Re: VMs: Paracelsus - code

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Luis,

> > We may also assume, and I believe correctly, that much of what he 
> actually did
> > write, was written in a kind of "code", familiar to others in his 
> field, but
> > to avoid the attentions of the Inquisitors. The Muslim Sufis too, did 
> this .
> > Most if not all of their so-called "Love Poetry" is actually highly 
> diguised
> > metaphysical philosophical exposition.
>
> Source:
> http://www.mtsn.org.uk/staff/staffpages/cer/tempest/supernatural.htm
>
> Has anyone heard about this 'code' before? or the Sufi version?

My guess is that these both signify "code" in the same sense that 
alchemical descriptions do: ie, that they have meanings veiled by their use 
of language, as opposed to languages veiled by their use of enciphering. 
"Semantic coding", as opposed to "syntactic coding".

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

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