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Plates, emblems and seals as first-class entities.
«Rosarium Philosophorum · lám. 10»
ESOTERIC CORPUS · TRADITIONS, TEXTS, PROPOSITIONS
The esoteric corpus, navigable by ideas
Every proposition with its work and the exact passage where it says so. Compare what the traditions hold, where they agree and where they differ.
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- Works
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- Cited propositions
- 1928
- Concepts
- 2
- Idea maps
- 44
- Traditions
- 117
- Images
A CONSTELLATION OF IDEAS
La obra doble
Trunks are questions, branches are declared answers, and each point is a work that falls between what it holds. The overlap is the datum.
● declaring voice (the point falls between its branches)◌ branch: the blot grows with the voices that declare it
THREE LAYERS
What is free and what runs on credits
FREEThe corpusRecords, citations, plates and attributions. Free to read, no account.FREEThe analysisConstellations of ideas, panoramas and the navigable map. Also free, no account.WITH ACCOUNTAsk the corpusAn intelligence compares the voices of the corpus and answers citing only claims already verified. With an account and monthly credits.
ASK THE CORPUS · A SAMPLE
¿En qué coinciden y en qué difieren las obras del corpus sobre la piedra filosofal, y qué voz es distinta de las demás?
Coincidencias
Origen divino y transmisión patrimonial. La tradición alquímica sitúa el secreto de la piedra en la revelación divina a Adán y su paso a los patriarcas santos Abraham · PDF p. 13; esa misma idea se repite cuando se la llama «donum dei», recibido por los adeptos como una dispensación divina Newman · p. 49.
Función de panacea. En la analogía cristiana la piedra es el «bálsamo» que cura todas las enfermedades del hombre y de los metales Abraham · PDF p. 20; Flamel la describe como un polluelo cuya sangre libra de toda enfermedad y cuya carne alimenta Abraham · PDF p. 25; y en el siglo XVII se la consideraba la idea fija que curaba tanto metales como cuerpos humanos Newman · PDF p. 7.
Una voz distinta
La de Elias Ashmole, citada por Harkness: introduce piedras «vegetal», «mágica» y «angélica» derivadas de la piedra filosofal por procesos más altos y místicos Harkness · PDF p. 47. Ningún otro autor del contexto menciona esa clasificación tripartita; por eso su perspectiva es la más singular.
Lo que el corpus todavía no responde
¿Qué criterios operativos usaban los alquimistas para distinguir la piedra que cura el cuerpo de la que transmuta metales, y cómo resolvían en el laboratorio la tensión entre los dos fines? Abraham · PDF p. 20Newman · PDF p. 7
An answer from the intelligence layer built on 40 cited claims of the corpus (the corpus speaks Spanish). Every bracket is a claim with its work and passage; nothing without a source.
Splendor Solis · Lámina IV
Rosarium Philosophorum · Lámina 18.ª (decimoctava de la serie)
Maier — Atalanta fugiens (1617) · Emblema XXI
Dee — Monas Hieroglyphica (1564) · Frontispicio de 1564
Splendor Solis · Lámina XIX
Splendor Solis · Lámina VI117see all the plates →“Son of science: take the stone that is no stone, and that is in every place.”
Attribution, on the record
- DECLAREDwhat the work says of itself
- PROBABLEwhat scholarship holds
A pseudepigraph is never “corrected”: both records coexist, each with its source.
EIGHT LEVELS · ONE MAP
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Traditions44The lineages — from alchemy to ceremonial magic — with their works, their actors and curated links.Authors691Authors, translators, editors and figures of attribution — every link with its source.Works340The sources of the corpus, each with its chain of witnesses and its attributions on record.ProceduresThe practice layer: recipes and rituals that cite their sources — textual or experiential.Concepts1928The ideas of the corpus; where sources disagree, the disagreement is the datum, never harmonised.Images117Plates, emblems and seals as first-class entities, each hanging from its witness.Panoramas1Guided tours through the traditions: step by step across the map, the plates and the texts — every step with its citations.Idea maps2The corpus's positions on the great questions, drawn as constellations: who declares what, with its citation.Episodes1The weekly piece: one constellation, one book, one author or one tradition, on video, every quotation tied to its passage.
THE LINEAGES
Alquimia61Astrología3Budismo1Cábala27Cuarto Camino4Daoísmo5Dzogchen1Espagiria21Espiritismo1Espiritualismo (Spiritualism)1Gnosticismo4Hekhalot1Hermetismo28Hermetismo moderno11Hinduismo4Islam1Judaísmo1Kagyu1Lingbao (Gema Numinosa)Madhyamaka1MagiaMagia astral18Magia ceremonial37Magia filosófica9Magia NaturalMandeísmo1Maniqueísmo1Masonería7Maya2Neidan (alquimia interna)2Nyingma1Shangqing (Claridad Superior)1Sufismo5Taiqing (Gran Claridad)1Teosofía2Tianshi dao (Vía de los Maestros Celestiales)Trika2Vajrayana2Vedanta1Waidan (alquimia externa)Wicca5Yoga1Zen1Zoroastrismo3
A LIVING LIBRARY
The corpus keeps growing: every new work travels from library to map — processed, checked against the facsimile and documented — with attribution on record from the very first entry. Reading is free and will remain so; the project is sustained by patronage.
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