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Gann | fiws will have icin this Queft. Part 1.Difputat.| imprinted upon it( for the working of (ome pecu- qi tylebla | againft Paracel{us, Page 151.) warm chede| liar ff i by its oven Star, and efpecially by that 1, i yuk) inferior Bodies, and eglighten chem, and! which above all other things bath the fovereign jit
tdallogp | that in this Manner they do (as aCommon| power and predominance over it: and thefe eats, af (and general caufe) at all cimes produce-one| Charafters contein voithin themfelves,and {6 al= iad and che fame effect in all things here below :| (0 they likewife retein thefe proper Natures of ihbenf) but let at likewife be determined, ‘that there} their own Starsjaa alfo their virtues and Rootss Huperf) | are fome certain peculiar Stars chac work up-| and they produce the like operations with theyi powerop | OF thefe inferior Bodies by their fecrets and! on other tbines upon which they are refletted - hidevq) Occult influences, and that they do peculiar-| and they alfo draw forth and belp forward the | kewl’ dy.affeat thofe things with which they have | influences of their ovon Stars( whether Planets, Hie Ping) the aforefaid familiarity , and that one Star | or even fixed Stars alfo, and Leleftialfigns, and ay here ve (ach a familiaricy with the Adamant, ano-| Images) to wit, os often as they are wrought ie > hefePrf | ther with che Rofe, anda third with fomeo-| and fafhioned in adue and fit matter, in their an andi) ther Plane: Bucl pray, what maketh all chis | own due and proper time, and with due and fits ni! ological for the engraving and infcribing of Figures ting Solemnities. ' Andthere he alfo deline. fi) creat pes) and. Charaters, feeing that the Stars com-| aceth very ftrange and admirable letters ang a intothoge || MUNIcate their virtues uncothings here below | Charatters, proper and peculiar unto each " | red uni 3M a meer Natural way, without any pre-| of the Planers. And therefore if any one i if nd dit) Aetipt or Artifice of ours? And wherefore | defire and feek afcer the virtues of any Star, ete ch is nyt | AO not the Stars and Constellations infufe | the thing that is fubjeét unto that Star is to be ot Rup thofe cheir vircues equally and indifferencly eugraven uponfomwhat that he wears about ‘0 dative) | SLO Metals or precious Stones, whileftthey|him. As for inftance, if any one defireto Jee; ake Whole and entire, and before they are have the vircue and influence of the sun, lec yechow! €Bgraven and infcribed with any Characters, him then cake Goldand engtave upon it the nett @s they do afterwards (if thefe men fpeak Character of that Planet, at that very cime bility to truth) into thofe that have fuch like Chara- when the virtues of-the faid Planet are moft ») Gers Carved and Engravenupon them? And firong and vigorous, But thefe areal] meer. conta} Certainitis, that Peony gathered atfuch a fic ly proundedupona falfe fuppoficion 5 where- wile feafon of the year, as alfo other Plants, and as they cake that for granted which indeed Ceti ali things elfe whatfoever that are madeufe | was never yet by us, neither will ic ever be |) Ofinftead of Natural Amulets, do put forch granted untothem. For firft of al, Agrippa ‘irellbe | Cheir virtues 5 Cand 16 likewife the Load- | and others do attribiite unto thefe Seals ma- vic A ftone draweth the Iron, and is moved unto ny fuch like vircues(as we may fee frequently cole the Pole) without any kinde of Figure, or |in divers places of their Defcriptions) which aici Character engraven thcreon. Andhereupon in very truth cannot be the Natural virtues of overall Galen rightly determinech, that the Fafper any Scar. . And Paracelfus (in the fourrh B. '/ftone hath the very fame virtues, whether of his Archidox. ‘Magic. ) teacheth us how aye ‘the fign of the Scorpion be catved upon it, } we may makea Bodkin, and paint and in-
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And yer notwithftanding there are at this. day thofe chat do noc only believe this, buc endeavour likewife by cheir publique wri- rings to per{wade others hereunto; andthete conceive that chis virtue is by thofe Chara-| ters derived fromthe Conftellations. But lecthem fhew us what Star ic ts chat hath chis | commanding power over theieFlies. Beel-| gebub is indeed called the god of Flies. And| without all doubt thefe poor Flies are more | likely to obey his Commands then the Stars. | There is Another who tels us how we may make a Seal with the Figure of old Father Saturn digging up the Earth with a Spade (which, fay they, ought ro reprefent unto us the Planet Saturn;) and this Sealif any one fhall carry about him in his lett Boor, (and why not. I pray, as well in his right Boot, or onhis Arm?) be wriceth thar ic will chen | fo preferue a man, that he fhall fuffer no hurt | at allfrom his Horfe; and moreover cthatic wilfpeed and haften the hard labor in Child- bearing Women. |
And moreover how and from whence ‘will they be able to prove that thefe ftrange and uncouth Characters (that areto be feen in Corn. Agrippa, Paracelfus, and others) are | the Charaéters of certain Stars? And not Characters only, but even other Figures alfo. They paint Saturn in the likenefs of an old man, witha Pruning Hook, Sythe, Spade, or Plow-fhare. They paint or Picture | Fupiter like a King with a Scepter in his’ Wand. Now what agreement is there be-| cween thefe Figures andthofe Planers which | they Reprefent? And what, I pray, may the | Reafon be, that che Planets communicate | their virtues and influences unto Metals, on-| ly if they be engraven and infcribed with | thefe Figures, and not with others? And who was the firft chac caught us, chat) this Scar caketh a delight in this kind of Cha- racter, and that Scar in another kind of Cha- racter different fromthe former? And the Reafon is che fame for al other Figures 5 tou- ching all which they ought to prove unto us, chac thefe are the Figures of certain Scars. And moreover, belides chefe Characters, what mean they by fo many Words, which they not only pronounce inthe franiing and fathioning of thefeSeals,but they are likewife engraven and imprinted upon thefe Seals 5 as we may fee in Paracelf. his B. Archidox. Ma-