Re: VMs: A few comments from a newbie...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pam,

At 02:43 08/03/2004 -0800, Pam Frazier wrote:
> I just recently picked up a book entitled "The Secrets of Nostradamus" by 
> David Ovason.  In this book,
> Ovason discusses something called the "Green Language".  Has anyone on the 
> list heard of this?  It would
> appear this arcane language has been around a very long time and was used 
> by those initiated into the
> sciences of alchemy, astrology, etc.  For instance, linguistic interchange 
> is discussed "wherein letters and
> words are substituted for one another by changing the orders of 
> predetermined key words."
> The purpose of the green language is to obscure or hide the intentions of 
> the writer from the general
> reader.  By this method, one can use terms or words that have 2, 3 or more 
> levels of meaning.  This
> green language "....is expressly used to delude, elucidate and condense."

http://www.argotique.com/ ...
        The Green Language AKA The Language of the Birds AKA The Magical 
Language.

Chronos Apollonius' site (for herbal-related stuff, especially check out 
his pages on the Goddess' Garden and the many individual plant pages in his 
Ganymede's Garden section):-
        http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/6581/
        http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/6581/green_language.html
        The avid reader of esoteric material will come across the expressions,
        "The Green Language", and "The Language of Birds". I often encounter
        those who are quite aware of what these words mean, but I do not
        know if I can tell you if I know of any who seem to possess a sizable
        mastery of the concepts and connotations, and perhaps there are no
        such individuals any more. You are likely to find as many
        interpretations of those phrases as you can find those willing to
        attempt interpreting them. Have we lost, therefore, something
        infinitely precious, some priceless key to the past?
        ...
        Given a good grasp of icons and plant iconography, you may come to
        some rather luxurious sets of rationale as to exactly why it's called
        "the language of the birds", or the "green language".

Perhaps the main source for all this is ultimately Fulcanelli's (1926) "The 
Mystery of the Cathedrals":-
        http://vincentbridges.com/chap1a.html
        Fulcanelli's main point, the key to unraveling the mystery, lies in an
        understanding of what he calls the "phonetic law" of the "spoken 
cabala,"
        or the "Language of the Birds." This punning, multi-lingual word 
play can
        be used to reveal unusual and, according to Fulcanelli, meaningful
        associations between ideas. "What unsuspected marvels we should
        find, if we knew how to dissect words, to strip them of their 
barks and
        liberate the spirit, the divine light, which is within," 
Fulcanelli writes.
        He claims that in our day this is the natural language of the 
outsiders,
        the outlaws and heretics at the fringes of society.

        It was also the "green language" of the Freemasons ("All the Initiates
        expressed themselves in cant," Fulcanelli reminds us) who built 
the art
        gothique of the cathedrals. Ultimately the "art cot," or the "art 
of light,"
        is derived from the Language of the Birds, which seems to be a sort of
        Ur-language taught by both Jesus and the ancients. It is also 
related to
        the Sufi text by Attar the Chemist, entitled "The Conference of 
the Birds."
        In de Tassey's French translation of this work, which Fulcanelli 
references,
        the "conference" of the title is translated as "language." De 
Tassey goes
        on to explain the complex linguist metaphor beneath the simple fable.
        Fulcanelli uses the same method to decode the alchemical meaning
        of the cathedrals.
        ...
        Fulcanelli, like Shakespeare, overwhelms the reader with his 
brilliance.
        It is difficult to accept this man as anything but an incredible 
intelligence.

        But even after careful reading, one finds that the "mystery" of 
the cathedrals
        is never explained, and that what one assumes to be the basic 
mystery of
        Alchemy is only glancingly delineated.

However, there's *much* more to Fulcanelli than at first meets the eye... 
fascinating stuff! :-)

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


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