--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stevenson's scholarship is the one that actually connected ars > memoria to Scottish Freemasonry by finding passing reference to it in > the early Schaw Statutes--but he also sees (thanks to Dame Yates) the > connection to the neoplatonic hierarchies of Iamblichus' De > Mysteriis. That mixture, along with a Christian and a Jewish > Kabbalah, was what was to become Europe's divine theurgy: ceremonial > magick.
Most fascinating; I've just ordered it; thanks again, Steve :-) Sometime after building my "immortal body" with all its magical correspondences, I read Yates' Art of Memory and noticed some interesting resonances between those old systems and my own -- which was indeed a system of memory/creation -- as well as my "Initiations" and those of Freemasonry. I am looking forward to reading Stevenson! My apologies to all for posting more than 5 times/day lately; I'm going to be away from the computer for the next few days, so it should all even out :-) *Love*Light*Laughter* (*A*V*M*)
