Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	conceive_v	seed_n	womb_n	1,446	5	10.0770	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92903	A new light of alchymie: taken out of the fountaine of nature, and manuall experience. To which is added a treatise of sulphur: / written by Micheel Sandivogius: i.e. anagram matically, divi Leschi genus amo. Also nine books of the nature of things, written by Paracelsus, viz. Of the generations growthes conservations life: death renewing transmutation separation signatures of naturall things. Also a chymicall dictionary explaining hard places and words met withall in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure authors. All which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by J.F. M.D.; Novum lumen chymicum. English.	Sędziwój, Michał, ca. 1556-ca. 1646.; French, John, 1616-1657.; Paracelsus, 1493-1541. Of the nature of things.; Dorn, Gerhard, 16th cent. Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi.	1650 (1650)	Wing S2506; Thomason E604_3; Thomason E604_4; Thomason E604_5; ESTC R203736	79,289	151

of the first essence of all Naturall things whence there ariseth a regeneration and new generation a thousand times better c. Seeing therefore putrefaction is the first degree and step to generation it is very necessary that wee know putrefaction well Putrefaction is the first degree to generation Now there are many kinds of putrefactions and one produceth its generation in another manner then doth another One also sooner then another Wee said also that moisture Putrefaction is manifold and heat were the first degree and step to putrefaction which produceth all things as a Hen doth her egs Wherefore through and in putrefaction all mucilaginous flegme and matter is made living whatsoever it prove to be at last An artificiall hatching of Chickens An example of this you have in egs in which there is a mucilaginous humour which by any kind of moderate continuall heat is putrefied and turned into a living Chicke not only by the heat of the Hen but any such kind of heat For in such a degree of Fire egs may be brought to maturity in a glasse and ashes and become living birds yea any man may ripen an egge in his arm-hole and hatch a Chicke as well as the Hen. The raising of a dead bird to life And here wee must take notice of something that is greater and more then this viz. if that living Chicke be in a vessell of glasse like a gourd and sealed up burnt to powder or ashes in the third degree of Fire and afterward so closed in be putrefied with the exactest putrefaction of Horse-dung into a mucilaginous flegm then that flegm may be brought to maturity and become a renewed and new made Chicke to wit if that flegm bee againe inclosed in its former shell or receptacle This is to revive the dead by regeneration and clarification which indeed is a great and profound miracle of Nature According to this processe may all Birds bee killed and made alive againe and made new and this is the highest and greatest miracle and mystery of God which hee ever discovered to mortall man The Atificiall generation of Man Wee must also know that after this manner men may bee generated without naturall Father or Mother i.e. not of a Woman in a naturall way but by the Art and industry of a skilfull Alchymist may a Man bee borne and grow as afterwards shall bee shewed The generation of men by brutes It is possible also that men may be born of beasts according to naturall causes but yet this cannot bee done without much impiety and heresie to wit if a man should couple with a beast and that beast should as a woman doth receive the Sperm of the man with desire and lust into her matrix and conceive then the sperm doth of necessity putrefie and by the continual heat of the body a man and not a beast is thence produced As the seed is so is the fruit For alwaies as the seed is that is sown so also is the fruit that is brought forth and unlesse it should be so it would be contrary to the light of Nature and to Philosophy Wherefore as is the seed such is the hearb that springs from thence So of the Seed of an Onyon is brought forth an Onyon not a Rose nor a Nut not a Lettuce So of Corne Corn is brought forth of Barley Barley of Oats Oats and so it is with all other fruits which have seed and are sown c. The force of womens imagination In like manner also it is possible and not contrary to Nature that an irrationall bruit should bee produced by a woman and a man Neither are wee to judge of or censure the woman as the man as in the former case shee therefore is not to bee accounted impious or hereticall as if shee acted contrary to Nature but is to be imputed to her imagination For her imagination is alwaies the cause of it And the imagination of a breeding woman is so powerful that in conceiving the seed into her body shee may change her infant divers wayes because her inward starres are so strongly bent upon the infant that they beget an impression and influence upon it Wherefore the infant in the Mothers wombe in its forming is put into the hand and will of its Mother as clay in the hand of the Potter who thence frames and makes what his will and pleasure is so the Woman that is breeding forms the fruit in her body according to her imagination and her starres Therefore it often falls out that of the seed of a man Cattle and other horrid Monsters are begot according as the imagination of the Mother is strongly directed upon the Embryo c. Now as you have heard that by putrefaction many and various things are generated and made alive so also you must know that of many hearbs by putrefaction divers living creatures are bred which they that are skilled in these things know All animals that are bred meerly of putrefaction are poisonous Here also wee must know that all such Animalls which are bred and made of putrefaction containe some poison and are poisonous yet one far more strong then another and one after another manner then another as you see in Serpents Vipers Toads Frogs Scorpions Basiliskes Spiders Wood-bees Pismires and many sorts of Wormes as Cankers Maggots Locusts c. All which are bred in and through putrefaction Also amongst Animalls there are bred divers Monsters And there are Monsters also which are not bred of putrefaction of themselves but are made by Art in a glasse as hath been said because they oftentimes appear in a very wonderfull shape and form fearful to behold as oftentimes with many feet many tailes many colours oftentimes many heads worms with the tailes of Fishes or feathers and other unusuall forms that the like have not been seen VVhat Monsters are Wherefore not only all Animalls which have not proper Parents and are not borne of things like to themselves are Monsters but also those which are bred of other things The secret poison of the Basilisk So you see it is concerning a Basiliske which also is a Monster and indeed a Monster above all Monsters and then which none is to bee more dreaded because hee can kill any man with his meer looks and sight and because his poison is above all poisons to which nothing in the world is to bee compared Hee carries his poison in a most secret manner in his eyes and it is a conceived poison not much unlike a menstruous woman who also carrieth a secret poison in her eyes so that only by her looks a Looking-glasse is fouled and tainted So also if shee looke upon a wound or an ulcer shee infects that in the like manner and hinders the cure thereof so also with her breath as well as sight shee infects divers things corrupts and weakens them and so also with her touch For you see

and proved Why is a seal put upon Letters but that there is a certain bond which it is lawfull for no man to violate For a seal is a confirmation of Letters whence they are of all men accounted ratified Without a seale an Acquitance is void and of no force After the same manner many things are marked with few letters names or words as books which being writ upon the outside but with one word doe presently shew what is contained within The same rule also there is for glasses and boxes in Apothecaries shops all which are discerned by peculiar names or papers put upon them Unlesse that were done who could discern so many Waters Liquors Syrups Oyles Powders Seeds Unguents c. and all simples After the same manner doth the Alchymist in his Elabatorie mark with names and papers all Waters Liquors Spirits Oyles Flegms Crocus Alcali and all species that thereby hee may when there is occasion make use of any of them and know them without the help of which his memory could never bear them So also may all houses and buildings bee marked with numbers or figures that the age of every one of them by the first sight of the number may presently be known These and other things that are marked I was willing to shew to you that these being comprehended I might bee the better understood by you in the rest and so the signification of every thing might bee the more plain and clear Of the Monstrous Signes of Men. MAny men are brought forth deformed with monstrous marks Divers monstrous signes or Markes or signes so one abounds with one finger or Toe another wants one The fingers of some grow all together in the mothers womb Another hath a wry foot arm or neck c. and brings it with him out of the womb Another hath a bunch in his back so also are Hermaphrodites born i. e. they which are both Male and Female and have the members both of Man and Woman or else want both I have observed many of these monstrous signs as well in Males as in Females all which are to bee accounted for monstrous signes of secret evil ascendents Whence that proverb is made good The more crooked What monstrous signes shew the more wicked Lame members lame deeds For they are signes of vices seldome signifying any good As the Executioner marks his sons with infamous markes so the evil Ascendents impresse upon their yong supernatural mischievous marks that they may bee the better taken heed of which shew some marks in their forehead cheeks ears fingers hands eyes tongues c. being short or cutted Every one of these infamous signes denotes a peculiar vice So a mark burnt upon the face of a Woman or the cutting off her ears for the most part signifies theft the cutting off the fingers cheating Dicers the cutting off the hand breakers of the peace the cutting off two of the fingers perjured the pulling out of the eye cunning and subtile villains the cutting out of the tongue blasphemers slanderers c. So also you may know them that deny the Christian Religion by a crosse burnt in the soles of their feet because viz. they have denyed their Redeemer But that passing by these we may proceed to the monstrous signs of Malignants ascending you must know that all monstrous signes do not arise from an Ascendent only but offtentimes also from the stars of Mens minds which continually and every moment ascend and descend with the fancy estimation or imagination no otherwise then in the superiour firmament Hence either from fear or terrour of breeding Women many monsters or children marked with monstrous signes in the womb are borne The primary cause of these is fear terror appetite from which is raised the imagination If a women with child begin to imagine then her heaven by its motion is carryed round no otherwise then the superiour firmament every moment with Ascendents or risings or Settings For according to the example of the greater firmament the stars of the Microcosme also are moved by Imagination untill there be an assault whereby the stars of the Imagination convey an influence and impression upon the Woman that is breeding just as if any one should impresse a seale or stamp money Whence these signes and geniall marks are called Impressions of inferiour stars of which many Philosophers have wrote many things and men have endeavoured much to give a full and rationall account of which could never yet bee done Yet they doe adhere and are impressed on the infants as the stars of the Mother whether frequent or violent doe rest upon the Infants or the Mothers longing is not satisfied For if the Mother long for this or that meat and cannot have it the starres are suffocated as it were in themselves and dye And that longing doth follow the infant all its life time that it can never bee well satisfied The like reason is there of other things of which we shall not hear Discourse any further Of the Astrall Signes of Physiognomy in Man THe signes of Physiognomy receive their original from the superior stars The Originall of Physiognomie this art of Physiognomy was greatly esteemed of by our Ancestors and especially by Heathens Tartars and Turks c. and other people amongst whom it was the custome to sel men for slaves and it is not yet altogether laid aside amongst Christians Yet together with it many errors crept in not yet taken notice of by any whilest every blockish ignorant fellow would take upon him without any manner of judgement to judge of any one Where it is worthy of admiration that those erours should never bee taken notice of from the workes deeds and abilities of the men Now if any one shall in this place argue against us saying that the signes of Physiognomy are from the stars and that the stars have no power to compell any one or stir him up he indeed doth not speake amisse but yet there is some difference in it which must be taken notice of because the stars compell some and others they doe not compell For here we must know who can rule or constrain the stars and who can be governed by them Therefore for this you must note that a wise man can rule the stars and not be subject to them The stars are subject to a wise man and are forced to obey him and not he the stars But the stars compell an Animall man that whither they lead him hee must follow just as a thief doth the gallows and a high-way robber the wheel the fisher the fishes the fowler the birds the hunter the wild beasts And what here is the cause of this but that such a kind of man doth neither know himself nor his own strength never considers or thinks that he is the lesser world and that he hath the universall Firmament with the powers thereof hid in him Wherefore he is called an Animall an ignorant man and a slave