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^ Dc pharmaco carholico, 5, §1. Cf. Introduzione alia m agia, 3:11. Sr ill more explicit is Pemety, Dictionnaire, 6, and Fables, 1:96.

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¹ CMA, 3:110.

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^Enittikns, BPC. 2.97.

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^ Ibid., 4, §24
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Boehrne. De signature, 13, §34; 14, §47 When ir is said that all vegetative life, that is, ^, consists ot des/re (De signarura, 6, §1), it refers to that infection transmitted by the lunar principle whence elemental greed is derived and the blind insnner of preserving the animal bodv. We may also recall by this the eras, which according to Plotinus (Enneads, 3.5.7). is engendered by the reflection of the "good” in this world, mistaken as the good in oneself.

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^ Gicluel, Theosophiii practice, 2 §5; mrrotiucrion, §K; 1, §53

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- Ibid., 2, §§6, 12, 13, 51, 54. Cf. Boehine, (Aurora, 25, §98; 11, §§68, 70): "Heaven is hidden in the heart"; "The gates of Heaven are opened in iny spirit; whereupon the spirit sees the divine and celestial being, not outside the body—but in the bubbling wellspring of the heart the lightning strikes, releasing its flash in the sens/nViryot the brain, where the spirit contemplates . . lor the flash begins in the heart and rises up to the brain, through the seven fountain-spirits, as though it were dawn, and this is the goal and the enlightenment.”

Gichtel, Thcosophia practica, §§98, 99. Gichtel, in describing the experience, says: ' Suddenly my spirit received an impact and I fell ro earth ” (3, §50), which would be interesting ro compare with the expressions concerning the death of the heart that figure in the secret language of the so-called Hdeli J A more: in the Vita Nuova, "Love" awakens the sleeping "Lady” and gives her Dante’s heart to eat - and in Lapo Gianni, when the "Woman” appears bringing "health,” "the heart that was living, dies." (Cf. L, Valli, if linguaggio segreto, 159, 277); cf. the hermetic maxim, "Kill the living, resuscitate the dead. ”

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 Novum lumen chemicum, 4, §24. Dante (Vita Nuova, 2) speaks of "the Spirit . . that dwells in the most secret chamber of the heart.”

' CMA. 3:135.
~ Corpus Hermeticum, 4.2; 71.