Searcher > 26-12-2020, 11:48 PM
(26-12-2020, 07:32 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.And the best example of alchemical symbolism in the VMs is ... ???Probably, the VMs was originated at the time when practically no alchemical symbolism existed in Europe yet. Around the same time, the manuscripts were written: "The Book of the Holy Trinity" and "Aurora Consurgens". Although these 2 manuscripts differ significantly from each other, they set the tone for the depiction of alchemical emblems in future. It is possible that at that time there were still many less popular works in a completely different style. Most likely, we will never see most of it.
R. Sale > 27-12-2020, 12:59 AM
bi3mw > 27-12-2020, 02:02 AM
(27-12-2020, 12:59 AM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Or perhaps it is yet to be discovered.
Quote:Except for the few most enlightened alchemists, most medieval adepts believed that they could actually turn lead into gold. Literature shows how these frustrated would-be gold makers became entangled in the subterranean labyrinth of fantasies, hallucinations, visions, and dreams. But what seemed to be the greatest mistake of these alchemical sorcerer's apprentices became their greatest achievement: in the darkness of all these dead ends, the "Sons of Hermes" discovered, through their activated imagination, the unconscious.
C.G. Jung realized that many of his clients' dreams and states of consciousness looked strikingly similar to the descriptions in alchemical texts. As a result, he came to believe that knowledge of alchemy could be used to better understand the processes of psychological and spiritual transformation in psychotherapy.
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Quote:Even the marvelous "nymphs and dryads" are "anima projections, if they are male statements."
Quote from C.G. Jung on Wikipedia
bi3mw > 28-05-2021, 03:59 PM
bi3mw > 04-06-2021, 05:20 PM
Quote:Pandora, das ist, Die edleste Gab Gottes, oder, Der werde vnnd heilsamme Stein der Weysen, mit welchem die alten Philosophi, auch Theophrastus Paracelsus, die vnvolkom[m]ene Metallen, durch Gewalt des Fewrs verbessert, sampt allerley schädliche vnd unheilsame Kranckheiten, innerlich vnd eusserlich haben vertrieben : ein Guldener Schatz, welcher durch einen Liebhaber diser Kunst, von seinem Untergang errettet ist worden, vnnd zu Nutz allen Menschen, fürnem[m]lich den Liebhabern der Paracelsischen Artzney, erst jetz in Truck verfertiget
by Epimetheus, Franciscus; Reusner, Hieronymus, b. 1558; Apiarius, Samuel, d. 1590
English:
Pandora, that is, The noblest gift of God, or, The precious and healing philosopher's stone, with which the ancient philosophers, including Theophrastus Paracelsus, improved the imperfect metals by the power of fire, along with all kinds of harmful and unwholesome diseases, internally and externally expelled: A golden treasure, which was saved from its destruction by a lover of this art, and for the benefit of all people, especially the lovers of the Paracelsian art, has only now been brought into print.
nablator > 04-06-2021, 06:20 PM
(04-06-2021, 05:20 PM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Does anyone know other ( older ) examples from this direction ? The "Donum Dei" for example belongs to it ( in my opinion ). I am not sure about the "Book of the Holy Trinity".
bi3mw > 05-06-2021, 12:00 PM
(04-06-2021, 06:20 PM)nablator Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Nothing obviously VMS-compatible, though.By the way, I also look for such parallels in more recent works. This can be legitimate, since often motifs from older works were simply taken over. This does not have to apply only to "standard works". There, however, this tradition can be easily proven, since both copies are still available.
bi3mw > 27-06-2021, 08:58 PM
Quote:I argue that his concept of distillation is shaped by an alchemical understanding of matter, especially by the writings on 'quintessence' of the fourteenth-century alchemist John of Rupescissa.
bi3mw > 30-06-2021, 01:00 PM
Quote:Wikipedia
He ( Johannes de Rupescissa ) propagated the spirit of wine (alcohol) distilled by him, according to procedures for the production of brandy already known at that time and handed down for instance by Taddeo Alderotti, as a general remedy, which also prolonged life, and called it quinta essentia or aqua vitae. This fifth essence - alluding to Aristotle in addition to the classical four elements of earth, fire, water, air - was of celestial origin and counteracted the corrupting and destructive influences of the earth, such as disease and old age, and was not subject to their degradation. According to Rupescissa, it was given by God to preserve the body just as he had created heaven to save the world (and thus, according to Rupescissa, something like a human heaven).