♃ Jupiter
What Agrippa places under Jupiter, sorted as he sorted it. The words below are his.
Elements
Elements, are the Aire:
Humours
Humors, blood, and the spirit of life, also all things which respect the encrease [increase], nourishment, and vegetation of the life
Tastes
Tasts [tastes] such as are sweet, and pleasant
Metals
Metals, Tin, Silver, and Gold, by reason of their temperateness:
Stones
Stones, the Hyacinth, Beril [beryl], Saphir [sapphire], the Emrald [emerald], green Jasper, and aiery colours:
Plants and trees
Plants and Trees, Sea-green, Garden Basil, Bugloss, Mace, Spike, Mints, Mastick, Elicampane, the Violet, Darnell, Henbane, the Poplar tree, and those which are called lucky trees, as the Oke [oak], the tree æsculus [horse-chestnut] which is like an Oke [oak] but much bigger, the Holm tree, the Beech tree, the Hasle [hazel] tree, the Service tree, the white Fig tree, the Pear tree, the Apple tree, the Vine, the Plum tree, the Ash, the Dog-tree, and the Olive tree, and also Oile. Also all manner of Corn, as Barley, Wheat, also Raisins, Licorish [licorice], Sugar, and all such things whose sweetness is manifest, and subtile, partaking somewhat of an astringent, and sharp tast [taste], as are Nuts, Almonds, Pine-apples [pineapples], Filberds [filberts], Pistake Nuts [pistachios], roots of Peony, Mirabolaus, Rhubarb, and Manna, Orpheus adds Storax
Animals
Animals such as have some stateliness, and wisdom in them, and those which are mild, well trained up, and of good dispositions, as the Hart and Elephant, and those which are gentle, as Sheep and Lambs:
Birds
Birds, those that are of a temperate complexion, as Hens, together with the Yolk of their Eggs. Also the Partridge, the Pheasant, the Swallow, the Pellican [pelican], the Cuckow [cuckoo], the Stork, birds given to a kind of devotion which are Emblemes of gratitude. The Eagle is dedicated to Jupiter, she is the Ensigne of Emperours, and an Embleme of Justice, and Clemency
Fishes
Fish, the Dolphin, the fish called Anchia [anchovy], the Sheath fish, by reason of his devoutness
From Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book I, chapter 26 — “What things are under the power of Jupiter, and are called” — page 33 of the library’s copy.
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