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Demonologia : $b or, natural knowledge revealed; being an exposé of ancient and modern superstitions, credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets, apparitions, astrology, charms, demonology, devils, divination, dreams, deuteroscopia, effluvia, fatalism, fate, friars, ghosts, gipsies, hell, hypocrites, incantations, inquisition, jugglers, legends, magic, magicians, miracles, monks, nymphs, oracles, physiognomy, purgatory, predest — John Shaqi

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Demonologia : $b or, natural knowledge revealed; being an exposé of ancient and modern superstitions, credulity, fanaticism, enthusiasm, & imposture, as connected with the doctrine, caballa, and jargon, of amulets, apparitions, astrology, charms, demonology, devils, divination, dreams, deuteroscopia, effluvia, fatalism, fate, friars, ghosts, gipsies, hell, hypocrites, incantations, inquisition, jugglers, legends, magic, magicians, miracles, monks, nymphs, oracles, physiognomy, purgatory, predest

Forsyth, J. S.

Demonology; Superstition; Witchcraft

Lilly’s opinions, and his pretended science, were such favourites of the
age, that the learned Gataker wrote professedly against this popular
delusion. Lilly, at the head of his star-expounding friends, not only
formally replied to, but persecuted Gataker annually in his predictions,
and even struck at his ghost, when beyond the grave. Gataker died in
July 1654, and Lilly having written in his Almanack of that year, for
the month of August, this barbarous Latin verse:—

              Hoc in tumbo, jacet presbyter et nebulo!

            Here in this tomb lies a presbyter and a knave!

He had the impudence to assert, that he had predicted Gataker’s death!
But the truth is, it was an epitaph to the “lodgings to let:” it stood
empty, ready for the first passenger to inhabit. Had any other of that
party of any eminence died in that month, it would have been as
appositely applied to him. But Lilly was an exquisite rogue, and never
at a fault. Having prophesied, in his Almanack for 1650, that the
parliament stood upon a tottering foundation, when taken up by a
messenger during the night, he contrived to cancel the page, printed off
another, and shewed his copies before the committee, assuring them that
the others were none of his own, but forged by his enemies.




                        PRACTICAL ASTROLOGY, &c.


By the word Astrology (derived from the Greek αστηρ, _a star_, and
λογος, _a discourse_,) is meant the art of prognosticating or
foretelling events[8] by the ASPECTS, POSITIONS, and INFLUENCE of the
HEAVENLY BODIES.

By ASPECT is to be understood an angle formed by the rays of two planets
meeting on earth, able to execute some natural power or influence; which
may be better explained by the following table.

                            CHARACTERS OF THE
                  │                 │                 │

 ═════════════════╤═════════════════╤═════════════════╤═════════════════
 _Six Northern    │_Six Southern    │_Planets._       │_Aspects._
   Signs._        │  Signs._        │                 │
 ─────────────────┴┬────────────────┴─┬───────────────┴─┬───────────────
 ♈︎ Aries.         │♎︎ Libra.         │♄ Saturn.        │☌ Conjunction.
 ♉︎ Taurus.        │♏︎ Scorpio.       │♃ Jupiter.       │⚹ Sextile.
 ♊︎ Gemini.        │♐︎ Sagittarius.   │♂ Mars.          │Δ Trine.
 ♋︎ Cancer.        │♑︎ Capricorn.     │☉ Sun.           │☐ Quartile.
 ♌︎ Leo.           │♒︎ Aquarius.      │⦵ Earth.         │☍ Opposition.
 ♍︎ Virgo.         │♓︎ Pisces.        │♀ Venus.         │
                  │                 │☿ Mercury.       │
                  │                 │☽ Luna.          │
 ═════════════════╧═════════════════╧═════════════════╧═════════════════

This art, or rather this conjectural science, is principally divided
into NATURAL and JUDICIARY.




                           NATURAL ASTROLOGY

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