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.


Deluxe Hand Embossed Rubricated Hardback Edition

https://www.lewismasonic.co.uk/the-maste...dition.htm

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.

https://www.academia.edu/1277908/The_Ima...andish_Art


   

David Ryckaert III, The Alchemist, 1634.

Engraving by Theodor Dirck Matham (1605-1676)?

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."

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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