Philosophie des hautes sciences

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...writing, or the physical principle of writing; for everything has three secondary principles.

Writing, as a physical principle that may interest us here, is the cabalistic, which Antiquarians do not understand because, like Naturalists, as simple Physicists, they generally apply themselves only to external forms.

To read cabalistic writing, one must make a solid study of numbers. This study will lead us to the property of forms, and soon to the weaving and contexture of those same forms, and finally to the spirit and virtue of each thing. Cabalistic writing will not then appear as random figures without principle, provided that this writing is true.

There is cabalistic writing from all Nations and all times, as well as hieroglyphs. There is in one as in the other the perfect, the defective, and the absolutely foreign, such as one sees in both kinds in the chapter on Human Follies, titled The Key of Solomon les Clavicules du grand Roi Salomon The Little Keys of the great King Solomon, enriched, as I have said, every day with new stupidities by Swindlers, the Ignorant, and the Lazy.

Among the first Egyptians, hieroglyphs were pure and simple. Rest was expressed by the circle; movement, by the square; spirit, by the triangle; union, by the line; the mover, by the center point; just as animation was represented by the Sun. And thus they came to express everything through sensible and natural figures, and they had no other writing. Could they have had any more expressive?

If common writing had been necessary to this primitive People, or to any others, for the sake of Great Men, their policy, their Science, etc., they would have had it, since they possessed, from the World prior to that terrible flood, the cabalistic writing, which they reserved as the hiero- The text likely continues "hieroglyphic" or "hieratic" on the next page.

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