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another ancient Hermetic text: the extremely brief and elliptical Emerald Tablet,
The Three Initiates • The Kybalion: Centenary Edition
The captain’s testimony, on returning, was that he had sailed the ship for twenty days and nights through such violent seas and winds that he could not tell where they were. Then, after the twentieth day, they caught sight of the island of Britain, whose inhabitants were suffering terribly in a great famine. On landing, they told ‘the chief man of
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Dictionary dump (unformatted): a/an : “A was modified from the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the eagle. In Hebrew it was an ox, and in Greek it was a “symbol of a bad AUGURY in the sacrifices.” The distinction between a/an happened around the 1300s. aardvark : South African “earth pig” aaron’s serpent : “something so powerful as to swallow up mi
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M. E. Rothwell on Substack
WIP definitions:
Aganippe : In Greek legend, a fountain of Boetia at the foot of Mount Helicon, dedicated to the MUSES because it imparted poetic inspiration. Hence the Muses are sometimes called Aganippides. Also the NYMPH of this fountain.
ages: Hesiod (8th century BC): golden, silver, brazen, heroic, iron (also planets) — Shakespeare's 7 ages in A
agnostic : unknowable.
agoraphobia : fear of unfamiliar situations in public.
agrarian : agre = acre, of the land.
Amalthea’s horn : a myth about abundance / having everything you desire. Zeus’s nurse fed goat milk to an infant, snapped off it’s horn, and promised that Zeus will have a pampered life.
amaranth : a fadeless flower.
Amaurote : Thomas Moore