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The Alchemical Order: The Social World and the Cosmos of Jean d’Espagnet
Alexander S. Dessens
Platte River Academy


"It was with Jim Farr’s help that I found the primary subject of my dissertation project, a French parlementaire, philosopher, and alchemist of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries named Jean d’Espagnet."

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Johann Konrad Dippel was a German theologian and alchemist, son of a Lutheran pastor, born at the castle of Frankenstein, near Darmstadt, on the 10th of August 1673. He studied theology at Giessen. After a short visit to Wittenberg he went to Strassburg, where he lectured on alchemy and chiromancy, and occasionally preached. He gained considerable popularity, but was obliged after a time to quit the city, owing to his irregular manner of living. He had up to this time espoused the cause of the orthodox as against the pietists; but in his two first works, published under the name "Christianus D emocritus," Orthodoxia Orthodoxorum (1697) and Papismus vapulans Protestantium (1698), he assailed the fundamental positions of the Lutheran theology. He held that religion consisted not in dogma but exclusively in love and self-sacrifice. To avoid persecution he was compelled to wander from place to place in Germany, Holland, Denmark and Sweden. He took the degree of doctor of medicine at Leiden in 1711. He discovered Prussian blue, and by the destructive distillation of bones prepared the evilsmelling product known as Dippel's animal oil. He died near Berleburg on the 25th of April 1734.

An enlarged edition of Dippel's collected works was published at Berleburg in 1743. See the biographies by J. C. G. Ackermann (Leipzig, 1781), H. V. Hoffmann (Darmstadt, 1783), K. Henning (1881) and W. Bender (Bonn, 1882); also a memoir by K. Bucher in the Historisches Taschenbuch for 1858.


https://www.chemistryviews.org/350th-bir...ad-dippel/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Konrad_Dippel

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix10/dipp...stein.html

The occultation of Surrealism: a study of the relationship between Bretonian Surrealism and western esotericism

Bauduin, T.M.


Full text. Immediate download from Univ of Amsterdam Digital Repository:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=w...NRjFfc-F1_

"Successively a bank clerk, accountant and sales representative, Baskine finally discovered alchemy in 1937, via the book Letter From the Cosmopolitan by Alexander Sethon, and began his search for the Philosopher's Stone while living in Fontenay-sous-Bois, just outside Paris, with his wife. Taking his inspiration from alchemical symbolism, Baskine also made painted images and objects in plaster tinted to imitate "the matter of the Great Work." In 1945, at the Galerie Katia Granoff in Paris, he showed Le Temple du Mas, which caught the eye of Jean Dubuffet. At the exhibition, Surrealism in 1947, at Galerie Maeght, he presented Le Mas Goth, which featured a double Janus head and a mandrake. André Breton asked him to illustrate the deluxe edition of Arcane 17 (1947 edition) with three etchings. Baskine developed "fantasophy," a system of thought comparable to a philosophy of fantasy (or phantasm)."

http://www.thesurrealists.org/maurice-baskine.html

Video (in French): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2H2zwUcmxA

https://traditionaltarot.wordpress.com/2...onscience/

https://fr.everand.com/book/351486189/Th...-Societies

"That means that over four generations, anyone and everyone finding that guess attractive has had time to investigate every alchemical manuscript within reach to make an argument that there is a close connection between drawings in the Voynich manuscript and one or another of those alchemical manuscripts surviving in Latin Europe from between the 12thC – or more reasonably the 1350s – and what we take as the cut-off date, 1438 AD. At least those are the limits for any Voynich ‘alchemical’ story also trying to maintain the ‘all western Christian Voynich’ theory."

https://voynichrevisionist.com/author/dnodonovan/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

"In South India there is a society where priests and lay people claim supernatural powers. Where a sophisticated medical system underlies a quest for physical longevity and psychic immortality. And where arcane and sexual rituals take place that are far removed from the Brahmanic tradition."

https://www.amazon.com/Siddha-Quest-Immo...1869928431

"Featuring four alchemical engravings by Raphael Custos — much reproduced since Carl Jung included the third as “The Mountain of the Adepts” in Psychology and Alchemy (1968) — Cabala’s leading symbol is the looking glass, which the author offers as a tool for penetrating the mysteries of alchemy and divinity."

https://publicdomainreview.org/collectio...a-spiegel/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Custos

https://www.hollstein.com/new_german/dav...tos_i.html

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"In Alchemy there are many operative suns. The sun which represents the fixed as opposite of the volatile Moon is the most used example in alchemical symbology. So, sun = Sulfur opposite to Moon = Mercurius (often, simply, a fixed substance that is lifted by a volatile, but which in turn fixes the volatile too unmanageable in this case the pair of opposites is said to “marry”). Then there is the sun symbolized by Apollo who represents the perfect red at the end of the second work (see Second-Main Work) white the imperfect red are symbolyzed by Mars. The Philosophers’ Stone, at the end of the third work, is defined as supreme Apollo (see Third Work)."

https://www.labyrinthdesigners.org/solar-alchemy/

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https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pu...&q=alchemy

"This article examines the origins of the golden pigment known as mosaic gold (SnS2), formed through the sublimation of tin with mercury, sulphur, and ammonium chloride. It explores the textual transmission of mosaic gold from the earliest known written testimonies, as well as the earliest material remnants of the pigment during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Additionally, the study introduces and analyses two new recipes from an earlier date: one comes from the Greek treatise known as the Anonymous of Zuretti; and the other from the Latin alchemical work attributed to pseudo-Avicenna, De anima."

Abstract only:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....ccess=true