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within the ftate and condition of Mankind; fire a- hounding in him as his ("hape declares, as well as in oi ther men, though not fo much? and in the fame point and meafure.
And what was the caufe > not becaufe nature meant it fo, but Reafon or Nature was let and hindred by fome nal Ajpe&s o^ Saturn^ or Mars^ov both 3 or fome crofs and weak pofition of Mercury-^ the Author ofWifdome, whereby nature was driven to ftray and mifs, and come (hort of her purpofe, like as the Mok^ as Ariftole faith, for all her blindneftj is in the fame kinde with all other hot and perfeft Creatures, which fhould have all their Wits and Senfes. Read oiir Holy Guide,
Becaufe having all the parts of an eye whole and per- feft 5 it is a fign that NFature meant to have gone forwards, but was let with the bar of a grofs and thick skin.
Now you fee the faults and errous of kinde by Art daily correfted 5 why not a ¥ool made wife, as well as Madnefs cured ? which is more eafie then fome of ^hem : Foolifhnefs is fome odd or rare example, as ic ivere a Monf^er i:i kinde,or more iitly^difeafes left by na- ture , as an inheritance fprung out fro.Ti fome ill temper of the Parents.
And whofoever ralfeth the fecond face of Leo^^ in which time the Sun fhould be fortunate in his exaltati- on, and maketh the Figure of a Man with a Croxm on^ fhall have a Spirit dti^ctnd upon it, which will teach him all thefe things and many more, and will give him viftory oveh all his enemies. But fome may ask hov» thefe difeafes may be cured ; this Sprit teh us all things \\\ kinde have both their higheft and deepeft pitch and end 3 as it were their South and North tqrns, from Mwm 4 whence
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lyhcncc jthey ftill return $nd go ba^k ^gain to gyoid infinity.
So thefe natural and loft difeafes have their race, which they run and fpend by little and little. When it i$ ^ll run, and the ftock of corruption fpent (which is within nine or ten off-fprings) then they mend, and re- turn to health again; fuch is the natural means to amend the body and keep it in health, for the health of the minde is inclofed witljin the other, as we fee by the Children whifh Wjfemen beget.
Leprofiesand other natural Vifeafes of the body arc cured by the Nature and the help of this Genius: ad- mit Barzahel, Verchlel be the Ruler and Genius, then that heavenly and Mineral medicine Autum fotabilcy (b often by thoufands experienced , cures tho(e natural (difcafts )vhich fprung from the ill temper of the feeds of T.arents : by this Example you may ufe the reft of^ the Tlanets in your feveral works.
In the hour of the Sun thisy raife the third face of Jjeo, and the Sun in it : The Figure of which vpas on^ ctovpmd with the gefiure of one dancing or laughing, fianding in a (^hariot drawn with four Horfes, having 4 Looking"^ liifs in her right hand, in the left a fiaff^ carry" i^g a flame upon the head : And upon this (they fay)de- fcends an Angel th^it makes a man Fortunate and Bleffed^ and beloved of all. And they made this on a Co/nelian Stone, on the day and hour of the Sun, afcending in the jthird face of Leo^ agaiqft the Leprofie that flows from the fiilnefs of the blood: of all the body it cures the Lunaiick^paffjons and fooli(hne(s, which proceeds from the frame of one part onely,that is from a muddjf Brain; or if it may be faid to come from one part alone, that is the Uver , becaufe it is the maker of all blood-, yet th^ one is a mpft dangerous part, if i^beill^ffefted; bcr caufe by need of NaturfJ, i^ fends to ail places, andfo
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