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  Taoist Female Worship
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 12-08-2023, 05:35 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Not specifically alchemical but perhaps of interest. Full Text.

"Facing growing contemporary crises, many scholars turn to ancient eastern religions and goddess civilizations as a means of culture root-seeking."

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/12/1519

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  Adrift: A Medieval Wayward Folly
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 12-08-2023, 05:24 PM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events - No Replies

"Adrift: A Medieval Wayward Folly is performed in a starkly empty black box theater at 59E59. A spare set piece, a ship’s mast, inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s Ship of Fools, is perched in one corner. The set piece, like the performance itself, is handmade and vigorously detailed. It looks like a close up or a cut out from the 15th century painting. As one can surmise from the play’s title, the performance takes much of its inspiration from the art and music of the Middle Ages. The enthusiastically crafted scenarios, all performer created, with costumes, puppets, and set designed by the Happenstance ensemble, are partly homages to specific artworks from the late medieval and early Renaissance period. Specifically, they were inspired by works by Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder, as well as illuminated alchemical and medical texts from the same period. With music, dance, puppets, miming, and physical comedy, and using minimal language, the performers recreate symbols and scenarios from these late medieval masterworks."

https://observer.com/2023/12/adrift-a-me...awberries/

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  The Imagination of Alchemy: A Chinese Response to Catholicism
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 12-08-2023, 05:21 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

The Imagination of Alchemy: A Chinese Response to Catholicism in Late Ming and Early Qing 

"As a common cultural phenomenon in China and the West, alchemy not only embodies the scientific spirit of people before modern times, but also contains certain religious beliefs, and even creates unrealistic secular imaginations. When Catholicism entered China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Chinese also projected this imagination of alchemy onto the missionaries."

Full text

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/12/1521

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  French manuscript
Posted by: Carl Lavoie - 12-08-2023, 12:41 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - Replies (2)

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https://www.weiserantiquarian.com/pages/...manuscript

   

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  "Plato" the Alchemist
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 12-07-2023, 07:22 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Plato in Medieval England: Pagan, Scientist, Alchemist, Theologian

Jayne Sears

"From the time of the Roman Republic, continental Europeans traveling to England brought knowledge of Greek and Roman intellectual culture in the form of books of every genre. But, until 1111 CE, the island contained not a single Platonic dialogue. And for the next two centuries, it had only a partial Latin translation of the Timaeus. A Latin Phaedo eventually appeared, in 1340, and the Meno in 1423. But this hardly limited the number of ideas people had about Plato. He was a proto-Christian, a sage, a scholar of the cosmos, and a healer. And he had an elaborate oeuvre that did exist in England, works of astrology, numerology, medicine, and science, including Cado, Theobrodus, Calf, Circle, Herbal, Question, Alchemy, and Book of Prophecies of a Greek King. This book tells the story of Plato in Medieval England, from a name with too few works to a sage with too many."


https://www.amazon.com/Plato-Medieval-En...2503601081

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  Fiction: Casting the Runes by Montague Rhodes James
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 12-06-2023, 07:26 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"Dear Sir,

I am requested by the Council of the ⸻ Association to return to you the draft of a paper on The Truth of Alchemy, which you have been good enough to offer to read at our forthcoming meeting, and to inform you that the Council do not see their way to including it in the programme.

I am,

Yours faithfully,

— Secretary."



Text:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/More_Ghos..._the_Runes

Librivox:
https://librivox.org/search?title=Castin...m=advanced

   

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  Alchemical medals
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 12-05-2023, 08:41 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"Alchemical medals represented together with alchemical coins a category of artifacts that were to be made of precious metals obtained by the alleged transmutation of base metals, often to commemorate this supposed success. They mostly used alchemical symbolism, but in some cases, they also bore an inscription referring to the alleged transformation of metals. However, more types of objects were included among the alchemical medals and coins. Vladimír Karpenko divided them into four categories: I. Coins and medals made from a precious metal allegedly produced by the alchemical transmutation of base metals. II. Coins and medals that were not made from alchemical metal, but have been regarded as alchemical due to a misunderstanding of the symbols minted on them, or based on legend. III. Coins and medals made from various metals, mostly non-precious, that were used as amulets or talismans. IV. Copies of alleged alchemical coins and medals made from non-precious metals."

https://merian-alchemie.ub.uni-frankfurt...smutation/

English text. Click on 'Abb.' for illustrations.


See also:

https://www.coingallery.de/Varia/Alchemi...emie_D.htm

https://www.deepl.com/translator

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  The Kunlun System
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 12-05-2023, 06:38 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"“Your human body is a miracle of the universe with the great mysteries housed within it. You are the universe. You are the essence of living light, slowed down into the physical manifestation of frozen light. When we do our practices, we are speeding ourselves back up into the sacred vibration of truth, even beyond the speed of light, and in the process we remember who and what we truly are and what we came here to do.” — Max Christensen The KUNLUN® System reveals the “hidden root,” giving one the key to awakening within oneself. Through meditative and breathing techniques, the KUNLUN System facilitates the complete opening of the energy body, including the chakras, energy meridians, and three specific energy storage areas called dantiens. The system is named after the Kunlun Mountains, home of the immortals, where ancient masters taught the great alchemical secrets to their students, resulting in the illumination of the body, mind, and spirit into the living body of light. Max Christensen brings to you these ancient alchemical secrets through the KUNLUN System so you may access the divine hidden potential within your own being."

https://www.amazon.com/KUNLUN%C2%AE-Syst...098522360X

   

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  Sacsayhuamán, the greatest mystery in America
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 12-05-2023, 06:30 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"According to some researchers, the ancient inhabitants of the highlands mastered some alchemical techniques that allowed them to shape the rock to their liking and then make it very hard again. According to a legend spread in Cusco, Father Jorge Lira demonstrated in the last years of the 20th century that the technique to make stones malleable was true and that it was based on the use of a plant called jotcha. However, it seems that the priest failed to harden the rock again. In any case, his experiments were never supported by scientific evidence and the entire story always remained behind an aura of mystery."


https://www.neperos.com/article/s56qgj1db7e1ddf2

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  Clavis Artis
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 12-04-2023, 08:19 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"Much like the images it contains, the three-volume Clavis Artis remains a mystery of nearly unchartable depths. We know this much: the alchemical manuscript was published in Germany, sometime between the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, although its title page claims it is thirteenth century (and written on dragon skin)."

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/clavis-artis/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Clavis_Artis

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