"On April 19, 2023, Denise Straiges had the honor of presenting Seeking Our Truth: The Alchemical History of Homeopathy to Faculty of Homeopathy members. The following article was featured in Simile, a UK Faculty of Homeopathy publication and is being shared with permission from the editor."

https://academyofhomeopathyeducation.com...omeopathy/

"Earlier this month, the Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Select Committee published the report Connected tech: AI and creative technology.

We [ alcs.co.uk ] were delighted to see that the report recommended measures that will support and protect authors.

The report warned of the consequences of a proposed copyright exception for text and data mining (TDM), which it said: “risks reducing arts and cultural production as mere ‘inputs’ in AI development.”

The TDM copyright exception, which was dropped earlier in the year, would have allowed widespread usage of authors’ works by AI platforms for commercial use, without permission or payment to the authors.

ALCS campaigned against the introduction of such a TDM exception along with our industry partners, so we are pleased to see the CMS Select Committee reaffirm its opposition to the measure which would risk significant damage to authors and the wider creative industries.

The report recommended that the Government continues to support a strong and robust copyright regime in the UK, is clear that licences are required to use copyrighted content in AI and works to ensure that creators are well rewarded in the copyright regime.

We are also happy to see the importance of copyright acknowledged. In the UK, copyright is central to ensuring writers continue to make a living from their work, and are able to create the content that AI developers, as well as wider society, depend on."


Full report here:

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm...eport.html

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

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Michèle Mertens

https://www.academia.edu/95091084/Graeco..._Byzantium

Cristina Viano

https://www.academia.edu/37521364/Byzant...matization

"Galen's concept of medicine which dominated the medical world almost nearly for fifteen centuries began to loose its importance in the 16th century. At that time, Paracelsus (1493-1541) introduced a new medical understanding based on chemical principles. The Paracelsian theory, which changed gradually medical practice, influenced modern Ottoman medicine to a great extent. Paracelsus, the Swiss doctor, was introduced in Ottoman medical writings as a German hakîm from Austria. In this article, the multifaceted influence of his school on Turkish Ottoman medicine is describe by means of various examples."

https://muslimheritage.com/the-paracelsi...-medicine/

By Syed Numanul Haq

"It is well known among historians that scattered, all over the world, in numerous manuscript collections, is a very large body of tantalising medieval Arabic writings attributed to an enigmatic figure – Jābir ibn Ḥayyān [Geber]. The standard scholarly view is that this corpus is virtually all apocryphal, that its alleged author may have never existed, and that it is alchemical in its fundamental drift. The identity of the author or authors of the corpus has been the main focus of several generations of contemporary researchers, but a major breakthrough came in the first half of the twentieth century with the formidable studies of Paul Kraus."


https://al-furqan.com/alchemical-manuscr...abirianum/

"The Book of Lambspring is one of my favorite alchemist manuscripts, because of it being simple and direct without to much arcane chemical language, although still symbolic.
The Book of Lambspring is one of the few real-life cases of a centuries-old book on alchemy. Originally published in Latin by Frenchman Nicholas Barnaud under the title De Lapide Philosophico Triga Chemicum in Prague, 1599, it does not appear to be an original work, but rather an edited collection of manuscripts that had been passed around for at least twenty years previous. Later, Lucas Jennis published the work in full in Frankfurt, 1625. Though the Christian Church burned most of the copies over the centuries, there are still a few copies of the original remaining intact. One of them (Ms 16752) is in the National Museum of Nurenberg, and another is in the University of Leiden.
In the left column is the Barnaud version; in the right column are the equivalent images taken from a Latin/German version of 1607; plus my interpretation of the text. This interpretation is only a guide in how to read and understand the text."



http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthes...spring.htm

"From a miniature belonging to a magnificent Iskandar Anthology (Persia, Šīrāz, 1410-11, folio 66v; Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation), the cosmology, the symbolism of the seven colors (haft rang) and the alchemical progression are analyzed in the mystical tale Haft paykar (Seven princesses) by the Persian poet Abū Md. Ilyās b. Yūsuf Niẓāmī Ganǧawī (d. ca. 570-610 / 1174-1222). This inner path of transmutation through colors (ch.:pp.: black: HP26:180-181; yellow: HP27:196-197; green: HP28:214; red: HP29:234; blue: HP30:266-267; sandalwood: HP31:291 and white: HP32:315) ends, in tune with the Iranian tradition (Mazdeism, Zoroastrianism, išrāqī illuminative wisdom), with the color white, symbol of the purity of the soul and enlightenment."


In Spanish:
https://www.revistamirabilia.com/issues/...-haft-rang

https://www.deepl.com/translator

   

Matthew Smith in conversation with Juan Ayala.

"I had the privilege of sitting down with Juan Ayala of the Juan on Juan podcast to record a fascinating conversation ranging from round house building to alchemical architecture and the intriguing concept of occulted scaffolding--tune in to find out! I learned a lot from this sage brother and new friend in the podcast world."

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