03-13-2023, 07:14 PM
Ethan Allen Hitchcock: Soldier—Humanitarian—Scholar, Discoverer of the "True Subject'' of the Hermetic Art
by Bernard Cohen
'Throughout an active military career. General Hitchcock devoted himself to the study of philosophy, theology, mysticism, and, eventually, alchemy. Under the most adverse conditions imaginable, in the barracks or in his tent at some encampment, he studied the writings of the Far and Near East, of antiquity and the middle ages, of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, insofar as they bore on questions of human existence or the nature of man. The result of his scholarly studies and meditations led him, eventually, to a radical interpretation of the subject of alchemy.'
https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proc...615697.pdf
by Bernard Cohen
'Throughout an active military career. General Hitchcock devoted himself to the study of philosophy, theology, mysticism, and, eventually, alchemy. Under the most adverse conditions imaginable, in the barracks or in his tent at some encampment, he studied the writings of the Far and Near East, of antiquity and the middle ages, of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, insofar as they bore on questions of human existence or the nature of man. The result of his scholarly studies and meditations led him, eventually, to a radical interpretation of the subject of alchemy.'
https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proc...615697.pdf