01-09-2026, 11:00 AM
Evans Lansing Smith
From Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism. New Series. 13.1 (Spring 1994): 11-18.
"Several of the fundamental metaphors of medieval alchemy survive in the scholarship and literature of Modernism (1895-1946), including the notion of the breakdown of molecular compounds to the four elements from which all creation (cosmogonic, ontogenetic, poetic) derives. This occurs in a variety of symbolic crucibles, and precipitates Modernist variants of such hermetic images of the Opus as the conjunction of Sol and Luna, the Child, and the philosopher’s stone. Informing the whole process is the notion of transfiguration, an alchemical allegory of poeisis that we find in Modernism, all the way from Strindberg to H.D."
https://www.academia.edu/34765457/Alchem...ernism_pdf
From Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism. New Series. 13.1 (Spring 1994): 11-18.
"Several of the fundamental metaphors of medieval alchemy survive in the scholarship and literature of Modernism (1895-1946), including the notion of the breakdown of molecular compounds to the four elements from which all creation (cosmogonic, ontogenetic, poetic) derives. This occurs in a variety of symbolic crucibles, and precipitates Modernist variants of such hermetic images of the Opus as the conjunction of Sol and Luna, the Child, and the philosopher’s stone. Informing the whole process is the notion of transfiguration, an alchemical allegory of poeisis that we find in Modernism, all the way from Strindberg to H.D."
https://www.academia.edu/34765457/Alchem...ernism_pdf