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influence on it being the laft receiver, which after- wards communicateth the influences of all the fupc- riorsto thefeinferiotSjand pours tb.eni forth on the Earth j and it more maniteltly difpofeth thefe infe- riors, then the otherSj and its motion is morefen- fible by the familiarity and propinquity which it hath with us , and as a medium betwixt both, fupe- riors and inferiors,' communicateth them to them all ; therefore her motion is to be obferved before the others, as the parent of all conceptions, which itdiverfely iflliech forth in thefe Inferiors, accor- ding to the diverfe complexion, modon, fcituation, and different afpefts to the planets and others ftars; and though it receivcth powers from all theftars, yet efpecially from the 5un ; as oft as it is in Con- junftion with the fame, it is replenifhed with vivi- fying vertue, and according to the afpci^ thereof^ it borroweth its cohiplexionj for in the firft quarter, as the Peripatetickes deliver, it is hot and moift 5 in thefecond, hot and dry-, in the third, cold and dry; in the fourth cold and moifi; 5 and although it is the loweft of the ftars, yet it bringeth forth all the conceptions ofthefupericrs 5 for from it in the heavenly bodies beginneth that feries of things, which ?lato callcth the Golden Chain,by the which every thing and caufe being linked one to another, do depend on the fupcrior, even until it may be brought to the fupreme caufe of all, from which all things depend ; from hence is it, that without the Moon intermediating,we cannot at any time attraft the power of the feperiours. Therefore Jhebit advif- cthu?, forthc taking of the vertue of any ftar, to take theftone and herb of that plant, when the Moon doth either fortunately get under or hath a goodafpe^ton that5tar.
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172 T^e Temple (?/Wif dome. Book I.
Chap. XXXI.
Of the tvcenty eight Manfions of the Moon^ anA their vert net ^ in Tetefmatic^l Figures .
ANd feeing the Moon meafureth the whole Zo^ diackSn the fpace of twenty eight dayes ; hence is it, that the wi fe man of the Indians and ancientcft Aftrologians have granted twenty eight Manfions to the Moon, which being fixed in the eight fphere, do enjoy ^as Alfharm faith)diverfe names and proprie- ties from the diverfe Signs and Stars which are con- tained in them, through which while the Moon wandreth, it obtaincth other and other powers and vertues ; but every one of thefe Maniions, ac- cording to the opiniori of Abraham^ containeth twelve degrees, and one and fifty minutes, andal- moft twenty fix feconds, whofe names, and alfo. their beginnings in the Z^diack^ of the eight Sphere^ are chefe. Th.e firft is called Alnathyth^t is the horns of Arks } - hi s*^ beginning is from the h?ad o£ Aries of the eighih Spheres it caufeth difcords, and jour- nies ; the fecond is called AUothaim or AlbetJfanyth?it isrhebeily ofy/r/«, and his beginning is from the twelfth degree of the fame fign, fifty one minutes, twenty two feconds compleat » it conduceth to the finding of trcafurcs, and to the retaining of cap- tives; The third is oiWtdAchaouazoH or Athoray^ that is, (hovvring op Pleiades 5 his beginning is from the twenty five degrees of Aries compleat fourty two minuces, and fifty one feconds •, it is profitable toSaylers, Hnntfmcn, and Alchymiftsj Thefourth Manfion is called AldebdYam or Alddam^n^thn is^the^
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