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them, instantly bind the soul of him who names them in
the fetters of Gehenna, but we call upon them only to free
the sacred primordial element from its admixture of and
pollution by dust and earthly ashes; for that is the true
nature of gold, it is the original matter that was in the
beginning and gave light, before the sun and the moon had been
set in their appointed places in the vault of heaven.”
They talked thus at length about alchemy and other
occult arts, until Ulrik Frederik asked whether Burrhi had
been able to cast his horoscope by the aid of the paper he
had sent him through Ole Borch a few days earlier.
“In its larger aspects,” replied Burrhi, “I might
prognosticate your fate, but when the nativity is not cast in the
very hour a child is born, we fail to get all the more subtle
phenomena, and the result is but little to be depended upon.
Yet some things I know. Had you been of citizen birth and
in the position of a humble physician, then I should have
had but joyful tidings for you. As it is, your path through the
world is not so clear. Indeed, the custom is in many ways
to be deplored by which the son of an artisan becomes an
artisan, the merchant’s son a merchant, the farmer’s son a
farmer, and so on throughout all classes. The misfortune
of many men is due to nothing else but their following
another career than that which the stars in the ascendant at
the time of their birth would indicate. Thus if a man born
under the sign of the ram in the first section becomes a
soldier, success will never attend him, but wounds, slow
advancement, and early death will be his assured portion,
whereas, if he had chosen a handicraft, such as working in
stone or wrought metals, his course would have run smooth.
One who is born under the sign of the fishes, if in the first
section, should till the soil, or if he be a man of fortune,
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