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Serendipity
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: Alchemy
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Coniunctio
- "I kill and I make alive, neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. I offer my mouth to my beloved and he kisseth me. He and I are one. Who can separate us from our love? No one in length or breadth, for our love is stronger than death." -
Aurora consurgens
Mortificatio
- "Die and become" - Goethe
Mortificatio
- “True philosophers make dying their profession” -Plato,
Phaedo
Calcinatio
- "The necessary frustration of desirousness or concupiscence is the chief feature of the calcinatio stage. First the substance must be located; that is, the unconscious, unacknowledged desire, demand, expectation must be recognized and affirmed” - Edinger
Random Ideas
This is overwhelming. So much is connected. How do I show that?
An experience, a process, not a telling. Every map is different.
Interconnectedness
Zosimos's
Keys of Mercy and Secrets of Wisdom
, written around 400 CE in Egypt
Translated in 12th century Persian book of alchemy by Mu'ayed-ul-Din Abu Ismail
Ibn Al-Hassan Ibn Ali Al-Tughra'i. Found in 1995.
Zosimos quotes Muḥammad ibn Umayl al-Tamīmī, Egyptian alchemist who wrote
The Silvery Water
In Latin, Ibn Umayl was referred to as Senior Zadith.
Senior Zadith appears as a figure in the
Aurora consurgens
, an alchemical text Marie-Louise von Franz argues was dictated by Thomas Aquinas on his deathbed
Aurora consurgens
was the main alchemical text used by Carl Jung to connect alchemy with psychological process of individuation in
Psychology and Alchemy
and
Mysterium coniunctionis
The
Emerald Tablet
, attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, circa 200 CE
Hermes Trismegistus is syncretic combination of Hermes (Greek) and Thoth (Egyptian)
Translated into English by Isaac Newton
Solutio phase (water, solid disappears into solvent. Solutio as return to womb for rebirth, dissolution of the ego, sun and moon – gold and silver – dissolved by mercury; dissolver of limits
Connects with
I Ching
Hexagram 59 (Dispersion)
Connects with second of the
Ten Ox Herding Pictures
of Zen Buddhism, "Along the riverbank under the trees, I discover footprints."
Connects with the tears of Isis, which flood the Nile.
Isis is a goddess syncretic with:
Astoreth (Levant)
Diana/Artemis (Roman/Greek)
Hekate (Anatolia)
Demeter (Greek)
Kali (Hindu)
Inanna (Mesopotamia)
Abu al-Qāsim Maslama ibn al-Qāsim Ibrāhīm al-Qurtubī al-Zayyāt writes
Ghāyat al-Hakīm
in Andalusia in 900s CE.
Ghāyat al-Hakīm
draws on sources from "Spain, North Africa, Greece, Egypt, Nabataea, Arabia, Babylon, Persia, India, and beyond."
Translated into Spanish in 1200s
Translated into Latin in 1300s, became known as
Picatrix
Translated into English in 2019
al-Qurtubī also previously wrote the alchemical text
Rutbat al-Ḥakīm
, that remains untranslated from Arabic.
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