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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

in comparison of the other Planets therefore shall it vehemently under-value all other Laws Nor will it be said to be presidented by another In like manner the bringing in of Religion Letters and Discipline were signified in heaven and men that were excellent in Arts as we may read 3. Quadr. So likewise the coming of such men as should oppose and wrest things from the truth as Luther Calvin and the like which for brevity sake we omit affirming only and daily experience sheweth it That God the Creator of all things hath written all things in his Universall book of Heaven notwithstanding they be hidden from many In the interim we will declare whatsoever we can darkly read in that great book of Heaven We say Darkly because we ought to assure Contingencies indeterminate and by no means with certainty for by the 1. Segm. Aph. 3. Artes que proprus subjectis inherent nihil certi polliceri de futuris possunt An Astrologer ought never to pronounce any thing absolutely concerning future events and it is worse for him to beleeve that he knoweth those things which he does not know then to be ignorant of such things as he should know by 1 Segm. Aph. 78. Therefore we will say concerning the corroboration of things as we have done in our books of great Conjunctions and as we have before noted but before we come to the great Conjunction of the year 1603. and to the Mock-star which appeared in the fiery Triplicity Anno 1604. which lasted also for one whole year we will first handle the Comet that appeared Anno 1572. and the great ☌ that happened Anno 1583. in the third Decade of ♓ when there was a change of the ☌ from one Triplicity into another viz. from the watery into the fiery Which Comet and great ☌ have not hitherto manifested their effects by reason of their gravity magnitude and slow motion For the elements and mixt things are not presently to assume the magnitude of Form but are disposed in a certain space of time and with the time also the form is introduced so that both by reason of great Conjunctions Mock-stars Comets Eclipses and other by-past calises being almost disposed the form begins to be introduced and the effects begin to manifest and lay open themselves and now we shall begin to tast the first offerings of great Revolutions But before we proceed any further we conceive this one thing worthy our notice that like as the faithfull in Christ laying aside the opinion of Aristotle Ptolomy and others as well Philosophers as Astrologers all those causes which the Philosophers and Astrologers call no causes but signs of the mighty and supream cause we will enjoyn our selves to ascribe for signs and will attest the same as formerly we have declared Therefore we say that as well the great Conjunctions as Mock-stars Comets Eclipses and the like ought not to be called the causes of future events but signs sent from the Supream Cause and from our Saviour Christ for the abomination of the world and the same is strongly maintained in the sayings of Astrologers especiall by Ptolomy in his Centiloquy and Apoth but chiefly in his Apoth and Aph. 3. Because that Arts which remain in their proper subjects can affirm nothing for certain concerning future events Therefore an Astrologer ought not pronounce any thing absolutely concerning future accidents But because the hidden secrets of God are impenitrable therefore we intend not as speculators and screwers out of the secrets of God to prognosticate any thing but with the Philosophers and Astrologers it is lawfull and requisite that we conjecture somewhat about the signs according to the effects of the Stars and like one that is parblinde seeing a thing a far off discernes only a certain confused shadow resembling many things without knowing certainly what it is by 2 Apot. Com. 5. The case standing thus we will come in the first place to the Mock-stars which appeared Anno 1572. and 1604. which remained immoveable The first in the Chair of Cassiopeia not far from that star in the erection of its seat in the Milky way whose Longitude was degr 16. 54. of ♉ Its Latitude North degr 53. min 45. It s Magnitude exceeded not onely the stars of the first light but also ♃ and ● in the beginning of its appearance therefore we may conclude that this Mock-star did exceed the bigness of the earth more then 500. times and that this is truth it is the testimony of Tycho for although the stars do seem but very little to us and appear not unlike little faces in heaven yet by the ingenious observations of Mathematitians it is found out that they are not only equall to the whole Terrestriall Globe but far exceed it by their greatness so that scarce any so little a Star can be seen in the Firmament but it exceeds at the least 18. times the bigness of the earth as not to speak of others those Stars that be of the first magnitude exceed the earth 500. times in bigness And though this may seem incredible to many yet will it not admit of any doubt in any man that rightly considers their unspeakable distance from us Therefore if these little Stars appeared but small to our sight yet certainly they were of a huge magnitude VVherefore from the beginning when it farr exceeded the Stars of the first Magnitude he exceeded the Earth by an incredible quantity For if the fixed Stars of the first magnitude as 't is said exceed the earth according to Mathematitians 500. times even so this new Star so much as he was removed from the Earth had a far greater visible Diameter It will likewise necessarily follow that from the beginning it exceeded that quantity which the earth and water make much more then 100. times but in progress of time it diminished by little and little that at last it vanished to nothing Whereby it appears that the opinion of us and others hath hitherto been erroneous whilst we thought Vapours to be transmitted into heaven and generated Comets and new Starrs For if this Starr exceeded the earth more then 500. times from whence should so many Vapours arise Therefore we say that the matter whereof new Starrs are made is a transparent substance of heaven and a Diaphanous or perspicuous corpulency of the heavens and that it may be reduced to form we say that a new Starr is the Condensation of the thin parts of heaven which indeed is a transmutation of the Diaphanous parts of the Sky into lightness of which here is no place to speake As touching the light of the Mock-Starr Tycho said it was more fulgent and radiant then the rest insomuch that in the beginning it was sometimes beheld in the day time about noon the heaven not being obfuscated with the thickness of the Aire It twinckled also as the other sixed Starrs and for the most part but not alwaies it retained the same colour which was observed from the

a man as hath well considered the natural complexion of the soul that deservedly he may be called a Wiseman For the soul doth assist Caelestial operation even as the best Husbandman doth Nature in Plowing and Weeding the earth and Propos. 7. No man can teach the mixtures of the Stars who hath not first learnt their Naturall differences and tempers By which we learn that although there be infinite 〈◊〉 and that they all study the same books yet they do no● all collect the truth of things yea one more then another even as also from many signs in Physick when the Physitians do observe signs of divers diseases of recovery and of death there happeneth contrariety amongst them though all of them read the same Authors For this choice cannot be found written in books but ought to be selected by the discretion of a fortunate Physitian who was born under a good Position of the heavens that so he may know how to finde out the truth in Physick as we have it from the experience of Hippo●●a●●s and other Physitians A Physitian ought to be fortunate and wise by nature sc that he be produced from heaven and the whole concourse of Nature so as he may confer health upon men viz. When Mars and Venus shall be in Conjunction or behold one another by some aspect they make a good Physitian and even Natures master by the testimony of Hyeronymus Manfredus Physitian of Bononia Propos 3. of his Gentiloq de medico infirmo In like manner when Mars Almu●en of the profession shall have naturall participation with the Moon we judge a Physitian and if Venus behold him he shall be a Phle●oto●i●● or a Preparer and giver of Medicines by the 31. 〈◊〉 And if Saturne shall behold him he shall have skill in making of Glisters so also in curing of the lower parts of the body Sc. by cutting of Tumors and the Hemoroides to the well liking of the Physitian and if Mercury shal aspect him he shall be cunning in words having the force of healing and by applying medicines with words Neither ought this to be wondered at for the imaginative faculty fortified by Heaven and the influence of Mercury he may by words uttered heal those that be diseased which thing if another with the same words should indeavour to do it were to no purpose because his words having no force as not proceeding from the Caelestiall spirits nor quickened by their influence can neither convey health nor ease which Doctrine we have taught at large from the opinion of Avicenne Com. 3. lib. 1. Prog. Hipocrat To the end therefore that we may foretell future contingencies with some certainty we will not relie only upon our own judgement for by the 3. Segment Aph. 158 he that promiseth much of himself is the Author of many errours and therefore so much as we can we will adhere to a divine Spirit for those things which to the eye of the world seem to be matters failing or incertain to a minde that is Divine and invariable are firm and sure For Socrates did acknowledge that he knew nothing by a proper and naturall light but he confessed that his knowledge was derived from and assisted by a divine light Wherefore by adhering to Divine truth we may be able to prognosticate many true things For like as a man that loves riches Segm. 1. Aph. 100. findes riches and that in some sort alone so findes he truth that loves truth Upon the contemplation of these things it hath been our indeavour to transcend the sphears of Actives and to apply our self to the other sphears and lights and to lift up our eyes to the first Mover and to behold and consider the beauty and harmony of the sphears Whereby our minde begun to be ravished and to be delivered from darkness by contemplating upon their Creator whom for his infinite wisdom we acknowledge to be the Maker and Lord of the Heavens and of all sublunary things and do adore their Mover at whose will and command all the Intelligences do wheel about the sphears himself being enviro●ed on every side as it were with an i●fi●i●e multitude of Angels from whence making our departure being rowsed from humane drowsiness let it suffice that we descend to the consideration of a future Catastrophe For God hath so fram'd us that in our aspect toward heaven we may behold his divine Majesty as Ovid hath it in 1. Metamorph. Os homini sublime dedit Coelumque videre Jussit erectos ad sydera tollere vultus He with a lofty look did man indue Commanding him the Heavens and Stars to view Where he hath made impression of the formall vertues of all things as being derived from his divine spirit so that in Heaven the great Book of God we may as in a glass foresee and know the pleasure of the most High For by the 1. Aph. 57 Coelum est instrumentum quo inferiora agit impellit regitque The Heaven is Gods Instrument whereby he worketh enforceth and governeth all things Whence following the custom of wisemen we may be forewarned of and prepared against future evils flying as he said many things between the Caelestial Globes and we need not be ashamed of it for 1. Aph. 24. Stulti negligunt contemnunt Astrologiam qui contradicit Ambitiosus est qui Maledicit Fatuus Fools neglect and despise Astrology he is ambitious that gainsays it and foolish that slanders it For it is a Divine Mystery for which if any neglecting Naturall causes shall adhere to it only he is but of shallow judgement Therefore it is requisite that it be otherwise assisted especially for that Astrology by 1. Aph. 20. is the most transcendent of all Sciences both because it treateth of things Caelestiall and also of future the knowledge whereof is not only Divine but most profitable Therefore to calumniate it or any other Sciences is a meer vanity for 3. Aph. 146. Qui Artem aliquam destruit longe deterior est imperito neo vacat mens illius malitia desidia ignorantia He that destroys any Art is far worse then he that is unskilfull neither is his minde empty of malice deceipt and ignorance We will make inspection into such things as have been lookt into but by a few and if we intend to proceed methodically it behoves us to search out and consider the principle and coadjuting causes The principall causes are the great mean and lesser Conjunctions of the superiour Planets concerning which we have said much in our books of great Conjunctions yet we will here mention some things which elsewhere our occasions did not extend unto for many things for some cause were wrapt up in silence The other principall causes are mock stars which not long since sparkled for some years space and then by little and little vanished away the changing of the Abisides of the Planets Eclipscs and the like So likewise the Genitures of Kings according to that Adage of

beginning to wax white and inflamed with a Joviall splendour but in process of time the light being pressed together and thickened it degenerated into a fiery red and Mars-like brightness like to Aldeboran or that which shineth ruddily in the right shoulder of Orion yet it was not so fiery-red as this on the shoulder but came neerer the colour of Aldeboran yet afterwards having lost its Mars-like colour it changed into a pale whiteness so that in the end it became somewhat Saturnine and Venereall Another Mock-Starr Anno. 1604. about the beginning of October untill the moneth of February 1606. was likewise seen from the most remote and sundry Climates of the Earth in the South part of the heavens in the signe of ● viz. Degr. 17. of the same with North Latitude concerning which Kepler said that the Starr was less then Venus according to its visible quantity exactly round casting no hair nor beard constantly to any part like to the fixed Starrs shooting with beams on every side like the beams of the fixed Starrs with a most clear twinckling with such Glistering or brandishing so suddain that some said they never observed any thing in the heavens in all their time to have so swift a Motion The colours changed at every moment like to a many-angled Diamond by which turning the Sun beams upon the eyes of the beholders will reflect with a variable brightness for from a bright Yellow anon it became Croc●all in a moment like unto Purple and Reddish For the most part it was seen White after it was elevated a little higher from the Vapours it was bigger then the Starrs of the first magnitude ♄ ♃ and ♂ easy to be distinguished by an amiable and fair stillness of light from the turbulent Corruscation of a Starr All Astronomers placed it amongst the fixed Stars because it still kept the same distance from them From ♃ and ♂ is was so much distant every day as was their diurnall motion under the fixed Stars so that this Starr moved not from them but they from it whatsoever point it toucht in the rising it still moved in the same parallel wherefore it was not only above the Moon but even in the high Orb of the fixed Starrs because it had no sensible Parrallax and for that also it wanted a proper Motion distinct from that of the fixed Starrs It remained not all the time of its continuance in the same place and nigh to the same Schematismicall Starrs with the Starrs in the foot of the Shank and in the right Knee of the Serpent and with the Triangle in the sting of the Serpent and occause also it had a most pure light and suddain twinkling which the Planets have not according to that of Aristotle in Post For that there he affirmeth that higher Stars have a purer light and greater twinckling Therefore we conclude with Tycho that those New Starrs were such as never appeared before from the beginning of the world and that they continued in the same places of the heaven above a whole year and were at length successively dispersed And therefore are to be accounted miracles in the expectation of all men but more in their understanding and amongst those things which have been seen since the beginning of the world in the whole nature of things and which be recorded in History are spectacles to be wondred at if not the greatest at least in respect of those which were prepared such as was the inhibition of the Suns course in the time of Jos●●a or of the Sun returning 10 degrees backward upon the Diall of King Achaz whilst Ezechiah King of Judah lay sick Or then the Eclipse of the Sun which happened the day and houres when our Saviour Christ the Son of God offered himself upon the Altar of the Cross a sacrifice to his eternall Father for the Redemption of mankinde The Sun then hiding his face and sorrowing for the light and beams upon earth as by which all things as well the Sun himself as all other bodies of the whole world both Coelestiall and Terrestriall were made disdaining to see him made man for mankind and to undergo an ignominious death a thing so unworthy and hiding his face for pity and shame That this Eclipse of the Sun happened about the full Moon when the Passeover of the Jews was celebrated is not to be doubted And that then the Sun could not be naturally Eclipsed in regard the ☽ then was near diametrically opposed to him and so could not be removed to betwixt the Sun and our sight what is he so meanly instructed in the knowledge of heavenly things that is ignorant hereof Wherefore Dionysius Areopagita being then at Athens and beholding this miraculous Eclipse of the Sun Cryed out Aut mundi Authorem pati vel Machinam ejus dissolutum iri That either the God of nature suffereth or the Fabrick of the whole world shall be dissolved as himself witnesseth writing to Policarpus After such Prodigious wonders I say and miraculous works beside the accustomed order of Nature which the holy Scriptures do testifie to have happened of old we hold it requisite that we demonstrate to the world these new Stars which appeared in our Age for that they were truly and indeed such we will so certainly manifest that none shall have ground to question it For that some Stars like unto the rest yea sometime more refulgent and which twinkle more do newly and suddenly appear unto us and remain long unmoveable in the highest Region of the Coelestiall world is no less miracle then that the Sun should stand still go backward or suffer any Eclipse without the presence of the ☽ because that any thing which was not before should appear in heaven ex improviso like as the rest of its moist vapours is altogether as strange as for those things which were lights from the Creation to be affected against custom and constant Order But what may the great Portents of these Mock-stars signifie like as also Tycho said seeing that it is unusual and that we can have but little or no knowledge therein for by the 3. Aph. 129. Sine exemplo artem condere temerarium cum uno vel duobus leve cum pluribus autem negotiosum solum aliquam conjecturam universalem indistinctam indeterminatam qu●lisque sit in medium afferre non pigebit To make an Art without any example were indiscretion with one or two were of small value and with many it is painfull but of ones self to bring some universall indistinct and indeterminate conjecture of what kinde soever it be into a medium it grieveth not to declare For first of all we say so God illustrating our Intellect that before the change of the great ☌ was compleated from one Triplicity into another viz from the watery into the fiery from which the mutations of the world were wont to proceed especially for ♃ and ♄ do change and convert things and the beginning of the change

Pleasures shall make Princes feeble and the Subjects shall become savage A Lion with his belly full of blood shall arise among them a sickle shall be given him in the corn which whilst he shall grieve in minde shall be oppressed of him A Carter of York shall quiet them and his master being thrust out he shall ascend into the Cart which he drove and shall threaten the East with a drawn sword and he shall fill the Track of his Cart wheeles with blood Afterwards a Fi●● shall be procr●ated in the ●●a whi●h being allured by the hissing of the Serpent shall copulate with him betwixt whom three glistering Bu●● shall be generated who having eat up their pastures shall be turned into Trees The first shall carry a vi●●rous whip and shall turn his back of him that is born after him The second brother shall endeavour to snatch the wh●p from him but he shall be rebuked by the youngest They shall turn away their faces mut●ally from one another untill they shall poure forth a poysoned cup. A Prince of the Highlanders shall succeed him whom also the Serpent shall seek to destroy He shall apply himself to Tillage so that the Countries shall be white with Corn. The Serpent shall indeavour to diffuse poyson to hinder the growth of the grass and corn The people shall waste by reason of a deadly famine and the Wals of their Cities shall be made desolate The City of Gloucester shall be given for a Medicine which shall render sustenance to those that be under the lash for she shall bear the ballance of the medicine and the Isle shall be renewed in a short space After which two shall sue for the Scepter to whom the horned Dragon shall submit himself Another shall come armed and shall ride the flying Serpent being naked he shall sit upon his back and shall cast the right side of his Tayl upon him The neighbouring Nations shall be awakened by his clamour and shall st●t●e other Nations Therefore shall the second be united to the Lion but dissenting betwixt themselves they shall encounter one another and after mutuall wounds they shall lie down together but the fierceness of the Lion shall prevail There shall one suddenly come with the Timbrell Harp and shall asswage the fierceness of the Lion therefore shall the people of the Kingdom be pacified and shall provoke the Lion to Justice Being setled in his Throne he shall think of Rewards but his power shall extend into the Highlands Therefore shall the Northern Provinces be sorrowfull and shall open the doors of the Temples The Standard-bearer-Woolfe shall raise Troopes and shall environ Cornwall with his tayle A Souldier in a Cart shall withstand him who shall change that people into a Boar. Therefore the Boar shall waste the Provinces but he shall be drowned in the deep of Severn A man in Wine shall be as a Lion and the lustre of his Gold shall dazle the eyes of the beholders He shall gild his silver-wine-bowles and shall trouble sundry Wine-presses Men shall be drunk with Wine and having laid aside the thought of heaven shall be wedded to the Earth The Stars shall with-hold their influence from them and shall confound their wonted motion The Heavens being thus averse their Corn-fields shall be dryed up and the dew of heaven shall be denyed them The roots and branches shall change their offices and the novelty thereof shall be miraculous The splendour of the Sun shall languish by the paleness of Mercury it shall be dreadfull to the beholders Mercury of Arca●ia shall change his shield and he shall call Venus the Helmet of Mars the Helmet of Mars shall cast a shadow and the rage of Mercury shall exceed its limits Hard-hearted Orion shall unsheath his Falchion Phoebus of the Sea shall disturb the Clouds Jupiter shall leave off his appointed course and Venus shall forsake her Orb. The malice of Saturn shall be poured down grievously and with his crooked Sythe shall he destroy mankinde The 12. Houses of heaven shall bewail the absence of the Planets The Twins shall leave off their accustomed Imbraces and shall exchange Summer for Winter The Scales shall hang un●avenly untill the Ram support them with his crooked Hornes The Scorpions tayl shall engender Lightening and the Crab shall contend with the Sun The Virgin shall ascend the back of the Archer and shall ob●●scate the pure and beautifull Flowers The Orbe of the Moon shall trouble the Zodiack and the Pleiades shall gu●● out with tears The Offices of Janus shall no more be restored but the Gate being shut he shall lurk in the Creeks of A●●ad●● In the twinckling of an eye shall the Seas arise and the Ashes of the dead shall be renewed The Winds shall contend with a terrible su●●●ation and shall terminate their sound amongst the Stars IOHN TRITEMIVS Abbot of Spanheim of the heavenly INTELLIGENCIES governing the Orbes under GOD. REnowned Caesar it is the opinion of very many of the Auncients that this inferiour World by ordination of the first Intellect which is God is directed and ordered by Secundarian Intelligences to which opinion Conciliator Medicorum assents saying that from the Originall or first beginning of heaven and P●t●us App●●●●sis earth there were 7. Spirits appointed as Presidents to the 7. Planets Of which number every one of those ruleth the world 354. years and four months in order To this Position many and they most learned men have afforded their consent which opinion of theirs my self no affirming but delivering do make manifest to your most sacred Majesty The first Angell or Spirit of Saturn is called Orifiel to whom God committed Orifiel An. mundi 1. the government of the World from the beginning of its Creation who began his government the 15 day of the moneth of March in the first year of the World and it endured 354 years and 4 moneths The name Orifiel notwithstanding is a name appertaining to his Office not Nature Attributed to the Spirit in regard of his action under his dominion men were rude and did cohabite together in desert and uncouth places after the homely manner of Beasts This needs not any manner of proof from me sith it s so manifest out of the Text in Genesis The second Governour of the World is Ana●l the Spirit of Den● who after Orifiel Anael began Anne 〈◊〉 354. ●4 Jun. began to rule according to the influence of this Planet in the year of the world 354. the fourth moneth that is the 24 day of the moneth of June and he ruled the world 354 years and 4 moneths untill the year from the Creation of the world 708 as it appears to any that shall Calculate the Age thereof Under the Regiment of this Angell men began to be more Civilized built Houses erected Cities found out Arts Manuall viz. Ma●sfactury the Art of Weaving Spinning and Cloathing and many such like as these did indulge themselves plentifully with