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Press release 1 November 2022: Collection of Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica has been added to the UNESCO

https://embassyofthefreemind.com/en/libr...ion-unesco

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The 2,170 digitized works of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica's are now, since 2019, at the 'Embassy of the Free Mind' site. 

Click 'ONLINE CATALOGUE', then 'digitized collection', then '2,170'.


https://embassyofthefreemind.com/en/

Manuscript on alchemical processes, by Raymundus Lullius.
A rather amusing, to our age, coloured drawing on page 44, depicting a large pot in which a crowned head can be seen at the surface and a conical-shaped pot with bleeding limbs and a furnace above.

The manuscript Wellcome L0072782, contains several full-page drawings of alchemical furnaces and apparatus etc, in addition to numerous smaller drawings of similar objects, some coloured, in the margins. The manuscript consists of various alchemical processes and receipts, written in French and Latin, by different hands.



   

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In  the chapter II of The Life of Paracelsus (1887) , Franz Hartmann compile a list of terms used by Paracelsus. For the entry 'ELEMENTARIES', he explain them in a very Spiritism way: 

"...they may receive vitality from a mediumistic person, and thereby for a few minutes be, so to say, galvanized back into life and (artificial) consciousness, when they may speak and act and apparently remember things as they did during life."

In which work of Paracelsus does this appear? Hartmann wrote this 40 years post-Fox sisters, so, it seems a little suspect. Is it an interpolation by Hartmann?

https://archive.org/details/lifeofphilip...ew=theater

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Transcription and translation by Paul Ferguson of Gerhard Dorn's De Spagirico Artificio Io. Trithemii Sententia from Theatrum Chemicum.


https://www.academia.edu/8822950/Transcr...m_Chemicum

Liana de Girolami Cheney
Lavinia Fontana's Cleopatra the Alchemist
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, August 2018, Vol. 8, No. 8, 1159-1180.

   

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Urszula Szulakowska has issued a long article with images on  Stefan Michelspacher’s Cabala: Spiegel Der Kunst und Natur, In Alchymia (1615) 


https://www.academia.edu/8330106/STEFAN_...YMIA_1615_?

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A fortuitous find in a rather shabby quarto of British antiquities, in the middle of the section dealing with heraldry, there was this curious ink drawing in a naive but very hermetic style: a cartouche representing Perseus delivering Andromeda, and another in which Diana at the bath, in the light of the moon's rays, changes Actaeon into a stag. Most intriguing are the epigrams and mottos that frame them: they are written backwards. Was the drawing a model for an engraver (the engraving, detached from the copper plate, would show the text right side up)? 

Anyone can read this? Someone pointed that the crabbed handwriting was either Old Dutch or possibly Flemish. I paste them below inverted, that is, with the text now legible.

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An original manuscript by the famous Eliphas Lévi, composed a year before his death, is being auctioned. It contains some coloured versions of the magical/alchemical emblems used in his books.


https://www.gazette-drouot.com/lots/1959...FscwwjRlHo




   


   

"In addition to the virtual exhibition of the same name with seven thematic rooms (I-VII), the dynamically growing website contains an extensive bibliography, specialist articles and theses (publication in preparation). Visitors to the website who are not yet familiar with the philosophy and cultural history of early modern alchemy can begin with the annotated Intro: Alchemical Worldscape or start in the virtual exhibition in Room VI Material and Spiritual Culture of Alchemy. There, the digital story on David Tenier the Younger's painting The Alchemist in the Laboratory is particularly suitable as an introduction."

https://merian-alchemie.ub.uni-frankfurt.de

Unfortunately the website seems to be only available in German at present. Free Machine Translation help available here:

https://www.deepl.com/translator