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The life of this Table is great, bccaufc it teaches the Fortitudes and Debilities of the Rulers and Idea in the Figures ^ when they are in fuch Hou- fes, we attribute to them, as you may perceive by the Table; the firft Column is of the Ideas 5 thcfe- cond is their figures ; the third and fourth is of their Rulers : d pure and the aflbciate ; of the Houfe of ^^ And the letter D tels you it is by day: and theletterN isof thenight. The next Column tells you, that Fortuna Major m the firft Houfe is governed by ted, and fignifies fomething of the Nature of £/ir- 'itahelsLYid Mdchiddelm man, woman or thing : The fifth Column tells you, that ^ure is of the Triplicity of 5(3rtft^ by day, 2Liid Hifmael by night: the fixth* ;-CoUimn tels you, that thefe Rulers are in their De- ; trimcnts in thofe Houfes, over againft them in the . fame line toward the lefc Hand; the feventh Co- lumn tells you, in what Houfe every Ruler hath his fdllj becaufein cf to his exaltation 0 is in his fall in the tirft Houfe : if his Figures, Career orJriJiitra^ promife any thing by afpef^, the influence is weak, and you may Judge it to be but a bare word full of ^deceit: Now if ^wr^, Fortuna Major^ ot Jcquifith be in the firft Houfe, ^ou may fay the thing will be .' done, and the promife made, will be kept, and the manis of the Nature and Complexion, the figures. Idea's and Rulers fignifie : If it be Acquifttio^ that is lign ficatorof theman, then he is really honeft,Heli- giouSjtrue hearcedvuid vou may truft him: for what- ioever he promifcs he will be as good as his word.
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A Table of the Hours,
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By day. Sunday. BynigUc
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if
if
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if
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Bvniq;hc.
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and the Figures Rule.
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A Table of che Hours,
By day Thurfday By night
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By day Friday By night
By day Saturday
By night
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and the Figures Rule.
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T he ufiof thefe two Tablec^we will fliew youtc- gether^ that you may be the more exaft in the hour when tlie-R tilers and Idea's are ftrong, and when weakin theFii^ures andHoufes; and you muft be ^eife6t in' the Nature of the Rulers, ldca'S;> Figures and KoufeSi and givjiig all the vertile that they have in N fcnr^ and property to the Figures, yo • mufi- know the ftr^ngth^fokticvrde or debility of the figures and a wel paiiliiig o( them, and their afpefts, and feveral mixtiiresin^bwr jiidgement.
Next, by rightly tppiyingchs influences of the Figdre?;, and their Idea's' -^nd Ruler?, Afpe^ts to one another at tne tinieiuf the GjueftioU) according to natura]^ andnoteufdrc^d MaximesofArt : For by how much you endeav urto ft rain a judgement be- yond Nituie, byfo muc+i the more you augment your errour. A Riiljer, Idea or Figure is then faid ' ro be really ftrong, vi\\tn he hach many efiential dignities, which areknown, by his being In that pFac? wecainiishoiife^orhis Exaltation and 1 ripli- city_,at any time oFcafting the figure: as for example. In your Scheam, iF yon liiidafrguve in any of thofe places-, we call hishouTeor Houfes, \ ou muil loo'^,what houric is; anci if he go into an Anule,or be in an), oftue four Angles, anrJ alforu e the iiour, lie is then effkntiaUy ft'on^ ^y\d we allow for that five dignities, as Fortuna Major in the fi.'ch Houfc, Fure in the firft ' ^
In Judgen:ei:f, when a figure is in his own houfe, that is, wliefi hiv Ruler and idea gbverne^ it repre- fenrs a man iii fuch a Condition, as that h. is Lord ofiiisown Honfe, Edate ^nd Fortune: or a man wanting very little of the goods of this World, or it ^ tells you, the man is in a very happy ftate orcondi- - tion, this will be true, uulefs the figure beaffli^td J>y any Malevolent afpeft, if
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if he be in that houfe \^hereiii he is cxaltedj you may allow him four dignities, if he rule the hour alfo, as P«r^ in the tenth, at eight a clock in the morning on Tuefday, or /iCquifitio in the fourth, at eight a clock in the morning on Thurfday.
KPure^ or Acquifitio, or :?ny other figure be in his exaltation, andnowayes afiiifted by ill Company, or Afpcft : it iignifiesalofcy proud perfon.
If he be inanyofthofe houfes, which are allotted him fdrhisTriplicityjhc hath allovred him three dig- nities, but herein you muft be cautious, as for exam- ple in a quelHoii, Nativity, or the like ^ if you h'ndc Major in the tirft houfe^ & the queftion,or nativ'uy or Scheam be made at ten of the clock upon Thurfday night, if you would examine his fortitudes, he (hall have four dignities, for being in his exalcarion, which continues an hour and 3 month, but he fha 11 not be allowed any dignity, as beiiig in his TripTw city, for by night .Sor^t^Ru let h not the fiery Tri- pUcity, but nf/Vff^f^, who had h6 been in place of Sorath^ and by night, muft have had allowed hiiu three dignities, and this do generally in all the Rulers,£^^rz^^f/excepted5who night and day rrtljetk ■ the watery Triplicity.
The Rulers are debilited m the Houfes, oppoGce to their houiVs, thev are in their fall, in the houfes .oppofition to cheir exakation^j and aredetnnvenled as much here as they were vligrtitied befoi'C' there: as fure in the feventh, or Papulus in the tenth .
If you would know whether your figure be v/ell made or not, you muft look to the four Angles, ifinanyof thenx you find a Figur.^ that ru^af the hour, at the timeoFthequeftion demanded, then the Figure is well made : if you find ic not fo^ yoti muft n^ake another : And you lliall find what Figure goYcrncs every hour in the Table before. ,
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A very Necejfary table Jfjewwg what parts of the Bodyisfignifiedhythefixteen Figures*^ Oft be feven Ruler sin all the twelve Houfes 3 Of the Earth governed by the twelve Idea's*
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BreaftjArms & .Shoulders
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Heart and *?tomach
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Head and Belly. Neck, Throat and Reines
Heart and Breaft.
Shoulders Armesand Chinebone, Pelly.
5toniachj Heart
and Navel. Reines, Belly,
and 5'ecrets.
Bieaft, Lights, Reins and Lovns.
Armes,
Shoulders
and Privities.
5iom3ch,
Heart,
5iecrets,
and Bladder
Belly,
Haunches,
and Thiahs,
Breaft, Lights and Thighs.
Heart, Back and Knees.
^S'ccrets and Reins.
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^ ^ :^ Head and Thighes.
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-X ^ % Feet and Reines.
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^ * * * Legs and ^Secrets.
Head and Knees.
Knees.
Head and iJecrets.
Thighs and Feet.
Throat and Leg*.
Legs and Ancles
Neck, Throat.
and Thighs.
Head and Knees.
Neck, Throat,
and Legs.
Amies. Shoulders
and Feet.
Head, Breaflt Scomack
and Lights. Neck, Thrpat, Heart and Back.
Feet
Amies, Shoulders
and Knees. Breaft, Heart
and Legs,
Head and Eyes.
Armes Shoulders
and Feet.
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Thighs, .Secrets and Feet.
Thighs and Knees.
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Knees and Legs.
Reins,
Loyns
and
Knees.
legs and Sccieti",
Thighs and Feec.
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iLegs.
Reingj 5^e- crecs & Feet.
JHead, Eyes, ' ecrecs
and Bladder.
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Legs and Feec.
Head and Feec.
iHead and
'Neck.
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Neck, Armesj and iShoiilders.
Head, Eyes andJKnets.
Neck,
jThroac
I and
Legs.
^imes.
Shoulders.
and Feet,
Head, Eyes, JBreaft j and JHearr.
Neck, ' Throat
and Thighs
^rmes, «9houlders
and Knees
j/^reaft. Lights, 'Hearc and
Legs
Hearc Sto- mach, Liver
and Feec.
Neck
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Neck and Throar,
and Armes.
Scomp.ck, Liver^Hearr, and Feet.
HeadjBreaft and Lights
Shoulders, Armes and Belly.
and ^' Throat,
Haunches.
Breaff, Sto mach aad Heart.
Heart, Belly and fiack.
Belly and Haunches.
Reiues,
Neck, Throat, Reins and Loyne.^
Shoiildersj JBrcft^Rains Armes and JLoyns and Secrets.
Heart and Stomach,
Shoulders Armesaiid Beily,
Ughts,
Bread, Lights, and Thighs.
.Stomach, jLiver, Heart
Loynsand jBackand
^coiuacn
Uver, Heart
and' Secrets
Breaft Lighi.s,rains
and Loyns. ^comac^:. Heart, Liver
and ^ec^ets.
Bowels and Th^s.
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Reigns,
Ldyn« apd Knees.
-S'ecrets.
Haunches Belly and
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Belly and rhighes.
JRcigns, Loyns i
5
and
Knees,
"ecrets,
Legs aad
Haunches.
Thighs and Feet.
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Chap. XX VH. Of the SualHies of the Figures.
YOu muft furthermore notCj that amongft the figiires,fome be good, others be ill^and other- fome be common j the good be thofc which be en- tringj Trifiitia exceptedj thofe which be going out be ill, onely Letitia Excepted; the common be nei- ther good nor bad, but they be good or bad ac- cording unto the Company they fall into; for when the Company is good, they be good ; and when the Company is ill, they be ill; as (hall be more plain- ly declared unto you by the cxperienc of certain figures , we v^ill give Judgment upon in the third IBook of this Arc.
The fifteen figures receive their fignification from the feven Rulers and twelve ldea\ which go- vern the whole Earth, and all things under the Sun; and thefcput their influences into our hands, and have fuch fignification, as you may read an4 praftife in the fecond part of our BoQk.
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Chap. XXYHL
of the Colours of the Figures.
Vet fignifies white mixed with red ; Amilfto atid Caput Vraconis^ white mixed with Citrine^ Alhm
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a white lovely Cplourjipiixed with red; Fopului and Viay green or ruflet black J Gold colour or ycllowi JcortunttMajof^ green^ yellow or Gold colour; 0«- jun^io^ Purple or gray whitifh, fomtimcs black, fpccklcd with blew , green, white^or a darke crim- fon, or a whitifti tawny, ^uheui red mixt brown; ^cquifithp red, yellow, or green, fanguine; a white ruflet or dunn is C/rrc«rj friftitiay tawny, sky e co- lour with blew ; Letitia^ a green whiti(h gliftering colour.
Chap. XXIX.
A modefi defence for Gepmancy, tfw^Telefmes in the known Phseoomena of Nature-^ mth an Appeal to the Natural facfilttef of mm , tphe" ther there be not a God^ Angels^ Spirits and GtXk\\^tbAt at certain times appear inhumain ft>ape^^c»
IT is vainly reported by Ideots and underwits, that we contemn the Famous Presby tcrians, e3^^. It is true, being not fo indifcreetly zealous and fu- pcrftitious as Phanatiques, we have been miftaken by Anabaptifts , and traduced for Athiefts; but this is anfwered, in The Harmony of the World, Now there is a Gentleman denyes an Immaterial Beings and finely asks, if I know any thing. Sine Materia. ; After the rcmovall of corporeal matter out of the world, there will be ftill fpace and diftance, in
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which chis very matter while it was there, was alfo \ coaccived to lye^ and this diftant fpacc cannot but be fomthing; and yet not corporcaljbccaufe neither corruptible, impenitrablc nor tangible, it muft of necelTiry beafubftance incorporealjueceffarily and eternally cxiftent of it felf j which the clear Ideaoi a Being ahfolutely perfed^ w')\\ n\orc fully and pun- ftually informus to be the felffubftfling God or Im^ maurial Beings and hereby it is manifeli, how ab- furd and irrational they are , that will pretend to reafon and underftanding, and yet excufe them- felvesfrom the acknowleJging of fo plain a truth.
TheevafionscffomeNaciviry men, are fo weak C^nd^Wy like unto IVilliantDllj) and he is neither r/\rtift nor Gentleman, but a poore Laborer or Dit- chers fon oiDifeworth in Leicejler-lhire , brought up to London^ and educated 7 Valin a Tayler in the Strand) whereby they would elude the force of that argument j Forfpirits which is drawn from i^pparitiona, that a man may be almoft fure, they wereconvincedin their Judd,mentsof the truth of ^enii. Angels or Spirits and their Stories, elfe it had been better flatly to have denyed them, then to fain fuch idle and vain reafons of them.
But firft the prodigious Aftrologers, and their fellow Nodurnai Nativity- mongers fay, they arc nothing but imaginiitions,and that there is nothing ically without us in fuch apparitions.
But we fhall bear them off in this Book, with the authority of Z nelius Agrippa Kuight, Irithmlim^ Cardan^ Jarchas^ Cattin Gerrard^ Cemon^ lund'mus^ VtfuSy Gafferell^ and many others too tedious to name.
Being routed from this flight account, for that many fee the thing ac once, then they fly tofo mi- raculous