Book IV.
Chapter XXIII.--Type of Those Born Under Sagittarius.
Those born in Sagittarius will be of the following description: great length, square forehead, profuse eyebrows, indicative of strength, well-arranged projection of hair, reddish (in complexion). The same by nature are gracious, as educated persons, simple, beneficent; given to unnatural lusts, companionable, toil-worn, lovers, beloved, jovial in their cups, clean, passionate, careless, wicked; as regards friendship, useless; scorners, with noble souls, insolent, crafty; for fellowship, useful.
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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.