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Hello Jean
Yes I would be very interested to hear more about
the 23. mansion! It has occurred to me that maybe the 'm'
after the 'portas' in the last page of VMs is is
not the letter m, but denotes Scorpio or Virgo, since the symbols used for these
zodiacal signs resemble the letter m very much (for example the picture
on
http://www.astrology-online.com/persn.htm ). What
is very interesting is that acc. to Agrippa, the image associated with station
23. is 'a cat with a dog's head', which seems to be exactly what we see in
the Scorpio page of VMs... All this at least points towards a definite
magical content of the strange words in the last page of VMs.
Unfortunately, there seems to be much
confusion with the actual locations of the mansions within zodiacal due to
the fact that the equinoxes (and consequently the starting places of the signs)
shift about 1 degree for every 70 years. E.g. in http://www.yeatsvision.com/Mansions.html the
Sabadalo is number 24, for some reason.
Marianna
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