THE HIDDEN MAGICAL SOUL

original: Anima Magica Abscondita

THE HIDDEN SPIRIT.

To build castles in the air is a common proverb among all men, but it is a common practice only among the Peripatetics Followers of Aristotle's philosophy, often criticized by 17th-century occultists for being too theoretical and disconnected from nature.. I have often wondered that the very end and result of their philosophy did not clearly reveal its own falsehood. It is a mere help to conversation. Mood and figure Technical terms in formal logic referring to the structure of a syllogism. are their two pillars, their limit original: Non ultra. Their seven-fold empire original: Heptarchie; likely referring to the seven liberal arts or the traditional spheres of knowledge. ends in a syllogism, and the best professor among them is nothing more than a well-disciplined scold. Their seven years of study are seven years of famine; they leave the Genesis soul unsatisfied, and are more of a dream than that of Pharaoh A reference to the biblical story in Genesis where Pharaoh dreams of seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine.. For truly, if the stage and reign of dreams be no...