<strong>Rune</strong>-<strong>Magic</strong>, <strong>by</strong> <strong>Siegried</strong> <strong>Adolf</strong> <strong>Kummer</strong>7/7/11 12:15 AMconsecrated. In crossing the Apennines he wasattacked <strong>by</strong> brigands. They robbed him, but hemade no pursuit. And so, encouraged <strong>by</strong> exampleand <strong>by</strong> the impunity of lesser thieves, the greaterones soon took part in the robberies. Amurathseized part of Hungary, Mathias Corvinus tookLower Austria, and Frederic consoled himself forthese usurpations <strong>by</strong> repeating the maxim,Forgetfulness is the best cure for the losses wesuffer. At the time we have now reached, he hadjust, after a reign of fifty-three years, affiancedhis son Maximilian to Marie of Burgundy andhad put under the ban of the Empire his son-inlaw,Albert of Bavaria, who laid claim to theownership of the Tyrol. He was therefore too fullof his family affairs to be troubled about Italy.Besides, he was busy looking for a motto for thehouse of Austria, an occupation of the highestimportance for a man of the character of FredericIII. This motto, which Charles V was destinedalmost to render true, was at last discovered, tothe great joy of the old emperor, who, judgingthat he had nothing more to do on earth after hehad given this last proof of sagacity, died on the19th of August, 1493, leaving the empire to hisson Maximilian.This motto was simply founded on the fivevowels, a, e, i, o, u, the initial letters of these fivewordsThis means"AUSTRIAE EST IMPERAREORBI UNIVERSO.""It is the destiny of Austria to rule over thewhole world."So much for Germany.The Convivio, <strong>by</strong> Dante Alighierihttp://www.american-buddha.com/cult.runemagic.kummer.htmPage 24 of 64
<strong>Rune</strong>-<strong>Magic</strong>, <strong>by</strong> <strong>Siegried</strong> <strong>Adolf</strong> <strong>Kummer</strong>7/7/11 12:15 AMIn the third chapter of this book, a promise wasmade to discuss the loftiness of the imperial andphilosophic authorities. Therefore having discussedthe imperial authority, I must continue mydigression and take up the subject of the authority ofthe Philosopher, in keeping with my promise. Herewe must first observe what this word "authority"means, for there is a greater necessity to know thisin discussing the philosophic as opposed to theimperial authority, which <strong>by</strong> virtue of its majestydoes not seem open to question. It should beknown, then, that "authority" is nothing but "thepronouncement of an author."http://www.american-buddha.com/cult.runemagic.kummer.htmThis word, namely "auctor" without the third letterc, has two possible sources of derivation. One is averb that has very much fallen out of use in Latinand which signifies more or less "to tie wordstogether," that is, "auieo." Anyone who studies itcarefully in its first form will observe that itdisplays its own meaning, for it is made up only ofthe ties of words, that is, of the five vowels alone,which are the soul and tie of every word, and iscomposed of them in a different order, so as toportray the image of a tie. For beginning with A itturns back to U, goes straight through to I and E,then turns back and comes to O, so that it trulyportrays this image: A, E, I, O, U, which is thefigure of a tie. Insofar as "author" is derived andcomes from this verb, it is used only to refer topoets who have tied their words together with theart of poetry; but at present we are not concernedwith this meaning. The other source from which"author" derives, as Uguccione attests in thebeginning of his book Derivations, is a Greek wordpronounced "autentin" which in Latin means"worthy of faith and obedience." Thus "author," inthis derivation, is used for any person deserving ofbeing believed and obeyed. From this comes theword which we are presently treating, namely"authority"; hence we can see that authority meansPage 25 of 64
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