Koen G > 30-06-2021, 06:05 PM
davidjackson > 30-06-2021, 06:49 PM
Koen G > 30-06-2021, 07:09 PM
davidjackson > 30-06-2021, 07:21 PM
Mark Knowles > 30-06-2021, 09:36 PM
Searcher > 01-07-2021, 12:38 PM
Searcher > 01-07-2021, 02:33 PM
(29-06-2021, 10:37 PM)Barbrey Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.And it is interesting that Searcher mentions the Hermeticum because that's where I derived this idea (and Searcher, we can't discount extant copies of the Poimandres before Ficino's translations; there were hundreds of different tracts around of different Hermetica, and even some suggestive passages that Roger Bacon had a copy - which is how I ended up reading Bacon!)They write that the Asclepius was known in Europe before the Corpus Hermeticum, I'm not sure about the Poimandres, but maybe the East was familiar with its fragments. Anyway, we can begin with Greek philosophers, including Plato, Proclus, Plotinus, etc.
But the Hermeticum is based on Aristotle, other Greeks, gnosticism, Egyptian and Judaism, maybe even early Christianity, in its creation account, so all these ideas can be found elsewhere.
Quote:You might wonder why a setting sun instead of a moon was used to symbolize darkness and the answer is the moon didn't exist.Alternative history or something else?
Linda > 01-07-2021, 07:59 PM
Anton > 01-07-2021, 09:46 PM
Mark Knowles > 01-07-2021, 10:15 PM
(01-07-2021, 09:46 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Regarding the T-O map, they used to mess it all up, so it cannot be said for sure which sector is what continent. We discussed that elsewhere in the forum.
But one would expect it to be consisitent throughout the MS, I believe.