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  John Prestall
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-05-2023, 11:17 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

'This thesis is the biography of John Prestall (c.1527-c.1598) an unsavoury, nefarious, spendthrift, Catholic gentleman from Elizabethan England. A conspirator, opportunist informer, occult conjurer, conman and alchemist, Prestall's biography provides an alternative perspective from which to view Elizabethan history, exposing the dark fringe of the Elizabethan Court and the murky political underworld it attracted.'

Thesis by Michael Devine.

Full-text download:

https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/t...e/17011565

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  Heinrich Nolle's Parergi Philosophici Speculum
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-05-2023, 11:29 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Heinrich Nolles (auch Henricus Nollius) ›Parergi Philosophici Speculum‹, das Carlos Gilly als den »schönsten rosenkreuzerischen Roman nach der ›Chymischen Hochzeit‹« bezeichnet hat, wurde von der Forschung bislang kaum beachtet. Dies ist zumindest auch der begrenzten Überlieferungslage des Textes geschuldet, dessen Exemplare zum großen Teil von den Obrigkeiten konfisziert wurden. Die allegorische Erzählung verhandelt verschiedene Wissenskonzepte, zu denen Nolle teils auf satirische Weise Stellung bezieht. Das Programm einer religiösen Neuordnung knüpft an diese Vorstellungen von Wissen an. Der Text eröffnet neue Perspektiven auf das frühe Rosenkreuzertum und die Alchemie um 1620.

Heinrich Nolle’s ›Parergi Philosophici Speculum‹, which Carlos Gilly describes as the »most beautiful Rosicrucian novel after the ›Chymische Hochzeit‹«, has not yet received any significant attention in scholarship. This seems mostly due to the small number of copies that have been passed on, since most exemplars were confiscated by the authorities. The allegorical narrative negotiates various concepts of knowledge, to which Nolle occasionally takes a satirical stand. The programme of a religious reorganisation is linked to these conceptions of knowledge. The text opens up new perspectives on early Rosicrucianism and Alchemy around 1620.

German/Latin text.

https://www.frommann-holzboog.de/einzela...lang=en-gb


Some Nolle's texts here:

http://www.prdl.org/author_view.php?a_id=3340

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  The Rise of Alchemy in 14th Century England
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-05-2023, 10:09 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Apparently now public domain. 

'This is the first book to explore the importance of alchemy and its links to the occult in the period between 1320 and 1400. Alchemists did more than try to transmute base metals into gold: they studied planetary influences on metals and people, refined plants and minerals in the search for medicines and advocated the regeneration of matter and spirit. This book illustrates how this new branch of thought became increasingly popular as the practical and theoretical knowledge of alchemists spread throughout England.'

https://www.scribd.com/document/38016319...ry-England#

   

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  A New Pearl of Great Price
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-04-2023, 01:30 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

From A.E. Waite's translation of the Margarita Pretiosa of Petrus Bonus.

Full text here:
https://ia802203.us.archive.org/31/items...ciiala.pdf 

   

   


Adventures with the Maddison Collection, which references the above-mentioned text in part IV, here:

https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/specialcollecti...-part-one/
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/specialcollecti...-part-two/
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/specialcollecti...art-three/
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/specialcollecti...part-four/

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  N.C. Wyeth's 'The Alchemist'
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-03-2023, 10:33 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Father of Andrew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._C._Wyeth

   

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  L'Alchimie des francs-maçons
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-02-2023, 09:32 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

L'Alchimie des francs-maçons - Histoire d'une tradition transmutée. Les grades bleus

Dominique Jardin est agrégé. Il a obtenu un Doctorat " double sceau " en Histoire (Université de Nice) et en Sciences religieuses (EPHE) en soutenant une thèse sur les rituels, les tableaux de loge et la construction de la tradition maçonnique. Auteur de nombreux articles, ses autres ouvrages, Voyages dans les tableaux de loge, Le temple symbolique des francs-maçons, La tradition des francs-maçons, histoire et transmission initiatique, ont obtenu des Prix au Salon du Livre maçonnique de Paris. Il a aussi transcrit avec Claude Gagne Aux sources du REAA, le cahier de loge du Vénérable Tarade et publié Aux Sources de l'Ecossisme, le premier Tuileur illustré (XVIIIe s.), présentant 80 tableaux de loge et bijoux maçonniques. Lors de la World Conference on History of Freemasonry (BnF 2019), Dominique Jardin a été distingué par le Bartholdi Award pour ses années de recherche et ses nombreuses publications sur les tableaux de loge.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=97910242045...inkCode=qs

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  Cabinet d’alchimiste
Posted by: Carl Lavoie - 04-01-2023, 03:18 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - Replies (1)

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I came upon this, today, in Baudelaire's SALON DE 1845, section IV - Tableaux de genre (in Charles Baudelaire, Écrits sur l'art, Paris, 1992, p.91). :

"ISABEY
Un intérieur d’alchimiste 

Il y a toujours là-dedans des crocodiles, des oiseaux empaillés, de gros livres de maroquin, du feu dans des fourneaux, et un vieux en robe de chambre, - c’est-à-dire une grande quantité de tons divers. C’est ce qui explique la prédilection de certains coloristes pour un sujet si commun."

Here’s Eugène ISABEY, Le cabinet d’un alchimiste, 1845:

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:...imiste.JPG

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  2018: Alchemical amulet found in Zutphen
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-30-2023, 03:11 PM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events - No Replies

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/07/ra...t-zutphen/

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  Unicode symbols for alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-30-2023, 12:28 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

To copy and paste:

https://symbl.cc/en/search/?q=alchemical

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  Head of Medusa
Posted by: Carl Lavoie - 03-27-2023, 12:57 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - Replies (3)

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In his DICTIONNAIRE MYTHO-HERMÉTIQUE, dans lequel on trouve les allégories fabuleuses des poètes, les métaphores, les énigmes et les termes barbares des philosophes hermétiques expliqués (1758), Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety allude a few times to Medusa's severed head.

You would think, with the petrifying gaze, the blood changing to coral, etc. that it would have been freely used as a symbol in alchemical literature, and yet, I can't recall it being used in the texts before that, say, in the XVIIth or XVIth centuries (nor can I remember it coming up in the alchemical imagery of that time.)
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