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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section I – Chapter I
Chapter I
Showing the ground-work on which astrological judgements for the judging of
Revolutions are to be built, and how many schemes or figures of heaven ought to
be erected for this work
In this matter the ancients have had divers opinions, 1
some grounding their
judgements in these businesses on the Ascendant of the law, nation,
commonwealth or kingdom, concerning which they have undertaken to write,
and others on eclipses, and Great Conjunctions, the which although
considerable in some matters, and to be taken also into consideration in every
annual Judgement.
[The groundwork from where astrologers derive their
judgements of future accidents and events in the elementary world]
Yet the true time from where judgement is to be raised for the exact knowledge
and predicting of future natural events in the elements for any year, is when the
Sun enters the first point or minute of Aries, which as you have heard is the first
sign of the zodiac, and 2 that the Sun was in this very sign, and in this very point
at the first creation, and therefore (I say) it is all the reason in the world his
return thereunto every year ought to be the chiefest ground on which
astrologers are to build their judgements, touching the natural events of all
sublunaries; especially since life is 3
Fons Vita the Fountain of life; and Anima
mundi, the soul of the World, by which all things, as well vegetatives and
sensitives have their subsistence and vivifying nourishment.
Besides we see that when the Sun enters this equinoctial, all things increase and
flourish, the trees and earth grow green and blossom, and also fructify by
degrees afterwards, which may also prove unto us the manifest certainty of that
opinion, or rather affirmation of the ancients that the Sun was in this first sign
at the creation of them; and truly, if we will be regulated by reason, it will be
sufficiently proved by the very Word of God, which although not expressly in
terms testifying so much unto us in plain words, yet will the text delivered in
the first of Genesis verse 11, be sufficient together with the sequel, verse 12
showing the effect, be enough in all reason to evince the carpers at both this art
1 NOTE BY RAMESEY: in those days wherein the art remained obscure in some points
2 NOTE BY RAMESEY: in the 24 th Chapter of our Second Book Of the Judgement of the Stars
3 NOTE BY RAMESEY: as you have been shown in the first Book
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