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A65576	The works of that late most excellent philosopher and astronomer, Sir George Wharton, bar. collected into one volume / by John Gadbvry ...	Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.; Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.; Rothmann, Johann. Chiromancia. English.	1683 (1683)	Wing W1538; ESTC R15152	333,516	700

thereof Otherwise we can hardly explain this matter because of his Inscrutable Majesty That therefore the Celestial Bodies are Animate is hence rightly concluded For it were absurd to deny a Life and Soul to be in Heaven and the Stars the which Inspire both Life and Soul even in the vilest of these Inferiour Bodies They give Life unto Plants which grow without Natural Seed as we see in the Mountains and Places untill'd So likewise to the Earth For if a Lump be taken out of the Bowels thereof and for some time exposed to the Rays of the Sun it yieldeth Grass or some Herbs oftentimes the twiggs of little Trees The Stars also bestow Life upon Animals not generated by Copulation Nor can we be so stupid as to imagine that Plants Trees c. are of a Nobler Condition than the Celestial Bodies This manifest perpetual Operation cannot come but from a Pure and Cleansed Body These things I suppose are sufficient to prove the World hath a Soul placed in Heaven as in the most Noble Part thereof But perhaps you desire it may be further Proved that these Celestial Souls are Rational and participate of the Divine Mind The Matter is not obscure For if the World as Plato saith be the best effect that could be of goodness it self That is of GOD for we Germans so express it because Got sounds nothing else with us than Gut if we rightly enquire the Reason of the Idiom it must certainly participate not only of Life Sense and Reason but also of Intelligence The Soul is the Perfection of the Body And that Body most Perfect which hath the Perfectest Soul Wherefore if the Celestial Bodies be most Perfect they must of necessity enjoy the most Perfect Souls The Heavens therefore do Participate of the Intellect and Mind Which very thing the Platonicks plainly approve by Musical Concords For seeing that Musical Concord is as it were Living Rational and Effica●ious what Resemblance hath it unto Life it self how Pleasing is it to the Mind and even Ravisheth the whole Man And which is more the Mind and all things else are made by the Soul By her they are preserved by her they are moved And therefore Plato did not amiss when he Described the Soul to be she that made preserved and moved all Natural things especially by Musical Numbers and Proportion constituted I say by Numbers not Mathematical as some Calumniate but by Ideal and Metaphysical Proportions of Numbers This Harmony consisteth altogether in Motion because that by an Aërial Nature posited in Motion it moveth the Body By a Purified Air it stirs up the Aërial Spirit the Chain of Soul and Body By affect it at once disposeth the Sense and Affection By signification it Operates upon the Mind Lastly through this Motion of the subtil Air it penetrates vehemently It floweth sweetly through the Contemplation And by its conform Quality poureth out it self with a wonderful Pleasure By its Nature as well Spiritual as Material it at once Ravisheth and Claimeth all that is Man Wherefore let us seriously consider how the Sounds of most sweet Musick elevate and as it were double and treble our Minds And in like sort judge the Melody of the Celestial Bodies who now by a slower but anon by a swifter Motion produce a tone that is Grave or Acute Whereunto agree in these Sublunaries Gravity and Levity Cold and Heat Moisture and Dryness of Elements So likewise Matter and Form in the G●neration of things Meekness and Magnanimity Temperance and Fortitude in Humane Affairs Seeing therefore that Motion is ●very where Free in its own Nature it might easily prevaricate and wander unless it were Ruled by the Intellect and Mind The which we cannot further enquire of in this Place according to the Exigence of the Matter Besides it is absurd for us to have Reasons of our own works For the Celestial Souls and so the Soul of the Universe have no Reasons of theirs of whose Spirit even we our selves are generated and live continually If the Lesser World enjoy an Intelligent Soul such also enjoys the Greater But we will cease to prosecute this any further concluding that the World is a System of Cel●stial and Terrestrial Bodies constant in Order Number and Measure but Living Animate Intellectual Whence we safely gather that the Soul of the World is a certain singular Life filling all things vivifying all things producing and connecting all things that it may accomplish and preserve one Fabrick of the whole World and be as a Monochord sounding out by the three-fold kinds of Creatures Intellectual Celestial and Corruptible at one Blast one only Life The Mystery of Unity is but known of a few Now can we here pass by the Authority both of the Holy Scriptures and also of the most approved Philosophers Deut. 4.19 Thou shalt not Worship the Sun Moon and Stars which God hath Distributed to all Nations under Heaven Deut. 28.12 God shall open unto thee his good Treasure the Heaven c. Deut. 33.13 Concerning Joseph Thy Blessing shall be of the Precious things of the Sun and of the Precious things of the Moon But above all let us consider those thing● which are in Levit. 26.19 I will make saith God your Heaven as Iron and your Earth as Brass The same is repeated Deut. 28.23 And also in Hosea 2.21 And I will hear the Heavens and they shall hear the Earth and the Earth shall hear the Corn and the Wine and the Oyl and they shall hear Israel Therefore we hereby see that God doth set the Root of Worldly Benedictions in Heaven as it were in the Soul of the Universe so that the Beginning of Blessings is from Heaven as the Beginning of Motion from our Soul which are of themselves perspicuous enough To this also belongs that in Job 38.33 Knowest thou the Course of Heaven or canst thou dispose the Rule thereof in the Earth The Rule of Heaven proceeds through Terrestrial and all Inferiour things as the Rule of an Emperour or King throughout his Empire and Kingdom As therefore a King is the Soul of his Kingdom so the Heaven and the Stars are the Soul of the World Likewise that of Job 26.13 His spirit hath garnished the Heavens Psal. 33.16 By the Word of the Lord the Heavens were made and by the spirit of his Mouth the whole Army thereof In whatsoever Body the Spirit of God dwelleth and shineth that Body without doubt shall be Animate and Intellectual Psal. 19. God hath set his Tabernacle in the Sun One Day telleth another and one Night teacheth another knowledge There is no Speech nor Language in those Heavens yet understandeth he their Voice Their Line is gone forth through all the Earth and their words unto the ends of the World in them hath he set a Tabernacle for the Sun Psal. 89.5 O Lord even the H●avens shall confess thy wonderful Works John 3. Our Saviour saith to Nicodemus I have told you

there●n set the bolder face Because like Fortune have ev'n Acts of Grace And yet some trifling Shops provoke me most For here and there they ●ail me to a Post O Cruel Hands but that my Patience bears It w●ll presaging what attends their Ears Thus pleased or displeased I appear Servant or Slave t' all Interests once a Year So let me pass And when this Journey 's over I 'le try if be●ter luck I can di●cover In Kalendarium Ecclesiasticum 1658. We find these Learned and Weighty Verses following 1. Under the Table of Kings HEre and not here implies a Contradiction Reality you 'll say oppos'd to Fiction I grant it so And he that asks me Why Must know I cannot skill of things too nigh He a large Picture that will judge aright Sets it not near him but aloof his sight 2. Under the Table of Terms Peace makes a pleasant sound well understood But Discord better whilst the Peace not good I am not of his Humour did prefer Th' Unjustest Peace before the Just est War Admit one rifled robb'd of all relief Must he needs patch a Peace up with the Thief 3. In January If wanting Wings one may ascend the Skies And Phoebus view without an Eagles Eyes Then rouze up Muse from thy Lethargick strains And having first invok'd the God of Brains Let the Grand Subject of thy Measures be No soul to England like a Monarchy 4. In February It is the Image of that Domination By which Jehovah rules the whole Creation Angels nor Saints do in his Kingdom share God is sole Monarch they but Subjects are Whose Laws are such as when they did Rebel Sequestred not but sent 'em straight to Hell 5. In March As Old as that Paternal Soveraignty God plac'd in Adam Rul'd his People by Disown'd of none but them whose minds aspire And envy One should have what all desire For be 't a few or many we live under Such shall repine still whilst not of the number 6. In April The Ancients did a Monarchy prefer Made all their Gods submit to Jupiter And when Affairs and Nations first began Princes Decrees were th' only Laws of Man Experience will avow it where there 's any One honest man is sooner found than many 7. In May. The rational soul performs a Princes part She Rules the Body by Monarchick Art Poor Cranes and silly Bees with shivering wings Observe their Leaders and obey their Kings Nature her self disdains a crowded Throne The Body's Monstrous hath more Heads than one 8. In June A Monarchy's that Politick simple State Consist's in Unity inseparate Pure and entire A Government that stands When others fall touch'd but with Levelling hands So Natural and with such Skill endu'd It makes one body of a Multitude 9. In July In Order wherein latter things depend On former that 's most perfect doth attend On Unity but this can never be The Pop'lar State nor Aristocracy For where or all or many bear the sway Such Order to Confusion leads the way 10. In August A Monarchy more quickly doth attain The End propos'd for 't is the single Brain That ripens Counsel and concealeth best Princely Designs till Deeds proclaim 'em blest Whilst numerous Heads are rarely of one Mind Slow in their Motion louder than the Wind. 11. In September Treason nor Force so suddenly divides Th' United strength that in a Crown resides Sedition prospers not it seldom here Results an Object of the Prince's fear Than when an Empire Rome was ne'r more strong Nor Triumph'd under other Rule so long 12. In October A Monarchy abates those F●v'rish f●●s Of Emulation a Free-St●te begets A Prince cannot his R●ins so quickly slack Or throw his Burth●n on another's Back But where so many Rulers have command The work 's transfer'd and toss'd from hand to hand 13. In November The People or the Nobles to debate The deep Concernments of a Troubled-State Set-times and places have assign'd them they First meet and then adjourn from day to day Whereas a Monarch who by Nature's One Deliberates always never's off his Throne 14. In December But hold Methinks I see the three Estates Conven'd thrown open Prison-doors and Grates Extinct our paltry Jealousies and Fears Grace offered to all but Cavaliers And Papists Yet with Patience they abound In hope for better now the wheel goes round 15. The Conclusion Thus trace we Time and in our several Spheres Slightly pass over ne'r-returning Y●ar● Thus States and Kingdoms to a Peri●d draw Their Politicks must yield to Natures Law Thus Kings and Beggars are Companions made Shake hands and knock the Scepter 'gainst the Spade Thus Courts and Cottages become 〈◊〉 Roof And Carts and Chariots meet without R●proof Thus all the Greatness Mortals do contend And Damn their Souls for slideth to An End In Kalendarium Ecclesiasticum 1659. these following Pithy and Prophetick Verses are to be found 1. On the Moons Eclipse in April NOW have amongst ye you that stand On slippery ground or build on Sand. Seditious Spirits play their pranks Inundations break the Banks Rumours of Wars about us fly Thrice happy Man dares bravely die Intestine Tumults taken Towns Besieged Cities Princes frowns Astonish Us. But I 'le to Plough And never mind what Mad-men do Mavors and Hermes bear the sway May He deserves it have the day 2. On the Moons Eclipse in October Quick work and Crafty He that sways In this Defect brooks no Delays Beware of Pirates High-way Thieves Dull Heresies and Hanging-Sleeves Of Scarcity and dearth of Grain With uncouth Griefs 'mongst Cattle reign Tempestuous Winds Quotidian Fevers Ptisicks and Priests that cock their Bevers Debates that into Question call The Peoples Laws even God's and all For Stilbon only hath command And him alone I understand 3. On the Suns Eclipse in November What noise is this Methinks I hear Some dread Heroe drawing near A busie Clergy belching fire Some Prince depos'd and in the mire I see by th' light of one fair Star Whole Nations going out to War Risings Arraignments sudden Death And Ruine rushing on the Earth The Rivers lessen'd Fountains dry Waters corrupt good Subjects die For Mars is rampant and what hand Can turn the Edge of Burlybrand 4. Under the Regal Table Sacred's the name of King and full of splendour Fam●us the Title of the Faiths Defender 〈◊〉 when on such the Rabble six'd their Spleen Wh● a●d regard to Faith to King or Queen B●t now such Comments on the Text they make All Mortals must submit for Conscience-sake 5. Under the Table of Terms Thanks busie-Term-time thou bring'st work to do For Judge for Council and Attorney too But should'st thou and and never more Commence Lawyers would lose their most voluptuous sence The knotty Laws which now so dear we buy Be rated like Bishops Divinity 6. Under the Tide-Table The Sea hath fits much like this giddy Age Sometimes ●he pines anon she swells with Rage And makes a rupture