The First Alchemists: The Spiritual and Practical Origins of the Noble and Holy Art, by Tobias Churton

Inner Traditions, 1644116839, 320 pages, November 2023

https://musingmystical.com/the-first-alc...s-churton/

A selection of images from mostly Renaissance books, and mostly in Latin, dealing with alchemy which illustrate the
ancient Hebdomad (ἑβδομάς) which formed the basis of the Longusian tradition.


https://sevenoxonians.files.wordpress.co...ary-v1.pdf

" In this episode of Esoterica we investigate what is likely one of the earliest encoded alchemical texts: "the Formula of the Crab" or "the Formula of the Scorpion." Found in a 10th century Greek manuscript, this formula contain a Greco-Egyptian alchemical process for producing a gold-like alloy of copper, silver, and lead. As we explore the formula we will also discuss how Greco-Egyptian alchemy differed from later theories under the influence of the mercury-sulfur theory of the metals. What will discover is an emphasis on the ability to control the color of metals as opposed to metallic transmutation reflecting the religious vocation of the earliest Egyptian metallurgists."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYI1PpMElgM

"Or, more properly and to give the book its full era-appropriate title, The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosencreutz, A Romance in Eight Days, by Johann Valentin Andreae in a new version by John Crowley. Cheekily claimed as a special 400th anniversary edition, The Chemical Wedding is a new version of one of the founding Rosicrucian documents, an allegorical text from 1616 first published in German, purportedly by one Christian Rosencreutz, actually by a Lutheran pastor named Johann Valentin Andreae. This version, writes Crowley, is not a new translation. He based it on the original English translation from 1690 and a more modern one from 1887, plus some consultation with a new translation from 1991 and assistance from Andrés Paniagua, who checked Crowley’s versions “against original German printings".”

https://www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/20...n-crowley/

"Is it possible the Knights Templar understood alchemy as both a science and a spiritual metaphor throughout history for the ascension of human consciousness?"

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https://www.gaia.com/video/alchemical-ri...activation

Tomorrow (13.1.24) is the 620th anniversary of the English Act against Multipliers. "This Act forbade the transmutation of base metals into gold or silver, which one might then use to create counterfeit coins. Its enactment was meant to protect the authority of the government by preventing the debasement of currency. Four decades later, Henry VI began issuing special licenses to alchemists to circumvent the statute in an attempt to pay for costly wars."

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2023/01/alchem...ltipliers/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_(alchemy)

https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/be...s-alchemy/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fettes_Douglas

   

Extracted from the writings of: Glauber, Basil Valentine, and Other Adepts.

https://archive.org/details/a-compendium...i/mode/2up

This would seem to be a précis of AE Waite's volume of the same name, on sale here:

https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/a-comp...esses.html

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A two pages process. Seems legit.

Pages 91 & 92.

https://books.google.ch/books?id=CnARwcf...ge&f=false

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"This paper connects archetypal psychology with contemporary mathematical and quantum concepts. We focus on the profound interconnectedness at the interface between chaos and order, by demonstrating how the Mandelbrot set from contemporary fractal geometry circles round to embody the Ouroboros, an ancient symbol of recursive dynamics."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._and_Order