VMs: Repetitive Astrology Text: "Rules by the Lord of the Seventh House"

[Pamela Richards <spirlhelix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings!

I thought this sample might interest some who are
fascinated with the repetitive quality of parts of the
VMs text.  It is from William Lilly's Christian
Astrology, published in 1647.  He calls this section,
"Rules by the Lord of the Seventh House", p. 343. 
These rules are used for finding a thief using
question-and-answer divinatory astrology.  Such rules
can be derived for any number of topics.  

Please note that abbreviations for the repetitive
terms can easily be adapted:  For example, many
astrologers use L7H for Lord of the Seventh House.
Imagine an expression like, "(Jupiter), (Lord of the
seventh), (posited in the) (first house)", which might
easily be expressed in symbolic notation with one
character for each term in parenthesis.  When using
such notation in a listing of "rules" like the ones
below, this would yield a highly repetitive grouping
of symbols with differing final characters.  

Here's the quote.  I have added parenthesis to mark
terms which might easily be converted into single
characters rather than being spelled out by phonemes:

"(The Lord) (of the seventh) (in the ascendant) or
(fourth), noteth one of the house, and is in the City
or Town, and is one whom the querent leat mistrusteth,
and one which will hardly confess to the fact.

(The Lord) (of the seventh) (in the second), noteth
one of the household, or an acquantance if it be in a
masculine sign, but if be in a feminine sign, it is
his Wife, perhaps a sweetheart or maid of the house,
and may be recovered by money.

(The Lord) (of the seventh) (in the third), one of the
Kindred, Brother, Sisters, Cousins, or his only Fellow
by way of service, or some Neighbor often in his
sight, or his Disciple, Messenger or Servant, etc.

(The Lord) (of the seventh) (in the fourth), it is his
Father, or some old body, or of his Father's kin, or
one dwelling in the hermitage or house of his Father,
and the Thief hath given it to his Wife, or the Woman
to her Husband, or it is the good man or good wife of
the house, or else he is a Tiller or labourer of the
Land for the querent.

(The Lord) (of the seventh) (in the fifth), the Son or
Daughter of him, or the son or daughter of his Cousin
or Nephew, if the sign be masculine, or of the
household of his father, or his very friend. . ."

And so on he goes through the twelve houses.  But the
beginning of each sentence follows an identical
formula, except for the final particle of the phrase
(or character of the hypothetical multiglyphed
grouping, which appears as a "word").

Please ask questions if you have any!

Warmly,

Pam

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