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“But all habitude is produced through imitation and similitude; and hence temples imitate the heavens, but altars the earth; statues resemble life, and on this account they are similar to animals; and prayers imitate that which is intellectual; but characters, superior ineffable powers; herbs and stones resemble matter; and animals which are sacrificed, the irrational life of our souls.”
― Works of Proclus
― Works of Proclus
“For Aristotle, it was the role of the Sun to bring about the fusion of the Forms with Matter.51”
― Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance
― Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance
“A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.”
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“But of the bodies contained in the world, some imitate intellect, and revolve in a circle; but others soul, and are moved in a right line. And of those which are moved in a right line, fire and air, are impelled upwards, but water and earth downwards: but of those which revolve in a circle, the inerratic sphere commences its motion from the east, but the seven planets are carried in their orbits from the west.”
― Works of Proclus
― Works of Proclus
“3. Plato, Timaeus 56c–57c. Plato’s devotion to mathematics is well-known, and this influence on Ficino is discussed below. Lindberg points out that, for Plato, “the cosmos is essentially mathematical.” Plato considered, “not that the elements have triangular shapes, but that the elements ultimately are triangular shapes.” The transformation of the elements is “the dissolution and recombination of triangles.” For Plato, “‘mathematical objects are closer to the Forms than physical [objects are]”
― Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance
― Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance
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