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| William Salmon's Medicina Practica |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-23-2026, 01:38 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts
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"William Salmon (2 June 1644–1713) was an English empiric doctor and a writer of medical texts. He advertised himself as a "Professor of Physick". Salmon held an equivocal place in the medical community... His Medicina Practica, with the Claris Alcymiae (3 vols. London, 1692), a vademecum combining medicine with alchemy, reveals its scope in its subtitle: Practical Physick. Shewing the Method of Curing the most Usual Diseases Happening to Humane bodies. As all Sorts of Aches and Pains, Apoplexies, Agues, Bleeding, Fluxes, Gripings, Wind, Shortness of breath, Diseases of the Breast and Lungs, Abortion, Want of Appetite, Loss of the use of Limbs, Cholick, or Belly-ache, Appositions, Thrushes, Quinsies, Deafness, Bubo's, Cachexis, Stone in the Reins, and Stone in the Bladder... To which is added, The philosophick Works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bacon, and George Ripley. All Translated out of The best Latin Editions, into English." [Wikipedia]
https://sourcelibrary.org/book/medicina-...hod-salmon
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| The Emerald Tablet: LBV article |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-22-2026, 01:48 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts
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"Psychiatrist Carl Jung and historian George R. S. Mead studied the Emerald Tablet between the last quarter of the 19th century and the first of the 20th. Surrealist poet André Breton included the paraphrase “What is below is like what is above, and what is above is like what is below”, from the second verse of that work, in an essay published in 1942. Thirty-two years later, Brazilian singer-songwriter Jorge Ben Jor published a book entitled A Tábua de Esmeralda with twelve songs of alchemical and theosophical themes. In 1977, after two years of work, French composer Manfred Kelkel completed Tabula Smaragdina, a ballet in which he merged the score with visual projections of esoteric motifs that turned his piece into what he defined as “metamusic”. What was that Emerald Tablet that seemed to fascinate artists and intellectuals?"
https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/0...ers-stone/
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| Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.3.17 (translation) |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-22-2026, 01:44 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts
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English translation of Alchemical and Astrological Texts (Turba Philosophorum) by Morienus Romanus, pseudo-Avicenna, pseudo-Rhazes, Geber, et al. (1400) .
Original work:
Title: Alchemical and Astrological Texts (Turba Philosophorum)
Author: Morienus Romanus, pseudo-Avicenna, pseudo-Rhazes, Geber, et al.
Language: Latin
Published: 1400
Translation: 343 pages translated.
https://zenodo.org/records/21472427
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| Video: The Complete Alchemical Map of Anger |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-22-2026, 01:38 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"In this deep psychological analysis, we map the hidden mechanism of anger through Carl Jung’s concept of the Shadow and the ancient alchemical process of Mortificatio. For the majority of psychologically domesticated individuals, suppressed anger is systematically rerouted into anxiety, resentment, chronic exhaustion, and clinical depression. This inward collapse is the slow decay of the false self—the agreeable persona constructed for social compliance."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkqv-2S2JpA
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| Daoism's framework for understanding the world |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-22-2026, 01:26 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"In [Daoism's] earliest forms, beginning in the second century B.C.E., Daoist alchemical practices would mix rare ingredients from the earth to transform them into what they believed to be “elixirs of immortality. Subsequent centuries witnessed these practices moving away from physical ingredients, such as rare plants and minerals, to become more focused on visualization techniques. This form of “inner alchemy,” or “neidan,” does not use actual ingredients but rather focuses on distilling the spiritual essences within one’s own body to achieve immortality. To do so, practitioners of “inner alchemy” would call upon new hosts of Daoist deities to aid them in their internal processes."
https://theconversation.com/from-ancient...nce-272115
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| Vitalist Alchemy (paywalled) |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-22-2026, 01:21 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"Alchemy was a legitimate precursor to modern chemistry, and the vitalism of early modern alchemy was new, challenging earlier mechanistic alchemy. Newton the alchemist searched for nature’s active spirits or principles to account for phenomena not explicable by mechanism. His manuscripts record his vitalism; his speculations on the living continuity of animal, vegetable, and mineral; and his conviction of “the material soul of all matter.” Milton’s organic universe, with its circulations of respiration and digestion, resembles the universe of Newton’s alchemical manuscripts. Opposing Raphael’s living universe is Satan’s articulation of an outdated, mechanistic alchemy. The alchemical context unravels the puzzle of the presence of “infernal dregs / Adverse to life” in the living universe of Paradise Lost (7.238–39), and medical alchemy provides a basis for the sublimation of food to reason and the soul (5.482–90). Belief in a vital alchemical creation underwrites Milton’s theology of freedom and Newton’s theology of divine omnipotence."
https://academic.oup.com/book/63138/chap...m=fulltext
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| The Dialectical Mandala Model of Mindfulness |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 07-22-2026, 01:20 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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The Dialectical Mandala Model of Mindfulness: A Novel Model Revealing the Alchemical Logic Underlying Mindfulness Practice
by Orchid-Stone Chang Azanlansh
"Contrasting mainstream operational definitions of mindfulness, this article introduces the Dialectical Mandala Model of Mindfulness (DMMM), a dialectically articulated framework integrating Daoist internal alchemy and Buddhist contemplative theory."
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/17/7/824
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