Chap. xlviii. Of Geomanticall Figures, which are the middle betwixt

Images and Characters.

There are moreover certain other Figures, framed by the number and situation of the stars, and ascribed both

to the Elements, and also to the Planets and Signs, which are called Geomantical, because that Geomantical

Diviners do reduce the points of their lot projected, by the excess of parity or imparity into those figures; and

they also being engraven or imprinted under the dominion of their Planets and Signs, do conceive the vertue

and power of images; and these Figures are as a middle betwixt Images and Characters; But whosoever

desireth exactly yo know the natures, qualities, proprieties, conditions, significations, and Nativities of these

Figures, let him read the Volums of Geomancy; but they are in number sixteen, whose names and figures are

these.

Figure. Name. Element. Planet. Sign.

Way

Iourney [journey]

Water

People

Congregation.

Water

Conjunction

An Assembling

Aire

A prison

Bound

The Earth

Great fortune

Greater aid

Safe-guard entering

The Earth

Lesser fortune

Lesser aid

Safe-guard going out

Fire

Obtaining

Comprehended within

Aire

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Acquisition

Comprehended without

Fire

Ioy [joy]

Laughing

Healthy

Bearded

Aire

Sadness

Damned

Cross

Earth

A Girle

Beautifull

Water

A Boy

Yellow

Beardless

Fire

White

Fair

Water

Reddish

Red

Fire

The head

The threshold entring

The upper threshold

Earth

The Taile

The threshold going out

The lower threshold

Fire

Chap. xlix. Of Images, the figure whereof is not after the likeness of any

Celestiall figure, but after the likness of that which the mind of the

Worker desires.

There remains as yet an other manner of images not according to the similitude of Celestiall figures, but

according to the similitude of that which the mind of the worker desires, of whose they are the effigies, and

representation: So to procure love we make images embracing one the other: to discord, striking one the

other; to bring misery, or destruction as dammage [damage] to a man, or house, or City or any thing else, we

make images distorted, broken in members, and parts after the likeness and figure of that thing which we

would destroy or damnifie; And Magicians advise us that in casting or engraving images we would write

upon it the name of the effect; and this on the back when evill, as destruction; on the belly when good, as

love. Moreover in the forehead of the image let be written the name of the species or Individuum which the

image represents, or for whom or against whom it is made. Also on the breast let the name of the signe or

face ascending, and Lord thereof be written; also the names and Characters of its Angles. Moreover in

making the image they advise that prayer for the effect for which it is made, be used. All which Albertus

Magnus in his Speculo affirms. Now they use the images being made diversly according to the vertues

thereof; Sometimes they hang them or binde them to the body; Sometimes they bury them under the Earth,

or a River; sometimes they hang them in a Chimny over the smoak [smoke], or upon a tree that they be

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moved by the wind; sometime with the head upward, & sometimes downward; sometimes they put them into

hot water, or into the fire. For they say as the workers of the images do affect the image it self, so doth it

bring the like passions upon those to whom it was ascribed, as the mind of the operator hath dictated it. As

we read that Nectanabus the Magician made images of ships with wax after that manner, and art that when

he drowned those images in water, that the ships of his enemies were in like maner drowned in the Sea, and

hazarded. Now that part of Astrology which is writ concerning elections, teacheth us that the constellations

also are to be observed for the making of images, and such like.

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