> I await your honouring me with further correspondence,
> Alden Ex Criamon
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+To Alden, Autumn 1222
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+>To Alden of Criamon, Alexios of the Schola Pythagoranis sends his greetings and respects.
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+>My apologies for my foolishness in not mentioning your colleagues name, it was an oversight which I blushed for once my letter was dispatched, too late to recall. It was a certain Sifféd of your house that told me you might be willing to correspond.
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+>To discuss magic theory with you would be a joy, the nature of my research is such that I attempt to synthesise the viewpoints of many of the learned and to add your unique understanding of magic would be extremely helpful to me. I can but humbly hope that some of my own insights will similarly be useful to you.
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+>One thought that occurred to me as I studied your comments was that it might be possible to wind magic, not just into the technical components of a piece of art, the paints, the surface but into the artwork itself. A spell is after all a piece of writing in and of itself, would writing one with the skill and beauty of the poet strengthen the magic? If so, would it be possible to paint a picture and so weave a spell? Or to play a tune on a flute and do likewise, you reference harmony and art is in many ways a way to create an aesthetic harmony.
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+>_[Alexios continues in this vein for some time, referencing classic hermetic theory but also Greek philosophers and weaving them into the riddles that Alden expounded]_
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+As for the second matter, that is most helpful. I think my sodales and I might well decide to investigate this and travel to the Levant to do so some day. If there are any introductions you might make to colleagues who would be able to help us in investigating this matter, that would be of great aid.
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+I remain, sir, your obedient servants, Alexios.
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