The Hermetic Art of Memory

Giodano bruno was a renaissance practitioner of the hermetic art of memory. Bruno himself was originally a dominican monk and er heer. He'd learnt memory through that kind of christian training. The most famous one is bruno's memory wheels, which are letters in a wheel that you'd combine. But there they're not memory in the sense of just to recall. They're to lead to higher ates of meditation that he called contraction. Contraction is psalmody ono stor bruno. And yes, almost every expert, if unbat to publish a book where someone says it again, e says that em these aren't usable. You can't

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