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fupenour Planets : I foy^ chat all thefe foure can- fes may for the moft part, be comprized within this Writing of Angels: that is to fay^ that it hath h^pued very oftenjthat at what time this Writing of Angels did point out fome great change^ there was at the fame timealfo aConJunftion of the Superiour Pla- nets, Saturn and Jupter^ or elfe, fome one of the three other forenamed caufes. So that they,' nocunderftanding any thing of this Writing of Angels imputed thofe changes which ihey obferved to come to pafs, to thofe four Reafors only. But that it may clearly appear unto us, that thefe have not been the true caufes of all thefe changes, we need but have recourfe to the Chro- mlogies^zndi Particular Annals of eacli feveral Kmg- dome, and compare them with the AftroJogical Ob- fervations •, and we (hall finde, that the greaceft part of all the grand Mutations have happened, without any Coniunfl:ion of the greater Planets, or any of the other Caufes before fpecihed. So that we muft neceffarily flye to fome other more Certain means, by which we may be able to foreknow, by, the Afpefts, and motions of the Stars, all thefe E- vents. Now this means can be Jio other, as it feem- eth, to this writing oi Angels and Genii,
To the third Objection, which feemeth to have the moft weight in it, it may be anfwere J, that it is true indeed, that a Man may make a 'Rtfch of the fame ftar, that another man perhaps vvill make a Dalethof: butinthis, as in many othsr things, we are to follow the Tradition of the Ancients, and to reft fatisfied with what they have delivered unto us. Otherwife, there will not be any certainty at al I, in any one of the reft of the Sciences; efpeclally in Aitrology : which requireth, that thofe f}ars which L 4 compofe
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compofej for example, the Conftellation of y^r/>^, or the Kamm.^ fhoiild be defcribed rather in the figure of this Beafl, then in that of an Oxe^ or a Horfe^ and fo in all the reft. So that who ever fliould re- prefent the figure of a BuU^ among the ftars that belong to the Kamme ; and the figure of a Kamme^ among thofe of the Bull; he would deftroy the ve- i*y Principles of Aftrology : notv/ithftanding that iheftars oilaurm would as well bear the figure of a ^amme^ as of a B'uU, In like niannerj he that fhoul4 iiiake a Kfp^of fuch a ftar, as he fhould have made a Valeth of^ notwithflanding that theftarwould bear it, yet would he overthrow the Principles of this writing of Angels and Genii,
If it be now demanded ; who it is, that is to judge of the vaft number of new Letters that ar6 itiade daily, by the diverfe Afpeftsof the Planets > I an- fwer, that it appertainech to thofe Men, who arc Pioufly, and Religicufly verfed in this Angelic tit fpriting'^ and not to all kind of perfons indiffe- rently.
Chap. XXX.
of the Sun, and Moong and their telefmaticaU conpdcrations : Bejure to let the kigures of Jprcmancy and. Geomancy to be Fortnnatfj*
THe Sun, end Moon have obtained the admini- ftrationor ruling of the Heavcn?,andail bodies under the Heavens. The Sun is the Lord of all Elementary veccues 5 2nd the Moon by vertue of the
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