So then, these are the foundations, as they call them, of
all mixt bodies, and of all wonderful operations: and
whatsoever experiments they proved, the causes hereof rested
(as they supposed) and were to be found in the Elements and
their qualities.
-- Giambattista Della Porta - Natural Magick
When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today and all the
stars were lined up in their proper places, you could easily count them
from left to right, or top to bottom, and the larger and bluer ones were
set apart, and the smaller yellowing types pushed off to the corners as
bodies of a lower grade....
When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today and all the
stars were lined up in their proper places, you could easily count them
from left to right, or top to bottom, and the larger and bluer ones
were set apart, and the smaller yellowing types pushed off to the
corners as bodies of a lower grade ....