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Corpus Hermeticum
Hermes Trismegistus
This section of the Corpus Hermeticum provides a snapshot of early Western concepts regarding time. The practice of pulse diagnosis has only two domains: form and process. Time is the essence of process.
- If you consider present
time is separate from past time
- Being present is
impossible unless being past also occurred, for what is present comes to
be from what has gone away and what is future from what is present.
- Past time by being
joined to present and present to future becomes one.
- Past time is departed so
that it no longer is. Future time does not exist and it is not yet
arriving.
- On the other hand:
- past events precede
present events
- present events precede
future events
- Future arrives at
the present
- Past departs from
the present
- The present absorbs
the future and allows the past to depart
- Three fold division
of time
- movement
- what is moved
- something
belonging to movement
Quotes regarding pulse diagnosis
"The rat stops gnawing
in the wood, the dungeon
walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has
found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is
sense and even promise in going on."
-Bernard De Voto
"Blessed are the ears that hear the pulse of the divine whisperer, and
give no heed to the many whisperings of the world"
-Thomas Kempis
"Time was away and somewhere else, / There were two glasses and two
chairs / And two people with one pulse."
-Louis MacNeice
"The physician who killed me, Neither bled, purge or pilled me, Nor
counted my pulse but it comes to the same, In the height of my fever I
thought of his name"
-Nicarchus
"The Divine Reason of things, moreover, is regarded as the fullness of
all powers---ideal space, ideal time, if such can be permitted."
-Philo of Alexandria |