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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	body_n	earth_n	element_n	4,634	5	9.8975	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91999	Keiromantia [sic] or, The art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man, by the hand of nature, theorically, practically. Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19. genitures. Together with a learned philosophicall discourse of the soule of the world, and the vniversall spirit thereof. A matchlesse piece. / Written originally in Latine by Io: Rothmanne, D. in Phisique, and now faithfully Englished, by Geo: Wharton Esq.; Cheiromantia.	Rothmann, Johann.; Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.	1652 (1652)	Wing R2001; Thomason E1237_3; ESTC R210441	69,654	193

Number and Measure but Living Animate Intellectuall The former Part of the Definition is cleare from the Holy Scriptures The latter is Proved of Plato and that by manifest Reasons Where we say A Living Systeme we intend a certaine Naturall Life diffused through the Bodies of the world extended and Movably Acting together with the Body of the World Where we call it An Animate Systeme we meane the substance of the Soule of the World whose Essence indeed is both Indivisible and Immutable like the Intellect yet it may in some sort be tearmed Divisible and Moveable because it is the Proper Fountaine of some Powers that are declining to Divisible and Moveable Vertue also and Action is partly Individuall and Immoveable so far forth as it agrees with Divine things steadfastly worketh and Partly Divisible in some Respects both because it is Manifold and also for that it Declineth to a Manifold and Divisible Body And Moveable because it worketh Temporally Where we tearme it Intellectuall we meane the Angelicall Intellects which are properly Perfect and Indivisible according to Place in their Government of the Spheres and Immutable in respect of time the Naturall Life and Forme Corporeall being Opposite thereunto Divisible and Mutable That even these Angelicall Intellects be in the Body of the World necessity requires it because the Body of the World is through Life made fit for the Intellect Therefore looke how it is in regard of Life and the like it is in respect of the Intellect And as it hath not onely a Naturall lying hid in the Matter of the World but an Animall also that is A Soule existing in it selfe So hath it not only an Intellectuall Quality infused the Soule but also an Intellectuall Substance therein remaining For certaine Qualities are every where reduced to certaine Substances As a Vitall Quality to a Vitall Substance so also an Intellectuall Quality to an Intellectuall Substance But as touching these things we shall explaine our selfe more at large The whole Body of the World is a certaine Body composed of all the Foure Elements the Members or Parts whereof are the Bodies of all Living Creatures For the small Body of every Animall is a Part of the Worlds Body Neither is it composed of the whole Element of Fire Aire Water or Earth but of some Parts of these Elements By how much therefore the Whole is more Perfect then a Part thereof by so much is the Body of the World more Perfect then the Body of any one Living Creature Hence were it absurd to thinke that an Imperfect Body should have a Soule But that it neither hath a Soule nor can live Perfect None will be so mad as to say the Part Liveth and not the Whole Therefore the whole Body of the World Liveth whilst the Bodies of the Animals therein Live which are the Parts thereof And now seeing there must needs be One Soule of the whole World we will in the next place enquire in what Part thereof this Soule may Reside whence she Distributes her Spirit through all things and preserves the same so Distributed Shee fixeth not her Seate and Pavilions in Bodies subject to variety of Change and Manifold Corruption as are the Elements and Elementary Bodies wherefore seeing that in Heaven there is no Corruption of Bodies there certainly is her Place of Residence And although those Elements also may be in Heaven but most Purely or Spiritually yet is it manifest that the Element of Fire hath therein Dominion Even as here in this Inferiour Part of the World where the Soveraignty of the Elements remaines in the Power of Fire And this we are sensible of in our owne Bodies But much more if we doe but consider how the Fire by no meanes Putrefieth nor is any way Corrupted notwithstanding it often Corrupteth other Bodies where it gets Preheminency Moreover Nature affords it Earth Water and Aire as a certaine Subject Matter whereon to Exercise its Power The Aire it selfe as also the Earth with the Water surrounding it whence we are Nourish'd and draw our Breath is indeed so Affected of the Fire about it that sometimes Heate doth therein predominate otherwhiles it is so Extenuated that for want of Heate it leaves its owne Quality and is forsaken of Cold In like manner we see such Impressions conveyed from the Fire above us upon the Earth and Water that sometimes the Nature and Quality thereof is capable of some Excesse otherwhiles of Defect the Celestiall Fire it selfe remaining Entire Wherefore seeing the Soule of the World hath its Residence in Heaven of Necessity it must live in a Fiery Substance For Heaven is a Fiery Essence but withall most Temperate Pure Lucid and Incorruptible Nor shall they Trouble us who deny the Fiery Heaven in regard the Motion of the Heavens is Circular the Fires Motion Perpendicular For because our Fire is Peregrine and Impure therefore it tends directly upwards and by a kind of Veneration Covets the Place of the Proper and Naturall Fire yet is it not to be supposed such a Fiery Hot Heaven as that 't is burning or Heating By how much lesse Fire is mingled with strange Matter by so much the lesse it Burneth The which is seen in the Flaming of the Purer sort of Oyle but especially of Oyle Artificiously Extracted from Gold the which True Alchemists doe Witnesse and as these M●r●all Eyes of mine have sometimes Tryed Therefore seeing there is not any matter in Heaven estranged from the Celestiall no Adustion no Heate is made there We see no Adustion in Comets running through the Celestiall Spheres but onely some Illustration for that doubtlesse the matter thereof much participateth of the Nature of the Celestiall Bodies But TYCHO BRAHE A Dane A Noble-Man An Astronomer and a most incomparable Philosopher of this Age shall anon more plainly unfold to us this matter farre different from the Madded Nursery of Peripatetiques and that not without the Infallible Curiosity both of Observations and Demonstrations Now because some Matter Opposed is Heated and Burnt by the Rayes of the Sun contracted by a Glasse that is a suddaine generation of Heat and Fire increasing by the Flagration of the Collected Rayes in the Glasse and applyed to Fit Matter which are of another Disputation Some will have the Matter of Heaven to be Aereall But for that Light is a Propertie of Fire enlightning even the Aire it selfe in my Judgment wee doe better in supposing it to consist of a Fiery Matter Besides Heaven is next to the Divine Seate and God himselfe yet not so as that God is not every where God is called The Father of Light with whom there is no Change by whom the Light may be Extinguished or Diminished neither an overshadowing of Change whereby sometimes he either is turn'd into Night or suffereth an Eclipse GOD is Light in which there is no Darkenesse that is Forme wherein there is nothing Informe Beauty in which there is nothing of Deformity As therefore GOD is Light

Starres of the Eight Orbe And those things that containe a more plentifull and excellent Spirit of that Nature shall perfect a more manifest and swifter Operation in our Bodies if so be it be duly seperated from the Body and Feces for the Feces profit nothing yea they plainly Impede and oppresse the Penetrating vertue of the Spirit And indeed all Physitians should have a speciall Regard that they Artificially segregate the Medicinall vertues of things from the Body and the Elementated Impurities thereof and not so Foolishly hasten to their Patients the Medicines and Feces together But the most part either wholly omit that Labour or account it in a manner Dishonest Leaving that separating Art to the Diseased Body Neverthelesse these Men make too huge a Progresse in Philosophy they shall often dispute against Astronomy it selfe not knowing indeed that they can nothing say or Dispute without that Syderiall Spirit communicated to them as also to every Man yet more or lesse from above by the Heavens and the Starres Truly the Lote which shutteth its Leaves before Sun Rise but when he Ascendeth openeth them by degrees will be accounted more Just and Charitable towards the Celestiall Princes then these so Rationall Men And so we believe shall the Cock who applauds the Rising Sun as it were with a Hymne from his Inferiour Rousts But these are from the matter We formerly told you There can nothing be found in this Lower World that wan●s a vivifying Sparke of this Spirit but yet to know under what Starre and in which signe of the Zodiaque every thing Perceiveth its Spirit This is the Worke here the Labour is Neverthelesse there hath so much of this nature bin Manifested to us by sedulous and skilfull Men as is sufficient for Humane Ingenuity and Paines to find out greater things Gold hath in it the Spirit of the Sun and therefore is in value the most pretious of all Metalls It also nourisheth every Spirit of all things Growing So that the Sun possesseth the vertues of all the Starres No marvell then the Spirit of Gold skilfully extracted or seperated from the elementated or Metallique Body should extirpate all Diseases of the Body The reason is manifest by Astronomy it selfe But that there is Gold of the Solar Spirit to omit other Reasons the purifyed signe thereof sufficiently testifies where you shall finde Incense Burning with perpetuall Fire which thing true Alchemists know very well and there yet remaines such a thing to be found in some Sepulchers that hath continued its Ardour and Fire for more then 100. yeares Even as the Sun enjoys Perpetuall Light The same Metall is not unfitly called the Terrene Chaos because if the Spirit of the Universe residing in it should at a set time be reduced to a competent Forme with the Body plainly produces the same or even greater things then that Essence of the Sun so earnestly sought for by Covetous Persons So also to other Metalls there is a Proper and Perpetuall Seed-plot in Heaven The like for Trees Plants Stones c. If therefore any thing growing nourisheth in it an Astrall Spirit wee account the Incensive matter of the Generative and Seminary vertue much more such and indeed more Perfect in Man himselfe Those Philosophers who know not any such thing in Man can pronounce nothing certaine as touching the Ingenuity of Man his Inclinations Antipathy Sympathy of the Magnetique vertue and operation and such other things as are hitherto appertaining Whence it is they so Foolishly and Filthily heape up Reasons of Philosophizing which are no better then volatile Aire We must not forget that there is a twofold Spirit in Man One infused from the Heavens and Starres at the time of Generation the other Inspired by GOD This was the breathing-hole of Life in Adam and that indeed Perfect but afterwards Lost The First Man was made of the Slime of the Earth that is of the Greater World of the Sydereall Creatures and Elements whence he received a certaine Astrall Soule resembling the Soule of the World The Object whereof is The Universall World and the things contained therein that is Worldly Wisdome generally comprehending all manner of Arts and Sciences within it selfe some such thing was Anciently called in Man the Proper Genius or Demon of every one Hee is not wholly Ignorant of the Naturall Law that is of the Divine Will commanding and approving the Good but abhominating and Condemning the Evill done unto us because the World was the First Image of God and Man himselfe the next Example of any thing Possessing the Reason of the Word And although Man have Free-will yet so it is in him that what a one soever the Predestination of the Mundane Soule made him such a one also every Man would and desireth to Die by a naturall instinct Thus we more plainly conceive how Man is subject to the Starres Hence likewise we will not deny but that very many Diseases and consequently the terme of Life proceed especially in a flourishing Age from the Starres touching which we have elsewhere produced manifest Reasons and a manifest Experience in Examples Hereunto belongs the whole Genethliaque Part of Astrology Theophrastus Paracelsus hath most Plentifully and Learnedly explained the Foundations of this very Matter in his Volumne of Wise Philosophy There was another Breathing Hole placed by God in Adam beyond this Rationall Spirit and operating Soule deducing its Originall and Branches from the Starres which was the Breathing Hole of Life in which regard he was said to be the Image of GOD the Beauty of this Image was lost by the Fall of our First Parents a very small spark thereof surviving in us But may be reduced to its pristine Condition by a Regeneration in Christ This Sparke Christ being Mediator shall grow into a Flame of Celestiall Wisdome It is the proper spirit of those that Believe in Christ Joh. 7. Rejecting Despising Deriding all those Worldly things not as that they are the Workes of GOD for they testifie of GOD what he is but in that they are Corruptible unstable and draw a Man from the presence of GOD and from Eternall Joy in Him This Wisdome is that sorrow with the Flesh and its Concupiscences at last overcoming Christ being Conquerour Of this is that vulgar saying Sapiens Dominabitur Astris A wise Man shall Rule the Starres By this very Rule we are led from the Love of Corruptible things and brought into the Love of Eternall By this we take the Crosse of Christ upon our Shoulders and Follow him that is we shall hereby Purge out the Old Leven crucifying our Flesh with Evill Affections and Concupiscences studying to learne abundantly the Fruits of a Christian Spirit without Hypocrisy as Charity Faith Peace Joy Liberality Meeknesse Temperance Gal. 5. In a word This Celestiall Spirit is no other thing then Faith triumphing through Charity without which none shall Prevaile before GOD although as it is in 1 Cor. 13. He should speake