the wisdome power vertue and glory eternally hidden in God should be opened and multiplied For God once made all things for man but Man for himself CHAP. II. Concerning the subject of Astrologie THe study of Astrologie or Philosophie is conversant about the universall knowledge of all the wonderfull and secret things of God infused and put into naturall things from above in the first creation The exercise therefore of the light of Nature is the most sagacious perscrutation and enucleation of the abstruse internall and invisible vertues lying hid in externall corporall and visible things to wit What should be the first matter of this great world whereof it was made What the Elements should be and those things which are bred of the Elements and consist in them of what kind is their creation essence nature propriety and operation as well within as without What might be in the Stars of Heaven what their operation What in Volatiles what in Fishes Metalls Mineralls Gemms what in every species of Sprigs and Vegetables What in Animalls beasts creeping things and in the whole frame of the world Lastly what is in Man who was made and created of all these to wit What is that masse or slime or dust whereof the body of the first man was formed and whence he received his soule and what it is and whence he hath the Spirit and what he is And so the light of Nature or Astrologie comprehends in it self all the wisdome and knowledge of the whole Universe that is all these are had and learned in the Schoole of the light of Nature and are referred to Astrologie or are rather Astrologie it self to wit The subject of Astrologie therefore is double the Macrocosm and Microcosm the greater World and the lesser World The greater World is this very frame and great house or this huge tabernacle wherein we inhabit and live and it consists of the foure Elements Fire Aire Water and Earth and is twofold visible according to the body invisible according to the soule or spirit The lesser World is Man the off-spring or some of the greater world extracted and composed out of the whole greater World who also in himself is two fold visible and externall as to his body invisible and internall as to his soul And as Man is made of nothing els but the world so also is he placed and put no where els but within the world to wit that he might live dwell and walk therein yet so as that he should take heed of that subtill Serpent and should not eat of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evill least he die that is that he serve not the soule of the world and creatures subject to vanity but as a wise man rule the Starrs and resist the divell tempting him by the concupiscence of the flesh of the eyes and pride of life and suppresse sinfull nature living and walking in wisdom and simplicity of the Divine God head inspired into him not in the subtilty of the Serpent by arrogancy and love of himselfe For it is most certain Of what any thing is born and procreated from thence also it seeks desires and receives it's nourishments convenient to it's essence and nature for the sustentation of it self Now Man was taken from and composed of the Macrocosme and placed in the same Therefore also necessarily he is nourished cherished receives his meat and drink is clothed and sustained according to that Gen. 3. v. 19. Thou art taken from the earth and thou shalt eat thereof in labour all the dayes of thy life and shalt eat the herbes of the field untill thou shalt return unto the earth for from it thou art taken Seeing therefore Man as to his body is composed of the Elements and as to his soul of the Starrs and each part is fed and sustained from that from which it was taken The food or aliment of the body wherby the body grows to a due stature comes to a man from the Elements the Earth the Water Ayre Fire not that Man should take to himself for food the crude bodies of the Elements but the fruit growing from the Elements they are for nutriment But the food of the soul inhabiting in the Microcosmicall body are all kinds of Sciences Arts Faculties and Industries with which she tincts and makes her self perfect Moreover All aliment passeth into the substance of the user and is made the same that he himself is that is whatsoever a man eats and drinks the same thing is essentially transmitted into the substance nature propriety and forme of Man by the digestion of Arthens in the ventricle I say the food passeth and is converted into the nature of the eater and drink into the substance of the drinker and is made one and the same with him And in the first place let these things be understood concerning the body without wonder because man is made of that which he eats and drinks So also whatsoever a man learns studies knowes in things that are placed without himself that knowledge and intelligence passeth into the very essence nature and propriety of a man and is made one with him The Light of Nature is made Man in Man and by a mans diligent searching Man is made Light both in light and by light and by the benefit of that light he finds out all things whatsoever he seeks and desires but one more and another lesse because all do not seek with the like study Every Knowledge Science Art Industry and Faculty passeth into the nature of Man penetrates him occupies him possesseth him tincts him is agglutinated to him united with him and perfected in him and he in it For Whatsoever kind of aliment man useth and whatsoever he endeavours to study inquire know and understand this is not strange or different from his essence and nature The reason is Because whatsoever is without a man the same is also within him for that man is made of all those things which are without him that is of the whole universe of things Therefore whatsoever Man takes from without from the Elements and Stars by meat drink knowledge study and intelligence this is the same that man is and is made the same with Man So man eating bread and drinking water wine c. from the Macrocosme he eats and drinks himself and Learning Arts Tongues Faculties and Sciences of externall things he learns and knows himself And as he tincts his body by meat and drink which passe into the substance of flesh and blood so also his soul is tincted with whatsoever kind of Sciences Arts c. eating and drinking he is united essentially with that which he eats and drinks And learning and knowing he is united essentially with that which he studies learns and knows Wherefore this is a most certain rule Whatsoever is without us is also within us Which in this place we philosophising of the soul and the body do thus declare This whole world visible as to
ASTROLOGIE Theologized Wherein is set forth VVhat Astrologie and the light of Nature is What influence the Starres naturally have on Man and how the same may be diverted and avoided AS ALSO That the outward Man how eminent soever in all Naturall and Politicall Sciences is to bee denied and die in us AND That the Inward man by the light of Grace through profession and practice of a holy life is to be acknowledged and live in us Which is the onely means to keep the true Sabbath in inward holinesse and free from outward pollution By Valentine Weigelius Sapiens dominabitur Astris LONDON Printed for George Whittington at the blue Anchor in Cornhill neer the Royall Exchange 1649. Astrologie Theologized CHAP. I. What Astrologie is and what Theologie and how they have reference one to another AStrologie is Philosophie it self The Kingdom of Nature or it is the whole light of Nature from whence ariseth the universall naturall Wisdome or a solid sincere and exquisite knowledge of naturall things which light of Nature is twofold externall and internall Externall in the Macrocosm internall in the Microcosm Or Astrologie is the very knowledge of good and evill which is and bears rule in things subject to Nature which science flourishing in man unlesse it be ruled and governed by Theologie that is divine Wisdome as the handmaid by her mistresse it is vicious And by her specious appearance and concupiscible jucundity man seduceth himself and as it were by eating of the forbidden tree or by who reing with the creatures he maketh his soule the Babylonian Whore sitting upon the Beast having seven heads and ten hornes c. and being sweetly deceived of himself obtains eternall death to himself But Theologie is the whole light of grace The Kingdom of grace happening to man from the holy Spirit effused from above which is the universall wisdome of the Kingdom of Heaven and the saving knowledge of divine and supernaturall things making chast and purging the soul from every defilement of sin abiding in the mortall body in respect whereof that naturall Wisdome is but a shadow which when the world is blotted out and removed will together with it be blotted out and removed and then Theologie alone shall reigne Astrologie is so called because it ariseth from the Stars As Theologie because it flowes from God To live Astrologically is with a pleasing concupisence to eat of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evill and to bring death to himself To live Theologically is to eat of the wood and Tree of life by an intimate abnegation of ones self and thence to attain to ones self Life and Salvation The Light of Nature in Astrologie with his incitative fruits is the probatory instrument whereby Man placed in the midst that is between God and the Creature is proved which way he would direct or convert his free will desire love and appetite whether to God his Creatour by loving him above all things with his whole heart with his whole mind with his whole soul and with his whole strength which should be the Theologicall life Or whether casting God behind he would reflect to himself and to the Creature by love of himself and arrogating of good things received which was the Astrologicall life at the Babilonish fornication as will appear by that which followeth Astrologie possesseth our soul with the externall body wherein the Light of Nature dwells and shines forth in some more excellently in others lesse And it contains in it self two things 1. All kind of Sciences Arts Tongues Faculties and naturall Studies all the gifts as well of the mind as of the body and also all negotiations occupations actions and labours of men how many soever of them are found exercised and used in all times upon the whose earth every where amongst men aswell grosse as subtile aswell old as new serving aswell to good as to bad uses 2. Under Astrologie are referred all orders states and degrees of men distinctions of persons dignities gifts offices and every kind of life as well naturally ordained by God himself as thought of and invented by humane wit and found out in the whole world from the highest and most honourable to the lowest and most base All these are the fruits of the Starrs and have their originall from Astrologie and pertain to the body and soul and may be as well good as bad according to the divers pleasures of the users and abusers But Theologie possesseth our Spirit which we have from God which alone is Theologus that is the Speech of God the Breath of God the Word of God being and inhabiting in the Temple of our heart from which alone according to sacred Letters true Theologie is to be drawn forth That is the knowledge of God of things divine and celestiall and supernaturall arising from within from the illumination of the holy Spirit it self dwelling within us According to whose beck will and command we ought to institute direct and finish all our Sciences Arts Studies Actions Offices Vocations Industries Labors and kinds of of life invented drawn forth on earth from the Light of Nature so as whatsoever we think say or do in the world in all Arts Sciences and Labors it all proceeds from the Will of God and seems as it were to be done and governed by God himself in us as by his fit instruments For every Astrologicall gift comming from the Light of Nature ought to be ruled and subjected to the Divine will by the Theologicall Spirit dwelling in us that so the will of the Lord be done as in heaven so also in earth For all Wisdome both Naturall and Supernaturall is from the Lord. Astrologie is the science of tilling and perlustrating of the inferiour terrestiall earth ground garden Paradise from which Man was taken and made as to his body and his soul in the labor and culture whereof six daies were ordained and appointed But because this Science of it self confers not Salvation and eternall Beatitude but alone belongs to this present life it is necessary the Lady and Mistresse of all Sciences and Arts Theologie be added which seeing it is Wisdome from above it hath in it self the Science of tilling and perlustrating the celestiall earth ground garden paradise from whence also man was taken created according to the similitude and image of God which garden man also hath in himself to the culture whereof the seventh day alone which is the Sabbath day is appointed For so it was ordained between God and man from all eternity that Man should be God and God Man neither without the other that is as God himself is and will be the Paradise Garden Tabernacle Mansion House Temple and Jerusalem of Man So also was man created for the same end that he should be the Paradise Garden Tabernacle Mansion House Temple and Jerusalem of God that by this mutuall union and friendship of God with Man and of Man with God all
and inserted into the body Greatest and most excellent is the knowledge of the Spirit inspired from the mouth of God into the first man and by the mysteries of multiplication equally communicated to every one of us Wherefore is the knowledge of the humane body great By reason of it's wonderfull composition that is because all the foure Elements are essentially composed in it And moreover I say the essence nature propriety of all the creatures of the whole invisible world which are in the Earth Water Air and Fire are incorporated and scituate in Man But seeing all things generally are conjoyned and included into one skin they are not altogether and at once discovered nor can be revealed but at least come forth and are known inspecie as they are drawn forth and excited Wherefore is the knowledge of the Soul which is in the heart of Man greater Because the whole Firmament with all the essence nature vertue propriety inclination operation and effect of all the Starrs is therein conjoyned and complicated so as there is nothing in the whole power of the Spirit of the Firmament or soul of the world which the soul of man also hath not in himself and in the exaltation of it self can give it of it self Yea the whole Light of Nature is in the soul of the Microcosm which is the wisdome and power and vigour of all things of the whole whorld throughout all the Elements and things procreated of the Elements For she is the Astrologicall Spirit containing in her self all kind of Sciences Magic Cabalistic Astronomic with all their Species Chimistry Medicine Pahisic all Arts Tongues all Workmanships and all Studies existent throughout the whole shop of Nature But because all these things are collected in one and generally comprehended in the soul they do not all lie open or can they be in act to gether although they are in power but are let out and produced one species after an other Wheresoever therefore these kinds of divers Sciences flourish are exercised amongst men there shines the Light of Nature and the soul of the Microcosme is in her exaltation that is the Firmament of the Microcosme is in his ascendents But why is the knowledge of the Spirit of God greatest in us Because he from whom we receive this Spirit is greatest and most eminent above all For in this same Spriit all the divine Wisdome and Power from whence that saving knowledge flowes forth that is Theologie treating of supernaturall celestiall and divine things and is conversant in the Magnalia and mysteries of God placed above Nature and tends even to the inexhausted and unspeakable profundity of the Deity in which profundity the very origianll matter cause end of al the works of God and of things acted in time from the beginning of the Creation even to the end of the consummation of the world eternally and essentially lay hid For all things came forth from him all things were made by him and all things consist in him By how much any thing is most inward by so much it is more noble and excellent This visible world is a body compacted of Fire Air Water and Earth which is without hath in it self the Spirit of Nature which is the soul of the world which is within to which soul this externall body be longeth because it is inhabited possessed and governed by it Hence the soul of the world is more noble then the body This soul of the world hath in it the Spirit of God which comprehendeth and possesseth it For nothing is beyond God or the Spirit of God Hence the Spirit is more noble then the Soul The more noble alwaies exists in the more ignoble and internalls prevail over externells as well in essence as in power So our externall body is indeed great in it's stature and quantity and a wonderfull creature Yet the soul dwelling in the body is far greater and more wonderfull not in corporeall quantity but in Essence Vertue and Power But the Spirit is the greatest of all not in the lump or corporeall quantity but in Essence Vertue and Power and therefore most wonderfull There is nothing greater then that in which are all things And There is nothing lesse then that which is in all smallest things Therefore let us observe this rule well By how much any thing is more inward and more hidden from the externall senses by so much the more it is more worthy noble and potent in it's essence nature and propriety Which we will demonstrate by exanples There is not any house built for it self but for the inhabitant Now the edifice is an externall thing and the inhabitant and internall thing The house is for the guest and not the guest for the house Therefore the inhabitant is far more noble worthy and excelllent in his essence then every edifice although sumptuous For what is the house profitable the guest being absent So garments are made and prepared for the body that it might be and walk in them Garments are externall things the body is internall Therefore the body in its essence is far more noble and worthy then all garments although precious For what need is there of garments if they are wanting which should put them on Therefore garments are for the body and not the body for garments So the Body rayment house and habitation is a certain externall thing to the soul but the soul is internall And the body is for the soul and not the soul for the body Therefore the soul in her essence is a far more noble and worthy Creature then the body although most comely and most excellently proportioned For what availeth the body the soule being wanting it is a carcasse So the Soul made and created for an habitation of the Divine Spirit is externall but the Spirit is internall And the soul is for the Spirit and not the Spirit for the soul Therefore the Spirit of God is found far more noble and excellent and worthy in his originall essence nature vertue power and propriety So God is and abides the most inward chief great potent noble and worthy above all things adn contains all things in himself and he himself is contained of none Moreover By how much any thing is more inward by so much it is more nigh and neer to us but also so much the harder to be found and known Every thing that is most inward is most precious and most noble Because of the too much aversion and abalienation of our soul from divine and heavenly things and by reason of the too much tenacity and adherency of our love to the Creatures of the world And on the contrary By how much any thing is more exterior by so much the more it is remote from us and by so much the more strange For example sake The Spirit of the Lord truly is and inhabiteth in my soul whose seat is in the captula of my heart But seeing every inhabitant
Governours of the world and their operations and offices as well in the Macrocosme as in the Microcosme THe whole shop of Nature with all her sorts of sciences and actions is ordained and distributed into seven chief members Kingdoms or Dominions according to the seven Astra's of the Planets of the ☉ of the ☽ of ☿ of ♀ of ♂ of ♃ of ♄ who are the Governours of all naturall things extant in the whole frame of the world by the foure Elements But the Light of Nature which we call Astrologie is nothing els then the very life vigour vertue action and operation of the whole world in things which proceed and come forth from the soul of the world or the spirit of the Firmament whose seat is in the body of the Sun For there the soul of the world or the spirit of the Macrocosme dwells as the soul of the Microcosme in the heart and in the Sun it is most potent whence it diffuseth his vertues actions and powers out of it self ever and anon into the other six Planets the ☽ ☿ ♀ ♂ ♃ ♄ And moreover in all the other Starrs being throughout the whole stelliferous Chaos By this only soul the whole world lives is governed agitated and moved as a body by his spirit The Sun is the heart and light of the world in this heart I say the soul inhabits which illuminates all and every the Planets and Stars upwards above it self and downwards beneath it self as well in the day as in the night time and disperses his power into all and singular bodies as well the superiour things to the utmost superficies of the frame as also the inferiour things even to the inward Centre in the earth Yea the Sun by his vertue passeth through all corporealls like unto glasse The power and working of the Sun and operates in them without any impediment So his force penetrates the whole body of the Sea as glasse without any obstacle even to the lowest bottom thereof So the whole body of the earth full of pores on every side is passable to the Sun even to the inward point of his Circle So the Sun fills the sphear of Air also the Sphears of Heaven and enters into views and possesseth with his power all the Angels of all the regions and parts of the world as the soul doth his body of the Microcosme and not only the Chaos and the bodies of Elements but also all the generations and substances of all things whencesoever existing as well subtile as grosse as well light as heavy as well soft as hard mettalls mountains hills gemms rocks stones wood and whatsoever is every where so as it reacheth to the very Centre of the earth neither is his force and operation wanting or deficient there For all bodies though never so great grosse thick are altogether as glasse to the penetrative power of the Sun and although our eyes do not so expressely know and see this present ingressive penetrating subtile and active power of the Sun in all things but the grosse bodies alwaies are and remain in our eyes grosse dark shady Yet in respect of the Sun and to the vertue of the Sun after their manner all things are diaphane and perspicuous and penetrable Which solar vertue thrusts forth and produceth all things hid in the earth and as the Air is such that with the very vertue of the Sun it doth essentially enter into all bodies penetrate and fill all things For fire is the life of things Lise is fire no fire can burn that is live without Air wheresoever therefore there is life or fire or the vertue of the Sun there also is Air. The world a great Creature Now the whole greater world as to its soul and body with all the creatures that are therein is one Creature by it self and one animall and lives like an animall having in it self its vitall spirit endued with a sevenfold operation or diffused into the seven Planets into all the Starrs and into all the Elements and all vegetables Mineralls and animalls generated of Elements The Element of Fire hath his shop or seat in the body of the Sun Planets and all the Starrs in that fire the Phenix of the world or soul of the world dwells which operates all things and is the Light of Nature the Vulcan of Heaven the Arthens of Nature The Air is it's respiration and balsome The Water is it's blood The Earth is it's flesh In like manner also it is in the Minor World in Man who as to his soul and body the form excepted in all things answers to the Major World as a son to his father because taken out of him and placed in him In the heart is the seat or habitation of the soul of the little world or the Syderean Spirits whose vertue life motion nature force operation ever and anon by going forth diffuseth it self into the other six principall members of the Microcosme the Brain the Liver the Lungs the Gall the Spleen the Reins and from thence into the whole body and all the muscles veins nerves parts and extremities of the whole Microcosme and so that only soul resident in the heart carries governs agitates leads moves the whole body according to the nature and propriety of these seven principall members by which the body performs all his works as well artificiall and subtile as simple and rude As the soule of the Macrocosme labouring in the seven Governours of his body and the rest of the Starrs produceth all created things Therefore as to the concordance of these seven Governours Planers Starrs or vertues in the Major and Minor World it is certain that 1. The Heart In the Microcosme is the same and hath the same force that as 1. ☉ In the Macrocosme 2. The Brain In the Microcosme is the same and hath the same force that as 2. ☽ In the Macrocosme 3. The Lungs In the Microcosme is the same and hath the same force that as 3. ☿ In the Macrocosme 4. The Reins In the Microcosme is the same and hath the same force that as 4. ♀ In the Macrocosme 5. The Gall. In the Microcosme is the same and hath the same force that as 5. ♂ In the Macrocosme 6. The Liver In the Microcosme is the same and hath the same force that as 6. ♃ In the Macrocosme 7. The Spleen In the Microcosme is the same and hath the same force that as 7. ♄ In the Macrocosme And as to the Elements 1. The Flesh Hath his anatomy of the Microcosme 1. The Earth Of the Macrocosme 2. The Blood Hath his anatomy of the Microcosme 2. The Water Of the Macrocosme 3. The Respiration Hath his anatomy of the Microcosme 3. The Air. Of the Macrocosme 4. The Heat Hath his anatomy of the Microcosme 4. The Fire Of the Macrocosme For in the Flesh of the Microcosme lyeth hid the essence nature and propriety of all vegetables springing out of the earth compacted and dispersed
the body invisible as to it's soul is without us From this we are all essentially in and with the first man complicitly made and created and incontinently after the Creation were put and placed into it And seeing it is manifest That every thing that is derived retaines the essence nature and propriety of it's originall That although the Macrocosme is without us yet neverthelesse it may also be found truly within us I say the World is in us and we are in it and yet this is as that is without us and we without that For indeed we have no existence or originall from any thing els but from that which is without us and which was before us Nor are we nor do wee inhabit walk and live in any thing els save in that weherof we are made Neither do we seek and draw forth meat and drink from any other either for the body or the sonl but from that into which we are placed and which is placed in us As to the Spirit we are of God move in God and live in God and are nourished of God Hence God is in us and we are in God God hath put and placed himself in us and we are put and placed in God As to the Soul we are from the Firmament and Starrs we wove and live therein and are nourished thereof Hence the Firmanment with it's astralick vertues and operations is in us and we in it The Firmament is put and placed in us and we are put and placed in the Firmament As to the Body we are of the Elements we move and live in them and are nourished of them Hence the Elements are in us and we in them The Elements by the slime are put and placed in us and we are put and placed in them So God is whole without us and also whole within us by the being of inspiration that is by his spirit communicated to us So the World is whole without Adam and also the whole World is within Adam by the being of extracted slyme So Adam is whole without us and also whole within us by the being of seed And so we bear God within us and God bears us in himself God hath us with himself and is neerer to us then we are to our selves We have God every where with us whether we know it or know it not We bear the World in us and the World bears us in it self Therefore whatsoever we perceive feel touch tast smell hear see imagine think speculate learn understand savour know eat and drink and wheresoever we walk this the very same from whence we have drawn our originall We are alwaies conversant in those things of which we are made For Man is the centre of the whole universe So we learn nothing els but the very same thing that was before us and whereof we are made and which before we begin to learn lies hid in us Yea we learn search and know nothing els then our selves to wit learning searching and knowing that whereof we come and whence we have received our being So we eat and drink nothing els but our selves to wit eating and drinking that whereof we are made So our body hath it's hunger and thirst in it self from within and desires perfection of it self by meat and drink taken fromthe Elements from without See Paracelsus of the Loadstone of Nature in the Macrocosme and Microcosme So the soul hath it's hunger and thirst in it self and desires the perfection of it self by meat and drink from the Starrs which is the wisdom and knowledge of naturall things by Arts Tongues Sciences c. Hence spring the Artificers and Wisemen of this world Moreover as in meat and drink taken from the Elements there is alwaies pure and impure conjoyned which when they come into the stomach to the Fire of digestion are by the internall Vulcan or Arthens of Nature separated from one another after a spagiricall manner an that which is pure is retained and abides in us that is the essence extracted from meat and drink the pure is separated from the impure which passeth into flesh and blood For it penetrates the body like unto leven and is made one with it and causeth it to incrtase that it may become greater and more solid in it's strength and nerves but the impure differing from nutriment is cast forth into the draught and that by the operation of Arthens labouring in the ventricle By like reason the matter is even in all Sciences arising from the Light of Nature where alwaies good and evill are joyned together For in Nature all things are convertible as well to good as to evill Wherefore unlesse Astroiogie be Theologized that is unlesse that which is good be retained and that which is evill rejected Man from thence acquires to himself eternall death And this the probation of Man CHAP. III. Of the three parts of man Spirit Soule and Body from whence every one is taken and how one is in the other THe parts of the Universe of which the whole Man is made are three The World of Eternity the Evial World and the World of Time The parts of Man are three Spirit Soul and Body and these three parts spring and are taken from these three parts of the whole Universe The Spirit of Man comes from the Spirit of God and participates with Eternity and Aevo The Soul in Man is extracted from the soul of the world and participates with Aevo and Time The Body of Man is formed and composed from the body of the world as Elements and participates with Time only The Body extracted from the Elements and constituted into this form is the House the Tabernacle the seat of the Soul and resident chiefly in the heart The Soul of Man extracted from the soul of the world and delivered over to the heart is the habitation of the Divine Spirit and hath the Divine Spirit in it self So one exists inthe other and dwells in the other abides in the other and operates in the other The Spirit in the Soul and by the Soul The Soul in the Body and by the Body The Body in and by externall subjects Every thing which is without is as that which is within but the internall alwaies excels the externall in essence vertue operation For By how much any thing is more inward by so much the more it is more noble potent and capacious Great vertue is in the Body if it be excited Greater in the Soul of the Firmament if it be excited Greatest in the Divine Spirit if it be exhited By excitation all things are laid open which are hidden and placed in Ignorance For both Divine and Naturall Wisdom sleep in us and each light shines in darknesse and without excitation Man wants the having Great and excellent is the knowledgeof the humane body extracted from the Elements and disposed into this form Greater and more excellent is the knowledge of the Soul taken from the Firmament
of the former World by the Ens of that slime is made pertaker of the same essence nature propriety as the Macrocosme had in it self For the whole great world existing and being compact in that quintessence of extracted slime forthwith it followed that the whole Macrocosme was complicitly collected and transposed into man by divine formation the substance and nature of the Macrocosme remaining neverthelesse safe and intire For such is the condition in the universal production and generation of things that every like of it self produceth his like and that without destruction of its essence and nature Hence that which hath its originall and derivation from God is the same that God is 3. John That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit That which is born of the flesh is flesh The Spirit or breath of God which is in Man immidiately proceeds from God therefore God is of a truth in Man by the Ens of inspiration That which hath its originall and derivation from the world is the same that the world is The soul and body of man are immediately taken extracted and composed of the World therefore the world is of a truth in Man by the Ens of slime So the first Man made of the Macrocosme bears in himself the Macrocosme with the essence and nature of all creatures complicated collected and compacted together yet neverthelesse he formed us to his body of the Elements and things elementated as to his soul of the soul of the Macrocosme or the Spirit of Nature which contains and comprehends in himself the whole Firmament with all its Starrs and astralique vertues and operations So it comes to passe That there is nothing without a man in the whole heaven of Nature and in all the Elements with which man in his composition doth not participate and is endued with its Nature But there are two things in which the Microcosme and the Macrocosme differ and appear to be contrary to wit The forme of the person and the complication of things As to the form it seemed good to divine wisdom to convert that Masse extracted from the Macrocosme and to be converted into a man not to put and set it into the form of the Macrocosme which is round and circular Nor according to the animall form But it pleased him to erect and apply it to the form of his own Image and similitude Man neverthelesse in the mean time remaining the Macrocosme Therefore this difference doth not touch his essence The form doth not take away the truth of the subject that man may not be believed to be the Macrocosme As to the complication or composition of all naturall things into one body or into one person all things cannot be apparent and distinctly known together in a Man one thing after an other as it is excited and provoked See concerning this this Foundation of Wisdom by Paracelsus is manifest and flourisheth in the species other things in the mean time remaining hid in the Macrocosme all things are explicitly existing living and operating in the species But in the Macrocosme all things are compact and conjoyned together Moreover after that Man the Microcosme was and held all things now in himself out of which he was taken behold the whole plenitude of Nature as well corporally as spiritually was conjoyned in him and as a most rich Treasure collected and laid up in one Centre yet so as man should be all things complicitly and yet none of them all explicitly And from this Protop last or first formed man and begetter of all even in like manner are we constituted and formed Adam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not of the same slime or Masse as that was in the beginning whereof Adam was made But by a Masse extracted from the substance of the Microcosme which we with Paracelsus call the Ens of seed which seed hath and bears in it self complicitly the whole Macrocosme that is Man and thence the humane off-spring as to the essence nature and propriety in all things a like grows and comes forth to its begetter as a most lively image which truly could not be done if all these things did not lie hid were extant in the Ens of the seed Hence every one of us hath the same in himself essentially delivered over to himself by the Ens of the seed from his parent which the first man received and had from the extracted Macrocosme by the Ens of slime to wit an elemental body from the Elements and a soul or syderean spirit from the Firmament CHAP. 5. That all kinds of Sciences Studies Actions and lifes flourishing amongst men on the earth and Sea do testifie That all Astrologie that is naturall wisdom with all it's species is and is to be really found in every man And so all things whatsoever men act on earth is produced moved governed and acted from the inward heaven And what are the Starrs which a wise man ought to rule IT is manifest therefore by the abovesaid how man appeareth to be made at length as to his Creation and Formation of slime that is from the Macrocosme 1. Because Man the Macrocosme placed in the Macrocosme agreeth altogether as well with the whole Firmament as with all the Elements and is one and the same his form only excepted as we see rednesse to be altogether one and the same in wine with wine and whitenesse in snow and with snow Then it followeth Seeing Man for himself and in himself is the whole world as he which hath his proper Heaven his proper Firmament and Spirit of Nature with the Sun Moon Planets and all the Starrs with him in himself of which from within he is constellated inclined directed moved excited drawn turned governed taught illuminated made joyfull made sad is fortunate and affected It is manifest that he is in no wise forced and compelled by the externall Firmament of the Macrocosme our soul of the world that he should assume and take a mind and affections of willing doing and operating this or that from without from the revolution and inclination or constellation of the celestiall Starrs in the Macrocosme For their opinion is of no moment who not rightly knowing the Macrocosme are fallen into that errour that they doubt not to determin That man by the externall influence of the Starrs by a certain naturall necessity is conditioned predestinated constellated directed compelled and driven to this or that good or evill Hence those false Proverbs the Starrs incline the Starrs rule men which is in no sort so if according to their opinion it be understood of the externall Starrs But we must know that all things whatsoever that are done by men as well in soul as in body arise and proceed from within from their own proper inclination and nature Within I say in man is that Heaven that Planet that Sydus or Starr by which he is inclined constituted predestinated and signed to this or that and not
belongs to the moderation of the externall Firmament as if a wise man ought to rule the course of the Celestiall Starrs and signs and to reduce the frame of the Macrocosme under his power to direct govern the Sun Moon Planets and Starrs according to his pleasure and to make calme and tempestuous weather according to his will Not so But the Starrs over which we ought to rule if we wil be true wise men are all the cogitations speculations cupidities affections c. ascending by imagination out of our hearts respecting the things and creatures of the world and tending by free will and reason to abuse and pleasure to them we ought not to be too much adicted or overmuch to connive and indulge For in these that deadly and infernall snake or serpent lieth hid seducing man by all sort of concupiscences into an unlawfull love honour and worship of the creatures and thereof makes a Babilonish whore as in the subsequent matter will be demonstrated CHAP. 6. Touching a double Firmament and Starr in every man and that by the benefit of Regeneration in the exercise of the Sabbath a man may be transposed from a worser Nature into a better FRom the abovesaid there appears a most elegant Doctrine to wit although some of us by constitution and concordance of the externall and internall heaven in the point of his conception and nativity should happily have attained the most wicked constellation and nature ready and prone to commit any kind of maliciousnesse so as he should even bear in his face in his countenance in his hands and in his whole body an evident signature or phisiognomie to every most wicked crime all which should shew most certain tokens that he should act not only a most miserable and most wicked kind of life but also should expect on himself the most cruell punishment and destruction Yet neverthelesse we must not altogether despair of such a mans correction and salvation The reason is Because besides the naturall Heaven and Astralic Firmament which is in our soul we have another Heaven another Sydus another Starr another Light another Constellation which is the Spirit of God by whose power being supported we may shake off and drive away all the provocations of the evill ascendents of naturall Starrs as an Asse is wont to shake off and drive away flies and gnats stinging him on his back Therefore although nature is potent and strong in her self in inciting and forcing a man in his proper will and reason by her divers and delectable concupiscences to any kind of crime Yet the Spirit of the Lord in his vertue power and fortitude is far superiour and exceeds nature in as great a measure as the Sun is seen to excell the Moon Let a man then at length learn and do his endeavour that he may know what that most profitable precept of God touching the sanctification of the Sabbath to be exercised Sibi velit every seventh day requires of him in which exercise neverthelesse the worst of things may be corrected and also transformed into the best things For such a medicine lyeth hid in the holy exercise of the Sabbath as whole Nature with her universall vertue is not able to exhibit to a man for which medicines sake this book is written A man therefore inclined naturally to this or that vice by occasion of his generation ought not to connive at himself or to frame any excuse as if he could by right accuse the externall heaven that that is the cause wherefore he cannot live honestly and do that which is good nor by any means can overcome change break correct his sinful nature or convert it into better and so under the pretext of humane imbecillity as it were defend his spontaneous malice avarice lust pride and intemperance c. and to go forward in a vicious life O opinion most worthy of refutation and to be acursed I pray what should the cry of Christ the Prophets and Apostles avail Repent repent be ye converted unto me and I will be converted unto you put off the old Man and put on the new Man and flie evill and cleave to that which is good and lay aside the works of darknesse and walk in the light I say to what end should these things be spoken and commanded if our defence or excuse should have place in the divine Judgement Let such a man the refore so wickedly deceived of himself suffer himself to be instructed and taught by this our most profitable Theologization of Astrologie wherein we have found and tryed not without the greatest joy of the mind that besides the shop and operation of nature there is alwaies present in us something far more great and excellent with the knowledge and vertue whereof we being fraught have power of resisting not only one but all vices as well the greatest as the least whatsoever lie hid and are manifest in us Yea power not only of casting down and drowning one stone but also the whole mountain of the Macrocosme being in us in the Sea of divine Power or extirpating utterly not only one leafe but even the whole tree of the knowledge of good and evill extant in us and of transplanting it into the garden of the celestiall Paradise For so all these things are manifest in Theologicall misteries to those that understand these things Truly it is evident all things are essentially to be transferred unto Man which are divinely written for Man I say we have a power lying hid in us of over ruling whole nature See the Scripture of Regeneration and New-birth of stopping the Serpent and overcoming all his force and of instituting in us a new and that good a better the best nativity of erecting and instituting in us from a new heaven a new kind of life and a far more happy sigure and that by the sole benefit of the Sabbath by which from day to day we may put off the old Man and put on the new Man fall back from vices and passe on to vertues that is to shake off from us all the ascendent Starrs or flames of divers concupiscences and desires to all kind of pleasures of this world ever and anon provoking drawing and seducing us By this means we go forth safe and free from the house of Egipt from the Babilonian Captivity and we escape from the power of the great Creature we overcome sinfull nature we resist the Serpent we chase away the divell And by how much the more frequent we are in this exercise of the Sabbath or in this Theologisation of Astrologie by so much the more we are made strangers to Nature that we are scarce any more known or touched by her neither doth any Astrologer Phisiognomour Signatour Divinatour Artist how industrious soever know any more to erect any certain nativity or to prognosticate any thing to come Because they which are frequent in familiarity with God these are more and more alienated from the
throughout the whole body In the Blood doth exist the essence nature and propriety of all mineralls and mettalls bred of water dispersed throughout the whole region of the blood In the Respiration whose seat is in the Lungs the Bowells and the Veins and all pores mirscles c. is the essence nature and propriety of all the airy creatures dispersed through the whole body In the Heat dwells the essence nature force operation and propriety of all the Starrs and constellations of Starrs dispersed-through the whole body Moreover as to the concordance of either Light as well in the Major as in the Minor world thus it is Whatsoever things man living on earth hath found out first the oretically by speculating meditating searching and inquiring excogitating from within in his heart and after by his free will or desire produceth endeavours attempts institutes handles operates and transferrs to practice in whatsoever kind of Sciences Arts Faculties Theologie excepted which is not a humane invention studies handyworks labours and negotiations whether they be referred to good or evill Or also the fruit of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evill which is evident only to Magies all these comprehended under one name are called the Light of Nature or Astrologie or naturall Wisdome arising from the naturall heaven or Firmament and Starrs That wisdom and that light is in the soul of Man dwelling and working in the heart which if it be exalted in its power given to it and created in it can do the same and more then the soul of nature in the Macrocosme whose seat is in the Sun because Man the Microcosme is the quintessence extracted from the Macrocosme But seeing all and singular Sciences Arts Faculties Orders States kinds of life and studies flourishing amongst men on the earth arise and proceed from an internall invisible Heaven Firmament Starr and Light of Nature in the Microcosme which is extracted from the Light Heaven Firmament and Starr of the Macrocosme and hath his singular anatomy distribution and conveniencie to the offices and operations of the seven Governours of the world without We as the order of those Governours extant in the Firmament of Heaven is exposed to our eyes will first of all handle Saturn occupying the Supreme sphear to wit what is the Theorie and practise of his Heaven Starr or Constellation with his adjunct Starrs in the Macrocosme that is what is his condition nature propriety vertue and inclination what Science what Art and Industry what Order what Study what fortune what good and what evill men draw and handle from him on the earth Whereby it will appear that Saturn is not only without a man in the Major world but also in man with all the legion and inclination of their adjunct Starrs Then how the whole Astrologie that is the nature propriety and operation of this Planet ought to be Theologized by the exercise of the Sabbath CHAP. VIII Touching the Astrologie of Saturn of what kind it is and how it ought to be Theologized SAturn as to the description of his substance and nature in the Macrocosme is one of the chief of those seven Starrs which we call Planets or Governours of the world walking next of all in the aiery Region under the Firmament or Zodiac and ordained in a certain Sphear or Circle or Mansion the circuit of circle he finisheth he passeth over once in the space of thirty years time through the twelve celestiall Signs extant in the Zodiac His body arising from the Element of Fire and illuminating that is cherishing and governing the earth and what are in and on the earth his body is fiery and globous his Astralic force which is the firmamentall or syderean Spirit is invisible Now Saturn is conditioned with that nature propriety from the first creation that he may send forth exercise the vertue operation of his splend or light in his subjects existing here and there in the foure Elements as are vegetables mineralls animalls properly and in specie pertaining to him wherein he effects and frameth such a nature and vertue as he hath in himself Now Saturn hath his subjects appropriate to himself in every kind of creature amongst Vegetables he hath his young twigs his herbs his plants his flowers his trees in which he operates by his influence after his manner So amongst mineralls and mettalls also amongst animalls creeping going creatures cattell beasts watery and volatill creatures For the whole university of the creatures of this world with us men is divided into seven kinds or assemblies and dispersed into every region which answer to these seven Governours in their naturall vertues and proprieties as well internall as externall But touching the Astronomicall condition of Saturn and the rest of the Planets to wit what kind of motion position course quantity distance opposition conjunction and other dimensions of this kind they have amongst themselves also touching the difference of their weights in mettalls c. it is not our purpose here to handle them concerning such kind of things consult Astronomicall books and Chimicall books and the like publiquely extant abroad but we rather handle and shew this How all the studies and offices and kinds of life of all men have their originall from the Starrs and to which Planet every thing is to be referred Then how the whole Astrologie ought to be Theologized that is how every one of us ought to know discern hate put off say aside and deny the old man made of Astrologie with all his Wisdom Science Knowledge Prudence Industry Art and whatsoever a man hath occupies and possesseth of the gifts of Nature and in the denial of himself and all that he hath as well within as without altogether to grow a child again to be made an infant yea a fool and to put on the new Man which is created according to God to walk in newnesse of life to die to sin and to live to justice to know that Babilonian Whore and her Beast c. and to preserve himself from her c. to know the forbidden Tree and to eat of the Tree of Life and to passe over from nature into grace to be made a new creature to be born again to transplant himself from the terrene Paradise into the Heavenly to labour six daies and rightly to sanctifie the seventh and the like This is the intention end and scope of this our work Therefore Saturnists or the worshippers of Saturn whose minds desires wills inclinations affections concupiscences pleasures cogitations speculations inventions actions and labours are ascribed to Saturn as to their study and kind of life are men in whom is and flourisheth all kind of science and industry 1. Cain was a husbandman Abell a keeper of sheep Of all Agriculture as are Husbandmen Countreymen Farmers Tyllers of the ground also Mowers Threshers Heardsmen Swineheards Pastors of cattell Purveyors of corne or those which exercise merchandise with corn and pulse also