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^ :^ Hi[mael and Advachiet rule her^. The
^ third Cadenc houfe is the ninth, caUcd by the ^ >^ Aftrologers, the Divine houfe , whence we
>K ju^ge of journeys, travel, piety, wifdome,
learning, Philolophy , and other Sciences:
But fince we have fpoken fufficiently as to journeys
before^we (hall in this place lay down fomewhat briefly
of Religion^
A certain man being to enter an Order of Monk?, did often dream he was dead , and that not without wondring , he thouc^ht he went about begging from door CO door ; by which dream, bis change of liFc and entrance into the Order was confirmed.
So likewife a certain Nun before (he entered the Cloifter to make her vow of chaftity, dreamed (lie was led by her parents into the Church, received from the Prieft the image of Chrift crucified, and that (he mar- ried that image ; which dream (ignified the change of her former life , and her beginning of a Religious life.
As concerning Wifdorae, Learning,and philofophy, the Reader is referred to the Holj Guide*
^ Z^Wandthe Genius H^nael govern this
^ ^ part of the Earth. The fourth and laft of ^ ^ the Angular hcufes is the tenth , called the
:^ Culm, or Mid-heaven by the Aftrologers; whence is judged of Empire, Exnltation, Sab- limation, Mafterfhip, Laws, Memory, Honours, Dig- nities, and the like.
There vi^as a certain man faw in his dream, that in an afternoon , and after a ficknefs, in a neutral condi- tion between health and ficknefs , he had fecn his own face like a Sun, and in hjs left hand a bright 5tar : a
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great wiiile atter this happened, be took the Degree ofMatterof Arts. -i
ttArnaUHs Vtlla Novanm, relates of a certain King, who dreamed that he crowned his wife, placing her in a royal chair, and giving her a Sceptcr,did a while after recover the Kingdom which the Queens father had I loft, and did in efifed make her heir thereof. |
iArnMiu (ays of another who dreamt that he fud- • denly fell out of his chair and royal feat, and couid not again recover his feat, though he much ftrivcd to do it ; and a while after by the unanimous confent of all his Nobility was depofed, and died deflirute of all Go- vernment.
Hither may alfo be referred the dream of AdrinnM before mentioned , who the day before he was pro- nounced Eropcrour at aAfitiechy law a fire fallen from heaven on the left Mt of bis neck ( which at the fal- ling he prefemly felt j fpreading into the right, but was not hurt nor frighted by i%
So the dream of Antonini the Philofophcr , con- cerning the hands of ivory , mentioned in the Holy (jmde.
As alio the Omen of ttAlexander the Great at bis nativity, of an Eagle being on the palace of his father Philips which with his voice and wings feemed to ap- plaud and congratulate.
5uch is the Omen oi Afcdnins of fire Aiding down, fuch the Omen of Tullius^ of the head burning in the cradle, whereof more in our third Book of The Tem- ple of if If dome.
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