To talk about current learning in regards to Magic, it is important to give a brief history of the thinkers and philosophers that make up a large part of Hesberian thought. Eristotle laid the groundwork for the physics of magic. Onhedius did much to frame the ideas behind curative magic. Despite the facr that both lived hundreds of years before the existence of magic, modern thinkers found that many of their concepts still hold true. Not everything about magic is understood. Despite the presentation of modern Hesberian thought presented here, there are exceptions to the rules that no one has been able to adequately explain. Since magic is a relatively new science, it is not as thought out as mathematics or physics.

Eristotle
Eristotle has contributed more to Hesberian learning than any other teacher or philosopher. In his life, he wrote about physics, bilology (especially in regards to other sentient species), mathematics, and more. He wrote 165 books alone on biology, his most famous “On Ken” is used in schools everywhere, even Ganarii schools. (Ken is a generic term to refer to sentient species. It is similar to “men” when used to refer to all of humankind.) In regards to magic, his writings on physics have helped sages of the present time to understand the foundations of the new science of magic.

A bit of history may be helpful before continuing on. At the age of 18, he joined the school of Edermius in Stekora. Edermius declared Eristotle to be the “reader and thinker” of the school. After attending the school for 15 years, he was able to expand the range of subjects taught. It is believed that Onhemdus, considered that father of medicine, formed many of his ideas as a result of attending the school. When the school closed, Eristotle, now almost forty, went to attend a Ganarii school located within the Ikan Empire (they had not been conquered by the Hesberians, yet). While there, he expanded and retooled his ideas about physics. The main shift was away from five elements (four of which form all compunds in the universe) to his system of memes. This shift in his theory of the funadmental particles of the universe also affected his work in mathematics. Near the end of his life, he left Ikania to form his own school in Murogum. After ten years, he died in his sleep at 60. It is a common story that he became sick in Ikania, but that his life was extended for over twenty years because of the medical treatment of his friend Onhemdus.

Eristotlean Physics

Eristotle’s first theory of the fundamental praticles of the universe stated that the universe was made up of five elements: Air, Water, Fire, Earth, and Ether. The ether was “the immutable element” that held the planets in place. He also stated that the stars were composed of ether. (He did not equate the Sun with being a star, he considered it a pure elemental fire.) Under his first theory, all things were compunds of the four other elements. Each element was characterized by a combination of qualities (hot, dry, cold,wet). For example, water was wet and cold, fire was hot and dry.

However, upon entering the Ganarii school, he was surprised to see that a six “element” theory was being taught. The Ganarii theory held that there were five elements, Fire, Wood, Earth, Metal, Water used in the composition of all materials, and the sixth “element” (the anti-element) was the void.

The void was considered the emptyness between planets and stars as well as the center of the earth. It was also believed that in the the center of the heart of all ken, there is a small void that houses the soul. The void exists to keep the soul connected to the body. When a person dies, the heart can no longer maintain the void and the soul was free to move to the afterlife.

Meme Theory
After years of trying to work out a fusion of his theory with the Ganarii, he changed paradigms completely and wrote what is called today, the Meme theory.

Eristotle reasoned that wood and water were not truly elements due to the variations of wood and metal that exist. Early in his thinking, he noted that various alloys and woods could possibly be combinations of elements. For example, metal and fire (steel) or metal and air (copper) or wood and earth (oak). However, he struggled in reconciling the existence of elemental wood with his core philosophy that ideal forms exist in a realm not of the material world. If there is an idealized form of wood, and wood can be used to make a chair, how does the idealized form of the chair interact with the wood so that we know that the new construction is, in fact, a chair? In order for the ideal forms of wood and chair to interact, they couldn’t be in a different realm, they would have to be in the same Cosmos. So then he reasoned that if items made of wood (trees for instance) have forms, and these items are components of the Cosmos, then forms are things too. However, this would mean that each form must have a metaform, that metaform would have yet another metaform and so on. His solution to this problem is another different topic.

The basic meme theory is as follows:

The first order meme is ether, the immutable element.
The second order meme contains the primary elements: air, earth, fire, and water.
The third order meme contains wood and metal.
Fourth order memes are any compund created by a combination of second order and/or third order memes.

In essence, Eristotle separated the ‘concept’ of an object, calling it a meme, from the object itself. Calling the meme the ‘Void Form” of an object, he reasoned that the ‘ideal form’ of an object did not have to physically exist. This allowed for the creation of new objects that had never existed previously. The memes interact to create a meme for a new object, even if the physical representation of this new meme does not or cannot exist. (Later commentators do not use the term “void form” as it still implies that an object has a type of ideal form, even if it is void.) As far as memes that cannot exist, third order memes are considered two examples of this. Eristotle reasoned that there is no such thing as an ideal element of wood. It is a mental concept (meme) used to explain one of the fundamental building blocks of the universe.

Onhedius

Onhedius is called by many, “the father of medicine”. Although he contributed much to the field of medicine, his greatest attributes were resourcefulness and pragmatism.

Onhedius was the son of the last Tecian king. At 17, five years before Eristotle enrolled, he joined the school of Edermius in Stekora

Onhedian Physiology

• Fire – Heart
• Wood – Liver, Digestive
• Earth – Kidneys, Waste System
• Metal – Mind, Nervous system
• Ether – Soul, Speech, Psychology
• Air – Lungs, Respiratory
• Water – Blood, Circulatory

The Magic Septagram