Ana G. doth schreibble :
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> Thank you very much, Khem. They are very useful.
And here is a relevant excerpt from something else
that I posted recently :
In the Classic system, we have Air, which is Warm
and Moist.
It is associated with Dawn and Spring, and the East.
As we proceed to Summer in the South,
it becomes Hot and Dry ( Fire ).
Moisture has been dropped, we increase
the quality of Heat, and 'pick up' the
Quality of Dryness.
In the Northern hemisphere, Summer and Noon are
associated with the South. In the Northern
hemisphere, the Sun is always as far South as it
can get at Noon.
As the Sun passes the Noon/Mid-Summer point,
things become Cool and Dry, and this pair of
Qualities is associated with the element of
Earth, and with the West/Sunset.
Now we move on to Midnight, and the North.
The Qualities are Cold and Moist, and the
direction is North. The Nadir of the Sun
< in the Northern Hemisphere > is in the
North, below the horizon.
Which brings us back to Spring.
See how one Quality gets 'swapped', and the
Elements transform into one another as the
Day and the Year proceed?
It is a Model of a Heat Engine.
There is Heat <and the lack thereof>, and
there is Moisture <and the lack thereof>.
Midnight and Winter are, in the most general
and abstract sense, as Cold as it gets.
Noon and Summer are, likewise, as Hot as it gets.
It is rather like the Cycle of Precipitation that
they used to teach us in Elementary School <way
back in the Pliocene Era>.
This Cycle of the Elements and the Seasons forms
the basis of Astrology, Alchemy and Magic.
Here is another version of the same model, still
employed in Unani medicine to this day :
http://www.unani.com/four_elements.htm
Unani is the Arabic word for 'Ionian'; that is, Greek.
So, there is your "Compass" - and your "Clock", into
the bargain <we're having a Special today> ;)
See also :
Qualities, Elements, Seasons, Humours
http://tinyurl.com/22tnpa
The Humours
Introduction to Decumbiture
by Dylan Warren-Davis
http://tinyurl.com/cce7t4
Astrology and Health
Vitalism and Humours
by Dylan Warren-Davis
http://tinyurl.com/2lglm9
Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
http://tinyurl.com/dbzttz
Book of the Seven Planets
by Ramon Llull
http://tinyurl.com/zopuv
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa:
Of Occult Philosophy, Book I. (part 1)
Chap. iii.
Of the four Elements, their Qualities, and Mutual
Mixtions.
There are four Elements, and original grounds of all
corporeal things, Fire, Earth, Water, Air, of which
all elementated inferior bodies are compounded; not
by way of heaping them up together, but by transmutation,
and union; and when they are destroyed, they are resolved
into Elements.
Now, every one of the Elements hath two specifical
qualities, the former whereof it retains as proper to
it self, in the other, as a mean, it agrees with that
which comes next after it.
For Fire is hot and dry, -(Summer)
the Earth dry and cold, -(Autumn)
the Water cold and moist,-(Winter)
the Air moist and hot. -(Spring)
And so after this manner the Elements, according to
two contrary qualities, are contrary one to the other,
as Fire to Water, and Earth to Air.
Four Seasons Chess
http://tinyurl.com/9mbel
Farmer's Chess
< with Java app >
http://tinyurl.com/azham
" Chapter I's Section 1.5 will examine the games of the
fifth treatise, chess and backgammon for four rather
than two players. Here again, I will discuss the rules
for play and the history and evolution of these game
modifications.
The variations of both games explicitly underscore the
importance of the symbolism of the terrestrial number
four, aligning the colors of the players' pieces with
the four seasons, the four elements and the four humors
of the body.
This chapter will be of the greatest importance for our
understanding of the links which can be established with
the similarly symbolic fourhanded, cross-shaped game of
pachisi and its significance for the common evolution of
these games and their innate metaphors, all of which will
be treated in detail in the final chapter of the dissertation.
Chess itself represents the four arms of the traditional
Indian army as played on a four-sided board as can be
deduced from its original name chaturanga (Skt. chatur,
"four" and anga "arms, branches"). "
~ from :
Los Libros de Acedrex Dados e Tablas: Historical, Artistic
and Metaphysical Dimensions of Alfonso X’S Book of Games
by
Sonja Musser Golladay ( .PDF )
http://tinyurl.com/2b44h7f
Enochian Chess
http://tinyurl.com/24ejcub
The Astrological Origin of Islamic Geomancy
by Wim van Binsbergen ( .PDF )
http://tinyurl.com/5b5efx
Ripley's Key
[ was: Black, White, Green, Red
- Alchemy and Enochiana ]
Message #4831 of 7137
Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:20 pm
http://tinyurl.com/2cjg3go
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem Caigan
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"Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."
*Of the Division of Chaos*
-Dr. Simon Forman
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