03-07-2020, 11:31 PM
[quote="Antonio García Jiménez" pid='38556' dateline='1593802931']
Hi Antonio, I have no knowledge of astrology so it wasn't my first thought - I thought it was a god sign based on the hermeticum, and in a way it possibly is. Notice on the rosette page, miiddle top, the twelve houses of the zodiac, pouring lots of (o) down into the earth (large middle circle) and beneath the earth the chevrons point down to the seven pointed flower (middle bottom) representing plants. So to me that part of the page was plainly designed to show the influence of the zodiac on plants. But as it is god who influences the stars, and the stars then influence everything, I thought the pile of o's was a god symbol.
But I'm coming over toward your way of thinking. Have you ever read On Rays by Al Kindi? It's based partly on the hermeticum too. He says rays are what carry god's will/mind in the zodiac which then influence the earth. Mostly pertinent is that every star has its own properties, and certain ones will work better on certain plants, and of course when you pick things, when you make them, what they're for and your success is dependent on the plant's own elemental properties (plants have elemental rays too! - but physical), the particular star's or stars' properties manifested as rays, and it's the zodiac that helps determine all this.
I believe this text is definitely working on Al Kindi's foundation. I would have thought the influence coming from the stars would have been represented as rays, but the fact it is o's is pretty persuasive.
I wonder if, as the zodiac evolved, degrees and rays in Al Kindi's terms of light became entangled in meaning? Something to google!
I couldn't find your 9 o's. My text is not so clear in some parts and because I read on a tablet it's hard to read upside down. Are they near the top or bottom of the outside circle?
You still haven't convinced me it's all astrological symbols though! I believe there's more, though willing to concede there might not be. I'm also, after Al Kindi, unconvinced that o always represents solely a degree, or that there is no phonetic basis to what we're reading. Because star magic in medicine making seems to require proper incantations!
Hi Antonio, I have no knowledge of astrology so it wasn't my first thought - I thought it was a god sign based on the hermeticum, and in a way it possibly is. Notice on the rosette page, miiddle top, the twelve houses of the zodiac, pouring lots of (o) down into the earth (large middle circle) and beneath the earth the chevrons point down to the seven pointed flower (middle bottom) representing plants. So to me that part of the page was plainly designed to show the influence of the zodiac on plants. But as it is god who influences the stars, and the stars then influence everything, I thought the pile of o's was a god symbol.
But I'm coming over toward your way of thinking. Have you ever read On Rays by Al Kindi? It's based partly on the hermeticum too. He says rays are what carry god's will/mind in the zodiac which then influence the earth. Mostly pertinent is that every star has its own properties, and certain ones will work better on certain plants, and of course when you pick things, when you make them, what they're for and your success is dependent on the plant's own elemental properties (plants have elemental rays too! - but physical), the particular star's or stars' properties manifested as rays, and it's the zodiac that helps determine all this.
I believe this text is definitely working on Al Kindi's foundation. I would have thought the influence coming from the stars would have been represented as rays, but the fact it is o's is pretty persuasive.
I wonder if, as the zodiac evolved, degrees and rays in Al Kindi's terms of light became entangled in meaning? Something to google!
I couldn't find your 9 o's. My text is not so clear in some parts and because I read on a tablet it's hard to read upside down. Are they near the top or bottom of the outside circle?
You still haven't convinced me it's all astrological symbols though! I believe there's more, though willing to concede there might not be. I'm also, after Al Kindi, unconvinced that o always represents solely a degree, or that there is no phonetic basis to what we're reading. Because star magic in medicine making seems to require proper incantations!