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Chapter XVII.—Astrological Lore.842
| 842 Ch. 17 and
ch. 19–29 are taken in an altered form from the writing ascribed
to Bardesanes, De Fato. [These chapters have no parallel
in the Homilies, but the argument of the old man respecting
genesis implies the same position; comp. Homily XIV. 3–7,
11.—R.] |
“In short, when Mars, holding the centre in
his house, regards Saturn quarterly, with Mercury towards the centre,
the full moon coming upon him, in the daily Genesis, he produces murderers, and those who are to fall
by the sword,843
| 843 Conjectural
reading, “to kill with the sword.” | bloody,
drunken, lustful, devilish men, inquirers into secrets,844
malefactors, sacrilegious persons, and
such like; especially when there was no one of the good stars looking
on. But again Mars himself, having a quarterly position with
respect to Venus, in a direction toward the centre, while no good star
looks on, produces adulterers and incestuous persons. Venus with
the Moon, in the borders and houses of Saturn, if she was with Saturn,
and Mars looking on, produces women that are viragos, ready for
agriculture, building, and every manly work, to commit adultery with
whom they please, and not to be convicted by their husbands, to use no
delicacy, no ointments, nor feminine robes and shoes, but to live after
the fashion of men. But the unpropitious Venus makes men to be as
women, and not to act in any respect as men, if she is with Mars in
Aries; on the contrary, she produces women if she is in Capricorn or
Aquarius.”
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