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Book II.
Of Occult Philosophy
321

Watery

also according to the hundred and twentie conjunctions of Planets, result so many compound characters of various Figures; as of Saturn and Jupiter, viz. thus,

or thus

or thus of Saturn and Mars,

or thus

of Jupiter, and Mars

or thus

of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars,

or thus

. And as these are exemplified by two and three, so also of the rest, and of more may they be framed: after the same manner may the Characters of other Celestial images ascending in any face or degree of signs, be compendiously drawn after the likeness of the images, as in these which are made according to the way of imitation of that which the minde of the Operator desires, as to love, the figures be mixed together imbracing and obeying one the other, but to hatred, on the contrary, turning away the one from the other; contending, unequal, loosed. But now we will here set down those Characters which Hermes assigned to the fixed stars, and Behenii, and they are these,

The head of Algol.

The Pleiades.

Aldaboram.

The Goat Star.

The greater Dog-star.

The lesser Dog-star.

The heart of the Lion.

The Tail of the Bear.

The wing of the Crow.

Spica.

Alcameth.

Elpheia.

The heart of the Scorpion.

The Vulture falling.

The tail of Capricorn.



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