Doctrine of Signatures (Part 3)

Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580–1644) used experimental techniques, such as growing a willow for 5 years, and showed it increased mass, while the soil showed a trivial decrease in comparison. He attributed the increase of mass to the absorption of water. His notes also describe a recipe for mice (a piece of soiled cloth, plus wheat, for 21 days) and scorpions (basil, placed between two bricks and left in sunlight). Remember that you use a ‘mouse’ to connect to your computer 😏 The artist Della Porta, a believer in the Doctrine of Signatures, published several examples in his Phytognomonica, in…

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I speak love because I speak truth and have sought long and hard to discover it through the shedding of untruths. So sad that few want to hear it and can not resonate with the love that is the base element in the hardness of truth. The core of love is not soft and fluffy. It is raw and sharp. People can not love because they can not speak in truth. They fear both because both are fierce. Every lie that is nurtured consciously or un, walls us from the real reason we are here. To find and become love through truth…..💋 View all posts by Asher Elle