2. Ingeniería Básica
2.15. Motor eléctrico
2.15.1. Motores de corriente continua
ritual Hermetic practices.
to forget all previous
system (especially the names letters). Deleting these (not using them) is the these later attributions, the the goal of the Hermetic . to help the ancient sacred preserve the Golden Chain. In human beings to use theurgic genuine, actual contact with and the symbolic
repre-zodiac were developed over you know today: the twelve with twelve signs represent
we must understand before
calendar, and were of the months was under
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the protection and dominion of a divinity. The Gods that correspond to the twelve months probably appeared in Egypt around 1600 BCE.
On a specific day of each month, the God who governed that particu
lar month was honored with a special celebration. Babylonians used the same principle: twelve Gods corresponding to twelve months and to twelve signs of the zodiac. This historical data is documented in a first -century BCE book, Bibliotheca Historica, by the Greek historian Diodore of Sicily.
Greece also had twelve Olympian Gods, which the Romans adapted to their own pantheon and to their own system of counting the months of the year. In Rome, these twelve Gods were called Di Consentes. Many references can be found in classical literature to these twelve divinities . The Gods were worshiped and they received requests and sacrifices. In the book of The Laws, Plato also refers to twelve Gods whom he links to the months of the year and to twelve categories of society. In the book Phaedre, Plato explains quite clearly that the twelve Gods are astral di
vinities (powers) that originate in ethereal space and act to give order to the cosmos. Before Plato's descriptions, it was difficult to be sure if the twelve Olympians were connected to the twelve months of the year.
However, that was the case after his writings were published. Eudoxos of Cnidos, founder of the science of astrology, linked the twelve Gods to the signs of the zodiac.
Even though the correspondences between the divinities and the twelve months of the year are clear, the connection between the Gods and the twelve astrological signs is not as immediately obvious. How
ever, the science of archaeology offers a solution, providing several elements whereby I may establish this correspondence. The first such object is undoubtedly a circular altar found in Gabii, Italy, in 1793. It was dated to the first century BCE and is a circular slab of stone dec
orated with the busts of twelve divinities. Each divinity is identified by its characteristic symbols. The twelve divinities are carved into the stone around the top of the altar, and the astrological signs are carved into the circumference of the supporting pillar, thereby connecting them with the divinities. This circular altar (as well as other structures of a similar nature) confirms this fundamental symbolic relationship.
Specific letters from the Greek alphabet were also associated with each of these twelve signs. The Greeks used consonants exclusively. As you can easily see in the Qabalistic text called the Sepher Yetzirah, the Hebrews did this same thing later in history. This book was the founda
tion of the Catholic Qabalistic revival. Therefore, it is logical to use it here. The chart below shows these Greek and Hebrew correspondences.
Divine Athena Aphrodite Apollo Hermes Zeus Demeter
Arcana (2nd (2nd (2nd
(Divine aspect) aspect) aspect)
Tarot)
Greek Beta Zeta Kappa Lambda Letters
Hebrew He Vav Zayin Het Tet Yod
Letters
Divine Hephaestus Ares Artemis Hestia Hera Poseidon
Arcana (2nd
ground, and the planets, the seven celestial spheres, moving across the sky, much closer to you (as distance is reckoned in the cosmic scheme of things). You can see the planets that are visible to you with your unaided senses, since this is how the ancients viewed them. Even today, it remains true that these cosmic forces are similarly visible on the symbolic and theurgic level. The seven traditional planets are the visible manifestation of the seven most powerful divinities. The
re-lationship of the planets to the even though different cultures.
a slightly different ascending platonic and Ogdoadic quence, which puts the Sun at Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn).
of the Qabalistic Tree of Life.
Sephiroth.
From the time of the the lunar month is divided days. These seven days were on. In the Greek system, the Hermes, Zeus, Aphrodite, and vinities
(I, A,
0, E, U, H,A).
tions. The chart below shows
Greek Omega fundamental meaning of this tagram. The pentagram has ments assigned to the points, the symbols as seen on F Water, Air, and Fire, as well as surmounts the four lower
aspect)
Mu Nu
Tet Yod
Khi Psi
Tsadi Qof
you are looking at a tele
the zodiac in the back
spheres, moving across reckoned in the cosmic are visible to you with viewed them. Even
divinities. The
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lationship of the planets to the divinities is well-known to everyone, even though different cultures, at different periods in history, used a slightly different ascending sequence to describe them. The Neo
platonic and Ogdoadic Tradition chose the Chaldean ascending se
quence, which puts the Sun at its center (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn). This succession is used in most versions of the Qabalistic Tree of Life, in which planets are attributed to the Sephiroth.
From the time of the Chaldeans, it has been well-known that the lunar month is divided into four parts, each composed of seven days. These seven days were allocated to seven divinities very early on. In the Greek system, the seven divinities are: Helios, Selene, Ares, Hermes, Zeus, Aphrodite, and Kronos. Vowels were linked to these di
vinities
(I, A,
0, E, U,H, A).
Hebrew Qabalists made similar attributions. The chart below shows these correspondences.
Divine Kronos Zeus Ares Helios Aphrodite Hermes Selene Arcana
(Divine Tarot)
Greek Omega Upsilon Omicron Iota Eta Epsilon Alpha Letters
Hebrew Resh Tav Gimel Dalet Kaf Pe Bet
Letters
THE HIDDEN KEYS
The keys of the Tarot of Mantegna, as well as every traditional rep
resentation (Hermetic, astrological, alchemical, etc.), reveal that the fundamental meaning of this hierarchy can be represented by a pen
tagram. The pentagram has the attributes of the four traditional ele
ments assigned to the points, and these elements are represented by the symbols as seen on Figure 8 on the next page. They are: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire, as well as the fifth element (Ether, or Spirit, which surmounts the four lower elements).