![]() The solid mass is actual physical reality as we common experience it, the most material portion of creation. The lower triangle has three concentric circles within it, with its center being a solid mass. The upper triangle, with the tetragrammaton centered within it, is therefore the totality of God. Because Christianity envisions God as a tripartite being of Father, Son and Holy Ghost united within a single godhead, the triangle is commonly used as a symbol for God. However, there is also a common school of thought extolling the creations of God, and this is the issue Fludd addresses in this particular diagram. Illustrator and occultist Robert Fludd often espouses this view. There is a common sense of a struggle between spirit and matter, where material things are imperfect and contrary to spiritual things, as per contemporary Christian teachings. Renaissance occultists often offer apparently contradictory views on the created universe. Fludd associates each of these letters to one of the realms, with the repeated "he" letter being set in the middle, outside of any of the three realms yet at the center of God. The unpronounceable name of God, known as the tetragrammaton, is comprised of four letters: yod, he, vau and he. He needs to lay them out in this manner in order to display their associations with the tetragrammaton. This should not be taken that Fludd has changed his mind but rather the limitations of symbology. ![]() While they are more commonly depicted as concentric rings, with the superior spiritual realm being the outermost and the inferior physical realm being the innermost, here they are depicted equally. Within this intersection are the three realms of renaissance cosmology: physical, celestial and spiritual. ![]() Neither half subsumes the other, as is indicated by the fact that while the Hyle circle and the triangle of God intersect, both also exist outside the boundaries of the other. It is, in fact, the essence of not being anything: it is infinite non-existence. One might suggest that it is a part of God, the dark void existing in opposition to the creative power more commonly associated with God. Robert Fludd, Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica atque technica historia, 1617Ĭreation, for renaissance occultist Robert Fludd, springs from the union of two opposite forces: the creative power of God impressing itself upon a receptive anti-substance he called the Hyle. ![]()
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