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ia ic, to fignifie him to whom the MeflTenger is fent ; and the fifth FigurCjthe MeflTenger and his maijagemcnc or or*^ dering of his bufinefs.
When the fifth Figure any ways beholds a good Fi- gure in the firft or feventh Houfes, you may then judge the Meflenger hath eifefted his bufinefs, and is returning again.
If he move into the quefited fecond, which is the eighth, and then be in the (econd, die quod defert fnhfian^ tiumj ftve fit fgmficator Ftrtima ^ five infortunium: he then brings money with him, let the Figure be good or evil : If the fifth Figure (hall goto the D or ^ of ei- ther of the Infortunes, after he isfeparatedfromthe Lord of the feventh ; the Meflenger will receive fome prejudice or impediment in his returning home again.
If there be found an infortune in the ninth Houfe ; die qmd iter efl minus ttttum proper Latrones-, you may then judge that the MeflTenger will not travel fafe, but will be in danger of prejudice by Theeves. jit ft con^ trarium hujus invenias , contrarium]udica : but if on the contrary you ^ndt a fortune in the ninth, judge thecou"- ' trary,
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Shall the Querent gain or loofe hyflaj ?
HTHe firft Figure, Idea and Ruler fliall fignifie the Querent : the fifth, the Play or GaT.e : the Se- venth Houfe, thePerfon you are to Play or Game with- al).
If the firft go into the fifth Houfe, and the feventh go into the fecond Houfe , the Querent will gain by
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good Afpeft to the firft, fecond and Part of Fortune, it ftiews gain by play.
If the fecond be affiii^ed by either the company or afpeft of ill Figures^ or the D or cf of Kedemel^ or the Figure of the fifth 5 the Querent will then loofe by play : If Cauda VraconU be in the fecond Houfe, and al- though a Figure of Tafhthartharath be in the feventh, and remove into -^ or C^ to the firft Houfe, yet the Querent will be cheated and abufed in his play : And this is fufficient to inftruft how to judge any queftioti belonging to this Houfe.
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Judgements belonging to the fixth Houfe,
THefixth Houfe giveth judgement of ficknefs, Ser- i"* vants and fmall Cattle 5 and by thefe Examples you may judge of any other queftion. i. What part of the Body is afflifted? 2. Is the difeafe in body, or minde 5 or both > 3. Shall the diftemper be Chronique or Acute ? 4, What is the caufe of the diftemper? 5. Shall the lick party recover, or die of the diieafe> 6. Of fervants, (hall they prove juft or knavifti? 7. Of fmall Cattle, ftiall the Querent thrive by them or not ? d^e•
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THefe Rales arc experienced by Doftor t/4nthony himfelfe : And I believe he hath gathered his Herbs out of this Pratum or Medow of the Idea's, a place we well know 5 it is a Garden, and the Mountain of the feven Mettals. Here Dodor Jlnthony found how to make his Aurum potahile^ that hath fince his death cured fo many thoufands of all forts of people. And fomething Mofes hath fpokento this purpofe ; and thus it is written: And Mofis too\ the Calf^ which they had
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fnadcy burnt it in the Fire^ and grinded it to Fovpder^ and ftrcrved it upo7i the Wat^V-^ ^nd made the Children of Ifrael Jrink^ofit. Certainly here was a ftrangckind of Spice, and an Art as ftrange as the Spice it felf : This Caif was f)ure Gold, the Ifraelites having contributed their Ear-rings to the Fabrick.
Let any man in England now living, tell me by what jneans fo folid and heavy a body as Gold may be brought to fuch a light powder, that it may be fprink- ledon the face of the Water, and afterwards drunk up* jf any man think he can bring fuch a thing to pafsby fire, let him try, and cure one man when he hath done, of an Ague with it; Verily tl\efe Myfteries, with fome other, which we will not for all the world put to paper , have made us almoft difpleafe our deareil friends, to -whom notwithftanding we owe a better facisfadion. Had it been our fortune barely to know but the[e thing as moft men dojwe had perhaps been lefs careful; but we have been in{lru6ted in the nature of Angels and.Spirits, (as they fay) which are vifible, and will (peak with us, and which are invilible 5 and how to body them into Fi- gures, and other fecretciicumftances, which few upon Earth underftand. We fpeak not for any oftentation, but fpeak a truth which our confcience knows very y/ell. We had not fpoken this in our defence, but that ■^e were aflaulted and told to our face, we were bound to difcover all that we knew. Therefore we leave this difcovery to God : Let it be your (ludy now to under- ftand this Book and my Kegio lucpf , and to enter in- to the treafure thereof; for then you may know Spirits , and underftand the nature of invilible |:hitigs.
Now having projefted your Figure, you muftobfeTve ^hefiiftandfixth Houfes, for they are natural Significa- tors cf the defeafe i and then the firft Houfe afflia:ed
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