TWO PSEUDO-SCIENCES 



among the English astrologers, coming, as it did, at a 

 time of great political disturbance. Prophecies were 

 numerous, and Lilly's brochure is only one of many that 

 appeared at that time, most of which, however, have 

 been lost. Lilly, in his preface, says: "If there be 

 any of so prevaricate a judgment as to think that the 

 apparition of these three Suns doth intimate no Nov- 

 elle thing to happen in our own Climate, where they 

 were manifestly visible, I shall lament their indisposi- 

 tion, and conceive their brains to be shallow, and 

 voyde of understanding humanity, or notice of com- 

 mon History." 



Having thus forgiven his few doubting readers, who 

 were by no means in the majority in his day, he takes 

 up in review the records of the various appearances of 

 three suns as they have occurred during the Christian 

 era, showing how such phenomena have governed 

 certain human events in a very definite manner. Some 

 of these are worth recording. 



"Anno 66. A comet was seen, and also three Suns: 

 In which veer, Florus President of the Jews was by 

 them slain. Paul writes to Timothy. The Christians 

 are warned by a divine Oracle, and depart out of 

 Jerusalem. Boadice a British Queen, killeth seventy 

 thousand Romans. The Nazareni, a scurvie Sect, be- 

 gun, that boasted much of Revelations and Visions. 

 About a year after Nero was proclaimed enemy to 

 the State of Rome." 



Again, "Anno 1157, in September, there were seen 

 three Suns together, in as clear weather as could be: 

 And a few days after, in the same month, three Moons, 

 and, in the Moon that stood in the middle, a white 



