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(The Work is perfected by Sol and his Shade.)

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Sol, fax clara poli, non corpora denſa penetrat, Hinc illi adverſis partibus umbra manet: Vilior hæc rebus quamuis est omnibus, usu Attamen Astronomis commoda multa tulit: Plura Sophis ſed dona dedit SOL, eius & umbra,

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As a light kindled in a Round or Spherical Palace enlightens all the wall above or below, except where ſome Table or utenſil in the middle obſtructs its influences, ſo likewiſe the Sun being placed in the vaſt Arch of Heaven illuminates with its Rays all the concavity of Heaven, and thoſe Bodies which are contained in it that are Diaphanous and capable of receiving light; that is all the Stars, both the Wandering and the fixed, except where the Thickneſs of the intermediate Earth prohibits it. For there a black ſhade or Darkneſs, which is called Night, remains ſo long till it is driven away by the Sun, and light is poured out and beheld in its ſtead. Shade therefore, or Night, is the Privation or abſence of Solar Light, and Day on the contrary is the irradiation and Circumfuſion of it. Shade is that which cannot endure the aſpect of the Sun, and therefore abſconds itſelf, and avoids it, ſometimes in this, ſometimes in another part of the Earth, according as the Sun is in oppoſition to it. The Sun and Shade never yet ſaw one another, although if Nature would admit it they might do it every moment. But the Sun conſidering her as an Enemy to himſelf, always purſues her whilſt ſhe flys ſo that he can never weary her ſo as to overtake her, as Buchannan ſays in his Book of the Sphere. After the Image and example of that great Sun and his ſhade, the Philoſophers have obſerved that their Sun likewiſe has a black cloudy flying ſhadow. Hence Hermes ſaith, “My ſon, extract its ſhadow from the Ray.” That is, ſee that you bring your Sun round about by the Primum Mobile over which Vulcan preſides, that that part of the earth which is now covered with a ſhady night may enjoy the clear light of the Sun. For if the whole Firmament of Heaven, with all that is contained in it, were not carried round in each Natural day, that is in the ſpace of four and twenty hours by its firſt motion, but the Sun ſhould move by its proper motion, which is called the ſecond or annual one, thoſe Antipodes who are below us would have night for almoſt the ſpace of ſix months, and we in the meantime ſhould have daylight, and ſo on the contrary ſo that the whole Year would conſiſt of One day and One night, as it is now under both the poles as Reaſon and experience ſhows us. But it hath pleaſed Divine Providence to order it otherwiſe, which therefore ordered Two motions of the Planets: The firſt and ſecond, and ſo diſtributed the Year into many days.

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The uſe of Shadows in Aſtronomy is ſo great that without them that Science can ſcarce be accompliſhed. It is to ſhade likewiſe that the Chemiſt aſcribes the perfection of his Art. For what is this Sun without a Shadow? The ſame as a Clapper without a Bell, that indeed makes the firſt motion to a ſound; that is the Quill, this the Inſtrument of Muſic; that the Tongue, this the great Mouth . A Shade is the moſt contemptible thing, and next to having no Being. So alſo the Philoſophers ſhadow is a thing Black; blacker than Black as they call it, or viler than a Weed, ( not in reſpect of itſelf, but in the opinion of men and the plenty of it. ) What more uſeful than Fire? More precious than Water? More amiable than Earth? Which yields flowers and all things that are lovely? What more delightful than Air? Which if it once be obſtructed will make all things ceaſe to be pleaſant, but becauſe in their Vaſt ſpheres they are expoſed to the common uſe of mankind by a prepoſterous imagination, they are thought to be of no value. In like manner both the common and Philoſophical ſhade are diſeſteemed. They who have lived long in ſubterranean ſhades, loſe their eyeſight if they are brought ſuddenly to the clear light of the Sun; ſo they who remain and work only in the Philoſophical ſhade, and do not join the Sun to it are deprived of their judgement, which is the guide of their mind, and ſo can bring nothing to effect.

When the Celeſtial Sun is elevated to the Height of Noon, the Heat is greater and the Shadows leſs, ſo here when the heat is mirrored the ſhade is leſs, and likewiſe on the contrary. We muſt therefore begin when the Sun from the Meridian call ſide bends itſelf again to the Top of our Head in Capricorn, and the firſt operation even to Aries will be finiſhed. There begins the work of Women even to Leo, and afterwards Labour proceeds from Labour, till the Year as a Serpent takes hold of the Tail with the Head; that is to ſay, is completed.

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