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THE ZODIACUS
VITAE
FOSTE
THE LIBRARY
OF
THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES
Ex
SIR
Lihris
MICHAEL SADLER
ACQUIRED 1948
WITH THE HELP OF ALUMNI OF THE
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Inscribed
to
my
and
ever
since
B.A.,
opening of such
another glory
New
to the
and hold
forth
November, 1907.
THE ZODIACUS
VITAE
OF
Described By
Wales, Aberystwyth
LONDON
PHILIP WELLBY
6,
BUTLER
Sc
TANNER,
Introduction
The
in the
time of Shakespeare,
Grammar
At page 67,
School (1583),
Zodiacus
made
Grammar
School, Southwark
prescribed
is
amongst
The
others.
Statutes
of
Camberwell
Grammar
along with
Juvencus, Prudentius, Erasmus and Sebastian
CastaHo, the author of the Sacred Dialogues. Further
School
(1615)
include
Pahngenius,
grammar
schools
in
light other
prescribed
number printed
in
G6ii713
INTRODUCTION
in 1579
astrological,
and occult
attitude,
all
was
It is well
range
Rome, was
J.
gical implications.
them."
He
planets."
Advocates
is
aim
of the school
INTRODUCTION
Palingenius,
or astrologer.
tion,
at
by the
late Professor
Henry Drummond
in
and
spiritual.
by reference
Janua Linguarum
to
of
boy
astronomy.
teachings of
Palingenius'
on the
His book, further, found
in the schools, for its com-
spiritual interpretations.
INTRODUCTION
At times
its
effective
style.
contemporaneous sources
Contents
.......
Introduction
Palingenius and his Book
Book
II
III
IV
Aries, or the
Ram
PAGE
6
ii
.22
-29
-33
37
.40
-47
-53
VI
VII
54
55
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
Conclusion
Sagittarius, or the
Archer
A.
English
References
to
Palin-
Foreign
References
to
Palin-
genius
Appendix
B.
63
.64
........
.......
.......
60
genius
66
72
8i
84
By W. Gorn Old.
86
Baptista
his attack
Church.
known as
Marcellus
not a protagonist of the Reformation, he vvas at least candid enough to see the evil
in the Old Church and to attack it remorselessly.
Like Baptista Mantuan and like Erasmus, most
severe of the satirists of the Catholic Church,
Palingenius never left the Roman Church. In his
Epistle Dedicatory to the Zodiacus Vitac he says
" If anything be found in so large a work, that may
seem in the least to differ from our religion, I think
For when I speak
it is not to be imputed to me.
sometimes of philosophical matters I relate the
Palingenius.
If
for which,
if
they be
blamed
since
depart from the Catholic
are to be
The Zodiacus
Vitae
is
my
false,
not
intention
I
is
but they
never to
faith."
in Latin hexameters.
It
12
sense beneath
title
in
It
of
13
the
life
life
of the court,
in
Story of Ferrara
Town
Series.
(p.
331),
by Ella Noyes.
Mediaeval
14
criticism,
there
may
lost.
also
In spite of
have been a
frescoes,
such
of
claims
apparently
is
that
Palingenius
pontiffs.
He
Brit.
(?) is given in
of publication,
Venice.
* Seckend. Hist. Lutheran, bk. ii. p. 122.
Cited by Bayle.
3 For accounts of the Court of this remarkable lady, see
Renie de France : une protectrice de la
E. Rodocanachi
rSforme en Italic et en France, 1896, and the Life of Aonio
Paleario, by M. Young (i860).
:
15
writ,
its
censure, as becomes
a Christian."
Still, there is no doubt that the adverse attitude
taken up by Palingenius to the evils within the
Roman Church gave him a favourable hearing
amongst Protestants. Like Baptista Mantuan, whilst
not losing credit altogether in some quarters of the
Old Church, he found a considerable clientele
amongst the Reformers. It is his reforming attitude
It
is
on
Bamabe Googe
this
the
in
first
Zodiacus
Knight,
principal secretary to the Queen's Highness and
Master of Her Majesty's Court of Wards and
Vitae to the right Hon. Sir.
Wm.
Cecil,^
Liveries
" I could not
fol.
i6
of
living of
covetous catchings of
greedy lawyers, the ungodly gains of foolish physicians, and the corrupted consciences of deceitful
affirming plainly that if they did not
artificers
better beautify their Christian names with a more
Christian life, of so many thousands as have in
vain received that most holy sacrament of sacred
the
riotous
nobility,
the
1560
in
^
As he
XX,
17
Duke,
translation
The
The Zodiake
zelous
poet
is
Marcellus
Palingenius
Godly and
Stellatus,
number
besides a
and
profitable,
Denham,
I
add the
for
title-page as
it
appears in 1588
i8
painting
compasse
whole
manners,
pathway
to vertue
the miseries of
and
out
most
mankinde,
the
liuely,
vice,
the
of the Soule,
of nature,
et alget.
is
annexed
{for the
Reader's
printed at
in Feter
The
title-page of the
Rotterdam 1722
is
edition of
19
and
Critical Dictionary
torical
The
rally
life.
forthcoming.
Ferrara.
But
this is
by no means
when he wrote
know
certain.
Appar-
Hercules personally
De la Monnerie
name does not occur
dedication.
his
of Christ in Eclog. 4.
refer to Vergil's
imputed prophecy
20
For
England so
flourished in
fine
and
filed phrases,
may
and
countervail the
Lucan,
them
Persius,
Propertius.
all)
is
faithfully
of Ferrara.
common
copies
Vitae are
as might be expected.^
of
Bamabe
But
now
not
scarcer
Googe's translation,
still
so
are
either in
Bamabe
first
^ My own copy
penny books, but
this is
for Pier
Angelo Manzoli.
known of Manzoli
little
Since as
21
^to
BOOK
THE RAM
ARIES. OR
This book
It
is a prelude to the poem.
threshold of the poet's discourse as Aries
is
the
the
beginning of the zodiac. In it, Palingenius declares
his desire to visit " Parnassus Hill, adorned with
laurel bough," and the " camps so clear of Castaly,
is
ARIES,
OR THE RAM
23
to
creep."
"
life, alas
now banished clean (if I the truth may say)
In this our age than which a worse was never seen the
day."
!
Hmbs
virtue
much doth
love
Live
all in
Nee curat, si
Nee trepidat
How
"
different the
wicked
man
And when
24
Or rather
By
fixed
One
his
is
" Lege
deum
stabili
writers
boils
on what
is
"
From
It is
rich
"
The
no answer
and
liveth void of
Ne
fiat facinus,
Lege deum
2
stabili
OR THE RAM
ARIES,
He
25
and
sour,
Dumosus
way
to
distinguished
by
by the nature
The talk
itself
most."
which
All
Bamabe Googe
marginal comment
"
epitomizes
in
his
It
Construction
in
the
English
Accidence,
published
1590:
" I
Navita de
stellis,
it
cometh
to
pass that as
and as every
26
sirs,
above the
rest, of
to schoolmasters
cure,
unworthy to be told."
for schoolmasters."
build
comedy
of pure diction
may
teach
much
" There be, I grant, some poets' works, not altogether vain,
Which with a pleasant sugared style proceed from sober
brain.
is
grown up,
it is
a different
ARIES,
"
OR THE RAM
27
And when
The
gives
book of the
more important,
Zodiacus
goodness
Vitae
is
(probitas)
Which
is
or learning
(scientia)
This
this
can wars
refell,
It
stars,
expel.
right."
and ought
28
learning.
into evil.
integrity
the
divinities
of
the
two-peaked mountain,
for
poem.
"Nor
let
'limping Vulcan
'
age."
By
means
this
to denote
fire.
to
swift-approaching
BOOK
II
human
reason
strongest beasts
of night,
The Hon fierce, the tiger swift, alone hath put to flight.
The serpents though their bodies foul with poison do
abound,
stand in awe, and fear him, too, when that they hear
him sound.
The monstrous fish, the thurlpole great, of mighty form
Do
and strength
Without man, the earth would be a place overgrown with briers. Consider what man has done.
He
has built
cities,
He
30
"
Which
of
know
(a
tell)
or
what to follow
well."
Wisdom
the
way
of
life.
man who
"
possesses these
is
in perfect blessedness.
What
rich
night
"
little rest
And
Sometimes on
31
and
by
side,
upright.
tosseth round about the bed, like as the mighty stone
Of Sisyphus continually doth toss and turn alone."
He
The
full
and graphic.
Palingenius uses
many
man
is
classical
respect of happiness.
attainment.
Palingenius breaks forth into praise of poverty.
He gives once more classical illustrations, e.g.
Anaxagoras, Democritus, etc. The great Romans
lived in small houses and on frugal fare.
Googe's
The moral is
so learn to be satisfied with that
which is just enough. Pahngenius writes paragraph
after paragraph on this attractive ethical theme, but
:
Cf.
Juvenal
Sat. III.
32
as usual he can
for the
Or
as
great
laments
has no pity to the
He does not give to beggars. He does not
poor.
give to support the learned. He despises the Muses.
He cares most for his dice-tables and cards. Let
our stores
or
small,
Palingenius
man
us for our part rather use things aright for ourselves and for the rest, assist others.
Now Palingenius thinks it time to return from his
may have
to face Orion's
and then we
will
BOOK
III
can
it
The
be found in pleasure.
ancient
man by
the seashore,
is
to
in
This man
claims undivided
of hfe.
and uncommon.
man. It might be
is
The end
errors. 1
him
him
difficult
a real
takes
to instruct
He
attention
writer meets an
who
of
It
life
is
is
rare to find
assuredly
pleasure.
homo ut
Mundus stultorum
Verus
falso
nomine
dici
34
wind
Why
We even
It is
beheve
These
Who
say,
relieved." *
are,
It satisfies
All
Epi-
" But
in immortality.
thin
we
air,
GEMINI,
OR THE TWINS
35
Yea,
splendid palace
36
recalling the
manner
of the Divine
Comedy}
who have
These
tasted pleasure
virtue languisheth
and which
is
no safe place
for
Epicurus
is
who
will instruct
him
further.
was to Dante.
2
This
recalls
"
and Miranda's,
No
BOOK
IV
first
lies
37
38
They
will
and render
of friendship
tact.
many
Palingenius offers
and manners
suggestions as
to
with both
He is more prolix than
friends and strangers.
Polonius and with not a little of the same shrewd
worldly wisdom. After a further discourse on the
rightful conduct
in dealing
Esto animo
patientia vincit
et dura
tunc celsior exit
Nihil est durabile semper
Quum premitur virtus.
redeunt post tristia nubila soles
Sub coelo
postquam ventis maria alta fuerunt
Jocundi
Exagitata diu, tandem pacata residunt
Et remeat brumae post frigora floriferum ver.
Omnia
forti,
who
39
are constituted
down
example
maxims
in
Book
IV.
For
And one
cited
by Mr. V. Rendall
^
:
gth
Merchant
Cf.
"
Such harmony
of
Venice,
Act V.
in
series,
Sc.
i.
immortal souls
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."
is
Notes
and Queries
BOOK V
LEO, OR
THE LION
ends.
finds
much
that
is
miserable in the
life
highest self
when he rises
and immortality.
it
is
poor
^
man
"
has,
Uneasy
lies
LEO,
"
He
bona
OR THE LION
41
omni
"
"
!
without
in a
word, without which, life is death. The poor man
can walk by day and by night, secure on every side.
Where he has the mind to go, he goes whether it is
continues
which nothing
is
highest glory,
first of all,
and
to
the
pleasant
hinders
nothing
country,
him.
Palingenius applauds
the
man
meanness
gained by no
desires are kept within easy curb.
exercise of
The misery
others as
of those
shunned.
of
who
competence,
man whose
That gives the
the
well as
against
serve another's
42
The meadows
Is
make a man's
give
if
him
life
miserable,
bitter trouble.
he marries.
But
and
A man gives up
this largely
wife
his children
may
may
his liberty
depends upon
his
woman
like.
friend to find
if
LEO,
OR THE LION
43
bent at
it
education.
is
of opinion
know."
" Permit
Than
stirs
us up
with cares
and
44
way
way
to the vices
is
an easy
slant,
need be. Point out the way they should go. Hide
your love from them. Palingenius has little confidence in boys
:
"
On
of the child
of the possibilities of
is
it
trace
LEO,
Prevent
45
if
physical
OR THE LION
Do
ill.
of
ning.
little
water
suffices to
is
fully
fire.
then
suffice to
scarce
quench
it
out."
If need be, seek a physician's aid.
Remember,
however, that surgery is more certain than physic.
The physician fallitur et fallit, whereas the surgeon's
art aperta luce videtur. The physician merely dabbles
Physiin his technical terms and his syllogisms.
cians demand public rewards and think it sufficient
(nor are they mistaken) for the gaining of honoured
name.^ Palingenius considers kings blameworthy
for permitting such a state of things, and prescribes
the remedy
" Let
let
them be
them not
profess."
Don't
much, and don't have unwholesome food.
Sleep well.
Seek
Id
satis esse
46
and
rest.
BOOK
VIRGO, OR
VI
THE VIRGIN
The
" tradita
Many
est
multis facundia
paucis consilium."
skilful in
to real
life
It is
truth
48
offers to
" garrulus,
infelix,
In a word, he
is
caecus,
self-centred
temerarius,
amens."
it
What
riches,
or
theft
or
usury,
and
theft,
therefore
usury.
nobility
Oh
is
senseless
VIRGO,
OR THE VIRGIN
49
Worth
auro."
his ancestors,
father's
is
individual.
monuments,
whilst he himself
He
man
his
relatives'
boasts of
is
great
sluggish, senseless,
is
him noble
If
abounding
is
by which
always desires
by which like
upward, and like the heron
strives to rise
it
vile,
what
is
He who by
"
An
ape, quoth she, and jesting stock is man to God in skyAs oft as he doth trust his wit too much, presuming high,
Dare search the things of nature hid, his secrets for to
speak.
Whereas
f>
in
Warton
in describing the
parallel passage
is
dull
and
all
'.:
I,'
too weak."
50
PaHngenius
" Superior beings, when of late they saw
A mortal man unfold all nature's law,
Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape,
A.nd show'd a Newton as we show an ape."
first
lesson
to
is
Know
hard work,
flee sloth, to
Then thou
shalt
reach to
become
is
queathed by
Non
"
Aut
a possession
will
which
cannot
be
be-
Even
may
cobblers
or
farmers.
memory
is
line,
pariterrapit
omnia tempus."
He
asks
Who
VIRGO,
OR THE VIRGIN
51
life
of the
moral
were, to
it
life,
make a man
gentle, so as
to
effect, as
become
A most
This, he tells us, is the way of nature.
powerful description is given of the struggle for
existence and war in nature. The virtuous man
must inquire into natural causes, as he was encouraged to do, in connexion with physical health.
Study is a long, tiring labour. Many in pursuing
it are tortured with indigestion, diseases, or afflictions
of the eyes, paleness, thinness, old age.
Let the
wise man take his own measure, and not go beyond
his depth.
The intellect is stirred by hope of fame
or glory.
Ambition is the cause of vain glory. It
is a spur and brings by its pricks many to virtue,
yet in itself it is a vice.^ Virtue should be sought
for herself alone, not for glory through her.
But
ordinarily he who is not what he would like to be,
wealthy or handsome, assumes a mask like an
actor.
Each man is an actor. This life is a play
and this world is a changeable stage. 2 Each man
is a player or actor.
Almost all mortals wear a
mask and under a false appearance blind the eyes
of the multitude.
The idea
"
Fame
is
52
" So
and
trifles
vain,
Which here
life
in
retain."
of its possession.
It
is
miseries of man's
is
vivid
should
life
the
life
Why
Life in itself
worm and
let it be
the
fly.
despised,
If life is
the innumerable
raised
It is possessed
is
by
devoid of goodness,
and death be
feared.
Then
picture
is
then
The
is
But
if
the
a refuge from
ills.
departing
For the
full
between
BOOK
VII
heavens
contain
many
animals
inhabitants
who
book
is
hears.
the
less gross
The poet
of earth.
gives
man.
The
rest
and
are
probably,
The
soul
It
is
active,
is
and possessed
of
63
BOOK
VIII
This book,
like Milton's
the vindication
of
*
From the synopsis " Per totum librum Dei Providentiam a pravis consequentiis pro virili vindicat."
:
BOOK IX
SAGITTARIUS, OR THE ARCHER
The
ocean,
delights.
Stellatus."
O most mighty
and thee to
King, to
please,
me
thy creature
may
know
Mine own estate, from whence I came and whereto I was
made
And whither I at length shall pass when that from hence
I fade
What
here in
life I
do:
my
two.
And that the farthest day
is
thread of
life
hath snapt
in
stealth
Procured
my
my
rest,
and port
of
saving health."
celestial
fruits.
His
56
is
led to regions
human
in the air,
and
now
mouth and
voice.
SAGITTARIUS,
vicious,
OR THE ARCHER
57
fearless
of Erasmus,
The
fifth
If incurable,
it
58
Palingenius attacks
the
section
schools
of
his
time
What
doth he gain
now
in schools,
what knowledge
But fancies vain and bawdy tales behold in seat full high
The Master sits with book before, that open wide doth lie,
:
And
loud.
tragedy
Is't
show
live,
and nothing
know."
training
virtue
the soul.
First
method
have God
SAGITTARIUS,
OR THE ARCHER
59
of things.
of quotable lines to
cites
1.
"Maxima
1
i.e.
IX
the wonderful
little
BOOK X
CAPRICORNUS, OR THE GOAT
This book contains the well-known reference to
alchemy, which causes Palingenius to be counted
amongst the esoterics of its mysteries and practices.
He refers to the philosopher's stone, but as far as one
can see, he preserves impartiality as to its nature, and
it is difficult to gather whether he refers to it as one of
the elect in
its
by
it.
of children
to
After referring
considers
the signs and aspects of the stars have at birth,
Palingenius goes on to speak of parents
:
" Besides of great effect both seem, their parents' state and
kind,
Of
whom
is,
mind.
GO
61
For what
if life
be contrary, availeth
it
to preach."
Do you
Let the
Greek and Latin books his daily travail
take," but let him read only good authors, refusing
" dishonest " books. For the man who is
all
unlearned is seldom good. But don't let the youth
over-study lest he become demented or diseased.
He should have due recreation and play. Though
all studies are good and fair, yet the highest are
Palingenius pleads for sanity in study.
boy "
in
those
"
stars to
man
might.
In graver age, and in these arts
Then
let
all his
him spend
force
and
his delight."
man who
to be
62
And
Both
this
free
stone pass
into
various
all
hand,
The
significance
of
the
philosopher's
stone
to
Palingenius
is
men may
way of wisdom and
and
selves
for
all.
endowment of research.
The tenth book, it should be noted, contains
another severe indictment of war. The wise man
for
all for
his
BOOK
XI
treats
of
astronomical
matters.
It
motion of the
all
of
the
system
Ptolemy.
Then
planets according to
the circles,
order,
63
BOOK
THE FISHES
PISCES, OR
Here,
XII
up the story
of the
Innumerable thousands
ether.
Some account is
He who
frequent
in
fall
at a stroke.
single
They
come to us
we shall be
will
at length
if
we
perse-
another of the passages referred to by Mr. V. Kenwho describes it as a " find." Palingenius'
words are " Non stella una cavat marmor, neque protinus
uno est Condita Roma die."
It would require much research to determine the original
sources of such proverbial utterances.
^
This
is
64
PISCES,
munion.
is
OR THE FISHES
65
impossible.
gross.
high:
In this sort lived the Prophets old, as
it
appears by fame,
And many after Christ, whom men did holy Fathers name.
And in this present age of ours, full many may we find
That lead their life and spend their years, in this same
sort and kind.
These men when they do wisely speak, and reason fair and
well,
And wonders
come
foretell,
It is this
life,
now
CONCLUSION
The sketch which
view of the educationist. But the subjectmatter of the poet is much more varied than would
appear from a summary of the general course of
In it are the appeal to the life of
this long poem.
the
virtue, for its own sake, and not for reward
recognition of wisdom as difficult, and the path to
the appreciation of peace as nobler
it a thorny one
than war and the praise of friendship its call to
the bearing of poverty with equanimity, its fearlessness of death, its condemnation of avarice,
of
and
its
mind
as higher
De
Parisiis.
wood
of pleasure,with its
many
trees
CONCLUSION
" There lacks
Nor
67
provoke,
The winding and the alder tree, the chestnut and the ash,
The filbert, pitch-tree and the palm, the birch with
spriggy lash.
The
fir-tree
wood
(When Saturn
eke,
was on
father's food.
vine, the fig, and apple eke, and Lothos Priaps friend
Ivy and the laurel tree that poets' heads doth shend
mulberrj^ and the poplar tree that Hercules esteemed
The
The
The
The pear
tree,
seemed.
if
in
hand to
tell
in
number bring
th'
'
Egyptians
'
sand
as well."
So, too,
of pleasure
wood
" With purple roses red and white, and pansies painted hue
White daffodils and violets sweet, with fragrant lilies blue
Sweet amaranth that long doth live, with leaves of crimson
;
dye,
"
The clove
\^dth
balm and
thyme, and
saverie,
With saffron, myrrh and majorem, the garden's onely gem
Of savour sweet, in Idale woods enough there grows of
them."
CONCLUSION
68
Warton
gives
the
most
careful
and
judicial
and
his
maxims and
strictures
are
sometimes
gravity of
the
more orthodox
Although he submits
his
ecclesiastics.
lives
It
of the
was the
last
circumstances
poem
almost
CONCLUSION
69
tabo vias, atque abdita pandam," " non levia hie tradenda."
Passages of close parallelism can thus be
quoted, and this influence is clear and important.
Reynier shows the thought expressed in the allegories of the great painters, Raphael, Botticelli,
Andrea Mantegna, reproduced in the Zodiacus
Vitae, as part of the general atmosphere of the
time.
Examples, too, could be given of similarity
Ariosto.
in
It
evident
is
the Sagittarius)
Book
of Artes
and Sciences
Adam and
2
3
CONCLUSION
70
He
has a stellar
of
friendships
arts.
the monks.
Prof.
philo-
the
maxims
body
in health,
P. 40.
CONCLUSION
detested
not
only
71
Catullus
consigned to the
Savanarola, were such books as those of Petrarch,
Boccaccio, etc.
ries
three
ways
in
which
this
book had
considerable influence.
1.
On
account of
73
Prudentius.
leon,
addressed
to
the
tutors
{modcratores)
of
Christian youth.
The object of the book is there
stated to be " that beardless boys may first leam
may
fur-
Vitae
The
may
the Appendices
4.
One other
and
B.^
influence
is
should
be
mentioned.
book
book
directly suggested
is
plcraquc
by the
title
omnia
lari suavitatc
vcrac
sapientiac
enarrans, written
One
of Palingenius'
Satyricon
mystcria
by C.
singu-
Barthius,
INFLUENCE OF
74
Nor
is
the Zodiacus
poetical romances.
a precursor of Sidney's
Arcadia and of Spenser's Faerie Queene, though in
this respect it is rather part of a general development
than of direct significance. It contains ghmpses
which suggest parallels to Mora's Utopia and the
Nova Solyma,^ and to Mundiis Alter et Idem. It
reminds the reader in some respects of CamIt
is
Preceptes pour
des
Hommes.
Monnoye,
Naude,
Colletet,
Borrichius,
Scaliger,
verse, the
Zodiac
topics:
of Life.
(i.)
it,
nor
ment
of
riches.
The
(3.)
fine
(2.)
75
The enjoy-
description
of
the
rising
(10.) Palingenius'
of
Melchior
Adam,
in his Vitae
Germanorum
Philo-
INFLUENCE OF
76
of J. Pracht, 1806.
translation of Palingenius
Bayle says an
infinite
number.
'j^
and
scholars,
of the
earth,
mere shadows.
This
advance,
from
the
intelligence of
superior to
man
if
and sensual
to
far
student to go through untold labours of investigation and search to find the real, and a belief that
the real lies round about us, if we have penetration
to grasp it from under the shadow of the material.
The search may take us to the pursuit of the philoIt certainly leads to questions of
sopher's stone.
the transmutations and unions of fire, earth,
water, air, with the compounds generated by them,
stones, metals, plants
and animals.
In
all
these
INFLUENCE OF
78
and from
ever efficacy
thing,
e.g.
it
in
this
possesses.
or
gold,
human
in
beings.
It
is
and the
influences
of
effective.
Hence the
as
intelligence
bodies
are
arts of sorcery
located
still
in
more
and divination
knowledge of
rising
from
know
tions.
But to the minds of men like Cornelius
Agrippa and Palingenius, it meant the evolution
from the material to the spiritual, from the sensuous
to the intellectual, from the human to union with
the divine.
In a childlike age of
It
intellect, it led
old
myths and
79
From
inquiry into
of
intellective
p. 232).
It
is
from considerations of
genius, even
in
his
occultistic
bearings,
deserves
recognition of occultism.
of this influence
is
8o
and stellar system of less direct practical importance as a subject of knowledge. It is not without
solar
suggestiveness, therefore, to
draw attention
to the
except indeed to
comparatively few specialists, which Paligenius
the sixteenth century turned to account both
better
methods
ideas,
to
sort
sought to
bring these
pseudo-
convert
the
APPENDIX A
ENGLISH REFERENCES TO PALINGENIUS
Roger Ascham, Scholemaster, 1570.
Th. Norton of Bristow, my L.
M. Wiat, Th. Phaer, and other Gentlemen,
in translating Guide, Palingenius and Seneca haue
gonne as farre to their great praise as the Copie they
but, if soch good wittes
followed could cary them
and forward diligence had been directed to follow the
best examples, and not haue bene caryed by tjme
and custome to content themselues with that barbarous
and rude Ryming, emonges their other worthy praises,
which they haue justly deserved, this had not bene the
least, to be counted emonges men of learning and skill
more like unto the Grecians than unto the Gothians in
" Indeede, Chaucer,
of Surrey,
Poetrie,
APPENDIX A
82
Webbe,
(after
Bamabe Googe
to
among
Phaer
translations
Aeneads,
Golding for Ovid's Metamorphosis, Harington for his
Orlando Furioso, the translators of Seneca's Tragedies,
Barnabe Googe for Palingenius, Turbervile for Ovid's
Epistles,
us,
for Virgil's
Homer."
Hallam,
Lit. of
Europe, vol.
i.
note p. 365
Hallam,
in
is
speaking of Sir
Thomas
'
Chaloner's
APPENDIX A
83
Europe,
vol.
ii.
p. 148).
APPENDIX
work
" Palingenii
a laudatory poem
wrote a poem for
from the Nugarum
est
sed sobria,
Dialog. II
" Legitur
Zodiacum
APPENDIX B
85
Lotichius p. 2
Vid. Valesiana, p. 32
p. 72, 74, 84.
Baillet, Jugemens des Savans, torn.
Bibl. poet, p. 89
;
VII. p. 147.
Also Bayle's
in
Dictionary,
Broukhusii not. ad
Tibull. p. 264.
under
Propert.
p.
Palingenius,
36,
171,
231,
et
et
APPENDIX C
THE ASTROLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE ZODIAC
OF LIFE
By Walter Gorn Old
In the following brief survey of the scheme of PalinI propose to show that the twelve signs of the
zodiac were for him something more than mere pegs on
which to hang an argument or elaborate a discourse.
Palingenius understood at least as much as was current
teaching among astrologers of his day in regard to the
twelve divisions of the heavens and the corresponding
divisions or " Houses " of the horoscope, and probably
he knew something more. Indeed, I find it impossible
genius
ences."
,hat the
APPENDIX
%y
Beginning
zodiac."
with
Aries,
is
known
astrologically
At
as the "
House of Life."
more account than knowIn this connexion the
second sign
stands
for
the
"
88
APPENDIX
of reason
pleasures of the
as
and recom-
arbitrator between
the
of the body.
is
governed by
and necessity of conjugal life," gives " instruction upon the marriage state and the education of
In
children," and contains a warning against celibacy.
Leo, the second sign of the Fiery Triplicity which begins
in Aries, we find the multiplication of life by procreation
and the extension of the self in familism.
VI. Virgo, which corresponds to the Sixth House, is
tages,
not only Ceres, the giver of food, but also Hygieia, the
goddess of health. The old astrologers say that the
Sixth House governs the physician, and thus the disciples
of ^sculapius are collectively represented by his daughIn this section of the work Palingenius
ter Hygieia.
argues concerning the condition of those who are in
suffering, arguing that " death should not be dreaded,
but rather that we should hasten to it as to a refuge."
Thus health, food and clothing, the astrological appur-
APPENDIX
8q
and having
octave.
life,
the
things,"
life,
self-existent,
and incorporeal.
by the union of
and matter, male
force
and female.
It
is
human body
Serpentarius,
Law of Cycles, or of correlated successiveIn this section Palingenius fitly discourses on the
modes and causes of death, and of Fate as the expression
of the Divine Will, which determines the end from the
" All have an appointed day to die.
No
beginning.
account is taken of age." But Palingenius adds
typifies the
ness.
"
There
are,
however, some
who can
APPENDIX
go
who see
and day
tures.
Demon
est
Deus
inversus.
IX. Sagittarius
which
corresponds
is
work Palingenius
peregrinations and
its
the Centaur.
X. Capricornus, the Goat, corresponds to the Tenth
House, which is the House of Attainment. It is the
Second House from the Ninth, and represents spiritual
possessions, just as the Second denotes the possessions
The Goat, which symbolizes the Exile,
of the person.
climbing the rocky heights in search of tender herbage,
stands for the aspiration of the soul. In the material
in the
world Capricornus represents the mountain
in the intelsocial world, position, honour and credit
lectual world, the ambition of mastery and government
and in the spiritual world, the soul's achievement. Palin;
APPENDIX
courses on the
wisdom
C
of
91
attaining to the
of the spirit.
As Laotze says
thereto in both thought and action.
" The meshes of the celestial net are very large, yet
:
nothing escapes
"
Freewill in
Fesius.
1
it
man
"
is
and
as regards the
human
soul,
APPENDIX
92
fish
leashed to
its
counterpart,
it is
can never escape from itself and the consequences of its own actions save by the operation of the
individual will in intelligent and conscious alliance with
revealed Good.
Palingenius devotes this last section
of his work to revelations concerning the nature of the
certain that
it
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