Chapter 31 Notre Dame de Paris (2) Volume 5 This will destroy that (3)

"Listen to me, Monsieur Jacques, I say this with all my heart. I am not a physician, and the King has not rewarded me with the gardens of Daedalus to observe the constellations.—Please don't be angry, and listen to me. ——What truth do you get from it, I am not talking about medicine—because that is too ridiculous stuff——but what truth in astrology? Please tell me, what is the difference between the ancient Greek vertical up and down reverse order writing method? Strengths, what's so new about Ziroff numbers and Zifero numbers②." "Do you deny the sympathetic force of the clavicle, from which the theosophist arises?" said Coictier.

"Wrong, Mr. Jacques! None of your methods can be fulfilled. Alchemy, however, has its discoveries.For example, ice becomes crystal after being buried in the ground for a thousand years, lead is the originator of various metals (gold is not metal, gold is light), can you deny these results?Lead only needs to go through four cycles of 200 years each to change from the lead state to the red arsenic state, from the red arsenic state to the tin state, and then from the tin state to silver.Isn't that true?However, it is ridiculous to believe in clavicles, full lines, and stars, just like the people of Great Khitan believe that orioles will turn into moles, and wheat seeds will turn into carp! "

"I have studied alchemy, but I think . . . " cried Courtier. ① Zirov and Ziphro are two terms used by the Jews to interpret the Old Testament.The ten digits of Chirov from one to ten form the first myriad worlds presented by the prime factor.Ziphro refers to the whole method of symbolic interpretation of the Old Testament by the Jews in terms of each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. ②The ancient Greek writing method in reverse order line by line is that one line goes from right to left, and the other line goes from left to right, alternating line by line. Some people call it the ox farming style.Here the book refers to the reverse order of the vertical line, which may refer to a method of inverting the order of the Hebrew alphabet, that is, swapping the last two letters with the beginning, swapping the last and the second letter of the beginning, and so on. , the Hebrew alphabet has two vertical lines, sequential and reverse, which is similar to the ancient Greek horizontal line-by-line reverse order.

③ Refers to the fate line that each starlight is tied to a certain person's head. The archdeacon, holding him in aggressively, continued: "And me, I have studied medicine, astrology, and alchemy. See, here is the truth." bottle filled with powder), here lies the light! Hippocrates, that is dream; Urania, that too is dream; Hermes, that is imagination. Gold, that is the sun; Come gold, that's God. That's the only knowledge! To tell you the truth, I've studied medicine and astrology, and it's nothing, nothing! The human body, it's pitch black; the stars, it's pitch black!"

As soon as the words fell, he fell down on the chair again, with a dignified posture, as if possessed by a god.Du Langruo's partner watched him quietly, and Coutier forced a sneer, shrugged slightly, and whispered again and again: "A lunatic!" "However," Du Langruo's partner said suddenly, "have you achieved that wonderful goal? Have you made gold?" "If I make it, the King of France should be called Claude, not Louis!" The archdeacon replied, slowly speaking one word at a time, as if thinking about something. ① One of the Nine Muses, Department of Astronomy.

② The messenger of the gods in ancient Greek mythology, the god of receiving the undead, is also said to be the ancestor of alchemy. When Du Langruo's partner heard this, he frowned. "What did I say?" continued Don Claude with a contemptuous smile. "If I can rebuild the Eastern Roman Empire, what is the throne of France to me?" "Excellent!" said the companion. "Oh! a veritable poor madman!" murmured Couttier. The archdeacon went on, seemingly answering only the question in his own head: "Of course not. I'm still crawling now; I'm crawling in tunnels, and the stones have scratched my face and knees. I can only peek, but I can't watch! I can't read, only a Letter by letter!"

"So when you can read, can you make gold?" asked the companion. "Who doubts that?" replied the archdeacon. "Since this is the case, the Holy Mother knows that I am in desperate need of money, so I am very happy to learn from your book. Dear Master, please tell me, will your science be against the Holy Mother, or make her unhappy?" the partner asked. To this question, Don Claude only responded calmly and arrogantly: "Whose archdeacon am I?" "It is the truth, master. Well then! Teach me, will you? Let me spell it out with you." Claude suddenly looked like Samuel①, and assumed a majestic posture like the Pope,① a figure in the biblical legend, a judge and prophet of Israel.said:

"Old man, to make such a journey, through all kinds of mysteries, will take long years, which will exceed your lifetime. Your hair is gray! People go into the crypt with black hair, and come out with only white hair. gray hair. Science alone makes a face sunken, haggard, and dry; science does not need the wrinkled faces of old people. But if you will, you must At this age to learn this way, to decipher the dreaded words of the sages, come to me, and I will try. I will not send you poor old man to read the narration of the sage Herodotus or the skyscrapered brick towers of Babylon, or the majestic sanctuary of white marble in the temples of Eklinga in India. I, like you, have never seen a clay building of the Chaldeans in the sacred pattern of Sikra, Nor did we see the destroyed Temple of Solomon, nor the broken stone gates of the Tombs of the Kings of Israel. We only read the fragments of the Hermes writings that we have at hand. I will explain to you the statue of Saint Christopher, the Sowing of the Seed and the symbolism of the two angels in front of St. Chapel's door—one with his hand in the jug, the other with his hand in the clouds—"