"Is it possible the Knights Templar understood alchemy as both a science and a spiritual metaphor throughout history for the ascension of human consciousness?"

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https://www.gaia.com/video/alchemical-ri...activation

Tomorrow (13.1.24) is the 620th anniversary of the English Act against Multipliers. "This Act forbade the transmutation of base metals into gold or silver, which one might then use to create counterfeit coins. Its enactment was meant to protect the authority of the government by preventing the debasement of currency. Four decades later, Henry VI began issuing special licenses to alchemists to circumvent the statute in an attempt to pay for costly wars."

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2023/01/alchem...ltipliers/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_(alchemy)

https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/be...s-alchemy/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fettes_Douglas

   

Extracted from the writings of: Glauber, Basil Valentine, and Other Adepts.

https://archive.org/details/a-compendium...i/mode/2up

This would seem to be a précis of AE Waite's volume of the same name, on sale here:

https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/a-comp...esses.html

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A two pages process. Seems legit.

Pages 91 & 92.

https://books.google.ch/books?id=CnARwcf...ge&f=false

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"This paper connects archetypal psychology with contemporary mathematical and quantum concepts. We focus on the profound interconnectedness at the interface between chaos and order, by demonstrating how the Mandelbrot set from contemporary fractal geometry circles round to embody the Ouroboros, an ancient symbol of recursive dynamics."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._and_Order

"St. Germain collected old pictures and portraits; he was addicted to alchemy, believed in universal medecine and made studies as to animal magnetism."

https://verity59.org/uploads/3/4/7/7/347...fkings.pdf

This special issue of Quaerendo marks the addition of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam to the UNESCO Netherlands Memory of the World Registry.  All articles in the issue all treat items in the BPH collection. Authors include Lucinda Martin, Lawrence M. Principe, Thomas Hofmeier, Cis van Heertum, Gwendolyn Verbraak, Andreas Pietsch and José Bouman.

https://www.academia.edu/113263598/Quaer...nda_Martin

Reviewed by David Allen Brizer
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
by Anthony Grafton
Belknap Harvard University Press
Dec 2023, 282 pp, ISBN-13: 978-0674659735

https://compulsivereader.com/2024/01/10/...y-grafton/

"The first step in the decryption process is the transcription of these manuscripts, which is not easy due to the high variation of hand-writing styles and cipher alphabets, and in addition, the often few number of pages. Although different strategies can be considered to deal with the insufficient amount of training data (e.g. few-shot learning, self-supervised learning) the performance of HTR models is still far from satisfactory. Thus, we believe that a competition with a large number of symbol sets and scribes can boost the research of HTR in low resource scenarios. Indeed, the recognition of ciphers is an example of such a low-resource scenario with a high historical interest. Thousands of enciphered historical manuscripts are buried in libraries and archives. So, transcribing and decrypting the information contained in these special sources is important to the understanding of our cultural heritage, since it helps to shed new light on and even to (re-)interpret our history."

https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=27