When the student is ready,
the teacher will appear.
VOLTAIRE
ZADIG, or FATE
- Zadig directed his course by the stars of Orion, and
the splendid Dogstars guided his steps toward the
pole of Canopea.
- His soul detached from his senses contemplated the
immutable order of the universe.
- For 125 years every 1000 we are taught.
- Worship only He that created the stars and the
planets.
- Eldest son of the Great Bear, brother of the Bull,
and cousin of the Great Dog.
- When the bright star Sheat shall appear on the horizon.
- Algenib was also mentioned.
- for observing a bitch (Dog star?)
- Wealth comes to those who dance lightly on the first
day of the Crocodile.
- The Deity hath created millions of worlds, among
which there is not one that resembles another.
- The Angel Jesrad took flight toward the tenth
sphere.
BABABEC
- Honey vies with the Pleiades.
- Serpents guard treasure: The golden apples of the
Hesperides; the golden fleece; and the golden
grapes.
- Chaldeans had already 1903 years of celestial observation.
One epoch dates to 2234 BC.
- The sublime science of astronomy!
- A Zodiac shows January as a pitcher of water.
- Chaldeans prayed toward the northern star.
- The Persians claimed a prophet of 6000 years ago,
named Zerdust, taught Sun worship.
- (He calls Sybil by the name of Sylla.)
- Rome and Greece both thought that Jupiter was supreme.
MICROMEGAS
- Saturn is about 900 times larger than earth.
- (He gives Saturn as having five moons and a ring.)
- our duration an instant, our globe an atom.
- Matter, though interminable, hath different
properties in every sphere.
- The Sirian spectrum has 39 colors.
P240- The Sirian setting the dwarf upon his knees, and the
ship and crew upon his nail, held down his head and
spoke softly.
- The dwarf stood 1000 fathoms. [6,000ft, over
a mile! He speaks of the dwarf before it was officially discovered.]
- His Excellency Sirius, lying on his side - 120,000
feet.
- The great star of the constellation Gemini and that
called Caniculae.
- Air is 900 times lighter than water.
- My soul is the mirror of the universe and my body
the frame.
- Their suns and their stars, were created solely for
the use of man.
- There can be no more than five perfect worlds,
because there are but five regular mathematical bodies.
- Jupiter's four moons to enlighten them.
- The serious genii who had made Saturn.
THE STUDY OF NATURE
- The square of the revolutions of the planets is
always in proportion to the cubic root from their
distance to their center.
- All nature is arranged with due regard to weight and
measure, number and motion.
- The Greeks called the breath the soul.
- He thinks other worlds are peopled, but have never
communed with us.
- All the stars were made for the Earth.
- And who do Saturn and we revolve round this planet
sooner from west to east than from east to west!
- Only one substance in the Universe.
- In the star Sirius, in Orion, the Ox's Eye, and
elsewhere, everything is perfect.
- Everything in nature consists of monads.
- Monads are concentric mirrors of the universe.
- Argot, the language of thieves (Bread)
- Voltaire said belief in the Magi, in sorcery,
demons, and planetary influence is folly.
- Kinks in my spine that no injury put there. As I
get older I unwind.
- Aratos called Sirius the dog of Orion.
- Sirius "Star of Passage of Yemen"
- The Big Dog is half in the Milky Way. (Cerberus?)
- Sirius means "The Leader"
- Homer refered to the rising of Sirius.
- Pliny said the origin of honey was "from the ayer
at the rysynge (rising) of certeyne starres,
especially Sirius and the Vergiliae the seven of the
Pleiades."
- Sirius is said to change color to swarth or red and
cause disease on the Earth.
- Mild Sirius tinct with dewy violet, set like a
flower upon the breast of Eve.
- Helebore for the disorder of thinking oneself always
right.
- Peter of Luxemburg performed miracles.
- The "Dawn of Reason"
- Whoever seeks after truth could be persecuted by
fanatics.
- We worship the Deity from evening to morning.
Memnon, the Philosopher
- * A celestial spirit, with six wings, came from a
little star near Sirius.
- In watching, over the other worlds that are
entrusted (to the White Dwarf of Sirius).
- The first has more than the second, and the second
has more than the third.
- "No jades to dupe a poor devil".
- The spirit told Memnon that Earth was not the
madhouse of the universe, but almost.
- Divide the tone major into two commas, or into two
semicommas; and if the progress of the fundamental
sounds are made by 1, 3, and 9.
- "Wine of Brie" - (Plato)
- Watching arises from sleep, and sleep from watching.
- Onions and artichokes are very good things.
- There was great madness in prefering reason to happiness.
Sage and Atheist
- Isaac Newton wrote "Commentaries on the Apocalypse".
- If you would but think yourself happy, you would
then be so.
- "The Mysteries of the For and Against"
- To know God: "Open your eyes".
- The Sun turns on its axis in 25.5 days.
- Rarified matter must take a higher place than denser
substances.
- The strongest press upon the weakest.
- Bodies moved with a greater impulse, progress more
rapidly than those moved with less. (160 hours)
- "The gossip Niewentyt"
- Sense faith cometh by hearing
- No Nature, All is Art.
- It must be turned by a handle.
- There is not one superfluous vessel, (they all
inter-depend upon one another).
- Fools labor for the philosopher's stone.
- There is no hell, but this.
- Thank God for indian corn and arrowroot.
- Strong liquors, the source of all evils.
- Especially in the third Book of Lucrece.
- Tread these paths with a firm step.
- Try a draught of primrose.
- Deserving of Heaven: Deserving of the constellation
of the dragon. (Draco)
- A star 1500 thousand, million L is from Earth - and
emits ray, which on your eyes, form two angles equal
at the top.
- The quick and the dead.
- The Turks study the "Alcoran".
- All these mysteries intimate a future state.
- Lake Acheron of Tartarus.
- The Mysteries of Eleusinia are framed on those of
Isis.
- The Universe turns beneath Thy hand.
- Thy feet bear down Tartarus.
- The Jewish books were not known by foreigners until
230 BC.
- The author of the "Liege Almanac" is a sorceror; he
saves himself allegorically.
- There would come a people from the north, who would
destroy everything.
- Aldebaran's star, the Ox's Eye, to the Arabians -
Like an ox, he would strike his enemies with his
horns.
- Ten old maids, called Sibyls, "The Council of God".
- The Sibyl of Cumae brought nine books to Rome.
- One thousand bad Grecian verses were kept of the
Sibyl of Erythea. (The Future)
- * Formed in acrostics, so that the letters of these
words, "Jesous Christos ios Soter", followed each
other at the beginning of each verse.
- With 5 loaves and 2 fishes, He will fill 12 baskets
with fragments.
- Saint Paul: We that are alive and remain until the
coming of the Lord.
- There were 50 gospels, now only 3.
- Every nation of the ancients had occasion where
animals speak the future.
