卷八·第三十二至三十三章　判断的总则；全书结语

XXXII.

第三十二章

[1] These things, then, the barbarian sphere declares about the individual degrees. But a nativity cannot be fully set out unless everything has been compared with the balanced mixtures and aspects of the planets, as you remember we have said very often. For when the cold of other stars has been set against fiery stars, and the ice of the cold has been tempered by the blaze of fiery heat, a mixture of tempering is also brought about.

〔一〕那么，蛮族天球就各度所宣告的就是这些。但一张本命盘不能完全展开，除非一切都与诸星平衡的混合与相位相比较，如你记得我们极常说过的。因为当别的星的冷与火性的星相对，冷的冰被火热的烈焰所调和，也就造成调和的混合。

[2] Everything, therefore, must be gathered according to the powers of the places and of the planets. For a planet suffers the loss of its power when it has been placed in the cast-down places or in its depressions, and it obtains the greatest licence of decreeing when it has acquired the authority of licence either from its place or from its exaltation. And the planets rejoice, as we have said very often, in the first place when placed in their exaltation, in the second place in their terms, in the third in their houses.

〔二〕所以一切都必须按宫位与行星的力量来汇集。因为一颗行星落在低陷的宫位或它的低落之处时，会遭受力量的损失；而当它从宫位或从它的旺得到许可的权威时，就获得判定的最大许可。而且诸星喜乐，如我们极常说过的，第一是落在它的旺，第二是在它的界，第三是在它的庙。

[3] When, therefore, everything has been gathered by an exact reckoning, we ought to examine the whole body of the nativity, so that, gathering the fates of men from the powers of all the planets, we may set out with true pronouncements whatever has been decreed.

〔三〕所以当一切都以精确的计算汇集起来，我们就该察看本命盘的整个身体，好从一切行星的力量收集人的命运，以真实的宣告陈述所判定的一切。

XXXIII.

第三十三章

[1] Receive, then, Mavortius, our glory, what we promised you with the greatest trepidation of mind: these seven books, composed after the order and number of the seven planets. For the first book undertook only the advocacy of a defense; but in the remaining books we have handed down to the Romans the teaching of a new work.

〔一〕那么，马沃尔提乌斯，我们的光荣，请接受我们怀着心中极大的惶恐向你许诺的东西：这七卷书，是按七星的次序与数目写成的。因为第一卷只承担了辩护的申辩；而在其余各卷里，我们把一部新作的教导传给了罗马人。

[2] But you, met by the preceding admonition and reminded by the religious authority of an oath, guard these books with a pure soul and a pure mind, lest the knowledge of this work be made known to unskilled ears and sacrilegious souls. From the beginning the truth of these things willed itself to be concealed and hidden [text uncertain], and the nature of divinity has hidden itself under very many coverings, so that it should not be easy of access, nor be laid open to all, with the origin of its majesty revealed.

〔二〕但你既受了前面的告诫，又由誓言宗教的权威提醒过，要以纯净的灵魂与纯净的心智守护这些书，免得这部著作的知识让不谙此道的耳朵与亵渎神明的灵魂知道。这些事的真相从一开始就愿意被隐藏、被遮蔽〔原文疑有讹误〕，神性的本质也以极多的遮盖把自己藏起来，免得它容易接近，免得它尊贵的本源被揭开，向所有人敞开。

[3] It will befit us too to do this in these books, so that the reading of them may lie open to the religious but always be denied to the profane and sacrilegious, lest we pollute the venerable writings of the ancients by sacrilegious publications, as it were. Therefore hand them on to your sons, since you have instructed them from their earliest years in every duty of virtue, and hand them on to your friends, but those whom the faithful bond of love joins to you, whom you know to imitate the examples of your virtue.

〔三〕我们在这几卷书里也该这样做，好让它们的阅读向虔敬的人敞开，却永远拒绝凡俗与亵渎神明的人，免得我们好像以亵渎的发表玷污了古人可敬的著作。所以把它们传给你的儿子们吧，因为你从他们最幼小的年纪起就以德行的一切职分教导了他们；也传给你的朋友们，但要是那些由爱的忠实纽带与你相连、你知道在效法你德行榜样的人。

[4] Let it suffice that we have published for you alone the craft of these books, which we entrust to you. You are the true interpreter, you the faithful guardian, you the religious high priest; you alone, by the merit of your virtues, will be able to adorn what we have completed with watchful care and labor of both mind and body, with the greatest anxiety and trepidation.

〔四〕我们只为你一人发表了我们托付给你的这几卷书的技艺，这就足够了。你是真正的解释者，你是忠实的守护者，你是虔敬的大祭司；唯有你凭德行的功绩，能为我们以警醒的用心、以心与身的劳苦、怀着极大的焦虑与惶恐所完成的东西增添光彩。