A new and complete illustration of the occult sciences / [E. Sibly].

  • Ebenezer Sibly
Date:
1807
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    dered infinite {pace's of time, of a great variety of forts; and thefe are either general or fpecial, and each of them either fortunate or unfortu- nate. There is a time for every purpofe under heaven ; a time of plea- fure, and another time of pain and grief; a time to rife, and a time to fill ; a time to be born, and a time to die.* There is a certain lucky time in man’s life, wherein if he go out to battle, though with but few men, yet he carrieth the victory; and there is another time wherein, though he go out with ever fo complete am army, yet fhall he gain nothing but difgrace.f- So alfo there is a time when overtures of marriage lhall be fuccefsful, but a man’s defires anfwer it not; and again there is a time when defires of mar- riage fhall ftrongly urge, and all overtures prove ineffectual; but there is a time alfo when defires and overtures fhall exaCtly correfpond, and fuit together. In like manner there is a time when profperity and riches fhall offer themfelves, and be attained, whether a man fleep or wake; and by and by, though he purfue them with wings, yet fo unlucky a time occurs, as renders all his endeavours fruitlels. Some men come into the world in a lucky hour, fo that, let them be wife or foolifh, they fhall be buoyed up on the wings of fate in all matters of wealth or honour, and fucceed in all that they take to ; while wifer and better men, fmitten with an un- lucky time of birth, fhall be as undefervedly difparaged, and all their un- dertakings fhall prove unfuccefsful and unhappy. Some fhall be lucky in the van of their enterprizes, and as unfortunate in the rear; and others again contrarivvife. And thus time feems to mock and fport with the men of this life, and to advance, or counteract, all their fldll and contri- vances, even to a degree infinitely beyond whatever we could reafonably conceive or expect. And yet time of itfelf is but a dead thing, and a mere inftrument; but the wheels of the heavens, turning upon it, imprint riddles in its face, and carve and cut out the various fhapes of profperity and adverfity upon the minuted: portion thereof. And wonderful it is to obferve, that a child, the moment it draws breath, becomes time-fmitten - by the face of heaven, and receives an impreffion from the {tars therein, which, taking rife from the afeendant, fun, moon, and other principal fignificators, operate as the imprefifors Hand, and point out, as with the finger of God, the caufes whence the fate and fortune of the new- born infant proceed ; and, whether it comes before or at its full time, or in what part of the world foever it is born, it matters not; for, as the na- ture of the fignificators are that afeend upon the horizon at the birth, luch fhall certainly be the fortune of the native.t This is a truth that * See Eccl. iii. 1, 2, &c. -f Chap. ix. 11. t This aftonifhing property of nature will be illuftrated more at large, in its proper place, and the reader enabled, by plain and obvious rules, to make the experiment upon hiinfelf, upon bis own family, or upon any other fubje6t he may think proper.—The event of his own obfervatious will confirm the fact, and afford him an inexhauftible lund of moral and religious contemplation !
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