Philosophie des hautes sciences

conferred in so small a space, that it requires no less than the spirit of the High Sciences to respond to the two perpetual oppositions offered by ignorance.

Man is absolutely free; yes, when he is not a prisoner, when the fire is not set to the fuse.

If it were not so, it would be otherwise: a paradoxical subtlety, as one sees, opposed to the pride of the first, equally vague idea.

Every extreme is faulty in Man: he occupies the middle: he must keep to it; if he departs from it, he becomes foolish.

1. Without Astrology original: "Astrologie", (physically, the influences of the Stars; morally, Heaven mastering the Earth,) to want to set to work, not only to divine events that will happen to a Nation, to a Man, to a plant, such as operating in Hermetic Philosophy original: "Philosophie Hermétique" or in all other branches of the High Sciences, (Page 191 & following of the third Notebook), but even in moral, political, and civil Science,

it is to throw oneself on a path contrary to Nature, whose general movements have not been established in vain, not only regarding themselves, but regarding their use as an example for particular movements.

Does one wish to speak of morality: one fears making applications to Nature. Does one wish to draw a clothed Man? The false Artist, not thinking like Le Sueur Eustache Le Sueur, a 17th-century French painter known for his classical style, forgets to let living Nature be felt, the jointing of his anatomical model.

Without numbers and without Astrology, I have said it and I repeat it here, where I no longer have anything hidden of palpable principles, it is an ineptitude to claim any branch of the High Sciences, and I offer to convince anyone who wrongly follows the Sophists, or poorly follows the true Philosophers.

Cast all your views on the properties of numbers; gather this subject from the Philosophers; form notebooks of it, and try to succeed in giving