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Title: The astrologer of the nineteenth century
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: Raphael, pseud., 1795-1832 Anglicus, Merlinus, junior, Gent
Subjects: Astrology Occultism
Publisher: London : Knight & Lacey
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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ely un-easy, he determined to rise, and pass the time away by studying acause which he had to report that morning; but still the strangenessof the noise dwelt so upon his mind, that he could not at all fix hisattention; he therefore went to a coffee-house very early, where,meeting with some friends, he showed them the slip of paper he hadwritten from the unaccountable articulation he had heard; when aperson present, M. de Saumaise, looking at it, declared the words tobe Syriac, and to mean, literally, Depart, hast thou no apprehen-sion of thy death ? This translation was received with a loud laugh,and the warning treated as a jest and an invention ; but the gentle-man taking it in a more serious light, left his house the same day,and it fell flat to the ground the following night! * Does not this seem to prove that there is something more than mere mysteryin these curious systems ? 194 ILLUSTRATION, No. XVI.THE MYSTERIOUS LETTERS DELIVERED BY HONORIUS, CALLED THE OTjefcan gllpljafcet.
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CIRCLE III.—SECT. IV. There is among Theurgists a writing which they call celestial,because they show it us placed and figured amongst the stars. Thereis also another kind of character received by Revelation only, andwhich cannot be found out any other way ; the virtues of which arefrom the Deity revealing them, of whom there are some secret worksbreathing out an harmony of the divinity, or they are, as it were,some certain agreements or compacts of a league between us andthem. Of this kind, was the sign in the Heavens revealed to Con-stantine, In hoc vince. Also, that revealed to Antiochus, in the MAGIC CEttEMONIES, &C. 195 figure of a pent angle, signifying health; for, being resolved intoletters, it speaks the word vyUnz, i. e. health. In the faith and vir-tue of which signs, both kings obtained a great victory against theirenemies. So, also, Judas, who by reason of that was afterwardssumarued Machabeus, being to fight with the Jews, against AntiochusEupator, received from an

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