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A96163	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.	Weigel, Valentin, 1533-1588.	1649 (1649)	Wing W1255; Thomason E562_14; ESTC R204068	39,144	50

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

world that they are not any more said to be of the world John 17. but of heaven although as to the body they are as yet conversant in the world And whatsoever any one doth by the Sabbath in the introversion of his mind he acts and orders with God and God with him in the hidden place of his heart this cannot be seen or known by any Spirit much lesse by Man In brief by the Sabbath alone the Phenix of our soul is renewed who altogether denying deposing refusing and accompting for nothing all the vanity of this world and it self from within and without plainly dies in the forgetfullnesse and contempt of all things Rom. 12. and of it self and offers it self a living and pleasing sacrifice to God and there being regenerate anew becomes a new creature a new off-spring from the seed of the woman by conception from the holy Spirit is made a Son of God a new Man an imitatour of Christ following his steps is made a hater of evill and a follower of good a new plant a new tree that is good which brings forth good fruits this is true repentance true penitence the true putting off the old Man c. Here some Astrologers are to be admonished of their want of knowledge who have not doubted to subject even the whole man with all things which are in him to the dominion of the world and Starrs in erecting their nativities as if a man were or had no more in himself then a bruit or beast through ignorance passing by the constitution of Man in three parts Spirit Soul and Body whose soul arising from the Firmamentall Zodiac and whose body from the Elements are altogether subject to the dominion of Nature But not the Spirit which we have from God and listning nothing to that that every Disciple of Christ and friend of God regenerate from above by faith and the death of sin in the most holy Sabbath hath within himself a most present medicine in his heart against all the poisonous and deadly wounds of nature and the Serpent and also the divine Commandement of deposing overcoming and conquering the old heaven with his inclinations of divers concupiscences and of walking in the newnesse of the Spirit in the Light of Grace To wisemen therefore that is to those that know both God and themselves rightly the matter is far better to be looked into for they know both are in us God and Nature The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of the world The Tree of Life and the Tree of Death The greater Light and the lesser Light The seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent And also that man is placed between these two to be exercised in this world in a perpetual war whether of these should overcome thence shall man have his reward for God will render to every one all crafty excuse and imbecillity being laid aside c. according to his works whether they be good or evill Here you shall observe an example touching the change of man from an inferiour and worser nature into a superiour and better nature If you take a certain stone lying by chance in a sunny place and very much heated by the too much parching heat of the Sun and put it into water or some river then the Sun can no more make it so hot or penetrate it with his heat in like manner the case is in the Theologization of Astrologie * The exercise of the Sabbath or Theologization of Astrologie is to dic to thy self and the whole creature to offer thy self wholly to God with all things which are within and without us Hither belong all the Scripture and all books speaking of the mortification of Man Take or gather and apprehend all thy evill nature and thy unsincere affections and unlawfull lusts too much operating and flourishing in thee I say take and put them by the Sabbath into the mind or spirit of thy mind which thou hast from God who is the everlasting fountain and water of life and sabathize in a solid and constant abnegation of thy self and of all things known unto thee which are within thee as well as without thee that thou maist almost wholly die there then will thy soul with all her adherent stones of concupiscences fall down and be drowned in the depth of the supernall water which is the Spirit of God infused in us and the firmamentall operation will more and more cease and be wearied in thee and the ascendant Starrs of thy concupiscences will no more afflict urge drive carry thee as before but from day to day thou shalt ease thy self from that most hard yoke of the Zodiac and of all the Planets thy youth shall be renewed as an Eagle and thou shalt be like an infant new-born and shalt perceive in thy self new vertues and affections to work and move in thee arising inclining oecupying leading and governing thee from the celestiall Starr and influence of the divine Spirit c. So as where heretofore thou hast bin the servant of sin and hast given thy members weapons of unrighteousnesse and malice now with trembling thou abhorrest the performances of thy forepast life and fraught with a new mind heart affections and desire from the exercise of the Sabbath by the Spirit of God hereafter thou shalt serve God and give up thy members weapons of justice piety charity mercy meeknesse temperance modesty chastity c. and so thou shalt rightly Theologize thy Astrologie so shalt thou best overcome correct amend thy nature so shalt thou rightly tread the head of the Serpent under thy feet so shalt thou well silence in thy self the assaults of the divell c. Hence the true Sabbath instituted and commanded of God is the best care and medicine against all kind of evill which quickly being death eternall to the soul and temporall to the body by which we may put off bear and take off that great and most grievous yoke and mountain of so great a Zodiac of so great a Firmament of so great Governours I say to take away the Kingdom or rule and to precipitate into the immense Sea of eternall water and ever and anon get new strength and come out more vivacious which was well known and used by the Patriarchs in the first age whence also they could get to themselves the Enochian long life upon earth by the exercise of this kind of mentall Sabbath which indeed is altogether obliterated abrogated in this our age and seems to be a thing unknown But how every one of us ought and may know and try in himself what and what kind truly is their Astrologie or firmamentall action or operation of the Light of Nature and how he may and can Theologize the same that is overcome Nature be made the Son of God c. this the following Chapters will illustrate and teach more clearly then the Sun CHAP. VII Touching the distribution of all Astrologie into the seven

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