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might rule the figns, triplicities, decans, quinaries, degrees and liars ; for al- though the fchool of Peripatetics affign one only intelligence to each of the orbs of the liars, yet feeing every liar and fmall part of the heaven hath its proper and different power and influence, it is neceflary alfo that it have its ruling intelligence which may confer power and operate ; therefore they have ellablilhed twelve princes of the angels, who rule the twelve figns of the zodiac, and thirty-fix who may rule fo many decans, and feventy-two who may rule fo many quinaries of heaven, and the tongues of men and nations, and four who may rule the triplicities and elements, and feven governors of the whole world, according to the feven planets ; and they have given to all of them names and feals , which they call characters, and uled them in their invocations, incan- tations and carvings, defcribing them in the inllruments of their operations, images , plates , glajjes, rings , papers , wax-lights, and fuch like. And if at any time they operated for the fun, they invocated by the name of the fun and by the names of folar angels, and foofthe reft. Thirdly, they ellablilhed an- gels as minifters for the difpofing of thofe things which are below, which Origen called certain invifible powers, to which thofe things which are on earth are committed to be difpofed of. For fometimes, they being vifible to none do diredt our journies and all our bufinefs, are often prefent at battles, and, by fecret helps, do give the defired fuccefs to their friends ; for, at their plea- fure, they can procure profperity, and inflidt adverfity. In like manner they diltribute thefe into more orders, fo as fome are fiery, fome watery, fome aerial, fome terrellrial ; which four fpecies of angels are computed according to the four powers of the celellial fouls, viz. the mind, reafon, imagination, and vivifying and moving nature ; hence the fiery follow the mind of the ce- lellial fouls, whence they concur to the contemplation of more fublime things ; but the aerial follow reafon, and favour the rational faculty, and, af- ter a certain manner, feparate it from the fenfitive and vegetative ; therefore it ferves for an adtive life, as the fiery the contemplative but the watery follow the imagination, ferve for a voluptuous life ; the earthly following nature, favours vegetable nature. Moreover, they diftinguifh alfo this kind of angels into faturnine and jovial, according to the names of the liars and the hea
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THE CABALA,* OR,