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  Revd. Ayton - alchemist of the Golden Dawn
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-12-2023, 09:46 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Ellic Howe’s book on Ayton.

https://archive.org/details/ellic-howe-t...olden-dawn

Plus interesting collections.

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  Golden Dawn material on alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-12-2023, 09:39 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

https://archive.org/details/astral-proje...o/mode/2up

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  Video: Qliphoth and the Alchemical radiant Heart
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-12-2023, 11:56 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"Ian Rees presents his book “The Tree of Life and Death” which provides an in-depth practical exploration of the Qliphoth or Shells and looks at the Shadow or unbalanced aspects of the Tree of Life.

It is centred around a fascinating practice of alchemical transmutation which brings these Shells into balanced relationship with what has been described as “the great bundle of the living”."



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoKAij64Ibs

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  Medical and alchemical miscellany and herbal
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-12-2023, 11:51 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

"Manuscript on paper of the compilation of a physician interested in medicine, alchemy, and herbs. Includes three texts by Krisean z Prachatic, a physician, herbalist, and teacher of Prague University; Albicus, De regimine sanitatis, a treatise on the treatment of paralysis and the plague; Albicus, Regimen for King Wenceslaus of Bohemia (1361-1419); several alphabets of general scientific terms in Latin with Czech and/or German equivalents; Latin names of herbs with Czech and sometimes Polish equivalents; John of Rupescissa, De consideratione quinte essentie; and hundreds of medical and alchemical recipes."
At the Beinecke:

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  Christopher of Paris (pseudonym)
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-12-2023, 11:40 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

Manuscript on paper of the writings of Christopher of Paris (pseudonym for a Venetian exile), including his major work, Lucidario, with its supplementary alphabet, plus three letters.

At the Beinecke:

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/10676223



as well as:

https://digital.sciencehistory.org/focus...nd%5D=1559


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

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  Maxwell-Stuart's The Chemical Choir - a History of Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-12-2023, 11:33 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Reviewed here:

https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/788

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  Analytical chemistry reveals secrets of alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-12-2023, 08:53 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The review collects papers on the application of analytical chemistry in revealing the history of alchemy. In addition to historical alchemical texts, preserved material remains can also be a valuable source of information for historians of alchemy. The first part of the review focuses on the analysis of material artifacts: the remains of alleged transmutations (alchemical gold and silver), the rarely preserved specimens of Philosophers’ Stone, alchemical medicines, remains of alchemical vessels and laboratories (cupellation included), and analysis of the bodily remains of the alchemists themselves. Non-destructive spectrometric methods predominate in these analyses. Experimental reconstruction of the course and the results of old alchemical processes and their subsequent analysis is another way to reveal the history of alchemy. This approach, which has only been used in recent decades, is covered in the second part of the review. The published individual reconstructions are set in a chemical–historical context and arranged into three time periods: ancient and Arabian alchemy, medieval and renaissance alchemy, and late alchemy and chymistry. The review demonstrates that analytical chemistry is a very effective and potent technique for discovering new information about the history of alchemy."

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

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  Khunrath discussion
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-10-2023, 11:20 PM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events - No Replies

"In 1595 Heinrich Khunrath of Leipzig (1560-1605), ‘Doctor of Both Medicines and Faithful Lover of Theosophy’, published the first edition of his elaborately illustrated Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae (Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom), with an improved and expanded posthumous edition published in 1609. There, and in other works, like On Primaterial Chaos (1597) and On the Fire of the Mages and Sages (1608), he promotes his belief in the necessity of jointly practising a threefold combination of Physico-Chymia, Divine Magic and Christian Cabala. Khunrath’s best-known engraving, the Oratorium-Laboratorium appears in many works as an example of the early modern laboratory space, but Khunrath has often been dismissed as an alchemical mystic, rather than someone with hands-on experience. Here we shall take a closer look at the alchemist in his laboratory, the kinds of alchemy that he practised, his interest in technological design, how he communicated his ideas, and a few examples of how his laboratory work was received."

Forshaw et al

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQcHH1aenwg

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  Moleiro Splendor Solis
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-10-2023, 11:12 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

https://www.moleiro.com/fr/miscellanees/...solis.html

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  "Songs to study alchemy"
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-10-2023, 11:09 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Dungeon Synth, Medieval, Ritual, Dark Ambient

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i-2rgkp_Z4

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