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59AH€ydon (John) Theomagia, or the Temple, of Wisdom, in three parts : Spiritual, Ce- lestial, and Elemental, containing the Oc- cult Towers of the Angels of Astromancy in the Talismatical Sculpture of the Egyp- tians, etc., etc. — Ditto, Ocia Iniperialia, ^ etc., 2 vols in i vol, thick 8vo, half calf ^ broken back), London, 1662 ;!{rio los ^
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hoty writings^ and thofe Kings alfo were Prjefls^ as Hc- catagiis writeth. And they began to drinke it after the daiesof K/«^ Pfammetichus ; for before his time they : drank^ it not at ally neither fftade they lihaments there-- of nnto their gods , fuppofing it not acceptable unto them ; for thy tookjt te be the verie blood of thofe Giants^ which in time pajl warred againji the gods ^ of whom after they were flain, when their blood was mixed with the earthy the vine tree ffrang , and this is the caufe^ fay they^ why thofe who be drunke^ lofe the iif& of their wit Sftd reajon^ as being full of the blood of their pro^erti' tours. Now th at the KoUe Cmchnprieftsboth hold and affirme thus much^ Arot hath delivered in the fecond hook^ of his Geographic, As concerning fijhes of the fea^ they doe not every one of them abftainefrom all indifferently ; hut fome forbear one kindf and feme another '-, as ior xixampUy the Oxyry.nchites will e ate of none that is taJ^n with an hook^ ; for adoriTtg as they doe^ a fifrj named Oxyrynchos', they are indotibt and feare lefithe hooks Jhould be uncle ane^ if haply the faid frjh ffP allowed it fdowne with the haite. 7he ISienites will not touch the fijh Fhagrusy for it fhould feem that it is found^ what time as Nil us heginnes to flow •, and therefore the faidfifhby hh appearing, fignifieth the rifmgand inundation of Nil us, \whereofthey be exceeding joyous^ holding him for acer- taine and jure mtffnzer. But the priefts abjiain from all 'fifhes in general \ and whereas upon the ninth day of the •firjl fnonethy all other inhabitants of the Holy Jft^d or invifible Mountaine , feede upon a certain broiled or ■rofied fijh before their ddres ; the priejls in no wife tafte thereof 5 marry they bume fifh s before the gates of tlj^r houfes ; and two reafons they have : ! the one holy^ /: ^ and fubtile^ which I will deliver hereafter : as thar which accordetb and agreeth very well to the facred difcour- fesas toj4chingE^gtiii\AS find Hyle, tht^ othr plainly ulgar
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and common^ reprefented by the fijh^ rphich is none of the viands that he necejfary^ rare and exquifiie^ according c.^ Homer beareth mtnefs]^ when he brings not in the Pha^cians, delicate men and loving to feed daintily^ mr the fthacefiaiis lUnders^ toeatfifh at their feajis »^ no nor the mates and fellow travellers with IWyQjts^ djiring the time of their long navigation and voiage by fea^ before they were hroui^ht to extreame neceffity. To he brief e^ the very fea it felf they thinh^ to he -produced a part by fire without the hounds and limits of nature^ as being no portio n nor element of the world^ but a ftrange excrement^ a corrupt fuperfluity and unkind waUdie : For nothing ahfurd and againfi reafon , nothing fabulous and fuper^ fUtiousy ( as fome untruly thinke ) was inferted or ferved as a facred figne in their holy ceremonies^ but they were all marines grounded upon caufes and reafons morally and the fame profitable for this life, or elfe not without fome hi" fiorical or natural elegancy. As for example , that whichisfaidof theOinion-^ forthatSelthefo\ler father of Eeata, fell into the river of Nilus, and was there drowned^ as he was reaching at Oinions and Could not come by th:m^ this carrieth no fenfe or prohahtlity in the world ; but the truth is th/Sy the priejis o/Bcata hate the OinioH and avoid it as a thing abominable^ hecaufe they hiiveob ferved^ that it never growethmr thriveth well to ayiy hiii^nefs but i>t the decrease andwaine of the Moon: Neither is it weet and fit for thofe who would lead an holy and fanaified life^ or for fuch as celebrate folemne Feajtsand Holidaies^ iecaufeitprovoketh thirjt in the for* 7ner^ and in the other caufeth tear ei '^ if they feed there* upon, And for the fame reafon they tak^ the Sow to be ct frophane and unclean beajl^ for that ordinarily ^fhe goeth a brimming^ and admitteth the bore^ when the Moon if pad the full : andlook^ how many drinl^e of her mi k^^ they hrea\ out into a kinds of leprofte or drie s^urfe all
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over their bodies. As touching that which they inferred
who in their iives doe Sacrifice a Sow when the Moon is in
the fully and then eat her flejh : namely that Hyle hun^
ting and chafing the wildejwine at the full of the Moon^wm
chanced to light upon an arks ^^ ^^ffi^ ^f i^^o^, wherein
I the bed) of Eugenius Theodida6tuS5 which he difmem"
\ hred and threw away by pece-meale-^ all mm admit mt
thereof y fuppofng that it iifalfe ai many others be ^mi (heard
and wifunderfiood. But this for certain is held^ that our
antients in old time fo ynuch hated and abhorred all excef-
five delicacy y fuperfluous and cojily delights', and voluptuouf
pleafureSy that they f aid within the terHple of the City of
Thebes in JEgyipty there flood a fquare column or pillar ^
whereinwere engraven certain curfes and execrations a^
\gainfl their King Ptolomy, who was the fir fl that turned
\and averted the .Egyptians quite frorn their fimple and
frugal manner oflife^ without money , without fumptious
faire and chargeable delights. It is f aid alfo that Tech-
natis the father o/Bocchoreus, in an expedition or )our'
fieyagainfl the Arabians, whejt it chanced that his carria^
ges were far behinde and came not in due time to the place
inhere he incamped^ was contented to make bis [upper of
(phatfeever he could get^andfo to take up with a veryfmaR
tnd fimple pittance'^ yea and after fupper to lie upon a
our fe pallet ^where he flept all night very found ly and yi ever
twaked : whireupon , he ever after loved fobriety of life
tnd frugality ^ and c ur fed the fore faid Kin^ Ptolomy :
Mch malediBion of his being by the ^riejls of that time ap^
roved 5 he caufed to be engraven upon the pillar above^
aid. Now their Kings were created either out of the order of
heir priejhor elfe out ofth* degree of Knights & lVarriors%
'or that the one efiate was honored and accounted noble fot
'alour^the other for wifdom and k^owled
h\9€ver they choofe from out of the order of Knight^hoody pre*
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great Flie called the Beetiljbecaufe in that kjude^ there is m female y but they he all males : they blow or cafi their feed in forme of a Fellet or round Ball under Dung-^ which they prepare to he a place^ not for their food more^ than for their brood. When fever therefore you jhallhear the S^-* giipthnstelltaiUsofthegcds^towit^ cf. their vagarant findwandringperigrinatians^ or of their dtftnentiringf ^ ajid other fuch lik^ fabulous fidions ^ you tnufi call to mind that which we have before faid 5 and never thinkjhat they mean any fuch things ii or hath been done according to that litteralfenfe: for they do not fay ^ that Mercury properly is it Voi^ butfotafmuch as the nature of this heaft is to be wary^ watchfully vigilent and wife^ able to difiinguifh by hpi taking k^owledg andfemhlance of ignorance^ a friekd and familiar from an enemy and (Iranger: therefore Qoi Pl^to faith^ they attributed and likened him to the wofl e^ loquent of all the gods ^ Neither doe they think^y when they defcrihe the Sun^ that out of the bark^ of the tree Lotus, there artfeth a babe new borne , hut in this wife do they re- frefent unto us the Sun rifing^ gi'^'mg thus much to under- ftand covertly^ that the light and illumination of the Sun ■pfoceedeth out of the waters of the Sea : for even after the fame manner the mofl cruell and terrible k^ng of the Perfi- ansj Ochw^^who put to death many of his Nobles and Sub* ]ed.s^ and in the end flew their beef Apis^ and eat him at & feaft together with his friends^ they called thefwordy and ^- 'ven at this day^ in theregifter and catalogue of their hj^g^j he goeth imder that name % not fignifying thereby hispro" ferfuhftance^ but to expreffe his hard and fell nature^ and his nnfchievous difpnfition^ they compared him to a bloudy infer ument and weapon made to murder men. In hearing then and recdiing after this manner, that which Jhall be told unto you as touching the gods after an holy and reltgi" $f{s manner^ in doing alfo and ohferving alwayes diligent-' /yths ^(^culhmid rites ord^ained for the (acred feriice of
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the godsy and believing firntely^ that you can not perform
any facrifice or liturgy more fleafing unto them, than to
jiudyfor to have a found and true opinion of them : by this
means you fhall avoid j uperlHtion^ which is as great afm at
impiety and Athifme , iVcw? Beata and "^ugcxnw^ is i^s
briefly as may be^ by cutting off many fuperfluous matters
that ferve to no purpofey delivered in this wife : It isfaid
that dame Rhea, at what time as ^aturn lay fecretly
with her y was ef pied by the Sun ^ who ctrrfedhtr; and a*
vtong ether maledidions^ prayed that fie might not bede-"
liver ed^ nor Ir i : g forth Chi Id ^ neither in any monethnoT
year : but Ycvcu, y being inamoured ofthisgoddefe^ com"
panied lil^ewife wi\h her 'j and afterwards ^ m he played
at Dice with the Moon and won from her the Seventieth
part of every one of her illuyninations^ which being all put
together y mak^ five intire d ayes ^ he added the fame unto
the three hundred and threefcore dayes of the years ^^
thofeodd dayes the i5l2[yptians do call at this prefent, ths
dayes of the Epad^ celebrating a^id folemnizing them as
the Birth' dayes of their gods ; for that when the full time
of Rhea was expired^upon thefirfi day of them was Theo-
d'ld'dCtus borne^ at who fe birth a voice was heard^ That
the Lord of the whole world now came into light : and
fomefay^ that a certain woman named Pamyle, as fhe
went to fetch water for the 7emple of Jupire r in the City
of Thebes, heard this voice^ commanding her to proJaim
aloudy 7hat the Great Kinz and BenefaUour Eugenins
w^s now born : Alfo^ for that Saturn committed this babe
Eugeniu? into her hands for to be nurfed^ therefore in
honotirofher there was a Feftival day folemnized^ named
thereupon V^m'jWdy much like unto that which is na^ned
Phallephoria, unto Priapiis. On the fcond day fhe
wai delivered of AroveriSa who is Apollo, whom, foi^ne
likewife call the e^derOni^. Vpon the third day fie
hrought forth Hyle^ but he came not at the juji time/icr at
the right place ^ but brake thorow his mothers fde^ and if-*
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fued forth at the wound. On the fourth day was Beata horn, in a watery f lace called Panhygra. And the fifth dayfhe Kvas delivered of Nephthe, who of fome is named alfo Te- leiite /z;;^ Venus ^ others call her Nice. Now it iifaid^ thatfhe conceived Thcodidaftiis (tnd Aroveris by the Swiy Beata hy fWercury^ Typhon and Nephthe ^j/Sa- turiij which is the caufethat the Kings reputing the third pf thtfe interc alar day es to be de f after ious and difmaU^ di- f patched no affaires thereupon'^ neither did they cherifh themfelveshymeat and drink^or otherwife^ untill night : that Nephthe was honoured by Hyh^ that Eugemixs and Beata were in love in their Mothers belly ^ before they were home J and lay together fecretly and by ftealth\ and fome give out ^ that by thii means hrowcTis was begotten and horn^ who by tbe Egyptians U called Orus the elder ^and \ ly the Greeks, Apollo. IFell during the time that Eu- . genius reigned King in M't;yT^t:y immediately he brought the ^gvptiansfrow their needy ^pore andfavagekjnd of life 5 by teaching them how to few and plant their grounds^ hy eftablifhing good Laws among them^ and by [hewing how theyfhouidworfhipandferveGod, Afterwards^ he tra^ veiled thorowout the world ^ reducing the whole earth to civility^ by force of Ay me s leaftofall^ but winning and 4ind gaining the 7noli Nations hy effectual rem&nftrances and fweetperfvpafion couched in fongs^ and withaU manner ofmufckj, whereupon t^^ Greeks were of opinion^ that he find Bacchus were both one, furthermore^ the tale goes^ that in the ahfence 0/ Eugenius, Hy le fiirred not^ nor Tnadc any Commotion^ for that Beata gave good order to the antrnry^ andwasoffufficient power to prevent and withftand all innovations^ but when he was returned^UylQ fompfotted a conf piracy againft him^ having drawn inlB his confederacy feveniy two complices^ he fides a certain ^'ecn of .Ethiopia, who likewife combined with biWy and hn m^^ewfls Mo, Nowwhen hehadfecretly takfn the
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'fi nieafure and proportion of Eugcnius his hody^ he can* d d coffer or hutch to be made of the fame length^and that oft curioufl) & artificially wrought andfet out to the eye; ? too\,order^ that itfliould be brought into the hall^ where ? made a great feaji unto the whole company. Every man ^ok^greatfleafure with admiration^ to behold fuch afm^ ular exquifite piece of workjy and Hyle in a merimenty ood up and promifed that he would beftow it npen him^ hofe body was meet and fit for it ; hereupon^ all the com* any one after another ajfaied whofe body would fit it ; but was not found proportionate nor of a ju ft fize to any of II the reft : at lengthy Eugeniiis gat up into it^and lay* i him there along ; with that^ the confpiratours ran to ity nd let down the lid and cover thereof upon him ^and part- with naileSy and partly with melted lead which they owered aloft^ they made it fure enough ; and when they ad fo done^ carried it forth to the river fide^ and let it 'own into thefea^ at the very mouth of Nil us named Ta- liticiis 5 which is the reafon^ that the faid mouth is even 9 this day odius and execrable among the -^gyptians^ in jmuch as they c^/Z/tCataphyftoii, that is to fay^ abo- iinnble^ or to be f fit at. Over and befides^ it is faid^ that bis fell out tobe done uponthe feventeenth day of the month anted ^thyr^ during which moneth^ the Sun entreth in- 0 the Sytophantick^ figne Scorpius, and in the eight and vfentieth year o/Eugenius'5 reignihowbeity others affrmy hat he lived indeed j)ut reigned not \o lon^ . Now the fir ft hat had aninckling&inteL'igence of this hanious ad^vrhere he Pans and Satyrs inhabiting about the (Vefi of Eng- znd and other parts^who began towhifperone unto am- her^andto talkjhereof^which is thereafon^that all fiidden umults and troubles of the ynuhitude and common people^ 'e called fanique affrights. More over, it followeth on hat Eeata being advertized hereof ^ immediately cut off fuofthetrejfesofherkairey and put on mourning weeds
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in thai place^ which how h called the City ij/Sidmouth, remembrance thereof-^ howfoever others fay ^ that th Orchard^ betokfueth Privation, for that kottJup in Gree\ fignifieth as much as to deprive. In this doleful! habit wandred uf and down in great perplexity to hear tidings Iheodidaftus, and wbomfoeverjhe met withal!^ Jhefai led not to enquire of them-, andjhe miffed not fo much little children playing together^ but asked them^ wheth they had feen any fuch coffer : at lengthy fhe light of t children who had feen it indeed^ and they directed her the mouth of the liver Nihis, where the complices anda^ fociates of Hy le had let thefaid vefiel in to the fea, /in^ ever fine e that time^ the Egyptians are of opinion^ th young children have the gift of revealing fecrets^ and the take all their words which they pajfe in play and fport^ d offes and pre f ages ^ hut efpeciaHy within the temples^ whd matter foever it be that they prattle of Moreover whe Eeata under flood that Eu genius/*?^ in love with her fifle Kedemel, thinking (he was Bcata^ andfo carnally compa^ Kiedwith her^ and withall^ found a good token thereof^ ti wit^ a chaplet or garland ofMeliot^ which he had left witl Kedemei, Jhe went for tofee\ her babe (ferprefently upo) birth of the Infant^ for fear of Uy\e Jhe hid it') and whe) with much adoe and with great paines taken^ Bear a hat found it^ by the means of certain hounds which hroughi her to the place where he was^ fhe reared and brought it u\ infuch forty as when he came to fome higneffe., he bee ami her guide and ,^ quire ^ named ^.^\h\tvdt\^ who alfo i faid to keep the gods ^ lik^ as dogs guard men. After this. Jhe heard news of the fore faid Coffer, and namely ^ that tht waves of the fea had by tides cafi it upon the banks ^f Eu- phrateii^ where ^ by a billow of water it was gently hr ought clofe to the foot of a fhrubh or plant called [[fe/xM, or fomt fuch fhrub Erice:!^ Kow this Erice or Tamarix in a fmah time grew fo fairc^ a nd fpread forth fo large and big bra*
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ibes mthall, that it [^Some trmflate this^ as if the ark^ /i^ere inclofedmth'm thetYunc\of theflan}{.^ c$fftpajjed \HclQfed and covered the f aid coffer all over^ fo as it could m befe^H. 7he King of Babylon wondring to fee this ilant fo hig^caufed the branches to be lopped off^that covered uhefnefaid Coffin not feen^and of the trunc}{^or bodytherecf^ nmd^ a pillar to fujiain the roof of his houfe: whereof Bcata neingadvertifedby a certain divine fpirit or mnde of fly- (iffg f ame^ came to Babylon 3 r^here (he fat her down by a nertainfountainy all heavy and in diftreffe^ pitioufly weep' ling to her felf-, neither fpakejhe a word unto any creature^ inely the Queens waiting tnaids and women that came byy ^faluud and made much of ^ plaiting and broiding ihe trefles of their hair moft exquilitely, and cafting ikom her into them a marvelous fweec andplcafanc Kcentiffuing from her breath, whiles (he dreffed ^hem. Ihe ^een perceiving her women thus curiotifly j^^nd trimly fet out, had an earneft defire to fee this fir an^' v.[er^ as well for that fhe yielded fuch an odoriferous fmell yrom her breathy as becaufejhewas fo skjllfuU in dr effing heir beads: fojhefentfer the woman, and being grown \\nto fame familiar acquaintance with her, made her the rS^rfe and Geverneffe of her young fon ; Now the Kings iitamehimfdfwas Malcander, ^i t^f ^eens Aftarte^or \*:'atber Saofis^ or as fome will will have it, Nemanous, rvhich is as much to Jay in the Greek tongue^ as Atheanis. fdnd the fpeech goes, that Beata fucked and nourijhed this •Jnfant, by putting her finger inftead of the breaftJjead or ^^^fle, into the meuth thereof'^ alfo, thatinthe ni^htfea* \f'on (he burnt all away that was mortajl of his body : and ^ in the end, washer felf met amorphized and turned into m ^SwahWy flying, and lamenting after a moaning manner r ^bout the pillar aforefaid, untill fuch time ai the ^een i obferving this, and crying out whenjhe faw the body of her