The Hieroglyphic Monad

TO MAXIMILIAN

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[God has decreed] that the surfaces of the nearest elements are connected and coupled: so that in Fire, Air, and Water—[moving] upward, downward, hither, and thither (according to their own judgment)—they can most confidently display wonders to men. (And indeed, those men are useful to the State for their various inventions, as the whole craftsmanship of Hydraulics Hydraulics: The science of moving water or using water to move machinery. shows, along with the rest of Hero's Wonder-Working original: "Thaumopoetica"; referring to Hero of Alexandria, an ancient engineer famous for creating "miraculous" automated machines., as it is now fashionable to call them.)

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But that the element of EARTH could be drawn up
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through WATER into FIRE by any machine:
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no one from that profession Referring to the mechanical engineers and "wonder-workers" mentioned above. will claim for themselves.
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Yet the theories of our MONAD demonstrate that this can be done. O Most Wise King, may you store these things in the most secret treasures of your mind and memory.

9. I come now to the Hebrew CABALIST: who, when [he finds] his (so-called) Gematria original: "Geometria"; Dee likely uses the term for "Geometry" here as a pun or a synonym for Gematria, the kabbalistic study of the numerical values of letters., Notariacon, and Tzyruph Three primary methods of Jewish mysticism: Gematria (numbers), Notariacon (using letters as shorthand or acronyms), and Tseruf (rearranging or permuting letters). (the three principal keys, as it were, of his art) [applied] outside...