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| The Royal Art Society |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 09-03-2025, 10:11 AM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events
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"The Royal Art Society is a global fellowship dedicated to symbolic alchemy, meditation, and the pursuit of wisdom. Our tradition transforms the “base metals” of ordinary life into the “gold” of clarity, empowerment, and illumination. Membership is open to all. Candidacy is free, and the journey unfolds across three grades—each a step deeper into the Mysteries of East and West, guided by meditation and evidence-based practice."
https://www.royalartsociety.com/
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| Updated EB article: Renaissance Magic and Science |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 09-03-2025, 10:09 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"Christian legend and myth also found fertile ground in the practices of alchemy. Through the perfection of metals the alchemists sought their own perfection and, indeed, the salvation of all matter. The alchemist sought to dissolve and then fuse his own physical matter and spirit with the prime matter of the universe. These efforts at the reduction into prime matter were thought to make possible the re-creation of individual and cosmos as a single, pure element. Even the philosopher’s stone or elixir was reinterpreted so that Christ appeared as the perfect matter produced by the alchemical process—that is, Christ was the stone of all wisdom and knowledge. In the alchemist’s spiritual forge, the Stone reemerged from the Matrix, the crucible containing the so-called Bath of Mary, whose amniotic fluids dissolved all impurities"
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christi...nd-science
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| London Gnostic Society |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 09-03-2025, 09:58 AM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events
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"The London Gnostic Society is an Esoteric order dedicated to the greater enlightenment of the Human Being. We freely give knowledge, techniques and practices that allow us to die to the vain and temporal so as to develop our latent spiritual faculties and redefine ourselves in superior space. Our regular classes include: Kabbalah and the dimensions of Space, meditation practices, resolving the problem of mind, the death of the Animal Ego, Alchemical/Tantric teachings, understanding the Laws of Creation and much more."
https://www.meetup.com/gnostic-society-london/
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| Ramon Llull's autobiography |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-31-2025, 05:51 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts
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"The Vita coaetanea (A Contemporary Life) is an autobiographical account of Ramon Llull´s life dictated by himself to a friend in 1311 when he was seventy-nine years old. In it Llull reviews his works in the context of a life dedicated to God and motivated by the desire to disseminate the message of the Christian faith among the infidels. Llull, the self-labeled troubadour of books, wrote this account in part as a self-justification of his life and work, in part as self-consolation for his unending toils and travails. It is very likely that he also had in mind the Council of Vienne (1311) which he was about to attend and where he submitted petitions dealing with the establishment of adequate places to study languages for the preaching of the Gospel to every creature and the founding of a Christian military religious order that waged permanent war against the Saracens until the Holy Land is reconquered. Llull wanted to frame these petitions within a well thought-out justificatory account of his life and works that exudes passion, commitment and love for his fellow man. This volume contains the Latin original, as well as translations into Catalan, Spanish, and English."
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https://www.academia.edu/31446411/Vita_c...17_205_pgs
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