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   Message 129,882 of 130,933   
   RVG to All   
   Re: What Got You Started On Symbology?   
   29 Jul 11 10:36:36   
   
   From: not.here@themoment.org.invalid   
      
   Chan Welbourne a écrit :   
   > Not just alchemical but Christian, cultural, secular and other?   
   >   
   > Mine was "Ginny" Ginevra Molly Weasley. Ginevra is a Welsh (or Italian)   
   > derivative of Guinevere, wife of King Arthur, the true and fierce lover   
   > of Sir Lancelot – she was a ‘real woman’, and Ginny’s father’s   
   name is   
   > Arthur. B-)   
   >   
   >   
      
   Reading Nerval and Rimbaud in hich school in France. They inspired me to   
   study the so-called "language of birds" invented by the sufi poets of    
   Persia and brought to France by the troubadours back from the crusades.    
   Rimbaud's poems can be read one thousand times like as many puzzles: by    
   joining the pieces together following various rules, all found in    
   medieval literature, especially poetry and alchemy, you actually    
   discover hiddent sentences in either French or Latin. For example in "Le   
   loup criait" and "Le Dormeur du Val", if you extract all the letters and   
   sort them by frequency, you get the anagram of the Latin sentence: "O    
   cano cognem lupus chordæ" (I sing and know the heart of the wolf).   
      
   Back in the 15th century, François Villon has been the last Parisian    
   /trouvère/. He wrote many poems in the Parisian slang of the time called    
   "jaron", a thugs dialect for which we have no translation today. The    
   French word for thug is "voyou" and for slang is "argot".   
   So Villon was the thug of slang or "le voyou de l'argotique". In other    
   words: "Le voyant de l'art gothique", the seer of the gothic art. He was   
   consecrated to Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral and his poetry is a sort of   
   comment of all the symbolism of this building, or a verbal equivalent of   
   it that he achieved in his Testament, the finest piece of French    
   medieval poetry that he wrote in his prison cell until he was hanged to    
   death.   
      
   In French the greatest specialist of spiritual symbolic was René Guénon.    
   In English I'd advise reading Joseph Campbell. But don't miss Guénon    
   even if he sounds very dogmatic.   
      
   --    
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   William Blake   
      
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