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| Kimyâ-yı Saâdet (The Alchemy of Happiness) |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-18-2025, 01:18 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts
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"Kimyâ-yı Saâdet (The Alchemy of Happiness), written by Imam al-Ghazālī, is a condensed and simplified adaptation of his magnum opus Ihyā’ ‘Ulūm al-Dīn. The work explains the fundamental moral and religious principles necessary for attaining spiritual maturity. Topics such as self-knowledge, purification of the soul, articles of faith, the significance of worship, belief in the hereafter, states of the heart and soul, repentance, and spiritual cleansing are discussed in depth. Al-Ghazālī emphasizes that both worldly and eternal happiness can only be achieved through a life centered on divine consent."
Article:
https://kureansiklopedi.com/tr/detay/kim...-book-251d
Text in English:
https://archive.org/details/cu31924028976161
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| Alchemical Recipe for a Homunculus |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-18-2025, 12:48 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"The question of how to create life does not just go back to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, when the eponymous character used forbidden science to create life. Humans have been interested in creating artificial life since at least classical antiquity and probably much earlier. One manifestation of this is the idea of the homunculus, a diminutive humanoid creature that was believed to be created through magical means."
https://www.ancient-origins.net/index.ph...man-009836
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| Poland: Medieval Metallic Objects Show Alchemical Mastery |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-18-2025, 12:46 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"Another amazing medieval discovery has been made in eastern Europe. This time, hundreds of medieval objects were unearthed in east-central Poland. The discovery was made when excavators were preparing for new gas works in the village of Poniaty Wielkie, Poland. Here, Polish archaeologists found the remains of an ancient alchemical workshop containing over 200 metal and ceramic objects. But more important were the ancient production remnants that were also found at the site including furnaces, wells and rubbish pits. Each artifact reveals “the economic development of the medieval settlement,” according to Polish Police. Some of these medieval objects are unique and will likely tell us more about the people who made them and what they were used for and by whom."
https://www.ancient-origins.net/index.ph...ts-0014527
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| Darke Hierogliphicks: Alchemy in English Literature |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-18-2025, 12:36 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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Darke Hierogliphicks: Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration
"The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing extensively on alchemical allusions as well as on the practical and theoretical background of the art and its pictorial tradition, Linden demonstrates the pervasiveness of interest in alchemy during this three-hundred-year period. Most writers―including Langland, Gower, Barclay, Eramus, Sidney, Greene, Lyly, and Shakespeare―were familiar with alchemy, and references to it appear in a wide range of genres. Yet the purposes it served in literature from Chaucer through Jonson were narrowly satirical. In literature of the seventeenth century, especially in the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton, the functions of alchemy changed. Focusing on Bacon, Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton―in addition to Jonson and Butler―Linden demonstrates the emergence of new attitudes and innovative themes, motifs, images, and ideas. The use of alchemy to suggest spiritual growth and change, purification, regeneration, and millenarian ideas reflected important new emphases in alchemical, medical, and occultist writing. This new tradition did not continue, however, and Butler's return to satire was contextualized in the antagonism of the Royal Society and religious Latitudinarians to philosophical enthusiasm and the occult. Butler, like Shadwell and Swift, expanded the range of satirical victims to include experimental scientists as well as occult charlatans. The literary uses of alchemy thus reveal the changing intellectual milieus of three centuries"
Stanton J. Linden
https://myfreesky.online/book/2739168/b5...=recommend
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| Zosimos of Panopolis and the Book of Enoch |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-17-2025, 12:05 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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Kyle Fraser
"This paper explores the relationship between Zosimos of Panopolis and the Book of Enoch, focusing on the perception of alchemy as a form of forbidden knowledge. It examines Zosimos’ references to fallen angels and their teachings in alchemical practices, highlighting the influence of Hellenistic Judaism, particularly through gnostic currents. The discussion aims to contextualize Zosimos within the broader dynamics of ancient philosophical traditions, particularly his syncretic views on Jewish and Egyptian alchemical customs and his engagement with esoteric texts." (Ai-generated abstract)
https://www.academia.edu/1237033/Zosimos..._Knowledge
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