Philosophie des hautes sciences

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physical origin is nothing but imperceptible points.

Letters were taken by Men from sensible forms. Numbers were given to Men before they were capable of being represented by figures; and Man himself had to be numbered before being actuated, because there is nothing in general movements that can be incidental.

"Let us draw Man from ourselves," and "let us form him in our likeness": from our unity, and let him be himself the root of his number, and strong and powerful in his Universe.

If all Men had the Science of the Ancients, and almost under our eyes, that of Apollonius of Tyana original: "Apollonius le Thianéen", (See what the Abbé Bazin says about him in his Philosophy of History), Man would be on earth what his Creator is in the Heavens; everything would be docile to his voice, because his voice would be as innocent as his heart would be pure.

physical origin, letters, numbers, Apollonius of Tyana, Abbé Bazin, Creator

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The more letters depend on regular figures, such as O, A, I, T, and others, the more they are common to all Nations; thus they are less so when their form is irregular.

Among the letters that remain to us from all Peoples, we see some in both regular and irregular forms that were employed in hieroglyphs, whether these characters were taken to be included in letters, or at other times taken from alphabets to form hieroglyphs.

The T, which the learned and subtle Scot Likely referring to Michael Scot, the medieval mathematician and scholar did not forget in his Map offered to Pope Paul V, is not placed in its primitive location. It is of all Egyptian antiquity: it was hieroglyphic as a sign of life; it marked aspiration and expiration. See the figure page 59 of the third Notebook.

From letters, seen one by one, we are naturally led to their assembly, which takes the title of...

regular figures, hieroglyphs, Scot, Paul V, Egyptian antiquity, sign of life