Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter XLIV — The Composition of Some Fumes Appropriated to the Planets · 2 of 2 · tr. Henry Morley; L. W. de Laurence ed.
Chapter XLIV, Section 1b
But Hermes describes the most powerful fume to be that which is compounded of the Seven Aromatics, according to the powers of the Seven Planets—for it receives from Saturn, pepper-wort; from Jupiter, nutmeg; from Mars, lignum aloes; from the Sun, mastic; from Venus, saffron; from Mercury, cinnamon; and from the Moon, the myrtle.
Themes
◆Correspondencecosmology
The Hermetic axiom that the structure of the cosmos is reflected at every scale — 'as above, so below; as within, so without' — making each level a legible map of the others.
The passage links specific planetary powers directly to the efficacy of fumes, reflecting the Hermetic axiom that cosmic structures are mirrored in material compounds.
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The Stoic and Plotinian doctrine that all parts of the cosmos are bound by hidden affinities, so that a movement in one part resonates through the whole; the metaphysical basis for astrology, magic, and divination.
The text implies a metaphysical affinity between planets and substances where planetary powers are transmitted into the fumes.
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