Stars, divinity

Inscribe the pentacle star inside a pentagon and you have the pentagram, symbol of the ancient Greek School of Mathematics founded by Pythagoras—solid evidence that the ancient Mystery Schools knew about PHI and appreciated the Divine Proportion s multitude of uses to form our physical and biological worlds. 

Who could have imagined that a man of his description should have been received with respect in some of the most enlightened cities of Europe That he should have been regarded as a star propitious in the human race, as a new prophet, and as a type and representation of the Divinity That he should have approached thrones That haughty grandees should have become his humble suitors, and nobles paid him the most profound veneration ... 

Aristotle of Stageiros (384-322 BCE) did not agree with his teacher s geometric bodies for the different elements. He rejected the Democritian atoms in which matter was considered a principle but form was a secondary characteristic. Nor did he accept the existence of a void. According to the Aristotelian view, the four elements arose from the action on primordial matter by pairs of qualities (warm + dry, fire, warm + moist, air, cold + dry, earth, cold + moist, water). He introduced another element, ether, as a divine substance of which the heavens and stars are made (23). 

This was impossible. The celestial bodies were pure and divine and could not change their nature. Plague, he concluded, came not from the stars but from divine judgement and corrupt vapours. 

Forman extended this theme. Physicians who prescribed without consulting the stars and thereby harmed people were acting as instruments of divine retribution. God sent unrepentant sinners to evil physicians. In his c.1607 tract he ranted,... 

Pearce, a student at the Divinity School of Duke University. Pratt was the experimenter, and Rhine acted as data collector for all series and coexperimenter on the last. Procedurally, this was a clairvoyance experiment. The experimenter put cards in a designated spot at a designated time without turning them over and looking at them. Thus, there was no one trying to act as a sender. The targets were the well-known Zener cards, a deck of twenty-five cards, five each of five different symbols (a cross, a square, a circle, wavy lines, and a star). 

We ve mentioned two of the commonly used paths for confecting the Philosopher s Stone, that of the Wet Way through lead acetate, and the Dry Way through the Star Regulus of Antimony. The final method we examine is often called the way of the Divine Cinnabar. I saved this for last because it is a dangerous operation requiring the use of the very toxic metallic mercury. The other two methods also present dangers and the use of toxic materials, but mercury is particularly insidious and can quickly contaminate an area which will then be very difficult to clean up. 

I mean the sun, the moon, and the stars—are observed to have spherical form and all things tend to limit themselves under this form—as appears in drops of water and other liquids whenever of themselves they tend to limit themselves. So no one may doubt that the spherical is the form of the world, the divine body. 

HYDROMANTIA — is an Art of Divination derived from the astrology of water or from the stars which rule the water and which make known to men the approach of unusual inundations, high floods, and other phenomena. 

INFLUENTIA NATURALIS, or NATURAL INFLUX — is that which is poured down by the superior stars of the firmament, in accordance with natural law, into or upon inferior things, whereby they govern and rule through inclination in men, animals, etc., and through potencies and efficacies in insentient things. Hence we learn that this inclination is a certain brute force and magnetic attraction, which i easy to resist and withstand by moral influence being assisted by the divine inspiration in any cases of special difficulty. 

Their appearance will be similar to gold. They will also resemble shooting stars, the purple and scarlet Liquid Pearl liuzhu), and the five-colored Mysterious and Yellow. Gather and collect the Essence and Flower with an iron spoon. You will obtain ten pounds, which you should transmute in nine cycles [with the Divine Tally]. 

The British Crown Jewels date from Charles II and so are relatively modem. Sadly, the Royal Sceptre lacks a magnificient rock crystal orb, which is the ancient emblem of divine kingship because it represents the priestly ability to compass the sun." The orb in the Royal Sceptre is often referred to as the Star of Jacob because in the prophecy of Balaam, the Sceptre represents the Messiah ... 

Aether was a divine material that Aristotle said made up the stars and other planets in the sky. 

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