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CHAP. XVIII.
Eholdhow the Stars, Angels, and Genii com- municate their vertues in Dreams. And this hath been defer ibed unto you by this Tabic here before, by adifcourfe, the fignification of the judge, and of the Wicneffcs even and uneven, to the end you raay the eafilicr give a certain judgment of the Figures as they flial! fall, having fometimcs like figni- fication and imp( rrancc for iandry demands,andfomc- time unlike, IS to kno^v if that a pcrfon (hall be of long life or (hort, if) e (hall have the goods and rucccfiion of his father, >f it be good to buy Lands and Lord(hips, if it be good to take a wife, and whether (he ftall be good or bad, and whether a woman with child (hall have a (on or a daughter, or if a ffck perfon (hall amend of that difeafc, or that he which is in prifon shall quick- ly come forth , or if it be good to take a Voyage in hand, whether a thing loft shall be found again. And fo of all other queftionsand demands which may bena med, according to the example here before (et out ) whereby you may by your own felf without any fur- ther declaration know the hqures which be good for one demand, and thofe which hold no more on the one fids then on the other. Moreover, 1 have here placed the ngure Popuh^ for a Judge, contrary to the opinion of all the Dodors in this Science, the which (ay ali witjione accord, that when she is found in this place, that then the figure formed is not to be made, or que ftion propounded, is not to be judged by him, but that qucftion mufl- be judged by the four angles and other rules which we will hereafter shew, by the which they
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may be as well and cercainly judged , a^ by^be Judge himfelf.
NoW yoa mud note that the Angels and Genii come down with their infiuential power by the beams of the Planets to the earth^as you find by the figures of A ftro^ inancie and Geomancie> to the bodies of men in theic Dreams. Many of the ancient learned Hebrews ^ Greeks, and Lacines , have handled the .fubjed of Dreama, and in thefe lad ages divers hare written of them, but with fo little affurance and probability, tbac amongd a thoufand fignifications , there are hardly two true , having no more experience for what they advance then Conjedures and Imaginations^ whereof they have made large Volumes, which have rendred them that dudied them more anxious and perplexed then they were before for their dreams. But they are deceived though learned^ not knowing that a thou- fandi nay ten thoufand dreams which pofltfs the fpiric of man every night are nothing but a reminifcerice of their former adions ; the which thing is common td him with the beafts, and that the occupation whicb the pcrfon thought moft concerned his life and lively- hood, is that which reprefents ic fclf every night* Wit- nefs the Fiflierman o^ Theocruns^ in the 22. EdylL Tl£ffA y.dav ipT^i ixJL'J]iviJv.i^ '*;Aa ft)^&:c. which CUih dtan hath neprefented in thefe Verfes ;
Omm4 qudfenfn volvuntur vota diurno,
FeBorefoptto reddit atfiica ^uies, Fenator [ua fejfa toro cum membra refonit ,
Mens tamexi adfylvas & fua ififira redij^ Judiciffm lites^ aurig^ [omnia cnrrhs^
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Which in cf&A is no more but this :
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All 4i(ireeRgafnt Vxprcfiions oftfie Poets give us plainly tb fee that whtch Antiquity thought divine in dreasv^,' was indeed nothing but folly , and that in this ca(e thet^ is no difference between a man and a beaft t feeing alfo Snlbmon the wifeft that ever was of men, hath faidv That the end of the Ions of men and the end of beafts is the fatiie thing as to t'b'em ; as tht bne dies, fo dcth the other, and they have all the fame fpi- rit, and a man narnfatiyis nomore then a beaf^, fof all is vanity ; all goes to the fame place, all is duft, and all (hall return into dufl- • who is it thiit knows that thefpiritof thet tbildrcn of men afcends upon high, andtbefp'fritof the be^ft defcends under the earth ? for who (fan bring it back to fee what was become of I it ? Wherefore { have found nothing better then that a man ili'otild re;oyce in the works of of his hands. If therefore this be doubtful, who will attribute divini- ty to fo many fottirhvifions dreamed by grofs people, d feeing ill that is under heaven iS nothing but folly , " and humane wifdome, both which are but one thing ? If a thoiifand figures arc fecn by a Ruftick in his deep, cvenfo it istK^ich alabotiring bcafl- 5 if the one chafes, the other wjII ilicw it is angry 5 all their palTionsarc alike, and they arc both of the fame thing ; the hope ofonefe the hope of the other, but death reduceth all things the one out of a tonfidcration grofly embra- ced by him, and the other deprived of all confolation> having not a rcaion (Irohg enough for difcourfe, which
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is the Sovcraigocy of mans acquificion. But how is ic that a dream is natural to a roan, and by the means of dreams the more fubtle have perfwaded thofc that were icfs, to many things; and fit^ding out according to their dcfire, have given their Dreams the nam« of Prophecies, to the end they might be the better received, laying, that things to come were con- tained in thefe riddles ? lo honeft and fimpl^arcwc, that foralittje peace", we without any troubles take dreams for things corporally fecn ; nay, tha? which hath but the appearance of an hiftoricai truth , for a thing decreed certain and true ; and are (I know not what force it is to the SoveraignJ much mot^mifera- ble then the Canadiens ^ making our felves our own flaves, through our own means and inventions, load- ing our felves with thole burdens wherewith ouf (boulders are crulhcd when we think of them> depri- ving our felves by that means of the pleaCureO;f this life and the enjoyment of our labours : whi a felicity is fath a one as the moll miffrablc beaft with- out ic, is happier then we ; for as J hive faid, dreams arc equal to them with u that a man hath fomewhac more then is ordinary to hearts, foroedreams being to him the fore-runners of fome fortunes or misfortunes, which follow him the day after they have been feea and dreamt. Qf thefe by fearching into the ancient Cabaiifts , Mecubalift^ and Madorets, 1 find to the number of 7^ which are eafily undcrftood by thofe who know the temperament ofthole that have dreamed them, andnototherwife; they fliould alfo know the day of the Moon and the hour of the night they were dreamed in. If thefe dreams exceed 7^, and that the-e be fomcthing more then ordinary that happens by fome means more then
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common, and thelc drcaqs happen 2. 3- 6. p. and 4 2. months before their effcAs arc fecn. But bccaufe I have ftudicd dreams more then the ordinary Sciences, Aave added to this my Temple this Chapter of Oncirocracie, that is to fay, the judgement of dreams, from thcfe two greek words, ov^c^-.- ^ i.e. fomm^tm & ^ xe'i'^, \udic^^ i.e. to judgc ofdrcams. But because 1 have given it place here, I have made follow this fecond nomina- tion of the Aparition of dreams, which is fully re- prefentcd without difguife, thatevery one whatever fee be may rcceive-the comfort of his dreams, being cer- tain forerunners of the affairs of the day following, 'lis not only the fimple man that is concerned herein, but the Monarch, King, Princejand any one whatever ftall hence receive latisfadion, and may prevent much evil and misfortunes that might dayly happen to him, and alfo anticipate much good. But all muft be known Ihroagh the fccrets o^ the Hebrew MafTorets which reprc(enj them to u% and according to them the t8. nights aiid days of the moon, not with any conformity to what they are in our Geomancy, but according to the Mcditarivesof the faid Maflbrets which arc re- ferred to the nighrs of the Moon, and to each of the dreams, and to thofe other three fo not to omit the 72. ^ome there are, theformuJariryofwhofe pofition is as is to be fecn hereafter, and is to be cbferved by the curious; for thcfe nights and days here rcprefentcd are not to be negledcd, but known : for before that I de- clared and (hewed them in this place, they were known only of Cod. Befidcs this, there is nothing true in mat- ter of dreams: for all that Artemidorus, Cardan M- fh't^s, d^e- have written thereof are nothing but mif- ttkes and brutalities not differing from the dreams of ibcmo{l5avage creatures, wherein as they ha^e de»-
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