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| Rabbi Jacob Emden's Alchemical Quest |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 05-11-2024, 06:19 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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WINNER OF THE
JOURNAL OF MODERN
JEWISH STUDIES ESSAY PRIZE 2013
Maoz Kahana
"This paper explores R. Jacob Emden’s surprising quest for the knowledge of alchemy. This important eighteenth-century rabbinic leader searched for ancient books in the library of Göttingen University, sought living experts and read original alchemical works in German. His sustained interest in alchemy reflects an historical phenomenon far deeper than his personal curiosity. By delving into his forgotten 1736 Igeret bikoret, comparing it to his other writings, and then contextualizing it within contemporary European medical discourse, I wish to use the quarrel between competing medical world views, so typical of the early modern era, to understand R. Jacob Emden’s alternative, esoteric path to modernity and the specific ties it reveals between theology, law and medical practice."
https://www.academia.edu/4443820/An_Esot...ical_Quest
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| Alchemy in the 19th century |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 05-11-2024, 11:39 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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By Helena Blavatsky.
From La Revue Théosophique, Paris, Vol. II, Nos. 8, 9, 10, October, November and December, 1889, pp. 49-57, 97-103, 145-149, respectively.
https://en.teopedia.org/lib/Blavatsky_H....ench_text)
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| Audiobook: The Alchemy of Psychology |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 05-11-2024, 11:33 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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"James Hillman was a past master of alchemical psychology. This field uses metaphors derived from ancient alchemy to elucidate deep structures in the creative imagination. Creative processes are not random. By studying alchemical psychology we come to understand ourselves and other humans in surprising ways that frequently diverge sharply from the habitual understandings we have unconsciously absorbed from the cultures in which we were raised. These new awarenesses can engender unexpected new vitality and wonder."
https://www.brilliancepublishing.com/Title/50597
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| John Michael Greer on Eliphas Lévi and alchemy |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 05-09-2024, 10:18 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"Let’s start with some basics. If we take the writings of the alchemists at face value, Lévi’s brief summary of the goals of alchemy—“to be always rich, ever young, and never die”—is, as he says, the point of all those labors. This goal is to be reached by creating a mysterious substance, the Stone of the Philosophers, which prolongs human life indefinitely, cures all diseases, and can convert other metals into pure gold."
https://www.ecosophia.net/the-ritual-of-...hapter-12/
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