
DE DIEU VIENT LE SCAVOIR
des effects de nature.
QUel mystere couvert esmeut plus la pensée?
Quel secret ravit plus de miracles nos sens?
Que l’oeuvre de Nature es deux globes puissans,[1]
Et du grand Univers en la forme ajancée?
Tu peines pour neant, la raison balancée
Au poids d’humain discours, perd ce que tu en sens
Philosophe pippé: Nature a ses presens
Inscrutables, couvert [=]
, mesme aux yeux de Lyncée.[2]
La sage Antiquité, qui artistement sceut
Imager le pourtrait de ce qu’elle conceut,
Peignit d’un drap obscur la Nature voilée.
Dieu qui sçait ses effects, Dieu seul sage, & puissant,
Fera de son sçavoir le juste joüyssant
Lors que de sa prison sera l’ame esvolée.

Ad Alardum Quintulum Narniensem.[3]
Velo latet abdita
She hides secrets with a veil
NAturam antiqui velo obnupsere, negantes
Quem quam huius solidâ cognitione frui.
Quae dabitur postquam terrestres spiritus artus
Linquet; & a caeco carcere liber erit.
The ancients obscured Nature with a veil, denying anyone to enjoy it/her with complete understanding, which will be given after the spirit leaves our earthly limbs and is free of its blind prison.
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- 'Natura' (allegorical figure or scene; or as Diana of Ephesus, with many breasts); 'Natura' (Ripa) [20] Search | Browse Iconclass
- (story of) Cybele, Rhea Cybele, Great Mother of the Gods (Berecynt(h)ia) [92L2] Search | Browse Iconclass
- adult man (+ two persons) [31D14(+72)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- book [49M32] Search | Browse Iconclass
- city-view in general; 'veduta' [25I1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- classical antiquity (historical epoch) [23T23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- coat, cape [41D212] Search | Browse Iconclass
- discussion, dialogue, dispute ~ scholar, philosopher [49C4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- flame [41B121] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Greek script [49L13] Search | Browse Iconclass
- hand touching the beard [31A2532] Search | Browse Iconclass
- index finger forwards, pointing, indicating [31A25552] Search | Browse Iconclass
- inscription [49L8] Search | Browse Iconclass
- monument, statue [25I152] Search | Browse Iconclass
- pyramid (historical grave form) [42E3722] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Roman script; scripts based on the Roman alphabet [49L12] Search | Browse Iconclass
- scholar, philosopher [49C3] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sitting on an elevation [31A2352] Search | Browse Iconclass
- stool [41A7211] Search | Browse Iconclass
- torch [41B32] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- 'Sapientia', Wisdom; 'Sapienza divina' (Ripa) ~ one of the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost [11E541] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Deity, God (in general) ~ Christian religion [11A] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Intellectual Blindness; 'Cecità della Mente' (Ripa) [52AA552] Search | Browse Iconclass
- picture, painting [48C514] Search | Browse Iconclass
- power, 'Potestas' ~ one of the seven gifts of the soul [11S725] Search | Browse Iconclass
- prison, jail [44G311] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Reason; 'Ragione' (Ripa) [52B51] Search | Browse Iconclass
- scenes from the story of the Argonauts that cannot be located in the chronological sequence [94A8] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Secrecy, Latency, Concealment; 'Secretezza' (Ripa) [52DD1] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Secret [52DD11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sight, looking (one of the five senses) [31A31] Search | Browse Iconclass
- spirit (or soul) versus body [31C] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the soul travelling [31G32] Search | Browse Iconclass
- the Universe [51A11] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Understanding, Comprehension; 'Apprehensiva' (Ripa) [52C4] Search | Browse Iconclass
- writer, poet, author [48C91] Search | Browse Iconclass
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