![]() This particular arrangement of the letters is a blind however, and does not decipher the text, but merely serves to illustrate the principle of the cipher without giving away the secret message too easily. , while from the central square we see that B is Thus taking the angles of the relevant square C is, E (since it is dotted) is The key to this is given in the top left and right hand corners of the square Around three sides of this square setting is a message spelt out in the Royal Arch cipher or secret masonic script. This engraving shows an egg-shaped space set within a square frame, here stylised into an architectural form. At the very least we can see how hermetic ideas were woven into the complex symbolism of late 18th century Masonry in England. I am not a masonic scholar so am in no sense qualified to analyse the symbolism from that standpoint, however, there are so many hermetic resonances that I think it may be instructive to examine the symbolic content from the hermetic viewpoint. I am grateful to Joscelyn Godwin for bringing this item to my attention. Hermetic cross meaning series#This sixth plate from the series is especially rich in symbolism and as much of which has obvious hermetic undertones it especially attracted my interest. These were however of English origin, being engraved by P. The man who isolates himself from every human love, saying, ‘I will serve God,’ deceives himself.I reproduce here the final plate in a set of six copperplate engravings found in the archives of a masonic lodge in Bamberg in Germany. ![]() The egoism of man merits isolation and despair that of the family, ruin and exile that of the fatherland, war and invasion. “Man owes himself to his family his family owes itself to the fatherland and the fatherland to humanity.“if practised en masse, it would remake our world in the name not so much of economic and social revolution as personal happiness.”."For the meaning of the word hriliu consult Liber 418.".The man who isolates himself from every human love, saying, 'I will serve God,' deceives himself." "Man owes himself to his family his family owes itself to the fatherland and the fatherland to humanity.This entry was posted in The Hermetic Library, The John Dee Publication Project, The Obsidian Mirror of John Dee and Edward Kelly and tagged 1564, 2000, alchemical process, be silent, becoming God, books, circle, conjunction, creation, creative memory, cross, fire, generative faculty, gnostic regenerative experience, hieroglyphic monad, john dee, key, key to the universe, line, magus, moon, partaking of the divine, redemption, sun, symbol, transmutation, understand, unity, universe, Weiser Books on Octoby John Griogair Bell. If you would like to contribute to the Hermetic Library Reading Room, consider supporting the library or contact the librarian. The Hermetic Library Reading Room is an imaginary and speculative future reification of the library in the physical world, a place to experience a cabinet of curiosities offering a confabulation of curation, context and community that engages, archives and encourages a living Western Esoteric Tradition. The key to the glyph is in the meditation and study of it, and all it suggests to the ‘creative memory.’ It is not surprising that Dee’s contemporaries in the universities chose to ignore this valuable treatise on a key to the universe, thus causing him to have engraved upon the frontispiece, ‘Who does not understand should either learn or be silent.’-an admonition as true today as it was then.” These rest upon a cross, the ternary and quaternary, and all are mounted upon two connected half circles, the original fire of creation. From this point revolve Sun and Moon, intersected to suggest their conjunction and generative faculty. ![]() His monad represents the alchemical process and goal of the Magus who, in partaking of the divine, achieves that gnostic regenerative experience of becoming God, and thus furthers the redemption and transmutation of worlds.Įverything, Dee states, is dependent upon the circle and the straight line, which, in turn, are formed from the point. John Dee, explains his discovery of the unity underlying the universe, as expressed in a hieroglyph, or symbol. ![]() “This book, written in thirteen days in 1564 by the renowned Elizabethan magus, Dr. ![]() The Hieroglyphic Monad by Dr John Dee, the 2000 paperback from Weiser Books, is part of the collection at the Reading Room. ![]()
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