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Ancient Alchemists: The S...
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Magnetar Flares: Cosmic A...
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Tarot: The Book of Doors
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The Two-Headed Serpent
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Video: The Alchemy of Spagyrics |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-14-2024, 11:29 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"In this first episode on The Art of Spagyrics, we dive into the ancient alchemical practice of spagyrics, which focuses on purifying plants and minerals to achieve spiritual enlightenment. This transformative process uses the four elements to extract, distill, and ferment substances, linking physical purification with inner growth. Join us as we explore the foundational techniques and the spiritual philosophy behind this art, examining how understanding the elements and alchemical processes can lead to mastery."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NmHQVfsqvw
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Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-12-2024, 01:12 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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"In this book, Paul Strathern, the award-winning novelist and expositor of complex ideas, unravels the dramatic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements. Framing this history is the life-story of the 19th century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at this desk and awoke after dreaming of the Periodic Table - the template upon which modern chemistry is founded, and the formulation of which marked chemistry's coming of age as a science. From ancient philosophy, through medieval alchemy to the splitting of the atom, this is the true story of the birth of chemistry and the role of one man's dream."
https://www.amazon.com/Mendeleyevs-Dream...0140284141
Extract here about Newton the alchemist:
https://vk.com/wall134211218_22430
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For Sale: Lucerna Salis Philosophorum |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-12-2024, 12:51 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts
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"1658 “Lucerna Salis Philosophorum.” Softcover bound in an 18th century marbled wrap. Housed in a beautiful, custom-made clamshell case.
Published by Henricum Betkium
Printed in Amsterdam
The full title translates to – The Salt Lamp of the Philosophers: That is, a Bare Outline of the Desired Principle of the Third Mineral of the Sendivogians, or Pontic Salt, Which is the Subject of all Wonder and the Only Academy of the Ancient Sages.
This small softcover book is a foundational work of alchemy that has been cited by many of the most important Alchemists throughout the past 350 years. The pages within make allusions to the Hermetic mysteries, and cite important Alchemists such as Paracelsus.
John Ferguson in his “Bibliotheca Chemica” (pp. 368 - 370) attributes the work to Iosaphat Friederich Hautnorthon on the basis of an editor’s note on p. 157 of the “Lucerna.” Hautnorthon is said to be a pseudonym of the German lawyer and alchemist Johann Harprecht (1610-1660), although some scholars disagree.
This 350+ year old book is in remarkable condition and is available to add to your collection, as the only known copy in private hands and one of less than 20 in university archives worldwide."
https://capecod.craigslist.org/bks/d/mon...44576.html
Or go digital here:
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/vi...66?page=,1
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Alchemy & Early Chemistry Chart of cosmic elements |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-11-2024, 03:11 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery
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"1657. Woodcut. Annibal Barlet proposed a number of cosmological arguments that included elements of alchemy and astrology. This is the sixth example, bringing together his previous five cosmic arguments and joining them with the animal, vegetable, mineral and metal 'kingdoms' to form a cosmic model of the world. Illustration from Barlets 'Le Vray et Methodique Cours de la Physique Resolutive Vulgairement dite Chymie' ('The True and Methodical Course in Resolutive Physick, Commonly called Chemistry'), published in Paris in 1657. Although the book contains a great deal of alchemical jargon, it is for the most part good practical pharmaceutical chemistry. Barlet gave regular chemical courses in Paris, attended by the diarist John Evelyn (1620-1706) amongst others."
https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en/noart...et/5084008
More Barlet here:
https://www.alchemywebsite.com/symbols_barlet.html
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Alchemical Society of Greece |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 11-11-2024, 03:01 PM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events
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"The Alchemical Society of Greece (ASG) exists to ensure that the arts and sciences traditionally ascribed to Hermes the Trismegistus are integrally reawakened in the present and the future. To this end, we present the inaugural Symposium for Alchemical Art as our first step towards a series of conferences, online private seminars, and interdisciplinary publications. All who are called to walk the ways of Hermes are considered welcome.
We are primarily concerned with the traditional methods of alchemy, especially those developed up to the 15th century, following the “one matter—one vessel—one fire” approach. We believe that any separation of alchemy into theoretical and practical levels is vicious, as these two levels are inseparable from each other. Similarly, every member of our Society realizes that modern science and chemistry has nothing whatsoever to do with alchemy."
https://asgreece.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/alchemicalsocietygreece
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