Interesting book by Timothy Hogan.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/278082860/Alc...-Hogan-pdf
https://www.scribd.com/document/39589200...ook-Review

'I hope to show that all the signs, symbols, lectures, and titles of the Masonic ritual owe their origin to the alchemical tradition, and that through a better
understanding of these alchemical keys, a new science is open to the Master Craftsman which can operate on the physical, mental, and spiritual levels of man's being.'

   

1917 vintage. Chemistry rather than alchemy, but very comprehensive and useful. Out of copyright so downloadable:

https://archive.org/details/germanenglishdic00pattrich

I am having some difficulty understanding the meaning of this German word  'Gradierglaß'. 
'Graduated glass' does not make sense in the context.


It appears in Meyrink's Der seltsame gast

Der Fremde entgegnete Reußing: "Sie mögen vielleicht später einmal von besonderem Glück sprechen, dass Ihnen zu dieser Stunde dies Büchslein in der Hand gelegen hat. Es enthält ein Gradierglas, mit dem ich den einen und anderen Versuch angestellt habe. Doch ist mir zu ausführlichem Experimentieren, wie Sie bemerken, der Ort hier nicht geschickt. Nun haben Sie ja ein wohl eingerichtetes Laboratorium in der Apotheke und Sie können mir die Gefälligkeit erweisen, dies Pulver zu prüfen, das sie hier in dem Büchslein sehen."

It thus seems to be a description of the classic red stone of projection. This is sometimes presented as a glassy substance.

But how does Gradierglaß relate to this?

Sadly, I have not found an English translation of Meyrink's Der seltsame gast, though it may be included in some volumes of his short stories.

By Tara Nummedal:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...0000000036

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Khunrath's Amphitheatrum, 1609 ed.

https://www.weiserantiquarian.com/pages/...om-physico

   

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https://www.weiserantiquarian.com/pages/...manuscript


   

Now a pizza joint, this house in Anagni near Rome is alleged to have 'alchemical' symbolism on the outside. Anyone been there? Adam?

Recently restored, and there's a book about it by Guglielmo Viti.

'According to local lore, the seemingly incomprehensible and elaborate inscriptions and frescoes are the result of von Barnekow’s hallucinations, visions and his alchemical research, which he pursued in the solitude of his Anagni residence (that he called “tribuna Albertina”) over twenty-five years. The inscriptions and frescoes should be read as a description of von Barnekow’s own transformation and alchemical journey, crowned by the apparition of the Virgin that occurred on November 27 1861. The house struck the German historian and traveler Ferdinand Gregorovius, who sketched it in 1856.'    

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/barnekow-house

For those who do not already know of Ora Clavis on Facebook, he spends most of his time trawling online library catalogues looking for manuscripts and printed books containing alchemical, masonic, magical and other emblematic images.  I try and view his page every day and very often find some interesting items I have not seen before. Last week I found there the Donum Dei manuscript in the Bibliotheque Nationale. Recently, he has posted some images from Freemasonic sources.

His page is entitled Grimoires , Manuscrits & livres magiques du monde

https://www.facebook.com/groups/232777504259076/

I just found some scans of Bibliotheque National Ms 7147, which contains rather fine coloured drawings of the Donum Dei series.

I took the opportunity to strip out the text around the images and put them into a sequence so that we could see the imagery as a thing in itself.



   



   

In this wide-ranging interview, conducted on the occasion of the release of a new film addressing the implications of his thought, the physicist and metaphysician Wolfgang Smith speaks about the need to integrate science with reality in a way that affirms the lived experience of humanity, and preserves the archetypal and qualitative dimensions that give it meaning. He is critical of scientific fundamentalism and its overreaching tendencies, of the false premises of Darwinian evolutionism and of the limitations of Einsteinian physics and quantum reality. Physics, on its own terms, he claims, must affirm, on pain of absurdity, the metaphysical dimension of reality and of the corporeal existence that it informs.

https://www.academia.edu/42682806/The_En...gang_Smith