From: bleablah@mume.invalid   
      
   It happens that RVG formulated :   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Very interesting read, thank you! :D   
      
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