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Ch. 1: Introduction

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INTRODUCTION.                             17
misconceptions were borrowed from the Arabians (of Spain for the most paît) and similarly from the Jews of the same country, in high repute then both as physicians and as alchemists. Much, too, was learnt from the African and Syrian doctors ; for example, we find the Rosicrusians pre­tending that their founder, the mysterious "A. C," ac­quired all his arcana at the Arabian College of Damascus. In fact many of the sigils described (of a nature never met with in antique art) bear a striking resemblance to the " Myriogeneses," or symbolical figures representing the astral influence of the thirty degrees in each Sign, .of which Scaliger has given a list, translated from the Arabic, in his notes upon Manilius. These Myriogeneses are indeed attributed by the astrologers to the ancient Egyptians, but internal evidence betrays that such ascription is a mere pretence, made in order to give the sanction of anti­quity to the doctrines founded upon them. That this conclusion of mine is not a bare assumption is manifest from the very names of the writers ' On Sigils ' as pub­lished by Camillus Leonardi (Camillo di Leonardo). This sage, who flourished at Pesaro at the close of the fifteenth century as physician to Cesare Borgia, has in his ' Spe­culum Lapidum'* (written in the year 1502), collected all the treatises on the subject that came within his reach. The names of their authors, we find, are all such
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