Gregoire Mariette (1646-1710) Region elementaire ou sublunaire qui comprend les corps simples.
Gregoire Mariette, Paris, 1696 (51x36 cms)
A late 17th-century diagram summing up the nature of the four elements and their influences.
"Celestial chart hand coloured, presents the universe as a place that is simultaneously ordered and chaotic, spiritual and temporal, familiar and fantastical. A rare separately issued map of the cosmos, integrating ancient Pagan and medieval Christian cosmology with Renaissance beliefs and experiences. Originally published in Italian by Antonino Saliba in 1582, the map was later reissued in Latin by Cornelis de Jode in a slightly modified format (lacking one of the nine rings). This copy is a new edition published by Gregoire Mariette. Shows eight concentric rings, from the inner ring depicting the infernal regions to an encircling ring of fire populated by demons, phoenixes and salamanders. The fourth ring is a hemispheric map on a south-polar projection. Within the spandrels are decorative images of the sun and moon. The diagram is surmounted by a title with flanking hemispheric maps. The cosmic model of concentric rings was derived from Aristotle and Ptolemy, which in modified forms prevailed until the seventeenth century. The Ptolemaic model comprised nine spheres around the earth: five planets, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the primum mobile. This departure from the classical content of the nine spheres while retaining the structure, is entirely typical of the fluid state of Renaissance science."
Stefania Salvadori, Ein neuer Fund um die Chymische Hochzeit aus der späteren Korrespondenz Johann Valentin Andreaes.
Openedition Journals, SH13, 2018.
[A new discovery about the Chymical Wedding in the later correspondence of Johann Valentin Andreae]
"The Chymical Wedding is one of Johann Valentin Andreae’s best-known works, and it is also the most difficult of all. Research has not yet succeeded in uncovering the numerous literary and alchemical sources in full detail. First of all, this contribution will try to depict, in a short historical digression, Andreae’s collaboration with the so-called Tübingen Cenacle and his key role in the composition of the Rosicrucian manifestos. Against this background, the genesis of the Chymical Wedding will be subsequently reconstructed. In a second part, the present contribution will study the correspondence between Andreae and Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg: it will point out how Andreae described his relationship to Rosicrucianism and utopian thought and how explicit proofs of his authorship of the writing have been preserved in his correspondence."
I have run the German text of the article through Google's translation program to create an English version. There are a few minor problems.
Scala Descensionis Virtutum Occultarum Inferiora [The ladder of descent of occult powers to the lower world] is a large engraving issued in 1662.
It was created by the engraver Jakob van der Heyden [1573-36], so this must be a reprint or else Jakob van der Heyden's design was not engraved till some years after his death.
It sums up much of the alchemical/hermetic view of the world of matter and spirit.
It will repay a detailed study of the symbolism and labels.
The Masters Voice: the Rituals & Letters of Martinés de Pasqually - Deluxe Edition
by Stewart Clelland
** Due For Publication January/February 2023 **
This critically important volume contains the first-ever English translations [by me!] of over 30 private letters, correspondences and lectures by the eighteenth-century French Masonic mystic Martinés de Pasqually.
Complete with a foreword by eminent Masonic scholar Marsha Keith Schuchard, as well as commentary and introductory material, this new collection reveals the inner workings and history of the Order of the Élus Coën. These fascinating primary sources will forever change the English-speaking world's historical understanding of this seminal figure in eighteenth-century Masonic history.
Dana Kelly-Ann Rehn, The Image and Identity of the Alchemist in Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Art.
Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the coursework requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Studies in Art History) School of History and Politics University of Adelaide, 2011.
With 31 images of paintings of alchemists.
Giuseppe Francesco Borri (1627-1695) was an alchemist and doctor. In the 1650s he met the Marquis Massimiliano Palombara in Rome, active in the alchemical circles around Queen Christina of Sweden.
It has been suggested that this allegory with the portrait of Francesco Giuseppe Borri, by print maker Theodor Matham, Jan Zoet, was a forgery by Seger Tielemans, 1662 - 1666
Ex numine lumen The light from the god (the Sun)
et soror et coniux and his sister and spouse (the Moon)
Tu ne cede malis Do not give way to evil
Alterius genetrix Another genealogy
Premia virtuti The rewards of virtue
Geminamure ab illis We were separated from them
Oenipontium Innsbruck
Pavia Ms 75 has an unusual pen drawing with three shields.
That on the left has a black eagle spreading its wings above the Sun, Moon and star set above a bank of clouds. The central shield is quartered with columns, and lions standing at the side of a precipice, while the shield on the right has a crown with two feathers.
The text is a practical recipe, difficult to read as the Latin is contracted, with what appears to be some works in Greek, but it begins "Recipe nine ounces [...Greek ?...] filosophic."
Sasha Chaitow Son of Prometheus: The Life and Work of Joséphin Péladan.
"Based on her PhD thesis this ground-breaking in-depth study of the life and works of French esotericist Joséphin Péladan will precede her trilogy on Péladan’s esoteric work and art to be released by Theion in the coming years.
This book is the first scholarly study of the life and work of Joséphin Péladan that succeeds in placing it in the context of the history of Western Esotericism while also providing a clear roadmap to the entirety of Péladan’s initiatory teachings and philosophy of the esoteric power of art."
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