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From: Henk <[log in to unmask]>
> Hylic as in.?
> Henk
From: Jeffrey R. Woolf
> Nahmanides (1195-1270; Catalonia and Israel) explicitly states that the
opening verse in Genesis establishes the creation of hylic matter, from which
all subsequent parts of creation were formed.
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i thought it was Platonic, rather than Aristotelian, but the OED disagrees
(what do *they* know?).
c
OED:
HYLE
[ < med.L. hyle, a. Gr. {uasperacu}{lambda}{eta} wood, timber, material, by
Aristotle and in later Gr. ‘matter’.]
obs.
Matter, substance; the first matter of the universe.
1390 GOWER Conf. III. 91 That matere universall, Which hight Ylem in
speciall.
c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. (E.E.T.S.) 94 Of {th}e saule commys
ano{th}er substance, {th}at ys clepyd {th}e yle.
1569 J. SANDFORD tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 70b, Of the undiuisible partes, of
Hile, of matiers.
1619 PURCHAS Microcosm. lviii. 564 Vncreated Chaos, or Hyla, or first Matter.
a1652 J. SMITH Sel. Disc. iv. 118 This hyle or matter..is indeed nothing else
but the soul's potentiality.
a1687 H. MORE App. to De Philos. Cabbal. viii. (1713) 182 That Hyle or first
Matter is mere Possibility of Being, according to Aristotle.
1768-74 TUCKER Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 464 Jove produced the two first numbers, the
mundane soul and hyle: he made hyle inert and stupid, but to the mundane soul
he gave activity and understanding.
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