Part XV.

cth , is neither the Bone nor the Nerve, hi^ the Spirit which is in them; Whence if the Nerve be preffed, or feized with cold , or the like , there arifeth pain from the Emiflion of one Spi¬ rit into another Spirit: for it is ^f
Compound Body (hould in it felt befenfiblc ot pain, but in as much as it partaketh ot b)pirit , and therefore being broken into pieces, or deaa,
it isabfolutely infenfib1e,becaufc ithath no Spi.
rit. In like manner a Dsemon being all Spirit is of his own nature fenfible in every be immediately feeth , and heareth , he is obnoxious to fuffering by touch ^ being cut afunder, he is pained like Solid Bodies , only herein, dittering from them , that other things cut afu^er can by no means or very hardly be rnade whole again , whereas the Daemon immediately com- eth together again, as Air or Water parted by fome more Solid Body. But though this Spirt ioyns again in a moment , never theleis , at the very time in which the diue6fion is made , it is pained.
Hitherto the Theology ani Fhyjick of the Chal¬ deans.
that b they fll/edged very weak Feafpns for the^ *• Eclipfes of the Sun, which EcHpfes they neither durji foretelf nor reduce to certain Periods.
But of the Apotelefmatick part they boafted themfelves not only the Inventors, but Matters ; infomuch that all the Profeflbrs of it, of what Country foever, were (as we formerly (hew¬ ed ) called after them, Chaldteans,
a FroUgi
THE
jn
Second Section.'
Ajirologyy and other Arts of Divination.
THe Second Part of the Chaldaick Learning confitts in Arts of Divination the chiet whereof is Altrology. This as it is generally acknowledged to have been their proper Inven¬ tion, fo were they moft particularly addifted to it, for which Ftolomy gives a Reafon out of the Art it felf j becauje they are under Virgo and Mercury \ but Cicero one much better ^ that the plainnefs and evennefs of the Coun¬ try did invite them to Contemplation of the Stars.
It confitts of two parts ^ i. Meteorologtck^ which conliders the Motions of the Stars j the other Apotelejmaticky which regards Divinati¬ on ; The firft was known to the Ancient Gr£- dans by the common names of Ajlfonomy and Ajirology-^ until the other being brought into Greece alfo, they lor diftinSfion called the for¬ mer more particularly Afironomy^ the latter Afirology. The excellent a Jofeph Scaliger to ' advance the Credit of the Greek Learning, fiantly avers that Chaldscans had only a gr of s
and general.^ not exalt knowledge of Agronomy tantum, non etiam and that the Greeks learned ziothing therein of the Chalde¬ ans-. when as Ariftotle ingenuoully acknow- eth the commy fJe jEgyptians and Babylonians., faith he, zchomzve have many Informations concerning each of the Stars. Though doubtlefs they were far (hort of that height in this Art, to which the Greeks.^ who brought it out of the Eaft, improved it : for Diodorus Siculus
. C H A P. 1.
Of the Stars fixed and Erratick^ and of their Prejignificafion.
They firft lay down for a Ground.^ That Ter- text. Emp.
rejirials Sympathize with the Caleflials^ and that every one of thofe is renewed by the in¬ fluence of thefe.
Per evey Marfs indued with fuch a JVldnd^
As by the Sire of God's and Men's ajfign'd.
Above all things they hold that our Aft and Life is fubjiffted to the Stars, as well to the Er- ratick as the Fixed, and that Mankind is go¬ verned by their various andmultiplicious courier ^ That the Planets are of the kind of efficient * Sext. Emp. Cau/es in every thing that happens in Life, and that the ^igns of theZodiackco-operate with them : t That they confer all good and ill totheNati- f HM.VA. vities of Men, and that by contemplation of their Natures may be known the chief things that happen to Men.
They held the Principal Gods to be twelve, to dm. m. i. each of which they attributed a Month, and one of the Signs of the Zodiack.
Next we Zodiack they ajfert twenty four Stars, whereof half they fay are ranked in the Northern Parts, the other half in the Southern : ' Of thefe thef which are apparent they conceive to be depu¬ ted to the Living, the inapparent congregated to the Dead : Thefe they call Judges of all things.
But the great eft Obfervation and Theory they hold to be that concerning the ' fiv.e Stars termed Planets, which they call the Interpreters, * be- * caufe there/} of the Stars being Ptxed,and having a fetled Courfe, thefe only having a peculiar Courfe, foretell things that Jhall come to pafs, in- terpreting and declaring to Men the Benevolence oj the Gods: for fome things (Jay theyi)they pre- fignifie by their rifing, fome wings by their fet- ting, fome things by ther colour, if obferved-, fometimes they foretel great Winds, fometimes ^extraordinar Rains, or Droughts. Lmewifc the rifing of Comets, and EcHpfes of the Sun, and of the Moon, and Earth-quakes, and in a word, dl Alterations in the Air fignifie things advanta^i- - ous or hurtful, not only to Nations or Gtuntries, but even to Kings and private Perfons.
Beneath the courfe of thefe fhey hold that there Diti. Ite. cit, are placed thirty Stars, wotch they callConfiliary Gods-, that half of thefe overfee the places under the Earth, the other half overfee the Earth and the Bufinefs of Men, and what is done in thellea* vens, and that every ten days one of thefe is fent to thofe below as a Mejenger, and in like manner one of the Stars under the Earth is fent to thofe above, and that they have this certain Motion fetled in an Mter$tl Revolution.
^ chap.
1
Pa RT XV.
/ he Chaldaicl^ Phtlojofhy,
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CHAP. 11.
Of Flanets.
Dkd. Lib. I. *~r^He grsatcfl Theory they hold ( as we fa id) to i be that which concerns the Flanets : Thefe they call the Interpreters^ becau/e^ whereas the rejiof the Stars areFixedfif have a JetledCourfe^ thefe having their proper Courfes foretell what things fhall coine to pajs^ Interpreting and decla¬ ring to Men the Benevolence of the Gods.
Of the Seven., they hold the Sun and Moon to ^ he the chief . and ifjat the other five have lefs
Power than they., as to the caiifing Events.
Sext Em loc Of the five, they affirm there are three which a-
c!^. * ' * £t'ee with^and are ajfifiant to the Sunffiiz. Saturn,
Jupiter Mercury ^ theft they call diurnal., be- caufe the Sun.,no whom they are djfiflant., predomi¬ nates over the things that are done in the day. Stxt.Emp.loc. As concerning the Poivers of thefive^fome tit. they fay are Benevolent pihersffilalcvolent .others
Commonf the Benevolent are Jupiter Venus-, the Malevolent., Mars and Saturn •, the Common, Mercury, txfo is Benevolent with the Benevolent, and Malevolent with the Malevolent.
C H A P. III.
The Divifions of the Zodiack.
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The ChdXTs.zmhaving Atfirfi no certain Rule of Obfervation of the other Stars, in as much as they contemplated not the Signs ni within their proper circimfcriptions, but only together with their obfervation of the feven Flanets, it. came at length into their minds to divide, the whole Circle into twelve Farts : The manner they relate thus-, they fay that the Ancients having obferved fame one bright Star oj thofe in the Zodiack, filled a Vejjel (in which they boaPdahole) zvith zvater, and let the water run into anot her Veffel placed underneath, fo long until the fameStar rofe again, colleCling that from the fame Sign to the fame,wai the wholercvolution oj the Circle', Then they took the twelfth part of the water which had run out, and confidered hozn long it was in running', affirm¬ ing that the 1 2th part of the Circle paji over in the fame fpade of time', and that it had that proportion to the zchole Circle which the part of water had to the whole water : By this Analogy (I mean of the 'Dod.ecatemorion or \ 2th part) they marked out the ext ream term from fome fignal Star which then appeared, or from fome that arofe within that time. Northern, orSouthern, the fimccourfe they took in the red of the Dodecatemoria.
. Tliat to each of thefe Dodecatemoria, the An¬ cient Chaldacans apply’d a particular Figure and . a Character, (as for inttance to the firft, the Fi¬ gure of a Ram, and this Character T.) tho’ de¬ nied by the Learned ^ John Fietts Mirandula, ^ Contra Aflrol. leems manifeft enough from what we find aferi- bed peculiarly to them, by Ftolomy, Sextus Em- pyritts and others, which we fhall cite in their du^laces.
To each of thefe Signs they appropiated one oj Bhd. lib. I. jfjg principal Gods which they held to be twelve, and One of the Months ', the Zodiack it felf they termed the Circle Mazaloth, which the Sep- tuagint render interpreted by Suidas, the
Confiellations which are commonly termed IuFia,
Signs, for Mazal Signifieth. a Star. That they alcribed feveral Gods to them agreeth with what is faid of the followers oEBaal (whom Rabbi Alaimonides conceives the fame with thefe Chaldirans)//;^^ burnt Incenfe to Baal, to the Sun, 2 Kings 23. 5 and to the Aloon, and to the Alazaloth, andto all the Hojl of Heaven. Hence fome are of Opini¬ on that Homer received this Doctrine from the • Egyptians, as the iEgyptians from the Chaldse. ans, alluding to it in the firfl of his Iliads, where he mentions the entertainment of Jupiter and the reft of the Gods in ^Ethiopia twelve days, with the feveralHoufes built for them by Vulcan', and better deferve.they to be credited than thofe Ancients, who (according to Eujiathim) writ r j,- , that Homer fir ji gave the Hint of this Opinion to ” '
the Mathematicians. Neither is what he adds in Explication of this Mythology difibnant from the Chaldaick Doctrine, that the making thofe Alanjions for the Gods or Stars, is aferibed to Vulcan in refpeU of the AEtherial heat of the Celefiial Orb.
Of the Signs fome they call Mafculine, others Feminine', J'ome Double, others Single', fome Tro- pi cal, others Solid.
The AlaJ'culine orFeminine are thofe which have aNature that co-operates towards the Generation of Alales or Eemalcs •, Aries is a Aiafeuline Sign,
I’aurus a Feminine, Gzmm\ a Mafculine', in like manner the rejl alternately are Mafculine and Fe¬ minine. In imitation oj whom as I conceive the Pythagore.vts call the Alonad Mafculine, the Duad Feminine, the Triad AlaJeuUne, and fo on thro' all Numbers, Odd and Even. Some there are who • divide every Sign into 12 Farts, obferving almojl the fame order -, as in Aries they call the firft 12th part Aries and Aiafeuline, the fecond Taurus Feminine, the third Gemini and Aiafeuline, and foof the rejt.
Double Signs are Gemini, and its diametrically oppofite Sagittarius j Virgo and Pifees •• The rejt are fingle. '
Tropical are thofe to which when theSun cometh he turnetb back, and maketh a Converfion : Such is the Sign Aries, and its oppofite Libra,Capricorn and Cancer •, In Aries is the Spring Tropick, in Capricorn the Winter, /;? Cancer the Summer, in Libra the Autumnal. The Solid are Taurus and Its oppofite Scorpio,Leo, and Aquarius.
Some Chaldeans there are who attribute the fe¬ ver al parts of Man\ Body to particular Signs, as fympathizing with them ', To AriQStheHead, to Taurus the Neck.to Gemini the Shoulders,C theBreaft, Leo the Side^, Virgo the Bowels and Belly, Libra the Reins and Loins, Scorpio the Se¬ cret Farts and Womb, Sagittarius the Thighs,
Capricorn the -Knees, Aquarius the Legs, Pifees, the Feet. This did they not without confideration, jor ij any Star fhall be in any Afcenfion of thefe Alalignant Signs, It will caufe a Maim in that Fart which bears the fame Name with it. Thus much in brief of the Nature of the Signs in the Zodiack. ^ . _
Befides this Divilion of the Zodiack into '
Signs ^ they Subdivided every Sign into -jo De¬ grees, every Degree into 60 Minutes, fo they call the leaft indiv'fible Farts, (as Empyrius affirmsj whence it may be argued, that the Chaldeans made not any lower Divifions into Seconds, or renforin dtdh the like.) The Degrees being in every Sign 30. natalh ' f D d d d J are
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T he Chaldaicli Fbilofophy.
ART
xy.
Ptol.
In Man'll,
Sext. Emp.
are in the whole Zodiack 360. in fonte one of theje the Sun mu ft necejfarily be at the time of the Na- tivity-^which Degree the Chaldacans properly call the place of the Birth. Hence the Greeks call theje Degrees in alluficn to the (xoteyi
Goddcffes of Def iny^ theje being our Yates ^ for It is oj great eji Importance which of thefo Degrees is AJcendant at the t ime of Birth.
Three other ways there are of dividing _ of the Zodiack afcribed to the Chaldieans.^ which are Driphcities.^ Derms.^ Decanates.
The Trigons or Triplicities are thefe four. Dhe firfi is Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, the fecond Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn, the third Gemini, Libra, Aquarius, Cancer, Scorpio, Pif
cels ; That the Chaldeans divided the Zodiack according to thefe Triplicities is manifeltlrom their way of colleSling the Terms of the Pla¬ cets defcribed by Dtolemy-
Evety Sign hath five Terms. ^ The Chalda- ick way of finding out the quant ity of the Terms in every Sign is one, and that very plain ^ for their Quantities differ by an equal Diminution^ every Term is lej's 'than the precedent by one Degree, for they made the firft Term of every Sign to be eight Degrees, the fecond JeVen, the third fx, the fourth five, the fifth four, which- makes up 30 Degrees.
Laftly, the Signs are divided into Faces, for fo the Ancients called them, in Hebrew Phanim, in Arabick in Greek •, but the
latter Aftrologers Decanates Decanos a
word (as Scahger obferves) deriv’d from the Ro¬ man Militia, of thefe in every Sign there are three, each of which comprehends ten Degrees. That the ChahUans were not ignorant of thefe is manifelf, in as much as Temer the Babyloni¬ an, an Author of great Antiquity, wrote con¬ cerning them.
C H A P. IV.
Of the Planets confidered in reJpeU to the Zo¬ diack.
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'H E Chaldceans held that the Planets have _ not always Power alike, as the procuring of Good and Ill ^ but -that in fome Places [or Signs of the Zodiack ] they are more efficaci- others lefs ^ and that fame Stars have greater Powerbeing in their proper Houjes, or in their Exaltations [ or Triplicities , ] or Terms, or Decanates. All which the later Aftrologers call their ElTential Dignities.
Sixt. Etrp.ibid. The moft Efficacious is that of Houfes.T/j^’ hold the Sun's Houff to be Leo, the Moon^s Can¬ cer, Saturn’s Capricorn and Aquarius, fupitePs
Sagittarius and Pifces, that of Mars Aries and ^coxfiio,that of Venus Taurus and Libra, that
They call the Exaltations and Deprefjions of Sext. Ik. vit. the Planets, when they are in Signs wherewith they are delighted, on when they are in thofe in which they have little (or no) Power :Eor they are dcligted in their Exaltations but have lit¬ tle (or no) Power in their Depreffions. As the ’
Suns Exaltation is in Aries , when be is exaSly in the i c)th Degree thereof, his Deprejfion in the Sign and Degree diametrically oppofite to it.
The Moon’s Exaltation is Taurus, her De- preffton (or Detriment) in the Sign diametrical¬ ly oppofite. That of Saturn is in Libra, in Cancer, of Mars in Capricorn, of Venus in Pifces, and their Depreffions are in the Signs diametrically oppofite to their Exaltations-.
The Trigones or Triplicities of Planets are order’d by the Chaldeans PEti this manner.^ The *
Lord of the firfi Triplicity (of the Zodiack) />
Jupiter, of the fecond \ onus -, the fame Order they obferve in the other two TripUcitih, except that the third is /aid to have two Lords , Saturn and Mercury,: The firfi part of the^Day is af- figned to Saturn, the Night to Mercury. The Lord of the lafi Triplicity is Mars. How much this differs from the Vulgar Way (which takes in the Sun and Moon)will ealily appear to thofe who will take the pains to compare them.
The latter way lee in Firmicus.
They call the Terms of the Planets in every sext. Emp. Sign, thofe in whichmny Planet from Juch a De¬ gree to fuch a Degree is mofi powerful or pre¬ valent. ^ The Chaldaick way of Terms is gather- ^^ol. ed from the Lords of the Triplicities, (which is plainer and more effeliual than that of the JE- gyptians from the Lords of the Houfes) yet neither in their Orders nor Qcantities do they always' follow thofe Planets which govern the Triplicities. In the firfi Triplicity, their Di- vificn of Terms in every ^ign thereof is one and the fame. The firfi Term they give to the Lord of the Triplicity Jupiter, the fecond to the Lord of the following Triplicity, Venus, the third and fourth, to the two Lords of the Triplietty of the Gsvciim, which are Sztrnn andyhsxcuxy ihe fifth, to the Lord of the lafi Triplicity Mars.
In the f econd Triplicity they divide every Sign alike', and allot the firfi Term to Venus, by rea- fon of her Dominion in that Triplicity, the fe¬ cond and third to the two Lords of the Triplicity of the Gemini, which are Saturn and Mercury; the fourth to Mars ; the lafi to Jupiter. To Saturn are attributed in the day 66 Degrees, in the night 78, /i? Jupiter 72, r(?Mars 60, Venus 75, to Mercury in the Day, 66, in the Night 78.
The
P A RT XV.
The Chaldaicl^ Pbilofofhy,
The Terms of the Chaldxans or Babylonians.
Aries
Jupiter.
8
V^enus
7
Saturn
d
Mercury
s
yUars
4
I'aurus
Venus
8
Saturn
7
Mercury
6
Mars
5
Jupiter
Gemini
Saturn
8
Mercury
7
Mars
6
Jupiter
5
Vciius
4 ,
Cancer
Mars
8
Jupiter
7
Venus
6
Saturn
5
yt'ici urv
4
Leo
Jupiter
8
Venus ■
7
gaturn.
6
Mercniv
S
irJars
4
Virgo
Venus
8
Saturn
7
Meicurv
6
Mars
•i
Jupiicr
4
Libra
Saturn
8
Mercury
7
Mars
6
'Jupiter
5
Venus
4
Scorpio
Mars
8
Jupiter
7
Venus
6
Saturn

^Hcrtuiy
r4
Sagittarius
Jupiter
8
Venus
7
Saturn
6
Mercury
1 5
Mars
4
Capricorn.
Venus
8
Saturn
7
Mercury
6
Mars
5
Jupiter
4
Aquarius
Saturn
8
- -
Mercury
7
Mars
6
J up ter
5
fen us
4
Pilces
Mars \
8
Jupiter.
7
Venus
6
Satuin.
5
vHei cuiy
4
The Decanates or Faces of the Planets, have reference to thofe of the Zodiack j the firll Face is that Planet whole Sign it is .* the fecond, the next Planet •, and fo on. That thefe were of kviQ\Qi\t.Chaldiuck Invention is nianifeft, not only in regard that Teucer the Babylonian wrote con¬ cerning them, but likwrfe they were obferved by the Egyptians^ who, (as Jofephus faith^ de¬ rived this Learning from the Chaldeans. Nicip- Ib King of .ffigypt, a moji fujl Governor^ and ex¬ cellent Afrologer^ did (if we credit Julius Fir- miens') colleS all S'icknejfes from the Decanatesj fhew 'tng what Di/ea/es every Decanate caufed'y becauje one Nature was overcome by another^ and one God by another. The fame Author adds, that Ptofiris touched this part of Ajirology but lightly-., not as being ignorant of it., but not willing to com¬ municate hislmmortal Learning unto Pojlerity.
CHAP. V,
AJpeffs of the Signs and Lionets.
Every Sign of theZodiack hatha mutual AfpeU to the reft in like manner the Planets have * Sat. Emp‘ fev^ai Afpe^ 5 They are /aid to be in mutual
AfpeU or Configuration., when they appear either in Trine or Square. They are J aid to behold one another in Trine., when there is an Interpofition of three Signs between them : In Square or ^ar- tile., when of two.
Cenfar. ' pajfing into the Sign -next to that
wherein he was at the time of Birth., regards the place of Conception either with a very weak AJ- peff, or not at all -,for mof of the Chaldaeans have dbfolutely denied, that the Signs which are next to one another behold one another but when he is in the third Sign, that is, when there is a Sign be- twixt them, then he is /aid to behold the firfl place ndhence he came, but with a very oblique and weak light, which AfpeU is termed Sextile-, for it fubtends thefixth part of a Circle : for if we draw Lines from the firft Sign to the third, from the third to the fifth, and from thence to the fe- venth, andfo on, 'we fhall deferibe an aquilatiral liexagone. This AfpeU they didbiot wholly rely 'on for, that it feemed to conduce the leaf to the Na¬
tivity of the Child flit when he comes to the fourth Sign, Jo that there are two betwixt, he looks on it with a ^arterly Afpbt ; for that Line which his Afpell makes, cuts off a fourth part of the Circle. When he is in the fifth, there being three betwixt it, is a Trine Afpelly for it fubtends a third part of the Zodiack: which twoAfpeffsthe^artile and Trine, being very efficacious, afford much encreafd tp the Birth. But the AJpeblfrom the fixth place is wholly 'irieffiicacious, for the Line there makes not a fide of any Folygone, but from the qth Sign which is the oppofite to the Afpe^ is mofi full and powerful, and bringeth forth fame Infants already mature, termed Septimejlres, from being born in the yth Month : But if within that fpace it be not mature, in the %th Month it is not born, for from the 2 th Sign as from the fixth the AfpeH is inefficacious, but either in the 9th Month, or in the 10th for the Sun from the pthSign beholds again the F article of the Conception in a Trine Afpeli, and from the i oth in a ^artile -, which Afpetls, as we fa'id, are very efjkac'ious : But in- the nth Month they hold it cannot be born, be¬ cauje then, the Light being weak, fends forth his languifhing Ray in a Sextile AfpeS, much lefs iji the 1 2th which AfpeU is not at all valid.
C H A P. VI. ^
Schemes.
THe way by which the Chaldajans from the ve- ry beginning obferved the Horof cope of any Nativity, oorrefponds with that of their Divifion of theZod'tackixmntionQddoxmoiFf-,) Bor a ChA- dian fate in the night time on fame high Fromon- tory contemplating the Stars -, another fate by the Woman in Travail until fuch time as Jhe were de- TiveredL As foon as Jbe was Delivered, fhe figm- fied it to him on the Fromontory. which as foon as- he heard, he obferved the Sign then rijing for the Horof cope, but in the Day he attended the Af Cend¬ ant s and Sun’s Motion.
Of the twelve parts or Houfes into which the r-tJ/ic. Zodiack is divided, thofe which are predominant in every Nativity, and chiefly to be confide red in Frognofiicks,are four, by which one comm ft Name Dddd 2 they
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