Journal entry #2



5 thing that I understand

1. In Egypt, magic began to reach a point where it was beginning to attain completion as a universal science. The Emerald Tablet contains all the Magic in a single jewel and is said to be put in Greece by Hermes.
2.During the time in which magic began to expand in Greece, the exact sciences of Magic assume their natural form which is the form of beauty. In Greece the Golden Fleece was supposedly created and connets to the Hermetic Magic with Greek institutions.
3.The Tarchon was known to be an intiated Numa whose proficiency in Magic has allowed im to be caled a Chalden named Tages.
4.The holy kabalah was known as a tradition where the children of Seth were taken and ingarnered by Moses and concealed with symbols in the Bible. the y were used for the time of the Apocalypse.
5.The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic was used to identify seventy two explicatory names.

4 questions
Why did they believe that human struggles belonged to the birth of the Magic empires?
Why were the children of Seth chosen specificlly?
Where did the Doctrine descend from and how was it used in the future?
What happened to the populr tradition of the Magic affirm?

3 Words i do not know
1.Archipelgo pg 86- a chain or cluster of islands that is formed tectonically.
2.Palingenesis pg 89- The repetition by a single organism of various stages in the evolution of its species during embryonic development
3.Somnambulists pg 96- an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (as walking) are performed

2 literary elements
1."The primal truth of science which fertilies science and restores it to unity." Pg 99 Personification
2."They are children who injure themselves recklessly." Pg 102 Metaphor

Summary Sentence
Different objects that pertain to magic are bestoyed pon humans as a way of evolving and craeting new ways to evolv nature itslef.