further (simplistic) ob on "as above" and Hermes and Alchemy

Keith keithsz at mac.com
Sat May 12 10:02:03 CDT 2007


We'll discuss this issue more when we get to p. 275.

"the structure underneath is always the same"


On May 12, 2007, at 7:22 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

Given Pynchon's knowledge of and take on science and technology, this  
perhaps-too-obvious observation might be made about this/these  
ancient alchemical sources:

Most scholars would say that, historically, that these sources come  
from the time when science and alchemy were THE SAME, ONE.

That matters, needless to say.

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