grimoire...same root as grammar

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Speaking of Grimoires. . . .

             Modern Meanings

             Thorsson extrapolates from the physical characteristics 
             of ice to portray a metaphysical situation in which ISA is 
             the Primal Ice that was melted to reveal the world. It is 
             antimatter, gravity, inertia, entropy---the inertia and 
             stillness that attracts the active force of fire. 
             Mythologically, it signifies the rime-thurses, the frost 
             giants, who are Thor's especial enemies.. ISA is the 
             center of the hailstone. It holds together ego awareness 
             and provides a psychic bonding that can help an individual 
             survive stress. When unbalanced, it can cause dullness 
             and stupidity, ISA is the original point and line.

             Diana L. Paxson: Taking Up The Runes, pg 120

By way of explanation, ancient Norse culture is the source of the Runes.

Remember Lew's "Hanged Man" experiences? The notion is 
that Odin revieved the runes as a vision whilst hanging, upside down, 
from a tree. I assume it was the tree who was telling Odin all this 
information. So the essential aspect of ice and its rune---ISA---is 
also a primal concept of entropy. The Grammar of the runes is, 
in its way, the grammar of Gnosis.

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