Anonymous, 1600.

"If we want to carry out the study of the secret philosophy usefully, we must strive to recognize and learn the light of nature, because it is it which opens our eyes and enables us to see the invisible and hidden nature. , as if it were perfectly visible and manifest."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oec-_ftJ__A

"Whoever will understand thoroughly these words of Genesis will see that, since the beginning of the world, there has been one substance which can be known only if a light is made to dissipate the darkness which hides it from our eyes."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymIipqGtMck

"The Centre for Magic and Esotericism runs regular events with visiting speakers. Please see below for upcoming talks."

"We’ve just added some copies of De Natura Rerum from Aula Lucis Press which has previously been sold out at Miskatonic Books. De Natura Rerum, or Nine Books on the Nature of Things, was composed in order to assist the aspiring alchemist and hermetic philosopher in recognising what lies hidden in Nature, and how to induce Nature to be helpful in the Art of Alchemy. Comprising nine tracts on the Generation, Growth, Preservation, Life, Death, Resurrection, Transmutation, Separation, and Signature of all natural things, it is a veritable treasure house of natural lore for all diligent students of the Spagyric Art to draw upon, and to apply in their practice."

https://www.miskatonicbooks.com/2024/09/...cis-press/

“Paradoxes, Absurdities, and Madness”: Conflict over Alchemy, Magic and Medicine in the Works of Andreas Libavius and Heinrich Khunrath

Peter Forshaw

Both Andreas Libavius and Heinrich Khunrath graduated from Basel Medical Academy in 1588, though the theses they defended reveal antithetical approaches to medicine, despite their shared interests in iatrochemistry and transmutational alchemy. Libavius argued in favour of Galenic allopathy while Khunrath promoted the contrasting homeopathic approach of Paracelsus and the utility of the occult doctrine of Signatures for medical purposes. This article considers these differences in the two graduates' theses, both as intimations of their subsequent divergent notions of the boundaries of alchemy and its relations with medicine and magic, and also as evidence of the surprisingly unstable academic status of Paracelsian philosophy in Basel, its main publishing centre, at the end of the sixteenth century.

https://www.academia.edu/428646/_Paradox...h_Khunrath

Part of the Isaac Newton project at Indiana University Bloomington:

https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/...lossary.do

Including a dictionary.

"The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) is a Sandhi-split corpus of Sanskrit texts with full morphological and lexical analysis. The DCS is designed for text-historical research in Sanskrit linguistics and philology. Users can search for lexical units (words) and their collocations in a corpus of about 4,800,000 manually tagged words in 650,000 text lines."

http://www.sanskrit-linguistics.org/dcs/index.php

"Alchemy was never taught at any medieval or early modern university, yet there is evidence of interest in the art among students and professors throughout Europe. Studies of academic alchemy have generally focused on the interests of individuals rather than examining communities of university alchemists. At the turn of the fifteenth century, the University of Cracow hosted a larger community of practitioners than previously acknowledged. This article presents a discussion, edition, and translation of a text that came out of that community: the Fundamentum scienciae nobilissimae secretorum naturae, written by Adam of Bochyń in 1489 while a student at the University of Cracow."

Agnieszka Rec 

Full text in English.

https://www.academia.edu/23842207/_Acade..._2016_1_28

"This paper analyses John Donne’s poetic exploration of a Patristic metaphor, which compares humanity to a coin that has defaced its stamp, the imago Dei, due to the Fall. Donne, writing after the Elizabethan Settlement, refashions this conceit in order to take account of the alterations in soteriological and economic thought that had taken place. This dissertation uncovers Donne’s poetic reflection on the implicit relation between salvific and monetary economies, and a preoccupation with the effects these notions have on alchemical subjects, as well as on the role played by women in religious thought and in society as a whole.


Cita bibliogràfica -- Enllaç permanent: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/301082
‘Christ’s New Stamp’ : Imputed Righteousness and Coin Mintage in John Donne’s Poetry
Santiago Berrón, Andrés


In English

https://ddd.uab.cat/record/301082

Joshua Werrett: Imitatio Christi and Martyrdom in The Visions of Zosimos of Panopolis (SHAC seminar)

"The alchemical practice of Zosimos of Panopolis is not just about the transformation of metals; it is about the transformation of the self. This double meaning is found throughout Zosimos’ works, but is perhaps most noticeable in his Visions. In this text, Zosimos uses alchemy as a theurgic practice to understand salvation, a practice which is allegorised as having four major stages: baptism; violent punishment; the separation of body and soul in death; and rebirth as a spiritual entity. These steps, taken by several characters throughout the text, clearly mimic major points in the life and death of Christ. In this talk, I present the argument that the imitation of Christ and the imitation of early Christian martyrs, themselves imitating Christ, are key motifs in the violent, redemptive, sacrificial aesthetics of Zosimos’ text. Analysing the main ideas, images, and phrases in The Visions, I conclude that themes from the New Testament and martyrological literature are pervasive. Overall, I hope to demonstrate that those being reborn as spirits throughout Zosimos’ text are not being reborn in a vacuum; rather, Zosimos suggests that, in being reborn, they follow in the footsteps of alchemists and Christian martyrs before them, in a long imitative line of suffering and transformation, which ultimately starts with Christ."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CELBazvrfeQ