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The Garden of Cyrus

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{{Italic title}}The Garden of Cyrus, or The Quincuncial Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients, naturally, artificially, mystically considered, is a discourse by Sir Thomas Browne. First published in 1658, along with its diptych companion, Urn-Burial, in modern times it has been recognised as Browne's major literary contribution to Hermetic wisdom.^[1] ^[2]

Overview

Written during a time when restrictions on publishing became more relaxed during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, The Garden of Cyrus (1658) is Browne's contribution to a 'boom period' decade of interest in esoterica in England.^[3]

Browne's discourse is a Neoplatonic and Neopythagorean vision of the interconnection of art and nature via the inter-related symbols of the number five and the quincunx pattern, along with the figure X and the lattice design.^[4] Its fundamental quest was of primary concern to Hermetic philosophy: proof of the wisdom of God, and demonstrable evidence of intelligent design. The Discourse includes early recorded usage of the words "prototype" and "archetype" in English.

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1. ^ http://aquariumofvulcan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/what-is-more-beautiful-than-quincunx.html
2. ^{{cite web| url=http://levity.com/alchemy/sir_thomas_browne.html |title=Scintillae marginila: Sparkling margins - Alchemical and Hermetic thought in the literary works of Sir Thomas Browne |author=Faulkner, Kevin |date=2002 |accessdate=16 February 2017}}
3. ^http://www.alchemywebsite.com/eng_bks.html.
4. ^Frank Huntley Sir Thomas Browne: a Biographical and Critical Study Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1962

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Complete text of [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Cyrus The Garden of Cyrus]
Essay on Browne and Hermeticism

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