Occult Literature
The Sun, Planets and Milky Way
Concentric circles are labelled from the Sun and Mercury outwards to Neptune and the Milky Way. A single coiling line links the successive rings within Spivey’s speculative planetary system.
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Illustrator not identified. "The Sun, Planets and Milky Way" [editorial title]. In Lavius Egyptus: Lectures in the Pythagorean Senate, in the Temple of the Oracle of Dodona, Thomas Sawyer Spivey. Author-published edition, 1903, 1903, Thomas Sawyer Spivey. Source scan leaf 34. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0494-0034
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- Lavius Egyptus: Lectures in the Pythagorean Senate, in the Temple of the Oracle of Dodona
- Spiral planetary paths
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A historical symbolic image or diagram from the author’s system. Its reproduction records the source without validating its cosmological, magical or astrological claims.
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Lavius Egyptus: Lectures in the Pythagorean Senate, in the Temple of the Oracle of DodonaThomas Sawyer Spivey1903More from this book
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Illustrator not identified. The Sun, Planets and Milky Way. Lavius Egyptus: Lectures in the Pythagorean Senate, in the Temple of the Oracle of Dodona. Scan leaf 34. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0494-0034