Astralchemy - optics and magic

[MythMath]

Since scoping out the heavenly bods wouldn't be possible without
the telescope, how come we never talk about optics & magic...?

Surely any device that would give a better viewing of the
planets, would give a better viewing of the viewer...

Quite the Scepter DeLuxe..

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Some Early Luminaries:

Euclid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid), Hero (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Alexandria), Ptolemy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy), Grosseteste (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Grosseteste), Bacon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bacon),
Al-Kindi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Kindi), Ibn Sahl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Sahl), Ibn al-Haytham, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham)
Lippershey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Lippershey), Janssen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Janssen), Metius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Metius), Galileo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei),
Kepler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler), Descartes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes), Huygens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens), Newton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton)



Let's dig out those telescopes and look at the moon this weekend... ;)

[MythMath]

What in Heaven's name...?

Okay, I don't have a telescope, so I thought I'd do a little research...

I found this in an old Webster's College dictionary:


http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q48/MythMath/TelescopealoneHALFcopy.jpg

[MythMath]

How on Earth did that happen...?


http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q48/MythMath/TelescopewithFoLHALFcopy.jpg


I mean, what are the odds*...?

:p:p
:p


Happy New Year's...!






*Astronomical, I'd wager... ;)

[m1thr0s]

rofl...you gotta love these little confirmation ditties, eh?

I gotta admit...didn't quite see that one coming...although I have thought about all of this from a different perspective. There is at least one theory out there that speculates that the mystics of antiquity were in fact tracking the same essential physics we track with high-tech tools of today, using the mechanism of so-called *inner-vision* which we often make the mistake of thinking is only thought and imagination and such.

The idea is that this is not at all the case but is in fact an optics tool we have at our disposals, capable of scanning microcosm and macrocosm at highly magnified levels...but somewhere in there we went through a major paradigm shift and started leaning more heavily on a more externalized technology...which actually nearly wiped us out and has in fact been threatening to wipe us out ever since... But we no longer have much faith in these biotech tools and we have largely lost track of how to train them so there isn't a whole lot of incentive to recover them...

except for the fact that we may have to recover them of course...

anyway..."as within...so without" as they say...

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

Well, I gotta admit, I may have adapted that diagram for a few hours... ;)

I put in a razzing troika, after all...

:p:p
:p




(I didn't have to tweak the original that much though...)

[m1thr0s]

curious how that bottom lens balances out between 9 - 10, or mid-way on the Universe Path in Thoth etc...

McKenna and Lilly and Leary and all these psychonaut cats talked about that quite a bit...how close we really are considering how far away things may often seem...

It's like if we can just get up a lousy nickel it's as good as climbing over the top but that one lousy nickel just haunts the shit out of us and never does get cleanly resolved...

Very weird when you think about it...

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

Visual balance suggests that there should
be a couple more sephiroth right there...

And one at the very bottom to balance Ain Soph...

Any thoughts...?

[deviadah]

Any thoughts...?

Don't know about that, but have a look at the centre of this hologram diagram:

http://www.mikecrowson.co.uk/Hologram.gif

http://www.mikecrowson.co.uk/OtzChiim.jpg

The Holographic Universe and the Otz Chiíim (http://www.mikecrowson.co.uk/Holo.html)

:cool: