Excellent! The doctrine of signatures is entirely valid, but it can't be used in an mechanical way. As Jakob Boehme points out in one of his books, the ability to perceive the true signatures of spirit in matter is something that arrives with a certain level of spiritual awakening. From my perspective, it's like learning to read a language -- there are the physical signatures, which are the letters, and then there's the grammar and syntax of the language, which is the spiritual meaning; you have to be able to perceive both to make sense of the language.
Phrenology is much the same. Pursue it in a rigid, materialist fashion and it's nonsense, but a competent phrenologist back in the day could read an enormous amount about the character and mentality of a person, by perceiving the shape of the skull as an expression of spiritual patterns.
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Re: Meaning and matter
Date: 2019-12-09 04:12 pm (UTC)Phrenology is much the same. Pursue it in a rigid, materialist fashion and it's nonsense, but a competent phrenologist back in the day could read an enormous amount about the character and mentality of a person, by perceiving the shape of the skull as an expression of spiritual patterns.