient for the operation of all won- dcrfuU thingSjthe former is aftive, the latter pafiive Fire^f as dLithEugemus theodidaSus^)in allthings and through all things , comes and goes away bright> and at the fame time fecret and unknowuj whea it is by it (elf f no other matter comming to ir, which (hould manifeft its proper Adions, it is boundleffe and invinble, of itfelf fufficient for every Aftion, that is proper toitimoveable^yeeldiilgit fclf after a mariner toal things that come next to it,reviewing3 guarding nature, enlightning, not comprehended by lights, that are vailed over,cleere parted, leaping back, bounding upwards, quick in motion, and gi* ying motion to the Earth, and that the reafon the earth movesj as my friend Mr. John Booker will de- ihonftratetoybu; fire is high, alwayesraifing mo- tion, comprehending another, not comprehen- ded it felf, not ftanding in need of another, fe- Cretly increafing of it felf, and manifcrrs its greac- neffe to things that receive it, Aftive, Powerful!, Invifible, Prefcnt in all things at once; ic will hot be affronted or oppofed , but as it were in a. way of revenge^it will reduce on a fudden things ia» io obedience to it felf, incomprehenlible, impal* pable, notleflened, moftrich, inall difpenfatiohs of it felfj Fire, as faith my friend and veryncer lanfman, S^ John HejdonKmght^ from his own ex- i^ericnce, that fire is the fcoundlcfle and mif- ' IJievous part of the nature of things, ic being a E ^ queftiosi
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queftion, whether it deftroyes or produceth inoft things ? Fire it felf is one and penetrat^i through all things^ (as fay alfo the Kofie Cruet" ans^ alfo fp read abroad in the Heavens , and (hining, but in the infernal place, ftrcightned, darke and tormenting , in the mid way it per- takes of both; fire therefore in it felf is onc^ but in that which receives it manifold ; and in d ffering fubjefts, ft is diftributed in a different manner, as you may read in my Book called j IheHoly Guide j That fire then^ which we ufe, is fetched out of other things , it is in Stones , and is fetched out by the ftroke of the 5'teele $ it is in Earth, and makes that, after digging up to fmoak j It is in Water and heats Springs and Wells: It is in the depth of the *9ea , and makes that, being tofled with winds warme : It is in the Aire, and makes it (as we fomtimeg fee) to burnc, and all Animals and livuig things whatfoever, as alfo all vegitables arc prcferved by Heat, and every thing that lives , lives -by reafon of the inclofed heat, the properties of the fire that is above, are heat, making all things fi'uitfull and light, giving life to all things; the properties of the infernal fires are a partching hear, confuming all things; and darknefs making all things barren, Fire drives away all ill things, in as much as it hath an Analogy with, and is the ve- hiculum of that fuperiour light; as alfo of him who faith, I am the light of the World, which is true fire, the Father of lights, from whom every good thing, that is given comes : fending forth the light of his Fire, and communicating it felf to the Sun, and the reft of the Superiour bodies, and by thefe, as by Me- diating Inftf iiments, conveying that light into our • Fire^
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Fire 5 and the great Jehovah himfelfcin the old Law commanded that all his Sacrifices fhould be offered jvith Fire, and that Fire (hould alwayes be burning upon the Altar: And that they muft not fpeak of God without a light ; good Angels are augmented by the Sun, and alfo by the light of our common Fire, and evil Spirits, are driven away ; therefore lights and fires, fhould be kindled by the Corps of the Dead, and here follow the four Figures of the Fire.
Now the Bafis and Foundation of all the ElementFg is the Earth, for that is the ob;eft, fubjefV, and re- ceptacle of all Celeftical rayes and influences, in it are contained the feeds and feminal venues of all things : and therefore it is faid to be Animal, Vigi- tableandiV^ineral, it being made fruitful bytheo- ther Elements, and the Heavens brings forth all thingsof itfelf : it receives the abundance of all things, and as it were the firft fountaiiie, from whence all things fpring 5 it is the Centre, Founda- tion, and Mother of all thinrs, take as much of it as you pleafe, feparatedjvvafhedjdepurated fubtillizcd; if you let it lie in the open Aire a little while, it will being full, and abounding with heavenly vertues of it felf, bring forth plants, and worms, and other Uying things, alfoftones and brightfparksof Met-
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tals, in it arc great fecrets, .if at any time it (hall be purified by the help of Pire, and reduced unto its limplicity, by a convenient wafhings it is the firft macter of our Creation, and the trueft Medicine that can reftore aiid preferve us, and thefe be the four Figures of the Earth.
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THe other two Elements, viz, .Water and Aire*^ not lefs efficacioiiSj then the former ; neither arc the Rulers, and their Ideas^ wanting to work wonderful things in them ; thei^ is fo great a necef- fity ofwaterjthat with it no living thing can livejno hearb or plant whatfoever, without the moiftning of water can branch forth, in it is the feminary vertue of all things, efpecially of Animals, whofe fecdis manifeftly waterifhs The Seeds alfouf Trees and Plants, although they are Earthly, rauft not^ withftanding of necefficy be rotted in Water, before they can be fruitful, whether they be imbibed with the moifture of the Earthy or with Dew^ orRaine,
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or any other water, that is on piirpofc put to them^ for Mofesy the cheif among the Kofie Crucians m his time wrote, that only Water and Earth, bring forth a living ^oul, but afcribesa twofold produftioa of things to water, T^i^;. of things fwimming in the wa- ters, and of things flying in theAire above theEanh; and that thofe produftioas that are made in, and upon the Earth, are partly attributed to the very Water ; The fame Scripture teftifies, where it faith, that the Plants and the Herbs did not grow, becaufc God had not caufed it to Rain upon the Earth; fuch is the efficacy of this Element ofWater, that fpintual regeneration cannot be done without ir, as Chrifthimfclf testified toNicodemus; very great alfo isthe vertueofitj in the Religious worfhip of God, in expiations and purifications ; ye^ the necellity of it, is no lefs then that of the Fire^ infinite are the benefits, and divers are the ufes thereof, as being that, by vertue of which all things fubfil^, are gene- rated, nourifhed and increafed i thence it was that TaracelfuSyZnd thoCco{ Egypt^ Arahia^^nd the further fide of Greece^ Femelhs Ftcims^ old Hermes and Hip" focrates by name : (concluded) as if they had been together,that water was the beginning oral thing-; and faid,it was the fir'l of all the Elements, and the mof} potent, and that becaufe it hath the maft.ry oyer all the Red; As you mavR.ead in my Book called lbs Harmony of the JVoyU. Yov-asCarda^ius faithjWatersfwallow up theEarth, excingu^fh flames, afcend on high, and by the frretching forth of the Clouds, challenge the Heavens for their own ; the fame falling down, become the caufe of all things that grow in the Earth*, very many are the wonders •that are done by waters, according to the writinfjs •pfF//A//, Solinus^ and many othfr Hiibriansgf the * E 4. wonderfiil
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wonderful vertue^whereofKirg/Yalfo makes mention in thefe veifes,
Hor«W Ha mmous Waters at High Noon^
Aire cold : Hot at Sun rife and fetting Sun
IFoody -put in huhling A t h e m as ;5 fifd
Ihe Moon then fattheft from the Sun retired
Ciconian Streann^ congeale his Guts tofione
'Ihat thereof Vrinkj : and what therein is thrown
Crathis and Sybaris (from the Mountains roldy
Colour the Hair lik^ Amber ^ or pure Celd-y
Some fountains if a mo^e prodigious kjnd
Mot only chann^e the body y but the Minde
Who hath not heard of obfcene Salmacis
Of th' ^Ethiopian lak^e ? for who of this •
JButonly tafi^their wits m.longer k^epj
Cr forth with fall into a deadly f[€ep>
^ho at Clitorius fountaine thirfi remove
Loath wine^ and abjiinerit meer water love.
With Streams oppofd to thefe Line ejious flows
Hhey reel as druni^ who drinkjoo much ofthofe^
A Lake in fair hrc^di^LJiands of old
Caird.PhenensJufpeaed as twofold^
]^ear and forbear to drink, thereof by Night,
JBy Night unwholfome^ wholfome by Day light,
Jofephus, alfo makes relation of the wonderful Na- turecfacertaine River betwixt Archea, and K*>/2. thanes. Cities oiSyria : which runs with a ful Chan- nel all the week till the Sabboth day, arid then on ' afudden ceafcch, as if the Sprmgs were Hopped; and on the Sabboth day ic i^ dry, but agani the. next day, the Waters returns againe in abundance asbefore ; wherefore it is called the obedient River, The Gofpelalfo tcftifies of a Sheep Pool, into which - whofoeve?
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whofoever ftepped firft, after the water was troub- led by thcAngeljWas made whole of whatfoever dif- cafe he had 5 The fame vertue and efficacy we read was in a Spring of the Jo«m« Nymphs, which was in the Territories belonging to theTown of Elis^ at a village called Heraclea, near the River Citheron^ which whofoevcrftepped into. Populus being in the iirft houfc, Letitia in tht{ixy and Acquifitio in the tenth with P«^/^, being difeafed came forth whole and cured of all difeafes, G. AgricoU alfo reports, that in Lyceus^ a Mountaine of Arcadia.^ there was a Spring calicd Agridy to which as often as the dry- ncfs of the Region, threatned the deftruftion of Fruits, they caft a figure, and if any of the figures of the water and Ideals were incorporated in any of the four Angels, they took the Bows of an Oak, and put them into the water : Then the Ruler of that Region, and his Z^^/r'; troubled the waters, and a vapour afcending from thence into the Aire, was blown into Clouds, with which being joyned toge- ther, the whole Heaven was over fpread, which being a little after diffblved into rain, watered all the Country moft wholfomely. Moreover Kuffus the Phyfitian, obferved the Figures of the water in allDifeafes, and gave his Medicines accordingly; And here follow the four Figures of the Water.
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of the Aire^ and of his Figures.
IT remaines that I fpe^k of the Airc^, this is a vital fpiric parting through all things, giving life and fubiiftanceto all things, binding and moving, and filling all things: Hence it is that thcHehrew Doctors reckon it not ampn^ft the ElementSjbut count it as a Medium or glew^ joyning things together jand as the refoun Jing fpirit of the Worlds inftrument, it immediately receives into it felfe, the influences of Celeftial bodies, and their Jdei^''s^ and then commu- nicates them to thcothe^ Elements, as alfo to all mixt bodies 5 alfo it receives into it felfe, as ic were a divine looking GlaG, the Species of all things, as well natural, as Artificial, as alfo of all manner of fpeeches, and retaines them 5 and carrying them with it, and cntring into the bodies of men and o- ther animals,through theirpower,makes an impref- fion upon them, as well when they fteen, as when they be awake, and affords matter for divers ftrong dreams and Divinations 3 Herwre they fay a is that a
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inanpafling by a place, where a man was flaine, or the carcafe newly hidjis moved with fear and dread^ becaufe the Aire in that place being ful of the dread- ful fpecies of man flaughter, doth being breathed in, move and trouble the fpirit of the man wich the like fpecies : when he would know where the party- dead is, lee him caft a Figure, and what he finds in the firfthoufcobferve well, and Tee what place his Ruler and Idea lignifie, and there you fhall find the dead body, or any thing loft ; whence ic is that he comes to be aftraid, for every thing that makes a fuddenimpreflion, aftonifhethNaturej whence it is that ^v.Zhomas Heydon^ and fome of his pupills were of opinion, that Aire is the caufe of Dreams, and many other impredions of thcMind, through the prolonging of Images, orSymilitudes, or Species j ('which are fallen from things and fpeeches, multi- ply ed in the very Aire J until they come to the fen- fes, and then to the Phantafie, and foul of him that receives them, which being freed from cares, and ho way hindred, expefting to meet fuch kind of fpecies is informed by them ; for the fpecies of tilings although of their own proper nature, they ar? carried to the feufes of men, and otherAnimals in general, may notwithftanding gee fome impref- fion, from the Heaven, with the holy company of unbodied Idea svjhWt^ they he in the Aire, by rca- fon ofwhichjtogether with theaptnefs, and difpo- fition of him that receives them, they may be car- ried to the fenfe of one, then of another j hence it is poflible, naturally, and far from all manner of fu- perftition, no other fpirit comming between, that a man (hall be able in a very fhort time, to (ignifis his mind unto another r^an, abiding at a very great ' and unknown diftance from him , air hough he can- not
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not precifely give aneftimate of the time wfaenitis> yetofneceffityic muft be within twenty four hours, and I my fclf know how to do itj and have taught inany, and they have often done it 5 alfo when cer- taine appearances, not only fpiritual, but alfo na- tural do flow forth from things, viz. by a certain kind of Sowings forth of bodies from bodies, and do gather ftrength in the Aire^ they offer, and (hew thcmfelvcs to us,as well through light as Motion, as well to the fight as toother fenfes, and fometimes workwondcrful things upon us, by the help of Fi- gures, Idea's, and their Rulers ; and by thefe means we fee how the South wind condenfeth the Aire in- to thin clouds, in which as in a Looking-glaf?, are jreflefted, reprefentations at a great diftance of Caft- les, Mountains, Horfesandmen, and other things, which when the Clouds aregone;> prefently vanifh, and Sir. Chrifiopher Heydon^ (hewes in on^ of his BookSjthat a Rainbow is conceived in a Cloud of the Aire, as in a Looking- Giafs: and Hermes faith,|thac the effigies of bodies may by the ftrength pf Nature inamoift Aire, be eafily reprefcnted in the fame manner, as the reprefentation of things, are in things : And Arifiotle tcWs of a man to whom it hap- pened, by reafon of the weaknefs of his fight, that: the Aire that was near to him, became as it were a looking-glafletohim, and the Optick beam did rcfleft back upon himfelf, and could not pene- trate the Aire 5 fo that whctherfoever he went^he thought he faw his own image with his face towards him, go before him; if any one fhall take images artificially paintedaor written letters, and in a clear night fee them againft the beams of the full Moon, whofe refemblances being multiplyed in the Aire ; and caught upwards^ and reflected back, together
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with the beams of the Moon, any other man that is privy to the thing, at a long diftancejfces, reads and knows them in the very compafle and circle of theMoon^ which Art of declaring fecrets by this way, is very profitable for Townes and Cities that are belieged ; being a thing which Pythagoras and many other Matters of this Art, long iince did of- ten doe, and which is not unknown to fome in thefe dayes, I will not except my felf, and it \AfilI be the better liFopulus via Alius or Conjundio be in the firft houfe : And all thefe and a great many more, then thefe, are grounded in the very nature of the Aire, itsRuIer and I^^^'s, and have their Reafons and taufes declared in this Art : befides there are more fecret things in this Art then what we have fpoken of: Namely fuch whereby any one may at a very remote diftaneehcarc,and underftand what another fpeaks or whifpers foftly ; But our Gemus forbids as to teach thefe fecret truths to thofe that may di- vulge them publickly : and here follow the foure figures of the Aire.
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Of the twelve parts of the Earth and the Region f^ Cities and 'towns^tkey contain the Natural parts of the Body^ Colours and Winds they Signifie.
Ou feebeforehowtheRulersand Idea's Govern the Earthj and the pares thereof, and how they
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together with their figures fignifieth all things that are made and created under the Sun.
The firft Houfe is fubjeft to Barzabel and Malcht- dael^ it is the exaltation ofSorath^ the Detriment of Kedemely the fall o( Zazel^ but the joy oilafhthd^ t bar ah.
Regions Cities and Towns are Nafks^ Ancomca^ Germany y Swevia^ Silefia^ the Hyfoloma^ thelefle Den^ mark^^ Syria, FalejHna,
Cities and Towues are , Naples^ AnccHica^ Capua^ terrariay Florence^ Verona^ Lindavia^ Trajedum^ Padua Craconia Brunfwic\^ Vincenttum,
The members of the body it reprefents, are^ the head and face^ its wind is cMtdjfuhfolamui^ it is hot and dry, temperate, fweet, pure, fubtle and health- full, and efpecially in the morning when the Sun rifeth 5 by whom^ when Fortuna Major ^ Acquifitio or Tuella be in it, he is made more pure and fubtle, caufing no infedioh to mans body.
The colour it reprefents is r6d and yellow, it is the oriental angle and Mafculine.
Vnder the fecond houfe are thefe Kegions^ Cities^ lomis^
M^^hrs of man , JFind^ Colours^ and othr
things following.
The fecond houfe or fucccdent part of the Earth IS fubjeft to the Ruler or Govemeffe, of Kedemei ^nd her Idea Hafmodael^ and its figure is Amiffios it is the exaltation o( Hifmodai her figures and Ideay thd houCe is feminine, the joy oiKedemel^ and the detri- ment of Barzabel^
Itconteyns the KtgxonsofKttffta^Volonia the great, Ireland^ Larranie, Campania^ Helvetia^ B^hetia^ Fran-^ CGvia^Tanhia^Verfia^ the Hands of Qc.W^i, Cyfre£[e^ andpartof^fJtf thekife, Ckiea
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Cities and Townes^ are Bmenia^ Sevd^ Mantua^ farrentemy ^ycillyy Varmay BrixiUy Tigure^ LacerHe^ NantZy Liffig^ Fofnovia^ Guefaa,
The wind thac cometh from that part is called Cacias or Helkffontus 5 it is hot drying up all things.
The part of the body it fignifies, is the Neck arid Throat, it noteth grecri or white.
7he third Houfe Containes,
Sordonia^ fzvtoi Lontbardyy FianderSy Brahant^ the Dukedome o^Wittenbergey Hircavia^ Armeniay Cyrc" Haicayznd Egypt the lovfer.
Of Cities and Towns, London^Cordubaylurinum^ Vercolloiy Lovame^ Bruges in Flanders^ Maguntia^ Bam^ herge^ Noremberge,
l^aphthartharath and Ambrid rule this Houfe by day, it is Mafculine, and the exaltation of Caput VracoHif jit is the Detriment of Hifmael^ becaufe op- pofite to the ninth, and you may fee before: it is alfoCadent.
ft noteth the North-eaft, and by North wind cal- led Aquiloj it is cold and dry without Rain, it hurt- cththeflowers and fruits of the Earth, and cfpcci- ally the Vines when they bud.
Itfignifieth in man, the Shoulders and Armes, among colours it is Skye colour, or blewifh> fom- tiraes mixt.
' Ihe fourth Houfe Containes, '
In this Figure of the Earth going before,, all be* iweenthetwo lines where the figure four frauds, is called the fourth Houfej and is che Norta Angle
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feminine; Hifmodai and the Idea Muriel Governe this HoiifCj it is the exaltation o£Hifmael^ the Detri- ment oiZazely and the fall of Barza6el'^ the Houfe is white or yellowifti, it ruleth the Breft and Lungs, it noteth Scotland^ Gravado^ Burgundia^ the lower HoU landy Zeland^ K^JIta^ Numidia^ Affricd^ Bythiniay Thri^ gia-y Colchis^ Carthage, , _
Of Cities and Towns, CoHfianthopie^tunlSy Venice, Genoa^ Luce^ Pifa^ Milaine^ Vincentia^ Berne^ Torkfy St.Andrem^ Luhec^e^ Magdeberge^ Wittenherge^ Gor^ lick:
It noteth the North- wind, which is called ^ffrtf- BtaSyit is extreamly cold and dry, prohibiting Rain, it prefcrveth health by cleanfing the Aire of all Pc- ftiferous infeftions, but caufeth dry colds,and hurt- ech the fruits and flowers of the Earth.
The fifth Houfe Containes.
Gallia 7ogata^ the Alp^ Italy^ Sicily, Apulia, Ed^ hernia a pare oCTurhie^ Phdenicia, C aide a.
And of Cities and Towner, Vamafcus, Syahufa, Rome, Kavenna^ Cremona, Vlms^ Confluence^ Prague, Lintz,Cremfmn,
It is ruled by Sorathand Verchiel, it is Mafculine, of red orfafFron colour, and the Detriment of Za^ zel; itfignitieth in man, the Heart, Back and Sto- mach : and is the fucccdent from the North An-
It predi^cth the North-weft, and by North-wind, which is called Syrus or Trachias, is cold and dry, of Earthly Nature, breeding fnow and wind»
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The fixth Houfe Container .
Achaia^ Greece^^ Creet^CoYinthia^ Arthefi^ta a part of GMa^Cowata^ apart of the Kbine^ Silefia tht iower Mefopotamia^ Babilon^ Aiflria,
And of Cities and Towhs, Jerufale-i^t^ Corinth^ t^ovaria^ Oma^ Brmdiif^mn^ Pafis^ Jholofe^ Lydns^FariSy Bafii^ Heidelberge^Erphord^ Vrdipjivia-
And thefe.are Governed,, by Taphthartharath ^nd Hamaliel^^xid here he is exilted ; when Alhm or Co«- juHdlohcmtWtRouCey it fignifiech purple colour; and being feminine^in oppoficion to thetcvelfch ; ic is the Detriment o€ Hiftmel^ and the fall o^Kedeyriely it ruleth the Navel and Belly in man ; it noccth the Weft, North-weft wind, which conmeth from that quarter, and is called Cdrm^ which is cold and moift? without any great Rigour.
Ihefiventh Houfe Containei.
The ?^tg\onso£ AuilreayAhtdy Livonia^ Siihaudia^ Telfhindte^ Ihufcia^ Badrtamty Cafpia^ Tkbuisy toglo- ditica.
Of Cities and Towncs, Vihom^ Aries, Cajeta^ Lau- da, Ylarentinn^ Frihiirge; Argentina, Spires, Frank:- /ori upon the niaine, HaU'mSwevia, Heilhrone^ ^ri" fihga, MofsbdChnuyn^ VieJina in Aujirea, Antmrpe. . And thefe are Governed by Kedemel and Zuriel by day, here Zdzel is exalced, Barzahel detfimenced i here ^6rath hath his fall.
^ The Reins and Loynes ere attributed to this Hc^ufe, which is Mafcuiine, and of a dark ^-reca co- lour. ^
To this Weft Angle, the Weft wind is atcrihuced,
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called Zephirus^ it is tcmperately,hot and nioift, and wholfome in the evening, it diifolveth Froft, Ice, and ^novv, and makech flowers andgrafstofpring, and fomecimes as the Figures fall, it caiifeth Thun»
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Jhe eight Houfe CoHtaines,
Norway the higher, Bavaria^ Comagena^ Cafado^ cia^ Idunua^ Mauritania^ Catalonia^ the Kingdome ofFeZjGetulia, *
Of Cities and Townes, Algires^ VaUnSy Trapezunty Vrhinum^ Aquilia^ Tijhrimm^ 7arvi(intn, horutn^ Juli- ^niy MeJJaHa', Vienna in France, Monachiunty Franckj- ford u po ;i Odar, y : o v.
And thcfe are Governed by Barzabei and Barchiel by night, and here B/^r^^^f/dcLghteth, i)UtliCe^£^- mel is detrimented, and Hafmodai hath a fall.
The Privy parts and Fundament are attributed to this houfe, which is red or tawny and Mafcu- line.
It noteth the South -weft, and by Weft wind, na^ nied Aphricm, it is cold and nioift, caufing Rain.
ihe nineihHottfe Containes.
The Regions of 5f/?i;/e_, Valmatiay Slavonian BtiH^ garia^ Mjfnia^ Cehicay Arabia^ Felix,
OFCitiesandTownes, loUdunt^ VoUteras, Mutt- wm^Karhcne, Avenmiy Coloniity Agrifpinay Slagrade\
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hy day^ and in it they joy, Cauda Draconic is exalted
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the Houfeis Mafculine, yellow and red is atcribuced unto it, and the Thighs of man. » •
The South-weft, and by South-wind, comnicth irom this part of the Earth or Houfe; it is called Au^ra Aphricufy and is temperately hot, and yet breedeth ficknefs, and fomctimes Rain,
7be tenth Houfe Containes. \
Macedonia^ HyviSy thraciHy Albania^ Bulgaria part of Greece^ Mafonia^ Lituania^ Saxonia^ Hajja^ Jhurin- giay Stirid, India : The Ifland ofOrcbades.
Of Cities and Townes, Oxford^ JuUacumyClivia^ Berges^ Mechjin^ Gaunt^ Vilva^ hrandenherge^ Augufi^^ Vindelicorum^ Conflance^ Florence.
And thefe are Governed hyZazeUnd Havaelby night, the Honfe is feminine, being the South An- gle, and exaltation o£Barzabei; it is the detriment ofHafntadaiy and the fall of Hiftnael ^bhck and gray is attributed to it, with the Knees.
The South-wind is attributed toit; which iscaU led Aujier or Notus, it is hot and moift, breeding thick clouds, great Rains and Peftiferous Aire,
7he eleventh Houfe Ontaines,
Amazonia^ Sarmatia^ great Cartaria^ Valachia^ Muf^ eovia-y the South- Eaft, and by South "p^rt of Sn^ead* land^ IVeftfhalia^ Mofel^ Pedemonty part ofE^variay JE'^ ihiopiay Sogdinia^ Media ^ Arabia the defarr,
OfCities and Towns, Hamborough^ Breme^Monf- ferrat^ Tifaurunj, Trent^ Ingotjlade, ~ And thefe are Governed by Zazelzndi Cambist by 43y> the Houfe is the detriment of 5oy^t^/and Mafi-
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inline, ^greeii and dark, yellow are attributed to it, andtbcl cgsofman. ' ^nj :;
, It notech the South-Eaft, and by Soiith wind, VihtchiscaWcdEuroafter or Euronotm^ which is hot aii4 moift, breeding clouds and ficknefs.
uhe imifii Houfe Containes,
CilkiH^t^jldh'r^^^^ Galitidyjiorntandi^ Ga^
comantesj Lydia^?a7}jphilia^ JEgip the higher.
Of Cit ies and Townes, Alexandria^ h^jpolis^ Com- foflella WoYmes^ Kaihbpne^ leverton
And thefc aj e Governed by Hifmael ^nd Amnixiel by liighT, Kednnel is exalted in this Houfe, Hafwodai deirghts in it, but 7apkhartharath is both detrimen- ced and falls in thispiace,.the feet of man are attri- buted to it, and the colour green^ wliitc mixtures.
It noteth the Eafrj^outh Eaft wind, called Eurus or YvJturnuf^xXh'ich is hot and dry jhe bloweth loudjand therefore IS called ^/fif(;«/r«^, Vuiturmis : You have jcen in the Figure her^ before, how the Earth is di- vided into two parts, are called houfes, whereof tie firft is callt-d the Angle of the Orient, with the ivvelfth aiid eleventh unto the South, and niakech the Oriental quarter Mafculine : iignifying the yprHig tiniej auJ the infancy of man, which of his Kauneifi^'^'iguine.
The other pjrt which isthe Angle of theSouth, ftaching unto the Occident, comprehending the itnth,n'urh and eight Houfe'-, unto the fevench is called Meridmtal quarter, feminine Iignifying tlie youth of ni;*ii, which ihen beginning tobecholl«-
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nifyin? Winter anri rK» "'"^f^fj 'eniiiiine, fig.
which d,en doth bein to be fit'' ''^t °';."'^"' faint, " ^^ flegmatick, old and
Af.te. afc Xt tf e i'P''T'°"^' ^"'■'^'1 *!>« from the Sept t, 'ional unVru'L ^^Z'' ''^'''^ be Jed the MoitL defcei' '7,^ Mend.ona!, be cal-
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l.-d the Houfo c'aSau' ;herer'"'f''•'^^-'- ofcenasi>lthefefo^^ A ,tl' ^'^ *'''^" ^"'las that placealwayeTLn f s VorrJ^ ^goodfisare, good and profperoiis P ' f/ ^ouragf ofbody,
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and ninth excepcedj which (ignifie a reflexion of a Common Wealth, likewife honour and reverence, the lixth and twelfth, dofignifie cowardneffe with a wickedneflre^arwellofperfcns as of things.
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Chap. XXIII.
of the pxteen Figures and their tttanifold Divijions^
THcfe Figures are divided many wayes as firft into fou re Quadrants or Quarters 5 anfwering to the foure quarters of the year.
The Vernal or Spring Quarter, is Sanguine, hot and moift, and conteynes the firft foure figures , vis^ Vuer^ Arni^iOy AlbuSy and Cauda Vtacmis,
The Eftynal or Summer Quarter, is hot, dry,and collerick, and conteins other foure figures, vizSofu^ lus, ¥ortuna Major^ ConjunBioy Caput Draconis.
The Autumnal or Harveft quarter^ is cold^ moift aiid Phlepmatick, conteins thefe figurcs,which have as well as the reft their vertucs from the Rulers and Idea'^Sy the four figures avG Puela^ Kuheufy Acqutfi-- tiOj YoYtuna Minor.
The Hyemnall Brumal, or Winter quarter is, cold moift and flegmatick; of the nature of the tenth|! eleventh and twelfth houfcs and their Rulers and Idea's and their Figures, viz. Career^ Triftitia'^ Letitia and Via,
They are again divided in divifion of the Eic- mcnts, for fome figures receive fuch vertue, as in nature they are fiery, hoc and dry, and they arc
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Fortma^ Major^ Tuer^ Acqidfitioy and Cauda Vraconis^ three of thefe make the tiery Triplicicy, over which Sorath rulech by day, and Hifntael by night.
Others arc cold and earthly, viz, Amijfw^ Con- junGiOy Career y Caput Vraconh^ and thefe conftitutc the Earthly Triplicityj over whom KedemelmX^s by day, and Hafmodai by night.
Others arc Aicry, hot and moift^ viz Alhus^ Puela^ trijiitia^ Fortuna Minor -^ over whom Zazel Rules by day , and 'Xaphthartharatb by night.
Others are watery, cold and moift, viz. Populusy Letitia^Via^ Kubeus^ andarecalled the watery Tri- plicity, over whom Barzabd ruleth both day and night.
Some figures are MafcuUne. and therefore hot as, Tuer^ Alhiis ^Fortuna Major^ Fuela^ Acquifitioylrijlitin Populus^ Caput V acorns; fome are Feminine, Nodur- nal, therefore cold, Amijjto, Via^ Conjundio^ Kuheus, Career^ Lititia^ Fortuna Wnor^ Cauda Draconis,
The ufe whereof, is this, that if you have a Mafculine figure in a Mafcuhne houfe, governed by a Mafculine Ruler,it imports hini or her more man- ly, andfo if a Mafculine figure be in a Feminine boufe, the man or v/oman is I elTe couragious, &c.
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Chap. XXIllI. A talk of the Af^e&s of the Houfes.
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the meaning is thus: A figure in thetirft^3 45 Houfe, and another in he eleventh, he that is po- fited in the firft Houfe, doth behold the other in the eleventh^ with a SextHe Dexter Afpeft.
A figure in the firft and another in the tenth, he in thefiift behold the figure in the tenth with a §uartile Dexter,
A figure in the firft beholding another in the jiin;Ji, cafts his Tri/z^ Dexter thither.
A figure in the firft, beholding another in the fevench, cafts his Cppofition Afpe^t unto him.
Again, over againft Sinifter, and under the firft youfinde 3, 4, «;. that is, the firft beholds the third with aSextile Sin'fter, the fourth with a^/^rti/ifSini- fter, and the fifth with a Tr/«^Sinifterj obferve the Dexter Afpc6t is more forcible then the Sinifter, this underftd nd in the othcrC'olumn«,z'i2;.that Dcx- fer Afpefts ^re contrary to the fuccellion of houfes, Sinifter as they follow one another.
The houfes again are divided, into moveable, fixed and common.
The moveable, are the firft, fourth, feventh and tenth, and rhefe iignifie the foure months of the yedir^viz. March^Juney September avtd December^^nd ^s moveable.
Tht fecond. fife h^ eighth and eleven are fixed and fign i fie /iprl(7y July^ OBober and January, w h ich a re .-fixed fealbnsof Heat or Cold,Moiitureor Drynelfe. . The third, fixth, ninth and twelfth are common becaufe they are Yehruary^ May, Augujl and November^ Siwd are ccnftitu^ed alfo between moveable and fix- .cd , and retain a property or nature ^ pertaking 430Lh, vvitfi the preceding and confequent houfe.^. . , Albia and Laitht are by corp.crwal or double bo- died. The
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The right knowledg of thcfe in this Art is mudi, and you muft underftaiid it thus 5 In the Qucftion or figure 5 if the Ruler who Governs the Idea- that IS incorporated in the figure in the firft houfe be moveable, and the Idea Figure and houfe, be alfo one ; it denotes the perfon to be unftablc, andof noRefolution, eafily mutable, perverted, a wavering unconftant Man or Woman.
Let US admit the Afcendant fixed, and th£ Ru^ Icr and his Idea in a fixed figure, you may judg the perfon to be of a firm Refolution, nochangling,or as we fay, one that will ftand to maiiKain what he bath faid or done, be it right or wrong.
If the Figure Idea and Ruler Afcending be com* tnon, you may judge the man or woman to be nei- ther very wilful! or eafily variable, but between both.
The Figures alfo are divided into ,
Befiial or ^adridpediaHy \'vi,Tuer^Amiffjo^ YortuffH Wiajor^ Acquifithy Career, and thefe reprefent foure footed creatures.
Fruitful! or prolificall dguves^viz. Populus^Kuhem^ Cauda Vr acorns, Letitia Via.
Barren figures, Alhus, Fortuna Major, Minor^ Con» jtmdio, manly or Humane, Corteous Figures, ii/te, GoitjnndtiOy PueIia,lrrtjUtia,
Ferral Figures are, FortunaWjor, Fortuna Minor, Letitia^ and Caput Draconis,
Mute Figures or of flow Voice, Vopulus Via, Kuheus, Cauda Draconis, Letitia, the more if the Figures of Japhthanbaratb be with them, or in ^artile or Op- J>ofition of the Figures ofZazeL
The ufe hereof is, that if your fignificators,(that is to fayj the Lord Ruler and his Idea be incorpo- rated in the afcendant, into pure Amiffio, Fortum Ma or, iortmftMinor^Acquifitio,C^pit Draconis^ Cat"
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cer^ Cauda Vraconis, there is in 'the Conditions of that party fomething of the Nature of that Beaft^thc Ruler and Idea fignifies: as if the Figure be purCj tlie man is raft, hardy and Lafeivious, liAm^Oy ftedfaft and refolved, and foniewhat of a muddy Complexion vitiated with fome private imperkdi- on,and what figure foever you find in the firft houfe, confider his Ruler and Idea, and you (hall find his Nature, corporature and manner when ftrong oc weak, weH or ill pofitcd, fig«ified by them, a^s we faid before, for the quality of every thing is ligni- fied by the Rulers and Ideas, and fo you muft judge as if one be fick, although forty mile off, confid€r . what figure is in the firft Hou(e, and what Idea and ! Huler governes it, of that Nature and Compleluto the party is, and hath fuch ficknefs anddifeafes, as the Idea and Ruler fignifies j to Cure him confidcr the tenth houfe, what figureisthere,and what Idea and Ruler it is attributed to© : that Idea and R«l«r < will tel you^ what Medicinejyou muft give,that ifs to fay of Herbs, Plants or Minerals, and according to judgement prefcribe that.
The part of the body afflided, the Ruler idea. Figure and Houfe fignific. •
Let us admit, one propounds his queftion, if he (hall have Children, then if Hafmodai ^xid her Jdeds br Idea be in good company in the fifth Houfe, there is no queftion but he fhall ; the fame do, if the que- ftion concerneBarrennefs, viz, if the afcendent or fifth Houfe be of thofe Figures, we call Barren, it generally rcprefents few or no Children.
In queftions, if the Rulers and Idea's be incorpo- rated into^/^»r, CoHJundiOy Vuella 01 Irijiitia in the afcendent, then we may Judge the Man to be of civil Carriage, very aiFablc and eafie to befpokeu withal, &c. Chap. XXV.
9 a The Temple ^/ Wifdome. Book I.
Chap. XXV.
Of the KuUrs effentid dignities, in the tmlve Idea's, that
govern the twelve parts of the Earth, incorporated intofmeen Figures,
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The life of this Table is great, bccaufc it teaches the Fortitudes and Debilities of the Rulers and Idea in the Figures ^ when they are in fuch Hou- fes, we attribute to them, as you may perceive by the Table; the firft Column is of the Ideas 5 thcfe- cond is their figures ; the third and fourth is of their Rulers : d pure and the aflbciate ; of the Houfe of ^^ And the letter D tels you it is by day: and theletterN isof thenight. The next Column tells you, that Fortuna Major m the firft Houfe is governed by <^ and '^, and there 5"ortft^ is exal- ted, and fignifies fomething of the Nature of £/ir- 'itahelsLYid Mdchiddelm man, woman or thing : The fifth Column tells you, that ^ure is of the Triplicity of 5(3rtft^ by day, 2Liid Hifmael by night: the fixth* ;-CoUimn tels you, that thefe Rulers are in their De- ; trimcnts in thofe Houfes, over againft them in the . fame line toward the lefc Hand; the feventh Co- lumn tells you, in what Houfe every Ruler hath his fdllj becaufein cf to his exaltation 0 is in his fall in the tirft Houfe : if his Figures, Career orJriJiitra^ promife any thing by afpef^, the influence is weak, and you may Judge it to be but a bare word full of ^deceit: Now if ^wr^, Fortuna Major^ ot Jcquifith be in the firft Houfe, ^ou may fay the thing will be .' done, and the promife made, will be kept, and the manis of the Nature and Complexion, the figures. Idea's and Rulers fignifie : If it be Acquifttio^ that is lign ficatorof theman, then he is really honeft,Heli- giouSjtrue hearcedvuid vou may truft him: for what- ioever he promifcs he will be as good as his word.
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A Table of the Hours,
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A Table of che Hours,
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T he ufiof thefe two Tablec^we will fliew youtc- gether^ that you may be the more exaft in the hour when tlie-R tilers and Idea's are ftrong, and when weakin theFii^ures andHoufes; and you muft be ^eife6t in' the Nature of the Rulers, ldca'S;> Figures and KoufeSi and givjiig all the vertile that they have in N fcnr^ and property to the Figures, yo • mufi- know the ftr^ngth^fokticvrde or debility of the figures and a wel paiiliiig o( them, and their afpefts, and feveral mixtiiresin^bwr jiidgement.
Next, by rightly tppiyingchs influences of the Figdre?;, and their Idea's' -^nd Ruler?, Afpe^ts to one another at tne tinieiuf the GjueftioU) according to natura]^ andnoteufdrc^d MaximesofArt : For by how much you endeav urto ft rain a judgement be- yond Nituie, byfo muc+i the more you augment your errour. A Riiljer, Idea or Figure is then faid ' ro be really ftrong, vi\\tn he hach many efiential dignities, which areknown, by his being In that pFac? wecainiishoiife^orhis Exaltation and 1 ripli- city_,at any time oFcafting the figure: as for example. In your Scheam, iF yon liiidafrguve in any of thofe places-, we call hishouTeor Houfes, \ ou muil loo'^,what houric is; anci if he go into an Anule,or be in an), oftue four Angles, anrJ alforu e the iiour, lie is then effkntiaUy ft'on^ ^y\d we allow for that five dignities, as Fortuna Major in the fi.'ch Houfc, Fure in the firft ' ^
In Judgen:ei:f, when a figure is in his own houfe, that is, wliefi hiv Ruler and idea gbverne^ it repre- fenrs a man iii fuch a Condition, as that h. is Lord ofiiisown Honfe, Edate ^nd Fortune: or a man wanting very little of the goods of this World, or it ^ tells you, the man is in a very happy ftate orcondi- - tion, this will be true, uulefs the figure beaffli^td J>y any Malevolent afpeft, if
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if he be in that houfe \^hereiii he is cxaltedj you may allow him four dignities, if he rule the hour alfo, as P«r^ in the tenth, at eight a clock in the morning on Tuefday, or /iCquifitio in the fourth, at eight a clock in the morning on Thurfday.
KPure^ or Acquifitio, or :?ny other figure be in his exaltation, andnowayes afiiifted by ill Company, or Afpcft : it iignifiesalofcy proud perfon.
If he be inanyofthofe houfes, which are allotted him fdrhisTriplicityjhc hath allovred him three dig- nities, but herein you muft be cautious, as for exam- ple in a quelHoii, Nativity, or the like ^ if you h'ndc Major in the tirft houfe^ & the queftion,or nativ'uy or Scheam be made at ten of the clock upon Thurfday night, if you would examine his fortitudes, he (hall have four dignities, for being in his exalcarion, which continues an hour and 3 month, but he fha 11 not be allowed any dignity, as beiiig in his TripTw city, for by night .Sor^t^Ru let h not the fiery Tri- pUcity, but nf/Vff^f^, who had h6 been in place of Sorath^ and by night, muft have had allowed hiiu three dignities, and this do generally in all the Rulers,£^^rz^^f/excepted5who night and day rrtljetk ■ the watery Triplicity.
The Rulers are debilited m the Houfes, oppoGce to their houiVs, thev are in their fall, in the houfes .oppofition to cheir exakation^j and aredetnnvenled as much here as they were vligrtitied befoi'C' there: as fure in the feventh, or Papulus in the tenth .
If you would know whether your figure be v/ell made or not, you muft look to the four Angles, ifinanyof thenx you find a Figur.^ that ru^af the hour, at the timeoFthequeftion demanded, then the Figure is well made : if you find ic not fo^ yoti muft n^ake another : And you lliall find what Figure goYcrncs every hour in the Table before. ,
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Ghap. XXVL
A very Necejfary table Jfjewwg what parts of the Bodyisfignifiedhythefixteen Figures*^ Oft be feven Ruler sin all the twelve Houfes 3 Of the Earth governed by the twelve Idea's*
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and 5'ecrets.
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and Privities.
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and Bladder
Belly,
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and Thiahs,
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Heart, Back and Knees.
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and Thighs.
Head and Knees.
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and Legs.
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and Feet.
Head, Breaflt Scomack
and Lights. Neck, Thrpat, Heart and Back.
Feet
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Neck and Throar,
and Armes.
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Shoulders, Armes and Belly.
and ^' Throat,
Haunches.
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Heart, Belly and fiack.
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Reiues,
Neck, Throat, Reins and Loyne.^
Shoiildersj JBrcft^Rains Armes and JLoyns and Secrets.
Heart and Stomach,
Shoulders Armesaiid Beily,
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Thighs and Feet.
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Chap. XX VH. Of the SualHies of the Figures.
YOu muft furthermore notCj that amongft the figiires,fome be good, others be ill^and other- fome be common j the good be thofc which be en- tringj Trifiitia exceptedj thofe which be going out be ill, onely Letitia Excepted; the common be nei- ther good nor bad, but they be good or bad ac- cording unto the Company they fall into; for when the Company is good, they be good ; and when the Company is ill, they be ill; as (hall be more plain- ly declared unto you by the cxperienc of certain figures , we v^ill give Judgment upon in the third IBook of this Arc.
The fifteen figures receive their fignification from the feven Rulers and twelve ldea\ which go- vern the whole Earth, and all things under the Sun; and thefcput their influences into our hands, and have fuch fignification, as you may read an4 praftife in the fecond part of our BoQk.
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Chap. XXYHL
of the Colours of the Figures.
Vet fignifies white mixed with red ; Amilfto atid Caput Vraconis^ white mixed with Citrine^ Alhm
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a white lovely Cplourjipiixed with red; Fopului and Viay green or ruflet black J Gold colour or ycllowi JcortunttMajof^ green^ yellow or Gold colour; 0«- jun^io^ Purple or gray whitifh, fomtimcs black, fpccklcd with blew , green, white^or a darke crim- fon, or a whitifti tawny, ^uheui red mixt brown; ^cquifithp red, yellow, or green, fanguine; a white ruflet or dunn is C/rrc«rj friftitiay tawny, sky e co- lour with blew ; Letitia^ a green whiti(h gliftering colour.
Chap. XXIX.
A modefi defence for Gepmancy, tfw^Telefmes in the known Phseoomena of Nature-^ mth an Appeal to the Natural facfilttef of mm , tphe" ther there be not a God^ Angels^ Spirits and GtXk\\^tbAt at certain times appear inhumain ft>ape^^c»
IT is vainly reported by Ideots and underwits, that we contemn the Famous Presby tcrians, e3^^. It is true, being not fo indifcreetly zealous and fu- pcrftitious as Phanatiques, we have been miftaken by Anabaptifts , and traduced for Athiefts; but this is anfwered, in The Harmony of the World, Now there is a Gentleman denyes an Immaterial Beings and finely asks, if I know any thing. Sine Materia. ; After the rcmovall of corporeal matter out of the world, there will be ftill fpace and diftance, in
which
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which chis very matter while it was there, was alfo \ coaccived to lye^ and this diftant fpacc cannot but be fomthing; and yet not corporcaljbccaufe neither corruptible, impenitrablc nor tangible, it muft of necelTiry beafubftance incorporealjueceffarily and eternally cxiftent of it felf j which the clear Ideaoi a Being ahfolutely perfed^ w')\\ n\orc fully and pun- ftually informus to be the felffubftfling God or Im^ maurial Beings and hereby it is manifeli, how ab- furd and irrational they are , that will pretend to reafon and underftanding, and yet excufe them- felvesfrom the acknowleJging of fo plain a truth.
TheevafionscffomeNaciviry men, are fo weak C^nd^Wy like unto IVilliantDllj) and he is neither r/\rtift nor Gentleman, but a poore Laborer or Dit- chers fon oiDifeworth in Leicejler-lhire , brought up to London^ and educated 7 Valin a Tayler in the Strand) whereby they would elude the force of that argument j Forfpirits which is drawn from i^pparitiona, that a man may be almoft fure, they wereconvincedin their Judd,mentsof the truth of ^enii. Angels or Spirits and their Stories, elfe it had been better flatly to have denyed them, then to fain fuch idle and vain reafons of them.
But firft the prodigious Aftrologers, and their fellow Nodurnai Nativity- mongers fay, they arc nothing but imaginiitions,and that there is nothing ically without us in fuch apparitions.
But we fhall bear them off in this Book, with the authority of Z<?^o^/?fr, .^ aerates^? I ato^ Averroes, Cor^ nelius Agrippa Kuight, Irithmlim^ Cardan^ Jarchas^ Cattin Gerrard^ Cemon^ lund'mus^ VtfuSy Gafferell^ and many others too tedious to name.
Being routed from this flight account, for that many fee the thing ac once, then they fly tofo mi- raculous
Book 1. T/>e Temple <?/ Wifdome. 107
raculous a power of phancy, as if ic were able to change che Aire into a reall fliape and formjfo that others may behold it^ as well as he that fram'd it by the power of his fancy.
Now I demand of any fober man, or HeydoHeattj whether this be not a harder Miftery and more un- conceiveable, then all the Magicall Mctamorphofes of Uevils or Witches, For it is eafier to conceive that Genii or fome knowhig thing in the- Aire fhould thus transform the Aire into this or that (hape, being in that part of the Aire it doth thus transform, then that the Imagination of roan^ which is but a modification of his own minde, (houldbe able at a diftance to change it into fuch appearancesjButfuppofe itcould^can it animate the Airethacit doth thus Metamorphize , and make it rpeak & anfwer to Queftions, and put things into mens handS; & teach them how to make Telefms or Talefraans^as fome call them, & what Angels attend them^e^c. O the credulity of befotted Athcifmc ! How intoxicated and infatuated are they in their conceits, being given up to fenfualiity, and having loft the free ufe of the natural faculties of their mindcj But (hall this force of imagination reach fo high as the clouds alfo, and make men fight pitched Battels in the Aire, as they did at Edge-hill, running and charging one againft another, here the fame bold pretender, to wit, and Phylofophy, C^far Va- ninus (who cunningly and Jugglingly tndeavciirs to infufes the poifon of Atheifme into the minds of his reader on every occafionj and anorl er Engliih Aothor of Prodigies, abuiing the Noble Knight Cornelius Agripp a ^v/ho('eEoo\.^ ntxi the Bihle^ I pre- ferr before all the Eooksin the world : Thefe men have reccurfe to thofe old caft Rags of Epimeus his
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School, the exuvious effluxes of things , and at- tempts to falve thefe VhimomenH: thws ; that the va- pours of mens bqdies^and it feems ofhorfestoo are carried up into the h'wty and fall into a certain pro- portionable pofture of parts^ andfo imitate the fi- gures of them aloft among the Clouds.
But I demandjhow the vapours of the Horfes findc the vapours of their Riders, and when and how long are they comming together:and whether they appear not before there be any Armies in the field to fend up fuch vapours; and whether Harnefs and Weapons fend up vapours too, as Swords, Pikes and Shields : and how they come to light fo happily in- to the hands of thofe Aerial men of War, efpecially the vapours of Metals (if they have any) being| heavier in alllikelyhood then the reek of Animals and men : and laftly how they come todifchargeac one another and to fight, there being neither life nor foul in them ; and whether Sounds alfo have their ExuvU that are referved till thefe folcmnkiesj for ^t Jiborougbm SnffoiJ^i 6 i^2, were heard in the Aire very loud beatings of Drums, (hooting of Mus- kets, and Ordinance, as alfo in other fuch like Pro- digies, there hath been heard the founding of Trumpets, as Snelliut writes. And P//«yalfo makes mention of the founding of Trumpets,and Clafliing of Armour heard out of the heavens about the Ow- I'r/cJ^VVarrs, and often before. But hereat^/W(?«^i all was concluded with a melodious noife of Mufical Inftruments.
1 he ExuvU of Fiddlers it fccms flic up into the Aire too, or were thofe Muiical Accents frozen there for a time, and at the heat and firing of the Cannons, the Aire relenting and thawing, became foharnionioufly vocal? With Vfl^at vain conceits
arc
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are men intoxicated, that willfully wink againft the light of Nature, and are eftranged from the true knowlcdg and acknowledgment of a God!
But there is another Evafion, which the fame fe- dulous Infinuator of Atheifm, would make ufe of, in cafe this ftiould not hold, which feemsmore fobcr, but no lefs falf: and that is this; That thefe fightings and skirmifliings in the Aire, are onely the reflexi- on of fome real battel on the earth; But this irt Nature is plainly impoffiblc: For of neceflity thefc Armies thus fighting, being at fuch a diftance frosa the Speftators, that the fame of the Battel never ar- rives to their ears, their eyes can never behold it by any refleftion from the Clouds, For bcfides that,re- fle6:ion makes the images more dimn then direft fight, fuch a diftance from the Army to the Clouds, and then from the Clouds to our Eye, will leflen the Species fo exceedingly, that they will not at all be vifible.
Or if we could imag!ne,that there might be fome- timcs fuch an advantage in the figure of thefe clouds, as might in fome fort remedy this Itffening of the fp<cies, yet theirOirfaccs are fo exceeding rudely polinicd, and refleftion which,as I faid, is ever dim enough of it fel f, is here fo extraordinarily imper- feft, that they can never be able, according to the courfe of nature, to return the fpccies ofTerreftri* al Objefts back again to our fight, it being fo evi- dent that they arc unfit for what is of farr Icfle diffi- culty. For we never finde them able to refleft the image of a Star , when as not onely glafle but eve- ry troubled poole or dirty plafti of water in the high. way does ufuaily do it.
But that it is fareafier for a ^tar, then for any of thefe Ob jefts here upon Earth, to be rcfledcd to
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our Eyes by thofe rude natural Looking-glades placed among the Clouds, fundry reafons will fuf- ticieiitly inform us.
Thefirft, The Stars do not abate at all of their ufual magnitude in which they ordinarily appear to us by this reflection; the difference of many hun- dreds of Leagues making no difference of magni- tude in them> formdeed thediftanceofthe Diame- ter of the Or^z'tf of the Earth makes none, as muft be acknowledged by all thofe thacadmir of the an^ nual motion thei eof. But a very {tw miles do ex- ceedingly dmiinifh the ufual bi:;nefs of the *9pecies of an Horfe or Man, even to that littlenefTe, that they grow invifible What then will become of his fwordj Shield or Sphear? And in thefe cafes we now fpeak of 5 how great a iourneythefpecies have from the Earth to the Cloud that refleft thcm^ I have in- timated before.
Secondly u is manife'!^ that a Scar h th thcpre- heminence above thefe Tcrrc'lrial Objefts, in that it is as pi. re a ii'^ht as the Sun, though not fo big , but they but Op^ks coloured bodles5and that tbere- foiethere s nocomparifoii betwixt thcvigourand fhength ofihcSfecies of a Star and of them.
Thirdly in the Night-time, the Eye being placed in the (hadow of che Earth, thofe refiedloi.sofa ytar Will be yet moie caiily viiible j when as the great jjghtof the >nn by Day, muft needs much debilitate thtfe rtfief^ed Irajiges of the Ob e6ls upon the Farch, his beams (Inking our Eyes with .o ftrong \jbration8.
Fourthly and laftly, there being Scars all over the b n mainent, fo as there is, it fhoul d fee m a hun- dred times more ealier for natural Caufes to hit upon xFiirailer or Tarajiron (for let Analogie em- bolden
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boldcn mcfo tocall thcfe feldome or never ken Fh£HomeHay the image of a fingle Star or whole con- ftellacion reflefted from the Clouds) then upon a Farelios or Farafelene. But now the ftory of thcfc ij» more then an hundred times more frequent then that of the Parafter. For it is fo feldome difcover- ed, chat it is doubted whether it be or no^or rather acknowledged not to be, of which there can be no rca-fon, bnt that the clouds are fo ill polished, that they are not able to rcfle£V fo confiderablea light as a Star. From whence I think, we may fafcjy ga- ther, that it is therefore impoffible that they (hould i-cfledt fo debile Species, as the colours and (hapes of Beafts and Men, and that fo accurf'Cciiy, as that we may fee their Swords, Helmets, Sheilds, Fpears and the like.
Wherefore it is plain, thatthefe Apparitions on high in the Aire, are no reflexions of any Ob'efts ii^on Earth;or if it were imaginable that they were, thatfomefLipernv.turaIcaufemufta(fift to conglaci- ate and polifh the furfaces of the Clouds to fuch an cxtroardinary accuracy of figure and fmoothnclTt', as wilifufiice forfuch prodigious refieft ons.
And that thcfe Spirits that rule in the Aire, may not act upon the mateiials there, as well as men here upon the Earth work upon the parts thereof, ^as aifo upon the neighbouring Elements fo far as they can reach, Shaping, Per- feding and dire^ing things, according to their own purpofeandpleafure, I know no rei^fon at all in Nature or Philofophy, for any man to deny. For that the helpof foine officious Cenii is in plied in ftich like Prodigies as thefe, the feafonablenefs of their appearance feems no contemptible argument, they being according to the obfcrvation of H^ilori- •■ . ai>>V
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ansj thcforermnersofeommoti&Hs and Troubles in all Kingdomes and Common-wealths.
Yet ncVerthclefs as good Artificers^ as! here fup- pofe, they working upon Nature, muft be bounded by the Laws of Nature. And reflexion will have its Jimits^as welas re/r/i5i(?»,whether for conveyance of fpecies or kindling of heat, the laws and bounds whereof : that difcerning wit Cartefius being well a- wareof, doth generally and judicioufly pronounce ; Ihat tf burning Glafs, the difiance of whofe focus /row the Glafs doth mt hear a lefs froportton U the Diameter thereof^ then the difiance of the Earth from the SuHy to the Diameter of the Sun^ mil burn no more vehemently then the dired rays of the Sun will do without ity though in other refpeSs this Glafs^ were as exaUly Jhaped and curioujly polijhed^ as could be expetled from the hand of an Jin^ geL
I have now compleated this prefent Treatifea- gainft Atheifm in all the three parts thereof: upon whichjwhilc I caft mine eye and view,that clear and irrefutable evidenc(j of the caufe I've undertaken, thcexter^al appearances of things in the World/o faith- fully fecondiiig the undeniable diftaccs of the innate Principles of our own mindcs, 1 cannot but with con- fidence aver. That there is not any one notion in all Philofophy more certain and dcmonftrable then that there ii a God
And verily I think, I have ranfacked all the cor- ners of every kinde of Philofophy that can pretend tobcarany ftroke in this Controverfie, with that diligence, that I may fafeiy pronounce, that it is mcer brutifh Ignorance or Impudence^ no ShjU in N<t' ture or the Knowledge of things, that can encourage anymantoprofefs-^<^«/^> or to embrace it at the propofal of chofe that make profeflion of it»
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But Co I conceive ic is, that at firft fome faraoufly {earned men, being not fo indifcreetly zealous and fupcrftitious as others, have been miftaken by Idiots^ and traduced for AthieiUy and then ever after fome one yain-glorious Fool or other, hath affefted with what fafety he could, to feem Atheiftical^ that he might thereby forfooth be reputed the more learned^ cap the Jnro founder Naturaliji.
• But I dare aflure any man^that if he do but fearcFi into the bottom of this enormous difeafe of the Soul- as 7rifmegift truly calls it, he will find nothing to be the caufe thereof, but either tfanity of mind or bru- ti(h/>«/*//tf%, and an untamed defire of fatisfyin<^a mans own wil in every thing, an obmxiomConfcience and abafe F^^r of divine Vengeance, ignorance of the fcantnefs andinfufficiencyof fecondcaufes a ) umbled feculency and incompfednefs of the fpirits by reaCoii of perpetual intcmper?nre and luxury, ot elfe a dark bedeading Mellancholy^ that fo ftarves and
killstheapprehenfionsoftheSoul,in divine matters efpecially, that it makes a mai^ as inept forfuch Contcmplations,asif his head was filled with cold Saturne or hot Mars: And M^ri having got upon the Buls back Gallops about the Sky after Venm and fees not the (jf«ii that laugh at his madnef«.
And to fuch flow Conftitutions as tbefe, Ifliall not wonder, if,asthe)^r/^/7/mof my difcourfe muft feem marvellous fubtile, fo the laji appear ridicu* loufly incredible. But they are to remember, that I do not here appeal to theCompIexionai humours or peculiar Rejiftics of men, that arifc out of the temper of the Wj'j but to the known and unalter- able Ideas of the wi«^, to the Tkanomsna of ISlattire and Records of H^^ry. Upon the laft whereoi, if I have fometbing ipore fully infiftcdj it is not to be
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imputed 1 6 any vain credulity of mine, or that I take a pleafure in telling ftrange ftories, but that 1 thought fit, to fortifie and ftrengthen the faith'of others, as much as I could , being well aflTurcd that a contemptuous misbelief of fuch like Nari-att^fis concerning Sfitits^zn6, an endevour of making t}^^vti all ridiculous and incredible, is a dangerous Pre^ lude to Atheifm it felf^ or eife a mic^re-dofc and craf- ty profeflion and infiiiuation of it. For affuredly that Saying was nothing fo true in Politicks, No JBifljop^ no King '^ asthisis inMetaphyfick, NoSfirit^ no God, 1 could havefaid muchTnore5but 1 think this isfufficienc
I have borrowed a great part of thefe things, of the moft learned menthat ever writ, of Geomancy and lelefmes : and I do k with t4i€ more Confidence in that their Authorities advance my Experiments; Now let us proceed tO xMlromantick and Geoman- tick, Gamahesinorder ; But,
Firft , theGhofts of Dead men, which are often feen to appear in Church-yards, are natural Effeft?, being only the Forms of the bodies, which are bu- ried in thofe places:, or their outward ftiapes,or Figures *, and not the fouls of thofe men, or any f uch like Apparition, caufed by evil Spirits, as the com- mon Opinion is. TheAncientschoiight, thatthefc Ghofts were the Good, and Evil Geniij which atten- ded alwayes upon Armies : but they are to beex- cufed ; feeing they ktiew not how to give any other reafon of thefe Apparitions : it being moft Certain, that in Armies, where, by reafon of their great ^ numbers, many die, you (hall fee fome fuch Ghofts very often, ("efpecially after a Battel 5 ) whichare, as we have faid, the Genii of the Ai>re. 1 have elfe-j where handled the curioBS Hiftory of ^^fim^ j where- in
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in 1 have propounded thefe following queftions, touching thefe ghofts: n^mt\y^Whether orno^we mayy by thefe ^ ex f I nine all the Vifjcns^ that are mentioned by iVriters ? Whether thofe wonderful effeds^ which we attri* hute to Demons, or Spirits^ may proceed from thefe Figures or not ? And then^ whether they have any Fower at all^ of not^^vxd iffoy whence they have it ? And if it be granted they have zny:Paracelfui is of Opinion^ that Mummy hath in it all the Vercue rom.iJik 4- of Plants, Stones, &c. And that it dccmf.mmr. hath an Occult, Magnetique Vertue, ^'^""^fi^' which draws men totheSepulchersof thofe, whom they account to huve been holy men j whereby the Vcrtue of the fame Mummy, there are thofe eftefts wrought, which we call Miracles : which are obfer- vedf faith hc^ to be much more frequent in the Summer, then in any other Seafon of the year, by reafon of the heat of the Sun, which aw^akens^ and excites the humour that is in the Mummy. But thefe are meer fooleries ; which we there refute, by fuch princip!e>;j as the Rabbins have drawn,from the Secrets of this fo Famous, and Renowned Mum- my, After thofe other queftions^ thefe follow : namely. Whether or no^ thefe wonderful fory}:es^ which proceed from the Bloody the Benes^ or the Ajhes of dead Bo- dieSy may ferve for an Vndeniable argument of the Refur* ^tedion-y a thing unknown to mod of the Philofo- phers ? Whether y after they are raifed «p, tksy can in any thing befervicealle unto us ^ And whether by their meanes^ Kve may be Naturally able to attaine to the k^owledg ef diverfe fecretSy which areVnkjtown to Vs ? Diverfe o- ther like queftions are there propofed^md difcufled, plainly, and throughly ; as I /hall let the World fee, in a (hort time : In the mean while, we may fafely accouac th.e Objection before propofe to be H :a invalid^
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Invaiida andof no Force; feeing that, though the body be reduced into Aftics, yet neverthclefs the Figure IS not thereby deftroyed.
In the firft place therefore let us confider their Namrs. And now let us fptak ciTelefm,
They are calJed in Hebrew t JlO Magben^ that is to fay^a Scutcheon, orSheild ; inChaldie5i$)qyptian, and Perfian, t^'^JD'^V, 7filmenaia^ which fignifies a Figure^or Image : in Arabick C^DOV'^ri, lalitfman^ ^»' dDQ^y, Tfaliman : and in Greek s-oix^let. 1 he Hebrew word Maghen^ though it lignifiea Scutche- on, or i?ny other thing, noted with Hebrew Ghara- ^^ers^theVertucwhereof^isnot like to that of a Scut- cheon; and although thefc Ch iraders, according to the Opinion ofthofe that are moft verfed in thefe Thrological Mylteries, are fome kind of im- perfect Images*, yet notwithftanding the word in this placfjis not properly taken for an Image^thatis Graved,' arvedjOr Painted ; bccaufethat thejewes, in making any fuch, fliou^d have finned againft the Commandement ; Ihou jhalt not wak^to t}?yfelfany Craven Image. Maghtn thcrc^ovc fignifies properly any piece of Paper, or other the like matter, mar- ked, or noted with certaine Charafters drawn from the Tetragrarnmaton^ or great Name of four Lecter.s or from any other, as we fhall (hew hereafter. This word fignifies alfo, though improperly, thefe very Figures alfo, and Images, which we fpeak oft becaufe that thefe al (o as well as the Characters of the T^- tragrammaton^ do ferve, as it were, in ftead of a Buck- ler, or Shield of defence, againft Difeafes, Lii^ht- nings, and Tempefis. The Chaldicword, 7filnte- naid^ comes from the Hebrew \ — i^^^j Jfelem^ which fignifies an Image ; and the Arabick word lalitfmany may like wife have been derived from the fame root 5
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lalitfman^ being corrupted from dDO^V ifali^fian, by the Tranfpofition of one letter only : But the truth of this Conie6ture is vet un- ^-^f- i^ certaine. The Learned Sdmatm gives ic ^^^^^ another Derivation: forhe cakesanoccafi- on to fall foul upon Scaliger^ who derives it from the Arabkk, for not conlidcring, that Talifman is derived from the Greek vvor.^ '^^^2^/^-*, hoc eji^ faith hc^ TiTiMjfj^ov T/ , ut funt 7iTi\i7(j^Qt anuU, But how can the truth of this Derivation be proved > how (hall we be afllireJ, that lalitfman comes from Tk\i7yLA^ and not rather rUsj^ftct from the other ? As for the laftname, thatthefe Imagewic called by, which is ro/x^/A, there is no difficulty at all in the word : fo that it remaines now, that we remember, concerning thefe Names, that when we fpeak of Figures, we do no^ mean thofe, that are properly iignified by the Hebrew word, Maghen^ which are nothing but Scutcheons noted with Chara£^ers,ruch as many havefeen in Paris at the Pnnce of Port ugals 5 the like whereof, you have in Carlo Fabri his Scudo diChrifto, and in Agrip Lib. t. ds pa : We have elfewhere the power of Occult, vh'iL thefe kinds of Characters, advanced. Neither fliall I fpeak at all of thofe images of Wax, which Sorcerers are wont to baptize, in the name oi Beelzebub J thefe are Abommations, which we abhor, although let me telyou by the way5that the greateft part of thofe things our Demonographers ftufFe their writings withall, are no hing but meer Fables, as ridiculous as the Dreams of the Alc:ran, Our Difcourfe dial! only be, what natural Power, Images, that arc made under certaine Confteilati- ons, may have; banifliing from hence all Operati-^ ons ciVejnofts^or SpiritS;and all fuperftitious powers whatever. H 3 I (hall
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1 ihall prove therefore this Power of Figures, and Images, three manner of waies: by the influence of the Stars: by the power of Ptefemblanccj and by Experience. J fhall begin with the laft of thefe three.
Firfl: then, it is certain, and we cannot deny it, without denying the moft Authcntick Hiftorio- graphers thatarc, that there have beenfeen, both in our day es, and in the daies ofoitrFatherF, fome of thefe TelefmSy 1 alt f manic all ^ lelefwaticall ov Fi^ gures ffor fo we ihall now call them) yet all is one^ that have cured thofe, that have been bitten by Serpents, Scorpions^ mad Dogs, and divers other Mifchances, that are but too frequent with U9. The Ancient Arabian?, as Almanfor ^ Meffahala^Zahel^ Al - hohazen^ Haly Khodoam^ AlbategniUSy Hontar^ Zachdir^ Ha^battfed ^LwdSerapm^givc us many examples of this kind ; which ^ave Holy occalion to conclude, that Vtilem ferpentis imaginem effici foffe^ quando Lnna^ Ser-^ fentem ((zleilem fuUt^ aut fdkitsr- afpicit : Similiter Scorpionis effigiem efficacem^ quando Scorpij fignum Luna mgreditur^ &c. Neither did he deliver this Do^rinej Without having had Experience of the EfFefts : for •iieatiirmes, that himfelf, being in Mgypty had in iiis hand one of thefe Images of a Scorpion, which (Ck'A cure thofe that were ftung by this Venomous Scaft : and it was ingraven upon a Bazahar^ or, as it h commonly called, a Bezar-^owt. Jt will be ob- '■■€itd perhaps, that thefe Arabians are trifling, vain wnterb'^ and therefore that there is little credit to be given to them. But I (hall elfewhcre undertake the Vindication of them from this Calumny ; and fhall at prefent, for the fatisfaftlon ofSelf-willed nicn> forbcai' to cite them any further; but fnall co'ntent myfelfwith examples borrowed from fuch
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aipon^cheGre^'ks, and LaciueSj as are accounted iBoft '\uchentiqiie. , ^ :
..Eug^nhiSj befidcs an infinite number of Rariciesj vihich he rcl^oxt&oi Egypt^Cdiemhat when they Were fomecinie digging in the bridge at Afami/tthevQ was found a peic^ of Copperj whereon was to be (een the Figure of a Rat, of a Serpent, and of a Fire: which being afterwards negie^^kcd, and peradven- ture cither brcyken to pieces or fome way or other (polled, thcr^vvasobferved5in a very fliorttimeaf- tpfis ^ great ni>n>ber of ScrpentS5and Rats to haunt rhe-City, and they do greatly annoy it ftill 5 and wecannor, w it hput grief, call to mind, the many great Loffes t,U^ City hath (ince that time endured by Fire : all which fad accidents were never heard of :htre, before the taking up of t bis ftrang^ Plate of epppef. ?
•k iis alfo reported, that after that Camrar.Ub.i^ fAahontet the fe< ond had poiJefled Inm- ^^' ^^' felf oi' CoHjiammpley the breaking of the lower J iw of a Erazen Serpent, wasthecaufe of the increajingiof erpcnts inthofe Parts. So true it is, that thcfelrlefmam have Power to divert many of thofe Calamities, that affli\^ Mankind. And whokoowsnot, that by the means of thefe, the Learned mcnxj)fthe Ages paft, have oft-times chan- ced, away Infcds out of their Cities, and fields 5 as Gnats, Locu'ts, and Caterpillars? If ' ^
tiuy deiire to fee fome of thc^t Exam- cML\,- c. 66.' pies, he may have recourfe to the c.^v.t. ^t 1160. chiliads of John Tzetzes -^ where this Greek Author, fwho lived about the time of that excellent Hiftorian Anna Gonmem^ daughter to the Emperour Alexins Comnenus^ reports, that Apollonim^ by making a jcleftmn of a Sto k, kept thefe Trouble-
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fome Birds from coniLoing into Conftantinople -^ and by another T^/<?/w^«^ hediovc away a!i rhe Gnats que oiAntioch You may alfo fee Ftolonties Contilo^ quium^ and che Commentary of ^^re G^//«r, falfely attributed to Haiyy as itis obierved by Scaliger,
Fuichermore, I am of Opinion, that theFirft gods of tbeLatincs, which they called Averrunciy or P/j Intdara^, were no other t i»crt thefe Talijnsam^ callmages^ ind I ground this my Conje£lcure fiom hence, that there are fome Hiftorians that affirm, that they made fome of thefe Tutelar gods, under certain Confteliations: butthepoyfon of Idolatry having infected the beft of Sciences, was the caufe, that, the.e Images being afterwards taken for god?, the true and legitimate manner of making them was fmothered, and quite loft. They were wont alfo to fet up fome of thefe ielefntans upon the Prow of their Ships,tQprcferve them from Shipwrack : and all this to be done Naturally too ; feeing that a Telefman may be made, under the Sign of VifceSy that inay,forfome certain time, render thcWaterscalmj and free from Tempefts. The Greeks, Q^sHefy- chiusy HiYodoWyCzWcd thefe Figures)fet up in Ships, fffATumli ', a word, no doubt, borrowed from the jHebrew cZD^HinQ Titochim^ which fignifies as much as CoeUturu : and therefore the Chaldie Paraphrafe x-endcrs it,by this our l^"" JQ^:; Ifilmenaia, Now we are to take notice, that thefe Figures were not at all of anyHuqiane form,but offomeCcsleftial Figure^or others v/hichconfirm«»s me in the Belief, that they were real Telefmans, Nevertheiefs the Mariners had alfo their Statues of fome Deity or other, as of Mtfrx, JpoJlo^ Venufy Mercury^ and the like ; which they pla- ced at %\\t Poop, ox header part of their Ships: whence F^7g«V fdies.
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