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Signification couleur des coeurs4/24/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus raising himself, and taking his Pen in hand to write what he should learn, he saith in the Third Verse, that A slight Flame, or small Light did insinuate it self in his understanding, by whose splendor and brightness he saw future things. y in the solitariness of the Night, he raised himself to the Knowledge of Future things, to write them, and transmit them to Posterity he saith, He was sitting or rest∣ing upon the Brazen Stool. ![]() ![]() Thus the Author willing to express, that being in his Stu saith, that they called those Tables Cortinas, and that some were made of Brass for the use aforesaid.įrom the use of that Brazen Trevet is come the Proverb, Ex tripode loqui. The Second is, that the Sybils, or the Priests of the Delphick Temple of Apollo, got upon that Table, when they went about to pronounce their Oracles. The First, that this Stool was a Table set upon a Trevet, called by the Greeks 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and by the Latines Tripus. Servius in his Commentaries upon Virgil, speaking of this Brazen Stool, saith two things of it. The Author saith, that with those three Dispositions he raised himself to the knowledge of future things which is signified by those words, Resting upon the Brazen Stool. For it seemeth that God commonly maketh use of Solitariness when he doth impart himself to Men, and re∣vealeth them his Oracles: And the Sybils were chosen to be Prophets, as much for their Solitariness, as for their Chastity. The Third Disposition, was Solitariness that is, having no other Conversation then that of his Books, being retired in his Study, Alone. Therefore the Author in his two Liminary Epistles, makes often mention of his continual Nocturnal Watchings, of his Sweet-smelling nocturnal Studies, and of his Nocturnal and Prophetical Calculations. Besides that, Night covering with her Darkness our Hemisphere, our Senses are less distracted, and our Internal Faculties are more united to serve the Operations of the Understanding. And as the silence of the Night causeth in the Universe a cessation of noises and clashings in Business, Visits and Colloquies, the Mind is then more at rest. The Second Disposition, was, the Silence of the Night For Man who is com∣pounded of Body and Soul, doth notably intricate himself in External things by the commerce of the Senses with the Objects which obligeth him to withdraw himself from visible things, when he intends to apply himself to some serious Study. The Author in his Dedicatory Epistle to his Son Caesar, calleth this Tranquility of Mind, A long Melancholick Inspiration because the Melancholick Humour and Mind sequestreth a Man from the concerns of worldly things, and maketh him present to himself, so that his Understanding is not darkned by a multitude of Species that troubles its Operation. And it came to pass when the Minstrel played, that the Hand of the Lord came upon him, 2 Kings chap. Thus we read in the Scripture, that the Prophet Elishah, being transported with Zeal against Joram King of Israel and nevertheless willing to consult God concerning the event of the Warr against the Moabites, called for a Minstrel, that the Harmony of the In∣strument might quiet his Mind, as it did happen. The first Disposition, was the tranquility of Mind, when he saith, Sitting by night Because a troubled Mind cannot see clearly the Things it is busie about, no more than tossed Waters can distinctly represent the Objects that are opposed to them. IN this Stanza, Nostradamus expresseth those Humane dispositions which he made use of to be favoured of God, for the knowledge of future things, to the benefit of the Publick. Makes me utter what is not in vain to believe. ![]()
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