On Jul 15, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Rory Goff wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stevenson's scholarship is the one that actually connected ars > memoria to Scottish Freemasonry by finding passing reference to it in > the early Schaw Statutes--but he also sees (thanks to Dame Yates) the > connection to the neoplatonic hierarchies of Iamblichus' De > Mysteriis. That mixture, along with a Christian and a Jewish > Kabbalah, was what was to become Europe's divine theurgy: ceremonial > magick. Most fascinating; I've just ordered it; thanks again, Steve :-) Sometime after building my "immortal body" with all its magical correspondences, I read Yates' Art of Memory and noticed some interesting resonances between those old systems and my own -- which was indeed a system of memory/creation -- as well as my "Initiations" and those of Freemasonry. I am looking forward to reading Stevenson!
There definitely is an inner parallel to awakening. In it's eastern sense, it would refer to the states of consciousness" known as "the arising of mandalas" and "the arising of letters".
