08-11-2016, 04:48 PM
All I can say is John Dee was in search for a universal language. This is great input for a universal language using numbers. And this may add evidence for John Dee as the author.
Thank you all for your participation, We are still in search for meaning in this text, and perhaps we are still in the right direction.
Thank you all for your participation, We are still in search for meaning in this text, and perhaps we are still in the right direction.
Quote:universal law. This also applies in part to his more conventional "Cabalism," using words and letters, in the Monas , while the way in which other standard objections — as those raised in the Cratylus — were thought to be adequately answered has already been discussed (90). It is interesting however that Roger Bacon relies on the same text as Dee cites in the prefatory letter, to justify such practises; writing "For the Lord says, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the alw till all be fulfilled. And therefore there is an admirable exposition in the book on the meanings of the scriptures stating how the individual letters of the Hebrew Alphabet had significance respecting the ancient people, and how they show the number of centuries through which the state of that race passed as regards its different periods and ages, in accordance with the special powers and potencies ofthe letters....I cannot sufficiently admire the manner in which the examination was derived, although it may seem to the uninitiated to have a weak basis in the letters of the alphabet which are the first rudiments of children. But according to the teaching of the Apostles lesser things are more necessary and are to be accorded greater honour...."(91) Bacon, as Dee here also, gives equal status to the Greek and Latin alphabets. Agrippa does the same, declaring that it is God who has given man discourse in different languages, of which the written characters have a fixed order, and particular shapes which are not the result of chance, or human invention, but divinely formed in accordance with the celestial bodies and angelic powers and the virtue of these. In a manner very close to the method of Dee's Monas , he attempts the reduction of letters to zodiacal and planetary signs (92).
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