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 Beaven 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 |
From the people |
The Characters of Mercury.
From Conjunction |
From White |
The Characters of Venus.
From loosing |
From g irle |
The Characters of the Sun.
From a greater Fortune |
From a lesser Fortune |
The Characters of Mars.
From Red |
From a Boy |
The Characters of Jupiter.
From obtaining |
From joyfulness |
The Characters of Saturn.
From a prison |
From sadness |
The Charactars of the head of the Dragon.
The Characters of the tayle of the Dragon.