Part II.

CHAP. XXIX.
OF THE OBSERVATION OF THE CELESTIALS NECESSARY IN EVERY MAGICAL WORK.
EVERY natural virtue works things far more wonderful when it is not only Compounded of a natural proportion, but alfo is informed by a choice obfervation of the celeftials opportune to this (viz. when the celeftial power is moft ftrong to that effe6t: which we defire, and alfo helped by many celeftials), by fub jetting inferiors to the celeftials, as proper females, to be made fruitful by their males. Alfo, in every work there are to be obferved the fituation, motion, and afpeCt of the liars and planets, in figns and degrees, and how all thefe ftand in reference to the length and latitude of the climate ; for by this are varied the qualities of the angles, which the rays of the celellial bodies upon the figure of the thing defcribe, according to which celeftial virtues are infufed. So when you are working any thing which belongs to any planet, you muft place it in its dig- nities, fortunate, and powerful, and ruling in the day hour, and in the figure of the heavens. Neither muft you expeCt the fignification of the work to be powerful, but you muft obferve the Moon opportunely direCted to this •> for you fhall do nothing- without the afiiftance of the Moon. And if you have more patterns of your work, obferve them all, being moft powerful, and looking upon one another with a friendly afpeCt ; and if you cannot have fuch afpeCts, it will be convenient at leaf! that you take them angular. But you fhall take the Moon either when the looks upon both, or is joined to one, and looks upon the other, or when when fhe pafles from the conjunction or afpeCt of one,, to the conjunction or afpeCt of the other ; for that, I conceive, muft in no wife be omitted. Alfo, you fhall in every work obferve Mercury, for he is a meffenger between the higher gods and the infernal gods : when he goes to the good, he increafes their goodnefs— when to the bad, he hath influence on their wickcdnefs. We call it an unfortunate fign or planet, when it is, by the afpeCt of Saturn or Mars efpecially, oppofite or quadrant, for thefe are the afpeCts of enmity ; but a conjunction, a trine, and a fextile afpeCt, are of friend- ship between thefe there is a greater conjunction ; but yet if you do already
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behold it through a trine, and the planet be received, it is accounted as al- ready conjoined. Now all planets are afraid of the conjundlion of the Sun, rejoicing in the trine, and Textile afpedt thereof.
CHAP. XXX.
WHEN THE .PLANETS ARE OF MOST POWERFUL INFLUENCE..
NOW we fhall have the planets powerful when they are ruling in a houfe, or in exaltation, or triplicity, or term, or face, without combuftion of what is direct in the figure of the heavens, viz. when they are in angles, efpecially of the rifing, or tenth, or in houfes prefently fucceeding, or in their delights ; but we mull take heed that they are not in the bounds or under the dominion of Saturn or Mars, left they be in dark degrees, in pits, or vacuities. You fhall obferve that the angles of the afcendant, and tenth, and feventh, be for- tunate ; as alfo the lord of the afcendant, and place of the Sun and Moon, and place of the part of fortune, and the lord thereof, the lord of the foregoing conjunction and prevention. But that they of the malignant planet fall un- fortunate ; unlefs happily they be fignificators of thy work,, or can be of any advantage to thee, or in thy revolution or birth they had the predominance, for then they are not at all to be deprefled. Now we fhall have the Moon powerful if fhe be in her houfe, or exaltation, or triplicity, or face, or in de- gree convenient for the defired work ; and if it hath a manfton of thefe twenty- eight, fuitable to itfelf and the work, let her not in the way be burnt up,* nor flow in courfe — let her not be in the eclipfe, or burnt by the Sun, unlefs fhe be in unity with the Sun — let her not defcend in the fouthern latitude, when fhe goeth out of the burning — neither let her be oppofite to the Sun, nor deprived of light— let her not be hindered by Mars or Saturn,
* Via Combufta.
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