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gtil
\0)t
Beata being difcoveredtobe a goddejfe^craved thepitlar o]
v^ood : which he cut down with facility^ and too\fron ^J^
underneath the trunck^ofthetantarix or Erice. TB^hiohjh^n
anointed with perfumed oile^ and enwrapped within a lin.
Ken cloth ^ and gave it to the Kings for to beh^pt : vfihere
pfit commethythat tbe Byblians even at this day reverenci ^^^
this piece of rvood^ which lieth confecrate within the tentpli *^^
c/Bcaca. Furthermore^ it is faid^ that in the endfji "^^
f
lamented fo muchy thattheyounge\\ of the Kings fons dy k^^
ed for very pity of her '^ hutjhe her felf accompanied with "^^^'
the elded'of them ^ together with the coffer ^emhark^d^ took "^^^^
fea and departed. But when the red-fea turned the windi ^^''
fbmewhat roughly.about the dawning^ of the day^ Beata WM ^^\
fo much difpieafed and angry y that fhe dried it quite. -And^^^^
fo fooH as (he came unto afelitary place^ hhere jhe was by M"
herjelfalone-y Jhe opened the coffer y where finding tbe corpi 'f^"
o/TheodidaftiiSj fhe laid her face dofe to hk^ embraced «'^'^
it and wept, Herewith came the childefoftly behinde and «^/^
efpied what jhe was doing : whom when jhe perceived], /he ^
looked back^^ calling an outward eye^ and beheld him with ^^
fuch an angry afped , that the poore infant not able to en^ ^''t
dure fo terrible a look^^ dyed upon it. Some fay it was not "ff)
fb \ but that he fell into the fea ^ in manner afore ^aid^ and »^t
was honoured for the goddeffe fake j and that be is the fame "^'^
whom the IEgYpt\2ins chaufit at their feafls^ under the "11
name of Filius Soils Caelcftis. But others give out^ tham'^
this childe was named Sorah, and that the City Pelufiuml^t
was built in remembrance of him by thegoddeffc ^ezt^^ancnh
fotook^the name after him '^ and how this Filius SoliSjP*
whom they fo celebrate in their fongs^ was the firfi inven'm
tor of Mufick,, Howbeit others there are again^ whoaffirmM
that this was the name of no perfon , 6ut a kjnde ofVialedW^
cr Language , proper and agreeable unto thofe who drinkfmP
md banquet together ^ as if a. man Jhould fay^ Inagoodm
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'Qure and happily way this or that come. For the Mgjp- tans were wont ordinarily to ufe this term So rah infuch fenfe : Liks ^ ^o doubt the dry sJ^ietos or dead corps of man^ which they ufed to carry about and (hew in a bierrc r Coffin at the table 3 was not the reprefmtation or memo- ial of this accidentywhich befell unto Eugenius asfomedo magine^ butferved as an admonition to put the guejh in iinde to be merry and ta^e their pleafure^and joy in thofe kings that were prefent ; for that foon after theyjhould be ike unto it. Ibis I fay was \thereafontl^at it i^as brought 4 at their feajis and merry meetings. Furthermore when \tzt?i_ was gone to fee herfonne Earzabel who wdfojiered nd brought up in the city Biitiis 5 and had laid the afore^ md Coffer with Eugcnins body out of the way 5 Hy le/fT* nned as he hunted in a clear mocn^flnne night to meet with ^5 and taking kiiowledge of the body , cut it into fourteen ieces and flung them here and there one from another : ^^hich when 5eata underjiood^ Jhe fearched for them in a oat or punt made of paper reed^ all over the moores avd narjhes : Whereof it comes that the Crocodiles never hurt hofe who faili or row in veffels made of that plants whether t be that they are affraid ofit^ or reverence it for this ^od^ ^^jfefakSi Ik^ow not. And thus you may k^tow the reaton^ jhy there be found many Sepulchres of Eugcnins The- ^( >didaftus in the Country of ^gypt, for ever as (l.>e found my piece of him , (he caufed a tombe to be made for it : ^^thers fay no '-, but that Jhe made many images of him^ ^ vbich f}je left in every City , as if Jhe had bejlowed among hem his very body indeed ; to the end that in many -places t ^e might he honoured: and that if happily Hyle when he i. ought for the true Sepulcher of Eiigenius (having van^ „^ ^uifl)ed and overcome %2iiz^tV) many of them b'ing re- ported andjhewed^ he might not know which was itj and [9^ ivf over feekjng farther . Over and befides^the report goes^ hat ^tn^ found all other parts of Eugenius body-^but ontf
his
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hli privy member^ for that it woi immediately caft into t\ \ir river and t he fijhes named LeipidotuSy Phagrus C^'Oxy) f rynchus devoured it: for which caufe^tat3,detejiethtbeK\ 0' above all other fijhes : hut injiead of that natural fart^ Jh\ i; made a counterfeit one^ called Phallus, which Jhe confe j:^ crated: and in the honor thereof the JEgyftiam hgldafa ifi]^ iemnefeajh After aU this^ it followeth that Eiigeniu (fwH being returned out of the infernal part s^ appeared unt m Barzabel for toexercife^ injirud andtraine himagainj tU\ the battel: of whom he demanded what he thought to h k\ the mofh beautiful thing in the world', who anfweredy T k be revenged of the wrong and injury which had been don ^ft to a mans parents. Secondly^ what beafl he thought moj Id profitable to go into the field with all : unto whom Bariiabe id fhottld maks anfwer^ Jhe horfe : whereat Eugcnius mar m veiled^ and ask^d himy why he named the horfe and not tk in Lion rather : Becaufe (quoth EarzabelJ the Lionferveti k\ him in goodfted^ who Jiands upon his own guard and de Ui fence only^ and hath need of aid : hut the horfe is good ti Wj^ defeit the enimy (juite^ to follow him in chace^and tak^hin kfd Trifoner, When Eugenius heard him fayfo^ he teok,grea\ i, pleafure and contentment herein^ lodging hereby^ that hi frifc fon was fufficiently appointed and prepared to give batte b, tmto his enimies. And verily it is f aid that among man^ i||t that daily revolted from Hyle, aHd fided with Barzabel. ffc eventhe very concubine of Uy\c named Thueris was one, ^^
who came to h'ky> : and when Vxovtvxsferpent followed af-' ter and perfued her^ the fame was cut in pieces by theguara t fihout Barzabel : in remembrance whereof^ at this very da) they brina: forth a certain cord^ which hk^wife they clfop in pieces . IFell^ they fay the battel continued many dates : bui in the end Barzabel had the vidory ; As alfo Beata having Hyle pr if oner fajl bound in her hands ^ kjlled hirn not^ but loofed him and let Inm go : which Barzabel not ablets endure with patience^ Uld violent hands upon his Mother,
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df lucked from her head the royal ornament thatjhe had ?reoK : injiead whereof T^'pth^itharsih^ fet on a morion ide in maner of a cowes head/IhenHyle c^/Wfiarzabcl iicially into quefiiony charging him that he wai a baftard^ thy the help of T^^th2Lrth2irzh who fleaded hiscaufe^ WifS judged by the gods^ legitimate : fvho alfo in two o- T battels vanquijhed Hyle. And more than all this^ rata after deaths was with child by Eugenius, by whom 'WHelitonienus ither parts,
Andliksas the Mathematicians fay, that the rain how is ^eprefentation of the Sunne^ and the fame difUnguijhed fundry colour s^ by the ref ration of our eie- fight againfi 'loud : evenfo this preface^ is an apparence of fome do' 'ine 6r learnings which doth refied a?td fend back outjtn- rfianding^to the confederation of fome other truth '^ much ier the maner of facrifices, wherein ther^ is mingled a nd of lamentable dole^ and forrowful heavinefs . Sem^ tbly^ the making and difpofition of temples^ which in fome tees have fair open Ifles and pleasant allies open ever ad; andinother^ dark^caves^vaults^ andfhrmdsun* rthe earthy refemhling properly caves ^ fepulchers^ or arnel vants^wherein they put the bodies of the dead -j efpe- tUy the opinion of the RofieCrufians : for albeit the body Eugeiiiiis befaid to he in many places^ yet they name iply Abydus the towne^ or Memphis ^/itf/^ Citj^ where ey affirme that his true body lieth^ in fuch fort^ as the eatejtandweahhiefl perfons in i^gypc ufually do ordnift idta^e crder^ thatthetf bodies be interred in Abydiis, ! the end they may lie in the fame fepdchre withEugcn'iuy^ id at Memphis was k^pt the beefe Apis^ which is the tageand figure of his foul ^ and they will have his hodf \fo to be there. Seme lik^wife there be^ who interpret th? ime of this town^ as if it fiould fignifie the haven and irhur of good men : otherfi that it betc}
Engeijius
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Eiigeiliiis : mi there is before the gate of the Citjy a lit tte Jflcy which to all others is inacceffibley and admitteth h entrance^ infomuch^ as neither fovples of the aire will thet iight^ norfiShes of thefea approach thither : only at one cer taine time^ the pnefis may come in^ and there they oft facrifices^ and prefent oblations to the dead-, where alj they cnwne and adorHe with flowers the monument of on Mediphthe, which is overfhadowed and covered with ce. taine plant^ f^f eater and taller than any Olive tret Eiidoxus writethy that how many feptdchres foever the¥ he in JEgyipt^wherein the corps of Eugenws Jhouldlie^ ye it is in the City Bufiris ; for that it was the countrey ant place of his nativity ; fo that now there ii no, need to fpea ejf Taphofirfs, for that the very name it felfe faith enoug fignifying as it doth^ thefepulture of Theodidaftus. PFe^ I approve the cutting of the wood^ and renting of the lin nen^ the effufions alfo and funeral libaments there perfor med^ hecaufe thence many my faeries mingled among. Am fo the priefts ofJE^y^t affirme^ that the bodies Hoi of the j gods only^ but alfo of all others^ who have been engendred F' and are not incorruptible^ remajne among them where the honoured and &verenced -^ but their fouls became f}arrs^ ani jhine in heaven : and as for that of Ec^t^^ it U the fam^ which the Greekj call Cyon^ that U to fay ^ the Vogg-flar^: but the M\yptians Sochis : that of Orus is Orion, dm thatofHyh^the Bea\ Now you fee thei^ names are op poftte to thei and States in JE^yipt contribute a cer taine tribute impofei upon them^ fo to pourtray^ draw and paint fuch beafis are honored am:n'^ them^ thofe only who inhabite the coun t^f)' Thehai«5 of all others give nothing thereto^ being o opinion^ that no mo tal things fubjed to deaths can be a god as for hint alone^ whem they call Cneph, as he was neve\ bo ney (o (hall he never die. Whereas therefore for man fuch things aithepj he reported and jhemd inM^ypi
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they who thitt\^ that all is no wore hut to perpetuate and eternize the ntentory of marvelous deeds and ftrange acci* , dents offome Frinces^ Kings ^or Tyrants ^who for their excel- lent vertue and mighty puiffance^ have adjojned to their own glory ^ the authority of deity y unto whom^ a while after, there befell calamities ; ufe herein a very cleanly Jhifty and expedite evafxon^transf erring handfomly from the gods unto nten^ allfinijier infamy^ that is Taphthartharah and help themfehes by the tejiimonies whichthey find and read in hiftories : for JEgyptians write^ that Hyle was butfmal of fiature^ and flender limmedy that he was of a ruddy colour ; Barzabel white ; Eugenius of a blackjjh hew^ as who indeed were naturally men. Moreover ^ they callEn" gcniuSj captaine or general; C^nchus pilot dr governor of a jhipy after whofe name they have named aftar : and as forthefhip which the Greekj name Argo^ they hold that it was the very refemblance of Eu^emus' s Jhip^ which for the honour ofhim^ being numbered among thejlarSy isfojituate in heaven^ as that it movethand k^epeth his courfe not far from that ofOnon^and the Cyon or Voge-ftar : of which twaine^ the one Ucenjecrated unto Barzabel, the other to Beat^*7he things which be written of HylCjEugcnius & Beata were no accidents or paffions incident to gods or to men-, but rather to fome great Genii^ of which mind§ were PvthagoraSj Plato, XenocrateSje^Chryfippus, following hearin the opinions of the ancient Theologians^ who holdy that they were farjironger than men^ and that in fuijfance they much furmounted our nature : but thatdivi* fiity which they had^ was not pure andfimple ; but they were conifounded of anature corporal and fpiritual^ capable of pleafure^ofgriefey and other paffions and affed ions ^ which accompanying, thefe mutations^ trouble^ fome more, others lefl. For in thefe Vdmomy there is lik^^ as alfo among men, a diver fity and difference of vice and of vertue. For the aCis tfGiants^ and Titans^ fo much chaunted in €Vfrj GresKfong I ^■' "' ~ "' c ■ ' ^ " thf
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the ahomimble deeds llkewife and^radifes of one Saturnc, therefijUncealfoof Cycho^ againji Apollo, the founds of Bacchus, and the wanderings of Ceres, differ in no ref^ tea from the accidents of Eugtnhis and Hyle, and of all other fuch like, which every man may hear ai much as he lili : as alfo whatfoever U covered and hidden under the vail ofmyfticalfacrifices and ceremonies, is k^pt do fe not uttered nor (hewed to the vulgar people : And according hereto^ we may hear Homer, how he calleth md men^ andfuch as excel/ others diver fly, one while 02o«crUf , that is to fay ^ li]{e unto the ^ods ', other while AvrSi^i. that^ U^ to fay, compa^ rahle to the gods : fometimes Bi is to {ay, havinz their wifdome and counfel from the gods, But the denontination or addition drawn from the De- mons, he ufeth com -honly as well to the good as the bad . in- different to valiant perfons and to cowards: to a timorous and fearful fouldier thm :
t>£moHian, approach thou near ; ; The Greeks why doeft thou fo much fear>
On the oiher fide, of an hardy fouldier :
Ct?^' OTS cTm to TiTd^roV W
When he the charge in field the fourth time gave Like to fome Da?aion he did himfelf behave. •And again, in the worfe fence ^
-V£ omin^ what isthat great otfence; y^';^^ WhicliP//r'r,&: his Tons committed have ^^\,,.i^^ Againft the,for to make thy )U \u wrathful terms upon the thus to rave, Minerva. And them no grace and mercy tovouchfave, Nor reft, until thou feeft the ftateiy tovvne, OilUon deftroy'd and rafed down >
Giving
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. Giving Hs hereby thm much to under jland, that the Genii have amixt nature, and a will or^ffedhn which is not equal nor alwaies alil^e. And hereupon it is, that Plato verily attrihuteth unto the Olympian and celeftial gods, all that which IS dexterous and oddei but unto the Genii, what^ foeverisfinifierandeven, ^^iXcnocrates holdeth, that thofe dates which be unhickjeand difmal, thofe felhvalfo^ lemnittes lik^ewife, which have any beatings orhyiockjn^ and thumping of breajU or failing, or otherwife any curfedfpee^ ches ani filthy words, are not meet for the honour and worfhip either of gods or of good Genii ; but he fuppofetb that there be in the aire about us, certain natures great andpuiffants howheit, (hewed, malicious and unfociable, phtch taksfome pleafure in fuch matters ; and when they have obtained and gotten fo much to be done for their fake they go about no farther mifchief,. nor wait any (J;rewder turnes: whereas contrariwife^ both UcCiodus calleth the pure and holy Genu, fuch alfo as be the good angels and Keepers of men ; See the Harmony of the world,
Gi vers ofwealth and opulence, as whom This regal giftand honour doch become.
And Phto alfo termeththl, kind of Genu or angels Mer^ ciirfall, that is to fay, expofitours or interpreters, and minijierial, having a middle nature between ^odsandmen^ who as mediatours, pref.nt the prayers and petitions of men . here unto the gods in heavm, and from thence transmit ^ and convey unto U4 upon earth, the oracles and revelations of hidden and future thing,, a^ alfo their donations of goods md riches. As for Empedocles, he faith, that thefe ^tm\or Fiends, are pmffhed and tormented for their fins and^ offences which they have committed, as may appear bi thefe hh -Verfes f ^ J J^r j
^ ^ f oi
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For why > the power of aire and skic,
did to the Sea them chace ; The Tea them caft up, of the earth,
even to the outward face : The earth them fends unto the beams,
of never-tyred Sun, The Sun to aire, whence firft they came^
doth fling them down anon : Thus ported to and fro, twixt feas
beneath, and heav'ns above. From one they to another pafs :
not one yet doth them love.
until fuch time as being thus in this Aired- vehicle chaflifed and denfedjhey recover again that f lace ^ ejiate and degree which ii meet for them^ and according to their nature : Read the firft and fecond Book of the Harmony of the World. Jhefe things and fuch liJ^e for all the world they fay^ are reported of HylCy who upon envy and malice com^ tnitted many outrages -^ and having thus made a> trouble and confufion in all things^ filled fea and landwith woful calamities and miferiesy but w^is punijhed for it in the end, for Beata the wife and fifier of Eue;enius irt revenge plagued him in extinguiffljing and leprejjing hisfu^ ' ry and rage^ and yet negleded not fl)e the travels and pains of her own^which flje endured^ her trtdgin^ alfo and wandring to and fro ^ nor many other ads of great wifdome and prowefs^fiiffered fhe to be buried infilence and oblivion t hut inferting the fame among the moft holy ceremonies of facrificeSy as examples^ images^ Telefmes, memorials and refemhlances of the accidents hapning in thofe times ^ jhe confecrated an enfjgnementy in(irullion andcenfolation of piety and devout religion to god ward, as well for men ai women afflidedwith mi fries. By reafon whereof Jhe and her husband Theodidaftiis oJgoodGcimwere tranfmnt^
ted
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ted for their vertue into gods iiJ^j as afterwards were Her- cules and Bacchus, who in regard thereof ^ and not with- out reafon^ have honours decreed for them both of gods^and alfo of V demons intermingled together^ asthofewbo in all f laces were piijfant J but ntoji powerful both upon and alfo under theEarthJor they fay t^/ztSarapis is nothing elfe but Pluto and Beata the daughter of ^i^o^tv^'mTL^ as Arche- machuse^/Huboea, ^«^ Heraclitus of Pontus teftifie:, andhethinksththat the oracle in t^^ c/t3» Canobus, is thatoffatherU\9 or Pluto. King ?xo\tn^xwsfurnamed Sotcr^thatistofay^ faviour^ caufed that huge jiatue or eolofiofPlmoyWhichwasinthe city Sinope, to be taken front thence^ notk^owing^ nor having feen before of what form and jhape it w^Sj but only that as he dreamed he thought^that hefaw Szvzipis ^commanding him withal fpeed fojftble to tranfport him into Alexand ria. Now the king not knowing wher e thii fiatuewiti^ nor where to findeit^ in thif doubtful perplexity related his vifon afore faid unto his friends about him^ and chanced to meet with one Soli- bius a great traveller and a man who had been in many places y and he faid that in the city of Siino^t he hadfeen fuch aftatuey as the King defcribed unto them, Where^ uponVto\tmxw% fent Soteles and Dionyfius, who in long time J and with great travel^ and not without the f- fpecial grace of the divine providence^ ftole away the faid Colofs and brought it with them: Now when it was co:r,e to Alexandria and there feen^ Tiniotheus the great Cof^ tnographer and Antiquary^ and Manothroii of the pro* vinCeSthtnmtiSy gueffed it by all coyi]eaures to be the image of PhitOy andnamelyby Cerberus the hel-dogand the dragon about him^ perfwading the kjng that it could be the image of no other god but o/5arapi.«i- For it came not from thence with that name-^ but being brought into A« lexandria, it tookjhe name Sarapis, by which the JE^yp' tians do name P\i\io, And yet YitrAzWtn^ verily the c 3 *" Naturalijl
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Natura/ifi faithy that Hads, and Droniiis, that U to fny^ Pluto and Bacchus^ he the fame. And in truth when they are difpofed to flay the fools and be mad^ they are carried away to this opinion^ For they who fuppofe that HadSj that is to fay ^ Pliud, is fah to be the body and a^ it were the fe pule her of the foul^ as if it feemed to be foolifh and drtmken all the while (he is within it ^ me think^ they do allegorize hut very baldly. And better it were yet to hrini Eugenius, Theodidaftus, and^TLCchw^together', yea and to reconcile Sarapis unto Eug nius, in faying that after he hath changed his nature^ he became to have this denomination. And therefore this name Sarapis is com-- vnon to all^ as they k^ow very well^ who are profejfed in the ftcred religion of Eui^enms, For we ought not to give eare and credit to the hooks and writings of th^ fhrygians^ wherein we find j that there was one C haropo?! the daugh' tar of Hercules, and that of Ifaiaciis a fon of Hercules ^^s engcndred Hy\e : neither yet to mal^e account c/phy- larchiis who writeth^ that Bacchus was the firfl^ who from the Indians drave two becfes^ whereof the one woi named Apis, and the other Opis ; Ihat Sarapis is the •proper name of him who ruleth and embelifljeth the univerjal 'jvorld^ and is derived of the word Sairein, which fomefay^ fignifieth as much as to beautifie and adorne. For thefebe Jbfurd loies delivered by Phvlarchus : but more monfirous nndfenftlefs are their ahfurdtties who write^ that Sarapis is no ^od^ hut that it is the coffin or fepulcher of Apis that is fo called : as alfo that there be certain two leaved brafen gatesin Memphis, hearing the names of Let\ie and ^o- cytus, thatii to fay ^ oblivion and wailing^ which being fet €ipen when they enter and bury Apis, in the opening mak^ a great U'md and rude noife ; which is the caufe that we Uy hand upon eve-y copper or hrafon veffelwhen it refoundr eth fo, to fiay the ncife thereof. Jet is there m^re apparence ^f truth andreafonin thsir opinicn^ who hold that it was
derived
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deriHeduf theje verbs ffivi^ a^d (r» move 5 as being that wtinh moveth the wh'jte jrame of the world. The prjef^s of the mo(i ^art bold , that Sara pis is a word comfowidtdo] Opis andk^n together^ giving ihh expofition withail., and teachi?i)i us^ that we ought to believe Apis to he an elegant image of the foul oiOp'is, For mine ovpHpart^ if Sarapis be an Egyptian name^ I fu^pofe rather that it hetckeneth joy and mirth : An i I ground wy conjedure upon thtt , that the ^ilgyptians ordi- ttarily caO the feafiofjo^ and gladnejfe termed among the Athenians Ch^rmofynaj^^ the name Pi'aro himklf faith, that Hadg which ftgnffieth PlutOjic- ing the [on of 'E/J^o?, that is to fay^ of (hawefalineff'e, ho* nour and rever^nce^ is a ntilde and gracious godio thofe who are toward him. And very true it iS:,tbat in the JEi.yp- tians lan^uage^ many other proper names are fignificant and carry their reafon with them : as namely that infernal place under the earth , into which they imagine ths foules of the dead do de(cend after the\ be departed -,, they call A- menthes, which term is as much t fay^ as takjng and gi- ving,hui whether this vpordhe one ufthofe^ which in old time camecutofG recce and were tranjpO' ted thither j we will conftder and difcujfe better hereafter : Ncw\or this pre fent!, let us profecute that which rentaineth of this opinion now in band. For Eugcnius and Beat a 0/ good Demons were tranflated into the number of the gods : And as for thepuif- fanceofUyhoppreffedandqueUed^ howhe it , panting as yet at the laft gafpy andjlrivingas it were with the pangs cf death > they have certain ceremonies and facrifices^^ to paci-^ fy and appeafe^ Other feads alfo there be again on the con* trary fide wherein they in JHlt over biniy debdfe and defame him what they can : Info muchy as men cf a ruddy colour tbey deride and mak^ of I hem a laughing- jioch^. And as for the inhabitants of Co'ptof^ they ufe at a certain feali to throw an Ajfe bedJhng down frem the pitch of an high rock>
kecauje
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becaufe Hylc was rudd) and of a red Ajjes colour, tbe BufiricantsawffLycopolitcs forbear to found any trum" fetSy becaufe they refenthle the braying of an Ajfe : and generally they tak^ an Ajfe to be an unclean heafl and damo' tiically for the refemhlance in hier» that it hath xcith him: and when they mak^ certain eakfs in their facrifcesofthe moneths^ Payni^iw^Phaophi, theywor)^ them in Pjiflry mth theftintn^onthemof an Ajfe bound. Alfo in their folemn facrifice to the Sm^ they command as many as will he there to wor[bif that god^ not to wear any brooches or jewels of gold about their bodies^ nor to give any meat or fro- vender unto an Affe what need foeverhe have thereof. It feemetbalfoy that the Pytliagorians themfelves were ofo- finiony that Hyle was fome Fiend or V^monicall ^ower : for they fay that Hyle was borne in the even number of fix and fifty : again^ that the triangular number or figure^ is ibe puijfance of Pluto, Bacchus and Mars: of the quader^ mgle^ isthefower 0/ Rhea, Venus, Ceres, Vcfta, andfw no : 7hat of twelve Angels helongetb to the night of Ju- piter; hut that of fifty fix Angel is the force of Uyk^asEvL- doxus hatb left in writing. But the Egyptians (uppoftng that Hylc was of a Reddijh colour ^ doe hill for facrifice unto hiniy Kine and Oxen of the fame colour ^ obferving withall Joprecifefyy that if they have but one haire blacky or white^ they be not facrificeable : for they think, fueh facrifices not iKceftable, but contrariwife diffleafant unto the gods^imd- giningthey be the bodies which have received the joules of lewd and wicked perfons^ transformed into other creatures. And therefore after they have curfed the bead offuch a fa^ €rificej they cut it off and cad it into the river ^at leaji waies in old time : but now they give it unto firangers. But the Ox which thfy mean to jacrifce indeed, the Priejis called Sphragiflae, rfc/if is to Jay ^ the f eater s^ come and marks it ypiih their jeal^ which as Caftor writethj was the image of amankrieeliri^, with his hands drawn b'ack^ and bound be- -' ■ ^ binde
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nnde him^ andhaving a Sword Jet to his throat : Sembla- }iy tbey uje the name of an Affe alfo^ as hith been [aid, fur lis uncivill rndeneffe and injolemy^ no lejfe than in regard fbiscoloufy wherein be refembleth Hylc; and therefore he Egyptians gave unto Ochus a King of the Perfians v^om tbey hated above all others ai wofi cur fed and ahom* lable^ the ftrname of Af[e : Whereof Odam being advert \ifed and fajing withall j this Affe (hall devours your Ox; taufedfrefently their beef A f is to be killed and facrificedy as Dinon hatbleft in writing. As for tbofe whofay^ that Hylc after he bad lo(i the field^fted fix dayes journey u^on anA^e's hackly andhaving by this means efcaped^ begat two fonSf Hicrofolymus and Judaeus: Evident it is herein that they would draw the (lory of the Jews into this. And thus muck of tbtallegorjcallconje&ures which this dM afford. B«t now from another head^ let us (^of thoje who are able to dif- conrfe foniewhat Fhilofofhycally and with reafon') confider firfi and formofl,fucb as dealwofi fim^l) in this behalf. And tbefe be tbey thatjay^ lih^ as the Greeks allegorize thai Sa- turn is time^ Juno the aire^ and the generation of Vul- can^fi the tranfmutation of aire intofire-^ even fo they give out that by Eu^cnius or Nature^ who lyetb and k^eet^etb company with Bcataj that is to fay^ the earth : 7hat Hylc is tbe fea^ into which Nilus fating loojeth bimfelf , and is differ fed here and there ^ unlejfe it be that portion thereof^ which tbe earth receivetb and whereby it is made f*rtill, Andufon the river Nilus there is a f acred lament atiouy ff- ven from the dayes of Saturn : wherein there is lamenting^ howNi\w% (fringing and growing on the left band, decat- etb and is lofion the right : For tbe ^Egyptians do tbinb^ , that tbe ea(i parts where the day affearetb^ be the forefount and face of tbe worlds that the North part is tbe right hand and tbe South fart tbe left, this Nilus therefore^ ariftng on tbe left band^ and loji in tbe fea on tbe right hand^ isjaid truly to have bis birth and generation in tht left fide^
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hut his death and corruption in the rigbt, Jud this ts the ' reafon vphy the ^riefis of JE^y^t have the fea in ahomma^ tioriy and term fait the fome and froth of Hyk. And a," nt^ng tbofe things jpbich are interdi^ed and forbidden ibis ^ isone^ that no fait beujed at the hoord'^ hy reajcn whereof they never falute any pilots orjailerSi for that they keep or- dinarily in the fea, and get their living by it. This alfo is one of the principal caufes^ why they abhor f^es\ infuch fort as when they would defcribe hatred^ they draw or purtray afjfl?: like as in the porch before the temple o^ Minerva within the city Sd\y there was purtrayed and engraven, an t infant^ an old mamafter them a Falcon or fome fuch Hauky ^ and do fe thereto a fi(b^ andlaflofali ariver-horje : which ; HieroglypbickSjdoefymbolize andftgnifie thus much in effeU: ^ O all yea that eonte into the world and go out of it: Cod \ hateth (hameleffe injfiflice- For by the ba^uk^e they underfland.\^ God, by the fifh hatred^ and hy the river -horfe impudent vio* ii lenceandvilanyy becaufeitisfaidthathe kflletb bis father and after that^ forceth his own mother and covereth her* \ jindfentblabl^ it fhould feem^ that ihi/aying of the Pytha-^ li gorians, whogive out^^thattbeSeaisa tear of Snutti^ under covert words do mean^ that it is impure and umlean* Thus have I been willing by the way to alledge thus ntuchy although it be without the train of out deftgn^ becaufe they fall within the compafje of a vulgar and common received hi" ftory. But to return to our matter : thefriefts as many as be of the wifer and more learned fort, under ft and by Eugc- nius 3 not only the river Nilus, andhy Hylc ibe fea : but alfo by the former, they fignifie in one word and fimply, all vertue and power that produceth moisture and water, tah^ tng it to be the material caufe of generation, and the nature generative oj feed : and by Hyle th"} reprefent all deficca^ iive vertue ^ all heat of fire and drineffe, as the very thing that is fully oppofite and adverfe to humidity: and hereupoa it is^ that tbey holdUylc to beredofhalre^ and of fkjnyel'-^
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^09 1 and hy tbe fame tea fjn they wiStngly would not en^ loH'^ter or meet u^on ihe way men ofthathiew, no nor dc igbt to p a\ unto fuob ContrariMiife the) feign Eugeni- us to be of a black cdour^hecaufe all wft^^r^rauf*th the earthy Uothes and clonrds to apoear Mack rvitb nhicb it is mimled. 4I{. ihe moifitii' that ts in young foit^ wak^'tk ^hei* haire Ulaci^'y bu! gnflgd hoarjn^ffe. which feemeh to be a fah \:tllou>^ Cometh by reaf on (J^ ftccity unto thoje who bepafi \.heir fiowtr^and now in th it dechnmg agei aljo the Spring lime is greeny frefb^fleafmt and generative : hat the latter y-eafjn of Autumne^ for want of moiflure, is an enemy to *lantSy and breedetb diieajes in man and heafl,
Jo [peak, alfo of that Ox or Beef named M f ks^t and nourifhed in Go^m at the common charges oj be City^ confecrated unto En genius, and which jeme jay^ pas the Sire of Apis; blacky be is of haire^ and boncuredin tfeconddgree after ^ph. Moreover^ the whole land of E^ypt » of all others exceeding black^^ fucb a black I mean^ s that is of the eye^ which they call Chcmiah, and they ikpi it to be ihe Heart ; for hotandmoifk it is , and en- lineth to the left and South parts of the earthy liiis as the teart lietb mofk to the left fide of a man. Iky affirtne tlfo , that the fun and Moon are not mounted upon cba- lots, but within bar dges or boats continually do move and aile as it were round about the world ; giving us thereby overtly to undeidand^ that they be bred andnourifhed by mifiure. Furthermore^ they think 5 that Homer (like as Fhalca alfo") being taught out of the Egyptians Uarmmr^ loth hold and fet down this foftiion ; 7hat water is ihe E- 'ement and principle that engendreth aO things: for tle}> fly, that Eiigtn'nii is the Ocean, and Bfata Tc&yf^ as me would fay y the nurfe that fucksth and feeds th the whole world. For the Greekj ca II the e'jKulation or calling (ortb :f natural feed^ A^«trfre, like as the coijunQion of male ^nd female Stwv^-t*; bk^wife ijiof ^ which in G^etk^figni-
fietk
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••P 5 that is u fay ,
fietb a jofty IS derived of tbe word vJ'ap , that is to fay , water^ and vtreu betokemtb alfo ta rain. Moreover^ -Sar- z^bdtbey fHrnameV{y€9y as one would fay ^ the lord and ruler oft be moiHt nature 5 -and be is no other than iVfcrcury. Fttttbermorey fpbereas we pronounce his name E\igcniuSy futtetb it down Eugenius Thcodidaftus, Jaying^ that be heard tbe very friefts tbemf^hes of ^gypt to pronounce i> /(?• And thus verily calleth he the faid god in everyplace y ' not without good (hew ofreafon ^ having regard unto his na- ture and invention. But that Eugenius is the fame god, Tpbofhouldin allreafon better kjiow than your felf^confider' ing that in tbe city of Delphi you are tbe miflreffe and la- dy Frioreffej as it were of tbe religious Thyans, and from your infancy have been a votary and Nun confecratedbyyour father and mother to the fervice of Eugcniu*. But if in regard of others^ we muft alledge teSfimonieSylat us not med" die with their hidden fecrets 5 howbeit , that which the friers do in publicly when the inter Apis , having brought bis cor^s in a boat or punt, differetb not at all from the ce* remonies of Bicojs : for clad they be in fiags sh^ns^ they carr) javelins iu their bands^ tbey k^eep a loud crying^ and (hak^tigof their bodies very unquiet ly J much after the tnan- ner of thofe who are tranfported with the janaticalland fa- cred fancy of Bacchus. And what reajon elfefbould there he^ that wany nations of Greece pourtray the flatue of Bacchus with a buls bead> and the dames among tbe Elians in tbeir prayers and invocations do caQ unto bim^ bejeeching this ^d to come unto tbfm with his Buls foot / yea and tbe Argivcs commonly furname Bacchus, B u genes, v^/c& is as tvuch to fay , as the fon of a CoWy orengendred by a bull: and that which more is^ they invocate and call upon bim out 0fthe water with found of trumpet s^cafling into a deep gulfe^ a lambe^astotbe Portier^ under tbe name of Pyhochos. Their trumpets ihey bide within tbeir javelins^c ailed Thyr- > fi, according as Socrates hatb written in his hok^s offacred
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frtmonies. Moreoveety the litmical ads, and that iholey entier andfacred nighty accord with that which is fffortedas touching the d'tfmemhring o/Eugenius, and he refurreUion or renovation of his life : in like manery ^gfe matters which concern his burial. For the Egyptians ^w i*t fnany places the fepulchres of Eugenius : and the j}elphians think^^ theyhave the bones and reliques of Eac" bus among them^ interred and be ft owed neer unto the or it'* le : and his religious priefi celebrate unto him afecretfa^ rifice within the temple of Apollo, when the Thyades pho are the Priejirejfes begin to chaunt the f§unet [One of hefumames of Bacchus.] Licnites. Now that the Greeks ire of opinion^ that Bacchus « the lord andgovernour^ nor fwine liquor only^ but alfo of every other nature which if noifi and liquid^ the teftimony o/Pindarus isfufficient^ when he faith thus: Bacchus
Taking the charge of trees that grow. Doth caufe them for to bud and blow .' The verdure frefti and beauty pure Of lovely fruits he doth procure.
And therefore it U^ that thofe whoferve and worfhip Eu- genius are (ireightly forbidden and charged^ not to deftroy any fruitful tree, nor to flop the head of any Fount aine , And not only the river NiluSy but all water and 7mifture whatfoever in general ^ they call the effluence of Eu genius : hy reafon whereof ^ before their facrifices they carry alwaies inprocejjion a pot or pitcher of water ^ in honour of the f aid god.
Ihey defcribe alfo a kjng and the Southern or meridional climat of the worlds by a fig-tree leaf^ which fig-leaf fig^ nifieth the imbibition and motion of all things : andbeftdes^ it feemeth naturally to refemble the member of generation. Alfo^when theyfolemmze the feafi called Pamy litia^w^^/V/^
was
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was tnfiuuuditt the honour «/ PriapulTS^yX^r^ carry about m j^oceffioH an image orflatue, the genM member r^berecf, is thrice as tigg as 'the <>^dina^,rft rt2^ '^l/'^i" ^^'f^i^'^S of tit things, and ever. iucbfrmctfle^hygenerationmdtifliethitMf. Noro Jl are wont moreover to fay, rhrice, for many times , to 'wl afimte number for au infinite ; as r^hen we ufe the mrd
Z%T% "'f^T^'^i -if^ricehafp^^folmoiihany, and Three boms for infinite; unle(i peradventurethh Urnary of threefold number rt>as exprefy and properh cho-
^TrilT, Z'''^'' f "'^ ""*"'' 'f '««i?«^^ *«4 the . tnmpal that ^gendreth all things, from the beginning \
hath engendredtbefe three elements ».■ frimitive bodiet\
t.arth, nreand Fire, For that branch which is fet unto\ '
ZTV-^^^^^"^^""^ ''"^'"'t'^l member o/Eu?enius tntheK,ver, that^t^ucMnotfind it, but cau fed one
thereof ordatned that it fhould be honourei and carrtedmafolemne powpe ^tendeth to this, fo- toteachus, that the generative and produdive verue of god, had moi- ftureat thefirji for the matter, and by the n, humidity, was mixed with thofe things that were apt for generation Another branch there is yet ^ mowing to this, namely, that one Apopis brother to the Sun, warred a.
helped km to defen his enemy; in regard of which merit he adopted hm for his fon, and named him Oionyfus, that y to fay, Facchus. Nowthe Mutholoav of this, m it evidently appeareth, accordeth covertly, with the truth of Nature : for the JE^ptians call the winde, Jiipiter, unto •whichnothtng i, more contrary, thanficcity and that wbicS isfiry a„athattsmttheSm, although fome con fancui. ' nityzthath unto it : but moitlure comming to extinTuilh the extremity of that drine^, fortifieth and augment. rib thofe vapours, which murijh the wind and ksep
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tin force. Moreover^ the Greeks cortfecr ate the Ivy unto Jacchus, and the fa y.e is named among the JEgyftiam^ :henoiiris, rfibichword, Qas they fay) fignifieth in the Egyptian tongue^ the plant o/Eugenius ; at leaft wife \ni\oti who enrolled a colony of the Athenians, affirmetb hdt the light upon an Epijile 0/ Anaxarchus, r^herein he ■ound as much ^ ai alfo, that Bacchus was the fon of a mer nymph, Naias. Cther Egyptians alfo there be, vhohold^ tto Bacchus wai the fon (?/Beata, and that jewasmt calledjAercury^ ^wtArfaphes, in the letter Mpha, which word fignifieth prowefi or valour. And :hus much giveth Herma^us to underjiand, in ksfirfl book, >/ MgyVtian aas ; where he faith alfo that Eugenius by interpretation, is as much, as [ vCe/M©"] fioutor mighty. Here I forbear to aHedge MenafaSj, who referreth and ^i/cn^eri&«;/toEpaphus5 Bacchus, Eugenius, andS^- rapis, I overpafs AnticUdes likswife, who affirmeth, that EeztiL was the daughter o/Prometheus, and mar- Vied unto Bacchus. For the very particular properties that we have faid were in their feajis and facrifices, yeeld a wore deer evidence and proof, than any allegations of wit- Hejfeiwbatfoever, Alfo they hold, that among the ftars, thedogz or'^'ivwxswasconfecrate unto Beata, the which fiar draweth the water. And they honour the Lion, with whofe heads, and having the mouth gaping and wide open, they adorne the dores and gates of their temples, for that the river ]
cSo Coon as in the cTcle Zodiack, 0. ^- iThe Sun and Leo figne, encounter make.
And as.they both hold and agirme. NiUis to be the effluence of Eugenius^ even fo they are of opinion^ that the body of Beata is the earth or land oflE^y^t ; andyet not all ofit^ butfo much as Nilus overfloweth, and by commxtion -vah^ €th fertile and fruitful : of which conjun^m ^^O h'y
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that Or us was engendredy which is nothing elfe but the tevHperature and difpofition of the aire^ murijhing and maintaining aU things, Iheyfayalfo^ that this Orus wa> nourijhed within the Mores neer unto the City Butus, by thegoddefs Latcna ; for that the earth being well dren- chedandwateredy bringeth forth and nourijheth vapour s^ which overcome y extinguijh^ and reprefi (nothing fo much) great ficcity and drynefs. furthermore^ they call the mar^ ches and borders of the land^ the confines alfo of the coafts Tfphich touch the fea, Nephthys : and this is the reafon yphytheyname'^ti^\it\\Y$^ Teleutxa, that is to fay ^ final 9rlaft'^ and fiy that fhe was married unto Tyiphon. And whenN'ilusbreakethout and overtuneth his banJ^s, fo^ as be approachetb thefe border s^this they call the unlawful con^ junbion or adultery of Eugen'mSy Nephthy?, the which is k^own by certain plants growing there ^ among which is the Melilot : by the feed whereof^ faith the tale^ when it was floe d and left behinde^ began Hyle to perceive the wrong that was done unto him in his mariage. And hereupon they fayy that Onis was the legitimate fon of Ins ^ but Anubis was borne by NciphthY^ in bajiardy. And verily in the fucceffion of kings they r^cor^ Nephthys w;zrr/V^ unto Hvle, to have been at firfi barren. Now if this be not meant of a woman^ but of agoddefs^ they under jl and under thefe enigmatical fpeechtSy aland altogether barren and unfruitful^ byreafonof hardnefs and jliffe folidity. The lying in wait of Hyle to (nrprife Eugenius^ his ufurped rule and tyranny^ is nothing elfe but the force of drinks ^ which was very mi^hty^ which difftpated alfo and fpent all that humidity that both engendreth and alfo en^ creafeth Nil'is to that heighth As for that ^een ofJE" thiop'a, who came to aid and afftiihim^ fljebetoheneth- the Southerly winds comming from Ethiopia ; for wheti thefe have the upper hand of the Etefian windes^ which blow from the North^ and drive the clouds into iEihiopia, and
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\1) hinders thofejhowers and gluts ofraine which pwre out if the clouds^ and make the river Nilus tofi^el : then Hyle ■hat is to fay J drouth^ is faid to win the better^ and to nirnuv all'-, and fo havm^ gotten themajiery clean of Nilus, wha by reafon of his weak^efs and feeblenefs^ is driven in^ and forced to retire a contrary way ^ he chafeth him J poor and low into the fea . For where. }i it is faid^that fEugeaius was (hut fajl within an ark^or coffer ^ there is no ^ther thing fignified th&rehy^ but this departure bachj)fthe tpater and the hiding thereof within the fea : which is the caufe alfo^th-attheyfay^ Engzaiwswent out of fight ^ in the moneth, Athyr, and was no more feen j at what time ai when all the Etefian windes are laid and given over to 'hloWy Nilus returneth into his chanell^ leaving the land- iifcovered and bare. And new by this time as the night groweth long^er^ the darkjiep encreafeth , like as the force of the light doth diminifh and is impaired: and then the Ipriefts among many other ceremoniei^ teftifying their fad" 'nefs and beavie cheere^ bring forth and JJjew a be^ with 'golden homes J whom they cover all over with a fine vaile of black, filk^^thereby to reprefent the heavy dole and mourn* inj; of the goddefsforEugen'ms : (for thus they thinh^^ that the faid beef is the image of Eu^enius ; and the veftment of blacl^aforefaidy tejiifying the earthy dotbfig^ nifie Beata ) and thisfhew exhibit they {our daies tog^her, to wity fro^2 the feventh imto the tenth fotowtrig ; And \why1 Foure things there be for which they mak^ demcm-^ ifirationof grief and forrow: the firii is th^ river Nikis, \ for that he fcemeth to retire and faile: the fecondarethe North-winder^ which now are hufljt and ftil/y by reafon of the Southern winds ^ that >^aine the mailrie over them : the '. third is the day^ for that now it waxsth (hortcr than the I night : and lajl of ally the difcoverin^ and nak^dnefs of the earthy together with the deve\ling of threes ^which at ihe^ver) [am tim begin tojhed and bf^ their U^vei, After
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tbisy npn the ninteenth day at nighty they go down to the feafidcy and then tbepricjis revefied in their facred Stoics anJ habits^ carrie forth with them^ a confecrnted cheft^ wherein there is a vejjellofgoldy into which they ta}\e and: If fowrefrcjh and potable water 5 and with thatj all thofe ' who are prefentyfct tip a note and Jhout^ as if they had fovnd Eugenius ^^/ri/7 : then they take a piece of fatty fertile earthy and together with the water ^ knead and worli it into a pajje^ mixingthercwith moft precious odors ^ J?erfumes and fpices^' whereof they maJ^ a little image in • forme of the Aloon croiffant^ which they deck^v^ith robes •» and adorne^fljewing thereby evidently that they tak^ thefe ' gcds to he the fubfiance of water and earth,
7hf:s when Ee:[t2 had recovered Eugenius, nourifhed Orus, and brought him up to fome growth^ fo that he now became ftrengtbned and fvrtifi&d^ by exhalation^ vapors^ II rnijls a -^id clouds, Hyie verily was vanquifhed^ hcwbeit ^ not fain^ for that the goddefs^ which is the lady of the ^ earthly would not permit and fuffer^ that the power or na^ ture which is contrary unto 7noijture^ fl>ould be utterly a- tolifi^ed: only jhe did flacl^en and let down the vehement ' force thereof^ willing th.it this combat and jirife fhould'^ Jiill continue •, becaufe the world would not have been entire '! and perfed^ if the nature of fire had been once extin^ and ' I gone. Andifthis goe not currant among them^ there / m reafon and probability, that any one fl:ould prcjed thii fiffertionalfo^ namely^ that Uy\e in times pa ft overcaffteA one part of Eugenius ; for that in old time^ Eqypt wa$^ fea : whereupon k is ^ that even at this day ^ within the^.^ w nes wherein men dig for mcttals^ yea^ and among the mount aines^ there is found great ft ore of fea fifh. Lik^wife^ ' all the fcuntaines^ wells and pitsQ and thofe are many in ' number ) carry a brackffh^ faltifh^ and hitter water ^ as iff fome rttnnant cr refdue of the old fea were refe)^ed^ i^hich ran thither, ■ lut inprtCefs of time^ Oi'U? fubdued ' I
H>ie,
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ylc, that is to fay, n^ben the feafonahle rame came^ hich tempered the e^KCeJ^ve heaty Nil us expelled and ave forth thefea^ difcovered the champion ground^ and 'led it continually more and more by new deluges and in^ idationsy thatlaidfmewhal ftill unio it. And hereof ^ ■e daily experience is frefented to our eiesjfor we perceive I en at this day^ that the overfiowes and rifmg of the nver ingingnew mud., and adding frejh earth ftill by little Hd little^ the fea giveth place and retireth : and as the ep in it is filled more andmore^ fo the fuperfici;s rifeth gherj by the continual Jhelves that the Nile cafts up^ • which mean , thefea runneth backward ; \ ea^ the very 7^ Pharos, which Uomcv k*iew by his daiesto liefarr itbin thefea^ even a daies failing from the continent and rmelandofEs^y-pt, is now a very part thereof: not for at it removed and approached neerer and neerer to ths nd ; but becaufe the fea which was between, gave place "Oo the river that continually made new earth with the ud that it brought, and fo maintained and aupnented e maine land. But thefe thifigs refevihle very neerey *e 7heolo^icall interpretations that the Stoickj ^give out ^ r the) hold, that the fr^enerative and nutritive Spirit, ii acchus; but that which ftriketh and divideth,is Her- iles ; that which receiveth^ is Ammon , that which Hrtth and pierceth into the earthy is Cer^s and Prefer- ina ; and thzt which doth penetrate farther and pafs mow the fea, is NepCime. Oth-^rs^ wh) 7mngle afnong dtural caufes and reafons^ foms drawn froyn the Mathe* ck^y and principally from Afhology, thinly thjitP^yleis fe Solar circle or fphjere of the Sun ; and that Eugenius t^«t of the Moon ; inafmuch as the Moon hath agenera* 'Ve and vegetable light., multiplyingthatfweet and com* irtahle moiftnre which is i fo meet for the generation of h'ing creatures^ of trees and pla^s ; but the Sun having^ 'iit apurefiryfimf i^de$d without any mxture cr re* ~d^ batmcnt
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batementataH^ heateth and drieth that which the earth hring&ihforth^yea^ and rphatfoeva is verdant and in the flower ', infonmchy as by his inflamation he caufeth the greater part ofthe earth to be wholly defert and inhabita- ble, and many times fuhdueth the very Moon, And there ^ /(?r^rJ[?t' Egyptians evermore name riyle^ Seth, which is as much to fay, as ruhng lordly, and ofprejftng with violence. And after their manner they \ay,that Hercules , mn'T as it were vpoH the Sun, goeth about the world with » hhn t and Moraine lik^ip with the Moon : byreafon^\ whemfjhewGr]^and effetls of the Moon refemble ihofe\i aas which are performed by eloquence and wifdome : but^ thofeof the Sun are compared to fuch as he exploited by^ force andpi^ance. And the Stoickj fay, that the Sun is .( ^li^hted andfet on fire by the Sea, and therewith nourifijed: H bu^theybethe fountains and lakes which fend up unto the\\ Moon a milde, fweet and delicaU vapour, 7he Egyptians fay that the death of Eu^emushapned on the f event eenth
d^v of the moneth,^on which dayM^^ ^^'^^ ^'^^'^ ^^y ^^^^^' iheis md-ed to be at the full : and this is the reafon vfhy 'the Pythagoreans call this day. The obftniaion, and of all other number sihey mofiof abhor and deteft it : for ■ :iphereasf:xteen is a number quadrangular or four-fquare, and eighteen longer one way than another ; which nuyibe>^ OH^lv ofthofe that be plain, happen for to have the amlzent wiitiis, that environ them equal to the f faces cont aim iv ^nd comprehended within them ; feventeen^ which falleth between, feparateth and dis'ioineth the one from the other, and heinrr^cut into unequal intervals, diilra^eth the prjr- tortion jifiuio^ave. And feme there be who fay , thxi • ^uotnim lived, cthersthat he reigned, eight and twenty \ years ' forfo many lights iheir be of the Moon, and fo : 7nnn)> daies doth (he turne about the Earth : and therefore, ' in thofe ceremonies which they call the fepulture of Euge- ^ius. theymapee€e
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rcafemmanmrofthe Uooncroiffant, fcrthatasjhecp^ .rcachethneertotbefuK,phcomexhpmtedafdcorn^^^^^
■ntiU in the end JJ:e come to mxhingy and is no moreleen. 4ndasfor the dtfmnnhring of Eugenius into fourteen mcei, theyfirrnifie unto us u.der the covert vaile of tbefc mdsl the daies wherein th:faid planet ism the -i^ane, ■'nddecreafetk even unto the change, whenjhe n renewed. \x^in And that day on which jl.e firft appeareth, by \afflHghandefcafing\heraiesofthe Sun, thej caUan inperfeagood: for Eng^emns is adoerofgood: nndtbis Imefgketh many things, hutpriHCylly an acnveand beneficial power, as they fay: and as for the other name )niphis;Herni^us faith, that it betoKeneth as much as a enefaaour. Alfo, they are of opinion, that the ufngi md inundations of the river m^is, anfwex in preportion .) tht courfe of the h'ioon : for the greatejl heigth that it '■■rowethunto in the countrey E\tphannnc, is aghtand iwenty cubits -, for fc many illuminations there be.or daies, \-i everx revolution of the Mgon : and the lowejl gagea^ 'out Mendes a^i^ Xois, 'fix cubits, which anfwereth to •h" firit quarter : but the mean between, about the City ilemphis, when it isjufl at the full, Cometh to fourteen ■uhits, correfpondent to the full Moon. 7hey hold moreover^ ipistobethe lively image of Eugeiiius, and that he is n^endred and bred at what ti:r:e as the generative I ight^ >'efcend€thfrom the Won and toucheth the Cow defirous t.^ he male : and therefore Apis refmhkth the formes of the Aoon, having many white fpots ohfcured and darkened rith thejhadowes of black, And this is the reafon, why they demnize a feajlinthe new Moon of the monetb Phanic- KOtb, which they call the m^reffe orenterance of Euge- {wx'i^tothe Moon-, and thisis thebeginning ofthe\Spring
(eafonx andtbustbey put the power of Euq^riius in the \llofiH, rheyfayalfo. that Be^tz( which is no other thing ut generation ) hetk with him 5 and [^ they nr^ tl^
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M&otty Mother of the world] faying^ that fl:e is a douhk nature^ male and female: female ^ in thatjhe doth conceivt , andisyeplenifhedhytheSiin: and male ^ in this regard^' that fhe fendeth fonh and fprink^eth in the aire^ the feedi and frinciples of generation : for that the driedijkmpera^ ture and corruption of Hyle, is not alwaies fnperior^ but oftentimes vanquijhed by generation ^ and kowfotver tied it he) and bounds yet it r'tfetb frefl) agaiit^ and fighteth a^ gainfi Orus, who is nothing elfe but the terrejirial wcrld^ which is not altogether free ftem corruption^ nor yet ex* empt from generation, Others there be^ who would have all thi s IPhy I ofofhy covertly to reprefentno ether thing but the eccHpfes ; for the Moon is ecclipfed, whenflje is at .\ the full directly oppofite to the Sun^ and comnteth to fall \ 7ipon the (hadow o\ the earth : like as they fay^ Eu genius was put into the chefi or coffer above f aid. On the other fide^ , (hrfeemeth to hide and darken the light of the Sun^ upon ' certain thirtieth daiesybutyet doth not wholy abolifh thefun^ 710 more then Beata doth kjH Hyle, but when Nephthys ( Iringeth forth AnubiSjBeata pnttethherfelfht place: for '^ Nephthys is that which is under the earth and unfeen ; hut Beata that which is above ^ and appeareth unto us : and the circle named Horizon^ which is comryjontothem bothy and parteth the two hemifph£resy is named Anubis, and i inform refemlleth a dog : for why ? a dog feeth afwell by nfght as by day: fo that it Jhould feem^ that Anubis a^ ,mong the i^qyptians hath the lil^e power that Proferpina among thg ferecks, being both tirrepial and co^lefiial. Others there b9y who think,., t^^r Anubis;.? Saturn, and hecaufe he is conceived with all things^ and bringetb them forth ^ which in Greeks the word n^vav fignifieth ^ there* pre he is (urnamed li'juv, that is to fay^ a dog. So that there is fome hidden and mypcd feet et in it^ thatcaufetk fomey eveuftiil to reverence and adare a dog \ f$r the time ^^Sy v^hm mor^ worpp wu$ dme tmto it in iEgypf, than
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to any other beafi 'j hut after that Cambyfes had lulled Apis cut hint in pieces, and flung the fame here and there^ mother creature would come neertQtafte thereof^ favethe \dogonly'^ whereupon he luji that prerogative and pre^ eminence to be more honoured than other beajb there are^ who would have the fl^adow of the earthy which caufeth the Moon to be eccUpfed when fie entreth into it^ to he named Uy\e. And therefore me thinhj^ it were 'not a-^ miijs to fay ^ that in particular there is not any one of thefe ycxpoftions and inter p eta t ions per fe Pi by it feif and right y \hut all of them together carry fame good conjlrudion : for ^it is neither drought alone^nor winde^' nor fta^ nor yet darkc \nefs ; but all that is noifome and hurtful whatfoever^ and which hath (t fpecial part to hurt and deftroy^ is called Hyle, Neither muft we put the principles of the whole eWorld into bodies that have no life andfoule^ ^^Democri- !tus/z« man andframer of thefirft matter ^ a certain reafon and providence^ without quality ( as do the Stoickj ) fucb a. Ithing as hath a fihfijlence before and above ally and com- wandeth all : for impoffhle it is^ thit onefole caufe^ good crbad^ fiouldbe the beginning of all things together ; for God is not thecaufe of any evilly and the coagmentationof the world bendetb contrary w aye s^ like as the compofition pf a lute or bow ^ as Heraclicus pit^5 and according to Euripides,
No things can be by thenifelves 5^00 J or bad ; Thac things do well, a mixture muft be had.
And therefore this opinion fo very antient ^ is dcfcenJed /row Theologians ^^i Lawgivers z/wto Poets and phi- iJofopher?, read^ The Idea ot' the La\y, howbeit^ fa \firmely grounded in the perfwafion and belief e of men^ that hard i$ istofupfrefs or abolifh the fame j fo commofi- \ly divulged not only in conferences^ difputations^ f^nd or^
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diftaryfpecches abroad^ hut alfo in the ifacrifices and di-
vine cerentomes of gods fcr vice ^ in viany places^ as well a-'
inong t/?^ Barbarians as Greeks, to wit^ that neither this
fporid floteth and warneth at adventure j without the go-
vernnte?tt of providence and reafen^ nor rea[on mly it is
ihaXgtiideth^ direcieth^ and holdeth it C as it were-) with Wlf
Cert/^in helm^s or hits of oheifance^ hut many things there g||
he con fu fed and mxedj good and had together : or to ffea\
7nors plainly J there is nothing here heneath that nature
froduceth and hringeth forth y which of it f elf is pure and
frmple : neither is there [one drawer of two tum^ to dij- '
perfe and difperfe and difirihute abroad the affaires of this
'world Ji}{e as a iaverner or Vintner doth his wines or otheT
liquors^ brewing and tempering one with another. Bnt
this life is conduced by two principles and powers adverfe \
cnci0U another '-i for theoneleadetousto the right hand
dire&ly-, rf^-^Tlie Holy Guide, the other contrariwife
turneih us afide and putteth ui hac\ : and fo this life is
mixtj and the very world it fclf^ if not all throughouty,
yet at leaf} wife^ this beneath about the earth, and under
thehioon^ is unequally variable^ and fubjedto all wuta^
tions that poffihly 7nay he. For if nothing th^re is^ tha^
can he without a precedent caufe^ ayj that which of it
felf is good can never minijier caufe of tvili \ necejfary it
is^ that nature hath fomepeeuhr cavfe and' beginning by it
Ctlfj of good afwell as of bad. And ofth'n opinion are the.
'i^ojl part of the ancients^ and thofe of the wiftj} fort . For
fjme thtnkjhere he tyro godi as it were of* a contrary my'
fiery and prof efflon •, the one^ author of all good thing;^
and the other of bad. Other', there be who call the bettei
(pf thewgod ; a^i^ the other Vdemon^ that is to fay ^ divsll^
as Zoio-dWres the Magician didy who by report^ wasfivci
thoufanJ yeers before the warr of Troy. Ihis Zoro-
aftrcs ( J fay") named the good gcd Oromazes, and th{
0hcv Anmanius. Moreover^ he hv-e out^ ihat the cj
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•efemhied lights mn than any fenfihle thing etfe what- oever : the other dark^fs and ignorance : alfo that\ there i on the ntids between them^ named With res : (and here" if on it is^ thatthePet^^nscalian intercejjhr or wedia- -or J Mithres.)He teacheth us alfo to facrifice nnto the oneofthenty for petition of gwd things^ and for than^ef- 'living : hut ts the other ^ for to divert and turne away f.nifter and evill accidents^ 1 o which furf of e they nfed to iiantp in a mrter a certain herhe which they callQmmi, calling upon Pluto and the darkle fs : then temper they \itwith the blood of a i^oolfe which they have hilled in fa* crifice : this done^ they carry it away^ and throw it into a darl{e corner y where the Sumtever (Idneth, For this con- ceit they have^ that of herhes and plants^ fome appertain, unto the goodgcd^ and others to the evill V^fvon or diveV, Semblably ^ of living creatures^ dogs^ hirds^ and land urchins^ belong to their good god : hut thofe of the water y to the evill fiend » And for this caufe they repute thofe very .happy ^ who can hjll the greateft number of them. How- hit thefe Sages and wipnten report many things of the gods : as for example^ that Qromazes is engendred of the cleerefl and pureft lights and Arimanius of deep dark^ ncfs : alfo that they warre one upon another. And the for' rier ofthefe^ created fix other gods ^the firft of Benevolence*^ the fecend of Verity ; the third of good difcipline and pub" [ich^Law % and of the reft behinde^ one of Wifdo7>ie^ ano" ^her of Riches y andthefixth, which alfo is the laft^ the mah^r of jcy for good and honeff deeds. But the latter^ that is to fay^ Arimanius produceth as many other in num^ her^ concurrents as it were and of adverfe operation to the former above named. Afterwards when Gromazes ^ad augmented and amplified himfdf three times^ he re" moved as far fr67n the Sun^ as the Sun ii diftantfrom th^ "Earth, adoring and em^elillnng the Heaven with ftari%_ : md one Star above the reji he ordained to he the ^uide^ '* ' mijiefsy
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ntijlrefs^ and over feer of them ally to mt^ Siring that k to fay y the Dogge-jiar, Then after he had made four and twenty other gods^ he enclofed them all with in an egge. But the other^ brought forth by Arimaniiis^ who were alfo in equal number^ never ceafed untill they had pierced and made a hole unto the faid fmooth and folijhedegg? : andfo after that^ evil things became mingled pell melt with good. But there mil a time come prede (lined fat ally y when t^i^Arimanuis who brings into the world plague and famine^fhall of neceffity be rooted out, and carried throvigh flefh to the eternity ^ even by them \ and the earth Jhall become plain^ (ven^ and uniforme : neither Jhall there be any other but one life^ and one common- wealth of men^ all happy andfpeakjngone and the fame language. Theopom- pus alfo writethy that according to the wife Magi, thefe two gods mufl for three thou f and yeers^ conquer one after another^ and for three thoufand yeers he conquered again hy turnes : and then for the fp ace of another three thoufanct yeerSy levey mutual warres^ and fight battels one againfi the other y whiles the one Jhall fubvert and overthrow that which the other hath fet up : untill in the end Pluto/;/?// fainty give over, and be again an Angel of Light : then Jhall men be all in happy efiate^they jhall need no mere food^ mr caji any /hadoKff from %^rm'y and that god wh^ hath wrought and affected aL ihs^ Jhall repofe himfelf^ andreji in quiet y not long ( Ifay ) for a god-, but a moderate timo as one would fay for a man takjng his fleep and reji, Jndihus much as touching the Fhylofophy dcvifed by the Theonwgio. B? ^odsy whom they call flanets or wandring fiam^^ two there he that are beneficial and dooers of good ^ two again wifchievous and workers ofev'dl \ and thrSe which are of a mean nature and common. As for the opnion of the Greeks, concerning this pointy there is no man I fupp9fe ignorant thereof: namely^ that there he twopirtiom or
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parts of the worlds the one good^ allotted unto Jupiteu 01ympiu?5 tib^tiitepTjS Cekfud -^ another body apper- taimngto9\nto infernal, Ihey fay moreover^ that the gc^^^p Harmania, thatistofay^ accord^ was engendred of Mars and Venus : ofwbont^ the one k cruelLgrm^and quarrsllous ; the other ntilde^ lovely^ and generative. Kow confidcr the Hilofofhers themfelves^ how they agree herein : For HcracHtiis dire^ly and difcrtly nam\ih warre^ the father^ Kuig^ and Lord of all the world j fay'mg^ that komer whenhevpijhetha*idpraieth^
Both out of Heaven and Earth to banifh warrc^ That God and Men^ no more might be at jarre.
Wifi: >tot how ( erre he was aware ) he curjed the gemration and prodiidion of all things ^ which indeed have their effeuce and being by the fight and antipathic in nature. He was ignorant that the Sun would not pafs the byundi and limits appointed unto him ; forotherwife the furies and ^u rjed tongues which are the rnwifireffes and coadjutrejfei pfjuftice would find him out. As for EnipedocJes^ he faith ^ that the beginning and principle which worketb goody is love and amity ^ yea^ and other whiles is called iifirntonie byKitYO^s : but thecaujs of evilly
Malice, hatred, cankred fpight, Quarrellj debate^ and bloody fight.
Cqme" now to the PythagoreanSj they dewonftrate and ^ecifie the fayne by 7nany names^ for they call the good pincipky one^ftnite^pennanenty or quiet ^flraight or direif^ odde^quadraty or fquare^ right andii^htfomei but the hady tw.tiny infinite^ ntovi^g^ crooked^ fvof^ longer cm V^aythan another ^ unequal y left and dut}i^i as if thefe :fferet}fefQ}intaines of generation. AnaKagoras calfe4h
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them the minde or undcrflandrng and infinity, .^ri- ftotle termeth the one forme , the other privation^ And Phto under dark§ TtioHy inmany places calleth the former of thefe two con* traryprincipfesy The fame, and the later y The other. But in the the hookes of his laws^ which he wrot when he was new well fieptinyeen^ he giveth them no more any ohfcure an^l amhiguom names y neither defcviheth he them fymho" tically and by enigmatical and intricate names, but in proper and plain termes, he faith^ that this work^ is not moved and managed by one fole caufe^'Mt haply by many, or at leafl wife no fewer than twain ; whereof the one is the creator and worh^r of good^ the other oppofite unto it and operative of contrary effects. He leaveth alfo and alloweth atkirdcaufebetween^ which is neither without foule nor reafonlefs nor yet nnmoveaMe of it felf, asfome think^^ hut adjacent and adherent to the oth^r twain^howbeit enclining alwaies to the better, as having a defire and appetite thereto^ which it purfueth and followeth, as that which "hereafter we will deliver, Jhaltfhew more ^tanifeftly^which treatife (hall reconcile the JEgyptianlheologie with th(? Greeks Fhilofophy, and reduce them to a very good con^^ cordance : for thitt th.ege}urat}on,C4mpofttion, and con' fiitrnion of this world is mingled of contrary powers, how* Beit th^ fame not of equal force : for the better is predomi" nant ; but impo.pk it h that the evilljjjould utterly perijh and he aboU (bed, fo deeply is it imprinted in the body and fofarinhredinthe foule of the univerfal world, in op- pofttion 'jl^ves to the better^ and to wnrre a^ainfi it, Konf then,in the foule, reafonand midcrfiajidir^, which is the guide, andmiflrcCiofall the bejl tht^cj,^ isEugzniv.s. Alfo in the earth, inth: -^'ndes, inwr^U?, skje find the^ (lars, that which is wcllorcl^^ned, (lalcd, d'tfpQfed and digeiled in good fort, by temperate fi^fons and revolutions^ the fame is called the defiuxioH of Eugenius, and the very
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apparent image of him : Contrariwife \ the paffonaUy violent ^unreafonable^ brutijh^rajh andfoolijh fart of the fouie^ is^ Hyle. SemhUblyinthe bodily nature^ thatyphich is extraordinarily advantitious^ v^unhoi^ome and difeafed^ I as for example^ the troubled ayreand tempeftuous indifpo^ ' fitions of the weather^ the obfcuration er ecclipfe ef the I SuHy the defe^ of the Moon -and her occulation^ be as it ypere the excurfions^ deviations ou t of courfe^ and diffara-- ! tions : and alUf them be Hyles ; as the very interpret tation of the Egyptian wordfignifieth no lefs ; for HyJe they name Sethy which is as much to fayj as violent and cpprejptg after a lordly manner. It importeth alfo many I times reverfion^ and other whiles an infultation orfupplan^ tation. Moreover fo7ne there be who fay ^ that one of Hylcs familiar friends was named Peba^on. But Manechos affirmethy that Hyle himfelf was called J5ebon, which word by interpretation is as much as cohihition^ refireint or impeachment^ as if the puijfaxce and power of Hyle, were to flay and withftand the affaires that are in good way of proceedings and tend as they fljoulddoe^ to a good I end. And hereupon it is that of tame beafls they dedicate and attribute unio him^ the moji grofs and indocible of all others^ namely an affe \ lutof wildebeajh the moji cruell and fav age of all other s^ as the crocodiles and river^horfes As for the Lyon we havejpoken before of him^ In the city ^/Mercury^ namedVtigo^oYis^ they fljew unto us the image of H y 1 e^ pur traied under the form of a river-borfe^ upon whom fitteth an hauke^ fighting with a ferpent. By the f ore faidhorfe they repre Cent Hyle, and by the hau^e^ the power and authority which ^y\e having gotten by force^ mak^th no care oftentimes^ both to be troubled and alfo to trouble others by his malice , And theref&re when they fo - lemnize a facrifice^ the feventh day of the moneth Tibi^j which they call the comming 0/ Beata out <>/ Phoenicia^ they devife upon their hallowed cakes for facrificey a river^
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iorfe^ as if he were tied and bound. In the city of /Apollo the manner and aiftome confirmed by lavpwas^ that every cnemujl eat of a Crocodile ; and upon a certain day they have a folemne chafe and hunting of them ^ when they i^iU as many of them as they can^ and then caft thent all before the Temple I and they fay, that Hyle being become a Crocodile h.^th efcaped from Orus 5 attributing alt dangerofts wicked beafis^ all hurtful plants and violent fajltomimtoW)\c^asiftheywerehis wor^es^ his farts or TJiotions, Contrariwife theypurtray and depaint unto us Eugenius^)! afcepter and an eye upon it : meaning by the eye forefighi and providence^ by the fcepter authority and puiffancedik^ asHomernametb Jupiccrj^^^^*^ theprince^ lord and ruhr of all the world:Wyi^:xx.os^that is.foveraign^ and Me ft or, that is^ fore feeing ; giving us to under fiand, hyfoveraig^n^ his fupr erne power, by fore feeing his prudence and vifdome. Iheyreprefent Eugen-iis alfo many times by an hau\e^ for that (he hath a wonderful cleere and quicJ^ fight ^ her flight alfo is as fw if t^ and fhe is wont naturally tofujiain her felf with ifery little food. And more than that ( by report ) when fl.eflieth over dead bodies unhuried^ (he cafteth would and earth upon their eyes. And lod^ 7vhenfoevcrfhe jiieth down to thS" river for to drinke flje fttteth up her feathers fir aight upright^ but when Jhe bath drunks fl)e I a-ieth them plane and even again^ by which it appearetb tlxitfafe f^ye island hath efcaped the Crocodil e: Tor if the Crocodilep?T^ upon her and catch her up^ her pennache ahideth \{iff and upright asbefo-e: But generally throughout where facver the image of Eugcn\u$ is exhibited inthe fo tne of a rn^n^ they purtray him with the natural Taemher of generation iiiff and ftraight^ prefiguring thre- hy the generative and nutritive ve: tue. Ihc kabiliwent alfo^ wherewith they clad his images is bright^ (hining lii^e fire : For they repute the funne to be a body repre^ feming the pgwir of goedf^ffiy as luring the yifible matter
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fa ffirituaf and inteCCecluall fubflance. And therefore beir opinion deferveth to be rejeded who attribute unto lyle thefphare of the Sun^confxdering that unto him pro^ triy appertaineth nothing that is refplendent^ healthfull nd Comfortable^ no difpofitiony no generation or motion^ ?bich is ordered with me a fur e or di^efied by reafon : But f either in the aire or upon the earth there be any unfeafo- able difpofition of windes^ of weath^^or water ^ it hap* eth when the primitive caufe of a difordinate and inde^ erminate pwer commeth to extinguijh the hjnde vapours nd exhallations, Moreo ver in thefacred hymnes of Euge- lius, they htvocat't and c (ill tipon him who lieth atrepofe nddeH within the armes of the Sun, Alfo upon the thir- iethdayofthe moneih Epiphi^ they folemnize the jeafi fthe nativity or birth of Orius eyes : at what time as the \Hn and Moon be in the fame direct line : as being per-' waded that notmely the Moon but the Sun alfo is the eye '.nd light of Horns : Likswife upon the twenty eight day f the moneth Ph^o^i they celebrate another feaji of the iunnes bafons or flaves^ and that is after the Equinox: n Aututnne, giving covertly thereby to underfland^ that he Sun hath need of an appuy or fupporter to reji upon ind to ftrengthen him^ becanfe his beat be^ns then to iecay and languiflj fenfibly^ his light alfo to diminifh and iecline obliquely from us. Moreover about the foljUce )r middle of winter^ they carry about his temple f even times cow \ and this p-oceffon is called thefeekjng of Eugenius wthe revjlution of the fun ^ as if thegoddefsthndefired the waters of winter : And fo wnny times they doe it^ for thatthe courfe of th ■ ShMy from the Winter foljiice unto thf Summer folfiice is performed in thefeventh moneth. It is [aid moreover , th^jt Horus the fon of Bcaca was the firft who facrificed unto the Sun^ the fourteenth day }^thei>wnethy according as it is written in a certain bQc\ as touching the nMizity of Horus t howfoever every day
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ibey offer incenfe and fweet odor Sy to the fun three times Firjl at tbe fm riftngy Rofin : fecondly about noony Myrrb': . and thirdly at thefHn^fettingy a certam comfofition named. Kiphi. Ibe myfikall meaning of rphicb ^erfumei and odors I will hereafm declare : hut they are fer [waded 'I bat in all this they wor(lnf and honour tbe fun. But what need if there to gather and colled a numSer of fucb 7mtters as thefet feeing there be fome who openlf maintain that Eugenius is filius folia Cgelcftis and that the Greeks caQ him ^ivtmMOhe article which t^^^Dgypciang pwr before:, towiti[0']istbecau[eth(itjontu€bis not evidently ^er- mved: as alfo that Bi^u is nothing el{e hut Fiiia Lunas Gdeftis: and of her images thofe that have homes ufoii thewyftgnifie no other thing bat the Moon croiffant: but fuchasare covered and clad in bkckji betoken thoje daiei j wherein fbe is hidden or dark^.ned namely .when (fje rumtdtb a\ter the fun : which is the reafon that in love maiters they invocat9$he Moon, And Eudoxus kimfel] faitbythaH hcdLUisthe^reftdent over amatorlous folk:' And verily in all thsfe ceremonies there is probubilitie and lik^Aihood of great truih. BAt to fay tbut Hylc is the fwi^ is fo abfurd^ that TT/? ought not fo much as give ear e to thofe who dffirme; fo. But return we novp to our former matter. For ^cata is the feminine fart of nature^ a^t to receive all generations u^on which occafion called (be is by Plito, ihenurfe and Pandeches, that is to fay^ capable of alt : yea and the com" mon fort name her ^^ I loviimm^ which i^ as much to fay^ as having ai iafinite number ofnames^ for that (be receivetif all forms and fija^es^ according as it pleafeth that firji- reafon to convert and tur-ne her. Moreover^ there is im^ printed in^ her naturally^ ahveof the firfl and principal effencc^ v^bich is nothing elje but the foveraign good, and it (be defireth^ jeeketh^ and purjueth after, Contrariwife^ flfifiieth andrefellethfrom her^ anypirt and portion thai proceedetljfTGtuill. 4nd howfoevtr fl)e be the fuhjeij matter^
affi
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and meet flace a^t t) receive^ as well tke one as tie othevy yet cf it feljy endinedjhe is alwaies rather to tke hetter^andaf" plietb her (elf to engender the fame-^yeay and to dijjeminate and (otp the dt^ fluxion and fimilitudes thereof^ wherein (Ife tak^etb^lea jure and rejoycethi when [he bath conceived and is great tberetpithy ready to be delivered. Fur tbis is arejfrefentatiort and difcription of the fulflance cngendred in matter^ and mthin^ elfebut an imitation of that which if. And thtreforeyou may fee^ it is not hefides the ^lirpofcy that they itmgine and devife the joule of Eugcniqs to be- et ernal and immortal : but as for the hodyy that Typhon many times doth teare^ wangle^ and abolijb if, that it can^ not be feen : and that Bcaca goeth uf and down^ and wan^ dring here and there , gathering together the difmembred pieces thereof^ for that iphicbis good and {^iritual, by con^ fequence is not any waies fubjed to change and alteration ; kit that which is fenfibleand material^ doihyeeldjrom it felf certain images^ admitting wUhalland receiving fundry froportionsy formes, and fimilitudes^ li\e as the frints and [[fampsof fealesfet upon wax j doe not continue and rc- \maine alwaies^ but arefubjed to change^ alteration, difovm ider and trouble, and this fame wu cbajed from the ju^erior IKegion, and fen t downhitber^ where it figkteth againfi \[ioriiswhomEcsita.engendred fenftble, ai being the very ma^eof the fpiritual and intelle^ual world. And here- upon it ii, that Hy Je is faid to accuje bim of ba^ardie, as bein^notbingt>ure and ftncerCy like unf obis father, to wit y Reajon, and Vnderlianding ; wh ich of it felf is ftmple, and tot medled with any pa ffiott : but in the matter adulterate ind degenerate, b^ tbereafontbat itrs corporal, Howbeit, rt the end the vidory is on Mercuries (ide, for bee^ii the \i}courfe bat name hath produced tbis world material wetamorpbo^ ',ed to the fpiritnal forme : for the nativity of Apollo, en' endf^d hitw^en BcACa and Eugeniu?.;, whiki tk gods
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„eroet inthf helly o/Rhca, f,mboUzebtbH ^f'''^' bejore the world was evidently hrougblto hghtani f^llyac- comfli(hid, themnet o reafm, bemg found «mrally of iUdfrJe andur^erfea, brought forth the firH gen^ratt- J: for which ca,4fe they lay, thai god being a, yet lame. Wis borne and begotten in darknefs, whom they call the eWfrHoru?. For the world yet it was not, but an mage onely and defign of lie world, and a bare Unlafie of that which (hoMbe. But this Horus heu isdetermmie, de- mtmd^erUa, who^mhnot]Afenghtom,hut ta\etb from him his force and^uifmce that he can douitte or no. thing. And bereufon it is, that ( by report ) tntbe ctty Copaif, the image of norui boldch in oue band the ge- neral member of Hyle : and they jay beftdes, tbatNlctcmy hovmgbereft him of his ftmws, made thereof firings for his barfe, and (o ufed them. Hereby tfae> teach, that reafoH framing the whole world, fn ir in tme, and brought it toac-_ -cord, (read The Harmony of the worldp frdwwg »t oj thofe pans which before were at jm and difcord : howbett removed not, nor abohflfed altogether the pernicious and hurtfulnature, but accomftflied tfce :^eri«e tlereof And\ therefore it is, that it beingfeeble and we aK, wrought aljo^ ( asit were) and intermingled or interlaced with thoje^arts andmembers which befubjeH topafffm and mutations; cau- kth earthquakes and tremblings, excefw? heatesand ex. iream dfineis, with extraordinary wmdes in the aire-, trades tbmder, lightnings and firie tempefls. Itimfoifo- Jth moreover the waters and windes, infeQing ihemwiU relidence, reaching u? and beat ing ffce head aloft, as far a 1,'he Moon, obfcuringand darhfiing many times even tha ■itYih )i by nature clean and pining. And thus the M?.yP thuidob^th Xhinkandfay, that y\yU fomelim: ftroo^ tkeeyeof^o»s, and another while flucked it out of fc heJ and devoured it, and then afterwards deUvered itc cr,i« ««(!> the Jun. By the tanking aforejaid, they met
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^enigmatically the wane or decreafe of the Motn moriethly z b) the tot all frivatiori of the eye^tbey under fi and her eccliffe and defeH of light : which the fun doth remedy by rdwnma-^ tion of her fir eight waiesy as joon as (be is gotten f^afi the fhade ofthje earth. But the principal and more divine nature is coMpofed andconffftetb of three things^ to wify of an in- telleduall nature^ of matter ; and a compound of them bothi vohkh we call the world, Novp thofe intelle^ud parts 5 Plato name/6 Ideas, thepatternes alfo of the father : ai formatter^ he termetb it a mother ^ nurfe^ a foundation alfo and a plot or place for generation : and that which i$ produced ofkthy he is wont to call fhe ijfue and thing pro* created, Andaman may very well con] t^ure^ that the lE^y^ihns compared thp nature of the whole worlds efpe- cidlf to this, as tbefairefl triangle of all other. And Plato in his books of policy or common-wTahh, feemeth alfo to have ufed the fume^ when he compojeth and dcfcri^ beth his nuptial fyure : which triangle is of this fort : that the fide which mak^th the right angle ^ is of three ^ tbej^a/ts of four ^ andthe third line called Uypotiriu fa, of five, £qut^ volent in ^ower to the other two then comprehend it : fo that ihe liyre which dire&ly falleth plumbe upon the hafe^ mu^ anjwer proportionablytothemale: thehafe to the female^ andthe Hypotannfa to the ijfue of them both .-.S^eThc Harmony of the World. And verily^ Eugenius repre^ fentethtbe beginning and principle : B^^t^that which re* ceiveth '^ andHorus the compound of both. For the number oftbreeisthefirjlcddeand perfecf : the guaternarie is the fir[i fquare or quadrate number^ compcfed of ihe frji even number which is two ; and five refembleiji partly the father, and in part the mother , as c&nft^^ ing both of two and three. See The holy Guide , lib. 2. And it (hould feem alfo that the very name ilfltf, which is the univerfalwcrld-t was deriled of TTs^^ts, that is to fay, five^ andfo in Guek^'jFZi/.'TrdiTcf.^, in (^Id e 2 ritn§
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iime/tgmfiedasnJHcbas to mnther : and thattpbich more iii five being multiplied in it felf^ maJ^th a quadrate nurn* htr, to vpity twenty fivey which is ju^ as many letters as the Egyptians have in their Al^hahet^ and fo fnany)een Api s al[o livedo And as for Horus, they ufed to call him Kaimin, which is as much to [ay ^ asjeen^ \or that this word 15 fenfible andvifthle. Ifis li\ewifeis fometime called Mouthy otherwbiles Athyri or M?thyer. And by the firftofthefenameSi they fignifie a mother : by the fecond^ the fair houfe of Horus, lil^e as Plato termeth it to be the place capable of generation : the third is ccm^ounded effidl andthe caufe i for matter is full of the worlds as being married (md^eeping company with the fir ft pinciple^ which is goody pure^ and beautifully adorned- It (bould ftem ha^ply aljoj that the Foe t Etdodus^ wb^n he faith^ that all things at the firfi^ were Chaos, Earth, Tartarus and Love groundeth upon no other principle than thofe^ which are ftgnified by the (e namet, meaning by the Earth Ids; hy LoveO{iris\ and by JartarusT y^hon-, as we have made demonfiration , For'} by Chao« it feemes that he jVGuld underfiand fome place and receptacle of the world. Moreover in fome fort thofe matters require the fayings of Plata, which in his hook^ entituled Sy mpofitum Socrates inferred^ namely^ wherein he fettetb down the generation cfLove : faying tbat Pcnia, that is to fay, poverty^ [deji- rous to have children^ went and lay with Poros, that is to fay], riches , and jlept with hi^}/ 5 by whom fbe conceived with ihtld, and brought forth Love •, who natu* rally is long and variable ; and begotten of a father who is g(0^ywife, and alfuffiQient ', and of a mother who is poor^ needy, and for wanty defirous of another^ and evermore fc eking and following after it. For the forejaid Poro?, is no other, but the firfk thing amiable, defvreable , perfect and pffLient, As for Penia,, it if matter, which of it ftlf is everrnore bare and needy, wanting that which is good^
whtrebf
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vpbereby at length jhe is conceived with childe^ after whom fhe hath a longing deftre^ ani evermore ready to receive fomewhat of bim v Now Horus engendred between them ( which is the world ) is no eternal^ nor iwfdf^hle^ nor in- corruptible^ hut being evermore in generation^ be endevoretb by viciffttude of mutations^ and by feriodicalli>aSton^ to con- tinue alwaies youngs as ifbe jbonld never die and f^erifi. But of fucb difcourfes as tbefe we mnfi mak,e ufe^ not as of reafons altogether really fuh(ijiing: hut fo^ as we ta\e qui of each ofthem^ that which is meet and convenient to cur furpofe, Wbeis as therefore wee {ay matter^ we are not to rely upon the oftnion of fome Fbilofophers^ and to tbinJ^ it fori 0 he a body without fouh, without quality^ centinw ingin it felf idle ^and wit hint allaUion what(o:ver : forwe call o}le the matter of a perfume or ointment ; and gold the matter of an image or ftatue^ or Tclefmf s which notwith' ftanding U not voide of all fimilitude : and even fo we fay^ that the vetj foul & underftanding of a mantis the matter of vertue\andof jcience^ which we give unto reafon^for to hnng into order i andadorne. And fome there vrere^ who cffir-' tnedtbeminde or uuderflanding to be the proper place of formes^ and asitwere^ the exprefs mould of intelligibU things: like as there he Naturalifls who hold^ that the feed of a woman haib not the power of a principle ferving to the generation of man, hutjlandcth in fleadoj matter and nounfbment only : according unto whom^ we alfo bein^ grounded herein^ are to think, that this goddefs having the fruition of tbeftrfi and chief god^ and converfing vpiih him continualy,for the loveofthofe good things- and virtues which are in bim^ is nothing adverfe unto him^ hut lovetb him as ber truefpoufe and lawfull husband : and like as we fay^ that anhofteiiwife^isfo rare^ thatlamrefolvednever ta injury becaufe fucb a one is hard to he found upon Earth, who enjoyeth ordinarily the company of her hnsband j loveth bim ntvmhilefsi but bath mil a mind mto bim i even
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Jo giveth not jhs over t/ be enameurca upon him^ aiihougb
fbe be continually where he iSy and repltwjhed with his
princifall and vioftfincere parrs. But when and ff here as
Hylc in the aid tbrujktb bmjelf between^ and fettetb upon
the extreanj parts, then and there (he jeemeth to be fad and
heavy^and thereupon is faid to mourn and lament, yea and to
feek, up certain reliqnes and pieces of Eugcnius, and ever as
(Jje can find any^ flje receivetb and drr aieth themcUfe. lik^c
as again (he produceth and bringeth forth other things to
hgbt of herfdf. For the reafons^ the Ideae, and the influen^
ces of God vphicb are in heaven and among tbc (iars and
figures of Geomancy-y doe there continue and remain : hut
ibofe ifkch be difeminate amon^ thf f'^ftble and pa ft hie
hedieSy in the ear ib and in the fea^ diffujed in the plants
and livmg creatures^ the fame dying and being buried^ doe
many times revive and rife again frt^by the meant of ge-
neratiom 'er Ganiaes. And hereupon the faid Hylc
thus iftmh more^ that cohabiteth andltethm\h^t^'tit\\'^$^
and that Eugcn'us alfo by fiealtb and fecretly^ k^epetb
company with her : for the corruptive and defiroying fowcv:,
dothprincipally poffefs the extream parts of that matttt
which they name '^t'
tive and freferving vertue^ conferretb into it Utile feed^ and
the fame wea\and feeble^ ai being marred anJdefiroyedby
Hyka unkfs it be fo much as Btatagaikmib up andfaveib,
which (be cdfo tiourifhttb and maintaineih. But in one
fpordj and to fpeak tnore generally^ he is flili better y as
Plaro and hi \^ct\e are of 'opinion : for the naturall
fuiffaft(;e, to engender and to prefcrve , moveth toward
him as to fuhjlance and being : whereas that force
of l^iUing and deflroying moveth behind toward ncn
fulfiflenc-e which is the renjon^ that they call the one
B« at^ thut is to fay, a motion animate and wife-yBui like as
]hd general name of all gods and goddeffej^to wit. Theon ^
d2Yivci ^--^0 7» 7iifcT« i^i^t is tofay^ofvlftbk ^ t» f^feyT®-,
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that 4S to fay ^ of running 'j even fo^ both we and alfo the /Egyptians have called this goddefs Beata, of intelligence and motion together. Semhlahly Placo faith^ that in old time^ whin they^faid Beacon they meant Beat a, that is to fay^ facred ; lik^e as Noelis alfo and Phroneiisj q?i FK^o^, that is to fay^ thejlirring and motion of the un- derjianding^ being carried and going forward : and they impo fed this K^ord cxwiivax to thofe who h/ive found out and difcovered goodnefs and vertue : but contrariwife have by reproachful names noted fuch things as impeach^ hinder andjlay the courfe of natural thinzs^ binding th:m foy as they cannot go forward^ to wit ^ kakia^ vice^ A-roexA indigence^ cTwA/ct, cowardife^ and ctvicty grief^ as if they l{ept them from hvou, or ll'i^, that is to fay^ free pr^grefi and proceeding forward. As for 'Eugcniusthatis to fay^ holy ani facred -^ for he i^ the common re afon orldea^ of things above in heaven^and beneath in thehoufes of Earth ; ofwhichy our ancients were wont to call the one fort^ /g^^ that is to fay ^ facred ; and the other^ os-ia, that is to fay^ holy, "the reafonalfo which Jheweth celeftial things^ and fuch as move upward,^ is called Anubis, and otherwhiles Hernianubis; as if the one name were meet for thofe ahove^ andtheother for them beneath : whereupon they facrificed unto the former a white cocke^ and to the other a yellow or offaffron colour ; for that they thought thofe things above^ pure^ fimple and (Inning ; but thofe beneath^ tn'xed of a medley colour. Neither are we to marvell ^ that thefe termes are difguifed to the fajhion of Greeks words 5 for an I infinite number of more there be^ which have been tranfpor- \ ted out of Greece with thoje men who departed from ' exile J and there remain untill this day as ftr angers without their native countrey : whereof fome there be which cauf; Foetry to be flmdred^ for callinz them into ufe^ as if it fpakebarbaroufly^ namely^ by thofe who terme w;v Telef- meSjGamaes, l\\
e 4. Phi-
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^fh'itnerih^^candohfcurewords^ Gloctas. Bi^t in the
hooks of Hevmes or Mercury fo called^ there is written^
thus much concerning facred names^ namely^ that ' the
fower ordained over the circular motion and revolution of
the Sun^ the i^gyptians call Horns, and the Greeks
Apollo ; that which is over the wind, fome name Eu-
genius, others Sarapis, and fome again in'the JEgvptiaii
language Sothi, which fignifieth as much as conception or
to be with childe : and thereupon it is, that by a littlo
deflexion ofthename^ in the Greekjongue^that Canicular
or Vogge-jiar is called Kvav^ which is thought appropriate
unto Beata. Well I kiiow that we aie not toftrive as touch*
ingnamesy yet would Irather give place untothe J^^gvp-
tians about the nam? Sarapis than Eugenius, for this is
iimeere Greekjfpordy whereas the other is a fir anger : but
as well the one as the other fignifieth the fame power of Di^
vinity. And hereto accordeth the Egyptian language-,
for many times theyterme Beata by the name of Minerva,
which in their tongue fignifieth as much^ as I am come of
•my f elf. And E^yle, as we have already faid^ is named
5eth- Eebon/7^^ Smy, which wo^ds betoken all, a vio^
lentftay and iwfeachment^a contrariety and a diverfion or
turning afide another way, Moreover , they call the
ioadflone or Seder itis, the bone of Horuii ; liJ^e as iron
the hone of Ry \e, as Man ethos is mine author ; for as the
iron feeyneth other whiles to follow th e f aid loadfione^ and
Juffereth it felf tohe drawn by it, and many times for it
■again, returneth back^ and is repelled to the contrary :
even fo^ the good and comfortable motion of the world en;-
dued with reafon^ by perfwaftve fpeeches doth convert,
draw into it, and moUifiethat hardnefs of Kyle : but
other whiles again the fame returneth bacl^intoit felf, and
ks hidden if* the depth rf penurie and impoffibility. Over
iTJid he fides, \indox\\% faith ^ that the i^gypcians devife
•:r''Tt;p*t^r tbirfi.aim. thaWji his legs bfingfo growji,
" : ^ ' • tvgethcT
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together in one^ that he could not goe at all, for very fl}ame hel{eptin a defnt wilderness : but Beata by cutting and dividing the fame parts of his body^ brought him to his found and upright going again. Which difcourfe giveih us covertly thus to under {x and ^ that the underjianding and reafon of God in it f elf going invifibly^ and after an un- feen manner^ proceedeth to generation by the means of motion . And verily^ that brafen Timbrel which they foundednndrungat the facrifices of Reata, named Si* ftnim 5 Jl.ewtth evidently^ that all things ought crs/gcS^, that is to fay y to bejiir a^id fhal^^ and never ceafe movingy but to he awakened and r^ifed^ as if ctherwife they were drowfie^ lay afleep and languiihed : for it is faid^ that they turn backhand repulfe Hy le with their Timbrels afore- fifidy meaning thereby^ that whereas Corruption doth bind and ({ay nature^ generation again unbindeth and fetieth it awork^bythemeans of 7notion. Now the faid Siftrura being in the upper part rojwdy the curvature and Abfis thereof comprehendeth four thing^s that are jiirred and moved : for that part of the world which is fubjed to ge- neration and Corruption^ is comprehended under thefph^re of the Moon^ within which^ all things move and alter by the means of the four elements^ Fire^ Earthy }Vatera»td Aire, Vponthe M>Cis or rundle of the Siftrum toward the topy they engrave the forme of a cat with a wans face ; but beneath^ under thofe things which are (hak^n^ one while they engrave the vifage of Beata, another while o/Neph- thys ; pgnifying by thefe twofaces^ nativity and death : forthefebe the motions and mutations of the elements. By the c at they under fiaiid the Moon for the variety of the skjn^ for the operation and work^e in the flight feafo}i^ and for the fruit fulnefs of this creature : for it is faid^ that at firji fl:e beareth G7ie kjtliag. at the feccndtii}jetwo^ tb& third time three y then four^ afterw^irds fivey and fo to ' yn/^ fothat in all f}:e brings forth twenty eighty which
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are ths dales of every Moon, And bowfaever this may feem fir ange^ yet for certain it is true^ that the appuls of fights of thefe cats are full and large when the Moon is at full 5 but contrartwife^ draw in and become fmaller as the Moon is in the wane. As for the vifage of a man^ which they attribute unto thecat^they refrefent thereby the witty fubtiU ty and reafon about the mutations of the Moon, But to k^it vp all this matter in few words^ reafon would^ that wee fljould think^neither the fun nor the water ^neither earth nor heaven to be Bcata->or Eiigenius; no more than exceeding drouth yextr earn heat fire andfea^ isU^lc^butfimplywhat^ foever in fuch things is out of meafure and extraordinary either in excefs or defedl^we ought to attribute it unto Hyle: contrariwife^all that is well difpofed^ordered^good 6^ profi- tahle^wemufi believe it to he the work,vertly of Beata^ but the image^example and reajon of Eugeniusr, which if wee honour and adore in this fort ^ we (hall not fin or do awifs : and that which more is ^ we fl^ all remove and flay the ttn- belief and douhtfull fcrupulofity of Endoxus, who asked the reafon J why Ceres had no charge and fuperintendance over Love matters^ hut all that care lay upon Beata, and why Bacchus could neither ma\e the river Nil us to fwell and overflow .y nor govern and rule the dead : for if we fijould alleadg onegenerall and common reason for all ^ we deem thefe gods to have been ordained for the portion of good things , and whatfcever in nature is good and beautiful ^ it is by the grace and means of thefe deities ; whiles the oneyeeldtth thefirjlp:inciplesj and the other rcceiveth anddiflributeth the fame : by which means we ihall he alle to fati^fie the multnude^ and meet with thofu mechanical and o'ltousfellow'i 5 whnhcr they delight in the .change and variety of the aire^ according 'to the fa fans cf they ear yor in the -procreation offruits^orinfeed" mf iwdtiflhfg^. appropriating and applying the eto what hath been dzlivwcd 0^ thefe gods •, wherein the\ tah^ plea-
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r^j faying, that Engenius is interred^ when tbe\feed' is vered in the ground j that hereviveth and rifeth again light J vphen it heginneth lofprut. And hereupon it isfaid^ *at ?it2it^yphen jhe prceiveth her felf to he conceived id with childe^ hangeth about her neck, a frefervative *efixth day of the moneth Phaoplii, and is delivered^ of arpocrates about the folilice of winter^ being as yet vn- rfedy and come to no maturity in the frime of the firji wers and buds : which is the reafon that they offer unto T the firji fruits of Lentils new fprung^ and fofemnize *efealt and holidaies of her chddebirth and lying in after >e Mquinox of the fpring : for when the vulgar fort 'ate thisy they red therein^ tak^ contentment^ and beleeve ftraightwaies^ drawing a probability fo- beliefs out of dinary things which are daily ready at hajtd. And ve» ^ly^ herein tijere is no inconventence^ if firfi and fcrmofi ^ey nta\e the fe gods common^ and not proper and peculiar tto the .'Egyptians, neither comprife Nil us [only and fe land which Nilus watereth^ under thefe names^ nor in timing their Meeres^ Laketh and Lctes^ and ^the nativity ■ their gods^ deprive all other men of thofe great godsy }mng •who7nthere isNWu^jfior Butns, nor /S^.emphis; 't neverthelefs acknowledge and have in reverence the \oddefs Beata, and other gods about her^ of whom they ave learned not long fince to name feme with the ^gyp- an appellations : but time out of mind they k^iew their trtue and power ^ in regard whereof they have homured nd adored them, SeCc ndly^ which is a fc r greater nattery y the end they fhould ta\e heed and be affraid^ leji ere they ? avrttrey they dijfolve and di;Jjfate thefe divine pw^rs in ivers^ winds, fowing^pl owing and otiyer faffiom and aU 'ratious of the earth j as they do ^ who hold^ that Bsc- hus ?s wine^ Vulcan the flame of fir e^ and Proferpina '^f Cleanthes faidin one place ) the ff bit th^t bloweth
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and pier cethtboroKP the fruits of the earth, A ?oet theril ipaSy who writing of reapers and mower s^ (aid : \
What time young men their hands to Ceres ^i\t^ And her with hooks and iithcs by piece mealc cut,
And in no refpe& differ they front thoje^ who thinly tht fades,, cables,, cordage and anchor y are the pilot '^ or that the thred andyarne^ the warpe and woofe^ be the weaver : 0^ that th^ goblet and potion cup, theFtifane or the Medi and honied water^ is the Vhyfttian, But verily info doings they imprint^ abfurd and blafphemous opinions of the gods, tending to Atheifme and impiety ^ attributing the names of (rods unto natures and things fenfelefsy livelefs and cor^ ruptible^ which of necefftty men ufe as they need them^ and can not chufe hut marr and dejiroy the fame. For we wufi in no wife thinks that thefe very things he gods ; for nothing can be a god which hath no foul ^ and isfubje& to man and Under his hand: hut thereby we k^ow that they he gods who give Us them to ufe^ and for to he perdurable and fufficient: not thefe in one pi ace ^ andthofe in another ^ neither Bar- bariansffor Greeks, neither Meridional nor Septentrio^ nal^ hut lik^ as the Sun and Woon^ the heaven^ earth and fea^ are common unto all , hutytt in divers placet called by fundry names : evenfo of one and the fame intelligence that ordereth the whole world^ of the fame providence which difpenfeth and governeth all^ of the minifleriai poYi>ers fubordinate over ally fundry honors and appeHatiofts according to the diver fity -of laws have been appointed^ And the priefis and religious^ profeffed in fuch ceremonies^ ufe myficries 'and facramsnti^ fome obfcure^ others morel plain a}i4 evident ^ to train our underflanJing to the k^ow- ledge of the Deity : howheit^not without peril! and danger ; for that fome m'tijingthe right w ay ^ are fallen intojuper4 ftitien ^ and othns avoiding fuperjUtlon as it were a boggk
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r quagmire , have run before they could taks heed^ upon he rocf{^ of impiety. And therefore^ it behcveth us in his caje effecially to be induced by the diredion ofPhilofophy ^hich may guide us in thefe holy contemplations^ that we tay worthily and relt^ioufly thin\of every thing [aid nddone-y to theend^ that it befall not unto us as unto ['heodonis ^who f aid ^ that the doarine which he tendered nd reached out with the right hand^ fome of his fchollars eccived and took^with the left , even fo^ by talking in a. ?rong fenfe and otherwife than is meet and convenienty hat which the lawes have ordained touchin^feafis and p- rificesy we grofly offend » For^ that all things ought to >avea reference unto rea'on^ a man may fee and Inow by hemfelves : for celebrating [a feafi unto Merciirie the nineteenth day of the firfl moneth, they eat hony andfiggeSy 'fying with ally this Motto Sweet is the triieth. As to hatFhyladery orprefervativey which they call Beata to veare whenjhe is with childefy interpretation itfignifiethy I true voice. As for HarpOG rates ^ we mvft not imagine nm to be fome young god^ and not corns to ripe yeercsy tor yet a man : but that he is the fuper intend ant and re- ■ormer of mens language as touching the godsy being yet uwy unperfeciy and not diftind nor articulate'^ which is he reafony that he holdeth a feale ring before his mout hy n afign and markeof taciturnity and filence, Alfo in the moneth ^t^QYiy they pre fent unto him certain hjndes }f Fulfey faying withally Ihe tongue is Fortune : 7he fongueis V^mon. Now of all plants which R^' pt bring* Hh forth y theyconf crate the ? each-tree unto him efpeci^ «//)', bee aufe the fruit refemhleth an heart ^ and the leafe ft tongue : For all thofe things which naturally are in man^ ^^here is nothing more divine than the tongue and fpeechy as touching the gods principally y neither in any thing com- methhe nearer unto beatitude : and therefore 1 advife and reqtii.c every mm who repair eth hither and commeth down
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to this Oracle^ to entertain holy thoughts in his hearty and to utter feemly words vpith his tongue i whereas the common fort of people in their publicly feajis and folemn proce Jlons doe many ridiculous things^ notwithftanding they proclaim and pronounce formally by the voice of the Crier and Bedile in the beginning of fuch folemnities^ tok^epfilence or fpeak^ none but good words ', and yet afterwards they ceafe not^ hut to give out mojlblafphemous fpeecheSy and to thinks as hafely of the gods. How then JhaU men behave and demean tbemfelves in thofe heavy and mournfull facrifices from whence all mirth and laughter is banijhed : if it be not lawful either to omit any thing of the accujiom.'d and ufual ceremonies ^ or to confound and mingle the opinions of the gods with abfurd and falfe fufpicions ? The Greekj doe many fmhl able things unto the Egyptians ei^^f? in maner at the very fame time : For at Athens in the fea^ called Thefaioplioria to t^? hononr of Ceres, the women do fiji^ fitting upon the ground : And the Boeotians rnal^ a rifling and removing of the houfes of AchsEi^ naming the feaji l'rct')Stiy that is to fay^ odious : as if Ceres were in heavimfs and furrow for the def cent of her daugh- ter Proferpina into hell ; and this is that moneth wherein the liars called Plel'dde^ appear^ and when the husband^ tnm begin to fow^ which the ^^^vptians name Athyt the Athenians Py^uiepiioii, and the Boeotians Dama- crios, asonew)uldfayCcvca\'\s. And Theopompus wnteth^ that the people inhabiting wefiward^ do both thin\,and alfo callthe Winter Saturn. t^r^? Summer VenUS ayidthe Spring]^{:of^t\'^\n'A : and that of Saturn and: Vcmxsall things be engendred. 7he phryi^ians alfo imanininj that God fl^epeth all iVinter^ and lieth awaJ^e in Summer \ thereupon celebrate in the onefeafon^ thefea' Of /V i? 0^ waking^ and that with nnch dfi'iking and bell^ chore ButthePaphlagoniansfarj tb.ithe inbound and k^^pt in
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fipard cLi ft -prifoner during ff inter ^ and in the Spring in^ Urged again andfet at liberty, when he beginneth to (iir mnd move. Now the very time ^iveth us occafion tofufpe£f^ that the heavy countenance and aufierity which they fljeWy hecaufe the fruits of the earth be then hidden : which fruits our ancients in time paft never thought to be gods^ hit the profitable and neceffary gifts of the gods^ availing much to live civilly^ and not after a favage and beaftly manner But at what time of ths year as they faw the its from the trees to fall and faile at once j and thofe vhich themfelves had jowen^ with much adoe ^ by little and little opening and cleaving the earth with their own
hands and fo covering and hilling the fame^ without any tffuTed hope what would betide thereupon^ and whether the fame would come to any proof and perfedion or HO 5 they did many things hks unto thofe that commit dead bodies to the earth , and mourn therefore. More" over^ liks ^^ we fay^ that he who buyeth the booths of Plato, buyeth PUto : and who is the adonr of Men^n-' res comedies^' is faidto aU and p/^y Menander : Sem-' hlably^ they did not ff are and forbear to give the names of the celeftiall gods unto their gifts and inventions^ honour* ' '^ the fame with all reverence^ for the ufe and need they had of them. But they who come after taking this grofely and foolijhly, and upon ignorance unskilfully returning uponthegodsthe accidents of their fruits ; not only called ^eirprefence and fruition^ the nativity of the gods -^ and their ah fence or want of them ^ the death and departure of \thegods ; but alfo believed fo much and were perfwaded fully fo : Infuch wife^ as they have filled themfelves with wmyahfurd^ lewd and confufed opinions of the f aid gods. And yet verily^ the error and ahfurdtty of their opinions they had evidently before their eyss prefented by Xenopb a- j ncs the Colophonian, or other Thylofopbers after him^ \T»ho admonificdthe i^gyptian?, thut if they reputed them
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gods^ they j}}0uld not lament for them : and if they mourned tbeyjhouid net take them for gods ; as alfo that it was re^ dkuloUs^ mockery ^ in their lamentations to pray unto them ior to produce new fruits and br in T them unto perfeCtion for them J to the end that they might be confiimed again and lamented for. But the cafe fiands not fo : for they hewaile the fruits that are gone and fpent^hut they .pray unto the gods the authors and give s thereof^ that they would vouchsafe to bejioyp upon them new^ and mak^ them grow in fupfly of thofe which were perifl^ed and loji , Eight well therefore was it faid of the {'hylofophersy that thofe who have not learned to heare and tak^ words aright ^ re- ceive alfo ftnd ufe the things themfelves amifs : as for example^ the Greekj who were not taught nor accujhmed to call th?ftatues of brafs and fione painted images or Tc- iefmes; and afterward were fo bold^ as to Jay, that Lachaies defpoiled and jiripped Mitierva out of her clothes^ and that Dyoriiilus the tyrant polled Apollo w^t? had a perry wlC? or bufh of golden haire ; alfo that Jupiter CaipitoWnusduringthecivillwarrs was burnt and con* fumed with fire. And thus they f'^e not^ how in fo doing jj' they draw and admit falfe and erroneous opinions which '' follow upon fuch manner of fpeeches. And herein the JEg\ipti2Lns of all other nations^ have faulted moj}^ about the be alls which they honour and worfhip. For the G^eekj verily in this point both beleeve and alfo fpeak_ well^ ^^yi^g that the dove is a bird facred unto Venus, the dragon to Minerva^ the raven or crow to /^^poilo, and the dog to Diana, according to that which VAiv'i^ides faid '^ The£;oddefsD/>^^^ fhiiiino; by night. In a dogs portrait will take much delight, But the Egyptians, atleafi wife the common fort of them, W9r(hipinz and komurin^^ thefe very beafts as if they were gods the mfelve^^ have not only peftered with laughter and ridiculous mockery their Lyturgie and divine fervice^ ( for
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Ignorance and folly in this cafe is the leajlfin of all others )
b ut alfo there is crept into the midfi of men ajlrong opinion^
which hath fofarre poffeffed the fmple and weaker fort., a.
that it hringeth them to mere fuperfiition. And as for
\fuch asl he of more quic\ and witty capacity^ and who
kefides are more audacious^ thofe it driveth headlong into
\ hea\ily cogitations andAtbifUcal difcQurfes ; And therefore
\l hold it not amifsy curfartly and ly the way to annex
thereto fuch things as Geomancy teacheth. For to fay^
{that the gods for feare of Ryle were turned into thefs
• creatures.^ as if they thought to hide themfdves within the
' bodies of the black^fiorJ^s calledo\h\d ^s^ ofdoggs and hawk^s^
is a wonderful mifiery to the Common r^^ader Uk^wife to
hold^that thefoules of thofe who are departed^fo many as re-"
ntainjiill inheing^ are to come into fie (h again onely in the
bodies. And as for thofe who will feem to render a civill
andpolitickjeafon hereof \ feme give out that Engenius
in a great expedition or voiage of hii^y having divided his
\armie into many parts ( fuch as in Greek are- called p^^x^g
and TdL^Bi^^ that is to fay y hands and companies ^ he gave
mto every of them for their fever al enftgnes theportraUurei
znd images of Gcomdirtcy .: and each hand afterKpards
jonoured their own^^and had in reverence as fome holy and-
'{acred thing. Others affirme^ that the kjngs whofucceed^
'd after Eugenius, for to terrify their enemies went forth
0 battel^ carrying before them^ the figures of G eomancy
nade in gold andfilver^ upon their armes. Some there be
ligain^ who alledge^ that there was one of thefs their fuh-m
He and fine headed kjngs^ wholinowing that the ^gyp i-
ms of their own nature were lightly diffofed^ ready to
'evolt and given to change and innovations^ alfo that hy
'eafon of their great multitude ^ their power was hardly to
e refirained and in manner invincible ^ in cafe theyjoyned
ogethermcounfell and drew jomtiy in one common line^
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therefore he [owed among thnn a perpetvall fuperflition^ which gave occafioH of drffemioH and enm'ity among them that never could be appeafed ; For when he had given com-' 7nande:Tient nntothem^ for to have in reverence thofe Tc^ \t^mt?> which naturally difa.greed and warred together ^ even fnch as were rea^y te dellrey thofe that carry them whiles every one endevoured alwaies to fuccour and maintain thi'ir own^ andwere moved to an^er if any wrong or dif- ■plcpfure were done to thofe which they affeUed 5 they fell to* geth?r themftlves hy the ear es^ ere- they were aware and I hjllcd one another^ for the enmity and quarrel which was ■ hetween thofe figures whonr they adored^ andfo foflered mu^ PLd and mortal hatred. For even at this day^ of all the ./^Igyp'^'^ns t^^ Lycopclitans ow/v, eatmntten^ hecaufe the rvolfe wh mt th?y adore as a god is enemy unto (Ijeep^ hec a-ife their figures are oppofte. And verily in this our aq'e. the OxyrinciPtes, hecaufe the CynopolireSj that is to f^y^ the inhabitants of the city CynopoH filh named Oxyrincho , that is to fay^ with the (harp becke^ whensoever ^hey Can entrap or catch a dogge^ mal^e no more adoe but k^llhim for a facrifice and eat him when they have done. Vpon which occafon hav'ng levied warr on' ^{rainfithe other ^ and done much mischief reciprocally^ after they had be^n well cht\ufd and pla^Ufd by the Ro-j( nians, they g en> to attonement and compofition. An^ for ' a s much as -r any of them do Cay^ that the Coule of Hyle departed into thefs beaiis^itfeemeth that this fi^ion impor- tcth thus much^ that every hfutiflj and beafily nature com- ir.eth and prcceedeth from fome evilGen'ms', andtherefort to puCifie him that he doe no mifchief^ they worjhip anc adore t':efebea{h And if per'adventvrt' there happen an great drought or contagious heat^ which caufeth pe(\ilen \ 7naladiei or other unufual and extraordinary calamities I the priejis bring forth Jome of tboje Te\c[mcs which the
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ferveandhomnrin the dark night, without any wife in
^reatfilence, menafmg them at thefirfi and putting them
it fright mw if the plague or calamity continue ftilL
they l{,ll andfacnfice a (heep, think>ng this to be a punift,.
mentand chaft.ifementofthefaidevilld^mn, orelfefow
great expiation for notable Jinnes and tranfgreffwns Vor
m the city verily of Idithya, as Manethos maketh retort,
the manner u to burne men alive, whom they called Hvlij,
Jhof^afheswhentheyhadboulted throuzh a tamife, they
fcattered abroad, vmill they were reduced to nothing :
But ths was done openly at a certain time in thofe dales
yphichare called Cyn.des or Canicular. MarvUhe im-
molationofthefeheafts, which they accounted famd, wat
performed fecretly andnotat acertain time o^ upon t^e-
Jlx.'d dates, but according to the occurrences of thor xci-
:dents which hafned. And therefore the commom people
neither \newnor faw ought, but when they fohmnize their
cbfeqmes and funerals for them, in the prcfence of all the
feople they fiew feme of the other beajh and throw th^m
.together mo the repulcher,fuppofmg thereby to vex and
' TA-^i'V" r" ''^'''^' the joy that he hath in doinz mi^huf Foritfeemeth that Af,s with fome other beafl, ,wasconfecrated to Eugenius : howfoever they attribute ^anymore unto him. And if this be trw, I fuppofeit importeth that which we Jeeiandfearch all 'this whHe, as Puckng thofe which are confeffedby all, and have common hmm : as the forefaid fiorke Ibi., \he hauke aZtZ
truit^'Vr'''^?'' ''•^"'^«- Now there rem il: ah utility and fymbohzation hrreof : ccnfderinir that rme participate of the one, but the molltZt^fbth
S;s?i''i^"''f r? "'''''' Sne:s
|Wtoa„„ they honor them for the ufe and mf,t thev rcceivebythetit: like as the inhabitant/of LemSw
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the birds called Corydali, becaufe they find out the locujlsnejisandquajh-their eg^es. Ihe Theffahans «/g
hJetheliorKelin great '''=^'^»l^''%'fj^;''%\Z country tlaiven to breed a number of ferpent,, thejata •
\heyn,adeanidta. mxh anmttmatm thatwhofoever hUleda florke (houldbebanilhed hn country, the ferpe»t AfpisX ti ifezillandtheFlyecMdthe BeUllthj rTrJebeCavfethey observe in them I wot not what mianhr iJ.es ( /.% he Jefen,blan e \f the fun^ of the f'^'l' P^^l-J^ mJthereheevenyeX, who both thmk and fay, that the ZaleWezdlengendrethwith the female by her eare and thatl hringeth forth heryoun. at the month -. wkch fym- Zde^haslyfiy, andreprefenteththe '";'^>'lf£^ neration of fpeecb. As for the beef , they hold h'^ throughout all their kinde there ,s no female ^ut dU^' ,naleUo Mow or call the,rfeed ,nto '^ »rtat»glohmoT round matter in forme of bah which they dnve from them, ZrMo ar.d fro contrariwaies, hk as the fun when 1^fZethhM^tffromthewe\Uotheea^,feenuthtoturn
about t&e heave'i clem, contrary Ihe Afp.s alfo they foZl re tothe planet of the fun, becaufe he doth never age and Z^ old. hut moveth in all facihty, readmefs and Tetrayw'thout the meane. of a.y infiruments of motjoK.^ Sfr is the Crocodile fetfo much by amongthem,wtthut fonXobMecaufe,f^ theyfaythatinfomerefpephe,, {hvlryirna,e,-eprefe.tinzgod-. asbetng the onlycrea- tuninth^mrldUichhathm tongue : for as much asdt- vinefpeech needeth neither voice nor tongue :
But through the paths of Juftice ^valks
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Direfting right all mcrtall things, in their due time and place.
Attdof allbeafis living within the neater ^ the Crocodile
onely ( as men fay ) bath over his eyes a certain thin filme
or transparent wehhe to cover them^ which comdh down
from his forehead infuch fort^ as that he can fee and not
befeen , wherein he is conformable and like unto the fove*
raign of all the gods. Moreover look-in what -place the
female is difcharged of her fpawn , there is the utmofi
mar\e and limit of therifingand inundation of Nil us ;
for being not able to lay their e'gges in water ^ and affraiS
mthall to fit far off^ they have a mofi per fed and exquifit
1 forefight of that which will be ; infomuch as they mat^e ufe
; of the riven approach when they lay : and whiles they Jit
\ and cover their egges be preserved dric^ and are never
dr nched with the water ^ A hundred egges they lay^ in
fo many daies they batchy and as many yeers live-- thsy^
which are longejl lived : And this is the firji and principal
number that they ufe who treat of celeftial and terreftrial
matters . Moreover^ as touching tbofe beafis which are hO'
mred for both caufes^ we have fpo\en before of the dogge :
but the Ibis or bUc\ llorke^ be fides that it hjlleth thofe fer-
pents whofe prick^and liing is deadly^ (}:e was the firji that
taught us the ufe of that evacuation of clenfing the body by
uifire^ which is fo ordinary in Thyfick^: for perceived Jhe
iito pwrge^ clenfe^ and mundifie her felf in that fort:
thereupon the moflriligiouspriejis^ and thofe who are of
ireateil experience^ when they would be purified^ tahefor
\ heir holy water to fprinkje them fives with^ the very fame
fut of which the Ibis drinheth^ for (he n?ver drinkj of
'mpoifoned and infeBed water ^ neither will (he com^ neer
into it. Moreover with her two legits ftanding at large
^m from the other^ and her bill together ^ (he maketh (tjt
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ahfolnte triangle with three even fides^ he fides the variety ifnd fpeckjed nnxtnre of her J>tume confijjing of white feathers and hlack^^ refrefnteththe Moon when fie ispafi the full. Now we mull not marvel at the Egyptians, for pieafmg and contenting themftlves infuch reprejentati- Cffs andfimilitudes, for even the Greeks themfelves as well in their pidures as other images of the s^odsy melted and iproyght to any mouldy ufed many times fuch refemhlances : for oneTc-.tfwx inCrttii they hid of Jupiter without ear es^ hecatife it is net meant for him who is lord and go- •vernov.r of all^ to have an; in'\nid.ion by the hearing of others unto tie image 0/ Pa 1 1 a s . P b i d ia s t^f Imager fet a dragon ; liJ^ as to that of Venut? in the city ,f Elis a Tortoife ; givingl us ly this to under jtan '^ that maidens had need of guidance and good cuftodie^ and that married 'Women ought to keep the houfe and he filent. 7he three for- l^d mace of i\^eptune 5 fignifyeth the third place ^ vphich the fea and element of water holdeth-, under heaven and aire j for which caufe thy called the fea A nip hit rite, find the pettie^ and the pettie fea-gods Tritons, Alfo the Vy th;\gOT:?iUS have highly honouredthe nmnhers and fi- gures Geometrical and Geomartical by the gods names: for the triangle with three equal fides they called Pallas, home out of Jupicers^r/?/^^, and Tritogenia, for that it is equally divided with ]hree right lines j front thre? anglei drawn hy the plume, Onu or unitie they named Apollo.
As well for his per.fwafivc grace ; ^ as plain liniplicitie. That doth appear in youthful fa cej and thi!? i3 uiiicie.
7)^^y th'l icr:::ed Ccntenticn ar.d holiness : and 'hrce
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Juflice. Read the Holy Guide, /?5. 2. For whereas to offend and be offended^ to doe and to fuffer wrcng. cr^im the other hy defed^jujtr emumeth eqv ally between in the fnidefi, That\ famous fjuaternarie of theirs , named Tc« tT3^yS- which confiiteth of fournhies. a^-d amouKUir thirty fix ^ wasthnr greate'}j)ath forife in ev.ry -mouthy and they called it the World ^ as bein^ ace. fhed of the firjl ioure even numbers, and ih^ firi frmy o,u' t., compounded into one to'jether. If then the 'no[i excelun' and beji: renouned I'hilofophers-, percciv rn'^ in things which have neither body nor foule^ fom-type d,}d f'lurs ofdi^-ie^ have not thought it c^cod to negled or di'fpife i^v\ ih ng herein, or pa fs it over without due honour. . p-p'y^fe we oufiht much lefs foto doe in thofe propntte' and qv amities which are in natures fenfitive^ having life^ and being ca- pable of pAfjions and affed.ions^ according to their incl'mit-' 'tions and conditions And therefore we muji not content ')ur felves and re It in the worjhiping of thefe and fucb like relefnies by ficrificing Beafts opPofte ^ but by them a- iore the divinitiethat fhineth in them^ as in mcfi cleere md bright mirrors^ according to nature^ reputing them^ zlwaies as the\'7ynhument and artif.ciai work^nanfjjip of lod^ who ruleth and govcrneth the univerfc^l world : nei^ her ought we to think^e^ that any thing void of life^ and leilitute cf fenfe^ can be more worthy or excellent than hat which is endued with life andfenf'S -. no not although tmanhungnever fomuch zcldor a number of rich eme^ -auds about it : for it is colours^ figures, and polifhed bodies hat Genii doe \rnhabite in : but whatfcever doth not par^ icipate life^ nor is by nature c apable thereof., is of a more Wi>afe and ahjed condition than the very dead. But that tature which liveth and feeth^ which a! fo in it fe If hath he beginning of motion and h^owlcd^^e of that which is '■fopsr andmeety as^alfothat which is (bran ge unto it^the
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fante ( I fay, ) hath drawn fome influence and portion of that wife providence^ whereby the univerfal world is go. ^fernedy asHtrsicYitusfaith. And therefore the deity is m l(fsreprefented in fuch natures^ than inworis made of Irafsandfione^ Ihus much of that opinion, as touching the knowledge ofGcnW^ which 1 approve for heft^ and the facrificing of heajis to. Telcfmes, as is taught in the following books of Geomancy,
f^oreover the hahilliments of Beata he of different
tindu es and colour s : for her whole power conftjieth and
is employed in matter whieh receivethall fo ntes^ and be^
Cometh all manner of things^ to wit^ lights dark^efs^ day^
mghx , fre^ water ^ life^ death^ beginning and end. But
the robes of Eugefiius have neither fljade nor variety, but
are of one fimfle Colour, even that which is lightfome and
bright. For the firft and primitive caufe is fimple ; the
principle or beginning, is without all mixture, as being
fpiritual and intellegible. Whereupon it is that they
make fhew but once for all of hi ^- habiliments, which when
they have done they lay them up again and befiow them,
fafeandk^efthemfojiraightly^ that no man may fee or
handle them : whereas contrariwife they ufe thofe 0/ Beata
fftauy times : For thatfenfible things be in uf age, and feeing
ihey are ready and ever in hand^ and be fubjed evermore
to alternative alterations, therefore th£y he laid abroad.
anddifplaied, fortobefcen often. But the intelligence
of thi7t which is fpiritual and intellectual, pure, ftmple,
^nd holy, fK'ining as a flap of lightning, offered it felf
jmto the foule but once, for [to be touched and fcen,
^nd therefore Pinto and Aiiftotle call this part
af Phylpfophy 5 I.TTC'/J iKov., for that thofe who dif-
ccvrfe of reafon , have pa ffed beyond all matters fub'
U'd to Tnhizl^d and variable opiyiicns^ leap at length to the
',r:f:)vp!,ni-Jto^ thi^ fiy'l Principle, n'biclfis Ciwple, and
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mt material : and after they have in fome {orX attaifted to
the pure and fwcere trvth of tt^ they fi^fpff^ that thdr
fhylofophy as now accoMpliped is cowe to final perfeCiion^
hndt at which the priepinthefe daies are very precife
\and wary to Jhew^ kfepins; it hidden and fecret with fo
great Cpre and dili^ence^ allowing mt fo ntuch as a fight
thereof fecretty and by the way ; alfo that this god ^aigneth
land ruleth over the dead^ and is no other than be whom
t^e Greeks name Hades
ftot under jlandin^ how this is true^ are much troubled',
ihinhjng it very firange that the holy and f acred Euge-
inius fhojdd dwell within or under the "Earthy where their
bodies lie who are thought to be come unto their finall end.
But he verily is moji farre removed from the earthy without
flainorpollutiony pure andvoidofallfubfianceorMaturey
that may admit death or any corruption whatfoever.How*
beit the foul es of men i fo long as they be here beneath clad
within bodies and pafpom, can have no participation of
God^ unlefs it he fo much onely as they may attain unto the
intelligence of y bytheftudy ofThyloJophy^ and the fame is
but in manner of a darks ^y^^^* But when they fhaU he
delivered from thefe bonds ^ and paf into this holy place
Inhere there is no paffion^ nor paifibk forme : then^ the
fame god is their condu dour and king : then they cleave
unto him^ as much aspoffibly they can : him they contem^
•plate and behold without Jatietie : defmng that beauty
phich is not pofjiblefdr men to utter andexfrefs : whereof
according to the old Authors, Beata was alwaies jna^
mottred : and having pur fued after it untillfie enjoyed
the fame J fhe afterwards became replenijhed with allgood^
nefs and beauty that here may be engendred. And thus
much may fuffice for that fen fe and interpretation which is
ptojl befeemni'/ the gods. Now if we mufl befides^ fpeak^as
Ifromift'd bc'orc ; of the incenfe and odors which are
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burnt every day : let a man confider firfi in hhminde^
andtah^ this with him^ that the Egyptians were men
evermoreMofi jludiousin thofe ntattets which made for
the health of their bodies^ hut principally in this regard^
they ha din recommendation^ thofe that concerned the ce*
remonies of divine fervice in their fanUifications and in
their ordinary life and converfation^ wherein they have
no lefs regard unto hoffomenefs then to wholinefs : For they
thinks it neither law full nor befeeming to ferve that ejfence
which is altogether pure^ every way found and impollutedy
either with bodies or foules corrupt with inward fores and
fub'je& to fecret maladies. Seeing then^ that the aire^
which we tnoft commonly ufe^ and within which we alwaies
converfe^ is not evermore alik^ difpofed^^nor in the fame
temperature : hut in the night is thickfted and made grofsy
whereby it comprifeth and draweth the body into a. kind of
fadnefsand penfivenefs^ as it were overcafi with darkf
miftsand weighed down: fo fo on as ever they he up in a.
morning to their TtXe^mfi^ they bur ne incenfe by kjnd-
ling Rofiny for to cleanfe and purifie the aire by this rare*
faUion and fubtilization^ awakjng as it were and raifing
ly this meanes, the inbred fpirits of our bodies ^ which were
langmfhinganddrowfie : for that in this order there is a
forcible vertue^ which vehemently flrih^th upon the fenfes.
Again^ about noon^ perceiving that the Sun draweth
forcible out of the earth by his heat^ great quantity offtrong
vapours^ which be intermingled with the aire^ then they
hum myrh : For the heat of thii aromatical gum and
cdor is fiich^ as that it difppateth whatfoever is grofs.
thicks and muddy in the aire. And verily in the time of
feftilenc^Thyfitians think^to remedy the fame by making
great fires, heinz of this opinions thatf he flame doth fubti*
Hate and rarefie the aire : which it effedeth] no doubt the
better in cafe they bnrnefweet wood^ as of the Cyprefs trees^
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^fjunipr^ or Pitch tree. Now they fay the Oath of thofe hat fwearey infeB the aire with plagues^ for the Genii vill not (uffer fins t3 cortte among them And hereupon yporteditisthatthe Phyftcian fKcron^when there raigned t grievous plague at Athens, wan a great name andre^ mmtation^ by caufing good fires to be made about the ficJ^ '^erfons : for hefaved many by that meanes. And Plato iptiteth that the fweet fcents and good fmells of perfumes^ ointments J flowers and jra^rant medowes^ ferve no iefs for health than for delig ht and pleasure. For that by their heat and mildenefs they gently diffolve and open the fuh^ fiance of the braine^ which naturally is cold and as it were congealed, Again^ if it be fo^ that the JEgy^t\^ns call myrrh^ in their language Ball^ which if a man interpret^ fignifieth as much as the difcufjlng and chafing away of idle talke and raving 5 this alfo may ferve for a tejUmony TO confirme that which we fay^ As for that compofition among them named C\y\\\^ it is a confection or mixture receiving fixteen ingredients, for there into it^ hony, wine, raifins, cyperous, roiin, myrrh, afpalathiis and fefeli. Moreover the fweet rufh Schaenos, Bitumen, MofTe, and the dock : Be fides two forts of the juniper berries, the greater and the lef-^ Cardamomum ^«^ Calamus. All thefe fpeeches are compounded together not at a venture and as it commeth into their heads : but there be read certain f acred writings unto the Apotheca- ries ^«^3^ Perfumers, all the while that they mix them. ' As for this number although it be quadrate^ and made of tifqu are and only of the munbers equal j mak^th the f pace CdJitained within equal to his circumference^ we are not to thinks that this is any way material to the vertue there- of- : but mofi of the fimples that goe to this compofition being aromatkall^ cafi a pie a f ant breath from them and yeeld a delegable and y> hoi fome vapour^ ly which the aire
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is altered : and witball^ the body bein^ moved with this evaporation^ is gently prepared to repofe^ and ta^eth an attra^ive temperature of fleeps in letting flacky and un* binding the bonds ofcares^ wearines and forrowes^ inci» dent in the day time, and that without the help offurfet anddrunkennefs: polijhing and fmooth'mg the imaginative part of the brain^ which receiveth dreames in manner of a ntirour which the Genii communicate to us infleep^ caufing the fame to be pure and neat^ as much or rather more^ the found of harpe^ lute^ viole^ or any other inflruments of mufick^^ which the Pythagore^LUS ufed for to procure Jleepy enchanting by that device^ and dulcing the unrea* fonable part of the foule which lis fubjeU to paffjons. For fweet odorsy as they doe many times excite and jiir up the fenfe when it is dull and heginneth to faile : fo contrariwife they maks the fame as often drowfie and heavy , yea and hrin^ it to quietmfs whiles thoje aromatic all fmells by reafon of their fmootbnefs are fpread and defufed in the body: According as fome Vhyfttiam fay^ that flee p is engendred inm^ when the vapour of the food which we have recei^ vedy creepeth gently alon^ the noble parts and principal bowels^ and as it toucheth them^ caufeth a J^ind of tickjing which lulleth them a (leep . This Cy phi they ufe in drink^^ as a co^pofition tofafon their cups and as an ointment he- fides : for they hM^ that bein7 ta\en in drink^^ it fcour^ eth the guts within animak^th the belly lojpative \ and beinir applied outwardly as a linement^it molufieth the body. Over and above all this^ Koftn is the works of the fun : Myrrh they gather by the Moon light^ out of thofe plants fro^n which it doth de(iill : nut of thofe fmples whereof Cy^h'i if c^mpoundeJ^ fome there be which love the night better, as many I mean as be Hourifhed by cold windes^ fijado'vs. dewes and moiiiure. For the bright nefs and Ifghtoftkdtyis&f^e and fintple : and Pindarus faith
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that the fun is feen through the pure and foUtary aire i vphereas the aire of the night is a compound and mixture 9f many lights and powers^ as if there were a confluence of many feeds from every jiar running into one. By good tight therefore they burne hefe fimple perfumes in the day^ as thofe which are engendred by the vertue of the fun : but this being mingled of all f$rts and of dive^fe qualitieSy they fet on fire about the evening, and beginning of tie night. We fl:ould have prefaced fomething in defence fft^f JeweS) who are f rifely accufed of burning their children to the Idol Molor, whence the accufiomed of leaping over the fire of St. John hath been derived^ how We ought not to rejlonthe bare letter of the Scriptures^ a^id of the opinions concerniag the number of ye ares from the C eation of our Saviour Chrift, and why the ftrange Statues of Laban, tf«^ Micha called Teraphim were allowed of God, of certain ftrange prodigious things which have foretold difafterSy which have been feen to come to pafs , and which doe yet foretell the fame of Gamahes Jngraven and thofe naturall 3 of the ghofts of dead people that appear e in Church yards, and after great flaughter of Armies whence they proved. By what means the power of figures is proved. The wonder-^ full effects o/Telferaans, and why our Saviour Chrili is oftner pidured fuffering upon the Crofs,then fitting at the ^ight hand of his father ^why the Ancients placed Images in their lemplesy of the manner of makjng Tc\c{manSy and what power the Angells have over them, by the in- fluence of the heavens^ of Socrates and Virgils Telef^ matical fly, and herfleeth of the Telefmatical golden calfy and brazen ferpent, and why [they were made of tbefe mettalls, of the fpirits of the Planets^ and the Aftrolo* gical cabal of the Jewe?, of the planet ary]zephicots and the ftars that caufe diverfitj in Religion of JEiy^pthn
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lelefmei. Of the mifiery of Mercury in Vergo, and how Apology and Geomancyis. demonftrable out of Holy Serif ture^ of what manner of ceremonies the \{tbvtvits ufed toward their new-married bride , of Angels and Saints that have been feen to appear in the cloud. But we have been very large ^ and pall therefore refer the Reader to the third part of the Temple of Wifdome,, fpbere the lelefmes and figures Jhall all be explained
From our Virgin Pallace iiiHermupoUs* Vie i^
m HemupoUs. Vie %
i? A.V''^* 5h. John Heydon
Mr.
Mr, John Hey don'f-^^wt^orif/Vj, or thi Catalogue
Authors confultcd wiih m his f^'orl^s.
A.
A Br. Altharon. Albertus Magnus.
B.
B. Hieronymus,
Buxcorf.
Adamanciuj Sophifta.
Brown.
Averroes.
Biblia.
Appolonius.
Bechay.
, Aquinas.
Bonavenmra.
Abarbanel,
BuUinger.
^chius;
Belott.
Albertus Teutonicus,
Briflonuls.
Alchibiades.
Blaliusdeparma.
Ambrofius Para»us.
Barnerio.
Anciochus Bartholoma?us.
C
Alchindus.
Chriftophec Heydon Kt.
Andreas Lauremius.
Cafmanus.
Agathias.
Cardanus.
Appion.
Campanella.
Arrian.
Caefar Diftator.
Abindan.