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  Happy Birthday Roger Cooke
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-01-2024, 09:06 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"On this day in Tudor history, 1st February 1552, in the reign of King Edward VI, alchemist Roger Cooke was born."


https://www.tudorsociety.com/february-1-...ger-cooke/

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  Synergic Active Principles of Medicinal Plants
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-01-2024, 09:05 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The traditional herbal remedy utilises the active principles of medicinal plants, either in singular or combination. Electro-homoeopathy uses the favourable component of the active principle or medicinal properties, removing the toxic part, and using various scientific processes to prepare the remedies. To achieve faster recovery of the affected organ, Count Cesar Mattei invented a Complex herbal remedy by the Synergic mixing of the Spagyric essence of selected plants."

Full text with pdf button


http://www.informaticsjournals.com/index...view/34963

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  Internet Archive Scholar
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-01-2024, 10:49 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Search Millions of Research Papers

This fulltext search index includes over 35 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and preprints crawled from the World Wide Web.


https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=alc...y=fulltext

https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=alc...y=fulltext

https://scholar.archive.org/search?q=alc...y=fulltext

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  Kosminsky on the Magic of Jewels and Stones
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-31-2024, 07:26 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky. Full text here:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57980


Illustrated article here:

https://www.mysticdoorway.com/the-magic-...hapter-ix/

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  On the Perfect Sphere
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-30-2024, 08:50 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"This essay explores circular compositions in medieval and early modern art. Delving into the intersection of religious, philosophical, and scientific ideas, the text examines the prevalence of circular depictions in medieval and early modern aesthetics. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, the author draws from primary Hermetic and Neoplatonic sources, providing four reasons for this preference."

Roger Ferrer-Ventosa

Full text.

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/2/171

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  The Flaming Mirror: Piano Sonata in G Minor
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-30-2024, 08:45 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

...and a Boehmean-Alchemical Theophany

"In Jakob Boehme's theosophy, Sophia is the bride of the soul, and the mirror that God imagines in. She is the Mirror of Wisdom (Spiegel der Weisheit), her wisdom a pearl. Redolent of Ezekiel's vision, Boehme describes God as akin to a wheel or eye; Sophia is also an eye, the beautiful divine image and reflection. She resides within one's fiery soul of the heart, in one’s Gemüt. This Theophany also features imagery of the 7 source-spirits, the burning heart, and countless other alchemical symbols."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIOtmWL2iDY

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  By the Numbers
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-29-2024, 11:10 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men and women believed that God had made humans universally numerate, although numbers were not central to their everyday lives. Over the next two centuries, rising literacy rates and the increasing availability of printed books revolutionized modes of arithmetical practice and education. Ordinary English people began to use numbers and quantification to explain abstract phenomena as diverse as the relativity of time, the probability of chance events, and the constitution of human populations. These changes reflected their participation in broader early modern European cultural and intellectual developments such as the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. By the eighteenth century, English men and women still believed they lived in a world made by God, but it was also a world made--and made understandable--by numbers."


By the Numbers: Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England
by Jessica Marie Otis (Author)


Not specifically alchemical but perhaps of interest.

https://www.amazon.com/Numbers-Numeracy-...0197608779

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  Pallax
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-28-2024, 07:44 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

Just thought I’d put this on the record in case someone can shed some light. Pallax appears to be a gemstone, though whether real or not I do not know. I came across it in Gerard Dorn’s Artificium Supernaturale:



https://archive.org/details/hin-wel-all-...0/mode/2up




p. 243, line 5.









It also appears as an amusing entry in Chambers Cyclopaedia 1786, vol. 3 part 2




   








and in Erstning’s Nucleus:




http://tinyurl.com/y5z4v8r5




   






and in Pseudo-Llull:




https://archive.org/details/hin-wel-all-...p?q=Pallax

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  An alchemical perspective on clinical psychology training
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-24-2024, 10:41 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"I quietly decided at the start of 2023 that my word for the year would be alchemy. I thought about it all year while I did pretty much nothing about it, wondering what was going on and how to find a hook into an action that would make that mean something. I didn’t know why it mattered. I didn’t know what ‘it’ even was. Except for tinkering with Kim Krans’ Wild Unknown Alchemy Deck in a state of bafflement, and acquiring Carl Jung’s Psychology and Alchemy so it could gather dust on my bookshelf, I felt blank."


https://katefinazzi.substack.com/p/4-an-...n-clinical

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  Edward F. Edinger Papers
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-24-2024, 10:32 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

"The papers (3,100 items; 10,077 images) of leading Jungian analyst Edward F. Edinger (1922-1998) span the years 1550 (photostatic copy of an alchemical treatise) to 2016, with the bulk of the material dating from 1951 to 1998. Reproduced from the originals donated to the Manuscript Division in 2016-2021, the collection illustrates Edinger’s ability to explain C. G. Jung's ideas and concepts in a simple and precise manner, making Jung's work more accessible. The papers also provide insight into Edinger's own theoretical work, including his belief that modern man's psychological disorientation was a result of the loss of a core religious mythology, and his interest in the therapeutic role of alchemy, literature, philosophy, and religion."


https://www.loc.gov/collections/edward-f...ollection/

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