with another And whereas the opposition which is made between the contrary Elements is apparent and manifest namely in respect of the fight or discord which is made betwixt dissonant qualities or natures as are cold and heat moisture and drouth So that in this case the Sympathy and Antipathy of Elements are well known to every one namely betwixt the water and fire and betwixt the earth and the aire We must know that there is yet a more latent and internall cause of Sympathy and Antipathy in things which by some is ascribed unto the occult natures of the Starrs but in verity it proceedeth from those Angelicall influences which do invisibly and after a most occult manner stream out of creatures that are born under a discordant Emanation which Reuchlin doth passingly well describe in these words Pholosophis Peripateticis id probatur quod câ—lum quodâ— bet Sphaericum praeter formam suam essentâ—alem habet assistenâ—em inte ligentiam orbis sui mâ—â—ricâ—m quae vocatur Angelus eò qâ—od ad hoc officium missa intelligens volens compleâ— jussa Creatoris tanquam inter Deum Naturam virtus media à qua fiunt operationes in rebus quas natura earum vel â—on faceret vel non sic faceret quas alii provenire dicunt a proprietate occulta aliâ— quia tale It is approved of the Peripatetick Philosophers that every Spherick heaven hath besides his essentiall form an assistent Intelligence which is the mover of his O be the which Intelligence is called an Angell bâ—cause iâ— being sent to peâ—fâ—rm that Office doth understandingly and willingly accomplish the Command of the Creator as a middle Virtue between God and naâ—ure by the which are effected operations in things which their nature either would not effect or would not do â—t after that faâ—hion the which are said by others to proceed from an occult property and others because it is so Whereby it appeareth that the hidden Sympathy and Antipathy in things as well celestiall as terrestiall proceed from the mysticall and arcane actions of Angelicall spirits or Intelligences who first receive that hidden property from a peculiar influence or irradiation which descendeth from some of the Divine influences which do inform and indue that Angelicall spirit with that Virtue But because it is not the Office of an Astrologian to penetrate thus pâ—ofoundly into these hidden Mysteries which belong unto the aeviall world forasmuch as his custom is to make the visible Starres the fountains of all those effects which by way of influence and irradiation do descend to operate as well by sympathy as antipathy in things below I will here after the Astrologicians manner make the well-spring of all sympathy and antipathy to arise from the manifold influence of the stars as shall more at large appear in the next Chapter CHAP. IV. The Astrologicall reason of Sympathy and Antipathy is herein expressed where also it is proved that being all inferiour spirits receive the influence of their nature from above and being that the elementall creatures are bâ—t the images of the celestiall so also it must consequently follow that as there are both Sympatheticall and Antipatheticall aspects or irradiations between two or more of the heavenly bodies and therefore there must of necessity happen that there is an emission of essentiall beams from one earthly body unto another which according unto the nature of the creature is either Sympatheticall or Antipatheticall I Will leave now a while to speak radically with the mysticall Hebrew and Cabalisticall Theologians and will open this mystery of occult radiation or streaming forth of hidden beams betwixt two creatures whether they be celestiall or terrestriall of a like and sympathising nature or un-like and antipathising condition after the manner of an Astrologian namely taking the visible organ for the invisible agent the externall creature for the internall angelicall vertue the starry influence for the hidden supercelestiall emanation which is poured out into the spirits or intelligences which inhabit and illuminate the stars and send it down again from them into the elementary world to animate the winds and by them the catholick element altered after a four-fold manner and by the element so altered to inform the meteorologick bodies diversly and by them the severall compounded creatures both in the sea and land We ought therefore to know speaking like the Astrologian that there is a manifest opposition and agreement not onely in respect of the manifest qualities of the elements which are observed to be as well in the fixt as erratick stars for the watry signes of the Zodiack are contrary unto the fiery the nocturn unto the diurn the orientall unto the occidentall the male unto the female but also in a more hidden regard For the best Astrologians have noted that as Jupiter Sol and Luna are friends unto Saturn so Mercury Mars and Venus are his enemies Againâ— all the Planets but Mars are friends unto Jupiter Moreover there is not any of the Planets that is Mars his friend but Venus onely and especially Sol and Mercury are his greatest foes Also Jupiter and Venus are friends unto the Sun as contrariwise his enemies are Mars Mercury and Luna All the Planets are said to love and favour Venus but Saturn Mercury's friends are Jupiter Venus and Saturn his enemies are Sol Luna and Mars The friends of the Moon are Venus Jupiter and Saturn her enemies are Mars and Mercury The friends unto the head of the Dragon are Jupiter and Venus the enemies are Saturn and Mars Lastly the enemies of the Tail of the Dragon are Jupiter Luna and Venus as contrariwise his friends are Saturn and Mars Besides all this we ought to note that there is another kind of friendship or enmity between the Planets namely when the one of them hath his exaltation or dignity in another's House In this case therefore the things subject unto the influence of the one will lovingly embrace the aspect of the other and contrariwise the depression or detriment of the one in the House of another maketh the spirit of the one creature who is born under that Planet which hath the detriment and is oppressed by a bad aspect of the other that is in his own house where the detriment is to aspect antipathetically a thing that is under the other by this means I say the presence of the thing born or springing forth under the Planet of that House will be ungratefull and odious unto the other person or thing whose detriment is in the said House Contrariwise we must note that two creatures will well sympathise and joyfully agree with one another where their Planets do consent together in nature quality essence and strength as are Mars and Venus for these sympathise by a naturall instinct So also Venus Jupiter Mercury and the Moon agree together and so likewise the unfortunate Planets do agree in the multiplying of misfortunes We ought also in like manner to know
follow that there are differing Angelicall spirits which correspond in nature and condition unto each divine property under which they do administer in this world so that by these spirituall organs or angelicall instruments the beams and brightnesse of the eternall influence do descend first into the starry region of the temporall world and afterwards are shoured down into the elementary sphears and penetrate even into the bowells of the earth and dark abysse to operate the will of that eternall and radicall essence which sent them forth by which means the spirit of sapience is rightly said to be in the heavens above and in the abysse beneath and to fill or replenish all and lastly to operate all in all And lastly taketh into his consideration some special particular object well known unto the world that by the experimentall enquiry or searching out of his hidden nature he might practically maintain and ocularly prove that unto the incredulous world concerning the mystery of Sympathy and Antipathy which before he had onely expressed and verified Theorically or by speculation The Loadstone or minerall calamite therefore is the mark at which he aimeth or subject which he electeth for this purpose being that the effects of its secret and occult properties do most aptly correspond unto those of the animal vegetable and minerall Wherefore he prepareth in this Book a way by the anatomization and ripping up the fardell of this marvellous stone's occult nature that thereby he might with the better speed make his entry unto such experimentall conclusions and comparisons between the one and the other as shall be at large described and set forth in the third Book of this History that thereby the nature and condition of the animal may be discovered and demonstrated by that of the minerall And lastly for a conclusion unto this Book he sheweth the folly of such persons as being masked or overlaid with ignorance do imagine that any magneticall action can be effected essentially by the devills artifice or power averring confidently that the devill is able to effect nothing but by naturall means which also is rather ordained for the use of man then of the devill and consequently that man which useth the naturall creatures which the devill hath practised on to work wickednesse is no way culpable of Cacomagy as vain men would have it being that the righteous use of the creature for which God did ordain it is not therefore to be rejected because the devill with his adherents do unrighteously abuse them by converting them to mischief CHAP. I. That Sympathy is the off-spring of Light as Antipathy hath its beginning from Darkness The Etymology or true signification of both words as also the natures of them both are herein described SInce the radical and essential Unity with its two opposite branches or properties which are the characters of his Nolunty and Volunty have in generall terms been thus evidently described unto you with the two catholick effects thereof namely love and hatred and all those passions as well spirituall as corporall which are derived from them whether they be good or bad in respect of the creature that suffereth I think it now most fit to enter into our main discourse and to anatomise the secret bowels of that Sympathy and Antipathy which is not onely seen and made manifest in naturall but also supernaturall creatures by effect For no man of learning can be so ignorant and blind being instructed by daily experience which is the mother even of very fools as not to discern the hidden miracles both of heavenly and earthly things daily shining forth in Sympathy and Antipathy that is in concords and discords which are caused by reason of a secret league or friendship which is betwixt them even from their very mixtion in their first creation But before we presume to enter into this profound discovery it will be requisite to lay open the signification or Etymology of them both that thereby we may the better conceive their distinct natures and essences Sympathia is a Greek word namely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est una cum or one with and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is passio or passion which pâ—oceedeth from the Verbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. patior or I suffer as Antipathia is composed of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. contra or against and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So that the first imports a passion bred of unity concord and love tearmed more properly compassion and the other an odible passion mooved by two resisting and fighting natures of a contrary fortitude I may therefore rightly define Sympathy to be a consent union or concord between two spirits shining forth or having their radical emanation from the self-same or the like divine property As for example All creatures that participate of those benigne emanations or beams which are sent out from God by his Angelicall Organs into the orbe of Jupiter are from thence emitted down to the earth and are conferred upon a multitude of creatures that were created under this property which for that reason do shine forth and emit their beams unto one another here upon earth lovingly and joyfully namely because they proceed all from one root which descendeth unto Jupiter also such as are friends to Jupiter or like unto him in condition send down influences in creatures which are acceptable unto such as live from their nativities and are sustained and have their complexionary faculties from Jupiter and therefore they send forth beams of friendship or benignity unto one another as are also Venus c. But contrariwise where the influences which are adverse in property or of an opposit divine emanation are sent down unto the Planet Mars which is enemy to Jupiter and from thence are poured out on creatures beneath there will be ill and unwelcome encounters made between the secret emissions of those creatures beams So that one by a naturall instinct doth seek to fly and escape the encounters of the other or to resist and fight against the other as shall more largely and plainly be expressed unto you hereafter But because the generall cause of all Sympathy and Antipathy is a hidden and secret emanation or shining forth by emission of beams from one creature unto another it will be most requisite for us to unloose the fardle of this profound business that we may the plainlier behold and contemplate the fountain and root of all beames and eradiations in generall and thereby unfold and lay open the mysticall reason of their difference and follow their extensions even from the root unto the trunâ—k and from it unto the boughs and branches and from those branches to descend even unto the individuall twigs which nourish and foster an infinity of leaves and bring forth fruit in abundance CHAP. II. How and by what Attributes or properties the Hebrew Rabbies and profoundest Cabalists do proove thaâ— contrariety of natures
do with the Hebrew Rabbies justly apply the essence of the first emanation unto Mitattron which emanation is said to enter by the royall port or gate Cheter or Corona For know that this catholick Angell is said to be the first creature because it importeth the spirit of the world which did first receive the first-born son or the Emperiall emanation from the Attribute of God called EHIAH which is a name of eternity for that it containeth and doth respect the time past the time present and the time to come For this cause therefore doth this great Angel style it self Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end The first influence therefore which was of universall life and essence is received by the Angel Mitattron which is for this reason called Donum Dei after it was shouted down from the port Cheter into the highest order of the Angells called Seraphin which by reason of their propinquity unto the throne of God are said to burn or be set on fire with divine love And hereupon these have their excellent beauty and clearnesse by reason of this sacred influence which is so full of the loving benignity of the Father of light From thence this potent angelicall nature conducts the beams of this light into the convexity of the aetheriall heaven and there bestowes it as in a generall magazin or store-house which place it afterwards informs or vivifieth insomuch that by the admirable action and motion thereof it is called Primum mobile or that sphear which moveth first in the heavens and by his motion it turneth the naturall or temporall world round about from the East unto the West in twenty four houres The mover is this catholick Angel of the world full of this eternall emanation by which it animates the world Therefore also is Sapientia said to be omnium rerum priùs creata the first of all creatures and Fluxus virtutis Dei emanaâ—io claritatis ejus omni re mobilior penetrans ubique propter suam munditiam permanens in se omnia innovans It is an influence of the vertue of God and the shining forth of his brightnesse which is the most movable of all things penetrating all things by his purenesse and being one in essence reneweth all things that is it reviveth every thing By which it is plain that this catholick emanation is the soul of the world having endued or put on the universall angelicall spirit and therefore is called by the holy Text a Creature so that the catholick created spirit of the world is the Primum mobile for by this first-born emanation from God it is animated and moved as by the swiftest mover in the world and the mover is tearmed Primus motor both together or called Mundi anima which therefore is defined to be in respect of the created spirit thus animated Primum mobile spoâ—te per se mobile The first thing moved which is moved voluntarily and by it self And for this reason also the animal faculty in man which is sedes animae intellectulis is said to move voluntarily when the action â—f the vitall and naturall faculty compared unto the etheriall and elementary heaven do move unvoluntarily that is at the will of the first mover And this work is therefore assigned unto this sphear with the legions of intelligences that are derived from and created there by their catholick head which is the said grand Arch-angell as beams from one Sun partly to hinder the starry lights which were after created from burning the elementary world or working by their long continued impression too violent and unnaturall alterations as also to make a proportionable day and night unto the earth To conclude by this angelicall act the whole spirit of the world was generally inacted The divine emanation which issued from the second Sephiret or port called Hochma which is sent out by the Attribute IAH passeth into the order of the Cherubins which signifieth the plenitude of Science and abundance of the gifts of Wisdom and is received of the Arch-angel Zophiel which by the etymology of his name argueth pulchritude as being replenished with an infinity of particular beams of life But another calleth this keeper and conductor of these beams Ruziel who immediately doth direct them into the firmament or heaven of the fixt starrs and principally into the broad girdle of the starry heaven which is called the Zodiack arguing by the etymology of his name that the beams of this emanation do chiefly work and fashion out ideally the liniments of an infinity of particularities in the elementary world as shall be demonstrated hereafter The third effluxion which is made from the port Binah under the protection of the name ELOHIM descendeth immediately into the order of the Thrones arguing thereby Gods severe property full of â—udgment and is received by the Arch-angel Zabkiel or as others will have it of Kaspiel which is as much to say as Genius Cholerae magnae and this effluxion is conducted down into the next sphear below the firmament which it informeth according unto the naturall property of the divine influx and it procreateth the globe of Saturn which it replenisheth with spirits or inferiour intelligences called by the name of Saturnine Intelligences which send down these influences into the elementary world to produce effects according unto their nature as well in the aire and water as in and upon the earth The fourth emanation which is derived from the conduit-pipe of Chesed over which the word EL hath dominion is received of the angelicall order of Dominations which import power against evill spirits and the benefit of life and breath and then is committed unto the Arch-angel Zadkiel which is by interpretation Genius justitiae and this Angel according unto the nature of the influence which it carrieth is a friend unto the true Justice in the proportion of the elements and a friend unto the creature's life wherefore it conducteth the beams of this property into the next or be below Saturn which they make a dwelling place for an infinity of spirits that are created out of the same informing influence and therefore are of its property This Terra Angelica Olympi is tearmed the Star of Jupiter and these kinds of Olympick spirits are tearmed Jovial Intelligences which do poure forth the streams of their influence into the elementary regions and animateth the spirits of its nature which work effects appropriated unto the property of this influence The fifth eradiation or emission of divine beams is out of the Sephiroticall numeration or port called Geburah whose President is the divine Attribute ELOHIM GIBBOR and these beams are said to passe directly into the order of Potestats and the Arch-angell unto the which these beams are committed is called Samaâ—l or as others will Hamael and it is a Genius which importeth horrour and this Intelligence doth conduct the beams of its Emanation into the Sphere which is below that of Jupiter and informeth the spirits