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Who sees, who asks, who writes?
Explain how seer, questioner and recorder contribute different parts of an angelic conference.
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The glass and stone as instruments of vision
Explain how consecration, a visible appearance, a truthful answer and permission to depart form different parts of the glass-or-stone encounter.
18 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONThe Demotic Papyrus
A vessel large enough for a world
Explain how the first invocation transforms a vessel into a place of revelation, and distinguish the operator, witness and divine presence.
12 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONThe Tarot
The whole pack upon one table
Read the Juggler as a diagram of Papus’s whole system, and distinguish its symbolic teaching from its later fortune-telling use.
13 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONPalmistry
The hand as a little cosmos
Explain why Saunders begins a book about hands with planets and the zodiac, and distinguish the observed hand from its proposed cosmic meaning.
14 min readOpen lesson
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Two kinds of foreknowledge
Distinguish astronomical calculation from Ptolemy’s conditional art of judging effects.
12 min readOpen lesson
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