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Author: Alexander Henry
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-07-10
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 1105940837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of many of the most important and influential pieces on the subject of Alchemy and the Hermetic Sciences. This collection includes such works as: The Hermetic Museum, Collectanea Chemica, Turba Philosophorum, Coelum Philosophorum, and Alchemy Rediscovered & Restored
Author: Bruce Janacek
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-08-21
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0271078022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. Rather than examine alchemy from a scientific or medical perspective, Janacek presents it as integrated into the broader political, philosophical, and religious upheavals of the first half of the seventeenth century, arguing that the interest of these elite figures in alchemy was part of an understanding that supported their national—and in some cases royalist—loyalty and theological orthodoxy. Janacek investigates how and why individuals who supported or were actually placed at the traditional center of power in England’s church and state believed in the relevance of alchemy at a time when their society, their government, their careers, and, in some cases, their very lives were at stake.
Author: H. Stanley Redgrove
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-09-13
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781517321857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe number of books in the English language dealing with the interesting subject of Alchemy is not sufficiently great to render an apology necessary for adding thereto. Indeed, at the present time there is an actual need for a further contribution on this subject. The time is gone when it was regarded as perfectly legitimate to point to Alchemy as an instance of the aberrations of the human mind. Recent experimental research has brought about profound modifications in the scientific notions regarding the chemical elements, and, indeed, in the scientific concept of the physical universe itself; and a certain resemblance can be traced between these later views and the theories of bygone Alchemy. The spontaneous change of one "element" into another has been witnessed, and the recent work of Sir William Ramsay suggests the possibility of realising the old alchemistic dream-the transmutation of the "base" metals into gold.
Author: C. C. Zain
Publisher: Brotherhood of Light Lessons
Published: 2014-06
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780878875023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karen Dahlman
Publisher:
Published: 2015-04-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780692419571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstand that the world in which we commonly exist is beyond what we've been told or taught. It is not limited by what we can only perceive with our senses. Instead, what actually exists is a promising world that is rich in its expression and ripe in its possibilities. These expressions are supportive, expansive and infinite to each individual. Say goodbye to the old paradigms of the mundane. Welcome to the esoteric teachings of the profane! In The Spirit of Alchemy, author Karen A. Dahlman sheds light on the secret teachings of alchemy that detail this cosmic blueprint. Exploring this science of spiritual truths, the author continues to share in great detail her "Esoteric Ouija" work, poignant synchronistic stories and edgy, thought-provoking concepts that will lead you on the most magical and mystical journey of transformation and inspiration.
Author: Carl A. P. Ruck
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781611630411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe prime doctrine of alchemy was that what was above mirrored what was below. From this it follows that manipulating what was below could exert a profound influence upon the realm above. Alchemy was a dual process in which physical and chemical or metallurgical changes had a parallel spiritual aspect, both personal and cosmic, so that the transformations occurred also within the retort of the body of the practitioners of the art, who sought to transmute leaden consciousness to celestial transcendence and perhaps even manage to move the stars. What flowed from the body of the deity, as an alchemical vessel, was a magical sacrament offering mystical communion with its divine source. The main focus of this study is van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece known as the 'Mystic Lamb.' It was intended as a complex talisman to influence the ascendancy of Burgundy and the coronation of its Duke, Philip the Good, as the Pope's choice to rule over the New Jerusalem of John's Apocalyptic Revelation. Its completion coincided with the Duke's inauguration of the elite chivalric Order of the Golden Fleece. The river of the alchemical aqua vitae that flows from the throne of God and the Lamb in the Altarpiece encodes the secret of their psychoactive initiatory Eucharist. The context for van Eyck's masterpiece includes the visionary scholarship of the Jewish Cabbala and medieval Christian mystics, Chrétien de Troyes' Conte du Graal, and such other artistic masterpieces as St. Berward's Michaeliskirke, Filippo Lippi's series of Adorations painted for his Medici patron's, and Petrus Christus' paintings for the Order of the Dry Tree, as well as other works of van Eyck and his contemporaries that were intended to serve as aids for mystical meditation. A final chapter examines the nature of the Eucharist at the time John's Revelation. A DVD is included in the book.
Author: Gershom Scholem
Publisher: Spring Publications
Published: 2006-03-09
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA classic text on alchemy by the leading scholar of Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem, is presented here for the first time in English translation. Scholem looks critically at the century-old connections between alchemy, the Jewish Kabbalah; its Christianized varieties, such as the gold- and rosicrucian mysticisms, and the myth-based psychology of C. G. Jung, and uncovers forgotten alchemical roots of embedded in the Kabbalah.
Author: Titus Burckhardt
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781887752114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpiritual attainment has frequently been described as a transformation whereby a human's leaden, dull nature is returned to its golden state. This wonderfully insightful volume introduces some of the metaphors useful for establishing attitudes required for the soul's advancement: trust, confidence, hope, and detachment. It is a reminder that when any substance or entity undergoes dissolution, it must eventually be resolved or re-crystalized in a new, possibly higher and more noble form.
Author: Paul Foster Case
Publisher:
Published: 2009-03
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780982352113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reference includes the advanced material of the "Alchemical Process" and the "Twelve Stages of the Great Work" which has not been publicly available for more than 75 years.
Author: Julius Evola
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-07-13
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 162055853X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important survey of alchemical symbols and doctrines sets forth the mysterious worldview and teachings of the practitioners of the "royal art." One of the leading exponents of the Hermetic tradition, Julius Evola demonstrates the singularity of subject matter that lies behind the words of all adepts in all ages, showing how alchemy--often misunderstood as primitive chemistry or a mere template for the Jungian process of "individuation"--is nothing less than a universal secret science of human and natural transformation. First published in 1931 in Italian. This is the first English translation. Draws from a host of sources in the Western esoteric tradition--works on theurgy, magic, and gnosticism from neoplatonic, Arab, and medieval sources.
