Médecine Ostéopathique - Billets
Petit Livret de " Billets du Jeudi "
Initiation à l'Oeuvre Médico-Scientifique de Sir Emanuel Swedenborg
L'Âme, la Fibre Première & son Elixir de Vie
2024, jeudi 13 juin
De l'Âme
The Economy of the Animal Kingdom, part II, Chapter III, The Human Soul, extraits:
“208. [...]. [...]; [...]; [...]. [...]. [...]; [...]. [...]; [...]; [...]; since by reason of the soul it is that we hear, see, feel, percieve, remember, imagine, think, desire, will; or that we are, move, and live. The soul it is because of which, by which, and out of which, the visible corporeal kingdom principally exists; to the soul it is that we are to ascribe whatever excites our admiration and astonishment in the anatomy of the body; the body being constructed according to the image of the soul's nature, or accordong to the form of its operations. [...]. ..., that nothing is farther removed from the human understanding than what at the same time is really present to it; [...]; [...]. [...]? [...].“
“209. There is nothing, however, more common to the human race, than the wish to mount at once from the lowest sphere to the highest. [...]; [...]; [...]; [...]; [..]; and from every science to the human soul. [...]? [...]? [...]? [...].“
DOCTRINE OF SERIES AND DEGREES, OR OF ORDER
- brève présentation nécessaire ici, avant de poursuivre -
“210. But the more any one is perfected in judgment, and the better he discerns the distinctions of things, the more clearly will he percieve, that there is an order in things, that there are degrees of order, and that it is by these alone he can progress, and this, step by step, from the lowest sphere to the highest, or from the outermost to the innermost. [...]; we have need therefore, of some science to serve as our guide in tracing out her steps [note de A.C. the steps of nature] , - to arrange all things into series, - to distinguish these series into degrees, and to contemplate the order of each thing in the order of the whole. →
→ The science which does this I call the DOCTRINE OF SERIES AND DEGREES, OR OF ORDER; a science which it was necessary to premise to enable us to follow closely in the steps of nature; since to attempt without it to approach and visit her in her sublime abode, would be to attempt to climb heaven by the tower of Babel; for the highest step must be approched by the intermediate. [...]; [...].“
“211. The Doctrine od Series and Degrees, however, ony teaches the distinction and relation between things superior and inferior, or prior and posterior; it is unable to express by any adequate terms of its own, those things that transcend the sphere of familiar things. If, therefore, we would ascend to a higher altitude, we must use terms which are still more abstract, universal, and eminent, lest we confound with the coporeal senses things, of which we ought not only to have distinct perceptions, but which, in reality, are distinct. ➞
➞ Hence it is necessary to have recourse to a MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY OF UNIVERALS, which shall be enabled not only to signify higher ideas by letters proceeding in simple order, but also to reduce them to a certain philosophical calculus, in its form and in some of its rules not unlike the analysis of infinites; for in higher ideas, much more in the highest, thongs occur too ineffable to be represented by common ideas*. But in truth, what an Herculean task must it be to build up a system of this kind! What a supendous exercice of intellectual power does it require! For it demands the vigilance of the entire animal mind, and the assistance also of the superior mind or soul, to which science is proper and natural, and which represents nothing to itself by the signs used in speech, takes nothing from the common catalogue of words, but by means of the primitive and universal doctrine we have mentioned, - connate both with itself and with the objects of nature, - abstracts out of all things their nature and essence; and prepare and evolves each in the mutest silence. ➞
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*Or general, because an infinite number of particulars are percieved as one general.- (Tr.)
➞ To this universal science, therefore, all other sciences and arts are subjects; * and it advances through their innermost mysteries as it proceeds from its own principles to causes, and from causes to effects, by its own, that is, by the natural order. ➞
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* See the Animal Kingdom, n. 461. - (Tr.)
➞ This will be very manifest, if we contemplate the body of the soul, the viscera of the body, the sensory and motory organs, and the other parts which framed for dependence upon, and connection and harmony with, each other; in fine are fitted to the modes of universal nature; and this so nicely, skilfully, and wonderfully, that there is nothing latent in the innermost and abstrusest principles of nature, science or art, but the soul has the knowledge and power of evoking to its aid, according as its purposes require." **
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** See Ibid., n.95, 96. - (Tr.)
“212. [...]; [...]. [...]. [...]. [...]: [...]; [...]; [...]. That to such a science, seen so obscurely, yet so desirable, any other way can lead than the doctrine of the order, or of the series and degrees, existing in the wolrd and nature, I cannot be induced to believe; [...]: [...]; [...]. This is the science which I just now called the Mathematical Doctrine of Universals. [...]; [...]. [...]: [...]. “
“213. But even were it granted, that the Doctrine of Order and the Science of Universals were carried by the human mind to the acme of perfection; nevertheless it does not follow that we shoud, by these means alone, be brought into a knowledge of all that can be known; for these sciences are but subsidiary, serving only, by a compendious method and mathematical certainty, to lead us, by continued abstractions and elevations of thought, from the posterio to the prior sphere; or from the world of effects, which is the visible, to the world of causes and principles, which is invisible. →
→ Hence, in order that theses sciences may be available, we must have recourse to experiment, and to the phenomena od the senses; without which they would remain in a state of bare theory and bare capability od aiding us. [...]. [...]. [...]; [...]. ➞
➞ For this reason, I am strongly pesuaded, that the essence and nature of the soul, its influx into the body, and the reciprocital action of the body, can never come to demonstration, without theses doctrines, combined with a knowledge of anatomy, pathology, and psychology; nay, even of physics, and especially of the auras of the world; [...]. “
“214. This, and no other, is the reason that, with diligent study and intense application, I have investigated the anatomy of the body, and principally the human, so far as it is known from experience; and that I have followed th anatomy of all its parts, in the same manner as I have here investigated the cortical substance. ➞
➞ In doing this, I may perhaps have gone beyond the ordinary limits of inquiry, so that but few of my readers may be able distinctly to understand me. But thus far I have felt bound to venture, for I have resolved, cost what it may, to trace out the nature of the human soul.“
Yes Sir, Thank you Sir.
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De l'Elixir de Vie (et de la Fibre Première qui le contient)
“219: From the anatomy of the animal body we clearly percieve, that a certain most pure fluid glances through the subtlest fibres, remote from even the acutest sense; that it reigns universally in the whole and every part of its own limited universe body, and continues, irrigates, nourishes, actuates, modifies, forms, and renovates everything therein. This fluid is in the third degree above the blood, which it enters as the first, supreme, inmost, remotest, and most perfect substance and force of its body, as the sole and proper animal force, and as the determining principle of all things. ➞
➞ Wherefore, if the soul of the body is to be the subject of inquiry, and the communication between the soul and the body to be investigated, we must firts examine this fluid, and ascertain whether it agrees with our predicates. ➞
➞ But as this fluid lies so deeply in nature, nothought can enter inti it, except by the doctrine of series aand degrees joined to experience; nor can it be described, except by recourse to a mathematical philosophy of universals.“
“220. [...]. [...]; [...]; for there is nothing in the body that does not confirm its existence; so that we can by no means doubt of its actuality, or of its efficient power, whenever an effect appears. ➞
➞ It is for the sake of investigating and becoming acquainted with this fluid, that I have applied myself with all possible diligence to the study of the economy of the animal kingdom; [...].“
“221. [...]. For the sake of this fluid it is, principally, that the animal body is called a kingdom. [...]; for it is educed where it is concieved, out of the cerebrum, the two medullae, and their perpetual origins or cortical substances, and transmitted by continuity into the entire body as their subject and adject, so that whatever does not exist and subsist from it, is no part in the unanimous system. →
→ It irrigates; for it is most perfectly fluid, so that the greater and more excellent is the portion of it that the blood possesses, the more fluid is the blood to be accounted. →
→ It nourishes and forms; whence it is called the formative substance, the mother and nurse of all others, present in the minutest particulars of the body, capable of adaptaion to every little pore, passage, and form. →
→ Wherefore also it renovates and repairs every deficiency in the connecting parts, and thus perpetually continues and pursues its work of formation. →
→ It actuates and modifies; for by its action we live, and by ots life we act: [...]: [...].“
“222. [...]; ..., it is in the first degree, since the red blood is in the third, as we have already acertained from experience. [...]; [...]; [...]; [..]. [...]. [...]; [...]; [..]. [...]; [...]. [...]; →
Pour une bonne compréhension du sujet ici traité, la petite “pause“ qui suit, sur le sang et le globule rouge, me semble nécessaire. Cf. également le billet intitulé “Le Globule Rouge/ L'Erytrocyte“.
→ for the red blood does not derive its nature from itself, but from other bloods prior to itself, into which it again returns; or as we term it, ascends, since the blood, as a compound dies. →
→ That the red blood suffer itself to be divided into pellucid spherules, which continue their flow through the vessels, or the stamina and fibres of the vessels, is a fact which may be so distinctly ascertained by the microscope as to leave no room for doubt. →
→ [...]. And that each spherule is again divisible into others immensly smaller, may again be verified by the microscope. [...]. →
→ Wherefore there are units of it also, the number of which probably surpasses, beyond all imagination, those percieved by the highest microscopical powers. →
→ and we shall then come to that purest fluid, which is said to be in the third degree above the blood; or in the first when the red blood is put in the third. [...]; [...]. →
→ Unless this idea of division and composition be familiarized to the mind, we shall percieve nothing distinctly in the various oblects of nature, but confound with sense those things that nature successively and distinctly evolves. [...]; [...].“
Fin de la petite “pause“ sur le sang et le globule rouge.
“223. [...]; for it is called the substance and the force of its body. [...]. [...]. [..]; [...]. [...]. But a substance is the subject of all its accidents, and consequently also of all its forces. [...]; [...]; [...]. [...]; [...]; [...]. [...]. Meanwhile, fluids are what represent the forces of nature, because they produce them; for fluids are the things that can make an effort, and undergo modification and motion; each fluid perfectly or imperfectly, according to its essence and form; for the quality of forces is relative to the state of the substance. [...]; [...]. In general, fluids are intrinsically more perfect the higher they are in their series (Part I, n. 615,616), and the more their parts are by nature accomodated to the variety of all mutations; also the more expansile and compressible they are, and the less coherent; hence the more modifiable; [...]; [...]; [..]; [...]; [...]; [...]. [...]; [...]. →
→Hence the fluid substances which produces these results, may justly be called the forms of nature's forces, which never exhibit themselves to view, either in part, or as sometimes is the case, even in volume, except by their effects. [...]; [...]. [...]; [...]. In this respect the purest fluid in the animal body is the substance and the force, and the most perfect nature of its little world. [...]; ...that substances discover what they are by the mode of their forces. →