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A91999	Keiromantia [sic] or, The art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically. Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19. genitures. Together with a learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the vniversall spirit thereof. A matchlesse piece. / Written originally in Latine by Io: Rothmanne, D. in Phisique, and now faithfully Englished, by Geo: Wharton Esq.; Cheiromantia.	Rothmann, Johann.; Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.	1652 (1652)	Wing R2001; Thomason E1237_3; ESTC R210441	69,654	193

Lord the Heavens were made and by the spirit of his Mouth the whole Army thereof In whatsoever Body the Spirit of God dwelleth and shineth that Body without doubt shall be Animate and Intellectuall Psal. 19. God hath set his Tabernacle in the Sun One Day telleth another and one Night teacheth another knowledge there is no Speech nor Language in those Heavens yet understandeth he their voice Their Line is gone forth through all the Earth and their words into the ends of the World in them hath hee set a Tabernacle for the Sun Psal. 89. 5. O Lord even the Heavens shall confesse thy wonderfull Workes Iohn 3. Our Saviour saith to Nicodemus I have told you of Earth by things and you believe not how would you believe if I should tell you of heavenly things as if hee had said I now propound the Comparison of the Generation of Earthly things to spirituall which are obvious to you all and yet you believe not much lesse therefore would you believe if I should dispute of Heavenly things which are not so obvious to your senses Christ is called by the Prophet The Sonne of Righteousnesse how farre wee might hence Philosophize concerning the Sun and Celestiall Fires can hardly be expressed Very notable is that place of Gen. 37. in the Dreame of Ioseph who saw himselfe worshipped of the Sun the Moone and eleven Starrs therefore his Father Iacob expounding this Dreame Magickly saith Shall I and thy Mother and thy Brethren come and worship thee Therefore that holy Father knew that he had the Sun in stead of his Father the Moon in stead of his Mother in the World and Worldly Generations and 12. Starres for Ioseph was as the 12 Starre in that he was the 12. of the Brethren to stand in stead of the 12. begotten Sonnes You may understand by those 12. Starres of Heaven the twelve Signes constituting the 12. Moneths by 12 Conjunctions of the Sun and Moone in them by whose Congresses the Year is compleated and its Annuall Generations finished There are other things to be seen among the Cabalists notwithstanding wee have perspicuously enough enucleated the present matter We write not these things to vaine Men that is such as are Ignorant and Proud but to the truly Honest and Ingenious who constantly love the Knowledge of God and his Workes and such as have Learned That Divinity is True Philosophy and True Philosophy Divinity to wit mystically which is that we may yet be more plaine By the Workemanship of the Heavens and the Earth touching which all approved Philosophy teacheth and the inscrutable Systeme thereof to know God Himself as in a Glasse that he is the most Wise Ineffable and Eternall Goodnesse The other Authority is that of the Great Philosophers Plato Aristotle Pithagoras Orpheus Trismegistus Theophrastus Avicenne and the like But wee will here follow Plato especially a Philosopher most full of Piety and the knowledge of God and his Interpreter the never to be too much Praised Marsil Ficinus of Florence then whom whether Italy ever afforded a greater I shall not easily determine If any man doubt saith Theophrastus the Peripatetique whether the Heavens live or not let him not be accounted a Philosopher And he that denyes Heaven to be Animate so as that the Mover of it is not the Forme thereof destroyes the Foundations of Philosophie Neither are the most noble Poets to be Despised of us M. Manilius in his Proeme WHen every species of the glittering Sphere The Stars returning Ranked did appear In their own Seates and by the Fates Decree Each had restor'd its Formall Potency Experience framed Art by various use Example Guiding where it was Abstruse And though at a vast Distance plainly saw The Starres All-Ruling by a Tacit Law The whole World Mov'd by REASON Alternate The same Manilius Cap. 2. GOd and the vertue of the Divine Soule Doe by a Tacit Law and sacred Course Inspire Turn Round Guide Govern and controul This Immense structure of the Universe And all its Naturall Parts which Framed be In Different shapes of Aire Fire Earth and Sea Lucan Also HE that sustaines the earth Pois'd up with Air Is a Great Part of Jove And Boetius THou in consenting Parts disposed hast Th' All-moving Soul 'midst threefold Nature Plac'd Which cut in Parts that run a different Race Into it selfe returnes and doth embrace The Highest Mind and Heaven doth wheel about With like Proportion And Virgil not the last of the most Excellent Philosophers 6. Aen. By Mr. I. O. AT first the Heaven Earth the liquid plain The Moons Bright Globe and stars Titanian A spirit fed within spread through the whole And with the Huge heap mix'd infus'd a scrowle Hence Man Beasts Birds derive their strain And Monsters Floating in the Marbled Main These seeds have Fiery vigour and a Birth Of Heavenly Race but clogg'd with heavy Earth But enough of the Soule of the World And now seeing it is manifest the World hath a Soule it will be no lesse apparent That the same World shall consist also of a Spirit which is called the Spirit of the Universe Where the Soule is there also is the Spirit The Soule groanes in the Spirit the Intelligence in the Soule The Spirit also of the Universe is the vigour of Divine vertues dilated through all things whose continuall Excitation resides in the Soule of the World and the Celestiall Bodies Democritus Pythagoras Orpheus and such others called these vertues Gods Zoroaste● Divine Allurements Synecius Symbolicall Inticements But some called them Lives others also Soules Nor that indeed undeservedly For seeing the Soul is the Primum Mobile and truly of its own accord or by it selfe Moveable but the Body or Matter of it selfe Ineffectuall for Motion and much degenerating from the Soule Therefore we have need of some more Excellent Medium that is to say such a Medium that may be as it were not a Body but yet as if it were a Soule Or as no Soule and yet as it were a Body whereby the Soule may be united to the Body For such a Medium is the Spirit of the Universe it selfe which otherwise we call the Fifth Essence because it is not wholly subsisting of the Foure Elements but a certaine Fifth over and beside them Therefore such a Spirit is necessarily requisite as a Medium by whose Intervening the Celestiall Soule may be in a Grosser Body and this Spirit is of such a Forme in the Body of the World as is ours in the Humane Body because that as the Powers of our Soule are by the Spirit communicated to the Members So the vertue of the Soule of the World is dilated by that Fifth Essence throughout all things So that nothing can be found in the whole World which wants a vivifying sparke thereof Through this Spirit every occult Propriety is propagated unto Herbes Stones Metals and to all living Creatures by the Sun and Moone by the Planets and other

invisible Infinite the Truth it selfe the cause of every truth and of all things So the Light of Heaven is the splendour or rather the shaddow of Heaven visible Finite the cause of visible things For the whole Universe receiveth Light and Life from Heaven Moses Aaron Nadab Abihu and 70 of the Elders of Israel saw the God of Israel and under his Feete as it were a worke of Saphire-stone and as the very Heaven when it is cleare c. Exod. 24. 10. Whence we shall not speake Absurdly if we say that GOD shineth upon us by his Light from Heaven and the Sun as a Candle shineth through Glasse and Windowes made thereof otherwise we can hardly explaine this matter because of his Inscrutable Majesty That therefore the Celestiall Bodies are Animate is hence rightly concluded For it were absurd to deny a Life and Soule to be in Heaven and the Starres the which Inspire both Life and Soule even in the vilest of these Inferiour Bodies They give Life unto Plants which grow without naturall Seede as we see in the Mountaines and Places untill'd so likewise to the Earth For if a Lumpe be taken out of the Bowells thereof and for some time exposed to the Rayes of the Sun it yieldeth Grasse or some Herbes oftentimes the twiggs of Little Trees The Starres also bestow Life upon Animalls not generated by Copulation nor can we be so stupid as to imagine that Plants Trees c. are of a nobler Condition then the Celestiall Bodies This manifest perpetuall operation cannot come but from a Pure and Cleansed Body These things I suppose are sufficient to prove the World hath a Soule placed in Heaven as in the most noble Part thereof But perhaps you desire it may be further Proved that these Celestiall Soules are Rationall and participate of the Divine Mind The Matter is not obscure For if the World as Plato saith be the Best effect that could be of goodnesse it selfe That is of GOD for wee Germans so expresse it because Got sound nothing else with us then Gut if we rightly enquire the Reason of the Idiom it must certainly participate not onely of Life Sense and Reason but also of Intelligence The Soule is the Perfection of the Body And that Body most Perfect which hath the Perfectest Soule Wherefore if the Celestiall Bodies be most Perfect they must of necessity enjoy the most Perfect Soules The Heavens therefore doe Participate of the Intellect and Minde which very thing the Platoniques plainly approve by Musicall Concords For seeing that Musicall Concord is as it were Living Rationall and Efficacious what Resemblance hath it unto Life it selfe how Pleasing is it to the Mind and even Ravisheth the whole Man And which is more the Mind and all things else are made by the Soules by her they are preserved by her they are Moved And therefore Plato did not amisse when he Described the Soule to be shee that made Preserved and Moved all Naturall things especially by Musicall Numbers and Proportion constituted I say by numbers not Mathematicall as some Calumniate but by Ideall and Metaphysicall Proportions of Numbers This Harmony consisteth altogether in Motion because that by an Aerall Nature posited in Motion it moveth the Body by a Purifyed Aire it stirres up the Aereall Spirit the Chaine of Soule and Body By affect it at once disposeth the Sense and Affection By signification it operates upon the Mind Lastly through this Motion of the subtile Aire it penetrates vehemently It floweth sweetly through the Contemplation and by its conforme Quality powreth out it selfe with a wonderfull Pleasure By its Nature aswell spirituall as Materiall it at once Ravisheth and Claimeth all that is Man Wherefore let us seriously consider how the Sounds of most sweet Musique elevate and as it were double and treble our Minds And in like sort judge the Melody of the Celestiall Bodies who now by a slower but anon by a swifter Motion produce a tone that is Grave or Acute whereunto agree in these sublunaries Gravity and Levity Cold and Heat Moisture and Drynesse of Elements so likewise Matter and Forme in the Generation of things Meeknesse and Magnanimity Temperance and Fortitude in Humane Affaires Seeing therefore that Motion is every where Free in its own Nature it might easily prevaricate and wander unlesse it were Ruled by the Intellect and Minde the which wee cannot further enquire of in this Place according to the Exigence of the matter Besides it is absurd for us to have Reasons of our own workes for the Celestiall Soules and so the Soule of the Universe have no Reasons of theirs of whose spirit even wee our selves are generated and live continually If the Lesser World enjoy an Intelligent Soule such also enjoyes the greater But wee will cease to prosecute this any further concluding that the World is a Systeme of Celestiall and Terrestriall Bodies constant in Order Number and Measure but Living Animate Intellectuall Whence wee safely gather that the Soule of the World is a certaine singular Life filling all things vivifying all things producing and connecting all things that it may accomplish and preserve one Fabrique of the whole-World and be as a Monochord sounding out by the threefold kinds of Creatures Intellectuall Celestiall and Corruptible at one Blast one onely Life The Mystery of Unity is but known of a few Now can wee here passe by the Authority both of the Holy Scriptures and also of the most approved Philosophers Deut. 4. 19. Thou shalt not worship the Sun Moone and Starres which God hath Distributed to all Nations under Heaven Deut. 28. 12. God shall open unto thee his good Treasure the Heaven c. Deut. 33. 13. Concerning Joseph Thy blessing shall be of the Pretious things of the Sun and of the Pretious things of the Moone But above all let us consider those things which are in Levit. 26. 19. I will make saith God your Heaven as Iron and your Earth as Brasse The same is repeated Deut. 28. 23. and also in Osea 2. 21. And I will hear the Heavens and they shall heare the Earth and the Earth shall heare the Corne and the Wine and the Oyle and they shall heare Israel Therefore we hereby see that God doth set the Root of Worldly Benedictions in Heaven as it were in the Soule of the Universe so that the Beginning of Blessings is from Heaven as the Beginning of Motion from our Soule which are of themselves perspicuous enough To this also belongs that in Job 38. 33. Knowest thou the course of Heaven or canst thou dispose the Rule thereof in the Earth The Rule of Heaven proceeds through terrestriall and all inferiour things as the Rule of an Emperour or King throughout his Empire and Kingdome as therefore a King is the Soule of his Kingdome so the Heaven and the Starres are the Soule of the World Likewise that of Job 26. 13. His spirit hath Garnished the Heavens Psal. 33. 16. By the Word of the

KEIPOMANTIA OR THE ART OF DIVINING BY The LINES and SIGNATURES Engraven in the HAND of MAN By the HAND of NATVRE Theorically Practically Wherein you have the Secret Concordance and Harmony betwixt It and Astrology made evident in 19. GENITURES Together with A Learned Philosophicall Discourse of the Soule of the World and the Vniversall Spirit thereof A Matchlesse Piece Written originally in Latine by Io Rothmanne D. in Phisique and now Faithfully Englished By GEO WHARTON Esq. Manus membrum Hominis loquacissimum LONDON Printed by J. G. For NATHANIEL BROOKE at the Angell in Corne-Hill 1652. TO THE TRVLY NOBLE AND Universally LEARNED My much Honoured Friend ELIAL ASHMOLE Esquire WORTHY SIR WEre it not that in Common Civility I am Bound upon this Occasion as to acknowledge my Infinite Obligations to you that being the best Quality of a Bad Debtor and even All a Chrstian Creditor should expect where the Meanes of a juster Requitall is wanting so to give you an Account of the present Worke unto which you First incited Me Yet Sir the Rarity of the Subject and the Gypsylike Esteeme it hath amongst the vulgar would have necessarily enforced Me to shelter in under the Wings of none but an Absolute Mercurialist That you are no lesse The Ingenious Workes you have already Publish'd The Succinct and Learned Annotations you have made upon some Part of those to omit what I know you have in Designe your Exquisite knowledge in Arithmetique Geometry Astrology Naturall Magique and Physick and in those other Inferiour Objects of your Delight viz. Limming Engraving Painting and Musique may and doe abundantly manifest I shall not I need not Expatiate To instance the particular knowledge you have in Chiromancy were but Actum agere in that Astrology before Mentioned comprehends the same as here it is Apply'd and your selfe Them both Nor could I glory at All in the Name of a Greater Personage to Patronize this Piece it is not the Blustring Noise of an Empty Title or the Fraile Support of a Signall Birth Only that can be a Fit Champion for this or the like Mysterious Sciences Learning is best Fortress'd of those by whom she is most understood I confesse her Admirers may wish her Happinesse yet they commonly faile her in Extremity And herein I follow the Example of mine Authour who made choise of the best Deserving in his Countrey unto whom he D●dicated this Worke in the Originall that is unto such as were sober and skilfull Not to Men that were Mighty and Ignorant or Learned and Malitious Nor yet have these any just cause to complaine unlesse for the want of Ingenuity whereby they are Doom'd to an Absolute Depravation of that whereby Wise Men daily Ascend even to the Presence of God and his Angells I meane the Knowledge of his Works For it is not sufficient we heare a story of God in the Scriptures unlesse also we read or see him in the large Volume of his Creatures neither doe we Read Him by a Bare Gazing upon the outward Forme thereof but by a narrow Enquiry and search made into their hidden Nature and Disposition For In the Beginning saith my Author God adorned All things Created with Signatures that so the Minde of an Ingenious Man might delight it selfe by a Diligent searching into the Nature and Disposition thereof and thence boldly acknowledging the wonderfull Workes of God and converting them to a Right use be cheerfully constrained to the Love of God himselfe and to worship him with all his heart for his Infinite Wisdome and Goodnesse Let us therefore Behold the Heaven the Starres and Celestiall Signes the Animalls Plants Roots Stones Metalls c. in and upon the Earth and consider how wonderfully their various Signatures every where present themselves unto us and by a Tacite Language proffer us their Nature and Disposition How exceedingly the Seven wandering-Starres vulgarly called Planets doe Differ not onely in Magnitude and Motion but also in the Brightnesse and Beauty of their Light How variable an Influence is in each what a Lively Lasting Spirit diversly disposing Moving Animating Producing Signing and Sustaining these Inferiours according to their different Position in the Heavens and the sundry Complications and Mixtures of Beames accurring from other Starres The Philosophers of old have acknowledg'd and we shall willingly the same Et inf●mis Suprema in Supremis infima There are in Heaven Earthly things in respect of the Causes and by a Celestiall manner and Celestiall things in Earthly but by a Terrestiall manner whence indeed it is That the Sun the Moone and other Starres are considered in the Earth but that in regard of a Terrene Quality so also Plants Stones Metalls c. in the Heavens but this in respect of a Heavenly Nature indued with Life-Intellectuall And this was the Reason why Heaven it selfe was Depainted with sundry Images by the Ancient and Holy Fathers and that he who had through his Ingenuity attained these Holy Mysteries of the World was by the Hebrewes truly named Rabbi by the Latines Magister and by almost all other Nations Magus Neverthelesse this Name is now so much suspected and hated that some had rather for-goe the Gospell it selfe then receive it againe into Favour so willfully Obstinate Blind and Stupid are the Masters this Age hath produced But let us Instance a few Examples and First of the Celestiall Bodies you know that the Image of the Serpent hath the Nature of a Serpent that is it causeth Death by Poyson so oft as the Lord of the Geniture or the Moone is therewith unhappily Posited at the Birth The like of the Scorpion For even the same Images drive away and kill Serpents and Scorpions Spiders and Flyes they expell Poyson and the Plague being deduced from Heaven upon the Terrestriall Chaos at an observed time Leo makes Men Bold Virgo Docile Taurus Robust Aquila procures Honours Lyra instills the love of Musique and the study of Poesy Sagittary addicteth to Hunting and much more of that Nature marked with their proper Signatures Next let us contemplate the Animalls of the Earth how every one Beareth its owne Nature and how wee know the same in most of them by their Effigies viz. by their Countenance Voyce Gesture Habit. often by their Colour The Horse by his Gesture bewrayes his Pride The Asse his Slownesse The Lyon by the Face and Gesture his Courage The Beare his Fircenesse The Cock his Cheerfulnesse The like are every where obvious in other Creatures unto any but such as regard the knowledge of nothing Now by observing the outward Formes of Beasts ariseth Phisiognomy in Man For looke what Beasts a Man resembles most either in Face or Proportion hee is truly said to possesse the Disposition and Nature thereof If now we descend to Plants and Roots wee shall there enter a Theatre of Signatures worthy our Contemplation For Example Solatrum vesicatorium barbarously termed Alkakenge shutts up its Huskes so soone as the vessells thereof are Filled

Starres of the Eight Orbe And those things that containe a more plentifull and excellent Spirit of that Nature shall perfect a more manifest and swifter Operation in our Bodies if so be it be duly seperated from the Body and Feces for the Feces profit nothing yea they plainly Impede and oppresse the Penetrating vertue of the Spirit And indeed all Physitians should have a speciall Regard that they Artificially segregate the Medicinall vertues of things from the Body and the Elementated Impurities thereof and not so Foolishly hasten to their Patients the Medicines and Feces together But the most part either wholly omit that Labour or account it in a manner Dishonest Leaving that separating Art to the Diseased Body Neverthelesse these Men make too huge a Progresse in Philosophy they shall often dispute against Astronomy it selfe not knowing indeed that they can nothing say or Dispute without that Syderiall Spirit communicated to them as also to every Man yet more or lesse from above by the Heavens and the Starres Truly the Lote which shutteth its Leaves before Sun Rise but when he Ascendeth openeth them by degrees will be accounted more Just and Charitable towards the Celestiall Princes then these so Rationall Men And so we believe shall the Cock who applauds the Rising Sun as it were with a Hymne from his Inferiour Rousts But these are from the matter We formerly told you There can nothing be found in this Lower World that wan●s a vivifying Sparke of this Spirit but yet to know under what Starre and in which signe of the Zodiaque every thing Perceiveth its Spirit This is the Worke here the Labour is Neverthelesse there hath so much of this nature bin Manifested to us by sedulous and skilfull Men as is sufficient for Humane Ingenuity and Paines to find out greater things Gold hath in it the Spirit of the Sun and therefore is in value the most pretious of all Metalls It also nourisheth every Spirit of all things Growing So that the Sun possesseth the vertues of all the Starres No marvell then the Spirit of Gold skilfully extracted or seperated from the elementated or Metallique Body should extirpate all Diseases of the Body The reason is manifest by Astronomy it selfe But that there is Gold of the Solar Spirit to omit other Reasons the purifyed signe thereof sufficiently testifies where you shall finde Incense Burning with perpetuall Fire which thing true Alchemists know very well and there yet remaines such a thing to be found in some Sepulchers that hath continued its Ardour and Fire for more then 100. yeares Even as the Sun enjoys Perpetuall Light The same Metall is not unfitly called the Terrene Chaos because if the Spirit of the Universe residing in it should at a set time be reduced to a competent Forme with the Body plainly produces the same or even greater things then that Essence of the Sun so earnestly sought for by Covetous Persons So also to other Metalls there is a Proper and Perpetuall Seed-plot in Heaven The like for Trees Plants Stones c. If therefore any thing growing nourisheth in it an Astrall Spirit wee account the Incensive matter of the Generative and Seminary vertue much more such and indeed more Perfect in Man himselfe Those Philosophers who know not any such thing in Man can pronounce nothing certaine as touching the Ingenuity of Man his Inclinations Antipathy Sympathy of the Magnetique vertue and operation and such other things as are hitherto appertaining Whence it is they so Foolishly and Filthily heape up Reasons of Philosophizing which are no better then volatile Aire We must not forget that there is a twofold Spirit in Man One infused from the Heavens and Starres at the time of Generation the other Inspired by GOD This was the breathing-hole of Life in Adam and that indeed Perfect but afterwards Lost The First Man was made of the Slime of the Earth that is of the Greater World of the Sydereall Creatures and Elements whence he received a certaine Astrall Soule resembling the Soule of the World The Object whereof is The Universall World and the things contained therein that is Worldly Wisdome generally comprehending all manner of Arts and Sciences within it selfe some such thing was Anciently called in Man the Proper Genius or Demon of every one Hee is not wholly Ignorant of the Naturall Law that is of the Divine Will commanding and approving the Good but abhominating and Condemning the Evill done unto us because the World was the First Image of God and Man himselfe the next Example of any thing Possessing the Reason of the Word And although Man have Free-will yet so it is in him that what a one soever the Predestination of the Mundane Soule made him such a one also every Man would and desireth to Die by a naturall instinct Thus we more plainly conceive how Man is subject to the Starres Hence likewise we will not deny but that very many Diseases and consequently the terme of Life proceed especially in a flourishing Age from the Starres touching which we have elsewhere produced manifest Reasons and a manifest Experience in Examples Hereunto belongs the whole Genethliaque Part of Astrology Theophrastus Paracelsus hath most Plentifully and Learnedly explained the Foundations of this very Matter in his Volumne of Wise Philosophy There was another Breathing Hole placed by God in Adam beyond this Rationall Spirit and operating Soule deducing its Originall and Branches from the Starres which was the Breathing Hole of Life in which regard he was said to be the Image of GOD the Beauty of this Image was lost by the Fall of our First Parents a very small spark thereof surviving in us But may be reduced to its pristine Condition by a Regeneration in Christ This Sparke Christ being Mediator shall grow into a Flame of Celestiall Wisdome It is the proper spirit of those that Believe in Christ Joh. 7. Rejecting Despising Deriding all those Worldly things not as that they are the Workes of GOD for they testifie of GOD what he is but in that they are Corruptible unstable and draw a Man from the presence of GOD and from Eternall Joy in Him This Wisdome is that sorrow with the Flesh and its Concupiscences at last overcoming Christ being Conquerour Of this is that vulgar saying Sapiens Dominabitur Astris A wise Man shall Rule the Starres By this very Rule we are led from the Love of Corruptible things and brought into the Love of Eternall By this we take the Crosse of Christ upon our Shoulders and Follow him that is we shall hereby Purge out the Old Leven crucifying our Flesh with Evill Affections and Concupiscences studying to learne abundantly the Fruits of a Christian Spirit without Hypocrisy as Charity Faith Peace Joy Liberality Meeknesse Temperance Gal. 5. In a word This Celestiall Spirit is no other thing then Faith triumphing through Charity without which none shall Prevaile before GOD although as it is in 1 Cor. 13. He should speake