卷六·序言；第一章　按度数的间隔与入相求时期

THE ANTHOLOGIES OF VETTIUS VALENS OF ANTIOCH, BOOK VI

安条克的维蒂乌斯·瓦伦斯《选集》第六卷

PREFACE.

序言。

Every science and art is pleasing according to the activity and understanding of the one who takes it up, or according to a bodily disposition that is suited or unsuited to that disposition. Hence many people blame and mock their neighbours because they have not shared in the same activity, although it is impossible and of no benefit for all to know the same things; but each, thinking that he possesses [text uncertain] his own particular good, happens to think, and seems to think, best. For often someone is found to be skilful and methodical in the undertakings of his affairs and successful, even if he happens to be unacquainted with letters; while the very well educated man is easily caught, as being inexperienced in sufferings, betrayed by his simplicity and his lack of management; and he, grieving, considers the pursuit of education vain and judges the ignorant man to be happy. These are the works of Fate and Fortune, who, coming upon men silently and unspeakably, make some blessed and others wretched, without reason and unfittingly. And so life, travelling through deception and villainy, increases some things, glorifies them, and leads them to prosperity and prominence, so that many become lovers of such things, while others it grieves, destroys, withers, and carries over into oblivion, danger, and hatred; and having turned some to the arts and sciences most hateful to them, it has fitted to them an unrepentant judgement, activity, and fortune. All these things are accomplished and come about with pleasure, harmony, and grief, according to the changes of the times and the cycles of the periods.

每一门学问与技艺之所以令人喜爱，是按照从事它的人的作为与悟性，或按照一种与那种禀性相合或不相合的身体禀赋。因此许多人责备并嘲笑邻人，因为邻人没有参与同样的作为，尽管所有人都知道同样的事既不可能，也无益处；而每个人以为自己拥有〔原文疑有讹误〕他自己特有的好处，恰好以为、也似乎以为是最好的。因为常常有人在事务的营谋上被发现灵巧而有条理、并且成功，即使他恰好不识字；而受过极好教育的人却容易被逮住，因为他没经历过苦难，被自己的单纯与不善经营所出卖；于是他悲伤，认为求学之事是徒劳的，并判定那无知的人是幸福的。这些是命运与幸运的作为，她们无声而不可言喻地降临到人身上，使一些人蒙福、另一些人可怜，毫无道理、也不相称。于是人生穿行于欺骗与恶行之中，使一些事物增长、得荣耀，把它们引向兴旺与显赫，以致许多人成了这类事物的爱好者；对另一些人，它使之悲伤、毁灭、枯萎，并把他们带入遗忘、危险与憎恨之中；它又把一些人转向他们最憎恶的技艺与学问，给他们配上一种不知悔改的判断、作为与幸运。这一切都随着时势的变化与时期的循环，伴着欢乐、和谐与悲伤而完成、而发生。

I have written this preface, then, priding myself on the heavenly theory poured upon me by the daemon, which is now dishonoured and driven away, though it is older and governs all things in life, without which nothing is or will be; and once it seemed to have a name that excited envy, when those before us boasted of it and were deemed blessed. I am grieved, then, and I envy the ancient kings and tyrants who were devoted to such matters, since I was not fortunate enough to live in the same times as those who possessed the aether and the inquiry freely and without envy. For they pressed on to such a degree of desire and virtue that, leaving behind the things on earth, they walked in heaven with immortal souls and set themselves to divine and sacred judgements, as Nechepso too testified, saying: "It seemed to me that all night long toward the air [lacuna] and a cry from heaven rang out to me, whose flesh was wrapped about with a dark-hued robe, holding out darkness," and so on. For who would not judge this theory to surpass all others and to be the most blessed, in which the ordered courses of the Sun, entering upon the turnings by the addition and subtraction of numbers, signify in advance the changes of the seasons, risings and settings, days and nights, the cold and heat of the seasons, the good temperings of the air; and further, one can see the irregular courses of Mene, her inclinations and retreats, her increases and decreases, her height and depth, the motions of the winds, applications and separations, eclipses and shadowings, and all the rest? From these, it seems, are constituted the things on earth, in the sea, and in heaven, and the beginning and end of all that is born. And the courses [text uncertain] of the other five planets, their unstable movements and their varied phases: although they are irregular and are called wanderers, they possess a fixed nature and through ordered cycles and periods return to the same places.

所以，我写这篇序言，是以那由精灵倾注给我的天上理论为傲；这理论如今受了轻慢、被驱逐，尽管它更古老、统辖着人生中的一切，没有它，什么都不存在，也不会存在；它一度似乎有一个令人嫉羡的名声，那时我们的前人以它自夸，被认为是有福的。所以我悲伤，我羡慕那些致力于这类事的古代君王与僭主，因为我没有幸运生在与他们同样的时代，他们自由而无所嫉妒地拥有以太与探究。因为他们怀着如此的渴望与美德向前，以致离开地上的事物，以不朽的灵魂行走在天上，致力于神圣而神秘的判断，正如内切普索也证明过，他说：「我觉得整夜朝着空中〔此处原文有缺〕，有一个声音从天上向我响起，那声音的肉身裹着一件深色的袍子，伸出黑暗」，等等。因为谁不会判定这理论超越其余一切、是最有福的？在其中，太阳有序的行程借数目的加减进入回归点，预先象征季节的变化、升起与沉落、白昼与黑夜、季节的冷与热、空气的良好调和；而且人还能看到墨涅不规则的行程，她的倾斜与退缩，她的盈与亏，她的高与低，风的运动，入相与离相，交食与遮蔽，以及其余一切？由这些，似乎构成了地上、海里与天上的事物，以及一切所生之物的开始与终结。其他五颗行星的行程〔原文疑有讹误〕，它们不稳定的运动与多样的相态：虽然它们不规则、被称为游星，却具有固定的本性，经由有序的循环与周期回到同样的位置。

At present, however, the tracking out and setting right of affairs are dimmed and wither in advance through fear, and the mind, refusing and being unsteady in its reasoning, does not remain with the same things, but, leaping now here, now there, takes up again its former forgetfulness. And one who is of good purpose and a lover of the beautiful easily takes up hesitation and chooses ignorance rather than dangerous virtue; but nevertheless in all men desire prevails and, even when chastised and grieved, remains with the same things. As for me, neither the varied races of horses and the swift stroke of the whip have given me wings, nor have the rhythms of dancers and pipes, and the vain charm of the Muse and of effeminate song delighted me, nor whatever at times draws in the listeners by trickery or mockery; nor indeed have I shared in harmful or profitable activities divided between pleasure and grief, nor have I had loathsome and burdensome [lacuna]; but having engaged with the divine and venerable theory of the heavenly things, I wished to purify my character of all wickedness and every defilement and to leave my soul immortal. Hence the divine seemed to converse with me, and I acquired a mind sober for the inquiry. Since, then, I have composed many marvellous things that can persuade those who engage with them, beyond the ancients, and considering that the ancients set out many methods that were hard to solve and enigmatic, I have of necessity set out first in this treatise secret and ineffable methods concerning active periods and concerning what will be. For in this way the science, appearing easy to grasp and supported by the truth, will drive away hatred, and, having shown much change of mind, will be proclaimed sacred and venerable. And if it seems that the same things are often spoken of, it makes no difference; for some things I composed while engaging with what had come before, because of the suddenness of desire and discovery (for the writer is inspired, especially concerning these matters, and seems to converse with god), and others deliberately, so that if any envy should run up and damage our treatises, they may be found written in other places too.

然而如今，对事务的追索与匡正，因恐惧而预先变得暗淡、枯萎；心智推拒，在推理上不稳，不停留在同样的事上，而是一会儿跳到这里，一会儿跳到那里，重又拾起先前的遗忘。一个心意良善、爱好美的人，容易拾起犹豫，宁可选择无知而不选择危险的美德；然而在所有人身上，渴望总占上风，即使受了责罚与悲伤，仍停留在同样的事上。至于我，既没有多样的赛马与鞭子的疾击给我插上翅膀，也没有舞者与笛子的节奏、缪斯虚妄的魅力与柔靡的歌曲使我欢喜，也没有那些有时以诡计或嘲弄吸引听众的东西；我也没有参与那些分属欢乐与悲伤的有害或有利的作为，也没有可憎而沉重的〔此处原文有缺〕；而是从事天上之事神圣而可敬的理论，我愿使我的品性洁净，脱离一切恶与一切污秽，并使我的灵魂不朽。因此神圣者似乎与我交谈，我也获得了一颗清醒于探究的心。所以，既然我已写出许多奇妙的、能说服从事者的东西，超过古人，又考虑到古人列出了许多难解而如谜的方法，我就必然在这篇论著里首先列出关于有作为的时期与将来之事的秘密而不可言说的方法。因为这样，这门学问显得容易把握、有真理支撑，就会驱走憎恶，并在显出人心的大转变之后，被宣告为神圣可敬。若似乎同样的事常被说到，也无妨；因为有些我是在研习前人所述时，由于渴望与发现的突然而写下的（因为写作者是受了灵感的，尤其在这些事上，似乎在与神交谈），另一些则是有意的，好让若有什么嫉妒跑来损坏我们的论著，它们在别处也能被找到写着。

I. On Active and Inactive Periods according to the Interval by Degree and the Application of the Periods.

第一章　按度数的间隔与时期的入相，论有作为与无作为的时期。

The division of the periods according to the forecast of effects by sign and in the broad manner has been shown by us in what precedes; but now we must speak of the interval by degree and of application, which I hinted at before; and experience has led me on to make it clear in addition. In every nativity, having placed the planets precisely, one must take the period by degree, from the treatise of the perpetual tables, from the degrees of each planet to whichever one wishes, whether it is near or far, according to the succeeding time and the order of the signs, up to the meeting by degree with another planet; and having added up the number of the degrees, one must arrange them into the periodic hours and days, months, and years of each planet, and, according to the period completed, foretell the effects of the planets, both from their own natural activity and from the forecast of effects of the transmissions to each. And if the number collected is less than the period, one must examine how much the remainder is and foretell that the effect will come about after so much time; but if it exceeds, one must subtract the total and again count off the remainder from the releasing degree and examine whether the rays of any planets incline toward the degree, either natally or by entry; for in this way exceptional and great effects usually come about.

按星座、按粗略方式预言效验的时期划分，我们在前面已经说明了；但现在必须讲按度数的间隔与入相，这是我先前暗示过的；经验也引导我进一步把它讲清楚。在每一个本命中，精确地排好诸星之后，必须从永久表的论著中，按度数取时期：从每一颗行星的度数，到人想要的任何一颗，不论近远，按后续的时间与星座的次序，直到与另一颗行星按度数相遇为止；把度数的数目加起来之后，必须把它们排进每颗行星周期性的时、日、月、年之中，并按已完成的时期，预言诸星的效验，既按它们自身的自然作为，也按交给每一颗的交付的效验之说。若所积的数目小于时期，就必须审视余下的有多少，预言效验将在那么多时间之后发生；若超过，就必须减去整数，再从释放度起数去余下的，审视是否有某些行星的光线倾向这一度，或在本命中，或以进入；因为这样通常会发生非常而重大的效验。

For often, when the broad division shows nothing, [one must] also, after the total, bring down the remaining period into a smaller number of months and days, and, fitting the totals by cycle, count off up to the period sought; besides, the varied releasings and adhesions of the benefics and the malefics reveal varied, successive, and easily changed effects. For one can see many who in one period experienced many affairs, the releasings having fallen together all at once, or having been productive according to the harmony of the periods sought; others had no change at all of good or bad but remained in the same state; some, having been glorified or having advanced to unsurpassable fortune according to their original foundation, and having been deemed blessed by many, fell into death or danger; others, having come into a harsh circumstance of the time, or having failed in their livelihood and expecting no good hope but grieving in vain, ran back again to the same fortunes or even acquired a greater show. For sometimes a transmission falling in with an eclipse and showing a great threat has been dimmed by the period, in harmony with it, of another, beneficent transmission. Likewise the transmission of the benefics too is hindered by another, injurious cause; and the total numbers by degree remain the same from the beginning and are counted off in cycles as far as the period sought extends. In the case of the releasings of action and of the year, the divisions fall together into the same places or planets according to certain harmonious numbers and reveal in advance the meanings of the effects; but in this method, blended now in one way, now in another, according to the progression of the periods, it alters affairs and becomes the cause of good or bad things. One must, then, pay sober attention to the numbers and examine the angles, the succedent and the cadent places, and the signs, whether they have been made familiar by the presence of the planets, and the risings and settings, the sects, and the rest, as many as have been shown in the books composed before, so that we may not talk at length; for I have not composed these discourses for the ignorant or the uninitiated. One must also examine the entries at the moment; for they contribute much to overturning and to setting right affairs, especially when, by co-presence, testimony, or opposition, they enter upon the productive places or regard the master of the periods.

因为常常，当粗略的划分什么也显不出时，〔必须〕也在整数之后，把余下的时期推到较小的月数与日数，并按循环配合各个整数，一直数到所求的时期；此外，吉星与凶星多样的释放与黏附，显出多样、相继而容易变化的效验。因为可以看到许多人在一个时期里经历了许多事务，诸释放一下子同时落入，或按所求诸时期的和谐而得力；另一些人在好坏上毫无变化，停在同样的状态；有些人按他们本来的根基得了荣耀，或进到无可超越的幸运，被许多人认为有福，却落入死亡或危险；另一些人来到时势的严酷境况，或在生计上失败，不期待任何好的希望而徒然悲伤，却又跑回到同样的幸运，甚至获得更大的体面。因为有时一个交付与交食同落、显出很大的威胁，却被另一个与它和谐的施恩交付的时期弄得暗淡了。同样，吉星的交付也会被另一个有害的原因阻碍；而按度数的总数从一开始就保持不变，按循环一直数到所求时期所及之处。在作为与年份的释放中，诸划分按某些和谐的数落入同样的位置或行星，预先显出效验的意义；但在这个方法中，它按时期的推进，一会儿这样、一会儿那样地混合，改变事务，成为好事或坏事的原因。所以必须清醒地留意这些数目，审视角宫、续宫与果宫，审视诸星座是否因行星在场而被弄得亲和，以及升起与沉落、诸方，以及其余一切，凡在先前写成的书里已经说明过的，免得我们说得太长；因为这些论述我不是为无知或未入门的人写的。也必须审视此刻的进入；因为它们对倾覆与匡正事务贡献很多，尤其当它们以同在、见证或对冲进入得力的位置，或注视时期之主时。

Nor must one reckon only the very degree on which the matter of the application has arrived, but also the other 3 on either side [text uncertain], as has been shown by us in what precedes. For from these the period will also be evident, whether it anticipates the effect or lingers on, just as in the case of eclipses one can see the time of their duration or of their clearing away. And one must examine whether the planet that transmits regards the one that receives in a familiar and productive way. The arrival of the application indicates what comes about for a short time, but it will persist until another, intervening, breaks the power of the former; and it allots to each of the planets its appointed period. For example, the Sun allots by sign 19 months, by degree 19 days. To the Moon is assigned also the monthly cycle, but naturally by sign 2 years 1 month, by degree 25 days; Saturn allots by sign 2 years 6 months, by degree 30 days. Jupiter by sign 1 year, by degree 12 days; Mars allots by sign 15 months, by degree 15 days; Venus by sign 8 months, by degree 8 days. Mercury by sign 20 months, by degree 20 days. And in this way the zodiac is brought to its end according to the period and cycle of each planet. Whenever, then, one makes a releasing from some planet to some planet, let him write down the numbers separately and which planet is toward which; for the numbers are not the same, nor are the powers of those that transmit and those that receive. For example, if one finds a transmission from Jupiter to Mars or from Mars to Jupiter, neither will the numbers of the periods be the same, because of the periods, nor the same effect; for it is better for Mars to transmit the period to Jupiter than Jupiter to Mars. When, however, the releasings of all the planets toward one another have been written down, one must compare them and foretell the effect, whether those of the malefics predominate or those of the benefics.

也不应只计算入相之事所到达的那一度本身，还要计算两边各另外三度〔原文疑有讹误〕，正如我们在前面已说明的。因为从这些度数，时期也会显明，是预先到来还是拖延效验，正如在交食的情形中，可以看到它们持续或消散的时间。还必须审视交付的星是否以亲和而得力的方式注视接受的星。入相的到达显示在短时间内发生的事，但它会持续，直到另一个插进来，打破前者的力量；它给每颗行星分配指定给它的时期。例如，太阳按星座分配十九个月，按度数分配十九日。月亮也被配上每月的循环，但按自然，按星座是二年一个月，按度数是二十五日；土星按星座分配二年六个月，按度数三十日。木星按星座一年，按度数十二日；火星按星座分配十五个月，按度数十五日；金星按星座八个月，按度数八日。水星按星座二十个月，按度数二十日。就这样，黄道按每颗行星的周期与循环走到尽头。所以，每当人从某颗行星向某颗行星作释放时，就让他分别写下数目，以及哪颗星向哪颗星；因为交付者与接受者的数目并不相同，力量也不相同。例如，若人发现从木星到火星或从火星到木星的交付，时期的数目因周期不同而不会相同，效验也不会相同；因为火星把时期交给木星，比木星交给火星好。然而，当所有行星彼此之间的释放都写下之后，就必须比较它们，并预言效验：是凶星的占多数，还是吉星的。

But someone will say: in the case of twin brothers the periods will be the same, since the same planets fall in the same degrees. But in such cases the Ascendant alone, having changed, has altered the angles and the fortune and condition of the native, and sometimes has even brought on the end. From these considerations one must reckon the choices both with respect to the arrangements of the angles and with respect to the testimonies to one another, even if they do not happen to be angular with respect to the cosmos; and besides, whether, at the degree on which it has arrived, a planet has the one overcoming or testifying to it at an angular interval, for example whether, when that degree is in the Ascendant, the degree of the other can be in the Midheaven according to the difference of the signs, or conversely in relation to another angle; for in this way the testimony will be strong.

但有人会说：在双生兄弟的情形中，时期会是一样的，因为同样的行星落在同样的度数上。但在这样的情形中，只有上升点变了，就改变了诸角，以及本命者的幸运与境况，有时甚至带来终结。由这些考虑，必须按诸角的排列、也按彼此之间的见证来推算这些选法，即使它们相对于宇宙并不恰好居角；此外还要看，在某颗行星到达的那一度上，它是否有压制它或见证它的星，在居角的间距上，例如当那一度在上升时，另一颗的度数能否按星座之差在中天，或反过来对另一个角；因为这样，见证就会有力。

One might liken this method to the testimony of the white and black pieces; for life is a game, a deception, and a festival. For certain contentious men, contriving cunning tricks against one another, moving the pieces along many lines, set them down in certain squares, challenging them to fight in front. And as long as the place is unobstructed, the piece moves unhindered according to the will of the one who moves it, and flees and stays, pursues and is drawn up opposite, and wins and is beaten in turn; but when it is hemmed in by its opponents in the manner of a net, having its lines without outlet and being caught in between, it is lost. And so each of the two brings about, the one pleasure and delight, the other mockery and grief that does not last; for the one who has suffered the distress, having before long taken up joy again by some method, hands back the weight of grief in turn to the one who had handed it over. Let the same be understood also of the power of the planets. For as long as a benefic holds sway over the periods with no malefic carried along beside it, being active, healthy, well provided, and successful, it proclaims the sufferer fortunate, confident, and intelligent, even if he happens to be without education; and, though not worthy of the good fortune poured upon him by the time, priding himself and exulting in what he possesses and not considering the changes of the times, he sends painful griefs upon many. But when a malefic in turn holds the period, being inactive, sickly, hard to combat, and full of adversities, so that in addition to his evils the sufferer is proclaimed feeble, timid, and villainous, even if he is worthy, and, shaping his hopes into despair because of the badness of the times, he is drawn back by reasoning toward the unexpected turns of Fortune and becomes noble and easily consoled. And when afflicted benefics hold sway over the periods, things will turn out both ways: harm with benefit, with glory public disgrace, overthrow, accusations, precarious fears, illnesses easily cured; hence the sufferers, mixed with pleasure and grief, go on having neither the bad nor the good in full.

人可以把这个方法比作白子与黑子的见证；因为人生是一场游戏、一场欺骗、一场节庆。因为某些好争的人，彼此设计狡诈的诡计，把棋子沿许多条线移动，放进某些方格里，挑它们在前面交战。只要那个位置没有阻挡，棋子就照移动者的意愿无阻地走，逃跑与停留，追赶与对阵，轮流胜与负；但当它像被网一样被对手围住，它的线路没有出口、被夹在中间时，它就输掉了。于是二人中各自带来一种：一个是欢乐与愉悦，另一个是嘲弄与不持久的悲伤；因为受了苦恼的那一个，不久就借某种方法重拾欢乐，把悲伤的重担轮流交还给那个曾交给他的人。对诸星的力量也应这样理解。因为只要一颗吉星掌管时期，旁边没有凶星同行，它作为、健康、供应充足、成功，就宣告受者幸运、自信、聪明，即使他恰好没受过教育；而他虽不配那时期倾注给他的好运，却自傲、为所拥有的而欢跃，不思量时势的变化，把痛苦的悲伤加在许多人身上。但当轮到一颗凶星掌管时期，它无所作为、多病、难以抗衡、充满逆境，以致受者在他的恶事之外还被宣告为软弱、怯懦、卑劣，即使他是配得的；他因时势之坏而把希望塑成绝望，却被推理拉回到幸运意外的转折上，变得高贵而易于宽慰。当受了伤害的吉星掌管时期时，事情会两边都有：伤害伴着益处，荣耀伴着公开的羞辱、倾覆、控告、不稳的恐惧、容易治好的疾病；因此受者混合着欢乐与悲伤，好坏都得不全。

One must compare the powers of the transmissions, which of them is stronger; for if that of the malefics is, the natives, failing of the good things they expected and having been beguiled by empty hopes, will take up painful griefs; but if that of the benefics is, they will come through with delay, hardship, adversities, and expenses, or else, with fears and deadly dangers, having escaped injuries, afflictions, and injurious causes, and considering this very thing a good gain, they will endure the punishment by compulsion. Let the complete manner of the transmissions be understood according to the substance of the nativity and according to the division of the general periods, as has been shown in what preceded; and one must examine whether the nativity is of a notable person, or of a middling one, or of one rising [text uncertain] to height, or of one being overthrown, or liable to lawsuits, and the rest; for the planets take on such power in the cycles of the periods as the foundation indicates.

必须比较诸交付的力量，哪一个较强；因为若凶星的较强，本命者就会落空所期待的好事，被空洞的希望所诱骗，承受痛苦的悲伤；但若吉星的较强，他们会带着拖延、艰辛、逆境与开销而挺过去，或者带着恐惧与致命的危险，逃过伤损、病患与有害的原因，并把这本身当作好的收获，在强迫下忍受惩罚。交付的完整方式，应按本命的根基、按总的时期的划分来理解，正如前面已说明的；也必须审视这本命是显要人物的，还是中等人物的，还是正升〔原文疑有讹误〕向高处的，还是正被倾覆的，或易惹诉讼的，以及其余；因为诸星在时期的循环中取得的力量，正如根基所显示的那样。

The intervals at a distance, however, have a slower forecast of effects, while those nearby have a swift one. Some, accompanying the period, always bring about the like according to the transmission of the benefic or the malefic; having been productive for a short time, they have indicated advancement, trust, benefit, blessedness, and benefaction, and honour; but when the interval increased, and another malefic received the period in turn, it has gone on, through accusation and envy, to overthrow, dishonour, and misfortune, or even to sudden danger. Sometimes, in certain cases, having run together for a long time, when a benefic again received, it has brought about a restoration of fortune and rank. One must also compare the arrivals with the degree of the Ascendant; for from these the climacteric periods, those of sickness, of injury, and of danger are grasped, and besides, the healthy, pleasant, lovely, and agreeable periods, according to the presence of the benefics and the malefics. For in this way the soul, being untroubled and strong, seems to think and do what is fitting, extends itself to many things, becomes beneficent, and is well spoken of and deemed blessed, and the body too is comforted. From these I suppose that men are, in general, good and wicked according to the time, which the natural philosophers keep as their original judgement. But whenever the soul is afflicted, being ensnared it becomes senseless; for even if it is understood to be much hated, villainous, and wicked, and frenzied, thinking contrary things, so as even to contrive something dangerous against itself, and being so weighed down, not enduring to the end the period of life that is adverse to it, being disgraced by the distress, it separates from the body and travels with the daemon that compelled it, carried wherever he wishes.

然而相距远的间隔，效验之说来得较慢，相距近的则来得快。有些伴随着时期，总按吉星或凶星的交付带来相似的事；它们得力一短段时间，显示了晋升、信任、益处、福分与恩惠，以及荣誉；但间隔增大，另一颗凶星轮流接受时期时，就经由控告与嫉妒，走向倾覆、耻辱与不幸，甚至突然的危险。有时在某些情形中，长时间一同走下去，当一颗吉星又接受时，就带来幸运与品级的复原。也必须把诸到达与上升点的度数比较；因为从这些可以把握关口的时期、疾病的、伤损的与危险的时期，此外还有健康的、愉快的、可爱的与惬意的时期，按吉星与凶星的在场而定。因为这样，灵魂不受扰乱而强健，似乎想着、做着合宜的事，伸展到许多事上，成为施恩者，被人称道、被认为有福，身体也得到慰藉。由这些，我推想人大体上是按时期而为善或为恶的，自然哲学家把这当作他们原初的判断。但每当灵魂受了伤害，被诱捕之后它就变得失去理智；因为即使它被认为极受憎恶、卑劣而邪恶、疯狂，想着相反的事，以致甚至设计对自己有危险的事，而且如此被压垮，不能忍到底那与它作对的寿命时期，因苦恼而蒙羞，它就与身体分离，随同那强迫它的精灵而行，被带到他想去的任何地方。