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A85346	Vnheard-of curiosities concerning the talismanical sculpture of the Persians; the horoscope of the patriarkes; and the reading of the stars. Written in French, by James Gaffarel. And Englished by Edmund Chilmead, Mr. of Arts, and chaplaine of Christ-Church Oxon.; Curiositez inouyes, sur la sculpture talismanique des persans. Horoscope des patriarches. Et lecture des estoilles. English.	Gaffarel, Jacques, 1601-1681.; Chilmead, Edmund, 1610-1654, translator.	1650 (1650)	Wing G105; Thomason E1216_1; ESTC R202160	209,056	473

Seeing Hearing Loving Hating and the like All which Effects are specified by Manilius But they said only that the Child would be Healthfull or Sickly without particularizing any Disease that it would be Fortunate or Vnfortunate without specifying wherein And in briefe they foretold in Generall Termes the Good or Ill that should befall it according to the Benevolent or Malignant Nature of the Signes For they saw that Saturne by reason of its being so Cold and Mars by reason of its great Drinesse were very Malignant Jupiter and Venus being Temperate were very Favourable Stars as also was the Sunne and Mercury of an Indifferent Nature But as for the Moon they thought so diversly of It as that when it was at the Full they accounted it Fortunate but when it was Horned they thought it to be so Malignant as that if a Child were borne under some certaine of its Aspects it died not long after or if it lived it would prove to be guilty of Crimes as great as its Temper was Blacke And this is that which moved the Wise Women among the Hebrewes to write or cause to be written upon the Walls of their Bed-chamber at the time of their Falling in Travell these words as Abiudan testifies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adim Chavah Chouts Lilith Adam Eve Out Lilith that is to say Let not Lilith enter here Now this Lilith is no other then the Moon being a name derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lailah which signifles the Night I shall not here set downe what strange Conceits the more Superstitious Jewes that came a long while after have vented concerning this Demon called Lilith which they said had its Residence in some certaine Influences of the Moon But I conceive that the Greeks and Latines who borrowed the greatest Part of their Theology from the Idolatrous Syrians and Chaldeans have among the rest lighted upon these Traditions of Lilith which they called by the Name of Lucina accounting her the Goddesse that ruled in cheife at Child-births because they had heard say that the Moone being at the Full was a very Favourable Planet to Women with Child which gave occasion to Horace to sing thus of her Montium Custos Nemorumque Virgo Quae laborantes utero puellas Ter vocata audis adimisque letho Diva Triformis 7. But that we may not dwellany longer upon Fables you may perceive that the Wise-men among the Hebrewes acknowledged their Good or Ill Fortune to have beeen caused by this Starre as Chomer testifieth and that either by Its being in the Full or in the Wane seeing that they called it by two names by a Masculine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jareach which signified Good Fortune and by a Feminine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Levanah which denoted Ill Fortune And Possibly the Latines also may have imitated them in this Particular in these two Names of This Planet Lunus and Luna which neither Scaliger nor Casaubon searching after this Etymology did observe I am not ignorant that Julius Firmicus and the Platonists are of Opinion that in these names Masculus significat Virtutem Efficientem Foemina Virtutem ipsam ac potentiam capientem Numinis And if we but rightly consider this Doctrine we shall finde it to be very little different from the former And perhaps for this reason it was that the Heavens also were called Coelum Caelus as Pighius Campensis testifies in his Themis where he produceth this Ancient Inscription COELVS AETERNVS JUPITER Or else according to our former Conjecture the Heaven was so called because it was Favourble to some and either Indifferent or else Adverse to others 8. As concerning the Planet Saturne these Ancient Hebrewes stood in great Dread of It because they did observe that those that were borne under the Dominion of this Starre were Melancholicke and Sickly And this is the reason that the Chaldeans who gave themselves over to the Worship of many False Gods observing that this Starre was very Hurtfull to them thought good by some Sacrifice or other to render it more Propitious and Favourable to them And there being no other Sacrifice more Proper for It then that whereon It so often shewes Its sad Effects that is to say new-borne Children they began to sacrifice of These to this Planet under the name of Moloc quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Melech that is to say a King because it raigned Imperiously over Men or rather shewed it selfe a Tyrant over them by afflicting them with Diseases and a thousand other Disasters at Its owne Pleasure as Tyrants use to doe And this is confirmed also by that other name of Baal by which the Idol of this Starre was likewise called which signifies as much as Master or Lord. And my Opinion is that from hence it is that the Greekes and Latines have taken occasion to invent the Fable of Saturnes Eating his owne Children I shall not here proceed any further in setting downe the rest of those Choyse observations concerning this Moloc which are delivered by Aben Esra upon Amos In cap. 1. Amos. Vbi Molos Ki. un Pe●sicè et Arabice vocari asserit because that besides that they are not any thing at all to my Purpose they are also too long to be inserted here 9. After the Observation of the Planets these Fathers saith Kapol entred next upon that of the other Starres which are usually called Constellations I shall not here bring in what Aben-Arè hath collected out of the Ancients touching these Starres now mentioned because I intend not to produce any thing that is translated into Latine and that the World hath already seen or may see if it please as namely the Workes of this Learned Astrologer which are translated into Latine by the Conciliator I shall only note this by the Way which the Translator observed not concerning the Originall Text that where Aben-Aré speakes of the Nature of these Signes he doth not therein follow the example of the Ancients who never descended to Particulars as the Later Astrologers have done since who tell us for example what Signes cause a Quicke Wit and what render Men Good-natured Courteous and Affable as Gemini Virga and Libra and which make them Dull and Brutish as Aries Taurus Leo and Capricorne which make them Fruitfull as Scorpio Pisces and Cancer and which on the Contrary make them Barren as Gemini Leò and Virgo and so of the rest which are all reckoned up by this Rabbine But they pronounced only in Generall Termes of these Fixed Starres which they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oghmedim as they did of the Planets which they also called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lechet Ambulones Wanderers De Art Cap. Lib. 3. as Reuclin hath observed 10. And here since we are fallen upon the Workes of Aben-Aré which are translated by the Conciliator I shall give the Learned this Advertisement that the Translation doth not alwayes exactly answer the Originall and that there are also some

directs of Letters various formes When their spread Wings are by the Violent stormes Of strong South-winds assailed by and by In a confused globe all mingled flie The Letter 's lost in their disranked wings For besides that in Battell they never observe any other Order or manner of Marshalling themselves 3. de Animal c. 13. Chiliad alib 2. de nat Deor. De solert Animal et in vit Thesei Ornitholog a man may observe also in their Flight that when either the Wind ceaseth or another begins to blow they presently break their Ranks and cast themselves into another Figure These Truths are largely discoursed of by Aelian Tzetzes Cicero and Plutarch and Particularly by Aldrovandus who reports from diverse of the Ancients that from this Diversity of Figure in the Flying of these Birds Palamedes in the time of the Trojan War took occasion to invent diverse Letters of the Alphabet which he added to those other that the Phoenicians had before In Xenijs Whence Martial Saies Turbabis Versus litera tota volabit Unam perdideris si Palamedis avem And certainly we often see that Cranes in flying do strangely imitate these Greek Letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lib. 8. var. cap. 2 Cassiodorus goes further yet and assures us that not only some Letters but generally All of them were invented by Mercury in Imitation of the severall Figures he observed in the Flying of these Birds His words are so Considerable as that I think fit to insert them here Ut aliquid certum exquisitum dicere videamur has Literas primum ut frequentior tradit Opinio Mercurius repertor Artium multarum volatu Strymoniarium avium collegisse memoratur Nam hodiè Grues qui classem consociant Alphabeti formas Natura imbuente describunt quas in ordinem decorum redigens vocalibus consonantibusque convenienter admissis viam sensualem reperit per quam altè petens ad penetralia Prudentiae Mens possit alta pervenire They say that Wild-Geese also observe the same Method that Cranes do Now the Letters which all these severall Birds make in their Flying shew us only the Diversity of the winds or else the manner of their ordering themselves in Battell and no more But their Fighting Singing and manner of Feeding and going to Rest are of more Signification then so for these are often Signes of things to come Thus we usually see a Sick person is near his End when a Raven is observed to come croaking and to light upon or fly neer the Chamber where he lies the like whereof is observed also of Scritch-Owles and Horn-Owles Birds which by reason of their delighting in Darkness only and Shady places are accounted Unfortunate and Ominous The Fighting and Gathering together of all other sorts of Birds especially Birds of Prey and which feed upon Flesh doth likewise often foreshew some sad Accident approaching Thus Dion reports that when the Armies of the Triumvirate marched forth against the Complices of Pompey Lib. 50. to take a just Revenge of Coesar's bloud there were seen hovering over the Troops of Brutus and Cassius only great numbers of Ravens and Vultures which by their Many and Fearfull Cries did foreshew the Ruine of These Two Murtherers Neither need we travell so far for Examples of this Nature for we have a like Story to this delivered by Aeneas Sylvius who comming to be Pope was afterwards called by the name of In Europ Pius II. and it is this In that Part of Gallia saith he which is furnamed Belgica not far from the City of Leige a Falcon as she was sitting upon her Eggs in her Nest a company of Ravens perceiving her set upon her and not content with beating her devoured her Egges also and that with such Strange and Unusuall Out-cries as that the Boors and Shepherds thereabout who had observed this Strange Piece of Tyranny acted upon the Faulcon were very much amazed at it But at length the Faulcon though with much adoe being gotten from them the Shepherds thought the Quarrell to be now certainly over and that they should heare no more of these Out-cries But which much increased their Wonder on the Morrow they saw gathered together in the very same place so infinite a number of Faulcons and Ravens as that they could not have believed before that there were so many in the whole world all which were now gathered together to decide this Difference betwixt the Faulcon and the Ravens the Place and Combat being as it were agreed on on both sides The Faulcons pitched their Battell toward the South side of the Place and the Ravens toward the North and both the One and the Other observed their Ranks and Order as exactly and beheld each other with as fierce Countenances as if they had been Armies of Men. At length after they had been observed to keep this Order for some little time some of them being as it were in the Main Body of the Army and others in the Wings the Fight began with such Fury as that in an Instant the place all about was covered with Feathers and Bloud and with dead bodies of both Parties But in Conclusion the Faulcons wonne the Day and it seemed but Reasonable that They who fought in so just a Cause should bear away the Victory Now that this Battell fought betwixt these Birds did presage some Battell to be fought by Men in the same place Edovardus Scleikel endeavoureth to prove by the Event who writing the History of the year 1391. tells us that not long after this happened two Bishops pretending Right each of them to the Bishoprick of Leige were so incensed against each other as that filling all the parts round about with Souldiers they made a Sad and Bloudy Decision of the Controversie For Benedict XII and Gregory XIII whose Factions had likewise made a Division in the Church about the Popedome maintaining each of them the Bishop of his own Election drave on the businesse to so great a Height as that it was to be determined only by the Sword The Liegeois favoured the one Party and John Duke of Burgundy the other But in the end the Duke being stronger then his Enemies gave them Battell in the very same place where these Birds had fought before and wonne the Day with the losse of three Thousand of the Liegeois The like also happened An. 1484. when Lewis D. of Orleans fought against Charles VIII And that I may not trouble my self any further in collecting Instances of this kind you may have recourse to the fore-named Scleikel and Belle-forest who will furnish you with good store of the like Presages Hist Prod. it not being my Purpose to give you a Catalogue of them but only to examine their Cause We say then that Birds may Naturally foreshew sad Accidents approaching if we except all such as depend upon the Will of Man as to give Battell or Not to give Battell for in this

some Gourds Peares Apples and other Fruits That sort of Pease which the Latines call Arietini resembles the head of a Ramme as another sort of them which are for the same reason called Columbini doth a Pigeons having each of them this Quality agreeable to their Figure that they are both equally hot So Beans likewise beare on one side the Form and Figure of a Mans Privy Parts and on the other of a Woman's And perhaps it might be for this only cause that Pythagoras gave that Precept to his Schollars which hath yet been rightly understood by no man A Fabis abstineto Neither is the Seed which is the Part of Plants that is brought last to Perfection ●s being of the Greatest Importance altogether deprived of the Beauty of these Figures For that of the hearb Echion or wild Buglosse resembleth the Head of a Serpent with it's Mouth and Eyes and for this cause also it is observed to be very Soveraigne against the biting of Serpents according to Dioscorides That of Rue is made in the fashion of a Crosse and this peradventure is the reason Leonard Fuchs Hist Plant. Cap. 103. that it is of so great Vertue in the cute of those that are Possessed and that the Roman Church useth it in their Exocrismes You may also observe some kind of Resemblance of the Privy parts both of Men and Women in a Graine of Wheat and in the stones of Grapes and my Opinion is that out of this Observation may be raised a Philosophicall Interpretation far above that which is usually given of this Proverbiall saying Sine Cere Baccho friget Venus If after you have considered all the parts severally you but take the Whole Entire Plant altogether you will yet meet with some such rare Figures as would seem Incredible did not such Excellent Historians confirme us in the beliefe of the Relation Of this sort is the Boramet which growes in Scythia having a perfect Resemblance of a Lamb having a Head Eyes Eares Teeth and the rest of the parts of the body proportionable This Plant crops and feeds upon all the grasse that growes round about it and when there is no more left it dies with famine You may see the story of it in * Hist Mosc De Variet C. 22. Exercit. 181. Sur les Tabl. de Phil. Hist Plant. l. ●8 c. 85. In his Eden fol. 78.2 weeke Perhaps this is that Zoophyte or Plant. Animal which is called in Hebrew Ieduah Sigismundus Cardan Scaliger Vigenerius Guil. Rovillius Duret and in one of the most Excellent of the French Poets who speaks of it in these verses Tels que les Boramets qui chez les Scythes naissent D'une graine menuē de Plantes se paissent Bien que du corps des yeux de la bouche du nez Ils semblent des Moutons qui sont n' agueres nez Englished thus by Jos Silvester Such as those Boramets in Scythia bred Of slender seeds and with green fodder fed Although their Bodies Noses Mouthes and Eyes Of new-yean'd Lambs have full the form and guise Now in all the parts of Plants the Figures are either Internall or Externall only or both Internall and Externall also The Internall are such as the Fruit of Palestine which beares the Figure of Ashes within and likewise all the sorts of Figures that are found in sawing of Marble The Externall are all such as are Painted and Coloured on the Outside of the Fruit but 〈…〉 only not at all Within in like manner as the Apple called in France the Fambure is which is all speckled with red spots like drops of bloud but only on the Outside or Rind Those that are both Internally and Externally Figured are such as the Maple Wood and many sorts of Stones The Internall Figures are likewise discovered either by Any Manner of Cutting Indifferently or else by one certain Particular Way only That which appeares after Any Manner of Cutting indifferently is as in that kind of Apple In Forn which as Nider reports hath beene seen at Granada which being cut any manner of way did still neverthelesse represent the Figure of a Crucifixe That which requires One only Particular way of Cutting is as in the Root of Fearne which being cut One way only represents an Eagle perfectly I have often observed that an Orenge likewise so cut not a-crosse but long-waies represents with its kernels and little skins an Orenge Tree laden with Orenges It is also observed that the Kernels of an Apple represent the Tree These Figures doe yet consist either in the Colour or in the Division of the Parts in the Colour as in the flowre of the Hearb Eye-bright which representeth those of an Eye in the Division of the Parts as namely in those we have already spoken of Thus have we seen the Division of Figures it remaines now that we prove that they have some Power to operate and that it is not in Vaine that they are perfectly represented both in Plants and Stones Proceed we therefore in the same Order we have observed in our Division beginning with the First 6. I say then that the Naturall Figures which are found in Stones have Naturally a Power to Operate if they be Applied and this I shall prove by two Reasons The First is because they are called Effectrices and the Second is because we see it by Experience For we daily see that some of these Figured Stones do Operate upon the Same Things that they represent as for Example that Stone which we call Heliotropium which is all speckled as it were with Drops of Bloud if applied to the part that bleeds it stops the Bloud Others there are that worke upon the Wound that is made by the Image they beare So Pliny affirmes that there is a kind of Marble called Ophites by reason of its resembling the Figure of Serpents whose name it beares which if applied to the wound caused by the biting of those Venemous Creatures it healeth it See his own words Genus Marmoris ab Ophite dictum Lib. 36. cap. 7. quòd imaginem horum Serpentum reprasentet molle candidum nigransque durum dicuntur ambo Serpentum ictus sedare And here we may make This Division of the Figures that are found in Stones and say that they are of two sorts The one are found in some certaine stones and are alwaies the same and these are Naturally endued with very admirable Vertues The other are such as are not tyed to any certaine sort of Stones but are indifferently found in all and are not indeed of so great Vertue De Subtil l. 7. as the Former And this is the division that Cardan makes of them Verum sayes he mire quispiam dubitet vnde figure hae in Gemmis lapidibus proveniant neque enim credendum est omnem figuran casu contingere cùm lapides multi ex eodem genere easdem retineant figuras Itaque meo judicio

who hath the Government of Wars and Murthers the Seventh THOV SHALT NOT COMMIT ADVLTERY to Venus who rules over Concupiscentiall Motions and so of all the rest to which he hath fitted such strange Chimemera's as deserve to be ranked with those Extravagant wild Fancies which Gemma Frisius hath inserted into his Ars Cyclognomica and those other that Cichus Aesculanus hath forged upon the Sphere of Jo. de Sacrobosco The fore-named Authors say moreover that it is from this Astrology of the Zephiros that the Cabalists report the Patriarks and Prophets to have derived all their Divine Knowledge Simili ratione saith the same Riccius Cablistae quoque Patriarchas Prophetasque quemlibet cuilibat harum Sephiros imperio atque afflatu subjiciunt prout quivis illorum certum Divinitutis gradum susceperit 5. Chomer addes In Galgal Hamizra Chim that these very Planetary Zephiros have been the Cause by their Revolutions of the Changing of Kingdomes and Religions which is consonant to what Cardinall de Alliaco hath cited out of Gulielmus Parisiensis who saies De sid et leg De leg sect that some Astrologers affirm that the Diversity of Religions hath been caused by the Aspects of the Planets as that of the Jewes by the Influences of Saturne by reason whereof this Nation hath alwaies been Miserable and is at this time and ever shall be so because that the Planet on which their Religion is founded is a Malevolent and an Unfortunate one rendring them also Covetous and Perverse and great Lovers of Saturday which is the Day dedicated to Saturne That of the Turkes is governed by the Planet Venus and this is the reason that this Peple celebrate Friday and are likewise extreamly addicted to Luxury and that in so high a measure as that they believe the chiefest happinesse in the Life to come consists in this Brutality The Christian Religion say they in like manner hath received its Foundation from the Sun for which cause they have Sunday in great Veneration being the day which is governed by this Planet and that by Vertue of Its Beames the Chief Visible Head of the Christians hath his Seat in a Solary City that is Rome which City had its First Stone laid when the Sign Leo was the Ascendent which is the Proper House of the Sun and was afterwards built in the form of a Lion This is also very Observable or rather very Extravagant which Cardinall de Alliaco reports out of these Astrologers who saies that they affirm that according to these Principles it is that Cardinals go in Red which is a Solary Colour and suitable to this Planet which was the Founder of their Religion All other say They as Arrians Armenians Lutherans and the rest are caused by the Conjunction of Diverse severall Planets which hath caused this Mixture 6. Bechai who is in like manner fallen upon such Fooleries as these and who hath examined our Religion with too much Tartnesse goes yet farther then all this and saies that Jesus Christ whom notwithstanding he will not acknowledge to be the Messias in Order to this Foundation was raised again upon the Day which as wee have said is assigned to the Sun and that having been a Man Perfectly Solary he was consequently very Beautifull and of a Faire Lovely Countenance and of a very Quick and Daring Spirit as may appear saith He by that Act of his in driving the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple and by his disputing with the Doctors of the Law at the Twelfth year of his Age. How happy had this Rabbin been if he could but have raised to himself from these Marvellous things the Foundation of his own Salvation But leaving him to his own Darknesse we observe since we are insensibly fallen upon this Discourse which yet we make Mention of with all possible Humility that in the Nativity of our Saviour Christ Commen● in Ptol. lib. 2. he no whit agreeth with that which Cardan hath erected For he saith after that he hath told us that there were Five very Observable things in his most Adorable Nativity which show what manner of Man he was that Saturne having part in his Geniture rendered him Sad and Pensive whence Josephus also took occasion to say of him Visus est saepius flere ridere nunquam And for the same reason also he semeed to be Older then in Truth he was For The Sorrowfull Spirit drieth up the Bones and for This Cause it was saith He that the Jewes took him to have been forty yeares old at least when they said unto him Nondum quinquaginta annos babes Et Abrahamum vidisti He proceeds and saies that this Planet meeting with Venus was the cause of his having certaine red Specks in his Face following the afore-named Josephus who saies that he was Lentiginosus in Facie which moved Cardan to say Quod si a Deo omnia fuissent profecta quorsum erat Lentiginosum creari But let us now leave this Point which we have touched upon only by the By and proceed to the other sorts of Astrology which are falsly attributed to the Hebrewes and to their Neighbours 7. That which Scaliger hath produced though it seemeth to have better Grounds In Spher Barb. Manil. fol. 487. seq nov Ed. then those other Kinds which we have before spoken of yet neverthelesse was it never practised nor acknowledged by the Egyptians and therefore much lesse by the Jews However the Curiosit of it makes me willing to give the Reader a Tast of it and it is as followeth The Planet Mars being in the first Degree of Aries they represented a Man holding a Sickle in his Right hand and in is Left a Bow In the second Degree a Man having the head of a Dog and holding a Cudgel in one hand and having the other stretched forth In the Third another Man lifting up one hand to Heaven and in the other seeming to point at all that is in the whole Universe In the Fourth another Man again with curled Hair having a Hawke upon his Right Hand and in his Left a Flaile In the Fifth two Men one eleving wood with a Hatchet and the other bearing a Scepter in his hand The rest of the Degrees have their severall Figurs also which I shall passe by that I may come to the second Signe which is Taurus into the First Degree whereof when Mercury entered they pictured a Man holding a Cudgel in his hand with which he drives an Oxe to the Shambles In the Second Degree a Woman holding in her hand a Horses taile In the Third an Old Woman covered with a Vaile or else a Woman in Breeches In the Fourth another Woman holding a Whip And that I may trouble my selfe no further in reckoning up all these Figures the Reader may see them if he please in the foresaid Booke where Scaliger saies that he hath taken them out of the Writings of the Arabians and that these kinds of Pictures