part 5 the parts of A, then are according to

that fenfe of reft , by which they would ex- plain the Adhsefian of the pares of Matter one with another, truly quiclcenc. • So fay I that in the union of matter with the fpiritj the parts of the matter receiving from the fpirit^juft fuch a velocity of motion gs the fpints exerts and no more 3 they both reft in firm unicn one with another. That which comes to paffe even then, when there is far IcfTc immediate Union then we fpeak of i For if we do but lay ^ piece of Gold en our hand, provided our hand be not moved with a fwifter motion then it communicates to the gold^ nor the gold bepufhton fafter then the fwiftnelTe of our hand ;The^(?/i and hand will moft certainly retain their union and go together : So natural and cafie it is to conceive, how a yj?/rzt may move a body without any more perplexity , orcontradi- ftipn then is found in the union and motion of the parts of matter it fclf.
Chap.
46 The Harmony eft he kVorld.
Chap. IV.
Of the Harmony of the Maorocofme or great IVorld: Of the Order and Nature of it; how the
\ Smi^ Moon and Scars receive their Light^and the Heavens their Motions •, hsyv they are gui^ ded in their fcveral Spheres j and how by their ,mutual Prefence^ 4h fence and various Mcetin (rj^ the viftble Heavens receive the brightnejfe of the Spiritual world ^ and this Earth the brightnefs of the viftble Heavens.
NOw being come to behold the Harmony of the worlds I fay all mufick coniift- cch in voiccj in found, and hearing ; found without aire cannot be audible 5 nor to be perceived by any fenfe, unlcirc by accident ; for the light fecth it not, unleflc it be colou- red 5 nor the ears unleflTe founding, nor the fmell unlefle odoriferous, nor the taftc iin" lefie it be fapid , nor the touch unleflc it ba Gold or hot^andfo forth. Therefore though found cannot be made without Aire , yf t is not found of the nature of aire, nor aire of the nature of found 5 but aire is the body of the life of our fenfitive fpirit , and is not of the nature of any fenfible objcft, but of a
more
7 he Hiirmonji of the ff'ortd, 4.7
rnorc limple and higher vercue ; tuc ic is meet that the fenlicive Soul fhould vivifie the aire joyned to it, and in the vivificated airc^ which is ioyned to the fpirit, perceivethe fpecksofobje&s put forth into aft, and this is done in the living aire , but in a fubtile and Diaphanous , the vilible fpecies , in ati ordinary aire the audable 5 in a more grofle aire the fpccics of other fenfes are perceived. Thtllamts^Saturn^Mars^ and the Moott have more ofthc voice then of the Harmony. Saturn hath fad , hoarfe, heavy and (low words and founds , as it were prefTed to the Centre , but Mars rough, (harp, threatning greatandvvrathfull words, the M^^^obfer- veth a mean betwixt thefe two ; but Jupiter^ Soly Venm and Mercury docs pofTcfTe harmo- nies; yet Jupiter hath gravCjConftantjfixcd, fwcet, merry and pleafant Conforts •, Sol venerable, fettled, pure and fweet , with a certain grace i but K^««^ lafcivious, luxuri- ous, delicate, voluptuous, diffolute and flu- ent; Mercury hath harmonies more rcmifs, and various, merry and plcafant with a cer- tain boldndlc.
But the Tone of particulars and propor- tionated Conforts obcyeth the Nine Mufcs ; Jupiter hath the grace of the Oftave and alfo the Quintc, I'i*. the Diapafon with the Dia-
pcnte.
48 i he tijrm o^y ojthe fVorU,
pentc 5 Sol obtains the melody of the Oftave voice^v/s. DiapafoM j in like manner by iifi- teca Tones a Piap^fouj Fff/«f keepeth thfe grace of the quinte or Diapence Mercury hath DiatejfarofiyViz the grace of the Quarte. Moreover the Antif.ncs being content with four flrini^?, as the number o{ Elements y ac- counted Nl^YCury the Author of thenj , as Fucius Cardaniii reports, and by their bufc ftrings would refemblc the E/zrt^5 by tlieir fachypas or middle the JFater^ by their Note Diczeugmenon^ or Eyferholeon the Fire •, by the Faranete or Synemmenon or Treble the Aire \ but afterwards Jerpander tht Lesbian findnig out the feventh firing, equalled them to the number of Planets. Moreover5they that fol- lowed the number of the Elements, did af- firm 5 that the four kindes of Mufick doe a- grce tothem^and alfo to the fourc humours^ and did think the Dorian Mufick to be con- fonant to the U''ater and Phlegme^thc Thrigian to Cboller and Fire :, the Lydian to Blood sind Aire , the raixt Lydian to Melmcholly atid F.arth,
Others refpcding the Numbci-s and Vcr- tuesof the Heavens , ha%e attributed the T>o^ rian to the Sun^ the Pbrigian to Mars , the Lj- dian to Jupiter , the mixt Lydian to Saturn^ the Hyphrygian to Mercury^ the Hypdidian to
Venus^
7 he Harmony oft he IP orld, ^ 9
Venm^ chc H^fodorian to the Moon ^ the Hypo mixed L> chefe y.odes of Mu lick are referred to the V\\\(c lot in that order as 1 have declared concer- ning the Nine Mufes^ anionj^ft our numbers nid CcJcHin! f'Aih. For Ihdia hath no Hur- mony^ jlihonqh fhe be a beaiiry of Nature j herefore wc afcribe her to^ifj.'ent Lady that governs the E(^rth •, but C(y& her fifter with he Moon moves after the Hypodorian manner, he firing Irojlaynlanomenes or arie ^ Calliope md Mercury pofTeflTe the Hypophrygian nian- icr 5 and the Chord , Hypate Hypaton^ or B. A'u I'erpjichore with VeriM the Hypolydian Banner, and Farakypote^ Hypaton: and for \Adpomene and the Dorian manner with Ly^ anoiy Hypatcn or J), ScL Re^ are applied to he Sim^ Mrs. Erata with Mars keep the Phry" [tan fafliion , and the Hypatemife, E. la, mi. ^adam Euterpe ^ My MiftreJJe and lady loves he Lydian Mufick , and FachyparewefoH agree vith Jupiter , Polymnia and Saturn keep the nixt Lydian manner, and Lychanos Mefon D. )ol^ Key to Madam Vrania and the fixt Stars^ he Hypo mixt Lydian Mufick , and the ftring \flefey or ^, le, m, re, are afcribed as w'e finde :hem in this following Figure from the Hy- Dothefis of Copernicus.
E Wto
50 The Harmonj of the World,
Who here (xaCily Uacketh the Revolutions of the Spheres^ who beginning with the primimi Mo- bile^ moves round in :^6ooo,yearSy Saturnin ^o. year s.^and Jupiter in 12. &:c.
Ey this Figure I finde out the Harmon^ the Heavens y and their diftance ohc fro' another, it is 5 andj it doth falve thisi
Th^novtcm]
7 he Harmor?y oj the It or Id. 5 4
Tbxftomena : For the fpace vvhich' is be- twixt the Earth and the ^.oon^- viz, an hiu'dieti rwentyand fix thpiifand Italian m\\t9^x\yA€.t\\ the iiuerval of a Tone ; bur from the V'MHXo ff.ercury being half that fpace maketh half a Tope;, and fo miich from Merciih lo Vem^ maketh another half Tone :
Put from theiife tothe ^/^vVasit vveiea threefold tone and a half, and makts Pia- pewte^but from tht\[oon tothe5//«5maketha iwofold diateiraion5with a half: again front the Sim to ^ars is the fame fpace as from the Edrtb to the S^ooft^ making -a tone*, froni cheiice to Jupiter half of th'efame, making lalfatone; fo much likewife from Jupiter o Saturne , conftituting an half tone, roni whence to the Starry Firmament s aifo the fpace of an halftone; There- ore there is from the Sun to the fixed tars a diareifaron diftance of two tones & a alfjbut from ih^Earth aDiapafon oflixper- t€t TonesrMoreoveralfo from the proporti- lis of the Motions of the Planets amongft icmfelves, and with the eight Sphere re- ilteth the fvvccteft Harmony of all: For the roportion of the V!otions of 5^t«y/i^ to Ju" ters Motion is twofold and a half ; ofjupi- ♦'toM^rsa fix fold proportions ofM^nto E 2 the
The Harmony of the World,
the SuHj VtnuiAwd Wrcury\ which in ama? nerf iiifh their coiirfc in the fame time, is a double pioportioii, their M«Kioii to the Moojt have a twelve fold proportion, but .9^?- («k;;5 proportion to the Starry Htp.ven is a thoiifanJ and two hundred 'ac-'cndnig to the hJyfothcfis ot Sr. Chr,Heydon^vi Heaven is moved contra ly to the Prinn-im Mohile in z\\ hundred years one deyrers therefore the proper motion of tht h-.OGti b'^if^g more fwifc n^aketh a more ac= cme Cound then the Starry firm a ^jent^ which isiiife^ilovveft of all, and therefore caufet' the more ba fe found*,
But by the violent motion of the Prmir A^oMicy is the niort fwifc and accute found oi alJj. but the violent Motion of the ^oon i( m^oA flow and heavy, which proportion am reciprocation of motions yeilds a moft plea| flint Harmony,, from hence there are not a ny fongs. Sounds, or Muiicali Inftrument! nioiepowerfuli in moving mans aifedion^ OLV i'luroducing imprellians , then thol which are compofed of Numbers, Meafures and Proportions, after the example of thj Heavens-, Aifothe Harmony of the Elements draw!i forth from their bails and Jngles^i 1 Hiallfpe kof in order: »novv between Fii si\\d ^yr
The Harmony of the IVorld, s ?
£//fr;, aiui oneaiul a halfni fv)Iid An -Jts, a- "aiii in planets a double^ there ariling hence an Harmony oFa double Duipafon,and D.a- pe'ue 5 becvvixc the Mire and lVatn\ the pii;porcionm tb-ir bafis is double, and one and a halfj hence Piapafon and Piapcnte, but in their Angles double : hence again Piapafon.
Buc bet\A'cen Water ^n^ E/zrr^^ thepro- pnrcion in the Balis^is three fold and a third pare more-, from hence arifeth Diapafon, PiHpente, PiatefTaron-, but in the Anglca- gain conilituting Piapence ; betwixt ^arth and Fire in theBafis, the proportion is one
I and a half muking Piapente, but in the An- L^/^idgublecau(ing Piapafon, but between jfire and water^^ir^ and E^rr^i there is fcarre any Confonancy, becaiife they have apeife^l contrariety in their Qiiaiitie-5 but they are united by the Intermediate £/fWf«tj as you fliallfindein the following difcouife after we have proved this Hj^othefis^
(rJF
E 3 Chap
54 '^ke Harmotiy of i hfi PP'orlJ,
Chap; V.
Grounds prcvinj, the Tttotion and harmony of the Heavens and Planets , to be by the An(Tclsjthat Kule and Conduci them , and not in their -power to move themfdves^ or cali any Ughty in- fluence^ or virtue to one another,
FIrftj I canfider the tranfcendenc Excel- lency of the Nature of God 5 who being according to the true Idea of him, an effence abfolutely perfc^V, cannot poffibly be Body , and confequently niuft be fomething incor- poreal ; and feeing that there is no contra- diftion in the ^ea of a fpirit in general, nor inanyof thofr kinde offpirits which I have written of; (where the Idea of God were fee down amongft the reft) and that in the ve- ry Idea cf him ^ there iscontayneti the Rea- fon of his exiftence, as you may te€ at large in my Temple of Wifdo^ne^ about the eighch Chapter, certainly if we tinde anything at all to be, wc may fafely conclude that he is much it>ore For there is nothing beiides him^of which one can give a reafon why it is, unleflewefuppofehimto be the Author of it.
Wherefore
iha Htrnt'tny aj the ^oricL 5 5
Wherefore though God be neiihf r vifible nor Tangible, yec his very Ide^ rcpreffn- ting to our lutelleftuall faculties the necef- fary reafonothisexiilence, wearc (though wehadnoother argument drawn troni our fenre>) confidently to conclude, that he is the tirft mover and canfe of all things "^ this HarmonHHis world.
The fecond Ground is the ordinary P^^- nontfju of nacui c , the nioft generall whereof is Motion. Now it feenis to me demonn^ra* ble from hence, that there isfome being in the world diftiiift from matter./ For njat- ter being of one iimplc homogenial nature, 8i not diftinguifnable byfnecificall differen- ces jas the fchools, it muft have ever the very ranieEffenciall propertiesj^nd therefore of it felf It muft allof it be either without motion, or clfe be felf moving, and that in fuchor fuch a tenor or meafure of mo ion,there be- ing no reafon immaginable, why one part of the matter (hould move of it fcif, lefs then a- nothen and therefore if there beany fuch thing, it can only arife from external impe- diment; now I fay, if matter be utterly dc- voyd of Motion in it felf, it is plain it has its motion from fome other fubftance that is not matter, that is to Cdy^^Subftance Incor- poreal. But if it be moved of it felf, in fuch E 4 or
56 7 he Uarmorjy of the iVorld.
or fuch ameafure, the effeft here being aii Emanative Effect, cannot poilible faile to be wherever Matter is^efpccially, if there be no external impedement : And there is no impediment at all, but that the Terreftrial parts might reca'ine an Activity very nigh equall to the i^cheriailjor rather never have lo t it
For if the Vlanets had but a Pividend of all the motion) wtiich themfelves and the iiunand Stars, andall the-^t^?m/ matter poflfefs (the matter of the Planets^ being fo little in comparifon of that of the Sim,^ Star$ and Mther) the proportio'i of motion that will fall due to them, would be exceeding much above what they have; for it would be as if four or ftvepoor men in a very rich and popular City fiiould^by giving up that eftate they have, in a Levelling vvay, get equall fharewith all thcreftj wherefore every F/^^- net could not faile of melting it felf into lit- tle lefTer, finer fubftatice then thepureft t^J- ther^ but they not doing (q^ it is a iignc,they have not their Motion, Harmony, and Agi- tation, nor influence of themfelves^ and therefore reft content v;ith what has extrin- fically accrued to them, be it lefs or more,
But the PugnaciouSjto evade the ftrdkeof OWvVikmma^ will make any bold fliifc, and
though
The bUrmony of the World, 5 7
though they affront their own faculties in faying fo, yet they will fay and muli fay., that tlie F'a^tts^ Heavens^ Angels and Men ai e without motion of themielves^ althongU they will fay in (pite of me^^ that part ot the matter is felf moving.
But to this 1 z^nfwer, thitfirfl^thisEvafi- on of theirs is not fo agreeable to experience, but fo fai r as either our feiice cr reafon can reach, there is the fame matter every where: For conlider the fubtle parts of matter dif- coverable here below, thofe which for their fubtlety areinviiiblc, anifor their activity Wonderfully I mean thofe particles that caufe that vehement agitation vve feel in IVindi. They in time loofe their motion, and become of a vifible v and turn to Clouds then to Show ov Rat ft^af^ ter' iiaply to Ice it felf; but then in procelle of time, firft melted into Water, then ex- haled into Vapours; after more firmly agi- tated, do become Winde again: And that we may not think that this reciprocation into motion and reft belongs only to Terrejhiall f articles; that the Heavens themfelvcs be of the fame matter,is apparent from the Ejedi^ om oi Comets into one Vortex^ (as you may read in the Methodically Learned ^Mathematician Mr. John Gadbury his Book of Prodigies^) and
the
5 8 The Heir many oft he IVorlJ,
the pcrpetuall riling of thole~>pots and Scum upon the face of the Sun,
But lecondly^ To lecuinc what is fllll more pugnant: This matter that is felf movedj in the impieUing of motion upon o- thcr matter, either loofe oFir? own motion, or reteyns it fhll nitire, if the firii, it may be difpoyied of all its motion : and fo that whofe immediate nature is to Viove (Ivall ?y.eii^ thecntnecaufeofits motion iliU remaniing vi'z It felf; which is a plain concradiftion, if chefecoud, no meaner an inconvenience then this will follow, that the whole world had Lcen turned into pure ^ther by thf^ time, if not into a perfeft flame, or at leaft . will be in the conclufion, to the utter de^ ftru^tionofall Corporeall Confilkncies,for, that thefc felf moving parts of matter are of a ConiiderablecopiDufnelTejtheeve ts df)es. teftify, they having melted almoft all the world already into Suns^ Starrs and Mtber^ nothing remaining but Planets and Comets to be diff^ivcd: which all put together fcarce bearefogrcat a proportion as a Cherry to the Ball ofthe Earth, wherefore fopotenta principle of Motion, ftill adding new motion to matter, and no motion once communi- catedjbeing loft (for according to the Lawes ofmotionj no body loofes any more motion
-u-.^
7 he Harmony of the IVorU,
then ittromrniinicates to any other)! t plain- ly follows, th.it either the world had been utteily burnt np ere now, or vvill be at the end of every feven thoufand years, which is alefTe time to come than that which rs pafr: let lis pa (Te to the Harmony of the Afpeftsof Starrs.
Chap. V/.
Of the Harmony of the Afpecis of the Tlanets^nnd Y how they do transfer their received Light and Vertue downwards: of Intentions and Kemiffi- ens by Co?tfi^uration of Starrs: and how the Light of the Starrs faffeth unto all pariSy and the AireaU Spirits to us by them.
I Grant that in all Scitiiations the Starrs fend forth their beams unto all the parts of Heaven and Earthy which they beholc*, ^s may be argued out of Sr. Chrijiopher Heydoft^ in defence for Afirology and difcourfes by means whereof, the beanvs and lines of true motion in every two Stars doretaine a mu- tuall refpeft one to another, and fd do ever- more intercept Tome Arke oi Heaven^ and
concur
6o 7 he Harmon y of the IVorld.
concur ac fome Angle of the Earth, which may feeni to make an Afpeft among thenw felves: yet neverthelefle all the Annenc and Moderne A^ronomcrs following nature for then* guide, have heretofore regarded thefc few configurations oniyjbein^ but five in ail, namely, the Conjun^ton^Sextile^ §luartile^ ami Oppofition-y amongil which although thefirft do not commonly go for an Afpcd, becaufe every Afped is reputed a proportioned di- ft nice between two or more Starrs; yet ne- verthelefle feeing a certain poficion of the St^rr^ in the Z(?^///cJ^ is rather confidered ia this pclitiou, then any diverflty of place, * and that the enumeration of the A(pe6ls e- ver beginneth from the Conjunftion.There- fore as well in refpeft of this Analogy, as of the received ufe, it may not be fechided out of the number of Afpefts, efpecially know- ing that the Beames of the Starrs areas well extended upward and downward as obli- quely & Collatterallyi Sc by thefe beams arc thofcI^f^V, which originally proceed from God gradually imparted to the Aire, and from the air to the matter daily, by the help of the foul of the world,for the^?//^// i^iumi liath in the fixed Stars her particular forms or Seminal Conceptions anfwerable tothe Ideas of the Divine miiidej of this you
(hall
1 he Harmony of the Wo rid, ' 6 1
fhall be better fatibfyed m the following difrcLiifc.
Now if any mm delire toknow my red- foiiF, why 1 obferve thefc diftances and Arks alligned unco the Afpe^ts, as of more vertiie then any other, finely the anfvvcr is eafy, feeingnatureitfelf every where^bothin the motions and effefts of the heavenly bodies^ as alfo in other Arithmetical!, and Ger^me- tricall refpeft;?, chiefly ctlebrateth thefe ve- ry proportions with a Singular prerogative. Nature hath as it were tirft allured us to ob- ferve the Afpefts by fpecial.l tokens or fecret marks in the motion5and by them we know the Nature of the Native, in Body 8c spirit,
Agrippa. fpeaking hereof, tlriiiketh they were firll induced hereunto by ob- ferving the feverall illuminations or ages of the Moo«5 for that when flie is new, horned in her quarters, gibbofity and fullneffejh^r formes are ftill changed at thefe proportion- ed fpaces from the Sun.
Eefides which, itisnottobe pafiTed in fi* lence, which other* have more particularly noted, then in her Annual! R.evolution, (he is ftill found about theTr/«^of herowiipIac€ in the beginning of the former year.
Neither have other ?hiIofofhers failed to note, how Natijre pointeth(fi«itvyerewitha
. tii>
6 2' Thfi Harmony of the (^V oriel,
finger) pare icuiarly unto every contigurati- on; that wc mij:;lu obfervc how the Angels Af* ccnd 2)Ll)efcend^ U conitder the motions of rhe, other Planets.For thiih^^'f??ron wittily afiii^.' nieththetvvo inieriour Pfafiets in their ftati- ous toobfcrve the Arkc proper to a fquare Afped, Vtdomy likewife wit h him as skillfully eomnieiideih unto us the obfervacionofthc A by the ftations of the three fuperiour pU- mis. But above all, it cannot be conliuered wi^thout deep admiration , how nature hath lingularly nobilitated all the Afpefts in the nmticns oi Saturn and Jupiter 3 for as thci Coniunftionsarerarejand but onceintwen^ ty years ; fo hach nature evermore difpofed thcfe Conjunftions in the moft memorable' places of tiie Zorliack^^ that is onely in fur h' Jignes as behold one another in an equaliter^ Triangle infcribed;for between any two'^on- junftionsof-S/irwmand Jupter^ there are 1 9 M^ryftian years, 318. dayes and i ^. iToiireSjjV in which time tiiofe Planets are moved from the place of their Conjunftion and Signes,, and almoft three degrees, which accelFe of three degrees is thecaufe why after Conjuii- ftionFjthey paflTe from oneTriplicity to an- other ^^nd one Triplicity continueth 19?, equal years 265. dayes ( the intercalary day of every four year omitted ) and ten
hours.
7he Harmony of the PP'orld. 65
houres. But the Revolution of all the Tri-
plicitics is tinilhed, but onely once 111794..'
leqiiall years, 3;9. dayeSjand ie>. houres, or
eife in 724. Julian years, 133. dayes, 16.
houres ^ the double commcth to i5S85Vvhich
number of years chey arc thought td have
refpefted , that imagined the year 1^88.
ifrom the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jefm
^Chri^y would have been fo fatal! From
lience therefore it is,thar not without caufe,
they are called great Conjunftions 5 as yoii
will finde by the great changes and cruell in-
I fiuenceof them about the years 1 66:5, » 664,
i66«;, 16665 1667, 166S, i669.,thefe years
are likely to be troublefome ; but all lyetfi
in the power of Almighty God ; I may not
tell you what (liall particularly happen in
the world, to France firft, &c.
They abide thus in one TripHcity almoft 200. years, and not finlfbing all the Tripli- citif s ofthe Zodiack in much lefTer than 8co. years-, not having therefore reiterated all the Trip'icities eight ti^ es (ince the begin- ning of the world. Neither are the other Pofitions ofthe fianets to be neglefted : for if any man will take the pains to obferve when Saturn and Jupiter do behold one ano- ther wiui a Square or OppoiitiOn Afpcft, tliey (hall evid.ently perceive that they ftill
carry
f 4 T^he Harm onyofi he World.
carry fiich a regard unto the Signs or places of their preccdeiitConjiinftion^jas ever more tliey irrediate the one and the other with aSextile, Qiiartile, Trine or Oppofition Af- pc£ts : And now this fhall (nflice to Ihevv how every thing receives tlic virtue, infhience and nature of the Stars and Planets ; ami thus you fee the rcafon uliy one heaj b bc; a white flower and another a \X{\^&c. The corruption of the Ayie and Eartli changes the colours and kindes of Plants , and their fcminal forms ; and thefe influences of the Stars fend down fevcral fouls of Brutes^ into various bodies, &c.
And now in a word, to confirm the fame by their virtue and cffefts : Firft, The ?hj-r fitians arc taught by experience , that the Crilisof all (harpe difeafes have a notorious and moft memorable fimpathy with all thefc five configurations of the Moon^ to the place of her being in the beginning of the fick- nefie : Thus alfo you fee the Seas themftlves in their Tides to dance as it were after the motion of the Moon^ while their Spring and higheft floods al way es comes with her Con- iunftion and Oppofition to the ^Sun^as their Neaps and loweft Tides doe likewife refpeft her Quarters; and as memorable a thing it is J that the Seas in their daily flowing and
ebbing
the Harmony oj t he H orlcL 6 5
.ebbing upon every Coaft , have fill I a cow- ftant refpeft onely to fuch Azimuth dc\ic\t^ as are in a ^artile poijture when the Moon pafTcth by theni^ it is more nianifeft then that 1 need to infift upon it, that the Sun it felffeenieth greatly to refpe£t the ^/irtile^ in that he moderateth the viciilitudes of Fourc quarters of the year by his ingrefle in- jtothefouri$lquino£tialand Tropical points. But now to defcend to other fpeculations more mifticall then thefV, it is not amifie to begin with the Arithmetical! Obfervatioii, which thtKofte Crucians make of the Num- ber of Signes agreeable to the Afpefts, 1,2. "^,4. 6, anfwering in order to the ConjundioHj Sextile^gluaYtile^ Irine^ ztid Oppofition^ for thefe numbers onlyjand none other^wili de- yidethe Zo^i/^c^, con lifting oftwelvefignes, for which reafon, they make them the only aliquate parts of a Circle. Thus alfothe Famous ftoloni] addethnota little to the di gnity of thefe irradiationSjwhen he firft ob-
^ Terved the Geometrical proportion, which the fubtenfes of every of thefe Arks do retain in
• power to the Diameter of a Circle , as every man may read in the ^adripartite^ others a- gain, with no lefle fubtiety, have obferved, that amongft all Regular or ordinate figures chat may be infcribed in a Girclca though F the
6 6 The Harmony of the World.
the fame be infinite^ there are none whofe lides and Angles carry away the preroga- tive both at the Circumference and Ccnterj but thofe vvhofe (ides and Angles arc anfwer- able to the fubtenfes and Arkes of their Af- pefts :
For thus amongft all ordinate Plains that may beinfcribedjthereare two whofe ^dti joyned together have prcheminence to take! up a Semi-Circle, but only the Hexagon, ^adrate^ and JEquiUterall 1 riangle , anfwer ing to the Sextile^ ^artilfy and Tr/w, irra- diated the fubtence thereof, of a Sextile Af peO:, confifteth oftwofignes, joyned toth fubtentc of a ^Trine^ compofed of foure, be- ing regular and xquilater, take up fix fignc u hich is a compleat femicircle ; in like man ner the fides of a xjuadratc infcribed,fubten ding three fignsjtwice reckoned, do employ likewife the Mcdiety of a Circle, and wha thofe Figures are beforefaid to performc, evl ther doubled or joyned together, liiay alf be truly afcribed unto the oppofite afpeft b itfelf, for that the Diametrall Line, whid palTeth from the place ofConjunftion to th oppofite pointjdivideth a Circle into trfio eqm f^rts^theltk^ whereofcmmthefpundm any oXhi in[mfu. For example, thejfide of a Ruh
fentago
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TentagOH fubtended 725 degr. of an O^^agoii, but 45 .the remainder of which ArkSjt//^. 108 and 155. gr. arc not fubtended by the fides of any ordinate figure.
We will in order fhew you the Harmony of BfumSy and how the Seminal! formes^ Souks of Brutes^ Humane Soules^ and Sfirit of Nature glides down by them , Now the fubtenfes of thefe Afpefts be the fame with the fides of the fore-remembred infcripts , and do one- Jy therefore take up the circumference of a Circle : So it is evident , that the angles at which they concur^ be the fame wherewith the ordinate plains take up the whole fpace about the Centre 5 for if we confider the
?n^ angleoFaSextileat the Earth, it is all one with that of an cquilatcr triangle, confifting
^^ of6o.gr. and containeth \ of arightanglc^ but fix times ^ of a right angle makes four right angles 5 where fix textiles equal to fix I equilater Triangles fill the whol fpace about a PointjWhich is equall to four right angles. Secondly , Every angle of a Qiiartile is a
^i^ right anjgle 5 and all one with the angle of rectangle Quadrilator figure; wherefore foure of them fill a whole fpace, and this is the reafon that every ManjWoman^Monkey, Ape, Marc-man , Mare-maid, and all other living Creatures differ one from another ; F2 You
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You feldome fee two things of any kindc in the world a like one another, that you could not know rhem if they flood before you ^ Obferve how that there is nothing upon the land^buc it is alfo in the waters^ of all man- ner of living Creatures^ the reafon proceeds- from the Radiation of StarSj 6^0. but to my purpofe.
Thirdly, The angle which two Stars in a Tiine make at the Centre of the world, is meafuredby an angle of 120. gr. and fo e- quall to the angle of a regular Hexagon^ con- iiftingof a right angle, and of; of a right angle ; and therefore taken three times maketli four right angles : Wherefore ]threc cquilater Hexagons , or t hree Trine Afpefts, doe alfo fill the whole fpace about the Cen- tre : To which we may not improperl y add the Oppoiite Afpeft , confiding of two right angles,and therefore doubled,(kall perform the like Office with the reft. , ^
Any other figure of many angles,however loyned together at the angles, (hall either ivant of four Angles or exceed them 5 for example, the Angle oi Fentagon containeth a right angle arid ; more j wherefore three; fuch angles placed about a point, (hall fall fhnic of four right angles by ' of a right anplf , as •n the other fide 5 four fuch angles.
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fhall exceed four righc Angles ; .
Thefe Tpeculations therefore ron[iclered, it were renfelelTe to imagine, that N.ume Iiath fo many wayes honoured thefeirradia- tions of the Stars in vain , and admoniOied us to a fpecial regard of chem by lb many rare and fecret Obfervations bodi in the mo- tions of the Planets ( as you heard before J andaUbin their efFefts and proportions; if* they were not indued with more virtue than others , wherefore it hath no lefreexercifed the learned Dr. U^ard^ Mr. T^cj. Heydon^ Mr. More^ and Eugenius Iheodidadus , to tinde one the reafonj why thcfe few Configuraticns, fclefted out of an infinite number, fhould be indued with fuch eminent etiicacy. Neither as yet hath any reafon been invented , with more applaufe for the probability thereof, then thcfe proportions •, Ihe learned Knight^ Sr. Chriftopher Heydon^ demonftratcs whereof, the Afpe£ts are before Ihewed toconfift^ and they are the fame which are found in H^r- wonkal Concords,
For which caufcjit is alfo thought no Icffe probable^that the light ofthc^tars in th'efe proportioned diftances, fliould powerfully affeft the matter of fublunary thmgs, then that the like Geometrical Symmetry in founds and voices (hould pafTiouately fticup F 3 ^ths
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the fenfeof the bearer. P'or to confeffe the truth 5 fo hath the admired providence of Nature ordained throughout ail her works , that where due proportion is not wanting , there (he never faileth to endue all hereffefts with fuch height of perfeftion , that the fame becomes evident to the eye of every man ; And from hence it is even in Arti- ficial compofitions alfo^as in Medicines ; wc know thofe onely to be mod kinde and fo- veraign which obferve a competent (ymme- try or temperature of the A(5tive and paflive qualities-^ with good likelihood therefore, and appearance of truth do moft of the lear- ned with Hohs^ Dr Barlow o( ^eeKSy Matter More^ and Mr. Fisk^ refolve the onely caufe o^this efficacy from Harmonic all fr of ortion.
And more clearly toexpreffe this fimili- tude or affinity between the proportions of Afpefts 5 and the like diftances obfervcd in the Mufical Concords 5 we muft underftand rbcfides what we have faid before) that all harmony whatfoever fpringeth originally from three fuch terms of numbers , as re- fpeft each other in fuch fort, that ftill their differences retain the fame proportion that is found between the extreams. For t%m ample, in thefe three numbers ^j 4, 3. (an«* fw^rablc to the ligncs of the 1^,/^, & O con- figurations J
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figurations^ hereicisevideiUjifwe compare che cxtreanis with the mean , that two Ihall be the difference betwixt iix ; the firft and four the fecond, and three the third num- ber.
But two is double in proportion ro one, therefore fix the firft number refpefteth three 3 the third number with the like pro- portion. The Analogic of which proporti- ons, as is before remembred , is found to be the fountain of all mufick (as you heard be- fore ) rifing origmally from theft three fimple ccncording diftances 5 which by the Mufitians are called(as I have writen before) namely, DiapcntCjConfifting of a fefquialter proportion, as fix to four i or which is all one of three to two Diateflaron of a fefqui- tertia^ as fourc to three j And laftly, Diapa- fon confided of a double proportion , as fix to three, or two to one; and isjaj much in value,as both the two firft diftances and proportions put together.
For a Sefquilater added to a fefquitertia^ ac-^ cording to the art of Proportions, doe pro- duce a Diap^fon, or double proportion;fuch as is found between the former extreams compared together, vtz, fix and three , and in like spanner, by comparing the piapafon with both thcfe his pajrfs y that is, with the
fefquUater
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fefcfuialter and fefquitertia ^ according to the ufiiall manner of fupputating proportions. We are brought to the two ochtrr coaipoun- ded, or impel Teft concords 5 fo conftituting the five hill and natural dift^nces in Harmo- iiical mixture, which afterwards, as they be diverfly mixed between themfelves, pro. duceinfinite variety of all kinde of melody- After the fame manner fareth it with the light and infiiiciice of Heaven : For al- though anciently there be but five irradia- tions obfcrved ,35 moft apt to a^ion^naniely;, the i, cf' ^3 Dj ^ ^ ; yet neverthelefTe there is nothing morefure^tiien that by tlieHar- monical nnxture of thtfe proportioned beams 5 the genetation and cormption of all living things in the Aire^Earth, andVVa- ter, viz^ Men^^Be.ifl^SjFowleaFiOieSjandcree- pingthmgsand Plaritsof this mortal world, are iniinitcly varied j For Children Cry as foon as they arc born, &c. Aiid you fee in fcveral forms and fpecies according to their kindes great diflPerences^ wherefore as the force ofall H3fm(:)ny-;fo like wife the'cfFeftu- al reafonofall aSiion in the influence of the ftars 5 is properly deduced from the forefaid femmetry of theftfdiftances; And therefore more fully to illuftrate , that the angles of the Afpeftsj compared between themfelvcs,
con*
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concur with tlicfe Harmonies oF Miifick , it iviU be no hard matter^ if rhac which hath been ofccn repeated t cfore be called to niindc.
As that firft, the Stars in an Oppofite or Diametral Af^eft are dis'ioyned by the fpace of two right angles 3 which urc meafured with the Arkof fixlJgnes^or 180. degrees of circumference-, ami that the Trine conilll- ingof four li^nes, or 120. degrees is in va* Hue one right angle and ! of a right angle : Mo that the Qnartile taketh up one iiitire right angle, and is fubtcnded with the Ark dJ three iigncs, or 90. degrees. And laftly, that the Sextile is conftituted but of two ligneS3Or6c.gr. which is 5 ofarigiitangle*, which being thus, if we noiv fo compare the icwo right angles of the Oppolition taken to- gether with the angles of the reil: of the Af- pe^s; if either the Trine be placed between the Oppofition and the Quartile, or the Qnartile between the Oppofition and the Sextile; yoir llrall tinde either way three numbers 3 which admit all thelawsofhar-j monical proportions ; Sr, Ckrijiofher Heydon faachfo well demonftrated this, that I need not further explain my minde •, ¥qy his Hj- fothefis falves this Vkdnomota ^'whtie to let the reft paffc. Si plain enough of it felf ^ by that ^ , which
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which is written before : You are further to note, that the Oppolition compared with theSextilc, hath a triple proportion to the fame , compounded of a double and fefqui- alter proportion 3 as Diapente with Diapa- ion in Mufick is , and fo is found no (implc or perfect Afpeft : but exaftly anfwerable to B. flat ; the firft impcrfeft or compounded concord in Mufick being a (ixth from G. fol,- re, iit^ which nevertheleffe in fome refpefts is after a fort efteemed perfect h becaufe it u- feth the fame divifion compared to D. fol5re, that the perfeft toncords doj For it is half a fifth 5 and fcituate in the middle between Y ut and P. fol, re , as alfo the Sextile com-? pared with the Trine is a juft half thereof, which before hath-been (hewed in a fefquila- ter proportion to the Oppofition^as I>. fol.re is tor ut, and therefore exaftly agreeable to a Diapente in Mufick^which the rather I hcr^ note^becaufeyou will have fomeufe thereof afterward in obferving, how fpirits or Genii flip down by other beams, not formerly ob- ferved, andthefeourbeft Aftronomers and Mr. John Gadhury^^t. Wing , marke new Afr pe£ts. And thus much (hall fliortly fcrve for the Theory or Pibi/o/#/>^ic/r// fpecuiation of them that afcribe to the efficacy of thcfeira^ diationsto the Harmomcall froforthtiyVihich
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is found between them ; Wherefore feeing thefe Learned Gentlemen admit them into Ajirolo^ gy^ they (hall thefi carry the fame nnitual re- fpcft one towards another^ which the afore- faid Harmonicall concords do r^caine between thenifelves, what wonder is it if nature in her operations^as well by Lights as by founds admitted no other Symmetry, but that which is derived from thefe proportions, re- jefting all other as irrationall and difcor- dent.
I fhall next lay down fome Reafon«;, why the aforefaid Harmonicall proportions are fo cffeftuali, drawn from the Symmetry of the world, being the fame that is found between the five regular bodies infcribed one within another,why in the infinite variety of founds and lights, thefe only fliould confent moft fweetly in miifick,fending down fouls fo me- rily to the Moon^ and from thence they come down fad ly to the belly and Matrix of the 'Earth in prolific fpirited Windi and Waters , and be effeftual in the operations of nature: Neither hath any man herein endeavoured with more probability to give fatisfadion unto the learned then Des Cartes^ who ha- ving wittily laboured to demonftrate, that God in the creation of the world hath ob- Xerved the fame proportion in the magni- tude
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tude and diftaiice of the heavenly fpheres^ which is found in the regular Soltdesy which ( as Geometry teacheth) have their originall from the ordinate plauis; In the end con- cludeth with good propability , that the Heavenly nxouQW^ il^.all tlien conCent (wcetly, and Co-operate iirongly together^ when the jiacure ofthefcfublunary things^indued (as hefuppofeth^ with a fenlitive or knowing faciiltyjapprehendeth thel^.eamsof the 5r/zri to obierve that refpecl ni their concurrence attheCeuter of the Earth yVi\\\ch anfwercth unto the ordinate Plains^ from whence the Regularity of thefc proportions is derived , as the impreiredCharafters of that Symmetry^ which God is faid to have ufed in the Crea- tion of the world it felf.
So fuppoling, that as often as the nature of any thmg nieeteth with thefe proportions, it.exercileth it felf as it were by Jke ideg^ 'which itaiwayesretaynethjand that infuch fort, as rrhat it doth but ordinarily and flackly at other times , it performeth now much more effeftually, and as it were with extraordinary diligence: Nor CfaithJ Sr. Chrijiofher Heydon) that thefe proportions work any thing of their own vertue, but of their Idea's-, for in mufick it is neitherthc founds, neither the proportion of the con-
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ords, that woik any thing of chemfclveSjOr •egetany delightfuU humour in a man, but heGdmus approaching co the liiftruments f fenfe fii ft; canieth* the founds inwardly
Jnd entertayning it, there'vahieth their roportion« : and Chnding the fame good wd Geometrically laftly exhihiatech ic felf, nd moveth thebody, whcieinic is as with n ObieftjWhereiu ic taketh delight.
1 will as peifpicuoufly ab I can deliver that vhich my fclf have further confidered , as hcieafonvVhy thefe beams fliouidbemore 'ftftual than others 5 to let down andfhed bme fecret influx of fpirit. And you muft inoWjthat there is no ditference between the ^ta.rs and their Orhes ^ but that the St(ir\% Denfior pars eJKfdcnt J and as the Stars differ me from another in motion^magnitude, cc- iour and vertue , fo Ukewife thofe parts of HeaveH^not one\y admit, but fend down the like variety of nature and qualities; The ponjun^tion and Oppofition arc the moil gotent and powerful! Configurations of all others , in their union of Beamis , as is evi- ierit in this figure; where you fee the Beams as well incident as refle^ed to be united, dcording toSr. Chr. Ueydem Hypothefis , let bl.be in Conjunftion here with 5. it is firft manifcft , that all the Beams flowing from
G.
C3.
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G.and E. th€ points of touch in the circum- ference of - Beams that are fcnt from B. to C; the Centre of the world: Secondly, you are alfo toobferve, that in this cafe onely , the Beams onely of A. C. or B. C comnilng fix)m the Centre of the Sun ^ reflefteth
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into ic felf 5 as being onely perpendicular: Whereas thofe Beams which are fcnc from the points E. and G. make an acute angle at C and do therefore refleft the one into the otherac equal angles, asG. C. refle£i:eth from C. to £. and E. C. fromC. to G. Laft of all, the harmony that hapneth in Oppofition, is manifeft without more circumftance, where the Beams fcnt from the oppofite points make but one ftreight line, as G. F, and E. H. in this figure, except in cafes where the Earth is bigger than the Star m Oppofition 3 for there without latitude, the union of their beams muft needs be hindred by^interpofition of theEarthyfor which caufe it is efpecially here to be remcmbred in the Conjunftion of the two inferiour Planets with the Sun : That if this happen in the Afog£on of their Epicycles^ their oonjundion (hall not be of that efficacy or force , as when they arc in Terig ing to the iiyfotbefis of L. Vendatn^ they be- ing abov6 the fun , and the fun much bigger then theyj tht fun (hall return all their beams to themfelvcs from the Earth j fo thattheir union by this means (hall be in- terrupted and fruftrate.
In like mannerjin my Contemplation for help in the Configuracioa of the Sextile and
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trine,! fouiKi that which did refonably ^jve me coucencnienc by difcouife with Mr. *tulb the Aftrologicall Fencer^becaiife in the con- currence ot their Beams at the Earth , I found a mutual rcfieftion of the one into the others and To an union by refleftion.
The Genii that fend down the influences arc written in the outmoft circle ofalKand
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lee us now admit A. B. C. to be three Stars^, A, and B. in a Sextile Configuration 5 A, C. in a Trine *, then for fo much as B. F. the Beam incident of the Sextiie , falleth ob- liquely in refpeft of ^. F. and maketh an acute Angle therewith, it is cvidenrtothofci that have any mean undernandmg in the Opticksj that B. F. (hall refled to C. and fo be united to CI, the incident of the Star