The Magus/Book 1/Part 2/Chapter 42

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CHAP. XLII.

OF THE IMAGES OF THE MOON.

FROM the operations of the Moon they made an image for travellers againft wearinefs, at the hour of the Moon, the Moon afcending in its exaltation; the figure of which was a man leaning on a ftaff, having a bird on his head, and a flourishing tree before him. They made another image of the Moon for the increafe of the fruits of the earth, and againft poifons, and infirmities of children, at the hour of the Moon, it afcending in the firft face of Cancer the figure of which was a woman cornuted, riding on a bull, or a dragon with feven heads, or a crab, and fhe hath in her right hand a dart, in her left a looking glafs, clothed with white or green, and having on her head two ferpents with horns twined together, and to each arm a ferpent twined about, and to each foot one in like manner. And thus much fpoken concerning the figures of the planets, may fuffice.

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