Scio Sophia

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This and That

“We shall bring you Absolute Truth, Absolute Light, Absolute Bliss” - Liber Porta Lucis, verse 17

Absolute Truth, Absolute Light, Absolute Bliss = A.T.A.L.A.B. = B.A.L.A.T.A., which in the Angelic tongue means “Justice”

Graphic rendition of hieroglyph given in Ch. 11 of J. Daniel Gunther’s “Inward Journey” Book III

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Perfect magnets

[hoiplatapolloi]

Fun story: One of the first things I was taught as an astronomy student is that, if you want to be a dick to someone giving a presentation, ask them “and how do the magnetic fields play into this?” and they will invariably say “fuck you I don’t know” because no one understands magnetic fields they are black magic.

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Originally posted by fencehopping

[kasaron]

Magnets are pure bullshit.

Pure utter bullshit. Electromagnetic forces somehow outstrip gravitic forces in strength by an obscene factor, for no reason I can comprehend and it bothers me.

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I love magnets

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I LOVE THIS MANUSCRIPT and it’s even neater in gif form. 

LJS 47, De institutione musica

Summary: 15th-century copy of a Latin treatise on the Pythagorean-based theory of ancient Greek music by Boethius (d. 524), in which the text reflects an older (10th-century) tradition and the numerous diagrams related to ratio and pitch demonstrate later developments in the tradition.

Written in France, ca. 1490.

On OPenn: http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs47.html

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The Greek Gods, by the Bohemian etcher Wenzel Hollar (also known as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas, 1607-1677).

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It’s so cool that it has Hebe and Iris!

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Scored this a bookstore in Providence, Rhode Island.

[themathkid]

“The large 13 x 13 square is magic — that is, each row and column adds to the same sum — but so is each successive nested square, from 11 x 11 down to 3 x 3.

The magic constant of each square is 10,874 smaller than the last.

And every cell is prime.”

[visualizingmath]

Spotted in Mathematical Curiosities by Alfred S. Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann: “The Amazing Number 193,939″. Regardless of what way you arrange the digits 193,939, the resulting number is prime! These special numbers are called circular primes. 

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Visualizing Prime Numbers

Jason Davies has created a way to visualize prime numbers as periodic curves (curves that repeat every n points). Wherever only two curves intersect (for 1 and the number), that’s a prime.

Play with the interactive, zoomable version here. Awesome stuff!

[scio-sophia]

Lunar Sigil

“I used often to make the background of my Talismans of four concentric circles, painting them, the first (inmost) in the King (or Knight) scale, the second in the Queen, the third in the Prince, and the outermost in the Princess scale, of the Sign, Planet, or Element to which I was devoting it. On this, preferably in the “flashing” colours, I would paint the appropriate Names and Figures.”

-Aleister Crowley, “Magick Without Tears” Ch. XX: Talismans...para. 16

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My Brother, Frater Ion, drew this amazing picture as a house warming gift. I love having Three Mothers. 

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This was my first attempt at making a qabalistic image. 

It’s an analysis of Samekh, and the (Rain)Bow and Arrow, that aspire towards the Sun. 

קשת is a hebrew word that translates as both Rainbow and Archers Bow. 

Samekh corresponds to Sagittarius, The Archer, Atu XIV  named Art. 

The 8 and 90 rules of Art may allude to a Pure Arrow, 

חץ translates as Arrow, צח translates as Pure.

[scio-sophia]

111

Love

Amo

אלף

אחד הוא אלהים

אעם

מהולל

אנס

אסן

פלא

אפל

ιο αλ!

[scio-sophia]

418

הרו רא הא

אבראהאדאברא

גבר אביר

חית

תו וו

רא הוור

את יאו

‘Ερμης ‘Ειμι

το μη!

Αιϝασς

Ρη Βητ

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The numerical attributions used on this blog will adhere to this Key, with the inclusion of the letter Stigma, στ, also standing in for the value of 6. 

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A Pillar of 418. 

‘Ερμης ‘ειμι, רא הוור, AZΩת, – P-A-B-I

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Kircher’s Tree of Life, drawn in 1652 almost identical to the system used by the Golden Dawn and Thelema. Just a few planets in different spots, but all Hebrew letters are positioned in the same place.