卷四·第十一章　得力之年：诸星之间的年度交付

XI. On the Productive Year and the Partial Procedure.

第十一章　论得力之年与分部之法。

Now that the general and temporal divisions have been arranged in this way according to their affinity, we must also speak about the productive year and its sequence. But first it is necessary to say a few things to those who have written on such matters. Most of them, having set out the division of the periods in a varied and grudging manner, have handed down no method of truth, and, having shut the topic in with numerous procedures, have left their readers the greatest confusion and an endless search. Some, carried away by inexperience through the mass of their words, introduced false methods and deceived many; others, having seen the power of the subject and set out its principles, did not provide the solutions, out of envy. We ourselves, having travelled through much country and passed through Egypt, fell in with money-loving teachers and made payments of money out of our desire for the work; but not attaining the truth, we chose a more self-controlled and self-sufficient life and occupied ourselves with other things. Since, however, the problem of most of the sciences and the division of the general periods [text uncertain] drew us back and made our desire greater, we persevered of necessity. A slander having arisen concerning the general procedures of the divisions, which some used with respect to the sequence of the terms, others with respect to the minor periods, others with respect to the dodecatemories, which add up to 10 years and 9 months, and others with respect to the exaltations, while their sub-divisions signified false outcomes, it seemed to us too most shameful to define an effect by 2 or 10 or 7 years; rather, we sought apportioning and yearly periods. And indeed for a long time we passed our days in vexation and grief, making changes of place and gaining experience by mingling with those who were zealous about such things, until the divine power, wishing it, through some providence made the transmission in a certain place through a certain man who loved learning. Having thus obtained a beginning and expended much toil, we grasped the goal, which we also made our own, ourselves adding many useful applications of the powers. For from daily practice, from meeting with many men, and from seeing the sufferings with our own eyes, we judged the theory to be sacred and immortal, and we shall share it without grudging, since it seems to be the most comprehensive chief point beside the rest. Apart from it nothing is or will be; for it has its beginning and its end foreknown.

既然总的与按时的划分已按其亲缘这样安排好了，我们也必须谈谈得力之年及其次序。但首先必须对那些写过这类事的人说几句。他们大多以五花八门而又吝惜的方式列出时期的划分，没有传下任何真实的方法，又用众多的程序把这个论题封闭起来，给读者留下极大的混乱与无尽的寻求。有些人因缺乏经验，被冗长的言辞带偏，引入了错误的方法，欺骗了许多人；另一些人看到了这门学问的力量，列出了它的原理，却出于嫉妒不给出解法。我们自己走过许多地方，经过埃及，遇到贪财的老师，因为渴望这门功夫而付了钱；但没有得到真理，就选择了较为节制而自足的生活，去忙别的事。然而，既然大多数学问的难题与总时期的划分〔原文疑有讹误〕又把我们拉了回来，使我们的渴望更大，我们就出于必要坚持下去。关于划分的总的程序，起了一种诋毁：有些人按界的次序来用，有些人按小周期，有些人按十二分部——合起来是十年九个月——还有些人按旺位，而它们的细分象征虚假的结果；我们也觉得用二年、十年或七年来界定一个效验是最可耻的；我们寻求的是分配性的与每年的时期。确实，我们在烦恼与忧伤中度过了很长时间，不断迁徙，与热心这类事的人交往而积累经验，直到神圣的力量愿意，借着某种天意，在某个地方、通过某个爱好学问的人完成了传授。这样得到了开端，又花了许多辛劳，我们把握了目标，也把它化为己有，自己又增添了许多有用的能力的应用。因为从日常的实践、与许多人的交往、亲眼看到的苦难，我们判定这个理论是神圣而不朽的，我们将毫不吝惜地分享它，因为它看来是众要点之中最全面的首要之点。离了它，什么都没有，也不会有；因为它的开端与终结都可预知。

I adjure you, my most honoured brother, and those who are initiated into the mysteries through this composition, by the starry vault of heaven and the circle of the twelve signs, by the Sun and the Moon and the five wandering planets, through which all life is steered, and by Providence itself and sacred Necessity, to keep these things hidden and not to share them with the uneducated, except with those who are worthy and able to guard them and to make a just return, and to grant to me, Valens, who introduced them, an ever-remembered and good repute, especially when you recognize my lack of grudging and the part of the truth [text uncertain], which, since it had been solved by no man, I myself brought to light; and not to pass over my name and bring others into this composition, nor to mutilate anything that has been written or is to be said, so as to make readers reject it and to bring reproach upon me. To those who keep these things may all the gods named above be gracious, and may there be a steady life and the accomplishment of their reasonings according to their hearts' desire; to those who forswear themselves, the opposite: may the earth not be walkable for them nor the sea navigable, nor may they have the sowing of children, and may a blind and fettered mind bring them an unseemly life, without attainment of good things. And if there is a requital of evil and good deeds even after death, may they partake of the like there too. Hence, if after learning the teaching given here someone should find this method set out enigmatically in another treatise, he must not bestow praise on that writer, but acknowledge gratitude to us, as having become not only the announcers but also the discoverers of many things and as having adorned the method; for many, having received something ungrudgingly, have composed it with grudging. Therefore I urge those who read this composition most attentively, entering for some periods into an immortal place, beholding the dances and mysteries of the gods, and taking up a glory equal to that of the gods, to put aside the many procedures of the methods and of books, and, having been trained in the tabular and natural theory of the planets and signs and in the study of the tables relating to the phenomena, to attend to these procedures and to those composed earlier; and for a determination by degree to survey the planets by degree, and for a determination by sign likewise by sign, so that what is said may be said with truth. For I myself have often found that the planets were in some signs according to the chronology of outcomes and in others according to the phenomena, especially when they were at the beginning or at the end of the signs, and likewise that they slip in their stations and in their acronychal risings. One must, then, learn precisely in which signs or degrees they are, and above all make the determination of the Ascendant.

我以布满星辰的天穹与十二星座的圆周，以太阳、月亮与五颗游星——一切生命都由它们驾驭——以天意本身与神圣的必然，恳求你，我最敬重的兄弟，以及借这部著作被引入秘仪的人们：把这些事隐藏起来，不要分享给未受教育的人，只分享给那些配得、能够守护它们并作出公正回报的人；并给予引入这些事的我，瓦伦斯，永被记念的美名，尤其当你们认识到我的毫不吝惜与真理的那一部分〔原文疑有讹误〕，那是没有人解开过、由我自己揭示出来的；不要略过我的名字而把别人引进这部著作，也不要删改已写下或将要说的任何东西，以致使读者拒绝它、给我招来责难。愿上面所称的诸神都恩待守护这些事的人，愿他们有稳定的生活，按心中所愿实现他们的筹划；对违背誓言的人，则相反：愿大地不让他们行走，大海不让他们航行，愿他们没有子嗣的播种，愿一个盲目而受缚的心智给他们带来不体面的生活，得不到美好之物。若死后还有对恶行与善行的报偿，愿他们在那里也得到同样的份。因此，若有人学了这里所给的教导之后，在别的论著里发现这个方法被隐晦地列出，他不应把称赞给那位作者，而应对我们表示感激，因为我们不仅是许多事的宣告者，也是发现者，并装点了这个方法；因为许多人毫不吝惜地得到了某样东西，却吝惜地写出它。所以我劝勉最用心地读这部著作的人，在某些时期进入不朽之地，观看诸神的舞蹈与秘仪，取得与诸神同等的荣耀，放下方法与书籍的众多程序，在受过关于行星与星座的表格与自然理论的训练、研究过关于天象的表之后，留意这些程序以及先前所写的；要按度数断定，就按度数审视诸星；要按星座断定，同样按星座，好让所说的合乎真实。因为我自己常常发现，按效验的年代推算，诸星在某些星座，而按天象则在另一些星座，尤其当它们在星座的开头或末尾时；同样也发现它们在留与入夜升起时会有滑移。所以必须精确地得知它们在哪些星座或度数，首先要断定上升点。

Let the beginning of the instruction be this. Having examined the years being brought down by the nativity, we cast out the twelves as often as we can, and, assigning the remaining number to the planet able to receive it, we shall learn to whom it hands over the year. What has been said is brief to grasp, but varied in its determination. All the planets, then, together with the Ascendant, the Sun, and the Moon, will hand over to one another and receive from one another in turn. Let there be by way of example, so that we may make the introduction clearer, the Sun and Mercury in Aquarius, the Moon in Scorpio, Saturn in Cancer, Jupiter in Libra, Venus in Capricorn, Mars and the Ascendant in Virgo; we seek year 35. I subtracted two twelves, that is, 24: remainder 11; we reckon, then, from which planet to which the 11 reach; we found that from the Ascendant and Mars they reach Saturn in Cancer, and again from the Moon to Mars the 11, and from Venus to the Moon. All these transmissions are effective in the 35th year; and according to the power of effect that each of the planets has, it will bring about either good or bad in the transmissions, which we shall indicate as the account proceeds.

让教导的开端是这样。审视本命正在推的年数之后，我们尽可能多地去掉若干个十二，把余下的数分给能接受它的行星，就会得知它把这一年交给谁。所说的话很容易把握，但在判定上却多变。所以，所有行星连同上升点、太阳与月亮，都会轮流交给彼此、从彼此接受。为了把引导说得更清楚，举例来说，设太阳与水星在水瓶，月亮在天蝎，土星在巨蟹，木星在天秤，金星在摩羯，火星与上升点在处女；我们查问第三十五年。我减去两个十二，即二十四：余十一；所以我们推算这十一从哪颗行星到达哪颗行星；我们发现，从上升点与火星它到达巨蟹的土星，又从月亮到火星是十一，从金星到月亮也是。所有这些交付在第三十五年都起作用；按每颗行星所有的效验之力，它在交付中会带来好或坏，这一点我们将在论述过程中指明。

When many transmissions occur, one must compare whether those of the benefics or those of the malefics predominate, and award the prize to them; but if they are equal, the year will be judged subject to reversals and varied. In general, then, in every nativity one will have to cast out the years from the Sun, the Moon, and the Ascendant, and if they fall in empty places, they will have handed over to the lords of the signs. These three counts have great power, according to whether the transmission has been made to benefics or to malefics, or to angular, productive, or non-angular places. Then in this way one must also examine the transmission of the other planets; for if malefics hold the year, while the three releases have a power of beneficence, the year is active and distinguished, but with some dispute, fears, and troubles. If none of the planets hands over to a planet, but the division is carried into empty places, one must attend to the empty places as well; and especially if some planets are upon them by entry, they will receive; and one must also cast out from the Lot of Fortune, and from the Daemon, Eros, and Necessity; for from these the timely sufferings, benefactions, and dangers are taken. More naturally still, one must also cast out from the angles; for just as in general and cosmic matters, so the like is found in the case of men. For from the rising of the Dog Star the year and the 4 angles go round through the four-year cycle, except that the years turn out differently according to the configurations and phases of the planets and their timely entries. Likewise the Sun too, making a square, produces movements, the greatest, the least, and two middle ones, and directs the circle through 4 turnings; and the Moon too has 4 natural configurations: conjunction, half-moon, full moon, second half-moon; and the cosmic and earthly state itself has been composed of 4 elements and 4 winds. If, then, these things are so, it is necessary in nativities too that the 4 angles be productive, and that one count off the years from them and compare both the planets of the nativity and the characteristics of the angles and of the signs. One must also know beforehand the cosmic conjunction, the rising of the Dog Star, and the Hour, whether it is in the Ascendant in a tropical way, and the lord of the rising of the Dog Star; for in this way the ruler of the year will be judged general, and the lords of the places cyclical. Likewise, in each nativity and counter-nativity, the lord of the year is general, while that of the conjunctions or full moons is cyclical. One must, then, compare whether the general and cosmic lord is associated with the general lord of the nativity or is the same, and likewise whether the cosmic cyclical lords are in harmony with those of the nativity or are the same. Besides these things, one must also observe the eclipses, in which places of the nativity they have occurred, whether productive or unproductive, and further the risings and phases of the planets; for from these, distinguished, princely, and royal nativities will have the decision and the change of their action or of their glory, and great and wonderful effects usually come to pass, some exalted into an unsurpassable fortune, others passing into a humble fortune easily overthrown.

当发生许多交付时，就必须比较是吉星的交付占优还是凶星的，把胜利判给它们；若相等，这一年就判为多起伏、多变化。所以总的说，在每个本命中都必须从太阳、月亮与上升点推出年数，若落在空的位置，它们就是交给了那些星座之主。这三种计数有很大的力量，看交付是给了吉星还是凶星，是给了居角、得力还是不居角的位置。然后也必须这样审视其余行星的交付；因为若凶星持有这一年，而三种释放有施恩之力，这一年就有作为而显赫，但有些争执、恐惧与困扰。若没有行星交给行星，而划分被带进空的位置，就也必须留意这些空位；尤其若有些行星以进入落在其上，它们就会接受；还必须从福点，以及从精灵点、爱欲点与必然点推出；因为合时的病苦、恩惠与危险就从这些取得。更合乎自然的是，也必须从四角推出；因为正如在总的与宇宙的事中，在人的事上也能找到同样的情形。因为从犬星升起起，年与四角经过四年的循环而轮转，只是年会因诸星的格局、相态与它们合时的进入而结果不同。同样，太阳也作出四分，造成运动，最大的、最小的与两个中间的，并通过四个转折引导圆周；月亮也有四种自然的格局：合朔、半月、望月、第二个半月；宇宙与大地的状态本身也由四元素与四风组成。所以，若这些事是这样，在本命中也必然要四角得力，要从它们数出年数，并比较本命的行星与四角和星座的特性。也必须预先知道宇宙的合朔、犬星的升起与时刻，看它是否以回归的方式在上升点，以及犬星升起之主；因为这样，年主将被判为总的，而诸位置之主为循环的。同样，在每个本命与对照命盘中，年主是总的，而合朔或望月之主是循环的。所以必须比较总的、宇宙的主是否与本命的总主相关联或是同一颗，同样比较宇宙的循环之主与本命的循环之主是否和谐或相同。除此之外，还必须观察交食，看它们发生在本命的哪些位置，是得力还是不得力，再看诸星的升起与相态；因为从这些，显赫的、王侯的与王室的本命就会有其作为或荣耀的决断与改变，通常会发生伟大而奇妙的效验，有的被抬升到无可超越的好运，有的转入易被推翻的卑微运势。

Hence let no one think that we are wordy or are complicating the method, but rather that we do this very thing for safety's sake, so that the division may be without stumbling for both brilliant and moderate nativities. Moreover, when we inquire about life or about bodily or psychic actions, we shall cast out from the Ascendant; when about glory, precedence, display, the father, persons of greater station, and whatever the nature of the Sun usually brings about, we shall make the release of the years from him; when about bodily dangers, sufferings, and haemorrhages, or the mother, from the Moon; when about action, livelihood, and craft, from the Midheaven; when about good fortune and the acquisition of livelihood, from the Lot of Fortune; when about matters of death, change, or troubles, from the setting place; when about foundations, possessions, hidden things, or matters of the dead, from the IC; when about a wife, an entanglement, familiarity, or female forms, from Venus; when about military service or public affairs, from Mars; when about the upheaval of affairs, acquisition, hidden sufferings, or inheritances from the father, from Saturn; about glory, friendship, recommendation, and acquisition, from Jupiter; when about partnership, slaves, bodily matters, giving or receiving, or writings, from Mercury. These hold for transmissions or receptions of a single kind; but when two, three, or more planets happen to be handing over or receiving, one must judge the power of each planet together with those present. For according to the original substance of each nativity, both the benefics and the malefics will be effective, and whatever general configuration each had with the planet testifying to it or configured with it, the like it will bring about when it receives the periods from that planet or itself hands them over.

因此，谁也不要以为我们冗长或把方法复杂化，而应认为我们正是为了稳妥才这样做，好让划分对显赫的与中等的本命都不致失误。再者，当我们查问生命或身体、灵魂方面的作为时，就从上升点推出；当查问荣耀、优先、排场、父亲、地位较高的人，以及太阳本性通常带来的一切时，就从太阳作年的释放；查问身体的危险、病苦与出血，或母亲时，从月亮；查问作为、生计与技艺时，从中天；查问好运与获取生计时，从福点；查问死亡、变动或困扰之事时，从下降之位；查问根基、产业、隐秘之事或死者之事时，从天底；查问妻子、纠葛、亲昵或女性的形象时，从金星；查问兵役或公共事务时，从火星；查问事务的动荡、获取、隐秘的病苦或来自父亲的遗产时，从土星；关于荣耀、友谊、推荐与获取，从木星；查问合伙、奴仆、身体之事、给予或接受，或文书时，从水星。这些适用于单一种类的交付或接受；但当两颗、三颗或更多行星恰在交出或接受时，就必须把每颗行星的力量与在场的行星一同判断。因为按每个本命原有的根基，吉星与凶星都会起作用；每颗星与为它作见证或与它成格局的行星有什么样总的格局，当它从那颗星接受时期或自己交出时期时，就会带来同样的事。

So that our transmission may be seen to be precise and more effective, we shall set out certain precepts and laws, by observing which we shall have the method easy to grasp. First, then, one must examine whether the transmission takes place from angular places to angular ones, or from the Good Daemon to the Lot or a productive place, so that what is signified may also be active or glorious; or else from the cadent places to the angles, or from the Bad Daemon to the Good Daemon. Productive and effective signs are the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Good Daemon, Good Fortune, the Lot of Fortune, the Daemon, Eros, and Necessity; middling are the god, the goddess, and the remaining two angles; moderate and harmful are the rest. According to the benefics or malefics that are upon the places or testify to them, the power of the places is weakened or becomes more effective; Bad Fortune, however, seems to be better than the Bad Daemon, in that it has a trine configuration to the Midheaven. If somehow in a nativity a single transmission is found, all the planets having happened to be in one sign, they will hand over by sign; and whatever the blending shows in general in the nativity, in that it will indeed share throughout [text uncertain]; but if 3 or 4 planets are found in one sign and one or two in another, the first, overcoming by degree, will allot the periods first; that is, the one that has the most degrees receives first, and then those that follow; and likewise those that receive. Though the division is varied, if one attends he will not go astray. For since the same transmissions are signified every twelve years, they will not hold the same efficacy of effects, but a different one. When in some cycle we find a transmission, either from one planet or from several, we examine in that year the counter-nativity and the entries of the planets, whether they have a configuration similar to that in the nativity, either toward the planets that hand over or toward those that receive, and whether they make the same phases toward the Sun. If we find it so, we declare the effect to be secure as well. But if it is alien and unlike, it is no longer complete; for some things happen in general, others by degree. For example, if someone is bringing down the general periods of Saturn and Jupiter when they are well placed, and it happens in this cycle that he brings down the same periods, he will inherit or will be benefited from matters of the dead. But if in the second or third cycle [lacuna] Saturn and Jupiter prevail over the year but are not placed so in general, he will not be an heir, but there will be a bequest and benefit through matters of the dead, or such expectations, or purchases of possessions, foundations, and other acquisition. Likewise the other effects too will be secure in the general periods according to the twelve-year cycle, but by no means later or earlier, unless the planets indicate the notions of the effects.

为了让我们的交付显得精确而更有效验，我们将列出一些准则与法则，遵守它们，我们就能容易地掌握这个方法。首先必须审视交付是否从居角的位置到居角的位置，或从善灵之位到福点或一个得力的位置，好让所象征的事也有作为或荣耀；或者从果宫的位置到四角，或从恶灵之位到善灵之位。得力而有效验的星座是上升、中天、善灵之位、好运之位、福点、精灵点、爱欲点与必然点；中等的是神之位、女神之位与其余两个角；平庸而有害的是其余的。按在那些位置上或为它们作见证的吉星或凶星，位置的力量会减弱或变得更有效验；不过厄运之位似乎比恶灵之位好，因为它与中天成三分的格局。若在某个本命中只发现一种交付，所有行星都恰在一个星座，它们就按星座交付；本命中混合总的显示什么，它在这一点上也确实会处处分享〔原文疑有讹误〕；但若有三四颗行星被发现在一个星座，一两颗在另一个星座，那么按度数胜出的第一颗将先分配时期；也就是说，度数最多的先接受，然后是后面的；接受的也一样。划分虽然多变，若留意就不会出错。因为既然每十二年象征同样的交付，它们不会有同样的效验，而是不同的。当我们在某一轮中发现一个交付，无论来自一颗行星还是几颗，我们就在那一年审视对照命盘与诸星的进入，看它们对交出的行星或接受的行星是否有与本命中相似的格局，对太阳是否形成同样的相态。若我们发现如此，就宣告这个效验也是稳固的。但若它是异己而不相似的，就不再完全；因为有些事总的发生，有些按度数发生。例如，若有人在土星与木星位置良好时正推它们的总时期，而在这一轮恰好又推同样的时期，他就会继承遗产，或从死者之事得益。但若在第二轮或第三轮〔此处原文有缺〕土星与木星主宰这一年，却在总的方面不是这样安置，他就不会是继承人，而会有遗赠与通过死者之事的得益，或这类期望，或购置产业、根基与其他获取。同样，其余的效验也会按十二年的循环在总的时期中稳固，但绝不会更晚或更早，除非诸星显示了效验的意向。

For example, let someone have married in the first cycle, when the nativity was bringing down year 34; for one must compare the effects according to the ages; in the next cycle he will take thought for a liaison, or another marriage, or whatever has to do with women. Another served in the army; when the same transmission occurs again, it will be effective for advancement, or change, or military activity. If, then, the general substance too happens to be one of advancement, he will advance especially at those times, if benefics hold sway; and if the nativity is great, he will also command, or be a procurator, or share in a rank of authority. The effects must be fitted to the sequence of the nativity. Another had a child at certain periods; when the same transmission occurs and his prime or age permits, he will again have a child, or make a purchase of slaves, or bring up some persons in the place of children, or take thought for the children of others. Another came into office and the leadership of crowds; when the same chronology occurs and the nativity has a good substance, he will take up great and distinguished offices, but if it is moderate, he will associate with such men or will have the display of office or of precedence. Likewise someone was under condemnation or confinement; when the same transmission occurs, if benefics testify, he will be released from the confinement or the charge, but if malefics, through some more villainous undertaking or an invidious accusation he will remain under the charge or fare even worse. And the remaining things too, whatever happens to be accomplished in life, will come about according to the transmissions, but differently because of the general chronologies, the counter-nativities, the entries and phases of the planets, and the configurations unlike with respect to each. For when the planets of the moment come by entry upon the planets that hand over or receive in the nativity, or upon the angles, they too share in the allotment from their own nature, and will make the effect good or bad, or more effective, or a hindrance. We shall judge it secure when the planet by entry has a harmonious configuration with the one that hands over, or the same planets that hand over [lacuna] a configuration with those that receive similar to that in the nativity. But if the periods signify one thing and the year and the entry another, there will be a middle course in what is accomplished. In general, every planet that is setting at the transmission or the reception becomes inactive and a hindrance; and if it is found to be a benefic, it provides only display; and if somehow the three releases of the Sun, the Moon, and the Ascendant signify unlike things, the year will be varied. Often, then, even when the transmission was not of the same sect, the general periods have announced great and distinguished effects; hence, taking the beginning from there, one must then proceed to the yearly periods.

例如，设某人在第一轮、本命正推第三十四年时结了婚；因为必须按年龄比较效验；在下一轮中，他会考虑一段私情，或另一次婚姻，或任何与女人有关的事。另一人服过兵役；当同样的交付再次发生时，它会对晋升、改变或军中的活动起作用。所以，若总的根基恰好也是晋升的，他尤其会在那些时候晋升，若吉星主宰的话；若本命宏大，他还会统兵，或做总管，或分享有权柄的品级。效验必须与本命的次序相合。另一人在某些时期生了孩子；当同样的交付发生，而他的盛年或年龄允许时，他会再生孩子，或购买奴仆，或抚养某些人代替孩子，或照顾别人的孩子。另一人就任官职、领导众人；当同样的年代推算发生而本命有好的根基时，他会担任重大而显赫的官职；但若是中等的，他会与这样的人交往，或有官职或优先的排场。同样，某人曾受定罪或拘禁；当同样的交付发生时，若吉星作见证，他会从拘禁或指控中获释；但若是凶星，由于某种更恶劣的营谋或招人嫉恨的控告，他会仍处在指控之下，或境况更糟。其余的事，凡生命中恰好完成的，也都会按交付而来，但因总的年代推算、对照命盘、诸星的进入与相态，以及对各自而言不相似的格局，结果会不同。因为当此时的诸星以进入来到本命中交出或接受的行星之上，或来到四角之上时，它们也按自己的本性分享分配，使效验变好或变坏，或更有效验，或成为阻碍。当以进入而来的行星与交出的行星有和谐的格局，或交出的那些行星〔此处原文有缺〕与接受的行星有与本命中相似的格局时，我们就判它为稳固的。但若时期象征一件事，而年与进入象征另一件事，所完成的事就会走中间的路。总的说，每颗在交付或接受时西沉的行星都变得无所作为而成为阻碍；若它被发现是吉星，就只提供排场；若太阳、月亮与上升点的三种释放象征不相似的事，这一年就会多变。所以，常常即使交付并非同一方的，总的时期也宣告了伟大而显赫的效验；因此，必须从那里取开端，然后再进到每年的时期。

Since some of the writers of treatises have hinted at the method set out here, while those who are going to read this composition of mine will remember that at the beginning no procedure had been worked out, it is necessary also to show the keys through which the transmission, becoming more effective according to the kind of effect, produces a wonderful outcome; if, then, one attends soberly in the transmissions to the places about to be described, through the theory of blending the efficacy of the planet and of the sign, he will remain without stumbling.

既然有些论著的作者暗示过这里所列的方法，而将要读我这部著作的人会记得，起初没有任何程序被推算出来，那么也就必须指出一些钥匙，通过它们，交付按效验的种类变得更有效验，产生奇妙的结果；所以，若有人在交付中清醒地留意将要描述的位置，借着混合行星与星座之效验的理论，他就不会失误。