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  The Alchemical Search for the Unified Field
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-14-2023, 07:24 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - Replies (1)

"Describing the relationship between the alchemical oblong square and the electrical circuit of the brain, the author details the operative process of the Philosophers' Stone, likening it to the servomechanism of the third eye located between the twin pillars of the cerebral hemispheres. He explores how to navigate the twin pillars of the brain to find equilibrium—the third pillar. When the energies of our third eye are in equilibrium, we resonate as a harmonic waveform generator, and he shows how this can be achieved through meditation and the synchronizing vibration of vocal mantras."

https://tinyurl.com/u2sfajrv

   

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  A Search-Based Tool For Cryptanalysis of Classical Ciphers
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-12-2023, 07:30 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

References the Voynich, Edward Kelley etc.

https://www.scribd.com/document/545978938/mjb

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  Video: The Sacred Secretion "The Most Deeply Occulted Information On Earth"
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-12-2023, 07:22 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

From the comments:

"This is known as Kechari Mudra within Kriya yoga and the Vedic teachings refer to the milk & honey fluid, as Amrita"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYk7WvUnQ-s

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  Fiction: HP Lovecraft
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-12-2023, 07:12 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - Replies (1)

"The Alchemist". A short story by a teenaged H P Lovecraft.
 
"When at last I turned and faced the seat of the sound, my eyes must have started from their orbits at the sight that they beheld. There in the ancient Gothic doorway stood a human figure. It was that of a man clad in a skull-cap and long mediaeval tunic of dark colour. His long hair and flowing beard were of a terrible and intense black hue, and of incredible profusion. His forehead, high beyond the usual dimensions; his cheeks, deep-sunken and heavily lined with wrinkles; and his hands, long, claw-like, and gnarled, were of such a deathly, marble-like whiteness as I have never elsewhere seen in man. His figure, lean to the proportions of a skeleton, was strangely bent and almost lost within the voluminous folds of his peculiar garment."

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/tex...ion/a.aspx

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  JAN BAPTISTA VAN HELMONT’S EXPERIMENTAL MAGIC
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-12-2023, 06:59 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Thesis by Laura Sumrall.

https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstrea...sAllowed=y

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  Alchemy and Art in the 16th and 17th centuries
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-10-2023, 07:21 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Thesis by Lynette Dawn Grant.

"The examination of alchemical art in Europe during
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brings to light the
fact that the symbols employed invariably had multiple meanings,
but embodied a consistent polarity.
In pictorial representation the secret meanings implied
in the symbols were sometimes less concealed, and the possibility
of gaining more insight into the true nature of alchemy is therefore
probably greater by this type of examination than by scrutiny of
literary records alone. The process not only reveals something of
the nature of alchemy but gives an indication of the attitudes of
the various artists to alchemy and the degree to which they were
truly initiated into the secrets of the alchemical doctrine."

https://tinyurl.com/txcs96ce

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  The Alchemy of Paint: Bucklow
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-10-2023, 07:17 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

The Alchemy of Paint is a critique of the modern world, which Spike Bucklow sees as the product of seventeenth-century ideas about science. In modern times, we have divorced color from its origins, using it for commercial advantage. Spike Bucklow shows us how in medieval times, color had mystical significance far beyond the enjoyment of shade and hue.

Each chapter demonstrates the mindset of medieval Europe and is devoted to just one color, acknowledging its connections with life in the pre-modern world. Colors examined and explained in detail include a midnight blue called ultramarine, an opaque red called vermilion, a multitude of colors made from metals, a transparent red called dragonsblood, and, finally, gold.


https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Paint-Sci...0714531723

Also, short article here, pp 20-21:

https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/issue...rizons.pdf

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  The Dublin Philosophical Society (1683—1709)
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-10-2023, 07:13 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Thesis by Susan Hemmens. Several alchemical references, e.g. William Petty.

"This thesis offers a re-evaluation of the activities and mindset of a community of
natural philosophers who described themselves as curious: the members of the
Dublin Philosophical Society (1683—1709) (DPS) and their circle in Ireland and
further afield. Although they sometimes perceived themselves as being on the
periphery of the learned world, members of the DPS engaged self-consciously and
with reflection in that world. The thesis argues that the DPS, along with like-minded
individuals in Ireland and abroad, participated in the making of knowledge in ways
that they regarded as new. By way of a series of case studies, the thesis delineates the
influences on the DPS, details the workings of the society, and discusses the reception
of its outputs by peers."


https://tinyurl.com/35ehextz

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  Manuscript Recipe Collections in 18th century England
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-10-2023, 07:08 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Thesis by Katherine Allen.

Collecting recipes was an established tradition that continued in elite English households
throughout the eighteenth century. This thesis is on medical recipes and advice, and it
addresses the evolution of recipe collecting from the seventeenth century and throughout the
eighteenth century.



https://tinyurl.com/3a64ehu3

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  Rosicrucian Symbolism in DG Rossetti
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-10-2023, 07:01 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Thesis by Rodger Drew

"The Thesis examines the symbolism, and the sources of that symbolism, in the poetry and
painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Chapter 1 considers the significance of the title of
Rossetti's sonnet-sequence The House of Life. Chapter 2 looks at the opening sonnets of
that sequence. Chapter 3 scrutinises the sonnet quartet of the Willow-wood sequence.
Chapter 4 evaluates the influence of Platonism and Neoplatonism in Rossetti's art. Chapter
5 is concerned with Rossetti's use of allegory. Chapter 6 surveys the influence of
Rosicrucianism on Rossetti and his immediate circle of the Preraphaelite Brotherhood, and
on the Aesthetic School that succeeded it. This chapter closely examines the symbolic
motifs of Rosicrucianism, and how these may be traced in the paintings of these artists.
Chapter 7 explores the Rosicrucian influence in Rossetti's poetry. Chapter 8 further traces
these influences in Rossetti's painting. Chapter 9 investigates the Goddess figure within
Rossetti's later paintings."


https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3426/1/1996DrewPhD.pdf

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