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| Video: Interpreting the Corpus Hermeticum |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-16-2023, 08:33 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts
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"In this video we offer a preliminary interpretation of some of the texts of the Corpus Hermeticum, a collection of 17 Graeco-Egyptian treatises, along with the Latin Asclepius, whose origins are likely in the first centuries of the common era.
Introduction 0:00
Interpretive Principles 5:46
Technical vs. Religio-Philosophical Hermetica 14:00
Egyptian Origins 27:03
Interpretation 37:03"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qulolSk3Gik
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| Rima Staines - The Alchemist |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-12-2023, 05:56 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery
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"And so I began a painting of an alchemist. This Alchemist is an artist and a young woman. She sits cross-legged in an arched palette-mandala of phoenix-fiery transformation. Around her head flies a golden nimbus of musicians, undoubtedly playing the East European folk music of my soul. From their instruments and mouths come ribbons of song, stitched with a poem, and many-coloured. This ribbon winds down through our Alchemist's dress, and becomes the coloured stripes of the fabric. In her hands she holds her own heart, which takes in and bleeds out this ribbon of song, this thread of soul, as if it is her own blood. On it flows, down her dress, through her, until it reaches the hem of her dress. There it trickles off into many paint jars to become the pigment with which she will create her magic thereafter."
Step-by-step account of how this work was created:
http://intothehermitage.blogspot.com/201...emist.html
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