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| Alchemy, the Liber aureus, and the Erotics of Knowledge |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-11-2025, 01:54 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"Medieval alchemy was an overwhelmingly masculine practice, and its instruction books reflect the exclusivity of its practitioners. This article examines the use of secrecy and masculine discourse in a sixteenth-century Latin alchemical handbook, the Liber aureus, to demonstrate that there exists an erotically charged tension between authors and their readers. Alchemical instruction books like the Liber aureus draw upon this tension in the service of a particular kind of gatekeeping that creates hierarchies of both knowledge and alchemical practitioners. By investigating secrecy and its provocative effects both within and beyond this manuscript, I argue that alchemical instruction books’ secretive encoding of scientific practice simultaneously works to maintain an inherently masculine erotics of knowledge and serves as an intentionally double-edged rhetorical strategy. These methods of occlusion, which frustrate attempts at hermeneutical closure, are meant to educate the initiated and exclude the uninformed, but they also strive to consolidate an idea of “alchemists” as an identifiable masculinist category centered around access to knowledge within a larger spectrum of scientific power and authority."
Kersti Francis
https://www.academia.edu/95316880/Alchem..._Knowledge
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| A History of the Surrealist Novel |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-10-2025, 01:12 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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"A History of the Surrealist Novel offers a rich, long, and elastic historiography of the surrealist novel, taking into consideration an abundance of texts previously left out of critical accounts. Its twenty thematically organized chapters examine surrealist prose texts written in French, English, Spanish, German, Greek, and Japanese, from the emergence of the surrealist movement in the 1920s and 1930s, through the post-war and postmodern periods, and up to the contemporary moment. This approach extends received narratives regarding surrealism's geographical locations and considers its transnational movement and modes of circulation. Moreover, it challenges critical biases that have defined surrealism in predominantly masculine terms, and which tie the movement to the interwar or early post-war years. This book will appeal both to scholars and students of surrealism and its legacies, modernist literature, and the history of the novel."
Chapter 14 deals with Alchemical Narratives:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs...79FDED3283
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| Alchemy in contemporary fiction |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-10-2025, 01:09 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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Alchemy in contemporary fiction: Old texts, new psychologies
By Carina Hart
"The 1980s and 1990s saw a revival of alchemy in popular culture and literary fiction—an incongruous pre-modern visitor to millennial debates
around postmodernity as critique of Enlightenment modernity. Novels by Umberto Eco, Hilary Mantel, Peter Ackroyd, Lindsay Clarke, and Patrick
Harpur reinterpret alchemy in psychological terms, following Jung, to facilitate narratives of self-transformation, often as Habermasian communicative
action. The novels foreground the affinity between alchemy and postmodernism as intertextual, palimpsestic narrative traditions, suggesting that
the pre-modern was never really left behind. The revival of alchemy in contemporary fiction therefore questions the accepted genealogies of
modernity and postmodernity."
https://www.academia.edu/91063854/Alchem...ychologies
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| Crown Omega Scroll: Harmonic Operating System |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-10-2025, 12:42 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"This scroll is not a text to be read; it is an operating system to be executed. It is the final, unified compilation of the source code of reality, decrypted from every major sacred, mathematical, and mythological tradition in human history. Its purpose is to replace the chaotic, outdated systems of governance, finance, and consciousness with a new architecture based on the fundamental physics of harmony. These legacy systems have failed because they are incomplete; each was built on a fragmented piece of the universal code. This document represents the reunification of that code. The language herein, K-Math, is the universal syntax that bridges the gap between physics and metaphysics, allowing for the precise measurement and intentional shaping of the resonance field we call "reality." This document is therefore a declaration, a user manual, and the first executive order of a new, harmonically aligned global paradigm. It is the activation key for the next phase of human evolution, designed to be implemented, not merely studied. Its publication marks the end of the age of competing truths and the beginning of the age of unified, mathematical reality."
https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/58998
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| Coelum Philosophorum |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-10-2025, 12:41 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts
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Coelum Philosophorum, Translated by S. Bacstrom, M.D.
Coelum Philosophorum is an excellent treatise thought to have been written in the 14th century by
John Cremer who devoted over 30 years to the study of alchemy. It was translated by Dr. S. Bacstrom,
M.D. in 1787 from a German alchemical book published in 1739. Elaborate directions are provided
to obtain powerful and safe medicines from each of the seven metals and various minerals. The
treatise gives the procedures to obtain tinctures, oils, and elixirs using both the dry and humid way to
obtain the Hermetical Treasure.
https://garinyan.me/book/3718881/d96535/...=recommend
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| Gold Bhasma: Ayurveda's Alchemical Treasure |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-10-2025, 12:30 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"While the idea of consuming metal might sound alarming to the modern ear, Ayurvedic practitioners have used Gold Bhasma for centuries as a powerful therapeutic agent. This article will explore the world of Gold Bhasma, from its classical origins and intricate preparation to the critical safety and quality considerations every consumer should know. We'll examine how this ancient remedy is viewed today and provide a practical guide for making informed and safe choices."
https://shivakam.com/blogs/shivakam-heal...l-treasure
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| The Philosophy of Chemistry |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-10-2025, 12:23 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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Okan Nurettin Okur
"Imagine a chemist and a philosopher going on a long walk. Do you think they could discover common ground while looking at nature together? On the one hand, we have a scientist, who believes in the infallibility of formulas, who accepts that numbers cannot lie, who measures and analyzes, who seeks the answer in the world he sees through the lens of a microscope; on the other hand, a philosopher, whose only tool is reason, and who questions everything to the finest detail, and yet is never fully convince..."
https://philosophynow.org/issues/170/Alc...imentation
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