Re: VMs: Finding

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jorge Aveleira <jorvel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [...] Folio 86 contains nine
> circles or spheres; each one
> is illustrated in a distinct way and linked to the
> adjacent spheres by means
> of connections, paths or flows also of varied
> aspect.  [...]
> folio 86 contains an early, perhaps the earliest
> surviving pictorial rendition of  the Tree of Life,
> the Sephirotic Tree from
> kabbalistic jewish tradition! 
> 
> Nine sephiroth are showing in folio 86, arranged as
> usual in three triads. I
> believe that the missing and lowermost sephira,
> Malkhut-kingdom may have
> been deliberately excluded  here, or maybe that
> drawing was conceived
> before the graphical addition of Malkhut to the
> other nine sephirot, aimed
> to sum up a so interpreted perfect number of 10
> elements. [...]

Interesting. The comparison with the Sepiroth tree
was made at least once before, by Gabriel in personal
E-mail exhanges to me, but at the time I was not
too convinced since all illustrations I've seen
of it include 10 circles, not nine, and they
were arranged in a different manner.
Also, without exception, they were adorned with
Hebrew writing.

Now if I understand correctly from your description
that a tenth circle was really added later, it
is worth reconsidering.
if you want to propose an identification of each of
the circles:
 
> Binah          intelligence
> Kether        crown
> Hokhmah    wisdom
 (etc)

it is worth keeping in mind that outside the four
corners there are four additional symbols, some
of which are barely visible:
upper left: sun or moon
upper right: T/O-map
lower left: the so-called clock, looks more like an
            alchemical symbol
lower right: sun or moon

As to the many other suggestions for this page:
I am not yet convinced by any of them. I don't
think it is a map. All the geographical elements
(castle and other buildings) are near the upper
right circle, which also has the T/O map, so
for me the upper right circle is 'geography'.
The suggestion that the picture represents
the four elements and the four 'flavours' is
excellent by itself, but there are no pictorial
elements that confirm it in any way.

In any interpretation, I think that the
central figure should have a 'central' 
meaning. Note that it is filled either with 
flasks or minarets. (I rather think flasks).

Note, however, that this is just my personal
opinion, and there are dozens of other personal
opinions to be found. At least! :-).

Cheers, Rene

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