Renaissance Astrology Home Page SERVICES PAYMENT COURSES BOOKS CONTACT SEARCH Renaissance Astrology Home Page

The Planets in Renaissance Astrology
Christopher Warnock, Esq.
Agrippa on the Things Ruled by Mars
HOME




Mars


Cornelius Agrippa
Cornelius Agrippa on Saturn
Cornelius Agrippa on Jupiter
Cornelius Agrippa on Mars
Cornelius Agrippa on the Sun
Cornelius Agrippa on Venus
Cornelius Agrippa on Mercury
Cornelius Agrippa on the Moon
William Lilly
Lilly on Saturn
Lilly on Jupiter
Lilly on Mars
Lilly on the Sun
Lilly on Venus
Lilly on Mercury
Lilly on the Moon
Web Site Search
Web Site Search



What things are Martial or under the power of Mars

from Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy


Elements & Tastes
Metals & Stones
Plants & Trees
Foods
Animals
Birds
Fish
Regions & Countries
Incense
Places







BOOK ONE

CHAPTER XXVII.

What things are under the power of Mars, and are called Martial.




Things are Martiall, amongst Elements, Fire, together with all adust, and sharp things: Amongst humours, Choller ; also bitter tasts, tart, and burning the tongue, and causing tears:
Amongst Metals, Iron, and red Brass; and all fiery, red, and sulphureous things: Amongst Stones the Diamond, Loadstone, the Blood-stone, the Jasper, the stone that consists of divers kinds, and the Amethist.
Amongst Plants and Trees, Hellebor, Garlick, Euphorbium, Cartabana, Armoniack, Radish, the Laurell, Wolfs-bane, Scammony, and all such as are poysonous, by reason of too much heat, and those which are beset round about with prickles, or by touching the skin, burn it, prick it, or make it swell, as Cardis, the Nettle, Crow-foot,
Aand such as being eaten cause tears, as Onyons, Ascolonia, Leeks, Mustardseed, and all thorny Trees, and the Dog-tree, which is dedicated to Mars.
And all such Animals as are warlike, ravenous, bold, and of clear fancy, as the Horse, Mule, Goat, Kid, Wolf, Libard, the wild Ass; Serpents also, and Dragons full of displeasure and poyson; also all such as are offensive to men, as Gnats, Flies, Baboon, by reason of his anger.
All such birds, that are ravenous, devour flesh, break bones, as the Eagle, the Faulcon, the Hawk, the Vultur; and those which are called the fatall Birds, as the Horn-Owl, the Scrich-Owl, Castrels, Kites, and such as are hungry, and ravenous, and such as make a noise in their swallowing, as Crows, Daws, the Pie, which above all the rest is dedicated to Mars.
And amongst fishes, the Pike, the Barbell, the Fork-fish, the Fish that hath horns like a Ram, the Sturgeon, the Glacus, all which are great devourers, and ravenous.



CHAPTER XXXI.

How Provinces, and Kingdoms are Distributed to Planets.


TOP

Mars with Aries governs Brittany, France, Germany, Bastarnia, the lower parts of Syria, Idumea and Judea; with Scorpio he rules Syria, Comagena, Cappadocia, Metagonium, Mauritania and Getulia



CHAPTER XLIV.

The Composition of Some Fumes Appropriated to the Planets.




For Mars take euphorbium, bdellium, gum armoniac, the roots of both hellebores, the loadstone and a little sulfure, and incorporate them all with the brain of a hart, the blood of a man and the blood of a black cat....
To Mars, all odoriferous woods, as sanders, cypress, lignum balsam, and lignum aloes...



CHAPTER XLVII.

What Places are Suitable to Every Star




To Mars, fiery and bloody places, furnacnes, bakehouses, shambles, places of execution and and places where there have been great battles fought and slaughters made and the like.




TOP

Renaissance Astrology Home Page
HOME


Please Contact me with any Questions or Comments.

Copyright 2003 Christopher Warnock, All Rights Reserved.