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A88292	The vvorld's catastrophe, or Europes many mutations untill, 1666. The fate of Englands monarchy untill its subversion. Government of the vvorld under God by the seven planetary angels; their names, times of government. An exact type of the three suns seen in Cheshire and Shropshire, 3 April 1647. Their signification and portent, astrologically handled. / By VVilliam Lilly student in Astrologie: who is, amicus patria, & veritas amator. To which is added, A whip for Wharton.	Lilly, William, 1602-1681.; Merlin Ambrosius.; Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2252; Thomason E387_1; ESTC R201490	73,237	78

Horace and Segment 7. Aph. 166. Genitura valida regna mutant strong Genitures do change Kingdoms yet it is nothing Ponere os in Coelum yet it availeth not to gaze upon the Heavens only Causes Adjutant are Revolutions the Progressions of the great Orb of great Conjunctions before the flood the birth of our Saviour Mahomet and the like which things being rightly considered may not only enable us to foretell the end of the world but perhaps the time also for in the bosome of the heavens as we noted in our second part de vita propaganda et morte retardanda there is a Seminary vertue to be infused upon any for so often as conveniency is bestowed by the sundry Complexions of the Planets and Ascentions of the Signes from this Inferiour matter it raiseth the Form from Potentiallity to Action And in the first book and 6. Chap. de Max. Conjunct We said that the Coelestiall bodies do operate according to the matter disposed which matter if at any time it be found unapt we must endeavour to prepare and fit it for to receive the Coelestiall form for according to Aristotle 2 de Anima Text 26. Agens Naturale non agit in passum nisi secundum materi●m dispositam A naturall Agent worketh not upon a subject but according to the matter disposed Wherefore if the effects foretold shall not happen to be verified in that year not only in those Universall changes and conjunctions but also in every year by the particular Revolutions of years and particular Constellations yet in the subsequent years they shall be verified after that the Inferiour bodies suscitated by the precedent influences shall be made ready Even as wise men by preceding great Conjunctions have shewed that the effects thereby signified were manifested a long time after as Albumazar acknowledgeth in his Iract of great Conjunctions but especially in his first difference cap. 3. viz. That the conjunction which gave signification of the Flood happened 379. years before and that which fore-shewed the birth of Moses did precede 80. years before the effects thereof shewed themselves she like may be said concerning those Starrs w th suddenly appeared in the heavens and afterwards were dispersed As that w th was observed in the time of Hypparchus w th signified the transferring of the Greek into the Roman Empire produced not its effects till after 63. years for Hypparchus flourished 10● years before Christ and the Roman Empire translated from the Greeks begun Anno. 42. before the birth of Christ The Starr also that was seen in the time of Augustus Caesar did premonstrate so many Exiles and Martyrs that many took it to be the cleare Comet which should establish the Kingdom of Peace Others as 't is reported did conjecture it to be the Starr in which Sybilla Tyburtina shewed Augustus Caesar the Image of a beautifull Virgin holding a Boy in her bosom and saying This childe is greater then thou worship him To which Mantuan sufficiently alludeth speaking of the afore-named Sybill Haec cum Divinos vultus sacra pararent Augusto cum Plebe patres citò Tiburis Arcem Liquit et ingentes veniens ad Caesaris Aulas Fulgentem nitido monstravit in aethere circum Irideque inclusam parva cum prole parentem Atque manum tendens vultuque ad Sydera verso Ille puer quis est inquit tu desine Caesar Velle Coli pueroque Aras ac Templa relinque Ille regit Coelos atque immortalis Olympi Possidet imperium et fatalia temperat Astra Pone precor Caesar fastus Auguste superbos Teque licet tractes vastae telluris habenas Esse sub immenso positum reminiscere summi Principis imperio cui rerum aeterna potestas Augustus with the Senate People All Fitting themselves for holy mysteries Shee hast's from Tiburs Tower comes to the Hall Or Court of Caesar pointing to the Skies Where in a most clear ayr shee them did shew A mother and her Babe wrapt round about In a bright Iris or most fulgent Bow Upward her face and both her hands strecht out Viewing the childe and poynting with her hand Who is that Boy says shee O Caesar peace VVorship thou him The heavens he doth command The Altars and the Temples now must cease Leave them to him he rules the Firmament The immortall heavens he orders and doth guide The ●atall Starrs under his Government Are all subjected in the world beside Augustus Caesar let thy haughtiness Be laid aside what though thou rul'st the earth Thou must remember that thou art much less And art his Vassall bragg not of thy birth His power is infinite and rules on high All things are under his Authority Yet the effects thereof viz Preaching of the Gospel the promulgation and publication of the Law the sedition of the people the troubles persecutions banishments bloodshed deaths warrs c. had their beginning God so pleasing after many years The same we are to understand of other Conjunctions and Mockstarrs signifying their effects after many years and the reason hereof is two-fold the first Metaphysicall which we have elsewhere often repeated the second Physicall by the first Segm. Aph. 55. for Quaecunque lentius operantur diutiù● protrahunt effect● suos All such things as operate slowly do protract their effects longer For neither can the force of a Star lye hid nor be abolished Thus also the Cloud about the Asses plainly sheweth Much indeed might be said concerning these things yet because we have spoken thereof in another place we will therefore for brevity sake omit them only declaring that in this Age there was a great Conjunction of ♃ and ♄ in the first face of Sagittary now finished and perfected in the Watery Triplicity concerning which mention was made in our books of great Conjunctions notwithstanding we will here add something more for further explanation Seeing therefore that the great Conjunctions of the weightier Planets are wont to produce great effects as the changes of Monarchies and Kingdomes the comming of Prophets and the like by them also the dead shall be changed and all things shall be renewed and now shall those Sciences be revealed which in ancient time Kings and Princes found out and regard shall be had to the Doctrine and Congregations of Learned men But in our Age new Sciences are not only found out but in some measure men seem to oppose the inventions themselves Indeed from these great Conjunctions and happy significations of the Planets with respect had to the Lord of the Ninth house shall flow Doctrines and Sciences and wise men shall be elected who shall invent new learning for like as the causes are so shall the effects be for good Conjunctions are wont to bestow goodness and good Magisstrate but evill the contrary criminall customs and conditions hence also shall wicked rulers be produced for the sin of the people deceipts wars and Tyrants shall arise and shall oppose themselves to peace tranquillity and lea●●ing For

the inhabitants of Babylon and a dearth of Corn and Altradenen shall be mingled and the inhabitants of Italy shall sustain much misfortune and shall undergo captivities and consequently oppression and mortality And they shall commit injuries one against another And men shall incur dry diseases as the scab and the itch and there shall be a great death of Oxen and a decay of Vines and some part of the Country shall be made desolate by a vehement cold and corruption of their Harvest and by the destruction of the fruits of their Trees and through want of Tillage and Plantations in the Countrey they shall fear the King of their enemies Albumazar foretels evil of men and a decay of such as be good injuries and Rebellions amongst them and when its Declination fals out in the beginning of Aries it portends much war in divers Regions and great effusion of blood the destruction of great men and a choice of such as be evil and infirm and an Odium shall fall among the Inhabitants and they if not more Regions shall subject themselves to the King of Babylon and Haly lib. 8. Cap. 41. saies the same affirming that there will be a decay in the territories of Christians and of Babylon Now if these things by the authority of Albumazar and Haly be signified by a Simple Comet How much more then by this mock star which was observed to be far greater and of longer continuance And in the year 1603. in the end thereof was a great Conjunction of ♄ and ♃ as formerly we noted revolved to the fiery Triplicity in the first face of Sagittary not far from the Scorpions heart of the first magnitude of the nature of Mars with the presence of ☿ in a ● of ● and a long ⚹ of the ☽ we called this a great ☌ because by the first Aph. 67. Maxima Conjunctio dicitur cum permutando se ex aqueo signo Arietem ingreditur A great Conjunction is said to be when by removing it self out of a watery sign it entreth into the sign dries therefore the first is no such one for another happened in Leo and we conclude with Albumazar Tract 1. Differ 2. That the sign Sagittary is the strongest of the signs of the fiery Triplicity Leo indifferent and ♈ the weakest This great ☌ as we have it elsewhere and let the Reader excuse us if we repeat it often for by the 4. Aph. 85. Repetitio necessaria est in hac scieentia vel ob difficultatem vel ob necessitatem vel ob utilitatem ingentem vel ob contradictionem Repetition in this Science is requisite either by reason of difficulty necessity exceeding benefit or to avoid contradiction Signifieth the destruction of the Empire of Mahomet then an universall peace with the universall Empire of Christians yet not without labour difficulties blood-shed and by infinite infelicities Rebellions Discentions and Treacherousness by reason of the presence of the Scorpions heart and Mercury and the Quartile of Mars and because of the appearance of the Mock-star in such a Triplicity concerning which star in imitation of Albumazar Tract 5. Differ 7. we say That if any of the Stars having hairs shall appear in the Direct of Sagittary it signifieth the vehemency of a King over his people and his coveting of moneys the depression of men and the taking of things by violence injustice and injuries with the death of such Nobles as had their honour under the fiery Triplicity and consequently it foresheweth a drought and death of the Inhabitants and the destruction of their Kings son and that their cattell shall be raised to great rates in many parts a vehemency of heat and a decay of fruits the death of Kings and Citizens and much lewdness in sundry places And as we instanced before If so great effects are signified by Comets which last but the space of three or four moneths what shall this Mock star portend which lasted above a whole year Moreover if that moving Mock star of the third magnitude in the daies of Hypparchus did portend a mutation of the Monarchy of the Greeks into that of the Romans How much more may these Mock-stars of the years 1572. and 1604. which remained immoveable and exceeded all the stars of Heaven in magnitude foreshew not only their changes but even their destruction We must now come to the particular times when these things shall happen and in what places for in this year 1625. there beginneth a preparation for War between the Princes in and without Italy The Plague likewise rageth in sundry parts of Sicilia and a dearth of Corn. The effects proceed not only as some suppose from the annuall Revolution for the annuall Revolution begins according to Ptolomy when the Sun enters into the first point of ♈ and as well the preparation for wars as those Pestilent diseases had their birth in former years wherefore such wonderfull effects cannot be produced from the simple annuall Revolution without the Eclipses of the Luminaries and some other notable Constallations as the most learned Ptolomy hath insinuated 4. Apot. 2. Therefore we may the rather conclude that these things have arisen from former causes for as it hath often been urged Corpora Coelestia non agere in instanti sed cum tempore The Caelestiall Bodies do not operate upon a suddain but with some delay And as Aristotle attesteth Natura ●on facit saltum Nature works not by leaps Moreover we in our 2. book de Max. Con. c. 6. foretold this year 1625. to be infortunate● the words were these But some may say where and when shall these things be These things and the former are handled in the preceding Chapter for we prophesied of War of the dearth of Corn Plague and dissentions which shall be manifested in those Regions which are subject to the sign Cancer and such other signs as be opposite and in Quartile thereunto and those places are mentioned by us liba cap. ult De mutatione Aeris As concerning the time when those things shall happen We say they will happen in the end of the second year from the ☌ when the malevolents shall come to the Sun that is in the end of the year 1624. and in 1625. And a little after in the same Chapter Pag. 79. at the end and in the beginning of pag. 80. we said But in the year 1625. although there happen four Eclipses whereof neither of these horrible ones of the Sun can be seen of us nor the latter of the Moon yet the former of the Moon may be observed in our Horizon which shall happen upon Sunday the 23. of May according to the New but the 13. of the same moneth after the old account not far from the North Node in the 3. degr 20. min. of ♎ and the Digits eclipsed shall be 2 and about 15 min. the beginning at six hours 24. minutes the middle or true ☍ or the full moon at seven hours seventeen minutes The end at eight

of the clock and ten minutes of the following night which eclipse happeneth in the place of the ship and in the platique square of an infortune whereby besides those pestiferous diseases now mentioned from that time we may easily point out Ruine and great alteration of the A●e and much wars many conflicts sudden deaths effusion of blood and assault to be made against some King troublesome and pernitious seditions And in like manner it may be observed that such effects are enraged or put forward by the Eclipses of the precedent year 1624. almost in which year there happened likewise an Eclipse of the Sun to the quantity of eleven Points and half in the nineteenth degree of ● The 12. of October 1605. it came to the opposition of the glittering Mock-star 1572. Moreover in the year 1620. there happened an eclipse of the Moon in the eighteenth degree of Gemini being 19. points and half darkened in opposition to the star that appeared 1604. and according to P●olomy it incontinently produced its effects Whereby it appeareth that the future Catastrophe of the world shall not be this year for these effects do not arise from the Mock-stars and great Conjunctions but from causes that be less universall And the present Accidents of the world as of wars the Plague and such others are as it were the first offerings of the great Revolutions of Italy and the world Therefore we will conclude that the Revolutions of sublunary things may be produced in future years sc when the great Conjunction happeneth in the watery Triplicity that is in the end of that Triangle Anno 1583. it shall come to the Mock-star which appeared Anno 1562. And such a direction in the opinion of Tycho according to the Zodiacall degrees shall fall out in the year 1632. near unto which time the great Conjunction that happened in the fiery Trigon Anno 1603. comes to the square synister of Mars who beheld that great Conjunction by a Quartile Aspect in the Radix Moreover the great Conjunction of Leo Anno 1623. comes almost at the very same time by direction to the Triangle of the Star which resulst in the year 1604. Besides in the year 1630. The Absis of Saturn is changed from Sagittary the house of ♃ to Capricorn his proper house And it is not to be doubted but that the first point of Capricorn is a place very powerfull because it is the solstitial point yet the terms belong to Mercury who augment drought and moisture the Pestilence scarcity of fruits and animals for ♄ hath signification of cold and dryness Mercury portendeth dryness coagulation and deadly windes by 7. Aph. 69. and variety of the season Besides inundations Earthquakes Frosts and snow and extream cold by 7. Aph. 67. and when he is near unto the third stars of Sagittary of the third magnitude nigh to the Shaft or in the shaft it self he hath greatest force so that then Traitors and Man-slayers are produced The permutation likewise of the Absides of the Planets especially of ♄ do change Kingdoms and Regions and Religious by the 1. Aph. 37. and when it shall be translated to an earthly sign and to the Tropique of ♑ in the terms of ☿ there shal be great earthquakes by the 7. Aph. 124. For when the Absides of the infortunes shall be in watery signs especially in ♋ and ♏ there will be inundations But if in fiery signs barrenness and Cons●agrations If in Aiery a generall and great destruction and if in earthly signs great Earthquakes shall succeed Besides what hath been said this change also of the Absides of ♄ do confirm what formerly we have delivered touching the false Prophet by the 3 Aph. 136. In the transmutation of the Angis and of the Regall and great Conjunctions great men are born although the Genitures do not shew it so expresly By the change of the Absides of ♄ in ♋ Mahomet had his growth Therefore by the same mutation of the Absis in ♑ the opposite sign he shall suffer detriment decay and come to nothing And this may be proved by the predictions of Mahomet the lying Prophet in things belonging to the Kingdom of glory but perhaps he may have spoken the truth in many things touching the success of the Empire of such who should follow his Law and especially when he foretold the time wherein the Mahumetan Laws was about to be destroyed It is reported by many that Mahomet had the spirit of Divination of others that he was Lunatique or oppressed with an evil spirit whereby he foretelling something which was to be performed by the Devil by little and little he grew into great esteem amongst the ignorant people insomuch that from a driver of Camels he became the husband of an exceeding rich Heir whereupon the spirit within him grew very haughty and he begun to prophesie many things and by the help of Serguis Nestorianus the Heretique he was made Legislator and wrote the Alcoran The which God suffering it he knew should have a great increase for 1000 years but those being finished the Mahumetans that succeeded grew so faint for the death of their King that the Law by him established was no longer observed Wherefore the period of the 1000. years of the Law of Mahomet shall be thus manifested The years of Mahomet of Hagira begun when Mahomet undertook his expedition for the defence of Religion which was in the year of Christ 603. and he died in the year following when he had 40. years so that by accounting Hagira from this year about the year 1630 when there shall happen so many Revolutions of the heavens and when the Aux of Saturn passes into ♑ the sign opposite to Cancer in which was the increase of his Law shall be the end and destruction thereof but by the word end we understand not a totall extirpation but a sensible beginning of its destruction Again to speak Astrologically seeing that the Faith of Mahomet remaineth Martiall and Lunar if we will take the lesser years of these Planets they will make up the 40. Mahumetan years sc 25. of the Moon and 15. of Mars Lastly if we will take the lesser greater and mean years of these Planets and adde them to the 591. year from the birth of Christ in which year Mahomet was born his great destruction shall begin about the year 1648. And if to those years we adde also the Fridary years of these Planets his totall and last destruction shall be about the year 1663. after great and horrible slaughters and ealamities and after the death of the false Prophet The great Revolutions of the world and the infortunate effects of the by past Profections of the great Conjunctions preceding the Flood Christ and Mahomet are nowconfirmed For the profection of the great Conjunction which preceded the Flood cometh in the year 1632. to the sign of Scorpio which is the sign of the Turks and of Mahomet as before we mentioned and it is

these causes in ancient time Learned and wise men were chosen to be Kings and Princes and such as were skilfull in all Arts and Sciences and amongst the Persians none was elected King who was not versed in Magick and the Mathematicks whence those Kings were called Magi and wise men that they might govern the people rightly But now adaies as well the unlearned as learned are admitted by inheritance to the government of Kingdoms Besides in Aegypt Chaldea Persia and Greece where the inventors of Sciences and all learning flourished those that addict themselves to the study thereof shall now be severely punished and those Regions at this present are in a manner quite dispoiled of all Sciences And it is evident that these things happened after the great Conjunction in the Fourth house and false sign Scorpio having great force over those Countreys Which Scorpionisticall Conjunction and decay of the learning of the Aegyptians being foreseen by the most wise Trismegistus to his unspeakable grief he was constrained with a sorrowfull and bewailing soul thus to exclaime O Ægypt There remains only the Stories of thy wisdom and learning For behold the divinity of Sciences is returned into Heaven and only perverse and ignorant men shall abide on earth Insomuch that he that would apply himself to the true study of learning shall be punished with death Thus Trismegistus with how much truth no man is ignorant The Roman Empire also which had been accustomed to elect its King amongst the valiant Captains of War stoops now to Clerks that be strangers to War wherefore the great Conjunctions do not only foreshew that but Kingdoms also and Cities are governed by the great years of the Planets which are described by Wise men some whereof be 1460. others 520. others 480. others 465. others 428. others 264. and the rest 260. and the Cities and Kingdoms are in the height of their Government according to these years and first they begin to decline their Government and then fall into servitude and destruction so that it is no wonder if Cities and Kingdoms and Monarchies do change their manner of Government and as it were a thing deserted of its presiding Planet flyeth to another nature of other Planets and so alwaies Kingdomes and Cities when they have finished their years they proceed to worse and alwaies decline and the starrs do ruinate and destroy their government and custome and by that means the conditions of men become contrary whereby Seditions and hatred vices and evill behaviour are raised in Cities and when those things do reign in Cities the Portents of the Planets are destructions of government and so by those vices flowing from the Planets Cities and Kingdoms are destroyed and led into Captivity or transferred to a strange Government We finde also that so oft as the Creator of all things hath any new Law to establish in the world or any other good for the benefit of man or any evil as a scourge for sin it is his pleasure to admonish all the faithfull that such things are to succeed yea long before they happen and this in such manner as that they should truly acknowledge him to be God and adore him The truth of which is affirmed by so many holy books of the Old Law wherein the Prophets foretold all things which were to befall the Hebrews yea it was evermore designed in the Universall Book of Heaven and demonstrated by the great Conjunctions As that Conjunction under the Constellation of Andromeda did the Circumcision The Conjunction in ♓ under the image of Cassiopeia did the Mosaicall Law the Conjunction in ♌ under the image of Vexillus the first Emperour The Sect of the Chaldeans in the Conjunction of ♄ ♃ and ♂ Whereupon the Chaldeans did begin their burnt Sacrifices and worshiped the Divinity beleeved by them to be mixt with the fire and supposing that the fire was changed into God it 's former accidents still remaining So the Sect of the Ægyptians by the Congress of ♄ ♃ and the ☉ wherefore they worshiped the Constellations of Heaven and the Host of the Sun But the Sect of the Sarazens was premonstrated by the application of ♄ ♃ and ♀ who grew in luxury and concupiscence So God before the coming of our Saviour shewed a sign in heaven by the great ☌ of ♄ ♃ and ☿ in the first decade of Virgo with change of Triplicity concerning which sign of Virgo Albumazar in the 6. of his Introduct Virgo Signum sterile tripartitum biforme in prima ejus decade in qua facta fuit talis Conjunctio ascendit Puella munda corpore decora vultu venusta habitu modesta crine prolixo manu gemina● cristas tenens supra solium aureatum residens pueruns nutriens Virgo is a barren sign tripertite double-bodied in the first decade whereof wherein such a Conjunction happened a● cendeth a beautifull Virgin of a comely body pleasant countenance modest attire long hair holding two Plumes in her hand sitting in a golden Throne and nourishing a boy The very same did Abraham affirm in his book called Principium sapientie where he saith Ascendiv quoque in prima facie ejus virgo pulchra sui capilli longi habens in manu sua duas spicas ipsaque sedet super sedem unam nutrit puerum parvulum ipsum lactando ad comedendumque incitando There ascendeth also in the first face thereof a fair Virgin having long hair holding two ears of Corn in her hand and she sitteth upon a seat and nourisheth a little boy by giving him suck and inciting him to eat The Sect also of Mahomet was premonstrated by the Stars and we noted lib. 2. cap. 3. of great Conjunctions That the ☌ of ♄ and ♃ in ♏ with the ☌ of the ☽ and the warlike irradiation of ♂ in the year of the world 4271. signified the Law of Mahomet and the Turks and seeing that ♏ wherein that ☌ happened by the 2. Quadr. com 54. is the house of ☌ with the ☌ of him and the ☽ for this cause untill this present time he retaineth warlike and Lunar manners and that Law of his enjoyns all kinde of rude gross and popular things Pleasures Vices Wickedness Luxuries and Rapes Wars Conflicts and Effusion of Blood and for that the new place of the ☌ is Cancer of which the ☽ is Lady therefore we conclude the Law of the Mahometans to be Lunar and Martiall by the Authority of Albumazar Lib. 1. Differ 3. and 4. Mag. Con. and when the Moon shall signifie a rude People which are secluded from all skilfulness by the judgement of all Astrologers Therefore that Law is rude and gross popular and an enemy to learning even as the Common people are for by reason of the dominion of Mars it enjoyneth it self to be protected not with Arguments but Arms hence it is that whosoever shall but in the least degree scandalize their Law shall be slain with Iron And because the ☽ is exceeding swift