«IN THREE BOOKS: Containing the Antient and Modern Practice of the Cabalistic Art, Natural and Celestial Magic, &c.; shewing the wonderful Effects that may be performed by a Knowledge of the Celestial Influences, the occult Properties of Metals, Herbs, and Stones, AND THE APPLICATION OF ACTIVE TO PASSIVE PRINCIPLES.» — la portada anuncia tres libros y una sola mecánica de fondo: el efecto se produce aplicando lo activo a lo pasivo, con el conocimiento de las influencias celestes y de las propiedades ocultas de metales, hierbas y piedras como palanca.
Cábala
What does this tradition say about experience, knowledge and transformation? We approach these questions with consciousness as our centre, listening to the language of each source.
Gonzalo Olivares Velázquez · Spiritus Mundi
1 · Listen to the sources
How these passages were chosen: from the works assigned to this tradition, in alphabetical order, the first passage of each whose quoted words name consciousness, awareness, soul, spirit or knowledge (in English or Spanish); one per work, up to four. The choice is by vocabulary only: a passage may agree with our reading, disagree with it, or leave the question open.
«Qabalah offers the student the opportunity to follow a well-defined and multi-layered map of consciousness expansion and self-integration and balance.» — lo que Rankine ofrece al estudiante es un mapa, no una doctrina: un mapa bien definido y de muchas capas de expansión de la consciencia, de autointegración y de equilibrio
«The whole Frame of Gods Creatures, (which is the whole world,) is to vs, a bright glasse: from which, by reflexion, reboundeth to our knowledge and perceiuerance, Beames, and Radiations: representing the Image of his Infinite goodness, Omnipotency, and wisdome.» — continuación del epígrafe de Dee: la creación entera es un espejo brillante del que rebotan hacia el conocimiento humano rayos que representan la imagen de la bondad, la omnipotencia y la sabiduría infinitas; de esta figura del *bright glasse* saca Clulee el hilo de continuidad de toda la carrera de Dee.
«The incompatibility of contradictions first shows up in the soul, since it is the first quantity, positing part beyond part.» — es tesis de Pico que la incompatibilidad de las contradicciones aparece primero en el alma, por ser la primera cantidad, que pone parte más allá de parte.
2 · Ask what each source declares
Who knows, and what is transformed? Is the relationship between inner experience and the world declared, disputed, or left open? Let the passage determine the answer before bringing it into dialogue with our reading.
Explore documented argument maps →3 · Return to the centre
For us, these paths meet in consciousness. Which passage converses with that reading, and which qualifies or contradicts it? Save it with your own note.
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