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An Analysis of Michael Maier’s Alchemical Work |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-02-2023, 10:07 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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Thesis by Olivia Jane Heppel
"In 1614, Count Palatine Michael Maier published Arcana Arcanissima, the Most
Secret Mysteries in which he analyzes mythological stories through an alchemical lens to
discover the Christian truths which they hold. This text is referenced throughout
scholarship on Maier, but no one has translated it into English. Maier is famous for works
such as the Atalanta Fugiens, and his depth and breadth of mythological and alchemical
scholarship is profound. This study focuses on one chapter from Arcana Arcanissima on
the Trojan War to discover Maier’s analyses of myth, alchemy, and religion."
https://www.proquest.com/openview/3dc442...750&diss=y
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Hell, Heaven and Alchemy in Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter” |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-30-2023, 04:40 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"Samael Aun Weor holds that alchemy is, strictly speaking, a sexual sacred practice, to sublimate the inferior, grotesque human energies (ens seminis) and transmute them into gold. This technique would consist of not fornicating, that is to say, spilling the seminal fluids, but making them ascend through the spine towards the brain. The chalice of all religions esoterically represents the sacred wines of the gods, the elixir of immortality. Aun Weor reveals in one of his several books about alchemy, La Piedra Filosofal o el Secreto de los Alquimistas, the symbolic connection between woman and the Grail: “There is no doubt either that in the Cup or Chalice, the Holy Grail as it is known, for which the Medieval knights fought when they left towards the Holy Land during the times of the Eucharistic Crusades, represents the feminine Yoni, the eternal feminine (…) they never found it, obviously” (Aun Weor, K, 2012: 261)."
https://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/objetos_dig...sanova.pdf
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Bartlett's 'Real Alchemy' |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-30-2023, 04:37 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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"A ground-breaking modern manual on an ancient art, Real Alchemy draws on both modern scientific technology and ancient methods. A laboratory scientist and chemist, Robert Allen Bartlett provides an overview of the history of alchemy, as well as an exploration of the theories behind the practice. Clean, clear, simple, and easy to read, Real Alchemy provides excellent directions regarding the production of plant products and transitions the reader-student into the basics of mineral work–what some consider the true domain of alchemy. New students to practical laboratory alchemy will enjoy reading Real Alchemy and hopefully find the encouragement needed to undertake their own alchemical journey. Bartlett also explains what the ancients really meant when they used the term “Philosopher’s Stone” and describes several very real and practical methods for its achievement. Is the fabled Philosopher’s Stone an elixir of long life or is it a method of transforming lead into gold? Judge for yourself."
For download:
https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Robert%...lchemy.pdf
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Unio Mystica and the Aurora Consurgens |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-30-2023, 04:27 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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Thesis by William Christian.
"This thesis examines a late medieval alchemical treatise known as the Aurora Consurgens,
which is ascribed to the early decades of the fifteenth century. The Aurora was among the
first of its kind in a tradition of poetico-rhetorical alchemy that became popular in the late
middle ages and early modern period. While it is indisputable that early Latin alchemical
texts contained allegorical language and religious symbolism, the Aurora heralded a new
form of alchemical literature, where mysticism became thoroughly and inseparably
interpolated with the operations of the laboratory. The Aurora is framed as a dialogue
between an unnamed alchemist and Sapientia, a female embodiment of God’s wisdom,
which in the text, is conflated with the philosopher’s stone. This thesis focuses on a series
of visions that appear throughout the document. These visions invoke the unitive imagery
of late medieval mystical theology and contain many of the themes that appear in medieval
contemplative literature. These are, namely, the image of the ‘cloud’ that appears in the
tradition of pseudo-Dionysian mystical theology, motifs of darkness and illumination,
purgation, and union with the divine. The principal argument contends that the author of
the Aurora Consurgens used the motifs of mystical theology to elucidate his understanding
of the alchemical work."
http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14918/1/UNIO_MY....pdf?DDD17+
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