ARS GEOMETRICA IX

Originally posted on Stuart France:

‘…From a man and a woman make a circle…’
- The Sixteenth Leaf.

We thought again of The Officers Of Law who appeared to see the girl as a man?

‘The Spirit as Inner Fire is ‘Agni’ for the Vedic and ‘Hermes’ for the Greek.

The vessel defines the content which is a perception.

Make the vessel transparent in order to ‘see’ clearly.’

The ’Seventeenth’ Leaf

Clearly, this sequence of directions related to a famous alchemical engraving.

We dashed to our library…

‘The Flight of Atalanta’ by Michael Maier…

‘The squaring of the circle represents a marriage of opposites. It can be accomplished in two ways, by area or perimeter. The circle is a symbol of the eternal element in creation, whilst the square represents solid matter and human works…

The largest squared circle in the natural world is the earth and moon.
Earth’s mean radius is 3960 miles and…

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