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part i. cornerstones Ancientt Alchemies, Ancien Alchemies, East West West Introduction to Part One: Introduction Circumambulating the Alchemical Mysterium A Chk
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1. Te Perect Black: Egypt and Alchemy A Chk
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2. elestic ransormation and Philosophical Rebirth: From Ancient Egypt to Neoplatonism Ag Užv
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3. Metallurgy Metallurgy and Demiurgy: Demiurgy: Te Roots o Greek Alchemy in the Mythology M ythology o Hephaestos Hephaestos (Discussions) R Bkh
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4. aking rom Water to Fill in Fire: Te History and Dynamics o aoist Alchemy A Chk
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5. Mercury Mercury and Immortality: Immortality: Te Hindu Alchemical radition Dv G Wh
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6. Iatrochemistry Iatrochemistry,, Metaphysiology, Gnōsis: ibetan Alchemy in the Kālacakra antra K L
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part ii. transormations Alchemies Alchem ies o the Spirit, Spirit, Body Word Word Introduction to Part wo: Introduction Interzone: On the Origins and Nature o European Alchemy A Chk
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7. Te Alchemical 7. Alchemical Khiasmos: Khiasmos: Counter-Stretched Harmony and Divine Sel-Perception A Chk S D V
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8. Altus’ Ominous Aphorism: Reading as Alchemical Process M M
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9. urris urris Philosophorum: Philosophorum: On the Alchemical Iconography o the ower Chh A. P
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10. O Ether Ether,, Entheogens and Colloidal Gold: Heinrich Khunrath and the Making o a Philosophers’ Stone Hw
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11. Becoming an Angel: Te Mundus Imaginalis o Henry Corbin and the Platonic Path o Sel-Knowledge Ag V
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12. Te Kiss o Death: Amor,, Corpus Resurrectionis Amor Resurrectionis and the Alchemical Alchem ical ransgur ransguration ation o Eros Eros P S
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Mutations: 13. A gent o All Mutations:
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Metallurgical,, Biological and Metallurgical and Spiritual Evolution in the Alchemy o René Schwaller de Lubicz A Chk 14. ake wo Emerald ablets in the Morning: Surrealism and the Alchemical ransubstantiation o the World L Mv
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15. Incredible Lunatic o the Future: Te Alchemical Horticulture o Alan Chadwick R Bkh
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16. Alchemical Endgame: ‘Checkmate’ in Beckett and Eliot D Mh
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end matter Abbreviations Abbreviations Bibliography Author Auth or Biographies Biographies
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list o illustra illustrations tions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12-14.
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Integrvm tegrvm morborvm mysterivm, . R F, In 1631. 18-19. C w h h h v (f); w h h h g h Z (gh). R F, Utriusque cosmi, 1617. 20. Ew K’ K’ v h Faithul thul Relat Relation ion w. Jh D Ew K, A rue Fai (1659). 21-22 w h h g g h h h v. A B’ ourneau cosmique (‘ ’) whh h h Z h (1653); T N’ z h g h h, g, h (1678). 23. Cj ‘L Ah Ah’ h ‘Ah Ah Kg’ h w/, g h j hh h h ‘hh’ ’. C. P. L. 1066 (h ). 24. J J L, Pretiosa Margarita novella (xh ), wh h kg q gv h hh h h hh’ . 25. R S (fh ). 26. A gh ghhh h h’ h’ Kh Amphithe hitheatrum atrum sapientiae aeternae (1609 ). ULB h’ Amp D, M. 3263 (wh h Uvä- Lhk L hk D). 27.. 27 T h j , , Splendor Solis oder Sonnenglantz (B Shk Cx G. . 42, 16h , h 1972 Ig V). 28. Rg K, Bh – h Wh v Rg (1535-1592), wh Khh h h 1591. 29. T h h G L, Mh M’ M’ Ata Atalanta lanta u giens (1618). Wh h Bh Shk, Shk, Müh. Aurora ora consurgens consurgens. Züh, 30. T coniunctio oppositorum, h Aur Zhk, Z hk, M. Rh. 172: 172 : A g. g. Wh h Z Zhk, hk, Züh. 31. T aqua regia, Lz Ek’ Aula subtersubterranea (1580). Wh h Bh Shk, Shk, Mh.
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T g wh ,, C Mh Atalanta lanta ugiens (1618). Wh h BM’ Ata h Shk, Mh. T ,, h Consilium philosophicum practicum (H UB, M. 14 A 12 (1)), . 16 v (Khh’ gh). Aurora ora consurgens consurgens. Vg h h h, h Aur Züh, Zhk. M. Rh. 172: A g. Wh h Z Zhk, hk, Züh. T Hh Khh, ghh Amphithe hitheatrum atrum sapientiae sapientiae aeternae h Amp (1609). ULB D, M. 3263 (wh h UvUvä- Lhk D). T g () h () h (), Lk, De lapide philosophico (1625): ‘B h h h , wh h h’. Wh h Bh Shk, Mh. T h h Farbenlehre Ré Shw Lz. B R h ‘B G G’’ T III hwg Nh (D, w w, Kk). I g g h M P B. A I (Èz- (Èz--), -), Cô ’Az, Az, F. (Ph, Chk, 2005).
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lcem ma be described, h w B, ‘g h h ’. 2 A h par excellence, h h hv w w: chrysopoeia apotheosis (g-kg g-kg)—h . I kg k g ‘ w’, h h,, k k , engages x—f — vh . Lk hg, k —h h h g — h ( ) h hgh h g. I hgh , h, h wh L k w tikkun, h h w. A v, h h x g x — — xg x g v h g ‘Ch C ‘Ch C ’’, M M Bertelot, Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs (P: Gg Gg Sh, 1887), 1887), v. 1., 132, 132, g. 11. 2 Ch Ba Baudelaire, udelaire, ‘L ‘L’’A A q’ q’, Œv Ch C h B B (P: C Lév, 1885), v. 3, 68: ‘ ’é ’. 1
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v. Tgh h, h h v h h , x , h h v h . Hwv Hwv,, g h h contexts ‘’ h w -, ritualistic. Whh k h qg (G C) h--xh Ch, h Sh v I, h g hg x H Eg, h h w w v h v wh k h h wh . Mv, w k, h h hq hv w g w v h.. Ah h Ah w divine ; hieratikē technē. Whh g h hg h x, vg , h h jnāna) w v hgh x x ( gnōsis, jnāna v v v v hg hg h h-. H h x g g wh h v h h h g g . T, h w —x h; neidan waidan, —, h , g h h : h hgh x. D h gg k, h B’ h, vh h h h h v’ v’ w . O h, h w h h vg h h h w’ h . O h h h, h wh h , h g ( contradictory ) x h. Mv, h v k h ‘g ’ w h v , w h ‘h’ h ‘h’, hg hg h h —h v, v, wh ‘’ ‘’, . I h , h w h h ‘ qv hg’ ( Jk L h h k G-Eg h),3 ‘qv x’ ( h wJk Lindsa, Te Origins o Alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt (L: Fk M, 1970), 382-92. L v g h ‘’ h h wh h ‘h v qv 3
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h- h, Ré Shw Lz, h wh g h ‘g ’ g ). 4 Rh h g, g (whh w qk v), wh I w k h g, hgh, hg ‘’ h h mysterium. I g, I k h h h , , , g h v ‘’. O h hg h h h w h h h h w x ; h w hg gh v— h h, G hh , g ( Verstehen) h x (Erklären).5 A H T Hk J Ev Ev’’ h h wk, circumambulatio h h k g x h h g h H . 6 I , , h ‘kwg ’ h h ‘ kwg’. O , h h, whh hg h h, h h, wh h exclusively hg h, h h h g. Sh h, x, h h h x. hg’. I w h qv v whh h h; h, kg h qv , w ‘ j h wh h ; w h , wh qv v, h gvg gh’. L v h h hg qv w h h g v h x h v h wh h qv h w h q v h. 4 S w h v: ‘Ag M: Mg, Bg S Ev h Ah Ré Shw Lz’. 5 P Wh Dh, E H, M Hgg. S Dilte, Selected Works, v. 1 (. . Mkk R, P, Nw J: P Uv P, 1989), wh w vvg g-g x xg; Sv D. Kepnes, ‘Bgg h G w Ug Ex: E x: Ah h S Rg Rg ’’, Journal or the ScientiScientiic Study o Religion 25 (1986): 504-12. 6 H. . Hal, ‘T Sg H Ag J Ev’ Lux in enebris: Te Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism (. P Fhw, .; hg).
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A h , g h h h h . T q H ‘h ’ w hg. I g , whh ‘’ ‘v’, h h , h x h , q. A h Dao de Jing k, ‘h k h h h wh, h h wh h ’. Wh h ‘k’ -h , w w h ‘’, h , whh , h (h hg Verstehen) whh h k vv, gvg h h , h h h g. Bh , h q . T, w hg , g g h h-g hgh x. al-mi Etymologies
T h vw wh h g Ph H Eg h, h g Ch, v I h h ― h hv - vgg A h, wh h : al-kīmiyā.7 Sh hv g kw h h w h A ( alkīmiyā Sh alquimia, L alchimia, Fh alchimie, G Alchem Alchemie ie, .)8 Gv h wvg g, h h h v, g vk g g g, g q, h, hgh h ‘k’ g, hg h g h hv h h v . B h , h g hv k h Ch G-Eg g g. 8 S : F. Sein, Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums (L: B, 1971), i, 1-299; M. Ullmann, Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschafen im Islam (L: B, 1972), 144-270; Ullmann, ‘-kīā’ Encyclopedia o Islam, (L: B, 1986), , 110-15; Ullmann, ‘-kīā,’ Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache , 1 (W Alchemyy Revisited Revisited (L: B, 1990); Ch , 1970-); 1970 -); Z. R. R . W. W. M. v Martels, ., ., Alchem Burnett, ‘T Ag’ A h Ah: E R Ah A Ambix ix 39.3 (1992): 103-9. L x,’ Amb 7
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T A al - h, h g h x kīmiyā . A h g v Gk , h h M Bh,9 ggg g h χυμα ( chyma, ‘h whh ’; ‘w, ’; ‘g, ’; h, ‘ , ggg, w’; ‘, ’), wh χυμεια (chymeia, ‘h g ’) v, Χυμης (Chymēs).10 A H v h 1704 Lexicon echnicum: Ch, v , h g h A h P P x’ B h G I. I v h Gk w χυμὀς [chymos], whh g J, h S x’ B; hgh w hv χέειν [cheein], . I h Sgk, Hk, Phk A, Ah. 11 T , x x h h vw, w hgh h v, h h v h Ch I- (Ch dao jindan, Sk rasāyana , bcud len). I , h Gk g h h , h h usible v h h . I h Gk w, w g , h . T w ‘’ (μεταλλον, metallon, μεταλλεῖον, metalleion) hh wh— k v — wh w g ‘’, h metalloiōsis (μεταλλοίωσις), whh h meta– (‘w, wh, f; kg ’) h v alloiōsis (‘’ ‘hg’).12 Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs (P: Gg Sh, 1887). 10 LSJ, vide: χυμα; O h Gk g g h Eg Antike ike echni echnik: k: Sechs Vorträge (Lzg: , 1914). T Gk g, H. Diels, Ant g g k h h vh . . 11 C. Jh Harris, Lexicon echnicum: or, or, an Universal English Dictionary Dictionar y o Arts and SciencScienc es Explaining not only the erms o Art, but the Arts Temselves (L, 1704), g. N h h H chymos, ‘j’, whh h Ch I g ( w: jin i, rasāyana). 12 F h , , h v g g P D. Zacarias, ‘Ch Ambix ix 5 (1956): 117-8. Zh w h g k: T R H Ch’, Amb 9
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Whh v chyma, chymeia, Chymēs, chymos, h h h L w Gk hgh h k h h v P A x, A , f h h Gk A. Wh h h w kw, q h . Egg Sg hv h gh w vgg v h h g h h G h h A N F E. Te Egyptian Etymology
I h Gk g, h kīmiyā h h Eg Eg, km.t (C keme, kēmi), whh Ph gv χημια ( chēmia), ‘h k h’ (μάλιστα μελάγγειον, malista melangeion).13 T h g x wh h v. 14 S w h wh hg g g h g Ph’ h Eg wh h k h , wh h k h h . O , v, h h wh h h h N k h, whh ( ggh) gg h) Eg, Eg , w ertile —h -gvg ; h w, h h h h h gh. A w , h g h h g Eg hg h, h Gk H h h, h h Ek Iv wh g h Mh g h Shk h Corpus Hermeticum .15 Fh, h Ag Užv k , h h g wk K. Sh Sh, , wh ‘ w 1903 1910, h wk Bh, h hw h gh h h h h’ (116). 13 Plutarc, De Iside et Osiride , 33; Fk C B (.), Mor Moralia alia v. V (L, 1936), 83. T Eg h ( chēmia h-) hv w H Conrin, De Hermetica Medicina (1648), 19; hgh, Bain gg ( h 1, wh ), hv q. 14 Cea, ‘T P Bk: Eg Ah’. 15 Ek Iersen, Egyptian and Hermetic Doctrine (Chg: M P, 1984), .
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v h hg h x w Eg Eg h, H, H, Oh, Phg, P h N h h.16 A h h P Kg hv hw, h hg : h w h h ggh w h Eg , h h I S (wh h Phg h w h g h H w hgh h , B M h urba Philosophorum).17 Te Chinese Origin o the Chem- Etymon
Jh Nh, h h v h g Science and Civilisation in China, k v h Gk A wg h Ch jin (‘g’) jin i (‘g j, g ’), ’), x x k k , x g , whh kīmiyā g x g , h (). 18 Af h hgh v h xg g v h, Nh, : S Udains’ h v: ‘ Phh Rh: F A Eg N’. P Kinsle, ‘F Phg h Phh: Eg Phg Warburgg and Courtauld Courtauld Institut Institutes es 57 (1994): 1-13; Ancien Ancientt Philosophy Philosophy, ’, Journal o the Warbur Mystery My stery,, Magic: Empedocles and Pythagor Py thagorean ean raditio raditionn (Ox: C P, 1995), 5568, 298-9, 317 , 335-347, 371-91. Jh Needam, ., Science and Civilisation in China, v. 5, 4: Sg Dv Iv: A, T, Gf (Cg: Cg Uv P, 1980), 353, g Madiassan: jin i , ‘g j, g q’; ‘g , g’, . h: Wu L-h’g, L. Dais, ‘A A Ch Ah C: K Hg h G M h yw h Wh; T Fh Sxh Ch h P-’-z’, Proceedings o the American Academy o Arts and Sciences 70 jin i , Nh k: ‘h […] w hv (1935): 221-84; jin kiem iak’. C. H H. Dubs, ‘T Og Ah’, Amb Ambix ix 9 (1961): 34: ‘T Ch h, jin-yi […], w ’g h ki[e]m-iök. T h , , ‘h j ( ) g’. I w h Ch h x . Lk h h h, g wh h Ch h’. 16
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jin (kiem) chēmeia (chimeia, I hv jin chymeia) , h h q al-kīmiyā. N A g v v h w S , h h h h h jin i kīmiyā x w h kg x, wh chēmeia hv h k. W f wh h h h h Ch ‘g ’, h h jin (kiem), v h gh h h O W, W, vkg h Gk h h, , h A . 19
Nh k h h H . Ahgh exclusively Ch g g h, h, h v v Nh h v g v v ( ) h v h g h. I h, wh h A N E H I h , wh h A F E h h h h. T gv h xhg w h A, E A g h Sk R, whh w w h h g g h H H D (206 bc b c e –220 ce). jindann, T Ch h w jinda ‘g x’, whh w v h x ( g) ( ). 20 Jin Jindan dan ,, h h , h w g whh w . A h, h vv hh h w’ h : h g h ( h). A h g , h, hg g w Ch I- I E h . Wh g v k q , h h Ch Needam, 5.4, 355; . 20 aoism (. Fz PgS Fz Fz Preadio, ‘J’, Te Encyclopedia o aoism , L: Rg, 2008), v. 1, 551-55. 55 1-55. 19
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g , ( whh jin w g ) w g g h v ( wu xing ); ); w g h ‘h’ h w , h w melt solidiy w ( ). 21 T v h q , k g, v . I h w h w h h : solve et coagula, ‘v g’, h v g g ‘x’ ‘’ (g x g g h ‘ x’ ‘x ’). I I h v v v gv h ‘’ . F x g , g h v h w k. Wh h , v, g ‘’ per se, h g — v —wh h q w hg, (h hg). istoriorapical considera considerations tions D h v v h , h h h g g . G, g, h h h h h g. Mv, h w, - vw h h,, h h hv v vg g Egg, Egg, Sg, C, I, I-, v w, w x. 22 M , wg h Needam, Science and Civilisation in China, v. 2: H S Tgh (Cg: Cg Uv P, 1956), 243 . 22 N h M. Bertelot C. E. Ruelle, Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs, 3 v. (P: Gg Sh, 1888–1889); Rusa, Ara Arabische bische Alchimisten (W, 1924; 1977); J Rusa, abula Smaragdina: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der hermetischen Literatur (Hg: C W, 1926); Rusa, urba Philosophorum: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Alchemie (B: J Sg, 1931); Rusa, Das Buch der Alaune und Salze: Ein Grundwerk der spätlateinischen Alchemie (B: Vg Geheminis is der Geheimn Geheimnisse isse mit mit Einleitu Einleitung ng und und Erläuter Erläuter-Ch, 1935); Rusa, Al-Razes Buch Gehemin ungen in deutscher Ubersetzung (B, 1937); P Kraus, Jabi Jabirr ibn Hayyan: Contribu Contribution tion à l’histoire des idées scientiques dans l’Islam, 2 v. (C: 1942-3; P: L B L, Austehung hung und Verbre Verbreitung itung der Alchemie Alchemie 3 v. (B: Sg, 1986); E. O. v Lippman, Auste 1919, 1931; Wh/Bg: Vg Ch, 1954); Jh Needam, Science and Ci21
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h h A Fv, h h topos h h w (.. h h H, g, h ), whh h g h . 23 A h , h hv k ‘h’ ‘h’, g h gh x h v x h v g h h h wg, h . Wh h h g h h h g, h h h (.g. h hhvilisation in China (Cg: Cg Uv P, 1954–2008); M Eliade, Forgerons et alchimistes (P: F, 1956) = Te Forge and the Crucible (Nw yk: H, 1962); L Agk Goinda, Foundations o ibetan Mysticism (L: R C., 1960); Nh Siin, Chinese Alchemy: Preliminary Studies (Cg MA: Hv Uv P, 1968); Jk Lindsa, Te Origins o Alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt (L: Fk M, 1970); M Plessner, Vorsokratische Philosophie und griechische Alchemie Alchem ie in ara arabisch-late bisch-lateinischer inischer Überlie Überlieerung erung (W: Fz S Vg GMBH, antras 1975); Ew Fenner, Rasayana Siddhi: Medicine and Alchemy in the Buddhist antras (PhD : Uv W, M, 1979); R Halleu, Les extes alchimiques: ypologie des sources du moyen age occidental (h-Bg: B, 1979); Fç Daumas, Daumas, ‘L’ ‘L’Ah Ah -- g g ég ég?’ ?’,, Das römisch-byzantinische Ägypten: Akten des interna internationalen tionalen Symposio Symposions ns 26.–30. September 1978 in rier (Mz: Alchimie mie comme art hiéra hiératique tique (. P L, Ph v Z, 1983); H Corbin, Alchi P: L’H, 1986); Ph Dercaine, ‘L’A Oèv à D g ’h’, Chronique d’Égypte 129 (1990): 219–42; Dv G Wite, Te Alchemical Body: Sidha raditions in Medieval India (Chg: Chg Uv P, 1994); B. D. Alchemie ie im Mittelalter: Mittelalter: Ideen Ideen und Bilder—von Bilder—von Zosimos bis Paracelsus Paracelsus (Mh: AHaae, Alchem Alchemyy ried ried in Wk, 1996); W R. Neman Lw M. Principe, Alchem the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate o Helmontian Chymistry (Chg: Chg Uv P, 2002), w. 23 Accesss to Western Esotericism (A: S A Faire, Acces S Uv Nw yk P, 1994); ‘Q g P h S E C M C E’, Western Esotericism and the Science o Religion: Selected Papers Presented at the 17th Congress o the International Association Asso ciation or the History o Religions, Religion s, Mexico City, 1995, . A Faire W J. Haneraa (Lv, Bg: P, Method d 1998), 1–10; W J. Haneraa, ‘E Mh h S E’, Metho and Teory in the Study o Religion (1995): 99–129; ‘T Bh D’, Western EsoE sotericism and the Science o Religion, v-xv; ‘O h C ‘E ’’, Western Esotericism and the Science o Religion , 11–61; ‘B h y Pg: T S W E w C Nw Cx’, Aries 1, 1 (2001): 5–37.
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) h h h h. T H h ‘’ h h h h x h v h h q;24 , Kg h , h H (hermēneus) w . 25 Mv, Fv h , h, k g g, v g - h. Wh h , k h h h h v q h h x h; h h h g h, h h h v h h q w . A h , g, g v, f h - , h , h v h h h h hg g g. . B g h hgh h h wh h x h h , v g h w v h establishment , h h vwhg v hg h h. I h - v v h , h -h. F, h h h hgh h v h f h w g h gg h v hv v.26 C. Kk v Stucrad, Western Esotericism: A Brie History o Secret Knowledge (L: Eqx, 2005), 6–11, wh k h w g ‘’ g ‘ ’; h h gg h x . 25 S Kinsle Ki nsle,, ‘P: T Eg Eg h N h Og O g h H H ’’, Journall o the Warbur Journa Warburgg and Courtauld Courtauld Institute Institutess 56 (1993): 1-24. 26 History o ChemChemSg Sg h h wk J. R. Partinton, Partinton, A History istry , 4 v. (L, MM. 1961–1970); W Pael, Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era o the Renaissance (B: Kg, 1982); A G. Debus, Te English Paracelsians (O P: H , 1965); Debus, Te Chemical Philosophy: Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1977, 24
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M h hgh h h v v , , h h v v h v g . Wh h h v w h h vh , h h, v h chymistry , w vh , hgh h h h , v w g (hgh ) .27 B h V V , h h h wk M A Aw h xv h whh h v w .28 ‘T v’, k P, ‘h j, v g -18h E h w w h wk hg h h hh h, v h w, A. E. W (1857–1942) w w h h 1926’.29 Sh k hg v, wh h g , k wh g , gh -ghh h h Sh Ax (vh ), wh x x h hg , h : ‘P w h h h wh wh h h ’.30 (T -x , , Sh’ wk x k h Bz A h h 2002); A. G. Debus M. . Walton, ., Reading the Book o Nature: Te Other Side o the Scientic Revolution (Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies) (T J Uv P, 1998); Jh Needam, Science and Civilisation in China (Cg: Cg Uv P, 1954–2008); M Eliade, Forgerons et alchimistes (P: F, Alchimie mie comme art hiéra hiératique tique (. P L, P: L’H, 1986); 1956); H C, Alchi Alchemyy ried in the Fir Fire: e: Starkey Starkey,, Boyle, W R. Neman Lw M. Principe, Alchem and the Fate o Helmontian Chymistry (Chg: Chg Uv P, 2002), g h. 27 O h chymistry , W R. Neman Lw M. Principe, ‘Ah v. Ch: T Eg Og Hg Hgh h Mk Mk’’, Early Science and Medicine Med icine, 3, 1 (1998): 32–65. 28 C. M A Atood, A Suggesti Suggestive ve Enqu Enquiry iry into the Hermeti Hermeticc Mys Mystery tery (B: W , 1918). 29 Lw M. Principe, Princ ipe, ‘Ah ‘Ah I: I I ’’, Dictionary o Gnosis and Western Esotericism, . W. Hg (L: B, 2005), 13. 30 S F. Shw alor, ‘T Ah Wk Sh Ax: Ambix ix 1 (1937): 116–39; ‘T Ah Wk Sh A C, P I’, Amb Ambix ix 1 (1937): 39–49. Q . x: C C, P II’ I I’, Amb
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E h). D h , h g h h h h , h hg h h g h wh. T h wh h v h h h g ’ h. T h h hv kg h ‘ g vw h g h Egh whh hv, h q g, j h h w g h 19h 20h ’. 31 Sh g h v wk C Jg, wh h h v h h j h h.32 N g, Jg h g h h g; Lw M. P, , h gg h h wk Jg x h ‘ gwh’ V .33 P, wh w E h, h - hg h h h g h wk chymists, h Sk, Phh, B, Nw, g h. Wh h x h hg g wh h x, h h h q hg h. I h , h , P Nw’ w v hv h h h h h Hw Hw , wh v: v: ‘T hgh hg h P Nw h g h ‘h’ h (v -v ), g h h v h hgh q h vh . F h h h w , h modus operandi Lw M. Principe, ‘Ah’, DGWE, 12. 32 Mysterium terium coniunctioC Gv Jun, Psychologie und Alchemie (Zh, 1944); Jun, Mys nis: Untersuchungen über die rennung und Zusammensetzung der seelischen Gegensatze in der alchemie (Zh, 1955); Jun, ‘S ü hh Vg’, C. G. Jung Gesammelte Werke, v. 13 (Fg (Fg Bg: W-V -Vg, g, 1978). 33 Principe Prin cipe,, ‘Ah’ Ah ’, DGWE, 14. 31
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q’. 34 I, g v xv v h x x, h xv h; h v h v w w E, wh h hg . T h h g v h h w v h. Dv G Wh’ g rasāyana h Mv I, , h w whh h h h , v w x hg wh g g h : ‘ , h ’. 35 H, h wh x k g, h g whh k k h h Ch, whh, whh , h wk Nh, Sv Pg, hw w h ( neidan) (waidan) x.36 T v x h Bh h h Kālacakra antra, whh g, , h hgh w; h, g h h x g g w k, ‘ ’ hv jivanmuk nmukti ti) hgh h h ( jiva ’ Bh N ( buddha-dhātu, tathāgatagarbha ).37 Ewh, Hw il ilton, ton, Te Quest or the Phoenix: Spiritual Alchemy and Rosicrucianism in the Work o Count Michael Maier (1569–1622) (B: W G, 2003), 256, wh 9–18, 235–6, 253–6. 35 Rasārnava 17. 164–5: yathā lohe tathā dehe kartavhah sūtakah sūtakah sadā/ samānam kurute devi pravishan pra vishan dehalohayoh/ dehalohayoh/ pūrvam lohe parīksheta tato dehe prayojay prayojayet et ; Dv G Wite, Te Alchemical Body: Siddha raditions in Medieval India (Chg: Chg Uv P, 1996), 315 wh 446 . 21, . 36 Nh Siin, Chinese Alchemy: Preliminary Studies. (Cg MA: Hv Uv P, 1968); Siin, ‘Ch Ah h M ’, Isis 67, . 4 (1976): 513–26; Siin, ‘T T Bkg Ex Ah’, Jh Needam ., Science and Civilisation in China (Cg: Cg Uv P, 1980), v. 5.4, Awakenin wakeningg to Reality: Te ‘Regulate ‘Regulatedd Verses Verses’’ o the Wuzhen Wuzhen pian, pian, 210–305; Fz Preadio, A a aoist Classic o Internal Alchemy (G Ex P, 2009); Preadio, Te Seal o the Unity o the Tree, vol. 1: A Study and ranslation o the Cantong qi, the Source o the aoist Way o the Golden Elixir (G Ex P, 2011). 37 S K L’ g-kg h v: ‘Ih, Mhg, G: Ah h Kālacakra antra’. 34
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h wk H C h P h Jkī hw h h w I h ars hieratica, h h h w x w h g , h , h .38 T h h g h w g hg g h h w , h h v. T, h g h v ,, , h h h h h h w vg h h h h g g h w h h h . alcem as nondu nondual al process A h g h f, h h x h h . I, h , hg. I h v, g xv. F h , h h h x v, proce process ss. I, h h xg between , , h medium whh ‘x’ . Lk h , h g h ‘’ whh x ‘’, whh h ‘v’. A h, h conditio sine qua non , vg h, vg gg h w x . O x x h h h h k j h w h q —h hh’ ‘vexcellence)— , , ’ (h g g par excellence v poison. I h Gk h , h x gv katholikon pharmakon (καθολικόν φαρμακόν). T w katholikon ‘v, wh’, wh pharma pharmakon kon, v g w, ‘’, ‘’, ‘g h’’. Ag h h Jq D D (wh (w h h h v h ), h h Corbin, ‘L « Lv S » ’A , é Jkī’, Alchimie comme art hiératique , . P L (P: L’H, 1986), 63-4, 71-3. 38
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‘ h ’ ‘ h h wh v’; ‘h h, h g v, h w , — pharmakon kon — — ’.39 ‘I h pharma v’ D, ‘ h whh , h v h h k h g hv, v h k v h h (/, g/v, /, /g, h/wg, .)’40 T, j wh pharmakon kon , h (v) pharma enantiodromia. T wvg w x h q x wh h M Ph: ‘ , , h w , hg w hv’. 41 T vh S, Mhz Fz Kāhāī qv whh ‘ ’, h, g H C, k g , liminal , z—h mundus imaginalis—whh C j w h h , h g h : h intermonde par excellence.42 I, C’ hg w P A x (whh h h h ), wh h, I h , h h Kitab Sirr al-Asrar (L: Secretum secretorum), wh abula smaragdina (E ) : ‘h whh v k h whh w, h whh w k h whh v, h h hg’.43 T , whh h [] A ’ Book o the Secret o Creation, Book o Causes (Kitāb Sirr al-ḫalīqa, Kitāb al-῾ilal ), ), h h ( hieratikē technē) h N hg. Jq Derrida, ‘P’ Ph’, Dissemination (. B Jh, Chg: Uv Chg P, 1981), 70. 40 Derrida, Dissemination , 127. 41 CAAG, 2.4, 40 ( ( h h ce ce). 42 Kalimāt maknūna (Sg K S), h. xxx (h, 1801), 68-70; (B, 1296/1878), 69-72; . H Corbin, C orbin, Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth , 177. 43 I L: Quod est inerius est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius est sicut quod est inerius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius. 39
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Ag P, h hg h h kwg f vg h hg w hg h h h x w h w h h v , g z h h w h w hg h hgh h hgh h w. 44 I h h vw, h ‘hgh’ ‘w’ x x , v . T, h xv h, wh gg h , h g x w h v v h x wh whh h h v . A h , h h v v x wh h hh monad , h gg h w—g h w h g wh— : g. I kg h j wh wh h ‘’ . T w h Sk w advaita (a- + dvaita, ‘ ’),45 g whh h ‘’ ‘’ x , g g whh h h j j x g v . Wh h h h h (Bh, Vā), x x h w hh g h P, Ekh, Böh, Bk, Sz, Shg, Hg, Nzh, Bg, Whh Bh, w. D h, h h h w, h w , f D K, - j-j . A h h w w xg h w. O h ‘v’ x v v; h h h x x h vP, Hier. Art .,., 148, Udains, ., Te Golden Chain: An Anthology o Pythagorean and Platonic Philosophy (Bg, I: W W, 2004), 300. 45 H h a- alpha privativum ‘g ’ ‘ ’ . 44
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, , v. Ahgh w x h w, h - v (whh h ). A Dv L k: h h [Bh, , Vā] h ‘v’ w h w wh ‘ ’: h w j, g . T h h h h,, w xg h x g h w, h h h x v h w k g. T w h h h W (whh, gv g , h W ) h h h h h x , wh h kwg h g x g h g g wh v. 46 Wh , h, g h x x ( gg wh) h w, wh g h , h : jv x jv x. A P Kulturphilosoph J G v wh g h h v, v g x integrate v- g wh h wh. 47 Wh h h ; h, h v x h h . I h hg h ‘’ , , h ‘’ hg. I , wh Bk, ‘ W G S’ Dv Lo, Nondualism: A Study in Comparative Philosophy (Nw Hv, C: C : y y U v P, P, 1988), 3. 47 Gebser’ wk, Ursprung und Gegenwart , h Gesamtausgabe, v. 2-4 (. Hä, Sh: Nv, 1999); . Te Ever-Present Origin (. N B Ag Mk, Ah: Oh Uv P, 1985). Wh G q h g wh , x, g — h , xv , h g ‘’. 46
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‘E h’. 48 Ag h vw, v gh w h h v g w, g h h g h h. B h g essential v x w h, - ‘’ ‘’ -, x , ‘xg’ g. 49 Wh , g h g ‘k kw k’, h , v g , h v x, kw h , v g consciousness. I h h h, , h . aent & patient o one dii ne act h h , hv k h ormulæ P G-Eg q— h v hgh h G-Eg, I E h corpora, whh h h h . A w , h vv h g h ouroboros: h gg h ww w . T g h k h Eg mehen ( 1500 bce). T x h g h , hwv (whh hgh h G-Eg G-Eg h ), k P magos O, O, wh g h kwg h h Gk hh, D. 50 T kg O D w , v, h H h B M (. 200 bce), wh Auguriess o In Innocence nocence, T B ( Pkg) M, . 1801–3: W Blae, Augurie ‘ W G S’ / A Hv W Fw, / H I h h / A E h’. 49 J h h h g, h ‘g’ ‘’ g h v, .g. v Dv Bh’ ‘’ v ‘x’ x q g, v h āś, h ‘ ‘ g g’ h h Dzgh Bh. Sh , hgh, kh xg wh h h. 50 F , Kv V Bladel, Te Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet o Science (Ox: Ox Uv P, 2009), 48-54. 48
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h O w H vg h h h . Ag h x, Physika kai mystika, O h q h , wh D D h x (stēlē).51 Ig h x -xv h h , h O v h x w h wg : gh ; v ; terp etai, hē physis tēs physin nika, hē phy (hē physis tē physei terpetai, sis tēn physin kratei).52 I h , S h D w ‘ h h g O h Mh g wh h Eg’, wh h Gk h Gg S h O Eg, h h w h v h Eg .53 T h h v w-g S w P magos ‘O ‘O’’ ( āsrōn, ‘’) Eg hh h Ph. 54 Ph O h h h v h k O, w P, Eg, h k O’ g h. T x h , g ‘v æ [ ] H’ (hwg h abula smaragdina H g), whh h h v , h wh h v . Af h , ‘g h ’, g ‘h wk h’.55 Ag h O, j, q h k . I wh h , w h h h .. T Bertelot, CAAG, 1.2.1. 52 Bertelot, CAAG, 1.2.1: ‘L j ; h ; î î ’. 53 Bertelot, CAAG, 2.3; Gg S, 297.23–25 (§471); A A. Mossammer, ., Georgii Syncelli Ecloga chronographica (Lzg: , 1984). 54 Bertelot, La Chimie au moyen age, ‘L Pééh’, v. 2, 309-12; Kv V Bladel, Te Arabic Hermes , 48-50. 55 ‘L Pééh’, Bertelot, La Chimie au moyen age, v. 2, 312: ‘ ç g q g q … g, œv ’ ’ è q’. 51
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vv g h q C’ Chrysopoeia h w h gg h h: ‘O h , whh h g w ’. C’ g Gk g h -, -g . H, w . T : ‘O [] h ( hēn to pan), h , h ; h h h , w hg’. T : ‘O h ( ophis), whh h (ion) g w (synthēmata)’.56 A h h h H , .
Figure 1. S -C’ Chryso poeia (A; G-kg). T : ‘O [] h , h , h ; h h , w hg’. T : ‘O h , whh h g w ’. Lf--gh, h h h H g , .
T h , hēn to pan, ‘ [] h ’, xg h -, -, -xv, -xv, h ‘H ’ h h h . Ph h vg k h v h Eg h, Z P— h g Bertelot, CAAG, 1.1. Synthemata h hg; ‘h, , g, ’. 56
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h w h . I x ‘O h Dv/Sh W’ (Peri tou theiou hydatos), Z v h D g h h v w ‘w ’ ’ ‘ ’ (dyo physeis, mia ousia): ‘I h , h [], [x]’. 57 T h w h x g - w h gh w h . Ag h vhg h h h , , g h w : h , h . T gg h w h w v h . T v, h vv ‘’, whh , , w v h h whh w . R, g h , g , vg , g , returning . I h h, h ‘ g ’ x h - - yang g - yin, Sk shiva-shakti, (Ch yan yab-yum, .), wh h w g h v-v, g -vg integrum.58 D w h h , h taijitu (‘ (‘h h h h ’) ’) hgh hg h h hh yin-yang g ). k gh ( yin-yan ). I wh h , g Ch -g g h Zh (h xh , bce). 59 T g h gg g (h dao) hgh h . O x, h Shg-Zh (. 1150950 bce) v L’ V A M, h j wh . T h g. J h Z, ‘Peri tou theiou hydatos’; Bertelot Bertelot,, CAAG, 3.9. 58 N , h v hgh h h- h G-Eg, I E h . 59 Needam, Science and Civilisation in China , v. 5.4, 382-3. 57
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, wh (h , h x) h w ( yan yang-yin g-yin) h g h g g, whh . T , v, g h xg bi ( j wh h h ). Dg k Nh , h bi g g h w h Wg S H . S, h h hv v gaitian an) vvg x.60 T Ch g ( gaiti h h , g , k H , wh w ‘’ .
Figure 2. J g wh . Shg-Zh D, . 1150-950 bce. V A M, L. Ph: Chk, 2005.
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T H , ‘h’ g h g w , whh hgh h () (g) g wh Z ‘h g h’ ( systasin harmonias).64 H, h ‘ ‘ wh h h’; h’; h h ‘ hg’, hg’, h , ‘ ‘ , gg ’:65 O . F hg wv gh hg k hg g hg hg x hg hg hg hg hg h h k w. F h, h wgh h , h g h wh h wh h. T h h , hg hg , kg h h h, g g. A hg v gh h, h h g g g, g , h N N . F h N, g , hg. A h N h h h v h h w. 66 T ‘g h’— whh hg ‘x’ ‘’, ‘wv gh’ ‘k ’, whh ‘ v gh h’— h q h h h h . G kg, w () (g), E , ‘Lv’ ‘S’. T w w h, h whh g g h (h w , whh -, h-, yang-yin, h hg) g h h (h cohabation ‘h wg’ E h ; h h ‘g ’ h; h ‘ w h’ h, .) Hwv g h, v h h g hg ‘w’; h, kg h g—h CAAG, 3.1,: ‘èg ’. Egh : F. Shw alor, ‘T V Ambix ix 1.1 (1937), 88-92. Z’, Amb 65 CAAG, 3.1; alor, ‘T ‘ T V Z Z’ ’, 88-92. 88-92 . 66 Bertelot, CAAG, 3.1; alor, ‘T ‘ T V Z Z’ ’, 88-92. 88-92 . 64
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