The Incantation of Circe

...heaven, of which the earth sees not even a trace: why does Astraea original: "Astræa." In Greek mythology, the goddess of justice and innocence who fled the earth at the end of the Golden Age because of human wickedness. Her return would signal a new Golden Age. not at least appear from heaven? Behold, we have entered a Chaos that is far from hidden. Why are the seas not mixed with fires, and the clear stars with the black earth: if in the lands themselves and their governance there is nothing that shows its true face? Does Mother Nature herself deceive us? Should I call her a mother or a stepmother? To Truth itself, nothing ought to be more hateful than falsehood; to Goodness itself, nothing more troublesome than malice. It is no small thing, it is certainly no small thing, O brightest lamp of the world A reference to the Sun, whom Circe is addressing., that we are circumvented by the cleverness of both visible and invisible reasoning beings.

Why, then, should we have to experience a similar hypocrisy in nature itself? If so very few human minds are truly formed original: "effincti." Bruno suggests that while many have the shape of a human, very few possess the actual intellect or soul that defines humanity., why, I ask, are so many human bodies shaped? Turn therefore to your duties, O Sun, and avenge such a great prejudice against nature and your dignity. Distinguish your Circe, you and the other most powerful gods, so that she may have the same power by which she can command the ministerial spirits and the immediate shapers of these bodies.

I adjure you by the lying faces, the ministers of errors, and by the high power of the guardians of nature, that stripping the human face from each individual of the brutal species, you make them come forth in their own external and true shapes Circe is asking the gods to reveal the true animalistic nature of corrupt humans by physically transforming them into the beasts they resemble spiritually.. If ever rivers must run their course in reverse. If ever fires must seize their height. If nothing is violent to the eternal. If finally all things must reach their proper ends. Is anything changed for Moeris? Moeris is a character name, likely a reference to the sorcerer in Virgil’s Eclogues who could turn into a wolf and summon spirits.

MOERIS. Nothing at all.