Humidity of the Earth and Water c. We find the contrary by a Weather-Glass for in only laying the warm Hand upon the Glass the Air dilates its self immediately and is so far from being attracted by the Heat that contrariwise it flies away from the Hand These two Principles will lead me into a larger Field than I shall be able to go through in this small Tract therefore I shall forbear 14. But to speak something of the Universal Mystery of Rarifaction and Condensation for it 's proved that by them the whole World was made the Heavens fashioned in due order and the Universal Elements altered and changed after a Quadruple manner and condition 15. The divine Philosopher Hermes saith Mens ab essentia Dei nequaquam divisa sed ille potius eo modo connexa quo Solis corpori Lumen The mental Beam is not at all divided from the Essences of God but rather joined and knit unto him after the same manner that the Light is continued unto the Sun whereupon it 's evident that the virtue of Heat is essential unto Light as the act of Motion is never absent from emanating Brightness 16. We may conclude then that the Rarifaction is nothing else but the dilating of Water by Heat which was first contracted by Cold and Condensation on the other-side is a contraction or sucking and drawing of those watry Parts which were dilated or separated by Heat so that the subject of both of those Actions is Water and the Foundation as well of the privative as positive Agent the Nolunty or Volunty that is to say the Negative or the Affirmative Will of that one Eternal Unity who is that all-informing and operating Spirit which act his Pleasure in all and over all by his divine Organ as well Angelical as Celestial and Elementary which according to their diversity in disposition are moved by this internal Act to operate in this World the Will of the Creator 17. How this Ruach Elohim being put once in Essences worketh by his Angels in this sublunary World after four ways viz. By his Angelical Organs of a contrary Fortitude in the Universal Element of the lower Water both the effects of Condensation and that of Rarifaction and to verify it by those Words That this one Spirit is the Arch-Lord and Primate of the four Winds else the Command of God would not have said Come ye Spirits from the four Winds and make those dead Carcasses to live again Now this one Spirit worketh in and by Spiritual and Angelical Organs in the execution which is effected by the four Winds Observe I saw four Angels stand on the four Corners of the Earth holding the four Winds of the Earth that they should not blow neither on the Earth nor Sea c. By which it 's evident that those Angelical Presidents over the four Winds were the Organs by and in the which the Spirits of the Winds were emitted or retained according to the Will of that Eternal Spirit which guided them and where he listeth so the said hot Winds do undo by Rarifaction all that which the cold Northern Winds did effect by Congelation 18. After what manner this Spirit Ruach Elohim did frame out the Heavens and shaped or made the Stars thereof by his act of Condensation and Rarifaction The Heavens and the Earth were of Water and by the Water so we see that the Word is the Agent in the Condensation of the invisible Waters into a visible Earth 19. Thus was the World in general distinguished into thick and thin Regions by the divine Spirit which was created on the Water So says Hermes in these Words Distinctis libratisque rebus quae igneo Spiritu vehebantur emicuit Coelum septem in Circulos Things being distinguished and ballanced which were sustained by a fiery Spirit the Heavens did shine forth in seven Circles It signifies that it was a fiery Spirit and a little before he called it Splendorem Sanctum the Holy Splendor which sustain and bear up every Circle or Sphere of the Heavens in its due place And the Wise Man says Omnia Mensura Numeroque pondere disposuisâ—… seu temperaÌ„sti Thou hast disposed all things iâ— Measure Number and Weight namely into seven distinct Spheres and an infinity of condensed Bodies 20. I may say that as the Substance of the Heavens is invisible by reason of its rarity iâ— like manner are the Stars visible by reason oâ— their density for it was Condensation that caused Visibility and Rarifaction which is the occasion of Invisibility But Aristotle is of the opinion That the Stars are the denser Parts oâ— their Orbs but rather a Light which was included in the Spirit of the dark Shadow of the Abyss which Spirit in separating Light from Darkness soared upwards by virtue of the included Light and so according to the proportion of that eternal formal Fire which is â—…tained unto this day 21. How the lower Water or material subâ—…nary Element was distinguished and heaped iâ—… to sundry distinct Spheres which are particular Elements The Universal Substance of the World was made only out of one thing of a Matter that was produced out of the dark Chaos or Abyss bâ—… the Spagyrick Virtue of the great World tâ—… which Matter Moses calls Water and Herâ—… the Humid Nature it must follow that out 〈◊〉 this Catholick Mass of Water the Universâ—… Sublunary Element was derived which is caâ—…led by the Name of Air. Now this generâ—… Element is by the Breath of the divine Spiritâ—… Ruach Elohim altered and changed from one Shape to another for that which is made the visible Waters was made first of Air which is an invisible Water in this observe the Words of St. Paul Per fidem agnovimus quod semper ita actum sit cum Mundo per Verbum ut ex iis quae videri non poterant fiunt ea quae possunt videri We know by Faith that has been ever acted with the World by the Word that those things which can be seen were effected and made of those things which could not be seen 22. We are taught by Chymical Experience That Earth is nothing else but coagulated Water not visible Water nothing else but invisible Air reduced by condensation to a visibility nor Fire any thing else but rarified Air And in conclusion all the sublunary Waters were in the Beginning but an invisible humid or a watry Spirit or Air and consequently the main sublunary Elements were in Original nothing but one Air because that Heaven was made before the Sea or Earth as Moses tells us Here we have the Progression in the Worlds Creation where 1 is it signifies the Unity which was before all things which while it was in it self and did not shine forth contained its inacted property within its potential Nolunty or Darkness and therefore it was esteemed as nothing in regard of Man's weak Capacity altho ' in its self it 's all in all Then the Rank
2 sheweth the actual emanation of the increased Light out of the potential Unity at the presence whereof the humid Nature did appear out of the dark Abyss 10. in the shape of Waters so that the Light and Waters as active and passive are ranked next after Unities Unity thus â—‹ Light â—‹ Water 2. Then by the Firy Spirit of Eternal Love and Unity those two opposite Natures are joined together into the nature of Heaven by a spiritual Union or Composition which is termed by the Platonicks the Soul of the World which the Philosopher calls by the name of Quinta Essentia the Quintessence so also are the Heavens said to animate the Elements no otherwise than the Soul doth the Body so that this degree of Progression in the Creation standeth Thus â—‹ Light The last of the Worlds Creation is this â—‹ Fire â—‹ Air â—‹ Air â—‹ Water â—‹ Water 3 â—‹ Earth Which importeth the four-fold alteration of the Catholick Element by the four Winds which was and is effected by the Word the third day of the Creation and this was nothing else but the general sublunary or lower Waters This therefore was the State of the VVorlds Creation and in this very State say many will continue till it be Resined by the Firey Tryal This the wise Hermes according to Moses described unto us thus Erat umbra infinita in Abysso Aqua insuper Spiritus tenuis Intellectualis per divinam potentiam in Chaos inerant storuit autem Splendor Sanctus qui sub arena humida natura Elementa deducit cumque indistincta fuissent levia post Mundum in excelsam regionem provolarunt gravia sub arena humida residerunt distinctis libratisque rebus quae Igneo Spiritus vehebantur emicuit Coelum septem in Circulos c. An infinite Shadow of Darkness was in the Abyss moreover VVater and a subtil intellectual Spirit was by the divine Puissance in the Chaos and a holy Brightness or Splendor did flourish which did reduce the Elements under the Heaven and humid Nature and as they were undistinguished and afterwards that Portion which was Light did fly up into the highest Region The weightier part did reside and take its place under the Heaven These things being thus distinguished and ballanced were sustained by 〈◊〉 fiery Spirit the Heavens did shine forth in Seveâ— Circles as in the Table or Speculum on the other side In the first place Behold the Circles and the Motions of the seven Properties of Nature But as for the Angelical Circle and the work and nature of Angels the Throne and the Heavens of Glory which you see in the highest Circles I shall pass by and hasten on to my intended Business CHAP. III. The Centre and Circle of the Elementary Life of Man shewing what Power the Elements have over our Bodies BUT by the way it may not be amiss to consider what our Forefathers did call this Canopy or Heavens which has so neatly composed round us and left us as it were in a Box. Coelum potius Coelum Coelorum suprema Mundi pars à Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 à concavitate the Heavens Firmament or Sky Now we will endeavour to prove out of Scripture and leave Philosophy that the ignorant may be satisfied in my intended Matter viz. Predictions The Heavens have been called by the Holy Ghost a Book then doubtless we may conclude that there are in this Book Letters or Characters which may be understood by some or other tâ— read them Now that it is called a Book appears out of Isaiah who speaks of the last Day wherein all things shall cease he saith Compliâ—cabuntur sicut Coeli where the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Caph in Hebrew which the Latins translate siâ—ut signifieth in the Original quia so that the Heavenâ— shall be rolled together and He at the same time gives the reason of it also because they are aâ— Book As for a more larger Definition of the Word I leave it to the Divines c. They may say as a Book To this it may be answered That it doth elsewhere fully decide this Controversy Seeing that we speak of the Heavens it makes mention of Lines and Letters which are Words that are most properly and essentially spoken of a Book and make no use of the word sicut which is an infallible Argument that those words in the Passages before cited Complicabuntur sicut Liber Coeli are not Expressions of Similitude Now that the Scripture speaking of the Heavens nameth expresly the word LETTER will appear out of the First of Genesis there the Hebrew Text runs thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bereshith bara Elâ—â—im Haschamaim that is to say In the Beginning God created the Letters or Characters of the Heavens for this is the meaning of the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aat which is a Letter and as for the word Line we find in Psal 19. v. 4. In omnem terram exivit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kâ—vam Linea corum understanding it 's spoken of the Stars which are ranked in the Heavens after the manner of Letters in a Book or upon a Sheet of Parchment for God is said in the Holy Scriptures to have strâ—tchâ—d out the Heavens as a Skin calling this extension 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rachia from whence the Greek might take the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies a Skin or Hidâ— a Skin to be extended or stretched forth God disposed and rankt the Stars in the manner of Characters whereby as a Book Observe and read them Coeli enarrant gloriam Dei The Prophets of old called the Heavens a Sacred Book as among the Jews R Sâ—meon Ben Jarâ—hay in the Zohar on the Section Temâ—…ti Exodus Câ—fr 305. where he spâ—…s very â—earnedly of this Celestial Writing tho' very â—bscurely R. Abraham also in his Jetsira a Book of the Creation and many more Authors may be named to this purpose But this may â—atisfy the Reader that the Heavens are Books wherein all things are Registred of those under â—he Elements either their good or ill Actions Now in this particular we will endeavour to give you some account of the Primum Mobile â—r the moving Circles of the Elements which is â—y intended Business or material Subject how â—ur Bodies are captivated by the Elements and â—ave the Angâ—… Circle and the Glory of the â—ost High to the Divines and follow the lower â—egions You see the Primum Mobile a round â—ircle with 12 Characters called 12 Signs â—ow in our days and by those Signs thus characteriz'd divides the Heavens in 12 parts as every Sign into 30 dgrees also you see the 7 Planets in their Circles in another place You shall have a full demonstration by an Instrument But I am willing to inform you that in the beginning those Signs and Planets were put in form of Letters by the Hebrews and by the Jews and others in the form of Living
the Air the third to the Water and 〈◊〉 fourth to the Earth From these four coâ—… four more in taking of the first four Heads 〈◊〉 Stars for the first Figure the second Stars for 〈◊〉 second Figure the third Rank of Stars for 〈◊〉 third Figure and the lower Rank for the 〈◊〉 Figure which makes Eight Figures Now from these 8 Figures you are to makâ— four more Observe you must take the first Stars 〈◊〉 the first and two Figures just under them iâ— the Stars be even so place them and if they be uneven as one so the two Figures and so of the third and fourth you must do as muâ—… â—o make the ninth Figure as you did the first and second and also the tenth eleventh and twelfth 〈◊〉 here by Example Now we will shew you how to frame the Witness and the Judge out of the foregoing Fiâ—…re The Witness called Right is taken from â—…m the ninth and tenth Figure the Left is from 〈◊〉 eleventh and twelfth and from the two Witnesses we form the Judges and if those are â—…od Figures the Demand will be good if ill 〈◊〉 will come to a bad End Here is the whole Figure in the old Fashion This is the Way and Method of Raising your Lotts which are 16 in all and cannot be more and by those well understood you may see how Transitory your Elementary Life is But to be more plain we will make use of these Lotts in the manner and form as the Astrologer doth viz. in 12 Divisions of the Heavens or Earth which you please to call it and the two Witnesses and Judges in the Model Behold the Figure on the other side Thus after you have raised your Lotts of Figures you may easily transform them in this manner as you see viz. into Signs and Planets united as you have in the foregoing Tables or as in this Figure where you have the true Method and Form of all your Lotts in English Names for we have cast off all the strange and hard Characters and Names of the Arabians Hebrews Greeks and Latins because you should not be frightned thereby or of the Word Geomancy or Conjuration c. CHAP. V. The Power and Strength of these Lotts and how the Divine Spirits are infused and incorporated into them by the Influences of the Seven Properties of Nature IN this Chapter you will be shewn the great Strength Ability Force and Power of those 16 Lotts and how the Divine Spirits are infused into the 16 Figures by the Seven Properties of Nature by the Power of him which made the World and how the Planets and Spirits are incorporated into the Figures All inferior Bodies are exemplified by the superior Powers or Spirits which are above our Bodies Minds or Souls They place themselves very intelligibly in the Soul of the World differing the one from the other by absolute Forms so that all Power in God is but one Form but in the Soul of the World they are many they are placed in the midst of all things whether they be joined to the Body or separated from the Body by a certain Participation they are placed in Nature as certain small Seeds of Forms are infused by the Power above They are placed also in those 16 Figures whereon the Shapes and Properties of Virtues of inferiour Species as also their Properties do depend so that every distinct Lott or Figure hath its Power that is suitable to its Form which also proves a wonderful Power according to the Disposition of things good or ill for all these Influences these Figures may be received and may also be hindred by the indisposition of the Matter or according to the Person or his Quality such is the signification of the Lotts which receive Virtue and Power from above Thus the Seven Properties and their Powers are incorporated into these 16 Lotts and are the cause of the Virtue of the Figures of their Signification of their Product and all things past present and to come In the next place those that intend to understand the Lotts aright must know their Elements By which you may see from whence all things come whence Mankind and Beasts whence Fire Rain Snow and Earthquakes are the great Sea-beats over her Banks and then again returns whence the Power and Strength of Herbs Courage and Rage of Brutes all kind of Stones and all sorts of Worms c. A Table of Elements Fire ☉ dir in â™’ ☿ dir in ♎ ♃ dir in ♈ ♄ and ♂ in â™ Earth ♀ Retr in ♎ ☿ Retr in ♠♄ dir in ♓ ♃ and ☿ in â™ Water ☽ full in ♑ ♄ Retr in ♊ ♃ Retr in ♉ ☽ decre in ♌ Air. ♀ dir in ♋ ♀ dir in ♎ ♄ Retr in ♠☉ Retr in ♉ First The Element of Fire is the Principle of all the other for it 's the reception of all Celestial Rays and Influences in it are contained Seminal Virtues of all things Secondly The Element of Water is wonderful and to be admired for there is so great a necessity of Water that there is no living Creature can live without it the moistnings of Water can bring forth in it the Seminary Virtues of all Vegetables c. Thirdly The Element of Air is a Vital Spirit passing through all things and gives Life to all Living or Breathing whatever and unites its self into all mixed Bodies Fourthly and Lastly These four Elements are the ground of all compounded things viz. Fire Air Water and Earth of which all Elementary inferiour Bodies are comprehended not by way of heaping up together but by Transmutation and Motion and when they are destroy'd they are dissolv'd into Elements again for there is none of the sensitive Elements that are pure but they are more or less mixed and apt to be changed one into the other CHAP. VI. The various Significations Names and Qualities of the Sixteen Lotts or Figures as they relate to the four Quarters of the Year First THE Spring Quarter hath these four Lotts in order four in every Quarter as followeth Spr. Quarter is sanguin hot dry and moist Summer Quarter hot and cholerick but pleasant Autumn Quarter is cold moist and phlegmatick Winter Quart is cold and moist BOY ☿ dir ♎ People ☽ full in ♑ GAOL ♀ dir ♎ Prison ♄ â„ž ♓ LOST ♀ retr ♎ Fort. small ☉ retr ♉ RED ♄ in ♊ LAD ♄ in â™ WHITE ♀ dir ♋ Together ☿ in â™ Obeying ♃ in ♈ JOY ♃ â„ž retrograde ♉ Dr. Tail ♄ ♂ â™ Drag head ♃ in ♉ Fort. small ☉ retr ♉ WAY ☽ d. ♌ In Divisions of Elements as First Fiery hot and dry ☉ dir â™’ ☿ dir ♎ ♃ dir ♈ ♄ ♂ â™ Secondly Cold and Earthy ♀ retr ♎ ☿ retr ♠♄ dir ♓ ♃ ☿ â™ Thirdly Airy hot and moist ♀ dir ♋ ♀ dir ♎ ♄ retr ◠☉ retr ♉ Fourthly Watry cold ☽ full ♑ â— retr ♉ ☽ dec ♌ ♄ retr ♊ First Over the Fire trip ☉
and brings it into multiplicity and variety it 's a ground of the bitter Pain and also the true Root of Life and the Strike of Fire But there is a great Understanding in the Power yet the Power cannot of his own might awaken the Understanding Mars is the third Quality seeing it is so that ♃ and ☿ excelleth in the Fire therefore it denoteth the first Moving which strikes up the Fire which is ♂ c. which is a Stirrer and a Cinder of the Fire viz. a feelingness of the breaking off the harsh Hardness and the ground of Anguish viz. a Flash or Lightning wherein the Power Colours and Virtues do appear in these three first Qualities or Properties and in it consisteth the Ground of Anger Hell and Darkness But now observe that this Quality of Heat and Fire it self cannot consist for Fire desires Substantiality and Fire hath no Substantiality for Fire its self subsisteth not without Fuel to work upon which Substantiality desires Meekness which is Venus and is Light or Love that are about the Wheel These 6 Properties are together viz. ♄ ☽ ♃ ☿ ♂ ♀ So these Six are united into three substantial Qualities The ☉ which is in the midst of the 6 Qualities is the Heart and Centre of them all and is the spiritual Fire wherein the Will of God or Unity is made You read in the Scripture that God placed his Tabernacle in the Sun all comes from this Unity which hath incorporated and united its self with the natural Desire for the burning Properties of Heat proceed from the sharp Devouringness of the first Qualities as follows The Unity or Freedom is the soft and still Tranquility being amiable and as a soft comfort easy and it cannot be expressed how soft a Tranquility there is without Nature in the Unity and Freedom of God But the Qualities in order to Nature are sharp painful and terrible c. and all is produced by the Power and Word of God CHAP. VII A Platform of the Heavens Elements and Earth with a Demonstratiâ— of the 12 Signs THE 12 Stars are the 12 Signs in numberâ— Those the Woman in the Revelatisâ— which the Dragon would have devoured woâ—… upon her Head being 12 Stars for one number She received 6 from the Spirit of theâ— World and the other 6 she had from the Elementary Centre which the Word or the Eternal Centre God created c. Two Numbers are come into one for God became Man and brought two numbers into one she wore the Angelical Zodiac and also the Human and so the Image in the Revelations had 12 Stars on her Grown the Images represent God and its the Similitude of God in which he revealed himself so those 12 Signs or 12 Stars are 12 Signs of the Zodiac so called ♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♠♎ ♠♠♑ â™’ ♓ A Figura Animalium quae in eo imaginantur vel quod vitam calorem Animalibus dare creditur But of these in another place From these Signs and the 7 Properties of Nature proceed four Elements which are nothing else but only from the Arches of the inward Centre viz. from the 4 Properties of Eternal Nature and breathed out from the inward Centre and formed into a working Substance Now observe the Sympathy of the 7 Properties and the 12 Signs they have Habitations or Places wherein they delight which are called Houses as in this Figure These 7 Properties of Nature have their Delights viz. ♄ ♃ ♂ ♀ ☿ in two Houses one for the Day and the other for Night marked with D for Day and N for Night as you see in the Table but the ☉ only one viz. the Sign ♌ and the ☽ only ♋ and their Workings and Operations are wonderful and past â—inding out in Ruling three Kingdoms viz. Animals Vegetables and Minerals CHAP. VIII Power of the Seven Properties and â—lements of Nature proving that â—…ose Planets and Angels rule graâ—…ally and in order over the Minds â—nd Bodies of Mankind â—…is manifest that all inferior things are subâ—…t to superior Bodies after a manner as â—roclus they are one in the other viz. infeâ—…r superior and superior or inferior so in â—…eavens are things Terrestrial but as in â—auses and in a Celestial manner And â—… Earth are things Celestial but after a â—…strial manner as in effect so here are â—n things which are Solary and certain â—…s Lunary the ☉ and ☽ make a strong â—…ssion of their Virtues whence it is that â—… kind of things receive more Operations â—…operties than those of the Stars and before spoken of â—…t ♄ Here are many things under the â—… of Saturn and his Angel among Eleâ—… are Earth and also Water amongst Huâ—…s black Choler and that is moist as well â—…las adventitious adust Choser excepted â—…gst Tastes sowr tart and dead amongst Metals Lead by reason of its Weight and Cold amongst Stones the Onyx the Ziaza the Camomus the Saphir the proud Jasper and several Plants and Trees which are endless to name here Secondly ♃ and his Angel over Elements the Air over Tumours Blood and the Spirit of Life things which respect Increase and Nourishment amongst Tastes such as are sweet and pleasant amongst Metals Tin Silver and Gold by reason of their Temperateness amongst Stones the Hyacinth Beril Saphire the Emerald the green Jasper and Airy Colours and Power over many Herbs c. Corn Barley or Wheat c. Thirdly Under the Power of ♂ and his Angel of Elements Fire and sharp acid things amongst Humours Choler bitter Taste tart and burning and causing Tears amongst Metals Iron and red Brass and all â—iery red and sulphurous things Stones the Diamond Loadstone the Blood-stone amongst Plants Hellebor Garlick and many more Fourthly Those things under the Power of ♀ and her Angel are called Venereal first of the Elements Air and Water amongst Humours Flegm with Blood Spirit and Seed of Taste those which are sweet unctious and delectable of Metals Silver and yellow Brass of Stones the Beryl Chrysolite Emerald Saphire the Cornelia the Stone Aetites the Laâ—â—ll Coral and all of a various white fair and green Colour of Plants and Trees the Vervain Violet and Marygold c. Fifthly ☿ and his Angel first Elements Waters altho' it moves all things indistinctly as for Humours those which are mixed with the Animal Spirits as for Tastes those that are various and strange and mixed as for Metals Quicksilver and as for Stones the Emerald and Achates red Marble Topaze and those which are of divers Colours as for Plants and Trees the Hazel and five leav'd-Grass the Herb Mercury and many others Sixthly ☉ and his Angel over Elements the lucid Flame in Humours the pure Blood and Spirit of Life as for Tastes that which is quick and sweetens over Metals Gold by reason of its Splendor amongst those which resemble the Rise of Sol by their golden Sparkles as doth the glittering Stone Aetites and the Stone called the Eye of the Sâ—… so in
No but a Resemblance But the main Reason here that I present you with an Egg in the Form of a Hens Egg is because of that famous Author Fabricius who saith That the Contemplation of the Forming of the Foetus out of Eggs is the largest of all which appears in this That the greatest part of Animals are gotten of Eggs. It 's a plain case therefore that all Animals whatsoever even Vipers also nay Man himself are made of an Egg and that the first Conception of all living Creatures which bring forth Young are certain Eggs just as the first Conception of all Plants are certain Seeds but what is common is not admired Observe put the smallest Seed in its own Matrix or Mother-Earth and it springs up and brings forth its own kind But O Man thy place of Conception or Increase is on thy Lump of Female Eggs. Cast thy Eye on the Figure of the Egg and thou wilt see in the middle a parcel of rude Lumps or Spots as it were in the form of the Female Rowe of a Herring which is the true resemblance of the Lump of Eggs in Women The true method of Conception is thus That when the Seed of Man is spilt on this rude Lump or Eggs in Women it washeth off or moves those little Eggs one from the other and as Nature has provided it falls into a small Cavity or place by it self the place being open when the Egg falls off but when it 's in it closeth up again Thus Nature has its Effects and in this place the Foetus grows to perfection and it 's composed round with a Covering like the Shell of a Hens Egg the Midwife commonly calls it the After-Birth when it comes into the World Further look again on the Figure of the Egg and you will see the Elements round it viz. the 7 Properties of Nature with the four Triple States viz. Fire Air Earth Water also you have Signs wherein the seven Planets or Properties of Nature delight in then you have a description of the Nature of them As for Example ♀ F which signifies that Venus is a Female and then concerning ♂ has the Letter M which tells you that ♂ is Masculine and so of the rest So the Matrix or the Ovary Lump and the and the Seed of Man are all Elements and under the Power of the 7 Properties Be wise O Reader and learn the Nature of the Heavenly Bodies and thou shalt do Wonders without Conjuration If thou want'st an Heir or Man-Child to inherit thy Land observe a time when the Masculine Planets and Signs Ascend and in full Power and Force then take thy Female and cast in thy Seed and thou shalt have a Man-Child Observe the same method with the Female Signs and Planets for a Daughter and so on It 's not my business here to meddle or speak of the Nourishment of the Foetus in the Womb or the Birth because my Task is Elementary But if you please to read my Compendium Anatomicum you will have a brief Account of the Oval Nourishment and Birth of a Child from the Conception to the Birth Fabricius concerning his Oviary or Hens Eggs Dr. Gibson concerning Eggs of Rabbets Dr. Willis concerning Brutes or Animals An Egg is the common Original of all Animals Aristotle himself calls the very same things Worms in one place and Eggs in another But it is needless to make use of his Reasons in this place to prove it seeing we are already convinced that all Animals have their Original from these Eggs and by the Experiments of our later Authors in this Particular it 's plain that Man tho' chief was ingendred in or by them Observe the same by Dr. Harvey Dr. Gibson c. they give us an Example of the Eggs of Women by the Rabbets by dissecting them before Conception and at Conception and so by degrees to perfection But my main business is to shew how the Foetus is governed in the Womb by the Elementary Power I will give you the Opinion of Henricus Lindhout Bruxellensi Medicinae Doctore ac Philosophorum CHAP. III. How the Foetus in the Womb is governed according to the Elementary Power of the Seven Properties of Nature and every one in Order as first ♄ c. ♄ ITaque supremus omnium Planetarum primo Conceptum dirigit per primum mensem ab hora Conceptionis materiam coagulat constringit exsiccat sicut enim ipsa altior est caeteris Planetis prior ita ejus Regimen primo Creaturam humanam ambit gubernat Si itaque ipse tum benè dispositus fuerit erit Conceptio benè disposita statuta praesertim partes sive Foetus Elementa Saturno subjecta ♃ Disponit Conceptum in utero secundo mense qui movet ventus coagulationis dispondit matetiam ut fiat mollis dirigitque ventus ejus colorem naturalem commiscetur cum tali vento materia eritque quasi Dormiens qui semper monitur ad vigiliam nec cessabit moveri donec forma totius accedat in hunc Mundum Generetur ♂ Mars disponit Conceptum tertio mense qui materiam illam ad sui naturam colorem mutat in formam sanguinis deducendo virtusque Jovis tunc latitat quiescit hinc fit quod utero gerens tunc habeat propter ventus Jovis moventin Matricem cum materia in ea sed in utero terus ferè mense semper cessat nausea propter Martem qui tertium ipsum mensem dirigit si it aque tunc benè fortunatur eratque sanguis nati purus vix ac rarissimè super abundans nisi fortè propter vitam inordinatam Si vero male ipse disponitur contrarium accidit ☉ Oculus Mundi quartum mensem sibi vendicat qui benigno salutari suo calore humiditate superfluas siccatis Membra Principalia conformat calore qua rarificat illo etenim mense largitur omnium formarum fortitudinem in Conceptum dando animam rationalem Si igitur in quarto mense Sol ascendit ad augem fueritque in dignitatibus suis fortis significat perfectionem formosiatem vultus quoniam tunc etiam natus erat magne potentiae eorum quae jam est adeptus ♀ Disponit quinto mense illo enim mense apparet forma Membrorum figuratur sexus eriguntur que capilli excrescunt crines Si ipsa tunc fuerit benè disposita fortis in dignitate sui erit natus formosus amicabilis plenus dulcedine completus in facie Membris Si verò fuerit descendens vel in domicilio Saturni Natus erit deformis turpis ☿ Sextum Mensem disponit sed quia ipse eâ—… Planeta loquentiae sapientiae Doctrinae sensus ac nutritionis facit discretionem ut Foetus se nutriat extendit Membrum Linguae vocalem Arteriam ea ratione Foetus eo mense validius incipit percutere manibus pedibusque in Matrice motus
ibi sint Aqueae Decimquinta consentiente pluviosum Annum Aeriae ex quibus ☽ plen in ♑ Via Populus nascatur Diluvia Inundationes But in short you must in this Concern know the nature of these Lotts for watery Lotts give Pluvia or Rain Fiery Lotts give Heat and Dryness Airy Ventus or Wind and so of the rest in order But the main point is to consider the Time and Occasion of the Year But my Reader cares not for those Matters but altogether for to know of Himself whether he shall live Honourably or have Society with King's and Princes or whether he shall come to be a Housekeeper or a Master or what thing to take in hand to get most Money These are the things desired in this Elementary Life Now I tell thee that the 10th House or the Lott in it is the Significator of those things viz. Honour and Dignity if the first Figure or Lott be joyned to the 10th viz. Company or by â–³ or âš¹ Aspect the Querent will assuredly step up to the Seat of Honour if the first moves into the 10th h. and not afflicted the same if you find good Figures in the 10th h. hope well for thy Office or Place desired But if ill Lotts in the 10th h. and ill Companyâ—… and â–¡ or ☠very small hopes for thee to kisâ— the King's Hand or reap any Benefit from him or from those above thy Quality Now if you are willing to know what Trade or Profession to take in hand you must consider well the Rulers of thy Lotts on the 10th h. of what Triplicity they are whether Fire Air Earth or Water if Fire a Trade of a hot nature if Water thou shalt gain by the Sea or Water or by Wine Ale or Beer c. But a word or two in general The Lott Tristitia and Carcer are the Lotts of ♄ as the former Table directs If ♄ Ruler of the 10th h. and if thy Birth sprung from a low Descent give thy mind to Dig in the Ground for Money Husbandry or Gardning or Tillage of the Earth c. But if thou descend from high Birth thou mayst be a Judge and gain Money by sleeping or waking and come to a degree of great Power ♃ signifies dealing in Cloth and pulling off the Wool of Sheeps back by night if ♃ is ill or retrograde otherwise a good Shop-keeper and will come be a Church-warden of a Troop of Horse ♂ Ruler of the 10th h. and retrograde a Baker will be thy best Trade but if ♂ is strong and powerful take thy Sword by thy side and strive to be a Captain ☉ Some hot Trade as a Goldsmith or the like ♀ Be sure to employ thy self about Womens Concerns but for Whoring 〈◊〉 give you no Directions ☿ Often turns himself in Money Shapes and many Minds but whatever Planets he is joined to it gives a strong inclination to Arts and Sciences to the Law Divines Physicians Clerks Money-Scriveners all those things if well Dignified but if ill then idle prating lying Knaves and lives by Stealing Lying and Dissembling ☽ The Moon Lady of the 10th h. you may expect Honour by Women and by Travel from Foreign Parts great Gain by Sea or any Trade that requires moving to place and from place Also ☽ signifies Silver c. These Rules in a general way are very true If you are willing to consider your selves about Kings Princes or Noble-men behold the 10th h. if the Lotts therein be good and also the Lott in the Ascendant and in good Aspects and Company you may well say that the King and his Subjects will agree like Lambs the People will rejoyce under their Government And as for plenty of Money behold the 2d and 11th house if well Dignified Trading and Money will be plenty But for your further Knowledge concerning Peace or War behold what Lotts are in the 7th house and behold the 10th Lott by a â–¡ or 8 say then it will be in those Countries Cities or Towns which those Lotts govern So if you find the Lott that belongs to France in a â–¡ or 8 say then there will be Discoveries between our King and the French if Holland or Spain according to your Lotts if good Aspects Peace if ill War The Eleventh House An Servi Amici sint Fideles THis Point of the Heavens shews you what Friends you have your way now is to look on the first and 11th House and see how they agree together in Love Peace and Unity viz. in good Company Aspects and good Lotts This is sufficient enough for the Querent to be satisfied that he may have the things hoped for and to rely on them as faithful Friends in time of need if you want an Examination turn your Eyes to the Figure erected by the Angelical Hand for the Gentleman is prosecuted by his Servant There you will find by the 11th House he had good Friends to stand by him in time of Trouble c. But to the contrary if thou findest the first and 11th House to disagree and different of nature and in ill Company and Aspects then thy Friends may be thy Foes for now in our Days it 's a Question very frequent Will my pretended Friends be faithful These Rules or Lotts of mine will soon make distinction if you find the Lotts of ♄ or ♂ in this House or ☋ then trust not thy Friends for they will bring thee to a Snare and Ill-will will be the end If thou findest thy Lott in a medium trust not thy Friends too far if thou findest ♃ ♀ â™ in this House thy Friends are very faithful and whatever thou sayst or dost is as safe as in thy own Breast The 11th House tells thee of the Substance of thy King The Twelfth House De Carcere an aliquis incarcerabitur THis 12th House is relating to Compters and Imprisonment and in this we have generally an Eye to the first House If we find a good Lott and free from Evil there then we may say the Querent is strong and powerful and soon out of Prison but if weak and ill the contrary if it goes into the third House or 9th he will be soon released If the Lott of the first House moves or go into the 4th 8th or 12th Houses there 's but little hopes of Delivery out of Prison or from Confinement and the longer confin'd if there is a â–¡ or 8 between the first and 12th if your Lotts are fixed in the first House a long Imprisonment if common a medium if moveable soon delivered out of Prison If in a Cadent House long Afflicted mind the Hour the Prisoner was confin'd if the Lott was ill that rules the hour a long Captivity and is plagu'd with the Presence of ♄ ♂ or ☊ or their Aspects cold Walls still Now for thy Delivery Observe if you find good Lotts or their Rulers with Part of Fortune and good Aspects of ♃ and ♀ then there is great hopes of Recovery
in ipso sunt omnia Of him by him and in him are all things proceeding from the Creator 6. Hermes hath it Infinita in Abysso Aqua insuper Spâ—ritus tenuis intellectualis per Divinam potentiam in Chaos inerant There was says he an infinite Shadow upon the Abyss also Water and a thin intellectual Spirit we are in the Chaos by the Divine Puissance Now that there was a contained Water and airy Spirit complicitly where in the dark Chaos or Abyss it appeared by the Revolution of the Waters upon the which Elohim the Eternal Spirit was created By this you may discern what the Substances of Beginnings of Things was namely the dark Abyss 7. Observe now that this generated Matter was Water which the Presence of the all-informing Spirit of the Lord did vigorate and enact in a Generality and termed them by the name Shamaim and that the Waters were the first Matter and Principle of which the World was made no otherwise than out of a rude Mass or Lump a great Pallace is fashioned or framed This Moses confirms first for that it doth mention the Water from which the Spirit of God was created after he had nominated the confused Chaos under the Title of the dark Abyss Terra inanis vacua or the void and deformed Earth and that before the first days Seperation whereby it 's plainly argued that Water was the material Principle created or inacted by Elohim Ruache for as much as they were nominated before the first days work 8. That it was the Eternal Wisdom or Spirit Elohim who acted as it were the part of a Midwife did deliver and bring forth this Birth and gave it Act and Form as Moses says That the Waters were the subject of that Separation and was effected by the Spagyrick or Fiery Virtue of the Word or Elohim 9. The Heavens above were made of the purest Brights and most worthiest Waters and the Elementary World beneath of the grossest dark fort of Water and that there was a middle kind of them which participating of both extreams was termed the Firmament whose main Office was to divide and separate the Water from the Waters 10. Then out of the lower Waters by the same Word or Spirit three several Regions namely the Air the Seas and the dry Land so the World and every Member thereof was out of this humid Spirit or aquatick Nature which is visible by this Text Coeli saith he erant prius Terra de Aqua per Aquam existentes verbo Dei 11. The Heavens was Fire and the Earth Water and by Water existing in and by the Word the World is composed only of Heaven and Earth and therefore it follows that the whole World is made and existeth of the Water and by the Water So it 's evidently proved that the Original Maker of all things was Water 12. The next thing I shew you how all things were fashioned formed and reduced into a specifick Act and essential Being It first distinguished and separated the Darkness from the Light and obscure and gross Water from the subtil or pure and then it disposes the Heavens into Spheres 13. It divides the groâ—â—est Waters into subluâ—ary Elements but observe in these Lines the great VVork Mundum ex materia inforâ—i creavit Revelat fundamenta abscondita â—ovit in tenebris constituta Lux est cum co â—evelavit fundamenta è tenebris educit in luâ—em â—mbram lethalem Aquilonâ—m extendit suâ—er inane vacuum suspendit Terram suâ—er nihilum nam sapientia ab ore ejus prodeunte â—otundit at em Coelorum circumveniente sola in â—rofundo abyssi ambulante omnia fecit Deus Adâ—rat ipsa quando preparÌ„avit Coelum quando certa â—ege gyro velavit abyssos quando Aethera firâ—abat sursum erat ipsa cum eo cuncta componens â—psa fundavit Terram stabilivit Coelos erupit aâ—yssos â—â—bes rore concrescere facit aptat pondus â—Aeri appendit Aquos in mensura dedit pluviae staâ—uta viam fulgetro tonitruum Coelos creaâ—at extendebat eos firmabat Tâ—rram quae â—erminant ex ea Sapientia creavit Deus terram stabilivit Coelos prudentia facit ut oriatur luâ—en in Coelis indeficienter sicut nebula tegit omâ—em Terram facit anni cursus constituit disâ—ositus Stellarum Facit Arcturum Orionem â—onvertit in mane tenebras diem in noctem mutat â—acat aquas maris effundit eos super faciem â—errae preparavit terram in aeterno tempore â—eplevit eam bipedibus quadrupedibus ipsam â—ffudit Dens super omnia opera ejus super omnem â—rnem secundum datum ipsa denique operatur â—nia Deus per ipsam operatur omnia in omâ—ibus ipse vivificat animat omnia ut Apoâ—olus Quare Propheta recte in sapientia omnia â—isti repleta est terra possessione tua c. Wisdom created the World of Matter without Form she revealed the Foundations of tâ—… deeoest and discovereth the things that were hâ—… in Darkness and Light is with her she makeâ—… the Foundations appear out of Darkness an converteth the deadly Shadow into Light sâ—… spreadeth forth the North upon the void 〈◊〉 empty Face of the Abyss and hangeth the Eartâ—… on nothing for God made all things by hâ—… Wisdom which came out of his Mouth at compassed about the Circuit of the Heavens aâ—… walked in the profoundness of the Abyss sâ—… was present when he prepared the Heavens aâ—… he covered by a certain Law or Compass thâ—… Abyss when he established the Heavens 〈◊〉 Aether all the Regions above then was S 〈…〉 with him as the Composer of all those thingâ—… she laid the Foundations of the Earth and faâ—… ned the Heavens and broke up the Abyss aâ—… made the Clouds together in a Dew she gaâ—… Weight to the Air she hanged or ballanâ—… the Water or Clouds by measure she gave 〈◊〉 to the Rain its Law and ordered the way to 〈◊〉 Lightning or Thunder she created the Heavens and spread them abroad she fastned 〈◊〉 Earth and made things to grow on it and esâ—… blished the Heavens by his Providence 〈◊〉 causeth an indeficient Light to rise and appâ—… in the Heavens and she covered it as it were with a Cloud the whole Earth she makes 〈◊〉 Causes of the Year and institutes the Disposition or Nature of the Stars she made the Pole Star and Orion and turned Darkness into tâ—… Morning and changed the Day into Night she calleth the Waters of the Sea and pours them upon the Face of the Earth she had prepared the Earth for Eternity and filled it with two-footed and four-footed Creatures God poured her forth upon all Flesh in a divine Measure to conclude she operateth and gives all things as Solomon saith We should speak something of the two main Principles viz. Heat and Cold All Heat whatsoever doth attract and draw unto it the Vapours and
which is called Gad under which no doubt he was born Et peperit Zilpah says the Latin following the Original ancilla Leah ipsi Jacob filium ait Leah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bagad vocavit nomen ejus Gad the vulgar Translaslation and St. Hierome instead of Bagad translate Faeliciter which is the same with cum bona Fortuna as it is proved by St. Augustine who reprehendeth those that collected from the Text that the Ancients worshipped Fortune Unde videtur saith he non bene intelligentibus dari tanquam illi homines Fortunam coluerint c. And that it may clearly and evidently appear that the vulgar Translation understands by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gad fortuna bona which is given to the Planet Jupiter turn to Isaiah 65. 11. Thus you may observe that in old time the nature of the Planets was much observed Now if it be demanded why do we not then any where else meet with the like Example Jacob Ben Samuel answered That this was observed chiefly by reason of the Jealousy that was between the two Sisters Leah and Rachel Jacob's Wives for Leah seeing that her Sister had two Children already which made her so proud that she began to boast Comparavit me Deus cum sorore mea fearing lest that after she should have given over Child-bearing her Sister would have the upper-hand of her and that she should be no longer beloved of her Husband she gave her Maid unto him and caused him to go in unto her and as soon as she perceived her to be with Child she observed so well the time of her falling in Travel and seeing her bring forth a Man-Child and that under the Planet ♃ too as she had learned from her Husband to speak she counted her self to be more happy than her Sister and would have him to be called by that name Fortuna These are the Astrological Observations of these Patriarchs and which were Holy and Religious in that they wrought in these good Men a continual Admiration of the Works of God But those that came after them mixed Superstition with this Astrology of their Forefathers it came in a short time to be corrupted and to lose its first Purity You see in the very Beginning that there was Enquiry after Fortune and Riches CHAP. VI. An Enquiry what our Forefathers did to search out Secrets and Wisdom in this Elementary Life and to know Events to come First KNowledge proceeds from Him who first created all things who appeared in a Bush of Fire and told us what he was viz. I am your God c. Secondly He sends his Angels and bright Spirits to tell us of things to come in this our Elementary Life Thirdly We are come now to take notice of the Canopy of Heaven and the Elements for our Observation or Knowledge of Things to come Here is a question Whether it 's possible to read any things in the Clouds and in other Meteors Answ Many ways first Reading may be understood by Visible Signs whether it be in Letters Characters Marks Ciphers Staves Torches Darts Javelins Knots Streaks Colours Holes Points living Creatures or any other sensible thing Now all those Figures or Signs may be represented in the Clouds three manner of ways first By Letters or known Characters secondly By Hieroglyphicks and lastly By Signs and Marks Fourthly The most intelligible Signs Marks or Characters that are Figured in the Clouds are Armed Men Battels c. which appear in order for many Days together and do give notice to Man of some sensible Event to come and that to the great astonishment of all those Men that would reduce all things to the Principles of Philosophy Twenty-four Years before the Birth of our Saviour Christ there were two Armies seen to encounter each the other in the Air miraculous to be seen the running of their Horses the voice of Men and the clashing of their Armour Soon after was this Vision made known to the World for Marius and Sylla by their Factions making as it were a Shambles of the Field were the cause of so much Bloodshed Joseph de Bel. Jud. l. 7. c. 12. The Romans never received a greater Blow Many such Instances we may speak of neâ—… home but I am afraid my Book will swell too big The Philosopher gives us these Verses to the same effect Qui elles se forment en cet diverse portraicts dont Les ventes les transforment En Centaurs Serpens Hommes oyse aux poissons Et d'une forme en autre errent en cent Fasons Englished thus How into several Forms themselves they throw Which Winds change into Shapes of things below Birds Fishes Serpents Centaures Men and thus Shift in a round of Figures various Fifthly Observation of Knowledge is from the Air the Clouds being a Representation of things here below and consequently purely natural and are formed by the Providence of God Of this latter Kind are those spoken of by the Author of the History of the Maeccabees where Judas fighting in Heavens Quarrel had an Apparition sent him of five Horsemen appearing in the Air which pursued his Enemies strongly that above 20000 fell on the place besides this Prodigy happened also in a clear day when the Air was not darkned with Clouds So I may be of the opinion with Cardan and Pomponatus that oftentimes we may see in the Air or Cloud as in a Looking-glass Sixthly Now we come to that of Rain wherein we can make no other use of Reading but by Hieroglyphicks and of this kind is the Raining of Blood or Water of the Colour of Blood such as fell in Switzerland Anno 1534. which fell upon Peoples Cloaths in the form of Crosses Picus Mirandula hath given a large Copy of Verses among which you have the Story of a wonderful Deliverance as followeth Permixtamque crucem rubo spectavimus olim Nec morum discrimen erat sacer atque prophanus Jam conspecta sibi gestabant mystica Patres Conscripti pueri conscriptus sexus utraque Et Templae Vestes à summa Caesaris aula Ad tenues vicos ad dura mapalia ruris Cernere erit liquidò deductum ex Aethere signum The same kind of Rain figured like Crosses which hapned in the time of Julian the Apostate it signified the Sufferings of the Church and the Ignominy of the Cross as you may see in the Chronicle for several Years as 747 783 959 1503 1507. you shall find the like has been the Forerunner of such Truths It hath been observed in Germany that an intollerable Dearth happened to despair they were suddenly comforted by a Showre of Wheat which was 〈◊〉 to fall from the Clouds signifying a great plenty of Corn. Seventhly Also Meteors tho' they are naturally produced do yet sometimes serve for Sigâ—… which God makes use of when he intendeth tâ— communicate unto us some Secrets As for the Wonders of the Israelites they were in Hebreâ— Letters or Characters 〈◊〉
to prosper VVill a King's Reign be long or short Is it good for a King to go out of his Palace and take a Journey Shall a Person of Honour be Banished out of the favour of Kings and Princes VVill the King or Judges do Justice VVhat manner of Person is my VVives Father Eleventhly â™’ To know what Friends I may have or whether my Hopes will be fulfilled Are my Friends faithful to me Shall we reap Gain by Friends May we be safe by whom we give Credit VVhat is the Substance of a King or Noble Man VVhat Estate has my VVives Father shall I gain thereby Shall I gain by the Court or Great Persons If a Promise is made whether true or false Shall we prosper all the Year VVill Fruits of the Earth be cheap or dear Twelfthly ♓ To know whether I shall ever be in Prison If in Prison when released Shall I gain or profit by a Prison or Prisoners VVill any Old VVoman chatter against me like a Devil If a Prisoner Escapes will he be taken Is it good for me to deal in Great Cattel as Horses Mules Sheep c. If a Horse be stolen who is the Thief VVhich way the Horse stray'd In buying Great Cattel shall they be good or bad May a Man go boldly before his Enemies Shall I be Arrested Here are near Two hundred Questions naturally desired in this Elementary Life to know where when and how these things may fall on you by LOTT which you may understand in this following Chapter CHAP. III. The Method of Effecting these Angelical LOTTS THese Questions or Desires are divided into 12 Parts so also are the Heavens divided into Numb 12. being twelve Divisions answering in particular these twelve Questions Take an Example as followeth The Heavens divided in 12 Parts Ascend begin of all things Oriental 1 ♈ Succeeding House of Substanc 2 ♉ Cad House Brothers and Sisters 3 ♊ Angle of North signif old People 4 ♋ Succed place of Pleasure 5 ♌ Cad signifies Banishm Servants 6 â™ Angle Occid Marriages Enemies 7. ♎ Succed Sorr Death Wiv Fortune 8 â™ Cad of Relig. long â—our Dreams 9 â™ Medium Coeli the place of Honour 10. ♑ Succed Angle 10. place of Joy 11 â™’ Cad place of Captiv Imprisonm 12 ♓ The Parts of Man's Body is signified by 12 Parts or Signs of the Zodiack Example ♈ Acquisitio ♉ Laetitia ♊ Rubeus ♋ Albus ♌ Via ♠☊ ♎ Amissio â™ Tristitia ♠☋ ♑ Populus â™’ F. Major ♓ Carcer The Names of the Lotts being Sixteen in Number Elements Signs Lotts Names inLat and Engl. Fire ♃ D in ♈ Acquisitio obtaining comprehending Air. ♄ Retr in â™ Tristitia Sadness Damages Crosses Water ♃ Retr in ♉ Laetitia Joy Gladness Health Hairy Earth ♄ D. in ♓ Carcer Confinement A Prison bound Fire ♄ ♂ in â™ Cauda Drac The lower end of a thing or going out Air. ☉ Retr in ♉ Fortuna min. lesser Fortune greater Strength Water ☽ decr in ♌ Via the VVay Journies or Moving Earth ♃ ☿ in â™ Caput Draconis the Head or upper Part. Fire ☿ D. in ♎ Puer a Boy Yellow Beardless Air. ♀ D. in ♋ Albus White Fair. Water ☽ Full. in ♑ Populus People Congregation Earth ♀ â„ž in ♎ Amissio lost consumed Fire ☉ D. in â™’ Fortuna maj Great Fortune strong Help Air. ♀ D. in ♎ Puella a Virgin Beautiful Water ♄ â„ž in ♊ Rubeus Reddish Red. Earth ☿ â„ž in â™ Conjunctio to gather an Assembly These are the Deys which you may cast your Lotts withal and the same which the Indians Caldeans and Hebrews made use of as their good Angels in directing their Hands to know Good or Ill in this Life And it lyes in Darkness to this Day by reason it 's in Hebrew or in strange Characters which are unknown to us and by that reason many are afraid of this Art because of the VVord Geomancy or Conjuration Now in plain English it 's no more than the 12 Signs of the Zodiack and the 7 Properties of Nature or Rulers of the VVorld which we have formerly spoken of viz. ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽ composed and joined together according to Strength VVeakness or Meanness Take the Example by this Table ♃ direct in ♈ ♃ Retr in ♉ ☉ Retr in ♉ ♄ Retr in ♊ Name Obeying Name Joy Name Les Fort. Name Red. ♀ direct in ♋ ☽ decr in ♌ ☿ Retr in ♠♃ and ☿ in â™ Name White Name Way Name Together Name Drag hea ☿ direct in ♎ ♀ Ret. in ♎ ♀ direct in ♎ ♄ Retr in â™ Name a Boy Name Lost Name a Girl Name Sadness ♄ and ♂ in ♠☽ in Full in ♑ ☉ direct in â™’ ♄ direct in ♓ Name Dra. Tail Name People Name great Fort. Name a Prison This Table being so plain it needs no further Explanation therefore we will proceed to shew you how to project a Figure wherein you may understand your Lott First consider before thou Raisest these 16 Lotts that it 's a Divine Work for it 's the Divine Power above or thy good Angel which guides thy Hand Therefore be thou prudent 〈◊〉 all this Matter free thy self from Passion and Malice Let not thy Head or Fancy be captivated with strong Wine for if thou art vain and childish in this Work thou wilt bring thy self to Disgrace for in it lyes a great Mystery in Raising those Figures by an Angelick Hand I shall say no more but pray mind the Ground-work and consider from whom thy Lott comes it 's from him which is the Maker of all things which gives thee thy Lott and casts thy Dey for thee CHAP. IV. How to Project a Figure wherein you may understand your Lott it being the Divine Power above or thy good Angel which Guides thy Hand HEre you shall have an Example in order that you may make Strokes Stars Circles Pricks as thus When thou goest about these look on thâ— four Fingers for you are to prick four lines oâ—â— longer than the other as your Fingers are which serves for the first Element and four lineâ— more for the second Element and four moâ—â— for the third and so for the fourth c. aâ—… at every end of the Lines leave Two or One But number them not when you prick theâ— down but follow this Example Now I would know what would Remain take my Pen and bring two and two together 〈◊〉 you may observe in the uppermost Line So this in Pricks So couple them together and you will 〈◊〉 what will remain Now we will Frame the four Elements or four Figures as follows Behold the first four Lines the odd makes 〈◊〉 the first Figure and the other 3 4 lines make 〈◊〉 in all 1 2 3 4 Figures which are set in orâ—â—r in the following Page These four are called the Increase or Maâ—… from whence all the other Figures are Prâ—ced the first is attributed to the Fire the 〈◊〉 conâ— to
where the Things missing are laid according to the Points of the Compass Puer East Fort. Maj. Min. East by N. Acquisitio East by S. Populus Via North. Rubeus North by W. Puella ☊ West Tristitia West by N. Carcer South Amissio South by E. Canjunctio South by W. Turn to pag. 213. and you will see the Compass at large The Fifth House De Foecunditate alicujus aut Sterilitate THis House gives you to understand of Fruitfulness or Barrenness in Women or Men to know where the Fault lyes In this case you are to consider the First House the 7th 5th and 1â—th House Consider your former Rules If you find fruitful and good Lotts there then no fear of Children and Pleasure enough but if you find Barren and ill Lotts in those Houses you may expect the contrary and if you find the ☋ or Tristitia in the 5th or beholding the 5th no Issue And you may tell the Querent that he hath but little Pleasure and is heavy-hearted and melancholy judge according to the nature of the Lotts more or less It 's a certain Truth for Children if the first go into the 5th or the 7th into the 11th h. If you find Watry Lotts in the 5th house there 's generally Miscarriage If Female Lotts in the 5th House a Girl If Masculine Lotts in the 5th h. a Boy If Double-bodied Lotts Twins There are many which expect News Letters or Messengers The first House and Lott to him that sent the Messenger the 7th and his Lott is him to whom the Letter is sent the 5th the Messenger and his Decision If the 5th House is beheld by good Lotts or Aspects the Messenger does his Business with Credit If the 5th Lott go into the 2d the Quesited brings Money with him if the Lotts are ill then it may bespeak the Letter-Carrier to be Drunk by the way or some ill In the last place if you intend to go to Play at any Game see if the Lott of the 1st House goes into the 5th or the 7th moves into the 2d Again If you find ♠♃ or ♀ in the 5th h. hope well if thou find to the contrary keep thy Credit and thy Money too The Sixth House An in Morbum incursurus sit aliquis eo Anno THis Sixth House gives an account of Sickness In this Concern cast your Eyes on the 6th or 8th Houses and first see how they are afflicted or if good or ill Lotts And as for the Parts of the Body afflicted they are observed from the Lotts or Houses forementioned as Acquisitio the Head and so on If the first is found in the 6th 8th or 4th Houses if ill Lotts Death is approaching if good the contrary Consider the nature of the Signs of the said places of Fire Air Earth or Water so judge of the Disease and Cause If Fiery Lotts Fevers or such like If Watery Flegm and cold Humours If Earthy Lotts the Rheumatism Gout c. If Earthy then Melancholy especially if they are the Lotts which ♄ rules as ♑ and â™’ called Carcer and Tristitia c. If you would know if the Disease is Acute or Chronical if thou findest Fixed Lotts in the 6th House the Disease or Distemper is of long standing if thou findest them moveable the Disease is of a short standing If ill Lotts are in the 6th 4th or 8th House it 's so much the worse if good the Sick will recover speedily but if a good Lott is in an ill House his Good is something lessened likewise an ill Lott in a good House he is something hindred of his Evil. De Medico Medicina An Medicus Aegrum sit juvaturus PRima datur Aegro aut Quaerenti sexta Morbo septima Medico decima Medicamento bonae existentes figurae bonum indicant effectum 〈◊〉 contrario In decimo testes judices multum valent proinde considerandi Septima datur Medico si igitur prima sexta septima sint bonae fortunatae concordes sanatum iri Aegrum à Medico sperabis è contra Quod si prima sexta undecima sint bonae fortunatae proximam sanitatem judicabis convalescentiam quam undecima indicat To know if the Sick will Live or Die Consider if the Lott of the First House goes from good Company to ill the Party will be weaker every day and if beheld from the 4th or 8th House by ill Aspects the Party certainly dies But when your Figure is ill and moves into good Places and Company you may say the Party will live if the 6th h. does not afflict the same if the Lott in the 8th h. moves into an Angle and afflicted Death If a Figure in the first goeth into the 8th house it shews Death to the Sick If the 8th go into the 10th house the Party dies If thou intend'st to have good and honest Servants or gain by small Cattel see that the 6th house is not afflicted nor ill Company but good good Lotts and thou mayest venture but if not so thou wilt find that thy Servants and small Cattel will be a plague to thee The Seventh House De Amore. LOve is the chiefest thing which is to be enquired after in these Days and to know if it be durable Amoris firmae fixaeque 〈◊〉 Figura fixum indicant mobiles mobilem bicorporeae mediocrem Idem indicat si fixae Figurae sint in Angulis aut mobiles in Cadentibus c. Quest 1. Shall the Querent Marry Answ Sure enough if you find the first Lott and 7th Lott in good Aspects as â–³ âš¹ ☌ and good Company c. but if you find ill Lotts in the first and 7th beheld by a â–¡ or ☠little hopes of Marriage Quest 2. If you desire to know if thy Wife or Sweetheart is chaste or has another Friend Consider well on the 7 Properties of Nature as I have brought the Lotts into Signs and Planets as you see If in the 7th ♄ and ♂ and not in their own Houses then she loves another If ♄ be there she loves another but Melancholy keeps her Chaste If ♄ be there she gives stroak for stroak If ♃ be there very seldom Chaste for her fresh Blood will fly If ♀ be there a Gamesom Lady given to youthful Sports and talks Bawdy but chaste when many think her to be a Gamesom Whore If ☿ in the 7th House her Fancy flyes as many ways as the Wind blows and many pretty Sparks have left her If ☽ there Chaste but said to be a Whore If ☉ ☊ be in the 7th very Chaste Quest 3. If you desire to know which shall die first Consider the first and 7th House see which Lotts are strongest or which weakest the strongest live longest if they are free from ill Eyes of the Lotts of the 4th 8th and 6th Houses Quest 4. An Mulier autem sit aliquem in Maritum obtentura Videat 7 8 si enim 7 cum 8 jungatur
will this Ill happen to this our Querent seeing it 's so that it will be Why truly the Caldeans Egyptians and Rosie-Gruâ—ians and others hath encourag'd me in this Work finding them true to number out Times and Seasons and they have given us those Lotts in poiuting out some for Years some for Months some for Days and some for Hours viz. the fixed for Years the common for Months and moveable for Days and Hours as is already shewn you Now some observe for Weeks the Lott Cauda Draconis for Days the Lott Conjunctâ—o and for Hours the Lott Amissio So I consider'd my Rules and found that this Trouble would fall on this Man in about a Months time and so it was a Month and three Days after the Vision or Dream and at that time the two forementioned Persons went to a Justice of the Peace and swore this Qâ—erent of ours had robb'd Money and that he kept company with Clippers and Coiners so his House was searched and they found nothing but he was apprehended and carried before such Persons as before-mentioned and was there Examined And as for his Freedom or Deliverance you shall have it at large in the next Chapter But Reader this is no new thing now in our Days for it 's very frequent that such Persons of a double dye in Knavery for a revenge to gratify their own Will to make nothing to â—wear Treason against a Man fallly and maliciously But in this particular I will open to you the Way and Method to know the Nature of a Dream or Vision or the word Somnium it 's no more but an Observation drawn from the 9th h. which is the House of our Querent's Spiritual Guide which did reveal to him this Trouble Shame and Disgrace a Month before it came Now we will take a view of our great Work and we may find that on the 9th House is that Lott called Rubeus which is of a bloody and harsh nature insomuch that our former Philosophers said If that Figure Rubeus ariseth in your Figure let it be say they depopulated or destroyed Now I am of the contrary opinion for as long as we live under the Elements we must expect ill as well as good The Astrologers do not destroy their Figures when they find the ☋ in the Ascendant or elsewhere for they observe some Knavery forth coming thereby to themselves or to the Qâ—…nt Neither do I advise you when you find the Lott Rubeus or ill Lotts to cast it aside but observe the Nature and Qualities thereof As for Example Rubeus is in the 9th turn back to the main Rule viz. to the Lotts in the 9th h. and you will find what that Lott Rubeus is what it signifies in the 12th House in every House he differs something But in the main it 's a Lott of a destructive Nature and of a Watery Triplicity but many Writers compare it to both Fire and Water upon extreams having no mercy And very like unto this Nature was the Vision of our Querent viz. Burning and Consuming by Fire or Water or both in a most frightful and terrible manner And this is my Opinion and Judgment on the Vision of this Gentleman Now I went to him and laid down this my Judgment concerning the Vision and he told me it was very true for Fire and Water with Destruction was the ground-work of his frightful Dream Then I desired this our Querent to reveal to me the whole Matter The VISION opened Nuperrimè factum est cum quidam Homo alterum velut ab utero materno nudum humi procumbentem supino more vidisset cujus venter magno vulnere consossus est qui alta voce cum advocavit ut ei istud vulnus sanaret Somniator noster se promptè effecisse arbitrabatur cum sauciatus iste sese in faciem ex improviso convertens vulnus à tergo longe horribiliorem in lucem protulit quod carnem ejus usque adeo torsit ut brevi in cinerem redigi nec non in viscera ejus descendere videbatur quo aspectu ad tempus obmut uit Animum autem tandem revocans interrogavit eum num adhuc inter vivos esset cum pro responso habuit se it a isse subito inclamavit ut aquam ei adferent ad inflamatum ejus corpus extinguendum quocum statim expergefecit God often doth by Dreams to us declare Strange Accidents before they do appear By a Dream shew'd Joseph what should fall To him his Parents and his Brethren all By Dreams likewise did Pharaoh understand There would be seven years Famin in the Land His Butlers Dream shew'd Pharaoh would restore Him to his Place that he had lost before The Baker's Dream also did signifie That in three days he should be Hang'd high The Souldiers to Gideon did foreshow That he the Midianites should overthrow More may be said of Dreams and their Events And how they shew our Good or Discontents But this I hope at present may suffice Since a Word may be enough to the Wise CHAP. III. A Brief Account of the Delivery Friendship and Support of this Querent under so great a Scandal and Disgrace drawn from this Angelical Work of Ours 1. IN the first place observe that we have here two Witnesses and one Judge and first we will speak of the two Witnesses the Right Witness is called Laetitia a Lott in English signifying Joy and Gladness Now this Right Witness is always taken for the Querent and signifies his Concern either good or ill and to be more larger it hath also an inspection into all the Houses on that side that is to say 2 3 4 9 10 it discovers what the Motion of the Querent is before propounded And this I must tell you is a good Testimony of the Gentleman's Integrity and Honesty And in this I am more plain because I would instruct young Students Secondly As for the Left Witness it bears Testimony of the Mind and Intention of your Enemies and as a Landskip of the other Heuses in that side c. The Lott which is the Left Witness is called Rubeus a Lott of a desperate bloody-mindeâ— Nature which very patly represents the horrid Treason sworn by PORNE Homo scelestus and with the Lott Populus in the 7th House these together give you a plain Discovery of the forementioned Knavery as if you had it printed before your Eyes Thirdly Another Testimony of our Querent's speedy Delivery is by that Lott which we call the Judge viz. ☉ retr in ♉ Observe here Rules of truth taken from the Caldeans and the Rosie-Crucian-men When the Judge moves himself into the â—oth h. of the Querâ—nt it 's an absolute Testimony that the Judge of the Law will do Justice This happens to our Querent if you look back to our great Work you will plainly see it and the Judge freed this our Prisoner and the Clerks also of the Law cry'd out shame on this PORNE