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^ Flamel, Figures bieraglyphiques, 2W

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^?0 It is interesting to look at the metallurgical symbols of the signs accompanying die text. Cinnabar,

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^Della Riviera, Monde magico, 4, 5, 116, 118. 149. ^? Agrippa, De occulra philosophic, 3.53.

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^Plotinus, Enncads, 2.2.9; 4,12. The investigations made by Levy-Bruhl in Primitive Menal/cy and The Primitive Soul demonstrate how, interestingly, under the surface of many rites for the "knowledge” of die future, there is actually a hidden magical operation for determining the future; thus, the exactitude of the presumed prophecy and the efficacy of the operation or rite would be the same thing. That eveii turns out to be the case, in cerrain aspects, with the ancient Roman augural science

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^Text in CAG. 2:213. Agrippa (De occuka philosophia, 1.13) speaks of a double experience of the action as command in the first causes, and as "necessity" in the domain of those '’ministrancs” from whose circle, according ro a hermetic text already quoted, the immortalized soul escapes.
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^Agrippa, Dc occulta philosophic, 3,44.

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