CORRESPONDENTS, &c. WE hope our valuable Correfpondent B. will not take objection at finding his anfwer to our first Query in No. 3, in this place. Solicitous to oblige every one, and tenacious of uniformity, which will not admit of two anfwers to any one question, we find ourfelves under the neceffity of placing it here. Anfwer to Query 1, in No. 3, p. 98, propofed by Peter Puzzle. "The Magical Authors tell us, that the reafon why a lion fhuns a cock is, that this bird poffeffes a ftronger folar virtue: dividing the folar virtues into heat and light, the reafon is true, for he poffeffes much more of the laft, and this is proved by the lion's fhunning more particularly a white cock. You will obferve the power of antipathy in this cafe, how deeply grounded in nature is the science of AUGURY, and how truly instinct acts. The Lion ever feals upon his prey--he will not be feen before he makes his attack, and accomplishes his purpose by a fpring. Hence, he has a natural antipathy to a cock, who naturally watches and announces the first dawn of light; and efpecially to a white cock, whofe garb alfo tends to betray the first approach of light. I will just obferve, that this difpofition for fecret advance is kept in view in Scripture, as an attribute of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah-" He fhall come as a THIEF in the night." We have no objection to the terms upon which Q. P. propofes to procure us fome original articles upon Spirits; but we hope he is ferious, and means not to impofe upon the public. In articles of this kind, we must be fatisfied by fome refpectable authority, living or dead, of their veracity. Conjectural Opinions of the Ancients upon the State of Departed Spirits is received, as alfo the Letter upon Somnabulifm, or Night-walking; both fhall be inferted as foon as poffible. The Letter from Lime-street, dated at midnight, has not been overlooked. His objection may be removed without expence, and his Query thall be inferted next month; his future correfpondence is requested. The anonymous Letter, containing the objection to our laft article upon Dice, will produce a correction in a future Number. We have not forgotten our old friend W. D. his paper only waits its turn among our other numerous arrears. Intended for infertion. The nativity of Valentine Naibod, and R. H.'s Horary Queftion, both with fchemes; Mr. Fowkes's Letter from Hinkley; Mr. William Dn's Letter upon the planetary influence in the moment of imbrication, must be elucidated by a scheme; an abstract from Gadbury's Aftrological Seaman, and the Chapter on Election of Times, by Mr. W-b, of Bunhill-row, are foremost for the prefs. Mr. J. B. of Portland-road, has our thanks for his kind attention in forwarding his extract from Ramfay, on Elections, as applicable to the Lottery. Objectionable, Galthureus; and the MS. of 16 pages 4to, which is against us, turnable. QUERIES. is re Befides our fuccefsful correfpondents, we have been favoured with anfwers from Domus Scientia, L. M. Nauticus, P. Q. J. S. Gandeli, R. Davenport, W. H-y, T. H—s—!, J. J. Oxon, P. P. Fitzroy, and Noviscious, who all agree upon the general terms of the feveral fubjects of our Querift. To our feveral Correfpondents, who thinking themselves neglected, defire reasons to be affigned for the omiffion of their Letters; we antwer, that, they may be affured what ever is fent us will be carefully preferved, examined with attention and candour, and inferted if proper; but we requeft they will have patience; for to enumerate the various pieces we receive, would occupy more room than the page we allot for fuch acknow ledgments can furnish. Our numerous Subscribers are respectfully informed, that proper directions wi! here after be given for placing the Engravings given with this Magazine: as they will chiefly belong Lavater's celebrated Work, it may not be amifs to remind them, that by this means they will become poffeffed of a moft fuperb Edition of that Author, at a very easy and cheap rate. Mr. R. Davenport, at Mr. Ruff's, apothecary in Stanhope-ftreet, Clare-market; and Mr. H. Lemoine, No. 12, New-fquare, Minories, both return thanks for the Inftruments prefented them as the reward of their ingenuity. Ben Row is the fuccefsful correfpondent this month. THE CONJUROR'S MAGAZINE. FOR DECEMBER, 1791. ASTROLOGY. THE METHOD OF ELECTING THE HILEG APHETA, OR GIVER OF LIFE According to Coley's Opinion. (Continued from Page 109.) CONCERNING the space of life, the opinion of Ptolomy is this. The Apheta, or Significators of Life are five, and those are the Sun, the Moon, the Afcendant, Part of Fortune, and that planet who hath most dignities in the place of the Sun, Moon, Afcendant, and Part of Fortune in the celeftial figure, and in the place of the conjunction or oppofition of the luminaries preceding the nativity, in which this order is to be observed. Partridge obferves, In a diurnal nativity, to fee if the Sun is in an aphetical place, and fit to give and determine life; which places are the mid heaven, the 11th houfe, the 1ft, the 9th, and 7th; any houfe above the earth, except the 8th and 12th, but if he fhould be in either of the two latter, fee if the Moon be in an aphetical place, if fo, the Moon is to be accepted. But if neither of the luminaries fhould be fo qualified, then take that planet who hath most dignities in the beforementioned places, and in an aphetical place alfo; but if there is none fuch then you must take the afcendant for giver of life. In a nocturnal nativity, the Moon claims the first place among those qualified to be giver of life; but if fhe fhould be in the 8th or 12th, or under the earth, and the Sun fhould be those five and twenty degrees next fucceeding the afcendant, and in the morning Crepufculum, he fhall be chofen: but if the Sun fhould not be fo qualified, then fee what planet is and hath most dignities in the before-mentioned places, and in an aphetical place alfo ; but if none are fo found, then take the part of Fortune, if in an aphetical place; but if they all happen to be unqualified, then take the horofcope for the giver of life. If a new moon precede the nativity, prefer the Afcendant for Hileg; but if a full moon precede, then take the part of Fortune, if in an aphetical place. Carefully obferve, if there be not two or three planets in aphetical places, as the fun, moon, and lords of thofe places, then you are to take that ftar $ 2 which 140 Events predicted from the Moon's Age. which is moft powerful, as well in effential dignities as in pofition; but of the fun and moon choose that which is ftrongeft; for example: let the moon be in her own dignities in the midheaven, and the fun peregrine in the 7th or 9th, although the nativity be diurnal, the moon is to be preferred. But the lords of thofe places being ftronger, are, in the opinion of Ptolemy, to be prefixed before the luminaries, especially when they fhall be better placed, and in their own dignities. The anaretas, abfciffors, and deftroyers of life, according to Ptolemy's opinion, are the antiicions, the body, fquare and oppofition of Saturn and Mars, their fextile rays in figns of long and trines in figus of fhort afcenfion, both which have the ftrength of a fquare. The fquare or quadrat ray of the apheta likewise, that is when the apheta comes to his own fquare, it kills. The apheta being placed between the mid-heaven and the feventh houfe, there is only one anareta, and that is, the cufp of the feventh, and the bodies and rays of the malefics falling between the apheta and the degree of the seventh do not kill, but the rays of the benefics and malefics being adjusted, they either take from or add to the number of years before demonftrated by the apheta's direction to the degree of the feventh houfe; and indeed this direction is no other than the afcendant to the oppolite, place of the apheta; all which fhall be further explained and illuftrated hereafter, from Gadbury's Collectis Geniturarum, (To be continued.) DESCRIPTION OF CERTAIN EVENTS Moon's Age. FROM THE MOON'S AGE, ift Day.-THE dream true, and event fatisfying. The child born long lived. 2d Day.-Dream unprofitable. Fortunate for uncommon fearches. Child grows faft. 3d Day. Dream good. Child fortunate with princes. 4th Day. Unhappy, perilous, falling fick. Dream not effected. Good to be quiet and at rest. 5th Day. Good to begin a good work, or build on water. A good dream will be effected, a bad not. Child proves a traitor. h Day.-The fugitive fhall be re- d. 9th Day.-Dream turn out good next day. 10th Day. Dream foon effected. Sicknefs, perilous. Child long-lived. being Alchochodon. 11th Day.-Here rules Babiel, enemy to Dreams. Dream of no effect. Child afflicted in travelling.We may prefume irreligious too. 12th Day. Dream good and effected. Child ingenious and long-lived. Child 13th Day. Dream true. zealot and foolish. 14th Day.-Dream fufpenfe. Child born extraordinary genius. His genius is under Catliel in Uriel's hierar chy. 15th Day.-Sickness mortal. Dream Fortune indifferent. Child true. / Child *roubled. long lived. 17th Day. If Saturday very unfor tunate. Singular Predictions. tunate. Dream not effected for three days. Child unhappy. 18th Day.-Dream certain. Child through much labour and travel come to high dignity. 19th Day.-Hiel rules. Day dan gerous. Dream ill. Child mifchievous, and a thief 20th Day.-Dream true. Child as before, a cheat. 21ft Day.-Day good. Dream unprofitable. Child corpulent, ftrong, a cheat. 22d Day.-Geliel rules. Dream true. Child good, docile, long-lived. 141 23d Day.-Day fortunate. Dream falfe. Child deformed, but ingenious. 24th Day. Dream unaffected. Child foft tempered, and voluptuous. 25th Day. Unfortunate Dream Adverfity for the child. 26th Day.-Dream certain. Child when adult rich and honoured. 27th.Day.-Prevalent for Dream and Child. 28th Day.-Sick, die. Dream bad. Spirits troubled with religious whims. The child will die young, and if it live past five months, prove a zealot or idiot. PREDICTIONS OF ASTROLOGERS. THRASYLLUS, a mathematician, was in the retinue of Tiberius, when the latter lived in exile at Rhodes; and notwithitanding the very unpromifing afpect of his affairs, Caius and Lucius, who stood in his way to the throne of the Cæfars, being fill alive; yet would the aftrologer be continually flattering him with hopes of fucceeding to the empire. Tiberius putting no faith in the prediction, which he fufpected to be a contrivance of his enemies to betray him into fome treafona ble measures, that might affect his life, determined to make away with the fortune teller privily. The house he lived in was washed by the fea, over which projected a tower, whence he refolved to caft him headlong, with the affiftance of a trusty and vigorous fervant, whom he had made privy to his defign. On the day appointed for the execution of his purpofe, having fummoned Thrafyllus to attend him in the tower, I charge you, faid Tiberius, by all that you hold dear, fay whether that be true which you have fo confidently affirmed to me concerning the empire. What I have affirmed, replied Thrafyllus, is by the ftars ordained to happen, and my prediction will foon be accomplished. If, faid Tiberius, the ftars reveal my destiny, what may be their pleafure concerning your's? Upon which the Aftrologer prefently erected a fcheme, and having confidered the fituation of the ftars, changed countenance,' and with unaffected perturbation exclaimed, My fituation is hazardous, and my end not far diftant. Whereupon Tiberius embracing him, faid, Till now, hrafyllus, I had regarded your predictions as an impofition, and had intended your death as a punifhment for your deception. long afterwards the fame Thrafyllus, walking with Tiberius on the beach,. difcovered a ship under fail at a confiderable diftance. That veffel, faid the Aftrologer, has failed from Rome, with meffengers from Auguftus, and letters permitting your return; which the event verified. Not 142 Arbatel on Magic. the next day at noon, fuch a tempeft fhould blow, as Scotland had not felt many years before. The next morning proving clear and ferene, the Earl rallied Thomas with the fallacy of his prediction; Noon is not yet paft, repli ed Lermouth, and foon after arrived a meffenger with news of the King's fudden death. This, cried the feer, is the tempeft I forefaw: and fuch indeed it eventually proved. MAGIC. (Continued from Page 80.) BEFORE any perfon venture to ufe the agency of fpirits, he ought to fecure first himself. Let him take care to make himself a master, with an unshakeable capital, and be capable of executing every branch of the bufinefs himself before he takes a partner; otherwife he will be either cheated or abufed, or, at leaft, difappointed of benefit. I fay partnership, for no fpirits will act effectually as flaves, though if not fully prepared they may be apprentices, and under abfolute command and correction. Having premised this to prevent any one's commencing ftudy with the miferable view of being always indebted to others for help, inftead of making it a vehicle to arrive at maftery, and be affociated as a mafter with masters; I fhall refer them for detailed principia, or leading principles of fpiritual inftruction, to the Aphorifms in the first tome of arbatel of Magic. ARBATEL ON MAGIC, B. IN the name of the Creator of all things both visible and invifible, who revealeth his myfteries out of his treafures to them that call upon him; and fatherly and mercifully beltoweth thofe his fecrets upon us without meafure. May he grant unto us, through his only begotten fon Jefus Chrift our Lord, his miniftering fpirits the revealers of his fecrets, that we may write this book of Arbatel, concerning the greatest fecrets which are lawful for man to know, and to use them without offence unto God. Amen. The firft Septinary of Aphorifms, THE FIRST APHORISM. C. Whofoever would know fecrets, let him know how to keep fecret things fecretly; and to reveal thofe things that are to be revealed, and to feal those things that are to be fealed: and "not to give holy things to dogs, nor to caft pearls before fwine." Obferve this law, and the eyes of thy underftanding fhall be opened, to understand fecret things; and thou shalt have whatsoever thy mind defireth to be divinely revealed unto thee. Thou fhalt have alfo the angels and spirits of God prompt and ready in their nature to minifter unto thee, as much as any human mind can defire. APHOR. II. In all things call upon the name of the Lord and without prayer unto God through his only begotten Son də not thou undertake to do or think any thing. And ufe the fpirits given and attributed unto thee, as minifters, without rafhnefs and prefumption, as the meffengers of God; having a due revererce towards the Lord of fpirits. And the remainder of thy life do thou accomplish, demeaning thyfelf peaceable, to the honor of God, and the profit of thyfelf and thy neighbour. APHOR. III. Live to thyfelf and the Muses: avoid the friendship of the multitude: be thou covetous of time, beneficial to all men. Ufe thy gifts, be vigilant in thy calling; and let the word of God never depart from thy mouth. APHOR. |