The Hieroglyphic Monad

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accommodate themselves to the Artifice original: "Artificio"; referring to the technical or artistic construction of the symbols., and are aptly considered by the Wise, they teach them the Greatest and most numerous Mysteries (by a most absolute Anagogy original: "Anagogia"; a method of spiritual interpretation that leads the mind from literal or material meanings toward divine realities.). But having dismissed, in this manner, those Philosophers of Letters and Language; I shall bring forward my MATHEMATICIANS as the most sincere witnesses of this Rarity of our Gift. THE ARITHMETICIAN, 1. (I do not say the CALCULATOR original: "Logista"; Dee distinguishes between a high-level theoretical arithmetician and a mere practical "reckoner" or accountant.) will he not wonder that his Numbers—which he used to store away in the recesses of Thought original: "Dianœas"; from the Greek "dianoia," referring to the discursive reasoning or the intellectual faculty of the mind., abstracted from Corporeal things and free from all sensible objects, and there treated with various Actions of the Mind—are here, in our Work, shown to be as if Concrete and Corporeal, and to become so: and that their Souls and Formal lives are separated from them for our 2. uses? Will he not wonder most of all to see such an Offspring of the MONAD: 3. to which no other Monad, or Number...