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 | | Slippery notes, "magic jargon was perhaps the closest fit" to this process, for Vinge recognized that magic's manipulative power operates in the ambiguous gap between sensation and internal imagery. |
 | | And nor was Trithemius's astrological magic limited to communication alone--as D. Walker noted, "it was also the means of acquiring universal knowledge, 'of everything that is happening in the world.'" [23] Trithemius thus aimed his coded ethereal communications towards the grandest dream of the Hermeticum: to know everything instantaneously, and thereby, presumably, to know God. |
 | | These magical machines, at once rigorous and phantasmic, were created by projecting systematic techniques of numerology and cryptography into a kind of free-space of mystical abstraction. |
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