TO MAXIMILIAN.

...will confess him to be most benevolent: and that no mortal can excuse himself on the grounds of a holy ignorance of this our language. Which, in my Aphorisms A reference to Dee's earlier work, Aphorismi Basilicis (1558). to the Parisians, I named the REAL KABBALAH, or that of being original: "τῦ ὄντος" (tou ontos). Dee distinguishes between a Kabbalah of "actual things" versus one of "words.": just as I name that other common version the GRAMMATICAL Kabbalistic art, or that of the spoken word original: "τῦ λεγομένυ" (tou legomenou). This refers to traditional Kabbalah which analyzes the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.; which relies on well-known letters that can be written by man. However, this REAL KABBALAH, which is born for us by the Law of Creation (as Paul hints), is also a certain more Divine GRAMMAR: since it is the inventor of new arts and the most faithful explainer of the most hidden things: so that others, in the future, may be able to attempt this by our example. I know well, O KING, that you will not shudder, even though I now dare to propose this MAGICAL parable in your Royal Presence.

This Hieroglyphic MONAD of ours possesses a certain earthly body, hidden in the very Center of its Center: which the Monad itself teaches, without words, by what divine power it is to be ACTIVATED: to which, once ACTIVATED, the Lunar and Solar generative influence must be COUPLED (in a perpetual marriage): although previously, in the Heavens or elsewhere, they were MOST SEPARATED from that same body. Once this Gamaea A Renaissance term for a talisman or a "marriage" of celestial and terrestrial forces. is made (by God's will)—which I interpreted for the Parisians as the Earth of Marriage original: "τῆς γαμῆς ἄιαν" (tēs gamēs aian). Dee's own Greek phrasing for the union of elements.: that is, the earthly sign of an influential union—it cannot be further nourished or watered upon its native Earth until the FOURTH great and truly Metaphysical Revolution Likely referring to the four stages of the alchemical process or a specific cosmic cycle in Dee's system. is completed. Once that progress is finished: that which nourished [it], into a METAMORPHOSIS,

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