The Secret of the Rose
The Seven Liberal Arts plus Medicine surround Philosophy - the love of Wisdom Learning proceded step by step from the quadrivium which was debated with the trivium. When the seven were mastered Philosophy could then be studied. The 'quadrivium' included Astronomy, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music - i.e. the world, the universe and sound The 'trivium' comprised Rhetoric, Grammar, Dialectic - i.e. the instruments of communication between mortals
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