Chap. li. Of Characters which are made after the rule and imitation of

Celestial, and how with the table thereof they are deduced out of

Geomantical figures.

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Characters also have their community from the rayes of the Celestials cast together according to a certain

number by a certain peculiar property, which Celestials as in divers strokes of their rayes falling severall

ways amongst themselves produce divers vertues: so also Characters being variously protracted, according to

the various concourse of those rayes quickly obtain divers operations, and also more efficacious many times

then the properties of naturall commixtions. Now the true Characters of the heavens is the writing of Angels,

which amongst the Hebrews is called the writing Malachim, by which all things are described and signified

in the Heaven for every knowing man to read. But of these hereafter; But now they make Characters of

Geomantical figures binding together the points of each variously, and attributing them according to the

manner of their figurings, to those Planets and signs of which they were made, the making of which the

following table will shew:

The Characters of the Moon.

From the way [figure 2-70]

From the people [figure 2-71]

The Characters of Mercury.

From Conjunction [figure 2-72]

From White [figure 2-73]

The Characters of Venus.

From loosing [figure 2-74]

From girle [figure 2-75]

The Characters of the Sun.

From a greater Fortune [figure 2-76]

From a lesser Fortune [figure 2-77]

The Characters of Mars.

From Red [figure 2-78]

From a Boy [figure 2-79]

The Characters of Jupiter.

From obtaining [figure 2-80]

From joyfulness [figure 2-81]

The Characters of the Saturn.

From a prison [figure 2-82]

From sadness [figure 2-83]

The Characters of of the head of the Dragon.

[figure 2-84]

From Characters of the tayle of the Dragon

[figure 2-85]

Chap. lii. Of Characters which are drawn from things themselves by a

Certain likeness.

We have spoken above of a certain manner of Images made not after the likeness of Celestial Images, but

according to the emulation of that which the minde of the Operator doth desire. In like manner also it is to be

understood of Characters; for such like Characters are nothing else then images ill dearticulated; yet having a

certain probable similitude with the Celestial images, or with that which the mind of the Operator desires,

whether that be from the whole image, or from certain markes thereof expressing the whole image. As the

Characters of Aries and Taurus we make thus from thwir horns . Of Gemini from imbracing

[embracing] . Of Cancer from a progress and regress , of Leo, Scorpio, and Capricorn, from their tail

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, of Virgo, from Spike of Libra from a ballance [balance] of Sagittarius from a

dart , of Aquarius from Waters and of Pisces from Fishes . In like manner the Characters of Saturn

is made from a Sickle of Jupiter, from a Scepter . Of Mars from a bolt of the Sun

from roundness, and a golden brightness of Venus from a Lookinglass , of Mercury from a Wand

of the Moon from her horns of increasing and decreasing . Besides, of these, according to the

mixtions of Signs and Stars, and Natures, are made also mixed Characters, as of a fiery triplicity

or Earthly of Aiery of Watery also according to the

hundred and twentie conjunctions of Planets, result so many compound characters of various Figures; as of

Saturn and Jupiter, viz. thus, or thus or thus of Saturn and Mars, or thus

of Jupiter, and Mars or thus of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, or thus

. And as these are exemplified by two and three, so also of the rest, and of more may they be framed:

after the same manner may the Characters of other Celestial images ascending in any face or degree of signs,

be compendiously drawn after the likeness of the images, as in these which are made according to the way of

imitation of that which the minde of the Operator desires, as to love, the figures be mixed together imbracing

[embracing] and obeying one the other, but to hatred, on the contrary, turning away the one from the other;

contending, unequal, loosed. But now we will here set down those Characters which Hermes assigned to the

fixed stars, and Behenii, and they are these,

The head of Algol.

The Pleiades.

Aldaboram [Aldeboran].

The Goat Star. [Hircus]

The greater Dog-star. [Canis Major]

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The lesser Dog-star. [Canis Minor]

[figure 110] The heart of the Lion. [Cor Leonis]

[figure 111] The Tail of the Bear.

[figure 112] The wing of the Crow.

[figure 113] Spica.

[figure 114] Alcameth. [Alchameth]

[figure 115] Elpheia.

[figure 116] The heart of the Scorpion.

[figure 117] The Vulture falling. [Vultur cadens, i.e. Lyra]

[figure 118] The tail of Capricorn.

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