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  Popular Alchemical Symbols
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-08-2023, 08:26 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

https://symbolsage.com/alchemy-symbols-a...-meanings/


plus link to 4th edition of Wheeler's book of Alchemical Symbols, now on Kindle Unlimited.

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  Alchemical Miscellany
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-07-2023, 05:14 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

At the Beinecke.

"Manuscript on paper, composed in three parts, of a large number of practical procedures, chiefly alchemical but sometimes medical, with a few standard medieval alchemical texts by Khalid ibn Yazid, Theodoric, and Albertus Magnus. Occasionally there are passages in cipher, added by Martin Roesel of Rosenthal ca. 1586, long after the principal contents were written; the cipher seems to be of a simple number-substitution type."

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2056670

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  Alchemical and Rosicrucian compendium
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-07-2023, 05:11 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

At the Beinecke.

"Manuscript on paper of a pietistic, mystical text in prose and verse, illustrated by a great variety of illustrations cut from manuscripts of smaller dimensions (plus some prints), and pasted in. These illustrations include the "Python" illuminated drawing which has been reproduced in color, a series of "alchemical processes depicted symbolically taking place within flasks", as well as many other pictorial elements drawn from a variety of sources."

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/32366759

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  Nicholas Eymerich, Two Treatises Against Astrologers, Nigromancers and Alchemists
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-07-2023, 05:01 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"Critical edition with introduction, translation and notes by Sylvain Matton

Appointed Inquisitor General of the Crown of Aragon in 1357, famous for his huge Directorium Inquisitorum (1376), which was to become the procedural handbook for the Spanish Inquisition until the seven­teenth century, the Dominican friar Nicholas Eymerich (ca. 1317-1399) stood out for his diligence, his severity and his inflexibility in the exercise of his office. But his eagerness and relentlessness to hunt down all those he dee­med heretical, especially the Fraticelli, Beguards and Lullists, so angered King John I of Aragon that in April 1393 he was sentenced to exile. Yet this did not dampen his zeal, which he directed towards writing. Indeed, having found refuge at the papal court in Avignon, he wrote there in 1395 and 1396 Against Ignorant Astrologers and Against Nigromancers Who Wrongly Judge of Hidden Things and Against Alchemists, two treatises which are his ulti­ma verba on the subject, and in which he endeavours to demonstrate that both astrology and divinatory arts as well as alchemy savour of heresy because they are grounded or fatally end in a covenant with the devil, and therefore fall under the inquisitorial jurisdiction."


https://www.fabula.org/actualites/113283...mists.html

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  Modern Alchemy and Atomic Theory
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-06-2023, 07:32 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - Replies (1)

By Mark Morrisson


https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/2...ergence-of-

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  Fiction: The Red Lion - The Elixir of Eternal Life
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-06-2023, 07:12 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"A 16th century alchemist's apprentice drinks his master's elixir of life after killing him. But the potion does not bring Hans Burgner immortality, instead he repeatedly dies and is reborn, cursed with foreknowledge of misfortunes which will befall him."

by Mária Szepes.

Open Source (apparently):

https://archive.org/details/the-red-lion...e/mode/2up

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  Video: the Incalculable Genius of John Dee
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-06-2023, 10:02 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Alexander Waugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-PWR7-0Hp4

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  Interactive Trithemius
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-06-2023, 09:53 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

By Alexander Boxer.

"THIS site has been designed to present the Steganographia of Trithemius as an ‘interactive book’. I enjoy translating old texts, I enjoy making interactive tools to explore those texts, and I believe a platform of this sort is long overdue. Very simply, this site is a WordPress back-end with a customized front-end (‘theme’) developed expressly to facilitate transcribing and translating old texts in installments. I find that the WordPress core is ideal for organizing the sprawling content of a project like this into handy database tables. More significantly, my hope is that a platform of this sort may foster meaningful collaboration, both in terms of its handling of ‘blog-like’ comments and discussion, and also in its ability to manage multiple contributors should ever that opportunity arise."

https://trithemius.com/

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  Sir Kenelm Digby biography
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-05-2023, 08:34 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"Sir Kenelm Digby was one of the most remarkable Englishmen who ever lived: a trusted advisor to the King, but the sworn enemy of the all-powerful Duke of Buckingham; a pioneering philosopher and scientist, but committed to the occult arts of alchemy and astrology; a friend not only of Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes and van Dyck, but even Oliver Cromwell. He was also widely known as the ‘son of a traytor and husband of a whore’: a man who witnessed his father’s gruesome execution for high treason as a Gunpowder Plotter, and the lover of the most celebrated beauty of the age, Venetia Stanley."

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stain-Blood-Rem...B019CGXRXE

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  The plant they call the Little Alchemist
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-05-2023, 08:15 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

“The generic name Alchemilla is derived from the Arabic word, Alkemelych (alchemy), and was bestowed on it, according to some old writers, because of the wonder-working powers of the plant. Others held that the alchemical virtues lay in the subtle influence the foliage imparted to the dewdrops that lay in its furrowed leaves and in the little cup formed by its joined stipules, these dewdrops constituting part of many mystic potions.”

~ Grieve Modern Herbal, 1940


https://www.evolutionaryherbalism.com/20...alchemist/

   

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