We may thm justify our horizontal
interpretation?
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The Sigla of Pitmilg"HS W"k.
(il) rhatthose thingo which weu to have betnon the bank would later be in the bed;
(iii) that everything ~gni= itsdf through oomething opposite;
(iv) that the . cream. i. embraced by rival hanb. "
The comtruction of an cquilattraltriangl. i. the fi. . . . t p'oposi_ tion in Euclid', Ekmenu ofG. t>>mfry, and irs application to the following pages has been demonstrated by Fritl Senn. " The &e>[- ual intcrprctlltion of the figure h. a. a precedent in the ~sociatioOl of the Vui? Pile;', or fish'. bladder, which i. the central ovoid
pOrtion, where the cirdes "". [lap. " In Ib I the Rev. Thoma. Kerrich demonstrated the prcci. . ae<:<>mmodatinn of the Vu ';'" into numerous Gothic plans, windom and dnorw:l. y. . . . . Itandard measure. " William Stirli"l! went on to pmhc: ito oignificancc;
It i. known both to fr=. ons and architects that the my"i(21 figu~ called the Ve<ica Pi",;", "" popular in the middle ages, and genenlly placed a. the first proposition of Euclid, was a symbol applied by the maooru. in planning their tempI. . . . . . . lbe V. . . ica wa. also ~gard. d as. baneful object under lbe name of lbe 'Evil Eye', and the charm mo. t generally employed to aven lbe druid effect. of its fascination woothe PIullu? . . . . In the East the Vesica wu
used a. a . ymbol of the womb. . . . To every Christi. an lbe Vesica is familiar from its constant U K in early an, fnr nOt only wa, it an attribute of the Vi'llin and the feminine aspect of lbe Saviour as symbolized by the ,""ulld in his ,ide, but it commonly surrounru lbe figure of Chrin, a, hi. Throne when . . . . . ttd in glory. "
Thefigure on 293 mean. a gmtt many things. Firstly the Vi. . ",. of Dublin (1';13. <2) appear from both sides. From 294. 02-4 we divine a prospect with north at Ihe top and the . I. . iibl line AL . tOpping . . . ,tward at Lamhay Island. 293. 15- 16 pr0p0sC5the un-
real;"ti. scale of one ineh 10 lbe mile. Less obviously, lbe city plan "From Prof. . . . ,. Tanntt'. """0010",,,,, AWN lII? l (I? lI\<I), . -l?
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? ? display? . olo widening from" and bol. tered by C and A on her banks as the Great Elm and ! he Mearing Stone (293. 14). The latter was . ilUllted in . . wall too yard. south of Dublin Castle" so the appropriation of the right bank by A i. pcrpcru. ated. The elm should ~ the one mentioned in TM How", by ,he Ch",chYllTd" a. ,tanding in Chapelizod, on the left of the Liffey. Further out lie the Cin:umfluent Royal and Grand Canal. , which have affinities with both Ci A and . . . . . ~. The practical ~metry fayou. . . . . . . . ~. With alpha as centre and the other COTnpUS? p<>int on lambda circum. . 5Cri~ a circle (294. 08-,0). Now reverse the compa. ses SO that L
has A as its exlension (295. 18-21). Draw . ! I<:COnd eirel(. That makes a dainty/idrnrical pair of compasses/accomplices/lasses. Now there'. twO tricky/trickling poin. . . /ponds where the Dublin drcula. . . (the two canal. parallel the two Circular Ro:ad. ) mttting approximalely in Ihe sweet by and by, loop into each other. Look 'ee herel l. ee where you mean. The W. e. (19S. 13-196. ot).
We may thm justify our horizontal interpretation? . The text now proceeds to superimpose a vertical one. C exploin, that he'd like to make a capital P down there on the bottom, and let A go and make hi. "up at hi. end (196. 04-ro). He i, mOlivatcd by ",mi_ nal reasons, of which Ficin<> . aid that there wtt<: as many in the soul of lhe world . s lhere were ideas in men's minds. The two
seto corre'ponded. " Now, to complete Ihe angles, ~loved b r e t h r e n , j o i n " I ' a n d P L b y d o t r o d l i n . , a n d L~ a n d , , , . b y t r u n k
lines (296. 22-"7).
During the lesson C calls A 'Michael' and A caUs C 'Nickel'.
The figure must Ihen include. cosmogony with AL the world, below heaven (,,) and above hell (P). Compare figure 4, which
sbow. . the Ch/lldw-J~ish <<>SJnOllony from hi' Umml. d. This i. meant to incorporote the ten Sephil"(lth and their nether anti? theses. Madame Bl. vatsky'. diagram crnt,. . ,. n o t on a V ~,;"' Pi<&" but on a ,ix'pointed star formed by IW1> equilateral triangles. Thi. emblem, Solomon', seal, is included in C . expooi! ion: 'I'll make you to ,. . figuratleavdy the wbome of your <:terruol ~mat. ". . And if you flung her lu:addre. . on her fl"(lm under her highl<>w! l you'd wheeze whyse Salmonson set his . . . 1on a hexengown . . . Pi",! ' ( 296. 30-297 . 06).
The: wisdom of Solomon bt<:om. es rhot conferred upon Finn when he ate the Solmon 0{ Wisdom, for which the angle. . .
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,
F~4 OWd. . ,. J. . . . iabe<>smOfOIlyf"""f,;,U. . . ,. ;w, by H . P. BI. ". tsky.
? (geometrician,) > = I I to be fishing. At 011. 32 and 076. 24 we SllW . . . pr"'erving the reoiduum "fm ,in a km k of fish. We also find tbeketd. at 316. :1Oand 3:10. 16, and Z19. Z4-5 echoes 'So they put On the kenle and made tea' with 'So they fished in the kettle and fough. free'. h the ketde " r fi. h the V",ca Pi",,?
The first page of nolebook VI. O. S i. VI. CS. 2f,. There arc drawings of Solomon's scal on VI. C. 8. 270 and z7S, while VI. C. 8. 186 includes a diamond-. baped figure labelled APLP at tbe appropriate extremities. A later prototype (VI. B. 2J. 128) . . . . nd- wiches a minute unlenered uiangle between two overlapping circles.
As Stwlrt Gilbert tell. us," Solomon'. ocal illustrates the open- ing of the Emerald Tablt of Hermes Tritmegi. tus (263. 21-2). Uvi'. HjuoiFt de la mtlIie ties it 10 the Zt! har, by means of hi, plat. . III and IV . He tell, us that 'the face of God, crowned with light, rose over the vast sea and wu rdlteted in the w:o. tcl'S th. reof. Hi. two eyes wcre manif. . . ed, r:o. diating with splendour, darting tWO beams of light which cruISed with thoac of the reflection. The br<>w of God and Hi. eyes formed a triangle in beaven, and ito reflection formed a second triangle in the w:o. t. . . . . So was ",,,",,led tbe number six, being tha. "r univcoal CrQ. tion. '''
Fi""lly "f course the water is -l" mirror, providillj a vertical female orientation. 11. 1 showed C defealed by . be par::uto" "r colour; here he is defealed by the fluidity of hi? ? ubjte! , by in 'pm'pawI< J>eTlphtty' (298. L). The diltmnu i, prcacnted at
298. 08-299. <>" in tc. --rru of the infinit. . imal calCUlus. If the curve illU$tr-ating the rat<: of challlle of the periphery be produced, the area it cnc](lses may be estimated. A succes,ion of lin. ,. running perpendicularly from ,be bue (absci. . . . ) to cut the curve cncl"le a series of rectangles, whose areu Jhould be added tog<:th<:r 1() givcit. But. . oneendofeacbrectanglei.
? 68
The Sigla of Pitmilg"HS W"k.
(il) rhatthose thingo which weu to have betnon the bank would later be in the bed;
(iii) that everything ~gni= itsdf through oomething opposite;
(iv) that the . cream. i. embraced by rival hanb. "
The comtruction of an cquilattraltriangl. i. the fi. . . . t p'oposi_ tion in Euclid', Ekmenu ofG. t>>mfry, and irs application to the following pages has been demonstrated by Fritl Senn. " The &e>[- ual intcrprctlltion of the figure h. a. a precedent in the ~sociatioOl of the Vui? Pile;', or fish'. bladder, which i. the central ovoid
pOrtion, where the cirdes "". [lap. " In Ib I the Rev. Thoma. Kerrich demonstrated the prcci. . ae<:<>mmodatinn of the Vu ';'" into numerous Gothic plans, windom and dnorw:l. y. . . . . Itandard measure. " William Stirli"l! went on to pmhc: ito oignificancc;
It i. known both to fr=. ons and architects that the my"i(21 figu~ called the Ve<ica Pi",;", "" popular in the middle ages, and genenlly placed a. the first proposition of Euclid, was a symbol applied by the maooru. in planning their tempI. . . . . . . lbe V. . . ica wa. also ~gard. d as. baneful object under lbe name of lbe 'Evil Eye', and the charm mo. t generally employed to aven lbe druid effect. of its fascination woothe PIullu? . . . . In the East the Vesica wu
used a. a . ymbol of the womb. . . . To every Christi. an lbe Vesica is familiar from its constant U K in early an, fnr nOt only wa, it an attribute of the Vi'llin and the feminine aspect of lbe Saviour as symbolized by the ,""ulld in his ,ide, but it commonly surrounru lbe figure of Chrin, a, hi. Throne when . . . . . ttd in glory. "
Thefigure on 293 mean. a gmtt many things. Firstly the Vi. . ",. of Dublin (1';13. <2) appear from both sides. From 294. 02-4 we divine a prospect with north at Ihe top and the . I. . iibl line AL . tOpping . . . ,tward at Lamhay Island. 293. 15- 16 pr0p0sC5the un-
real;"ti. scale of one ineh 10 lbe mile. Less obviously, lbe city plan "From Prof. . . . ,. Tanntt'. """0010",,,,, AWN lII? l (I? lI\<I), . -l?
. . 'Tht AI. . . . . ". 0( /. . ". . nU)'. AWN [II,) <<966), l '_
" M n G I o d = a ( A W N h , I I I " " , . . " " f e r _ C i o n . . V . . . . , . i n " ' , " ' " E"",~
~ R~'-w. un&. '1Wt"in~ _ '9).
". . 1,<,," "",," XIX (OU ,), )l~"
"WilllomSbrlito&. 17uc-. ('m;. . . . . _ LoruIoft. Go""""",f'T. roo '97<11,
It_Ii ,
? ? display? . olo widening from" and bol. tered by C and A on her banks as the Great Elm and ! he Mearing Stone (293. 14). The latter was . ilUllted in . . wall too yard. south of Dublin Castle" so the appropriation of the right bank by A i. pcrpcru. ated. The elm should ~ the one mentioned in TM How", by ,he Ch",chYllTd" a. ,tanding in Chapelizod, on the left of the Liffey. Further out lie the Cin:umfluent Royal and Grand Canal. , which have affinities with both Ci A and . . . . . ~. The practical ~metry fayou. . . . . . . . ~. With alpha as centre and the other COTnpUS? p<>int on lambda circum. . 5Cri~ a circle (294. 08-,0). Now reverse the compa. ses SO that L
has A as its exlension (295. 18-21). Draw . ! I<:COnd eirel(. That makes a dainty/idrnrical pair of compasses/accomplices/lasses. Now there'. twO tricky/trickling poin. . . /ponds where the Dublin drcula. . . (the two canal. parallel the two Circular Ro:ad. ) mttting approximalely in Ihe sweet by and by, loop into each other. Look 'ee herel l. ee where you mean. The W. e. (19S. 13-196. ot).
We may thm justify our horizontal interpretation? . The text now proceeds to superimpose a vertical one. C exploin, that he'd like to make a capital P down there on the bottom, and let A go and make hi. "up at hi. end (196. 04-ro). He i, mOlivatcd by ",mi_ nal reasons, of which Ficin<> . aid that there wtt<: as many in the soul of lhe world . s lhere were ideas in men's minds. The two
seto corre'ponded. " Now, to complete Ihe angles, ~loved b r e t h r e n , j o i n " I ' a n d P L b y d o t r o d l i n . , a n d L~ a n d , , , . b y t r u n k
lines (296. 22-"7).
During the lesson C calls A 'Michael' and A caUs C 'Nickel'.
The figure must Ihen include. cosmogony with AL the world, below heaven (,,) and above hell (P). Compare figure 4, which
sbow. . the Ch/lldw-J~ish <<>SJnOllony from hi' Umml. d. This i. meant to incorporote the ten Sephil"(lth and their nether anti? theses. Madame Bl. vatsky'. diagram crnt,. . ,. n o t on a V ~,;"' Pi<&" but on a ,ix'pointed star formed by IW1> equilateral triangles. Thi. emblem, Solomon', seal, is included in C . expooi! ion: 'I'll make you to ,. . figuratleavdy the wbome of your <:terruol ~mat. ". . And if you flung her lu:addre. . on her fl"(lm under her highl<>w! l you'd wheeze whyse Salmonson set his . . . 1on a hexengown . . . Pi",! ' ( 296. 30-297 . 06).
The: wisdom of Solomon bt<:om. es rhot conferred upon Finn when he ate the Solmon 0{ Wisdom, for which the angle. . .
"$;,jMnGUbtrt,AIf;""",of,10<Cityof~ Il,1_
,,-,,>. "F,. ,. . ,. . /o. y. _O;"'. . . . . . _ _
\edt< _ K. . . . . Poul 1'/6. 4), . . . . . '1_
,11<H. . --,;" 1n>d;,. ", (I . . . . ! on. 1lau'.
? ?
,
F~4 OWd. . ,. J. . . . iabe<>smOfOIlyf"""f,;,U. . . ,. ;w, by H . P. BI. ". tsky.
? (geometrician,) > = I I to be fishing. At 011. 32 and 076. 24 we SllW . . . pr"'erving the reoiduum "fm ,in a km k of fish. We also find tbeketd. at 316. :1Oand 3:10. 16, and Z19. Z4-5 echoes 'So they put On the kenle and made tea' with 'So they fished in the kettle and fough. free'. h the ketde " r fi. h the V",ca Pi",,?
The first page of nolebook VI. O. S i. VI. CS. 2f,. There arc drawings of Solomon's scal on VI. C. 8. 270 and z7S, while VI. C. 8. 186 includes a diamond-. baped figure labelled APLP at tbe appropriate extremities. A later prototype (VI. B. 2J. 128) . . . . nd- wiches a minute unlenered uiangle between two overlapping circles.
As Stwlrt Gilbert tell. us," Solomon'. ocal illustrates the open- ing of the Emerald Tablt of Hermes Tritmegi. tus (263. 21-2). Uvi'. HjuoiFt de la mtlIie ties it 10 the Zt! har, by means of hi, plat. . III and IV . He tell, us that 'the face of God, crowned with light, rose over the vast sea and wu rdlteted in the w:o. tcl'S th. reof. Hi. two eyes wcre manif. . . ed, r:o. diating with splendour, darting tWO beams of light which cruISed with thoac of the reflection. The br<>w of God and Hi. eyes formed a triangle in beaven, and ito reflection formed a second triangle in the w:o. t. . . . . So was ",,,",,led tbe number six, being tha. "r univcoal CrQ. tion. '''
Fi""lly "f course the water is -l" mirror, providillj a vertical female orientation. 11. 1 showed C defealed by . be par::uto" "r colour; here he is defealed by the fluidity of hi? ? ubjte! , by in 'pm'pawI< J>eTlphtty' (298. L). The diltmnu i, prcacnted at
298. 08-299. <>" in tc. --rru of the infinit. . imal calCUlus. If the curve illU$tr-ating the rat<: of challlle of the periphery be produced, the area it cnc](lses may be estimated. A succes,ion of lin. ,. running perpendicularly from ,be bue (absci. . . . ) to cut the curve cncl"le a series of rectangles, whose areu Jhould be added tog<:th<:r 1() givcit. But. . oneendofeacbrectanglei.
