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."

432 pages, 165 x 235 mm.
Theion Publishing

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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