The principles of astrological geomancy : the art of divining by punctuation / according to Cornelius Agrippa and others ; with an appendix containing 2,048 answers to questions, by Franz Hartmann.

  • Hartmann, Franz, 1838-1912.
Date:
1889
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Credit: The principles of astrological geomancy : the art of divining by punctuation / according to Cornelius Agrippa and others ; with an appendix containing 2,048 answers to questions, by Franz Hartmann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Light, reflect their images in the irldividual minds of men and women, in the same way as a landscape may be reflected in a looking-glass, or the whole of the starry sky be mirrored forth in a drop of pure water. These images may enter the consciousness of man without any voluntary effort on his part, in the same sense as the air enters his lungs without man’s conscious effort to breathe. They may even enter against his will and desire ; for there are unwelcome thoughts that come when they are not wanted, and there are welcome ones difficult to retain. Animals only think the thoughts which enter into their minds without any efforts on their part ; but man has the power to voluntarily rise in thought to the realm of ideas and grasp the images which he desires, and therefore it is said that man does not need to be governed by the stars, but that he can become superior to them. The ideas which enter the field of consciousness act upon his Imagination, and his Imagination re-acts upon his Will; thereby producing certain states of feelings or emo- tions according to the nature of the idea, from the most gross and vulgar passion up to the highest state of exalted thought. As the food which he eats determines the state of purity or impurity of his physical organism, so likewise the thoughts which he harbours, and the feelings in which he indulges, determine the purity or impurity of his soul. Man does not create his thoughts; but he elaborates them from the ideas which he absorbs, in the same sense as his physical body elaborates the food which he eats, and trans- forms vegetables and grain into blood and flesh and bones. Likewise the mind of man mixes and combines ideas, and infuses then with life by the power of his Will; and as an impure body may poison the surrounding atmosphere by the unhealthy effluvia coming from his impurities, so also the emanations of an impure mind will poison the mental atmos- phere with the products of an impure Imagination rendered glive by an evil Will; for the products of thought are rea