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  Shakespeare, Alchemy and the Creative Imagination
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-21-2023, 11:44 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

By Margaret Healy.

Full text.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu...086/673351

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  The Michael Innes Collection
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-21-2023, 11:41 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

"The library formed by the late Michael Innes just before the 1939-45 war and mainly in the fifties and sixties is the collection of a scholar with a philosophical and historical mind; at the same time Mr Innes was a bibliophile, as is shown by the fact that the early books - with a few exceptions - are complete and in good condition. It contains approximately 4,000 works. This includes 23 MSS and about 420 books of the 16th and 17th centuries, many of which contain a number of titles. The largest part of the library is of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and much of it is in French. The early books are in Latin, English, French, Italian and German, the last being in the minority as Mr Innes was not a German scholar, French together with English being his natural language. There are also a small number of books in Hebrew and in Arabic."


https://warburg.libguides.com/c.php?g=660284&p=4751036

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  Renaissance Medicine, Magic, and Alchemy in Benvenuto Cellini’s Vita
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-21-2023, 11:36 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Yuri Rednev.

"The article aims to rethink the several stereotypes of Romantic tradition, which are still reproduced in regard to Benvenuto Cellini and his Vita. Using the approaches of intellectual history and iconographical studies, the present study pays attention to the coherent system of lay, scientific and 'secret' knowledge of the epoch lurking under the surface of the simplicity and even naivety of the author's language. I argue that this autobiographical writing embodies a certain type of culture of the self deeply rooted in contemporary medical, alchemical and magical contexts. Organized around the concept of " getting pleasure, " Cellini's practices of the self are built into the Neo-Platonic picture of the world. Analyzing the two passages of Vita, I demonstrate the author's spiritual ascent from the corporeal suffering to union with 'the One' by means of individual and collective magic rituals, transforming his Life into a work of art."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication...i%27s_Vita

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  Thesis on Gerhard Dorn
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-21-2023, 11:35 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The historiographical construal of the relations between science and religion in terms of
conflict has long undermined the legitimacy of the study of spiritual alchemy. Recent studies
have illustrated the compatibility of natural philosophy and theology during the early modern
period. This project will follow the recent trend in reassessing this conflict by examining the
work of an illustrious renaissance alchemist, Gerhard Dorn (c. 1530/5 – after 1584). I will
approach Dorn as a ‘secular theologian,’ a natural philosopher who attempted to restore
harmony and unity in the world by means of a scientific-philosophical discourse."


ILLUSTRIOUS PROVIDENCE AND THE SUPERNATURAL ART.
A RENAISSANCE ALCHEMIST AND HIS PURSUIT OF SALVATION
Zoë Van Cauwenberg


https://libstore.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/...001_AC.pdf

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  Thesis on Jean d'Espargnet
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-21-2023, 11:27 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

The Alchemical Order: Reason, Passions, Alchemy and the Social World in the Philosophy and Cosmology of Jean d’Espagnet

by Alexander Scott Dessens.


"Jean d’Espagnet (c. 1564–1637?) was a magistrate and presiding judge at the parlement of  Bordeaux  in  the  late  sixteenth  and  early  seventeenth  centuries.    He  served  on  the  court  from 1590 until retiring in 1615, from 1600 as a président, a venal office of significant power and social standing. After retirement he wrote three books which comprise his literary and intellectual legacy.Together they speak to the fertile philosophical ground of the late Renaissance and present a vision of order and God’s cosmos deeply influenced by Neoplatonism,  Hermetism,  Paracelsianism, Neostoicism,  and  medieval  alchemy,  as  well  as  d’Espagnet’s  judicial  education  and  social experience as a magistrate.  This dissertation explores the foundations of d’Espagnet’s philosophy of nature, tracing the development of certain philosophical ideas from ancient sources such as the Platonic and Hermetic traditions through medieval and Renaissance philosophers like Ramon Lull, Pseudo-Geber, and Marsilio Ficino to d’Espagnet and his contemporaries."

https://hammer.purdue.edu/articles/thesi...t/19666323

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  Bibliotherapy from Via Hygeia
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-21-2023, 11:24 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Interesting online collection of texts on various Hermetic subjects:

https://via-hygeia.art/bibliotherapy/

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  Coleridge’s Chrysopoetics: Alchemy, Authorship & Imagination
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-21-2023, 11:17 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

By Kiran Toor

"In an attempt to trace Coleridge’s familiarity with Hermetic and alchemical discourses throughout his life, it has been necessary to review works as varied as those of Plato, Marsilio Ficino, Ralph Cudworth, Jacob Boehme, Herman Boerhaave, and F. W. J. Schelling. It is then suggested how Coleridge appropriates alchemical terminology to his own aesthetic and imaginative ends."


https://www.cambridgescholars.com/produc...438-2656-3

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  Marsilio Ficino in the light of alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-21-2023, 11:12 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Heinrich Khunrathʼs use of Ficinian metaphysics of light.

By Martin Žemla.

https://www.prometheustrust.co.uk/Ficino...__emla.pdf

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  The Tantric Alchemist: Thomas Vaughan and the Indian Tantric Tradition
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-19-2023, 06:44 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"The Tantric Alchemist is a work on alchemy as decoded by Tantra and a work on Tantra as understood by alchemists. It uncovers works by Thomas Vaughan and suggests how he and his wife—a 17th-century Welsh couple unique in the history of western alchemy—met their fate when dealing with forces they knew only too well, but which were stronger than their ability to control them."


At Scribd:

https://www.scribd.com/book/331236640/Th...-Tradition

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  The Alchemist in Literature
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-19-2023, 06:27 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

By Theodore Ziolkowski

At Scribd:

https://www.scribd.com/document/34745618...Literature

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