![]() ![]() Of Horses and Asses thou shalt gnaw the bones. Vera est valgi opinio, quicquid nascatur in parte naturae ulla, & in Mari esse, praeterque multa quae nusquam alibi, lib. was seen in Rome a Fish about the bigness of a Child of five years old, that had humane shape to the Navel, except the ears: So that all those things related of Tritons, Nereides and Sirens seem not altogether fabulous, and we may conclude with Pliny. was seen a Sea-monster, covered with Scales, which for the resemblance was called a Bishop, Rondeletius and Gesuerus have the Picture of it.Ĥ. Rondeletius saith, that in our age was taken a Fish in the Sea of Norway, which every body presently called a Monk, because of the resemblance.ģ. ![]() Three days after in the Morning ap∣peared another Sea monster like a woman: those two Monsters appeared so long, that every body had time to consider them.Ģ. When Mena was Governour of Aegypt, and walked by the Nilus side, he saw a Sea-man rising out of the River, having an humane shape as far as the Navel, and with a grave look and fair hairs, intermixed with white ones, bony Breast, and di∣stinct Arms, the rest of the body was like a Fish. Ambrosius Paraeus relateth divers, and in his works hath inserted the Pictures of them.ġ. I suppose this Crustamin to be some place so called, near the Adriatick Sea.Īs for Fishes with an humane face, we have several examples of them. The dangers that were there, proceeded from the Civil Wars between the Protestants and the Roman Ca∣tholicks. When complaints were made of it, they alledged their necessity and want of Victuals which did oblige the Lord Admiral to permit the Souldiers retaliation and in this manner, there was danger towards the Frontiers.Īs for the Town where the Oracle (that is, our Author) had his beginning or birth, whether it be that of St. Spirit of Rule, la Chapele, Rozoy, Thierasse, and Aubenton. Thus there was Cold and drought.Ĭoncerning the dangers towards the Frontiers, Belleforest saith, that towards Pickardy the Spaniard began to break the truce, making inrodes about Abbeville, St. The second is, that in the Month of De∣cember began a horrid Frost, which lasted a great while. John the Baptist, and that the Vintage was made in August, the Wine proving excellent. That of the Moon at 12 hours and 43 Scruples and thus the two last Verses are plain.Ĭoncerning the other two: Belleforest teacheth us two things the first, that the same year was extraordinary dry, in so much that from April to October it did not rain, but only upon the Eve of St. That of the Sun upon the first of November, at 17 hours (as the Astrologers reckon) and 53 Minutes. The Ephemerides of John Stadius, teach us, that in the year 1556 in the Month of November, these two Eclipses did meet. The word near, sheweth that the two Eclipses, one of the Sun and the other of the Moon, shall be near one another. Which is confirmed by the last Verse, As well under his feet, as in the Heavenly Seat. Having all Power, that is, having the power to transmute all Mettals into its kind as also having all the powers from above and below, as Hermes saith, Pater ejus est Sol, Mater vero Luna, & Terra nutrix ejus. ![]() Heaven and Earth, that is all the Celestial and Ter∣restrial qualities, lurking in the Gold, which is hid in the mystical milk, that is in the Azoth, or Mercury of the Philosophers.īody, Soul, Spirit, having all Power, that is, the three principles, of which the Phi∣losophers say their stone is compounded, viz. That man shall give to the substance, that is, to Gold Heaven and Earth, and gold hid in the mystical Milk. The Divine Word shall give to the substance by the Divine word you must not un∣derstand the second person of the Trinity, but a Doctor in Divinity or a Theologian, called in Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 or Divine word, who shall be an Adeptus, a Disciple of Hermes, and one that shall attain to the secret of the Philosophers stone. I desire the judicious Reader, and chiefly if he be given to the Hermetick Philo∣sophy, to take a special notice of this Stanza, for in it is contained the secret of the Elixir or Philosophers Stone, more clearly and plainly then in the Tabula Smaragdina of Hermes, which to make appearent, we shall expound it Verse by Verse. As well under his feet, as in the Heavenly Seat. ![]()
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