1depth of all the Myſteries that are couched in this moſt wiſe
diſpoſure of things: nevertheleſſe being amazed, and tranſported
with admiration, I will ſay; Who knows but that thoſe three
Bowls like unto Almonds to be repreſented on each of the
Branches of the Candleſtick may ſignifie thoſe Globes which are
apter (as is this our Earth) for the receiving than emitting of Influ
ences? Perhaps alſo they denote thoſe Globes of late diſcovered
by the help of the Optick Teleſcope, which participate with
Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, and poſſibly alſo with the other Planets?
Who knows likewiſe, but that there may be ſome occult propor
tion between theſe Globes and thoſe Myſterious Knops and
Lilies inſinuated unto us in the ſacred Scriptures? But this
ſhall here ſuffice to bound humane Preſumption, and to teach us
to exſpect with an Harpocratick ſilence from Time, the Indice of
Truth, a diſcovery of theſe Myſteries: (g) Solomon made ten
Candleſticks by the ſame Patern of Moſes, which he placed, five
on one hand and five on another, in the Temple erected by him
in honour of the moſt High God; which very thing doth alſo,
without all queſtion, contain moſt abſtruſe ſigniſications. More
over, that Apple of the Knowledg of Good and Evil prohibited
our firſt Parents by God is not without a Myſtery; which ſome
ſay was an Indian Figg. In which theſe things are to be obſerv
ed: Firſt, That it is replete with many Kernels, every one of
which hath a particular Centre. Secondly, Though of it ſelf it
be hard and ſolid, yet about its Circumference it is of a more rare
and tenuouſe ſubſtance; herein reſembling the Earth, which
though in its Centre, and thoſe parts which are neareſt to it, it
be ſtony, Metallick, and compact, yet the nearer one approacheth
to the Circumference, its parts are ſeen to be the more rare and
tenuouſe: and withall it hath another body, more rare than its
own, namely the Water, above which there is yet another, more
ſubtil than all the reſt of inferiour Bodyes, that is to ſay,
the Aire,
diſpoſure of things: nevertheleſſe being amazed, and tranſported
with admiration, I will ſay; Who knows but that thoſe three
Bowls like unto Almonds to be repreſented on each of the
Branches of the Candleſtick may ſignifie thoſe Globes which are
apter (as is this our Earth) for the receiving than emitting of Influ
ences? Perhaps alſo they denote thoſe Globes of late diſcovered
by the help of the Optick Teleſcope, which participate with
Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, and poſſibly alſo with the other Planets?
Who knows likewiſe, but that there may be ſome occult propor
tion between theſe Globes and thoſe Myſterious Knops and
Lilies inſinuated unto us in the ſacred Scriptures? But this
ſhall here ſuffice to bound humane Preſumption, and to teach us
to exſpect with an Harpocratick ſilence from Time, the Indice of
Truth, a diſcovery of theſe Myſteries: (g) Solomon made ten
Candleſticks by the ſame Patern of Moſes, which he placed, five
on one hand and five on another, in the Temple erected by him
in honour of the moſt High God; which very thing doth alſo,
without all queſtion, contain moſt abſtruſe ſigniſications. More
over, that Apple of the Knowledg of Good and Evil prohibited
our firſt Parents by God is not without a Myſtery; which ſome
ſay was an Indian Figg. In which theſe things are to be obſerv
ed: Firſt, That it is replete with many Kernels, every one of
which hath a particular Centre. Secondly, Though of it ſelf it
be hard and ſolid, yet about its Circumference it is of a more rare
and tenuouſe ſubſtance; herein reſembling the Earth, which
though in its Centre, and thoſe parts which are neareſt to it, it
be ſtony, Metallick, and compact, yet the nearer one approacheth
to the Circumference, its parts are ſeen to be the more rare and
tenuouſe: and withall it hath another body, more rare than its
own, namely the Water, above which there is yet another, more
ſubtil than all the reſt of inferiour Bodyes, that is to ſay,
the Aire,
(a) Exod. 25. 31.
(b) My Authour
following the vul
gar Tranſlation,
which hath an E
ligance in ſome
things beyond ours,
cites the words
thus, Facies Can
delabrum ducti
le de auro mun
diſſimo, Haſtile
ejus, & Calamos,
& Sphærulas, ac
Lilia, ex ipſo pro
cedentia.
following the vul
gar Tranſlation,
which hath an E
ligance in ſome
things beyond ours,
cites the words
thus, Facies Can
delabrum ducti
le de auro mun
diſſimo, Haſtile
ejus, & Calamos,
& Sphærulas, ac
Lilia, ex ipſo pro
cedentia.
(c) verſe 12.
(d) or Spheres.
(e) Though our
Authour ſpeaketh
here poſitively of
nine Months, &c.
Fathers are not a
greed about the pe
riod of this planet,
nor that of Mercu
ry, as you may ſee
at large in Riccio
lus, Almageſt. nov.
Tom. 1. part 1. l.
7. ſect. 3. cha. 11.
num. 11. page 627.
where he maketh
Venus to conſum
mate her Revolu
tion in neer 225
dayes, or 7 1/2 Mon.
and Mecury in a
bout 88 dayes, or 3
Months: in which
he followeth Kepl.
in Epitome Aſtro
nom. p. 760.
Authour ſpeaketh
here poſitively of
nine Months, &c.
Fathers are not a
greed about the pe
riod of this planet,
nor that of Mercu
ry, as you may ſee
at large in Riccio
lus, Almageſt. nov.
Tom. 1. part 1. l.
7. ſect. 3. cha. 11.
num. 11. page 627.
where he maketh
Venus to conſum
mate her Revolu
tion in neer 225
dayes, or 7 1/2 Mon.
and Mecury in a
bout 88 dayes, or 3
Months: in which
he followeth Kepl.
in Epitome Aſtro
nom. p. 760.
(f) verſ. 33, 34.
(g) 1 Kings c. 7.
v. 49. 2 Chron. c.
4. verſ. 7.
v. 49. 2 Chron. c.
4. verſ. 7.
The ſame Repreſentation with that of the Indian Figg is held
forth to us by the Malum Punicum, or Pomegranate, with its
innumerable poly centrick Stones or Kernels, all which in the parts
more remote from their Centre, and nearer approaching towards
the Circumference, are of a ſubſtance ſo ſubtil and rare, that being
but lightly compreſſed, they in a manner wholly convert into a
moſt tenuoſe Liquor or juice: Of which fruit it pleaſed Divine
Wiſdom to make mention, and ordained that its Figure ſhould be
imbroidered and wrought with a needle in the ſacerdotal Garment
of Aaron: (h) Beneath (ſaith God) upon the hem of it thou
ſhalt make Pomegranates of blew, and of purple, and of ſcarlet,
round about the border thereof; and Bells of gold between them
forth to us by the Malum Punicum, or Pomegranate, with its
innumerable poly centrick Stones or Kernels, all which in the parts
more remote from their Centre, and nearer approaching towards
the Circumference, are of a ſubſtance ſo ſubtil and rare, that being
but lightly compreſſed, they in a manner wholly convert into a
moſt tenuoſe Liquor or juice: Of which fruit it pleaſed Divine
Wiſdom to make mention, and ordained that its Figure ſhould be
imbroidered and wrought with a needle in the ſacerdotal Garment
of Aaron: (h) Beneath (ſaith God) upon the hem of it thou
ſhalt make Pomegranates of blew, and of purple, and of ſcarlet,
round about the border thereof; and Bells of gold between them