Book 1 ii . ihe 'I emple o] ^ifdem.

have a care what you fay , for the Querent hath been tampering with others about the bufinefs propounded, or elfe the queflion is forged j and therefore not fit to be anfwcred .
' If Fopu'M or any Figure go out of the firft to a D or and fo let him go.
When Tri/litia or Career be in the Afcendent, or firft Houfe,in ill company and Afpe^^ 5 either the matter pro- pounded is falfe , or paft all hope.
if the Figures be equal, and the Witnefles and Judge promife as much to the one as the other, you muft defer your judgement until another time.
CHAP. IV.
Of th Pofwility or Impoffihility of the Matter.
l^Hatfoever is propounded, carrieth in the face • of it , both a Negative and an Affirmative ; that IS to fayjit may be either concluded, or not : For all things under the Sun are contingent; and it is as honourable for an Artift to give a Judgement in the Negative , if the Figure deny the wifhed dciire, as in the Affirmative, when the Figure promifeth it, al- though not fo pleafant as the proponent. But the poffibiiity or impolfibiiity of bringing to pafs the Mat- ter propounded, you may know by thefc Ri^Jes fol- lowing.
Buiinefles are brought to pafs divers ways, viz* when the firft Figure in the firft Houfe fignifying the perfon propounding, and the perfon or thing propounded, arc in good places of the Figure , or when the firft Figure goes into Houfe of the thing demanded or quelited, and Bbb 5 again
The Temple of mfdow. Book III,
again beholds the firft Figure or Houfe by a :^ or Z^, from places they delight in : The thing fought after will be brought to pafs.
If the Significator of the thing promifed , be well dig- nified, and doth behold the lirft Houfe; fhe Mat- ter will be brought to perie£^ion before it be ex- pefted.
If the firft Figure 5 admit it vfereAihm^ did in a- mounting grow from the firft Houfe to the fecond ; that is to fay, that he be in the fecond, or be like unto the iirft, where Albm is : It fignifies by vertue and power of the Ruler and Idea that is attributed to it, much gain by Arts and Sciences, fortunates the Querent or Native in Merchandize, in all kinds of writings, and by his in- genuity he (hall attain great honour from men of au- thority.
When the Significators of the Querent and Qjielited, &c, are now beholding, it is an ill iign of ever bringing the thing enquired after toperfeftion.
When the Significators (hall behold each other by O or cf from hatefiil places of the Figure , or (liall be in D or (P of Career, Trijiitia^ Pner^ orKukus', it is feldome known any thing is brought to pa(s.
When ill Figures (hall be in the Houfe fignify- ing the thing enquired after, or afflifting the Significa- tors by company or Afpeft 3 the butineis propounded j?viil take no effeft.
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