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places, to have paflage to lis from Gnd , who difpofes the Soul, but the Planets difpofe the BodvjOnely giving a tractable 3 complexion proportioned, and tempered for every good thing-, and they as it were the Inftru* nicnts of the Angels : But God as the prin:iary caufe doth yeild both the influence and increafe to ail : They therefore, fay, thefe Souls srenotjoyned with the bo- dies themfelves nnlefs they be proportioned by thefe Stars y fo in a body brought to a Temperant and /aat^ Life by Jtijlice^ they think that the Soul infufed is tern- perated by the power and Intelligencz of Jupiter : So in a hodi'f^t^t one hundred jears young, the Soul infufedis temperated by M^rs : So'when a Body is always Health^ ful^ the Soul infufed is from the Sun : And when a Bo- dy is Wife and Vertmus^ Honcji and Religious^ the Soul infufed is tcnn.perated by thepow^rand intelligence ®f Mercury , And what 1 fay of one Planet all along in this Book , you may do in the like Example of the reft. What I here fpeak of Jupiter , the fame may you do with Saturn^ and the reft as you have occafion to work, both by Aftromancy and Geo nancy.
Furthermore, the j^ngel faith, from the Angelical Orders man isftrengtha*J with wonderful Vertue^ viz. from Zadkiel^ that he may be a Meffengcr of the Divine Will, and an interpreter of the Mind of God from the Archajjgd-, that he may Rule over all Be^fts of the field, fijlj of the Sea^ and Fouls of the Air^ over which com- mand is given him: And Sephiroth makes paflage to us from Principalities , that all things may be fubdued to hi n; he comprehendeththe powers o{ all, and draweth all powers to himfelf by a certain force, fecret and fuper- celeftial 5 from the Virtues it receiveth power , by the which it conftantly fighting is ftrengthened againft the the Enemies of the Truth , for the reward of whicb vre run a race in thi> life, from the Powirs againft the E-
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ncmies of this Earthly Tabernacle: from the Vomina^ tion it hath help, by the which we can fubjeft any Do- pieflick Enimy we carry along with us, and can obtain ourdefired end: From t\\cThro7jes-we are knit toge- ther, and being collefted into our felves, we fix our memory on thofe eternal Vifions: From th€ Cheruhins is light of Mind, Youth, Power, Wifdome and Virtue, yery high Phantafies and Figures, by the which we are able to contemplate even the Divine things : from the Seraphins^ that by the perfeft flame of love we may at length inhere in them : From Jupiter all is transferred to the MooTiy from her to the Etherial Kegmi^ and then to the Fiery Kegion : and through the ^ir it is diffufed into the Body 5 even as many Rivers pailing through inany Grounds of fundry qualities, do likely every one take a fundry Smacks and Nature from the Ground, though at firft they fprung and flowed all from one Fountaifi or Head; osr like as there are innumerable kinds of Lights in the World, differing to the Seats and Houfes that receive them, when the light of the Sitr/y from whence they all receive Light,is ofit felf aU'one and ^he fame in all places : So the Soul receives fomething of the nature and quality of all thefe into the body: and to receive thefe heavenly gifts in the day and hour of Jupiter^ They raife the Figure of a naked man crorv'^ vedy having both his hands jojncd together^ and lifted nf as it were praying for theje Divine Gifts* Jupiter being irt the fecond Face of Sagittary afcending, or ia |h€ South' Angiey free from any evil Afpeft of Saturn 0r Mjrsy inftantly defcends the Jrigd or Ge?nuf upon him, and encreafeth Felicity^ Kichesy Honour^ and con- ferreth Benevolence ^nd Frofperity^ 2nd freeth from Sni^ plies : The Angel faith , the Mind cannot underftand ^jef felf, nor yet other divine matters, as in alike and comparifon, or as the-cye can behold all things, but her '"^■'^' ■ ■ ■■ ..... .^^^
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Self and the Swi^ and thefe (he cannot fee 5 but in ano ther thing fit to reprefent the Figure : As the Stittj I fay, of himfelf^ ever fhineth and feeth all things^ if his Beams be not ftopt with a Cloud or fome other thick imbracement 5 even fo the AfzW alone, and before fhe fail into the Cloud of the body 3 is bufietoknowj^vhen the Soul will fend it into Flefh^ that it may run quickly thrdugh his puniQimenc for difobedicnce ; It is pure, yet mud it be purified : it lieth below the ^a^/, and knoweth all things, except when the unbodied Soul will be bodied ; and this is neceffary for the Divine ijaind.
In the laftFace o^ S aginary an fith a Man like in CO* k>ur to Gold 5 and upon him defcends a Spirit that (peaks well : it faith, The Mind is fo entangled and darkned in the Body, that (he is fometimes idle, and never feeketh all things ; yea,it fometimes knows nought at all,without the leave and help of the Body.
This courfe therefore fhe now taketh : feeing (he may not her felf ftep forth and range abroad to fee things ; (he craves leave and takes the help of the Soul, which af- ter the vifitation of places far remote, returns again into the Body more Learned, by the help of his Servantsj to the throne of our underftanding called the Brain , which receives the tidings of, things brought very far off. Firfl, (he ufeth the outward Spirit that (its in the edge and border of the body, for Angels to receive (by means of their inftruments the parts where they lodge) which being returned, declare many ftrange things very far off, and (hew alfb their ^^^;?e/, and then the inward beam fitting in the Brain, takes the fame tidings and re- yrefents them, as it were in a Glafs before her (which they call the receiving Mind upon them) and fee them to skip over the known five inward Wits, which we
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have not unfitly compared to a Glap^ are divided into fiindry and feveral feats and offices, (as the Spirit Cmhi) one is called Thought, inhabiting the fore-part of the Brai7i^ takes hold and reprefents the fliapes let in at the windowes of the five outward Smfcs* Then another Crew, which we call Renaembrancej keep the hinder part of the Head^ and receiveth ftill thefe (hapes in great plenty, and layeth them up as it were in a ftore- houfe, untiljfirft, the third company of Souls and fpirit^ defcend upon the image of a hlack^Man madeiw Imn^ when the firft Face of Aries is rifen upon the ^Jcendent^ as you (hall hear in the next Chapter, and they are called Conmon-iS'ew/^jwhich fitting in the middle of the Brain as Judges^ called for them to examine them , and to determine of them, and then this lower Judge heareth prefcnt matters in thought alfo ; and then at laft, the great and chief Juftice, called Underftanding, by laying the things together, and gathering one of another,judg- ethall.
Furthermore, in the firft Face of Tifcesy Afcends a Alan having the head of a Lyon^ and his Figure is made in Tiw,and cloathed in Seagreen^ and upon him defcends an Angel or Guardian Genius , called Barchiel or Amnixiel ; he cureth the Palfie and Gout, he fpeaks quick, and bids us a^k which is the feat of the chief Judge, for that is a queftion (faith he) among the Learned, when 1 take it to be no queftion^^f they all grant that the Soul by the Pattern of her fi:?e the Sun in the great World, dwelleth in the heart, the middle of the body , that by cafting of her Beams all about, and equally toali parts, (lie might give light and life equally to all, as equal diftant from all, and in the middeft of the heat, as the onely moveable : And therefore to move others , the onely ^t part of the bo- dy : for thca fure the mindc being in the inward