Warm as a source of Spirit motion.
Aristotle said that cold was its principal danger. Indeed the spirit is much more agile when warmer and thus agile when in motion. And being very free and fast for his tenuous nature will easily impress this thing’s image.
Genius/Spirit prefers dwelling on the upper parts of the earth.
The nearest air movement towards the sky is located on the top of the mountains or upper parts of the houses. And it is also good practice to change places, fleeing from the swampy ones.
Genius/Spirit prefers dwelling on the upper parts of bodies. How to overwhelm human nature by hitting one’s head.
Like Minerva’s being born, they say that Vulcan was beaten with an ax Jupiter’s head, and Minerva came out, who, with her voice, shook heaven and earth. The spirit’s headquarters lie in the body’s upper parts, especially the head. Jupiter’s golden rain on Rodian people means the deposition of spirit particles.
There were great wise who wished to operate with the genius, but genius created unease in their body while operating. These men overwhelmed human nature and were deified after their death, and all this could not have been achieved if they had not hit well the head and brought out many good fruits of genius; with this system is the way to acquire again the already had.
Genius’ color as gold turning purple.
The genius color must be that of gold, and his whole body the same, though turning to purple, as the wise say he who wants to buy very pure gold must be careful it has the actual gold color, created by the Sun. And as the fire makes and refines gold by heating it and lights it as well with his motion, the genius lit by its motion becomes red, hot, and shiny; in the same way, the celestial arc is represented by its various colors.
Spirit/Genius dry property.
The spirit generated by the well-tempered heat becomes thin and pale, like brandy, and leaks out from the narrow meatuses of his well-organized body, so subtle it ascends yet warm with his motion within that nourishes the spirit; for this reason, food is digested. Spirit recreates and constantly contemplates his own, from which he has never separated, investigates things, and judges. Once judged, he keeps them for a long time; this ability to retain them is called memory. And we will say with Democritus: lux sicca, anima sapiens, or a dry light makes a wise soul. That is, it came from the heat.
The embryo as the mother’s flesh and blood.
Do not listen to Aristotle’s blatancy about mothers being only uterus. I say that not only woman’s seed is essential, but the embryo is the mother’s flesh and blood mother; here I say as Galenus that children get more from their mother than their father. Children love their mother more, which is what Greeks call sympathy [This is very similar to the alchemical marriage we know that Mercurius, symbolically female, compose almost entirely the embryo (at least in most wet ways)].
Methods for Genius to multiply himself.
The woman has the most tenuous and subtle spirit [ she is the solvent, indeed]. It is no wonder the child resembles his mother more than his father. When they lie with a man other than their husband, many women think intently of their husband, focus on his image, and thus give birth to a son like her husband and not her lover. This results from genius. For this reason, animals born children like them because they are focused only on that. Plato said that the mathematical sciences, such as geometry and arithmetic, enhance the spirit [divisions and proportions of Mercurius in Alchemy].
The love between geniuses as remote control and synchrony.
The nurse is also important, as is she who will breastfeed [ in Alchemy, the nurse stands for Mercurius divisions to be used as nourishment]. And essential is love; that’s why often bastard children have more talent because there was attraction and ardor between parents. Titian, the painter, once told me that when painting a real-life human subject, he/she often kept moving according to the figures on the canvas in the frame the painter was painting them. This is called love.
Genius loves smells as they subject him to the same laws of air.
Aristotle said that things that smell are warm because hot is the nature of smell. And indeed, smells do move and tend to go upward. it is because physicians use it to prepare smelled compositions. In short, genius is subjected to the same laws of air. Souls have to return to their primary nature, which is air. Largior hic campos aether et lumine vestit purpureo, solemque suum, his sidera norunt, or a more copious air clothes the fields (the Elysian Fields) with purple light, and they know their sun and their stars – Virgil, Aeneid.
Brunetto Latini, vulgarizing Aristotle, said: “ then use good ointments, because the soul loves to sniff and the sweetest smell is its food. And when it comes to smell, here is Venus, a friend of pleasure. Approaching our spirit, she multiplies and makes them born again and says well they who greeted her in the following way: Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas, alma Venus, caeli subter labentia signa quae mare navigerum, quae terras frugiferentis concelebras, per te quoniam genus omne animantum concipitur visitque exortum lumina solis: te, dea, te fugiunt venti, te nubile caeli adventumque tuum, tibi suavis daedala tellus summittit flores, tibi rident aequora ponti placatumque nitet diffuse lumine caelum….. O mother of the Roman race, the delight of men and gods, Venus, most bountiful, you who beneath the gliding signs of heaven fill with yourself the sea, bedecked with ships and earth, great crop-bearer, since by your power creatures of every kind are brought to birth and rising to behold the light of the sun; From you, sweet goddess, you, and at your coming the winds and clouds of heaven flee all away; For you, the earth well-skilled puts forth sweet flowers the seas’ horizons smile and sky, All peaceful now, shines clear with light outpoured – Lucretius, De rer. nat.
What is the Eden apple for and on the drink described in Plato’s Phaedo?
From that is easy to understand why people of genius are said to love ardently and what the Eden apple is for, which is not very different from the drink described by Plato in his Phaedo, and why Pliny writes about some people who are said to live on odor. That’s why in tropical countries, there is more spirit. And because of this, we understand how genius and love are cause and effect of each other.
To more deeply explain the synchrony of love. The mirror.
As we said, our spirit is of the nature of fire, shiny, moving, simile to the light daughter of the heat, and gently moved by smells, motions, art, and nature. Therefore we are attracted by beauty because beauty is grace. And the same is with love because the thing loved is imprinted so deeply within us that it moves us from ourselves as if we went out by ourselves and we were to put in front of ourselves. Like that guy, that being away from his woman and having all his thoughts on her, took a mirror in his hands one day to look at himself and instead saw the face of his beloved woman and not his. And he began to speak to his image, thinking to talk to her. Nam is ab est, quod ames, Praesto simulacra tamen sunt illius, et nomen dulce observatur ad auris, or if he is the object of your love, even pictures of him are, and his name is sweet to your ears – Lucretius, De rer. nat.
To extol the beauty of turning on the sleeping geniuses.
From a beautiful person, rays of genius pass through the eyes as through windows and go to hurt the gazer, moving his spirit. The rays of genius make him like them because in habentibus symbolum facilis est transitus, or for those who have the symbol, the passage is easy – Iamblicus – And because of this similarity, the loving spirit wants to embrace the spirit of the lover, in fact, all the natural things like joining as much as they can. And in this way, they can increase their genius. Love turns on the asleep geniuses, said Petrarch.
One should start in time the practice of becoming heavenly.
Might we become heavenly? We might; worthy spirits are called stars, sun, moon, and sky, so we could too. We could become angels, beginning in time the practice to deify us and make us heavenly. All love begins with a looking, aiming phase. A spirit moves another spirit and pierces him. He lights him on. Plato says that beauty generates and multiplies those two divine images, not only to the soul but to the body. He also says that love is by his side once one rises to the sublime. It facilitates the road to heaven by the sun.
Hymn to the Sun.
O clear, unique, and trine Sun, who offers your worshipers on earth to return to their heavenly home. With the stairs of terrestrial human suns, step by step, allow us to get to the heavenly, intellectual Sun. Towards you, Father of lights, wholesomely divided splendor, the way of beauty shall lead us. Your light pierces everything, as through glass among the various colors and thus with a variation of light, in a circular way. That brings us to another Sun, who was called ‘the world’s eternal eye’, who looks at all things and deserves to be called ‘heavenly light’ or laughing sky rising from the joy of the heavenly spirits, or celestial Sun and legitimate master of all things that are under the lunar circle, as well as those who draw life from the air and are fed by father ocean and mother earth, the soul of the world, propagate rays and make them rain to guide the spirits and infuse life, meaning and motion throughout the universe. The king of the animal represents you well, o Sun. And, like the first Sun, you infuse science and love. First, you turn on the two loves, purging and converting, and then give the intelligence of divine things. In the beginning, you are warm, light, thin, and illuminated to lead to heaven. Your light generates the gold in the earth’s bowels and, in the same way, the spirit within men. The highest Sun promises a reward to those who embark on the wisdom to shine in the image of the stars in the perpetual space of time, similar to the pure and beautiful Lady dressed of the Sun and crowned with stars. You Sun hides your light into her, and now you are raised from corporal Suns, which are only pictures of you, true Sun. With the spirit you have given us, like eagles, we keep staring at you.
The term Sun might traditionally appear to the reader as God. Still, if they mentally replace the term Sun with Mercurius, and here I mean the ineffable substance of the alchemists, a fresh vision might appear before their eyes.
See also Dionysus, Universal Dissolvent and Kykeon , Albrecht Dürer and the Backwards Apollo , Rossetti and the Mystery of Platonic Love. Part 1 Corrected , Pompeii Mysteries Villa: a Gentle Flowing with Mystica Vannus , Arturo Reghini and the last two Pythagoras Golden Verses , Elias Ashmole and the Prophetic Red Stone , Testamentum Fraternitatis Roseae et Aureae Crucis. Part 1 , Rodanius and the Rotation of Elements Part 1 , Stoll, the Lacinius Translator on Male and Female Elements , Cesare Ripa & the Hot Frozen Ouroboros World Machine , Hans Memling’s Altarpiece with Boar and January 17 , Louis de Broglie and the Memory of an Immortal Particle , The Last Lady of Rennes , Fortunio Liceti and the Cranial OMO .