卷八·第一至三章　序言；第九十度；相见与相闻的星座

BOOK VIII

卷八

I.

第一章

[1] In this brevity of life, Mavortius, our glory, we must labor at nothing else than this: that, cleansed of the stain of the earthly body, and with all vices, if it can be done, or at least most of them cut away, we may return to God our maker the divinity of the soul uncorrupted and polluted by no contagion of crimes, lest we lose our soul, forgetful of its divine fashioning and entangled in the vicious snares of lusts, as if hurled down a precipice.

〔一〕马沃尔提乌斯，我们的光荣，在这短促的人生里，我们所要努力的不是别的，就是这一件：洗净尘世肉身的污点，把一切恶习——倘若能做到——或至少把大部分恶习割除，将灵魂的神性完好无损、不被任何罪行的沾染所玷污地交还给造我们的神，免得我们的灵魂忘了它神圣的造成，缠进情欲邪恶的罗网，好像被抛下悬崖一样。

[2] For this is what the earthly body works at day by day: that it may always bind its divine spirit, occupied with the depraved pleasures of desires and deceived by alluring solicitation, to its own perishable frailty, so that the soul, sunk and overthrown, may never be able to find the beginnings of its origin, but, always cast into darkness and into the mire, may blush at the origin of its majesty with certain trepidations of concealment.

〔二〕因为尘世的肉身日复一日所致力的就是这件事：要把它那神圣的灵——被欲望堕落的享乐占据、被诱人的勾引所欺骗——总是捆在自己会朽坏的脆弱上，使灵魂沉沦倾覆，永远找不到它本源的开端，却总被抛进黑暗与泥淖，带着某种想要躲藏的战栗，为它那尊贵的本源而羞愧。

[3] For we ought to think nothing earthly, especially since we know that God, our fashioner, made us with such a measure of divine craftsmanship that, the form of our body being upright and set apart from every lowliness of abasement, as soon as the sight of our eyes was opened we should see nothing else first but the Sun, the Moon, the stars, and the most beautiful and immortal domicile of them all, namely the world.

〔三〕因为我们不该想任何尘世的事，尤其是我们知道，塑造我们的神以如此分量的神工造了我们：我们身体的形态直立，远离一切卑屈的低下，眼睛的视力一开，我们首先看见的不是别的，正是太阳、月亮、群星，以及它们全体那最美而不朽的居所，即宇宙。

[4] For nature so composed the other living creatures that, sunk toward the earth and cast down in a certain perishable lowliness, they should always cling in both mind and body to earthly ways of life; but us she perfected with a great measure of necessity, so that the frailty of the body should claim one thing in us and the divinity of the immortal soul another; namely, that the body, which we seem to have in common with the beasts, should, serving the soul, always be subject to the command of its divinity.

〔四〕因为自然这样造了其余的生物：它们俯向大地，被抛在某种会朽坏的低下里，在心与身上都总是紧贴着尘世的生活方式；但她以极大分量的必然成全了我们，使身体的脆弱在我们身上要求一样东西，不朽灵魂的神性要求另一样东西；就是说，我们似乎与野兽共有的身体，要服侍灵魂，永远听从它神性的命令。

[5] Considering, therefore, the beginnings of our origin, and that our soul is strengthened by the protection of its majesty, we ought so to instruct ourselves that the soul, met by the authority of its own deity through its own self, may always both think and do something worthy of its maker, so that, so instructed and formed, it may find, as it is about to return to its origin, the straight and uncorrupted path of immortality, and may not, with wandering gait and slipping and trembling steps, be rolled back by everlasting errors to the vices of earthly frailty.

〔五〕所以，想到我们本源的开端，想到我们的灵魂靠它尊贵的护佑而得坚固，我们就该这样教导自己：让灵魂经由它自身，迎着它自己神性的权威，总是思想也总是去做配得上它创造者的事；这样受了教导、得了塑造，当它将要回归本源时，就能找到不朽那条笔直而不朽坏的道路，而不至于以游移的步态、滑跌颤抖的脚步，被永无休止的迷误滚回尘世脆弱的恶习里去。

[6] Gaze, therefore, Mavortius, our glory, upon the heavens with open eyes, and let your soul always behold this most beautiful fabric of the divine work. For then our mind, formed by the remembrance of its majesty, is freed from the depraved allurements of bodies, and, stripped of the hindrances of mortality, strives with hastening step toward its maker, and at every moment of the hours searches out nothing else but divine things with a shrewd and ever-watchful inquiry.

〔六〕所以，马沃尔提乌斯，我们的光荣，睁开眼睛凝望天空吧，让你的灵魂总是注视这神工最美的构造。因为那时我们的心灵，由对自身尊贵的记忆所塑造，就从肉体堕落的诱惑中解脱，脱去可朽性的种种阻碍，以急切的脚步奔向它的创造者，在每一时每一刻，以敏锐而永远警醒的探求，所寻求的不是别的，只是神圣的事物。

[7] These teachings, then, will give us some notion, however small, of divine knowledge, and will lead us to the secrets of our origin. For, always occupied with divine discussions, applying our soul to the heavenly powers and initiating it into divine ceremonies, we are separated from all the longings of depraved desires.

〔七〕那么，这些教导会给我们对神圣知识某种哪怕微小的概念，并引我们走向我们本源的奥秘。因为我们总是忙于神圣的讨论，使灵魂贴近天上的诸力，引它进入神圣的仪礼，我们就与堕落欲望的一切渴求分开。

[8] And this brings about, above all, that, despising all things that in human affairs are thought to be either evil or prosperous, we return our soul, composed by its natural strength and authority, uncorrupted and undiminished to its origin. For when we have learned of misfortunes to come, we despise, with an upright boldness of mind, the fear of impending evils, because we have learned that they will come, nor do we shudder at the perils of evils that have been announced.

〔八〕而这首先带来的是：我们蔑视人事中一切被认为或凶或顺的东西，把由其天然的力量与权威所安顿的灵魂，完好无损、毫无减少地交还给它的本源。因为当我们得知将来的不幸，我们就以正直无畏的心，蔑视对临头之祸的恐惧，因为我们已经知道它们会来，对已经预告的凶祸的危险也就不再战栗。

[9] If our soul, formed by the remembrance of its majesty, has prepared itself to receive these things, we are neither seized by the misfortunes of unhappiness nor lifted up by the insignia of rank, since we know that all this has been promised to us by the pronouncement of a decree. Thus, always composed by a steadfast reason, we can be neither crushed by misfortunes nor raised up by the joy of happiness.

〔九〕倘若我们的灵魂由对自身尊贵的记忆所塑造，已经预备好接受这些，我们就既不被不幸的灾难所攫住，也不被官位的徽章所抬高，因为我们知道，这一切都是由一道判决的宣告应许给我们的。这样，我们总是由坚定的理性所安顿，既不会被灾难压垮，也不会被幸福的喜悦抬起。

[10] What, therefore, I believe remains over from these books, I shall take care to set out. For I have reserved another time for myself to set out the Myriogenesis. Now, at the beginning of this book, we shall say which signs see each other, which hear each other, and which neither see nor hear. For all this will pertain to the interpretation of the barbarian sphere. We shall also state the measures of the degrees. We shall add this as well: which degrees are to be sought in which bodies of the signs, and also what the ninetieth degree effects, which is called the enenecontameris by the Greeks, so that, with all things thus set out, we may more easily grasp the barbarian sphere and the power of the effective licence of the bright stars.

〔十〕所以，我认为这几卷书还剩下的，我会留心陈述。因为我给自己留了另一个时间来陈述《万命书》。现在，在本卷的开头，我们要说哪些星座彼此相见，哪些彼此相闻，哪些既不相见也不相闻。因为这一切都与蛮族天球的解释有关。我们也要说明度数的量度。还要加上这一点：在星座身体的哪些部位要找哪些度数，还有第九十度造成什么，希腊人称之为「埃涅内孔塔梅里斯」，好让一切这样陈述之后，我们更容易把握蛮族天球，以及明亮诸星那有效的许可之力。

II.

第二章

On the Ninetieth Degree.

论第九十度

[1] First, then, I shall discuss the enenecontameris, that is, the ninetieth degree. This matter, unknown to most, seems to have been treated lightly by a few; for Petosiris too, as it seems to me, wished to conceal this treatise with a jealous murmur. In all nativities the ninetieth degree must be searched out with shrewd inquiry. For from these degrees are gathered the end of life, death, misfortunes, perils, happinesses, and the whole substance of the nativity.

〔一〕那么，我先讨论埃涅内孔塔梅里斯，即第九十度。这件事大多数人不知道，少数人似乎也只是轻轻带过；因为在我看来，佩托西里斯也想以嫉妒的低语把这篇论述藏起来。在一切本命盘里，都必须以敏锐的探求找出第九十度。因为从这些度数可以收集寿命的终点、死亡、灾难、危险、幸福，以及本命的全部实质。

[2] Setting out, then, from the Ascendant, look for the ninetieth degree through the other signs, and when you have found this degree, see in which sign it is placed, that is, whether it is found in the domicile of a benefic planet or in that of a malefic. See also how the lord of that sign is placed in the nativity; examine carefully, too, how far the benefic planets and how far the malefic ones aspect this degree.

〔二〕那么，从上升点出发，经过其余的星座去找第九十度；找到这一度之后，看它落在哪个星座，即它是在吉星的庙里，还是在凶星的庙里。也要看那个星座的主星在本命里怎样落定；还要仔细察看吉星照着这一度到什么程度，凶星又照着它到什么程度。

[3] For each of them, observing this degree, brings about everything according to its own nature; and if the malefic planets are alone, they will ruin it; if the benefics, they decree the greatest marks of happiness; if both the benefics and the malefics alike, whatever has been decreed by each is tempered. Ask also in whose dominion and power the degree itself is, that is, in whose terms, and in what place the lord of the degree is placed, and so you will perceive everything from the nature of the planet and from the power of the place. For the mixtures of the planets bring about all things, both evil and prosperous, according to the nature of the sign in which the ninetieth degree has been found.

〔三〕因为它们各自注视着这一度，都按自己的性质造成一切；倘若只有凶星，会毁了它；倘若是吉星，会判定极大的幸福标记；倘若吉星与凶星都有，各自所判定的就会被调和。还要问这一度本身在谁的主权与权力之下，即在谁的界里，这一度的主星落在哪个宫位，这样你就能从行星的性质与宫位的力量看出一切。因为诸星的混合，会按第九十度所在星座的性质，造成一切凶的与顺的事。

[4] You will likewise seek this same thing from the Moon, and, setting out from the degree in which the Moon has been found, you will look for the ninetieth degree. For in this degree too you will gather everything by similar reckonings, that is, what kind of sign it is, what kind of degree, who is the lord of the sign and of the degree, in which place or in which signs the lords are placed, and with what aspect the malefics, and with what aspect the benefics, aspect the degree itself.

〔四〕你也要从月亮求同样的事：从月亮所在的那一度出发，去找第九十度。因为在这一度里，你也要以相似的计算收集一切，即它是什么样的星座、什么样的度数、谁是星座之主与度数之主、这些主星落在哪个宫位或哪些星座，以及凶星以什么相位、吉星以什么相位照着这一度本身。

[5] And if the Moon is waxing, see how far Mars or Saturn aspects this degree, and likewise if she is waning. For they bring about everything according to the power of their nature, if either the malefic planets have aspected the ninetieth degree with a threatening aspect, or the benefics have lifted it up with a favorable testimony. Thus you will find the end of death, thus the order of life, thus the whole substance of the nativity.

〔五〕倘若月亮在盈，看火星或土星照着这一度到什么程度；倘若她在亏，也同样看。因为倘若凶星以带威胁的相位照着第九十度，或吉星以顺遂的见证把它抬起，它们都按自己性质的力量造成一切。这样你会找到死亡的终点，这样找到人生的次序，这样找到本命的全部实质。

III.

第三章

On Seeing and Hearing Signs.

论相见与相闻的星座

[1] Now I shall set out which stars see each other and which hear each other. Aries does not see Leo but hears it. Leo sees Aries but does not hear it. Aries both sees and hears Cancer. Cancer does not see Aries but hears it. Taurus both sees and hears Leo, and likewise Leo Taurus. Gemini sees Virgo and hears it slightly. Virgo sees Gemini slightly but hears it most fully. Cancer both sees and hears Libra. Libra, however, does not see Cancer but hears it. Leo neither hears nor sees Scorpio. Scorpio, however, both hears and sees Leo.

〔一〕现在我要陈述哪些星彼此相见，哪些彼此相闻。白羊不见狮子，却听见它。狮子看见白羊，却听不见它。白羊对巨蟹既见又闻。巨蟹不见白羊，却听见它。金牛对狮子既见又闻，狮子对金牛也一样。双子看见处女，略略听见它。处女略略看见双子，却极其充分地听见它。巨蟹对天秤既见又闻。天秤却不见巨蟹，只听见它。狮子对天蝎既不闻也不见。天蝎对狮子却既闻又见。

[2] Virgo regards Sagittarius obliquely, but does not hear it willingly. Sagittarius both hears and sees Virgo. Libra both hears and sees Capricorn, and is both heard and seen by Capricorn. Aquarius does not see Scorpio but hears it. In like manner Scorpio too does not see Aquarius but hears it. Sagittarius neither sees nor hears Pisces. Pisces, however, both sees and hears Sagittarius. Pisces does not see Gemini but hears it. Capricorn and Aries neither hear nor see each other. Aquarius and Taurus regard each other obliquely and hear each other.

〔二〕处女斜着眼看射手，却不乐意听它。射手对处女既闻又见。天秤对摩羯既闻又见，也被摩羯既听见又看见。宝瓶不见天蝎，却听见它。同样，天蝎也不见宝瓶，却听见它。射手对双鱼既不见也不闻。双鱼对射手却既见又闻。双鱼不见双子，却听见它。摩羯与白羊彼此既不闻也不见。宝瓶与金牛彼此斜着眼相看，并且彼此相闻。

[3] [probably: the trines begin here — the Aries–Leo pair now at the head of the chapter stood here, with a lost pair for Taurus and Virgo; "Pisces do not see Gemini but hear them" in § 2 belongs just before this, as the last of the squares] [lacuna] Gemini both sees and hears Libra. Likewise Libra both hears and sees Gemini. [probably: a pair for Cancer and Scorpio is lost here] [lacuna] Sagittarius and Leo both hear and see each other. Virgo indeed regards Capricorn, but does not hear it. Likewise Capricorn sees Virgo but does not hear it. Libra sees Aquarius, but is not itself seen by Aquarius; yet they hear each other alike.

〔三〕〔推测：三分各对从这里开始——章首的白羊—狮子一对原在此处，又丢了金牛—处女一对；第二节的「双鱼不见双子而闻之」应移到此前，作四分各对的最后一对〕〔此处原文有缺〕双子对天秤既见又闻。同样，天秤对双子也既闻又见。〔推测：此处缺巨蟹与天蝎一对〕〔此处原文有缺〕射手与狮子彼此既闻又见。处女确实看着摩羯，却不听它。同样，摩羯看见处女，却不听它。天秤看见宝瓶，自己却不被宝瓶看见；但它们彼此同样相闻。

[4] Scorpio indeed sees Pisces, but does not hear it. Pisces, however, sees Scorpio, but does not hear it. Sagittarius and Aries are so placed that they can neither see nor hear each other. And also Capricorn and Taurus can neither hear nor see each other. Aquarius and Gemini do indeed see each other, but are wholly separated in hearing. Pisces and Cancer do not indeed see each other, but they hear each other.

〔四〕天蝎确实看见双鱼，却不听它。双鱼也看见天蝎，却不听它。射手与白羊落得彼此既不能见也不能闻。又，摩羯与金牛彼此既不能闻也不能见。宝瓶与双子确实彼此相见，在听闻上却完全隔绝。双鱼与巨蟹确实彼此不见，却彼此相闻。

[5] We have treated the secrets of this matter for this reason: that you might receive the complete forms of the arrangement, and know how the signs are disposed in the zodiac circle. For these twelve signs are not placed in a fixed order and at a fixed interval, nor are they so set that those which rise in a later place always aspect the preceding or following signs. So, then, that I might show you this not by arguments but by the thing itself, we have published this treatise, excerpted from the books of Abraham, so that our discourse might make known to you in clear interpretations what we have said.

〔五〕我们论述这件事的秘奥，是为了这个缘故：让你领会这一排列的完整形态，知道诸星座在黄道圈上是怎样配置的。因为这十二个星座并不是按固定的次序、固定的间隔排列的，也不是这样安放：在后面升起的，总是照着前面或后面的星座。所以，为了不是用论证、而是用事实本身向你显示这一点，我们发表了这篇论述，它摘自亚伯拉罕的书，好让我们的论述以清楚的解释向你揭示我们所说的。