CHAPTER VI.

hermes stella.

Bacon's Mysterious Astrological MSS. Notes, 1603, with
Stran(4e Parallels from the Rosicrucian Robert
Fludd.

Spedding, in his " Note to Preface to Valerius Terminus,"
describes certain writing in Bacon's hand found at the bottom of
the title page of " Valerius Terminus," and which he reproduces
in facsimile.

SacGimilt

OF

THE TITLE PAGE OF THE MANUSCRIPT

OF THE

VALERIUS TERMINUS.

See pp. 205 and 21.3, voL iii., "Phil. Wks.," Si)eddiiig,

At the bottom of the title page of " Valerius Terminus of the
Interpretation by Nature," with the annotations of Hermes
Stella, Ave find in Bacon's hand : —

/

^fj (T-:^ ^f^, x^.

y° ■'jr. iS~^ : / pfj o ■_/' -^f . y . J
//Sri cd'nytcfiu!^ ^^ / -haj ^ ^ . „^

398 HERMES STELLA.

Speckling endeavoured to throw what light he could upon
what he considered these to be astronomical figures, Avith the
date 1603 attached to them. In a footnote he writes :—" The
writing' in the original is on the outside of the last leaf, Avhich is
in fact the cover. The front cover, if there ever was one, is lost.
The ink with which the line containing the symbols is written
corresponds witli that in the body of the MS. ; and the line itself
is placed symmetrically in the middle of the page near the top.
The two lower lines are apparently by anotlier hand, probably of
later date, certainly in ink of a different colour, and paler. The
word ' Philosophy ' is in Bacon's own hand, written lightly in the
upper corner at the left, and is no doubt merely a docket inserted
afterwards when he Avas sorting his papers. What connexion
there was between the note and the MS. it is impossible to say.
But it is evidently a careful memorandum of something, set
down by somebody when the MS. was at hand ; and so many of
the characters resemble those adopted to represent the planets
and the signs of the zodiac, that one is led to suspect in it a note
of the positions of the heavenly bodies at the time of some
remarkal)le accident ; — perhaps the plague, of which 30,578
persons died in London, during the year ending 22nd December
1G03. The period of the conunencement, the duration, or the
cessation of such an epidemic might naturally be so noted. Now
three of the characters clearly represent respectively Mercury,
Aquarius, and Sagittarius. The sign for Jupiter, as we find it in
old books, is so like a 4, that the first figure of 45 may very well
have been meant for it. The monogram at the beginning of the
line bears a near resemblance to the sign of Capricorn in its most
characteristic feature. And the mark over the sign of Aquarius
a}qimr^ to hr an ahhrcnafvm <if tJint tviiich usualh/ represents the Sun.
(The blot between 1G0."5 and 15 is nothing; l)eing only meant to
represent a figure G Ijlotted out with the finger before the ink
was dry.) Suspecting therefore that the writing contained a
note of the positions of Mercury and Jupiter in the year 1603, I
selit a copy to a scientific friend, and asked liim if from such data

HERMES STELLA. 399

he could determine the muiith indieuted. He found U[)ou a
rough calculation (taking account of mean motions only) tliat
Jupiter did enter the sign of Sagittarius about the 10th of August
1603, and continued there for about a twelvemonth; that the
Sun entered Aquarius about the 12th or 13th of January 1603-4 ;
and that JNIercury Avas aliout the 16th or 17th of the same month
in the 26th or 27th degree of Capricorn : — coincidences which
would have been almost conclusive as to the date indicated, if
Capricorn had only stood where Aquarius does, and vice versa.
But their position as they actually stood in the MS. is a f(jrmid-
able, if not fatal, objection to the interpretation.

" According to another opinion with which I have been
favoured, the first monogram is a vota, bene : the next grou}) may
mean Dies Mercurii (Wednesday) 26//i Januari/ 1603 ; and the rest
refers to something not connected with, astronomy. But to this also
there is a serious objection. The 26th of January 1603-4, was a
Friday ; and it seems to me vei'y improbable that any English-
man would have described the preceding January as belonging
to the year 1603. Bacon himself invariably dated according to
the civil year, and the occasional use of the historical year in
loose memoranda would have involved all his dates in confusion.
I should think it more probable that the writer (who may have
been copying a kind of notation with which he was not familiar)
miscopied the sign of Venus into that of Mercury ; in which case
it would mean Friday, 26th January 1603-4. But even then the
explanation would be unsatisfactory, as leaving so much un-
explained. Those however who are familiar with old MSS.
relating to such subjects may probably be able to interpret the
whole."

"We have a strange astronomical pai"allel to point out in con-
nection Avith this date 1603, and the entry of Jupiter into the
sign Sagittarius. And we discovered it this way. We were
reading Robert Fludd (the great English Rosici^ucian) in his
reply, 1617, to the attacks of Libavius upon the assertions of the
Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, written in a little Avork entitled

400 HERMES STELLA.

" Tniotatus Apologetici," when we c;ime upon Chapter V. of the
First Part, in which Fludd exphiiiis how the appearance of new
stars were taken l)y the society as a sign of God's will to them
(the Rosicnician Society), indicating a restoration of the world
and an augmentation of the Order. The title of the chapter
runs, " Quod voluntas Dei ej usque ordinationes characteribus
magiii liliri Xatura? et signaculis novarum stcllaiuni deelarari
])Ossit."

Tex. Dei nmmlnm restauraturi voluntas dgnartdis novarum stel-
larum et characteribus magni lihri natnra' dedarata est (ch. v.,
pars. i.).

That the Will of God and His Providence through the charac-
ters of the great book of Nature, and through new stars can be
made manifest. The Will of God in the reformation, ameliora-
tion (or restoration) of the world has been declared through the
signs of new stars, and through the characters of the great book
of Nature.

Fludd proceeds noAv to indicate Avhat these stars and signs are,
and at the end of the chapter gives a Horoscope, Avith the date
20th of December 1603, which is the year attached to Bacon's
mysterious annotations. Fludd tells us that new stars have
a])peared in Serpentarius and Cygnus, and this last star Ave find
Bacon * also noting in his works.

It may l)e seen Spedding, in his note, assumes one of Bacon's
figures in the facsimile given of the title page of the manuscript
is meant for Jupiter and Sagittarius. Noav it is an excessively
strange and striking parallel that Fludd, in the chapter Ave allude
to, lays the greatest stress upon Jujsiter entering Sagittarius on the
20th December 1603 in conjunction Avith Saturn. Fludd Avrites :
"Anno Dom. 1603, die 20 mensis. Decemb. secundum novam
computationem, hora Mcridiana perccpi, quod Saturiuis in gra. 8

* Etiaiii coiispici luiiicr cd-pit stella nova in pectoie Cygni, i\\\x jam ]ier
(luodecini annos integros duravit, retatem conicta^ (<inalis habetur) longo
intervallo siipergressa, nee adliiic diniinuta ant adornan.s fiigam. (P. 752,
vol. iii., " I'liil. Works," E. and S.)

HERMES STELLA. 401

et 39 mill. Suggittarii movcret. Similiter quod Jupiter grad. 8 et
39 mill. r)8 secund. ejusdem signi eodem fere iustante sibi vendi-
carct " (p. 70, pars. i.). (" In the year 1G03, the 20th December
following, new style, at midday, Saturn in 8 degrees, 39 seconds,
entered Sagittarius. Likewise, Jupiter nearly at the same mo-
ment, in 8 degrees 39 seconds, entered the same sign — Sagit-
tarius.")

In the " Confession of the Eosicrucian Fraternity addressed to
the learned of Europe," which appeared in 1615, reproduced by
Mr Waite in his " Keal History of the Rosicrucians " (p. 93), we
read : " God, indeed, hath already sent messengers which should
testifie His will, to wit, some new stars which have appeared in
Serpentarius* and Ci/giuis, the which powerful signs of a great
Council show forth how for all things which human ingenuity
discovers, God calls upon His hidden knowledge, as likewise the
Book of Nature, though it stands open truly for all eyes, can be
read or understood hy only a very few."

I propose to give here the entire chapter from Fludd verbatim.
The reader Avill find it sufficiently curious, and is begged to
note the reference to Solomon at the beginning, and remember
Solomon is the founder of Bacon's " College of the Six Days " in
the " New Atlantis." Also that Fludd alludes to the star of
Bethlehem, which appeared in 1572 in Cassiopea, and with the
advent of tvhich the Eosicrucian Society is intimately connected. It
was with the appearance of this star that Paracelsus wrote:
" Quod utilius Deus patefieri sinet, quod autem majoris moment!
est, vulgo adhuc hitet usque ad Eliae Artistne adventum, quando
is venerit." " God will permit a discovery of the highest im-
portance to \)Q made, it must be hidden till the advent of the
artist Elias." Again : " And it is true, there is nothing concealed

* The Rliodiaiis, who had a special veucration i'or the sun, as their magni-
ficent solar Colossus attests, recognised in SKurEXTAKius, Phoibas, a hero
who had exterminated the serpents which formerly infested their country.
The Rhodians, or Rose-worshippers, or Rosycrucians, never embarked on any
maritime expedition without oifcring sacrifice to ITioibas" ("Enoch," vol. ii.,
Kenealy).

2 (J

462 irERMES STELLA.

which shall not be discovered, for which cause a marvellous heing
shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal
many things" (Waite's "Real History of the Rosicrucians," p. 34).
On the next page the same author writes: "The comet of 1572
was declared by Paracelsus to be " the sign and harbinger of the
approaching revolution." It was this comet or star which shone
upon Bacon's freshmanship at Cambridge, when he was twelve
years old, and when he first began to question the philosophy
of Aristotle. T)m star* is expected to recqipear again cither this year
or at least shortly, its ijeriod varying slightly over three hundred
years.

There can be no question the Rosicrucians connected their
advent closely with this event. They took Christ with His self-
sacrifice, mystery, and atonement, as an emblem for their own
secret ends. We see this in their jewel, a crucified rose on a
cross — we find it in their typical allusions to themselves as
husbandmen (AgricoLne), and in their religious aims to aid the
Reformation and combat the papacy.

It is for some astronomer versed in these matters to decipher
Bacon's notes, and declare whether they refer to the same con-
junction of stars that Fludd calls attention to in 1603. The year
is the same in both cases. If, as I firmly believe, Bacon's notes
refer to Jupiter and Saturn, with Venus or other stars entering
Sagittarius, it will be easy to discover whether there were two
such conjunctions the same year 1603. It is a highly suspicious
fact that Fludd connects this conjunction Avith the Rosicrucian
Fraternity. Bacon thought it evidently of some importance, else
ho woiUd not have attached the words " Hermes Stella," which
means a secret star. That it all is connected with some cipher is
suggested by the false paging implied injhe words —

Libi'i dimidium est pagina 34
I'agcllariiiui iiiiineri vcri.

This proves Bacon mispaged purposely, as Mr Donnelly has

* Tliis .star lasted till '[hi A, wliicli same year Robert Fludd was born ; died
1037, buried Bearsted Cliurcli, Kent.

HERMES STELLA. 403

already said of the 1G23 Folio, and which is again evidenced in
the 1640 "Advancement of Learning," where we find the first false
paging 52 (upon true page 50), and the second false paging 53
(upon true page 55), these two numbers 52, 53 constituting
Shakespeare's full age, 1616, and the year he had just entered
when he died. The sum of these figures 52 and 53 is 105, and
if it is coincidence, it is a very strange one, to find Bacon com-
mences the subject of Poetry upon page 105 of this same work.
Our firm conviction is that 52 and 53 are mathematical por-
traits of (in the frame paging) Shakespeare, 1616. I give the
German translation as it stands from the text Adamah Booz,
1782.

5)ae fediflc .Rapitcl.

3)ajj ber aBide ®otte^ iinb fctiic '•ijcvovbnungen burc^ Scjeid^nmujcn bed gvcfcii
9Zatuvbucl;ci^, imb buvcf) nciic vStcviiHlbcv an^cjciijct ivcvbcu fcnnc.

%ix\. : Scv aBifle ©otto in bcr iHn-yinc()mcnbcit U^cibcffevmiij bcr ®cU ift biivcf^
xviXM (Stcvnbilber, \\\\\} biuc^ a3cjcicl)miiU3cn bct3 cjiopcii 3{atuvbiic{;ct5
aiiijebeutet uunbcn.

3n ben «ov()ev3c()enben ijl bcuncfen »»ovben, baf bie gef)eimen Sejcic^mingeit ben
Stevucn am vievten laije xumi ®ctt eincjebvnift imb einijejeic^nct ivcvbcn finb, bnvct)
bereu Dvbnnnij unb ©tellunij anf ben l)immlifrf;en *£eiten bes ijropen DJatiivbiic^ed
gebeimc vSinnbilber bevvcvcjebvacbt >revbcn, imb in bcven Snnevllen grope nnb
ipunbevbave 9uxtiii\je()cimnijfe bccjvijfen jinb. Sag Seben, SCefen nub adc (£tgen;
fc^aften bev Sterne bejletjen alfo im ffiorte ; ireil jie unb bie ^immel burets SBort
be(? ^errn gemacbt finb. D^ne ber UK[eiitlirf)en Jlenutnip, Scfen unb ivaf^ren
JBebeutung biefer SBejcic^nuucjen unb geljeimen Sinnbilber, ift ade ayeltlvcii^ljeit
ni(!^t^ anbcrei alij ivvxf)rc 3^()or^eit unb Unh)ijfen^eit, unb bie Slilrolcgie ijl fiir cine
eitcle unb abercjldubifc^c ffiiffenfcfiaft \\\ ()a(ten, bcrcn innl^erfiujungen (nieiftcnp)
ungeani^ unb liujcnbaft befunbcn werbcn. 2)cnn ivcm bie .ficnutnip biefer
gel^eimen epvacbe unb 5cf)ri[t, unb bcr tierborgencn Segeic^nuuijen, \?on ©ott
tHrlictjcu ijl; bcr iinrb audf) bie uvibrcn Dlaturen, 33eranberunijen nnb Giijen;
fc^aften bcr ©eftirne, unb aUe i()re aBi'ufunijen unb a>crricf)tuni3en, ijlcicfjfaut wit
erleut^teten Slugen lefen unb »erjte(jen fonnen. ?lber biefc aBiffenfc^aft ber
93c5eid^nunc;en unb i'5cf}cimen ()imm(ifcf)cn Sinnbilbcr ift cabaliftifc^, unb cine of)ue
2)entmalc bcr *i3ucbftaben gefcf)e()enc miinblic^e gortpfian^ung vom 93ater anf ben

404 HERMES STELLA.

2ol;n. Uutfv Diefe 9trt bev C^abala fc^eint tic .Rcfmoli\Vf, I'tcr ffic(t(f()vc, mit
bcijrifif'en 511 \t\)\\, in ivcl(^cv bcfmibcvi^ you ten ©ctjfimiiijTcu tci? 2Juc^ei^ bcv DIatur
gcf)anbclt uuvb, iiibcm tiuc^ cine iH'llfontmcnc (Sinfiitt bicfcv aBif|cnf*aft bcr
ivvbifrf)cn nnb l^inimlifdjcn rinc^c .ITvaftc nub (iii^cnfdwftfU cvfldvct ivcvben. 3n
bicfcr !Jh-t bcv ai>if|cnfd>aft foil '3 vile men ftc^ fiir alien anberu beiiHn\jetl}an, unb
ben SefcliifTel biefcv v3c()eimcn 3c^veit\ut befefTcn ()abcn, ivcil cv bcv cbcvn nub
nutevu iTiui^e ^iJatuvcn vcvjlaiib, nub in allcv 5lvt bcv u\il)veu iBciel)eit nntcvvichtct
nnb anf cine hnmintcvniMviivbivjc iU'eifc i^ciibt umv. 'i>iellctc^t ift cbcu biefc i?lvt
ber ^<!i!o<iX<!i bcu ^i3vnbcvn bcv ©cfcdfitaft ^nnn OJcfenfvcn^c von i()vem initcv
Oloffiifvent^ uac^ 9lvt bcv 3nbcn iUH'Vv^cbcn ivovbcn ; bcnu ct( fcfnint alci cb ftc
bicfeci (iincivol)l ui*t uiit <^j^\\\ bcntliilH'U 'JiUn-tcn) in ilivcv gauia nnb (Icufcpicu
befcnnetcn. SDcnn bcni alfo ift; ift cs? baun ivolil uumcvjlicf), ba^ fie eben baqenige
bnvcf) ticfe Jlnnft tciftcn, loat^ nnfcvc inn-fai^vcn, bie bicfcti ®cfcf)euf nvfpvruu'\licl)
luni @ott fclbft cuti^fauijcu, bauiit vcvvicfitct t^abcu ? ai^clcfje \\<\Ay bem 3cuvViiffc
3cfe).'>(j(J nnb anberev glanbunivbijcu 2cfn-iftftc((ev in bcv Jlcnutuip nnb ©cobacb;
tuug bcv S8cjcicf)unugcn nub 93cfcf)affcnl)citcn bcv Stcvuc bcvvicftalt cvfa()vcu gcircfeu
jtub, ba^ fie fcin 93cbeufcn tvngcn, anei bem cinfi(f)tiUH''l(cn 9lnfifancu bcv gcftivntcn
^imntcl vun-aui^ \\\ fagcu : ivaes @ott adcei fiiv 53efcl}lc bnvd^ bie Stcvue, gleiitfam
ale bnvct; fcinc 3)icucv, t^icvuntcn luodc anoigcvid^tct {)<s!ciz\\. 3a eg frf)cint, ale< cb
Scfeptjug eiugcfef)cn t^dttc, baf biefe ^unjl bem 91 bant jnevjl cjcoffcnbavct UHnbcu
\i\), alti >rcUf cnt, umc fcfiou obcu cviva()uct ivovbcu ift, bnvdi bicfcu iV'ttliitcu Uutcv;
ricl)t ade (5"igcufcf}aftcn allcv ®cfc{)opfc, and) anf il)vcu evftou 9lublirf, bcfaunt, nnb
luvmogc bcv il)ucn bnvd^g Sort cingcbvucften gcttlictjcu Sejeidjunngcu, bcntlid)
nub cffcnbahv umvcu. (?ii tvai^t fici^ ^irav biiMrcitcu ^n, tap anrfi 9lftcvaflvoU\v-'n,
bencu bie Wdjcimniffc bcv u\il)vcu 9ljlvologic, cbcv 3tcvntcutcvlunft, uubclaunt
jinb, bnvc^ i^ve betviigcvifc^e unb ungciuiffe Jtnuji ctUHii^ geunfj'etJ iipvljevjicllcu nnb
bejiimnicn, jcborf) ol)ne bie natiivlic^eu ^c^ctcfninui^cu bcv I)iuiutlifii)cn Scitcn ^n
unficn ; ebcu fc, une bie gemeincn ®cftcl,Ue(;uut Jp^^intcival^vfagcv, nacfitcm ftc
(an(5 ten vt>vl)cv augcfcl)cncu ^iucen nnb ©uvclifrfniitl''"" '^^^ @eft(f>ti5 cbcv bcv
^anb) tie 9lnlageu nnb 9tnucignugcu bcv SUienfrfieu bctvad^tct Ijabcn, bie natiiv;
X\6!jm JBe^cictjnnngcn bcvfelbcn abcv gan;;lic^ iievnadilapigcn, cbcv viclmel)v nirf)t
vevftct)cu, biiMiicileu etumei gclinfCcii ih'vI)cv nnb >val)V ^n fagcn l^ficgcu, fo, bap ftc
cinigevmapeu biiMvcilcn von ^innantcvungcn tcv 2nft, ©cbnvtt^ftcllnngcn, ©icb;
ftdl)leu, Sal)len nnb tcvglcidKit mcbv, ctlvai< vovl)cvfagcn fonueu; abcv bod^ fo,
bap ihv UrtlH-il nub ^ufanftij-ic 2icllnng fcbv niaui^clhaft, fel)levl)aft, nub mit
i>icleu 3uHnfcln nut Univ~ioii^bcitcu iH-nnifrfit ift ; un-il ticfc il)ve 'iJBalivfagnng blop
ane! ber SBiivfuug nub (Svfaljvnug licvgcnonnncu ift, uirfit abcv ane< if}vcui llvfpvnngc,
ndmlicfi anci cincv umbvcu i^inficbt bcv l^-^cicbnuugcu bcv bimmlifcficn *)}atnv.
3ic ncl)mcn alfo il)vc ''■i^oiocifc ano bcv (Svfaljvnng ()cv, ivo gcntciniglirf; ind "-Bctvug

HERMES STELLA, 405

niit untcvUiiift, unb nirftt ms, ''i^enumiti^viinbcti, al>? auf ukIc^cii adc mu^c^iwifclte
aiHi()v(;cit bcni()ct. (Sc* ift alfo offciiKil^v, taf; ci> iiirfn fdilucv fc^m faun, am? ben
evfvinutcn Se^cic^miui-jm bct? iivofjcu iKatiiibiuiicci von bcii ffiiivfmiflm bcv t()cile(
fcit bcr 2c()oVMtiii^ f)t^i' VHnl)aiibc:icn, tl)ciK^ cvft iiculirf) cv|"rf;ieucucii, Stcvnc ricfitifl
nub glcictfam niit cffcncu Jliu-jcii ju uvtl)cilcn. Unb bocf) fracit Sr fiibainuiJ:
>rie ct^ ntcvjlict) \i\)\\ fintnc, ben cjotttictjen aBiUen <xw6 neuen <Stein;
bilbevn oovaue* ju fai-^en? Scni »inv Ijicranf ferncv antiinntcn, ba^ bicfcei
nic^t anbevei i3cfci;cl)c, ale* unc bic i^ercvbnnnijcn <m> ifjrcn 9In^fii()vungcn, cbcv bie
Uvfac()on ^w^ i()vcn *H>ivt'nni^cn, cbcr bcv ©vunbfa^ aucS fcinnn (S'nb^ivciic, cvfannt
iwevben. JT'cnn bic ai^cifcn bcjeucjcu, ba^ ane< bcm (i'nbjivcrfc cincv jebcn 5lbftcf)t
i^r ©vunbfalj cvfjcUc. ^0 bewcifcn bic juv JUiofutjvnng biefcv obcr jcncv Sacf^c
fcvtivjcn JTicncv bic 5lbficfu bcei '!Bcfc(}l(;abci\<. 5o bcbcittcn bic i-^cfcl^cncn unb mm
ben ®ci|'cn cvfanntcu nub vcvftanbcncn '■Bc^^cid^nmujcn unb (Sinbvfufe ciner
5lncvbniini^ <x\\\ bcm ()imm(if^en ^papievc ben anei^ufiU;vcnben aiUften bcs Dbevjlcn.
Unb [0 unc cin ncucv 5tcvn, aid ctn\ui fcitcnctj in bcr DJatnv, fiii cin ®nnbcviiH-vf
ju Ijaltcn ill, fo jciijcn and) bic in il^m gcfchcncn rbci beutcvftcn SBc.^cic^nun^^cn bic
crjiauncnben unb nntnbevbavcn Sffiiirfnuijen bci? cjottlid^en SBillcne! an. 2o
iievna()nicn bic SJJaiji cbcv Si'cifcn anef bcm 2}?ov\-icnlanbc ant? ben lunn SUJovi^cn
jic^ bcivctjcnbcn ncncn Stevnbilbc ben 'ILUtlcn ®ottcg : ba^ namlic^ bcv Jl'onivj bcv
Suben, cin gcttlic^ev unb iibcv a((c anbcve ev()abenev SJiaun, in Subcia i3cbol}vcn
fci). !Dcnn fie [al)cn, lafcn unb cvfanntcu mit i()veu Slugcn bic a3ejeic^uuni3
(S^vifti in bem ©tevnc. SOo ([vagcn fie ®attl). ii. 2) ift bcv ncngebo()rne
.ftiiniij bev Snben? 2iUv fjaben fcinen ©tevn gcfc()cn int 2)Jovgculanbe,
n. f. n\ 2)ad (}ei^t : cinen Stevn, in iveldjcm bie Sejcic^nnnijcn @f)vijli cinjc;
i]vaben ftnb. 3)cnn fie untvben uid)t ctum eincci ungciinffcn, fonbevn einc^ (if^viflo
allcin cigencn Stcvncii i3civa()r, nid;t anbevei, ak^ ivtcnn ftc ben gottlidjcn unb
unaui^fpvcd)lidicu 9iamcn biefcti Jloniejii mit gct^cimcn a^c^cidniungcn t^iucinge-
fcf)vicben vjcfcfjcn l)attcu. 3a fie nni^tcn aui^ ben UMinbcvbaveu a3ejcid)nuni3en bc6
Stcvui? inn-fjev, balp bev gcbot^vne (5l)vijlut^ fcin gentcincr, foubevn cin gcijllid^ev
unb anbctungiMviivbigcv iliinig fci), bal)cv fie il)u auffud)ten, unb (ivic cincnt @otte)
gi3tt(id)e @()ve eviinefen. J^ievane! fc()cn nnv aifo, bap nid)t blc^ ben 3uben, fonbevn
\x.\\^ auci(anbifd)cn ii'eifcn, namlid) ^^unfevu, bev vcvbin-gcnfic unb gclicbtcjle SBilte
©ottct? buvd) a^c^icidinungcu cinci^ neuen 2tevnt( cffcnbavet ivovbcu fcl). iTic evftevc
Slnfunft (S()vijti i|l alfo buvcf) ^^c^eic^nuugen einctJ neuen Stevne! bev Si'elt angef iinbigt
trovbcn ; etJ nnvb bal)ev and) nid)tef uumcglidjcci fcim, bafj feinc (c^tere Snfnnft,
unb aubeve nntnbevbave SScvviditungcn, an*? ben a3c5eid)nungen nenev i^tcvne ^u
imfevn 3citcn buvd; miuiblic^c ^4>vcp()c^ei)um3cn anosc^cigct uievbcn fonuen, jumal
ba biefcv aWci)nuni3 bcv *pvop()et Sect ii. 28-30 bcit^upfiid^ten fdjciut, iro @ctt
fvvid)t: 3c(; ivill mcincn @cift au^gicfjen iibev aUed Stfifcf), nub

4o6 HERMES STELLA.

eiire <Scf;nc iinb !lccf)tcr fodcn ivciffviijcn ; cure ?[e(tcftcn foKcn
2'ranmc f)afccii; unt cure Siincjlinac follcu ®cfic(}tc fel)cn. ?luc()
null ill) \\\K fclbiiU" 3fit bc«bc iibcv Jfiiec^te uub SUiai^tc utciucn
®cift aiii^i^iff^cn. 3il) null ii>uubcvjcicl)cn cjcben im Jpiiiimcl uub
A\\\ ©vbcn II. f. IV). Tvu^icuiv}e abcv ()fipct ciii 'iiUtubcviinn-f obcv il^iuiccvjcic^cn,
tttag ftct; in bcv 9Jatuv fcUcn ^iitvdijt, bal;cv ivav bcv ten 'ii^etl"cn aite* ^Jlorijeiilaube,
erfcfeicncnc vStcni ciii ii'iiuDev in bcv 91atiir. >£i.' ftub aucf) bie ^u iiiifcvn 3fitcn
fic^tbav ijciiHH-bcncii 3tonic im ^£ciUaiu3mtvao|Cv imb Scfiivanc, [iiv •ii.>imtcv in
bcr Statur ju (jaltcii. UiiD ivcnit unv Cic liJat:tv bci^jcnigen 3etc^cn^, cbcv bcvjciiii^cn
2ani\e bci^ S'l)ievfvcifcci aiu -'pimntcl, in ivcld^cr bic finnbi(blicl)c isiiyiv bcti
*2cl)Kuujcntvai^cic(, oi)ev bciJ Scvpcntavint? cbcv £)vl)incfioi\ be^viffcn ift, auf cine
b(cp gcmcinc afirclogifc^e Stvt betvad^tcn, unb bic ^immcleijcfivaU nacl) bcv ^a^^c unb
(StcUuncj bcv Sanije bicfcd Beici^cn^ nntcvfuc^cn ivollcn ; fo trcvbcn iviv in bic
©cijcnb bciS 3d}ii|cn unb in bats S^<\m etcv iyol^mtni^ bcc( jnpitcves fomnicn, unt,
nad^ cincv blcf auf gcmcinc 3lvt angcftcdtcn 93ccbad}tnng bcv DIatuv bicfcv 5tcUc,
ftnbcn : baf^ fie nic(}t ivenii] ^uv i>ev()cvrlicl)unv^ bcv 23viibcvfc()aft,
unb ^uv 'iiial)vl)cit ibvcv ^i'lcvl^Cifi)"";]^" bcvtvac^e. Tcun nac^ bcv
natiivliitcn I'lufcinanbcvfolcsnng bcv 3cicl)cn, ivcnn unv vent Sibbcv \\\ jal)lcn
anfauijcn, (in ivcUfom Bciitcn ftcf; bic Sonne bo.) (S'utftcijnnij bcv 'iinHt ^ncvft
bciucgt Ijabcn foil) ivivb ihv ba>3 cvflc J^ant? bcv Jpintmclsjgefialt ^Ui-^cciijnct ; bae*
anbcrc bem Sticvc : batS bvittc ben 3unllinvjcn, n. f. f. 4iUv aicvbcn alfo fintcn,
baf; bcv 2-dni(3e fcincn natiivlicficn litanb iui ncuntcn S^^\\\i l)abe, UHHd)c«3
Dlciigion, ©cieK^eit, Jvannic, uia()vc @cfif()tc an^ciijct; bal)cv bic Slvabev
bicfco 4?aui3 bic OJclic^icn unb ^'^i>i\ fclbft gcncnnct habcn. (Scf ift
ciuiijevntajjcn bnvcl) bic (S"vfa()vnnij( bcftvitiijct, baf; wcijcn bcv ii>al)vfa{inm3, uniil^c
3upitcv uatiiv(id)cvUHnfc in bicfcv Stcllnn^ bcbcntct, *4>vopbc^c\)nn3cn, Ji>al)V;
faguncjen unb (iv^al^luncjcn fiinftigev 5)ini3c anjc^ciijct lucvbcn.
Saljcr cij iua()vfci}cinlirfj ift, bap bicjcnicjcu, trc(cf)e bic gcficimcn SBcjcirfjnuuijcn bcv
in bicfcv Sdncjc beg Kjierfveifcg neutid} cntbccften Stcvne gu Icfen uub ^u vcvftcljcn
bic ©cfc^idlic^feit bcft(5eu, anc^ el^nc Bivcifcl inclc unb ttiunbevbavc Sad)cn von
bcm ai^ac()gt()uinc bcv aBcigfjeit, ihmi bcv 'il'al)rfagung buvcf) ®cficl)tc,
»on iBoraneifagungen ^ufiiuftioiev 5)ingc, ""b bcv9lcicl)cn nte()v, bcv
aBelt n>evbcn iKifiinbigen fcnncn. Sceglcid;cn faun bcv ncnlid) im v2d;u\vnc
fidjtbav ijovevbcnc Stcvn, in \\i fcvnc cv in bcv iidnge bci^ Stcinbcdi* anvjctvoffcn
nnvb, bcm in bcv uatiivlidu-n 9icil}c bcv 3cid}cn bcv gcbntc :If)cil bcv JpimmcU^cjcftaU
jugecignct nnvb, ''ii.Mivbe nub (S'vl)ci)uni3 bcv 'il'cU, bnvd) cine (Svncucvung, b. I),
iicvdntevnug bcvfclbcn <xm bcm frfjiecfrtcvn iuiJ bcffcvc, an^cigcn nub vcr()cvbebcutcn.
2)eun bae< ,^cl)nte ^ane( iKvf^n-icljt .!pevvfc()aft, ii'iivbe, ^Bcvbcffcvung
uub (Svl)o()uni3. 3a ee cvcjicfjet fic(; auS bcv bcftdnbigen £lucUc

HERMES STELLA. 407

feiitr .^tvaft mit fcl)i' i-5fiicfliif)cv nub jitiic limciibcr 9lupiUniUi^ bcv
Jfiinftc. Db alfo i^lcid) (U'ic i» i'f"' vcvl^ev^cfaijtcii (Hlincfen ivovbcn ift) ciii jcbcv
€tcru cine gcl^cime S3qeid)minci buvd;S ai^ovt (Sijcvbe) (h^) feinev ©d^cpfung il)m
ciiu'^fbnicft cmpfaiu^cit ()at, >vcld)c glcidifam baci ©icgcl fcince! Scbciiei ijl ; fo faun
boc^ bieiaHnlcu [ctbft ciii il^cifcv uiib iit bcit "Bc^ctd^nuiti^cii bev Dtatuv fcf)v i3cubta-,
au^ 3D?angcl cinc(5 cbev bcS vuibcni, juv iiollfcmtttcncn Sufammeufc^ung ciiicc
ftnnbilbltd)eu ©c^vift crfovbcvlid;en, ©tcviu^ ebcu foiro(}l irvcn, at(3 bcvicuigc,
irelc^cv ciit ijeuiofin(id)c(J Scvt licfct, in uic(d)cm tvgeub ciii 23uc^ftatc cutiucbcv
gdn^lid) fcfjlct, obcc juglcid) mit vcvftanbcn unvb; fc, baf; babuvd) bcv ainn-tvcvftanb
uub Dlatiiv gciiubcvt ivcvbc : ivie j. S. bie fficvtev anus uub annus, bceglcid)cn
anus unb manus, in inelc^en aug aWvingel cince 93uc^fta6euei, namlid) be^ n cbcr
m, bcv Sinn bev i£d!)vift cbev bed "lyovtii gcaubcvt tnivb, [c, baf; bev Scfcv babnvd)
tvvc gcutad)t, unb lunu lvat)vcu i^cvftanbc abgcfiil}vct unvb. 9hif bie ndntiid^e
SBeife faun buvc^ cincu cbev ben anbevu ^u ben l^immiifi^cu einnbilbevn t)in5ngc;
fiigten etevn ; (u'eid)en @ctt ben 2)(en|"d)en vov bcv gcfeljtcu unb v>on il)m
bcftintmtcn 3fit uid)t f)at ciitDcefcn uu^lleu) bev (£inu bev finu[n(blid)en Sd^vift
beg .§imntcl!?, uumucr^vc cublid; ben a)teufd)cn viUlig offf"t\v()vet u>evbeu, ba ev
«ovf}cv uniH^lftdnbig, junnfe(l)aft uub ungeu>ic; uwv. Uub bat? ift incdeid^t bev Sinn
bcv 35viibevfd)aft in biefeu ilunten : bev ®illc ©cttes? ivcgcn (i"vneucvung
unb SScrbeffevung bev i^clt ift bnvcf) ueuc ©tcvuMlbcv unb ''■Bc^icicf);
ituugen bcii gvcf;i;en 5JlatuvbucI)Cii augejeiget Uun-bcu.

9iluumet)vo nnU i^ eublic^ and; anj;eigen, luaei id) auci bev 9ii.ifeufveul}cvln-iibev;
fd>aft ifjveu *l>vcpf)ejei)uugeu, 'inn-beffevungen bev .Kiinfte, uub i^vev buvd) alle 9ScU
befanntcu 3iHn(?()eit fiiv (£d)iiiffc gc^ogen unb gcfantnttet \)^t. Sa aSeiffaguug,
©laubc, Oicligion, @ott:^eit, ^vdume, @cfic()te, SBcieifieit, unb bcvi
gUicf)eu mct)v, buvc^ bai? ucuntc S^^wi bev .^^imntcleigcftait augcjcigct
jucvbcu, in beffen Sdngc bev ed)langcntvdgev, ali? bas? 'l^etjdltuif; bcv ucuen (Etevue,
angetvoffen unvb : bet\-(leid)eu ivcil biefe^ Jpaui^, in bcv natiivlid^cn 9lnfeinaubev5
folguug bcv 3cid)cn, bent Sc^iijjcn ,^ugeeignct unvb, unldjcv bac* Beidicn 3upitcviS
ift, unb balicv biefe uennte J^"*innuele:abtl>eiluug bae: ^^^xwi: Supiteve gcuennct unvb ;
fo l}abe id) ben Snpitev, fcine 9latnv, ^Bevdubcvuugeu nub Syiivfungen anfg
geuaucfte uutevfudiet, alei ucld^e am ftdvfften unb bcutlid)ften bcmevfct u^evbeu in
bev uutcv alien ^iUaneten am ftdvfften ^unfd^en ben bci)bcn cbcvu, ndmlid) bem
Satuvnud unb Cutpitcv, fid) eveiguenbcu 3ufammenfuuft, u^enu fie fcvpcvlid), b. 1^.
in ciuevlev ©Vvibe uub SOHnutc ^ugleicl) ^ufammen fommcn. 3e() l)abc cftevcf bie
3lftvologeu mm ben manuic^faltigen "ilUivfungen bicfev 3ufamutcufuuft innfdiici
bentlic^ fpvec()eu I)cven. !l^enu cinigc (uutcv un-ldicu idi ben ^^stolemdnri uub
(Savbanue! ncnucu unll) f)abcn biefe Bufammenfuuft beeun-gcn fiiv bie ftdvtfte
gc^attcn, Ujcil fie in ©efetjc, *£taatcu unb 3ieligioneu eincu Sinflufj

4o8 HERMES STELLA.

I)at. SD^cfja^ata^ f}at auf ^Bciaiilaffuu^ ticfcv nurfu'uvbigcn Bitf^iw;
mcnfunft, cinc^ gciviffcn gvof^cn 5prc).'^cten 9lnfuiift ycvfiinbiiU-
*,'ll[uM^cii .italii f)at aucl^ niKJ ifjvcr Gujcnfdfjaft vunt (>iffdHificii tcv tfiivftcii
iiitD fieftcn JE'ini'^cn, bceiijicicficii v»cn ^U- c p {) c t c ii i^ c ir c i f fa cjct. ©vite
*-I3ouvUus? (uit au(? ticfce Slfvectcn ©CiKHiv^ivt unintcvvoUe Sci^cbcii;
Iicitcii, uiifc tcv il'clt bciunftelKntc unint-cvbavc 2^illllc lun•lKVl■^cfal3et.
SlKcv fcicfcv i''tci>muu]cu iicl)cii tafiiii, taf; namlicf> cin in bcr Sufammenfimft
flavfev uiiti I}cvvfd>cutcr ^Uaucte, niciiii cv ciu uiioiliirflidicv (iiamli(^ Satuvmie)
ijl, ber SBclt Uugtiicf iinb 5}lacf)t()cil ; (^inijcgcu ircim cv cin flliicflic^cv (namlid^
Supitcv), Oliuf unb inn-tt^cil vcvfcfiaifc. 'ii'cnn Jriv bicfcei fi(cit;ii\ cuvacjcn ; fc
lucibcn iviv iinfcvc Slbficf^t auf fcU-\cntc iHit cvvcicbcn. 3m Satnc 1603 bcii 20
2;ccemln-. nacfc bcm ncucn Sti(, in bcv 2)Jittai-(cfinnbc, kivctjtc ft(^ Satnvnug im 8.
@vabe unb 39 a}iinutcn bcS ecfcii^cn. S^c^c^lcicfKn fianb Sn^ntcv, fajt in cbcn
bcm 9Uii]cnblicfc, im 8 ®vabe 39 iliin. unb 58 Sccuiibcn bci^ luimlicfccn Bfirf^cuiV
3(^ luvfcvtiijtc alfc bic .*'^immcls?t^cftalt fiiv bicfcn X'ag unb Stunbc, nadi bcv
5)>c(f)i'l)c iHni 38 ©vabcn, untcv irclcf)cv Savbinicu lic;-\t, bae< ifl c^lci(^fam bic uuo
bcfanntc Jpalfte ncrblid^ev 58vcitc, un-nn unv innn '.'Icquatcv bi^ ^um 76)lcu
l*v()c()uni3<?i'5vabc ^cil^lcn, ivcil bic ■ii>iivfmii^ bicfcv 3u[ammcnfunft alli^cmcin '\^,
unb faufc ben J^innncl anf fcdjcnbc 9lvt ijcftcllct. 3n bcv >ipi^c be? jcljntcu
^aufcg bcobad^tctc idi ben 27 @vab bc^ ©^ii^en. 3m 29 ®vabe bcffclbcn traf
id) bic iBcnu£< an. Scv 16 @vab bci? Stcinbccfi^ na(nu bic 2vil« bc^ ci(ftcn
Jpaufeci cin, fc, bap bcv vcvbcvc X()cil bicfct^ 3cid}cni^ 3"i}l«id) [finf natiivlidK 2tc(le
bc()auvtctc. JTcv junUftc %\)%\\. bc^ Sajfevmaune^ ivar \\<x6;^ bcv ^Spi^c bc(? jirclflcu
^aufciJ gcvic^tct. 5^cv 24 ®vab bcv gifd^e bnvdifcf^nitt bic Spi^c bcs* cvficn
^aufci*, cbcv bees ^cvefccp?, i^lcicb iric bcv 9tc @rab bcs? >£ticvcci untcn im aubcvn,
nnb bcv 7tc @vab bcv 3unllin;]c im bvittcn -ipaufc an^utvcffcn ivavcn. 5o, bati \\>\x
buv(^ ben ©Ckjcnfdicin bcv 3cid)cn finbcn, ba^ bcv 27 0vab bcv 3»illini(c ^u ijlci(^cv
3cit ins vicvtc §au^ cinijcviicft fc«. Sc bcn\i()vtc bcv 16 ®vab beg .ffvcbfco ben
Slnfano; cbev bic SctweUe bcs? fiinften >i'>aufei?, c;Undmnc bcv 12te Wvab beg ?inren
bag fed^ftc, bcv 24jle ®vab bcv 3unc\fvau bag fiebenbe, bcv 9te ©vab beg ^Scovpiong
bag ac^tc, nnb cnblic^ bcv 7be @vab bc^ (£d)iilj,en bag ucinitc .*>aug inne batten,
ipevnad) mevttc id) ben Staub nnb bic 3?efd>aifenhcit bcv Csvvftevne in bicfcv
.t'immelgjiiijnv an, unb f^inb, bap bic 5cnne in bcv ^vit.'.e teg ^elniten >V»anfeg im
27 @rabc beg 2d)ii^cn Jixiv, ©atnvnug abcr nnb 3npitev im 8 Wvabe unb 39 ^Kin.
beg 2d}iiljcn im nennten ■'i>anfe ^ufamnienfamen. odi benievfte and\ baf; ilievcnving
ben (iiuijani'j biefeg -^^aufeg beuvutte, uiit i'uug ruvd) ben vievtcn @vab Cev 'Xlhijc
mitten im ficbcnbcn .i">aufe ;i\v y^leidMrie bcv i)icnt tuvdi ben 24 ®iab bcv .<lvcbfcg
im fiinften .'i^">anfe iVf'hV ""^ ^''''^ rvadicnliauvt ten 14 ®vab beg Scmpicng, fo ivic
bcv 3^vadHnIfd)u\u^ ben cnti-\e;^cnijcfei.ucn Staui, uamlid) ben 24 ®vab beg etievg

HERMES STELLA. 409

im anbiTii >§aufc ciiuia()m. 3^ic|"cs? ivav alfo ric Kyxwy: .'i^iiumclt>K-fd)af|cu(}ctt \\\\.
3cit bicfcv ^vcjjcii firf; ncucvd^ cvciguctcn 3iihi»ii"^"iif""f^ >i-^t-"(clic ot)ne 3i^^fiK'
grc^e iiiib cvflauncube 5)ingc in 5lnfc()uni^ bcv ?l 11 fun ft bcv ^vopfjctcn, bcv
Slcnbcruuvj alter Sitten, bfv 93cvt)cffcviuuj bcv atteu iievberbtcn 9Jcs
(igicn, itnb bcv »te((eic()t (5dn5licr}cn Slueitilgung, ober trenigftcne!
iUrmiubciiiiig bcv pabftlicf^cn iiub muf)amebifc{}en Jpcljcit, 11. [. ir.
itacf; bcv 23vubcv i> ovfjcv fa 911 ik-(, au^iqeigen itnb uovjubebcuteu
fcficiuct. !Dc(?gtcic()cu fci}cinct fie veviininbevungswuvbige 2)ingc \ii:\\
33evtn'ffcviiiU3 unb ®vf)i3I)iing bcv alten ^iinfte unb 2yiffcnfc()aftcn,
I'^pii Dffeuba()vung bcv unxf)ven 3Ceie()eit, unb bergteicljen mcljv, ju
invfiinbigcn. ilUv ivodcn alfo ben >£tanb unb 3?efd)affent)cit bicfcr ^lancten
untcvfiicfjcn, unb aufs? flcipti(fte nadifovfcfjen, irelcficv von iliucn madHiinev cber
tcgliiffcnbcv fe». 'ii>cnn unv nun biefces cvuftlici) cvivav3cn, \i fiubcn wax, ba^
3upitcv ntacf)tigev fe\\ ale bie iitni^yn ^Uanctcn ; n^cil ev auf ttiefjrere SBeircife feinev
Stdvfe Jlnfpviidie marfit, ali> bie iibvi^cu. ©cnn ev beftnbct jTdi in feinent ^aufe,
Wso ev fiinf ilUivbcn evI^dU ; iibcvbicS ivivb ev in feiucv gveubigfeit angctrcffen
n?es?)rcgen ev nod) iner anbevc SBiivbcn kfcmntt, unb cbeu \i> inelc, in fo fcvne ev bie
^errfd)aft in bem ^ovofcop, obev im ?lufgange ev^alten \)<x.\., unb ncd) p>^ aTnivbcn
fd^eint ev \\\ erf)a(ten, ircil ev fic^ in feinev ©ven^c tcftnbct. STal^ev nnjivcitig
3u)iitev bie ^ervfdjaft iibev ben gan^en ^iinmel bamalfJ ge(}abt fjat. UebcvbieS
Jrar <2atuvnusi in feinev Xvivlicitdt, ivcbuvd; ev bvei) aiUivbigfeiten cr^it:
be^be geF)en auc^ vcv 5lufgaug bcv Sonne auf, unb finb «on bcv ©ornte
nid)t i^evbvannt, iv>c(d)c^ an ben bvei) i:\iVi\\ ^laneten ein gute^ 3eid;cn iji.
58e))be ftnb I'icv fid; gefjenb, unb n^egcn bicfct^ gcraben SaufcsS int @^?ici)cle cber
9tebenfveife ^dvfev. 93ci)bc finb, ircil fie fid) »ovirdvt^, nad) bcv Dvbnung
ber '^tx&jiw, gcgen 3)?ovgen, tooegen, fdjnciicn fiaufct^ ; t)ei)be flcl^eu int mdnn;
lichen ®rabe ; unb bei)be finb enblic^ S^agejeic^en. ai?ovaug ev()e(lct, ba^
biefc 5ptaneten in i^vcv 3ufantntenfunft fon?ol}t an irefentlic^en aiii jnfdfligen
SBiivbigfeitcn gan? vcv^iiglic^ finb. aBietooIji Supitcv an Ci1)ve unb SBiivbe i^iele
©vabe iibev ben Satnvnns? (anc< fd)on angcfii()vtcn Uvfac^en) evl;ckn ju feiju
fc^einet. (S'5 iji alfo oJtenbal)v, bap biefe bci)ben ^laneten gliidlid; unb fe^v gut
coujiellivct finb. iiUv mevfen baf)ev naci^ bcv 5Dici}nung bev gelel^vtcfien Jlilvolcgen
an: baf^ Satnvnne* in einev gnten (icnftellation »evct)vung^nnivbige,
tief nac()bcnfcnbe unb fcl)iiieve .^iinfte erlcvncnbe, evnftljaftc, uticf^tige
unb bcfcl))uevlicl}c Xt)aten aut^iibcnbe, ycvfcl)iincgene unb cingc,5ogene
^eute macf)c. 3npitev ^Ain in feinev gliuilicl^en (5onftellation bvinge
gevecl)tc uuD c[)vbave, gate unb iool}ltl)dtige, veligiofe unb »cvftdnbige
unb ficl) liebenbc a)(enfclien l)er»ov. Unb untcv ben ffiitvben bcbeutet ev :
^45rovl}etcn, 33ifcl)offe, i3orftet)ev bev Oietigion, 9iicl)tcv, Jlunftlet

2 D

410 HERMES STELLA.

iiiib 9lccf)t0C5clct)rtc. 2)cuu Jvcnn unv tic natiivlicfje i^cttfaffnificit bcii Supi;
tcvg untcvfud;cn, ltctd)e irarm unb feud)te, lufticj unb fancjuinifd) ifi ; fo finbcn
\xkx, ba^ cv nid)t nuv adcit iintcvu iDingcn, nicc^cii @(cid}I}cit feiucv natuv(icf)en
5?liila;-(c, ^iii^ctl^au, fcntcvu aiicf} iibev bie ©teviie fclbft 9}iditer fci); bal)cr eg
fommt, baf^ bie aiicni"cf)cn biivcf) fcinc Ginfluffc vjcl^crfam, gctte^;
furcf)tiii, unb cicvcclu cvfuntcii UKvbcit: fllcidiJttie ©atuvmio in bev gutcn
CH'tijlcKaticit cincn ftautluiftcii, ticffinnii^cn, ernftfjaftcu, itiib mit it»icl)s
tiv^cn cbcv ;^c(iciiiien 3)iiu3en bcfc()dftigten a)icnfchcn anjeicjet. SBcil
\\i atcv bcwbe im ncuntcit Jiaufe jufammenfommcu, imb ircit bev Sc^ii^e, ittetd^er
[clbiv-ice bciwt)uct, bie itatiivlicf^c Scfimnuj bct^ ;,^^t|.ntcl■e ijl, bcr ji^Ieidt auc^, in
Sliifc(nuu3 bcr 3fid?fiilolt3e, fid) in fcincv natiivlidjcn Sc(}aufimoi bcftntet; [c
uiiifien unv bie 9iatiiv bct? iteuntcn i^^\\\ii fi.nfo(}[, ata aud) beg ©d)ii^en, fleifig
cvUM^eii. 3l.>ii unffcit abev aitc* bcr i'c()ve bcr SUten {y(!\t aud) cbcn erirdfiiict
UHnbcii ijt), baf bicfci? .§aui< feiiic iBeiicnnuui^ won @ott unb bcr Oieltcjicn
fiifjrc, unb Oieligicn, Xreue unb ©lauben, lange 9tetfen, bie ©ottl^cit,
@eficl)te, Irdume, *4-^rc^j()e5ei)ungcn, ®eis^eit, sliieiffagunc;, cber
(Srjdl)lung jufunftigcv Singe, fficttiueieljeit, 9Biffenfc()aft, u. f. iv.
bejcid^uc. aiUe biefee Sdefeljella, Stcniar, SUfinbujJ, 3 a el, Stlbenair,
2)orotI)eut<, *ptclcmdui^ @conerui^, unb anbere, foiro^l dttevc a((J neuerc,
bejeugen. iTcr ©d)ii^c ijl ein 5lufgangi^;unb iSagegeic^en, fcuvig unb mdnulid^,
unb kbeutet an ben 3}icnfd;cn cine ®cncigtl}cit ,5uni 5vieben, ^ur Jl(ug()eit,
^nr 'lDicberl)erftc((ung veniniftetcr ©taatcn unb vcrlorner iliinfte
unb jum gcfcUigcn cljrbarcn i'urgniigen. 9tad;bcnt unr nun bie in bcr
!^diigc bet? Snpiterjcid)eni}i, im <£d)(angentrdger, line and) bie im ©d)»vane
angctrcfeuen Sterne untcrfudict (labcu ; [o ivr((en wir nun qm.^ bie Suhinimen;
funft ben 3u^itexg unb be^ Saturnut^ um bie 3cit i^rer Srf^etnung, unb nid)t
vic( vor 33cfanbhvcrbung biefcr ''•Briibcrfd^aft ihmu iRcfenfrcuije bctraditcn, an
iveldicr unr bcmerfcu, baf? \k mit ben Slbfiditcn unb 33crfprcd)ungen bcr JBriibcv;
f^aft gdnglid^ iibcreinftimmcn. 3^cnn Supiter, nu-ldier frdftiger al3 ©aturnue*,
iji fiir bie Sijett cine gnte 'l^crbcbcutung, ndmlid) bcr 5lnfunft bev ^vcpfjctcn,
fcivol^t nad) bcr natiirlid)cn 23cfd>ineul)cit bc5 ^aufef?, atg and) iHrmcge bev
gliirflid)en 3Hfamnienfunft, nic(d)c, \\o.6.'^ bcm SDjcffal^alal), cineg ober
mc()rercr ^^roptjeten 91 n fun ft bcbeutet, unb jtrnv feiner falfd)cn, betriigev;
ifd>en, cbcv bcfen, fonbern gutcr, nac^ ben (Sigcnfd)aften bev jufammengefommenen
unb gut conj^cdirten ^Uancteu ; baf)er fie, bcm (Sin^uffe beg i£atuvnug ju ?yoIge,
alei e(}nciirbigc, ticffinnige, alg ?cl)rcv fc()lvever Jliinfte, <xU fc(cl)c,
bie uncl)tige X()aten unterncl^mcn, ali? arbcitfame, vcrfcl)iiMcgcnc unb
oingc^L'geue verbcif^cn tverben. 'S::\\\? bicfccf aber bie (iigenfd;aftcu biefcr
^riibcrfd>ift finb, bc^engen i()re gama unb IScnfcpicn. 9^ac^ bcm (iinftuffe bee

HERMES STELLA. 411

3iH.Mtevei atjcv unvb ifincii ©cvccfttii^feit, Jvinnntii^fcit, ©iititiffit, 9Jc^
lii^ioii, ©uuft, .<lluiVf)fit iinb bie OKibc bcv aBfiffaguiui jiic^ccii^nft.
Slug bcv 33cfci>affcul)cit bc>.i iiciiiitcii ■'i^aufc^, in ivctcf^em bie Biifammcnhntft
gcfc^alic, ivivb i()nen !ivcuc iinb Wiaubc, ai!eio()eit, ©eifuuvnHV ^^'■
lii^UMi, *|Uc^j()e5c»uiu^, ®cUiveii^l)cit luib Jlcnntiiifj bcv Siffcn;
fcl;aftcn juflcftanDcn. ^Q-hmu Sd;iit3cit nub 3uvitcv jugleic^ cv(}altcit fie
Jriebfcrtigfeit iinb Jlhic^^eit, nub bao ^evtnogcn, ben in 'i^evfall
ijevatfiencn i^iinften nncbev auf^uljelfcn. !Da iiberbicg inipitcv bie
Jpcvvfchaft nidit nuv iibcr ben ganjen •§intmc( iibcvl)aupt fiitjvct, fonbevn <x\\^
ineibcfonbcrc bcv ^^">evv foUto()l be>5 ncuntcn •§au|"ce(, in tocliijcin ev angctvcffcn tt>ivb,
als and^ bc3 3liifc5vingtMinnfclg fclbft, obcv bc5 evfien -§aufcg, ift, iubcm in bcffcibcn
(2pi|c bie Ic^tcvc S^k{\\i bcv (Sifcf)c fief) bcfinbet; fo bcbcutct cv watjve
^'vopT)e5ei)nngcn, iva()vc ilvaumc, nnal)vc Jliinftc unb Secten, nne
fcld)c^ !r)ovctI)eu(5 bc^ciigct. Elicit abcv ba^ auffteigenbe 3eict)en bcv gifcf)c ein
nacf)tticf)ccf .'ij^antMft ; fc jcigct bicfc^ an: bafj bicfe 33viibcv, bie fief) jwav
jct.^o nocf) vcvftceft flatten, fief) taglicf) nief)v auiJbvcitcn nnb inv^
nief)ven ivcvbcn, nnb bafg if)v ®fan^ nnb 2'iLn\3cnvctf)c, wic naet) bent
0vancn bei^ Plages*, pfctjficf) f)cviHn-bvecf)en, nnb fief) tiujtief) mcf)v
nnb nuf)V iKVoffenbaf)ven nnb iHvf)cvvfiet)cn n^evbc. Unb bae( nm \i
inef nief)v, iveif cs? ein fvnet)ttmvcg 3eief)cn ift, teelet)ec< baojcniije,
iva^ mm feinem 4''crvn angcjcigct unvb, ijevmel)vct. 5)al)cv Snpitcv
ittt ncnnten Jpanfc cine aJicnge nnb i5cvmcf)vnng bcv *4>vo|.'f)cten, nnb
3nnaf)me ber SSeifen, n. b. nt. bcbcntct. 9lncf) a)?cvenvint^, ate! glciefifam bcv
Seicf^tcv bicfct? ^anfc^ bcv 3itfvinintcnfnnft, ^cigct fitvtvcflief)cei ©enie,
9iefigion, iye[ttt?ei8f)cit, a)iatt)cntatif, ilnnffagnng, nnb ^nfiinftige
Gvfinbnng nencv .Ki'infte an. Unb unnl anef) bie v2i.ninc in ba(5 nenntc §an(3
eingctvctcn ift, jcbccf) fc, ba§ fie, jnv 3cit bcv 3nfammcnfnnft, bnvd) bie ©pi^e bee
;5ef)nten Jpanfc(5 iwiibcvgicng, nnb bag 3eirf)cn beg Snpiteg einna^m ; fo nnvb ancf)
if)vc .^Ivaft mit ben giinftigcn 'ii.^iivfnngcn beg Snpitcvg i^cvcinigt, baf)ev fie cine
(Svf)cf)nng nnb (ivncncvnng bcv !l)inge ang einent fcf)leef)tcn in cincn
bcffevn 3uftanb, nnb cine luvbcffcvtc ?lngubnng bcv ^iinftc anjcigct.
5)?avg, mitten int fic6cnbcn S-;^<\\\\i, niimiief) im vncvtcn ®vabc bcv -iinigc, bebcntct
9kib nnbcv beg Snpitcvg iBiivfnngcn, nnb baf^ bie iHn-t)cif5enen
^vcpl)etcn obcv ii^eifcn iycinbe l)abcn ivevbcn, uu(cf)c befto ncibifef)ev
nnb janfifc()ev fci)n n^cvbcn, nuil cv im ®eficf)tc nnb in bcv 2:'vipfiei;
tcit beg Satnvnng, altj un-lef)cv neibifcf) macfit, angetvcffen nnvb.
aBeif abev bev bofe Ginpuf beg Satnvnng fciticf)t bnvd) bie gnten ©igenfcf^aftcn beg
Snvitcvg, afg anef) bnv^ beffen gtiicfficfte (L^cnfteffatien, iicvbcffcvt unvb ; fo n^evben
jtvav bicfe OJcibcv nne ^nnbc bellcn, abcv feincgtoegeg beipcn fonnen. 2)enn

412 HERMES STELLA.

cbijtcic^ SKvird an cincm janfifc^cn Cvtc ftc()t, ndiulic^ im uctciibcn Jpaufc, fc
faun cr tcc(\ tt'cil cr adcr U'>cfcnt(i(^cn aBiivbc bcvaiikt ifl, nic^tei bcfc>5 ivitev tic
giintligen aBurfun^cn bc(? 3in.ntcr^, namHd) : bic ^rc^'ticjc^^ungen, SSafjrfa;
guuiicn, i>crbcffcningfji bcr Jliinftc, vinb bevi'^tcicrKii, aiti^ri^tcn ;
au>?gcnc«tmcn ba^ if)m biiMvciku ctjva^ iinbcv tciTdbcii "iiiiivfiinijcn [rf;n\i^i,()aficv,'
njcife aupiijlc^cii vcrfiattct iinvb. 2i'ag enblid) bcr a)(Oiib im fi'inftcn §aufc ^iim
9?acl)t()cilc cinciJ vjcunffcn altcn lU-cpfjctcii, aid bc6 a)JuOantcbe,
iicrfiinbiijc ; unb n-Hi^ bcr bcr Spiijc [cinces Jpaufc^, luimlicf) bcr int brittcn ^'i)ain"c
fid^ beftnbcnbcn Biridingc, gcrabe gegcniibcrficfjcnbc aUcriuvius?, al>5 irclcbcr
ef^cmalii^cu ©(aubcit unb QJcIic^iLMt bcbcntct, vcu rem i^crfallc cincei
geunffen fcnifl(ic()cn iMfcdofei anjcii^c, und icfc bier iibcvgcf)cn, ircii ctJ nicf)t
l\\ unfcrm innbabcn ii,cbcrct, unb bic^ bicfcd bcrii(}rcn : bafj Suviter in
2lnfcl}ung bcr iim()rcu fflcligiinislcbrc unb (Srfldrung, bcr 4)crbcf;
fcrung gcmcincr Jtiinftc, unb bcr (Srncucrung unb SiUcbcrfjerftcUung
ber ©ittlictjfcit, »iel ju vcrfprcct)cn fcljeine. ^icraug er^cHct alfo, bap
bic wunbcrbarcn SBiirfungcn bicfcr ^planctcn^ufammcnfunft, in fo ffi-""f fif tif
93riibcrfcf)aft bctrcffen, audi in bcr gcmcincn Stcrnbcutcvfunji auSgclcgct, unb bafj
iJjre Otcligicn, ®(aubc, ®cidf)cit, ®iffcnfc(}att unb ncuc SSclt;
iiHi6l)cit, ^rc).ibc5ciMtng, 3>crbcffcrnng gcmciucr Jliinfte, (S"()rbarfeit,
?lnfcl)cn, Xicffinnigfcit, gc()cimcn Jtiinftc, Serene, 0 crccl)tigfeit, u. b.
m. am J^")immc( aurft inni i'lftcraftrrlcgcn, bnrcf) ^ctracbtung bicfcr 3nfammcn;
funft, vin-l)crgefc()cn unb i^crfiiubigt u-'crbcn fonncn. Unb ic^ bct^anptc ftcif unb
fcj^, ba§ man in inclcn 3al)r{)unbcrtcn fcinc fd)ictlicf)crc unb »a()rfd)cinticbcrc
*p(anctcn^ufammcnfunft fiir bic 'Bcrgrcpcrung bcr ^4>rcpf)cjcmuig, Otcligion,
ai.H'lnrciiM,(cit unb ©ciebcit, antrcffcn nnrb, ates bicfe, irclcbc \\.^) in cbcn angcfubrtcn
3al)re, SKcnatc, unb ilage crcignctc. Slu^crbem baf bie an ebcn ben Crten biefer
^intmcU^-^cfiait bccbacf)tctcn ncucn Sterne unb ifjre gcficimc Scbriftcn un*? cftnc
Bwcifcl ULut ircit bcberc unb nncfjtigcrc !Dingc unb 2?igcbcnbcitcn entbcftcn
irurbcn, irenn unS (tuie nnr fcf)on crinnert fiaben) bic inafirc Jlenntnip bcr
gel}cimcn Scjcic^nnngcn nidit vicrbcrgcn ivdrc. 3^ madie a(fo ben Sdjlu^, ba^
bicfe ©cfcdfd^aft J)icrinncn nid)te! nngcrcimtctJ bcfian^^tct f)at: bafj bcr iBillc
®ctte^ buret) 3eicl)cnbilbcr ncuer ©terne unb buret) 93c5eic()nnngcn
beg grof^cn 9'JatnrbucI)eg offenbarct irerbc, unb baf^ cr befebloffen
{)abc, bic ^(n^al)! bicfcr SBruberfebaft ju mnmcbrcn, unb baf^ bie
Sriiber ^uvcrldf^ig unffcn, baf^ bie 3cit fcmmcn nnrb, nu\ nmsJ jct^o
ncet) lurbcrgcn iff, offcnbaI)r, unb cffcntlicb mit lautcr Stimme
unb anebriief(ic()cn ai'crtcn bcfannt uun-ten nnrb ; unb bicfcr fell
gcfcl)cl)cn fcivc()l burcl) uiicberl)crgcftente Ucbercinftimmung ber
ganjen iiklt, ale< auel) buret) (irfct)cinung ncuer 3ternc im 8et;langen;

HERMES STELLA. 4^3

trdgcv unb Sct|Uianc. 2;icfe(5 befiati.^ct auci^ bag ^au(? 3u).ntm\ bic gifc^e im
?lufi5ani-(c, ivc(cf)ct^ ctu 3cict)en bev jvvucfjtbartcit unb bcv a5cnnc()ruitg
ber »on feincm Jpcvvn angc^cigten I)iiigc, iine fd)on cbcn angqcigct iwvbcu,
ijl. 5)cgi3(cicf;en jeigct bcr a,)(ciib in feincm S^^w, unb inbem cv ben fiinften Ifjcit
betJ ^imniclei buvc^lauft, ivc cv bic fiijicftc ^li'iivfung beg Jtinbev^cugeng ju f)aben
Vjlcgct, bic a3ermcl}vung bev 33viibev, unb bag 3nncl}nten bev 2Beie!()eitei;
fi3(;ne, obev bev ffiiivfungen Su^ntcvg, an. iiUc bean anc^ fclbji ^upitcv in
feinev guten unb gliuflicfjen (V'nftcdation bic i>cv(}ci[5ene 33cnnc()vuug unb
iyvucl)t bev fc()unuujcvn i)itucvva bcfclUcunioiet. (inKicf) ift ju mcvfcn :
baf bag Bei^cn beg neunten i^aufcg ki) bicfev gvcfjcn obcn befc^vicBcncn ^^laneteu;
gufantmenfunft ebcn fo kfdiajfen gcUKfen fci), nnc bc5) bev evjicn Scnnenbcircgung
jur 3fit bev Sci^opfung. ®cnn nac^ bee 3lbtg Svit(}emiug unb anbevev
gefd&icften 2Bc(tuicifcn unb evfal)vnev Slftrclogcn $8euvt()cilHng gcfdiat) bie cvfic
(Svfcficinung bev Scnuc, iveldie ben incvten lag nad^ bev Sdjcjjfung augmacf}tc, im
SBibbcv, UH'il biefeg Setci^en beg S^l)ievfveifcg ftc^ am 3)tcrgen biefcg lageg im cvften
S5m.\i, obev J)cwfcov» fiffanb, fo line bev Stiev im anbcvn u. f. f. (toic fcfunt gefagt
Jrevben ift). SBovaug augcnfcf)eiulic^ evt)c((et ; ba^ bev Sdw^c (bag Beicften unb
^aug Supitevg) in bev natiivlic^en OJeific bev 3Etd)en bamalg bag ncunte §ang cbev
Slbf(^nitt beg :Il)ievh-cifeg iunc gef;abt f)at. 3cf) f^abe atio gefnnben, ba^ ^uv 3eit
bicfev gvcf en ueucviic^ fic^ evetgncten Bufammenfunft, nid)t nuv bev 3n)laub beg
neunten Jpanfcg unb fcineg Beidicng bev namlidje gcirefcn fei}, nnc bamalg, ,5uv 3eit
bev Sc^cpfung, fcnbevn auci^, ba^ bev ^lanctc bcffelbigcn 3cic^cng, ndm(id) 3upitcv,
in felbigem <x{i in feincm eigenen nub 2'agel}anfe, mit giinjtigcv unb g(i'tcf(id)ev
53cftvalung aufgencmmen ivovben fei). 3a, baf eg fogav ben Satuvnug, a(g cincn,
fiiv alien iibvigen, biifen unb ungliirfli(^en ^lanctcu, in fcinen ^uifaji aufgencmmen,
vegicvet, vevbcffevt, unb beffcn vcbc Sittcn unb unlbc DJatuv, buvd) feine guten
@igenfc{\aften unb g(iu-flid)en (iinffup, gemiibevt unb ^atjmcv gemad}t ^\Ai. (S'ben
bavaug l)abcn (nad) mcinev (S'infid't) bie 3?viibev bie ftttlit^e (Svneuevung unb
aBiebevf)evitcf(ung bev SSelt, bae t}ei^t, bic Gvneucvung, 33cvbcffevung unb (Sv^cf^ung
bev Sitten, aiUffcufd;aftcu unb Jliinjtc, unb bic 5vciif)cit unb (S'vlcud)tung bev in
bev ©clavcvei) unb 3vvtt)um lebenben 3Wenfc^en, unb ben f^engldnjcubcn S^cin
bev fc^cn lauge iH'vfinj!evten 2Dabvf)eit, mit gdn^iic^cv 3.^cnpeifung unb ?tngvcttnng
bev UuUMt)v(;cit, beggleid}cn bic 3iu'ucfbvingung unb buvd) vicveinigte Jlvdfte ju
befcvbevnbe 6'vncuevung beg gcibcnen 3eitaltevg, (ju beffcn SJnfange 5lbam in
feinev Unfdntlb bag ^avabieg beiocf^nct f)aben foK) uidit nufd)icfli(^ iicvt)cvi'>cv;
fiinbigt, inbcm fie an eincm Cvte i()vcg JScfeuntniffee! fagen: bafj bie 2Bclt eine
(Svneucvung bebiivfc; unb an einem anbcvn Dvtc : bafj bev 3Bille ©otteg
in ?lnfc()ung bev SBeltsevbcffevung buvc:^ bie 93e5eic(;nungcn im
gvoffen Siatuvbucl^e bcfannt gemacl)t uunbeu fci). '^^xwa icivb bie

414

HERMES STELLA.

2Bietcvficvftc((unt3 bcv 2ittcn, i'cvbcffunc} tcv ,<?uufte itnb 93c;
fcrbenuiij tcv 2Sii"fcufcI)aftcjt turd} bic 2?cntuluuu3cu ijciviffcr ber
SBclt I'^erl^cifgencn $ro^?l)ctcn cbcr ii>eifcn, au^enfdtcinUi^ bch)icfen ; xcni
ciii I()cil be(J Sdn'tfecn, bcv bai^ ;Vin^e itcuntc Sp^wi inne hvittc, aucfi tic 2^nt>c teo
5cf)ntcn JpaufcD ciniiaf)ut. aiUnaiu^ i'ifKl^cri unvb, baf allc vein -Jipcn-n bct? ncunteu
.§aufc6 angcvjcbcne ^Uirfmicjcn (ale: 2Beigf)eit, Siieltivci^jfjcit, ©efctjc,
Oicliijicn, ©crccliticjfcit, ^rcpf)ejnnu3, Jtiinfte unb 2Bif[enfcI)aften,
nnb bergleidjcn ntclu-, 'tAi »orI)ev fc()cn aiujefufiret iin^rben ift) juv
(i"rl)clnitU3 atjivcrfcn, bao (}eipt, jur ^cvfe^ung au^ einem fc^limmcvn unb
vjcviiujcvn, in eincn U^ixw unb ettern, Suft'inb ; jveil bag jet^enbc Jpaug utit
Staatcn, 5!i>uvbcn, 6"(}vcnjie(lfn, (S'lfjcfjunijcn bcv au<?juubcnbcn Jliinfte unb
SJBiffcnfcfiaftcn ^u tfiuu (}at, unb bicfctS um tcfto nicbr, utcil bie vSennc, ale cin
finiiijlid^cr *l.Uanctc unb *i3cfcvbcrcr bcr ilUffcnfrf^iaftcn, in bicfcm .'paufe in @cfcf('
fc^aft bcr 'iknue anoictvcffcu ivirb, ive(cf*c frciivjcbitj, i»of|(tf)dtic5, anijcncfjm unb
ftnnvcicf) ijl. Unb auf ticfc 5trt tiabe id) tcm bcWf^tfn 3ivfifc( bes iTv
Siba\>iut?: ircbnrcl) namlicfi tic 5Briibcr ifirc 3>crl)cri'ai]uniTien nwi
ncucn 2tcrncn nnc BcicluMibilbcrn bee ^"'iinuiclei bcivcifcn ntollcn;
unb wcvinnc tic (irncucvnng unb i^cvbcffcrunc? tcv 'ii^clt bcftcbcn
fcHe? I)iulan>^lic^ (unc x&j ijl^inbc) unt iibcvfiliipi^ bccjcc^nct.

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d'iiic u\t^re 9lE)f»i(biiiu-( tcv cbcn aiu^cfitfjrtcu A;->intntclefleltalt, iveld^e tie yJatiiv
mib '•Bcfc{;affcnl)cit bcs .^Mmmcle*, line fie jitr ^tuubc ber Ic^tcn gvc^cn ''i.Uanctcib
i^ufammenfunft tear, crHdret. ®ic ifi au^ bent 2;agcbu^e beg SKartintui (Sikv;
I)arbuci ihmi '8ruc(0(C gcitLMumcn iwd) ber ?polf)i3f}e i^cn 38 ©rabeii.

Tiic Uvfacf)c, »i\uum id) ben Oivab bicfev ^c(()cf)c fiiv a((c anbevc e«iid()lct l^abe,
ifi cDcii fiivjlic^ nub mit cincm il'cvte gieicfjfam augejeiijet titrrbcn.

9tnmerfung.

3^ic Scnnc, tie iBcmt^, bev Satitvuui^ unt 3upitcr iiierbeu in tat? S^^xwi^ cbcv
Tai^e^cidicn bcS Supitcni, udmlirf) m ten Sdnifeen, jngleicb aufgeuemmcn, ntit
ivcldjem C).''f)iud)ci\ cbev bev (£d)Uuu3enmann, ntit [cinen neuen Stevncn aufftcigft.
3)egg(eid^en nnvb ©aturnu^ »ont ^yuj-nter in feincn ^alaft giin)iig aufgencntmen ;
bicfeg Bcidicne: cber ^aufes?, ndmlid) beii Steinbccfi?, 93cvbertf)ei( (mit utelc^ent ber
^(^iran mit fcineu neuen (Stcrncn autjlcigct) ivirb im jefienben >§aufc angetroffen.

!J)ie Scnncner^^c^ung tft mitten am .'pimmeL !Der SKctib naf)et ft^ bem
©aturnus im @ebrittfd)eine in ber eilften Siad^mittagsilunbe, unb bie ^enutJ bem
SWcnbe in ber brei) unb ^iranjigjicn (Stunbe. u. f, n\

(Snbe be(j erjien X^iM.

Bacon writes : " But this is that which will indeed dignify and
exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more
nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have
been ; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn,
the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the j^^and of civil
society and action" (p. 26 (his), "Advancement of Learning,"
1605; p. 40, "Advancement of Learning," 1640).

This shows Bacon had noted the conjunction of Saturn with
Jupiter, Fludd adduces in this chapter from his "Apologus." The
reader may also see in the fact, Fludd's apology was published
1617, proof it was written 1616, the year of Shakespeare's death.
I find in many of Maier's Avorks the date 1617 uj)on the title-
page, and 1616 in the Preface as date of writing, the discrepancy
arising from the publisher's date and the author's date, or
interval of time taken in setting up the copy. In the 1623 " De
Augmentis," the above quotation is to be found upon page 38,

4i6 HERMES STELLA.

■mispaged 46. The reader will also note the coincidence that it is
upon page 26 of the First Edition of the 1605 "Proficience and
Advancement of Learning " the citation occurs, and that we find
26 as the first figure of Bacon's Annotations to " Hermes Stella."

1G03 is also the date of " Valerius Terminus."

The Star of Bethlehem.

In the 1879 edition of ZadkieVs Alrmnac a treatise on the Star
of Bethlehem, by the late Mr Wm. Hutton, was published, in
which it Avas stated that the re-appearance of the new star in
Cassiopeia, which Avas observed in A.D. 945, 1264, and 1572,
might be expected in 1887. Down to the time of writing (July
1889) the star has not re-appeared. It will be observed that the
exact period of its recurrence is uncertain, for the two periods
given by the years before-mentioned are unequal— 319 and 308
years respectively. But if we take the longer period, and apply
it to 1572, we have 1891 as the approximate year of its re-
appearance.

In Chaldsean astrology the constellation Cassiopeia was termed
Nin-makh, " mighty lady," one of the twelve stars presiding over
Martu, the West, Sjn'ia or Phoenicia. Nin-makh is one of the
various developments of Ishtar (the Moon or Venus in the sign
Taurus or Virgo). The same constellation Avas also termed " the
woman Avith child " (Eratu), because it brings forth, every 300
and odd years, the brightest and most remarkable neAV star, its
child. In the Chaldseo-Greek legend, Cassiopeia boasted that her
child Avas fairer than all the Nereids.

This beautiful star appearing in Cassiopeia, and its line of
right ascension falling in the second decanate of Aries, the sign
ruling Judea, Avas held by the Magi to be the symbol of Christ.

A gi'aphic account of the appearance of this star in 1572 AA^as

given by Tyco Brahe, the renoAvned astronomer and astrologer,

some extracts from Avliich Avill lie fDiiiid in Humboldt's "Cosmos."

The star continued from November, 1572, to Mai-ch, 1574,* or

* Robert Fludd, tlic great Rosierucian, was bom in 1574.

HERMES STELLA. 417

seventeen months. It was brighter than Sirius, and rivalled
Venus. Its colour was successively white, yellow, red, and white
again, and it remained stationary all the while in the position
which it occupied when discovered. It was seen by some persons
in the daytime, about noon.

Doctor Kenealy writes : " The blazing star, Iliaster, which
appears in the Masonic lodges, which these gentlemen call the
Star of Bethlehem : truly enough, for this was also the star of
the Naros " (p. 154, vol. ii., " Enoch "). It was in connection with
this star Paracelsus wrote that the Bird Phoenix is the soul of
the great Iliaster ("De Vita Longa," c. 2), meaning, evidently,
the periodic re-appearance of this star.

"The only sect or association with which the Rosicrucians may
be pertinently compared, and which we hear of before the year
1610, is the Militia Crucifera Evangelica, which assembled at
Lunenburg in 1598 under the auspices of the mystic and theo-
sophist, Simon Studion. Its proceedings are reported in an
unprinted work from his pen, entitled ' Naometria, seu nuda et
prima libri, intus et foris scripti, per clavem Davidis et calamum
(virga3 similem) apertio ; in quo non tantum ad cognoscenda tam
S. ScripturJB totius, quam natura? quoque universse, mysteria,
brevis fit introductio — verum etiam Prognosticus (stella3 illius
matutinse. Anno Domini 1572, conspectse ductu) demonstratur
Adventus ille Christi ante diem novissimum secundus per quem
homine peccati (Papa) cum filio suo perditionis (Mahomedo)
divinitus devestato, ipse ecclesiam suam et principatus mundi
restaurabit, ut in iis post hac sit cum ovili pastor unus. In
cruciferse militise Evangelicse gratiam. Authore Simone Studione
inter Scorpiones. Anno 1604'" (jd. 213, Waite's "Real History
of the Rosicrucians ").

Spedding writes : "In the ' Cogitationes de Natura Rerum,'
of which the date is unknown, we find, ' . . . mutationes in
regionibus coelestibus fieri, ex cometis quibusdam satis liquet;
iis dico qui certam et constantem configurationem cum stellis
fixis servarunt ; qualis fuit ille qui in Cassiopea nostra setate

2 E

4i8 HERMES STELLA.

apparuit.' This star in Cassiopeia appeared in 1572. But
another of the same kind, and no less remarhalle, appeared in
September 1604. It is said to have been brighter, when first seen,
than Jupiter, and though its brightness diminished afterwards, it
was distinctly visible for more than a year. In the ' Descriptio
Globi Intellectualis,' which we know to have been written about
the year 1612, the passage which I have just quoted appears in a
new form. 'Id cnim [sc. admii'andas in coelo accidere muta-
tioncs atque insolentias] perspicitur in cometis sublimioribus, iis
nimirum qui et figuram stellai induerunt absque coma, neque
solum ex doctrina parallaxium supra lunam collocati esse pro-
bantiu", sed configurationem etiam certam et constantem cum
stellis fixis habuerunt, et stationes suas servarunt, neque errones
fuerunt ; quales aetas nostra non semel vidit ; primo in Cassiopea,
iterum non ita pridem in Ophiucho.' "

(Ophiuchus and Serpentarius are identical.)

" TJie bright star which appeared between Cepheus and Cassiopeia in
the years 945, 1264, and 1572, tlie last time being observed by Tycho,
the great Danish astronomer, is considered to have probably been the
same star at its periodical return of about three hundred years. That
which appeared in 1604, in the constellation Ophiuchus, was
observed by Kepler. He even conjectured that it might have
been the star of Bethlehem ; but it was not vertical over Jeru-
salem and Bethlehem, which the star in Coma was. The star of
Kepler was near the ecliptic, being just over the planets Jupiter
and Saturn, then in conjunction " (Mazzaroth).

Allowing for the diflference of old and new style computation,
this evidently is 1603, viz., Fludd's conjunction of Jupiter and
Saturn.

APPENDIX.

I INTRODUCE here an important proof of cipher connection between
Bacon's " History of King Henry the Seventh " and the Folio
plays of 1623. The reader will find the numbers 52, 53 against
Stage-play, counted from the bottom of the page upwards, and 268
down. The numbers 52, 53 are Shakespeare's full years, and year
he had entered (1616) when he died. 268 is the number of the word
Bacon, page 53, " Merry Wives of Windsor," counted down the
column. What is really suggested by these figures is Shakespeare
(52), Bacon (268), Stage-play. The critic can test these figures in
Bacon's " History of King Henry the Seventh," either 1622 or 1641
edition.

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(Pages 19, 20.)

Tabulated Table of Page 21, Bacon's "History of King Henry
the Seventh," 1622.

Education ;

or

in

fit

answers

to

questions,

or

the

like,

any

ways

to

come

near

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resemblance

of

him

whom

he

was

to

represent.

For

this

Lad

was

not

to

personate

one,

that

had

been

long

before

taken

out

of

his

cradle,

or

conveighed

away

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in

his

infancy,

known

to

few ;

but

a

youth

that

till

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age

almost

of

ten

years

had

been

bi'ought

up

in

a

court

where

infinite

eyes

had

been

upon

him.

For

King

Edward

touched

with

remorse

of

his

brother

the

Duke

of

Clarence's

death.

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would

not

indeed

restore

his

son

(of

whom

we

speak)

to

be

Duke

of

Clarence

but

yet

created

him

Earl

of

^Varwich,

reviving

his

lionour

on

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mother's

side,

and

used

him

honourably

during

his

time,

though

ElCHARD

the

Third

afterwards

confined

him.

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that

it

cannot

be,

but

that

some

great

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certain
it

is,

slie

■was

a

busy

nei^otiatiiig

woman,

aijcl

in

her

withdrawing- \

Chamber j

had

the

fortunate

conspiracy

for

the

King

against

King

Richard

the

Third

been

hatched ;

which

the

King

knew,

and

remembered

perhaps

but

too

well ;

and

was

at

til is

time

extremely

discontent

with

the

King,

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thinking

her

daughter,

as

the

King

handled

the

matter,

not

advanced

but

depressed :

and

none

could

hold

the

book

so

well

to

prompt

and

instruct

this

Stage \

Play /

as

she

could.

Nevertheless

it

was

not

her

meaning,

nor

no

more

was

it

the

meaning

of

any

of

the

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* Mark 53 against Stage, and 52 against Phn/. It is upon page 53, "Merry
Wives of Windsor," and page 52 (mispaged 51) " 1 King Henry IV.," v:e fnd three
entries of the word Bacon.

APPENDIX.

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better
and

sager

SOl't

that

favoured

this

enterprise

and

knew

the

secret,

that

this

disguised

idol

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should

possess

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at

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peril

to

make

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It may be seen the words " this Stagc-Plaij " are the 267, 268, and
269th words down the page. Upon page 53, "Merry Wives of Windsor"
(col. 106), these numbers give : —

this 267 ^ For 267 ^ p. 53.

J Stage- 268 I Bacon 268 I " M. W.
( Play 269 J I 269 j W."

It may be seen I'lmj is the 23rd word in extraordinary letterpress,
not only pointing to Eichard III., which is the 23rd play in the 1623
Folio, but possibly to the date 23 — 1623.

426

APPENDIX.

(Page 23.)

Tabulated Table, Page 23, "History of King Henry the Seventh,"

1641.

his

escape,

the

cunning

Priest

changed

his

copy,

and

chose

now

Plantagenet

to

be

the

subject

his

Fupill

should

personate,

because

he

was

more

in

the

present

speech

and

votes

of

the

people,

and

it

pieced

better,

and

followed

more

close

and

handsomely

* If we add the paging 23 to 83, 84, we
107 of the Comedies and Histories, 1623,
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upon

the

bruit

of

PlantageneVs

escape.

But

yet

doubting

that

there

would

be

too

near

looking

and

too

much

Perspective

into

his

ilisguise,

if

he

should

allow

it

here

in

England

he

though t

good

(after

the

manner

of

scenes

in

Stage- \

I 'lays j

and

get 10(3, 107, and it is upon columns 106,
we find the words Bacon and Fnincis (22

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King Henry the Seventh.

a?

his Efcape, the cunning PrieU changed his Copy, and
chofe now P l a n t a c e n et to be the Subject his
rttpill (hould pcrfbnate , becaufe he was more in the
prefent ipeech, and Votes of the people ; and it pieced
better , and foIJowed morcclofc and handibmely up-
on the bruit of Tlantagenets efcape. But yet
doubting that there would bee too neare looking and
too much PcrJpeSii'z/e mto his Difguife , if he (hould
fhew it here in England; hec thought good^after the
manner of Scenes in Stage-Flayes and Mashes) to fhew
itafarrcofFi and therefore failed with his Scholler
into Ireland^ where the Affe£iion to the Houfe of
Torh^ was moii in height. The King had beene
a little improvident in mzttcvs of Ireland ^ and had
not removed Oncers and ChancellorSy and put in their
places , or at leaft intermingled perfbns, of whom he
flood aifured , as he fhoiild have done, fince he knew
the ftrong Bent of that Countrey towards the Houle
of y o R K E j and that it was a ticklifli and unfetlcd
State , more eSfic to receive diftempers and mutati-
oas, then E«^/^W was. Buttruftingto the reputation
of his Vi^ories and Succeflfes in England ^ he thought
he fliould have time enough to extend his Cares after-
wards to that iecond Kingdome..

Wherefore through this negled , upon the com-
ming of Simon with his pretended Planta-
genet into Ireland , all things were prepared for Re-
volt and Sedition , almoft as if they had bcene ict
and plotted before hand. Simons firftaddreflc
was to the Lord Thomas Fit z-g e r. a r d,
Earle of Kildare , and Deputie of Ireland : before
whofe Eyes hee did caft fuch a Mift ( by his owne
infinuation , and by the t arriage of his Youth > that
exprefled a naturall Princely behaviour ) as joyned
perliaps witli fome inward Vapours of Ambition
and Affedion in the Earks owne minde », left him

fully

APPENDIX.

427

Maskes)

to

shew

it

a

farre

off;

and

therefore

sailed

with

his

scholar

into

Ireland,

where

the

affection

to

the

House

of

Yorke

was

most

in

height.

The

King

had

been

a

little

improvident

in

matters

of

Ireland,

and

had

not

removed

Officers

and

Chancellors,

and

put

in

their

places

or

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least

intermingled

persons

of

whom

he

stood

assured,

as

he

should

have

done,

since

he

knew

the

strong

bent

of

that

country

towards

the

House

of

YORKE,

and

that
it

ticklish

and

unsettled

state,

more

easy

to

receive

distempers

and

mutations

than

England

was.

But

trusting

to

the

reputation

of

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17

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428

APPENDIX.

his

191

117

and

243

Victories

192

110

plotted

244

and

193

115

before

245

successes

194

114

hand.

246

in

195

113

Simon's

22

247

6

England

18

196

10

112

first

248

he

197

111

address

249

thought

198

110

was

250

he

199

109

to

251

should

200

108

the

252

have

201

107

Lord

253

time

202

106

Thomas

23

254

5

enough

203

105

Fitzgerald,

24

255

4

to

204

104

Earl

25

256

3

extend

205

103

of

257

his

206

102

Kildare,

26

258

2

cares

207

101

and

259

afterwards

208

100

deputy

260

to

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99

of

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that

210

98

Ireland,

27

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1

second

211

97

before

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Kingdom,

212

96

whose

264

Wherefore

213

95

eyes

265

through

214

94

he

266

this

215

93

did

267

neglect,

216

92

cast

268

upon

217

91

such

269

the

218

90

a

270

coming

219

89

mist

271

of

220

88

by

272

Simon

19

221

9

87

his

273

with

222

86

own

274

his

223

85

iusuiuation,

275

pretended

224

84

and

276

Plantagcnet

20

225

8

83

by

277

into

226

82

the

278

Ireland

21

227

7

81

carriage

279

all

228

80

of

280

things

229

79

his

281

were

230

78

vouth

282

prepared

231

77

that

283

for

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expressed

284

revolt

233

75

a

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and

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natural

286

sedition,

235

73

Princely

287

almost

236

72

behavour

288

as

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71

as

289

if

238

70

joined

290

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239

69

perhaps

291

had

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with

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been

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67

some

293

set

242

66

inward

294

Of Learning. Lib.VI.

he pofithle _, that they may he managed Tt?ithout fufpitim. For if Let-
ters Mifsive fall into their hands , that have Ibme command
and authority over thofe that write j or over thofe to whom
they were written • though the Cypher it fclfe bee fiire and
impofsibleto be dccypherd, yet the matter is liable to examina-
tion and queftion j unlefle the Cypher be fuch^as may be voide
ofallfufpition^^or may elude all examination. Jsfor thepift"
m<r oft examination,there is ready prepared a new and profita-
bte invention to this purpofe j which, feeing it is eafily pro-
cured to what end fhould we report it, as Deficient. The in-
vention is this : That you have two forts of Alphabets , one
or true Letters^ the other o( l>(pn-figmficants • and that you like-
wife fould up two Letters • one which may carrie the fecrct ,
another fiich as is probable the Writer might fend, yet with-
out perill. Now if the Meflenger be ftridly examined con-
cerning the Cypher , let him prelcnt the Alphabet of JSlon-fi^fi-
cants for true Letters , but the Alphabet of tme Letters for Now-
fimficants : by this Art the exi miner falling upon the exterior
Letter, and finding it probable,fhall fufpe<5t nothing of thein-
terior Letter, But that jealoufies may be taken away, we will
annexe an other invention, which,in truth^we devifed in out
youth , when we were at Taris : and is a thing that yet fee-
meth to us not worthy to be loft. It containeth the higkjl de*
wee of Cypher^ which is to fignifie (mniaper omnia, yet lb as the
Writing infolding , may beare a quintuple proportion to the
itfrittng infolded ; no other condition or reftridion whatfo-
ever is required. It fhall be performed thus : Firft let all the
Letters ofthe/^/j)/?^^et_,by tran(pofition,bcrefolvedinto two
Letters onely -for the tranfpofition ohvvoLetters by five place-
ings will be fufficient for ^i. Differences , much more for 24,
which is the number of the alphabet. The example of fucK
^n Alphabet is on this wife.

LI An

APPENDIX.

429

vapours

of

ambition

and

affection

in

the

295

13

296

12

297

11

298

10

299

!)

300

8

301

7

EarVs

own

mind,

left

him

fully

302
303
304
305
306
307

We reproduce here a facsimile reduced lithograph of page 265,
Bacon's "Advancement of Learning," 1640, whereby the strange
system of italicising words in this work may be studied. If the reader
will count the words in italics upon this page, he will find they are
fifty-three in number, counting the words " non-significants " as two
words. This number fifty-three bears a quintuple relationship to the
paging 265.

53 X 5 = 265.

This evidently bears out the assertion of the text, and is an example
of Bacon's words on this page with regard to this cipher he invented
at Paris. " It containeth the highest degree of cipher, which is to
signify omnia per omnia, yet so as the xcriting infolding may bear a
quintuple proportion to the tvriting infolded.^'

Page 32 of this 1640 " Advancement of Learning " has also 53 words
in italic words upon it. Also page 32 of Preface.

Page 91, 52 italic words upon it.

Page 97, 52 italic words upon it (subjects. Relations and Poetry),

Page 104, 53 italic words upon it.

Page 124, 52 italic words upon it.

Page 173, 53 italic words upon it.

This cannot be chance. These two numbers, 52, 53, represent
Shakespeare's age, viz., full years, and the year he had just entered
when he died, April 1616, according to the Stratford monument. The
mispaging in this work also commences with a false number 52 and a
false number 53, thus in sequence from page 49 (taken from twelve
copies we have examined). Pages : —

False. False.

49

52

51

52

53

54

53

"Advancement of Learning," 1640.

43°

APPENDIX.

Upon pages 105, 106, 107 we first come upon the subject of Poetry,
the Drama, and Stage Plays : —

105
Poetry.

106
Drama.

107

Stage
Plays.

Let the reader note that the sum of 52 and 53, the two false pagings,
point to Poetry, p. 105, as if to point to the 1623 Polio columns.

52 + 53 = 105.

The double of 53 is 106, and upon this page or column in the 1623
r<;lio Plays, page 53, "Merry "Wives of Windsor," we find the word
" Bacon" We also find the word " Bacon" page 53, " 1 King Henry
IV.," and twice upon page 52 (mispaged 54) of this same play. So
that the only four entries of the word " Bacon " in the Plays called
Shakespeare's, are always to be found upon pages bearing the numbers
53, 52, or Shakespeare's age in 1616 when he died. All this bears out
our evidence in the Introduction with regard to the extract upon pages
52, 53, " Confessio Fraternitatis," 1617, relating to an impostor styled
a Stage-Player or Comedist. It is by mathematics this cipher is con-
structed. I am convinced the paging bears a portrait in the frame* hy
figures, of Shakespeare and of Bacon at important epochs or dates like
1616, 1623.

Upon page 29 of the first part of the 1671 " Eesuscitatio " there is
tlie following suspicious passage relating to Lord Henry Howard
(Earl of Northampton), of whom Bacon writes : " Wherein he said,
that he would not put his credit upon ciphers and dates." It was
in Northumberland House, which formerly belonged to the same Earl
of Northampton, that a manuscript was found, on which was scribbled
passages connecting Bacon's name with the play of "Love's Laboui's
Lost." It is to this same Lord Henry Howard Bacon writes : " For
your Lordship's love, rooted upon good opinion, I esteem it highly,
because I have tasted the fruits of it ; and we both have tasted of the

* Bacon writes: "For it came into our mind, that in Mathemathics the
frame standing, the demonstration inferred is facile and perspicuous ; on the con-
trary, without this accommodation and dependency, all seems involved and more
subtle than indeed they be" (p. 36, " Advancement," 1640).

APPENDIX. 431

h'st wo.ters in my accompt to knit mind's together" (p. 84, Part I.,
" Resuscitatio," 1671). This evidently is an allusion to the waters of
Parnassztsy or of Poetry, viz., Helicon.

" In 1867 there was discovered in the library of Northumberland
House in London, a remarkable MS. containing copies of several
papers written by Francis Bacon. It was found in a box of old papers
which had long remained undisturbed. There is a title page, which
embraces a table of contents of the volume, and this contains not only
the names of writings unquestionably Bacon's, but also the names of
plays which are supposed to have been written by Shakespeare. But
only part of the manuscript volume remains, and the portions lost
embrace the following pieces enumerated on the title leaf :

Orations at Graie^s Inns revells

.... Queeii's Mat^ ....
By Mr. Frauncis Bacon

Essaies by the same author.

Richard the Second.

Richard the Third.

Asmund and Cornelia.

Isle of Dogs frmnt.

By Thomas Nashe, inferior places.
How comes it that the Shakespeare plays, "Richard II." and
" Richard III.," should be mixed up in a volume of Bacon's manu-
scripts with his own letters and essays and a mask written by him in
1592 ? Judge Holmes says : "And then, the blank space at the side
and between the titles is scribbled all over with various words, letters,
phrases, and scraps of verse in English and Latin, as if the copyist
were merely trying his pen, and writing down whatever first came into
his head. Among these scribblings, beside the name of Francis Bacon
several times, the name of William SJiakespeare is written eight or nine
times over. A line from The Rape of Lucrece is written thus : * Re-
vealing day through every crannie peeps and,' the writer taking peeps
from the next couplet instead of spies. Three others are Anthony
comfrt. and consort and honorificahilitudino and plaies [plays]. . . . The
word honorificabilitudino is not found in any dictionary that I know
of, but in ' Love's Labour-'s Lost ' " (" The Great Cryptogram," Donnelly,
282, vol. i.).

Now this Northumberland House where this paper was found be-

432

APPENDIX.

longed to Lord Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, who, with
Bacon and the Earl of Salisbury, shared chief honours in the adminis-
tration of James the First's Government. Before discovering this last
curious coincidence of the finding of this paper, I had long had sus-
picions that Lord Henry Howard was in some literary connection with
Bacon. The thirty-fifth Apophthegm is repeated Uoke in the collec-
tion of the 1671 " Resuscitatio," which can hardly be the result of
accident, and introduces this same Earl of Northampton.

Michael Maier, who visited England in 1617, and who was the
friend of Robert Fludd, the great English Rosicrucian and Apologist
of the Order, contributes, in his " Symbola Aureaj Mensae " (Frankof.,
1617), the following Enigma in poetry connected with the centre of
the Rosicrucians (page 296). It will be seen that Apollo figures as
protagonist again, and that there is some implied hint to an island in

the west.

^nigmata A ix. Musis et

ApoUine de CoUegio Germanorum

Philosophorum R. C. eorumque loco,

ipsis discutienda, honoris gratia

proposita.

1. Enigma CALLiorES.*
Longiis in 'H.ESTEBIO 2»'otenditur ceqnore tractus
Ad septeni lato prospectans axe Triones,
In rtiedio nunc terra jacet, qucefertur Adelpha
Nomine dicta, virum magnce virtutis alumna,
Parvo licet spado passus vix mille pererret
Circuitio immensi prce jluctibv.s Insula Ponti
Non est tufa satis, czijus prope littora Proteus
Qui Deus in varias mutat se corpore formas,
Scepe die, radios sole emittente serenos,
Visitur : hie cajAxis per midtas denique curas
Artis et inf/enii, sefatur, ad cequa paratum
Reddere qiuesiiis responsa, nee edere falsi
Velle aliquid, Quai sint, fuerintve, fiiturave restent,
Se callere, sed Itoec cunclis prcedicere nolle :
Ergo hibens, inqiuim posco qud littoris orA
Conveniant coelo genitus, Dea Cypris et ilia
Qiuxm pepent Latona simul, neferre recuset:
Haec est smnma mei, quod ei committo negoti :
Annuit ille, sonis et talihus ora resolult, <i:c.

(P. 297, " Symbola AureEe Mensaj, 1617.)

* This work hears date 1617 — the year following Shakespeare's death ! All the
Rosicrucian literature of importance appears with Shakespeare's death, 1616,
when Fludd first [)ublishes.

APPENDIX. 433

Is there uo sly reference to Fludds name in the word " Fluctihus"
his Latin name, which he adopted being Rohertus di Fliictibus ? We
have reproduced tlie text exactly as it is printed in the original, the
words Hesperio, Triones, Adelpiia, Insula Pontus, Protheus, being
in large Roman type, and evidently being accented thus to indicate
hints of importance. It seems to us Atlantis is pointed at or an
Island of the Ocean, situated to the ]Yest and North. The previous year
— 1616 — (this work was printed 1617), Maier, the author, was in Eng-
land on a visit to Robert Fludd. This island may be the " New
Atlantis."

The Church of St Michael's, where Lord Bacon is buried, was
originally founded by Abbot L^lsinus, and is dedicated to St Michael
the Archangel. Parts of a painted ceiling in wood which covered the
chancel still exist, and are shown to the visitor who inquires to see
this curious fragment, on which is depicted the Day of Judgment, with
the Archangel Michael and bodies rising out of their coffins. Evidently
this was a painted emblem or representation in harmony with the
name of the church — St Michael. It is remarkably curious and strik-
ing to find Bacon alluding to St Michael in his Apophthegms as
follows, and evidently thinking of this painted ceiling with which he
must have been so familiar : —

23. " Queen Elizabeth being to resolve upon a great officer, and
being by some, that canvass'd for others, put in some doubt of that
person, whom she meant to advance, called for Mr Bacon ; and told
him she was like one with a Lanthorn seeking a man ; and seem'd un-
satisfied in the choice she had of a man for that place. Mr Bacon
answered her that he had heard that in old time, there was usually
painted in the Church Walls the Day of Doom, and God sitting in
judgment and Saint Michael hy him, with a pair of balances^ and the
soul and the good deeds in the one balance, and the faults and the evil
deeds in the other ; and the soul's balance went up far too light. Then
was our Lady painted with a great pair of beads ; who cast them into
the light balance, and brought down the scale ; so he said place and
authority which were in her majesties hands to give, were like our
Ladies beads, which though men through any imperfections, were too
light before, yet when they were cast in, made weight competent"
(p. 226, " Resuscitatio," 1671, Part I.).

A still more curious and extraordinary parallel is now to be adduced

434 APPENDIX.

by us. In the Sonnets we find one which undoubtedly alludes to
Saint Michael {rebel po^cers) and to a tomb.

146.

Poor soul, the centre of mj- sinful earth,

FoolVl by those relel povers that thee array,

Why (lost thou pine within, and suffer dearth,

Painting thy outward walls so costly gaj- ':

Why so large cost, having so short a lease.

Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ?

Shall worms, inheritors of this excess.

Eat up thy charge ? Is this thy body's end ?

Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,

And let that pine to aggravate thy store ;

Buy terms di\'ine in selling houi-s of dross ;

Within be fed, without be rich no more :

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.
And, Death once dead, there's no more dying then.

Chymische Hochzeit Christian: Eosencreutz. Erstlich Gedruckt
zu Strassburg, Anno h.dc.xvi.

I am in possession of the above work, first edition. It is to be
noted this work was published the year Shakespeare died, 1616. I
find in this original first edition, a great number of English words
interlarded with the German text, which shows the author knew
English, or perhaps translated the work from English into German.
For example, pages 52, 53 (Shakespeare's two ages), I find the words
" Combination, Execution, Interpretation," which is very curious. It
must be remembered that in 1616 very few German writers were
acquainted with the English language. Upon page 57 I find the
English word Inscription j p. 60, Dedication; p. 62, Solution, Question;
p. 79, Vocal Music; p. 81, Disputation; p. 88, Intercession; p. 6, Cal-
culation; p. 19, Compass; p. 21, histruction; p. 33, Perturbation; p.
39, Perfection, Inquisition; p. 44, P\.eputation, «&c., &c. Perhaps these
.-^re cipher key words. In this Romance there are several strange
ciphers given. Breithaupt, in his " Ars Decifratoria " (1737), writes :
" Tandem omnium novissime inter Germanos scientia artis decifratorias
inclaruit Nicol Seelaenderus, Hannoveranus, qui occultas istas scrip-
turas, quiie in Christiani Rosencreutzeri nuptiis Chi/micis inveniuntur,
solvere, et qua^nam sub iis arcana naturaj lateant, detegere annisus est,
uti baud ita pridem ex relationibus Hamburgensibus de rebus eruditis

APPENDIX. 435

percepimus." {Xid. Hamburg Berichte von gelehrten Sachen de anno
] 736, num. xlvi. et num. Ixxxiii. p. 748, seqq.)

I should like here to poiut out tliat the " Chemical Wedding" is
divided into the Bays of the Week, which is a feature we refind peculiar
to Bacon's " College of the Six Days." Indeed a distinct affiliation may
be traced between this work and Bacon's " New Atlantis," revealed in
trifling details such as the description of the three lofty Cedars,
described in the margin as three Temples. An old man is introduced
on the seventh day, who in the original text is sometimes called Atlas,
sometimes Atlantis. " Auff des Atlantis Oration machet sich unser Alter
herfiir," &c. (p. 134, Chymische Hochzeit, 1616). In Michael Maier's
" Arcana Arcanissima," I find him describing Atlas, in the second
book of his Hieroglyphics, the word Atlas being placed in extra-
ordinary capitals in the mai-gin, and in this respect a singular feature
in the work, p. 80. He writes : " Atlas enim Hesperi frater, quia ad
Hesperi occasum ^gypti et Graecise respectu situs sit ; Hinc et Mer-
curiiis Atlantiades dicitur, quia a quibusdam in Atlante genitus
testimatur." Again, "'Per Hesperum ejusque; filias eadem montana
loca Atlantis intelligimus," p. 81. I think it highly probable Maier
is hinting at the Island of Atlantis in the Enigma poem by him,
entitled, "Enigma Calliopes," for the word Hesperio is printed by
itself in capitals, and Atlas was brother to this Hesperio, who was
Lord of the Hesperides or Islands of the West. Madame Blavatsky
writes : " The myth of Atlas is an allegory easily understood. Atlas
is the old continents of Lemuria and Atlantis, combined and per-
sonified in one symbol. The poets attribute to Atlas as to Proteus a
superior wisdom and an universal knowledge, and especially a thorough
acquaintance with the depths of the ocean ; because both continents
bore races instructed by Divine masters, and because both were trans-
ferred to the bottom of the seas where they now slumber until theii-
next re-appearance above the waters " (" Secret Doctrine," vol. ii. p. 762).
The reader will find in Maier's enigma poem the word Proteus in
capitals. This was the Saturnian Kingdom, where the golden age once
reigned. Maier writes : " De Aurea atate receptum est, quod ali-
([uando acta sit suh saturno rege " (p. 91, " Arcana Arcanissima "). In the
margin we find against this, " Lapis in Ilelicone podtv.s." The reader
will see here is a connection between the origin of the E. C. Society
and Helicon, Saturn being again found in the poem in capital letters.

436 APPENDIX.

Nimrod, in his Alcliyimis (vol. iv. p. 557, " History and Fable "),
writes : "Two Howers of Harpocrates, the Eed and the White, blossom
in the garden of the Knights Templar." To this he adds a footnote :
" See Part I., ' Henry YI.,' act ii. sc. 4." This is a striking hint,
because we do find the author of the play in question has laid the scene
of plucl-ing the red and white roses in the Temple garden. The Rosi-
crucians were not merely fancifully affiliated to the Templars, but
their direct successors, a relationship every writer on the subject, from
Andreas to Hargreave Jennings, acknowledges.

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