THE ANGELICAL GUIDE SHOWING Men and Women THEIR LOTT or CHANCE, in this Elementary Life. In Four BOOKS. 

I. Of the Creation of the World.  
II. The Centre or Circle of the Life of Man: or, the Human Egg of Generation.  
III. The Angelical Guide, or the Lott of Man: showing all the Chances and Contingencies in this present World.  
IU. Experimental Knowledge of several Examples; proving the Truth and Certainty of these Our Angelical Lots.    
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By JOHN CASE, M. D.  
LONDON, Printed by I. Dawks 〈◊〉 sold by him, and most Booksellers, 1697.   

This following Book being in the Press, and near finished, will be speedily Published, and sold by the Booksellers.  
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TO THE INGENIOUS Mr. Thomas Tryon.  
SIR,  
THERE were two things that influenced me in this Dedication: the first, that this little Treatise might have the Honour of venturing abroad into the World, under the Protection of some Guardian Name: the other, that I myself might have an Opportunity of gaining Acquaintance with a Person, whom I have long since Admired and Respected.  
The many Useful and Learned Books, you have generously blest the World with, have established to you a just and everlasting Reputation: especially that excellent Treatise, called, The Way to Long Life, Health and Happiness, which I confess, at the very first Reading, obtained a double Victory; at once subdued my Reason, and engaged my Affections.  
Upon this account, SIR, it is, that I have assumed the Confidence of placing you at the Front of the ensuing Discourses, not to Entitle you to the Patronage of my Defects and Imperfections; but to Defend and Secure what shall appear Rational, Useful and Honest, against the petulant Assaults of those who are least able to Judge: Under the Shield of your Countenance and Approbation, I contemn and despise the Snarling, Impotent Censures of Ignorant and Invidious Critics.  
The Subject Matter of these Essays, cannot be strange to You: the whole Stream and Course of your Writings, affording evident and undeniable Instances of a true Philosophical Genius, and of no ordinary Proficiency in Mathematical and Astrological Speculations.  
If there be any thing advanced in this Attempt, trespassing upon the Humour of established Rules and received Maxims, it is to be considered, that all my Notions are purely Hypothetical, not asserting any thing Positively and Magisterially, but only offering my honest Endeavours, towards the Improvement or Illustration of an useful and necessary Science. And I faithfully promise, to renounce every Part of it, that shall be convicted, to entrench upon the Privilege of good Manners and Christianity.  
SIR, I shall not further interrupt you in your more Weighty Concerns, but humbly beg leave to submit the Whole to your Perusal, and better Judgement.  
SIR, I am Your most Obedient, and most Obliged Servant, John Case.   

TO THE Candid and Unprejudiced READER.  
Generous Reader,  
I Shall have no occasion to Apologise beforehand, either for the height of the Subject, or the manner of handling this Work; when the Argument of every Part, can speak for the one, and a direct Proceeding in the Course proposed, for the other.  

Who Builds i'th' Way, where all pass by,  
Shall make his House too low, or high.   
I have exposed myself a Subject to many Censures, and entreat the Reader not to undertake me with any sinister Prejudice; for my hope is, if he should faithfully trace me in that modest and careful Course, which I have exposed to your view, you may say in the Conclusion, Facilior currentibus quam reptantibus lapsus; for, I profess myself to be so free from all Arrogance and O●●entation, that, Ut caveam timendo, tu●a pertimesco. My Juvenilia, I must confess) are suitable to my weak Understanding or Youthful Thoughts, in these three great undertake, viz. concerning God, and the Creation, with the Egg of Generation: if you find it does not agree with your Philosophical Notions, refer it to my Instability, and that I may grow older, and I hope wiser. Pray remember that wise Sentence of Sophocles, Si Juvenis luxuriat, peccat; si Senex, insanit: not forgetting that of Seneca, the wise Philosopher, Ante senectutem cavendum benè vivere; in senectute benè mori.  

Concerning the Creation of the World.  
Upon due and serious Contemplation of the Creation, I have proposed to you a new Method thereof, and have ventured to Rencounter the first Chapter of Genesis; because my Sentiments and Thoughts tell me, that he that created all things, did it in a moment, and not in 6 days, as Moses tells you; for many substantial and grounded Arguments, which may not be proper for me to demonstrate here in my Epistle, only one thing which is to come, (according to the Scripture,) That the World shall have a an end in a moment, and in the twinkling of an eye; so sudden should be our Change, from the sleep of Death to Immortality.  
There is the same likelihood, and the same probability, that it was created in a moment; for El●him was, is, and will be for ever the same.  
Now witty Reader, I have not tied you up to my Belief, but have led you through a wide Field of the Mosaical Philosophy, because you shall see the clash●g of the Scriptures in ☍, as the Waves of the Sea; and the Opinion of Authors, like the four Winds, which blow where they list.  
But methinks, I hear a Voice ask me, What reason is it, that so many contrary Opinions concerning Philosophy, should rise in this World? or how the multitude of Dictates that the Microcosm hath, should have a true Apprehension of the Macrocosm?  
Reader, I must do as Men before me have done, i. e. to return you a Parabolical Answer, by way of Supposition. Suppose that a Man of a wonderful Wisdom and Understanding, had for a considerable time enjoyed a glorious polished Globe, all full of Life, called, Nosce te ipsum, comprehending the whole Man, both outward and inward, being the little World, and consequently the great World also; having them thus both together, and represented in one and the same Subject, which he having offered to Men for their Instruction in Wisdom: then he upon their neglect and contempt of it, broke it into many Pieces, which a Woman out of pity, received into her Lap; for as much as she knew, that there was yet Life in them, and that by being united, they would come to Life again, as before: whereupon she searched throughout the World for such Wise Men, who by a due joining of the said Parts, were able to restore its whole former Life; in which Search, she indeed met with many curious Wits and serious Persons. But yet as to the main Business, she came about, could return her nothing but bare and empty words, (they never having opportunely tried or experienced, how to perform the same,) and thereupon fell into a necessity of convention and confusion about Words, or contend●… about the Matter among themselves; from Whence they fought stoutly with their Pens and To●…s against one another; notwithstanding that all of them owned the same common Name of Philosophers; and the desire of this seeking Woman was not satisfied.  
The like I may say, if I take a piece of Lignum Vitae, and cut out of it thousands of Chips, and summon all the Mercurialists of the World to unite the scat●red Chips into their solid Body again; you would judge it (as beforementioned) a labouring with their Tongues and Pens, and none be able to pick out the right Method.  
Kind Reader, altho' I have presented a New Speculum Mundi, never published to the World before, which are my Sentiments and Thoughts; neither can I find, that Moses ever had the knowledge of the Creation of the World.  
I have now delineated to your Eyes, the first Form thereof, how every thing sprung out of the Abyss, when the Word was given; how Light and Darkness were separated into Forms, by the great Spygarick Powers, ascended out the Spiritual Powers of the Abyss, and form the Canopy of the Heavens; and from the innate Heats within, sprung forth the glorious Lights, viz. Sun, Moon and Stars.  
I question not, but that I may have many croaking Frogs of Egypt, lifting up their Tongues and Pens against me, or this my Opinion; tho' indeed, it may be endless, and senseless too. Not that I would go about to deny, but that some fault may be found, and properly to be attributed to myself, for want of Skill and Capacity, in reference to this Subject.  
And without doubt, Reader, you may be desirous to be directed in the true way, to find out the Mystery of the Creation. But in fine, I have another way of directing you to the true Method, viz. to seek to him who is called Theos, for your Knowledge and Understanding; for by him all things were made.   

Concerning the Human Eggs of Generation.  
There are many Authors have spoken something of the Eggs of Women, as is too copious here for me to nominate; giving you as it were, a hint or a glance of this great Work of Generation, but have hitherto left you in Darkness, and have not given you the plain Demonstration thereof: But here, I have produced to your view, the whole Work in a large Figure, insomuch that it will make it very easy to your Understanding, or to Reason itself.  
The whole Work being laid down so plain; first, you may see the Rude, or Oviary Lump, having many small things, like the Spawn of a Hearing, which are called Eggs; the Seed or Sperm of Man being cast on them, breaks them, or we may say, separates one from the other, and falls into a Cavea, that Nature hath provided, as this Instrument of mine directs you; wherein may be seen the Growth or Increase thereof, every three Weeks, or Month; first, in the Form of Benes, before Flesh is; then in the second Figure, you will see an Increase of Flesh, and how it comes to Perfection. The Birth of Man is also wonderful to be considered; for first, he was in his Mother's Womb before he was this Embryo, or Poelus; whether three Bubbles, or some rude and indigested Lumps, or a Conception, according to some Writers.  
As for Example, a Man was first a Boy, because from a Boy he grew up to be a Man; before he was a Boy, he was in Infant, and before an Infant, an Embryo.  
The same way by which we gain an Art, by the very same we 〈◊〉 any kind of Science or Knowledge whatsoever: for as Art is a Habit, whose Object is something to be done; so Science is a Habit, whose Object is something to be known: and as the former proceedeth from the imitation of Examples, so this latter from the Knowledge of things Natural.  
By the Words of Aristotle, it evidently appears, by what Order the Knowledge of any Art or Science is a tained; namely, by sense there remains an Impression of the thing perceived; by that Impression is made a remembrance of it, and from multiplied Memory, proceeds Experience.  
These than may satisfy, that by Diligence and Industry, a Man may arrive to a considerable pitch of Knowledge of the Human Eggs of Generation, or the Birth of Mankind.  
Give me leave therefore, to whisper this to thee, (friendly Reader,) that thou be sure to weigh all that I have delivered in this Exhortation, touching the Generation of Living Creatures, in the steady Scale of Experience, and give no longer credit to it, than thou perceivest it to be securely bottomed on the faithful Testimony of thy own Eyes: this very thing did Aristotle advise us to; for so far only is Reason to be relied upon, as those things which are demonstrated, agree with those things which are perceived by Sense.  
Now to remove all prejudice that may accrue to me, Reader, I have not called this the absolute Invention of my own, because I had some footsteps towards it by former Authors, as Hieronymus, Fabrioius ab Aquapendente, etc. and also many late Authors have hinted, or proposed such things, as Women having Eggs, but was never yet so plainly demonstrated to the meanest Capacity, as this my Instrument will explain it at large.   

Concerning the Lott of Man, in his Elementary Life.  
To you that are wise and discreet, few words may suffice; for such a one judges not at the first, nor reproves by hear-say, but patiently hears, and thereby increases in Understanding; which Patience brings forth Experience, whereby true Judgement is directed.  
I shall not need therefore, to make any further suit to you, but entreat you to read the Third and Fourth Part of my Book, without prejudice; and having obtained this at your hands, I submit myself unto your Censure; hoping that you will consider the Method of the whole Book, viz. 1. Of God, and the Creation. 2. Of Man's Creation; and then after Man is come into the World, it's natural to all, to be inquisitive about future Events, or their Lots or Chances in this Elementary Life, whether they are born for Great, Mean, an Small Fortune.  
I have presented to thee, pure and undesiled Rules, far beyond the Rules of Astrology in many things, and far easier and pleasanter to your Understanding, formerly lying a long time in Darkness, and under a scandalous Name or Title, called Geomancy and Magic, etc. by the common and vulgar People, who take the sense of the Words a wrong way. So do many condemn the things, that they do not understand.  
But because of the stupidity of most of this present Age, I will unfold to you this dreadful Word. Observe, Magic itself, which the Ancients did so divinely contemplate, is scandalised, with hearing the Noise of all Diabolical Sorceries; which Art (saith Mirandula,) Pauci Intelligunt, multi Reprehendunt; & sicut Canes, ignotos semper allatrant. Few understand, many reprehend; and as Dogs, bark at those they know not.  
Many there are that abhor the very Name and Word Magus, or Simon Magus, who being indeed not Magus, but Goes, viz. familiar with evil Spirits, usurped that Title. But Magic and Witchcraft are far different Sciences: where Pliny being ignorantly scoffed thereat; for Nero (saith Pliny, lib. 30. Nat. Hist.) who had the most excellent Magicians of the East, sent him by Tiridates King of Armenia, who held that Kingdom by him, found out the Art, after a long Study and Labour, which I now call Lots.  
Now Witchcraft and Sorcery, are quite contrary, being the Works of the Devil.  
But Magus is expressed, such a one as is conversant in the Service of God, his Ordinances, etc. as Plato affirms, that the Art of Magic is the Art of Worshipping God, as when the Wise Men came to Worship Christ; and this is the first Kind, which is called Divine Magic.  
Secondly, The Latins did entitle them Sapientes, or Wise Men. Thirdly, The Greeks call them Philosophers. Fourthly, The Egyptians were termed Priests. Fifthly, The Hebrews termed them Cabalists, Prophets, Scribes and Pharisees. Sixthly, The Babylonians, they were called by the Name of Chaldeans. Seventhly, By the Persians, Magicians.  
So the Word Magus, of itself, imports a Contemplation of Divine and Heavenly Sciences. But under this Name, are all unlawful Arts comprehended, as Negromancy and Witchcraft; and all for want of its true Name or Title, viz. Malefici or Venefici, Sorcery, or Poisoners. These are the true Names of Witchcraft or Sorcery.  
Seeing it's so, that Magic is a Divine Science, pray Reader, let me go under the same Denomination; for the second Kind of Magic is Astrology, or these my Lots, being nothing but Signs and Planets, and no Conjuration in it, according to the vulgar Saying, but a pure undefiled Science, which judges of the Events of things to come, Natural and Human, by the Motions and Influences of the Stars, upon these lower Elements, by them observed and understood.  
Philo Judaeus affirms, that by this Part of Magic, or Astrology, together with the Motions of the Stars, and other Heavenly Bodies, Abraham found out the Knowledge of the true God, while he lived in Chaldea: qui contemplatione creaturarum, cognovit Creatorem, (saith Damascen,) who knew the Creator by the Contemplation of the Creature. Josephus reported of Abraham, that he instructed the Egyptians in Arithmetic and Astrology, who before Abraham came to them, understood none of these Sciences.  
Abraham sanctitate & sapientia omnium praestantissimus primum Caldaeos, deinde Phoenices, demum Aegyptios Sacerdotes, Astrologia & Divina docuerit. Abraham the wisest and holiest of Men, did first teach the Chaldeans; then the Phoenicians; and lastly, the Egyptian Priests, Astrology and Divine Knowledge.  
Without doubt, Hermes Trismegistus, that Divine Magician, who (as some say,) lived long before Noah attained to much Divine Knowledge of the Creator, through the Study of Magic and Astrology, as his Writings testify to this day.  
The third Kind of Magic contains the whole Philosophy of Nature, which brings to light the inmost Virtues, and extracts them out out of the hidden Bosom of Nature, to human use; according to the Chemical Method of these sorts in Old Time, was, Albertus Arnoldus de Villa Nova, Raymond, Bacon, and others.  
I must expect some Calumnies and Obtrectations against this way of Writing, from the malicious prejudiced Man, and the lazy Affecters of Ignorance, with which this Age swarms; but I incite the Reader to a charitable Opinion thereof, with a Christian Protestation of an innocent Purpose therein; for the thing itself is harmless, as a Lott or Lots. You read of in the Scripture, the Lott fell on Jonah, and they cast Lots for the Garment of our Saviour Christ, etc.  
So I do entreat the Reader to follow the advice of Fabius, Qui litigant, sint ambo in conspectu tuo nocens & reus; if there be any Scandal in this Work of mine, it's taken, and not given: And this comfort I have, in that Axiom of Trismegistus, Qui pius est, sum Philosophatur. Therefore I present it without Disgust, to all of candour and indifferency.  
There are four sorts of Readers. First observe, Sponges, which attract all, without distinction or distinguishing; Hour-glasses, which receive, and pour out as fast; secondly, Baggs, which retain only the    

To his Friend, Doctor Case.  

DULL is the Muse, when Men are forced to Climb,  
And Scale Parnassus to compel a Rhyme,  
To clothe and Countenance the generous Love,  
Which two fair Words might to the World approve:  
Honest and Wise, are all the Terms that can  
Become the Merit of the greatest Man.  
These are thy Own; and let the Critics know,  
These Two excel the Best that they can do.  
Secure of these two Characters, you find  
A ready Path to Fame, and leave them far behind.  
Hen. Jones.    

The Author, to his Book.  

BOld was the Man, who with a daring Mind,  
Quit the Shoar, to trust the Sea and Wind:  
But He was Bolder, who durst first engage,  
And run the Hazard of the Critics Rage.  
Such thy Adventure is, with equal Fate,  
T'embrace their Favour, and contemn their Hate.  
Tho' many Faults in Thee they're pleased to find,  
They must confess, Thou bear●st an honest Mind.    

Reader, thou art desired to Correct the following Errata, with thy Pen, which have escaped, through the Negligence of the Press.  
Pag. 3. l. 16. deal on, p. 15. for Dens r. Deus, p. 14. l. 2●. for Maker r. Matter, p. 17. l. 27. for illi r. illi, p. 20. l. 2. for seu r. &, p. 69. l. 6. for mutreberis r. mutaberis, p. 75. l. 19 for utraque r. uterque l. 20. for Templae r. Temple, p. 282. l. 10. for admirabilis, r. admirabile, and the same in l. 23.   

THE ELEMENTARY Life of Man.  

CHAP. I.  
The Divine Attributes, consisting of Eternal Nature.  
BEfore we speak of the Centre, or the Circle of the Life of Man, we must consider the Matrix, which is the Centre and Essence of all Essences; all things are generated out of the Centre, and out of that which is Generated, all things are Created which are in being. The ground how the Eternal Word was in the Beginning, and the Word is Gods, and the Eternal Will is that Word: for the Eternal God hath that Will in himself, and in that recomprehended Will is the Eternal Father of all things, the Eternal Deity hath its name God, for God and the Will hath no Maker; for he made himself from Eternity to Eternity.  
Ex ipso, per ipsum, & in ipso sunt omnia: Of him, by him, and in him are all things.  
Before we dive into the Bottomless Abyss of the Essential Philosophy, we must consider, that God is the true Wisdom and Foundation thereof. Sapientiam possidet● Deus in principium viaram suarum, antequam quicquam faceret à principio; ab Aeterno ordinata est; concepta erat cum nondum erant Abyssi; did possess Wisdom in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing; from Eternity was she ordained; she was conceived where there was no Abyss.  
Sapientia à Deo profecta est, & prior omnium: Created Wisdom comes from God, and was the first that Created all things.  
I do imagine, and my mind gives me, that altho' I be never so curious in my Endeavouring or Labour in this matter of my Expression, yet will my best Endeavours appear faulty in the curious Eyesight of some Men, tho' perchance acceptable enough to others.  
1. In the Beginning the Word of the Eternal Spirit created the Heavens and the Earth. 2. And the Earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Eternal Spirit moved upon the face of the Waters. 3. The Word said, Let there be Light, and there was Light. 4. The Word saw, that the Light was good; and the Word separated the Light from the Darkness. 5. The Word called the Light Day, and the Darkness he called Night. 6. And the Word said, Let there be a Firmament in the midst of the Waters,— and divide the Waters from the Waters: And the Firmament was called Heaven. And the Word said, Let the Waters under the Heaven be gathered together, and let the dry Land appear.  
Seeing this Great Work of the Creation is not a matter of Faith, I leave the literal Sense of the Book of Genesis, and give you liberty to conjecture of mine of the Creation, or the great Spagyric Work.  
In Contemplating on the first of Genesis, and then from the Words of God himself, I have a strong fancy, that God made that wonderful Fabric, viz. the Whole Universe, by a powerful Command or Word, in a moment of time, and not as Moses says, in six days: mind Job 38. v. 4. 
Ubinam eras quum fundarem Terram? indica, si novisti Intelligentiam.  
Quum canerent simul Stellae Matutinae, & cum vociferati sunt omnes filii Dei, ver. 7.   
For, what may we hence conjecture, but that the Angels, Coche Boker, Stars of the Morning, and Beni Elohim, the Sons of God, beholding so great a Miraculous Wonder, together with their own as wonderful, formerly commanded at such an instant into a glorious Being, gave Shouts of Praise, and Acclamations of Joy, in Admiration of the great Creator's Omniporency: And we find the Voice of God descending, or delivering the Story of his incomprehensible Wonders with such a lofty Brevity, that we may well believe, he performed those Wonders with the same swiftness that he spoke them.  

Reason I.  
It is an absurdity to say, That God created the World with distance of Time; first, for then the Act itself could not be properly said creare, but facere, to make. If we do but consider, that Creation is not only to raise a thing out of nothing, but to make it also without time, which is an infinite Omnipotency only to be attributed to God, who acteth al● things in a Moment, and cannot be bound to Time.   

Reason II.  
It is an absurdity to assert, that Time should be before Time itself; for Time is the Measure of Motion begun, but with the Motion of the Sun, Moon and Stars.  
Now, according to the literal sense in Genesis the Firmament which God called Heaven, was created the second Day, but the Sun, Moon and Stars, were not created till the fourth Day.  
Now then, could there be Days and Nights which are nothing but Time, before Time itself?   

Observation I.  
Philo Judeus upon this Point, says, It's a simplicity too gross and rustic to believe, that the World was created in six Days, or in a certain time; and, what think you of the two places in Genesis? First, it's said, In the Beginning, God created Heaven and the Earth. Then in the second place, it's said, That the Heavens were not created till the second Day, and the Earth till the third Day.   

Observation II.  
'Tis strange incoherence in the two verses, concerning the Creation of Light; there seem to have been two Days spent, which is an Indecorum to imagine, that after the Word itself had commanded, Let there be Light; do you not believe, That that Word or Command, had not been sufficient to create Light, etc.   

Reason III.  
Seeing that Faith doth not bind us to believe otherwise, it's the most rational Conjecture, that by the first Light, was meant the Light of the Sun, Moon and Stars, etc.   

Reason IU.  
Observe the Text itself, which says, In the beginning of the Work, God created the Heavens and the Earth, that is to say, in giving Form to the dark Abyss or Lump, and created the Light; and in verse 3. it tells us, That the Light was created before either.   

Reason V.  
Which is from the contrariety of the literal Description, which allows four Days for the Creation of the Light, the Heavens, the Earth, and Luminaries. And in the next Chapter, we have these words: These are the Generations of the Heavens and the Earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the Heavens and the Earth. Now you see, it's but one Day, and before, it's said to be four days.   

Reason VI.  
It's said, That the World shall have an end in a moment, and in the twinkling of an Eye. So sudden should be our Changes from the sleep of Death to Immortality: there is the same likelihood and the same probability, that it was created in a moment. Since it is created, and its End depends both upon the same Cause, which is God, who still acts without circumstance or distinction of Time.   

Observation VII.  
Man was created in a moment with the rest, etc. but on the contrary by the Prophet Ezekiel, speaking to the King of Tyrus; Thou hast been in Eden (says he) in the Garden of God. And now observe speedily after, The Workmanship of thy Drums and thy Flutes, was prepared in thee in the day that thou was created. This may give you a strong belief, that Man, and the Creatures which were made for his sake, were all created the same Day: Then much more in compliance with our Belief, than with the literal Description of the first Chapter of Genesis.  
Now I have a Question to answer, and that is, What is the meaning or reason, that the first Chapter of Genesis is so expressed?  
I shall in this point give you the opinion of Procopius; he says, That Author might accommodate himself to the feebleness and rudeness of humane Understanding, which is so incapable of the Mystery of Generation, being so high and difficult, that the Hebrews anciently would not permit it to be read, but by aged Persons, or such as were of a good Understanding; and this same premeditated compliance of the Writer, with means of human Capacity, etc. So we may conclude, That the whole was no more than a conjectural Moral, compiled by Moses or the Lawgiver, the more deeper to fix in the mind of his People, a Veneration of his intended Sabbath: so Divinity necessitated for a separate Day of Holy Worship, and so particularly necessary for the reparation of human Nature, spent with continual Toil and Labour. It's not to be thought on, that he which made the whole Universe by a Word, could want rest from his Labour. St. Jerome and Masius were the greatest Interpreters of the Bible; and 'twas never found in the Pentateuch of the Bible, that God did ever dictate to Moses the Creation of the World, but the Ten Commandments. God created Man in his own Image, Male and Female: At that time Eve was not made, nor no News of her till the next Chapter; and she must have the Command of not eating the forbidden Fruit, before she had a Being, or not at all.  
Now we have given you, as it were, the Speculum of the whole Work, I will give you a glance of the whole Universe.  
In the first place, lift up your Eyes, and behold the Glory at the upper part of the Figure, where you may see the Hebrew Letters, which is in our English Letters Jehovah; which is, that Word or Spirit which made all things, and spoke the Word, and it was finished: He rules all, and is above all, and gave himself a Name, and revealed himself to us, and said, I am the Lord thy God, etc. else we should never have known what Name or Title to have given him.  

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jehovah in Hebrew.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Theos, in Greek.  
Deus, God in Latin.  
Dduw, or Duw, in Welsh or British.  
Godd, in Old English and Scotch.  
Dodd, in Saxon and Teutonick.  
Ndja or Dhja, in Mancks and Irish.  
Dieu in French.  
Dios in Spanish.  
Idio in Italian.  
Godt or Gott, in High and Low Dutch.  
Adad in Assyria.  
Sire by the Persians.  
Alla by the Arabians:  
Doyd, Thoyth by the Egyptians.  
Boeg by the Esclavonians.  
Eloi by the Chaldeans, Mark 15. 34.  
Abdi, by the Turks and Mahumetans.  
Zimi by the Indians.  
Kong by them of China.  
Aesar by the Etruscians.  
Manu by the Molucca Islands in the Indies.  
Abba in the Syriac Tongue, Mar. 14. 36.   
Deinde dixit, sum Patris tui Deus Abrahami, Deus jitzchaki, & Deus Jahakobi.  
And in another place God said, I am what I am.  
So much concerning God, or the Word, or him that made all things out of the Abyss; and as for any further Demonstration or Knowledge, I must leave it till longer time, or until I can understand or am informed, how long the Chaos or Abyss, was before the Great Spagyric Powers made so great a Fabric as the Heavens and the Earth.  
The next thing to Admiration, is the dark Lump unshaped, which is called the Chaos or Abyss, from whence all proceeded.  
By way of Resemblance, behold how the Sun, Moon and Stars leap out with their Streams from the deformed Lump; when the Word was given, it made a Separation in distinct Natures, just as the Chemist doth separate the spirital part from the Caput Mortuam.  
Now you must know, that the 7 Planets are the 7 Rulers of the World, by their different Natures, and are God's Instruments, as you shall be informed in another place.  
Now out of those 7, God hath chosen one of them to put his Tabernacle in, that is the Sun.  
Behold one Wonder more, viz. The Lines or Streams which are drawn, or come from the Abyss or Chaos to the 7 Properties of Nature. You will find two Ranks of Stars getting out of the Streams, except ☉ and ☽, and they but one, which signifies and tells you, That they are the Stars or Houses (as the Astrologers call them) wherein the Planets delight, being made or generated out of the same Metal or Feceses, etc.  
Example. Behold the Line of ♂, you will see one Ramires k of Stars in one side of the Stream, and so on the other side, which may be called ♈ and ♏, the Houses of ♂, and so of the rest, the ☉ and ☽ but one House, etc.  
The Blewness, or that we call Sky, was condensed with Fumes or Spiritual Parts of the Abyss, and kept up by the 4 Winds, as will appear by Reason in another place.  
The last Wonder is, The World finely adorned and beautified, and also Adam in Paradise; all made and created by one Word or Command of God: and here the Philosopher calls Man the Little World, and the other the Great World, viz. Microcosmus & Macrocosmus: and also they say, That the World hath three Divisions, viz. Sublunary, Celestial and super-Celestial.  
Now to define unto you what the World is called, viz. Mundus, or the World in the Hebrew Tongue, Holam, which implies thus much:  
Quoniam per aliquot secula subsistat, in quo rerum ●rtus & interitus sit.  
Which is to subsist and continue for certain Ages, in which shall be the Death and Destruction of all things. The Greek calls it Cosmos, which imports Ornament; which the Latin for perfect and absolute Elegancy call Mundus, because there is nothing mere neatly polished and beautified with all Creatures. So says Plin. Possidonius in Metr. That Mundus, or the World, which consisteth of Heaven, Earth, Celestial and Terrestrial Natures, or of Gods and Men, and those Things which were created to their use: some call the World Munaus, quasi Ornatus Mulieris, A Woman's Ornament. But in short, the World is a fine thing.    

CHAP. II.  
The Beginning in general; how they were produced and extracted out of Nothing, according to the Mosaical Philosophy, and what is meant by the word Nothing; then the first Principle, which is the dark Abyss or Chaos, without Form.  
1. OBserve the Words of the most Excellent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 paration of the Divine Spirit, Elohim was effected in the 6 days work of the Creation; it's expressed there, That Darkness was upon the face of the Abyss.  
2. And that Terra erat inanis & vacuum, the Earth was without shape and form; a plain demonstration, that the Heavens and the Earth were not as yet made, or in no Form; were one deformed Lump, or rude and indigested Mass; and all comprehended in one dark Abyss.  
3. St. Augustin compares this Nothing unto a Speech; for while it's in the mind of the Speaker, it's nothing to him that is spoken to, before it's spoken. Plato compares it to a Dream, when a Man awakes, 'tis nothing but Imagination. But consider well, there are none, unless on Presumption or Ignorance, will be of the opinion, that in those words, God made all things of nothing, ex Nihilo, of nothing; it ought not to be interpreted Nothing.  
4. For the first Essence and Matter of all Things was from all Eternity in God, and with God, one and the same thing; and this we prove by ●●●ipture; says Moses, In principio creavit Deus Coelum & Terram.  
5. Principium is not to be taken as a negative Nothing: for in plain Terms, that ex ipso, & per ipsum, & in ipso sunt omnia; Of him, by him, and in him, are all things proceeding from the Creator.  
6. Hermes hath it, Infinita in Abysso, Aqua insuper & Sp●ritus tenuis intellectualis per Divinam potentiam in Chaos inerant: There was (says he) an infinite Shadow upon the Abyss, also Water and a thin intellectual Spirit: we are in the Chaos by the Divine Puissance. Now that there was a contained Water and airy Spirit complicitly, where in the dark Chaos or Abyss, it appeared by the Revolution of the Waters, upon the which Elohim the Eternal Spirit was created.  
By this you may discern, what the Substances of Beginnings of Things was, namely, the dark Abyss.  
7. Observe now, that this generated Matter was Water, which the Presence of the all-informing Spirit of the Lord did vigorate and enact in a Generality, and termed them by the name Shamaim, and that the Waters were the first Matter and Principle of which the World was made; no otherwise than out of a rude Mass or Lump, a great Palace is fashioned or framed. This Moses confirms, first, for that it doth mention the Water from which the Spirit of God was created, after he had nominated the confused Chaos under the Title of the dark Abyss; & Terra inanis & vacua, or the void and deformed Earth, and that before the first days Separation; whereby it's plainly argued, that Water was the material Principle, created or enacted by Elohim Ruache; for as much as they were nominated before the first days work.  
8. That it was the Eternal Wisdom or Spirit Elohim, who acted as it were the part of a Midwife, did deliver and bring forth this Birth, and gave it Act and Form; as Moses says, That the Waters were the subject of that Separation, and was effected by the Spagyric or Fiery Virtue of the Word, or Elohim.  
9 The Heavens above were made of the purest Brights, and most worthiest Waters, and the Elementary World beneath, of the grossest dark fort of Water; and that there was a middle kind of them, which participating of both extremes, was termed the Firmament, whose main Office was, to divide and separate the Water from the Waters.  
10. Then out of the lower Waters, by the same Word or Spirit, three several Regions, namely, the Air, the Seas, and the dry Land; so the World, and every Member thereof, was out of this humid Spirit or aquatic Nature, which is visible by this Text; Coeli (saith he) erant prius & Terra, de Aqua & per Aquam existentes, verbo Dei.  
11. The Heavens was Fire, and the Earth Water; and by Water existing in, and by the Word, the World is composed only of Heaven and Earth: and therefore it follows, that the whole World is made, and existeth of the Water, and by the Water. So it's evidently proved, that the Original Maker of all things was Water.  
12. The next thing I show you, how all things were fashioned, form and reduced into a specific Act, and essential Being.  
It first distinguished, and separated the Darkness from the Light, and obscure and gross Water from the subtle or pure, and then it disposes the Heavens into Spheres.  
13. It divides the grossest Waters into sublunary Elements: but observe in these Lines the great Work:— Mundum ex materia infor●i creavit: Revelat fundamenta, & abscondita, ●ovit in tenebris constituta, & Lux est cum co; ●evelavit fundamenta è tenebris, & educit in lu●em ●mbram lethalem; Aquilon●m extendit su●er inane, & vacuum, & suspendit Terram su●er nihilum: nam sapientia ab ore ejus prodeunte, ●otundit at 'em Coelorum circumveniente sola, & in ●rofundo abyssi ambulante, omnia fecit Deus. Ad●rat ipsa quando preparavit Coelum, quando certa ●ege & gyro velavit abyssos; quando Aethera fir●abat sursum, erat ipsa cum eo cuncta componens: ●psa fundavit Terram, stabilivit Coelos, erupit a●yssos, ●●bes rore concrescere facit; aptat pondus ●Aeri, appendit Aquos in mensura, dedit pluviae sta●uta, & viam fulgetro tonitruum: Coelos crea●at, & extendebat eos, firmabat T●rram, & quae ●erminant ex ea; Sapientia creavit Deus terram, & stabilivit Coelos prudentia; facit ut oriatur lu●en in Coelis indeficienter; & sicut nebula tegit om●em Terram: facit anni cursus, & constituit dis●ositus Stellarum. Facit Arcturum & Orionem: ●onvertit in mane tenebras, diem in noctem mutat; ●acat aquas maris, & effundit eos super faciem ●errae: preparavit terram in aeterno tempore, & ●eplevit eam bipedibus & quadrupedibus: ipsam ●ffudit Dens super omnia opera ejus, & super omnem ●rnem secundum datum; ipsa denique operatur ●nia, & Deus per ipsam operatur omnia in om●ibus, & ipse vivificat & animat omnia, ut Apo●olus: Quare Propheta recte, in sapientia omnia ●isti, repleta est terra possessione tua, etc.  
Wisdom created the World of Matter, without Form; she revealed the Foundations of t●… deeoest, and discovereth the things that were h●… in Darkness, and Light is with her: she make●… the Foundations appear out of Darkness, an converteth the deadly Shadow into Light: s●… spreadeth forth the North upon the void 〈◊〉 empty Face of the Abyss, and hangeth the Eart●… on nothing: for God made all things by h●… Wisdom, which came out of his Mouth; at compassed about the Circuit of the Heavens, a●… walked in the profoundness of the Abyss: s●… was present when he prepared the Heavens, a●… he covered by a certain Law or Compass, th●… Abyss, when he established the Heaven's 〈◊〉 Aether, all the Regions above; then was S 〈…〉 with him, as the Composer of all those thing●… she laid the Foundations of the Earth, and fastened the Heavens, and broke up the Abyss, a●… made the Clouds together in a Dew: she ga●… Weight to the Air: she hanged or ballan●… the Water or Clouds by measure: she gave 〈◊〉 to the Rain its Law, and ordered the way to 〈◊〉 Lightning or Thunder: she created the Heavens, and spread them abroad: she fastened 〈◊〉 Earth, and made things to grow on it, and es●… blished the Heavens by his Providence: 〈◊〉 causeth an indeficient Light to rise and app●… in the Heavens, and she covered it as it were with a Cloud, the whole Earth: she makes 〈◊〉 Causes of the Year, and institutes the Disposition or Nature of the Stars: she made the Pole Star and Orion, and turned Darkness into t●… Morning, and changed the Day into Night: she calleth the Waters of the Sea, and pours them upon the Face of the Earth: she had prepared the Earth for Eternity, and filled it with two-footed and fourfooted Creatures; God poured her forth upon all Flesh in a divine Measure: to conclude, she operateth and gives all things, as Solomon saith.  
We should speak something of the two main Principles, viz. Heat and Cold: All Heat whatsoever doth attract and draw unto it, the Vapours and Humidity of the Earth and Water, etc. We find the contrary by a Weatherglass; for in only laying the warm Hand upon the Glass, the Air dilates its self immediately, and is so far from being attracted by the Heat, that contrariwise it flies away from the Hand. These two Principles will lead me into a larger Field, than I shall be able to go through in this small Tract; therefore I shall forbear.  
14. But to speak something of the Universal Mystery of Rarifaction and Condensation; for it's proved, that by them the whole World was made, the Heavens fashioned in due order, and the Universal Elements altered, and changed after a Quadruple manner and condition.  
15. The divine Philosopher Hermes saith, Mens ab essentia Dei nequaquam divisa, sed ille potius eo modo connexa quo Solis corpori Lumen: The mental Beam is not at all divided from the Essences of God, but rather joined and knit unto him, after the same manner that the Light is continued unto the Sun; whereupon it's evident, that the virtue of Heat is essential unto Light, as the act of Motion is never absent from emanating Brightness.  
16. We may conclude then, that the Rarifaction is nothing else but the dilating of Water by Heat, which was first contracted by Cold; and Condensation on the other-side, is a contraction, or sucking and drawing of those watery Parts, which were dilated or separated by Heat; so that the subject of both of those Actions is Water, and the Foundation as well of the privative as positive Agent: the Nolunty or Volunty, that is to say, the Negative or the Affirmative Will of that one Eternal Unity, who is that all-informing and operating Spirit, which act his Pleasure in all and over all, by his divine Organ, as well Angelical as Celestial and Elementary; which according to their diversity in disposition, are moved by this internal Act, to operate in this World the Will of the Creator.  
17. How this Ruach Elohim being put once in Essences, worketh by his Angels in this sublunary World, after four ways, viz. By his Angelical Organs, of a contrary Fortitude in the Universal Element of the lower Water, both the effects of Condensation and that of Rarifaction; and to verify it by those Words, That this one Spirit is the Arch-Lord and Primate of the four Winds; else the Command of God would not have said, Come ye Spirits from the four Winds, and make those dead Carcases to live again. Now this one Spirit worketh in and by Spiritual and Angelical Organs, in the execution which is effected by the four Winds.  
Observe, I saw four Angels stand on the four Corners of the Earth, holding the four Winds of the Earth, that they should not blow, neither on the Earth nor Sea, etc. By which it's evident, that those Angelical Precedents over the four Winds, were the Organs by and in the which the Spirits of the Winds were emitted or retained, according to the Will of that Eternal Spirit which guided them, and where he listeth; so the said hot Winds do undo by Rarifaction, all that which the cold Northern Winds did effect by Congelation.  
18. After what manner this Spirit Ruach Elohim did frame out the Heavens, and shaped or made the Stars thereof, by his act of Condensation and Rarifaction. The Heavens and the Earth were of Water and by the Water; so we see that the Word is the Agent, in the Condensation of the invisible Waters into a visible Earth.  
19 Thus was the World in general, distinguished into thick and thin Regions by the divine Spirit, which was created on the Water. So says Hermes in these Words, Distinctis libratisque rebus, quae igneo Spiritu vehebantur, emicuit Coelum, septem in Circulos.— Things being distinguished and balanced, which were sustained by a fiery Spirit, the Heavens did shine forth in seven Circles. It signifies, that it was a fiery Spirit; and a little before, he called it, Splendorem Sanctum, the Holy Splendour, which sustain and bear up every Circle or Sphere of the Heavens in its due place: And the Wise Man says, Omnia Mensura Numeroque, & pondere, disposuis●… seu temperansti; Thou hast disposed all things i● Measure, Number and Weight, namely, into seven distinct Spheres, and an infinity of condensed Bodies.  
20. I may say, that as the Substance of the Heavens is invisible by reason of its rarity, i● like manner are the Stars visible by reason o● their density; for it was Condensation that caused Visibility and Rarifaction, which is the occasion of Invisibility: But Aristotle is of the opinion, That the Stars are the denser Parts o● their Orbs, but rather a Light which was included in the Spirit of the dark Shadow of the Abyss; which Spirit, in separating Light from Darkness, soared upwards by virtue of the included Light, and so according to the proportion of that eternal formal Fire, which is ●…tained unto this day.  
21. How the lower Water or material sub●…nary Element was distinguished and heaped i●… to sundry distinct Spheres, which are particular Elements.  
The Universal Substance of the World, was made only out of one thing, of a Matter that was produced out of the dark Chaos or Abyss, b●… the Spagyric Virtue of the great World; t●… which Matter, Moses calls Water, and Her●… the Humid Nature; it must follow, that out 〈◊〉 this Catholic Mass of Water, the Univers●… Sublunary Element was derived, which is ca●…led by the Name of Air. Now this gener●… Element is by the Breath of the divine Spirit●… Ruach Elohim, altered and changed from one Shape to another; for that which is made the visible Waters, was made first of Air, which is an invisible Water: in this, observe the Words of St. Paul, Per fidem agnovimus, quod semper ita actum sit cum Mundo per Verbum, ut ex iis quae videri non poterant, fiunt ea quae possunt videri: We know by Faith, that has been ever acted with the World, by the Word, that those things which can be seen, were effected and made of those things which could not be seen.  
22. We are taught by Chemical Experience, That Earth is nothing else but coagulated Water, not visible Water; nothing else but invisible Air reduced by condensation to a visibility; nor Fire, any thing else, but rarified Air: And in conclusion, all the sublunary Waters were in the Beginning but an invisible humid, or a watery Spirit or Air, and consequently the main sublunary Elements were in Original nothing but one Air, because that Heaven was made before the Sea or Earth, as Moses tells us.  
Here we have the Progression in the World's Creation; where 1 is, it signifies the Unity which was before all things: which, while it was in itself, and did not shine forth, contained its enacted property within its potential Nolunty or Darkness; and therefore it was esteemed as nothing, in regard of Man's weak Capacity, altho' in its self, it's all in all. Then the Rank 2, sheweth the actual emanation of the increased Light, out of the potential Unity; at the presence whereof, the humid Nature did appear out of the dark Abyss, 10. in the shape of Waters; so that the Light and Waters as active and passive, are ranked next after Unities.  
Unity, thus, 

○ Light  
○ Water  
2.   Then, by the Fiery Spirit of Eternal Love and Unity, those two opposite Natures are joined together into the nature of Heaven by a spiritual Union or Composition; which is termed by the Platonics, the Soul of the World, which the Philosopher calls by the name of Quinta Essentia, the Quintessence: so also are the Heavens said to animate the Elements, no otherwise than the Soul doth the Body; so that this degree of Progression in the Creation, standeth  
Thus ○ Light The last of the World's Creation is this, ○ Fire, ○ Air ○ Air, ○ Water ○ Water, 3 ○ Earth.  
Which importeth the fourfold alteration of the Catholic Element, by the four Winds, which was and is effected by the Word, the third day of the Creation; and this was nothing else but the general sublunary or lower Waters.  
This therefore was the State of the World's Creation, and in this very State (say many,) will continue, till it be Resined by the Firey Trial. This the wise Hermes according to Moses, described unto us thus:  
Erat umbra infinita in Abysso; Aqua insuper & Spiritus tenuis Intellectualis per divinam potentiam in Chaos inerant; storuit autem Splendour Sanctus, qui sub arena & humida natura Elementa deducit: cumque indistincta fuissent, levia post Mundum in excelsam regionem provolarunt; gravia sub arena humida residerunt: distinctis libratisque rebus quae Igneo Spiritus vehebantur, emicuit Coelum, septem in Circulos, etc. An infinite Shadow of Darkness was in the Abyss; moreover, Water, and a subtle intellectual Spirit was by the divine Puissance in the Chaos, and a holy Brightness or Splendour, did flourish, which did reduce the Elements under the Heaven and humid Nature, and, as they were undistinguished; and afterwards that Portion which was Light, did fly up into the highest Region. The weightier part did reside, and take its place under the Heaven. These things being thus distinguished and balanced, were sustained by 〈◊〉 fiery Spirit, the Heavens did shine forth in Seve● Circles, as in the Table or Speculum on the other side.  
In the first place, Behold the Circles and the Motions of the seven Properties of Nature.  
But as for the Angelical Circle, and the work and nature of Angels, the Throne, and the Heavens of Glory, which you see in the highest Circles, I shall pass by, and hasten on to my intended Business.   

CHAP. III.  
The Centre and Circle of the Elementary Life of Man; showing, what Power the Elements have over our Bodies.  
BUT by the way, it may not be amiss to consider, what our Forefathers did call this Canopy or Heavens, which has so neatly composed round us, and left us as it were, in a Box.  
Coelum potius Coelum, & Coelorum suprema Mundi pars: à Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, à concavitate; the Heavens, Firmament or Sky.  
Now we will endeavour to prove out of Scripture, and leave Philosophy, that the ignorant may be satisfied in my intended Matter, viz. Predictions.  
The Heavens have been called by the Holy Ghost, a Book; then doubtless we may conclude, that there are in this Book Letters or Characters which may be understood by some or other, t● read them. Now that it is called a Book, appears out of Isaiah, who speaks of the last Day wherein all things shall cease; he saith, Compli●cabuntur, sicut Coeli; where the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Caph, in Hebrew, which the Latins translate si●ut, signifieth in the Original, quia: so that the Heaven's shall be rolled together; and He at the same time gives the reason of it also, because they are a● Book: As for a more larger Definition of the Word, I leave it to the Divines, etc.  
They may say, as a Book: To this it may be answered, That it doth elsewhere fully decide this Controversy. Seeing that we speak of the Heavens, it makes mention of Lines and Letters, which are Words that are most properly and essentially spoken of a Book, and make no use of the word sicut: which is an infallible Argument, that those words in the Passages before cited, Complicabuntur sicut Liber Coeli, are not Expressions of Similitude. Now that the Scripture, speaking of the Heavens, nameth expressly the word LETTER, will appear out of the First of Genesis; there the Hebrew Text runs thus: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bereshith bara El●●im & Haschamaim: that is to say, In the Beginning, God created the Letters or Characters of the Heavens: for this is the meaning of the Hebrew word, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Aat, which is a Letter: and as for the word Line, we find in Psal. 19 v. 4. In omnem terram exivit, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, K●vam, Linea corum; understanding it's spoken of the Stars which are ranked in the Heavens, after the manner of Letters in a Book, or upon a Sheet of Parchment: for God is said in the Holy Scriptures, to have stretched out the Heavens as a Skin, calling this extension 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Rachia; from whence the Greek might take the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, which signifies a Skin or Hid●; a Skin to be extended or stretched forth. God disposed and ranked the Stars in the manner of Characters, whereby, as a Book. Observe, and read them; Coeli enarrant gloriam Dei: The Prophets of old, called the Heavens a Sacred Book; as among the Jews, R S●meon Ben Jar●hay in the Zohar, on the Section Tem●…ti.  
Exodus, C●fr. 305. where he sp●…s very learnedly of this Celestial Writing, tho' very obscurely. R. Abraham also, in his Jetsira, a Book of the Creation; and many more Authors may be named to this purpose: But this may satisfy the Reader, that the Heavens are Books, wherein all things are Registered of those under ●he Elements, either their good or ill Actions.  
Now in this particular, we will endeavour to give you some account of the Primum Mobile, ●r the moving Circles of the Elements, which is ●y intended Business or material Subject; how ●ur Bodies are captivated by the Elements; and ●ave the Ang●… Circle, and the Glory of the ●ost High, to the Divines, and follow the lower legions. You see the Primum Mobile, a round circled, with 12 Characters, called 12 Signs, ●ow in our days; and by those Signs thus characterised, divides the Heavens in 12 parts, as every Sign into 30 dgrees; also you see the 7 Planets in their Circles in another place: You shall have a full demonstration by an Instrument: But I am willing to inform you, that in the beginning, those Signs and Planets were put in form of Letters by the Hebrews; and by the Jews, and others, in the form of Living Creatures: And then the Chaldeans and others, brought them into these Forms, as in these latter times, ♈, ♉, ♊, ♋, ♌, ♍, ♎, ♏, ♐, ♑, ♒, ♓: ♄, ♃, ♂, ☉, ♀, ☿, ☽. Now it may please my Reader to take a view of Ancient Times, as in the following Chapter.   

CHAP. IU.  
The Instrument of the Hebrews, whereby to know Events to come.  
THE Ancients had of these Instruments, and made use of them in their Practices, as may be made appear out of the Historians; some of which have made mention of the Chaldeans Astrology, as namely Q. Curtius, who gave a● account of all those that went forth out of Babylon, for to receive Alexander the Great; he saith, Magnum deinde suo more Carmen canentes; post Chaldaei Babyloniorum non Vates modo, se▪ etiam Artifices: Where, by the word Artifices, he means those Astrologers who made their Practice those Arts; and this is the gloss of Heurnius, Two Astrologi, qui Astrorum Cursus observabant, vera Instrumenta in eum usum fabricantes. Here we may discover what the Ground was, of that Fable of Atlas, King of the Mauritanians or Phoenicians, who fled before the Army of Joshua: for the Heavens, which the Greeks (whom we may truly say, have been the corrupters of all Antiquity) say, that this Man who was both King and ginger, bore up with his Shoulders, was only a Globe or Sphere, not much unlike ours in late time, which he made use of for the Motions of the Heavens. The first Piece of that Instrument, was the Base or Foot of it, which was made of a thin Plate of Copper, and hollowed in the manner of a Basin; the three small Pillars lifted up from the Superficies, whereon was written these three words, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Din, Schalom, Emet, viz. Judgement, Peace, Truth; These Pillars bore up two great Semicircles, which made up a Triangle, with such artifice, that it was nevertheless in the Superficies. Within you have a great perfect Circle, and within it two others, and all the same Metal with the Base; the first, which was the greatest of these Circles, had these words upon it, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Schemai, Haschamaim, the Heaven or Heavens; the second had only upon it, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Shamaim, the Heaven; the third had only one Word, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Raquiagh, which signifies Expansum. The last and the first are nothing so much admirable as the middlemost, which was beset round with very many little Circles, which were all movable; among which there were seven which appeared more eminent●…●●an the rest, because they were placed by the Centre of the Instrument; all these little Circles had small Stars on them: and those which were upon the seven Circles, were marked each of them with one of those Letters, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, which signifies the Planets in order, first ♄: near these Letters was seen these following words in Hebrew,— Jom, Rischon, Schni, Schelicsi, Revighi, Chamischi, Chicsi, Scevighi, viz. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 days; every one of the Circles of the Planets, had upon them the number of Years they finished their Courses in, and that of the ☽, had Engraven on it these 12 Characters, viz.  
א ש ט ● ת ת א א ● ת א נ  
♓ ♒ ♑ ♐ ♏ ♎ ♍ ♌ ♋ ♊ ♉ ♈  
These are the Names of the 12 Signs of the Months: And now I'll also give them at large in Hebrew, viz.  
1 Nisan, 2 Atiri, 3 Stuan, 4 Tamuz, 5 Abbess, 6 Aelot, 7 Tisri, 8 Tisuan, 9 Ristien, 10 Tebet, 11 Sch●bec, 12 and last, is Adar. And thus we reckon our Months, as March, April, etc.  
Now these Circles were ordered so exactly, as that one might perfectly discern the degrees and distances there set down: in the middle of all, and in the very Centre, there was placed a little Blue Ball which was a little hollowed, supposed to be the Earth. Here you see, that Astrology is no new thing, and the heavenly Spheres in a perpetual motion.  
I should not have here made this Observation, but only that I might be the better able hereafter, to make known the Virtue of the Ancients Astrology, with that of the Egyptians, and the more Learned among the Arabians.   

CHAP. V.  
The Names and Nature of the Seven Rulers of the World, which are the chief Force and Power under the Elements.  
THe Seven Properties of Nature have their Names in several Languages, first, from the Hebrew; and also every Angel or Planet has its lay to Rule in, as we observe to this day.  

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Chavai, Saturn, Saturday.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Tsedek, Jupiter, Thursday.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Maactim, Mars, Tuesday.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Chamah, Sol, Sunday.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Nogah, Venus, Friday.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Cocab, Mercury, Wednesdaey.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Levanah, Luna, Monday.   
A Planet, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Saturnus, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jupiter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mars, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sol, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 V●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mercurius, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luna, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
In Latin, Planet a a Planet, ♄ Saturnus, Jupiter, ♂ Mars, ☉ Sol, ♀ Venus, ☿ M●… curius, ☽ Luna.  
In Arabic, ♄ Zazel, ♃ Hismal, ♂ Bar●… bcls, ☉ Sorath, ♀ Kedemel, ☿ Taphtharthar●… ☽ Hasmodiai.  
The reason why they are called by the Names, as ♄, ♃, ♂, ☉, ♀, ☿, and ☽.  

♄ à Saturo, to fill, or abundance; as our hot Authors says, that ♄ is wonderful, in Plenty Misery.  
♃ à Juvando; quasi, est Juvans, from helpi●… or liberal to Mankind.  
♂ Mars, quasi Mavors, magna vertens; t●…ning great Things, and acting high Exploits  
☉ Sol, quasi Solus lucens, as only Shini●… or the Eye of the World, or Candle.  
♀ Venus, à Veneror, viz. Honour, and gi●… due Reverence, and to Beautify, etc.  
☿ Mercurius, quasi Merces, à merendo; sig●…fying Wages and Mercature, being the Ca●… and Author thereof.  
☽ Luna, quia aliena Luce lucet, viz. shi●… with a borrowed Light.    

CHAP. VI  
The Bosom of Nature opened, and explained; giving a Description of the Nature and Qualities of the Dark and Light Parts of the World.  
THE Explanation of this Philosophical Figure of the 7 Properties or Qualities of Nature, which are called 7 Spirits or Forms, and are vulgarly called 7 Planets, viz. 1 ♄, 2 ♃, 3 ♂, 4 ☉, 5 ♀, 6 ☿, 7 and last, ☽.  
You must observe, that the Sun is placed in the midst of them all, and from him proceedeth both Light and Darkness, as shall be demonstrated: for the ☉ is the Centre and Heart of the six Planets, and also the only Centre of the whole Earth, that is, the Light of this World.  
Jupiter, which ariseth from the first, and is the drawing Motion in the Hardness or Sharpness; ♄ makes hard, and ♃ softens it again, or breaks it; and there is a continual striving in its self, and it cuts asunder the attractive quality and desire of ♄, and brings it into multiplicity and variety; it's a ground of the bitter Pain, and also the true Root of Life, and the Strike of Fire.  
But there is a great Understanding in the Power; yet the Power cannot of his own might, awaken the Understanding.  
Mars is the third Quality; seeing it is so, that ♃ and ☿ excelleth in the Fire, therefore it denoteth the first Moving, which strikes up the Fire, which is ♂, etc. which is a Stirrer, and a Cinder of the Fire, viz. a feelingness of the breaking off the harsh Hardness, and the ground of Anguish, viz. a Flash or Lightning, wherein the Power, Colours and Virtues, do appear in these three first Qualities or Properties, and in it consisteth the Ground of Anger, Hell and Darkness.  
But now observe, that this Quality of Heat and Fire itself, cannot consist; for Fire desires Substantiality; and Fire hath no Substantiality; for Fire its self subsisteth not without Fuel to work upon; which Substantiality desires Meekness, which is Venus, and is Light or Love, that are about the Wheel.  
These 6 Properties are together, viz. ♄ ☽, ♃ ☿, ♂ ♀. So these Six are united into three substantial Qualities.  
The ☉, which is in the midst of the 6 Qualities, is the Heart and Centre of them all, and is the spiritual Fire, wherein the Will of God, or Unity is made. You read in the Scripture, that God placed his Tabernacle in the Sun: all comes from this Unity, which hath incorporated and united its self with the natural Desire: for the burning Properties of Heat, proceed from the sharp Devouringness of the first Qualities, as follows: The Unity or Freedom, is the soft and still Tranquillity, being amiable, and as a soft comfort, easy; and it cannot be expressed, how soft a Tranquillity there is without Nature, in the Unity and Freedom of God. But the▪ Qualities, in order to Nature, are sharp, painful, and terrible, etc. and all is produced by the Power and Word of God.   

CHAP. VII.  
A Platform of the Heavens, Elements and Earth; with a Demonstrati● of the 12 Signs.  
THE 12 Stars, are the 12 Signs in number● Those the Woman in the Revelatis● (which the Dragon would have devoured) wo●… upon her Head, being 12 Stars, for one number: She received 6 from the Spirit of the● World, and the other 6 she had from the Elementary Centre, which the Word, or the Eternal Centre, God created, etc. Two Numbers are come into one; for God became Man, and brought two numbers into one: she wore the Angelical Zodiac, and also the Human; and so the Image in the Revelations, had 12 Stars on her Grown; the Images represent God, and its the Similitude of God, in which he revealed himself: so those 12 Signs, or 12 Stars, are 12 Signs of the Zodiac, so called:  
♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♍ ♎ ♏ ♐ ♑ ♒ ♓  
A Figura Animalium quae in eo imaginantur▪ vel quod vitam & calorem Animalibus dare creditur.  
But of these in another place.  
From these Signs, and the 7 Properties of Nature, proceed four Elements; which are nothing else but only from the Arches of the inward Centre, viz. from the 4 Properties of Eternal Nature, and breathed out from the inward Centre, and form into a working Substance.  
Now observe the Sympathy of the 7 Properties, and the 12 Signs; they have Habitations or Places wherein they delight, which are called Houses, as in this Figure.  
These 7 Properties of Nature, have their Delights, viz. ♄, ♃, ♂, ♀, ☿, in two Houses, one for the Day, and the other for Night, marked with D for Day, and N for Night, as you see in the Table; but the ☉ only one, viz. the Sign ♌, and the ☽ only ♋; and their Workings and Operations are wonderful, and past ●inding out; in Ruling three Kingdoms, viz. Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals.   

CHAP. VIII.  
Power of the Seven Properties and ●lements of Nature; proving, that ●…ose Planets and Angels rule gra●…ally and in order, over the Minds ●nd Bodies of Mankind.  
●…is manifest, that all inferior things are sub●…t to superior Bodies; after a manner (as ●roclus) they are one in the other, viz. infe●…r superior, and superior or inferior; so in ●…eavens are things Terrestrial, but as in cause's, and in a Celestial manner: And ●… Earth are things Celestial, but after a ●…strial manner, as in effect: so here are ●n things which are Solary, and certain ●…s Lunary; the ☉ and ☽ make a strong ●…ssion of their Virtues; whence it is, that ●… kind of things receive more Operations ●…operties, than those of the Stars and before spoken of.  
●…t, ♄. Here are many things under the ●… of Saturn and his Angel; among Ele●…, are Earth, and also Water: amongst Hu●…s, black Choler, and that is moist, as well ●…las adventitious, adust chooser excepted, ●…gst Tastes, sour, tart, and dead; amongst Metals, Led, by reason of its Weight and Cold; amongst Stones, the Onyx, the Ziaza, the Camomus, the Saphir, the proud Jasper; and several Plants and Trees, which are endless to name here.  
Secondly, ♃ and his Angel; over Elements, the Air; over tumors, Blood, and the Spirit of Life; things which respect Increase and Nourishment; amongst Tastes, such as are sweet and pleasant; amongst Metals, Tin, Silver and Gold, by reason of their Temperateness; amongst Stones, the Hyacinth, Beril, Saphire, the Emerald, the green Jasper, and Airy Colours; and Power over many Herbs, etc. Corn, Barley or Wheat, etc.  
Thirdly, Under the Power of ♂, and his Angel; of Elements, Fire and sharp acid things; amongst Humours, Choler, bitter Taste, tart and burning, and causing Tears; amongst Metals, Iron and red Brass, and all ●iery, red, and sulphurous things; Stones, the Diamond, Loadstone, the Bloodstone; amongst Plants, Hellebor, Garlic, and many more.  
Fourthly, Those things under the Power of ♀ and her Angel, are called Venereal: first, of the Elements, Air and Water; amongst Humours, Phlegm, with Blood, Spirit and Seed; of Taste, those which are sweet, unctuous and delectable; of Metals, Silver and yellow Brass; of Stones, the Beryl, Chrysolite, Emerald, Saphire, the Cornelia, the Stone Aetites, the La●●ll, Coral, and all of a various white, fair, and green Colour; of Plants and Trees, the Vervain, Violet and Marygold, etc.  
Fifthly, ☿ and his Angel; first, Elements, Waters, altho' it moves all things indistinctly; as for Humours; those which are mixed with the Animal Spirits; as for Tastes, those that are various and strange, and mixed; as for Metals, Quicksilver; and, as for Stones, the Emerald and Achates, red Marble, Topaz, and those which are of divers Colours; as for Plants and Trees, the Hazel; and five leav'd-Grass, the Herb Mercury, and many others.  
Sixthly, ☉ and his Angel, over Elements, the lucid Flame; in Humours, the pure Blood and Spirit of Life; as for Tastes, that which is quick, and sweetens; over Metals, Gold, by reason of its Splendour; amongst those which resemble the Rise of Sol, by their golden Sparkles; as doth the glittering Stone Aetites, and the Stone called the Eye of the S●… so in Figure, from the middle thereof, shines forth a Rise and Governor over many Vegetables.  
Seventhly, ☽ and her Angel; Elements, Earth and Water, of the Sea and Rivers, and all moist things, in the midst of Trees and Animals; and they which are white; as Whites of Eggs, sweet Phlegm; Metals, Silver; as for Stones, those that are white and green; as also Pearl, she hath power over many Vegetables.  
Here you have but a glance of the Power of those Properties of Nature over the three Kingdoms; and as for the full Scope and Power at large, it would make a large Volume: for my intended Business, is to show you, what Power those 7 Properties and Elements have over the Bodies and Minds of Mankind. I shall only i● form you, that those Planets and Angels R●… gradually and in order, and take their turns every one hath a particular Day, and also certain Hours, as shall be shown in another place.   

CHAP. IX.  
The Situation of the Heavens and Earth, at the Creation of the Sun, Moon and Stars.  
THE Sun, Moon and Stars, were created on Wednesday, April 22, 18. h. p. m. about 4002 Years before Christ; this I understand by the ●…ews, and many Authors, of this matter; 〈◊〉 some difference is amongst them: but be●…●ere are some Philosophers in these our d●…l uncture to give the World this Form.  
Sun Moon: and: stars Created: wednesday April 22th years Before Christ 4002.  
This we may perceive, that the Body of the ●… was created in its Sphere, yet it could not ●ave Light till the Sun arose, and was created ●ith ☋, or the South-Node, as it was rising out ●f an Eternal Eclipse; out of which the Sun●●●e awakened her.  
By this Form or Outbirth, you may perceive ●●e whole Creation; and that the Earth or World which is the black Circle in the Figure, represents the Earth in which we live; so we ●ay plainly see and understand, that the whole World is composed round with the Starry Heaven and Elements: the use of which is, the Sun ●o give Light by Day, and the Moon by Night. So the Earth is as a round Ball or Apple, hanging 〈◊〉 the midst of a Glass, in the Form of a Globe.  
Then observe how the two Points are opposite to one another, viz. the Head of the Dragon, and Tail; ☊ in the Ascendant, and ☋ in the Seventh.  
Now the Learned Astrologers tell us, that the Heavens or Starry Firmament is divided into 360 Degrees, as you may see in the Circle, as ●hall be demonstrated to you at large, when we come to that Art called Astrology.  
Now we have demonstrated to you the Outbirth, viz. the Forms of the Heavens and Earth, I shall proceed in order to the fifth Work, or Day of Creation; for we could not properly call Time Night or Day, before the Sun and Moon was created; so on the fourth day, by the Pow● of the Word, the great Sol of the World ope● itself in the Essence, viz. the Life of the 〈◊〉 and watery, wherein God created all B● Fish, Fowls and Worms, every one accordi● to its Species and Forms; viz. from its pe● liar Qualites of the Divine Mercury: Thus 〈◊〉 Eternal Qualities have moved themselves, according to Evil and Good, as you may perce● by the foregoing Instrument, or Bosom of Nature, where you may see the 7 Qualities, wi● their Essences and Mixture; for there are 〈◊〉 and good Creatures created, every thing according to the Scripture Original in 〈◊〉 light of Nature; from which it is, that all Cre●tures in their Kind or Quality, do love one a●ther. Thus we may see, how the Creatures a● in the Centre, before they are in themselv● and that he knows, willeth, forseeth, and fo● ordaineth all things, and every thing together once.  
Now we are come to the last Creature, whi● is Man, the little World, and a wonderful Pi● of Wisdom, Master and Ruler over all t● Works of the Creatures, or Creation.  
Therefore I have given you, as it were, Demonstration of the great World, or Ma●cosm, and I shall speak of Microcosmos; as y● shall find in the following Book.    

THE Centre and Creation OF MAN; Astrologically, Theologically, Philosophically, and Astronomically handled. BOOK II.  

CHAP. I.  
The true Knowledge of Man, consisting of External and Internal Nature, in the Elementary World.  
POsteà dixit, faciamus Hominem ad imaginem nostram, secundum similitudinem nostram: qui dominentur in Pisces maris, & in Volucreis Coeli, & in Pecudes, & in universam Terram; que in omnia reptilia reptantia super Terr●… Itaque creavit Deus Hominem, ad imaginem quam Dei creavit eum: marem & foeminam 〈◊〉 vit eos.  
God said, Let us make Man according t●… Image; and God created Man according to his Image: And Moses says, That God made 〈◊〉 with Clay, meaning, with the Composition the Elementary Powers: for tho' Adam was 〈◊〉 first Man, yet we read, that he had his Fall t●… he had his longing and eager Desires after m●… Fancies, which brought himself to a great M●… demeanour: But of this Man Adam, I'll say 〈◊〉 more, and let the first Species alone.  
We read in Genesis, that God on the fifth d●… created all living Creatures, at one Revoluti●… of the Earth: so likewise you may observe●… one Revolution more, Adam was made.  
Now we will present you with the Opinion of Learned Philosopher, with the Paradisial ●ound and Turning of the Heavens from its ●…st Primum Mobile, viz. two days after the ☉ ●…d ☽ were created.  
adam in paradise.  
Thus Adam was created in that pleasant place ●…radise, about the year before Christ 4. 002. ●…z. on April 24. at 12 a Clock, or Midnight. ●…ow this place Paradise is in Mesopotamia, where ●…e Pole is elevated 34 deg. 30 min. and the ☉ ●…eth 4 Hours sooner, than under the elevation the Pole of London: Now our curious Rea●…r may be inquisitive concerning this matter. If you will not credit these Reasons laid d●… pray read Josephus; there you will see some●… of this matter, viz. of the first Primum M●… or moving Posture of the World, and plac●… Paradise, and Elevation of its Pole. Many ●…troversies have been about the Time and Se●… of the Year, therefore I shall not trouble Reader any further with them. Let the S●…pture be our Guide in this Matter; Let the●… (saith the Word) and there was: and also 〈◊〉 fifth days Work of the Creation, when the G●… hoppers were, and the Trees sprang out; this 〈◊〉 give us to understand, that the Time of Creation must have its beginning in the Spri●…  
Now for the place or Centre of the Ea●… from whence we may observe the Poles, as a●…mentioned in Mesopotamia, where God pl●… Adam: So the Spring is two months' soo●… there than here with us, under the Elevatio●… the Pole at London.  
But for the Ages of the World, many h●… endeavoured to satisfy; Dr. Butler for one.   

CHAP. II.  
The Egg of Generation; or, 〈◊〉 Centre of Man.  
IN the last Chapter, you have an accou●… the first Man Adam, of his wonderful C●…tion and Situation, who was in himself, Male and Female. But he who made all things by his Word and Power, said, it was not convenient for him to live alone; so there was a Division, a Woman, called Eve, who is the Matrix of the Genetrix, and thus it stands in the Eternal Will; and this is the Centre of Nature under the Elements, Man, Microcosmos, or that little World, as the Compendium of the whole Creation, partake of both these Kind's, consisting of Soul and Body, form of the Elements; Moses tells us, of the Dust of the Ground; also he partakes of an immediate Creation, with the corruptible Creatures, incontroulable in his Soul, breathed of God: therefore, in his Body he is by Nature corruptible, and his Soul immortal.  
Now we will proceed on the Words before, the Female taken out of the Male, which is for Procreation, Convocation, and Multiplication; observe the Words of Moses:  
Dixerat autem Jehova Deus, non est bonum esse hominem solum: faciam ei Auxilium commodum ipsi.  
These Words imply a Unity and Familiarity of Adam with his Female Creature; and this to Posterity. The Philosophers in these our days, are at a stand for the Reason of that Love arising between Male and Female, telling us, it's only a strong Sympathy in Nature. But of this enough. And seeing that the first Man is the first Woman, it may be convenient to demonstrate to you something of the Egg of Multiplication.  
But pray give me leave, before I run on wi●… these Demonstrations of the Human Egg of Generation, to give you a Demonstration touchi●… this Matter in Latin, from the wise Philosoph●… of Old, that the Reader may not want a suffciency to whet his Understanding on.  

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. De Generandi, aut Spermaticâ Facultate,  
GEnerandi quoque vis, partis est ejus quae ●…tioni non obtemperat: nam sine volunt●… nostra in somniis Semen emittimus, & cupidit●… Conjunctionis naturalis est; inviti enim ad eam ●…rimur: quanquàm actio sine controversia in n●… sita est, & ab anima pendet. Etenim Instrument●… quae appetitioni naturali serviunt conficitur, & ab●…tinere ab appetitione eamque comprimere, in n●… est positum. Instrumenta autem seminandi facultate praeditae Venae sunt, & Arteriae; in his eni●…per conversionem sanguinis primum humidum, qu●…ad seminis natur a vergit, ut in Mammis Lac, pr●…creatur. Horum enim vasorum alimentum hi● humor est, propterea quod à principio è semine precreata sint. Excoquunt igitur Arteriae & Ve●… Sanguinem in humidum, quod ad naturam Semi●… accedit, ut alatur: atque quod ex earum alimenu●…relinquitur, Semen fit. Fertur enim primu●… quidem multa circuitione in caput, deinde à capi●… per binas venas binasque arterias delabitur.  
Q●are si quis excidat venas, quae sunt circa aures, & parotides, Animal sterile reddit, & ineptum ad generandum; hae aut em venae & arteriae evadunt illud tort vosum, & quod instar varicum est, involuerum, quod est ad Scrotum, ubi humidum illud quod ad semen accedit labitur in utrumque Testem. Una est arteria, unaque vena plena seminis, in quibus perfectè semen perficitur, & per tortuosum prrastatem, qui secundus testis est, cum flatu depellitur; quoniam & arteria est quae mittit: ferri autem etiam à vena, libidinosa petulantia ostendit. Cum enim diu concubuerint, & id, in quo seminis vis inest & Genitalem humorem, consumpserint, tum etiam per violentam contentionem parum sanguinis emittit. Mulieres quoque omnes easdem, quas viri verè partes habent, sed intus, non extra. Aristoteles quidem, & Democritus, nihil volunt conferre Semen Mulieres ad procreationem Liberorum; quod enim mittitur à Mulieribus, sudorem potius Membri, quam semen esse volunt. Galenus verò damnat Aristotelem, ait Semen emittere Mulieres, & mixtionem utriusque Seminis Foetum efficere; quare etiam concubitum mixtionem dici: non tamen perfectum Semen, ut viri, sed adhuc crudum, & humidius. Cum autem tale sit mulieris Semen, alimentum sit utilis, & ex eo pars quaedam coriisive membranae Foetum ambientis, qui ad cornua concrescit, & quod à farciminis forma, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, nominatur; quod reliquiarum cibi Foetus dum in uteri est receptaculum sit: in unoquoque autem genere animalis, tum faemina marem admittit, cum potest concipere. Quae ergo semper possunt concipere, semper conjunctionem admittunt, ut Gailinae, & Columbae, & Homo; sed caetera du●…gravida sunt, fugiunt conjunctionem, Mulier sempe●…admittit. Nam Gallinae quidem quod quotidie 〈◊〉 pariant, quotidie ferè cum mare congrediuntur Mulieres autem ut in caeteris rebus, voluntate su●… libera; ita etiam in concubitu post conceptionen Nam bestiae non à seipsis, sed à natura diriguntu●… & modus eye tempusque definitum, Naturae leg●… statutum est.   
Notwithstanding their high Learning, they are in the Dark, as the Quaker saith; but An●…stotle in some of his Works, owns, that Wome●… have Eggs. No more of this, but I shall proceed in my former Method.  
If the method be observed in the knowledge of Generation, we may be confident we have arrived at the Principles themselves; and then will appear out of what first Matter, by wh●… Efficient, and what Possession the Plastic Pow●… hath its Original; and then also, what progres●… Nature makes in this Work: for both the fir●… and remote Matter appear the clearer (being stripped naked as it were) by Negation; an●… whatsoever is first made in Generation, that as it were the material Cause of that which succeedeth; as for Example, a Man was first Boy (because from a Boy he grew up to a Man before he was a Boy, he was an Infant; and before an Infant, he was an Embryo.  
Now we must search further, what he was 〈◊〉 his Mother's Womb, before he was an Embryo●… Foetus; whether their Bubbles, or some rude and indigested Lump, or a Conception, or Coagulation of mixed Seed, or whether any thing else? According to the Opinion of Writers, an Egg or Eggs is the first Centre or Production under the Elements, of the Beginning of Man: so we come all from Eggs, etc. a Description of which, I will demonstrate at large in the following Chapter.   

CHAP. II.  
A Description of the Human Egg; or, the Matrix of the Centre of Generation.  
SEeing the Figures of Human Eggs are exemplificated to your View, we will in this Chapter speak something in particular concerning the Body of Man, of his Formation, and some of his Parts.  
It's well known, that the Soul's Bodily Union, and Conception in the Soul, is performed, or comes to pass after this manner: beneath in the Matrix, the Woman hath no Seed; but each side of her Womb hath many little Eggs, every one of which hangs by a small Filament: and these are born with her, and are found in all Female Creatures.  

Figure I.  
Look upon the Figure, and behold the Matria of Conception, or Store-House of Multiplication; those Eggs appear as they at the Tread of a Cock in the Hen's Egg, or as the Spawn of a Fish, in little rude Lumps or Spots.  
In the Cohabitation of Man and Wife together, after the spiritual Seed being united, or implanted in the Egg, and it hath received them; the said Egg doth, through its Ductus or Pipe, slip down, or off, from the said Lump of Eggs, into a certain Cavity, as Nature hath provided, in order to its being further accomplished there; as you may see by the Figures following.   

Fig. II.  
Represents two human Eggs of a differe●● bigness, being separated from the Egg, Lump, or Centre of Generation: two Eggs represent Twins; but one Egg, one Child.   

Fig. III.  
Represents an Embryo of 6 Days after Conception.  
A represents to the Eye, the inward part of the Membranes, Chorion and Amnion, being imperfectly form, and in which there is as yet no appearance of the Hepar Uterinum.  
B represents an Embryo, in which may be seen the distinction of the Head from the Body, but no delineation of any other Parts.   

Fig. IU.  
Represents an Embryo of 18 Days after Conception.  
A, the Hepar Uterinum, with the Veins and Arteries, which are dispersed through the Substance of the Membrane.  
BBBB, the Membrane Chorion, dissected.  
CCCC, the Membrane Amnion, dissected in like manner.  
D, the Navel-String.  
E, an Embryo, of 15 or 16 Days, in which the Face gins to appear more distinctly, and the rest of the Members are somewhat form and distinguished.   

Fig. V.  
Represents to the Eye, a grisly Skeleton of an Embryo, of three Weeks and three Days.   

Fig. VI  
Represents an Embryo of one month four days.  
A, the whole grisly Bulk of the Head, showing the grisly Points of both the upper and nether Jawbone.  
BB, the Clavicula, now all Bone.  
CC, the Point of the Ossification of the Shoulder Blades.  
DD, the wit Strokes defiguring the Ossisication of the Shoulders.  
EE, the white Strokes, showing the Ossisication of the Arm-Bone.  
FF, these white Points in all the Reds, except the first and last, do denote the Ossification already begun in them.  
GG, the Thigh-bones, representing what is Bone in them.  
HH, the greater and lesser Bone of the Leg clearly represented, and already of the Boney-Substance.   

Fig. VII.  
Shows an Embryo of two Months, which differs not from that of three months and 10 days, but only in bigness; and the lesser Bones, as was before hinted, are to be seen here; which in the other, did not as yet appear.  
A doth exhibit the inferior Jawbone, distinguished into 6 little Bones.  
Thus far we have shown you the beginning of Generation, from the Ouum, or Egg, how the Growth and Perfection moves along by degrees; as you may see in the Figure of Human Eggs. And seeing it's not my business here to discourse through the whole Body of Anatomy, therefore (kind Reader) I refer thee to an useful Compendium of Anatomy of mine in Latin, which will give you a full satisfaction of all at large, and in particular of the Eggs in Women, entitled, Compendium Anatomicum, nova Methodo institutum; which may be had of most Book sellers in London.  
But because here is not yet a full demonstration of the Features in the Womb, I will present to your View, from the Beginning of the Skeleton or Boney Parts, a Figure of the Infant in the Womb come to Perfection, out of my foresaid Book; and also its coming into the World, with its Afterbirth, etc.   

Figura Prima,  
Situationem Foetus in Utero representat.  
A Caput deor sum positum, adeo ut Nasus inter genua lateat.  
BB Nates, quibus Calces affixi inveniuntur.  
CC Brachia.  
D Chorda umbilicalis, Cervicem circumligata.   

Figura Secunda representat,  
Foetum ex Utero exceptum, sed adhuc Placentae ligatum; uhi Vasa Umbilicalia separantur.  
AAA, Abdomen abscissum.  
B, Hepar. C, Vesica urinaria.  
DD, Intestina: E, Venae umbilicales.  
FF, Arteriae umbilicales: C, Urachus.  
H, Vasa umbilicalia unita; & communi tunica investita.  
L, Funiculus umbilicalis, ad Placentam extendens.  
KKKK, Venae & Arteriae per placentam dispersa.  
LLL, Uteri Placenta.   

Figura Tertia,  
Embryonem in propria dimensione monstrat.  
A, Os latum, cum Lingua.  
B, Chorda umbilicalis.  
C, Faemora & crura, cum Coccyge.  
D, Quasi Caudae aspectum praebens.  
Thus I have given you by Figures, the whole Generation, both Bone and Flesh, and something of Desection of the Infant.  
But I must turn back a little again, to the Boney-Part, because I just now call to mind the Say of some Philosophers, touching this same Subject concerning Bones, derived from Scripture, That Eve was made out of a Bone or Rib; because the Central Spirit has its residence in the Bones, they being the first Product or Outbirth of the said Spirits.  
The Query is, Whether it will not follow from hence, That the Bones are the first material Being, which we may call Semen; from which the Flesh, as from a Spring or Fountain, doth continually proceed, and to which it must by Revolution, return again, in order to Perfection?  
It is further Queried, what the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Tzela, doth properly signify; of which it's said, Gen. 2. That the Woman was made. Seeing that it hath several Significations, viz. a Bone, Prop or Support; a Rib, a Side, a Foundation, a Building, etc. If you think that it was a Rib-Bone, we would willingly know which it was, and on which Side the Rib was taken, because the Ribs are fastened to the sides of the Vertebrae of the Backbone, and most of them are joined together by Cartilages, to the Sternum or Brest-bone; or, forasmuch as the Word also signifies a Beam, or any thing that is a Supporter or Prop; where if we take it in this sense, it can signify nothing but the whole Backbone of a Man, which bears up the whole Body in like manner, as Beams support a Building: moreover, whether, for to reconcile all these several Meanings together, we ought not to inquire, Whether the mid Part or Point, and the very Centre of the whole Backbone and the Ribs, which are united to it; forasmuch as this Centre is that out of which Eve was made, etc. For we may easily know, that all the rest of the Bones in Man, proceed from this Centre, the Backbone; because it is ridiculous to think, that an Embryo in the Mother's Womb, doth first begin to have Arms and Legs in 16 days after Conception: whether I may not say, after a d●… weighing of all this, we may conclude, that Eve was made out of the very Centre of the whole Body of Man.  
Now many may say, Is the Egg of a Woman in the Form of a Hen's Egg? We say, No; but a Resemblance. But the main Reason here, that I present you with an Egg in the Form of a Hen's Egg, is, because of that famous Author Fabricius, who saith, That the Contemplation of the Forming of the Foetus out of Eggs, is the largest of all; which appears in this, That the greatest part of Animals are gotten of Eggs.  
It's a plain case therefore, that all Animals whatsoever, even Vipers also, nay, Man himself, are made of an Egg: and that the first Conception of all living Creatures which bring forth Young, are certain Eggs; just as the first Conception of all Plants, are certain Seeds: but what is common, is not admired. Observe, put the smallest Seed in its own Matrix, or Mother-Earth, and it springs up, and brings forth its own kind.  
But O Man! thy place of Conception or Increase, is on thy Lump of Female Eggs. Cast thy Eye on the Figure of the Egg, and thou wilt see in the middle, a parcel of rude Lumps or Spots, as it were in the form of the Female Row of a Herring, which is the true resemblance of the Lump of Eggs in Women.  
The true method of Conception, is thus: That when the Seed of Man is spilt on this rude Lump, or Eggs in Women, it washeth off, or moves those little Eggs, one from the other: and as Nature has provided, it falls into a small Cavity, or place by itself; the place being open when the Egg falls off, but when it's in, it closeth up again. Thus Nature has its Effects; and in this place, the Foetus grows to perfection, and it's composed round with a Covering, like the Shell of a Hen's Egg; the Midwife commonly calls it the Afterbirth, when it comes into the World.  
Further, look again on the Figure of the Egg, and you will see the Elements round it, viz. the 7 Properties of Nature, with the four Triple States, viz. Fire, Air, Earth, Water; also you have Signs wherein the seven Planets or Properties of Nature delight in: than you have a description of the Nature of them. As for Example ♀ F, which signifies that Venus is a Female; and then concerning ♂, has the Letter M, which tells you that ♂ is Masculine; and so of the rest.  
So the Matrix, or the Ovary Lump and the and the Seed of Man, are all Elements, and under the Power of the 7 Properties.  
Be wise, O Reader! and learn the Nature of the Heavenly Bodies, and thou shalt do Wonders, without Conjuration. If thou want'st an Heir or Manchild to inherit thy Land, observe a time when the Masculine Planets and Signs Ascend, and in full Power and Force, then take thy Female, and cast in thy Seed, and thou shalt have a Manchild.  
Observe the same method with the Female Signs and Planets, for a Daughter, and so on.  
It's not my business here to meddle or speak of the Nourishment of the Foetus in the Womb, or the Birth, because my Task is Elementary.  
But if you please to read my Compendium Anatomicum, you will have a brief Account of the Oval Nourishment, and Birth of a Child, from the Conception to the Birth; Fabricius concerning his Oviary or Hen's Eggs, Dr. Gibson concerning Eggs of Rabbits, Dr. Willis concerning Brutes or Animals.  
An Egg is the common Original of all Animals. Aristotle himself calls the very same things Worms in one place, and Eggs in another.  
But it is needless to make use of his Reasons in this place, to prove it; seeing we are already convinced, that all Animals have their Original from these Eggs; and by the Experiments of our later Authors in this Particular, it's plain, that Man (tho' chief) was engendered in, or by them.  
Observe the same by Dr. Harvey, Dr. Gibson, etc. they give us an Example of the Eggs of Women by the Rabbits, by dissecting them before Conception, and at Conception; and so by degrees, to perfection. But my main business is, to show how the Foetus is governed in the Womb, by the Elementary Power: I will give you the Opinion of Henricus Lindhout, Bruxellensi Medicinae Doctore; ac Philosophorum.    

CHAP. III.  
How the Foetus in the Womb is governed, according to the Elementary Power of the Seven Properties of Nature, and every one in Order; as first, ♄. etc.  
♄ ITaque supremus omnium Planetarum, primo Conceptum dirigit per primum mensem ab hora Conceptionis, materiam coagulat, constringit & exsiccat; sicut enim ipsa altior est caeteris Planetis, & prior, ita ejus Regimen primo Creaturam humanam ambit & gubernat. Si itaque ipse tum benè dispositus fuerit; erit Conceptio benè disposita & statuta, praesertim partes sive Foetus Elementa Saturno subjecta.  
♃ Disponit Conceptum in utero secundo mense; qui movet ventus coagulationis; & dispondit matetiam, ut fiat mollis; dirigitque ventus ejus colorem naturalem & commiscetur cum tali vento materia, eritque quasi Dormiens, qui semper monitur ad vigiliam, nec cessabit moveri donec forma totius accedat & in hunc Mundum Generetur.  
♂ Mars, disponit Conceptum tertio mense, qui materiam illam ad sui naturam & colorem mutat, in formam sanguinis deducendo, virtusque Jovis tunc latitat & quiescit; hinc fit, quod utero gerens tunc habeat propter ventus Jovis moventin Matricem cum materia in ea; sed in utero terus ferè mense semper cessat nausea propter Martem, qui tertium ipsum mensem dirigit: si it aque tunc benè fortunatur, eratque sanguis nati purus, & vix ac rarissimè super abundans nisi fortè propter vitam inordinatam. Si vero male ipse disponitur, contrarium accidit.  
☉ Oculus Mundi quartum mensem sibi vendicat, qui benigno & salutari suo calore humiditate superfluas siccatis Membra Principalia conformat calore qua rarificat: illo etenim mense largitur omnium formarum fortitudinem, in Conceptum dando animam rationalem. Si igitur in quarto mense Sol ascendit ad augem, fueritque in dignitatibus suis fortis, significat perfectionem & formosiatem vultus, quoniam tunc etiam natus erat magne potentiae eorum quae jam est adeptus.  
♀ Disponit quinto mense, illo enim mense apparet forma Membrorum & figuratur sexus, eriguntur que capilli, & excrescunt crines; Si ipsa tunc fuerit benè disposita, fortis, in dignitate sui, erit natus formosus, amicabilis, & plenus dulcedine, completus in fancy & Membris; Si verò fuerit descendens, vel in domicilio Saturni, Natus erit deformis & turpis.  
☿ Sextum Mensem disponit; sed quia ipse e●… Planeta loquentiae & sapientiae, Doctrinae, sensus, ac nutritionis facit discretionem, ut Foetus se nutriat, & extendit Membrum Linguae, & vocalem Arteriam ea ratione; Foetus eo mense validius incipit percutere manibus pedibusque in Matrice, & motus ejus fortificatur, appetitque exire de tenebris; sed nondum est tempus. Si ipse fuerit ascendens in Circulo suo, fortis, & benè dispofit us, variis exornatur donis, secundum varias irradiationes bonorum Planetarum, sin vero, contra contraria accident.  
☽ Luna mense septimo; tunc Foetus formam completum adipiscitur in utero materno, habebit tunc fiduciam vitae & gubernationis; si isto mense nascatur puer, erit bona spes de vita nati, propter complementum significationum Planetarum.  
Now to begin again; first to Saturn, than Jupiter.  
Saturnus secundario Foetum mense octavo dirigit; cujus virtute ipse infrigidatur in Matrice vis seminum, ita quod vix in ea apparent motus; & si puer eo mense exibit, eo quod siccus & congelatus quasi est, sepissimé moritur.  
Jupiter sequitur, dirigitque Foetus nono in mense; qui facit ventum & motum, & tunc exit puer de tenebris & angustia ventris in hunc Mundum, erigitque tum Oculos ad lumen Solis, si est de die; vel ad lumen Candelae, si fuerit de nocte; miraturque de non visis, & propter loci angustiam per quem exit: quoniam constringitur & coarctatur. Incipit flere, percipiens miseriam hujus Terrestris Seculi, in quo hic filius universi sit, omiumque miseriarum subictum; ut Xenocrates in libro de morte, Axiocho recte dixerat.— Quid autem de illo (inquit) tibi videtur qui Nascentem jubet miseriam sua vitae lugere?  
Atque haec de Mundi Principiis, & Creatione, deque hominis principiis, & vertutibus siderum, actionibusque, in ejus procreatione; long aliter quam à Paracelso, aut ejusdem farinae Philosophis tradita sunt, persecuti sumus; in hac itaque via persistentes, ad veriora progrediendum est.  
So much for the Creation of the great, and and little Worlds.  
But to go gradually along as I have begun, I ought to speak something of the Nature of Man, De Natura Hominis; but I find it's a large Field, insomuch that I shall forbear, and make it a Subject of itself, which will be ready for the Press very speedily.  
Seeing Man by Nature is prone to Ambition, and of a lofty Mind, and apt to dive into Knowledge and secret Mysteries; it might be very proper in this place, to give you a word or two, as an Introduction towards my present Task in Hand, viz. We have observed in this our Elementary Life, many certain and true Rules, by which we have foretold Events to come, etc. by the Canopy of Heaven and Stars, according to their Situation.  
Now finding many Fools and Self-willed People, that will not believe what is true or ●ational, or what has been experienced from the beginning of the World.  
So I am not willing here to trouble myself about any Vindication of this great Work, but direct you to that famous Sir Christopher Heydon's Vindication of Astrology, which may be to your con●ent.  
But for your further satisfaction, I have in the following Chapter, begun from the beginning, by the first Man Adam, down to this Day, very short and brief; showing you, first, that Adam was the first Man that took notice of the Elements, Power and Signification of the Seven Properties of Nature.  
You may see in the next Chapter, how they of Old did observe the Seven Properties of Nature, in observing the ill Nature of Saturn, and the good Nature of Jupiter, because he was Author of Goodness; the old Hebrews called some of their Children by that Name Jupiter; Jacob's Wife called her Son Gad, which is Jupiter, because he is to give a good brisk share of Body, and a good Principle; this was observed in old time, proved by Scripture.  
In the third place, we have taken notice of Eleven Particulars, where we find by general Observations, the Changes and Turn in this Box of Elements, of Preservation and Destruction, etc.  
Then fourthly, We prove to you, that the Starry Heavens are Books, and they are to be rolled together, in which you may read your future Hope and Fortune in the World; thereby showing you also, that the Hebrews and others, read the Heavens in their own Language, making up their Letters by the motion of the Stars.  
So the main reason, why I thus trouble myself about the Hebrews, and Old Matters, is only to convince the Ignorant what the Truth is.  
Many there be that will not believe, that they are under the Power of the Canopies of Heaven.  
Alas! our Saviour Christ himself, was (as Man) under the Jurisdiction of the Elements: so your Bodies must be under subjection of those Powers.  
But if you desire to know how to be above the Elements in your Mind, Will, and Understanding, strive to be as Saul when he sought his Father's Asses, Sam. 10. 6. And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt Prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another Man, viz. above the Elements.  
Irruetque super te, ut prophetes cum eyes, & muterberis in virum alium.   

CHAP. IU.  
Adam's Knowledge of the Stars, proved by Seth, and so carried down to the Time of Josephus.  
ADam being the first Man, knew well that he was placed under the Elements, and he observed their Powers also.  
This is proved by Josephus, that Adam and Seth were the first that practised this Science, or Power of the Elements; and that Abraham, when he fled into Egypt, taught it the Egyptians: this Truth hath so much the more force in it, in that it proceedeth from a Man whose Authority is unquestionable; so that we may perceive, that Pliny was much mistaken, when he affirmed, that none but Atlas was the Author of it: Besides, we are very certain, that Astrology was in use long before Atlas. Some say, that B●lus was the first that invented Astrology, and some assure us, the Phaenicians were the Men. But suppose it be so as others will have it, the Assyrians were the Inventors of it; yet still will it be true, that the Patriarches were the Men, forasmuch as Abraham was an Assyrian, and his Predecessors were Phaenicians, a Colony of Assyrians having gone into Phoenicia. But if you will believe the Report of the two Pillars, which were erected before the Flood, upon one of which, all the Rules of Astrology was Engraven by Seth, and was preserved down to the very time that Josephus lived in, who affirms himself to be an Eye-witness of it: and by this we may see, that the first Man had understanding in the Motions of the Heavens. In my foregoing Chapters, I have described to you, what Instruments the ancient Hebrews figured out their Astrology by, and the Table of Atlas discovered.   

CHAP. V.  
The Astrology of the Ancients, proved out of the Holy Scripture.  
FOR consirmation then of what we have here proposed, we read in Genesis, that Leah, Jacob's Wife called one of her Sons by the name of the Planet ♃, which is called Gad; under which no doubt, he was born: Et peperit Zilpah, says the Latin, following the Original, ancilla Leah ipsi Jacob filium, & ait Leah, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Bagad, & vocavit nomen ejus Gad; the vulgar Translaslation and St. Hierome, instead of Bagad translate Faeliciter, which is the same with, cum bona Fortuna: as it is proved by St. Augustine, who reprehendeth those that collected from the Text, that the Ancients worshipped Fortune; Unde videtur (saith he) non bene intelligentibus dari tanquam illi homines Fortunam, coluerint, etc. And that it may clearly and evidently appear, that the vulgar Translation understands by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Gad, fortuna bona, which is given to the Planet Jupiter; turn to Isaiah 65. 11. Thus you may observe, that in old time the nature of the Planets was much observed.  
Now if it be demanded, why do we not then any where else, meet with the like Example? Jacob Ben Samuel answered, That this was observed chief, by reason of the Jealousy that was between the two Sisters Leah and Rachel, Jacob's Wives; for Leah seeing that her Sister had two Children already, which made her so proud, that she began to boast, Comparavit me Deus cum sorore mea: fearing, lest that after she should have given over Childbearing, her Sister would have the upperhand of her, and that she should be no longer beloved of her Husband; she gave her Maid unto him, and caused him to go in unto her; and as soon as she perceived her to be with Child, she observed so well the time of her falling in Travel; and seeing her bring forth a Manchild, and that under the Planet ♃ too, as she had learned from her Husband to speak, she counted herself to be more happy than her Sister, and would have him to be called by that name, Fortuna.  
These are the Astrological Observations of these Patriarches, and which were Holy and Religious, in that they wrought in these good Men a continual Admiration of the Works of God.  
But those that came after them, mixed Superstition with this Astrology of their Forefathers; it came in a short time to be corrupted, and to lose its first Purity.  
You see in the very Beginning, that there was Enquiry after Fortune and Riches.   

CHAP. VI  
An Enquiry what our Forefathers did, to search out Secrets and Wisdom in this Elementary Life, and to know Events to come.  
First, KNowledge proceeds from Him who first created all things, who appeared in a Bush of Fire, and told us what he was, viz. I am your God, etc.  
Secondly, He sends his Angels and bright Spirits, to tell us of things to come in this our Elementary Life.  
Thirdly, We are come now to take notice of the Canopy of Heaven, and the Elements, for our Observation, or Knowledge of Things to come. Here is a question; Whether it's possible to read any things in the Clouds, and in other Meteors? Answ. Many ways; first, Reading may be understood by Visible Signs, whether it be in Letters, Characters, Marks, cyphers, Staves, Torches, Darts, Javelins, Knots, Streaks, Colours, Holes, Points, living Creatures, or any other sensible thing. Now all those Figures or Signs may be represented in the Clouds three manner of ways; first, By Letters, or known Characters; secondly, By Hieroglyphics; and lastly, By Signs and Marks.  
Fourthly, The most intelligible Signs, Marks, or Characters, that are Figured in the Clouds, are Armed Men, Battles, etc. which appear in order for many Days together, and do give notice to Man of some sensible Event to come, and that to the great astonishment of all those Men that would reduce all things to the Principles of Philosophy. Twenty-four Years before the Birth of our Saviour Christ, there were two Armies seen to encounter each the other in the Air, miraculous to be seen: the running of their Horses, the voice of Men, and the clashing of their Armour. Soon after was this Vision made known to the World: for Marius and Sylla, by their Factions, making as it were a Shambles of the Field, were the cause of so much Bloodshed (Joseph. de Bel. Jud. l. 7. c. 12.) The Romans never received a greater Blow.  
Many such Instances we may speak of ne●… home, but I am afraid my Book will swell too big  
The Philosopher gives us these Verses to the same effect:  
Qui elles se forment, en cet divers portraicts doubt,  
Les ventes, les transforment  
En Centaurs, Serpens, Hommes, oyse aux poissons,  
Et d'une form, en autre errent en cent Fasons.  
Englished thus:  
How into several Forms themselves they throw,  
Which Winds change into Shapes of things below;  
Birds, Fishes, Serpents, Centaurs, Men, and thus  
Shift, in a round of Figures various.  
Fifthly, Observation of Knowledge is from the Air, the Clouds being a Representation of things here below, and consequently purely natural, and are form by the Providence of God. Of this latter Kind, are those spoken of by the Author of the History of the Maeccabees, where Judas fight in Heaven's Quarrel, had an Apparition sent him, of five Horsemen appearing in the Air, which pursued his Enemies strongly, that above 20000 fell on the place; besides, this Prodigy happened also in a clear day, when the Air was not darkened with Clouds. So, I may be of the opinion with Cardan and Pomponatus; that oftentimes, we may see in the Air or Cloud, as in a Looking-glass.  
Sixthly, Now we come to that of Rain, wherein we can make no other use of Reading, but by Hieroglyphics; and of this kind is the Raining of Blood, or Water of the Colour of Blood, such as fell in Switzerland, Anno 1534. which fell upon People's clothes in the form of Crosses.  
Picus Mirandula hath given a large Copy of Verses; among which, you have the Story of a wonderful Deliverance, as followeth:  
Permixtamque crucem rubo spectavimus olim,  
Nec morum discrimen erat, sacer atque prophanus,  
Jam conspecta sibi gestabant mystica; Patres  
Conscripti & pueri, conscriptus sexus utraque,  
Et Templae, & Vestes, à summa Caesaris aula,  
Ad tenues vicos, ad dura mapalia ruris,  
Cernere erit liquidò deductum ex Aethere signum.  
The same kind of Rain figured like Crosses, which happened in the time of Julian the Apostate; it signified, the Sufferings of the Church, and the Ignominy of the Cross, as you may see in the Chronicle for several Years, as 747, 783, 959, 1503, 1507. you shall find, the like has been the Forerunner of such Truths. It hath been observed in Germany, that an intolerable Dearth happened, to despair; they were suddenly comforted by a Shower of Wheat, which was 〈◊〉 to fall from the Clouds, signifying a great plenty of Corn.  
Seventhly, Also Meteors, tho' they are naturally produced, do yet sometimes serve for Sig●… which God makes use of when he intendeth t● communicate unto us some Secrets. As for the Wonders of the Israelites, they were in Hebre● Letters or Characters; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Vaughan, very perfectly expressed: and this was the reason, (say they) that the Israelites wondering at this Character 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vau, saying one to another, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Manh●n, viz. What meaneth this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Vau? and so on to a thousand Mysteries, and raising strange kinds of Significations, Exod. 6. When they saw this Letter, which is numb. 6, signifying, that six days of the Week, they were to gather their Manna.  
This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vaughan signifies, the Misery and Sorrow wherewith God threatened them for Murmuring; they say, it's the Hieroglyphic of Labour & Servitude, appears out of Levit. 25. Exod. 21. and signifies Labour; they were to work six days.  
The Meteors or Signs in the Heavens, have produced great things in these our Days; but being frequent, I shall not mention them. But the Observation of the Jews is something pretty.  
Eighthly, Snow, Hail and Fro●t, do sometimes bear strange Characters, the Reading whereof we will not neglect: There have been often seen, strange Figures, which have born a Cross, a Buckler, a Heart, or a Death's Head. It's not many years since those Hieroglyphical Figures were seen in Provence; and soon after a destruction of Beasts: and a little while after that, this miserable Country had their Fields covered with Soldiers, and all their strong Places Besieged and Assaulted, with so much Bloodshed, that the very Memory of it will be always grievous unto them. The Story of these Figures confirms that which Cornelius Gemma hath obobserved, in these words, Inventa est saepius Grando cui futurarum rerum manifest ê ut more Clypei, aut Pugnae, aut Crucis insculpta imagines spectarentur. Kepler hath observed, that the Snow is not without its Wonders: but no more of this.  
Ninthly, The Rainbow, one of the most Noble Meteors that is form in the Clouds, namely, that the Figure of it (as R. Capel says) represents the Letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Caph, which the Jews writes in this manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, which might be the reason why God placed it in the Heavens, to be a sorrowful Memorial of the Deluge; for this Letter stands for 20, which is the number of Sorrow. Jacob served in Laban's House 20 Years; Joseph was sold for 20 Pieces of Silver; the flying Roll, wherein was written the Sins of all Men, and was 20 Cubits long; and at 20 years of Age the Israelites began to serve in the Wars.  
Helena in Homer, complained of her own Misfortune, takes notice of this number 20. 
Quatuor hic jam lustra moror, quò tempore nunquam  
Iratus misera mihi verba indigna dedisti.   
Also the Poets, when they expressed any thing of Sorrow, in this Number 20. Thus Ulysses is reported, to have undergone 20 years' Misfortune.  
Quosque tuli, post tot Terrae Pelagique labores,  
In patriam veni, jam nunc labentibus annis Vicenis.  
Many more of the like nature are produced by Bungus.  
Tenthly, Comets are the chiefest, which are in use in the Discovery of such Secrets, which is usually the Death of Princes. Julius Caesar died shortly after the appearance of a Comet; this is no News: But we may take an Example of this present Time, where effects of a Comet is fresh in mind; I saw myself, with many others, a strange Comet but two days before the Duke of Monmouth was taken in the West, and a Blazing Star over all Europe, before the Death of K. Charles II. These are the true Signs, which God is pleased to foretell of great Troubles to come.  
I will give you the words of Virgil. 
— Non aliàs Coelo toties cecidere sereno  
Fulgura, nec diri toties arsere Cometae.   
They do not only respect Death of Kings and Princes, but also of great and mortal Diseases, Drought, and Barrenness of Fruit, a strange Heat in the Air.  
Eleventhly, Here is another sort of Reading, which might be performed in the Air; first, it may be taken from the flying of Cranes; of which St. Jerom saith, Grues viam sequuntur ●●dine literato; flying in order, and keeping their Ranks: at an instant that the Wind turns, by this means they defend themselves from Assaults; for on which side the Eagle comes, he encounters with nothing but Bills; just as a Body of Horse setting upon a Body of Foot, meets with ●othing but Points and Pricks.  
Now the Letters and Forms, shows us only the diversity of the Winds, or else their manner of ordering themselves in Battle; the History of Birds and Fowls of the Air, is wonderful in knowledge and Apprehension, too large for ●is Place.  
But meeting with a Verse of Ovid, touching this matter, I must go on further. Many call Ovid a Heathen; if so, he was a witty one.  
Os Homini sublime dedit, Coelumque videre  
Jussit, & erectos ad sidera tollere Vultus.  
God with a lofty Look did Man endue,  
Commanding him the Heavens and Stars to view.  
Observation hath been taken, from the meeting together of the two Superior Properties of Nature, viz. ♄ and ♃, in matters of the Church, Laws and Governments, which may well be the Alteration of Kings, Prince's 〈◊〉 Governments, etc. being Seven in number.  

The first meeting of ♄ and ♃ from the beginning of Times, was in 600 years of the world, viz. 3200 before Christ.  
The second was in the year of the World 1600.  
The third did fall out 2400, which was 1600 years before Christ.  
The fourth, in the year 3200 of the World.  
The fifth, the coming of Christ 4000 years of the World.  
The sixth falls out in 800 years after Christ which was 4800 years of the World.  
And the seventh was 1600 years after Christ.   
Now the Effects or Wonders of them, are, 〈◊〉 First, Under Enoch; his name signifies (Catechised) as, Gen. 14. 14. (Chanikan,) Catechised or Trained up in Religion as well as Warfare●… he was taught of God to walk with God; he ●…ved 360 years before his Translation, after good pleasing Life; he was as the Patriar●… were, viz. as a chief Bishop in his time; and 〈◊〉 his Labours the Church was preserved in 〈◊〉 Age.  

The second Meeting of ♄ and ♃.  
This fell in the time of Noah, 1600 years of the World; in which Century the Universe Deluge destroyed the wicked World, whi●… than was drowned in Wickedness; before it was drowned in Water. Noah was in his Ark a who●e year, with all his Provisions, from November to November again.   

The third Meeting of ♄ and ♃, in ♌.  
Falls in the year of the World 2400, under Moses, when the Church had again another Sabbath of Rest, from her long and grievous Slavery in the Brick Bondage of Egypt. Read the Scripture of the place, and you will find, that they were to make Brick without Straw.   

The fourth Meeting of ♄ and ♃,  
Falls in the 3200 years of the World; this Meeting came under Solomon and the King of Israel; according to the famous Tycho Brahe, the Church had a resting time from Trouble, etc. the Scripture tells you so.   

The fifth Meeting of ♄ and ♃.  
Under this, came our Saviour Christ, who is greater than great Solomon, Mat. 12. 42. He is the Prince of Peace: This was a little more than 4000 years of the World.   

The sixth Meeting of ♄ and ♃,  
Falls in the year of the World 4800, that brought in Charles the Great; under whom was the Roman Empire, in the time of Leo III being Pope, who prostituted his Keys to the Emperor's Feet: for which the Popish People pulled out his Eyes, and cut off his Tongue. Read the History, Prideauxes Introduct. p. 96.   

The seventh Meeting of ♄ and ♃.  
There are a parcel of irrational Animals, which speak very scandalously against Predictions; they say, That we can speak nothing true of things to come, unless told of it before, or when they are passed.  
Now let the World judge, and speak as they find; in the Year 1682, I then published a Book, Entitled, Speculum Mundi, in which are now to be seen, the very Actions of these great Revolutions. It being then my chief intention, to discover to the World, those great things Providence was probably likely to bring to pass, from the Influences of the Meeting of the two great and superior Being's, the two Rulers of the World, viz. ♄ and ♃, and likewise from the great Eclipses of the ☽, in Anno 1684, such an Eclipse hath not been these hundred Years, and at that present time so many Planets in the House of Religion. Then in pag. 2, you will find, I cried out with Admiration and Astonishment, with the words of Dionysius Areopagita, who seeing the strange Eclipses of the ☉ and ☽, at the very hour of our Saviour's Passion, saying,  
Aut Deus Naturae patitur, aut Mundi machina dissolvitur!  
Which is, either the God of Nature suffers, or the Frame of this World is dissolved.  
So in pag. 4. I delivered my Judgement, that here would be great Alterations in most parts of Europe, of Laws, Customs, Constitutions of People in Matters of Religion, and Changing of Kings and Kingly Government.  
And is not this all true! Were not the Popish Principles the root or cause of these Mutations and Changes? And did not a Prince come from Holland with a handful of Men comparatively, to that brave Army of K. James'? And when this handful of Men came towards them, they all fled as the Chaff before the Wind; and to Admiration, K. James himself fled to France, when none persuaded him from his three Kingdoms; and then (soon after) the Prince of Orange was Crowned King of England.  
O that such things should be done without a drop of Bloodshed! Surely Reader, this is from the Powers above; and the Powers above gave us a foresight of it by the Rulers ♄ and ♃.  
This hath been so admirable, that our Athenians have taken notice of in their Book, in ask a Question, Whether a small irrational Creature as a Spider, had not a Heart? Because, when Death or Oppression comes, it struggles, and makes a bustle to save its self; intimating, that K. James neither strove nor struggled, to save his three Kingdoms or Credit. This was a Comical Joke on the poor Abdicated K. James.  
Observe the following things; After the Death of K. Charles, the Popish Party began to Rule, and quickly after suppressed, and cut off the Head of the Duke of Monmouth: then the Prince and Princess of Orange was Crowned King and Queen of England; and not long after Queen Mary died, with a long and tedious War of nine Years standing: so this Revolution is a wonder to human Reason; the Circumstances whereof would fill a large Volume.  
As for the small Conjunctions, I leave to the Astrologers, which happen once in 20 Years.    

CHAP. VII.  
The Stars are reckoned a Form of Letters, according to the Opinion of the Hebrews, and that it's possible to read there whatsoever is to happen throughout the whole Universe.  
REader, did you never take notice of the Celestial Writing, seeing that the Scripture so plainly speaks of it?  
Pray take notice of this curious piece of Antiquity: Seeing that the Heavens are Books, and at the last day, they are to be rolled together, as a Book or Rolls; therefore they must have Letters. And I am willing to give you the method of the ways of the Old Hebrews, who searched after the Heavenly Writing for News.  
And for confirmation of this, observe a Book, Entitled, Narratio Joseph, in his time highly in esteem amongst all Men; wherein the Patriarch Jacob gave his Blessing to all his Children, telling them, That he had read in the Tables of the Heavens, all that ever was to befall them and their Posterity. Legi (saith he) in Tabulis Coeli quaecunque contingent vobis, & filiis vestris. Where the same Original concludes as well in this Tract, as in this Question, Utrum Stellae aliquid Agant? as in his Book, De Facto, chap. 6. That the greatest Mysteries may assuredly be read in the Heavens, by reason that the Stars are disposed and ordered there, in the Form of Characters. Nay, John Damascene says, That they are CLEAR MIRRORS; intimating, that we may see distinctly see there, even as far as to the most secret motions of our Souls, which was the Saying of St. Augustine.  
For my part, I shall not question the Truth of it, but proceed to the Practical Part, as the Hebrews did in their Hebrew Characters: This Holy Language being the first in the World, and sometimes there are New Stars, which take their Method thus:  
As for Example, in this Word AKE, if one add an L, it will be no longer ACHE but LAKE, or if in the middle of a Word, or this Word; as thus an R, it will alter the Word, and make it ARK; so that we see one Letter, as an L or a R, absolutely change the whole sense; in the same manner is it with the Stars, where the New Stars are added, varieth both in the Writing and Sense.   

CHAP. VIII.  
The Celestial Writing of the Ancients, and how those Hebrew Characters may be understood, and what they portend.  
TO perfectly understand this Celestial Writing, we must observe the Vertical Stars; for, those which are over a Kingdom (saith Abindan) do show whatever is like to befall it, and as the Astrologers observe in this our time.  
Now saith the Author of this Celestial Writing, We know that these Mutations shall happen on the Earth, because we see they are written in the Heavens: And this is the reason, that R. Chomer affirms, that the aforesaid Medusa's Head, or the Stars that compose it, did foretell the lamentable Desolation of Greece; because, that five of the principal Stars did for a good while together, make up this Word:  
Which is in the Conjugation Charab Second, signifying, to be Desolate; understanding particularly this of Greece, over which these Stars did shine; because that the number of its Letters, which are Jod, Vau, Nun, and which being put together, make up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Javan, that is to say, Greece doth yield the same number that Charab doth; as you may behold in the following Example.  
2 2 8  
●●  
Charab.  
Destroyed, Desolate.  
Sum— 12  
5 6 1  
●●  
Javan.  
Greece.  
Sum— 12  
According to these Principles, any Man might foresee by the putting the Stars together of the same Constellation, the destruction that Italy was threatened with.  
One Junctin, and Italian Priest, who was a great ginger, hath these words:  
Illud verò (saith he, speaking of this Medusa's Head,) nunc Apuliae & Neapolitanorum Regno est verticale, moxque Italiam invadet; quibus suam quoque cladem allaturum esse, maximopere est verendum.  
Now how long beforehand, these Celestial Letters do fore-shew the Changes that are to happen, you are to take notice of the Hebrew Letters beforementioned.  
In the next place, the method how to be able to understand this Celestial Writing; we must learn to know the true Stars, as Oriental, Occidental, Meridional, and Septentrional; the Quarters of the Heavens are very essential in this way of Reading: For if we desire to know the good Fortune and Prosperity of a Kingdom, or any other Affair, we must read those Letters which are vertical to it, or which want not much of being so, from the West towards the East; and if you would be informed of the ill Fortune, look out, and read from the North towards the West.  
This is the way of the Hebrews. Now concerning the Rules laid down; some certain Secrets of this Celestial Writing, which are spoken of by R. Rapol, Chomer and Abindan, which are the Three which have most written on this Subject. I have before shown you, how the Stars of the Constellation, called Caput Algol, being vertical to Greece, did foreshow the Destruction of it. The like is to be observed in the rest of the Stars, when they are vertical to any other Kingdom; tho' they are ordered, and are to be understood otherwise.  
Many more suchlike Examples we may present the Reader with, concerning this Celestial Writing, but this may give an insight of the method and way of reading the Will of God in that Heavenly Book, which is said to be at the last Day rolled together as a Roll of Parchment.  
But if these few Examples are not sufficient for your Understanding, pray read my Authors, Ropol, Chomer and Abindan; there you will find it expressed, that it's not every one that can read these Hebrew Letters, or Celestial Writing, but whom God is pleased to give that Gift of Reading; as, none but Daniel, who was a just Man, none but he could interpret those Visions.  
Remember still, that the Elementary Life of Man is very Changeable and Transitory; it's natural for all Men to be inquisitive after future Changes and Alterations during their Lives, seeing its as a Bubble, or as a Snip tossing up and down by the Waves of the Sea.   
The End of the Second Book.   

THE Angelical Guide. BOOK III.  

CHAP. I.  
The Lott of Man; showing his Chance or Fortune in this present World.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, DIVINATIO, signifies no more but Elementary and Earthly things; the searching after which, concerns the Transactions of our Lives here below, by the Power of the superior Bodies of the Four Elements and Seven Properties of Nature, which we have formerly spoken of, and also the Twelve Signs (♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♍ ♎ ♏ ♐ ♑ ♒ ♓) of the Heavens, which sympathise with our Bodies and Actions at home, and produce good or ill Fortune.  
To be more plain, we may call it by this name, Sortitor, Consortitor: Take your Lott, or cast your Lott.  
Let us speak a Word or two of Providence.  
Quid sit Providentia?  
Verum esse Providentiam, cum per haec apertum est, tam per ea quae dicentur, deinceps elucescet: dicamus igitur quid sit Providentia. Providentia est rerum procuratio, à Deo suscepta. Definunt eandem sic; Providentia est Dei voluntas, per quam omnia quae sunt, aptè gubernantur: quod si Dei volunt as est providentia, necesse est recta ratione, & optimè, & divinissimè, & qua sola ratione recte se habeant fieri quae sunt, neque melioris ordinis esse capacia. Necesse est autem eundem esse qui res efficient, & effectis provideat. Neque enim rectum est, nec decet, alium efficere, alium ea quae effecta sint procurare; nam hoc quidem certe imbecillitatis est: multa sunt etiam in Animalibus simulachra, & imagines eorum quae diximus: Quidquid enim genuit, cibum quoque foetui procurat; & Homo etiam de caeteris omnibus quae ad vitam degendam spectant, quoad ejus fieri potest prospicit: Quae vero non provident, ob imbecillitatem non provident. Quare ostensum est, Deum esse qui provideat, & Providentiam esse ejusdem.  
Thy Lott and thy Providencs are in general, all things that thou canst enjoy in this Elementary Life; and God is the Fountain and Free-giver, and gives thee Rules and Understanding to know them.  
This is inter nos, amongst us, or ourselves; to know whether the Lott will be good or ill, is my present Task in this Chapter: but before we go on, a word or two concerning the word LOTT; it has two significations, it is first counted a square Thing, as a die, or other thing cast into a Pitcher or Pot, thence to be drawn out again, to end Strife or Difference.  
This is not our meaning: But to take our Lott from him who made all things, Acts 1. 26. not that the Event of a Lott comes from Stars, Fortune-tellers, Devils or Saints, but from God only, whose privilege is, to order the Succession of them. This we own as a Truth; but we are not unsensible, but that God hath laid open his Heavenly Book before our Eyes, and given ●s Knowledge, from the Heavenly Motions and Influences of the glorious Light of his Will and Intentions towards mortal Men. Tho' we find good Fortune proceeding from the Beams of ♃, or ill from ♄, we are to look to God, from whence it comes, and on ♃ or ♄ as Messengers from him: To cast Lots upon a People, to challenge Lordships and Power over a People, to dispose of them at their pleasure, as Men account that which is their own, which by casting a Lott, falls to be their Portion, Joel 3. 3. Many places in Scripture may be to our purpose; but th●… may satisfy us, as to divide a thing by Lott.  
We all have a desire by Nature, to know what may be had by Lott.  
On my Vesture did they cast Lots.  
The whole Verse runs thus:  
Et quum crucifixissent eum, dispertiverunt 〈◊〉 stimenta ejus Sorte.   

CHAP. II.  
The Number of Things desired in this Elementary Life; and to know by this Angelical Lott or Guide, what is to come, Good or Bad.  

First, ♈.  
TO know whether I shall live long, and in what Disposition my Body now is in?  
What is the intention of my Will?  
Where is the place of my Abode?  
The length and shortness of Life?  
What is the first Matter, Thing, or Trade, to be handled first?  
What shape of Body shall I have?  
What hidden Matters are there in my Heart  
What Complexion, and whether ill favoured or well made, and whether a smooth or hairy Body?  
The Nature, whether Healthy or Sickly, Strong or Weak in Body?  
The beginning of all Erterprises?  
The Joy or Sadness, naturally?  
Touching the Members of the Body, the Head, or Matter of the Brain, the Understanding, Reason, or any part of the Head?   

Secondly ♉.  
To know what is there to come to me?  
What movable Goods may accrue?  
From whom may they be expected?  
Shall I gain or consume?  
Of two, whether shall win the Lott?  
Whether cheated or not?  
Whether Persons we deal withal be Rich or Poor, and whether my Money be in the Hands of Fools or Knaves?  
Whether I may be a great gainer in the place where I live and dwell?  
Whether the thing lost was stolen?  
Whether my Trading will be gainful?  
Whether 'tis best to Trade near or far off?  
Whether a Promise made on Money-Matters comes to good or ill?  
Whether 'tis good to go far for Money or Movable Goods? etc.  
Whether I shall not be rob on the way?  
Whether I shall return safe with my Money?   

Thirdly ♊.  
How to know our Brother's Sisters Kindred or Relations?  
What the Number of them are, and the place of their Abode?  
Whether my Brother or Sister loves or hates me?  
Whether I have a good or bad Neighbour?  
Whether I shall receive a Letter, or Embassages, from any particular Friend or Acquaintance?  
Whether it will be good to go a small Journey?  
Whether the end of a Journey be good or ill, and the issue thereof?  
Whether there will be ill Company in the way, to prejudice me?  
What is the Nature of my Brothers, Sisters or Relations? will they give me any thing while Living, or when they Die?   

Fourthly ♋.  
To know when my Grandfather, or my Great Grandfather, or that Old Rogue my Father, will Die?  
Whether I shall ever enjoy my Father's Estate?  
How long will my Father live?  
When shall have Money, or my Fortune from him?  
My Father and I being at Difference, shall we ever be Friends?  
What Land or Houses shall I have?  
Shall I be Poor or Rich?  
What manner of House, City or Town, shall I live in?  
What Disposition will the People be I shall meet with?  
Will Old Men and Women be good for me to converse withal?  
My Father is gone to Rome; is he living or dead?  
Whether a Town or Castle shall be taken?  
Whether I shall ever find hidden Treasure, or things lost or stole.  
What store of Gold and Silver hath my Brother or Sister?  
Whether the Father or the Son will die first?  
Whether it's good to buy Land or Houses?  
Whether the Towns Besieged, will be taken?  
Whether a Ship on the Sea will return with good or ill Success?  
Whether I shall live a long or short time in my present Dwelling.   

Fifthly ♌.  
To know whether I am now with Child, or ●…ever shall have Children?  
Shall I have Male or Female?  
Shall I live a merry Life, and in Content?  
Whether I shall get a good Mistress?  
If a Person be tied in clothes?  
Will a Messenger come quickly with News or Letter?  
Is my Father Rich or Poor?  
Is my Friend a Man or Woman?  
Will the Earth be Fruitful?  
Will my Life this year be pleasant, by Banqueting, Kissing, Dancing? etc.  
Will the Way be pleasant in my Sporting?  
Shall I not be robbed or beaten?  
Are my Friends Dead or in Prison?  
Whether Good-conditioned or Ill-qualitied?   

Sixthly ♍.  
To know whether I shall ever keep a Pack 〈◊〉 good Hounds, or a parcel of good Hog's o●… Sheep, or ever be plagued with Rats or Mi●…  
Shall I ever keep Servants?  
Will my Servants prove true and honest?  
Shall I gain by my Servants, Men or Women▪  
Shall I be Sickly or Healthy all my life?  
What Nature will my Disease be of?  
Will the Physician be Skilful or not?  
Is it good to visit a Sick Person?  
If Young Beasts be lost, shall they be found?  
Whether 'tis good to buy and sell small Beasts, as Sheep, Lambs, Hogs, etc.   

Seventhly ♎.  
To know whether I shall ever Marry?  
Will my Wife be a Whore, or Honest?  
Will my Wife be a Stranger or Neighbour▪  
Shall I have a Fortune?  
What manner of Person will my Wife be, or her Shape of Body?  
How many Wives may I have?  
Will my Wife or I die first?  
What manner of Dealers may I meet with in my Trade.  
Shall I be pestered with Thiefs?  
If any thing is stolen, shall I take the Thief?  
If I Fight, shall I get the better?  
Shall I have the best in Law Suits?  
May I have my desire in what I love, or gain my Wife with ease, or much trouble?  
There are two Court me; which is best for me to marry?  
Will my Wife be a Scold, or not? shall we never part in matter of Strife in the Marriage-Life?  
Will there be Wars or Peace?  
Will the Man or Woman be of a good Understanding?  
If things missing, are they in the House? or will they be found?  
Is it good to move to another place?   

Eighthly ♏.  
To know the time of Death, when, and how?  
Will my End be violent or natural, to die in my Bed?  
If a Man be Murdered, who killed him?  
Who shall inherit his Estate?  
Will the Estate of my Wife or my Friend, be great or small?  
Who are the Counsellors of my Wife, and 〈◊〉 Enemies?  
How doth the Person do that is from home?  
The Gain or Profit due from a Stranger's Country?  
If I lend any thing, will it be returned again?  
If I lend my Money, shall I gain?  
Will the Fear I am in, end in good or ill?   

Ninthly ♐.  
To know concerning Churchmen, Ministers, or Parish-Clerks, Monasteries or Temples?  
To know of Book-Secret Arts, and Religious Persons?  
Is it good to deal with Churchmen?  
What will the Study of a Person be?  
Shall I have the Bishopric or Abbey I desire?  
May I prosper therein?  
Shall I be Doctor in any Faculty, or Judge in any Court, or Precedent or Judge in any High Court?  
Will Dreams come to pass, or what do they signify? etc.  
Whether a Person be Wise or a Fool?  
Will long Journeys be good or bad? will the Ship at Sea or the Man of War come to a good end?  
Is the Ship I intent to Sail in, a good or bad Sailer?  
How long shall I tarry? Days, Months, or Years?  
Will the Ship suffer Shipwreck?   

Tenthly ♑.  
To know whether I shall ever come to Honour, or be a Justice of a Peace?  
Will it be profitable for me to be Servant to Kings or Princes, or Noble Men?  
Shall I live in Honour, in my Trade and Business now in hand?  
Concerning my Mother or Grandmother?  
Will my Mother die in a short time?  
May I gain by her Death?  
Doth my Mother love me?  
What Trade must I be of, to prosper?  
Will a King's Reign be long or short?  
Is it good for a King to go out of his Palace, and take a Journey?  
Shall a Person of Honour be Banished out of the favour of Kings and Princes?  
Will the King or Judges do Justice?  
What manner of Person is my Wives Father?   

Eleventhly ♒.  
To know what Friends I may have, or whether my Hopes will be fulfilled?  
Are my Friends faithful to me?  
Shall we reap Gain by Friends?  
May we be safe by whom we give Credit?  
What is the Substance of a King or Noble Man?  
What Estate has my Wives Father? shall I gain thereby?  
Shall I gain by the Court, or Great Persons?  
If a Promise is made, whether true or false?  
Shall we prosper all the Year?  
Will Fruits of the Earth be cheap or dear?   

Twelfthly ♓.  
To know whether I shall ever be in Prison?  
If in Prison, when released?  
Shall I gain or profit by a Prison or Prisoners?  
Will any Old Woman chatter against me like a Devil?  
If a Prisoner Escapes, will he be taken?  
Is it good for me to deal in Great cattle, as Horses, Mules, Sheep, etc.  
If a Horse be stolen, who is the Thief?  
Which way the Horse strayed?  
In buying Great cattle, shall they be good or bad?  
May a Man go boldly before his Enemies?  
Shall I be Arrested?  
Here are near Two hundred Questions naturally desired in this Elementary Life, to know where, when, and how, these things may fall on you by LOTT, which you may understand in this following Chapter.    

CHAP. III.  
The Method of Effecting these Angelical LOTS.  
THese Questions or Desires, are divided into 12 Parts; so also are the Heavens divided into Numb. 12. being twelve Divisions, answering in particular these twelve Questions.  
Take an Example as followeth.  
The Heavens divided in 12 Parts.  
Ascend. begin. of all things Oriental. 1 ♈.  
Succeeding House of Substanc. 2 ♉.  
God. House, Brothers and Sisters. 3 ♊.  
Angle of North signif. old People. 4 ♋.  
Succeed. place of Pleasure. 5 ♌  
God. signifies Banishm. Servants. 6 ♍  
Angle Occid. Marriages, Enemies. 7. ♎  
Succed. Sorr. Death, Wiv. Fortune. 8 ♏  
God. of Relig. long ●our Dreams 9 ♐.  
Medium Coeli, the place of Honour. 10. ♑  
Succed. Angle 10. place of Joy. 11 ♒  
God. place of Captiv. Imprisonm. 12 ♓.  
The Parts of Man's Body is signified by 12 Parts, or Signs of the Zodiac.  
Example.  
♈ Acquisitio.  
♉ Laetitia.  
♊ Rubeus.  
♋ Albus.  
♌ Via.  
♍ ☊  
♎ Amissio.  
♏ Tristitia.  
♐ ☋  
♑ Populus.  
♒ F. Major.  
♓ Carcer.  

The Names of the Lots, being Sixteen in Number.  Elements. Signs. Lots. Names inLat. and Engl. Fire. ♃ D in ♈ Acquisitio, obtaining, comprehending. Air. ♄ Retr. in ♏ Tristitia,, Sadness, Damages, Crosses. Water. ♃ Retr. in ♉. Laetitia, Joy, & Gladness, Health, Hairy. Earth. ♄ D. in ♓ Carcer, Confinement, A Prison, Bound. Fire. ♄ & ♂ in ♐. Cauda Drac. The lower end of a thing or going out. Air. ☉ Retr. in ♉ Fortuna min. lesser Fortune, greater Strength. Water. ☽ decr. in ♌ Via, the Way, Journeys, or Moving. Earth. ♃ & ☿ in ♍ Caput Draconis, the Head, or upper Part. Fire. ☿ D. in ♎ Puer, a Boy, Yellow, Beardless. Air. ♀ D. in ♋ Albus, White, Fair. Water. ☽ Full. in ♑ Populus, People, Congregation. Earth. ♀ retrograde in ♎ Amissio, lost, consumed. Fire. ☉ D. in ♒ Fortuna maj. Great Fortune, strong Help. Air. ♀ D. in ♎ Puella, a Virgin, Beautiful. Water. ♄ retrograde in ♊. Rubeus, Reddish, Red. Earth. ☿ retrograde in ♍ Conjunctio, to gather an Assembly.  
These are the Deys which you may cast your Lots withal, and the same which the Indians, Chaldeans and Hebrews, made use of, as their good Angels, in directing their Hands to know Good or Ill in this Life: And it lies in Darkness to this Day, by reason it's in Hebrew or in strange Characters, which are unknown to us; and by that reason, many are afraid of this Art, because of the Word Geomancy or Conjuration.  
Now in plain English, it's no more than the 12 Signs of the Zodiac, and the 7 Properties of Nature, or Rulers of the World, which we have formerly spoken of, viz. ♄ ♃ ♂ ☉ ♀ ☿ ☽, composed and joined together, according to Strength, Weakness, or Meanness.  
Take the Example by this Table.  
♃ direct. in ♈. ♃ Retr. in ♉. ☉ Retr. in ♉. ♄ Retr. in ♊. Name, Obeying. Name, Joy. Name, Les. Fort. Name, Red. ♀ direct. in ♋. ☽ decr. in ♌. ☿ Retr. in ♍. ♃ and ☿ in ♍. Name, White. Name, Way. Name, Together. Name, Drag. hea. ☿ direct. in ♎. ♀ Ret. in ♎. ♀ direct. in ♎. ♄ Retr. in ♏. Name, a Boy. Name, Lost. Name, a Girl. Name, Sadness. ♄ and ♂ in ♐. ☽ in Full, in ♑. ☉ direct. in ♒. ♄ direct, in ♓. Name, Dra. Tail. Name, People. Name, great Fort. Name, a Prison.  
This Table being so plain, it needs no further Explanation: therefore we will proceed to show you, how to project a Figure, wherein you may understand your Lott.  
First consider, before thou Raisest these 16 Lots, that it's a Divine Work; for it's the Divine Power above, or thy good Angel which guides thy Hand: Therefore be thou prudent 〈◊〉 all this Matter, free thyself from Passion and Malice: Let not thy Head or Fancy be captivated with strong Wine: for if thou art vain and childish in this Work, thou wilt bring thyself to Disgrace; for in it lies a great Mystery, in Raising those Figures by an Angelic Hand.  
I shall say no more; but pray mind the Groundwork, and consider from whom thy Lott comes; it's from him which is the Maker of all things, which gives thee thy Lott, and casts thy Dey for thee.   

CHAP. IU.  
How to Project a Figure, wherein you may understand your Lott; it being the Divine Power above, or thy good Angel which Guides thy Hand.  
HEre you shall have an Example, in order that you may make Strokes, Stars, Circles, Pricks; as thus:  
When thou goest about these, look on th● four Fingers; for you are to prick four lines, o●● longer than the other, as your Fingers are which serves for the first Element, and four line● more for the second Element, and four mo●● for the third, and so for the fourth, etc. a●… at every end of the Lines, leave Two, or One But number them not when you prick the● down, but follow this Example:  
Remains〈◊〉 Now I would know what would Remain? take my Pen and bring two and two together, 〈◊〉 you may observe in the uppermost Line.  
So this in Pricks.  
Remains 1. So couple them together, and you will 〈◊〉 what will remain.  
Now we will Frame the four Elements, or four Figures, as follows.  
Behold the first four Lines; the odd makes 〈◊〉 the first Figure, and the other 3, 4 lines, make 〈◊〉 in all 1, 2, 3, 4 Figures, which are set in or●●r in the following Page.  
These four are called the Increase or Ma●… from whence all the other Figures are Priced; the first is attributed to the Fire, the 〈◊〉 con● to the Air, the third to the Water, and 〈◊〉 fourth to the Earth. From these four, co●… four more, in taking of the first four Heads 〈◊〉 Stars for the first Figure, the second Stars for 〈◊〉 second Figure, the third Rank of Stars for 〈◊〉 third Figure, and the lower Rank for the 〈◊〉 Figure; which makes Eight Figures.  
Now from these 8 Figures, you are to mak● four more.  
Observe, you must take the first Stars 〈◊〉 the first, and two Figures just under them: i● the Stars be even, so place them: and if they be uneven, as one: so the two Figures: and so of the third and fourth: you must do as mu●… ●o make the ninth Figure, as you did the first and second, and also the tenth, eleventh and twelfth; 〈◊〉 here by Example.  
Now we will show you, how to frame the Witness and the Judge, out of the foregoing Fi●…re: The Witness called Right, is taken from ●…m the ninth and tenth Figure, the Left is from 〈◊〉 eleventh and twelfth; and from the two Witnesses we form the Judges; and if those are ●…od Figures, the Demand will be good; if ill, 〈◊〉 will come to a bad End.  
Here is the whole Figure in the old Fashion.  
This is the Way and Method of Raising your Lots, which are 16 in all, and cannot be more, and by those well understood, you may see how Transitory your Elementary Life is: But to be more plain, we will make use of these Lots in the manner and form as the ginger doth, viz. in 12 Divisions of the Heavens or Earth, which you please to call it, and the two Witnesses and Judges in the Model. Behold the Figure on the other side.  
Thus, after you have raised your Lots of Figures, you may easily transform them in this manner as you see, viz. into Signs and Planets united, as you have in the foregoing Tables, or as in this Figure, where you have the true Method and Form of all your Lots in English Names; for we have cast off all the strange and hard Characters and Names of the Arabians, Hebrews, Greeks and Latins, because you should not be frighted thereby, or of the Word Geomancy or Conjuration, etc.   

CHAP. V.  
The Power and Strength of these Lots, and how the Divine Spirits are infused and incorporated into them, by the Influences of the Seven Properties of Nature.  
IN this Chapter, you will be shown the great Strength, Ability, Force and Power of those 16 Lots, and how the Divine Spirits are infused into the 16 Figures, by the Seven Properties of Nature, by the Power of him which made the World, and how the Planets and Spirits are incorporated into the Figures.  
All inferior Bodies are exemplified by the superior Powers or Spirits, which are above our Bodies, Minds or Souls.  
They place themselves very intelligibly in the Soul of the World, differing the one from the other by absolute Forms; so that all Power in God, is but one Form; but in the Soul of the World, they are many: they are placed in the midst of all things; whether they be joined to the Body, or separated from the Body; by a certain Participation they are placed in Nature, as certain small Seeds of Forms, are infused by the Power above.  
They are placed also in those 16 Figures; whereon the Shapes and Properties of Virtues of inferior Species, as also their Properties do depend; so that every distinct Lott or Figure, hath its Power that is suitable to its Form: which also proves a wonderful Power, according to the Disposition of things, good or ill; for all these Influences, these Figures may be received, and may also be hindered by the indisposition of the Matter, or according to the Person, or his Quality: such is the signification of the Lots, which receive Virtue and Power from above: Thus the Seven Properties and their Powers are incorporated into these 16 Lots, and are the cause of the Virtue of the Figures, of their Signification, of their Product, and all things past, present, and to come.  
In the next place, those that intent to understand the Lots aright, must know their Elements. By which, you may see from whence all things come, whence Mankind and Beasts; whence Fire, Rain, Snow and Earthquakes are; the great Sea-beats over her Banks, and then again returns; whence the Power and Strength of Herbs, Courage and Rage of Brutes, all kind of Stones, and all sorts of Worms, etc.  

A Table of Elements.  Fire. ☉ dir. in ♒ ☿ dir. in ♎ ♃ dir. in ♈ ♄ and ♂ in ♐ Earth. ♀ Retr. in ♎ ☿ Retr. in ♍ ♄ dir in ♓ ♃ and ☿ in ♍ Water. ☽ bookful in ♑ ♄ Retr. in ♊ ♃ Retr. in ♉ ☽ decree. in ♌ Air. ♀ dir. in ♋ ♀ dir. in ♎ ♄ Retr. in ♏ ☉ Retr. in ♉  
First, The Element of Fire is the Principle of all the other; for it's the reception of all Celestial Rays and Influences; in it are contained Seminal Virtues of all things.  
Secondly, The Element of Water is wonderful, and to be admired; for there is so great a necessity of Water, that there is no living Creature can live without it; the moistning of Water can bring forth in it the Seminary Virtues of all Vegetables, etc.  
Thirdly, The Element of Air, is a Vital Spirit passing through all things, and gives Life to all Living or Breathing whatever, and unites its self into all mixed Bodies.  
Fourthly and Lastly, These four Elements are the ground of all compounded things, viz. Fire, Air, Water and Earth; of which all Elementary inferior Bodies are comprehended, not by way of heaping up together, but by Transmutation and Motion; and when they are destroyed, they are dissolved into Elements again: for there is none of the sensitive Elements that are pure, but they are more or less mixed, and apt to be changed one into the other.   

CHAP. VI  
The various Significations, Names and Qualities, of the Sixteen Lots, or Figures, as they relate to the four Quarters of the Year.  
First, THE Spring Quarter hath these four Lots in order, four in every Quarter, as followeth:  
Spr. Quarter, is sanguine, hot, dry, and moist. Summer Quarter, hot and choleric, but pleasant. Autumn Quarter, is cold, moist, and phlegmatic. Winter Quart. is cold, and moist. BOY, ☿ dir. ♎. People, ☽ full, in ♑ GAOL, ♀ dir. ♎. Prison, ♄ retrograde ♓. LOST, ♀ retr. ♎. Fort. small, ☉ retr. ♉. RED, ♄ in ♊. LAD, ♄ in ♏. WHITE, ♀ dir. ♋. Together, ☿ in ♍. Obeying, ♃ in ♈. JOY, ♃ retrograde retrograde ♉. Dr. Tail. ♄ ♂ ♐. Drag. head, ♃ in ♉. Fort. small, ☉ retr. ♉. WAY, ☽ d. ♌.  
In Divisions of Elements, as,  

First, Fiery, hot and dry, ☉ dir. ♒. ☿ dir. ♎. ♃ dir. ♈. ♄ ♂ ♐.  
Secondly, Cold and Earthy, ♀ retr. ♎. ☿ retr. ♍. ♄ dir. ♓. ♃ ☿ ♍.  
Thirdly, Airy, hot and moist, ♀ dir. ♋. ♀ dir. ♎. ♄ retr. ● ☉ retr. ♉.  
Fourthly, Watery, cold, ☽ full ♑. ● retr. ♉. ☽ dec. ♌. ♄ retr. ♊.   

First, Over the Fire, trip ☉ rules by Day, ♃ by Night.  
Secondly, Over the Earth, trip. ♀ rules by Day, ☽ by Night.  
Thirdly, Over the Air, trip. ♄ rules by Day, ☿ by Night.  
Fourthly, Over the Watery, trip. ☽ rules by Day and Night.   
Now Eight of these are Masculine, and the other Feminine; The Masculine are these in Latin; Albus, Fortuna Major, Puella, Acquisitio, Tristitia, Populus, Caput Draconis.  
The Female, are Amissio, Via, Conjunctio, Ru●…, Carcer, Laetitia, Fortuna Minor, and Cauda Draconis.  
The English Names are as follows:  
1. Wh●●e, 2. Great Fortune. 3. Girl. 4. Obeying. 5. Sa●●ness. 6. People. 7. Height. 8. Lost. 9 Way. 10 Together. 11. Red. 12. Prison. 13. ●●y. 14. Little Fortune. 15. Below. 16. Youth, 〈◊〉 Beardless Boy.  
Example: If you find a Masculine Lott in a Masculine House, governed by a Masculine Planet, it shows the Person to be manly; if Female, more womanly, etc.  
These Lots are Quadrupeian; viz. Youth, Joy, great Fortune, Obeying, Prison, all fourfooted Creatures.  
Fruitful People, Red, Low, Joy, Way.  
Barren, White, Great Fortune, Together, Sad.  
Courteous, are, White, Together, Sad, Girl,  
Slow-voiced People, Way, Red, Low, Joy.  
The use by way of Example: Suppose you have those Figures and Planets incorporated into the Ascendant, as Puer, Amissio, Fortuna Major, Fortuna Minor, Acquisitio, Caput Draconis, Carcer, Cauda Draconis: The condition of the Party is something of the nature of the Creature which the Planets, Figures or Lots, signify. If the Lott be Puer, the Man or Person is rash and hasty, etc. if Amissio, steadfast and resolved, his Countenance or Complexion swarthy, and so on; for the Signs and Planets signify any thing that may be proposed. Consider always, the Strength and Weakness, good or ill by Nature: If we find when a Question is asked, That Albus, Conjunctio, Puella, or Tristitia, is in the Ascendant, than we may expect the Party to be of civil Carriage, very easy to be Pleased, and of a good Understanding.  

The Dignities of the Seven Properties of Nature, in the 12 Lots or Signs, governing the 12 Parts of the Earth, incorporated into 16 Figures.  Signs. Lots. House. of Pla. Exal. Tri. Det. Fall ♈ 1 ♂ D. ☉ ☉ ♃ ♀ ♄ ♉ 2 ♀ N. ☽ ♂ ☽ ♂  ♊ 3 ☿ D. ☊ ♄ ☿ ♃  ♋ 4 ☽ D.N. ♃ ♂ ♂ ♄ ♂ ♌ 5 ☉ D.N.  ☉ ♃ ♄  ♍ 6 ☿ N. ☿ ♀ ☽ ♃ ♀ ♎ 7 ♀ D. ♄ ♄ ☿ ♂ ☉ ♏ 8 ♂ N.  ♂ ♂ ♀ ☽ ♐ 9 ♃ D. ☋ ☉ ♃ ☿  ♑ 10 ♄ N. ♂ ♀ ☽ ☽ ♃ ♒ 11 ♄ D.  ♄ ☿ ☉  ♓ 12 ♃ N. ♀ ♂ ♂ ☿ ☿  
This Table differs but little from that of Astrology, only for your satisfaction, to see how the Lots or Figures are united in Nature with the Signs and Planets.  
First, Planets. Secondly, Figures. Thirdly, Houses. Fourthly, Exaltation. Fifthy, Triplicity. Sixthly, Detriment, Loss and Fall.  

First, You have that Figure or Lott called Puer; it tells you, that he is of the nature of the Sign ♈, and his Planet ♂, and of his House.  
Secondly, You have the Planets House by Day and Night; if you find it so in a Question, it's as a Man in his own Castle, strong and powerful.  
Thirdly, If in his Exaltation, as a Man proud, and without fear or care.  
Fourthly, In Triplicity, as a Man in Business or Trading.  
Fifthly, If in his Detriment, as a Man going the way of Ruin.  
Sixthly, If in his Fall, as a Man ruined, or in Prison.    

CHAP. VII.  
The Signification of the Words, Direction and Retrogradation; with the distinction of the Houses, which are Good, and which Bad.  
NOw Direction and Retrogradation are two. First, Dir. signifies, a Man to go swift in ●…is Business or Trade; then Retr. signifies, one to decay, or to consume his Money.  
This following Table of Lots, gives you to understand, what Figure or Lott is Direct, and which Retrograde, and signified by three Letters; as I have shown in my first Demonstration of the Figures, or Lots.  
A Table of Direction and Retrogradation in LOTS.  
We have already told you, that this Work is divided in 12 parts or Houses: Now observe, some are good, and some again are ill.  

First, Good, 1, 10, 11,— Houses.  
Secondly, Mean, 2, 3, 4, and 9,— Houses.  
Thirdly, The Evil, 6, 7, 8, and 12,— Houses.   
Observe these Rules, and you will have Knowledge.  

The Houses, wherein the Lots or Figures are Good, or Bad.  Acquisitio, Good Fortune, Profit; and in all other things, it's good in the 12th and 3d Houses. Puella, Good in all Demands, wonderful for Women; very good in the 9th and 5th Houses. Laetitia, Good Fortune, Joy, present or to come; it's found good in all the Houses, but wonderful in the 5th House, and indifferent in the other. Caput Draconis, is good with good, and ill with ill, good in the 2d and 7th Houses, and bespeaks a good Issue, when there is hopes of Gain. Amissio, good Fortune, loss of Substance; good in the 8th House, and very ill in the 2d House. Fortuna Major, good Fortune for Gain, for things where Prisons or Distractions are good in the 1st, 9th and 11th Houses. Tristitia, is very ill in all the Houses, except in the 8th and 12th Houses; there good. Albus, Good Fortune, Money, or Entertainment in some certain place; therefore good in the first and 4th Houses. Puer, very ill in all Questions and Demands, except in the 2d and 6th House, where he is mean. Carcer, ill in the 6th 8th, 7th and 12th Houses; signifies always, to be stayed, kept, 〈◊〉 hindered. Cauda Draconis, is very good with ill, and very ill with good; shows well for lost things, and passing out of trouble; good in the 4th, 6th, 9th, and 12th Houses. Populus, is good with good, and ill with ill good in the 10th, and ill in the 8th House. Fortuna Minor, good in any Business, or swift Matters; very good in the 2d, and very ill in the 8th House. Conjanction, good with good, and ill with ill; signifies, restoring of lost Things, and much Gain. Rubeus, very ill in all good things, and in all ill things; if in the first House, signifies Death, or some Plague. Via, Spoiling of all other good things, except in Questions of Journeys, coming out of Prisons, or moving; good in the 3d, 5th, and 11th Houses, and brings good News.  
The Aspects of the Houses, and the Figures, you may see by the Table on the other side.  
The Use of this Figure, is of great consequence; the outwardmost, are 12 Lots or Figures; the second, is their Nature, as to Masculine and Feminine; the third, is the 12 Signs of the Zodiac, with their Elements, being united with the 12 Houses, etc.  
Then lastly, in the middle, you have the Lines and Aspects from one House to another, both dexter and sinister; the first House gins with the Sign ♈, and so in order; which will give you a clear light of the usefulness of your Lots, either for good or ill: A Figure in the first House, beholds another in the eleventh House with a Sextile dexter Aspect, and so of the rest.  
The Houses are fixed, movable, and common.  

First, Fixed, 2, 5, 8 and 11— Houses.  
Secondly, Common, 3, 6, 9 and 12— Houses.  
Thirdly, Movable, 1, 4, 7 and 10— Houses.   
Albus and Laetitia, are double-Bodied.  
Observe, what by a Figure or Lott is here meant.  
And taken for the Nature, Virtue and Power of ♃ dir. in ♈, which makes a complete Figure, as ♃ dir. ♈, joined and united together, as one Body, and so of the rest; Planets are joined to the Figures, some Retrograde some Direct, which differs much from the Rules of Astrology: for they place ♂ in ♈, and ♀ in ♎, etc. but ours are select Bodies.  
On the other side, I will give you a Table of the Hours of the Lots, and the Planets.  

The Use of the Hours of the Lots.  
When you raise a Figure of Lots, observe what Day and Hour it is.  
Example. In the Table of Hours, you will find the seven Days and Nights: so if you find the Lott in the Ascendant Lord or Lady of the Hour, so much the stronger.  
Suppose I Raise a Figure of Lots on a Monday, the first Hour in the Forenoon, I find Via, ☽ decr. in ♌. I look at the top of the Table, and find Fig. 1. I guide my Eye down to Monday, and find Via; so he is Lord of my Ascendant and Hour; so observe in all the rest, etc.  
By day, Sunday By Night. 1 ☉ dir. in ♒. 2 ♀ retr. in ♎. 3 ☿ dir in ♋ 4 ☽ bookful in ♑ 5 ♄ dir in ♓ 6 ♃ dir in ♈ 7 ● ret in ♊ 8 ☉ retr. in ♉ 9 ♀ dir in ♎ 10 ☿ retr in ♍ 11 ☽ dec in ♌ 12 ♄ retr in ♏ ♃ retr. in ♉. ♂ dir. in ♎. ☉ dir in ♒ ♀ retr in ♎ ☿ dir in ♋ ☽ bookful in ♑ ♄ dir in ♓ ♃ dir in ♈ ● retr in ♊ ☉ retr in ● ♀ dir in ♒ ☿ retr in ♍ By Day, Monday, By Night. ☽ dec. in ♌. ♄ dir. in ♓ ♃ retr in ♉ ● dir in ♎ ☉ dir in ♒ ♀ retr in ♎ ● dir in ♋ ☽ bookful in ♑ ♄ retr in ♏ ♃ dir in ♈ ♄ retr in ♊ ☉ retr in ♉ ♀ dir. in ♎. ☿ dir. in ♋. ☽ dec in ♌ ♄ ♂ in ♐ ♃ retr in ♉ ● dir in ♎ ☉ dir in ♒ ♀ ret in ♎ ☿ retr in ♍ ☽ bookful in ♑ ♄ dir in ♓ ♃ ☿ in ♍ By Day, Tuesday, By Night. ● dir. in ♋. ☉ ret. in ●. ♀ dir in ♎ ☿ decr in ♋ ☽ dec in ♌ ♄ ♂ in ♐ ● dir in ♈ ● dir in ♎ ☉ dir in ♒ ♀ retr in ♎ ☿ retr in ♍ ☽ bookful in ♑. ♄ retr. in ♏. ♃ retr. in ♉. ● retr in ♊ ☉ dec in ♋ ♀ dir in ♎ ☿ dir in ♋ ● de. in ♌ ♄ dir in ♓ ♃ dir in ♈ ♄ ♂ in ♐ ☉ retr in ♉ ♀ retr. in ♎ By Day, Wednesday, By Nig. ☿ dir. in ♋. ☽ bookful, in ♑ ♄ retr in ♏ ♃ retr in ♉ ☿ dir in ♎ ☉ dir in ♒ ♀ dir in ♎ ☿ ret in ♍ ☽ dec in ♌ ♄ dir in ♓ ♃ dir in ♈ ♄ ret in ♊ ☉ retr. in ♉. ♀ retr. in ♎. ♀ dir in ♋ ☽ bookful in ♑ ♄ retr in ♏ ♃ dir in ♈ ♄ ret in ♊ ☉ dir in ♒ ♀ dir in ♎ ☿ retr in ♍ ☽ dec in ♌ ♄ dir in ♓ By Day, Thursday, By Night. ♃ retr. in ♉. ☿ dir. in ●. ☉ retr in ♉ ♀ retr in ♎ ♀ dir in ♋ ☽ bookful in ♑ ♄ ret in ♏ ♃ dir in ♈ ♄ retr in ♊ ☉ dir in ♒ ♀ dir in ♎ ☿ retr in ♍ ● dir. in ♌. ♄ dir. in ♓. ♃ retr in ♉ ☿ dir in ♎ ☉ retr in ♉ ♀ ret in ♎ ♀ dir in ♋ ☽ bookful in ♑ ♄ retr in ♍ ● in ●● ♄ retr in ♊ ☉ dir in ♒ By Day, Friday By Night. ♀ dir. in ♎. ☿ retr. in ♍. ☽ decr in ♌ ♄ dir in ♓ ♃ retr in ♉ ☿ dir in ♎ ☉ ret in ♉ ♀ retr in ♎ ♀ dir in ♋ ☽ bookful in ♑ ♄ retr in ♏ ♃ dir in ♈ ♄ retr. in ♊. ☉ dir. in ♒. ♀ dir in ♎ ☿ ret in ♏ ☽ dec in ♌ ♄ dir in ♓ ♃ ret in ♉ ☿ dir in ♓ ☉ dir in ♒ ♀ retr in ♎ ♀ dir in ♋ ☽ bookful in ♑ By Day, Saturday, By 〈◊〉 ♄ retr. in ♏. ♃ dir. in ♈. ♄ retr in ♊ ☉ dir in ♒ ♀ dir in ♎ ☿ ret in ♍ ☽ de. in ♌ ♄ dir in ♓ ♃ retr in ♉ ☿ dir in ♎ ♄ ♂ in ♐ ♀ retr in ♎ ●… ●… ●… ●… ●… ●… ♀ dir in ♎ ☿ retr in ♍ ☽ bookful in ♑ ♄ dir in ♓ ♃ retr in ♉ ☿ dir in ♎  
Now in erecting your Lots, in the main there are but 12 Figures, tho' 15 makes up a Figure; for Three are taken from them, viz. two Witnesses and one Judge.  
The signification of the two Witnesses are thus:  
The Witness placed at the right hand, is put for the Querent, and rules all the right side, as, 2, 3, 4, 9 and 10; it gives you light what the Question is, before propovided.  
The left Witness, contains all what the Figures signifies in that side, as 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 & 12.  
The right Witness tells you of Joy, Pleasure and Happiness, of him that asks the Question of things past.  
The left Witness tells you of ill luck to come, or things enquired after, if ill Figures; if good judge otherwise; right for the Querent, and left for the things desired, and belongs to no House; only taken from others, to give a judgement on things demanded.  
The Judge is the 15th Figure produced from the two Witnesses, to judge of the end of things demanded, and to know, if it's good or bad. Some say, that the Judge ought to be even; if not, give not judgement on it.  
If the Judge be good, the Question will come to a good end; if ill, the contrary. If the Judge agrees with the right hand Figures, good to the Querent, and things demanded; if it's the same with those of the left hand, it signifies ill to the Querent of the matter desired.  
Thus far we have shown you the Method of the 16 Figures, whereby you may know and find the Power and Strength, Weakness and Feebleness of your Enemies, by this Divine Way of Working.    

CHAP. VIII.  
The Elementary Powers above, ruling over Elementary Bodies here below: wherein is discovered the Significacation of the Sixteen Figures in the Twelve Houses; also the Shape and Proportion of Human Bodies, represented by those Sixteen Figures or Lots.  
IN my former Chapter, I have demonstrated to you, near Two hundred Questions to be Answered, naturally desired in this Elementary Life, and easily to be answered by these Lots: As you may see, the Questions are divided in 12 Parts, or Houses; therefore, when you have a Question to be resolved, turn your Eyes to the foresaid Chapter, and you will find what House it belongs to.  
As for Example; If for yourself, the first House or Ascendant; if for Money or Goods, the second; if concerning Brothers or Sisters, the third; if the Father, the fourth; if Pleasure and Children, the fifth; and so of the rest. Mind still, that the Ascendant is for him that asks the Question, and the other Houses are to answer the Question: and according to the Nature, Power and Strength of your Lott or Figure, judge of the Matter or Thing enquired after, either good, or ill Success, etc. Here follow certain Tables, which are the Foundation of the whole Work.  

The Shape of the Body of Man, by the Sixteen Figures.  Acquisitio, obtaining. ♃ dir. ♈. Amissio, Loss. ♀ retr. ♎ A Man of a middle stature, full faced, fair, of a sanguine complexion, full eyed, full beard, modest and sweet behaviour; loves dealing in many things, the Woman the like; chaste, and good teeth. Mean stature, fat, yellowish, a mark in the neck, great head, large shoulders, small eyes, pretty mouth, a broad forehead; the Woman the same, but very lustful, etc. Populus, People. ☽ full ♑ Fort. major, great Fort. ☉ dir. ♒ Handsome stature, but ●… bodied, broad ●…east, a comely com●…exion, a mole, hurt in ●… head, breast or S●o▪ ●…, a great liar, see●…ingly pensive, ●ickle●…aded; the Woman ●…wise: but if in a ●…od house, mitigates ●… wavering of body ●…d mind. Middle stature, tied body, full faced and eyes, sanguine complexion, honest, apt to blush, black eyes, large stomach, well bred, not gross of body; the Woman the same, virtuous, and maid-like. ●…a, Virgin. ♀ dir. ♎ Fort. minor lesser Fort. ☉ retr. ☿ Tending to tallness, ●…ng neck, full face, ●…eat head, little ●…outh, broad shoul●…s, comely, full eyed, ●…quine complexion, ●…own hair, given to ●…st; the Woman who●… Middle stature, large faced, great hands, high and proud, the eyes near on the grey, love to be in place of honour; but happiness to him but slow, and in old age, the Woman same quality. Puer, a Boy. ☿ dir. ♎ Laetitia, Joy. ♃ retr. ♉ A short stature, neck long, head little, beard full, hot natured, a thick paunched body, loves quarrelling and fight, sharp look, red coloured, a mark in the face; the Woman the same. Comely body, indifferent tall, a roun●… comely face, eyes something large, sangui●… complexion, blac●… eyes, large belly, hones●… and modest, flippa●… body; the Woman th●… same, delighting in secret Arts, etc. Via, Way. ☽ decr. ♌ Tristitia, Sadness. ♄ retr. ● A tall person, long necked, great face and head, long white teeth, slender body, tanned leather complexion, thin beard, mild, movable, loves Journeys; the Woman is chaste of body. Tall, and a tau●… long visage, a cloud●… complexion, bad teeth●… often a stinking breath●… careless, fears not God nor the Devil, loves ●… flatter with seriousness; the Woman very whorish. Conjunctio, Together. ☿ retr. ♍ Albus, White. ♀ dir. ♋ Long visage, a tanned leather complexion, great nose, broad teeth, thin beard, slender body and jeggs, a crafty person, apt to flatter, swift of speech, merry in company; the Woman the same in all. Above a middle stature, a white complexion, great head, pure eyes, tied body, good understanding, a lover of laws and honest dealing, swift in motion, quick of learning, loves to be merry; the Woman also. Carcer, a Prison. ♄ dir. ♓ Rubeus, Red. ♄ retr. ♊ Thick and short face, something full, pale complexion, short teeth and crooked, short arms, a subtle person, and will keep matters private; the Woman is honest, and complexioned as the Man. A mean stature, high coloured, fat, sharp look, big voice, red hair, broad face, hasty by nature, yet coward, and a scoffer, dangerous, a lying tongue, bloody minded; the Woman the same. Caput Drac. Height ♃ ☿ in ♍ Caud Drac. Low. ♄ ♂ in ● Of a middle posture, full faced, long or great nose, a wide mouth, ill teeth, much hair on the head, upright body, a little gross, good complexion and behaviour; the Woman in like manner. Middle stature, 〈◊〉 face, little head, ta●ncy, high coloured, a little down-looked proud, a vagabond, given to all kind of wickedness, as whoring, robbing and stealing; and so the Woman.  
Note, That you are to vary your Judgement according to the Houses, Aspects and Company, both for stature of Body, and Nature: or if a good Figure be in a good House, it augments the goodness; but if an ill Figure be in an ill House, it multiplies the evil; which makes a cursed Person for all ill: If you find a good Figure in a bad House, you may suppose, it will be good for the present, and will last but a small time; and so judge according to Reason.  
The good Houses, 1, 5, 10, 11. The mean, 2, 3, 4, 9 The ill, 6, 7, 8 and 12. Also consider the Strength and Weakness of the 16 Lots, by the foresaid Rules, and the Table of Hours; for in it, there's the Power and Strength of the Figures.   

CHAP. IX.  
A Table of the Signification of the Sixteen Lots, going out of one House into another; with another Table, of the good and ill Company of the Lots among themselves.  

A Brief Description of the Sixten Lots in the Twelve Houses.  Acquisitio. Amissio. 1 HAppy Success. 1 Ill in all, but Prisoner's 2 Very Splendid. 2 Good for Love only 3 Riches and Honour. 3 Ill end save Fight 4 A strange Chance. 4 Ill in all. 5 Good Success. 5 Ill but in Corn 6 Good indeed. 6 Ill but in Whoring 7 Moderate good. 7 Ill in Rising 8 Good; the Sick dies. 8 Total ill 9 Good in all. 9 Ill in all 10 Good in Law-Suits. 10 Ill, but in favour of Ladies 11 Good in all. 11 Ill, love excepted 12 Pain and Loss. 12 Ill in all Fortuna Major's▪ Laetitia. 1 Good, save in secrecy 1 Good, but in War 2 Good, but in black 2 Sickly 3 Good in all things 3 Ill 4 Good in all, but Melancholy 4 Meanly good 5 Good in all 5 Very good 6 Good, save consinement 6 Good, but for Ba●… 7 Good in all 7 Indifferent 8 Good 8 Good 9 Good 9 Very good 10 Good; but go not to Princes 10 Good in War 11 Good 11 Good in all 12 Good in all 12 Very good in all Fortuna Minor. Tristitia. 1 Speed in Victory and Love 1 Ill, but for hidden Treasures, Fortifica●… 2 Good, but in Choler 2 Ill, but to Fortify  3 Ill in all 4 Haste, ill for Peace 4 Ill in all 5 Good for all 5 Very ill 6 Mean in all 6 Ill, save for Baw●… 7 Ill in all, except in War and Whoring. 7 Ill, but in Secrecy 8 Indifferent good 8 Evil. 9 Good 9 Ill, save in Magic 10 Good, save Love 10 Ill, save for Fortification 11 Mighty good 11 Ill in all 12 Good, save in Altetions 12 Very ill. Puella. Rubeus. 1 Good, but in War 1 Cancel the Figure 2 Very good 2 All evil 3 Good 3 Ill, but to let blood 4 But indifferent 4 Ill, but for Fireworks 5 Regarding Aspects 5 Ill, save to sow 6 Good, but for Lechery 6 Ill, save to Blood 7 Good, save for War 7 Ill, but Fire and War 8 Good 8 Ill 9 Good for Music 9 Very ill 10 Good, and Peace 10 Good in Fireworks, War 11 Good, and Love to Ladies 11 Ill, but Bleeding 12 Good in all 12 Ill in Abundance Puer. Albus. ● Indifferent in War 1 Good for Marriages ● Good, but with trouble 2 Good in all ● Good luck 3 Very good ● Ill, save in War 4 Good, but in War ● Meanly good 5 Good ● Mean 6 Good in all ● Ill, save for War 7 Good, save in War ● Ill, save for Love 8 Good ● Ill, save for War 9 Good News or Letters ●0 Ill in Love 10 Very good ●1 Mean, good Favour 11 wonderful good ●2 Very good in all 12 Good in all Conjunctio. Drag. Tail. 1 Good with good, and ill with ill 1 Break the Figure 2 Generally good 2 Very ill 3 Good Hap 3 Ill in all 4 Good, save for Health 4 Ill, save in Fireworks 5 Meanly 5 Very ill 6 Good for Whores 6 Ill, save for Whores 7 Mean 7 Ill, beware of Fire 8 Ill 8 Ill in all 9 Meanly good 9 Ill in all 10 Good for Love, ill, if Sick 10 Ill, save for Fire 11 Good for all 11 Ill 12 Meanly good 12 Very ill Fortuna Major. Carcer. 1 Good in all 1 Ill, but to Fortify 2 Good 2 Good, in black it's ill 3 Very Good 3 Ill 4 Good, save in War 4 Good for Melanchol. 5 Very good 5 Receive a Letter in three days 6 Good for Whores only 6 Ill 7 Ill, save for Peace 7 Ill 8 Good 8 Very ill 9 Very good 9 Ill in all 10 Good for all 10 Good for hid. things 11 Good for the Churc. 11 Much Travel 12 Very good 12 Mean Via. Populus. 1 Ill, but to Prisons 1 Good for Marriage 2 Indifferent 2 Meanly good 3 Very good in all 3 More good than bade 4 Good in all, save Love 4 Good in all, but Love 5 Good Voyages 5 Good in most 6 Ill 6 Good 7 Ill, but for Journeys 7 In War good 8 Ill 8 Indifferent 9 Indifferent 9 Look for Letters 10 Good 10 Meanly good 11 Very good 11 Good in all 12 Excellent good 12 Very ill. 
A Signification of the Sixteen Lots, moving from the first House to the other Eleven.  Acquisitio in the First, and goes into the Second; gains Money and new clothes. In the Fifth, Joy of Children, and good ones; and a pleasant Life. In the Third House, Honour, Joy and Profit by Relations. In the Sixth, Gain by good Servants, and also by small cattle. In the Fourth, good b●●… a good end of ●… Acti▪ In the Seventh, a good end with thy Enemies; a good Wife, and good in all Demands. In the Eighth, Dearth for the thing demanded, and great Profit in Succession. In the Fourth, Differences between the Father and Children, loss of Inheritance. In the Ninth, good in Sea Voyages, and in all Church-concerns. In the Fifth, Merriments, dangerous and ill with Big-bellyed Women. In the Tenth, Love and Respect from Kings and Princes, and Profit from the Mother. In the Sixth, Differences with Servants, and loss of small cattle. In the Eleventh, Good Friends, and a good End of the Demand. In the Seventh, not good to Marry, loss of thy Mistress. In the Twelfth, Imprisonment, and a great many Enemies. In the Eighth, loss of Goods, of thy Wife, and Enemies. Amissio in the first, and found in the second; loss of Money and Goods. In the Ninth, robbed by the way, ill for Church-Matters. In the third House, Controversies with Kindred, and ill in Journeys. In the Tenth. Anger wi●… Kings, Lordds and Princes. In the Eleventh, thy Friends are false, and envious to thee. In the Twelfth, nothing but Imprisonment, and loss of cattle, and disturbed with Enemies.  
These two Lots, Acquisitio and Amissio, may serve you as an Example for all the rest, if you observe their Natures; one is good, and the other bad; as you see Acquisitio, is throughout all the Houses, good in all things, according to the nature of the House, or Matters they signify: so likewise Amissio, is ill in all things or demands, which may be drawn from the 12 Houses, as you have been formerly taught; and also, what Lots are good or ill, and the good and ill Houses. So vary your Judgement accordingly.  
Again, If the second House or Lott, go into the third, thy Brethren will rule over thy Goods; the fourth, thy Father; fifth, thy Children, or the Alehouse; and so of the rest, according to the Rules of all the other.  
If the Question be, Shall I see or speak with my Brother? If thy Lott is found in the third House, it's a true testimony that thou shalt speak with thy Brother; and so on.  

Concerning good Company.  
Good Company is to be much desired, and ill Company is to be abhorred; it's good Company that brings many to Happiness, and ill, which brings many to the Gallows.  
Now we have a method in these our Lots, to know our Company, or our Associates and Companions. Observe this Rule; the Ascendant and the second House, are Companions; and so observe in order, the second and third House, the third and fourth House, the fourth and fifth, the fifth and sixth, the sixth and seventh, the seventh and eighth, the eighth and ninth, the ninth and tenth, the tenth and eleventh; and lastly, the eleventh and twelfth Houses. Thus they are united together in Company.  
You are now to consider the Natures and Qualities of those Lots by the foresaid Tables; and if you find a Lott in the second House of an ill principle, you may be then fearful of being drawn away, or trapan'd, and persuaded to an ill thing: if the Lots are both good, fear not, for good may be thy Fortune. Then again, if thou findest a watery Lott in the first House, a fiery Lott in the second House, than you may say, the Company is not good; and by this Method, you may judge right of your Society in general: so, if they are of one Nature, and of one Triplicity, you may believe, you are upon a sure ground, etc.    

CHAP. X.  
A Table of the Significations, Power and Strength of the Sixteen Figures in the Twelve Houses.  
First House.  

A Signification of the Sixteen Lots, moving from the first House to the other Eleven.  Acquisitio. Am●ssio. This Figure signifies Goodness and Prosperity in Life, and an Accomplishment of the Person's desire; also, good success in Voyages, and whatsoever one takes in hand. If this Question be made for Love, and in way of Marriage, it is good; and for any thing a Lover demands in that behalf. This hath in signification, when you find it in the first House, of loss of Inheritances and Estates; an evil Life, a bad Beginning, and ill End of any thing undertaken, ill for Sickness, Voyages; and is evil in all Demands, except for Prisoners, in which it signifies Deliverance. Fortuna Major. Laetitia. When this Figure doth represent, it signifies goodwill, Loyalty, Prosperity in every thing, Joy, and much Riches in relation to Women; it signifies Joy, Friendship among Kings and Princes; this is indeed good in all things, except to keep a thing secret, in which it betokens small Security. The signification of this Figure, is Peace and Quiet of Life, a true concordance and friendly Meeting of Persons, honest, and of a good conversation; in case of Love, it sometimes denotes Dissimulation, the person promising more than he will perform. Fortuna Minor. Tristitia. In obtaining this Figure, it denotes Anger, Hastiness, and Expedition in all things, and is good for the Affairs of War; and signifies Courage and Boldness of Spirit, and Victory over Enemies; good in Voyages, but in other things not so good. When in the first House, it hath in signification, an ill beginning of any Enterprise; this Figure indeed, is in all things ill, except it be in searching of Treasure in the Earth; and is also good in Matters relating to Building. Puella. Rubeus. This signifies, Joy, Mirth, Dancing, curiously and nearly Clothed; as also, of an Amorous Disposition, Young, and a Lover of Gardens: this is good in cases of love, and in every thing else, but in Matters relating to War. This Figure amongst the Ancients, signifies Crafts, Frauds, Subtleties, Treason, War, Debate, Differences, Battle, Shedding of Blood; and in short, it hath the signification of all manner of Wickedness in the World. Puer. Albus. This also betokens Joy, making of Feasts and Banquets with Ladies: it also signifies, Thefts, Robberies, Deceit and Gain in Play, swiftness in Voyages, and in Marriages it is good enough; yet it signifies Deceits and Frauds: indifferent in all things, but better in War, than in any thing else. This signifies Profit by Journeys, and the person is pleasant, cheerful and happy in all things: if the Demand be a Suit of Law, that the Man shall win: if for a Message, he shall have good News: and in Mercurial Cases, 'tis very good. Conjunctio. Cauda Draconis. When this Figure is placed in this House, it is very good in all kind of Mercurial Things: it is also good in every other thing, so that it be accompanied with good Figures; and ill, if found with ill Figures: it always signifies Concord and Alliance. This in the fir●… House, is in its nature like to the Fig. Rub●… spoken of before; nevertheless, this hath a●… evil signification, betokening Loss and Damage for all things that may be asked after, and good in nothing but Ruin and Destruct on of Countries. Caput Draconis. Carcer. This signifies Goodness in all things, except for War, signifying Battle; but for Peace, it is perfectly good: also good for Marriage, and in Matters of Gain: in short, 'tis good for all things you can demand, signifies Health of Body, Mirth, and the love of Kings, etc. and Prosperity, obtaining what can be desired. This Figure hath the signification of ill Opinions and Melancholy Thoughts, Sorrow, Anger, and pain in Travel; 'tis ill in all things, unless in making Fortifications and Forts; 'tis good for Journeys and Voyages; 'tis ill, signifying staying, and that the Person or his Horse shall receive Harm. Via. Populus. This in the first ●ouse, signifies a Deying in the Way, except it be to be relea●…d out of Prison; for ●hich 'tis good. This in the first House, is good in all things, as well in War as in Peace; signifying a multitude of People congregated together; in case of Marriage, 'tis perfectly good; and also for taking a Journey in hand, signifying swiftness more, by Water than by Land. 
The Power and Strength of the Sixteen Figures in the Second House.  Acquisitio. Amissio. This Figure in the second House, you shall judge the Demands and Questions before spoken, to be good; when the Question is for Gain and Profit, you shall judge it to be good and great, and that the Person shall be lucky in cattle, prosperous in Merchandise, and successful in all things he takes in hand: this Figure in this House, is better than all the others, except Fortuna Major; which in this behalf signifies more than the other, Profit and Honour with Kings, Princes, etc. This also bet●ke●… Loss, and small Profit i●… all things you can demand, except the obtaining the Friendship of a Lady; it signifies, the Messenger shall be robbed by Thiefs and Padders: so indeed, this Figure is ill, be it for War, or Peace. Fortuna Minor. Laetitia. This Figure in this ●ouse, signifies Honour ●…st, great Riches and ●…ch Substance: she is ●…od for Merchandi●…g, Honours, Goods ●…d Substance, it sig●…es a readiness and ●…ckness: but she is 〈◊〉 so good and loyal, 〈◊〉 that which went last ●…fore. This signifies Conquest, obtaining of Goods, Riches, without any breach of Conscience; signifying good Company, Mirth, Recreation, promising much, and performing little; also it signifies quickness in Journeys; in Robberies, taken away in j●st, and not in earnest. Fortuna Major. Tristitia. This signifies, Good●…ss, Prosperity, Riches, ●…eat Presents of Gold; ●…d is good in any Que●…ion demanded, except 〈◊〉 Melancholy things; 〈◊〉 all other things, she ●gnifies Joy, in demands of Treason and Robe●…y, she is good: because ●…e signifies Loyalty, in that House soever she 〈◊〉. In this House, it signifies loss and hindrance, where Gain is hoped; never to attain Riches, but by great labour, anger, envy; attended with misforfortune, to be robbed, overcome, and spoiled by Thiefs; in all things ill, but Fortificat. and Buildings. Puella. Rubeus. This found in the second House, denotes Gain, Prosperity; and in cases of Women, Loyalty and Virginity; good Company by the way, gain in things of Mirth; 'tis good in all things, especially in matters of Silver and white things: 'tis good for the Way, but there will be some hindrance. She denotes no War, but Concord. This is an evil Fi●… and always sig●… small Profit; and ●…sies, that the P●… shall be robbed ●… spoiled, be it in ●… or otherwise; it▪ ●…sies Contention a●… the thing stolen: ●… touching Company▪ ●… the Way, it shows ●… be Ruffians and ●…ters. Puer. Albus. This signifies Profit, by reason of Women: likewise, that the Gain shall be good in War; Honour and Profit shall be gotten: the Company in the way, shall be Warlike and Hardy: in things of Honour, 'tis very good: things stolen, shall be had again, but not without Anger. This signifies gr●… Gain and Profit, ●… Honour and Dilige●… especially in ●… things: 'tis good in ●… things; for it sig●… a good Spirit and ●…derstanding good Co●…pany, and Men of ●…nour; good also ●… Voyages, yet some ●…derance: 'tis good ●… Demands. Conjunctio. Cauda Draconis. This signifies Gain in ●…dustrious Matters, and signifies, that the thing lost shall be recovered again, but not without pain and tra●ail, and long time; sometimes it signifies Bastards, and obtaining of Books and Sciences; it signifies quick return in Messages, and getting Goods of dead Folks. This signifies also, great Poverty, and that the Person wall be wasted and ruined, and to spend what he hath without Profit; things lost shall never be recovered; bad Company, by reason of Robberies and Extortions; and they be Workers in Iron, as Locksmiths. Caput Draconis. Carcer. This in the second House, signifies great Substance, great Goodness, good and honest Conversation; the thing lost shall befound; good luck in Merchandise with great Gain; and that the Profit the Person hath, shall be with great Tranquillity. When this is found in the second House, it denotes Gain by things hid in the Earth with Covetousness; the Person shall happen with bad Company; also slowness in Voyages; but in Building Houses and Fortresses she is good; 'tis good in black things. Populus. Via. This signifies a quantity of Men assembled together, to travel and get substance, signifying also, white Things, good Company, and good for Voyages, signifying Swiftness; and also for War: it denotes a multitude of People to fight: good in Marriage, but cold in Matters of Love. This denotes sm●… Gain and Poverty; t●… thing lost, never to b●… found, and poor company: in case of Marriage, 'tis not ver● good, unless the nint● consent thereto; b●● for Journeying, 't●● good, saving that the●● shall be some some hindrance therein. 
The Power and Strength of the Sixteen Figures in the Third House.  Acquisitio. Amissio. This in the third House, signifies the Person of whom the Question is made, is well beloved, rich, and mighty by his Kindred, great profit in small Journeys, and also good Company, and good Kindred; and indeed, this Figure is good in all things, especially for Scholars, denoting, they shall learn well. This signifies, much Quarrel and Debates with Kindred; and in short Journeys, it denotes speed, with small Gain; it is ill for the Scholar, and signifies ill Company and Neighbours; in all Demands made in this House, this Figure is very ill. Fortuna Major. Laetitia. This signifies noble Parentage, and that the Person for whom the Question is made, is angry with his Kinsfolks; sometimes it signifies perfect Amity with his Kinsfolk; if the tenth and fourth agree, this signifies rather good than evil, especially in Voyages, and for a Scholar, and is good indeed in all other Demands. This signifies Peace and Concord amongst Kinsfolk and Friends; Speed without Profit; and is ill for Scholars, showing no Affection to Study, losing all that is employed on him; 'tis good to know if your Neighbours be good, and for all other Demands. Fortuna Minor. Tristitia. This House denotes a perfect Amity with Men of good Authority, and the Friendship of Kindred without Dissimulation; it is also good for the Scholar and for Neighbourhood; in case of Journeys, it signifies Diligence and Swiftness: 'tis good in all, but that it showeth a little Anger. This in the third House, signifies Strife and Debate among Kindred, and great Dissimulation, no Profit in Study: to the Scholar, a dangerous▪ Way, and small Profit; the Kins folk of small Nobility. To be short, this Figure is ill in all Demands. Puella. Rubeus. This denotes good and perfect Friendship with Kindred; and also a good disposition of Health, and that one cannot obtain his Suit and▪ Desire, as to love and favour of a Woman: 'tis good in Voyages, and also good for Scholars; and in all other Matters, 'tis good. This signifies Choler and Anger, and much Debate, and ill-will among your Kindred; this is good in Bleeding, and denotes Burn, by reason of Questions: it is ill for the Way, because the Person is in danger of being spoiled. This Figure in the third. House, is ill. Puer. Albus. This shows a Person shall have Goods by his Kinsfolks, especially by those that use the Wars; it also showeth much Amity with Friends, Gain in all manner of Trading; it signifies swiftness in the Way, with diligence and good luck, and to meet Warlike Men, but shall receive no harm. This signifies Concord and Amity, and Learned and Wise Men; it denotes good News by Letters, and Safety in taking of Journeys, without any Robbing: 'tis good in all things; and that the Scholar shall study well, and be wise; and is also good for short Ways. Conjunctio. Cauda Draconis. This signifies Conjunction and Amity, and indeed is good in all things that can be demanded, especially touching Scholars; and that the things shall be found again; 'tis good for Journeys, and that the Messenger is prompt and diligent. This signifies in all things contrary to Goodness, as Discord, and separation of Friends; it denotes Treason, and much Dissimulation, and that the Scholar will not apply to Study, but set all his Mind on War and Necromancy; and indeed, in all things that can be demanded, this thing is ill. Caput Draconis. Carcer. By this, you may obtain Honour by your Kindred, and that your Neighbours be good; and this is also good in Journeys, but that there shall be some stay and hindrance; and that the Scholar shall study well: This Figure is good in all Demands that can be made. This signifies firm Love amongst Friends and Kindred; 'tis ill for the Way, and that the Voyage shall scarce be performed; it signifies Imprisonment, and that the Sholar shall be a good Student, but of a Melancholy nature. Populus. Via. This in the third House, signifies Amity with Kindred, and that the Voyage shall be performed with Swiftness and Health; as also the Affairs of People: and he that intendeth to take his Journey, shall find much Company by the Way. This is indifferent in all Demands. This signifies small good for Kinsfolks; it also shows, that the Person shall have his desire, and that the Letters that come, shall bringgood News; 'tis good for short Voyages, saving there will be some delay in the Way; better to take a Journey by Land, than by Water. 
The Power and Strength of the Sixteen Figures in the Fourth House.  Acquisitio. Amissio. In the fourth House, it signifies good to buy Heritage's, and for the Affairs of the Father, and that he is not dead; the Child is lawfully begotten, and that much▪ Treasure is hidden; the end of the Figure is good. This House is good in all Demands whatsoever. This signifies loss of Heritage's, and great damage to the Substance of the Father, Quarrels and Contentions with People of ill Conversation; the Father shall die before the Son; nor is it good to buy Heritage's: the Town Besieged shall be taken; the Ship cometh with a good Wind, but small profit to the Merchant. Fortuna Major. Laetiti●. This denotes the Father to be of good Nature, and Quiet, and come of a Noble Race, and that his Mansion is fair and handsome; 'tis good to buy Lands and Heritage's, and that the Castle is fair and costly, and richly furnished, and that there is great Treasure hid therein. This signifies good luck and prosperity in Heritage's, and that hidden Treasure shall be found; the Grandfather and Father of a Noble Race; the Palace and Castles are lofty and pleasant, and the end of all Demands are good. Fortuna Minor. Tristitia. This in the fourth House, signifies quickness in all things; the Father of an indifferent Race, but very Choleric; the House and Appurtenances are very fair: 'tis also good to buy Lands and Heritage's, but they shall be subject to Fire, and shall be damaged by Warlike men, and that there is no Treasure hid there in▪ This signifies to be driven from the Heritage of ones Father, and that the Grandfather and Father are of an ill Race; the House is ill and naught, the City is strong, and shall not be taken; the end of all which you demand, is evil; but to buy Lands and build Houses 'tis good; good to buy Heritage's, for they shall possess them. Puella. Puella. Rubeus. This signifies a small Heritage by Misdemeanour of Kindred, although the Father be good natured; the House is pleasant, there is no Treasure hidden: in all demands of this House, I find this Figure not to be of the best, but in some Articles. If you find this Figure in the fourth House, 'tis not very good for the Father's Succession: the Father is angry, and of no great good House: to sow the ground, this Figure is good; the Town Besieged shall be burnt and Ransacked, and the People therein be Thiefs. Puer. Albus. This signifies great Discord with the Father, and sometimes Prosperity; the House is in Suit and Question; and 'tis ill to buy Heritage's, for thereby shall come Strife and Contention: the Tillable Lands are of no great value, and the Town Besieged, shall valiantly defend itself. This signifies good luck, and prosperity in all things: the Father is good, gentile, and merciful, and loveth to live well: the House is pleasant; 'tis good to buy Lands and Possessions, and the Town Besieged shall not be taken: the Treasure hid is all Silver. Conjunctio. Cauda Draconis. 'Tis good to visit the father, for he is sick or dead; if not dead, will cause something to be written: the House is good, but not beautiful: 'tis good to labour in the Earth: the Town fair, but of small force: and if Besieged, shall be taken by Composition, and the Treasure hid, ●hall be surely found. This in the fourth House, signifies good luck and prosperity touching Lands, and the person shall overcome his Suit with great Anger, Travail and Envy: the Messenger will make a quick return, and the Patient shall amend, if the sixth consent. Caput Draconis. Carcer. This signifies in the fourth House, loss of Heritage's and Possessions of your Parents, and to be thrown quite out by Law: 'tis good for the Father, for he is good, the House is fair and pleasant; and i● Besieged, it shall not be taken, for those within are stout. This denotes the winning of Lands, wherein Treasure is hidden, and that some of his Kindred are taken Prisoners; the Father is old, but of good Complexion, and shall live long: 'tis good to sow the Ground: the Treasure of Brother or Sister hidden, shall not be found. Populus. Via. This signifieth a multitude of People assembled, to buy and sell; in demands of the Father, it denotes Mourning; and the Father shall die before the Son: the Town is full of people: and if Besieged, shall be taken, because those within are Mariners. This signifies loss ● Heritage, and in ● things you can dema● she is ill, saving to so● the Earth, yet better by Water than by Land● Treasure hidden shall not be found: the Cit● is strong, but if Bested, shall not be taken the Father is long●●…'d▪ and the Son 〈◊〉 gitimate. 
The Power and Strength of the Sixteen Figures in the Fifth House.  Acquisitie. Amissio. This giveth good unification of the ●ild, that he shall be itty and in good conation, and well made 〈◊〉 Body; the Messenger shall come quickly with good News: and ●the having of new clothes, and the Pro●ise is kept faithfully, ●nd the Letters speak ●f merry things. This signifies, that the Child shall be ill-natured, and loss of Heritage by Law; the sick Person shall amend; the Woman sh●ll have a Son, but shall be in danger of Death; 'tis not good in cases of eating and drinking: the Promise shall not be performed: the Messenger shall return quickly, but shall bring ill News. Fortuna Major: Laetitia. This is a sign of few Children, but they shall be honest, and happy in their Life; the Son is neither Sick nor Dead; 'tis good in eating and drinking: the Promise shall be kept: the Messenger is not stayed, and shall quickly return, and bring good Tidings, and the Affairs of Kings and Princes, etc. This denotes P● sperity, good luck a● advancement to H● nour: the Woman wit● Child shall have a So● which shall gain gre● Honour and Reputati● on: and indeed for 〈◊〉 the Demands you c● make in this House, th● Figure is good as 〈◊〉 buy and put on new clothes, signifying grea● Plenty and Increase▪ Fortuna Minor. Puella. This signifies, the Child shall be a Man of Honour, Victorious and Liberal, and shall have many Children: that the Promise shall take place, and that the Messenger shall return quickly, and the News he shall bring, shall be of War, or Anger; the Woman with Child shall have a Daughter. This Figure is good in all Demands. This denotes Prosperity to the Child, as also Mirth and Pleasure: the Promise shall be kept: the Messenger▪ shall come something late, but shall bring good News▪ 〈◊〉 good for the Friend 〈◊〉 and for Mirth and Pastime. This Figure in itself, signifies but few Children. Puer. Rubeus. This in the fifth ●ouse, signifies the ●ild to be of ill Con●sation, and disobe●nt; 'tis ill in Eating ●d Drinking, and that 〈◊〉 Promise shall not be ●t: the Messenger 〈◊〉 soon bring Ti●gs of War. 'Tis not ●d for a Friend, nor 〈◊〉 Pastime. This signifies perverse Children, disagreeable to Virtue: 'tis ill as to Eating and Drinking, especially of red Things: the Promise shall be broken, the Messengers shall bring Letters relating to War and Combat. Tristitia. Albus: This signifies Sorrow, Heaviness and ●squiet, Poverty and 〈◊〉 Fortune to come to 〈◊〉 Child; the Mes●ge speaks of heavy ●ings: and the Wo●n with Child shall ●ave a Son, and shall ●ave a great and long travail, with danger 〈◊〉 Death. This in the fifth House, denotes the Child to be good natured and of good complexion: 'tis good to Eat and Drink: the Promise shall take good effect, and the Messenger shall return speedily with good News: and the Letters make mention of Mercurial Things. Conjunctio. Cauda Draconis This here denotes, the child shall be of an evil Nature; and to tell you in two words, there is no Demand to be made in this House, but this Figure is mean; the Woman with Child shall have a Son; and to Marriages in this House, this Figure is always effectual. This signifies, 〈◊〉 the Child shall be E●… and in the end 〈◊〉 hanged, or die an 〈◊〉 Death, or banished 〈◊〉 Country: 'tis ill 〈◊〉 Eat and Drink: T●… Messenger shall c●… quickly, but his N●… shall be evil: and 〈◊〉 Letters speak of W●… and Treason. Caput Draconis. Carcer. This signifies, the Children shall be of great Wisdom and Honour: 'tis profitable to a person to Eat and Drink well: the Promise shall be performed: the Messenger shall tarry long, but shall bring good News; the Letters speak of Love, or of Riches: 'tis good for a Friend, and for Venereal Works. This denotes 〈◊〉 Child to be of mel●… choly Disposition, 〈◊〉 turnine, full of ill H●… mours; 'tis not go●… to Eat and Drink: 〈◊〉 Promise shall be p●… form, but long fi●… the Messenger s●… come safe, but shall s●… long, and be in dang●… to be Imprisoned. Populus. Via. This in the fifth House, signifies many Children and Witty, more wholesome to Drink than to Eat: the Promise shall be scarcely performed: the Messenger shall come quickly: the Woman with Child shall have a Son: 'tis good for friends; and the Letters speak of sundry People. This denotes in the fifth House, few Children, but they shall be of good Nature and Complexion, but not long of Life: 'tis better to Drink than to Eat: the Promise shall not be kept: the Woman is not with Child, but rather a Tympany. 
The Power and Strength of the Sixteen Figures in the Sixth House.  Acquisitio. Amissio. This in the sixth House, denotes Fidelity and Wisdom in Servants: the Man is not sick; but if sick, shall quickly mend? the Physician is a good Man: 'tis good to take Physic: and if the fifth House be good, the Man shall never fall into Poverty. This signifies a base Offspring; ill for all Demands in this House touching Servants and Subjects; the sick Person is in a poor place; the Sickness is only of Choler, and is very poor; the Witness is false; 'tis ill to take Physic: you must judge by the 5th and 7th Houses. Fortuna Major. Laetitia. This signifies, that the Subjects and Servants be just and obedient: 'tis good to buy cattle: the Person is not dead, but if sick, shall soon amend; and the Disease comes of corruption of Blood: the Witnesses be not false; 'tis good to take Physic. This in the Sixth House, denotes Servants to be good at work, just and faithful; 'tis good to buy Beasts; the Patient shall soon amend. The Sickness ariseth through too much Sadness. This Figure is good, excepting for Bawds. Fortuna Minor. Tristitia. This denotes the Subjects and Servants to be just unto their Master, but the Servants shall be sick in their Service: 'tis ill to buy Beasts, because of small Profit. The Witnesses are not false, but will be spiteful. 'Tis good for the Physician, and that which he ordereth, is good. This denotes great Disobedience in Servants and Subjects; they shall be Slothful, and Sick in their Service: the sick Person shall die; the Witness hath falsely Deposed: 'tis ill to buy Beasts, and for the Physician, or to take any sort of Medicine. Puella. Rubeus. This in the Sixth House, is good in all demands; touching Servants 'tis ill; and for the Sick Person, his Disease proceeding from Phlegm: and in this House, in all other Demands, this Figure is good, especially for Lewd Women. This signifies no good luck touching Servants, for they shall be in danger to be robbed; the Disease cometh of Corruption of Blood or Choler; the sick Person shall die, or be long Sick. This Figure in this House, is ill in all Demands. Puer. Albus. This denotes Servants and Subjects to be Naught, and will rob their Masters; 'tis ill for the Sick Person; and also, ill for small Beasts, for they shall be stolen; the Sick Person shall be worse and worse. This Figure in this House, is ill in all Demands. This denotes good luck, as well for Servants as cattle; the Sickness shall not last long: sometimes this denotes good, and sometimes ill according as the Angles speak; 'tis good for the Physician, and to take Physic. This Figure is good in all Demands. Conjunctio. Cauda Draconis. This implies, that the Servants be meetly good; the sick Person shall die; 'tis ill to take Physic, and ill for the Physician, but v●●y good for Whores and Bawds; and in all other Demands, this Figure is ill, but to buy small cattle; in which 'tis good. This denotes, that the Servants be not very good; the Beasts shall be stolen, or destroyed by Wolves; the Party shall have a a great Fever, and be in danger of Death, in danger of Death; if the 8th consent; 'tis ill for Physicians, and to take Physic, and for all things, except Caput Draconis. Carcer▪ This signifies good luck in Beasts; the Sickness shall not last long, if the 8th consent. 'Tis good for the Physician, and to take Physic: in all other Demands, this Figure is good, excepting for Whores and Bawds; for which 'tis ill. This signifies Dis●o●alty, and small Trust▪ in Servants, small Profit in buying Beasts; the Sickness shall be long, and the Patient in danger of Death: 'Tis not good to take Physic: the Physician is not the best. This Figure is ill in all Demands, except for Whores. Populus. Via. This signifies great Wisdom and Fidelity in Servants, good to buy small Beasts, and sell them: 'tis good for the sick Person, the Patient shall amend, if the 8th consent: 'tis good for the Physician, and for Physic; and in all the Demands in this House, this Figure is good. This signifies, that the Servants will with much willingness employ themselves in their Master's Business; 'tis ill to buy and sell cattle; the sick Person shall be in danger of Death, if the 8th consent: 'tis ill for the Physician and Medicine: and the Witnesses will prove false. 
The Power and Strength of the Sixteen Figures in the Seventh House.  Acquisitio. Amissio. This signifies Amity between Friends: the Suit of Law shall go on the Plaintiffs side: the thing is not stolen, but scattered; and the Fugitive will return again: 'tis good to Marry, and make Marriages. The Wife has to do with more than her Husband: the Maid is no Virgin, and the Woman lost, will be found. This denotes the open Enemy to be of no Power, and doth all things with Anger and Hastiness: but his Anger is soon past. The Party shall lose his Suit, the Fugitive will not be taken; the Woman married will be a Whore: the Man is of an ill-will, and shall lose at all Gaming. Fortuna Major. Laetitia. This signifies, the Enemy to be strong, mighty, and of a good temper: the Plaintiff shall win his Suit: 'tis good to contract Marriage, and for a Friend: the Fugitive will return: the Woman is honest, and loves none but her Husband. This in the Seventh House, denotes the Enemy to be of small Force: the Plaintiff shall obtain his Suit: the Man is not robbed: the Fugitive will not return again: 'tis good for a Wife, Marriage, and for a Friend: though Person hath no ill will or mind: the Gamester shall not win much: the Marriage is good. Fortuna Minor. Tristitia. This signifies, the Enemy to be of an evil Disposition, strong and mighty, doing great harm; the Plaintiff shall shall win his Suit, but with great Trouble; the Fugitive will not return; the Woman is Choleric; the Man is ill-minded, and shall lose by Gaming. This implies, that the Enemy is strong and mighty, ill-minded and revengeful: the Suit is in hazard to be lost on the Plaintiff Part: the Thief will not be found: the Marriage begun, shall be ended: the Gamestet wins, but by Cheating, and the Maid is no Virgin. Puella. Rubeus. This signifies, that the Enemy hath no mind to displease the other; the Suit shall have good Success; the Person is not robbed; the Fugitive will come home: 'tis good for a Woman, Marriage and Play; no Wars, but firm Peace. This Figure is good in all things, but for War. Here the Enemy is very Angry, but of small Power, minding to destroy his Substance; the Plaintiff shall lose his Suit; the Fugitive will never return: 'tis ill for Marriage, for the Husband will run away, and forsake the Wife; so the Woman will cleave to to other Men. Puer. Albus. This denotes the Enemy to be strong and mighty, designing to kill his Enemy; the Suit will be lost by Negligence; the Thief is crafty and malicious; the Fugitive will not come home again; and 'tis not good for Married Women, for they love others beside their Husbands. This shows, the Enemy is of no ill mind, not coveting to displease the other; the Party shall have a good end of his Suit; the Fugitive will return; the Marriage shall be Honourable, and both Parties pleased; the Woman shall be good and honest, and the Friend likewise. Conjunctio. Cauda Draconis. This Figure denotes, the Enemy to be weak in his Reins, and seeks a Compliance; the Querent shall obtain his Suit to Profit; 'tis good for Marriage, and better than others, signifying Accomplishment thereof; the thing stolen, is by the Thief embezzled, who shall be taken, and in danger of being hanged. In this Figure, the Enemy is wicked, and seeks by Treason to destroy the other; the Querent shall lose his Suit; the Fugitive will never return; 'tis ill for Marriage; the Husband will forsake his Wife. This Figure i● this House is ill in all Demands. Caput Draconis. Carcer. Here this denotes, that altho' the Enemy be strong, yet he seeks to comply; the Querent will win his Suit; the Fugitive will come again: 'tis good for Marriage; the Woman is good and gentle: 'tis good for the Friend, and for the Gamester likewise. This denotes, the Enemy to be strong and boisterous, and full of dissimulation: the Querent shall have good Success in his Suit; the Fugitive will never come again: 'tis ill for Marriage; for it signifies light Women, etc. P. opulus. Via. This denotes, a great number of Enemies assembled, on great Debates; 'tis ill for him that sues for any thing by Law; the Fugitive will not return: 'tis indifferent in Marriage. This Figure is mean in all things, but for War. This Figure signifies, the Enemy to be weak, and of small power; the Plaintiff will lose his Suit; the Fugitive will come no more: 'tis ill for Marriage; the Man will put away his Wife. This Figure is ill, excepting for Voyages. 
The Power and Strength of the Sixteen Figures in the Eighth House.  Acquisitio. Amissio. This denotes, the Death of the Patient in short time, he shall die a fair Death in his Bed: the Brother shall die before the Father: the Woman is rich, and hath good and honest Company; he that is at home, is in Health. This Figure is good in all things but for the sick Person, for he shall die. This signifies, the Death of the sick Person: if the first and 10th agree with this, his Sickness shall not be very long; the Man shall lose the Succession, without any amends; he is in danger to die an evil Death; the Father shall die before the Brother, if the 4th and 10th agree. Fortuna Major. Laetitia. This denotes, that the sick Person shall not die at this time, if the 4th agree; but the Sickness shall be long, if the 10th consent: the Man shall Inherit: the Man shall die no evil Death. This Figure in this House, is good in all Demands that can be made. In this House, the Patient shall not die of his Disease: the Man shall be an Heir, and the Woman is indifferently rich. In short, this Figure is good in all Demands which you can make, except Negromancy, for which 'tis not good, unless to fly in the Air, or to go on one side or other. Fortuna Minor. Tristitia. This signifies sometimes, the Death of some great Man: and it shall be according as the first, 6th or 10th Houses consent; the Sickness shall not be long: he shall have much ado about his Inheritance. This Figure in this House, is meetly in all Demands. This Figure in this House signifies, that the Man is still in a great fear: the Man shall inherit by Death of another. In all Questions made in this House, this Figure is evil, but for Negromancy, for which 'tis good: the Man shall not be slain, but die fairly. Puella. Rubeus. This denotes the sick Person is is danger of Death, the Enemy is in great fear, the Sickness shall not be long, the Man shall Inherit, the Party hath slain no Man, the Father shall live long. This Figure is good in all Demands, except fór Negromancy. This in the Eighth House, signifies the Man shall be slain with a Sword or Staff; the sick Person is in danger to die; if the other Houses consent, the Sickness will be short; the Man is in great fear the Woman is not rich: as to Negromancy, 'tis not good, because the Man is too hasty. Puer. Albus. This signifies, the Man shall be slain; 'tis ill for the sick Person, and signifies Death: if the others consent, the Sickness shall not be long; the Advice is evil; the Woman is not very rich. In all Demands in this House, this Figure is ill, except for Love and Negromancy, for which 'tis good. This denotes, the Man shall die in the Water; the sick Person shall not heal, tho' the others consent; the Woman is rich, the Man needeth not to be in fear, the Father shall live long. In all Demands in this House, this Figure is good, excepting Negromancy. Conjunctio. Cauda Draconis. In this House, this denotes the sick Person shall die of his Disease; the Man in Prison shall die by the Law; the Man shall not Inherit, but lose his Suit; the Man is in fear; the Father shall quickly die. This Figure in this place, is ill on all Demands, except Negromancy. This signifies, the Person shall be long sick, and in danger of Death; the Prisoner is in danger of his Life; the Man shall not have his Patrimony; he that is suspected of the Murder, is guilty of it: And indeed, in all Demands, this Figure brings no great good, but rather contrary. Caput Draconis. Carcer. This Figure doth signify, the Person to continue long sick, but shall have no other Disease; the Prisoner shall be quite delivered, but with great Costs: the Man shall have his Inheritance, and overcome his Party. By this is signified, that the Patient shall be more like to die than live; the Prisoner shall die in Prison: 'tis good for Succession of Heritage's, but with great Labour; he that is accused of the Murder, did it. This Figure is ill in all Questions. Populus. Via. This signifies, the Sickness to be long, and the Patient in danger of Death, yet at last shall amend; so that if the 1st and 10th agree, the Man shall die in his Bed by Rheum, or drowned in Water; he is afraid of Men in Arms. This Figure is indifferently good in all Demands. By this Figure in the 8th House, the Person shall die of this Disease; if the first and 10th agree; the Man shall not Inherit, the Man trading, shall bring nothing home. In all Questions, you can propound in this House, this Figure is evil, but in Negromancy. 
The Power and Strength of the Sixteen Figures in the Ninth House.  Acquisitio. Amissio. In this House, this ●oth signify, the Man ●●all have the Benefice, ●nd shall be rich in church-good, and a good Man, and shall take Orders; the Scholar shall be a Doctor or Counsellor; the Dream will come to a good ●●d; the Books speak of Church-Affairs. This figure is good in all Demands. This denotes, that the Benefice shall be obtained, and the Books speak of Love-Affairs; 'tis not good for the Scholar, for he will not Study, but be aRuffian; he shall not thrive in his Voyage and Trading. This Figure is evil in all Demands that can be made. Fortuna Major. Laetitia. This Figure denotes, the Man to be a Bishop or Abbot, or have the Benefice he wishes for; he dreams ofKings, etc. and shall come to a good end: 'tis good for the Scholar, for he shall be a Man of Honour, and Learned. This Figure is good in all Demands, especially in Learning. This Figure is in this House indifferently good for Church Matters; the Man shall have the Benefice: 'tis good for Scholars, for Gardens, Meadows, and Religious Persons. And this Figure is good in all things you can demand in this House. Fortuna Minor. Tristitia. This signifies the Man to be of great Learning, and shall have the Benefice he wished for; the Priest is an honest Man; his Books speak of great Men and Matters. And in all things you can demand, this Figure is good, declaring only a littleCholerickness. This signifies ill to Church-Affairs: the Man shall not attain the Benefice, unless the 4th and 10th consent; Delays in Voyages, to learn a Science 'tis good; and for Scholars, and things of Secrecy, this Figure is ill in all Demands. Puella. Rubeus. This Figure in this House, signifies, that the Man shall have the Benefice by procurement of Women; the Scholar will not Study, but be inclined to Amours; the Ship shall come home with good Merchandizes; 'tis good for a Traveller: This Figure is indifferently good in all Demands; in Music, 'tis very good. When you find this Figure here, 'tis ill in all demands; but such as relate to Buildings, Robbing and Spoiling, and suchlike, in which 'tis good; if you make a Figure, to know what shall happen to him, which takes a long Journey, it signifies, that without doubt, he shall either be robbed, or slain by the way. Puer. Albus. This signifies, the Man shall not have the Benefice, but by some crafty means in Church Affairs; this Figure is ill in Voyages: 'tis dangerous, and the Ship is in great danger to be taken: the Scholar Studieth nothing but War; in all things you can demand in this House, this Figure is evil. This Figure in this House, signifies great Learning, in all things you can demand: it denotes good for the Church, and that the Man shall have the Benefice: 'tis good for the Scholar: 'tis good for Gain: the Ship shall return with Riches. This Figure is good in all Demands. Conjunctio. Cauda Draconis. This Figure in this House is good, as well for the Church as for the obtaining of a Benefice: 'tis but indifferent for a Scholar, ill for a Dream; the Merchant shall be robbed by the way. In all things, this Figure is indifferent good. This signifies evil to the Church, and for the Benefice, and all other things you can demand, this Figure is evil; especially for a Messenger, for he shall be robbed, and pursued by Vagabonds: the Ship shall be taken by Pirates, or come with small Gain. Caput Draconis. Carcer. This denotes good to the Church; the Man shall have the Benefice; the Dream shall come to a good end; 'tis very good for the Scholar: the Ship shall come safe with Riches: the Messenger shall come quickly. This Figure is very good, and that the Man shall obtain his Suit. In finding of this Figure, 'tis ill for the Church; the Man shall have the Benefice; but it will be long first, and by great Pains: 'tis good for the Scholar, and indifferent for Gain: the Messenger is in great danger to be taken: and in all other things, this Figure is evil. Populus. Via. This in the Ninth House, is indifferent for the Church; as for the Benefice, it is but mean; 'tis indifferent for the scholar; the Ship shall come safe to Port. In all other things you demand in this House, This Figure is indifferent, except for Voya●…s: for which 'tis very good. By this Figure in this House, 'tis ill for the Church; the Man shall not have the Benefice; 'tis good for the Scholar; the Man hath dreamt of Water; 'tis ill for Gain, and in all things, except long Journeys, which shall come safe; but be long by the way: he shall bring Letters mentioning a Voyage. 
The Power and Strength of the Sixteen Figures in the Tenth House.  Acquisitio. Amissio. This denotes a good time to go to a Prince, to get Honour, and to receive Gifts: 'tis good for Physicians, and to take Medicines: the thing missing, will be found, and is not stolen; he shall have the Honour he desires: And indeed, this Figure is good in all things, especially to go to any great Man. This denotes Honour and Glory; the Party is given to Lechery: 'tis good to take Physic: the thing lost, is stolen, and will not be had again; unless the Seventh agree; the Mother is Choleric. In all the Demands you can make, this Figure is ill, except to have the Favour of a Princess. Fortuna Major. Laetitia. This is good for him that would go to a Prince, for he shall have Honour; the thing mist, is not stolen, but shall be had again: 'tis good for a Prince to take a Voyage; if the Prince be sick, he shall be well again. In all Demands in this House, this Figure is much better than the other. In this House, the King or Lord is not sick: 'tis good for Honour: the Physician is a good Man, and his Medicines are good; 'tis good for the Mother, Uncle, etc. the King loveth the Servant, whereby he shall have Profit; the Lord shall govern Lands; the King or Lord shall do Justice. Fortuna Minor. Tristitia. In this House, the Person shall have great Friendship with Princes, more especially in War; the King is sick, but shall mend, and not die: the Physician is good, and the Medicine likewise: the King loveth him who maketh the Question; he that pretendeth to be a Lord, shall be a Lord. This Figure is good in all Demands. By this it is an evil time, and unlucky to get Honour; the King is in danger to lose his Realm; 'tis ill for the Physician, and to take Medicines; the thing lost, will never be had again; 'tis ill for the Mother; the King or Lord loveth not the Person. This Figure is ill in all things, except tilling of Land. Puella. Rubeus. This denotes, that the Person shall have Honour by the King, with Heart's comment; 'tis good to get the love of Women, and also to have gain by Trading; the things mist will not be found again; the King will remain long in his Realm. This Figure is good in all, but War. Any Questions which you may propound in this House, are not worth any thing, only signifying Choler, Blood, Treason, Sadness; it doth signify Victory at first, and loss at last. 'Tis good to buy Armour and Harness, and Fireworks; and in all others 'tis evil. Puer. Albus. This denotes the person shall have Honour by Kings, especially in War: 'tis good for the Physician, and to take Physic; the King shall not stay long in his Realm: the King shall have Victory over his Enemies. In all other Demands, this Figure is indifferent. This in the tenth House, denotes Friendship from Kings and Great Men; 'tis good for the Physician, and to take Physic; the Sickness will be quickly gone; and the King shall remain long in his Realm. In all Demands you can make, this Figure is good. Conjunctio. Cauda Draconis. This House signifies, a mediocrity in Honour: he shall be Secretary to some great Lord: 'tis indifferent in Medicines: the King shall die of the Disease; the Person shall be Banished; the Party shall win the Suit. This Figure is good in all things you can demand. This House signifies loss of Realms and Kingdoms: this Figure is very ill in all Matters. In all Questions and Demands, this Figure signifies, Death, Treason, and loss of Goods, and is very ill, but in matters of War; but for works of Fire, or Chemistry, 'tis good. Caput Draconis. Carcer. By this, the Person shall have Honour at Courts, and in King's Services: the thing lost shall be found, and the Physician is a good Man; and 'tis good for Physic. In all things which you can demand in this House, this Figure is good, but for War, always signifying Peace. In this House, the person shall obtain Honour from Princes, by means of Women; the Imprisonment of a King; loss of Goods: 'tis good for Physicians, and to take Physic. The sick Person shall die; the King shall live long. In all other Demands, this Figure is not good. Populus. Via. This implies a great many People assembled by Order of some Prince, about some Agreement of Peace; 'tis good for Honour, and for the Physician, and to take Physic: the Friend is just, the King loveth not the Man. This Figure, in this and all others, is indifferent. 'Tis good to go to a King, for he shall obtain Honour: 'tis good to take a Medicine: the thing lost will not be found: the King loveth the Person meetly; 'tis not good for the King to go to War. In all other Demands you can make, this Figure is indifferently good. 
The Power and Strength of the Sixteen Figures in the Eleventh House.  Acquisiti●. Amissio. This denotes, a good and trusty Friend, as also great Assistance from Friends; the Mother, the King and Counsellor, are full of Money, and they shall not be robbed: thy friend which dwells ●ar hence, is well affected to thee. This ●igure is good in all Demands, especially for a Friend. This in the 11th House, shows no Fidelity in the Friend: he will not help you, but do you more harm than an open Enemy: the Fortune of the Querent shall be ill; and indeed, in all Demands that can be made in this Figure, it is evil, except for Lewd Women. Fortuna Major. Laetitia. This denotes the Friend to be good and faithful: the Mother and King have much Money, thy Friend loves thee well, and will do thee Service: the Person shall have Friendship with Kings and Lords: indeed this Figure in all Demands can be made, is good and profitable. Here arises increase of Friends, and of no small Account: the Fortune of the Querent is good, the Friend is trusty, the King hath much Money; the Promise is good; the beginning of the King's Reign will be good: And this Figure in all Demands that you can make, is good. Fortuna Minor. Tristitia. This implies, the Friend is trusty, and willing to assist thee; thy Friend, which is far hence, is good: the King is well stored with Money, and is in danger to be robbed. In all Demands this Figure is good, especially in matters of Love. This signifies ill Fortune to the Querent, and a Man of an ill mind toward his Friend: the Promise shall take no effect; the Year will be Barren, and things scarce: this Figure is ill in all Demands in this House, except for Invocation of Spirits. Puella. Rubeus. This signifies in this House, the enjoying of a Lady; good Fortune to the Querent, and the thing you wish for: the Friend far hence is good and friendly, and 〈◊〉 Health: and in all demands in this House, this Figure is very good. The Querent shall have ill Fortune: thy Companions & Friends be ill, and by them wilt come to ill: thy Hope will take no effect: the King is low of Money; and if not so, he is in danger of being robbed. In all Demands you can make in this House, this Figure is ill, but for Bleeding. Puer. Albus. By this you will find, the Friend is good, especially unto Soldiery: the Promise will be kept: 'tis good to apply to any Vocation; the Fortune of the Querent is mean. In all Demands you can propound in this House, this Figure is but indifferent. This Figure denotes good Fortune to the Querent: the Friend is good and trusty, and will help you to the Entrance to the King: the Mother hath store of Money. This Figure is good in all Questions in this House, especially for a Friend. Conjunctio. Cauda Draconis. This in the Eleventh House, is but mean Fortune to the Querent; 'tis good in things Mercurial. Thy Friend is no Dissembler; the Entrance of the King will be good; and in all things you demand, this Figure is good. This signifies very ill Fortune to the Querent; and the thing demanded shall have an evil end; the King's Entrance shall not be good; the King's, and Mother's Money shall be stolen. All things signified by this House, are evil, except for Fireworks and Ladies. Caput Draconis. Carcer. This denotes good Fortune to the Querent; the Fortune of the thing demanded shall be good, but it shall be had with great labour. In all things you can demand in this House, this Figure is good, especially in Church-Matters. This den●… the Fortune of the Querent to be mean, but thy Friend and Companion is very faithful; the thing desired is good, but shall be long before it takes effect. In all Demands, this Figure denotes great Travel and Pain. Populus. Via. This signifies many Friends, and the Fortune of the Querent shall be good, and the Issue of the thing demanded; the Mother and King have much Money; the Year is good: And in all Demands, this Figure is very good. This signifies Joy among Friends, and that the Fortune of the Querent shall be good: the Promise is good; the thing desired will take effect. This Figure is good in all Demands in this House. 
The Power and Strength of the Sixteen Figures in the Twelfth House.  Acquisitio. Amissio. This in this House, signifies, the Prisoner shall not be discharged; 'tis not good to bestow any thing in great Beasts; the Horse is not swift, and hath a Disease in his Head. In all demands you can make, in things touching this House, this Figure is evil, signifying Pain, and no Profit. The Prisoner shall not come out of Prison, but shall be Sick; 'tis not good to buy Horses; the Horse lost shall not be found again; the Person shall be poor, yet pay his Debts, and shall be banished his Country: This Figure is ill in all Demands. Fortuna Major. Laetitia. By this, the Prisoner ●●all be delivered, and ●hall not be sick there 〈◊〉; the Person shall ●…ave no fear: 'tis good to buy Horses, for they ●●all be good; and the ●…orse lost, will return ●…gain. This Figure is good in all Demands. The Prisoner shall not be long in Prison: 'tis not good to assault the Enemy; the Person shall not be Prisoner: 'tis very good to buy Beasts, for therein is much Profit; 'tis good to Till the Ground; and indeed, in all things you can demand in this House, this Figure is good. Fortuna Minor. Tristitia. This signifies, the ●…isoner shall escape from Prison; the Per●…on shall lose much by his Enemy; he shall be 〈◊〉 imprisoned. This ●…gure is good in all demands in this House, ●…t to obtain Master●…p, 'tis not good. This Figure doth denote a great number of Enemies, mighty and strong; there shall be great heaviness for the loss of a Servant. Indeed this Figure is very evil, in all the Demands that can be made in this House. Puella. Rubeus. This in the 12th House, signifies Profit and Commodity by Travel, loss for Enemies, for that they have offended God. This Figure is very good, in all the Demands that can be made in this House. This signifies great Poverty and Desolation, in strange and far Countries; with few Enemies; the Person shall have much Pain, and very small Profit all his Do. This Figure prognosticateth an ill Issue of all the Demands in this House. Puer. Albus. This denotes Anger and Indignation from great Men, and also Anger against thy own Friend; 'tis good to buy a Horse: 'tis good to go in face of thy Enemy. This Figure is very good in all Demands. This House denotes a short and speedy Deliverance out of Prison; 'tis good to buy Beasts, for there will be much Gain; the Man shall be rich, and shall not be tormented. This Figure is very good in all things you demand. Conjunctio. Cauda Draconis. By this Figure, thy Company is ill; and the thing lost, will be found again; to buy Beasts ●is indifferent, and so ●is to buy Lands and Heritage's. This Figure is mean in all Demands that can be made in this House. This signifies, thou shalt be detained a close Prisoner; 'tis not good to buy cattle, or to Till the Ground; the thing lost will not be found again; he is in danger to be poor, and to have much ado in his Life-time. This Figure is ill in all Demands. Caput Draconis. Carcer. This House signifies Deliverance of Prisoners: 'tis also good to Manure the Earth, and to buy Heritage's and cattle; the Horse you will buy is good: and in all your Demands in this House, this Figure is good. This denotes but an indifferent Fortune to the Prisoner, or to him that would assault his Enemy; the Person shall be taken Prisoner, but shall not abide long there; in all other Demands in this House, this Figure is very indifferent. Populus. Via. The Prisoner hath many Enemies, which seek his Death; meddle ●ot with thy Enemy, for he shall overcome thee; 'tis good to buy Beasts: in all other Questions you can demand in this House, this Figure is of a very evil nature. This Figures in this House, signifies a Deliverance out of thy Imprisonment, without incurring of Displeasure; 'tis good to buy cattle and Heritage's and in all things you can demand, this Figure is very good.   

CHAP. XI.  
Brief Description of the Twelve Houses; answering all Doubts and Questions, which may be naturally desired in this our Elementary Life.  

The First House.  
THE Querent is, First, He or She, that pro●… pounds the Question.  
The Quesited are, He or She, or Things Enqui●… after.  
2dly, The Figure is Radical, when the Que●… comes to thee with true Affection and In●…on.  
3dly, The Figure is verified also by certain ●…s, Marks, or ●…rs, about the Querent or ●…sited.  
Example. If the Lots which rule the Hour, 〈◊〉 any of the four Angles, there are Moles, ●…ding to the Figure or Lots: then consider 〈◊〉 Lott in the Ascendant; there you shall find ●…es.  

1. Puer, in the first House; a Scar in the Head or Face, or Burnt, or dark Mole.  
2. Conjunctio, there they are on the Belly.  
3. Puella, then on the Backbone.  
4. Rubeus, on the Arms.  
5. Carcer, on the Feet.  
6. Via, on the Breast or Stomach.  
7. Albus, the Belly.  
8. Fortuna Major, the Legs.  
9 Populus, the Knees.  
10. Cauda Draconis, the Thighs.  
11. Caput Draconis, the Belly.  
12. Acquisitio, the Head; Scars or Moles.  
13. Laetitia, the Throat.  
14. Amissio, by the Navel.  
15. Tristitia, the Secrets.  
16. Fortuna Minor, a Spot on the Face.   
If the Significator of the Moles be in their 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 Houses, they are visible to the Eye: if in the other Houses, not to be se●…  
If the first Lott goes into other Houses, there is a Mole.  
Now of the Time when things come to pa●… it is taken from three Parts, viz. Fixed, Common, and Movable: if the Lots are movable the first signifies Weeks; if common, a Month if fixed, a Year and two Months.  
Things are hindered commonly, or frustrat●… by ill Aspects, as □ ☍, or ill Lots, or bad Company, as you have been formerly taught.  
Things are finished, or brought to pass by go●… Aspects, as △ ⚹, or ☌, good Company, a● good Lots, etc.  
In Pag. 125. you have a Table, of great use: showing the Names of the Lots or Figures, and how they are Raised, in Power or Weakness.  
The Points of the Compass demonstrated, according to the Lots, by the Twelve Houses.  
These Rules will direct you, when you have a desire to know, what Part of the World it's best to live in; First, Look for ♁, or good Lots, and observe what part of the Earth: the Compass will guide you in your Journey, and lead you to the place of Gain.  
Now we will proceed on to the 12 Houses in short, and leave out the two Witnesses and the Judge, and draw our Judgement from the 12 Points, then raise your Lots, as in the beginning; you may (if you please) transform them into Planets and Signs, etc. As Fortuna Major, ☉ dir. ♒. and Fortuna Minor, ☉ retr. ♉, as you are taught in the Table before mentioned.  
A Germane Gentleman desired me to Raise this following Figure for him, who was very desirous on several occasions, hearing of this Angelical Enquiry.  
In this manner, first I raised the Lots, and turned them into Signs and Planets, etc.  
Judgement from the first House.  
The first House signifies, the Life, Temperature and Corporature, ♀ retr. in ♎, or Amis●… is in the Ascendent, represents this Querent wonderful, according to former Rules, viz. a tall Man. Turn to the place of Description of the Body.  
De Vita qualitate, & quantitate.  
Quest. 1. Concerning Life, and length of Days.  
Answer this Question; consider first, if thy Lott on the Ascendant be fixed, movable, or common.  
Secondly, Consider if thy Ascendant is free from ill Company or Aspects: if fixed Lots, and good Aspects, long Life; if common, a middle Age; if movable, a short Life; if not helped with good Aspects, behold from 4, 6, 8 or 12 Houses, long Life: but if the first goes into the 6th, 8th or 12th, with ill Company, a short Life, and the same if the first is beheld from ill Houses or Places: I judge that our Querent may live to a good middle Age, because the four Angles are possessed with indifferent good Lots. His Opposite is Puella, the 10th; it looks on the Ascendant with a □, and so doth the 4th; but yet we have no need to fear a Stroke to Destruction: neither do we find, that Amissio goes out into any other House of ill.  
De Nati Accidentibus.  
Quest. 2. Of the good or ill Accidents, attending Life.  
It may be expected from good or ill Lots or Figures, which possess the first of the Principal Places of the Figure: if good, it signifies good in the whole Life; but if it be otherwise, his days will be full of Trouble.  
If Career or Tristitia is in the Ascendent, much Melancholy and Calamities may be expected; they are two Lots ruled by ♄.  
If Puer or Rubeus be there, generally mad, choleric, hasty sort of Persons, because ♂ rules those two Lots, and oftentimes meets with Thiefs.  
If Drag. Tail in the first, never without Scandal and Disgrace; and such sorts of Accidents will be. And thus we must consider the good and bad.  
Observe also, when the first Lott moves into an ill or good House, the Accidents of Man may be traced, and so on.  
Ill Company, and Aspects from ill Places, hinders the excess of good; so on the contrary, the good prevents the mortal stroke of evil.  
Now if you desire to know the Time of the good or ill, consider if thy Lots in the principal Places, be Fixed, Mean, or Common, as the former Rules direct; so according to the good or evil Lots, you may expect good or ill. Consider in what part of the Figure your Lots are; so you may easily know what is coming, good or ill; if in the 10th House, good Lots, Honour and Credit; if the Lott is ill, expect the contrary. In like manner consider the rest of the Houses, for your Knowledge.  
The Chaldeans, and the old Philosophers, have given us other Rules to know the time of Accidents, and to know the Names of Persons, which are as follows.  

The First Rule▪  A ♃ ret. ♉ 25 11 B Tristit. 30 58 C Caput ☊ 3 11 D● Albus. 5 E F. Min. 1 41 F F. Maj. 66. 56 264. G Rubeus. 19 9 H Puella. 82 6 I Acquisit. 79 13 K Caud. ☋ 2 8 L M Puer. 120 79 N O Amissio. 6 P Q Via. 2 5 R S Carcer. 30. 154. 43 T U Populus. 5 7 X Y Conjunct. 10  

The Second Rule.  Annos dat ♄ Maj. 58 Med. 44 Min. 30 ♃ 47 40 12 ♂ 47 40 15 ☉ 82 45 19 ♀ 82 45 18 ☿ 80 49 20 ☽ 107 39 15  
The first Table shows you the Name of any Person, the Thief that hath stolen, or the name of a Town or Castle, or any strong Place, etc.  
Note, The Lott on the first House, takes the first Syllable; likewise that of the 10th, the second and third Syllable, of the Letters of the Light, which you find in the 4th House; and so you have your desire.  
Or thus: Take the Letters of the 1st and 7th House; as often as you take the said Letters, so often move your Figures; if you find it not, take the Letters of the 10th.  
The first Figure hath the first Letter of the Name; the 7th and 10th, the Middle; the 4th and 5th, the End of the Name.  
First, The Figures under the Lots of the first, is the number of Years, Months or Days of your Accidents. In this, consider your former Rules.  
The Second Table is from the Seven Properties of Nature, which have power to rule over the Lott or Lots.  
Example. ♄ is Governor over Carcer and Tristitia; so observe the rest in order, etc.  
Consider three several Ways, viz. Strong, Mean, or Weak.  
♄ Years 58— 44— 30  
If you desire to know what part of ones Life may be best. Answer, If you find good Lots in the 1st, 12th, and 11th, the Querent will be happy in his Minority; if in the 10th, 9th and 8th, in his 20th Year; if in 7, 6 or 5th, in his middle Age; if in 4, 3 or 2d, his later, or old Age. Some say, that every House gives 12 Years.  
As for what part of the World, your Compass will guide you, where ♁ or good Lots are; and as to East, West, North or South, for bear those places; ill Lots are often there.  
If thou intendest to visit a Dealer or Friend, and thinkest, or intendest to find him at home.  
Observe these Rules; have an eye to the 7th House, because it's of Dealing, Acquaintance; otherwise the 11th House; if Puella be in the 7th, and go into the 10th, or in the 1st or 4th House, he is at home.  
If any Lott in the 7th moves, and move into a Succedent, he is not at home, but at his Neighbour's: if in Cadent, far off.  
If thou visitest a Brother, have an eye on the 3d. house, if a Father the 4th, if thy Master, the 10th House.  
In the last place, if thou desirest to know the state and condition of a Person absent; if it be no Relation, take the 7th House, and behold what Lott there is, and if you find him moved into the 6, 8, 4 or 12th Houses, you may well say, he is dead: or if Via or Populus be there, it's the same.  
If at any time, you find the Lott of the first; 7th, or 3d, or where ever your Concerns are, if you find him to be moved, or go into ill Houses, as the 8th, 6th, 12th or 4th, it's in danger of Sickness, if not Death; but if it go into good Company or Houses, you may say the Party is in good Health.   

The Second House.  
De Nati Substantia & Divitiis.  
Quest. 1. Of the Querent's Substance and Riches.  
AS for Riches, if there are in the Second House good Lots or Figures, and free from ill Company or Aspects, the Native will have Riches; and judge according to Strength.  
And ♁, and Acquisitio in the First House, and also good Figures in the Second House, viz. good Company, the Querent will be very Rich.  
But, if you find good Lots in the first, and ill Lo●●s or Company in the Second House, it tells you, that Riches will be got, but spent extravagantly again.  
If Fortuna Major and Acquisitio in the first h. and Populus in the second h. great Riches by Industry.  
But if the 2d. Figure goeth in the 11th House, of Friends, Riches will tumble in on him.  
But if he go into bad Houses, judge contrary.  
Mind in what House they pass into, and judge from whence Riches or Poverty comes.  

If 3d. House, from Brethren.  
If 4th. from Fathers, or Old People.  
If 5th. from Children.  
If 6th. from Servants, or cattle.  
If 7th. from Wives, Dealers, or Thiefs.  
If 8th. from Death of Acquaintance.  
If 9th. from the Church, or Strangers.  
If 10th. from the Master, or Person of Quality.  
If 11th. from many Friends.  
If 12th. from a Horse, or Cow, or Prison.   
Consider this well; for the Native may lose, as well as gain; if you intent to know, consider the Houses and Lots.  
☽ And ♃ Friends, ☽ ♂ Fnemies, ☿ ☉ Friends, ☿ ♀ Enemies, ♀ ♃ Friends, ♃ ☽ Enemy's; also good and ill Aspects.  
This may satisfy the curious Reader, if I persuade no further; if Matters are considered between Party and Party, viz. the Ascendant for the Querent, and one of the other House, for the Question.  
So this Rule may serve, to know if Money lent, when to receive it; Wages due, if recoverable.   

The Third House.  
Uter ex Fratribus aut Consanguineis, prior morietur?  
This place tells you of Brothers, Sisters, Neighbours, Relations, etc.  
1. IF you have a desire to know the state and condition of them, familiarity or love: consider the Lots and Planets, of their Nature, Aspects and Company, and their going into good Houses, and you may expect very sweet-natured Brethren and Neighbours; but if thou findest Rubeus, or Ca●da Dra●onis, thou mayest expect a damned Pack of them, to eat thee out of house and home, and beat thee sound; if Populus is there, they will be about thy Ears, as a Swarm of Bees.  
2. If thou art willing to know the State of an absent Brother, etc. consider the foresaid Rules.  
3. As for thy Inland Journeys, follow the same Rules.  
4. Try, and search, (if thou mistrust) whether Noise, or Reports are true.  
5. Or, if it be good to take their Counsel.  
6. As for the number of Brethren, look in the 〈◊〉 House, and see how many Aspects or Planets; there are so many Brethren. If Female Lotts' 〈◊〉 Planets, you may say Sisters; if Male, Bro●…ers.  
Consider your Rules well, and turn to your ●…rmer Tables for your Direction, to distinguish Good from Evil.   

The Fourth House.  
De Fine cujuslibet Quaestionis.  
THIS House is called the North-Angle of the Earth; and it is the Judgement of many, that it signifies the Manner and Method of all things propounded by a Question.  
Note, The Quality of the Lots of the 4th. House; if thou art willing to Buy Land or Houses, the first is the Buyer, 7th the Seller, and the 10th h. the Price; the 4th signifies the thing to be bought; if good Lots in the 4th. the thing is a good thing, House or Land, etc.  
If the first Lott goeth into the 4th, the Buyer will have his desire, and the sooner, if Populus or Via be in the 4th House.  
2. Will the House or Land be prosperous? if Companied well, and beheld by good Aspects; if Carcer in the 4th House, it's good plain ground; if you find in the 4th, Puer, Fortuna Major, or Acquisitio, it's hilly and mountainous.  
If Amissio, Conjunctio or Carcer, very good if Populus, Via and Rubeus, watery; if Albus Puella, ☋ ☊, and Tristitia, very rugged.  
3. Is it good to move to another House? If thou findest good Lots in the 1st and 4th House move not; and if the 7th House is free from il● Company or Lots, it's a sign that the Place wil● be prosperous, where thou intendest to go; 〈◊〉 those places are ill, the contrary.  
4. If Treasure is hid: See if the first Lott and 4th are good, and the first moves into the 4th; then assure yourself there is Treasure; if ill Lots and Company, no good.  
5. If thou art willing to know, if ever to Enjoy thy Father's Estate. Consider the former Rules; and for further light in this, if the 1st or 2d Lott goeth into the 4th House, it's a certain Testimony to enjoy the Father's Estate; another Testimony is, if one Planet hath power over the 1st a●d 4th House, the same.  
Now the last Question is, to let you know, how to find a thing when it's mislaid: If the 2d Lott is in an Angle; the things are with the Querent, or where he uses to go, or be; if the 2d go into the 11th House, then in the Hall, Parlour, or chief Room; if the 2d go into the 10th, the place where the Querent's Wife or Maid-Servant useth; if the 2d go into the 6th House, where Servants frequent, etc. Consider the nature of the Lots.  

The Place where the Things missing are laid, according to the Points of the Compass.  Puer, East. Fort. Maj. & Min. East by N. Acquisitio, East by S. Populus & Via, North. Rubeus, North by W. Puella & ☊ West. Tristitia, West by N. Carcer, South. Amissio, South by E. Canjunctio, South by W.  
Turn to pag. 213. and you will see the Compass at large.   

The Fifth House.  
De Foecunditate alicujus, aut Sterilitate.  
THis House gives you to understand of Fruitfulness or Barrenness in Women, or Men; to know where the Fault lies.  
In this case, you are to consider the First House, the 7th, 5th and 1●th House.  
Consider your former Rules; If you find fruitful and good Lots there, than no fear of Children, and Pleasure enough; but if you find Barren and ill Lots in those Houses, you may expect the contrary; and if you find the ☋ or Tristitia, in the 5th, or beholding the 5th, no Issue. And you may tell the Querent, that he hath but little Pleasure, and is heavy-hearted, and melancholy: judge according to the nature of the Lots, more or less.  
It's a certain Truth for Children, if the first go into the 5th, or the 7th into the 11th h.  
If you find Watery Lots in the 5th house, there's generally Miscarriage.  
If Female Lots in the 5th House, a Girl.  
If Masculine Lots in the 5th h. a Boy.  
If Double-bodied Lots, Twins.  
There are many which expect News, Letters, or Messengers.  
The first House and Lott, to him that sent the Messenger; the 7th, and his Lott, is him to whom the Letter is sent; the 5th, the Messenger, and his Decision.  
If the 5th House is beheld by good Lots or Aspects, the Messenger does his Business with Credit.  
If the 5th Lott go into the 2d, the Quesited brings Money with him; if the Lots are ill, than it may bespeak the Letter-Carrier to be Drunk by the way, or some ill.  
In the last place, if you intent to go to Play at any Game, see if the Lott of the 1st. House goes into the 5th, or the 7th moves into the 2d.  
Again, If you find ♁, ♃ or ♀ in the 5th h. hope well; if thou find to the contrary, keep thy Credit, and thy Money too.   

The Sixth House.  
An in Morbum incursurus sit aliquis eo Anno?  
THis Sixth House gives an account of Sickness. In this Concern, cast your Eyes on the 6th or 8th Houses, and first see how they are afflicted, or if good or ill Lots.  
And as for the Parts of the Body afflicted, they are observed from the Lots or Houses forementioned; as Acquisitio the Head, and so on.  
If the first is found in the 6th, 8th or 4th Houses; if ill Lots, Death is approaching; if good, the contrary.  
Consider the nature of the Signs of the said places, of Fire, Air, Earth or Water; so judge of the Disease and Cause.  
If Fiery Lots, Fevers, or such like.  
If Watery, Phlegm, and cold Humours.  
If Earthy Lots, the Rheumatism, Gout, etc.  
If Earthy, then Melancholy, especially if they are the Lots which ♄ rules, as ♑ and ♒, called Carcer and Tristitia, etc.  
If you would know, if the Disease is Acute or Chronical; if thou findest Fixed Lots in the 6th House, the Disease or Distemper is of long standing; if thou findest them movable, the Disease is of a short standing.  
If ill Lots are in the 6th, 4th or 8th House, it's so much the worse; if good, the Sick will recover speedily; but if a good Lott is in an ill House, his Good is something lessened; likewise, an ill Lott in a good House, he is something hindered of his Evil.  

De Medico, & Medicina.  
An Medicus Aegrum sit juvaturus?  
PRima datur Aegro aut Quaerenti, sexta Morbo, septima Medico, decima Medicamento: bonae existentes figurae, bonum indicant effectum, & 〈◊〉 contrario: In decimo testes & judices, multum valent, proinde considerandi: Septima datur Medico; si igitur prima, sexta, septima sint bonae & fortunatae & concords, sanatum iri Aegrum à Medico sperabis, & è contra.  
Quod si prima, sexta, & undecima sint bonae & fortunatae, proximam sanitatem judicabis, & convalescentiam; quam undecima indicat.  
To know if the Sick will Live or Die.  
Consider, if the Lott of the First House goes from good Company to ill, the Party will be weaker every day: and if beheld from the 4th or 8th House by ill Aspects, the Party certainly dies. But when your Figure is ill, and moves into good Places and Company, you may say, the Party will live, if the 6th h. does not afflict the same; if the Lott in the 8th h. moves into an Angle, and afflicted, Death.  
If a Figure in the first goeth into the 8th house, it shows Death to the Sick: If the 8th go into the 10th house, the Party dies.  
If thou intend'st to have good and honest Servants, or gain by small cattle, see that the 6th house is not afflicted, nor ill Company, but good good Lots, and thou mayest venture: but if not so, thou wilt find, that thy Servants and small cattle will be a plague to thee.    

The Seventh House.  
De Amore.  
LOve is the chiefest thing which is to be enquired after in these Days, and to know if it be durable.  
Amoris firmae fixaeque, 〈◊〉 Figura fixum indicant, mobiles mobilem, bicorporeae, mediocrem. Idem indicat, si fixae Figurae sint in Angulis, aut mobiles in Cadentibus, etc.  
Quest. 1. Shall the Querent Marry?  
Answ. Sure enough, if you find the first Lott and 7th Lott in good Aspects, as △ ⚹ ☌, and good Company, etc. but if you find ill Lots in the first and 7th, beheld by a □ or ☍, little hopes of Marriage.  
Quest. 2. If you desire to know if thy Wife or Sweetheart is chaste, or has another Friend: Consider well on the 7 Properties of Nature, as I have brought the Lots into Signs and Planets, as you see:  
If in the 7th, ♄ and ♂, and not in their own Houses, than she loves another.  
If ♄ be there, she loves another, but Melancholy keeps her Chaste.  
If ♄ be there, she gives stroke for stroke.  
If ♃ be there, very seldom Chaste, for her fresh Blood will fly.  
If ♀ be there, a Gamesome Lady, given to youthful Sports, and talks Bawdy; but chaste, when many think her to be a Gamesome Whore.  
If ☿ in the 7th House, her Fancy flies as many ways as the Wind blows, and many pretty Sparks have left her.  
If ☽ there, Chaste, but said to be a Whore.  
If ☉ ☊ be in the 7th, very Chaste.  
Quest. 3. If you desire to know which shall die first: Consider the first and 7th House; see which Lots are strongest, or which weakest: the strongest live longest, if they are free from ill Eyes of the Lots of the 4th, 8th and 6th Houses.  
Quest. 4. An Mulier autem sit aliquem in Maritum obtentura? Videat 7 & 8, si enim 7 cum 8 jungatur, obtinebit.  
An Conjunx aut Amasia Casta sit?  
Si in septima si sit, 

♃ ☿ in ♍  
☉ dir. in ♒  
☉ retr. in ♉  
♃ dir. in ♈    
Castam, 

♄ ♂ in ♐  
♄ retr. in ♏  
♀ retr. in ♎  
☽ bookful in ♑    
Corruptionem ejus, Filiorumque ab ipsa producendorum Luxuriam, 

♄ retr. in ♊  
☿ retr. in ♎    
Vide 1, 7, 12 & 8, in quibus si sit, 

☿ retr. in ♎  
♄ retr. in ♊    
Aut hae Figurae seipsas invicem producant; aut saltem una ex 

♄ retr. in ♏  
☽ bookful in ♑    
his ex aliis nascatur, impudicam significant: si sit, castam indicant. 

☉ dir. in ♒  
☉ dir. in ♉  
♃ dir. in ♈  
♀ dir. in ♎    
Simo ☿ dir. in ♎, nascatur in 9 aut 7, & sit in prima aut nona, diligit ipsa Juvenem imberbem.  
Si ♄ retr. in ♏, aut ♄ retr. in ♊, non possunt judicare Amasii qualitatem.  
Si ☽ plen. ♑, ab illis malis Figuris in his Domibus producatur, meretricem publicam.  
Si ♄ retr. in ♏, sit in 12, & conformetur cum 7 aut 8, ipsam amore servi consumi significat & indicat.  
If you desire the time of Marriage: if first and 7th, apply by △ ⚹ ☌, speedily; if the Lots are in the South Parts of the Figure, in a short time; if going Occidental Septentrional, a long time before Married. If movable Lots in first and 7th, than things will be brought about with great haste: And look back to the Table which direct you to Years, Months and Days.  
Quest. 4. Shall the Querent Mary more than once? See if you find double-bodied Lots in the place of Marriages, and also in △ ⚹ or ☌, the Querent may expect to change a Dead one for a Living, many times in his Life: if otherwise, judge the contrary.  
Quest. 5. Will they agree after Marriage? If there follows ill Company, or □ or ☍, then say, they will agree like Devils, etc. But if there be good Company, and △ ⚹ ☌, they will be like two Pigeons. As for the Shape or Form of the Persons, turn to the Table of Shapes.  
Quest. 6. Concerning Law and Controversies, who may have the best? This Question is of great moment, and much in use. Consider well the first House and the 7th, for the best and strongest Lott carries the day: therefore you that propound the Question, if you find ♁ or good Figures in the Ascendant, you may rejoice, for you shall pinch the heels of your Enemies.  
If you consider the former Rules, viz. good or ill Lots, good or ill Company, the moving of the Lots out of one House into another, the ill Aspects and the good, you may easily Answer all things belonging to the 7th House:  
As, Shall I have many Enemies?  
Will there be War, or Peace?  
Will the Town or Castle be taken?  
Will my Deal be with Knaves, or Fools?  
Shall I lose my Dealing, Trade or Money? with other Questions by the foresaid Rules.  
Quest. 7. De Furto. Now things lost, or stolen, or mislaid, we always observe from the 4 Angles, the 7th House, and the second House; but if a Horse, or Great cattle, our Rules are from the 12th h. if small cattle, as Sheep, Hogs, or Dogs, from the 6th House. Observe, the Lott that is projected, or the 7th House, is the Theft: And if you find the 7th Lott and the first in company, the things will soon be returned to the Owner, chief when good Aspects.  
But if the contrary, beheld by □ or ☍, or go into the place not beholden, the Thief hath no desire to return back the Goods.  
If the 7th Lott go into the 3d or 9th House, the Fugitive is gone a Journey, or tells you, it's one that lives a great distance from the Querent.  
If the 7th Lott falls into the 12th, the Theft is a Prisoner, or under confinement for his Roguery; if ♄ or ☿ there, the same.  
If the second Lott be found in another House, the things stolen are sold, or converted into Money.  
If the 6th or 12th moves into the 9th or 10th House, the Beast lost or strayed is in the Pound.  
If the 7th, 6th or 12th House have good Lots, and ♃ or ♀ there; and also in the second House, if ♁ be well fortified; great hopes of Recovery of the Goods stolen or strayed.  
If you desire to know what way they are gone, mind your Compass, and say, if the Significator of the Theft is in the 10th, South; 7th, West; in the 4th, North; in the First, East. If in Watery, North, in some moisty place; if in Airy, West, in some Mountain; if in Earthy, South, in Deserts or Woods; if in Fiery, East, in open places where Ploughing is.  
Recovery, if these places, as 7th, 6th, 12th Houses have good Lots, and beholden by △ ⚹ or ☌.  
No hopes, if the contrary, as ill Lots, and beholden by □ ☍.  
If you would know the Thief, and of what Age and Sex. We do always mark well the Lott in the 7th House; if we find ♀ or Female Lots, it's a Womankind; if the contrary, Mankind. If the Lots are governed by ♄, Old; by ♀, Young; by ☿, very Young; by ☉ and ♃, middle Aged.  
More Thiefs than one; if the Second House is afflicted with many Lots, many Thiefs; if the 7th House is be held by △ ⚹, from double-bodied Lots, signifies many Thiefs. If the 7th go to the 8th, and first and 2d does not agree, and ♄ or ♂, and not beholden by good Aspects, no hopes, but loss.  
If you are willing to know, if it be one of the house, or a Stranger, that stole thy Goods: Consider, if the Significator of the Thief be moved into the third House, it's a Brother or Relation; or if the 4th House, some of the Household; but in a general way, a Traveller or Stranger; if in the 5th, thy Children; in the 6th, a Servant: and so of the rest in order.  
Of the time of Recovery. Go to the Table, and that will show you, if it be Years, Months or Days.  
The place where the things stolen are hid; it is taken from the Nature of the Lott of it 4th House.   

Eighth House.  
De Morte. The House of Death, or the House of Substance of thy Wife.  
CVm de Morte, ejusque genere quaeritur; detur prima Quaerenti, ejusquae vitae; octava mor●●, ejusque generi; bona enim ibi Figura, bonam & laudabilem; mala, malam indicat mortem, consentientibus tamen Angulis, Testibus & Judice. Examina proinde exacté naturam Figurarum essentialem, etc.  
Quae supra.  
Concerning Death: We are to be diligent searchers into the first and 8th House; if we find these two Points to be free from ☍ □, or ill Company, and to be accommodated with ♁, and good Figures or Lots, than the Querent may live a considerable time; but if you find it to the contrary, you may say, the Querent's Life is short.  
If you desire to know the time of Death, observe, if you find ill Lots in the first and 8th, beheld by ill Aspects to one another; than you are to see, if those Lots be Fixed, Common, or Movable, then judge according to the former Rules.  
The manner and nature of Death, is taken from the Nature of the Lott raised in the 8th House, and also Planets beholding it; if Fiery, Airy, Watery, or Earthy Lots in the first or 8th House, judge according to the four Elements as aforementioned.  
♃ or ♀ gives a gentle, moderate and mild Death to the Querent.  
♄ by Drowning, Agues, Dropsies, or cold Distempers, etc.  
♂ by the Sword or Murdering, Fevers, Choler, etc.  
☉ by some Obstructions of the inward Parts, as the Heart, etc. by Faintness and Feebleness.  
☿ by Frenzy, Madness, Giddiness, Lethargies, etc.  
☽ by Drowning, danger of cold Humours, or by much Travel, decay of the inward Parts.  
Mind always, that the 7 Properties are Rulers over particular Lots, as your Table directs you.  
When you Mary a Wife, or a Husband, it's good to know, if the Fortune or Portion is to be recovered, or if great or small: Look on the 7th House for thy Wife or Husband, and the 8th House, for the Substance or Money; and if you find good Lots or Planets there, and ♁, good Aspects and Company, hope well; if to the contrary, ill. ♄ ♂ ☋, trouble, if not loss.   

The Ninth House.  
De Itineribus; an Iter sit faciendum?  
THis Point of the Compass, gives you to understand, of your moving, going, or long Journeys by Sea and Land; Sciences, Arts, or Churchmen.  
If one shall have his Desire; behold the 9th h. and if you find an ill Lott there, of the nature of ☋, or ♄, or ♂, or their Lots, the Querent must have a great care of Voyages or long Journeys, for he will meet with Mischief by the way; the same, if □ ☍.  
But if you find the 9th House free, and a good Lott, with good Company, and Aspected with good Planets, tell the Querent, that he will have pure Success and Gain, be they Journeys, or Sea-Voyages. If the first goes into the 10th, and being sent to the 9th, the Querent may hope well, for he will meet with Riches by the way.  
But if you find the first Lott move, or go into an ill place, or in a place which is in ☍ or □ to the 9th House, you may tell the Querent, that he will be in an ill posture before he goeth home.  
Will the Voyages be long or short? If thou findest Lots in the 9th House fixed, say, a long time before return; if common Lots, a middle time; if movable Lots, soon return.  
Good for Voyages and Speed, 

Acquisitio.  
Caput Draconis.  
Fortuna Major.  
Fortuna Minor.  
Laetitia.    
Good by Land, 

Laetitia.  
Albus.  
Conjunctio.  
Via.    
Good by Water, 

Populus.  
Puella.  
Laetitia.  
Albus.  
Acquisitio.    
Ill for the Way, 

Carcer.  
Tristitia.  
Populus.  
Cauda Dracovis.    
Rob by the Way, 

Cauda Draconis.  
Rubeus.  
Amissio.    
Quest. Shall the Querent be enriched by his Science or Art which he loves?  
Answ. The first House is for the Querent, and the 9th House for the thing enquired for: Learn your Rules well and perfectly, and you will find, that this Querent may be answered with ease● the first and 9th is well fortified with good Lots, and beheld by good Aspects, and free from the malice of ♄, ♂, and Dragon's Tail, you may well judge, that the Party will obtain in his Art or Science, with perfect Gain and Honour: But if thou findest to the contrary, let thy Opinion be changed, and judge according to the Power of the Lots, more or less, etc.  
Reader, behold one Example: The Figure in the first House. A High Germane came to me, desiring me to project a Figure of Lots, to know if he should obtain his Desire: Now pray consider, that ♀ retr. in ♎ in the Ascendant, called Amissio, and in English, it's Loss, a bad ●ott: You may well think, that his Fancy roared, on strange Whimsles, mighty desirous to search for the Devil, and have familiarity with Spirits; but upon some Persuasions, he was soon weary of that Resolution; and the sooner, because in his 9th House, is a good Lott, called fortuna Major, Great Fortune. I shall say no more of this Matter or Figure, but leave it to your View.  
Quest. Shall the Person, or Minister obtain the Benefice desired?  
Answ. Now you must know, that Parsons are as subject to the Impression of the Elements, as we are, and Sinners too, tho' they keep it private under the String of their Black Coat: The judgement of this Question, is from the first and 9th; and if you find ☋, Rubeus or Carcer in the 9th House, the Querent is not fit for a Teacher, nor Parish-Clerk neither; for they trouble Religion no more, than my Lord Mayor's great Horse.  
If the 9th House is free from evil, the person may have a Bishopric, or the Place desired: but if ♄, ♂, ☋, ill Lots and Aspects, judge the contrary.  
De Somnio, an verum aut falsum sit?  
Detur prima Somnianti, nona Somnio; tertia, sexta, undecima, quindecima rei petitae: Figur● Masculine veritatem, Foemininae falsitatem indicant.  
De Beneficio.  
Si Prima & Nona sint fortunatae, bonam indicant fortunam in Ecolesiasticis; eoque magis, s● Prima transeat in Decimamquintam, sitque fortunata Sexta, & è contra.  
To many Persons, Dreams are of great Truth and Consequence, and generally true, when you find a Fixed Lott in the 9th h. The Scripture speaks largely of Dreams; Joseph was a Dreamer.  
A Dream is wonderful, if you consider we● my great Figure, which contains 24 Houses, be▪ ing my Angelical Figure, wherein I foretold the Event of things to come, as you may rea● at large.  
If you will interpret Dreams, consider the nature of the Lots, and the 7 Properties of Nature; the Lots of ♄ and ♂ cause desperate, dreadful and melancholy Dreams: ♃ and ♀, pleasant and delightful; ☉, Gold; ☽, Water; ☿, Flying, etc.   

The Tenth House.  
By this Tenth House, you may inform yourselves, when the Times will Change.  
De Temporis varia Mutatione.  
ELementum magis abundans in Quaestione, in prima maximè & decima Domo, Temporis qualitatem designabit. Ignis enim Serenitatem; Aer ventum & serenitatem; Aqua Aeris corruptionem & Bestiarum; Terra frigiditatem & siccitatem-Vide si in prima, decima, & undecima sint Figurae Aqueae; ips● enim Pluvias, & Terrae sicci●●tem presagiunt, etc.  
♄ retr. ♏ vel Tristitia, tamen naturaliter Pluviam prognosticat; Unaè protemporis progno●icatione & mutatione considerantur prima & ●uarta, quindecima & quartadecima; quae si sunt aqueae, aut magna saltem ex parte, pluvias in●…icant.  
Mediocres pluvias, indicant Aeris ariditatem ●neae, terreae srigidam siccitatem: Si inter filias, sint igneae; & inter neptes, aqueae; decimaquinta consentiente, siccitate initio humiditate exceptam, & e contra, significat. Si ibi sint Aqueae, Decimquinta consentiente, pluviosum Annum. Aeriae, ex quibus ☽ plen. in ♑, Via, Populus nascatur, Diluvia & Inundationes.  
But in short, you must in this Concern, know the nature of these Lots; for watery Lots give Pluvia, or Rain; Fiery Lots give Heat and Dryness; Airy, Ventus, or Wind; and so of the rest in order: But the main point, is to consider the Time and Occasion of the Year. But my Reader cares not for those Matters, but altogether for to know of Himself, whether he shall live Honourably, or have Society with King's and Princes, or whether he shall come to be a Housekeeper or a Master, or what thing to take in hand, to get most Money: These are the things desired in this Elementary Life.  
Now I tell thee, that the 10th House, or the Lott in it, is the Significator of those things viz. Honour and Dignity; if the first Figure or Lott be joined to the 10th, viz. Company, or by △ or ⚹ Aspect, the Querent will assuredly step up to the Seat of Honour; if the first moves into the 10th h. and not afflicted, the same; if you find good Figures in the 10th h. hope well, for thy Office or Place desired.  
But if ill Lots in the 10th h. and ill Company●… and □ or ☍, very small hopes for thee to kis● the King's Hand, or reap any Benefit from him or from those above thy Quality.  
Now if you are willing to know, what Trade or Profession to take in hand; you must consider well the Rulers of thy Lots on the 10th h. of what Triplicity they are, whether Fire, Air, Earth or Water; if Fire, a Trade of a hot nature; if Water, thou shalt gain by the Sea or Water, or by Wine, Ale or Beer, etc.  
But a word or two in general: The Lott Tristitia and Carcer are the Lots of ♄, as the former Table directs.  
If ♄ Ruler of the 10th h. and if thy Birth sprung from a low Descent, give thy mind to Dig in the Ground for Money, Husbandry or Gardning, or Tillage of the Earth, etc. But if thou descend from high Birth, thou mayst be a Judge, and gain Money by sleeping or waking, and come to a degree of great Power.  
♃ signifies dealing in Cloth; and pulling off the Wool of Sheep's back by night, if ♃ is ill or retrograde; otherwise, a good Shopkeeper, and will come be a Churchwarden of a Troop of Horse.  
♂ Ruler of the 10th h. and retrograde, a Baker will be thy best Trade; but if ♂ is strong and powerful, take thy Sword by thy side, and strive to be a Captain.  
☉, Some hot Trade, as a Goldsmith, or the like.  
♀ Be sure to employ thyself about women's Concerns; but for Whoring 〈◊〉 give you no Directions.  
☿ Often turns himself, in Money, Shapes and many Minds; but whatever Planets he is joined to, it gives a strong inclination to Arts and Sciences, to the Law, Divines, Physicians, Clerks, Money-Scriveners; all those things, if well Dignified: but if ill, then idle, prating, lying Knaves, and lives by Stealing, Lying and Dissembling.  
☽, The Moon Lady of the 10th h. you may expect Honour by Women; and by Travel from Foreign Parts, great Gain by Sea; or any Trade that requires moving to place, and from place.  
Also ☽ signifies Silver, etc.  
These Rules in a general way, are very true.  
If you are willing to consider yourselves, about Kings, Princes, or Noblemen, behold the 10th h. if the Lots therein be good, and also the Lott in the Ascendant, and in good Aspects and Company, you may well say, that the King and his Subjects will agree like Lambs; the People will rejoice under their Government. And as for plenty of Money, behold the 2d and 11th house; if well Dignified, Trading and Money will be plenty.  
But for your further Knowledge concerning Peace or War, behold what Lots are in the 7th house, and behold the 10th Lott by a □ or 8; say then, it will be in those Countries, Cities or Towns which those Lots govern: So, if you find the Lott that belongs to France, in a □ or 8, say then, there will be Discoveries between our King and the French; if Holland or Spain, according to your Lots; if good Aspects, Peace; if ill, War.   

The Eleventh House.  
An Servi & Amici sint Fideles?  
THis Point of the Heavens, shows you, what Friends you have; your way now is, to look on the first and 11th House, and see how they agree together, in Love, Peace and Unity, viz. in good Company, Aspects, and good Lots.  
This is sufficient enough for the Querent to be satisfied, that he may have the things hoped for, and to rely on them as faithful Friends in time of need; if you want an Examination, turn your Eyes to the Figure erected by the Angelical Hand; for the Gentleman is prosecuted by his Servant: There you will find by the 11th House, he had good Friends to stand by him in time of Trouble, etc. But to the contrary, if thou findest the first and 11th House to disagree, and different of nature, and in ill Company and Aspects, than thy Friends may be thy Foes; for now in our Days, it's a Question very frequent; Will my pretended Friends be faithful? These Rules or Lots of mine will soon make distinction; if you find the Lots of ♄ or ♂ in this House, or ☋, then trust not thy Friends, for they will bring thee to a Snare, and Illwill will be the end.  
If thou findest thy Lott in a medium, trust not thy Friends too far; if thou findest ♃ ♀ ♁, in this House, thy Friends are very faithful, and whatever thou sayest or dost, is as safe as in thy own Breast.  
The 11th House tells thee of the Substance of thy King.   

The Twelfth House.  
De Carcere; & an aliquis incarcerabitur.  
THis 12th House is relating to Compters and Imprisonment; and in this we have generally an Eye to the first House: If we find a good Lott, and free from Evil there, than we may say, the Querent is strong and powerful, and soon out of Prison; but if weak and ill, the contrary: if it goes into the third House or 9th, he will be soon released.  
If the Lott of the first House, moveth or go into the 4th, 8th or 12th Houses, there's but little hopes of Delivery out of Prison, or from Confinement; and the longer confined, if there is a □ or 8 between the first and 12th; if your Lots are fixed in the first House, a long Imprisonment; if common, a medium; if movable, soon delivered out of Prison If in a Cadent House, long Afflicted; mind the Hour the Prisoner was confined; if the Lott was ill, that rules the hour, a long Captivity; and is plagued with the Presence of ♄ ♂ or ☊, or their Aspects, cold Walls still.  
Now for thy Delivery: Observe, if you find good Lots or their Rulers, with Part of Fortune, and good Aspects of ♃ and ♀, then there is great hopes of Recovery, or Delivery from confinement of a Prison.  
I have given you an Example of this in my Angelical Figure; Via in the 12th h. a speedy Delivery.  
Quest. Has the Querent any present Enemies?  
Answ. Still mind, if you find the 12th House with ill Lots, and □ or 8, and the worse, if if from ill Houses: And I have before shown, that Moderation or Mollification is to be understood by the good Company of ♁, to cool the violent Spirits. As for an Example; if ♃ or ♀ are in ill or Cadent Houses, their lustre of Glory will not shine so bright, as in good Houses; so likewise the malice, or ill Beams of ♄, are something eclipsed, being placed in a good House: so be not rash in your Judgement, but be ruled by Reason.  
We have found by many Trials, that if ☋ be in the 11th House, which is that which we call Company, let thy Friends pretend to never so much Honesty, they will be false to thee.  
If the Querent comes to thee about a Horse, or great cattle; take the same Rules by this 12th House, as you are taught by the 6th House.  
If the Querent desires to know the Shape of Body, and Disposition of his Enemies or Friends, (it's all one,) turn to my Table of Shapes of Body, and you will have your desire, with a little varying your Judgement, according to Reason.  
If the Querent desires to know, the very exact time of coming to his Friends, or meeting with his Enemies, search (for your Direction) into the Numbers which your Lott gives you, in this Book.    
The End of the Third Book.   

Experimental Knowledge, OF THE Life of Man; Governed by the Heavens Above, in all Actions and Transactions. BOOK IU.  

CHAP. I.  
The First Experiment; interpreting of Somnium, or a Dream, for a certain Person of great Note and Reputation.  
I Told this Gentleman exactly what would befall him in a Month's time, or thereabouts.  
This Gentleman came to me in a distracted Condition, saying, Tuli multa mala in Vita mea▪ I have had (says he) much Trouble, and have suffered much Wrong in my life-time, and am fearful of much more to come: for a considerable time together, I have dreamed wonderfully of Distraction and Consuming. But the last night I had a terrible Dream indeed, of such a Bloody Nature, that I am besides myself, or quite distracted, in consideration of what may become of me: my Spirits are cast down, and overwhelmed with Grief.  
I looked sharply on him, perceiving him to be disturbed in his Spirits, and thinking some ill had happened to him; and to abate something of his Fury, I said thus, Homo natus Muliere brevis est aetatis; satur commotione: ut Flos egressus est, & succiditur; & fugit velut umbra; neque consistit.  
This Gentleman replied, I know that a Man born of a Woman, is full of Misery, and his time short, etc. I have much Dissatisfaction within myself, by reason of a terrible Vision in my Sleep, or a Dream, (which you please,) insomuch that it puts me a thinking, what may happen to me; for this Vision appearing so dreadful before my Eyes, makes me fear, is a token of some Judgement which the great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 awakens me withal; to consider my latter End, or some great Work to pass through.  
Further, says the Querent, or the Gentleman, I am now come to you, hearing of your Angelical Art by way of Lots, or Angelical Enquiry, to make a Discovery, or to give me a little insight of the meaning of this dreadful Vision: pray give me the best of your Opinion.  
Resp. I believe that this Vision or frightful ●ream of yours, is a sign of some great Alterati●● in matters of your Body or Estate. Dreams ●e of great consequence; for our Saviour Christ ●as carried into Egypt, by reason of a Dream. ●●seph by a Dream, told his Brethren, That they ●●ould Worship, and fall down, and give Obedience to him. I shall not in this place trouble by Reader with the Scripture, but follow my present Task.  
SIR, I will do to the uttermost for you in ●his my Angelical Enquiry, which are the Rules that I have followed these many Years, and find ●●em true in most things. So that I will not ●sk you, kind Sir, what the Vision was, or the Nature thereof, for I will endeavour to find it ●ut myself, and give you an Answer two days ●●ence. Kind Reader, this is of great moment, ●nd worth Observation, and will open to you ●he Secrets of Nature, or hidden Mysteries.  
In the first place, I entered into my Close●, de●ring the Powers of Heaven and good Angels▪ ●●●ide my Hand, putting all things else out of my ●ind, and Raised my Lots, as you may see in ●●g. 115. cap. 4. where you are plainly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●he manner and ways of making the 16 Lott●.  
Now follows the whole Work in this Form.  
Now for your further understanding, I will place it in an Astrological Form, as I have shown you in the Table, pag. 110. in Signs and Planets that those of a slender Apprehension may know that this Work is not Conjuration: but the Lots, Planets and Signs, are united into one Body.  
As for Example, Acquisitio is in the First ●ouse turned into ♃ dir. in ♈, as you may see 〈◊〉 this Figure following.  
Because we will be very curious in this great Work of Enquiry, after the State and Condition ●f Man's Elementary Life, and to satisfy the Curiosity of the Reader, we will place before your ●yes a Figure of this Angelical Work; and also ●he Astrological Work together, or in one Figure, containing 24 Parts.  

Behold the Figure of this Angeli call Work.  
Sortitium in singulis.  
In this Form you have 24 Houses, so called; in 12 of the outwardmost are placed the 1● Angelical Lots, with the nature of them, represented by the Astrological Signs and Planet The two Witnesses are of our Angelical Work and also the Judge: the Houses of the 12 Lott● are marked out by common Figures, as 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on, to 12.  
The next 12 Houses are of Astrology, which I erected at this Querent's coming to me with that horrible Noise, being willing to try both ways. The time of this Astrological Figure was Jan. 30. 1696/ 7. at 10 of the Clock in the Morning: And for distinction sake, I have pointed the Astrological Figures, as the Lots by 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on to 12, as you may see at the top of the Houses; but they of the Lots are at the bottom. The inner Circle tells you that every House is divided into 30 degrees, and by the Round under the Black Line, is represented to your View, the Globe of the World.  
A Philosophical Figure. deduced by an Angelical Hand Astrologically    

CHAP. II.  
The Misery threatening this our Querent; or, the Vision or Evil to come, unfolded.  
IN the first place, the main Point is to be drawn from the 9th House; but, because it's of a ●rge Consequence, and the Querent's desire is 〈◊〉 know in full; therefore, First, I will inquire ●hat this Gentleman is, from the first House. Secondly, The 7th House for his open Enemies. Thirdly, The 12th House for his private and se●ret Enemies. Fourthly, To the 9th House, to ●fold the Vision: And Fifthly and Lastly, To ●…d out what Company this Querent keeps.  
Now of these five Particulars in order. The first House signifies the Querent's Shape of Bo●y, and of his Will and Humour, as you may see in pag. 138, to 145; but to save you the labour 〈◊〉 turning back to that place, I will here repea● them over again.  
I find in the First or Ascendant, the Lott called Acquisitio, which is a good Lott, and represents one of a middle Stature, fair and full Faced Meanly Sanguine Complexion, full Eyed; a comely Person, of a good Behaviour, something Shame faced or Blushing, of a good and plausible Behaviour.  
And this is all very true, for I have been very familiar with him; and he is also a Man of good Esteem in the World, in matter of Reputation.  
Secondly, We will now search in the 7th House; there we find that Lott called Populu● or the ☽ in her Full in Capricorn, which is a Lot● of a strange nature, as you may in pag. 130● which gives you a full Relation of it, viz. it be speaks this Querent to have many Enemies, o● a multitude of People gathered together, or 〈◊〉 pack of knavish Contrivers.  
So I rest myself satisfied, that this Querent of ours hath some treacherous Persons designing ill against him.  
But now we are to come to consider, how o● by what means? or by whom?  
I have already given you a Table of the Aspects and Unity of the Lots, in the following page. But now in this place, I will present you with a new one, very easy to be comprehended; whereby to understand, from whence Affliction comes whether it comes from Brothers, Sisters, Relations or Strangers; as is generally taken from 〈◊〉 7th, 12 or 9th Houses, being Travellers; or from the 5th House, from some drinking, idle Person; or the 6th House, from some Servant, or Person of low Degree.  
The First House afflicted, generally the Persons themselves create Trouble to themselves: from the Third House, Brethren; the Fourth, from the Father, or Old People; the 10th, from the Mother, or Persons of Honour; if from the 11th House, your former Friends, or your familiar Acquaintance.  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ♄  ⚹ □ △  ☍  △ □ ⚹   ♄  ⚹ □ △  ☍  △ □ ⚹ ⚹  ♄  ⚹ □ △  ☍  △ □ □ ⚹  ♄  ⚹ □ △  ☍  △ △ □ ⚹  ♄  ⚹ □ △  ☍   △ □ ⚹  ♄  ⚹ □ △  ☍ ☍  △ □ ⚹  ♄  ⚹ □ △   ☍  △ □ ⚹  ♄  ⚹ □ △ △  ☍  △ □ ⚹  ♄  ⚹ □ □ △  ☍  △ □ ⚹  ♄  ⚹ ⚹ □ △  ☍  △ □ ⚹  ♄   ⚹ □ △  ☍  △ □ ⚹  ♄ ♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♍ ♎ ♏ ♐ ♑ ♒ ♓  
Now if you are desirous to know the Unity and Place of the Lots, by way of Aspects or Situation, behold the Table: ♄ is the Example, throughout the 12 Signs or Lots.  
See ♄, or the Lott Acquisitio; he beholds the third House by a ⚹ Aspect, a □ to the Fourth House, a △ to the 5th, and a ☍ to the 7th 〈◊〉 his △ to the 9th h. his □ to the 10th h. and his ⚹ to the 11th h. So you have both Dexter and Sinister; and you have the Second, 6th, 8th and 12th Houses, that behold not one the other.  
We may very well discern by this, what Evil is pointed out against this Querent of ours.  
Observe the Lott that is in the 4th House, which is of an ill nature, casting his ill Beams to the Ascendant; the Lott is called Carcer, in English, a Prison, or a dismal Place; which is no way agreeing with the Lott in the Ascendant: therefore I conclude, that this Gentleman and Old People cannot agree; and besides that, there will be an Old Man which lies still in the Grass, like a Snake, to do him a private Mischief; and the more certain, because the 7th House is possessed with an ill Lott, as also the Lott in the 12th h. His secret Enemies, and his open Enemies, notorious by nature; we may well conjecture, that there is a notorious Plot contriving against this Man, arising from Enmity and Malice; and that he will be brought before Judges or Justices of the Peace, or such sort of Persons.  
If you do observe the □ Aspect from Carcer, the 10th h. from the 7th. h. in taking Counsel from a sort of petty Fellows, having something to do under the King. So here is good Reason for this Querent to fear, lest Treason b● maliciously sworn against him.  
Then again, another Inquiry may be made, viz. To know what Company this our Querent had, or did keep; because it's a common Saying, and I believe it's true, Bad or ill Company brings many to the Gallows: And in pag. 150. you have the Rules, to know good or ill Company.  
Now note, that the second h. is Company for the first.  
As for Example, we have in the Ascendant, the Lott Acquisitio, a very good Lott; and in the second h. his Company was Tristitia, viz. ♄ retr. in ♏, signifies a cursed Pack, not fit for the Society of Christians.  
I conclude then, this was or would be, the Foundation and Ground of this Man's Trouble; then finding this, I could not be quiet, before I had spoke with him, to know the truth of the Matter: And then he told me plainly, That he had formerly lodged in his House, PORNE, & Homo scelestus, about three years past, and that he put them out of his House by violence.  
Now it plainly appears, if you consider my former Rules, and also this my present Judgement, that those are the Ground from whence springs this Wickedness against this our Querent; for behold, ♄ is Lord over the Lott in his second h. which is his bad Company, thinking to gain Money, because of the second h. Behold again, ♄ is Lord or Ruler over the Lott of the 4th h. too; they would willingly handle some of our Querent's unmoveable Goods And more than all this, observe, ♄ is also Ruler over the 5th h. 〈◊〉 our Querent; they do not produce the Ma●i●e from his turning out of ♄ out of Doors, but pretend to have a spleen against him, by reason of his similiarity with a Feminine Creature of their Acquaintance; and this is very true.  
But if you would know the bodily Shape, State and Condi●ion of these Caballers, turn back to pag. 138. and you may be satisfied at large.  
Then here is another thing to be observed, When, or at what time will this Ill happen to this our Querent, seeing it's so, that it will be?  
Why truly, the Chaldeans, Egyptians and Rosie-Gru●ians, and others, hath encouraged me in this Work, finding them true, to number out Times and Seasons; and they have given us those Lots, in poiuting out some for Years, some for Months, some for Days, and some for Hours, viz. the fixed for Years, the common for Months, and movable for Days and Hours, as is already shown you.  
Now some observe for Weeks, the Lott Cauda Draconis; for Days, the Lott Conjunct●o; and for Hours, the Lott Amissio.  
So I considered my Rules, and found, that this Trouble would fall on this Man in about a Month's time; and so it was, a Month and three Days after the Vision or Dream; and at that time the two forementioned Persons went to a Justice of the Peace, and swore this▪ Querent of ours had robbed Money, and that he kept company with Clippers and Coiners: so his House was searched, and they found nothing; but he was apprehended, and carried before such Persons as beforementioned, and was there Examined: And as for his Freedom or Deliverance, you shall have it at large in the next Chapter.  
But Reader, this is no new thing now in our Days; for it's very frequent, that such Persons of a double dye in Knavery, for a revenge to gratify their own Will, to make nothing to ●wear Treason against a Man, fallly and maliciously.  
But in this particular, I will open to you the Way and Method, to know the Nature of a Dream or Vision, or the word Somnium; it's no more, but an Observation drawn from the 9th h. which is the House of our Querent's Spiritual Guide, which did reveal to him this Trouble, Shame and Disgrace, a Month before it came.  
Now we will take a view of our great Work, and we may find, that on the 9th House, is that Lott called Rubeus; which is of a bloody, and harsh nature, insomuch that our former Philosophers said, If that Figure Rubeus ariseth in your Figure, let it be (say they) depopulated, or destroyed. Now I am of the contrary opinion; for as long as we live under the Elements, we must expect ill, as well as good.  
The Astrologers do not destroy their Figures, when they find the ☋ in the Ascendant, or elsewhere; for they observe some Knavery forth coming thereby, to themselves, or to the Q●…nt.  
Neither do I advise you, when you find the Lott Rubeus, or ill Lots, to cast it aside; but observe the Nature and Qualities thereof.  
As for Example, Rubeus is in the 9th; turn back to the main Rule, viz. to the Lots in the 9th h. and you will find what that Lott Rubeus is; what it signifies in the 12th House: in every House, he differs something. But in the main, it's a Lott of a destructive Nature, and of a Watery Triplicity; but many Writers compare it to both Fire and Water, upon extremes, having no mercy.  
And very like unto this Nature, was the Vision of our Querent, viz. Burning and Consuming by Fire or Water, or both, in a most frightful and terrible manner.  
And this is my Opinion and Judgement, on the Vision of this Gentleman.  
Now I went to him, and laid down this my Judgement concerning the Vision; and he told me, it was very true: for Fire and Water, with Destruction, was the groundwork of his frightful Dream.  
Then I desired this our Querent, to reveal to me the whole Matter.  

The VISION opened.  
Nuperrimè factum est, cum quidam Homo alterum velut ab utero materno nudum humi procumbentem supino more vidisset, cujus venter magno vulnere consossus est; & qui alta voce cum advocavit ut ei istud vulnus sanaret; Somniator noster, se promptè effecisse arbitrabatur, cum sauciatus iste seize in faciem ex improviso convertens, vulnus à tergo longe horribiliorem in lucem protulit; quod carnem ejus usque adeo torsit, ut brevi in cinerem redigi, nec non in viscera ejus descendere videbatur: quo aspectu, ad tempus obmut vit: Animum autem tandem revocans, interrogavit eum, num adhuc inter vivos esset? & cum pro responso habuit, se it a isse; subito inclamavit, ut aquam ei adferent, ad inflamatum ejus corpus extinguendum; quocum statim expergefecit.  

God often doth by Dreams, to us declare  
Strange Accidents, before they do appear:  
By a Dream, showed Joseph what should fall  
To him, his Parents, and his Brethren all:  
By Dreams likewise, did Pharaoh understand,  
There would be seven years' Famine in the Land;  
His Butlers Dream showed, Pharaoh would restore  
Him to his Place, that he had lost before.  
The Baker's Dream also did signify,  
That in three days he should be Hanged high.  
The Soldiers to Gideon, did foreshow,  
That he the Midianites should overthrow.   

More may be said of Dreams and their Events,  
And how they show our Good, or Discontents;  
But this, I hope, at present may suffice,  
Since a Word may be enough, to the Wise.     

CHAP. III.  
A Brief Account of the Delivery, Friendship, and Support of this Querent, under so great a Scandal and Disgrace; drawn from this Angelical Work of Ours.  
1. IN the first place, observe, that we have here two Witnesses and one Judge; and first, we will speak of the two Witnesses: the Right Witness is called Laetitia, a Lott, in English, signifying Joy and Gladness. Now this Right Witness is always taken for the Querent, and signifies his Concern, either good or ill; and to be more larger, it hath also an inspection into all the Houses, on that side; that is to say, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10; it discovers what the Motion of the Querent is, before propounded. And this I must tell you, is a good Testimony of the Gentleman's Integrity and Honesty.  
And in this I am more plain, because I would instruct young Students.  
Secondly, As for the Left Witness, it bears Testimony, of the Mind and Intention of your Enemies, and as a Landscape of the other Heuses in that side, etc.  
The Lott, which is the Left Witness, is called Rubeus, a Lott of a desperate bloody-minded Nature, which very patly represents the horrid Treason sworn by PORNE, & Homo scelestus, and with the Lott Populus in the 7th House; these together, give you a plain Discovery of the forementioned Knavery, as if you had it printed before your Eyes.  
Thirdly, Another Testimony of our Querent's speedy Delivery, is, by that Lott which we call the Judge, viz. ☉ retr. in ♉. Observe here, Rules of truth, taken from the Chaldeans and the Rosie-Crucian-men; When the Judge moves himself into the ●oth h. of the Quer●nt, it's an absolute Testimony, that the Judge of the Law will do Justice. This happens to our Querent; if you look back to our great Work, you will plainly see it: and the Judge freed this our Prisoner, and the Clerks also of the Law, cried out shame on this PORNE, & Homo scelestus; and said, they ought to be hanged.  
Fourthly, It's a strong Argument of Recovery, from the Lott in the Ascendant, which is called, ♃ dir. in ♈; you have its Description at large, in pag. 151. signifying a Man of Power, and one that lives in Pomp and Credit in the World; and such a one generally crusheth the Power and Malice of poor inconsiderable Earthworms, that show their Teeth, and are not able to by't: so you have often heard, that Populus signifies many Enemies. It's a common Saying, that when a Man lives well, and gets Money, he is generally hated by some, because they think he lives above them.  
Fifthly, Now the reason of Redemption, is, because, if you mind the great Work, you will find, the Lott in the Ascendant moves itself into the third House; a true token or testimony, of this Querent to have many true and faithful Friends, or Neighbours we may call them: and as now I say, so it was; for he had many of the best of the Parish in which he lived; the Churchwarden for one, to be Surety or Security for him, on occasion.  
Then behold the Table of Aspects, and you will find an Aspect of Love, between the Lott in the Ascendant, and the third house, which strengthens the foresaid Arguments.  
Then again, Sixthly, you will find Friends, from the 11th house; First, Because the Lott there is ♀ dir. in ♎, a pure good Lott, of Truth and Stability; and this is the more verified, because there are Aspects of Love between the Lott of the Ascendant and the 11th house, the house of Friendship: and this Gentleman informed me, that he had, at that time of Trouble, two Eminent Doctors of Physic came willingly and freely, proffering their Service to him; they were both of great Eminence and Renown: their Description of Body and Disposition, is exactly represented, according to our former Rules.  
Seventhly, If you desire to know, if the Querent was long in Custody, or in Prison, look into the 12th h. the house of Imprisonment, and you will find, that the Lott called Via, signifies the Way, and is a sure Testimony; pray turn back to Via in the 12th house: it positively says, a speedy delivery out of Prison; and so it was to admiration, (says the Querent) considering the nature of the thing.  
Reader, the truth of this our Angelical Method, or by way of Lots, aught to be much esteemed by the Lovers of Art; for my Experiments in this, have been very large.  
Eighthly, and Lastly, The death of our Querent's secret Enemies, Homo scelestus died in the Bosom of PORNE, our Enemy: and no wonder, if you consider, that the 8th h. of the Querent, the Counsel or Company to the Querent's Enemies, is moved into the 12th h. of secret Enemies, and is called Via, and is in ☍ to his 8th, a terrible Lott, viz. ♄ retr. in ♏, called Tristitia; and this in one Month from the Vision: and PORNE submitted herself to the mercy of the Querent.   

CHAP. IU.  
The several Ways, that God gives us Rules, to foresee our Elementary Life: with an Account of this Our Querent's Friends.  
NOW behold the great Work, and you will find, the Figure of Astrology is placed in the inner 12 Houses, which was Erected at the very instant of this our Querent's first apprehending, being Jan. 30. at 10 in the Forenoon; at that time, this Gentleman was seized on by a parcel of Egyptian Caterpillars; but considering what they were, they were, indifferent civil.  
It's a common Rule for the Astrologers, to behold the Ascendant first; and if you do, you will find there the Tail of the Dragon, which bespeaks such a parcel of Fellows, etc. Now ♎ ascends the Horoscope, and the ☽ was in ☍ to to Venus, ad △ ♄, and ⚹ ♄, and ♀, etc.  
Then Secondly, We are to consider the 7th House; and there we find the Sign ♏, which very well resembles the Lott Populus, as I have before spoken of: for the 7th house is our Querent's open Enemies, and the 12th h. is his private ones: So we may plainly see, that the Planet ♂ is Lord of the 7th. h. posited in the 12th house; a plain Testimony, that our Querent hath malicious and bitter enemies to deal with; and the more, because ☿ is in the 12th House also, which signifies a malicious, lying, prating Tongue; for ☿ naturally signifies Liars, Dissemblers, and forsworn, perjured Persons, in the Sign ♓, because he is in ☍ to his own House: the Querent hath good reason to fear envious Fools, forsworn Persons, thinking to get Money.  
Thirdly, We must now begin to take notice of the ☍ of ♀, Lady of the Ascendant to the ☽, lays down the same reason as the Lots did; the main Instrument was Porne, and ♋ in the 4th h. some old Knaves of the Acquaintance of the Querent's spur her on in the Wickedness; and the more, if you take notice of her 11th h. being the House of Advice; and not only so, but ♃ retr. in the 6th h. The Description of this PORNE, is one of an indifferent high and long Neck, a cloudy Complexion, a dark Hair, something Melancholy, Pensive, apt to Cry or Weep, and much given to Drowsiness, Heavy-headedness, yet something covetous, or saving of Money, performing no good Action.  
Fourthly, We plainly see the Death and Destruction of our Querent's secret Enemies, if we observe the Rulers of Nature, viz. to take notice of the 12th House. Now we find ♂ in the 12th h. or Lord of the 12th, of the Enemies, in his Ascendant; and not only so, but ♃ retr. in ☍, and the ☽ too; a positive Sign of the destruction of Homo scelestus; and indeed, he died in the Bosom of PORNE: And according to the best Information I had, he was destroyed by the Disease caused by the Planet ♂. The time of the Death of Homo scelestus, was about five Weeks after our Querent's Vision.  
Fifthly, A word or two concerning our Querent's Friends, who would have Assisted him. They are exactly represented by ♄, and the ☉, in the 11th House, which bespeak Men of a middle Stature, full and plump; and so they were, and Persons of good Quality and Reputation.  
Sixthly, Another Observation we have taken for his Delivery, is the ☽ to a Trine of ♄, and ♀ and ♄ to a ⚹. Now to demonstrate this to you, observe thus, that ♄ is Lord of our Querent's 10th House, in ⚹ to ♀, Lady of the Ascendant; a pure Truth: the Judge was his Friend, and many more; perceiving it was a piece of Villainy, to get Money. And lastly, you may perceive by the Rules of Astrology, that PORNE submitted to the mercy of the Querent.  
The Rules of Astrology might have been more enlarged here in this Concern, but I will leave it to the Wise.   

CHAP. V.  
Another Example of Treachery and Villainy; with many more Experiences on several Occasions: drawn from this Angelical Work of Ours.  
I Shall not trouble myself here, to give you the whole Figure of the Lots; but tell you, that Via was raised in the Ascendant, and that bloody Lott Rubeus was raised in the 7th House; a Lott which I have often told you, causeth many Enemies, of very ill Life and Conversation, unsettled in their Wills and Minds.  
The Story runs thus: The Querent having ●oney due to him a considerable time, and no ●opes of it without trouble, he Sued him in the Court of Conscience, and got his Money.  
Now mark what follows: This Debtor of the Querent's had a Wife, and a Daughter about the age of 30, or upwards; so for Revenge, these two consulted together to swear, that this ●an that prosecuted her Husband, stole a partel of Silk from a certain Merchant; insomuch ●ut this Querent was taken up, and carried before the Lord Mayor of London: and upon Examination, the Mother and Daughter (in not having a good Memory, as Liars ought to have) betrayed themselves in telling their Stories, and were punished, according to their Deserts.  
The Gentleman proved himself to live in one place as a Shopkeeper for 15 years, and many friends to testify of his Truth and Fidelity.  
Now this Querent came to me with a very heavy Heart, fearing his utter Ruin: but I bade him not fear, for it would come to nothing. I being something intimate with him, he told me, he was for some time in Oxford; and I found him to be ingenious in many things: He knew something of Astrology, and said, that he had the ☋ in his Ascendant; which many may believe, or think, that he was a Man of a tardy Conversation; but he was not, for I made enquiry; so I told him: and it's my Opinion, that tho' a Man may have the Dragon's Tail in his Ascendant, it doth not infuse Knavery into the Native, but stores up many false, base and treacherous Enemies, against his Body and Purse.  
Secondly, A certain Gentleman came to me, desiring me to Raise his Lots for him, to know if he should speak with his Common Dealer, (if he went to his House, being seven Miles;) he was willing to be certain before he went.  
I followed my Method of my Angelical Work, and Acquisitio was raised in the Ascendant, and moveth itself into the 7th House, which is the House of Dealing. I bade him go speedily, and he should see him, and speak with him; and so he did.  
Thirdly, A certain Woman came to me, desiring me to tell her where her Horse was, for she could not find him: I raised my Lots, and found the Lott of the 12th House, which signified the Horse; and finding this same Lott moved himself into the 4th House of the Querent, I bade the Woman go home, for the Horse was in her own Ground, in some Corner, or watery Ditch; for the Lott was of the watery Triplicity. And accordingly the Woman went home, and found her Horse, as I told her.  
Fourthly, A Man of my Acquaintance, gave his Wife leave to go to Greenwich, some distance from London; expecting her home at night, but she did not come; insomuch that the Man cani●… to me the next day, desiring me to tell him wh●… was become of his Wife; he was fearful le●… some ill had happened to him.  
I examined her Lott, viz. in the 7th House and found it to be Amiss●●, and moved itself to a ⚹ of the 11th House, which is the 5th from the 7th. I told the Man, that his Wife was making him a Cuckold, and that all that Night she lay with a tall, black Man. The Man seemed to be angry with me; but in four days time, he was well satisfied in the Matter, for his Wife gave him a damned swinging Clap. In pag. 181. you will find, that Amissio in the 7th House signifies a Whore; and being in ⚹ to her 5th, you may well judge what she was about, etc.  
Fifthly, A certain Man came to me, very mournfully; for he had given his Wife some sharp Words, upon which she went away from him, he knew not where.  
I raised his Lots, and guided my Eyes to the 7th House, and finding that Lott was moved into the 9th House, viz. the third from the 7th. I desired this Man to go to his Wife's Sister, and there he should find his Wife: and he found it very true.  
Sixthly, A certain Woman came to me, telling me, that she had lost or miss her Husband for two days; desiring me to tell her what was become of him.  
I found that Via, the Lott in the Ascendant, was moved into the 12th House: I said to the Woman, thy Husband is in Prison, but will soon be freed, and set at liberty. She went speedily from me, to the Marshalsea in Southpark, and met her Husband at the Prison Gate, coming out, being just released.  
Seventhly, A Gentlewoman came to me, with a dreadful noise, to know if her Husband would die, for he lay very ill. Women generally make a noise in such a case, whether they love their Husbands or no. But in short, I Raised her Lots, and found a good Lott in the Ascendant, viz. Albus, and moved it itself into the 10th h. I bade the Gentlewoman be contented; for in six hours, or in a small time, her Husband will certainly Recover. And true it was; for this Rule I have of●en Examined, and sound it never fail.  
Eighthly, If the Question be to know, If the Sick Person shall Recover?  
I go on in this manner: First, I find a good Lott in the Ascendant, as Albus; I say, the Patient shall Recover: in the 2d. h. is Carcer, no good Habit of Body; in the Third h. is Acquisitio, signifies a good Issue; the Fourth h. is Populus, a long Sickness; the Fifth h. is Rubeus, tells you, that all things the Patient takes, is obnoxious to the inward Parts; the Sixth h. is Albus, shows the Disease itself, to be of Melancholy, and Oppression of the Heart; the Seventh h. is Laetitia, and his Company is Cauda Draconis, the Elements of Air and Fire, telling you the Party is dangerously ill, and signifies Death, because of the 7th and 8th h. the Ninth house is Amissio, and is a plain demonstration, that the Person, or Minister of the Parish, will have no Gain; the 10th is Acquisitio, which gives hope of Life and Recovery, the 11th is Conjunctio, and signifies, that his Friends believe his Disease is mortal, and are out of hopes; and i● Conjunctio be also in the 12th, it tells you plainly, that his Enemies are in great hopes of his Death.  
Ninthly, This is a true way of judging, if you observe the Lots and their Natures, and consider their Differences of Elements. And while it's fresh in mind, I will give you a true Method of Judging the ☍, □, ☌, ⚹ and △ Aspects.  
Now for a further Demonstration of the Aspects, worth your Observation.  
An Example of the Aspect of Opposition, viz. the first beholds the 7th, which is an ill Aspect, as well for the distance of the Place, as for the contrariety; because the first is Oriental, and the seventh Occidental.  
And the like is from the 4th to the 10th, not only ☍ by place, but the 4th h. is Darkness, and the 10th h. is Light. Now here lies the Mystery: If you find a good Lott in the first, and so in the 7th, and of one Nature, Planet, and Element, the things demanded, will come to a good end; and the Place of ☍ is only to signify, that Matters of Things between them, are strange, and unacquainted: but Friendship will soon come, if you find Fortuna Major in the first h. and in the 7th too, you may well conclude of Unity, Peace and Tranquillity: but if contrary to the aforementioned, judge otherwise.  
And in like manner, consider the □ Aspect, and also the △ and ⚹; altlio ' those are counted good in Astrology, yet in those Lots we must consider the Nature, Quality and Elements; and if we find a good and bad, by a △ Aspect, we may conclude, that their Friendship appears outwardly by a flattering Tongue, but Enmity lies at the Heart.   

CHAP. VI  
Rules to know, what any Person comes to thee for, before he declares his Business.  
THis is of great moment, if you understand it aright, viz. to understand the Minds of People.  
The first Rule, how to know the Intent; is to see when the first House or Lott goeth into any of the other, and judge according to the Signification of the Houses wherein he or she goeth: if the Second h. Money, third h. Brethren, etc.  
The second Rule, is to take all the uneven Points of all the 12 Lots, and give one to the first, and another to the second, and third; and so consequently to the other, until that all the Points are bestowed; then if the Points remain on the first h. it signifies thereby, that the Person hath a desire to know something of the Questions belonging to the first house: if it resteth on the second h. Money, or Movable Goods, as you have been formerly shown. So you may judge of all the other Houses, where the Points or Pricks stay.  
Not long since, I had a certain Midwife came to me; she asked me, What she was come to me for? I desired her to sit down a while, and I should tell her. I Raised my Lots, and found, that Rubeus was in the Ascendant, and moved itself into the seventh h. I presently told her, she was come to me about a wicked Husband, having to do with more Women than he ought; and I considered the Nature of the Lott Rubeus, and concluded within myself, that the Midwife was as right as her Husband. But in short, she told me, that I hit right on the matter; for her Husband was a very wicked Man, (said she) for he keeps Whores; and I hear, he is Married again, says she; but I am quit of him, and have not lived with him a long time; and I am Married again, and he is at Sea, but no body knows it. I spoke a pertinent Word, and said, I had the knowledge of that before.  
Now her Question was to know of me, When her first Husband would die, and the second come home from Sea.  
Kind Reader, I will show you one Example more, as a new Method in Raising these Our Angelical Lots, and so shall conclude: For I protest to you, That I have found more Truth in this Angelical Art, than in Astrology; and then again, it's a Method far more easy, and pleasanter than Astrolygy.   

Another Way of Raising these Angelical Lots, Much on the Astrological Method.  
THIS Method indeed, I have not followed, because I have found so much Truth in the forementioned. But to satisfy the Curiosity of the Reader, I will lay down the Rules.  
Observe therefore, to make four unequal Lines, as is taught in my former Lots, by the Points casually set down; and to join together these Points: And out of these Points which are not joined together, and which do remain in the Head of the Lines, extract one Figure; and the Sign of the Zodiac that answereth to that Figure, put for the Ascendant.  
An Example may be proper; if Acquisitio arise from the Head of those four LInes, let ♈ be placed in the Ascendant: but if Laetitia, or the Lesser Fortune, put ♉ in the Ascendant: if Puer, or Rubous, place ♊: if Albus, ♋: if Via, ♌: if Conjunctio, or the Drag. Head, ♍: if Puella, ♎: if Amissio or Tristitia, ♏: if Drag Tail, ♐: if Populus, ♑: if Fortuna Major, ♒ if Carcer, then put ♓ for the Ascendant. So place them in order in their Houses, as ♈ in the first, ♉ in the second, ♊ in the second h. as you see in the Figure following, not regarding the Witness or Judge.  
The same Method, if another Lott is Raised; put it in the Ascendant, and the rest in order.  
So, out of 16 Figures, you make use but of 12, which answers to the 12 Signs of the Zodiac; and this may serve for your purpose.  
And as for placing into those 12 Signs, the Seven Properties of Nature, observe to make four Lines by course, for every Planet by Points, casually pricking, or pricked down; and likewise for the Drag. Head, as you have done for the Ascendant, and divide those Points by 12, and that which remaineth above 12, or the 12 itself, if a greater number doth not remain, retain; and the Planet for which the Projection was made, place in that House of which the superabounding number shall be; that is, if there remains 12, let the Planets be placed in the 12th house; if ten, in the 10th; if one, in the first h. if two, in the second h. and so of the rest: And you ought always to begin from the ☉, and afterwards from the ☽, then from ♀ and ☿, and from ♄, ♃ and ♂.  
But it's the advice of our Forefathers, not to make a Question in Rain, Clouds, or a very Windy Season, or when thou art Angry; not but that you may take your time for the same purpose again, as you have heard in my former Rules.  
And as for this Method of Raising your Lots, you may, according to this Rule, place your Planets, (as you see in the Figure;) and that may serve for your Example.  
Then for your Judgement, turn to pag. 151, to 210. which tells you of all the Power and Strength of all the Houses: As for Example, if your Question be of the 7th house, see what Lott there is; if for a Brother, consider the Lott on the third house; and so of the rest, and you will find an Answer to your desire.  
Then observe how pure and easy it is, to that which we call Astrology, is so transcendent and subtle an Art in itself, that therein a Man ought to have a respect to many things, before he can obtain a true Judgement, because the Eye of our Understanding will not pierce into the half thereof; and many there be that pretend to it, and know nothing thereof, because their Understanding is weak: for he that made all things, gives not to all Men alike.  
Again, kind Reader, notwithstanding I have roved through the two great Bodies, of that we call in Philosophy, Macrocosmus and Microcosmus, you shall find me distinct from all you, that pin yourselves upon Points of Religion; for it's base, and an absurd thing, that those who are so seemingly united together, should so barbarously exclaim one against the other, not minding the Scripture; when he that created you all, hath not given you Gifts alike; some for Teachers, and others for Evangelists.  
I have not, in all my Works, exclaimed against weak Judgements, nor extolled the Wise; but I retain it in my Breast, and keep it to myself, considering, that Man is the little World; and every Man acts within himself, and delivers his Sentiments, as his Spirit gives him leave. But of this no more; only I must tell you my Opinion, that this Angelical Art is pure and undefiled: if you are willing to inquire, come without Fraud or Deceit, and you may have your Desire answered by the Powers above; if you are afflicted, come in a right Method: for it's the Powers above that guides thy Hand, and gives thee thy A B C, etc.  
It was Abraham that found out the only true God, by his wonderful Works, viz. in observing the Motions of the whole Creation. You that are counted Atheists or Heathens, may be brought to true Faith, and the sooner, if you observe the wonderful Works of God: than you will lay aside caviling about silly Words, or Things of no value, between you, that are so near united together; and the Will of God may be found out by the Wise and Prudent, and by his Rules, given to us in the beginning of the World.  
Observe the Faithful of Old, how they admired the great Works of Providence, and Worshipped God by the Power of his Works. Adam being the first Man, Ergo, most lawful; and those that are Unbelievers, God threatens, Leu. 26. 29. A dependence of the Earth from the Heavens, Hos. 2. 21, 22. And by his Works, God is to be seen, Deut. 33. 14. God expresseth himself by his Works, 2 Kings 17. 16. The Element 〈◊〉 ought to look into, Deut. 4. 19 The necessity of our ●…ing into the Elements, Mat. 17. 14.  
These, with many more places of Scripture, show plainly to Human Nature, That God is to be known by his Works.  
I will make a Final End of my Work, in these following Words.  
DOmine, Domine Deus noster; quam admirabilis est Nomen t●um in universa terra! quoniam elevata est Magnificentia tua supra Coelos: ex ore infantium & lactantium pèrfecisti laudem, propter inimicos tuos; ut destruas inimicum & ultorem: Quum videbo C●…s, ope●● digitorum tuorum, Lunam & Stellas quas ●u fuadâsti; quid est Homo, quod memor es ejus, aut filius Hominis, quoniam visit as eum? Minuisti eum paulo minus ab Angelis, Gloriâ & honore coronâsti eum, & constituisti eum supra opera manuum tuorum; omnia subjecisti sub pedibus ejus; oves & boves universas; volueres coeli & pisces maris, qui perambulant semitas maris.  
Domine Deus noster, quam admirabilis est Nomen tuum in Universa Terra!  
FINIS.    

THE CONTENTS.  

Book the First.  
THe Divine Attributes, consisting of Eternal Nature. page 1  
The Beginning in general; how they were produced and extracted out of Nothing, according to the Mosaical Philosophy, and what is meant by the word Nothing; then the first Principle, which is the dark Abyss or Chaos, without Form. p. 11  
The Centre and Circle of the Elementary Life of Man; showing, what Power the Elements have over our Bodies. p. 25  
The Instrument of the Hebrews, whereby to know Events to come. p. 28  
The Names and Nature of the Seven Rulers of Nature, which are the chief Force and Power under the Elements. p. 31  
The Bosom of Nature opened, and explained; giving a Description of the Nature and Qualities, of the Dark and Light Parts of the World. p. 33  
A Platform of the Heavens, Elements, and Earth; with a Demonstration of the Twelve Signs. p. 36  
The Power of the Seven Properties and Elements of Nature: proving, that those Planets and Angels Rule gradually and in order, over the Minds and Bodies of Mankind. p. 39  
The Situation of the Heavens and Earth, at the Creation of the Sun, Moon and Stars. p. 42   

Book the Second.  
The true Knowledge of Man, consisting of External and Internal Nature, in the Elementary World. p. 45  
The Egg of Generation, or the Centre of Man. p. 48  
A Description of the Human Egg, or the Matrix of the Centre of Generation. p. 53  
How the Foetus in the Womb is governed, according to the Elementary Power of the Seven Properties of Nature, and every one in order: as first, ♄, etc. p. 63  
Adam's Knowledge of the Stars, proved by Seth, and so carried down to the time of Josephus. p. 69  
The Astrology of the Ancients, proved out of the Holy Scripture. p. 70.  
An Enquiry what our Forefathers did, to search out Secrets and Wisdom in this Elementary Life, and to know Events to come. p. 72.  
The Stars are reckoned a Form of Letters, according to the Opinion of the Hebrews, and that it's possible to Read there whatsoever is to happen throughout the whole Universe. p. 84  
The Celestial Writing of the Ancients, and how those Hebrew Characters may be understood, and what they portend. p. 86   

Book the Third.  
The Lott of Man: showing his Chance or Fortune in this present World. p. 93  
The Number of things desired in this Elementary Life; and to know by this Angelical Lott or Guide, what is to come, Good or Bad. p. 96  
The Method of Effecting these Angelical Lots. p. 105  
How to Project a Figure, wherein you may understand your Lott: it being the Divine Power above, or thy good Angel which Guides thy Hand. pag. 111  
The Power and Strength of these Lots, and how the Divine Spirits are infused and incorporated into them, by the Influences of the Seven Properties of Nature. p. 118  
The various Significations, Names and Qualities, of the Sixteen Lots, or Figures, as they relate to the four Quarters of the Year. p. 122  
The Signification of the Words, Direction and Retrogradation; with the distinction of the Houses, which are Good, and which Bad. p. 127  
The Elementary Powers above, ruling over Elementary Bodies here below: wherein is discovered the Signification of the Sixteen Figures in the twelve Houses; also, the Shape and Proportion of Human Bodies, represented by those Sixteen Figures or Lots. p. 137  
A Table of the Signification of the Sixteen Lots, going out of one House into another: with another Table, of the good and ill Company of the Lots among themselves. p. 143  
A Table of the Significations, Power and Strength of the Sixteen Figures in the Twelve Houses. p. 151  
A Brief Description of the Twelve Houses; answering all Doubts and Questions, which may be naturally desired in this our Elementary Life. p. 211   

Book the Fourth.  
The f●●st Experiment; interpreting of Somnium, or a Dream, for a certain Person of great Note and Reputation. p. 249  
The Misery threatening this our Querent; or, the Vision or Evil to come, unfolded. p. 255  
A Brief Account of the Delivery, Friendship, and Support of this Querent, under so great a Scandal and Disgrace; drawn from this Angelical Work of Ours. p. 264  
The several Ways the God gives us Rules, to soresee our Elementary Life: With an Account of this Our Querent's Friends. p. 267  
Another Example, of Treachery and Villainy; with many more Experiences on several occasions: drawn from this Angelical Work of Ours. p. 270  
Rules to know, what any Person comes to thee for, before the Party declares his Business. p. 276  
Another Way of Raising these Angelical Lots, much on the Astrological Method. pag. 276   
The End.   

These two following Books (lately Published,) may be had of I. Dawks in Wadrobe-Court, in Great-Ca●●er-Lane, and most Booksellers.  
COmpendium Anatomicum nova Methodo institutum● Ubi Ars ipsa capitibus & divisionibus ita illustratur, ut omnia uno quafi intuitu consp●…entur, & co firmius idcirco retincantur. Authore J. Case, M. D.  
FLOS A VI, or Celestial Observations. By the same Author.