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THe Microcosm being created from the Macrocosm, and according to the Macrocosm, contains in him four Elements, Heaven and Earth, Air and Water, he contains in him four Earths, four Fires, four Airs, four Waters. But he doth not alone contain the Elements which a••e the Matrices and Nurses of things, but all the fruits and things begot of the Elements▪ and not only
the Elements and their fruits, but all the stars of all the Elements, which are fourfold (as well of Health as of Dis∣eases) according to the number of the Elements, namely, Fiery, Aiery, VVatery, and Earthly stars, as in the second Chap. in Respectu Generationis & Transplan∣tationis. If this be true, which no wise man will deny, then the Firmament of both the Globes,* 1.1 the Planets, and all the Stars as well fixt as erratical are contained in man. Some things chance often in the Astronomy of the greater VVorld, as Conjunctions, Eclipses, Oppositions, which Prognosticate great E∣vils; so also great Eclipses, Conjunctions, and Aspects chance in the Astronomy of the Microcosm or little VVorld, and in the Transplantations of times, and Prevaricati∣ons of the confluences, by reason that the Laws of Harmony and Conspiration are corrupted in the Firmament of the Microcosm, so that there necessa∣rily follows Barrenness, want of natural Moisture, Pi∣ning and many other hurts and evils.
For all things are in all things▪ for there is in Na∣ture Earthly Fire, Air, and Water; again there is Hea∣venly Earth, Air, and Wa∣ter. The natural Being is the Firmament of the Micro∣cosm, it becomes the Be∣ing of a Disease as far as there chance errours in the Firmament of the Microcosm.