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either, afflict it, as good ones help it. Indeed 
the Moon rules the bulk of it, as also the 
sensitive part of it: Mercury the rational 
part: and that’s the reason, if in a nativity 
_ the Moon be stronger than Mercury, sense 
many times over-powers reason; but “if 
Mercury be strong, and the Moon weak, 
reason will be master ordinarily in despite 
of sense. 
It is divided into Intellective, and Sen- 
sitive. 
1, Intellective.| The Intellective resides 
in the brain, within the Pia mater, is gov- 
erned generally by Mercury. 
It is divided into Imagination, Judg- 
ment, and Memory. 
Imagination is seated in the forepart of 
the brain; it is hot and dry in quality, quick, 
active, always working; it receives vapours 
from the heart, and coins them into 
thoughts: it never sleeps, but always is 
working, both when the man is sleeping 
and waking; only when judgment is awake 
it regulates the Imagination, which runs at 
random when Judgment is asleep, and 
forms any thought according to the nature 
of the vapour sent up to it. Mercury is out 
of question the disposer of it. 
A man may easily perceive his Judg- 
ment asleep before himself many times, and 
then he shall perceive his thoughts run at 
random. 
Judgment always sleeps when men do, 
Imagination never sleeps; Memory some- 
times sleep when men sleep, and sometimes 
it doth not: so then when memory is awake, 
and the man asleep, then memory remem- 
bers what apprehension coins, and that is 
a dream: The thoughts would have been 
the same, if memory had not been awake 
to remember it. 
: These thoughts are commonly (I mean 
in sleep, when they are purely natural,) 
a according to the nature of the 
. humour, called complexion, which is pre- 
dominate in the body; and if the humour 
be peccant it is always so, 
So that it is one of the surest rules to 
know a man’s own complexion, by his 
dreams, I mean a man void of distractions, 
or deep studies: (this most assuredly shews 
Mercury to dispose of the Imagination, as 
also because it is mutable, applying itself 
to any object, as Mercury’s nature is to 
do;) for then the imagination will follow its 
old bent; for if a man be bent upon a busi- 
ness, his apprehension will work as much 
when he is asleep, and find out as many 
truths by study, as when the man is awake; 
and perhaps more too, because then it is not 
hindered by ocular objects. 
And thus much for imagination, which is 
governed by Mercury, and fortified by his 
influence; and is also strong or weak in 
man, according as Mercury is strong or 
weak in the nativity. 
Judgment is seated in the midst of the 
brain, to shew that it ought to bear rule 
over all the other faculties: it is the judge 
of the little world, to approve of what is 
good, and reject what is bad; it is the seat 
of reason, and the guide of actions; so that 
all failings are committed through its in- 
firmity, it not rightly judging between a 
real and an apparent good. It is hot and 
moist in quality, and under the influence of 
Jupiter. 
Memory is seated in the hinder cell of 
the brain, it is the great register to the 
little world; and its office is to record things 
either done and past, or to be done. 
It is in quality cold and dry, melancholic, 
and therefore generally melancholic men 
have best memories, and most tenacious 
every way. It is under the dominion of 
Saturn, and is fortified by his influence, but | 
purged by the luminaries. eee 
2. Sensitive.) The second part of the © 
animal virtue, is sensitive, and it is divided 
into two parts, common and particular. 
