ON THE SEVEN SECONDARY CAUSES

...the civil wars, which lasted for 40 years, greatly wore down the Romans. Three Suns appeared in Rome, and not for long, for they were soon reduced into one The appearance of "three suns" (parhelia or sun dogs) was a common celestial omen in ancient chronicles, here interpreted as a sign of the transition from the Triumvirate—a three-man rule—to the single rule of Augustus.. A few years later, Caius Julius Caesar seized the empire of the Romans, which Octavianus Augustus expanded after him, and he united Asia, Africa, and Europe into one Monarchy. Moreover, he ruled for 56 years, through whom God bestowed peace upon the entire world. In the year 751 from the founding of the city 751 AUC (Ab Urbe Condita). Medieval scholars often placed the birth of Christ around this year, which corresponds to roughly 3 or 2 BCE., in the 42nd year of Octavian Caesar Augustus, in the 248th year and 8th month of the prescribed reign of Orifiel, the spirit of Saturn, on the twenty-fifth day of the month of December,

JESUS CHRIST, the Son of God, was born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem of Judea. Note how beautiful is the arrangement of divine providence. For the world was first created under the governance of Orifiel Trithemius correlates the first age of the world (Creation) with Saturn/Orifiel, the spirit of time and foundations., and under his third reign, it was mercifully redeemed, restored, and renewed, so that such a great harmony of facts seems to provide no small degree of credibility to this description of the world's governance by the seven spirits of the planets. For in the first reign of Orifiel, there was one Monarchy of the whole world; under the second (as we said above), it was divided into many. Again, under the third, as is seen, it was called back into unity—though, if we measure correctly, it is also manifest that in the second reign of Orifiel there was one Monarchy of the whole world when the Tower of Babel Original: "Babylon." This refers to the biblical narrative of the Tower of Babel, when all humanity supposedly spoke one language and lived under one rule before being dispersed. was being built.

From this time the kingdom of the Jews was taken away, and the victims and the perpetual sacrifice The "continual burnt offering" (Tamid) in the Temple of Jerusalem. ceased, nor would liberty be restored to the Jews before the third revolution