From tyagi@bjt.net Thu Nov 14 02:42:29 1996 Return-Path: tyagi@bjt.net Received: from kudonet.com (kudonet.com [165.227.52.1]) by bitsy.hollyfeld.org (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA02120 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 02:42:25 -0500 Received: from kudo20.kudonet.com by kudonet.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA25902; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 22:36:13 -0800 Received: by kudo20.kudonet.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA28525; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 22:28:48 -0800 From: tyagi@bjt.net (Tyagi Nagasiva) Message-Id: <199611140628.WAA28525@kudo20.kudonet.com> Subject: 9611.uni-hex.bh To: tyagi@hollyfeld.org Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 22:28:47 -0800 (PST) Orientation: House of Kaos, St. Joseph, Kali Fornika, US -- Kali Yuga X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO >From thelema93-l-owner@hollyfeld.org Wed Nov 13 20:51:11 1996 X-Authentication-Warning: bitsy.hollyfeld.org: majordom set sender to owner-thelema93-l using -f Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 19:57:43 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Heidrick Subject: Re: First Appearance of the Unicursal Hexagram? To: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org In-Reply-To: <961113114226_1782474253@emout15.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org Precedence: bulk reply-to: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org content-length: 689 93, Elaine wrote: > I was thinking the other day about Crowley's mention (in BoT ? ) of >the first appearance of the unicursal hexagram and how for so long it was >said to be an "impossible" figure to draw... does anyone know of an earlier >appearance of the uni hexa? Crowley apparently thought that he discovered this figure in the sense of introducing something new. It is not all that common, but known from several precursors. E.g. Giordano Bruno used it as the basis for his "Figura Amoris" in _Articuli Centrum et Sexaginta Adversus huius Tempestatis Mathematicos atque Philosophos_, 1588 e.v. -- source, TLC Feb. 1992 e.v. 93 93/93 Bill Heidrick ----- End of forwarded message from Bill Heidrick -----