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Nextj for an Example, in all your works you muft be careful that the Figures of Aftromancy and Geomancy i^ree Harmonioufly, otherwifeyou will nevcrmake a [relefme, nor can you finde what characters the AngeU ind Rulers of the Heaven and Earth delight in. You Tiuft alfo obfervethat the Metal muft befpermatick ind Calloe, before the Aftrai Agent will reft upoa i.
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Alius is in the firft Houfe, and his Ruler and Idea are of the Nature of Gemini and Mercury in Virgo : and chis is his Charafter drawn froin the Figures.
Now although we know God and Spirits can fpeak any Language, yet this before, they fay he is moft de- lighted ill. But many doubt whether Angels or Cemi. fince they bepureSpirits^ufeany vocal fpeech or tongue aniongft themfelves. But St. Paul is our Authority, when he faith in fome place, // I ffea\vpiththeumgue of men andJrurels: Now this is the Idiome beforehand by this and the Figures do we finde out tlie Angel Guardian of every man, Celeftial and TerreftriaU And feeing all Tongues have and do undergo various muta- tions and corruptions h this and the Hehrnv do always continue inviolaced. Moreover, an evident lign of this opinion is, that though each Genius and Intelligence do ufe the fpeech of thofe Nations with wiioni they do in- habit 5 yet to them that do not underhand itjthey never fpeak in any Idome, but in this. But now how Angels fpeak is hid from us, as they thenifelves are; and what man doth with a fenfible voyce, they do by imprefling the conception of the fpeech in thofe to whom they fpeak, after abetter manner then if they (hould exprefs it by an audible voyce : f o the Flatonilfs fay, That 5/?- craies perceived his Genius by fenfe indeed ; but not of this body, but by the fenfe of the Etherial body concea-j ted in this: ^ft^r which manner Averms believes thi
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