unrealized travel

effettobeaubourg:

Athanasius Kircher, Ars Magna Lucis et umbrae in mundo , Rome, 1665

humanprogeny:

ATHANASIUS KIRCHER - oedipus aegyptiacus

elysskama:

Athanasius Kircher’s Tree of the Sephiroth. The fundamental diagram of Kabbalah, with its ten Sephrioth joined by twenty-two channels, an multiple correspondences.

(via beaigri)

sacred-circle:

Robert Fludd

outthereorbitingaround:

Robert Fludd, Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica atque technica historia, 1617

Defining the Hyle is difficult, if not impossible. Indeed, Fludd states that “it cannot be understood in isolation, nor described by itself alone, but only by analogy.” It is not created, for it is the material of which created things spring. It is also not separate from God, as such a concept would have been alien to Fludd. In many ways it is comparable to God in that it is boundless and undefinable.

One might suggest that it is a part of God, the dark void existing in opposition to the creative power more commonly associated with God. Note that the Hyle is in no way evil. It is, in fact, the essence of not being anything: it is infinite non-existence. Neither half subsumes the other, as is indicated by the fact that while the Hyle circle and the triangle of God intersect, both also exist outside the boundaries of the other.

code1327:

Robert Fludd

clawlicious:

Fludd’s description of perception

Robert Fludd

lunar-danse:

Nuremberg Chronicle, Sebastian Münster
Liber cronicarum: cum figuris et ymagibus ab inicio mundi
Author: Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514

(via venusmilk)

sleepingside:

“first day of creation” from the nuremberg chronicle 1493

felkx:

Hand coloured woodcut: The Forth Day, Hartmut Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle, Nuremberg, 1493.

Realisation: Studio of Michael Wolgemut

at Thonyc

lunar-danse:

Nuremberg Chronicle, Sebastian Münster
Liber cronicarum: cum figuris et ymagibus ab inicio mundi
Author: Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514

(via venusmilk)

minunthadia:

Sparta in the Middle Ages, from the Nuremberg Chronicle.

(Source: museion)