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Semiphoras and Schemhamphoras The Elements of Semiphoras The beginning of the name and word Semiphoras. which God the Creator, Jehovah, gave in Paradise, embraces three Hebrew letters, Jehovah the inscrutable Creator of the world, almighty Providence, and all-powerful strong Deity. After this there are four parts of the earth which are the most subtle light of the spiritual world: 4. Hierarchus, Cherubim et Seraphim, Potestates et Virtutes, Archangelos et Angeles, Spiritus et Animus Hominum, which come before God. This part of the world has also four angels that stand ripen the four corners of heaven; they are Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel; four angels stand for the elements, namely, Seraph, Cherub, Tharsis, Ariel; four highly enlightened men full of the light of God. For the other light or part of the world is the heaven of all the stars; has four Triplicitates of the twelve signs, under which the sun revolves yearly, making the change of seasons, the Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter of birth and corruption, and changes the fourth element. In the third part of the work are the elements and everything that is subordinate to them, in which is the small world, man. He again has four elements within him. Anima is in the head, per nemos; Spiritus is in the heart, and operates through the arteries; Corpus is the whole body with the veins; Genius, a spark of fire, is in the kidneys and governs birth. He has four spiritual and strong working faculties, as facultates actiones, or spiritus, as his Animali, Vitalis, Naturalis, Genitions. The soul has inward senses, as sensum communene; in which faith takes hold as fides and other senses Intellectus in the brain: 2. Imaginatrix, the imagination is another soul-operation or phantasie, which draws a picture of power and accomplishes all things; 3. Rativtanatio repeats the Species on the mind on all causes and judgments. Scientia, if the soul will now turn to real reason, it will obtain a knowledge of all worldly wisdom; 4. Memoratrix, the memory, retains all things which pertains to the faculties and operations of the spirit, to bring an experimentum et Sensus, through agitation of the nerves the increase of the human race is effected by God. The living spirit of the heart embraces within itself four virtues: Justitia, Temperantia, Prudentia, Fortitudo and these lie in the arterial blood and connect the soul with the body. Appetitus Sensitivus, the natural spiritual action and power lies in the liver and arteries, and effect motion and attraction, support and subsistence; the proper spirit of strength and sap lies in the kidneys ... to multiply through divine perfection. The body has four elements, namely, spirit, fruit, flesh and bone--four complexions or temperaments, warm, wet, dry. Attraction is produced by warmth; dryness, dampness; rel retentio is produced by coldness and dryness; Lien Cactio by warmth and wet; id est rtomachus, four wet: gall, blood, mucus, and melancholia. In the fourth quarter of the world there is darkness, instituted for condemnation in wrath and for punishment. Four princes of devils are injurious in the four elements: Samael, Azazel, Azael, Mehazaer; four princes of devils over the four quarters of the earth: Oriens, Pagmon, Egyn, Amayon.
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