Book IV.
Chapter XXII.--Type of Those Born Under Scorpio.
Those born in Scorpio are of the following description: a maidenish countenance, comely, pungent, blackish hair, well-shaped eyes, forehead not broad, and sharp nostril, small contracted ears, wrinkled foreheads, narrow eyebrows, drawn cheeks. The same by nature are crafty, sedulous, liars, communicating their particular designs to no one, of a deceitful spirit, wicked, scorners, victims to adultery, well-grown, docile; as regards friendship, useless.
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- The Refutation of All Heresies.
- Book I.
- Book IV.
- Chapter I.--System of the Astrologers; Sidereal Influence; Configuration of the Stars.
- Chapter II.--Doctrines Concerning Aeons; The Chaldean Astrology; Heresy Derivable from It.
- Chapter III.--The Horoscope the Foundation of Astrology; Indiscoverability of the Horoscope; Therefore the Futility of the Chaldean Art.
- Chapter IV.--Impossibility of Fixing the Horoscope; Failure of an Attempt to Do This at the Period of Birth.
- Chapter V.--Another Method of Fixing the Horoscope at Birth; Equally Futile; Use of the Clepsydra in Astrology; The Predictions of the Chaldeans Not Verified.
- Chapter VI.--Zodiacal Influence; Origin of Sidereal Names.
- Chapter VII.--Practical Absurdity of the Chaldaic Art; Development of the Art.
- Chapter VIII.--Prodigies of the Astrologers; System of the Astronomers; Chaldean Doctrine of Circles; Distances of the Heavenly Bodies.
- Chapter IX.--Further Astronomic Calculations.
- Chapter X.--Theory of Stellar Motion and Distance in Accordance with Harmony.
- Chapter XI.--Theory of the Size of the Heavenly Bodies in Accordance with Numerical Harmonies.
- Chapter XII.--Waste of Mental Energy in the Systems of the Astrologers.
- Chapter XIII.--Mention of the Heretic Colarbasus; Alliance Between Heresy and the Pythagorean Philosophy.
- Chapter XIV.--System of the Arithmeticians; Predictions Through Calculations; Numerical Roots; Transference of These Doctrines to Letters; Examples in Particular Names; Different Methods of Calculation; Prescience Possible by These.
- Chapter XV.--Quibbles of the Numerical Theorists; The Art of the Frontispicists (Physiognomy); Connection of This Art with Astrology; Type of Those Born Under Aries.
- Chapter XVI.--Type of Those Born Under Taurus.
- Chapter XVII.--Type of Those Born Under Gemini.
- Chapter XVIII.--Type of Those Born Under Cancer.
- Chapter XIX.--Type of Those Born Under Leo.
- Chapter XX.--Type of Those Born Under Virgo.
- Chapter XXI.--Type of Those Born Under Libra.
- Chapter XXII.--Type of Those Born Under Scorpio.
- Chapter XXIII.--Type of Those Born Under Sagittarius.
- Chapter XXIV.--Type of Those Born Under Capricorn.
- Chapter XXV.--Type of Those Born Under Aquarius.
- Chapter XXVI.--Type of Those Born Under Pisces.
- Chapter XXVII.--Futility of This Theory of Stellar Influence.
- Chapter XXVIII. --System of the Magicians; Incantations of Demons; Secret Magical Rites.
- Chapter XXIX.--Display of Different Eggs.
- Chapter XXX.--Self-Slaughter of Sheep.
- Chapter XXXI.--Method of Poisoning Goats.
- Chapter XXXII.--Imitations of Thunder, and Other Illusions.
- Chapter XXXIII.--The Burning Aesculapius; Tricks with Fire.
- Chapter XXXIV.--The Illusion of the Sealed Letters; Object in Detailing These Juggleries.
- Chapter XXXV.--The Divination by a Cauldron; Illusion of Fiery Demons; Specimen of a Magical Invocation.
- Chapter XXXVI.--Mode of Managing an Apparition.
- Chapter XXXVII.--Illusive Appearance of the Moon.
- Chapter XXXVIII.--Illusive Appearance of the Stars.
- Chapter XXXIX.--Imitation of an Earthquake.
- Chapter XL.--Trick with the Liver.
- Chapter XLI.--Making a Skull Speak.
- Chapter XLII.--The Fraud of the Foregoing Practices; Their Connection with Heresy.
- Chapter XLIII.--Recapitulation of Theologies and Cosmogonies; System of the Persians; Of the Babylonians; The Egyptian Notion of Deity; Their Theology Based on a Theory of Numbers; Their System of Cosmogony.
- Chapter XLIV.--Egyptian Theory of Nature; Their Amulets.
- Chapter XLV.--Use of the Foregoing Discussions.
- Chapter XLVI.--The Astrotheosophists; Aratus Imitated by the Heresiarchs; His System of the Disposition of the Stars.
- Chapter XLVII.--Opinions of the Heretics Borrowed from Aratus.
- Chapter XLVIII.--Invention of the Lyre; Allegorizing the Appearance and Position of the Stars; Origin of the Phoenicians; The Logos Identified by Aratus with the Constellation Canis; Influence of Canis on Fertility and Life Generally.
- Chapter XLIX.--Symbol of the Creature; And of Spirit; And of the Different Orders of Animals.
- Chapter L.--Folly of Astrology.
- Chapter LI.--The Hebdomadarii; System of the Arithmeticians; Pressed into the Service of Heresy; Instances Of, in Simon and Valentinus; The Nature of the Universe Deducible from the Physiology of the Brain.
- Book V.
- Book VI.
- Book VII.
- Book VIII.
- Book IX.
- Book X.