Philosophie des hautes sciences

intellectual movement to your numbers, just as the Geometer and the Arithmetician give them physical movement, by obeying Nature, and you by obeying her intelligence.

While you are occupied with this research, provided beforehand with all common Sciences, devote yourself to Astrology, passing through the Sciences that ascend to it.

2. Letters, as I have told you, are of Art, but passed through the crucible of the Science of numbers; considering, with regard to letters, the time and the place, they will be transmuted from negative Art into positive Science, which you will conceive if you embrace the High Sciences to learn and not to play the role of the Charlatan or the Refuter; for in these two cases, it is a truth that you will possess only the keys of ignorance, saying to yourself: I play the Scholar; but at the bottom I know too well that I know nothing in the Sciences that I refute or that I claim to possess.

3. The number of the Consultant is not the speaking number, having the property: one must arrange the number of the Consultant in its class, give him his adjuncts and his generator; all, and even the palpable 1, have them.

This number of the Consultant is often only exterior, almost always taken from his passing, frivolous, or absurd taste; his intelligence, too enclosed in everything that troubles him, no longer allows him to see correctly.

Compare then this number with his theme astrological birth chart, his letters, and his favorite color, so that Science and Art may join lovingly to serve you.

4. Color. Let us not enter into dispute with the Newtonians, asking those if, like the Sieur Rabiqueau Philippe Rabiqueau, an 18th-century writer on electricity and physics, the great Newton Sir Isaac Newton might not have relied too much on particular movement to make us accept a false general movement.

Color would necessarily lead us to light, and both