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  Video: Who was the First American Occultist?
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-30-2024, 09:56 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"John Winthrop the Younger was a pioneering early Governor of the Connecticut Colony but also deeply learned in the occult philosophy, alchemy and Paracelsian Spagyric Medicine. So much so that he may well be regarded as the first true occultist in the American colonies. Cotton Mather even dubbed Winthrop "Hermes Christianus - the Christian Hermes." Taking with him books that once belonged to Dr. John Dee, a vast alchemical lab and deep knowledge of European Esotericism, Winthrop would attempt to create a Pansophist research institution in colonial America. He would also become famous for his medical practice before using his knowledge of the occult philosophy to greatly stall colonial Witch Hunts. And, as part of the "Alchemical Republic" - the first colonial member of the Royal Society - he would direct import Western Esotericism into America."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heqdXS4F0Xs

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  For sale: Deutsches Theatrum Chemicum
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-30-2024, 09:51 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - Replies (1)

"This volume gathers a variety of alchemical treatises, mostly from German sources, including works by Roger Bacon, Edward Kelley, and John Dee. These texts explore various aspects of alchemy, from practical laboratory techniques to philosophical and spiritual interpretations of the alchemical process. "Theatrum Chemicum" played a crucial role in preserving and disseminating alchemical knowledge. By compiling diverse texts into a comprehensive collection, it made these writings accessible to a wider audience of scholars and practitioners. This book significantly influenced the development of alchemy in the 17th century and beyond. It served as a reference work for alchemists, inspiring new experiments and interpretations of alchemical theory."

https://www.esotericaoccultbooks.com/sho...-knoweldge

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  René Schwaller de Lubicz & the Paris Alchemical Revival
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-29-2024, 11:21 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Aaron Cheak.

"BEST KNOWN FOR his Egyptological writings, which appeared from 1949 onwards, culminating in his three-volume masterpiece, Le Temple de l’homme (The Temple of Man, 1957-8), French Hermetic philosopher René Schwaller de Lubicz (1887–1961) also played a significant role in the Parisian alchemical revival. While he later disparaged his pre-Egyptological works, and did not republish them when they went out of print, one text has continued to hold a strange allure, and is probably the most fascinating piece from this period: a rare but controversial work entitled Adam l’homme rouge (Adam the Red Man, 1927)."

https://www.aaroncheak.com/alchemy-of-desire

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  Leonora Carrington: The Burning of Giordano Bruno
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-29-2024, 11:05 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"“The Burning of Giordano Bruno” is an artwork created by Leonora Carrington in 1964. Falling under the Surrealism movement and categorized as a history painting, this piece delves into historical themes through a surreal and imaginative lens."

https://www.artchive.com/artwork/the-bur...gton-1964/

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  The Secrets of Doctor John Dee by Gordon James
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-25-2024, 05:40 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

THE SECRETS OF DOCTOR JOHN DEE: A Commentary on his Alchemical, Astrological, Qabalistic, and Rosicrucian Arcana.

Edmonds: Holmes Publishing Group, 1995. Quality text paper edition, sewn; A FINE COPY. Illustrated with the rare "Trees of the Planets"

For sale s/h:

https://www.jdholmes.com/pages/books/317...listic-and

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  Freemasonry's Alchemical Quest for Divine Communion
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-25-2024, 05:37 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

The Grand Communication: Freemasonry's Alchemical Quest for Divine Communion by Nathan Schick

"Is the central character in the Masonic ritual "Hiram Abiff" a Biblical cover for Hermes Trismegistus? Does the Masonic ritual contain encoded secret Hermetic knowledge of alchemy, astrology, and magic?"

https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Communicati...1312127007

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  Philosophical Foundations of Rasashastra
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-25-2024, 05:30 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The article explores "Raseshwara Darshana," which serves as a philosophical foundation for the development of Rasashastra, a pharmaceutical science within Ayurveda. It discusses how Indian philosophies, particularly the ideas central to Raseshwara Darshana, influence the goal of achieving Moksha, or liberation, in life rather than merely after death... The alchemical practices surrounding mercury are not merely seen as an artisanal craft, but rather as integral activities linked to the philosophical pursuits of Raseshwara, demonstrating the importance of physical elements in spiritual achievements."


https://www.wisdomlib.org/science/journa...82214.html

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  Music: Alex Nante - 15 Hymns for Lambsprinck (piano)
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-25-2024, 05:25 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Fifteen hymns for the alchemical Images of Lambsprinck, for piano - 2012

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https://alexnante.com/en/audio/


Text and illustrations here:

https://www.alchemywebsite.com/lambtext.html

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  Hironori Kikuchi - Alchemical Graphics
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-25-2024, 05:18 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"A new compilation of the contemporary artwork/illustrations of auteur comics artist Hironori Kikuchi collecting works from the last 8 years. Published by independent Tokyo-based bookseller/publisher Taco Ché. Consisting of single page illustrations, it is sometimes possible to observe dramatic sequences throughout a piece. In spite of this, it would be disingenuous to describe this collection as consisting of typical manga illustrations or narrative. Kikuchi debuted in 1995 in Garo magazine. He began working in his new dreamlike “alchemical” style in 2011"

https://glacierbaybooks.com/product/alch...-graphics/

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  Morris Berman - The Reenchantment of the World
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-25-2024, 05:11 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Blurb: "The Reenchantment of the World is a perceptive study of our scientific consciousness and a cogent and forceful challenge to its supremacy. Focusing on the rise of the mechanistic idea that we can know the natural world only by distancing ourselves from it, Berman shows how science acquired its controlling position in the consciousness of the West."

Quotation 1: "Jung's specific contribution, both to the history of alchemy and to depth psychology, was the discovery that patients with no previous knowledge of alchemy were having dreams that reproduced the imagery of alchemical texts with a bewildering similarity. In his famous essay "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy," Jung recorded a series of one such patient's dreams and produced for nearly every dream a separate alchemical plate that duplicated the dream symbols in an unmistakable way. Inasmuch as Jung claimed that others had produced a similar set of dream images while undergoing the individuation process, Jung was forced to conclude that this process was indeed inherent in the psyche and that the alchemists, without really knowing exactly what they were doing, had recorded the transformations of their own unconscious which they then projected onto the material world."

Quotation 2: "By the sixteenth century, the church had drawn up a document establishing correspondences between the various alchemical processes and church sacraments. Hence putrefaction was extreme unction; distillation, ordination; calcination, repentance; coagulation, marriage; solution, baptism; sublimation, confirmation; and of course, transmutation, the Mass. We might infer from these correspondences that the collapse of church magic under the pressure of heretical sects, and later, the Protestant Reformation, led to an overemphasis on the religious dimension of alchemy. This, in addition to the attack being mounted by the growing technological literature, ultimately served to split it off from the exoteric tradition."

An interesting book, with many alchemical references:

https://www.amazon.com/Reenchantment-Wor...0801492254

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