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THE

Conjuror's Magazine,

OR,

Magical and Physiognomical Mirror.

For OCTOBER, 1791.`

Embellished with the following Capital Engravings, all faithfully copied from LAVATER. 1. An Aged MAN addreffing the DEITY, on the Brink of the Grave. 2. Portrait of an Angry, Wicked MAN. 3. Highly finished Head of ST. JOHN, drawn by Fufeli.

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CORRESPONDENTS, &c.

We now enter upon the most delicate part of our undertakingthe decifion of the merits of the various anfwers to our Queries, which, to perform with credit to ourselves, and fatisfaction to our numerous ingenious Correfpondents, we feel to be a difficult matter. Correspondence to the Querift, No I.

Query I. Was very ingenioufly anfwered by Novicious: N. N: N. B. D. R. W. Hardy: en Row: J. A. S. P. Peter. M. T. R. Davenport. Peter Puzzle. H. B. and William, who agree in the fame opinion with the answer inferted.

Query II. Peter. Z. T. Litchfieldienfis. J. A. Wm. Hardy. M L. E. Z. Anonymous. A Lady. W. D. Quiz.

Query III. Juniper. William. Peter. J. A. S. P H. B. L. M. M. O. Anonymous. T. F. of Wimpole Street, and fome without fignatures.

Query IV. N. B. D. R. very ingeniously undertakes to prove it wrong in principle, and refers for authority to the Veterinarian Society, who are about eftablishing a fyftem for the treatment of horfes upon more general principles than hitherto practifed, by en· couraging men of genius in their application to it. However, we have inferted Mr. R. Davenport's quotation from the "Dictionarium Rufticum," to make up the uniformity of the paper.-Alfo anfwered in the negative, by T. L. W. S.-in the affirmative, Ben Row. J. A. Peter, and one anonymous.

We truft our Correfpondents will cheerfully allow us to decree “An Inft ument to fee through a Board," to Mr. R. Davenport, for his Antwers to Query 1. and IV.; the laft being re lete with ufeful information.

The Queries in No II. to be answered next Month.

The long Letter of Aftrological Aphorifms does not fall within our plan. The fame alfo of O. Cromwell's Nativity, they are both taken from a work we do not esteem the best of its kind, viz. “ Gadbury's Collectio Geniturarum We recommend J. S. for the future to look into Partridge and Lilly; they were the greatest artists of the last century.

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W. Lll defcribes the moft ingenious method of making a bridge' We can only reply, in the words of Pope

To build a bridge, who never drove a pile,

Should Ripley venture, how the world would fmile.

We would with to remind our Huntingdon Correfpondent of his promife to give us the nativity of the late Rev. Mr. John Wesleyfor this article we have kept our Aftrological Department open beyond our ufual time.

H. B is referred, by a private letter, to the ingenious Mechanic mentioned in our prefent number, as having made a machine for elevation in the air.

The "World of Wonders," is a bare-faced plagiarism from the ingenious Van Eiftein's Travels, a tranflation of which we intend to give at a future time,

The length and value of the several articles in the present Number, has excluded the Domeftic News till our next.

THE

CONJUROR'S MAGAZINE.

FOR OCTOBER 1791.

ASTROLOGY.

REQUISITE RULES TO PREPARE NATIVITIES, FOR WORKING DIRECTIONS, AND FOR ALL OTHER PURPOSES IN ASTROLOGY.

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To find the Pole of Pofition of any Planet.

HAVING, as before directed, found the space of the house in which the planet is found, and its diftance from the cufp of the preceding or fucceeding houses, find the difference of the poles of the preceding and fucceeding houses. Then fay, As the space of one house is to the difference of the poles of the preceding and fucceeding houfes: fo is the planet's diftance from the house to a fourth number; which must be added to, or fubtracted from, the pole of that houfe, according to the fituation of the planet. For example,

Suppofe it were required to find the pole of the moon in the before-mentioned nativity. The moon, we fee, is pofited near the cufp of the fixth houfe; and her distance therefrom was found, by the last problem, to be three degrees; the fpace of one houfe was alfo, by the faid problem, found to be 36° 20'. Now, the pole of the 6th house is 40° 50', and the pole of the 5th 23° 28′; the difference of thefe is 17° 22. Then fay, by the rule of three, As 36° 20' *This operation is teft performed by a table of logistical logarithms.

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A Quadrant is the space of three houses; or the femi-diurnal or femi-nocturnal

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A Trine is the fpace of four houses. A Sefquiquadrant, four houfes and an half.

A Biquintal, four-fifths of the whole diurnal or nocturnal arc. An Oppofition, the space of fix houses. A planet on the cufp of the twelfth or eighth houfe, is in fextile to the me. dium-cceli, and in trine to the imumcœli.

A planet on the cufp of the eleventh houfe is in fextile to the afcendant, and in trine to the feventh house; and one on the cusp of the ninth houfe is in trine to the afcendant, and in fextile to the feventh houfe.

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One planet in the fixth houfe, and another in the mid-heaven; those two planets are in a mundane trine to each other.

One planet on the cusp of the ninth houfe, and another on the cufp of the eleventh, are in fextile to each other; and are alfo in a mundane parallel, as being equally distant both from the medium-coeli, and the afcendant, and feventh house. Alfo one planet in the afcendant or seventh and another in the tenth or fourth houfes, are in a mundane fquare to each other.

OF THE MOON'S NODES.

The moon's nodes are two oppofite points in the moon's orbit, which interfect the ecliptic, and are called the dragon's head and tail. The moon croffes the ecliptic at the dragon's head, when fhe is entering that part of her orbit which inclines northward from the ecliptic; and fhe enters the dragon's tail, when the is entering that part of her orbit which inclines fouthward from the ecliptic. The former is called the afcending node, and is chartered thus ; and the latter, the defcending node, and charactered thus &.

The nodes fhift backwards 19° 21′ 20' in the ecliptic every year; and fo go round it in a retrograde or contrary order of the figns in 18 years, 218 or 219 days; the mean diurnal motion of the node retrograde is three minutes, eleven feconds; equal to ore hundred and ninety one feconds. Therefore knowing the place of the moon's north node, at any time (as fuppofe October 1, 1788, be in 8 figns, 10 degrees 48 minutes, or 10° 48′, and the mean place be required for October 25 following) multiply 191 by 24, which produces 4584 feconds, which divided by 60, quotes 76 minutes, 24 feconds; which 76 divided again by 60, quotes 1° 16'. So that 1° 16' 24', fubtracted from 10 degrees 48 minutes, gives 9° 31' 36" for the node's mean place, in fagittary, October 25, 1788.

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If the place of the node be required for any number of years paft or to come, multiply 19° 21' 21" by the number of years, making an allowance for the odd days, if there be any, at the rate of 191 feconds per day; and if the place of the node be required for time paft, add the product to the place of the node at the given time, and you have the place for the time paft required. if the place be required for the time to come, the product must be subtracted from the prefent place of the node, and the remainder will be the place of the node for the time to come. Alfo remember if the number of years you com-. pute for be large, you must allow for the number of leap-years in thofe years, and make an addition for fo many odd days. The following example will fufficiently explain the whole.

The place of the moon's north node for the first of October, 1788, is 10° 48′, and I would know where the faid node was on the twelfth of July, in the year 1780. Now, from the twelfth of July 1780 to the twelfth of July 1788, are eight years; and from the twelfth of July to the firft of October are eighty-one days; and there being

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two leap-years in this time, two days more must be accounted, which makes eighty-three days; fo the whole time is eight years and eighty three days. I then multiply 19° 21′ 21′′ by eight, and it produces 154 degrees 50 minutes and 48 feconds; and 191 feconds the daily motion by eighty three, which produces 15853 feconds: this divided by fixty, quotes 264 minutes 1 3 feconds; which divided by fixty again, gives 4 degrees 24 minutes 13 feconds. I then add this to the former product, and the fum is 159 degrees 15 minutes 1 fe

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cond; which makes 5 figns 9 degrees 15 minutes and 1 fecond. This muft be added to the prefent place of the moon's node, as the place required is for time paft. Thus the place of the node for the first of October 1788 is 10° 48', which is 8 figns 10 degrees 48 minutes; and this added to 5 figns 9 degrees 15 minutes, gives 13 figns 20 degrees, 3 minutes; and cafting away twelve from the figns, there remains I fign 20 degrees 3 minutes, for the place of the node on the 12th July 1780, which is in 20° 3′ of 8.

ESSAY ON MAGIC.

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THERE are certain original principles, or laws of existence, on which every being and creature must be formed: the being of a flar is on the fame principle as the being of a cat. The macrocofm, or great world, refponds, nerve to nerve, and joint to joint, with the microcofm or little world. There cannot be a more convincing inftance of the exiftence of one and the fame principle with equal ftrength in the fmalleft and greateft objects than the verfion of the magnet to that pole for which it is touched. The poles of the world exift in a flip of iron or fteel: the heavenly bodies exift in man: Of this laft the aftrologer has the fame apodictical conviction, which every failor has of the first: he fteers by it, and arrives at his port. This is anfwer enough for all the impudent trafh and lics of the Hemi-cyclopedias on the prefent fubject, for this wile century paft. "Seeking to be wife, they became fools." St. Paul.

A man, who ftudies himfelf in the ftars, has the fame advantage as in a looking glafs. He has another: objects are magnified, and the lines confequently traced with greater eafe and certainty: they alfo embrace other objects, confequently make him focial to the utmoft limits of his capacity; that is, he perceives the bearings and effects of him

felf and his actions, in a clearer medium than otherwife he could-fees and feels the confequences of a good or bad action with more decifion and force than he could otherwife, and fo learns to choose the good and refufe the bad.

Let it be remembered, that as the heavens are the most extenfive profpect given to the human eye, and correfpondently the most ample field for contemplation, they are neceffarily the bafis of every science, and in particular,

No Divination is perfect without Aftrology.

Aftrology must enter into it's principles, as the elements into bodies. But aftrology has of late been confidered merely as giving an intimation of fu ture events; fo, that her grand office of gate-keeper or ufher to magic, (viz. the action of the mind, as walking, fpeaking, or embracing, is the action of the body) has been forgotten.

Every perfon, and much more every philofopher, knows, that every bodily or vifible action commences invifibly or in mind. The arm which gives a blow, or the mouth which gives a kifs, are moved through the means of blood, nerves, mufcles, &c. thefe are themfelves moved by the thoughts or intentions, and thefe again by fome fiil remoter caufe, the remoteft being GoD,

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