KEIPOMANTIA: OR, THE ART OF DIVINING BY The LINES and SIGNATURES Engraven in the HAND of MAN, By the HAND of nature, Theorically, Practically.  
Wherein you have the Secret Concordance, and Harmony betwixt It, and Astrology, made evident in 19 GENITURES.  
Together with A Learned philosophical Discourse of the soul of the World, and the universal Spirit thereof.  
A matchless Piece.  
Written originally in Latin by Io: Rothmanne, D. in physic, and now Faithfully Englished, By geo. WHARTON Esq.  Manus membrum Hominis loquacissimum. 
LONDON, Printed by J. G. For NATHANIEL BROOKE, at the angel in corn-hill, 1652.   

TO THE truly NOBLE AND Universally LEARNED (My much Honoured Friend) ELIAL ASHMOLE Esquire.  
WORTHY SIR,  
WEre it not that in Common Civility. I am Bound upon this Occasion, as to acknowledge my Infinite Obligations to you (that being the best Quality of a Bad Debtor, and even All a Chrstian Creditor should expect, where the means of a juster requital is wanting,) so to give you an Account of the present work, unto which you First incited Me:  
Yet (Sir) the Rarity of the Subject, and the Gypsylike esteem it hath amongst the vulgar: would have necessarily enforced Me, to shelter in under the Wings of none but an Absolute Mercurialist.  
That you are no less, The Ingenious works you have already published; The Succinct and Learned Annotations you have made upon some Part of those, (to omit what I know you have in design;) your Exquisite knowledge in arithmetic, Geometry, Astrology, natural magic, and physic: and in those other inferior Objects of your Delight, viz. Limming, Engraving, Painting, and music, may and do abundantly manifest: I shall not, I need not Expatiate: (To instance the particular knowledge you have in Chiromancy, were but Actum agere, in that Astrology (before Mentioned) comprehends the same, as here it is applied: and yourself Them both.)  
Nor could I glory at All in the Name of a Greater Personage, to Patronize this Piece: it is not the blustering Noise of an Empty Title, or the frail Support of a signal Birth, Only, that can be a Fit Champion, for this or the like Mysterious Sciences: Learning is best fortressed of those, by whom she is most understood: I confess her Admirers may wish her happiness; yet they commonly fail her in Extremity.  
And herein I follow the Example of mine author, who made choice of the best Deserving in his country, unto whom he D●dicated this work in the original: that is, unto such as were sober and skilful: Not to Men that were Mighty and Ignorant, or Learned and malicious.  
Nor yet have these any just cause to complain, unless for the want of Ingenuity: whereby they are doomed to an Absolute Depravation of that, whereby Wise Men daily Ascend, even to the Presence of God and his angels; I mean the Knowledge of his Works: For it is not sufficient we hear a story of God in the Scriptures, unless also we read or see him in the large Volume of his Creatures: neither do we Read Him by a Bare Gazing upon the outward form thereof, but by a narrow inquiry and search made into their hidden Nature, and Disposition: For, In the Beginning (saith my Author) God adorned All things Created, with Signatures, that so the mind of an Ingenious Man might delight itself by a Diligent searching into the Nature and Disposition thereof, and thence boldly acknowledging the wonderful works of God, and converting them to a Right use, be cheerfully constrained to the Love of God himself, and to worship him with all his heart, for his Infinite wisdom and goodness.  
Let us therefore Behold the Heaven, the stars, and celestial signs, the animals, Plants, Roots, Stones, metals, &c. in and upon the Earth; and consider how wonderfully their various Signatures everywhere present themselves unto us, and by a Tacite Language proffer us their Nature and Disposition! How exceedingly the Seven wandering-Starres (vulgarly called Planets) do Differ, not only in Magnitude and Motion, but also in the brightness, and Beauty of their Light! How variable an Influence is in each; what a Lively, Lasting Spirit, diversely disposing, Moving, Animating, Producing, Signing, and Sustaining these inferiors, according to their different Position in the Heavens, and the sundry Complications and Mixtures of beams accurring from other stars!  
The Philosophers of old have acknowledged, (and we shall willingly the same) Et inf●mis Suprema, & in Supremis infima: There are in Heaven Earthly things, in respect of the Causes, and by a celestial manner, and celestial things in Earthly, but by a terrestrial manner: whence indeed it is, That the Sun, the moon and other stars are considered in the Earth, but that in regard of a Terrene Quality; so also Plants, Stones, metals, &c. in the Heavens, but this in respect of a Heavenly Nature, endued with life-intellectual. And this was the Reason why Heaven itself was Depainted with sundry Images by the Ancient and Holy Fathers: and that he who had through his Ingenuity▪ attained these Holy Mysteries of the World, was by the Hebrews truly named Rabbi, by the Latins, Magister; and by almost all other Nations, Magus: nevertheless this Name is now so much suspected and hated, that some had rather forgo the gospel itself, then receive it again into Favour: so wilfully Obstinate, Blind, and Stupid are the Masters this Age hath produced.  
But let us Instance a few Examples, and First of the celestial Bodies: you know that the Image of the Serpent, hath the Nature of a Serpent; that is, it causeth Death by poison, so oft as the Lord of the Geniture, or the moon is therewith unhappily Posited at the Birth: The like of the Scorpion; For even the same Images drive away and kill Serpents and Scorpions, Spiders and flies, they expel poison and the Plague, being deduced from Heaven upon the terrestrial Chaos, at an observed time: Leo makes Men Bold; Virgo, Docile; Taurus, Robust; Aquila procures Honours; Lyra instills the love of music, and the study of Poesy: Sagittary addicteth to Hunting; and much more of that Nature, marked with their proper Signatures.  
Next, let us contemplate the animals of the Earth, how every one Beareth its own Nature: and how we know the same in most of them by their Effigies, [viz. by their Countenance] voice, Gesture, Habit. often by their Colour. The Horse by his Gesture betrays his Pride: The ass his slowness: The lion (by the Face and Gesture) his Courage: The bear his fierceness; The Cock his cheerfulness: The like are everywhere obvious in other Creatures, unto any but such as regard the knowledge of nothing. Now by observing the outward forms of Beasts, ariseth physiognomy in Man: For look what Beasts a Man resembles most, either in Face, or Proportion, he is truly said to possess the Disposition and Nature thereof.  
If now we descend to Plants, and Roots, we shall there enter a Theatre of Signatures worthy our Contemplation: For Example: Solatrum vesicatorium (barbarously termed Alkakenge) shuts up its husks so soon as the vessels thereof are Filled with Juice, and replenished with little Stony-Graines, as if Intimating unto us by a Tacite Language, That therein resides a virtue of Purging the Bladder, and of Diminishing the gravel and Stone therein.  
Chelidonia, not only Blushes with a certain Bloody Moisture, and therewith stains the Hands of him that Touches it, but in the root it also shows a Cavity much like the Ventricles in the Heart of Man: whereby is intimated that its virtue is to Purge the Blood to quicken the vital Spirit, and to free the Heart from the injuries of poison.  
Cynosbatus, as also Mespylus, fill the Belly with Little Stones, that break in Pieces the Stone in the Bladder.  
Carduus offends the Fingers of those that touch it by Prickles, yet such is the secret virtue thereof, that it consumes and expels all Pricklings and Stingings in the Body of Man.  
The Numulariae resembles in the Leaves thereof the Epiglossis, and heals the inflammation of the Throat.  
Nux Juglans and Moscata represent in the Faces thereof, the Composure of the brain and Head, and are therefore comfortable to both.  
Orchis in the root thereof, resembles the Testicles, and therefore is Venus excited by it.  
The Hypericon, and Persicaria are notoriously known to operate according to their proper Signatures.  
Many Hundreds more might be instanced of Flowers, Seeds, Leaves, and Roots. The Signatures are most apparent in such herbs as are least endued with Odour: Those that are Sweeter, Evidence their virtues unto us (notwithstanding we were Blind) by their Smell. So also in the Leaves of Trees, in Rinds and barks, in Wood and Roots, we find such Signatures, as do manifest the hidden virtues thereof, and thereby learn to apply them to human use, or the Healing of Diseases. The like we see in Stones and metals.  
If this than be so clear in the stars and signs of Heaven, if so in animals, Plants, Roots, Stones, and metals: who but a madman, or fool dare say, That the like signs in the Hand of Man▪ are Idle and vain? Man is he for whom all things were made, and wherein all things of the Greater world are comprehended, although with a Face more Occult. Man only rejoiceth in this Honour [that he hath a Resemblance, Operation and Conservation with all things in the World:] He symbolizeth (as I may say) with the Matter in the Proper Subject, with the Elements in their fourfold Composure of Body: with the Plants in the Vegetative virtue: with the other animals in the sensitive: with the Heavens in the sidereal Spirit, that is, in the Motion and Influence of the superior Bodies upon these inferior: with the angels in the Intellect, wisdom, and Speech: with God himself in the Containing Power of all things. And therefore we cannot imagine the signs so variously portrayed in the Hand of Man are in vain: but that they are there placed by Nature, with intent to make known unto us the Inscrutable works of GOD, if Job (Chapter 37.) may be Credited.  
That the Explanation of these signs is named Chiromancy, I need not acquaint you: Nor what Canons the Ancient and modern Philosophers have written concerning the same: only this I shall tell you, My Author hath not only (in this small Tract) Reduced All to a Concise and methodical Discourse, and Added divers others of his own Observations: But also Illustrated the practic Part thereof with sundry Notable Examples, whereby he hath Manifested an astrological Consent and Harmony betwixt the Hands and Genitures of all Men. A work not attempted by any before him. And whereas the Masters in this Science have not Assigned 〈◊〉 Tubercula, or Mounts of the Hand to the Planets, without some Successive Discrepancy: Nor although all of them deliver it for a general Rule [That by how much every one hath a Planet more dignified at the hour of his Birth, by so much more Evident the Characters and signs will appear upon the Region appropriated to the same Planet,] yet hath not this been approved until by this Author, who hath hereby abolished all former Doubts, and clearly demonstrated the Truth of that Doctrine.  
Nor hath He thereby (in my Judgement) restored the Art of Chiromancy to more certainty, than he hath confirmed the Grounds and Credit of Astrology, and Das●'d in Pieces the bugbear Arguments of all the Enemies of either: For what more Convincing to the judicious, then if (by Inspection made into the Hand of any Man) I truly pronounce this or that Planet Essentially Dignified or Angular in his Geniture, or in such or such a Position with other Planets or stars: another Infortunate Afflicted, or Dejected? Or if (on the Contrary) by looking first into the Geniture, and considering therein the several Positures of the Planets, and their Configurations one to another, and with other stars; I tell him (and that Distinctly and Truly) the Lines and Signatures Engraven in his Hand: what (I say) is or can be more satisfaction than this to rational Men, as touching the Power and Influence of the Planets and stars upon these inferiors, and consequently of the lawful use, and verity of the Sciences of Astrology, and chiromancy, betwixt whom there is such a secret Coherence and Harmony? And this I dare undertake to perform for the Honour of these Sciences, to the shame of all malicious and Pestilent Detractors.  
Indeed (I confess) we cannot by chiromancy so exactly determine the time of any Accident, as by Astrologic, where the Arch of Direction may be resolved into the most Scrupulous Parts of days: I suppose Chiromancy was not so much Ordained by Providence for the use of such whose Purer sights can penetrate the celestial Spheres, and there Exactly read their own, or others Fate, in those Golden Letters of the stars: But rather for the Benefit of such that be of a Grosser Genius, and whose Dimmer Eyes cannot discern the Decrees of Nature at so Great a Distance. Yet are not these Signatures wanting in any Man (more, or less) lest he should prove wanting to himself in th' Accomplishing of a Higher Scrutiny.  
As touching the Version itself, I have done it with all Integrity: and if in some places I may seem to Differ from the original, it is but where I find the Author abounding more with Elegance, than Variety of Matter, and even forsaking the terms of Art, rather than he will miss of an Eloquent Expression: for perhaps I have herein sometimes Contracted him, yet still retained His Genuine Sense. In other Places I have only Corrected the errors of the press, the which indeed were many more, than the Author's Errata specified, and very gross ones besides: and therein have done no more, than I desire others may do for Me. For any thing else I know not that I have Exceeded the laws of Translation, unless it be in retaining the terms of Art, and that I did purposely, lest in Abolishing them, I should therewith abolish the Art also: nevertheless in the First Seven Pages I have given the English thereof, and that (I hope) is sufficient.  
The End proposed, is, That hereby all Persons, who are not acquainted with the Latin, might in plain English Reade and understand their own Destiny: and (if Possible) Avert (at least wise Mitigate) the Mischiefs threatened them: Or with comfort attend, and (by human Prudence) Cherish and Augment the Good portended: whereby they may Greatly be Enabled to Give God thanks for his Infinite Mercy, and goodness: At least wise glorify him in the Midst of their greatest Afflictions.  
And this is the first Tract (of this Nature) that ever appeared in the English Tongue: and I may confidently say in any Language whatsoever, (the Latin excepted;) wherein the Author writ no less Learnedly, then Elegantly: And I heartily wish (and desire, Sir, you will join with me in it) That some one or other of our ablest Astrologers, (who have better Encouragements than myself,) would pursue this design of the Authors, it being (in my Opinion) the best and only way of bringing this Science the nearest to Perfection.  
Sir, I have now but a little to say, and that is, First, to give you thanks for all the variety of Favours you have conferred upon me ever since the First hour of our (to Me) Happy Acquaintance: Next to assure you (in a short time) Ptolemy himself, in the English Tongue, which so long hath been expected from Me, yet still Retarded by Reason of the many Discouragements and crossgrained Events I have Laboured under for some years past, begging your kind Acceptance of this in the Interim: Then to crave your Pardon for this Prolixity: And Finally, the Continuance of your wonted Affection, and Opinion of Him, who unfeignedly am  
Feb. 18. 1651/ 2. Sir, Yours in the utmost of all True Love, and Friendship, geo. Wharton.   

M Manilius in his Preface to Aug. Caesar.  
When every Species of the glittering Sphere  
(The Stars returning) Ranked did appear  
In their own seats: and by the fate's Decree,  
Each had restored its formal-potency;  
Experience framed Art, by various use,  
Example guiding where it was Abstruse:  
And (though at a vast Distance) plainly saw  
The stars All-ruling, by a Tacite Law:  
The whole World moved by Reason-Alternate,  
And how, by signs, to Judge the Turns of Fate.   


Jobi 37. 7.  
Qui in manu omnium hominum signa ●osuit, vt cognoscerent opera ejus singuli.   
A Short and plain Rule of CHIROMANCY.  
CHIROMANCY is a Rule whereby to know the signs in the Hand of Man, and a Science of Judging Rightly concerning them. There are Two Primary Parts of Chiromancy, 

1. theorical, and  
2. practical.    
1. The theorical is that which considereth the Parts of the Hand, as the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} [i.e. the Argument, matter, or Subject] of the Art.  
The Parts of the Hand [that is, of the Hand and palm thereof Extended and opened,] are.  
1. The Vola, or Inner-Part of the Hand, wherein the Lines, the Turbercula or rising parts, the Feriens or Smiting-part, the Cavea or hollow, and the Mensa or Table thereof, are, (by a clear and certain Method) known and considered.  
2. The Five Fingers; viz. The Pollex, or Thumb, the Index or forefinger, the Medius or middle-finger, the Annularis or Ring-finger, and the Auricularis or little-finger.  

1. LINES.  
THE Incisures, or Lines, are engraven by God and Nature, within the Spaces and Distinctions of the Inner-part of the Hand: And of these, some are principal, others less-principal.  

The principal Lines.  
1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Cardiaca [that is, the Line of, or belonging to the Heart] which includeth and embraceth the Mount of the thumb. It is also called, The Line of Life.  
2. Epatica, The Liver-Line, or the natural-mean, which runs through the middle of the Hand, arising from the same place with the Cardiaca at the root of the forefinger.  
3. Cephalica, or the Line of the Head and brain, which ariseth below from the Cardiaca, and (being drawn thence to the Epatica) makes a Triangular Figure.  
4. Thoralis, the Table-Line, or the Line of Fortune, which takes its original under the Mount, or root of the little-finger, and extends itself towards the forefinger.  
5. Restricta, or the Dragon's tail, which separates and distinguishes the Hand from the arm, either by a Simple or Double Transcursion. This Line determineth the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman}, or Subject of the Art. It is likewise called the Discriminall Line.   

The less principal Lines,  
Are not in every one's Hand, or when they be, not very clearly to be seen. And of these there are Five in Number.  
1. Via Solis, or the sun's way, which is a Right Line running downwards from the Tuberculum (or Rising Part) of the Ring-Finger, into the cavity of the Hand.  
2. Via Lactea, or the milky-way, running upward, from the Restricta, through the Feriens.  
3. Saturnia, or the Line of Saturn thence ascending through the middle of the Vola, to the Tuberculum of the middle-finger: which Line, if it be cut and parted, is called Via Combusta, or the Burnt way.  
4. Cingulum Veneris, or the Girdle of Venus, which is the Figure of a Hemicycle, drawn from the space betwixt the forefinger and Middle-finger to the space betwixt the Ring-finger and little-finger.  
5. Linea Martis, the Line of Mars, or the vital Sister, which is Parallel to the Line of Life, in the Turberculum of the thumb.    

2. TUBERCULA.  
THe Tubercula, are, the more Eminent Muscles under the Fingers. 1. of Venus. In the root of the thumb. 2. Jupiter. forefinger. 3. Saturn. middle-finger. 4. Sun. Ring-finger. 5. Mercury. little-finger.   

3. FERIENS.  
THE Feriens (or smiting part) taking its name à Feriendo, or Percutiendo, is, that part of the Hand which we turn about in giving or receiving of things: And this is the Mount comprehended betwixt the Menfall and Discriminall Lines, under the Tuberculum of the little-finger, the which is attributed to the moon.   

4. CAVEA.  
THE Cavea, is, the Hollow place in the middle of the palm, wherein the Three Principle-Lines, Cardiaca, Epatica, and Cephalica make the Triangle. And this is given to Mars.   

5. MENSA.  
THE Mensa, is, the interval, or Space, betwixt the thoral and Epatica, the which is given to Fortune: whence the thoral is called The Line of Fortune.   

VERSUS.  

Est Pollex Veneris; sed Jupiter Indice gaudet:  
Saturnus Medium; Sol Medicumque tenet.  
Hinc Stilbon Minimun: Feriente candida Luna  
Possidet: In Cavea Mars sua Castra locat.   

Venus the thumb and Jove the Index guides;  
Saturn the middle, Sol the wanton Brides:  
Stilbon the Least, Luna the Ferient,  
And Mars in Cavea doth Pitch his Tent.   
Here we must note, That there is some difference amongst Authors concerning the Places of Mars, Venus and Mercury: For some give the Tuberculum of the thumb to Mars, The Cavea to Mercury, The Region of the little-finger to Venus: Now to satisfy myself, I first of all observed such Men as were venereal, [that is, such as were given to jesting, fair, Merry, Agile, Lovers of music, &c. And these I found had the Region of the thumb plainly Marked with decent signs, comely Notes and Characters: And that, not without their Nativities portending the Luxury of Venus, she being either collocated under her Proper Prerogatives in a competent place of the Figure, or in a good Aspect of some Planet. The like regard I had concerning Mercury. Wherefore the Cavea belongs to Mars.  
THE practical part of Chiromancy.  
The practic of Chiromancy is that which gathereth Probable Predictions from Lines, the Places of the Planets in the Hand, and from the Notes and Characters everywhere posited in the Hand and Fingers.  

Wherefore let this Series be observed for Method-sake.  
1. Cardiaca, or the Line of Life.  
2. Epatica, or the Liver Line.  
3. Cephalica, or the Line of the Head and brain.  
4. Thoralis, or the Table-Line.  
5. Restricta, or the dragon's tail.  
6. Via Solis, or the sun's way.  
7. Via Lactea, or the Milky way.  
8. Via Saturnia, or Saturn's way.  
9 Cingulum Veneris, or the Girdle of Venus.  
10. Via Martis, or the way of Mars.  
11. Mons Veneris, or the Mount of Venus.  
12. Cave a Martis, or the Cave of Mars.  
13. Mons Jovis, or Jupiter's Mount.  
14. Mons Saturni, or Saturn's Mount.  
15. Mons Solis, or the Sun's Mount.  
16. Locus Lunae, or the moon's Place.  
17. Mons Mercurii, or Mercury's Mount.  
18. Mensa, or the Table.  
19 Pollex, or the thumb.  
20. Index, or the forefinger.  
21. Medius, or the middle-finger.  
22. Annularis, or the Ring-finger.  
23. Auricularis, or the little-finger.   

QUESTION. Whether we must judge by the Right-Hand, or the Left?  
IT is certain, that in one Hand the Lines, and other Signatures, are very often more manifest, and by their featness more perspicuous, then in the other, as well in Men as Women: wherefore a Question hence arises, whether in both Sexes the Right or Left Hand is to be taken: or whether the Right Hand in a Man, (as some teach) and the Left in a Woman only?   

ANSWER.  
THat Hand (in both Sexes) which shows and exhibits the Lines thereof most clearly, and abounds with a Series of Characters and signs: yet so, as that the other whose Lines are more obscure may pay its contribution. If in both Hands they consent and appear to be fair and comely, they declare a Constancy of Fortune and Health. The cause of which diversity is this: He who is Borne in the day time, and hath a Masculine Planet [the Sun, Saturn, Jupiter or Mars] Lord of his Geniture, bears the more remarkable signs in his Right Hand, especially when the sign Ascending is also Masculine. The contrary befalls those that are borne by Night, so oft as a Feminine Planet predominates, and the sign Ascending is Feminine. If both Hands agree, it must needs be, that in a Day-Nativity the Feminine Planets Rule: or that there falls out a Mixture of Masculine and Feminine. So in the Night, by the contrary Reason: which Diversity must necessarily be observed.    

I. Of the Line of Life.  
This is also called Cardiaca, or the Heart-Line.  
1. WHich being Broad, of a Lively-colour, and decently drawn in its Bounds, without Intersections and Points, shows the Party Long-Lived, and subject but to few Diseases.  
2. If slender, short, and Dissected, with obverse little Lines, and deformed, either by a Pale or Black colour: It presageth weakness of the Body, sickness and shortness of life.  
3. If orderly joined to the natural mean, and beautified in the Angle with Parallels, or a little cross, it argues a good wit, or an evenness of Nature.  
4. If the fame have Branches in the upper part thereof extending themselves towards the natural mean, it signifies Riches and Honours.  
5. If those Branches be extended towards the Restricta, it threatens Poverty, deceits, and unfaithfulness of servants.  
6. If in this Line there be found some confused little Lines, like hairs, be assured of Diseases: and they to happen in the First Age, when they appear below; if towards the Cavea, in the middle; if towards the Epatica, in the Declining Age.  
7. If this Line be anywhere broken, it threatens extreme danger of Life, in that age which the place of the Breach showeth: For you may find out (almost ad unguem) the Dangerous or Diseased years of your age, if (this Line being divided into 70 parts) you begin your number and account from the lower part thereof, near the Restricta, for the number falling where the Breach is, determines the year.  
8. If the Character of the Sun (as commonly it is made by Astrologers) be found in this Line, it presages the loss of an Eye: But if two such Characters, the loss of both Eyes.  
9 A Line ascending from the vital beneath the congress of it and the Epatica, to the Tuberculum of Saturn, designeth hominem {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} [That is, An Envious Man, who rejoiceth at another's Calamity;] the scite of others concurring. This also frequently shows a most perilous Saturnine Disease, as is the Plague, &c. in that part wherein it touches the vital: And so much the worse if it cut the same.  
10. But such a Line passing from the vital to the Annular or Ring-finger, promiseth Honours to ensue, from or by means of some famous Woman, or Queen, or the gainful favour of some Lady of Honour.  
11. The vital Line thicker than ordinary at the end under the forefinger, denotes a laborious Old-age.  
12. A Line passing through the vital, to the Cavea of Mars, foretells of wounds and fevers, and of Misfortunes in journeys.   

II. Of the Epatica, or natural-mean.  
1. THis Line being straight, continued, and not dissected by obverse little Lines, denotes a healthful Body.  
2. If it be short (or Broken) and reach not beyond the concave of the Hand, it bodes Diseases, and shortness of Life.  
3. By how much more the same is produced, by so much longer the Life may be warranted.  
4. If cut at the end thereof, by a small intervening Line, it threatens Poverty in Old Age.  
5. If in the upper part, it be distant from the vital by a great space, it bodes distemperatures of the Heart, as Palpitation, Syncope, &c.  
6. This also shows Prodigality, especially if the Table be broad.  
7. If Tortuous, [that is, if it wind and turn several ways,] unequal, of a different colour, and dissected, it argues an evil constitution of the Liver, and thence Diseases proceeding from the weakness thereof: covetousness also, & a Pravity both of nature and wit; especially, if from under the Region of the Middle finger, it approach towards the Cardiaca, thereby making a short or narrow Triangle.  
8. If Decently drawn and well coloured, it is a sign of a cheerful and ingenious Disposition.  
9 If it have a Sister, it promises Inheritances.  
10. If continued with foam little hard knots, it demonstrates Manslaughters, either perpetraed, or to be perpetrated, according to the number of those knots.  
11. If therein a cross be found under the Region of the middle-finger, it denounces death at hand.  
12. If it terminate with a fork towards the Ferient, it is a sign of a Depraved wit, of Hypocrisy, and evil manners.  
13. When it tends to the Mensall, it is a token of a slanderous and reproachful tongue, and of Envy.  
14. When it projects a remarkable cleft through the vital, to the Mons veneris, and the sister of Mars, especially if the same be of a Ruddy colour, it bids beware of thieves! and intimates also Fraud and deceits of Enemies.  
15. This cleft likewise insinuates a most vehement Heat of the Liver, proceeding from the rays of Mars, whereby the Life is disquiered, for that the Line of life is dissected.  
16. This Line having some Breach, yet such a one as that nevertheless it seems to be almost continued, shows, that the manner of life will be, or is already changed. And this in a Declining Age, if the Breach be under the Ring-Finger: But if under the Middle-Finger, in the strength of years.   

III. Of the Cephalica.  
1. THis is called the Line of the Head and brain: which if (arising from its place in a due Proportion,) it connect the Lines of the Liver and Heart, in a Triangular form, have a lively colour, and no Intersection falling out between, declares a Man of admirable Prudence, and one of no vulgar wit and Fortune.  
2. By how much more Decent the Triangle is, by so much happier shall the Temperature, wit, and courage be: But if it be obtuse, it argues an evil disposed nature, and a Man that is Rude if no Triangle, far worse: [A fool, a prodigal, a liar, and commonly a short life.]  
3. The superior being a Right-Angle, or not very Acute, foretells the best Temperature of the Heart: but when it is too much Acute, especially, if it touch the Line of Life upon the Region of the middle-finger, it argues covetousness.  
4. The Left-Angle, if it be made upon the natural mean, in the Ferient, and be a Right Angle, confirms the goodness of the Intellect.  
5. But when the Cephalica projects unequal, and incomposed clefts to the Mons Lunae, thereby making unusual Characters, in Men, it denounces weakness of the brain, and Dangerous Sea-voyages: but in Women, frequent sorrows of mind, and Difficulties in Child-bearing.  
6. equal Lines (thus projected) presage the contrary in both sexes: viz. In Men, a good composure of the brain, and Fortunate voyages by Sea: In Women, chieerfulness and Felicity in Child bearing.  
7. This one thing is Peculiar to the Cephalica: [if it project a cleft, or a manifest star, upwards, to the cavea Martis; it signifies boldness and courage: But if it let fall the same, downwards; Thefts and deceitfulness.]  
8. The Cephalica joined to the dragon's tail, by a remarkable concourse, promises a Prudent and joyful old-age.  
9 The same drawn upwards in the shape of a fork, towards the Place of Fortune, signifies subtlety in managing of affairs, and craftiness, either to do good or bad.  
10. If in this fork a mark appears, resembling the part of Fortune, as it is noted by Astrologers, that gives an assurance of Riches and Honours to succeed, by means of Ingenuity and Arts.   

IV. Of the thoral Line.  
1. THis is also called the Line of Fortune; It is termed likewise the Mensall, because it makes up the Table of the Hand: which Line, when it is long enough, and without Incisures, argues a due strength in the principal Members of Man, and withal, constancy: The contrary, if it be short or crooked, cut, or Parted.  
2. If it terminate under the Mount of Saturn, it shows a vain and lying fellow.  
3. If projecting small Branches to the Mount of Jupiter, it promiseth Honours.  
4. If there it be naked and simple, 'tis a sign of Poverty and Want.  
5. If cutting the Mount of Jupiter, cruelty of mind, and excessive wrath.  
6. If it project a Branch betwixt the forefinger, and the middle, in a Man it threatens a wound in his Head, in a Woman, danger in childbearing.  
7. Three Lines ascending directly upwards from this line, viz. One to the space betwixt the middle and forefinger, A second to the space betwixt the middle, and the Ring-finger; and a th●●d to the space betwixt the Ring and the Little-finger, argues a contentious Person in many Respects.  
8. A little line only thus drawn to the interval, or space betwixt the middle-finger, and the Ring-finger, sorrow and labour.  
9 If annexed to the natural mean, so, as that it makes an Acute Angle, it bringeth sorsow and labour.  
10. If the natural mean be wanting, and the thoral annexed to the vital, it threatens Decollation, or a Deadly wound.  
11. If no Mensall at all, it shows a Man malevolent, contentions, faithless, inconstant, and of base conditions.  
12. Confused little Lynes in the mensall, denote sicknesses: if under Mercury, in the First Age: under the Sun, in the Flower thereof, under the middle-finger, in old Age.  
13. When in this line there are certain Points observed, they argue strength of the Genitall●, and Burning lust.   

V. Of the Cauda Draconis, or the Restricta, and the Lines arising thence.  
1. IF this be double, or treble, and drawn by a right and continued tract, it promiseth a good composure of the Body.  
2. That line which is nearest the Hand, continued, and of a good colour, assureth of Riches.  
3. But if the same line be cut in the middle, crooked, and very pale, it denounces debility of Body, and a want of all things.  
4. A cross, or star upon the Restricta, foreshows tranquillity of Life, in old Age.  
5. If there be a star, simple or double, or any Lines near the Tuberculum of the Thumb, in Women, they denote Misfortune and Infamy.  
6. A Lyne running from the Restricta through the Mons Veneris, presageth adversities, either by the means of some kindred, or a wife.  
7. A Line extended from the Restricta to the Mons Lunae, denotes adversities, and private enmity. If it be crooked, it doubles the evil, and betokeneth perpetual servitude.  
8. Such a Line also being clear, and straight, and reaching so far as the Region of the moon, foretells many journeys, both by Sea and Land.  
9 If it extend to the Tuberculum of the forefinger, it tells the Man he shall live in a foreign country, in great Estimation.  
10. If to the Epatica, it argues an honest behaviour, and prolongeth Life.  
11. If to the Mons solis (be it simply, or doubly) it shows inseparable good, and enableth to govern, or rule in great affairs.  
12. By the same reason, if it pass to the Mons Mercurii, it betokeneth a Man, that is fit for many things. But if it reach not the Mons Mercurii, but be broken about the middle, and end beneath the Mons Mercurii, this marks out a Prating Fellow, a liar, and a Murmurer.  
13. If directly ascending to the Mons Saturni, it signifies a good position of Saturn, in the Geniture, whose decrees shall shortly follow: But if crookedly both towards the Restricta, and the Epatica, especially; it bodes a Man that is Covetous, Laborious, and hard.   

VI. Of the Via Solis, or the sun's Way.  
THis being whole, equally drawn, and well coloured, promiseth the favour of great Men, and joyful Honours: But if dissected, and inaequall, the contrary: and exposes to divers impediments, and envy in attaining the same.   

VII. Of the Via Lactea, or the milky-way.  
THis well proportioned, and continued, presages journeys that be fortunate, both by Sea and Land, and moreover, a good brain; the favour of Women (Venus assenting,) a composedness, and gracefulness of speech: If it be cut, or distorted, it argues Infelicity, and Lies; but whole, and ascending to the Little Finger, is a sign of great happiness.   

VIII. Of the Saturnia, or Line of Saturn.  
1. THis being fully and wholly protracted to the middle Finger, is an Argument both of profound cogitations, and likewise of fortunate events, in counsels and actions.  
2. Combust or Deficient, an evil sign, portending many misfortunes, unless other positions favour it.  
3. Bending backward, in the Cavea of the Hand, towards the Ferient, in the form of a semicircle, threatens imprisonment.  
4. A Line drawn from the vital through the Epatica to the Tuberculum of Saturn (if there it touch the Saturnia) the same.   

Ix.. Of the Cingulum Veneris, or the Girdle of Venus.  
IF this Line have a Sister, it argues intemperance and lust, in both sexes, and baseness in venereal congression; a filthy Man especially, who abhors not the carnal knowledge of Beasts. And if dissected, and troubled, losses, and infamy by reason of Lusts.   

X. Of the Via Martis, the way, or Line of Mars, or the vital-sister.  
THis Line (so oft as it appeareth) augments and strengthens the things signified by the Cardiaca. But (particularly) it promises good success in war, provided it be clear, and decently Red.  

Two Observations concerning Lines.  
1. THe Quantity of all Lines must be wisely observed, [that is, their Length, and Depth:] so likewise their Quality [that is their complexion, and shape, whether they be crooked, or straight.] Next, their Action, which is, to touch or cut other lines: their Passion, to be touched or cut of others. And lastly their Place and Position.  
2. We must know, that the Lines are sometimes prolonged until certain years of our Age, otherwhiles shortened: now they wax pale, anon they become notable, and as it were Luxuriate with a kind of redness, and this as well in the principal, as less principal lines.  
Again, (as touching the less principal, and such as are found in the Tubercula of the Planets,) it is most certain, that some do one while quite vanish, and that another while, others rise of a different shape, and complexion.  
The cause of which, I suppose to be no other, than the various Progressions of the Apheticall Places in the Genitures, that is to say, Fortunate, and Infortunate, to the influence whereof Man himself is wonderfully subject. The signs of his Hand are presented at different times with differing Faces: Such a virtue, Such a love resideth in the Imagination of the Greater World, towards this Lesser.  
And therefore the most studious in Chiromancy cannot attain the knowledge of Particulars, by one inspection, only made to a certain year of the persons Age. Things that worthily merit our observation, yet known or approved of but by a few.   

Of the Planets.  
The Planets also administer not a little in judgement, from their respective places: For, if they be Happy and Benevolent, good things are portended, but being Unhappy, and Froward, the contrary.  
Here we must also note; that those Planets are termed Benevolent, in whose Tubercula, and places, the accustomed Lines are found to be equal, their Characters fair and proportionable, as a cross, stars, three, or four parallel Lines, Ladders, little Branches, a Quadrangle, the character of Jupiter. But the Froward and Unfortunate are those Planets, whose Tubercula and places are deformed with Trouled lines, and uncouth Figures, as a lame and interrupted semicircle, Grid-irons, the character of Saturn. And this is to be observed in all the Lines of the Hand. Now as touching the Planets, let us proceed according to the Method proposed.    

XI. Venus.  
Venus' shining well and happily, (that is, when in her Tuberculum she presents a clear star, or furrows that be red and transversely Parallel; and so often as her Tuberculum is much elevated, makes such men to be merry, cheerful, luxurious, yet amorous, grateful, comely, and libidinous, very honest also, and just, with whom an entire and incorrupted tye of friendship (once made,) is permanent.  
She renders the body somewhat tall, and clear, the Eyes pleasant, and sparkling with the splendour of beauty, full of allurement and temptation: The hair crisped, and very thick, yet gently curling: she Instills a spotless, and a noble mind. Yet oftentimes gives men full of boasting, and incontinency. She inclines the mind to music, Painting, and all other Arts that have Beauty, &c. Sometimes (according to the strength of the Geniture) she produceth Priests, and Pedagogues, Apothecaries, gardeners, &c.  
But being Infortunate, she causeth lasciviousness, incontinency and boasting: And if you find a cross also, near the first joint of the thumb; it commonly designs an Adulterer, or such a one, on whom a mishap hath fallen in some uxorious matter, or thing.  
If the place of Venus be untilled, and void of Incisures, it points out an effeminate, rude, and sorrowful person, foolishly and ridiculously addicted to be merry and jesting.   

XII. MARS.  
MArs is Fortunate, so often as his Sister appeareth red, clear, and decently drawn, and when either stars, or a cross are found in his Cavea.  
Thus therefore he denotes such as are bold, and full of courage, stout, warlike, contentious and not easily mutable, strong, and lusty trencher-men, imperious: The hair for the most part yellow, the Eyes from black waxing red and terrible. If Jupiter participate, he possesseth the Gall, the reins, the Back, the Liver; If with Venus, the privy Members, &c.  
But if he be Froward and Infortunate, that is, when his signs, and Place are afflicted, &c. He describes Men that be Litigious, Violent, deceitful, Angry, intolerable: Also (the rest dissenting) thieves, Bloody-minded, and such whose Arts or Occupations are conversant with Fire, and Iron. he hath significations of a Wife, sons, and dissembled Friendships: thus also he engendereth fevers, and Blisters or wheels, filthy Eyes, and skin, the Apoplexy, Holy fire, wounds, and troubled thoughts.  
If you find a Saturnine Particle in the Cavea of Mars, it threatens a Precipice, or fall, from some high Place.  
If there ascend a crooked Line from the same Cavea, to the Tuberculum of Saturn, it threatens imprisonment.  
If a Line run from the Cavea of Mars towards the Restricta, and terminate in that part thereof which is under the place of the Moon, it is an infallible sign of many Peregrinations and Journeys.   

XIII. Jupiter.  
JUpiter is Happy, or Fortunate, when in his Region he exhibits signs that be auspicious, that is, if there be a star, or a Doubled cross, Parallel lines, or a Line decently drawn from the vital to his Tuberculum, &c. For, thus he signifies Men that are Noble, Glorious, Honest, Benevolent, Affable, Honourable, Merry, Renowned, Neat, Just and Equitable, beautiful, Formidable, and Happy, such as have comely Eyes, thick hairs, and a Grave Gesture; likewise such as be shamefast, and keepers of their Promises.  
These Men are preferred to great Dignities, and solicited by the Conversations of Great Men, &c. and do highly favour and esteem of their Wives, sons, honest and good Men, &c. In a Man Jupiter hath the Liver, Blood, and ribs, the Lungs and Gristles.  
But if he be unhappy, he ofttimes throws a man headlong from a great estate, to calamities: If there be half a Grid-iron in his Tuberculum, it betokeneth losses, especially by means of the more potent sort of Women: otherwise (thus constituted) he occasioneth griefs of the Heart, the cramp, inflammation of the Lungs, and other Diseases proceeding from wind. If a Line transversely cut his Tuberculum, and afterwards tend to the place of Saturn, making there little hairs, it threatens the Apoplexy.  
But if you find a cross especially, or a clear, and red star in his Tuberculum, he premonstrates splendid Honours, confers Riches, and public Rewards from Princes, or other great Personages.   

XIIII. SATVRNE.  
SAturne is happily Placed, when we find his Line wholly running to his Region: But less happy, when he presents some inauspicious Characters: unhappily, if he show confused, and infortunate signs. He governs the spleen, Bones, and Bladders. When he is Fortunate he makes Men silent, Provident, of good, and profound counsels: such as Muse much, and are somewhat sorrowful; Men that are puffed up with a silent spirit, and whose aim is at Honours. And these are slender of Body, somewhat tall, pale and feeble, their hair blackish, Eyes hollow: they are fortunate in tilling of ground, and in metals of all sorts, yet more careless of their Wives, and less addicted to Venery; foolishly laughing, and jesting: tenacious also, and more worldly than is fitting or just, &c.  
But if Saturn be Infortunate and Froward, he makes Men sorrowful, Laborious, Sordid, Humble, Covetous, unfaithful, liars, luckless, malicious, encumbered and oppressed with perpetual griefs and Anxieties: Thus also he afflicteth with dangerous Diseases, catarrhs, Coughs, melancholy, and hypochondriacal infirmities; The Dropsy, gout, falling-sickness, hectic and quartan fevers: he likewise occasioneth Imprisonment, Falls from Houses, and endangering of life by Waters. A gross line running from the interval of the Middle and forefinger, to the Mensall, and breaking or interrupting it, denotes Diseases or wounds in the lower part of the Belly.   

XV. SOL.  
IF the Sun do Fortunately Rule; he makes Men faithful, ingenious, Honoured, High-minded, Wise, human, Religious, Just, Moderate, Aged, and such as always manage their affairs honestly.  
He gives a Body well composed, and adorns it with yellow hair. He governs the Heart, the midriff, and Nerves.  
But if Infortunately, Men that are proud, and highly elated, manifesting their access to dignities by unjust means, boasters, and immodest. He brings Fluxes of rheum upon the Eyes, and thereby hurt both to them and the Mouth, trembling of the Heart, Syncope, &c.  
The Via Solis, being cheerful of colour, signifies honours in political affairs, the favour and grace of Princes: But if (on the contrary) it be Confused, and Infortunate, it obstructeth Honours, and intimates the wrath, and hatred of Princes.   

XVI. Luna.  
THe moon, happy, makes Men famous, honest, honourable, and of a great body; yet well proportioned, pleasant also, and willingly journeying by Sea, and walking by the Sides of Rivers. But if any ways dissenting in the rest, unconstant both in Life and Actions, yet tending (for the most part) to the best.  
She Rules the brain, the Stomach, and Belly.  
But if Infortunate, she portends a various, and inconstant kind of life, weakness, and an increase of griefs and Anxieties: she (thus) occasions the Paralysis, a commotion of the Members, oftentimes an Epilepsy and Canker, Spots of the body, cruel Colliques, and whatever else proceedeth from abundance of Cold, and Moisture: and this the rather when the Lines found in the Tuberculum of the moon do appear very pale. If there be fair and Comely Signatures near the Ferient, they premonstrate happiness to the Man in his journeys, and Messages; and in foreign countries: to the Woman felicity, and fertility in bearing of Children. Ominous signs do show the contrary.   

XVII. Mercury.  
MErcury, Happy, and Fortunate, makes Men ingenious, desireous of Sciences, and seeking diligently after secrets, such as be apt for any thing; Orators, Poets, Eloquent, Crafty, Variable, and ready to learn any thing, Mathematicians, Arithmeticians, and Men addicted to merchandise, &c.  
He governs the Tongue and Memory, &c.  
If he be Unhappy, he denotes Men full of Levity, liars, Pratlers, thieves, Cheats, unconstant, faithless, traitors, &c. He suscitates dry Diseases, madness, Fury, and acute fevers, according as the rest shall assist him.  
But forasmuch as he very seldom yields the Rule to one Planet only, (the Familiarity of Two, Three, or four often concurring) we ought to proceed very warily in finding out their Decrees: For, to collect and dispose the Mixtures of the Planets rightly, is, a thing very hard to be done, especially of those who are but slenderly excited: because such Mixtures are almost inscrutable, in respect of the general influence of the Heavens.  
Nevertheless, the work is sooner effected, where the Lines and Signatures are fair and clear: but if they be obscure, the judgement is more intricate.   

XVIII. The Mensa, or Place of Fortune.  
1. THis space being Great, and Broad, and the Figure Decent, declares a liberal Man, magnanimous and long-lived.  
2. But if small, and narrow, it argues a slender fortune, Niggardize, and fearfulness.  
3. A cross or star within it, clear, and well proportioned, especially under the Region of the Ring finger, betokeneth Honours, and Dignities, to ensue; from, or by means of great and noble Personages: If the character of Jupiter, it promiseth notable Dignities ecclesiastical.  
4. The same cross, or star Tripled, excellently increaseth the Portents of good fortune: but if it be cut by confused little Lines, the good fortune is thereby diverted, and Anxieties and Labours threatened, in defending his Honours, especially if they be under the Region of the Ring finger.  
A cross, or star in the uttermost part of the Mensa, is a sign of Fortunate Journeys.  
6. The Mensa sharpened by the concourse of the thoral and Cardiaque Lines, point out deceits, and danger of Life.  
7. If no Mensa be found in the Hand, it shows obscurity both of Life and Fortune.  
8. Good and equal Lines in this Space, do speak the Fortune good: but if evil and incomposed, they quite overthrow it.  
9 A little Circle, shows Perfection of wit, and Sciences, the rest Assenting.   

XIX. The Pollex, or Thumb.  
OVerthwart Lines, that be clear and Long, underneath the nail and joint of the thumb, confer Riches, and Honours.  
A Line passing from the upper joint of the thumb, to the Cardiaca, threatens a violent Death, or Danger by the means of some Married Woman.  
Lines everywhere dispersed in the Lower-joint of the thumb, describe Men that be contentious, and such as rejoice in Brawling and Scolding.  
A Line surrounding the thumb, in the middle-joint, portends the Man shall be hanged: equal furrows drawn under the lower-joint thereof, argue Riches and Possessions. If the first and second joint want Incisures, it is a token of drowsiness and idleness.   

XX. The Index or forefinger.  
MAny Lynes in the uppermost joint, and they proceeding overthwartly denote Inheritances, but running so in the middle-joint, an Envious and evil Disposed Person.  
Right Lines running betwixt those joints, declare (in Women) a Numerous Issue; In Men bitterness of the Tongue. If they be in the First joint, near unto Jupiter's Mount, they manifest a jovial Disposition; that is, they point out the Man, whom Jupiter favoured well in his Geniture.  
That Woman who hath a star in the same Place, may safely be pronounced unchaste, and Lascivious.   

XXI. Medius, or the middle-finger.  
THis Finger, presenting little Grid-irons in the joints thereof, plainly declares, an unhappy, and melancholy wit: but if equal Lines, it manifesteth Fortune in the veins of metals.  
A star there, presages a violent Death, by drowning or Witchcraft, &c. If a gross Line be extended from the root thereof upwards through the whole Finger, unto the end of the last joint, it argues Folly and madness.   

XXII. Annularis, or the Ring-finger.  
A Lyne rising from the Mons Solis, and ascending by a Right Tract through the joints thereof, is an Argument of Noble Fame.  
equal Lines in the First joint, premonstrate Honours and Riches: overthwart-Lynes, the Enmity of Princes; Howbeit, if these Lynes shall seem to be Intersected, it is the better, because they argue impediments.   

XXIII. Auricularis, or the little-finger.  
FRom the joints hereof, as from the Mount itself, are Judgements and Decrees passed concerning merchandise, and Favours.  
A star in the First joint near the Tuberculum, argues Ingenuity and Eloquence.  
Other Obtuse signs, the Contrary: But when there appear Infortunate signs in the First and Second joint, they mark out a thief, and a very deceitful person: If Adverse Lines in the last joint, perpetual Inconstancy.  
Some there are, who predict the Number of Wives from the little Lynes in the Mons Mercurii, at the outmost part of the Hand: and I have often observed them hit the Truth; but yet I will not boldly confirm any thing, in this respect, because it properly appertains to Venus, and her Disposition.  
If the End of this Finger, reach not so far as to touch the last joint of the Ring Finger, it signifies a Wife most Imperious in all things: The Truth thereof may be approved, almost, in anybody.  

Two Observations, touching the Mounts and Fingers.  
1. AS the Mounts adorned with good Figures, and Characters do carry a good and happy Omen: so likewise being vitiated with confused and unhandsome Lines, they evermore bode the contrary, and this as well on the Fingers as Mounts, unless they be restrained by the Confederacy of other Lines that be good.  
2. Chiromancers do Teach and affirm, That the First joint near the Mount of the Finger, must be attributed to the First Age: The Second to the Flourishing Estate of Age; And the last unto Old Age. The marks found according to the Nature of the Planets, we have already ●●●●…ined; concerning which (notwithstanding we have formerly admonished it) it is our Opinion, that the Directions, or Progressions of the principal places in every Geniture, do in due times, manifest their respective marks and Characters, whether Fortunate or Infortunate.    

The special Practice of Chiromancy, and its genethliacal Concordancy, in 19 Examples.  
I Have Read in Authors, That the Characters of Places, and the Faces of Lynes, are represented according to the Position and Habitude of the Predominating Planets, in every Geniture: And I found it so: Nor shall I (anon) deny it verified in my own: But met with none that had ever brought Examples, or Collected any thing of this Nature. Whereupon, I, more Ardently endeavoured to make trial thereof myself, That so the Truth, and Excellency of this Science, might (both with me and other● remain fully approved of and certain, 〈◊〉 having observed one, and another Example, manifesting their Concordancy, by a more Covetous, and diligent search, I quickly found the like Harmony in divers others, nineteen whereof (Ingenious Reader) I now expose to thy view: Read, Understand, and judge. As for the Ignorant, let him either learn, or be Silent: And for the Envious, God send him his Health, and let him upbraid where he pleaseth.  

Example I.  
One borne at Uratislavia, in the year of Christ, 1567. August 17. Hor. 12. 10. in the afternoon.  
HE is promised Long-Life, and seldom to be Troubled with Diseases: His Complexion (for the most part) phlegmatic.  
Mercury Angular, and in his own House, denotes his Ingenuity.  
The Mid-Heaven, Irradiated, by the Trine of Jupiter, an Affluence of joyful, and easily-Attained Honours, without Impediments.  
Mars in the 12 and in the House of Mercury, whom he Afflicts by a Quartile, obstructs his Muse, by martial Men, especially: and such as are given to merchandise, &c.  
Venus is excellently well and fortunatly Placed, for Marriage, and Plenty of Children.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
We find an increase of Riches, by Marriage, so likewise from his own Services, and Offices, honestly undertaken, on the behalf of others: No Testimony of Imprisonment, or a violent Death: yet some Misfortune to be taken heed of, proceeding, either by the means of thieves, or by some of the Greater sort of Beasts: Frequent Journeyings in his First, and Middle-Age, and those Famous, Honourable, and gainful.  
Now, if we Trace these things, by the Lineaments of the Hand, we shall find an agreement.  
1. For, in the first place, the Mons Veneris notably Furrowed, shows, that Venus had the best Positure, in the Geniture. Hence we must gather the significations of Venus, to complete the judgement.  
2. There are Three clear Lines, in the First joint of the Little-finger, which tell us the Dominion of Mercury: The like, the Triangle so aptly described. Whence we conjecture a most Excellent Wit, and Commendable Behaviour.  
3. The sun's Place hath its little Lines not foolishly posited, which contribute Honours: And the like doth the Partile Sextile of Jupiter, and the Sun who is Angular in the Geniture.  
4. Saturn (by the Incisures of his Mount) shows Adversities, some Diseases: yet those but Light and Easy.  
5. The Breadth of the Mensa confirms the Liberality of Nature.  
6. The Saturnia extending to the Epatica, shows an Honest Behaviour, Good Judgement, a Long Life.  
7. The Mons I●vis decently adorned with Incisures, the Height of Honours.  
8. The cross near the Ferient, promises Happy, and honourable Journeys: otherwise the Region of the moon, were here untilled.  
9 The cross in the Menta under the Annular, contributes Honours, and good Fortune: But insomuch as it is Cut by the same, (being let down through the Epatica) it threatens loss of House-hold-goods, in his Old Age.  
To be short, the principal Lynes being endowed with the best conformity, demonstrate strength in the principal Members of the Body, as also appears by the Geniture: For, it is not our purpose to draw, or examine all the Incisures in general, especially the least of all, running through the Fingers or the Restricta: we hold it sufficient, that we have Rightly applied the significations of the principal Lines and Characters, to the Planets and stars in the Geniture, and their Significations: so, that the rest may be very well referred to the Readers own Ingenuity.   

Example II.  
Another borne (Spurcè puta) in the country of Uratislavia, of Ignoble Parents, in the Year 1590. Feb. 2. New stile, Hor. 1. 30. Afternoon.  
AS soon as I saw this Child (in my travails) I desired to know the time of his Birth: For, he was hardly four years old, and looked with an exceeding Free and comely Face: And perceiving him Illegitimate, I did the more diligently observe and describe the Lineaments of his Hand; And how exactly they Agree with the stars in his Geniture, shall be the next presented to our inquiry.  
We find four or Five of the Planets excellently well dignified; in which respect, it might fitly be called, A regal Geniture. Venus herself is in her Exaltation, and more than so, in mutual Reception with Jupiter, from Houses. The like Reception there is betwixt Saturn and Mercury. Mars is in his Triplicity, and very strong in that part of Heaven. Sol, Saturn, and Jupiter make a Triangle, in airy signs, and so doth the Part of Fortune.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
1. They all premonstrate not only length of Life, and constancy of Health, but also an absolute Wit, and a Mind that is Noble.  
In his Hand you find an excellent Concinnity of Lines, and the places thereof admirably well adorned [viz.] The Tubercula of Venus and Jupiter, than the Tuberculum of Mercury, and lastly the Moon's: ye behold a conspicuous Sister of Mars: whereby we may pronounce him a most Fortunate and Formidable warrior.  
2. Mercury inclines Him to all Manner of Sciences, and gives a Profound Wit.  
3. The Region of Jupiter is graced with his proper Character. So you see, in the Geniture, the Great Dominion of Jupiter with the virgin's Spike, not without the Reception of Venus.  
4. In like manner the Tuberculum of Venus, beautified with convenient Incisures. And therefore in describing the Genius of the Native, we must make a Mixture of the significations of Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury.  
5. Saturn letting down Three little Lines from his Tuberculum, and therewith cutting the thoral, denounce sickness in his Old-Age, Poverty also and neediness.  
6. The capaciousness of the Mensa, shows the goodness of his Nature.  
7. The Via Solis designs him to Honours, but (being touched by Diminutive Lines) not without some slender Impediments.  
8. The Line of Saturn Ascending (by a straight Path) even to the middle Finger, confirms the Excellency of the former judgements.  
9 The Ferient tells of journeys: And the like are signified in the Geniture, by the Positure of the moon in the West-Angle: so also by the Trine of Mercury to Saturn, Lord of the Ninth House.  
10. The Epatica (having a Breach in the End thereof) denotes a Change of the Manner of his Life, in Old Age, &c. The Excellent Reception of the Planets disposing of the 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12th Houses, what further concerns the State and Condition of the Native.   

Example III.  
The same Day and year (abating but 12 hours and 30. Min.) A Female was Borne in Turingia, where the Pole is elevated 51. Degr. 30. min.  
IT will merit the pains, if (in some sort) we compare the Discourse of the former Hand, with this that follows.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
1. The principal Lines, [viz. the vital, Epatitica, and thoral,] do almost agree in their Scite and Conformity: In the less principal you see a Difference.  
2. The vital is thrice Cut. First, near the Restricta, which shows a Disease about the 7th year of her Age: And although in Directions there appear nothing suspicious, about that time: yet, in regard there are for the most part some Dangers of sickness, or craziness in all climactial years, even when there happens no unlucky Progression of the Apheticall places: you may conjecture a small fever, some short and slender distemperatures, the small Pox, or the like.  
Another Section (conspicuous in the middle of the same Line) Agrees with the Direction of the Horoscope, to the Opposition of Saturn, which falls out about the 32. year of her Age; and brings with it a Disease very Dangerous.  
The third Section must be referred to the 52. or 54 year of her Age, the Horoscope then coming to the Quartile of Mars: And this premonstrates Wounds, or a Burning Disease in the Lower Parts of her Belly; Because it interrupteth other Lines, through the Cavea of Mars. But die she does not of this Disease, in regard Venus Assists in the Geniture.  
3. The Sister of Mars is wanting: But the venereal furrows are sufficiently Eminent. Wherefore they portend lasciviousness. The same is signified by the Conjunction of Mars and Venus in Pisces, Mars being Lord of the Horoscope.  
4. The Cephalica, here, excels; and therefore endues her with the more Ingenuity. In the Geniture you see Mercury in the Third House (a Competent place) in Reception and Aspect of Saturn himself: notwithstanding the Tuberculum of Mercury scarce shows so much as one Incisure.  
5. A cross in the moon's Place, foretells of Fertility and happiness in Bearing of Children. And to this, Venus is fitted in the Geniture, notwithstanding she hath Mars in Conjunction with Her. Yet, seeing he disposeth of the 6th. House, it is to be feared, lest at some time he occasion Danger in the Birth of a Boy.  
6. The Place of Jupiter is also otherwise understood, then in the Preceding Example. The Region of the Sun likewise favoureth in some measure. An honourable Life is seldom obtained by the more Generous sort of Women, unless by Marriage.  
7. The Line Arising in the very middle of the Hand, and thence Ascending to the Root of the thoral beneath the Region of Mercury, by Discecting the Epatica; points out an unfaithful Friend, which (in her Declining Age) should occasion loss, and Detriment, in her House-hould Goods, and Things.  
8. The Epatica (Cut in the End thereof) bodes a deficiency of Wit in her Old Age: The cross there, is the forerunner of some Good: The Reception of Mercury and Saturn from Houses, in the Geniture, and they Dispositors of the 3, 4, and 8. Houses, a sign of Inheritance.  
9 The breadth of the Mensa is very feat, and the Site of the thoral comely, and decent, which argue her goodness of Nature, readiness of Wit.  
10. The Line of Saturn running in an Oblique Tract, from the Restricta, to the Tuberculum of Saturn, doth usually mark out such as be Laborious, something Covetous and Hard.  
But that the Lines of the Hands are not completely perfect, at the hour of the Nativity, this Example abundantly manifests. Moreover, seeing by this, it is certain, That the Positure of the Planets in the Figure are of great Authority; It necessarily follows, that the Lines especially the less principal, do truly receive their clearer Conformity from the First Moment of the Birth, in which the Infant begins to move its hands, and make, as it were, to lay hold of, or Catch at things.  
As touching the principal Lines, there is no doubt but that they are Clearly enough Engraven, at the very Instant of the Nativity: But that (in process of time) there is an access of some Incisures and Characters, Reason itself will teach him, that shall make more Diligent Inspection into the hands of little Infants. For, at first we find an obscure and subtle Draught of the Lines: Afterwards, (the thin, and tender skin being worn away, by the continual Motion, and Bathing thereof) all the Lines grow Fairer and Brighter, every day more than other: For than the virtue of the stars, and the sidereal Spirit, (wherewith every one is Inspired) begin to perfect the Lines more completely (the Element of Water intervening.) Whatsoever is Generated in this World, is Generated of Water, and the Spirit. And whosoever is not Regenerate of the Water and Spirit, shall not enter into the kingdom of GOD, (as our Saviour speaks:) Water hath a respect unto the Heart of Man, But the Spirit hath regard of the Divine Efficacy. Moreover, the stars do first of all convey their Influence through the air, which is nearest the Nature of Fire, like as is the Nature of the stars themselves: whereby the Water itself, (that is next to the air in Situation) receives the celestial virtue, and Communicates it to the Earth, from which Communication, the Fecundity thereof proceedeth.  
And this is evident in the springtime, whilst things are Sprouting from the bosom of the Earth: For, if Showers be then wanting, they grow but slowly: and the Increment they have is either by the vaprous Cold of Night, (the Image of Humidity) or else the Nightly Dew, or both together, (the heat of the Sun assisting in the day time:) which being continued for some days, afterwards (when a Shower comes) you shall quickly perceive ●hem increased in a Moment: because that now the sidereal spirit enlivening them, renders itself more Excellent than they, by its plentiful besprinkling of Moisture. The like is to be understood of the Slender Skin upon the Hands.  
You see also in the Plants themselves, how Rude their Leaves be, when First they peep out of the Earth, in respect of the Lineaments, and Pictures of their Branches, (they are otherwise called Signatures:) which by little and little show themselves more plain and openly to our view. The like we must judge of the Lines, or Incisures of the Hands, which hold the like Analogy and Proportion in the Manifestation of their Signatures. Whereby it appears, How Great the works of GOD are: He hath put these signs in the Hand of all Men, that every one also might hereby acknowledge his works past finding out, as Job saith, Chap. 37. v. 7.  
Nevertheless, there are some, (both Divines and Philosophers) who account it a heinous thing of us, that we wrest this saying of Jobs to Chiromancy: But that we may Briefly satisfy such, we will examine the meaning thereof more fully.  


The Text there, runs thus:  
V. 5. God will Thunder Marvellously with his voice, who doth Great and Inscrutable things.  
V. 6. Who commandeth the Snow to fall upon the Earth, so likewise the Winter showers, and the rain of his Strength.  
V. 7. Who hath placed signs in the Hand of every Man, that all Men may know His work.  
V. 8. The Beast entereth into his Covert, and remaineth in his Den.    
IN the Beginning of the Chapter, you have, as it were, certain Praeludiums to a following Proposition, laid down in the 5. Verse: For thus he saith, Jehovah thundereth, or speaketh loud in his works, That they may be Great and Inscrutable. The Examples of the Proposition follow in the 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, &c.  
He maketh (saith he) the Snow to Descend like wool, as the Psalmist addeth. The Reasons of the Generation of Snow, are indeed speciously delivered amongst the peripatetics: yet if you Reduce them to a level, they will by no means stand, but terminate in Dotage.  
Another Example of the Proposition, you have in the 7th Verse, GOD Signeth all men ●n their hands, That every one might know his work, that is, Those Lines were not made there by Chance.  
The Hebrew Version verbatim: He shall sign all Men in the Hand, that every man may know his work.  
The 70. Interpreters. He marketh all men in the Hand, that every Man may know his Infirmity.  
S. Jerome. He hath placed signs in the Hand of all Men, that every one may know his works.  
The Chaldee Translation. he maketh signs in the Hand of all the sons of Men, that all the sons of Men might know their work.  
These we wholly apply to the Lines of the Hands, because that every Man beholds them daily, but seldom knows what they signify unto him. You have in each an universal Particle, and therefore no Man is Excluded: which very thing Refutes the Translation of some, who Read [That every one might know his workmen:] But there are many Thousands of Men Living, that have no workmen, at all, who earn their Bread with the Labours of their own Hands.  
Besides, To know their workmen, is, not a Great and Inscrutable work, but altogether such a One, as every common rustic daily is capable of.  
And therefore that version wholly dissents from the Proposition.  
Object. But now ye may Object, That if the Disposition, and Draught of the Lines of the Hands be an Inscrutable work, than nothing of Certainty can be pronounced as touching their Decrees and Significations: and therefore the Science of Chiromancy will be Imperfect and Lame, or (if you please,) no Science.  
Solu. I Answer: All Sciences in this Life are Imperfect, and Lame, if ye look upon the Force of human Wit: as the Apostle himself testifies. And surely they were so made lest we should wax Proud, and Boast of our Wit, and of those Sciences, but rather seek for the Absolute Perfection of all things in GOD, who hath reserved that Perfection for the World to come: yet therefore are not those Sciences to be Despised, and utterly Rejected: But that the Mind of an Ingenious Man might delight itself in them, because Sciences are the only Food of the Mind.  
We maintain also, that Chiromancy containeth things that be Inscrutable, by a Threefold Reason.  
1. Because that in this Science, we cannot attain the Knowledge of all the Particular and scrupulous Lineaments, so, as that we can explicate the Decrees of every Incisure. And although many Particulars may be pronounced, yet are they such Particulars as may not recede from the Number of universals: yet when ye can or would pick out the Decrees of all the most Scrupulous Incisures, there may be ofttimes above An hundred Portents to be considered, which is Impossible to be done. Therefore our knowledge hardly reaches to the one half of this Science: In which respect the Sgnifications of all Particular signs, are not Injuriously deemed Inscrutable.  
2. Another Reason, is, for that the Position of these Lines, very much differs in all men's Hands: For, although you should observe A thousand, yet could you not find any Two exactly agree in every Particular positure of their Lines. And this Diversity proceeds from no other thing, Then The soul of the World: She it is that by her Spirit, from hour to hour, variously Disposeth, Moveth, Animateth, Produceth, Signeth, Sustaineth all things of this Inferior World: This is it that Communicates to every Man, a certain sidereal Spirit from the seven Planets, and Twelve signs, by whose Rule and Instinct every thing (that is itself,) exceedingly Profits; the Liberty of Will remaining. The Ancient Philosophers called it, The Good Spirit, or Proper Genius of every one: wherefore, if the finding out of these Signatures were not to all Men almost Inscrutable, every one might easily find and know his own Genius, and what were needful for him to do. But touching the soul of the World, and the Spirit thereof, I shall annex some things at the end of this work.  
3. Lastly, the Structure of the Hand itself, is admirable, in regard of the Proportion it beareth to the Face, and certain Parts thereof:  
Which is this:  
1. The whole Hand, is of equal length with the Face.  
2. The Greater joint of the forefinger (which adjoins upon the Tuberculum of Jupiter,) equals the Height of the forehead.  
3. The other Two (to the Extremity of the nail) are the just Length of the Nose: [viz. from the Intercilia, or place betwixt the eyebrows, to the Tip of the nostrils.]  
4. The First and Greater joint of the middle-finger is so long as it is betwixt the bottom of the Chin and the Top of the Under Lip.  
5. But the Third joint of the same Finger, is of equal length with the distance that is betwixt the Mouth and the lower parts of the nostrils.  
6. The Greater joint of the thumb, gives the wideness of the Mouth.  
7. The Distance betwixt the bottom of the Chin, and the Top of the Lower-lip, the same.  
8. The Lesser joint of the thumb, is equal to the Distance betwixt the Top of the under-Lip, and the Lower part of the nostrils. The nails obtain the just half of their respective uppermost joints, which they call Onychios.  
Now I suppose it well enough understood, what consideration is requisite to the knowledge of the Hand, the Parts and Signatures thereof, which yet is supposed but a small Particle of the human Body: But the cause of the aforesaid Proportion, who can tell? verily therefore, Man is the work of GOD, as the Hebrew translation hath it, (Ad verbum,) in the aforesaid Place of Job.  
The third Example, proposed by Job, is, concerning Beasts that seek their dens, and leave them at their pleasure, not otherwise, then as if somebody had taught them it. Whence it is manifest, Beasts do live indeed by sense, yet not wholly destitute of some Reason: which very thing is proved also by other Documents. But we may more Rightly attribute unto them, an Image or Proportion of human Reason. Now the rest, I leave. Nor yet have I here said thus much, as if without it this our Chiromancy could not stand. Let those to whom it is acceptable, approve thereof; otherwise, let him it pleases not abound in his own sense.   

Example IV.  
One Borne upon the River Rhine. A. C. 1546. January 6. Hor. 1. Min. 20. in the afternoon, the Pole Elevated almost 52. Degrees.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
The things considerable in this Example, are:  
1. A Token of the gout, under the Finger of Saturn, whereof he was sick (by turns) for some years: notwithstanding, that Disease could not be foretold (In specie) from any Characters. Mars Posited at the Geniture in Sagittary, and in the 6. House, brings infallibly the gout▪ of which Positure, we have also known other Examples.  
The Girdle of Venus' whole, yet Twice Intersected, is a palpable sign of Intemperance, and of Beastly Behaviour in venereal Actions, not without some stain both in Name, and Repute, which he found by the Event. Consider, I beseech you, Saturn in the 7th House, joined to Venus in a Quartile of the Moon.  
2. For, such a Conjunction produces Minds that be Impure, unless Jupiter interposeth. He likewise denies Issue, and ofttimes takes away the Children given, or maketh such as are to be borne Infortunate.  
3. The Triangle perfect; the Cephalica extended, by a Continued tract, to the place of Mercury; and the Saturnia rightly touching the natural Means; the Place of Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus; And lastly, the via Lactea, not foolishly formed, argue, A fortunate Man.  
In the Geniture you may behold Saturn and Jupiter disposing of the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th, not without Reception of Houses: In which places, you find all the Planets (Mars only excepted:) this Native therefore was most Fortunate in such things as are subject to Venus, Mercury, and Jupiter.  
4. The two Parallel Lines conveniently drawn (in the form of a Ladder) from the Region of Saturn and the Sun, to the moon's place, denote a prosperous and constant fortune, in foreign countries.  
5. The Mons Lunae well and fairly depicted with convenient Incisures, premonstrates journeys.  
6. The Mensal Cutting the Mount of Jupiter, denotes Men that are full of wrath: And so they are wont to be, for the most part in whose Nativities Mars resideth in the 6.  
7. The same Dissected, under the Finger of Saturn, by a short and thick Line, threatens a Grievous Disease in the lower part of the Belly, and that in his Old-age.  
8. The vital broken, towards the end thereof, by a double Incisure, bodes Diseases about the 52. or 54. year of his Age. At that time the Horoscope comes (by Direction) to the 6. degree of Leo (the Terms of Saturn) very Ominous, &c.  
9 The Via Lactea adhering to the dragon's tail, (another cross accurring,) speaks his Old-age to be full of Tranquillity.  
10. The cross in the Mensa, under the Solar Finger, designeth Honours, and the Favour of Great Men.  
It is not requisite to describe all that is signified by the Geniture, because in the Disposition of the Planets, showed you before; all things are comprehended: which sidereal Face and Position, very seldom happeneth.   

Example V.  
One Borne in the year 1586. Decemb. 9 New Style. Ho. 8. Min. 40. Before noon, in the upper Lusatia.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
AS you see but a simple concourse of Lines in the Hand: so the Places of the Planets in the Geniture, are sufficiently dejected.  
1. 'Tis true, Jupiter is accounted Angular, and in his Exaltation: yet is he Retrograde; and by Calculation, not (partily) found to be in the West Horizon: he hath not (as yet) adorned his Mount with any Lines; yet there, (in the Geniture) he favoureth Marriage, and when he doth so, the Lines that shall arise in their due time, upon the Tuberculum of Jupiter, will manifest; not without some other Prosperity.  
2. Venus also, is hereunto fitted, as being in the Second House, yet adorns her Tuberculum but slowly, because she is Peregrine.  
3. This Child was sometimes afflicted with an Epilepsy: nor was he ever Cured thereof: which Accident, whether it should be attributed to those little Branches, arising from the thoral, under the Region of Saturn; Or, to the Conjunction of the thoral with the Epatica, by that little clear Incisure, I cannot determine. 'Tis hardly possible, to find the signs of all Accidents, in the Hands: And I confess, I have not, here, so Accurately distributed the Lines of the Fingers: for that in Children we can very seldom perceive their Delineations plainly.  
Indeed, in the Geniture, the Conjunction of the Luminaries, is Infortunate; because the brain is thereby much weakened, and greatly bereft of the animal Spirit.  
By how much nearer their Conjunction is, by so much more evidently do we find the evils thence descending. I know that such are of a weak and simple Ingenuity; almost continually Sick; but especially Afflicted with hypochondriacal melancholy. Moreover, Saturn being here in Aries, augments the Infirmities of the Head.  
4. The Epatica, inclined towards the Restricta; (thereby making a Narrow-Triangle,) Contracts his Wit, diminisheth his Prudence: But withal it renders him somewhat Covetous.  
The cephalical decently drawn, helpeth the wit, in some measure.  
In the Geniture, you find but slender testimonies of Ingenuity; for Mercury in Sagitary, nigh to the Sun, is altogether weak: The Moon is hardly a day's journey from the Sun: The Horoscope also not Irradiated by either Jupiter, and Saturn Annular, are the only Assistants.  
The Line passing by the vital, to that Concave of Mars, and there Erecting a cross, with he dimidiate Line of Saturn; betokeneth wounds, and dangers of Life, by the means of thieves, &c.  
The same is rightly manifested by Mars in the Geniture, he being then in the cusp of the 9 House, because of his North Latitude; and in Quartile to the Sun and Mercury.  
The Conjunction of the thoral and Epatica, by the small Intervening Line, confirms this judgement.  
The aforesaid cross in the Concave of Mars, threatens fevers, and other Diseases of his Nature, &c.  
Now it sufficiently appears, that the Abject concourse of the Stars in the Nativity, do agree with the Rude Draught of the Lines in the Hands: which very thing I have elsewhere also observed.  

Another Borne in Thuringia, in the year of Christ, 1585. June 26. half an hour before noon.  
IN which Geniture, Saturn falleth in the 7th House, in Aries; Jupiter in the 9th in the beginning of Gemini; The Sun in the 10th in Cancer, and in Conjunction with Mercury, who is Retrograde & in Square of Saturn: Mars in Virgo possesseth the 12th House, the moon in Scorpio, the Second, Venus being Retrograde in Leo.  
This Positure, as it is the most dejected, so found I the Lineaments of his hand accordingly Infortunate.  
For first, the vital is Dissected by a part of the Cephalica, not touching the Cavity of the Hand. And I beheld (as it were) some Ruder Lines not only here and there projected from the Cephalica through the Ferient, but they also broken one by another, near to the Place of the moon. Moreover, in the Concave itself, or rather under the Tuberculum of Saturn, than the suns; a certain star adheres to the Epatica, casting a Cleft through the Mensa upon the thoral Line, under the Region of Saturn, &c. These Signatures bring not only Infelicity, but shorten the Life. The same you may collect from the Geniture itself. The Horoscope comes by Direction to the Opposition of Saturn, about the 15. year of his Age, designing a Deadly Disease.    

Example VI.  
The Brother of the former Born in the year 1588. December 17. (New style,) at 5. in the Morning.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
1. Mar (Lord of the Horoscope) received of Venus from Houses, (yet they dejected) engenders Lust, and Incontinency. You see the Region of Venus how evidently it is adorned with furrows, a cross being posited in the upper part thereof: which oftentimes produceth Adulteries.  
2. Jupiter is partly collocated in the Mid-heaven, making a sufficiently decent Triangle with Saturn and Mercury, in Earthly signs. And therefore Jupiter adorneth his seat by the little Line, and the cross annexed thereunto: whence you may conjecture, that this Planet hath greatest Dominion over the Native. His Significations may be collected from what hath been said before, yet more remissly, because he is in his Detriment.  
3. Saturn (in Conjunction with the moon;) is Lord of the Geniture, and this by a double Proportion in respect of Jupiter. And therefore you see the Saturnia whole and Entire, and which is more, a Sister annexed thereunto, the same extending beyond the thoral by a decent Tract.  
4. Although that from Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, there be something (of Wit) demonstrated: yet you may see the Cephalica drawn to the Taberculum of Mercury; and the Auricular bearing a small Line, which is clear enough, and running through the joint itself.  
Mercury in the Geniture, in Capricorn, promotes the Wit exceedingly, (and so he does when he is in Aquarius and Libra, in which signs Saturn predominates.) The like is declared by the Trine of Jupiter, and also the Sextile of Mars and Mercury: But the Quartile of Mars afflicts Mercury, obstructing the At●ainement of Honours.  
5. The moon is excellently well-Posited in Taurus, and in Trine to the Sun; but yet in the cusp of the sixth, and therefore Two little clear Lines adorn the Ferient, assuring an Increase of Honourable journeys.  
6. The Via Solis whole, and equally drawn, promises the Favour of Noble Men, and joyful Honours. The Dignities foreseen by the Geniture will come by the Excellent knowledge of Learning, and from such things as are dedicated to Mercury: The Position of the Sun in Capricorn, brings something peculiar to all manner of affairs.  
7. The Mensa itself of a large Capacity, confirms the former significations. A cross there troubling the Saturnia, shows some Misfortune to descend from the Malice of Saturn. The Opposition of Venus and Saturn, is not only adverse to Matrimony, but also usually wont to deny Issue.  
8. The thoral emitting little Branches towards the Ferient, doth sometimes presage Poverty. Thus (we hope) both the Lines of this Hand, and the significations of the Geniture, have been sufficiently examined.   

Example VII.  
The Brother of the former Born in the year of Christ 1590. December 30. (New Style) Ho. 4. min. 30. in the Morning.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
1. THe Genius of this Native depends upon Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter, because you see their places handsomely adorned, and the Lines wholly produced. And although Mercury exhibits no Character on his Taberculum, save only a little Line: yet the Cephalica, drawn by a direct Path, even to his Tuberculum, universally gives his Decrees. Hence do appear the Endowments of a Ready wit, a happiness to Eloquence, and other Ingenious Arts: whereof before in its proper Place.  
2. Although the Sun be (here) in Capricorn, (as in the precedent Geniture) yet appears there no Via Solis in the Hand: In which respect the Favour of Princes shall not so easily be gained by this as the former Native, who hath Jupiter himself partly constituted in the Mid-heaven. nevertheless, the Cephalica shows, that this Native shall happily manage great affairs.  
3. The same is promised by the Conspicuous star in the Mount of Jupiter. The Line running (as you see) from the vital to the Mount of Jupiter, hath very often manifested to me the Conjunction of Mars and Jupiter in the Genitures, especially when it passeth through the vital, and the Temple of Venus, as you see it does, in the two following Examples, and in the 17th, therefore Jupiter is excellently well placed, he being Direct in Motion, and nigh to the Southern Lance of Libra, beholding the Mid-heaven by a Sextile, notwithstanding he be in a Dejected House of the Heavens.  
4. The moon affords but slender signification, because she is not as yet come to a Sextile of the Sun. The Ferient presents but one Line, and that is attributed to short journeys.  
5. The Mensall projects little Branches towards the Ferient, as in the former Example.  
6. Concerning the Portents of Saturn, which are yet more Obscure, we say nothing. For, seeing he is Retrograde in the 8. House, (although in his Triplicity) his Condition is but Indifferent: he afflicts Venus more by his Opposition, than he does Mercury, in that he is Extremely Adverse the Nature of Venus. As to their Opposition, we have but newly spoke.  
7. The Mensa itself hath a due and simple proportion, whereby the goodness of Wit, Temperament and Behaviour is confirmed.  
8. The little Line posited in the interval of the Index and Medius, is Infortunate, and points out a Wound in the lower part of the Belly.  
9 The vital vitiated near the Beginning thereof by an Incisure, bodes a Disease in his Infancy. And he was accordingly seized on, by an absolute frenzy, at the middle of the Spring, in the year 1593. Yet happily escaped it without the Application of any Remedies, Corruption flowing abundantly from one of his ears.  
Hereupon we thought him reserved for greater matters. The same vital dissected by the Intervening of a Line descending from the Region of Saturn, theatens a most dangerous Disease, of the Nature of Saturn: and this about the 40th year of his Age: you see also the Horoscope itself comes (at that time) by Direction, to the Opposition of Saturn. This thing (as also elsewhere) we can scarce sufficiently admire. Mercury Lord of the 8th (the House of Death) is found in his Detriment, hostility Afflicted of Saturn himself: which denotes a Fall from some High-Place, Drowning, poison, Plague, &c. Venus interposing herself mitigates, and Abates of the evil, in some sort, but takes it not wholly away.   

Example VIII.  
A certain Man Borne on the Confines of Bohemia, in the year of Christ 1588. the 8th day of November (New stile) at 8 a Clock, 45. Min. 40. Sec. in the afternoon: the Latitude of the Place 50. Degr. 30. Min.  
THis Gentiture is Fortunate, as are also the Lineaments of the Hand.  
1. The Moon Partilly Posited in the Horoscope, in Trine of Mercury, demonstrates an Excellent Wit: so also the Reception of Mercury and Mars, from Houses. The like Venus being Angular, and in her own House: And Lastly the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars in the House of Mercury, they imbraceing the moon by a Sextile. The like is signified by the Cephalica, extending itself to the Tuberculum of Mercury: so likewise by the Finger and Tuberculum of Mercury, they exhibiting not undecent little Lines. Herewith agrees the Mensa itself, and those very fair Characters in the Places of Jupiter, Venus, and the Sun.  
2. Venus is conspicuous in her furrows as being Angular (at the Birth) in her own House.  
3. The Trine of the Sun and Mercury, (in Watery-signes) to the cusp of the South-Angle, and Horoscope itself (where we meet with the moon, and also the Part of Fortune) Salutes him with Honours, and wished for success of all things. Such a Trine is seldom met with. It promotes a Prosperous Fortune. Unto these let be added Venus Angular in Libra, &c. The Regions of the Sun, Jupiter, Venus, and the moon, are excellently Beautified in the Hand: And a double Triangle therein wonderfully accurring: one of which is formed of the vital, Epatique, and Cephalique Lines: The other, by the Cephalique, Mensall, and vital, if you add the Little Line of the vital, which runs thence to the Tuberculum of Jupiter.  
The Two Parallel Rules assist notably in Point of Marriage, Honours, Ingenuity and Affaires: One of which is made by the Line that passes from the interval of the Index and Medius, to the Mensall, touching the same, below the interval of the Medius and Annular; and thence Protracted to the interval of the Auricular and Annular; (some by such a Line Prophesy Incest,) the other from the Line falling from the Pollex, upon the middle of the vital, and running thence by a Right Angle through the Cavity of the Hand, to the natural mean. All these things do plainly presage a most Excellent Man in all manner of Sciences, especially the mathematics. And this very same judgement, manifestly ariseth from the Geniture, by the situation of Mercury in Scorpio, the Positure of the moon in the Horoscope, in her own house, and the Trine of Mercury: Lastly, by the Reception of Houses betwixt Mars, and Mercury Besides, the Sextile of Mars and Mercury &c. argues Celerity: the which are so manifest to the Intelligent, they cannot be looked upon and conferred without Admiration.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
5. The Region of the moon, presenting a very clear Line, betokeneth Journeys: the Moon Angular, in a movable sign, the same: so also Mercury Received of Mars, Lord of the Third.  
6. The vital, and that Line which Runs from the Tuberculum of Saturn through the Hand, unto the Region of the moon, do seem to resemble a scale, or Ladder, of an Excellent bigness, and that by a Notable tract: In which scale are everywhere found Transverse Lines, requisite to the Shape thereof. This presages a wonderful and formidable tract of Dignities, but not without Great Envy.  
7. As touching Riches, what need we say more? There are no Dignities, no Kingly and magnificent affairs, wherein an Affluence of all things is wanting. Venus Centrally in the 4. House, contributes Honourable Possessions in his Old Age, and no little Fame after his Death: you see how her Taberculum even Luxuriates with accustomed Incisures.  
8. The vital diversely Cut, concerns no small or Light Infirmities. In the 5th year of his Age, he was sick of the small Pox. The rest you may judge to fall out in the 11, 21, 25, & 43 years of his Age, or thereabout.  
9 Moreover, Saturn projecting (in his Region) an Incisure, through the Mensall, bodes a Disease in the lower part of the Belly: (I suppose the Stone in the Bladder, &c.) As therefore this Geniture of itself, is happy; so are likewise the Lineaments of his Hand, and the Conveniency in the Lines themselves, which was to be Proved.   

Example ix..  
One Borne in the year of Christ, 1551. The 8th day of March, at 9 a Clock and 30 Min. before noon, where the Elevation of the Pole is 51. degr. in Silesia.  
WE observe the Right Hand of this Person, because that therein we perceived the Lines most clear, according to our former Annotation: we have also made proof thereof in other Examples, yet ofttimes found a certain Diversity (as before we have said) we must not everywhere repeat this same thing, which makes so little to the purpose. First, let us see the practice, and throughly inquire its wonderful Agreement with the Genitures themselves.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
1. The Line of Life conspicuous with Incisures, as it were some little hairs, portends no small Diseases: the like Saturn cutting the thoral with four Incisures: whereby he also foreshows four more Grievous Infirmities proceeding from his Nature. The First of which befalls the Native about the 21. year of his Age, by a sudden catarrh upon his breast and Lungs, not without some strangling, and Difficulty of Breathing: the second in the 35 year of his Age, by the means of a poisoned drink. But in regard he shall not wholly drink off the Cup, at one draught▪ (because of some Nauseous thing appearing the Deadly dregs is left in the bottom: yet hurts it him something. But by the help of a physician the strength of the poison is easily compressed. If you take the pains to Calculate, you will find that the Progression of the Sun comes exactly then to the Quartile of Saturn. The Third we conjecture will be in the 45. Year of his Age, or thereabout, the Horoscope then passing out of Cancer into Leo. This Progression also is wont to bring a Change of Outward Goods. The Fourth, we judge to fall out in the 54, or 55th year of his Age, the Horoscope coming then by Direction to the 6th degr. of Leo: which degree how greatly it threatens in Directions, we will more clearly explain to you, elsewhere. But although this ensuing Disease may prove very Grievous; yet is it not to be thought altogether deadly, because of Jupiter's divolving himself to the very degree of the Horoscope. Let him then take heed of a Quartan fever, the Plague or Pestilence.  
Upon the Direction of the Horoscope to the Body of Mars, in the 13. or 14. year; the Native fell into Hot-scalding-water, with the hurt of his arm and Breast. Now this accident we seek for in the vital (yet not in Specie) where we behold little hairs. The Place of Mars according to the Calculation of Copernicus hath of North Latitude 2. degr. 10. min. wherefore his Oblique ascension is 62. degr. 50. min.  
2. Jupiter conspicuous in his Tuberculum, with no unusual Incisures, shows Dignities that be sufficiently Great (respect being had to the Place of his Birth.) The like in that he is Collocated in the cusp of the Ascendent. We have also elsewhere observed (from the Line of Mars drawn through the vital, to the Region of Jupiter) the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars in the Geniture. Nor does the precedent Example very much dissent from the same.  
3. The Sun is not ill placed near to Venus in Pisces: you see therefore in his Mount a little Line that is clear enough.  
4. The Region of Venus adorned with convenient furrows, not only manifests her good habit in the Geniture, but also presages some goodness to accrue by the means of a Wife. The Sun therefore coming by Direction to the Sextiles of Venus, greatly Enriched him by the Inheritance of a Wife, and this about the 41. year of his Age; in which we observed his Hand thus Delineated.  
5. Jupiter and Mars arising together in the East, denotes Ingenuity: So Mercury in Aries (thus remote from the Sun) a Ready Wit. Observe his Region, and therein you shall find Three Parallel Incisures. The same you may pronounce from other places, according to the former Precepts.  
6. The Cephalica, & Via Lactea do hereunto both contribute, notwithstanding they be of a shorter Extent.  
7. The Region of the moon is Incult, and quite destitute of Incisures, and therefore wholly Silent; like as also she is in the Geniture, being scarcely departed from the Sun above a day's Journey.  
8. The Restricta continued, and of a good Colour, argues Riches, and a good Crasis of the Body.  
9 The Mensa very Broad, his goodness of Nature: And the like you shall find by Jupiter in the Nativity.  
10. The natural mean dissected by the Intervening of an Incisure, heat, and grief of the Liver: the like from Mars, (next to Jupiter in the East) in an airy sign.  
11. Saturn in the cusp of the 10th is (in some sort) averse to Dignities, occasioning Envy, especially. He also exhibits (and that not vainly) an Incisure under his Finger, arising from the interval of the Medius and Annular.  
Thus also have we briefly demonstrated from this Geniture, the wonderful Consent and Harmony of the present matter.   

Example X.  
Another Borne in the year 1588. the 8th day of February, at 4. hours and 30. min. in the Evening, at Witeberge.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
WHat Familiarity there is in this Illustrious Example, shall be shown you in brief.  
1. The Dominion of the Geniture, rests chiefly in Jupiter and Mercury: Next in Venus and Mars; yet not excluding Saturn, and the moon. The Rule for finding and constituting the Lord of the Geniture shall be explained in our astrological Commentaries: and that we will always follow, and do certainly know we deviate not from the Truth. Now seeing that Jupiter, Mercury, the moon, and Saturn are all of them Angular; it must be of necessity, that these are very conspicuous in their Mounts. Venus also, and Mars Luxuriate in no evil Conjunction.  
2. This Geniture (therefore) is very fortunate, (except in those things that concern Health:) For, Saturn is so adverse to Jupiter and the moon, that (almost perpetually) he suscitates Distillations upon the Breast and Liver. Herewith agree the Intersected Lines in the Tuberculum of Saturn: Then the vital also and Epatica are on every side Assaulted by the Touch of other small Lines. Whence I conclude that the more notable Assault of Diseases will happen in the 30, 32, 36, 44, and 50th years of his Age, or thereabout.  
3. The Position of all shows, a Great Wit, Eloquence in abundance, and a Propensity to all Arts whatsoever: So many Parallel Lines, Crosses, and Convenient Characters, there are everywhere found: But especially the Cephalica Invading the Region of Mercury by a continued March: The Place of Mercury, and the Auricular itself adorned with Lines and a double cross: Lastly, Jupiter, Venus, the Mensa, the perfect Triangle.  
In the Geniture such things as appertain to the Ingenuity, are gathered from the Positure of Mercury, the moon, Saturn, &c.  
4. The Cephalica doubled up to the natural mean, argues craftiness and subtlety in Managing of affairs.  
5. The star of Venus in its proper place, and thereon most clear furrows, denoteth Lust. The three Incisures upon the Eminent part of her Tuberculum premonstrate Good things to be obtained by Marriage. The same you have from the Conjunction of Venus and Mars in Pisces, [to wit, a venereal, and jovial sign] in a Sextile of Saturn, and Trine of the moon: Venus in the second house, and Jupiter in the 7. descending to the Head of the twins, do import an Affluence of Riches by Marriage: Jupiter there, doth also assure him victory over all his Enemies.  
6. Although the Sun be not excellently well Posited in the Geniture: yet adorns he this Region in some Measure, by certain Little Lines: But they are Cut, and do therefore Insinuate troubled Honours. Jupiter and Mercury promise those that be more joyful, and so doth the Mensa, here and there offering a multiplied cross.  
7. The Saturnia drawn to the natural mean, in a clear Tract, and afterward (by an Obscurer) to the place of Saturn, concerns the happy Issue of things: (Saturn is here more adverse to His Health then Outward Fortune:) & this (in the Geniture may be collected from Saturn, Angular; from the principal Rule that Jupiter and Mercury challenge therein, and also from Venus and Mars, who are joined in Pisces: which congress raiseth not easily to Fortune.  
8. The Line rnnning from the Cavea of Mars, through the Saturnia, until it attain the utmost part of the Hand (below the Region of the moon) denounceth Long journeys: So likewise the place of the moon, which is signed with three Parallel Incisures: The same Judgement ariseth from Mercury in the East Angle of the Geniture: The Moon Angular, Saturn Lord of the Horoscope, (in the moon's Exaltation,) and in the House of Venus (Lady of the 9th.) And Lastly, from the Conjunction of Mars and Venus, Dispositors of the 9 and 3. Houses.  
9 The Part of Fortune in the 8. insinuates Goods by Inheritance, as also such as flow plentifully from his own Ingenuity and Arts. But yet Mars and Venus in Opposition thereunto, pronounce a profuseness through Pleasures and Luxury. I conjecture the same Accession of Inheritance, from the cross, and small Lines in the uppermost joint of the thumb, below the nail, &c.  
10. Capricorn in the Ascendent, and Saturn in a sign of the same Quality, is an Argument of Long Life. The Epatica more then usually produced, the same.  
11. This Figure doth almost insinuate a Violent Death, either by Drowning or otherwise being ruined: Venus also promotes the Provocations of Immoderate Lust: But because of Jupiter (who potently restrains Saturn) I shall Judge the Primary cause of his Death, to be an Apoplexy, or dropsy: Let him beware of a Philtre in his youth. Saturn also so very much adverse the moon, and that from an Angle, threatens dangers of Imprisonment: Here the deceits of Venus are suspected. Indeed there is a Braunching Character in the Mount of Saturn, but 'tis Intersected by the Intervening of two small Lines.  
12. The somewhat Bigger cross in the utmost part of the Mensa, near the Ferient, as also that cross annexed to the end of the Epatica, towards the Restricta, denote a plentiful Life in his Old Age, and journeys that be prosperous.  
13. That Line which from the Mensa is Recurved through the Epatica, and Cephalica, until below the Ferient, and towards the Restricta, it become a semicircle, denotes Captivity, and secret Enemies: The like (as was said before) appears by Saturn in the Geniture, who is therein Diametrically Opposite to the moon, and partily afflicting Jupiter (Lord of the 12. house) by a square. You may therefore pronounce those Enmities to ensue in respect of his Wit, the store of Sciences, and the excellency of Dignities wherewith he is endowed.  
And now (we trust) we have sufficiently Explained and demonstrated what was proposed.   

Example XI.  
Another borne at Angusta (a City of the Vandals) in the year 1581. the 11. day of May, at one of the Clock in the Morning.  
1. ALthough Jupiter be in his Fall▪ and in a Dejected place of the Figure, yet in that he assumes the Lordship of the Geniture, and is the first that receives the Moon into his embracement, he leave not his Tuberculum untilled. Whosoever thou be'st that art Addicted to Astrology, and wouldst know the principal Lord of the Geniture: observe (above all others) that Planet which first Receives the moon (as before we have said) into Conjunction with him, and so poureth upon her his celestial Moisture: which thing you shall understand more plainly elsewhere.  
2. Mercury participates in the Rule of the Geniture, (for that he Receiveth the moon) is collocated in his own House, and in a Good Place of the Figure: the which he also signifies in his Mount, notwithstanding he is Retrograde. Saturn in the Horoscope, in his own House, and Triplicity, augmenteth and amplyfieth the Depth of his Wit.  
3. Saturn partily Afflicting the Luminaries, by malign Aspects, and from a violent sign, the Sun also not far distant from Palalitium, or the bull's Eye, (a malevolent Fixed star) denounces a violent Death, or great danger thereof: whereof the troubled Character upon the Region of Saturn is an Argument: for thereon shall such Characters appear, either in some other form, or else more clearly, when the evil approacheth.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
4. We do judge the Integrity of Behaviour from the Saturnia, terminating at the natural mean. Venus in her own House, Irradiating the moon by a Trine, begets a natural shamefastness, the which is seconded by Jupiter, who (as we told you) hath the Dominion in this Geniture: Mercury (if not superior to him,) is certainly his equal in Government.  
5. The Tuberculum of the Sun presenting almost the Character of Saturn, is not accounted very Fortunate, for that it betokeneth many Enemies, without Cause, Envy accompanying. The Luminaries (so greatly infested of Saturn) presage the same. As often as the Sun's Place beareth the Greek Letter, Χ, (so, that the Line cutting that which is errected on his Tuberculum, descendeth from the interval of the Auricular and Annular, the like whereof the Cingulum Veneris usually describeth;) you may most certainly adjudge Difficulty of Businesses, through the Envy of Men.  
6. Venus forming three little clear Lines on her Mount, augments his Revenue in some Measure, by the means of a Wife, as is Clearly evinced by her Pos●ture in the Second, with the Part of Fortune.  
7. The vital vitiated in three Places, by the Transite of three little Lines, threatens three sufficiently Grievous Diseases, about the 32th. 40th and 45th years of his Age. If you bring the Horoscope to the Quartile of Mars, and in like manner the Moon to the Quartile of Mars and Saturn, you shall surely produce the years before nominated.   

Example XII.  
The Brother of the former Born A. C. 1583. 27. June; Ho. 11. Min. 30. Afternoon.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
.1 THe Line of Life troubled by the Intervening of another, threatens a Disease about the 20th year of his Age. And doubtless at that time the Direction of the Horoscope comes to the Quartile of Mars: so likewise the Progression of the moon to Saturn himself: Howbeit this Direction (in regard of the presence of Jupiter) is not much to be feared.  
2. The Rule of the Geniture belongs to Saturn and Jupiter. Wherefore the Tuberculum of Jupiter affords us overthwart little Lines: but the Tuberculum of Saturn, a Star, until the Saturnia also Ascendeth.  
3. You have likewise the Signatures of Mercury and Venus, in their own Places, which are now conjoined in Leo, the Conjunction being not to be despised, although it be Platique.  
4. The three little Lines collocated on the Ferient, insinuate journeys; and so doth Mars Lord of the Horoscope (in the House of Mercury) and the Sun in Cancer.  
5. The cross in the Cavea of Mars, increaseth his martial Disposition, and the heat of the Liver.  
6. The sun's Place presenting a Cleft, increases his Honours but slowly. In the Geniture, the Decrees of Dignities are obscure: yet the Sun is Angular with the Heads of the Twins.  
7. The Saturnia being whole, promiseth a Happy success of Events and Actions, and so doth the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, Dispositors of the 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. Houses.   

Example XIII.  
A Brother of both the two last Borne A. C. 1577. nou. 7. Ho. 3. Min. 12. Afternoon.  
This Third Example I lately got at Ritispone.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
1. THe Saturnia whole, although obliquely drawn to its proper seat, shows, that Saturn is Lord of the Geniture. he descernes not absolutely an Adverse Fortune, &c. (Hither transfer the rest of Saturn's Significations, from their proper Place, when he is not Infortunatly posited.) Yet Saturn in the cusp of the 10 perturbes the good Fortune of Venus and Jupiter, who share in the Rule of this Geniture: Mars also in the West Angle, and there in a strange sign, denounceth the same: which mischiefs shall be multiplied in his Old Age.  
2. Venus (by reason of her North Latitude) Resides on the cusp of the 7th, having the moon joined with her, in regard of Her South Latitude. And therefore their Place tells us of Lines, and marks that be trim and handsome: notwithstanding the Moon's more Remissely, in Regard that she (hasting to the Sun,) is not Illustrated with Light sufficient.  
3. Jupiter Direct, and in Conjunction with Venus near unto Spica Virginis, adorns his Region with a Little Line that is Decent enough: But yet he is oppressed of Saturn. We have often observed, that his Conjunction with Venus hath bestowed very Great Riches, by Marriage: wherewith here agree the Condition of Venus and the Part of Fortune.  
4. The Via solis shows itself in some sort a Friend unto honours. That Planet Angular, in Scorpio, and with the scorpion's Heart, must not be rejected.  
5. Mercury Retrograde, in his Detriment, and in the Eight House, is accounted very weak: (He is somewhat strengthened of Venus and Jupiter:) wherefore you see (at this time) no signature to be found in his Region.  
6. The Due Breadth of the Mensa, differeth not much from this Habit of the stars.  
7. The cross above the Restricta, promiseth tranquillity in his Old Age: But the Saturnia denies it: But seeing that cross is made of the Little Line, which descendeth from the vital, and the Region of Venus, look if it bring not Misfortune and strifes by the means of Wives, &c. The rest are left to every man's Discretion: nevertheless, we must needs acknowledge, that All Incisures are neither here, nor elsewhere scrupulously Delineated.   

Example XIV.  
One Borne at Thuringia A. C. 1586. Decemb. 3. Ho. 7. Min. 30. Before noon, Lat. 51. Degrees.  
WE have, before, in the 5th Example, almost the same Position: the Distance of their Births is only 5. days. The principal Lines do Agree in Situation and Conformity: In the rest there is some (yet no very notable) difference.  
1. The vital is often Dissected about the End and Midle thereof:  
Wherefore it denotes a Sickly Disposition, in his Old Age. The two little Lines vitiating the same by their Transite, and Descending upon the Cavea of Mars, manifest martial Infirmities of the Body, about the 50. and 52. year of his Age. Wounds also in the Head or feet are then to be feared.  
2. In like sort, Saturn letting fall a Line, Obliquely, from his Place, shall at the same time besprinkle his poison: wherefore that time shall be full of Misfortunes. A Disease also must be expected about the 11th year of his Age, because the vital is there Marked by a touch of the Cephalica▪ the Horoscope comes at that time to the Quartile of Mars.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
3. The tract of the Cephalica, extended to the Mensall, argues a Ready Wit. In the Geniture, Mercury is not unhappily posited in the Horoscope, in a Trine of Saturn: But yet he possesseth a strange sign, being likewise oppressed by the Quartile of Mars: whence you see the Region of Mercury but slenderly Marked.  
4. A cross in the Cavea of Mars, betokeneth the Quality of Mars, and a heat of the Liver, Danger and Wounds in his Journeys. In the Figure, Mars afflicts the Sun by a Quartile from the 9th House: the moon is also in Square with Saturn.  
5. That Line which is almost Parallel to the vital, occasioneth many unprofitable Journeys; because it is Decurt, and Tortuous. The two small Lines also so conspicuous upon the Tuberculum of the moon, concern Journeys. Mars in the 9th in the House of Mercury: He in the First, and the Moon in a movable sign, in the Geniture, the same.  
6. Venus and Jupiter do in some sort manifest their Bounty in their respective Places: But in the 5th Example, the Mons Iovis is Incult. Yet because he here shows his Assistance, from the new-moon, preceding the Nativity, in Sagittary, it will doubtless Flow abundantly so soon as he gets the principal Dominion. Such a strength Jupiter had not before in the 5th Example.  
7. Furthermore, the virgin's Spike with the dragon's Head in the cusp of the 10th. And likewise Aquila itself now Rising in the East, do all of them largely contribute Honours: the like doth the Positure of the Sun, he being in his Triplicity, and Angular: which gives the two little Lines on his Mount.   

Example XV.  
The Brother of the former Born A. C. 1589. Apr. 24. at 4. in the Morning.  
HEre we give you the different Faces of either Hand.  
1. In his Right Hand the Epatica is visible, but passeth not the Concave thereof. And therefore it shows his shortness of Life: especially, because a certain Line is transversely let fall from the vital, to the end of the Epatica, as it were interrupting the progress thereof.  
The vital of the Left Hand, receiveth a Line arising from the Tuberculum of Saturn. The Place of the vital, thereby touched and almost Broken, appertains to the 25. year of his Age, or thereabout, wherein without Doubt the Horoscope comes by Direction to the Body of Saturn. Indeed Venus is present, but in a strange sign: whence the Native shall then very hardly escape. The Oblique ascension 〈◊〉 Saturn is 54. degr. 36. Min. that is, the 5. 〈◊〉 of Gemini.  
2. In the Left Hand the Epatica is wanting, 〈…〉 Lines (almost Parallel) are let fall 〈…〉 to the Mensall: which argue 〈…〉 and an evil composure thereof: likewise a Pravity both of Wit and Behaviour.  
3. But although Venus (in the very cusp of the Horoscope) by reason of her South Latitude, 1. degr. 12. min. doth produce no slow Ingenuity: yet being in the House of Mars, or a foreign sign, she will incline the Native to all manner of wickedness, [Petulancy, lasciviousness, Inconstancy, &c.] Mars Lord of the Geniture (Venus participating) Afflicting Mercury (in Taurus and Retrograde) by an Angular Opposition, the same. Therefore he denoteth, or rather maketh him Contentious, Disobedient, violent, unfaithful, &c. All which are manifestly seen by the evil Disposition of the Lines in his Hand.  
4. The Cephalica of the Left Hand, increaseth the strength of his Wit, wherewith the Tuberculum of Mercury agreeth, though slenderly, because it is Marked with two Incisures, at the least, in the utmost part of his Hand. Venus' presents three sufficiently clear Incisures in her Region: the rest I found Incult.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
5. Mars hath a Sister appearing in the Right Hand; but none in the Left. This begetteth wrath, and incites the Native to Warlike Arts, as to be an Engineer, or a Gun-smith, making Warlike arms and Instruments of all kinds: Only this, when Mars is not Angular, and in his own House, you shall find no Effects of him in the Hand: yet being Retrograde he possesses Men with unhappy Malice, and threatens some Adversities, especially in Old Age. And therefore when he neither shows a Proper Line in both Hands, nor exhibits in one a Line that is decently drawn, you may safely adjudge his Decrees Imperfect, and less Prosperous.  
6. In the Left Hand, the vital is variously touched: wherefore number ye so many Future Diseases, about the 7, 14, 25, 32, &c. year of his Age.  
7. A treble cross about the vital, by the Place of Mars, confirms the Assistance of Mars: But in Uxorious matters, it argues cross Fortune, and a bad Belief. In the Nativity, Venus is shrewdly suspected for her Positure, especially for that her Dispositor is resident in the West Angle.  
8. The Saturnia descending by an unaccustomed Path, plainly shows a Corrupt Nature.  
9 The same Line passing above the Restricta, to the Region of the moon, is also a sign of Adversities, and secret Enemies. And verily there is almost nothing observed in this Geniture, that disposes to a Prosperous Fortune.  
10. The two Lines in the Tuberculum of the moon, premonstrate Journeys: as do also the Moon in the 9 and Mercury in the first House.  
11. Jupiter is most dejectedly Collocated: yet hath he adorned his seat with a little Line. He makes a Triangle in Earthly signs, the moon shining by a Sinister Aspect unto him the Sun and Mercury by a Dexter. Wherefore, he assuageth and strangely declineth all Misfortune, especially such as appertain to the Impediments of the Mind.  
12. The Sun is Angular, and Riseth exactly with the Pleiades, in a Trine to Jupiter.  
And therefore you see a small cross under his Mount, notifying, that this Man shall not altogether live obscure. This Diversity of Lines in the Hands, floweth from a troubled Imagination of the macrocosm, as we shall show in its due Place.   

Example XVI.  
One Born in Thuringia A. C. 1592. March 24. Ho. 3. Min. 11. Afternoon, the Pole elevated 51. Degrees.  
I Have here also put both the Hands; because in the Left Hand, the thoral, or Mensall, and some other less-principal Lines, appear with another Face, than they do in the Right.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
We will now consider of the Question formerly put at the beginning of this Tract, [whether the Left or Right Hand is most commodiously to be assumed, that thence we might frame a constant judgement; Or whether both Hands are to be considered?] For, I find that both exhibit Lines that be clear enough: Wherefore seeing that this Man was Borne by Night, whilst a Masculine sign Ascended, and when Jupiter (especially) and Venus had Dominion in the Geniture, we cannot determine whether Hand should be Chosen: Because those testimonies equally Contend. [A Masculine sign Ascends: A Masculine Planet predominates: The time of the Birth is nocturnal, resembling the Female Sex: And Venus A Planet of the same Sex participates in Dominion.] Wherefore (things standing thus) we are forced to retain both, comparing them together. The former Example requires the same practice in Election of the Hand.  
1. Venus is Rightly Placed in both Hands, because that each presents a star on her Region: which portends a most Libidinous Man, and such a one as may be Impetuously hurried unto all manner of voluptuousness. So the same Planet doth also Luxuriate in the like Inclination, being excellently posited both in her Exaltation, and in the Horoscope. Her Longitude is Calculated from the Alphonsine Tables, as being the surest and best for finding of her Place.  
2. In like manner, the Place of Jupiter appeareth in both Hands well-disposed: even as he possesseth his own House in the Geniture, & a good Place of the Figure: For, the 11 house is called the joy of Jupiter: Both these Planets administering the Geniture so Favourably, Import a Glorious and Lasting Fortune; the Place of Saturn excepted:  
3. For, he brings Captivity; yet not so heavily, because he is in Cancer, and Disposing of the 12th. In the Right Hand he lets fall a Line beyond the Place of Mars, the which grows Crooked towards the Ferient; but is more straight in the Left Hand. The progress of the Mid-Heaven to the Opposition of Saturn, Points out the 36 or 37 Year: At what time other Characters also, will appear on his Tuberculum, which shall bode some Misfortune at Hand.  
4. The Peregrination Line proceeding from the Cavea of Mars, towards the Restricta; appeareth in the lefthand: But in the Right it is Cut, and conveys itself to the Cephalica. Hence we gather a various Fortune in Journeys. Venus' Lady of the 9 House, and in the Horoscope, maketh the Journeys Prosperous: Mars in the third impugns that Prosperity; but yet Venus prevaileth: Mars so posited premonstrates great Strifes with Brethren and Kindred.  
5. The three Parallel Lines drawn from the Tuberculum of the Sun and Mercury, to the vital, promise him Fortune in his own country, and this by the means of Courtiers, Learned Men, and the Nobler sort of Women: which significations are confirmed by the small Lines that are found in the Mensa of the Right Hand. All which depend upon Jupiter, Venus and the Sun.  
6. The Place of Mercury is not altogether Barren, and therefore he not destitute of Ingenuity: Besides the Cephalica and Lords of the Geniture, are, Assisting unto him.  
7. The Mensall of the Right Hand, is extended by a continued Tract, to the utmost part thereof: But in the Left it passeth not the Tuberculum of Mercury: wherefore, That, declareth a strength of the principal Members, or genitals; This, some hurt or loss therein, especially in the genitals: But what that hurt, or loss will be, is not so boldly to be determined.  
8. The Epatica of the Right Hand passeth not the Extremity of the Ferient, as it doth in the Left: This, shows a decrepit Old Age; That, otherwise, notwithstanding it is decently enough produced.  
9 The vital agrees in both Hands, as well in the Draught as tacture of other Lines. Wherefore the little hairs in the beginning thereof, presage a Diseased Infancy.  
Other Diseases are premonstrated about the 14, 21, 25, 32, &c. year of his Age: we will also observe the 56. year, wherein if the Native shall escape an Apoplexy, without danger, then will we allot him a Longer Life. Without doubt those years will answer to their respective Directions.   

Example XVII.  
Another Borne in Thuringia, under the Latitude of 51. degrees, A. C. 1588. September 21. at 7. in the Morning.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
1. THose Planets which have Predominancy in the Geniture, are also very Clearly to be seen in the Hand; [Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and Mars.] The Via Solis, and Via Saturni, are both Dissected: The Region of the Moon presents an obscure draught.  
2. Therefore Venus giving a star in her Region, shows a mind that is Lascivious; Ingenious, Merry, &c. as before we have Described, Pag. 23. concerning her Ingenuity. Wherefore the Positure of Venus most exactly agrees in the Hand and Geniture; for here she Glittereth in her own House, and in the very cusp of the Horoscope. Her oblique ascension is 202. degr. 15. min. That is, 15. degr. 15. min. of Libra.  
3. Mercury (by the like Reason) shows his Fortunate Assistance, exhibiting on his Region both a star and a cross, with convenient Incisures. So in the Geniture he is most excellently well seated, being in a competent Place of the Heavens, in his own Mansion: whereby he conferrs the things that be of his Nature with abundance of Favour: See before, (viz. pag. 31.) where we have Treated of the Rule of Mercury.  
4. The Cingulum Veneris not obscure, confirms the incontinent lasciviousness, and Luxury of Venus: The same Dissected under the Finger of Saturn and the Sun, declareth Losses by the means of Lusts: This Decree is confirmed by Venus in the Horoscope, Retrograde in Libra.  
5. You see also the Dominion of Jupiter, noted by Incisures and a double cross. This conferrs Honours, and renders the Native a Goodly Person, jocund, &c. He there peculiarly administers aid Inseparable. He is direct in the Geniture: and although in his Detriment, yet he rejoices in that Place of the Figure, as being near to the tail of the lion, and the dragon's Head, and his Dispositer strong and Fortunate. But because he is within 10. degrees of Mars, and Afflicted by the Square of Saturn, he abates somewhat of his Favour.  
6. There is indeed a Sister of Mars, (notwithstanding it be but obscurely drawn) letting fall a Cleft upon the Tuberculum of Jupiter. I told you before that I had very often found out the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars in the Geniture from such an appearance of the Sister of Mars. Therefore Mars thus found nigh to Basiliscus, or Regulus, increaseth his Courage, and Anger: Yet bodes it a desired end of Contentions, Mars in Partile opposition to the moon, doth sometimes occasion Adversities in Honours, Marriage, sons, and Moneys. Moreover, this Position of his takes away the Favour of the People.  
7. The Epatica, Cephalica, the Triangle, and Mensa, are all exceeding well Formed. Besides, the Mensa is decently adorned with Lines that are drawn thither from the Region of Venus. By all which we generally Conjecture, not only a more Prosperous and healthful habit of the body, then ordinary; but also Ingenuity, the best endowments of the Mind, and Dignities that be excellent; especially within his own country; and by the means of such Persons and things as are Dedicated to Venus.  
8. The Line that passeth from the vital (by a Crooked path) through the Concave and Epatica, to the Ferient in the Mensa, (whereunto other Incisures likewise tend, beneath the Region of the Sun) do intimate Strifes in Old Age, for Defence of his Honour and Estimation  
9 The Via Lactea, being of itself fairly Furrowed, denotes the goodness of his brain, Favour of Women, sweetness of Expression, and Fortunate Journeys. The like Mercury in the Geniture, as being Lord of the Ninth House, in his own Mansion, in a good Place of the Figure, and free from the rays of the Malevolent Planets.  
10. The other Intricate Lines in the Triangle, presage a confusedness in those affairs, which belong unto Mars, the moon and Mercury.  
11. The Via Solis is interrupted by the Cingulum Veneris, which will bring a stain upon his Honour, by the means of something relating to his Wife.  
12. The Tuberculum of Saturn hath upon it the same mark that we found before in the fourth Example: which threatens the gout; and some other grievous Diseases, of the Nature of Saturn: And the same is discerned by the Residence of Saturn in the House of Death afflicting the moon and Mars by a Platique Quartile.  
13. The vital somewhere touched and cut by other Lines, presageth Diseases about the 14, 20, 24, 30, 48, &c. year of his Age: The Horoscope proceeds from Libra into Scorpio about the 20. year of his Age, and there remains in the terms of Mars for the space of 9 years.  
Saturn Infortunate in Nativities, is wont to Vomit his Poison most vehemently after the first Revolution, that is, after the 29. and 30. years (in which time he moveth round the Zodiaque.) What the cross above the Restricta meaneth, we have often told you. The other Incisures, (especially those that seem to shadow the Saturnia) are but slender, and obscure as yet.   

Example XVIII.  
One Borne at Erphordia, in the year 1589. the 8. of May, at 1. h. 45. min. Afternoon.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
1. Venus', Mercury, and Jupiter rule the Geniture: and therefore you see their Regions in the Hand, decently enough adorned.  
2. Hence therefore we Prognosticate a happy wit, and other things that flow from Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury.  
3. The Triangle drawn with the best Conformity helps the Ingenuity and all the endowments both of Body and Mind.  
4. The Region also of the Moon shows her Dominion, the same being Marked with no despicable Incisures: It occasioneth prosperous Journeys, addeth Splendour both to the Body, and Manners of the Native, and gains the Favour of Women; which very thing the moon (in Cancer, and in the 10 House of the Heavens) most plainly demonstrates.  
5. The Lines of Jupiter are somewhat troubled, and therefore his Condition is but indifferent: yet gives he Honours not contemptible, although with some Difficulties, some Impediments.  
6. The Conjunction of Venus and Mercury in the House of Venus, and in a Partile Trine of Jupiter, is accounted very Fortunate. For thereby his Mind is excellently inclined unto all such Arts as are dedicated to Venus and Mercury. I see he will prove a most Eloquent Man. The two Parallel Lines (which are drawn in the form of a Scale, or Ladder, from the Region of Mercury, to that of Venus;) do clearly manifest this Conjunction, and the very same judgement. We have almost the same Scale or Ladder in the 15. Example, which gave that Native the Benefit of a voluble Tongue, and a quick Pronunciation.  
7. Saturn hath Ominous Signatures upon his Tuberculum, intimating wounds and other grievous Accidents: And the Line which runneth underneath the same from the thoral, to the Concave of the Hand, threatens a fall from an High Place, or Drowning. The same is Denounced by the Sun in the Geniture, who is Afflicted of Saturn by his Conjunction with him, near to the Hyades: Mars (Lord of the Eight House) being in his Detriment.  
8. The vital is thrice touched: First, by a Line running from the Cephalica: but because it breaks not the vital, we suppose the Disease (thereby signified) will not be so grievous, as otherwise: the Moon comes by Direction to the Quartile of Mars, about the 18 year of his Age. Besides, the progress of the Horoscope to the Body of Mars, about the 47 year will agree to the other Incisures. And lastly, the Progression of the Moon to the Square of Saturn, about the 54. year; in all which years, the Native must take heed of a violent Death.  
9 The Mensa excellently Rased, confirms the goodness of Wit, and temperament, and the continuance of a plentiful Fortune, &c.  
But here it is to be Noted, by every one Desirous of this knowledge: that in the precedent Examples, the Incisures and small Lines, are not all of them Delineated, partly for that they were exceedingly slender, and partly because they could not be described so accuratly as requisite. Besides, we must observe, that even of those Lines which we have posited, some aught to be more obscure, and slender: others more clear and Conspicuous; and therefore good Caution must be had, when we would apply them to other Examples. The skill of the Engraver can never follow the form of the Lines so precisely, as they present themselves in the Hand. Moreover, we have often omitted some Accommodations in the Geniture; lest their significations (as considered in themselves) might nauseate the Readers.   

Example XIX.  
Now that I may perform the present task by a more Commendable Example, I shall annex the whole judgement of the Geniture, to the practic of Chiromancy, as I delivered the same almost Two years ago, to a certain Saxon, a Friend of mine; He was Borne in the year of Christ 1561. January 17. Ho. 13. Min. 35. Sec. 40. Afternoon; in the Latitude 54. degr. 45. Min.   depiction of palm of hand with markings. 
HEre are Five Planets excellently well placed in their own Prerogatives: [Saturn and Mercury Received from Houses, and Locally in their own Triplicity: So Jupiter and Mars, assume a just Power by their Reception of Houses: Venus also is in her Exaltation, and in the Angle of the Earth.] Lastly, the Moon is in her Triplicity: But she having not as yet obtained her due Light from the Sun, is here very Silent. Mercury and Saturn are notably united by a Trine. The Part of Fortune Rises with the scorpion's Heart. Venus and Jupiter are the Prime Rulers of the Geniture; Saturn and Mercury Participating, &c.  
1. A Long-Life, is conjectured from the Horoscope, and the Luminaries being not impedite: although the Moon be opposite by the Quartile of Mars: yet the progress of the Horoscope is first to the Opposition of Saturn: whereof anon.  
2. His temperature excels by an equal Mixture of humours, because he receiveth his Ferment chiefly from the Perfusion of Jupiter and Venus; Saturn and Mercury besprinkling a Melancholy juice.  
3. Hence the Force of Discerning and Representing (vulgarly called the fantasy) breatheth nothing but what is Moderate and Agreeable to Reason: For Jupiter maketh such as are borne under him, Honest, Just, Wise, and addicted to Quiet and Peaceable counsels, doing always that which is Right and Honest both in judging and Adviseing: such also as are very Desirous of Praise and renown: yet (in gaining the same) recede not from their natural Modesty and Temper, neither from good Arts, whereby Honour and true Glory are wont to be obtained.  
But because Saturn and Mercury are both excellently well placed (in respect of their Reception, and Partile Trine) they also do largely bestow their virtues: they make the Native exceeding diligent in his Arts, and affairs: so that in administering them, he useth singular Sedulity and Care, they cause him to search after secret things, and make it his study for to Penetrate Hidden Mysteries, to find out the Causes of natural things; to understand the civil laws: and to unfold men's secrets: Generally, such Men as are addicted to all manner of Sciences. Venus the chief that participates in the Rule of the Geniture, occasions such Commotions of the Native as be delightful, Merry, Pleasant: yet so, as that he studyeth Good works, and Friendships, whereof he is most observant, and hereby becomes grateful to all Men: He abhors all Filthy, but is taken with cleanly things, comely Gestures, decent Attires, Ornaments, and Elegance.  
4. Venus (therefore) and Jupiter do Promise great Felicity, in affairs both civil and ecclesiastical.  
5. There are most evident testimonies, of an Excellent Ingenuity. (1) Mercury in Aquarius doth of himself suscitate the strength thereof. (2.) Besides there is a Reception (from Houses) and a Partile Trine betwixt Him and Saturn. (3.) Venus' Angular doth the like. (4.) Especially for that the moon and the dragon's Head are together in the same Angle; (5.) Mercury and the moon are Asyntheti [Pure and not vitiated:] yet both behold the Horoscope; [she by a Platique Trine; He by a Partile Quadrature.  
6. Jupiter Lord of the Second, Direct in Motion, and Received of Mars, plainly Assures an abundance of Wealth. The Part of Fortune most excellently augments this signification, the same being posited in the second, where he is Disposed of, and Aspected by Jupiter. These Riches take their increase from services faithfully performed, from most Eminent Honours and Dignities, and they more abundantly in the third, or last Age.  
7. Mercury Lord of the 10 and having convenient society with Saturn, presages Dignities not obscure. We have spoken before concerning the Dominion of Jupiter and Venus; wherefore seeing they equally share the Rule of the Geniture, How can it be that they should not reward the Native with some or other most eminent Dignities?  
8. Your Neighbours or Kindred shall sometimes occasion your damage, in household Goods or affairs: and you shall expend very much in Building.  
9 Mars Lord of the 6. engendereth Hot Infirmities, yet they not so vehement because of Jupiter's Interposition. Moreover, Mars in Sagitary causeth most commonly a gravel in the joints of the feet: If he be found in that sign, and in the Sixth, he inevitably brings the Gout, the pains whereof are not to be taken away, but by the Influence of Sagittary, Pisces, &c. deduced from Heaven itself, &c. Some other Remedies also may do much, yet not any that are got by Common Artifice.  
10. Your Death will be natural by the means of some chronical Infirmity, proceeding chiefly from Saturn, such as are Distillations upon the jaws, the Breast, the Lungs, spleen, &c. Howbeit, Old Age is a Disease, and an Easy Passage unto Death itself.  
11. The Sun and moon disposing of the 9 House, do discern Honourable journeys: Mercury well posited in the Third occasioneth Journeys undertaken for the Cause of Honours and Dignities, and to Persons most Honourable for Learning and Dignities civil and ecclesiastical.  
12. Venus' Lady of the 11 concerneth a Multitude of the best Friends: yet Mars beholding Venus by a Quartile shall stir up the envy of some Persons, sowing oftentimes dissension, and inverting all goodness.  
13. Venus shall give you victory over your Enemies; whereof indeed there are but a few denounced; because she is Lady of the 7. Angular, and in her Exaltation.  
14. Your Marriage shall be Fortunate, as to an Affluence of Riches: yet herein beware of the faithless Brawling, and Luxurious Quadrature of Mars. But this very much depends upon man's freewill: and young Men ofttimes find themselves at a loss, through their Ignorance and rashness.  

We will now consider the signs of the four Angles.  
15. Scorpio Ascending, gives the Natives an Elegant acuteness of Wit, Plenty of Discourse. It also often Instilleth Great vices, [Infidelity, Envy, covetousness, Ingratitude,] which Learning and Right Reason Exterminate.  
16. Virgo Culminating is wont to Raise the Native to Magistracy: It conferrs a toleration of Great Authority: It transfers many Benefits to others, from whom it returns not the like Favour.  
17. Taurus in the West-Angle presents you with such Adversaries, as at length he will see oppressed by sundry kinds of Misfortunes: He there incites you to Love, Luxury, Delights, and jesting.  
18. Pisces posited in the Fourth, endue the Minds of the Natives with much Faith, Integrity, and Dexterity of Wit, whereby they gain great Authority in their Administrations: they delight to walk and Dwell near Rivers: But almost abhor uxorious Matters.   

The Planets in the Houses of Heaven.  
19 The Sun in the Third presages Journeys in the Causes of Honours and Dignities: He brings a Mutation of Places, and Honour in foreign parts.  
20. Mercury there, well posited, renders a Man most Learned in every Science: whereof I could produce innumerable Examples: those shall invent many things by their own Ingenuity: they are Fortunate in Church Matters, Writing, and merchandise.  
21. Venus most excellently well collocated in the Fourth, will give you Large Possessions, and Habitations, chiefly in your Last Age: she declares the Period of your Life Honourable and praiseworthy.  
22. Mars in the First, and there not Infortunate makes a Man courageous, Rash, and somewhat Angry: sometimes he presageth Wounds in the Head and Face.  
23. Jupiter in the 5. doth sometimes confer the Great Rewards of Great Men: He makes a Man Fortunate in Embassies.  
24. Saturn thus excellently seated in the 8. gives many inheritances: He threatens death by catarrhs, A Cough, &c. and oftentimes by the Plague.   

The Planets in the signs.  
25. The Sun in the House of Saturn makes the vital virtue more Robust, and as it were more Compact, whence he gives a Longer Life than ordinary.  
26. The moon in the House of Jupiter promotes all things that are good: yet being here Afflicted by the Quartile of Mars, exciteth some strifes in Possessions: often reiterateth small Fevers.  
27. Saturn in the House of Mercury, gives a Profound Wit, Occult Sciences.  
28. Jupiter in the House of Mars indifferently well Affected, makes one victorious.  
29. The same is signified by Mars in the Mansion of Jupiter: Thus they both of them render the Native very gracious with Princes, and Noblemen, and under them to have Authority.  
30. Venus in the House of Jupiter, bestows many Benefits, either by the means of Women, or of some ecclesiastical preferments. She makes you Discreet, Honest, healthful: sometimes she occasioneth strife, and falling out with your Neighbours, and some of your Friends, for that Venus is exposed to the Quadrature of Mars.  
31. Mercury in the House of Saturn, gives always a profound Wit, and a Man that is greedy of all Sciences.   

The Lords of the Houses.  
32. The Lord of the Horoscope received of Jupiter from Houses, plainly declares a Generous Mind.  
33. The Lord of the Second in the Fifth, increaseth your Wealth through Rewards bestowed by Great Men.  
34. The Lord of the Third in the Eight occasioneth Journeys, either on the behalf of some that are Dead, or by reason of the Plague: He often destroys Elder Brothers.  
35. The Lord of the 4. in the 5. makes you Fortunate in Tillage, or Navigations.  
36. The Lord of the 5. in the 4. brings gladness and Delight to you from things that be immovable, as the Building of goodly Houses, and the tillage of sweet and pleasant Gardens. And here Venus undoubtedly confirms that Portent, because such things are contained under her Dominion.  
37. Mars Lord of the 6. in the First excites many hot Infirmities, but this is qualified by the Reception of Jupiter.  
38. The Lord of the 7. in the 4. presageth strifes about the Father or wife's Inheritance, and this the rather for that he is most cruelly Afflicted of Mars.  
39 The Lord of the 8. in the 3. shows that the Native shall survive all his Brothers. He often designeth Death in a foreign country.  
40. The Lord of the 9 in the 3. occasions Journeys for the Cause of Dignities.  
41. The Lord of the 10. in the 3. and there excellently well Placed, makes the Native more Honourable than the rest of his Brethren.  
42. The Lord of the 11. in the 4. denotes a Second Fortune in Goods that be immovable, especially in Old-Age.  
43. The Lord of the 12. in the 4. Displeasures and strifes for Possessions, and Church-Goods. These may be sufficient in general judgements.  
Now if we will Consider the principal Lines of the Hand, we shall everywhere find the same things signified, notwithstanding that we have curtailed the Decrees of the Significators. We told you (Experience herself bearing witness) that the less principal Lines are changed at a certain time, according to the Progressions of the celestial Places and stars, who are Significators: whereby it comes to pass, that we may best judge of any thing from them, either when they appear de novo, or begin to wax clearer than they were before.  
1. The vital indeed is continued, but yet Marked with some Incisures, although but slender ones. Whence judge you some Diseases about the 14, 30, 40, &c. year of your Age.  
2. Venus is Fortunate in the Geniture: and therefore she hath thus Rased her Region, with the accustomed furrows.  
3. The Epatica decently drawn, and without Sections, argues a Good temperance of the Liver, health of Body, and a Life that is long enough.  
4. The Mensa full of Branches, shows an Increase of Riches.  
5. The Mensa formed by a sufficiently decant space, perspicuously bearing the Character of Jupiter, under the Region of the Annular (or Ring-finger) is an excellent Argument of Honours, chiefly ecclesiastical.  
6. The place of Jupiter beautified with a most clear little Line, the same. So likewise the Tuberculum of the Sun, not undecently Furrowed.  
7. The moon's Region presenting a clear Incisure, premonstrates Journeys.  
8. The Dominion of Mercury is also most obvious, in that he excellently adorneth his Region, as also the First joint of the Auricular, or little-finger.  
9 The Cephalica contributes to the Wit, in that it decently composeth the Triangle. Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury, do the like.  
10. Saturn also hath some Portents, especially a Disease, in that he bears a Character under his Finger.  
11. The Parallel Lines which Run through the Midst of the Hand, towards the Ferient, confirm the Arguments of Felicity.  
12. The Saturnia produced even to the Epatica, declares uprightness of Judgement and Manners. The same Line having a cross about the Restricta, argues a Peaceable, and most Honoured Old Age.   

General Elections.  
In the use of all Purgative Medicines, you must observe the Decurse of the moon, in Scorpio, Aquarius, and the third Decade of Pisces: although she be not joined to Jupiter, or Venus. For, the Conjunction of these Planets with the moon, inhibites the virtue of the Purgative Medicine, in regard they affect the Body, and Incline the Medicine to the nature of Nourishment. In other Actions, [as in Buying of Houses, in Journeys, and the Commencement of Administrations, &c.] Let the moon be in Aries, Taurus', Cancer, Leo, Libra, or Aquarius, and Aspected by one or both of the Fortunate Planets. And as for the Day, let it be upon a Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.  
And now lest this Geniture should have seemed Defective, I present it wholly as I composed the same, unto the studious in Astrology: indeed chiefly for that it is not in the Number of the vulgar sort, but diligently enough composed.      

A special Judgement of this Geniture, giving you the Directions of the principal Places, and their Significations.  

1. THe HOROSCOPE to the Body of Mars. 

The Place of Mars in Sagittary, 03. Deg. 10. Min.  
His Latitude 00. Deg. 06. Min. N.  
Declination 20. Deg. 56. Min. S.  
Right ascension 241. Deg. 06. Min.  
Circle of Position 54. Deg. 45. Min.  
ascentional Difference 32. Deg. 47. Min.  
Oblique ascension 273. Deg. 53. Min.  
Direction sought for 29. Deg. 40. Min.  
The Oblique ascension also of the Horoscape, is 144. deg. 13. min.    
2. The Horoscope to the Sextile of the Sun. 

Sextile of the Sun in Sagittary 08. Deg. 00. Min.  
Oblique ascension 280. Deg. 32 Min.  
Direction sought for 36. Deg. 19 Min.    
3. The Horoscope to the scorpion's Heart. 

scorpion's Heart in Sagittary 03. Deg. 45. Min.  
Latitude 04. Deg. 00. Min. S  
Declination 24. Deg. 53. Min.  
Right ascension 240. Deg. 53 Min.  
Assentionall difference 40. Deg. 52. Min.  
Oblique ascension 281. Deg. 45. Min.  
Direction required 37. Deg. 32. Min.    
4. The Horoscope to the Opposition of Saturn. 

Opposition of Saturn in Sag. 13. Deg. 40. Min.  
Latitude 2. Deg. 20. Min. N.  
Declination 20. Deg. 10. Min. S.  
Right ascension 252. Deg. 34. Min.  
ascentional Difference 30. Deg. 36. Min.  
Oblique ascension 283. Deg. 10. Min.  
Direction required. 38. Deg. 57 Min.    
5. The Horoscope to the Trine Dexter of Jupiter. 

Trine of Jupiter in Sagit. 19 Deg. 30. Min.  
Latitude 00. Deg. 43. Min. N.  
Declination 22. Deg. 23. Min. S.  
Right ascension 258. Deg. 36. Min.  
ascentional Difference 35. Deg. 41. Min.  
Oblique Ascenton 293. Deg. 17. Min.  
Direction sought for. 47. Deg. 04. Min.    
6. The Horoscope to the 26. degr. of Sagit. (the Term of Saturn) he hath in the year. 59 Deg. 20. Min.  
7. To the end of Sagittary in 63. Deg. 47. Min.  
8. The Horoscope to the Sextile Dexter of Venus 

Sextile of Venus in Capricorn 04. Deg. 30. Min.  
Latitude 00. Deg. 27. Min. S.  
Declination 23. Deg. 50. Min. S.  
Right ascension 274. Deg. 55. Min.  
ascentional Difference 38. Deg. 36. Min.  
Oblique ascension 313. Deg. 31. Min.  
Direction required. 69. Deg. 17. Min.   

The Directions of the Sun.  
Sun's Place in Aquary 08. Deg. 00. Min.  
Declination 18. Deg. 19 Min. S.  
Distance from the Fourth. H. 23. Deg. 47. Min.  
Circle of Position 21. Deg. 40. Min.  
Oblique ascension 318. Deg. 00. Min.    
9 The Sun to the Square Sinister of Mars. 

Quartile of Mars in Pisc. 3. Deg. 10 Min.  
Oblique ascension 339. Deg. 09 Min.  
Direction required. 21. Deg. 09. Min.    
10. The Sun to the Body of Venus. 

Venus in Pisc. 04. Deg. 30. Min.  
Latitude 00. Deg. 55. Min. S.  
Declination 10. Deg. 44. Min.  
Right ascension 336. Deg. 43. Min.  
ascentional Difference 4. Deg. 28. Min.  
Oblique ascension 340. Deg. 11. Min.  
Direction required. 23. Deg. 11. Min.    
11. The Sun to the Square Dexter of Saturn. 

Quartile of Saturn Pisc. 13. Deg. 40. Min.  
Oblique ascension 347. Deg. 32. Min.  
Direction sought for 29. Deg. 32. Min.    
12. The Sun to the Trine Sinister of Mars. 

Trine of Mars in Aries 3. Deg. 10. Min.  
Oblique ascension 52. Deg. 24. Min.  
Direction required. 44. Deg. 24. Min.    
13. The Sun to a Proper Sextile. 

sun's Sextile in Aries 08. Deg. 00. Min.  
Oblique ascension 06. Deg. 07. Min.  
Direction sought for 48. Deg. 07. Min.    
14. The Sun to the Sextile Dexter of Saturn. 

Sextile of Saturn in Ar. 13. Deg. 40. Min.  
Latitude 1. Deg. 10. Min. S.  
Declination 4. Deg. 21. Min. N.  
Right ascension 13. Deg. 00. Min.  
ascentional Difference 1. Deg. 40. Min.  
Oblique ascension 11. Deg. 20. Min.  
Direction required 53. Deg. 20. Min.    
15. The Sun to the Body of Jupiter. 

Jupiter in Aries 19 Deg. 30. Min.  
Latitude 1. Deg. 26. Min. S.  
Right ascension 18. Deg. 32. Min.  
ascentional Difference 2. Deg. 31. Min.  
Oblique ascension 16. Deg. 01. Min.  
Direction required. 58. Deg. 01. Min.    
16. The Sun to the Sextile Sinister of Venus. 

Sextile of Venus in Taur. 04. Deg. 30. Min.  
Latitude 00. Deg. 26. Min. S.  
Declination 12. Deg. 40. Min. N.  
Right ascension 32. Deg. 22. Min.  
ascentional Difference 5. Deg. 7. Min.  
Oblique ascension 27. Deg. 15. Min.  
Direction required 69. Deg. 15. Min.    
17. The Sun comes to the Trine of the mid-heaven in 66. Deg. 50. Min. years.   

The Directions of Venus.  
18. Venus to the Sextile of the Sun. 

Sextile of the Sun in Ar. 08. Deg. 00 Min.  
Right ascension 7. Deg. 20. Min.  
Right ascension of Venus 336. Deg. 21. Min.  
Direction sought for 30. Deg. 59 Min.    
19 Venus to the Body of Jupiter. 

Jupiter in Aries 19 Deg. 30 Min.  
Latitude 1. Deg. 26. Min.  
Right ascension 18. Deg. 32. Min.  
Direction required 42. Deg. 11. Min.    
20. Venus to a Proper Sextile. 

Sextile of Venus in Taur. 4. Deg. 30. Min.  
Right ascension 32. Deg. 24. Min.  
Direction required 56. Deg. 13. Min.     

The Directions of the mid-heaven, whose Right ascension is 154. Deg. 13. Min.  
21. The mid-heaven to a Sextile of Mars. 

Sextile of Mars in Libra 30. Deg. 10 Min.  
Right ascension 182. Deg. 54 Min.  
Direction required 28. Deg. 31. Min.    
22. The M. Heaven to the Trine Dex. of the Sun. 

Trine of the Sun in Libra 00. Deg. 00. Min.  
Right ascension 187. Deg. 20 Min.  
Direction required 33. Deg. 07. Min.    
23. The mid-heaven to the Trine of Saturn and Mercury. 

Trine of Saturn in Libra 13. Deg. 40. Min.  
Latitude 1. Deg. 10. Min. N.  
Right ascension 193. Deg. 00. Min.  
Direction required 38. Deg. 48. Min.    
24. mid Heaven to the virgin's spike. 

virgin's spike in Libr. 17. Deg. 40. Min.  
Latitude 2. Deg. 00. Min. S.  
Right ascension 195. Deg. 32. Min.  
Direction required 41. Deg. 19 Min.    
25. M. Heaven to the Opposition of Jupiter. 

Opposition of Jupiter in Lib. 19 Deg. 30. Min.  
Latitude 1. Deg. 26. Min. N.  
Right ascension 198. Deg. 32. Min.  
Direction required 44. Deg. 19 Min.    
26. M. Heaven to the Trine Dext. of Venus. 

Trine of Venus in Scorp. 4. Deg. 30. Min.  
Latitude 0. Deg. 26. Min. N.  
Right ascension 212. Deg. 13. Min.  
Direction required 58. Deg. 10. Min.    
27. M. Heaven to the Southern Lance of Libra. 

Launce of Libra in Scorp. 09. Deg. 00 Min.  
Latitude 00. Deg. 40. Min. N.  
Right ascension 216. Deg. 50. Min.  
Direction required 62. Deg. 37. Min.     

The Directions of the Part of Fortune.  
28. The Part of Fortune to the Sextile of Venus. 

Sextile of Venus in Capri. 04. Deg. 30 Min.  
Latitude 00. Deg. 28. Min. S.  
Declination 23. Deg. 51. Min. S.  
Right ascension 274. Deg. 55. Min.  
Distance from the Fourth H. 59 Deg. 18. Min.  
Circle of Position 40. Deg. 20 Min.  
ascentional Difference 22. Deg. 02. Min.  
Oblique ascension 296. 57,  
Direction required 28. Deg. 06 Min.    
29. The Part of Fortune to the Antiscia of Mars. 

Antiscia of Mars in Capr. 26. Deg. 50 Min.  
Declination 20. Deg. 47. Min. S.  
Right ascension 298. Deg. 55 Min.  
Distance from the Fourth H. 35. Deg. 18 Min.  
Circle of Position 29. Deg. 00 Min.  
Oblique ascension 310. Deg. 26 Min.  
Direction required 48. Deg. 45 Min.    
30. The Part of Fortune to the Body of the Sun, giveth years 60. Deg. 30. Min.  
31. To the Trine of Saturn, 

Trine of Saturn 13. Deg. 40. Min. S.  
Latitude 1. Deg. 10. Min. n.  
Declination 15. Deg. 36. Min. S  
Right ascension 315. Deg. 48 Min.  
Distance from the Fourth H. 18. Deg. 25 Min.  
Circle of Position 18. Deg. 12 Min.  
ascentional Difference 5. Deg. 15 Min.  
Oblique ascension 321. Deg. 3 Min.  
Direction required 64. Deg. 22 Min.    
32. The Part of Fortune to the Sextile Dexter of Jupiter, giveth years 71. Deg. 12. Min.    

Judgements upon the Precedent Directions.  
IN the 22. Current year of your Age, The Direction of the Sun to the Quartile of Mars had surely Excited some Commotion of humours, or Misfortune in Journeys: But that Venus Corporally Assisting the Degree of Direction, easily averted every Adverse thing.  
In the 24. year, the Sun's coming to the Body of Venus, foretold some Dignity or Commendation of your Name amongst churchmen, and other Great Personages. You attained then (if I be not mistaken) to possess the Good you wot of.  
In the 29. year, the Part of Fortune coming to the Sextile Dexter of Venus, and the Mid-Heaven to the Sextile of Mars, brought an increase of Goods, and a happy and speedy success of your affairs.  
In the 30. year Current, the Horoscope came to the Body of Mars, and the Sun to the Square of Saturn, which caused that Alteration of Humours whence the Quartan Fever proceeded, which invaded you the Following year, but turned to a Tertian. From this manifest Accident, (truly agreeing with the Significators thereof,) the present Figure of Heaven was Corrected. And therefore no scruple is left of the following Directions, because they are Diligently and Faithfully enough Calculated, and made manifest in their Significations.  
Venus to the Sextile Sinister of the Sun in the 31. year, will spread your Name far and near especially in foreign Parts: And soon after you shall Commence Doctor in V. I. and obtain some other much Honoured privileges. In the year of Christ, 1592. May 16. (Old Style) The Profection of the Mid-Heaven comes exactly to the Sextile Sinister; and Venus to the Trine Dexter of Mercury.  
In the 34. year, the Mid-Heaven coming to the Trine of the Sun, will augment your Fame in foreign countries. But because the Sun is not very strong, the Effects of this Direction will be the obscurer, and as if they were Private.  
Of the same nature is the 23. Direction falling out in the 39 year of your Age, for this will Amplify the Celebrity of your Name and Learning in the Courts of Princes and noblemen, and in other Places.  
In the 38. year of your Age the Horoscope comes to the scorpion's Heart, which usually brings some evil to the Eyes, otherwise it afflicts with a Wound, or Excites some short but vehement Fever, or Ague. Mars comes by Transite to the Square of the Horoscope, about the 27. and 30. of August (according to the Old Calendar) in the year 1598. and soon after to the Horoscope itself. To wit, Oct. 13. Again Quadrangularly from Aquary, January the 8. 1599  
The Direction of the Horoscope to the Opposition of Saturn falls out also in the 39 year of your Age, (almost Complete,) 1600 and threatneth you with a dangerous Disease, [viz. a total Dejection of the Powers of the Body, poison, a perilous Plague, the Pestilence, sudden catarrhs, &c.] The Profection, or Revolution of the Sun, comes to the Opposition of Mars, in the year 1600 about the 20. of November: The Direction of the Horoscope, to the Quartile Sinister of Mars, about the 21. of September after the Old Calendar: In Transite, you shall observe the 1, 7, and 8. of January, the Feasts of Epiphany: As also the 22. and 24, of September; the 24, 25, 27, and 30, of November, the 2, 4, and 6, of December: For on those days Mars afflicts the Horoscope by his Transite.  

QUESTION. Whether you shall escape this Disease?  
I Answer: Indeed that year shall be grievous, and dangerous enough: But because the present Direction is celebrated in Benevolent terms, and that Jupiter follows with his Triangular beams, I positively conclude, that this year shall not be destructive unto you. Ptolemy and other Astrologers have a Rule approved of by Experience, which is this: Benevolent stars beholding the Degree of a Dangerous Direction by the Mediety of their orbs, do Refraene the Malignity thereof, and make the Cure of the Disease Easie. Therefore the Trine of Jupiter herein benignly Irradiating the Directionall degrees of the Horoscope, sufficeth: But let not human Prudence be wanting, the which if it do not totally avert an Imminent evil, yet so much it Declines it, that it proves neither so grievous, nor yet so hurtful as otherwise. He that is knowing may Divert many Effects of the stars, if he know but their Natures. Ptolom. Centiloq. Aphorism 5. Let such Medicines be applied beforehand, as may both purge the Body from all Filthy Humours, and likewise comfort the principal Members, strengthen the vital Spirit, and Native heat, which are of another Quality. The Scorpion (as also the Serpent) deduced from Heaven (I speak with Virgil) preserves him safe that carries it about him, from Fevers, Poison, and Pestilence. These are Secrets.  
In the same year of your Age, the Mid-Heaven coming to the Trine Sinister of Saturn, presages Goods to ensue by means of the Dead: Ancient Possessions, the Gift of some Aged Man.  
The 42. and 43. year of your Age will be Honourable and Prosperous: because the Mid-Heaven comes to the virgin's Spike, and Venus herself to the Body of Jupiter. By this means they bring some Notable good in the increase of Dignities and Wealth, & that by the occasion of a certain Great Personage. You shall observe the 14. day of July, An. 602. and then the 11. and 16. of August: Also the 3. of September. In the following year 1603. the 22. and 23. of January; the 7. and 8. of June. Here the Profection of the Sun succeeds the Trine Sinister of Jupiter: There the Mid-Heaven shall come to Venus herself.  
In the 45. year of your Age, the Mid-Heaven coming to the Opposition of Jupiter will Intercept, or subvert the Friendship of some Great Lord: at which time take heed how you manage your affairs with Noblemen, &c.  
In the same year upon the Sun's receding to the Trine of Mars, you shall fall into the Friendship of some Martially disposed Person, not without some Advantage. Use his Benevolence, and friendliness, prosperously.  
In the 48. year of your Age, An. 1608. The Horoscope coming to the Trine Dexter of Jupiter, gives you a most Thriving Constitution of the Body, and makes you Conversant with Great Men, whereby Great Good is to be Expected.  
Of the same Nature is the subsequent Direction, [to wit, the Sun to a Proper Sextile in the terms of Venus,] falling out in the 49. year of your Age, in the year of Christ 1609. In this year the Part of Fortune coming to the Antiscia of Mars, will add unto your expenses occasioned by the means of Kindred and journeys: Beware also of some thieveries of your Servants, or Messengers.  
In the 45. year of your Age, Ann. 1614 The Sun coming to the Sextile Sinister of Mercury, and the Dexter of Saturn, shall enlarge your Authority and esteem with or by the Learned. For seeing you are unweariedly carried by a certain natural Violence, both to the Sciences of Mighty things, and also to the knowledge of Hidden Secrets, I easily foresee What a one, how great a one, you shall suddenly be! go on courageously, that you may Act things Answerable to your Ingenuity, that you may advance and further your Fortune.  
The 57 and 59 years of your Age will be very Honourable, and the most Acceptable of any: you shall therein find a signal Increase of your Possessions, renown, Dignities, and Authority: For then Venus will come to Her Proper Sextile; The Mid-Heaven to the Trine Dexter of Venus: And the Sun to the Body of Jupiter. The Profection of the Mid-Heaven to the Sextile of Venus, falls out in the year of Christ, 1617. the 14. and 15. of January (Old Style:) But the Profection of the Sun to the Trine of Mercury, and the Body of Saturn will happen, about the vernal Equinox. There are also Fortunate Profections in the year 1618. about the Winter Solstice. Also Ian. 21. &c. Saturn in is the second Degree of Gemini Adverse the Mid-Heaven, whereby he shall in some sort endeavour to protract an Event by the means of some man's Death.  
In the 6. year of your Age, An. 1620. The Horoscope coming to the 26. Degree of Sagitary, the Contiguous Terms of Saturn and Mars, shall occasion a feverish Disease, which will easily be removed by the help of a physician: Or if the yearly Medicines and Evacuations were not (as is requisite) for borne contrary to custom, it could hardly be, that any Disease should trouble you. The Profectino of the Horoscope and the Sun are removed from the Society of the Malevolent Planets. The Transite of Mars (in Taurus,) by the Point opposed unto the Horoscope, shall happen the 15. of April; then in Leo, by the Point in Square thereunto, the 22. 23. and 24. of August: which are more to be observed.  
In the 61. year of your Age, An. 1621. The progress of the Part of Fortune, to the Body of the Sun, shall multiply your Treasure, by the Rewards of Kings, and some other Great Personages: The like for your Honours.  
In the 63. year, the Mid-Heaven coming to the Southern Lance of Libra favours you with no mean Dignities.  
In the 64. year, the Horoscope arriving at the End of Sagittary, threatens you with a Disease attended especially with Lascitudes of the Body, filthiness of Defluxions, and with pains in the feet above all other parts, &c. Ptolemy affirms, That the terms of the signs are juterficient: the which I have oftentimes found to be true. But because that here, Venus most powerfully beholds this Place, by an approaching Sextile Aspect, I boldly affirm (human Providence assisting) You shall not die this year.  
In the 65. year of your Age, An. 1625. The Part of Fortune coming to the Body of Mercury, and the Trine of Saturn, confers upon you a Large Inheritance; Or fair Possessions by the means of some Deceased. For Saturn being so Fortunate, it is Impossible this Direction should be fruitless. So in the year 1627. The Sun coming to the Trine of the Mid-Heaven, will again occasion all manner of Good to befall you.  
In the 70. year of your Age, An. 1630. The Sun coming to the Sextile Sinister of Venus; The Horoscope also to the Sextile Dexter of Venus, point out a most Honourable time in Dignities, Possessions, and Renown in all manner of Benefits: The same almost is discerned by the Progression of the Part of Fortune to the Sextile Dexter of Jupiter, falling out in the 72. year of your Life; for that also Presages Kingly Rewards from foreign countries. But enough, and more then enough concerning this your most Fortunate Geniture. Farewell. In the year 1593.    

A brief DISCOURSE OF The soul of the world, AND The universal Spirit thereof.  
THe World is a system of celestial, and terrestrial Bodies, constant in Order, Number and Measure, but Living, Animate, intellectual.  
The former Part of the Definition is clear from the Holy Scriptures: The latter is Proved of Plato, and that by manifest Reasons.  
Where we say A Living system, we intend a certain natural Life, diffused through the Bodies of the world, extended and Movably Acting together with the Body of the World.  
Where we call it An Animate system, we mean the substance of the soul of the World whose Essence indeed is both Indivisible, and Immutable, like the Intellect, yet it may in some sort be termed Divisible and movable, because it is the Proper fountain of some Powers that are declining to Divisible and movable. virtue also and Action) is partly individual and immovable, so far forth as it agrees with Divine things, & steadfastly worketh: and Partly Divisible in some Respects, both because it is Manifold, and also for that it Declineth to a Manifold and Divisible Body: And movable, because it worketh Temporally.  
Where we term it intellectual, we mean the angelical Intellects, which are properly Perfect and Indivisible (according to Place,) in their Government of the Spheres: and Immutable in respect of time, the natural Life, and form corporeal being Opposite thereunto, [Divisible. and Mutable.]  
That even these angelical Intellects be in the Body of the World, necessity requires it, because the Body of the World is through Life made fit for the Intellect. Therefore, look how it is in regard of Life, and the like it is in respect of the Intellect: And as it hath not only a natural lying hid in the Matter of the World, but an animal also, that is, A soul existing in itself: So hath it not only an intellectual Quality infused the soul; but also an intellectual Substance therein remaining. For certain Qualities are everywhere reduced, to certain Substances: As a vital Quality to a vital Substance; so also an intellectual Quality, to an intellectual Substance. But as touching these things, we shall explain ourself more at large.  
The whole Body of the World, is a certain Body composed of all the four Elements, the Members or Parts whereof are the Bodies of all Living Creatures. For the small Body of every animal, is a Part of the world's Body: Neither is it composed of the whole Element of Fire, air, Water, or Earth, but of some Parts of these Elements. By how much therefore the Whole is more Perfect than a Part thereof: by so much is the Body of the World more Perfect than the Body of any one Living Creature.  
Hence were it absurd to think, that an Imperfect Body should have a soul: But that it neither hath a soul, nor can live Perfect: None will be so mad, as to say, the Part Liveth and not the Whole. Therefore the whole Body of the World Liveth, whilst the Bodies of the Animals therein Live, which are the Parts thereof.  
And now seeing there must needs be One soul of the whole World, we will in the next place inquire, in what Part thereof this soul may Reside, whence she Distributes her Spirit through all things, and preserves the same so Distributed? She fixeth not, her seat, and Pavilions, in Bodies subject to variety of Change, and Manifold Corruption, as are the Elements and Elementary Bodies: wherefore seeing that in Heaven, there is no Corruption of Bodies, there certainly is her Place of Residence. And although those Elements also may be in Heaven, (but most Purely or Spiritually:) yet is it manifest, that the Element of Fire hath therein Dominion: Even as here in this inferior Part of the World, where the sovereignty of the Elements remains in the Power of Fire. And this we are sensible of in our own Bodies: But much more, if we do but consider, how the Fire by no means Putrefieth, nor is any way Corrupted, notwithstanding it often Corrupteth other Bodies, where it gets preeminency.  
Moreover, Nature affords it Earth, Water, and air, as a certain Subject Matter, whereon to Exercise its Power: The air itself, (as also the Earth, with the Water surrounding it, whence we are nourished, and draw our Breath,) is indeed so Affected of the Fire about it, that sometimes heat doth therein predominate; otherwhiles it is so Extenuated, that for want of heat, it leaves its own Quality, and is forsaken of Cold.  
In like manner we see such Impressions conveyed from the Fire above us upon the Earth, and Water, that sometimes the Nature and Quality thereof is capable of some excess, otherwhiles of Defect, the celestial Fire itself remaining Entire: Wherefore seeing the soul of the World hath its Residence in Heaven, of Necessity it must live in a Fiery Substance: For Heaven is a Fiery Essence, but withal most Temperate, Pure, Lucid, and Incorruptible.  
Nor shall they Trouble us, who deny the Fiery Heaven, in regard the Motion of the Heavens is Circular, the Fires Motion Perpendicular. For, because our Fire is Peregrine, and Impure, therefore it tends directly upwards, and (by a kind of Veneration) Covets the Place of the Proper and natural Fire▪ yet is it not to be supposed such a Fiery Hot Heaven, as that 'tis burning or Heating. By how much less Fire is mingled with strange Matter, by so much the less it Burneth: The which is seen in the Flaming of the Purer sort of oil, but especially of oil Artificiously Extracted from Gold: the which True Alchemists do witness, and as these M●r●all Eyes of mine have sometimes tried. Therefore seeing there is not any matter in Heaven, estranged from the celestial, no Adustion, no heat is made there: We see no Adustion in Comets running through the celestial Spheres; but only some Illustration; for that doubtless the matter thereof much participateth of the Nature of the celestial Bodies. But TYCHO BRAHE, A Dane, A nobleman, An Astronomer, and a most incomparable Philosopher of this Age, shall anon more plainly unfold to us this matter far different from the Madded Nursery of peripatetics, and that not without the Infallible Curiosity both of Observations, and Demonstrations. Now because some Matter Opposed is Heated and Burnt by the rays of the Sun, contracted by a glass, that is, a sudden generation of Heat, and Fire, increasing by the Flagration of the Collected rays in the glass, and applied to Fit Matter, which are of another Disputation. Some will have the Matter of Heaven to be aereal: But for that Light is a property of Fire, enlightening even the air itself; in my judgement we do better, in supposing it to consist of a Fiery Matter. Besides, Heaven is next to the Divine seat, and God himself: yet not so, as that God is not everywhere. God is called The Father of Light, with whom there is no Change, by whom the Light may be Extinguished, or Diminished: neither an overshadowing of Change, whereby sometimes he either is turned into Night, or suffereth an Eclipse. GOD is Light, in which there is no darkness, that is, form, wherein there is nothing inform: Beauty, in which there is nothing of Deformity. As therefore GOD is Light invisible, Infinite, the Truth itself, the cause of every truth, and of all things: So the Light of Heaven is the splendour, or rather the shadow of Heaven, visible, Finite, the cause of visible things: For, the whole Universe receiveth Light and Life from Heaven. Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and 70 of the Elders of Israel, saw the God of Israel, and under his feet as it were a work of Saphire-stone, and as the very Heaven when it is clear, &c. Exod. 24. 10. Whence we shall not speak Absurdly, if we say that GOD shineth upon us by his Light from Heaven, and the Sun as a Candle shineth through glass, and windows made thereof: otherwise, we can hardly explain this matter, because of his Inscrutable Majesty.  
That therefore the celestial Bodies are Animate, is hence rightly concluded: For, it were absurd to deny a Life and soul to be in Heaven, and the stars, the which Inspire both Life and soul even in the vilest of these inferior Bodies. They give Life unto Plants, which grow without natural seed, as we see in the mountains and Places untilled: so likewise to the Earth: For, if a lump be taken out of the bowels thereof, and for some time exposed to the rays of the Sun, it yieldeth grass, or some herbs, oftentimes the twigs of Little Trees. The stars also bestow Life upon animals not generated by Copulation: nor can we be so stupid, as to imagine that Plants, Trees, &c. are of a nobler Condition, than the celestial Bodies, This manifest perpetual operation cannot come but from a Pure, and Cleansed Body.  
These things (I suppose) are sufficient to prove, the World hath a soul, placed in Heaven, as in the most noble Part thereof.  
But perhaps you desire it may be further Proved, that these celestial souls are rational, and participate of the Divine Mind. The Matter is not obscure. For if the World (as Plato saith) be the Best effect that could be of goodness itself [That is, of GOD, for we Germans so express it, because (Got) sound nothing else with us then Gut, if we rightly inquire the Reason of the Idiom] it must certainly participate not only of Life, Sense and Reason, but also of Intelligence. The soul is the Perfection of the Body. And that Body most Perfect, which hath the Perfectest soul. Wherefore if the celestial Bodies be most Perfect, they must of necessity enjoy the most Perfect souls. The Heavens therefore do Participate of the Intellect and mind: which very thing the Platoniques plainly approve by musical Concords. For, seeing that musical Concord is, as it were, Living, rational, and Efficacious; what Resemblance hath it unto Life itself, how Pleasing is it to the Mind, and even Ravisheth the whole Man! And which is more, the Mind and all things else are made by the souls by her they are preserved, by her they are Moved. And therefore Plato did not amiss, when he Described the soul, to be she that made, Preserved and Moved all natural things, especially by musical Numbers and Proportion; constituted (I say) by numbers, not mathematical, as some Calumniate, but by ideal and metaphysical Proportions of Numbers. This Harmony consisteth altogether in Motion, because that by an Aerall Nature (posited in Motion) it moveth the Body, by a purified air, it stirs up the aereal Spirit, (the chain of soul and Body:) By affect it at once disposeth the Sense and Affection: By signification it operates upon the Mind. Lastly, through this Motion of the subtle air, it penetrates vehemently: It floweth sweetly through the Contemplation: and (by its conform Quality) poureth out itself with a wonderful Pleasure. By its Nature as well spiritual as material, it at once Ravisheth, and Claimeth all that is Man. Wherefore let us seriously consider, how the Sounds of most sweet music elevate, and as it were double and treble our Minds. And in like sort judge the Melody of the celestial Bodies, who now by a slower, but anon by a swifter Motion, produce a tone that is Grave or Acute: whereunto agree (in these sublunaries) Gravity and Levity, Cold and Heat, Moisture and dryness of Elements: so likewise Matter and form in the Generation of things, meekness and Magnanimity, Temperance and Fortitude in human affairs. Seeing therefore that Motion is everywhere Free in its own Nature, it might easily prevaricate, and wander, unless it were Ruled by the Intellect, and mind: the which we cannot further inquire of in this Place, according to the Exigence of the matter.  
Besides, it is absurd for us to have Reasons of our own works: for the celestial souls, and so the soul of the Universe, have no Reasons of theirs, of whose spirit even we ourselves are generated, and live continually.  
If the Lesser World enjoy an Intelligent soul, such also enjoys the greater: But we will cease to prosecute this any further; concluding, that the World is a system of celestial and terrestrial Bodies, constant in Order, Number and Measure, but Living, Animate, intellectual. Whence we safely gather, that the soul of the World is a certain singular Life, filling all things, vivifying all things, producing and connecting all things that it may accomplish, and preserve one fabric of the wholeworld; and be as a Monochord sounding out by the threefold kinds of Creatures, intellectual, celestial, and Corruptible, at one Blast, one only Life.  
[The Mystery of Unity, is but known of a few.]  
Now can we here pass by the Authority, both of the Holy Scriptures, and also of the most approved Philosophers.  
Deut. 4. 19 Thou shalt not worship the Sun, moon and stars, which God hath Distributed to all Nations under Heaven. Deut. 28. 12. God shall open unto thee his good Treasure, the Heaven, &c. Deut. 33. 13. Concerning Joseph: Thy blessing shall be of the precious things of the Sun, and of the precious things of the moon. But above all let us consider those things which are in Levit. 26. 19 I will make (saith God ) your Heaven as Iron, and your Earth as brass. The same is repeated Deut. 28. 23. and also in Osea 2. 21. And I will hear the Heavens, and they shall hear the Earth, and the Earth shall hear the corn, and the Wine and the oil, and they shall hear Israel. [Therefore we hereby see, that God doth set the Root of Worldly Benedictions in Heaven as it were in the soul of the Universe, so that the Beginning of Blessings is from Heaven, as the Beginning of Motion from our soul; which are of themselves perspicuous enough.] To this also belongs that in Job 38. 33. Knowest thou the course of Heaven, or canst thou dispose the Rule thereof in the Earth?  
[The Rule of Heaven proceeds through terrestrial and all inferior things as the Rule of an Emperor or King, throughout his Empire and kingdom: as therefore a King is the soul of his kingdom: so the Heaven and the stars are the soul of the World.]  
Likewise that of Job 26. 13. His spirit hath Garnished the Heavens: Psal. 33. 16. By the Word of the Lord the Heavens were made, and by the spirit of his Mouth the whole Army thereof: [In whatsoever Body the Spirit of God dwelleth and shineth, that Body without doubt shall be Animate and intellectual.]  
Psal. 19 God hath set his Tabernacle in the Sun: One Day telleth another, and one Night teacheth another knowledge: there is no Speech; nor Language, in those (Heavens) yet understandeth he their voice.  
Their Line is gone forth through all the Earth, and their words into the ends of the World, in them hath he set a Tabernacle for the Sun.  
Psal. 89. 5. O Lord, even the Heavens shall confess thy wonderful works!  
John 3. Our Saviour saith to Nicodemus: I have told you of Earth by things, and you believe not, how would you believe if I should tell you of heavenly things? as if he had said, I now propound the Comparison of the Generation of Earthly things to spiritual, which are obvious to you all, and yet you believe not: much less therefore would you believe, if I should dispute of Heavenly things, which are not so obvious to your senses.  
Christ is called by the Prophet, The son of righteousness: how far we might hence Philosophize, concerning the Sun, and celestial Fires, can hardly be expressed.  
Very notable is that place of Gen. 37. in the dream of Joseph, who saw himself worshipped of the Sun, the moon, and eleven stars, therefore his Father Jacob, expounding this dream Magickly, saith, Shall I and thy Mother, and thy Brethren come and worship thee? Therefore that holy Father knew that he had the Sun in stead of his Father, the Moon in stead of his Mother, in the World, and Worldly Generations, and 12. stars (for Joseph was as the 12 star, in that he was the 12. of the Brethren) to stand in stead of the 12. begotten sons. You may understand by those 12. stars of Heaven, the twelve signs, constituting the 12. Months by 12 Conjunctions of the Sun and moon in them, by whose Congresses, the Year is completed, and its annual Generations finished.  
There are other things to be seen among the Cabalists; notwithstanding we have perspicuously enough enucleated the present matter.  
We write not these things to vain Men, [that is, such as are Ignorant and Proud,] but to the truly Honest and Ingenious, who constantly love the Knowledge of God and his works, and such as have Learned That Divinity is True Philosophy, and True Philosophy Divinity (to wit, mystically) which is, (that we may yet be more plain,) By the workmanship of the Heavens and the Earth (touching which all approved Philosophy teacheth) and the inscrutable system thereof, to know God Himself as in a glass, that he is the most Wise, Ineffable and eternal goodness.  
The other Authority is that of the Great Philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras Orpheus, Trismegistus, Theophrastus, Auicenne, and the like: But we will here follow Plato especially, (a Philosopher most full of Piety, and the knowledge of God) and his Interpreter, the never to be too much Praised Marsil. Ficinus, of Florence, than whom whether Italy ever afforded a greater, I shall not easily determine.  
If any man doubt (saith Theophrastus the Peripatetique) whether the Heavens live or not, let him not be accounted a Philosopher: And he that denies Heaven to be Animate, so as that the Mover of it is not the form thereof, destroys the Foundations of philosophy.  
Neither are the most noble Poets to be Despised of us.  


M. Manilius in his proem.  
WHen every species of the glittering Sphere,  
(The Stars returning) Ranked did appear  
In their own seats; and by the Fates Decree  
Each had restored its formal Potency;  
Experience framed Art, by various use;  
Example Guiding where it was Abstruse;  
And (though at a vast Distance) plainly saw  
The stars All-Ruling by a Tacit Law,  
The whole World moved by REASON Alternate.   

The same Manilius Cap. 2.  
GOd and the virtue of the Divine soul  
Do by a Tacit Law, and sacred Course  
Inspire, Turn Round, Guide, Govern, and control  
This Immense structure of the Universe:  
And all its natural Parts which Framed be  
In Different shapes of air, Fire, Earth, and Sea.   

Lucan Also.  
HE that sustains the earth poised up with Air  
Is a Great Part of Jove.—   

And Boetius.  
THou in consenting Parts disposed hast  
Th' All-moving Soul, 'midst threefold Nature placed,  
Which cut in Parts, that run a different Race,  
Into itself returns, and doth embrace  
The Highest Mind, and Heaven doth wheel about  
With like Proportion—   

And Virgil not the last of the most Excellent Philosophers, 6. Aen. By Mr. I. O.  
AT first the Heaven, & Earth, the liquid plain,  
The Moons Bright Globe, and stars Titanian,  
A spirit fed within, spread through the whole,  
And with the Huge heap mixed infused a scroll.  
Hence Man, & Beasts, & Birds derive their strain  
And Monsters Floating in the Marbled Main.  
These seeds have Fiery vigour, and a Birth  
Of Heavenly Race; but clogged with heavy Earth.    
But enough of the soul of the World. And now seeing it is manifest the World hath a soul, it will be no less apparent, That the same World shall consist also of a Spirit: which is called the Spirit of the Universe. Where the soul is, there also is the Spirit: The soul groans in the Spirit, the Intelligence in the soul. The Spirit also of the Universe, is the vigour of Divine virtues, dilated through all things, whose continual Excitation resides in the soul of the World, and the celestial Bodies. Democritus, Pythagoras, Orpheus, and such others called these virtues, Gods: Zoroaste●, Divine Allurements: Synecius, symbolical enticements: But some called them Lives, others also, souls. Nor that indeed undeservedly: For seeing the Soul is the Primum Mobile, and truly of its own accord, or by itself movable, but the Body or Matter of itself ineffectual for Motion, and much degenerating from the soul: Therefore we have need of some more Excellent Medium, that is to say, such a Medium, that may be (as it were) not a Body, but yet as if it were a soul; Or as no soul; and yet (as it were) a Body whereby the soul may be united to the Body. For such a Medium is the Spirit of the Universe itself, which otherwise we call the Fifth Essence, because it is not wholly subsisting of the four Elements, but a certain Fifth over and beside them. Therefore such a Spirit is necessarily requisite as a Medium, by whose Intervening, the celestial soul may be in a Grosser Body: and this Spirit is of such a form in the Body of the World, as is ours in the human Body: because that as the Powers of our soul, are by the Spirit communicated to the Members; So the virtue of the soul of the World, is dilated by that Fifth Essence, throughout all things; So that nothing can be found in the whole World, which wants a vivifying spark thereof.  
Through this Spirit every occult Propriety is propagated unto herbs, Stones, Metals, and to all living Creatures, by the Sun and moon, by the Planets and other stars of the Eight orb. And those things that contain a more plentiful and excellent Spirit of that Nature, shall perfect a more manifest and swifter Operation in our Bodies: if so be it be duly separated from the Body and Feces: for, the Feces profit nothing; yea, they plainly Impede and oppress the Penetrating virtue of the Spirit. And indeed all physicians should have a special Regard, that they Artificially segregate the medicinal virtues of things from the Body, and the Elementated Impurities thereof, and not so Foolishly hasten to their Patients, the Medicines and Feces together. But the most part either wholly omit that Labour, or account it in a manner Dishonest; Leaving that separating Art to the Diseased Body. nevertheless these Men make too huge a progress in Philosophy, they shall often dispute against Astronomy itself, not knowing indeed that they can nothing say, or Dispute, without that syderial Spirit communicated to them, (as also to every Man, yet more or less,) from above, by the Heavens and the stars. Truly the Lote (which shutteth its Leaves before Sun Rise, but when he Ascendeth openeth them by degrees,) will be accounted more Just and Charitable towards the celestial Princes, than these so rational Men. And so we believe shall the Cock, who applauds the Rising Sun, as it were with a hymn, from his inferior Rousts. But these are from the matter.  
We formerly told you, There can nothing be found in this Lower World, that wan●s a vivifying spark of this Spirit: but yet to know, under what star, and in which sign of the Zodiaque, every thing Perceiveth its Spirit, This is the work, here the Labour is. Nevertheless, there hath so much of this nature been Manifested to us, by sedulous and skilful Men, as is sufficient for human Ingenuity and Paines, to find out greater things. Gold hath in it the Spirit of the Sun, and therefore is, (in value,) the most precious of all metals: It also nourisheth every Spirit of all things Growing: So that the Sun possesseth the virtues of all the stars. No marvel then the Spirit of Gold (skilfully extracted, or separated from the elementated, or Metallique Body) should extirpate all Diseases of the Body. The reason is manifest by Astronomy itself. But that there is Gold of the Solar Spirit, (to omit other Reasons) the purified sign thereof sufficiently testifies, where you shall find Incense Burning with perpetual Fire: which thing true Alchemists know very well; and there yet remains such a thing to be found in some Sepulchers, that hath continued its Ardour and Fire for more than 100 years; Even as the Sun enjoys perpetual Light. The same metal is not unfitly called the Terrene Chaos: because if the Spirit of the Universe residing in it, should at a set time be reduced to a competent form with the Body, plainly produces the same, or even greater things, than that Essence of the Sun, so earnestly sought for, by Covetous Persons. So also to other metals, there is a Proper and perpetual Seed-plot in Heaven. The like for Trees, Plants, Stones, &c.  
If therefore any thing growing nourisheth in it an astral Spirit, we account the Incensive matter of the Generative and Seminary virtue much more such, and indeed more Perfect in Man himself. Those Philosophers who know not any such thing in Man, can pronounce nothing certain as touching the Ingenuity of Man, his Inclinations, Antipathy, Sympathy, of the magnetic virtue and operation, and such other things as are hitherto appertaining: Whence it is they so Foolishly and Filthily heap up Reasons of philosophising, which are no better then volatile air.  
We must not forget that there is a twofold Spirit in Man. One infused from the Heavens and stars, at the time of Generation: the other Inspired by GOD; This was the breathing-hole of Life, in Adam; and that indeed Perfect, but afterwards Lost. The First Man was made of the Slime of the Earth, that is, of the Greater World, of the sidereal Creatures and Elements: whence he received a certain astral soul resembling the soul of the World. The Object whereof, is, The universal World, and the things contained therein, that is, Worldly wisdom, generally comprehending all manner of Arts and Sciences within itself: some such thing was Anciently called in Man, the Proper Genius, or daemon of every one. He is not wholly Ignorant of the natural Law, (that is, of the Divine Will, commanding and approving the Good; but abhominating and Condemning the evil done unto us) because the World was the First Image of God: and Man himself the next Example of any thing Possessing the Reason of the Word. And although Man have freewill, yet so it is in him, that what a one soever the Predestination of the Mundane soul made him: such a one also every Man would (and desireth to) Die, by a natural instinct. Thus we more plainly conceive how Man is subject to the stars. Hence likewise we will not deny, but that very many Diseases, and consequently the term of Life proceed (especially in a flourishing Age) from the stars, touching which we have elsewhere produced manifest Reasons, and a manifest Experience in Examples. Hereunto belongs the whole Genethliaque Part of Astrology. Theophrastus Paracelsus hath most Plentifully and Learnedly explained the Foundations of this very Matter, in his volume of Wise Philosophy.  
There was another Breathing Hole placed by God in Adam, (beyond this rational Spirit, and operating soul, deducing its original and Branches from the stars,) which was the Breathing Hole of Life, in which regard he was said to be the Image of GOD: the Beauty of this Image was lost by the Fall of our First Parents, (a very small spark thereof surviving in us:) But may be reduced to its pristine Condition by a Regeneration in Christ. This spark (Christ being Mediator) shall grow into a Flame of celestial wisdom; It is the proper spirit of those that Believe in Christ. Joh. 7. Rejecting, Despising, Deriding all those Worldly things, not as that they are the works of GOD (for they testify of GOD, what he is) but in that they are Corruptible, unstable, and draw a Man from the presence of GOD, and from eternal Joy in Him. This wisdom is that sorrow with the Flesh, and its Concupiscences, at last overcoming, Christ being conqueror. Of this is that vulgar saying, Sapiens Dominabitur Astris. A wise Man shall Rule the stars. By this very Rule we are led from the Love of Corruptible things, and brought into the Love of eternal. By this we take the cross of Christ upon our Shoulders, and Follow him, that is, we shall hereby Purge out the Old Leven, crucifying our Flesh with evil Affections and Concupiscences, studying to learn abundantly the Fruits of a Christian Spirit, without Hypocrisy, as Charity, Faith, Peace, Joy, Liberality, meekness, Temperance, Gal. 5. In a word: This celestial Spirit is no other thing, than Faith triumphing through Charity, without which none shall prevail before GOD, although (as it is in 1 Cor. 13.) He should speak with the Tongues of angels, and had all Faith, so that he could Remove mountains out of their Places, although he had all Sciences, and knew all Mysteries, though he should give his Body to be Burnt, and were full of prophecy. GOD is CHARITY: we were Created and Redeemed of Charity, in Charity, and by Charity.  
Charity Preserves in us the Command of GOD. Charity is the Bond of Perfection, Col. 3. Charity is Long suffering and bountiful: she Envieth not, she maketh no Tumults, she is not puffed up, she doth nothing whereof she is ashamed: she seeketh not her own: she Provoketh not, she thinketh no evil▪ she rejoiceth not at Iniquity, but the Truth: she beareth all things; she believeth all things: she hopeth and sustaineth all things. Charity Buildeth up, knowledge puffeth up: Charity is greater than prophecies, Sciences, Tongues; prophecies shall be abolished, Tongues shall be Silent, Sciences Perish: Charity remaineth for ever: He that remaineth in Charity remaineth in GOD, and GOD in him.  
Now we must know, there is a twofold Man: One astral, external, or carnal, which is called animal, (nor perceiveth he the things which are of the Vivifying Spirit:) The other, spiritual or internal, busied in renewing the Corrupted Image of God, Rom. 7. In like manner, there shall be a twofold wisdom; One, Worldly or astral, the Wisdom of Arts, Sciences, Dignities, Possessions, and of Corruptible things, wherein the Gentiles are alone Busied, Mat. 6. The other celestial, consisting in the knowledge of GOD, in the consideration of his Ineffable Mercy, in the Desire of eternal happiness. This wisdom acknowledges no other governor, than the Holy Spirit, operating by the word of GOD: That, the Heavens and celestial Influences: Both which may be joined in a Man that Pleaseth GOD. But in whom the celestial wisdom reigneth, that other is only a handmaid; she seeks for nothing at all, but the Glory of GOD, and the welfare of her Neighbour: which indeed is as much as is granted in this Life to the Elect, or those whom the Father hath given unto Christ. Now where the astral reigneth, (suppose that alone,) There are Dogs, and Swine, unto whom we are forbidden to cast pearls, or that which is Holy. Lastly where the celestial and astral, do Conjunctly Rule; that is, when we endeavour to serve Two Masters, There is True hypocrisy, very displeasing unto GOD. No Man can serve Two Masters: such were the Pharisees in the time of Christ, whose righteousness if ours exceed not, we shall not enter into the kingdom of God, Christ himself hath spoken it.  
It was but requisite that we a little touched upon those things, lest Ignorant Detractors, (who are either far out of the way, or abhor this True manner of philosophising) should take occasion to mingle Holy things with Profane, or Profane with Holy, whilst perhaps they might take upon them to Disprove these Realities.  
Furthermore 〈◊〉 hitherto we have Treated of the soul and Spirit of the Universe, and of the syderial governor in Man: So now we may possibly be informed concerning four Senses in the Universe, accommodating themselves to the fourfold virtue or Power of the soul of the World.  
There are four Elements which contribute Matter to the Body of the World: and there are also four Powers in the soul of the World. The first is, the Intellect of itself Immovable, the Mover or governor of the Sphere; instituted by the Author of all things Governing the Spheres. The second is the soul of the Sphere, A Mover indeed that is movable, yet so of itself. The third, a certain Intelligence, excellently placed in this soul by GOD, and the superior Intellect. The fourth, is, Nature, that is to say, A Seminary and vital virtue, every way infused into the Matter, by the soul. The Intellect and soul are indeed Substances: But the Intelligence and Nature are Qualities: Those of the soul, these of the Matter. The four Images, of these are the four Elements: For, Fire resembles the Intellect; Earth, the Water; air, the Intelligence; And lastly, Water, the soul. And as there are three things Proper to Fire, three things also opposite to Earth, and that the Mediums agree with Mediums by a certain Proportion, so there are three things proper to the Intellect, and their Opposites are proper to Nature: The Mediums also to the Mediums. For the Intellect is individual; uniform, eternal; Nature, dividual; Multiforme, temporal: The soul (amongst these Mediums) looks indeed (through the Intelligence) more participating of the Intellect itself, then of Nature: But through the animal Power, the rather agrees with Nature, than the Intellect. Wherefore it is called Partly individual, partly dividual: Partly also uniform, and partly Multiforme: again, partly eternal, and partly temporal.  
From Substance, Virtue, Action. Fire Subtle Acute, Movable. Air Subtle Obtuse Movable. Water Grosse Obtuse Movable. Earth Grosse Obtuse Immovable.  

The Intellect, individual, uniform, eternal.  
The soul by the  Intelligence, Individual, Uniform, Eternal. Animal, Power, Dividual, Multiforme, Temporal, By Nature, Dividual, Multiforme, Temporal.  
Hence also are the four Lives Delivered and believed of Plato. The life of Saturn admireing (in the Intellect) Heaven the Father thereof, that is, God the Father of Heaven. The jovial in the Intelligence declining to Action yet movable. The venereal, in the animal virtue, yet Affecting Matter: And the Dionysiacall, as if Drunk in Nature, that is, of a drenched, or drowned Matter.  
And by a like Reason, there are four Senses in the Universe. The First, in the soul of the World, Commune (I say) and one Sense: that is, a certain Imaginary virtue so accompanying its Intelligence, and touching the Particular forms of things, as the Intelligence doth the universal: Touching (I say) intrinsically, and therefore it wants no Instruments, neither proceeds, or suffers it anywhere without. The Second, is, in the souls of the Spheres and Stars Commune indeed, and Impatible also, but proceeding without. The third in Particular souls, distributed through all the Instruments, beyond Common strength, and spreading itself without, but ending in the Judgement. The Fourth, (and last) Sense is (according to the Pythagoreans) allowed to Plants, yea, a certain Image of Sense, and that indeed Stupid, having no Judgement of Quality, but Posited only in the Passion of some Pleasure or grief.  
The First Sense represents the Intellect: The Second the Intelligence; The third, the animal virtue, and the Fourth, the natural: wherein we must remember that the Matter of the World, doth not otherwise enter the soul, then by Nature, nor otherwise the Intelligence then by the soul, nor otherwise the Intellect, then by the Intelligence: Even as it receiveth Water by the Earth; by the Water, air; and by the air, Fire.  
But at length to come to our Matter, we must know, that the Lines of the Hands, are not otherwise produced (giving GOD in the first place His Due) then from the Imagination of the Greater World, thus, or so Affected in the Generation of Man, yet performing its Authority & Office by the Stars. It is hardly perceptible to our human Wit, how such an operation should be made in our Hands, by Lines shadowing out the Fate of every Man. This Imagination of the soul of the World is otherwise called Predestination, Science, Fate: And she it is that performs her Power in the Conception and Birth, by the Influence of that star which then predominateth in the Heavens, and thence poureth out that Peculiar Genius upon every Man: If many stars be to do the work; the proper and accustomed Signatures are by them distributed and Engraven, Fortunate or Infortunate, according to the Affection of the Planets, and other stars, in their respective signs and Quarters of Heaven. Those Conjunctions and other Aspects of the Planets, which but seldom happen, do make the most Noble and excellent Impression: such be the Conjunction and Sextile of Venus and Mercury, the Conjunction and Trine of Saturn and Jupiter: so also of Jupiter and Mars, Jupiter and the Sun, Jupiter and Venus; likewise the Trine of Mars and Mercury: The moon also partily supputated in an Angle, or begirt with the Favourable ray of a Noble star, &c. yet more or less according to the Quarters of Heaven, and the Places of the Zodiaque. The presence of the more Notable Fixed stars do hereunto contribute very much of strength. So also they whom the Position of the stars, shall incline to the contrary. But there is so beneficent a virtue planted in this Science, or Predestination, and so great LOVE, that to forewarn us of Future Events (the Times whereof the Directions of places in Corrected Genitures, which I certainly know by often Experience, manifest) she often premits her Signitures in this or that Place of the Hand, that if Fortunate Events be near, a Man might happily know thereof, and by his endeavour Nourish and Enlarge the same to his Benefit: But if any Misfortunes, that he would and might be careful in Averting, atleastwise in Mitigating the evils ensuing. And indeed concerning the LOVE extended in the First Creation, unto all things celestial and terrestrial, (notwithstanding an Adjunct or Opposite Strife elsewhere) a whole Volume might be written: See the Golden Commentaries of Marsilius Ficinus, upon Plato's Banquet of Love.  
We daily Observe how some Lines are quite Vanished, which were but even now in our Hands, and that others Arise in Lieu thereof, with a Different Face: some to wax Pale, and others to Flourish with a kind of ruddiness, &c. and indeed deride them all, as vain and casual. But yet now that Experience herself hath by several practices reduced all to an Art, we cannot be so Impudent and Stupid, as to deny them to contain some Events. Indeed 'tis requisite that the Cause or Beginnings both of the Signatures themselves and the Affections therein, should not elsewhere reside, then in that very Science of the soul of the World, sending as it were her Standard beforehand, by the peculiar stars and Progressions of the stars of every Man: For unless this Imagination, Science, Fate, or Predestination preceded by a certain perpetual Power, nothing could be Generated, nothing Increased: Visible cannot be made of Invisible things: corporeal of incorporeal: The Shapes, Magnitudes, Colours, Odours and other Signatures of Bodies will not be unfolded, whether the Efflux of Nourishment be plentiful, or but small: for that they have not the Foundations, Roots, or Principles, under whose Power, Protection, and Patronage they might be received into the Society of a New republic. he that is oppressed with Thirst, conceives in his mind a Species of Familiar liquour: that Appetite is an individual Companion of this Imagination: And such an Imagination is Thirst made by such an Appetite. The same is the Desired liquour to this Imagination: because the Species that made the Imagination is the Property of the liquour, and the liquour by means of such Imagination may satisfy Predestination, Science, Fate. Therefore what is a Nutriment▪ Requisite to a Living Body, the same is the Impletion of the Events, or Impressions, the Conceptions and Signatures of worldly knowledge; whether it be for good or bad: which very thing the most Laudable Idea of philosophical physic of Peter Severine the Dane▪ a most Excellent Man in Truth, and a very Nervous writer, doth also direct us to. This therefore, that effects so great things in the World, by a natural and inseparable Love, is also employed in delineating the Hands of Men, signifying whatsoever things a Man doth, and they for the most part are in one manner or other described in the Hand itself. Here we except such things as ought to be excepted: the will of Man is not in every part subjected to the Decrees of the stars, neither also that saying, [If to day I feed upon Flesh, whether shall I Dine to Morrow with coleworts or carrots? &c.] which are here added, to remove timely the Objections of fools.  
But if you desire to know wherefore these Signatures are found in the Hand, and perhaps not in any other Part of the Body? you must conceive, that our Hands are the most Noble Members in perfecting of all manner of Actions; they are the Executors of all our Primary Conceptions: Insomuch, that if we wanted the Benefit of our Hands for a few days, it must needs be we should all of us Perish together: That therefore our Fate for the most part, and Our Power are very much reposed in our Hands, we (even not knowing it) openly testify, when with closed Hands, we make them Petitioners to GOD, or any Man, truly declaring, we can do nothing of our own strength; we Despise and reject these flags of our Fate, folded up (like those of war) and yet that one thing which we humbly crave, they obtain and make good unto us, as if some Sacrament were Interposed betwixt them. I know not of whom such things as these may seriously be considered on, in their Prayers.  
It may now be Asked, wherefore the Excellent Positures of the stars, do not always shape and depaint the Lines very clear in our Hands? I have seen a Noble Man, in whose Geniture all the Seven Planets were Collocated in their Dignities: yet were not the Lines perspicuous in the most parts of his Hands: but rather Obscure. I have seen another Nobly Descended, in whose Nativity Mercury was excellently well posited in Gemini, and in the cusp of the Tenth: yet the place of this star had afforded him at that time no perspicuous Signatures in his Hand, but such as were dark and slender, when notwithstanding this Planet was both strong and Fortunate in the Geniture, and also at the time of Conception: Besides, the same Planet disposed of the Horoscope, and was moreover Lord of the New moon preceding the Nativity. Now how the Power and Dominion of this star, than so strong and powerful should be thus Impedited, is the Question.  
It may be again Demanded, how it comes, that sometimes you find a Diversity of the principal Lines in both Hands? I have seen the Epatica of the Right Hand, adhering in some to the Line of Life; But in the lefthand the same Remote from the vital by a notable space: which we have also mentioned somewhere else in our practic part.  
Touching these we must know, that many times the Seed of the Parents proves a Great Impediment to the superior Commotions. For indeed the Seed receiveth one Condition from Parents that live in Concord, and temperately: but another from such as live in Discord and Anxieties; especially about the time of Conception. Besides, there is in either Parent a certain pattern of the Imagination of the macrocosm, both of them receiving from every part thereof sundry Impressions: And therefore when the Imagination of the Greater World is one way affected about the Conception, and the Fathers and Mothers another way, it must needs be that some Discrepancy will hence arise. But the Impression of the mother's Imagination is vulgarly known (as much as may be) at the time of the Birth. The finding out of All Causes, is very Abstruse. Nevertheless as touching those who have the Lines of either Hand appearing with a Different Face, we cannot otherwise appoint and Pronounce, but that such are disposed and inclined to a double Fortune, Good and Bad.  
And now at length being about to put a Period to this our Tract: we earnestly Desire all Learned Men, that whatsoever they know in Chiromancy, as having made some certain trial thereof, they will be pleased freely to contribute the same to these our endeavours.  
I confess I have not everywhere in my Praxis satisfied, my own self: I know what Experience I have need of, to complete an Absolute Praxis: And other Men also may know I have assayed to dig at some such thing. It was but requisite I annexed somewhat of The soul of the World, and of what appertaineth thereunto, as well lest some should Rashly proclaim incertain things to be Explained and Confirmed by incertain: as also that we might in some sort Admonish both the Ignorant, and likewise such as Deride the Lethargy of the celestial (in these Terrene) Bodies, comprehending much in a few words, from which Beginning, there may be Degrees of confirming these truly sincere things in Philosophy, acceptable to GOD, and not estranged from the Holy Scriptures: See the book of wisdom, Chap. 7. & 13. wherein the Lethargy of celestial things is separated from these inferiors, lest they should Feed on the Tares of Philosophy.  
I shall be persuaded, it is possible, That the Knowing and Ingenious may Favour these my First endeavours. If otherwise, it sufficeth me that I received a Sober Censure, at lest amongst those Wise and Learned Men, to whom I presented this in writing: nevertheless there be some of that Profession, who suppose it otherwise. I have nothing to do with the Ignorant and Malevolent.  
AN END.