«Nor do we find the GRECIANS arriv'd to any confiderable Knowledge in Geometry, before the Great Thales Milefius, the Philofopher» — data en Tales de Mileto el comienzo del saber geométrico griego, y niega que antes de él los griegos llegaran a conocimiento considerable
Masonería
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.
«Distinct from the light of the Holy Spirit, which is to be read in the holy scripture, Paracelsus postulated a lumen naturae that may be read only in the "Book of Nature."» — la distinción paracelsiana que Newman expone: aparte de la luz del Espíritu Santo, que se lee en la escritura, hay un *lumen naturae* que solo se lee en el libro de la naturaleza
«Intellect is to the people and the people's Force, what the slender needle of the compass is to the ship--its soul, always counselling the huge mass of wood and iron, and always pointing to the north.» — la función que adjudica al intelecto sobre la fuerza popular, dicha con el símil de la brújula del barco que siempre apunta al norte.
«Most general historians remain unaware of a remarkable development which takes place in seventeenth-century Britain, while masonic historians, concentrating on the emergence of freemasonry, are usually not equipped with the wider knowledge of historical developments» — el costo de esa separación en las dos direcciones: unos no saben que el fenómeno existe y los otros no tienen el marco para leerlo.
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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