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NOTE XXXII. HAYLAJ AND KAD-KHUDA 167
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be found; Things held in the hand concealed have often been well
described to me by Indian Jyoshis.
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Hyleg' or Hayl&j T?his term is in common use among astrolAgicaS
students, and the rules for rinding it are contained in Ptolemy's wor\
1 on Astrology, and also in. de
^Placidus Titles' 'Primum Mobile.' Both
these authorities differ from {he Arabic authors in their method of
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, "P. 132, 1. 17. 'Exaltation.' The planets, also the Sun and Moon,
are held to be 'exalted' in certain Signs, and especially in certain degre'es
of those signs. Thus the Sun is 'exalted' in the sign Aries and the i9th
degree thereof. 'Altitude' 3 is an astronomical term which .signifies
distance above the horizon and should preferably not be used in this
connection. , ,
"The term Almuten refers to the Planet which has dominion in the
1 1 th House, or the House of Friends and Allies. Alchocoden or Alcochoden
(whichever may be the correct form) refers to the planet which has
dominion in the i2th House, or House of Enemies. It has not any
C9nnection with the Hyleg, as Mr Shirley seems to t-Viink.
"Tire term Kad-khudd (Lord of the House) refers to the Planet
which rules the Sign in which the Hyleg is found at birth. Thus if the
Sun were so qualified as Hyleg and were in the sign Scorpio, then the
planet Mars would be the Kad-khudd.
1 Mr Gornold sends me the following note: "Of Placidus de Titus, who first
rendered a studied version of Ptolemy's work on Astrology, we have very little information.
It appears that he was known as Didacus Placidus, and was a native of
Bol6*gna, became a monk, and was appointed mathematician to the Archduke Leopold
of Austria. He wrote in the early part of the seventeenfti century a work entitled the
"Primum Mobile," in which he gives a thorough digest of the teaching of Ptolemy.
The best English translation is by Cooper. Placidus showed that Ptolemy recognized
two sets of directions arising out of two sets of planetary positions, one in the Zodiac
and the other in the World, i.e. in the prime vertical. To Placidus remains the credit
01' having elaborated that part of directional Astrology which has regard to all directions
in mundo."
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I originally translated Sharaf by this term, but have corrected it according to
Mr Gornold's suggestion.
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