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...will confess it most benevolent: And that no mortal can excuse themselves regarding the ignorance of this, our Holy Language. Which, in my Aphorisms to the Parisians Referring to Dee’s earlier work, the Propaedeumata Aphoristica (1558), where he first proposed these ideas., I named REAL KABBALAH, or "the kabbalah of being" original: τῷ ὄντος: Just as I name that other common one CABALISTIC GRAMMAR, or "the kabbalah of that which is said" original: τῷ λεγομένῳ; which relies on well-known letters, writable by man. But this REAL KABBALAH, which is born for us by the Law of Creation (as Paul hints) A reference to Romans 1:20, suggesting God's invisible qualities are understood through created things., is also a certain more Divine GRAMMAR: since it is the inventor of new arts, and the most faithful explicator of the most abstruse things: so that others, from now on, may be able to try this by our example. I know well, O KING, that you will not shudder, though I now dare to propose this MAGIC Parable in your Royal Presence.
10. This HIEROGLYPHIC MONAD of ours possesses a certain earthly body, lurking in the Center of the Center: which, by what divine power it must be ACTIVATED, it teaches itself without words: To which, once ACTIVATED, the Lunar and Solar generative influence must be COUPLED (in perpetual marriage): Although, previously, in Heaven or elsewhere, they were MOST SEPARATED from that SAME body. This union | Gamæa Dee uses the word Gamæa, likely a neologism from the Greek gamos (marriage). He views it as a talismanic or alchemical union. having been made (by the will of God), (which I interpreted to the Parisians as "the earth of marriage" original: τῆς γαμῆς αἶαν: that is, the Earth of Matrimony: or the terrestrial sign of influential marriage) the same cannot be further nourished or watered upon its native Earth, except until the completion of the FOURTH great and truly Metaphysical Revolution. When this progress is finished: he who nourished it, into METAMORPHOSIS,