Splendor Solis: Philosophers Beside the Tree

Michael Hoffman, November 21, 2024 8:10 pm UTC+0

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Contents:

• Intro
• 20 Versions of the Image
• Date of Discovery: November 7, 2024
• {mushrooms} 🍄‍🟫 🍄
• {branching} 🌳 🌴 ✌️🤞 🖐️🫲
• {handedness} 🤲 👐 🙌 ✋🤚
• {stability} ⚖️🔥💥🏹🗡️😵💀🪦⚰️👑🚪🦁🐉
• Web Image Search
• Signed by Irvin on April 11, 2007
• Looking at Taurus from Within Heimarmene Sphere or from Outside It
• Gold Metallic Amanita
• Secret Amanita Conclusion: Irvin “Attempts to Limit” the Entheogen to the Elite, “Completely Unfounded”
• See Also

Intro

Noon Thursday, November 21, 2024, Cybermonk

20 different versions, around 1535 & 1582 AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendor_Solis – “Splendor Solis (English: “The Splendour of the Sun”) is a version of the illuminated alchemical text attributed to Salomon Trismosin. This version dates from around 1582.

The earliest version, written in Central German, is dated 1532–1535 and is part of the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin collection at the State Museums in Berlin. It is illuminated on vellum, with decorative borders like a book of hours, meticulously painted and highlighted with gold.

“The later copies in London, Kassel, Paris and Nuremberg are equally fine. Twenty versions exist worldwide.”

Date of Discovery: November 7, 2024

I recognized {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability} motifs on or shortly before November 7, 2024 Thursday (searched web on that date), on the front cover of Irvin & Rutajit 1st Ed 2006 book Astrotheology & Shamanism, which Irvin gave me on April 11, 2007.

Irvin cites that 2006 book in his 2008 book The Holy Mushroom, p. 104:

“Ruck and Gonzalez attempt to limit entheogens to “Christian mysticism and so-called heretical sects” [abnormal Christians], but as shown in Astrotheology & Shamanism & the gallery in present book, this is completely unfounded, as there is enough compelling evidence to show that [ordinary, mainstream] Christianity itself is based on entheogens.”

I increasingly figured out birds & fence gate a few days after that.

2pm Nov 11 2024, while composing this page and goal-driven / template-driven fillling in the 4 motif lists, I found versions of the image that have mushrooms at feet, and basket hanging from {cut right branch}.

This is a form of prediction & confirmation; know what to look for, eg non-branching; if yields fruit – or mushrooms + cut branches — that confirms the hypothesized pattern.

“Philosophers beside the tree” has the 4 motifs: {mushrooms}, {branching}, {handedness}, and {stability}.

These page photos are of the 2006 1st Ed., not 2009 2nd Ed.

20 Versions of the Image

{mushrooms} 🍄‍🟫 🍄

mushroom birds

red & white garments

mushrooms at feet

{branching} 🌳 🌴 ✌️🤞 🖐️🫲

cut right trunk

crown is far from branching & encompasses branching + cut right trunk

fruit basket hangs from cut right branch, not falling

hold or touch removed branch with left hand

{handedness} 🤲 👐 🙌 ✋🤚

left hands touch cut branch; negate left / negate branching

weight on R leg on ladder

fence boundary gate passageway below right foot

trees on left; gate on right (no trees)

{stability} ⚖️🔥💥🏹🗡️😵💀🪦⚰️👑🚪🦁🐉

balanced on ladder

right hand holding onto stem far from branching points

fruit basket hanging from a {cut right branch}

crown: stable authorized effective controller

Web Image Search

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=splendor+solis+philosophers+beside+the+tree

Signed by Irvin on April 11, 2007

Looking at Taurus from Within Heimarmene Sphere or from Outside It

bull facing left = you are below/ inside the sphere of fixed stars (serpent-wrapped heimarmene, fatedness, no-free-will, monopossibility, non-branching, superdeterminism, eternalism , frozen block universe, the crystalline ground of being

bull facing right = you are above/ outside the sphere of fixed stars; virtual freewill

Gold Metallic Amanita

Secret Amanita Conclusion: Irvin “Attempts to Limit” the Entheogen to the Elite, “Completely Unfounded”

In his 2008 book The Holy Mushroom, Irvin condemns:

“Ruck & Gonzalez attempt to limit entheogen usage to “Christian mysticism and so-called heretical sects”. As was shown in Astrotheology & Shamanism (Irvin et al, 2006), … this is completely unfounded, as there is enough compelling evidence to show Christianity itself is based on entheogens. … the Chapel at Plaincourault was built by the Knights of Malta, a sanctioned Catholic order headquartered in Vatican City to the present day. They are certainly not a “so-called heretical sect”.

Yet Irvin 2006 1st Ed likewise attempts to limit entheogens: “kept secret for the kings, priests and the elite.” The first sentence of the Conclusion section. So Irvin had to delete that sentence from the 2009 2nd Ed.

Limiting entheogens is baked into the Secret Amanita paradigm, per the moderate entheogen theory of religion.

The Secret Amanita paradigm is crafted so as to accomodate Prohibition and work/ labor to restrict entheogens to a fabricated “counterculture”, foolishly working against their own interest.

In sharp contrast, the Explicit Cubensis paradigm is strategic toward actual Repeal – along with delivering Transcendent Knowledge.

Purple rectangle pen = where a Secret Amanita paradigm writer tries to construct a prohibition barrier wall to keep The Mushroom 🍄 (infantile kiddie Amanita, only) from Christians.

Purple rectangle indicates the words that are used to construct a boundary, a wall, circumscribing each instance of entheogens to keep them only on one side of a dividing barrier.

See Also

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