Monday February 3rd! Introducing an exciting new ONLINE class series!

Alchemy and Music: Matter, Geometry, and the Ascent of the Soul With Brian Cotnoir!

This is a 4 class series, all online live via Zoom

Alchemy and Music: Matter, Geometry, and the Ascent of the Soul is an exploration of these ideas through alchemical practice and worldview



https://www.instagram.com/philosophical_...mg_index=1

"Use AI to quickly summarize, find information, translate, and provide citations from your documents."

https://www.pdfgpt.chat/?utm_source=twit...ixc4e4uvnf

"The UK government plans to stop funding the Latin Excellence Programme that has brought Latin to state schools in England in Keystage 3 and 4... The programme was created to shed the elitist kudos of this subject... Many of the schools affected are inner city schools and thus abolishing this programme diminishes the opportunities available to the students... This plan increases the inequality of state school pupils by suggesting that Latin as a subject should only be taught in private schools. It diminishes the selection available and lacks ambition."


https://www.change.org/p/save-the-latin-...te-schools

"Astrologers and alchemists alike have long understood that planetary aspects serve as keys to unlocking the mysteries of inner and outer worlds. When viewed through the lens of sacred geometry, these aspects transform into archetypal patterns, offering insights into personal evolution and universal harmony. Together, they guide us on the path of alchemical transmutation—turning the base material of our lives into spiritual gold."


https://www.jcfrequency.com/home/table-o...trology-an

"Hennig Brand was on to something. Or rather, he thought he was..."


https://bigthink.com/the-past/how-urine-...chemistry/

"Linked to alchemy and hermetical knowledge, distillation was seen as a method for improving metals and other mineral substances, within a paradigm that asserted that minerals were gestated in the soil and grew and developed as if they were living beings. Despite this mystical base, ancient alchemists had practical concerns, among which was the production of elaborate dyes manufactured by distilling sulfur, thus obtaining golden pigments that were then used in decoration and metallurgy. With the advent of Christianity, this ancient form of alchemy was gradually left behind and perceived as heretical, although some ancient alchemy texts describing distillation were preserved in Constantinople."

https://sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/the-sa...aqua-vitae

Inspired by the works of Carl Jung as well as the writing of laboratory alchemists such as Robert Allen Bartlet, the Inner Alchemy Oracle depicts the alchemical process of transformation via 52 cards. The cards depict the 7 Base Metals, the 7 Chakras and the 4 Elements, Spagyric Plants & Jungian/Popular Psychology, and are intended as to work as catalysts for the reader's inner transformation and self-reflection.

https://shop.watkinsbooks.com/products/i...ra-kadabra


Flip-through here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2A5Qm-qmvs

The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects.

https://tinyurl.com/ytvz3fr4



Related essay by Alfred Nordmann:

Victor Frankenstein’s Technoscientific Dream of Reason

How is it that this premodern mystical alchemist appears so contemporary today?

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/victo...of-reason/

Over 150 lightweight but well-illustrated and well-written articles on alchemy at Ancient Origins:

https://www.ancient-origins.net/searchall/alchemy

"The Rosarium Philosophorum, a 16th-century alchemical text, offers a profound map for this very journey. Often overshadowed by its cryptic language and intricate woodcut illustrations, it serves as much more than a manual for turning lead into gold. It invites us to consider the alchemical process as a reflection of our inner lives – a symbolic guide to navigating the cycles of disintegration and renewal that define human existence."

Dr. Michael Sebastian

https://medium.com/@babunow99/alchemy-of...6f33531d34

English translation of the text here:
https://archive.org/details/EnglishTrans...losophorum