Hi Dennis
Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx> a écrit:
> for an alchemist
> this H letter is the one for spirit, according to the tradition I know (a
> bit).
"Do you mean a gallows-like H? I hadn't heard that such a
symbol was alchemical! Please elaborate."
OK, I mean a "normal" H, then first, besides the famous alchemist Fulcanelli's
identical opinion (XXth century) here is an excerpt of one his French indirect pupils: Bernard Biebel in his preface
for his edition of Rosinus, On the operation of the philosophers' stone (Tredaniel,
Paris, 1986, page 22):
"In antic Greece, the H letter -êta-, the initial capital for hélios, symbolically marked
spirit, the vital ruach, even if not simply life".
Now let me recall for instance:
VMs: Alphabet Characters Found Elsewhere
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Subject: VMs: Alphabet Characters Found Elsewhere
From: "Robert Teague" <rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:56:29 -0800
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I looked in my copy of the Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic,
and Alchemical Sigils by Fred Gettings last night, and
without doing any real searching came across eight
of the alphabet symbols. In EVA:
o, s, y, c, q, x, and d
Robert
unquote
"The man in the window is obviously Phillipe Le Bon; it's a
rather curious image, since it looks like a photo of a real
sign, but the face is a painting."
Right, what we in French call a "trompe l'oeil", Voynichesely enough,
BTW.
Philip the Good and Nicolas Rolin are connected together and the former is linked to the
creation of the possibly alchemical order of the golden fleece:
Jean