tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post643010364757825109..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: GLYPHS Twilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-39283579242824604662013-02-21T23:17:39.460-06:002013-02-21T23:17:39.460-06:00mike ~~~ GROAN!!!! Talk about lunatics being in c...mike ~~~ GROAN!!!! Talk about lunatics being in charge of the asylum!<br /><br />They'd have me on the ducking stool on the banks of the Red River before my feet touched the ground. Luckily, however, there's not enough water in the Red River at present to do much harm......droughts, climate change an' all that stuff they don't believe in have done their bit. <br />;-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-69650988911100320592013-02-21T21:30:31.236-06:002013-02-21T21:30:31.236-06:00Well, Twilight, I see that Oklahoma just passed a ...Well, Twilight, I see that Oklahoma just passed a creationism bill. Maybe you can suggest to the board of education that astrology, alchemy, and Hermetica are given fair play, as well.<br /><br />http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/oklahoma-hr1674-science-evolution-climate-changemike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-22015686309476376852013-02-21T15:06:03.536-06:002013-02-21T15:06:03.536-06:00mike ~~ Yes, many of the great thinkers of the pas...mike ~~ Yes, many of the great thinkers of the past had a soft spot for alchemy, along with the other ancient mysteries it seems. Alchemy both as a physical possibility (transmutation of metals), philosopher's stone; a way of ensuring longevity, or just in an allegorical/spiritual context.<br /><br />It's all very interesting - I shall dig around, try to absorb and do a bit of bloggish-alchemy myself: see if I can condense some of the info available into an blog-digesitble format. ;-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-67957592413612179502013-02-21T14:58:09.717-06:002013-02-21T14:58:09.717-06:00Sonny ~~ That sounds like a splendid plan!
I'...Sonny ~~ That sounds like a splendid plan!<br /><br />I'll read up more on alchemy and see what I can come up with that doesn't sound too "off the wall". ;-)<br /><br />Thanks for your good wishes, warmly returned.<br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-26426672057146146192013-02-21T10:33:46.951-06:002013-02-21T10:33:46.951-06:00The ancient human comprehension of the world and u...The ancient human comprehension of the world and universe is quite abstract from our modern day indifference to the natural creation surrounding us. We moderns seem intent on creating an artificial edifice to supplant the natural.<br /><br />Interesting that Isaac Newton, the founder of mechanical physics and modern calculus, was a devotee of alchemy. PBS' NOVA did a program about his obsession:<br /><br />"Newton was fascinated by Starkey's encoded laboratory processes, extracting and interpreting them many times throughout his manuscripts. Like Starkey, Newton believed that ancient Greek and Roman mythology contained hidden alchemical secrets. For example, the story (found in Ovid's Metamorphoses) that the gods Venus and Mars, locked in an illicit embrace, were trapped in a bronze net by Venus's husband Vulcan was interpreted as an allegory for making an alloy of copper and star-regulus that Starkey called "the Net." Alchemists traditionally used planetary names for the metals, naming lead Saturn, iron Mars, tin Jupiter, gold Sol, copper Venus, quicksilver Mercury, and silver Luna, so it is easy to see how a fable concerning Venus and Mars could be seen as a chemical recipe."<br />http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/newton-alchemy.htmlmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-26098625331768681102013-02-21T08:50:53.324-06:002013-02-21T08:50:53.324-06:00thanks Annie.
I'm going to screen print the...thanks Annie.<br /><br /> I'm going to screen print the sample you posted and take it to my graphics program and make it into art that I can print out - frame and sit where I can see it at my desk.. <br /> maybe my subconcious ? bad speller:)<br /> can absorb it or if not I'll have it to refer to..<br /><br /> please post more about alchemy. I have been intrigued by that subject since I was a teen..<br />thanks for another great read.,<br /><br />wishing you joy and peace<br />SonnySonny Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06926830309207639536noreply@blogger.com