Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	earth_n	life_n	8,616	5	4.6117	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55484	Natural magick by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane ; in twenty books ... wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences.; Magiæ natvralis libri viginti. English. 1658	Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615.	1658 (1658)	Wing P2982; ESTC R33476	551,309	435

good thing cometh certainly from the power of the Sun and if we receive any good from any thing else yet the Sun must perfect and finish it Heraclitus calls the Sun the Fountain of heavenly light Orpheus calls it the light of life Plato calls it a heavenly Fire an everliving Creature a star that hath a Soul the greatest and the daily star and the natural Philosophers call it the very heart of heaven And Plotinus shews that in antient times the Sun was honoured in stead of God Neither yet is the Moon lesse powerful but what with her own force and what with the force of the Sun which she borrows she works much by reason of her neernesse to these inferiours Albumasar said That all things had their vertue from the Sun and the Moon and Hermes the learned said that the Sun and the Moon are the life of all things living The Moon is nighest to the Earth of all Planets she rules moist bodies and she hath such affinity with these inferiours that as well things that have souls as they that have none do feel in themselves her waxing and her waining The Seas and Flouds Rivers and Springs do rise and fall do run sometimes swifter sometimes flower as she rules them The surges of the Sea are tost to and fro by continual succession no other cause whereof the Antients could find but the Moon only neither is there any other apparent reason of the ebbing and flowing thereof Living creatures are much at her beck and receive from her great encrease for when she is at the full as Lucilius saith she feeds Oysters Crabs Shelfish and such like which her warm light doth temper kindly in the night season but when she is but the half or the quarter light then she withdraws her nourishment and they wast● In like manner Cucumbers Gourds Pompons and such like as have store of 〈◊〉 juice feel the state of the Moon for they wax as she doth and when she 〈◊〉 they waste as Athenaeus writes Likewise the very stems of plants do follow the state of the heavens witnesse the Husband-man who finds it by experience in his graffing and skilful Husbandmen have found the course and season of the year and the monethly race of the Moon so necessary for plants that they have supposed this knowledge to be one chief part of Husbandry So also when the Moon passeth through those signs of the Zodiak which are most peculiar to the earth if you then plant trees they will be strongly rooted in the earth if you plant them when she passeth through the signs of the Air then the tree so planted will be plentiful in branches and leaves and encreaseth more upward then downward But of all other the most pregnant sign hereof is found in the Pome-granate which will bring forth fruit just so many years as many daies as the Moon is old when you plant it And it is a report also that Garlick if it be set when the Moon is beneath the earth and be also plucked up at such a time it will lose its strong savour All cut and lopped Woods as Timber and Fewel are full of much moisture at the new of the Moon and by reason of that moisture they wax soft and so the worm eats them and they wither away And therefore Democritus counselleth and Vitruvius is also of the same minde to cut or lop trees in the waining of the Moon that being cut in season they may last long without rottennesse And that which is more as her age varies so her effects vary according to her age for in her first quarter she maketh hot and moist but especially moist from thence all moist things grow and receive their humidity in that time from that time to the full of the Moon she gives heat and moisture equally as may be seen in Trees and Minerals from that time to the half Moon decaying she is hot and moist but especially hot because she is fuller of light thence the fishes at that time commonly are wont to swim in the top of the water and that the Moon is in this age warm appears by this that it doth extend and enlarge moist bodies and thereby the moisture encreasing it causeth rottennesse and maketh them wither and w●●te away But in her last quarter when she loseth all her light then she is meerly hot and the wises of Chaldea hold that this state of heaven is best of all other So they report that there is a Moon-herb having round twirled leaves of a blewish colour which is well acquainted with the age of the Moon for when the Moon waxeth this herb every day of her age brings forth a leaf and when she waineth the same herb loseth for every day a leaf These variable effects of the Moon we may see more at large and more usually in tame creatures and in plants where we have daily sight and experience thereof The Pismire that little creature hath a sense of the change of the Plantes for she worketh by night about the full of the Moon but she resteth all the space betwixt the old and the new Moon The inwards of mice answer the Moons proportion for they encrease with her and with her they also shrink away If we cut our hair or pair our nailes before the new Moon they will grow again but slowly if at or about the new Moon they will grow again quickly The eyes of Cats are also acquainted with the alterations of the Moon so that they are sometimes broader as the light is lesse and narrower when the light of the Moon is greater The Beetle marketh the ages and seasons of the Planets for he gathering dung out of the mixen rounds it up together and covereth it with earth for eight and twenty daies hiding it so long as the Moon goeth about the Zodiak and when the new Moon cometh he openeth that round ball of dirt and thence yields a young Beetle Onions alone of all other herbs which is most wonderful feels the changeable state of the Planets but quite contrary to their change frameth it self for when the Moon waineth the Onions encrease and when she waxeth they decay for which cause the Priests of Egypt would not eat Onions as Plutark writes in his fourth Commentary upon Hesiode That kinde of spurge which is called Helioscopium because it follows the Sun disposeth of her leaves as the Sun rules them for when the Sun riseth she openeth them as being desirous that the morning should see them rise and shutteth them when the Sun setteth as desiring to have her flower covered and concealed from the night So many other herbs follow the Sun as the herb Turn-sole 〈◊〉 when the Sun riseth she holds down her head all day long that the Sun may never so much as writhe any of her there is such love as it were betwixt them and she stoops still the same way which the Sun goeth so do the flowers of Succory and of Mallows