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GEOMANCY
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ANd every thing came to pafs, for which the Fi gures and Tclefm was made. So both fronj the SpaniQiand French Courts alfo, have we received great favour and credit : For thcfe Arts are now as muct cfteemcd there, a^. at Wbiu-HaU amongft the Peers ol this Kingdom.
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And the Flanets placed as in the Figure : Then (they fay) Virachid will defcend in order upon it. The Image niiift be made hollow 5 and then the Genius (they fay) fpeaketh with a harre7i voyce^ yet very audible. If more degrees of Gemini arife , then Amhiel defcends upon the Figure : if fewer degreeSjthfen Gahiel^ and they jare not much different in Nature, but in voice: Thefe they take from the places of Almutez upon the five Hylegians^ making projection from Gemini afeen* ding.
Thefe Genii are ftrong/air colouredja humane Voyce: Thefe were the Rulers of Solomon^ thefe are exceeding loving, and will often ftir you to (erve the God that made all the world , and to pray to him and his Son Jefus Chrift that died on the Crofs for our Re* demption.
Thefe Ge?iii help the Memory^ Tongue^ Fantafie^ Brain , Spirits^ Imagination^ Gall^ Bones^ Ihighes^ Sin» news of the Brain ; and cure Sickpefs^ Madnefs^ and the diftempersof the Brain^ deprivation of the common SenfCj Lethargie^ T>oting^ Stammerings Impediments of the Tongue , Hoarfenefs , the Falling-fickn ejs , O^ghs^ fioppings of the Stomack^j GaJI^ Vomiting , Catarrhet^ of abundance of humours in the Head^ and the diieafes of Bloody and all difeafes of the Shculdersy Arms^ HatidSy Shoulder'bone^ belly y Bowels ^ and the difeafes of Melan^ tholy.
They teach the caufe of Diftempcrs of heat dnd cold, of the Sun^ Moon^ StarSy Men^ Beaftsy FowlSy and [creeping thi?2gs ^ and finally, they teach all things yoa tan name or think on> as you (hall hear in its due place. Read our Holy Guide*
Thefe things they have experienced : ufe themjind then judge what (battered foundations the old Fhilo^ fopbers laid fo long ago, thalt the building WQUldfafll
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and tumble toconfiifion^ if fomc Kofu Crucian did not fiioreitup; and the Native by experience learn to de- fend it by this thing moft fit to fill and pleafe the fenfe of them, which have nothing elfe but Senfe. Nowl ^m come to fpeak of Wtfdeme : as all Difeafes, fo all Manners fpriing either from the natural and inherited parts and qualities, or from the purchafed temper of the body, to keep the firft till anon : This we have ei- « cher from the Air or Soyl where we live, or from our cormpt Diet that we take The y^ir followeth either the place of the a9«7z, or the nature of the Ground, But this in The Harmony of the World^ and fomewhat too \ hard to learn as yet. Let us enlarge our felves, and j unfold and prove how the Air and Diet alters and changeth, and makes the bodies to differ, firft, and fo the Manners rude and fierce.
All the Learned ^ftrologers in Smjand., fuch as are a- ble to define what ^jirologie is ^ and what Geomancy fignifies? to!let go the excrements of the Stars^ as too foul and idle, fuch as tliat Leech^ Lozenge'tnan^ and ^ackchill-men^ &c.
hiliatros and ^firo^hilus , I mean fuch as are truly fo indeed, and not a Botcher or Cobler^ftliofe things they do not underftand, but fuch as are able to give a Reafon for all things in xht Heaven ahove^ and in the Earth beneath^ and in the Waters under the Earth ;, Such men as thefe I fpeak to, and fome of thefe hold o- pinion with me, that where the Sun is either too near the people, or right over them, or too far off, as under the two Toles of the Worlds there mens bodies are big and ftrong, and their Qualkies rude and fierce : where- as within the two temperate Girdles of the Ejr/^, they heap a mean, and hit the midft (as they fay) both in bo^ dy and qualities, to come down to the ground. For " Hiuft be (hoj t, we fee that a foggy Land makes; the bio
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md Sfirits thick and grofs, and thereby dull and flow ia kain ; and Qo the men fond in VVit^and rudejand (iraple, 'aith'ul.chaftejhoneftjand (till in that (train of VVifdo.ne: iViiereas a barren and dry Ground, if the Sun be tern* perate therewithal (as at 'Siotm and Athens) maketh •he lame thinner, clear, lively, fubtle •, and deceitful nen, valiant and unchafte, &c. Of all the proper- :ies appertaining for Meat and Wifdome in men, are ike the Vertiies aid proper Tythes in Plants, fol* owing both the fundry tempers of the bodies, Bvhen the foul \n them and the minde in us is one in all.
Then a? the mixtures, qualities and vertuesin FlantSi ire altered up and down according to their food ancl fuftenance, as (to omit the outward nourishment of the ground) whereby Peper brought out of MuQgadorej Caftle Garden mto It aljy will after a few fettings turn into Iz^ and fuchlike, which fomeji/ZyE^r^to^rfWi had the confidence to deny to my face : Who can beat Wic in the Brains of AlTes > The caufe is plain, a cunning Gardner^ either by fteeping his feed or flip, or better by incloiing fome Rne thing I would name in the Root or Stock^y can give to any PU'2t , any Colour , 'tafie^ Smelly or popper of Healing ; Co doth mans body Upon the fame occafions : And of all thefe things and many other. Mercury is the caufe.
Then they raifed the firft face of Virgo , and they made the Image of a beautiful young man, which would foretel things to come ; and this was made as before iti Luna : and then defcendcd Jazeriel the Genius. This Figure was made on the day of Mercury^ on the third hour o^ Saturn: The Sign Virgo afcending^2Lnd the Figure of Geomancy agreeing, being the Houfe and Exaltation oi Mercury^ Rgmfymg- Prophets^ Saturn 2Lnd Mercury bcr bg in Conjun^im in Gemini in the ninth Houfe of Hea«
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ven, which is alfo called God : Uoreovev^kt Saturn have a Trine AjpeVt on the Afcendentj ^ndthz Moon \n like manner^ and the Sun have an u^jf^Ct on the place of Conjundion:Venus obtaining fome jungle may be power- ful and occidental ; Let Mars be combud by the Su7iy but let it not have an Afpe6i on Saturn or Mtrcury 5 for- they faid, that the fplendor of the powers of thefe Stars was diffufed upon this Figure, and Jazeriel refted on hi and did fpeak audibly with a humane voice. (they fay) He teaches that diftempered meats do bVeed the like diftempers, as in thofe humours that make com- pletions, and their conditions. Why aretheT^rfj- fians Co beaftly and haharous ? but becaufe ( befides their foyl) they eat and drink the flelhand blood of Hor(es : We fee the Iflanders o^Cor^ica prove as bold, cruel and falfe as P^g/jWhofe flefh they eat. 1 therefore give you charge to take heed in the choice of Nurfes : And let us proceed : the name of the ^w^e/ that Rules the fecondy is called Hamaliel^mdthzt rules the third, 'Ergedttl : their Natures are not changed but inchan- gablc bodies. Now we have feen Happinefs, long Life, Health, Youth, Bleflednefs, Wifdome and Virtue are clear in our Holy Guide, The next Genius will teach* (they fay) the caufe ofmonftrous Children : The cauf6 pf Madnefi : The caufe of joy and fear, &c.
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