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allsoalso Mu=sickeMusic, whether vocallvocal, or instrumentallinstrumental: herein the ancient Philosophers - did soeso exercise themselves, that heehe was reputed unlearned, and forcdforced to sing to the Myrtle, who refused the Harp in festivallsfestivals, as is declared of Themistocles: in MusickeMusic was Socrates instructed, and Plato himselfehimself, who concluded him not harmoniously compounded, that delighted not in MusicallMusical harmony: Pythagoras was very famous in the same, who is saydsaid to have used the symphony of musickemusic morning, and evening to compose the minds of his disciples: for this is a peculiar virtue of MusickeMusic, to quicken or refresh the affections by the different musicallmusical measures: SoeSo the Phrygian tune was - by the GræksGreeks termed warrlikewarlike, because it was sung in warrewar, and upon en=gagement, and had a singular virtue in stirring up the Spirits of the - Soldiers; instead of which the JonickeIonic is sometimes used for the same pur=pose, which was formerly esteemed
It appears that we are still in the period where all intellectual arts—music, mathematics, war tactics, etc—are expressions of one and the same phenomenon of the mind, and work off of each other, than the artificial separations of Chemistry and other disciplines we see later.
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A WolfeWolf coming from the East, and a DoggeDog from the West werry'dwerried one another.
This artists has never seen a wolf before lmao
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, because fires meeting together doedo one destroy the other.
guess you CAN fight fire with fire
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But the wolfewolf recovering strength afterwards overthrowesoverthrows the doggedog, and be=ing cast downedown never leaves him till heehe be utterly killdkilled and dead; - In the meanemean time receiving from the doggedog noeno lesseless wounds nor lesseless mortallmortal, than heehe gave him, till they werry one another to death:
Dog is domesticated/merciful but has breeding that makes it superior to the wolf in some way, both strengths and weaknesses lead to deaths of both. Likewise acidic concoctions are usually destroyed or transformed by alkaline mixtures, but itself transforms the other
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wolfewolf and doggedog
"Domesticated"/Stable vs "Wild"/Unstable elements?
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AvicenneAvicenna saythsays they lyelie in - dung neglected and rejected by the vulgar, which, if they be joyndjoined together, are able to complete the Magistery
Arabic writings finally reincorporated into European knowledge and discourse by 1618 after humanist rejection
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But - saythsays Count Bernhard in his Epistle, I tell you truelytruly, that noeno water dissolves a metallickemetallic species by naturallnatural reduction, except that which continues with - it in matter and formeform, and which the metallsmetals themselves can recongealerecongeal:
Beginning of understanding stable vs unstable elements, based on electrons later on. At least there's some Chymystry here
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if it be not suppositious
Oh yeah, this book is very good at not supposing things. Glad to see the extreme dedication and care made to fact checks
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What wonder therefore, if the Philosophers would have their dragon shuttshut up in a cavernecavern with a - woman?
As odd as this all is, it does capture the Aristotelean idea of observing nature in its "natural state," i.e. Don't put a cat into water to see how it will act, same with Dragons and women I suppose?
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then will Pluto blow a - blast, and draw a volatile fiery spirit out of the cold dragon, which with its great heat will burneburn the Eagles feathers, and excite such a sudorifickesudorific bath, as to melt the Snow at the top of the mountains, - and turn it into water;
Let him cook?
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first whereof is evident in coḿoncommon Mercury, the other in the PhilosophicallPhilosophical and fixed metallsmetals: in these the fixed Elements doedo prædominatepredominate over the volatile,
Mercury the element crossed with Mercury the God
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Argent vive, as Lully in his bookebook, Chapt 32 attests, and alleall the -* *Lully there. The wind carryescarries - him in his belly, that is, Sulphur is carrydcarried in ☿. and Chap. 47. The Stone is fire -carrydcarried in the belly -of aire. . . . . rest; physically, it is an infant, which ought in a little time to be borneborn into the world: I say allsoalso Arithmetically, that it is the root of a Cube; Musically, that it is the Disdiapason; Geometrically, that it is a punctum the beginingbeginning of a running line; Astronomically, the center of the planets, SaturneSaturn, Jupiter, and Mars:
Later Renaissance man, combining disciplines and allegories into one, though seemingly without purpose
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(which are nothing elselse but aireair moved)
Air identified as a physical substance that can pushed, perhaps he will figure out that there are solids within it?
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Hermes the most industrious inquisitor into every naturallnatural secret doth in his Smaragdine table elegantly, though concisely, describe the naturallenatural - workework, where amongst other things heehe s
lol read this in the diplomatic English setting, feels way more period accurate and its not like the book was going to be understandable anyways
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bsence (as day on the - contrary is the irradiation and circumfusion) of the Solar light
Interesting understanding of light being the expression of something present, whereas dark is a lack of something. I guess the concentrated source of the sun makes that distinction easy
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I answer, Latona must be first sought out and knowneknown, which though SheeShe be taken out of a vile place, must not=withstanding be sublimed to a more worthy, but if SheeShe be taken out of a more worthy place, SheeShe must be thrownethrown into a place more vile, - namely into dung: for there will SheeShe become truely white, and be - made white lead, which being had, there is noeno need to doubt of suc=cessesuccess, or red lead, which is the beginingbeginning and end of the workework . . .
Seems pre-hegelian, that philosophical thought on its own, no matter the precondition, must be combined with some antithesis to create something "plubu albu"
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but this Latona is brownebrown and blackish, and hathhas many moles and blemishes in her face, which must be taken away by art, namely by dealbation
Latona is the mother of Philosophy, but is ugly herself(primitive thought), such that through refining(tradition of thinking in Western Europe), she is depicted as more beautiful? Early modern equivalent of calling your mom ugly and face tuning her photos, like ok I guess.
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Philosophical
Philosophical gods vs Naturally manifestive gods
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in the meanemean time consuming or diminishing his strength, time, reputation, wealth and riches,
In this thesis, one should always give up material wealth for mental wealth
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Discourse 11. SoeSo great is the diversity of Authors in writing, that the explorators of - truth doedo allmostalmost despairedespair of finding the end of art: for AllegoricallAllegorical speeches being of themselves difficult to be understood, and the causes of many errors, especially then, if the same words be applydapplied to different things, and diffe=rent words to the same things: out of which if a man would extricate him=selfehimself, heehe must either be of a divine genius, to perceive the truth invol=ved in soeso great darkenessedarkness, or of endlesseendless pains and charge in proving what
The author himself gives away his purpose, telling plainly to the reader that they will not learn much apart from allegory due to the immense diversity of meaning that can come from writing.
It actually annoys me how sinister this book is. The author knows the philosopher's stone isn't real, or at least that he cannot make it, but he still is trying to trick you into thinking it can happen, while giving away that it can't throughout his book.
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For which cause Ibis is erected amongst the sacred ÆgyptianEgyptian images, both for the mani=fest utility, which it performesperforms to the whole country, and for an occult - reason, which very few men have understood.
Seems as though the author does not know much on the Islamic developments that have happened in the last 1000 years of Egyptian history, if he thinks they are still erecting sacred images of anything, let alone birds.
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It is - evident that such are in Africa, of soeso great bignessebigness and plenty, that they - destroyed a great part of AlexandersAlexander's army:
This book both calls upon ancient sources and gets them ridiculously wrong at the same time. This happened in India, Alexander the Great was never in Africa beyond Egypt. No wonder you can't actually find the philosopher's stone from this book
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