The Secretum Secretorum or Secreta Secretorum (Latin for "secret of secrets"), also known as the Sirr al-Asrar (Arabic: كتاب سر الأسرار, lit. 'The Secret...
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Emerald Tablet (section From the Latin translation of the pseudo-Aristotelian Sirr al-asrār (Secretum secretorum))
version is found in an eclectic book from the 10th century, the Secretum Secretorum (Secret of Secrets, Sirr al-asrâr), which presents itself as a pseudo-letter...
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arithmancy or gematria. An early example of onomancy is found in the Secretum Secretorum. The system given there involves adding up the numerical values of...
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alchemical literature known as the Secretum Secretorum made several appearances in the Opus Majus. The Secretum Secretorum contains knowledge about the Hermetic...
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(discretion and the dangers of lying), taken from the pseudo-Aristotle Secretum secretorum, with a note on ‘weasel words’ for concealing meaning. Book II, ‘Rhetoric’...
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who according to a legend, reported in the medieval book entitled Secretum secretorum, was initiated into alchemy by his master, the philosopher Aristotle...
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Germany. At least three of his translations, a short version of the Secretum Secretorum dedicated to a Queen Tarasia, a tract on gout offered to one of the...
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air raid in 1941. He had ten children. Steele's edition of Bacon's Secretum secretorum, with its lengthy introduction and numerous notes, is seen as the...
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number of alchemical works, including the Sirr al-asrār (Latin: Secretum secretorum; English: Secret of Secrets.) Muḥammad ibn Umayl al-Tamīmī was a...
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government of the kings and of the princes'). Giles's work was, with the Secretum secretorum, the most popular work in the mirror for princes genre during the...
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