HENCE the learned _Arabians_ ascribed the _Bodies_, _Actions_, and _Dispositions_ of Men to STARS and SIGNS: As _Proclus_ teacheth, that _Superiours_ and _Inferiours_ are manifestly _one_ in the _other_. But these _Inferiours_ are defin’d, some to be SOLAR, others LUNAR; on which the SUN and MOON make strong _Impressions_, like those of the STARS and SIGNS they are under. In reference to which, they distribute the _human Body_ among the _Planets_ and _Signs_ of the ZODIACK; and most ingeniously demonstrate, that as the _Triplicities_ of those _Signs_ answer one another, and agree in _Celestials_, so they also concur in the _Members of the_ BODY; which Observation, daily _Experience_ also confirms. As for example: By a _Coldness_ of the FEET, the _Belly_ and _Breast_ are affected; and these _Members_ answering to the same _Triplicity_, any proper _Medicine_ apply’d to the _one_, helps the _other_; as by warming the _Feet_, the Pain of the _Belly_ ceaseth. WHEREFORE, if we consider the many _occult Qualities_, and _secret Influences_ of celestial Bodies, besides these _three_ which are manifest to us, namely, _Heat_, _Light_, and _Motion_, we shall readily and rationally agree with _Astrologers_, as well as _Philosophers_, in this Point; that the _celestial Bodies_ concur with other _natural Causes_, in the regular _Procession_ of all the different Steps of the _Conformation_ and _Constitution_ of human CONCEPTION. MOREOVER, in the Work of _Animation_, they concur not only _physically_, but _efficiently_; not as formal, final, or material _Causes_, but meerly by _Action_; upon which Great _Efficient_, all other _Causes_ depend. And yet they concur _efficiently_ not as the only particular, immediate, and proximous _Agents_, but as the common remote, physical _Agents_, moving _physically_. Now this _Aristotle_ also plainly teacheth, saying; that, “As this _inferiour World_ hath Existence from _superiour Beings_, so all worldly Existences must necessarily be ordered and directed by _those_, as the common _efficient Cause_ of all _Sub-celestials_.” BUT I would farther observe, that the only ACTION of _those Bodies_ in this Work, is to dispose and govern all proper, special, and singular _Causes_ pertaining to _Nature_, preserving them _physically_; that is, by their _Motion_, _Light_, and _Heat_. THE reason I call _those Bodies_ the remote, not the proximous _Agents_ in the Work, is, because they do not in _Substance_, _Motion_, or _Light_, immediately reach or touch the FOETUS; but only, by their secret _Qualities_ and _Influences_, extended to these inferiour ORBS, penetrate through, and affect the WOMB, tho’ never so closely shut up: By which means, the _Spirit_ and _Power_ of the SEEDS, the _Faculties_ of the _Womb_, and all concurring _Causes_ are fomented, govern’d, promoted, preserv’d, and determin’d.