"Or, more properly and to give the book its full era-appropriate title, The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosencreutz, A Romance in Eight Days, by Johann Valentin Andreae in a new version by John Crowley. Cheekily claimed as a special 400th anniversary edition, The Chemical Wedding is a new version of one of the founding Rosicrucian documents, an allegorical text from 1616 first published in German, purportedly by one Christian Rosencreutz, actually by a Lutheran pastor named Johann Valentin Andreae. This version, writes Crowley, is not a new translation. He based it on the original English translation from 1690 and a more modern one from 1887, plus some consultation with a new translation from 1991 and assistance from Andrés Paniagua, who checked Crowley’s versions “against original German printings".”

https://www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/20...n-crowley/

"Is it possible the Knights Templar understood alchemy as both a science and a spiritual metaphor throughout history for the ascension of human consciousness?"

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https://www.gaia.com/video/alchemical-ri...activation

Tomorrow (13.1.24) is the 620th anniversary of the English Act against Multipliers. "This Act forbade the transmutation of base metals into gold or silver, which one might then use to create counterfeit coins. Its enactment was meant to protect the authority of the government by preventing the debasement of currency. Four decades later, Henry VI began issuing special licenses to alchemists to circumvent the statute in an attempt to pay for costly wars."

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2023/01/alchem...ltipliers/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_(alchemy)

https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/be...s-alchemy/

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

   

Extracted from the writings of: Glauber, Basil Valentine, and Other Adepts.

https://archive.org/details/a-compendium...i/mode/2up

This would seem to be a précis of AE Waite's volume of the same name, on sale here:

https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/a-comp...esses.html

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A two pages process. Seems legit.

Pages 91 & 92.

https://books.google.ch/books?id=CnARwcf...ge&f=false

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"This paper connects archetypal psychology with contemporary mathematical and quantum concepts. We focus on the profound interconnectedness at the interface between chaos and order, by demonstrating how the Mandelbrot set from contemporary fractal geometry circles round to embody the Ouroboros, an ancient symbol of recursive dynamics."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._and_Order

"St. Germain collected old pictures and portraits; he was addicted to alchemy, believed in universal medecine and made studies as to animal magnetism."

https://verity59.org/uploads/3/4/7/7/347...fkings.pdf

This special issue of Quaerendo marks the addition of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam to the UNESCO Netherlands Memory of the World Registry.  All articles in the issue all treat items in the BPH collection. Authors include Lucinda Martin, Lawrence M. Principe, Thomas Hofmeier, Cis van Heertum, Gwendolyn Verbraak, Andreas Pietsch and José Bouman.

https://www.academia.edu/113263598/Quaer...nda_Martin

Reviewed by David Allen Brizer
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
by Anthony Grafton
Belknap Harvard University Press
Dec 2023, 282 pp, ISBN-13: 978-0674659735

https://compulsivereader.com/2024/01/10/...y-grafton/