MDDM Ch. 50 "all are Text"

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487.11 "any Runagate craz'd enough to sail West."

runagate n. (archaic) a vagabond, fugitive, or renegade [16th C: variant of
renegade; also deriving from "run" + *agate*, an obsolete term for "away"]

487.18 "This 'New World' was ever a secret Body of Knowledge,-- meant to be
studied with the same dedication as the Hebrew Kabbala would demand. Forms
of the Land, the flow of water, the occurrence of what us'd to be call'd
Miracles, all are Text,-- to be attended to, manipulated, read, remember'd."

Cf., of course, Derrida's "Il n'y a pas de hors-texte" also:

http://cabvoltaire.virtualave.net/andex3.htm

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on 7/5/02 4:43 PM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> "As above, so below"
> 
> This phrase comes from the beginning of The Emerald
> Tablet and embraces the entire system of traditional
> and modern magic which was inscribed upon the tablet
> in cryptic wording by Hermes Trismegistus. The
> significance of this phrase is that it is believed to
> hold the key to all mysteries. All systems of magic
> are claimed to function by this formula.  "That which
> is above is the same as that which is below ...
> Macrocosmos is the same as microcosmos. The universe
> is the same as God, God is the same as man, man is the
> same as the cell, the cell is the same as the atom,
> the atom is the same as ... and so on, ad infinitum."
> 
> http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/a/below_above.html
> 
> The most significant part of The Emerald Tablet is
> within its opening: "That which is above is like that
> which is below and that which is below is like that
> which is above, to achieve the wonders of the one
> thing." Therefore, "This is the foundation of
> astrology and alchemy: that the microcosm of mankind
> and the earth is a reflection of the macrocosm of God
> and the heavens."
> 
> http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/e/emerald_tablet_the.html
> 
> "Due to the relation between microcosmos and
> macrocosmos, man is influenced by the planets, the
> 'hieroglyphs of nature'."