He tell, us that 'the face of God, crowned with light, rose over the vast sea and wu
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has A as its exlension (295. 18-21). Draw . ! I<:COnd eirel(. That makes a dainty/idrnrical pair of compasses/accomplices/lasses. Now there'. twO tricky/trickling poin. . . /ponds where the Dublin drcula. . . (the two canal. parallel the two Circular Ro:ad. ) mttting approximalely in Ihe sweet by and by, loop into each other. Look 'ee herel l. ee where you mean. The W. e. (19S. 13-196. ot).
We may thm justify our horizontal interpretation? . The text now proceeds to superimpose a vertical one. C exploin, that he'd like to make a capital P down there on the bottom, and let A go and make hi. "up at hi. end (196. 04-ro). He i, mOlivatcd by ",mi_ nal reasons, of which Ficin<> . aid that there wtt<: as many in the soul of lhe world . s lhere were ideas in men's minds. The two
seto corre'ponded. " Now, to complete Ihe angles, ~loved b r e t h r e n , j o i n " I ' a n d P L b y d o t r o d l i n . , a n d L~ a n d , , , . b y t r u n k
lines (296. 22-"7).
During the lesson C calls A 'Michael' and A caUs C 'Nickel'.
The figure must Ihen include. cosmogony with AL the world, below heaven (,,) and above hell (P). Compare figure 4, which
sbow. . the Ch/lldw-J~ish <<>SJnOllony from hi' Umml. d. This i. meant to incorporote the ten Sephil"(lth and their nether anti? theses. Madame Bl. vatsky'. diagram crnt,. . ,. n o t on a V ~,;"' Pi<&" but on a ,ix'pointed star formed by IW1> equilateral triangles. Thi. emblem, Solomon', seal, is included in C . expooi! ion: 'I'll make you to ,. . figuratleavdy the wbome of your <:terruol ~mat. ". . And if you flung her lu:addre. . on her fl"(lm under her highl<>w! l you'd wheeze whyse Salmonson set his . . . 1on a hexengown . . . Pi",! ' ( 296. 30-297 . 06).
The: wisdom of Solomon bt<:om. es rhot conferred upon Finn when he ate the Solmon 0{ Wisdom, for which the angle. . .
"$;,jMnGUbtrt,AIf;""",of,10<Cityof~ Il,1_
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F~4 OWd. . ,. J. . . . iabe<>smOfOIlyf"""f,;,U. . . ,. ;w, by H . P. BI. ". tsky.
? (geometrician,) > = I I to be fishing. At 011. 32 and 076. 24 we SllW . . . pr"'erving the reoiduum "fm ,in a km k of fish. We also find tbeketd. at 316. :1Oand 3:10. 16, and Z19. Z4-5 echoes 'So they put On the kenle and made tea' with 'So they fished in the kettle and fough. free'. h the ketde " r fi. h the V",ca Pi",,?
The first page of nolebook VI. O. S i. VI. CS. 2f,. There arc drawings of Solomon's scal on VI. C. 8. 270 and z7S, while VI. C. 8. 186 includes a diamond-. baped figure labelled APLP at tbe appropriate extremities. A later prototype (VI. B. 2J. 128) . . . . nd- wiches a minute unlenered uiangle between two overlapping circles.
As Stwlrt Gilbert tell. us," Solomon'. ocal illustrates the open- ing of the Emerald Tablt of Hermes Tritmegi. tus (263. 21-2). Uvi'. HjuoiFt de la mtlIie ties it 10 the Zt! har, by means of hi, plat. . III and IV .
He tell, us that 'the face of God, crowned with light, rose over the vast sea and wu rdlteted in the w:o. tcl'S th. reof. Hi. two eyes wcre manif. . . ed, r:o. diating with splendour, darting tWO beams of light which cruISed with thoac of the reflection. The br<>w of God and Hi. eyes formed a triangle in beaven, and ito reflection formed a second triangle in the w:o. t. . . . . So was ",,,",,led tbe number six, being tha. "r univcoal CrQ. tion. '''
Fi""lly "f course the water is -l" mirror, providillj a vertical female orientation. 11. 1 showed C defealed by . be par::uto" "r colour; here he is defealed by the fluidity of hi? ? ubjte! , by in 'pm'pawI< J>eTlphtty' (298. L). The diltmnu i, prcacnted at
298. 08-299. <>" in tc. --rru of the infinit. . imal calCUlus. If the curve illU$tr-ating the rat<: of challlle of the periphery be produced, the area it cnc](lses may be estimated. A succes,ion of lin. ,. running perpendicularly from ,be bue (absci. . . . ) to cut the curve cncl"le a series of rectangles, whose areu Jhould be added tog<:th<:r 1() givcit. But. . oneendofeacbrectanglei. . lightly curved, mwtipli- ",,,ionoftheir length, and bre:o. dth, i, inaccu. . . . te. The exact ""ult can be <>btained only with an infinitesimally great number of in- tinitesim:olly narrow rtemngl. ,. . We find beneath 'the bend of the unbridalled, the jnfinisissimalb ofher face. . becQrning manier and manier as the calicolwn of het umdC1cribablC$ (tlne has thought! ! of that <1ernal Rome) u. rinh from JChurtineSli to "'hem. ' C j. up . pinl< the fact that th. caleulu. is always an apprmtimlttion. Curiously, it i. A who cventwllly break. the enigma fnr bim.
The V. . ica Pi,,,, 7t
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Be-! ides Ihe 1igLo ""npttlives, other figuTei have Ic:fl ghostl on 2-93. Pet. Sknbaodl hu <inwo OUr anttlUon to Iwo overlapping d",I. . , 'Diad;' Fiaura DilO"us', ill Bruno'. 0. _, C'k" Much ~ ""plleil ~ are the diqranu in Yn,,', A Vu. :. . . . . In 11. 2, uya Mn GIuh<<n, this won. ? i. qUOled, parodied, ""rhaps (I""'-'Ih r do nolthink 10) ill phueo absolu,ely workcd 0'11, ? Yeat- . i<oon within a Vioonian cycle. This 5<<I'On i. full of tcchni""]lerm. from A Viri. . . . . . . . . oth. er, Will, Cwltive M,nd, Prirmll1' Til>C'lu. e. Body 01 f ile, Mask. Husk, Spinl, Shifl, Byzanliutn, Gyres,
A V;". . ~ derived fnlm automatic writing produced by Y. . . . u't wife unde, the guidmoc ol. . . . no. . . 'instructo. . ? . At 29S. lZ C uYI an inalf1. lC(Ol" tluchl him ICOfDCtl1'. His cuffs at )00. 2$ an: uncons- ciously Kribblina (ltllian vtJjfia,. , 10 scratch). )0). 19 mmDons aUlOmat! c writinl' of panbolu of families of ~C'I. Parabo:>l-.
Ire ami<: oection. Ind nearly all of Yeats'. dilaram1 comi. ! of paired nianglel. lon. cltudinal scctionI 0{ Oppoled oonJol vorticel which,. . heu~. quotinaHeraclitwo,'liveeachother's death,die
ncb odItf-'. life'" (291. 0 M ).
The V. . . . . . . . ~ arc temporal cycLn. n Ull opcnina book
v dncribcs IWO thouund-ycar lYres, I ni. u:ht of I thousand Yt'IU and a day 0{1 tboutlnd ye. . . . (19,. 03). M()oI of the a th. . . . pOrtray
the moon's phallCl. VI. B. 3~. ll ,iYeI : m ~'
. . . luna (hu plv. lICI)
At 16a. F4 Api. , the lacud bull 0( Mempbis, Is wnn<<ted wilh luna and I . riple ALP. Api. Wli M(! Otlen by ? ny of gcnc. . tive liahlllowint; from tM moon. and may have been drowned when aged fWalo;y-riahl, in imotion 01 the lunar cycle. " We mi&hl Ioa~ moonrise . . i+4-oJ-'I and moonse'I at 6l). 2? -"8 bill thue i. little COli espondenoe with the monthly rota. In Yeo. . , tht pri- mal1' phases (21-1- 8) wollld reasonably OCCIIPY the day\i. pam rL the book (I and the clos. e) . . they are obi<<tivc, atcm. a] and
ntiorul, ht-neoth tolar (m) dominion. This would make book 11
M"(lQonr. v.
has A as its exlension (295. 18-21). Draw . ! I<:COnd eirel(. That makes a dainty/idrnrical pair of compasses/accomplices/lasses. Now there'. twO tricky/trickling poin. . . /ponds where the Dublin drcula. . . (the two canal. parallel the two Circular Ro:ad. ) mttting approximalely in Ihe sweet by and by, loop into each other. Look 'ee herel l. ee where you mean. The W. e. (19S. 13-196. ot).
We may thm justify our horizontal interpretation? . The text now proceeds to superimpose a vertical one. C exploin, that he'd like to make a capital P down there on the bottom, and let A go and make hi. "up at hi. end (196. 04-ro). He i, mOlivatcd by ",mi_ nal reasons, of which Ficin<> . aid that there wtt<: as many in the soul of lhe world . s lhere were ideas in men's minds. The two
seto corre'ponded. " Now, to complete Ihe angles, ~loved b r e t h r e n , j o i n " I ' a n d P L b y d o t r o d l i n . , a n d L~ a n d , , , . b y t r u n k
lines (296. 22-"7).
During the lesson C calls A 'Michael' and A caUs C 'Nickel'.
The figure must Ihen include. cosmogony with AL the world, below heaven (,,) and above hell (P). Compare figure 4, which
sbow. . the Ch/lldw-J~ish <<>SJnOllony from hi' Umml. d. This i. meant to incorporote the ten Sephil"(lth and their nether anti? theses. Madame Bl. vatsky'. diagram crnt,. . ,. n o t on a V ~,;"' Pi<&" but on a ,ix'pointed star formed by IW1> equilateral triangles. Thi. emblem, Solomon', seal, is included in C . expooi! ion: 'I'll make you to ,. . figuratleavdy the wbome of your <:terruol ~mat. ". . And if you flung her lu:addre. . on her fl"(lm under her highl<>w! l you'd wheeze whyse Salmonson set his . . . 1on a hexengown . . . Pi",! ' ( 296. 30-297 . 06).
The: wisdom of Solomon bt<:om. es rhot conferred upon Finn when he ate the Solmon 0{ Wisdom, for which the angle. . .
"$;,jMnGUbtrt,AIf;""",of,10<Cityof~ Il,1_
,,-,,>. "F,. ,. . ,. . /o. y. _O;"'. . . . . . _ _
\edt< _ K. . . . . Poul 1'/6. 4), . . . . . '1_
,11<H. . --,;" 1n>d;,. ", (I . . . . ! on. 1lau'.
? ?
,
F~4 OWd. . ,. J. . . . iabe<>smOfOIlyf"""f,;,U. . . ,. ;w, by H . P. BI. ". tsky.
? (geometrician,) > = I I to be fishing. At 011. 32 and 076. 24 we SllW . . . pr"'erving the reoiduum "fm ,in a km k of fish. We also find tbeketd. at 316. :1Oand 3:10. 16, and Z19. Z4-5 echoes 'So they put On the kenle and made tea' with 'So they fished in the kettle and fough. free'. h the ketde " r fi. h the V",ca Pi",,?
The first page of nolebook VI. O. S i. VI. CS. 2f,. There arc drawings of Solomon's scal on VI. C. 8. 270 and z7S, while VI. C. 8. 186 includes a diamond-. baped figure labelled APLP at tbe appropriate extremities. A later prototype (VI. B. 2J. 128) . . . . nd- wiches a minute unlenered uiangle between two overlapping circles.
As Stwlrt Gilbert tell. us," Solomon'. ocal illustrates the open- ing of the Emerald Tablt of Hermes Tritmegi. tus (263. 21-2). Uvi'. HjuoiFt de la mtlIie ties it 10 the Zt! har, by means of hi, plat. . III and IV .
He tell, us that 'the face of God, crowned with light, rose over the vast sea and wu rdlteted in the w:o. tcl'S th. reof. Hi. two eyes wcre manif. . . ed, r:o. diating with splendour, darting tWO beams of light which cruISed with thoac of the reflection. The br<>w of God and Hi. eyes formed a triangle in beaven, and ito reflection formed a second triangle in the w:o. t. . . . . So was ",,,",,led tbe number six, being tha. "r univcoal CrQ. tion. '''
Fi""lly "f course the water is -l" mirror, providillj a vertical female orientation. 11. 1 showed C defealed by . be par::uto" "r colour; here he is defealed by the fluidity of hi? ? ubjte! , by in 'pm'pawI< J>eTlphtty' (298. L). The diltmnu i, prcacnted at
298. 08-299. <>" in tc. --rru of the infinit. . imal calCUlus. If the curve illU$tr-ating the rat<: of challlle of the periphery be produced, the area it cnc](lses may be estimated. A succes,ion of lin. ,. running perpendicularly from ,be bue (absci. . . . ) to cut the curve cncl"le a series of rectangles, whose areu Jhould be added tog<:th<:r 1() givcit. But. . oneendofeacbrectanglei. . lightly curved, mwtipli- ",,,ionoftheir length, and bre:o. dth, i, inaccu. . . . te. The exact ""ult can be <>btained only with an infinitesimally great number of in- tinitesim:olly narrow rtemngl. ,. . We find beneath 'the bend of the unbridalled, the jnfinisissimalb ofher face. . becQrning manier and manier as the calicolwn of het umdC1cribablC$ (tlne has thought! ! of that <1ernal Rome) u. rinh from JChurtineSli to "'hem. ' C j. up . pinl< the fact that th. caleulu. is always an apprmtimlttion. Curiously, it i. A who cventwllly break. the enigma fnr bim.
The V. . ica Pi,,,, 7t
? ? A Vbloa
Be-! ides Ihe 1igLo ""npttlives, other figuTei have Ic:fl ghostl on 2-93. Pet. Sknbaodl hu <inwo OUr anttlUon to Iwo overlapping d",I. . , 'Diad;' Fiaura DilO"us', ill Bruno'. 0. _, C'k" Much ~ ""plleil ~ are the diqranu in Yn,,', A Vu. :. . . . . In 11. 2, uya Mn GIuh<<n, this won. ? i. qUOled, parodied, ""rhaps (I""'-'Ih r do nolthink 10) ill phueo absolu,ely workcd 0'11, ? Yeat- . i<oon within a Vioonian cycle. This 5<<I'On i. full of tcchni""]lerm. from A Viri. . . . . . . . . oth. er, Will, Cwltive M,nd, Prirmll1' Til>C'lu. e. Body 01 f ile, Mask. Husk, Spinl, Shifl, Byzanliutn, Gyres,
A V;". . ~ derived fnlm automatic writing produced by Y. . . . u't wife unde, the guidmoc ol. . . . no. . . 'instructo. . ? . At 29S. lZ C uYI an inalf1. lC(Ol" tluchl him ICOfDCtl1'. His cuffs at )00. 2$ an: uncons- ciously Kribblina (ltllian vtJjfia,. , 10 scratch). )0). 19 mmDons aUlOmat! c writinl' of panbolu of families of ~C'I. Parabo:>l-.
Ire ami<: oection. Ind nearly all of Yeats'. dilaram1 comi. ! of paired nianglel. lon. cltudinal scctionI 0{ Oppoled oonJol vorticel which,. . heu~. quotinaHeraclitwo,'liveeachother's death,die
ncb odItf-'. life'" (291. 0 M ).
The V. . . . . . . . ~ arc temporal cycLn. n Ull opcnina book
v dncribcs IWO thouund-ycar lYres, I ni. u:ht of I thousand Yt'IU and a day 0{1 tboutlnd ye. . . . (19,. 03). M()oI of the a th. . . . pOrtray
the moon's phallCl. VI. B. 3~. ll ,iYeI : m ~'
. . . luna (hu plv. lICI)
At 16a. F4 Api. , the lacud bull 0( Mempbis, Is wnn<<ted wilh luna and I . riple ALP. Api. Wli M(! Otlen by ? ny of gcnc. . tive liahlllowint; from tM moon. and may have been drowned when aged fWalo;y-riahl, in imotion 01 the lunar cycle. " We mi&hl Ioa~ moonrise . . i+4-oJ-'I and moonse'I at 6l). 2? -"8 bill thue i. little COli espondenoe with the monthly rota. In Yeo. . , tht pri- mal1' phases (21-1- 8) wollld reasonably OCCIIPY the day\i. pam rL the book (I and the clos. e) . . they are obi<<tivc, atcm. a] and
ntiorul, ht-neoth tolar (m) dominion. This would make book 11
M"(lQonr. v.
