THE METAPHYSICAL ART, BK. IV. "TIME'S TABLES"

[1] "The subtle art is indistinguishable from permutation."

[2] "Time is all of change."

[3] "The river lies beyond the sea."

[4] "Nature blooms amidst intuitions."

[5] "The sacred sound floats above the ground."

[6] "Patterns are unwoven in the laws of interpretation."

[7] "Figures are myths of memory."

[8] "Time fragments on its ends."

[9] History is the ideation of all capacities, present at all levels.

[10] It all depends on formulating an exceptional rule.

[11] Nature changes.

[12] Fools die, leaving genius eggs.

[13] Sometimes perspective merits a different system.

THE METAPHYSICAL ART, BK. III. "THE MIDDLE-AGES"

[1] "The subtle art is indistinguishable from magic..."

[2] The self contains its own essence, and knows less well the essences that lie beyond the self...

[3] Even so, the self is exceptional, and a measurement of things not contained within the self.

[4] What we notice in a dark room is substantially different from the same objects in a light room.

[5] Subtle laws can prove anything, however difficultly, with whatever exceptionality...

[6] These things exist in what Douglas Adams called 'the long dark teatime of the soul'...

[7] With proper nourishment (biscuits, sugared tea), life is indistinguishable from magic, to the sophisticate... His needs are provided for, and so, there is less reliance on reality...

[8] The magic of a sacred grove is revealed with mystery.

[9] Unfragmented steps lead beyond, into the universal...

[10] The magic of the universal may as well be ordinary.

[11] The first art of magic becomes the pursuit of the immortal...

[12] Life's intransitives fade into vignettes, cartoons, barely noticable.

[13] The best systems are left with a touch of everything, a miscellay, a roster, an establishment.