On Wed, 4 Sep 1996 12:46:04 +0100 (BST) Wise One wrote:
> From: Wise One <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 12:46:04 +0100 (BST)
> Subject: thoughts on (de flore fratris) letter by bill
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> (sympathetic magic) refer to end of letter or the 10th of June posting by
> by Bill East
>
> This just shows how willing and desperate people were to find patterns in
> nature in those days.
> The people of the age were looking for any way to explain life patterns
> where as we have many of the answerHs on a plate and since the majority
> were I thing to buizzy to think deeply on the subject simple patterns were
> made to alai the problems of the day.
> some groups used this situation to gain influence and power with the
> people the same as has happened today with some cults by providing a
> background belief to live and work by.
>
> Please think on this and respond to the group
>
> Rupert Summerskill
>
> Thank you; but the suggestion was not mine. I merely forwarded it from an interested person not
on this network. I have no particular opinion in the matter. Bill.
>
> On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Bill East wrote:
>
> >
> > Forwarded Message:
> > From: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:54:48 +0100
> > Subject: RE: de flore fratris
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Bill,
> > It's a form of sympathetic magic, like those referred to in Theodore's
> > Penitential, in which babies with fevers were put into ovens and with chills
> > put on to roofs. Dip the tool in the stuff, and it should spring into action
> > and produce its own. But, again, father, I'm only guessing.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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