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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61291	The history of the Chaldaick philosophy by Thomas Stanley.	Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678.; Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678. Chaldaick oracles of Zoroaster.	1662 (1662)	Wing S5240; ESTC R12160	140,604	202

vessel placed underneath so long untill the same Star rose again collecting that from the same Signe to the same was the whole revolution of the Circle Then they took the twelfth part of the water which had run out and considered how long it was in running affirming that the twelfth part of the Circle past over in the same space of time and that it had that proportion to the whole Circle which the part of water had to the whole water By this Analogy I mean of the Dodecatemorion or twlelfth part they marked out the extreme term from some Signal Star which then appeared or from some that arose within that time Northern or Southern the same course they took in the rest of the Dodecatemoria That to each of these Dodecatemoria the antient Chaldaeans applyed a particular Figure and a Character as for instance to the first the Figure of a Ram and this Character ♈ though denyed by the Learned Iohn Picus Mirandula seems manifest enough from what we find ascribed peculiarly to them by Ptolomy Sextus Empyricus and others which we shall cite in their due places To each of these Signes they appropriated One of the principal Gods which they held to be twelve and One of the Moneths the Zodiack it self they termed the Circle Mazoloth which the Septuagint render 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 interpreted by Su●das the Constellations which are commonly termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Signes for Mazal signifieth a Star That they ascribed several Gods to them agre●th with what is said of the ●ollowers of Baal whom Rabbi Maimonides conceives the same with these Chaldaeans they burnt Incense unto Baal to the Sun and to the Moon and to the Mazaloth and to all the Host of Heaven Hence some are of Opinion that Homer received this Doctrine from the Aegyptians as the Aegyptians from the Chaldaeans alluding to it in the first of his Iliads where he mentions the Entertainment of Iupiter and the rest of the Gods in Aethiopia twelve dayes with the several Houses built for them by Vulcan and much better deserve they to be credited than those Antients w●o according to Eustathius write that Homer first gave the Hint of this Opinion to the Mathematicians Neither is what he adds in Explication of this Mythology dissonant from the Chaldaick Doctrine that the making those Mansions for the Gods or Stars is ascribed to Vulcan in respect of the Aetherial Heat of the Caelestial Orb. Of the Signes some they call Masculine others Feminine some Double others Single some Tropical others Solid The Masculine or Feminine are those which have a Nature that co-operates towards the Generation of Males or Femals Aries is a Masculine Signe Taurus a Feminine Gemini a Masculine in like manner the rest alternately are Masculine and Feminine In Imitation of whom as I conceive the Pythagoreans call the Monad Masculine the Duad Feminine the Triad Masculine and so on through all numbers odd and Even Some there are who divide every Signe into twelve Parts observing almost the same order As in Aries they call the first twelfth part Aries and Masculine the second Taurus and Feminine the third Gemini and Masculine and so of the rest Double Signes are Gemini and it 's diametrically opposite Sagittarius Virgo and Pisces the rest are single Tropical are those to which when the Sun cometh he turneth back and maketh a Conversion Such is the Signe Aries and it 's opposite Libra Capricorn and Cancer In Aries is the Spring Tropick in Capricorn the Winter in Cancer the Summer in Libra the Au●umnal The Solid are Taurus and it 's opposite Scorpio Leo and Aquarius Some Chaldaeans there are who attribute the several parts of Mans Body to particular Signes as sympathising with them To Aries the Head to Taurus the Neck to Gemini the Shoulders Cancer the Breast Leo the Sides Virgo the Bowels and Belly Libra the Reins and Loy●s Scorpio the Secret parts and Womb Sagittarius the Thighs Capricorn the Knees Aquarius the Leggs Pisces the Feet This did they not without consideration for if any Star shall be in any Ascension of these Malignant Signes it will cause a Maim in that part which bears the same N●me with it Thus much in brief of the Nature of the Signes in the Zodiack Besides this Divis●on of the Zodiack into Sigres they Subdivided every Signe into 30 Degrees every Degre into 60 Minutes so they call the leas● indivisible Par●s as Empyrius affirms whence it may be argued that the Chaldaeans made not any lower divisions into Seconds or the l●ke The Degrees being in every Signe 30 are in the whole Zodiack 360 in Some One of these the Sun must necessarily be at the time of the Nativity which Degree the Chaldaeans properly call the place of the Birth Hence the Greeks call these Degree 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Allusion to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Goddesses of Destiny these being our Fates for it is of greatest Importance which of these Degrees is Ascendant at the time of Birth Three other Wayes there are of dividing of the Zodiack ascribed to the Chaldaans which are Triplicities Terms Decanates The Trigons or Triplicities are these fower The first is Aries Leo Sagittarius the second ●aurus Virgo Capricorn the third Gemini Libra Aquarius the l●st Cancer Scorpio Pisces That the Chaldaeans divided the Zodiack according to these Triplicities is manifest from their Way of collecting the Terms of the Planets described by Ptolomy Ev●ry Sign● hath five Terms The Chaldaick Way of finding out the Quantity of the Terms in every Signe is one and that very plain for their quantities differ by an equal Diminution every Term is lesse than the precedent by one Degree for they made the first Term of every signe to be eight degrees the second seven the third six the fourth five the fifth fower which make up 30 Degrees Lastly the Signes are divided into Faces for so the Antients call'd them in Hebrew Phanim in Arabick Mageah in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the latter Astrologers Decanates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Decanos a word as Scaliger observes derived from the Roman Militia of these in every Signe there are three each of which comprehends ten degrees that the Chaldaeans were not ignorant of these is manifest in as much as ●emer the Babylonian an Author of great Antiquity wrote concerning them CHAP. IV. Of the Planets considered in respect to the Zodiack THe Chaldaeans held that the Planets have not alwayes Power alike as to the procuring of Good and Ill but that in some Places or Signs of the Zodaick they are more ●fficacious in others less and that the same Stars have greater Power being in their proper Houses or in their Exaltations or Triplicities or Terms or Decanates All which the later Astrologers call their Essential Dignities The most Efficacious is that of Houses They