ON THE UNIVERSE

ninety degrees, except for those who live directly under the poles, for whom the Horizon and the equator always coincide. Under the oblique orb, the seven planets are carried in such a way that the year is divided by it into twelve signs or months. The first sign, therefore, is at the vernal equinox. The second, after 30 degrees have passed. And so, with 30 degrees assigned to each sign or month, the 360 degrees are completed. I would like, however, for all twelve to be called by the numbers or the months that are in the sacred books, because there are 12 various influences of heaven, to each of which individual intelligences preside. The name should remain for the tenth month, January, from Janus a Roman god, often associated with doorways and beginnings, who is also Noah, because the whole world of earthly nature, and especially the human race, owes to that same Noah, after God, what remains from the waters of the Deluge the Flood. We can