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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • (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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    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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    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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    Two charts from an Arabic copy of the Secretum Secretorum for determining whether a person will live or die based on the numerical value of the patient's...
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  • neoplatonic schools rather than the thought of Aristotle. The Arabic Secretum Secretorum was by far the most popular Pseudo-Aristotelian work and was even...
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