Spent last night with Agrippa, trying to find out the three types of melancholy. My sole source is his 3 Books of Occult Philosophy (pub. Chthonios, 1986) and is a facsimile of the 1651 English translation so not an easy read - checked out the Saturn stuff - but no sign of melancholy. Why did I think it was he who had influenced Durer, resulting in Melancholia being called Melancholia 1? No idea -
Loved Agrippa though, what a clever geezer. Resorted to Hanegraaf's Big Dic of Gnosis and Western Esotericism for more on him and have been charmed:)
Will ignore it all and just finish the painting - it is OK as it stands, once its dry enough to tweek. Have put in Durer's rainbow and turned his Saturn into a shooting star. It hangs by the death head - remembering that a shooting star was a sign that a soul had left purgatory and gone to heaven (at any rate thats what we were told as children)
Slept late - gone 8.00 by the time I woke up, despite the dog licking me at 6.00 - managed yet again to correct the Ripley Scroll and then mess about with the 4 pix on the go. Nothing wonderful. Tired now and have to get some housework done. People tonight and guests for weekend. Pause for reflection.
Oh and today's drawing.... planned to do tortoise but it hasn't come out today. Later, walk.
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