Consciousness and matter

Desde el alma

Aurora consurgens

Lo que el texto responde a su propia pregunta por lo que la ciencia es: «For she is a gift and sacrament of God and a divine matter, which deeply and in divers manners was veiled in images by the wise.» «Aurora consurgens, ed. latín e inglés 1966 · p. 65». Y la condición: «Et Alphidius: Scito, quod hanc scientiam habere non poteris, nisi mentem tuam Deo purifices, hoc est in corde omnem corruptionem deleas.» «Aurora consurgens, ed. latín e inglés 1966 · p. 128».

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Desde la materia

Pseudo-Geber, Summa perfectionis

El fin del arte definido por lo que se induce en la materia: «If anyone should be able to induce these qualities in a given parcel of matter, then let him call that matter 'gold'» «Newman — Promethean Ambitions (2004) · pp. 294, 296». Y lo que el arte se propone y a lo que renuncia: «Geber puts it: “our intention is not to follow nature in her principles, nor in the proportion of miscible elements, nor in the manner of their mutual mixture, nor in the equalizing of the thickening heat, for all these things are impossible and unknown to us.”» «Newman — Promethean Ambitions (2004) · p. 90».

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Desde ambos, como uno

Zósimo de Panópolis

Las dos condiciones de la obra, dichas como condiciones: «Alchemy, for Zosimus, is an art that can only work if two conditions are met: the technical requirements must be perfect and perfectly understood and the alchemist must have gone through a process of mental preparation or purification to gain knowledge of his real self and his ultimate origin.» «Hanegraaff (ed.) — Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism · p. 609». Y la prescripción doble: «He recommends practicing alchemy in both a corporeal and spiritual manner, and prescribes spiritual exercises for cultivating virtue through the purification of the soul, and for facilitating the soul’s ascent to the divine realms.» «Grimes — Zosimus of Panopolis (tesis, 2006) · p. 62».

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Revelado

Zósimo de Panópolis

«Zosimos refers to an early alchemist named Chémés or Chymés, and in another passage claims that the art was initially revealed by an angel in a book titled Chémeu» «Principe — The Secrets of Alchemy (2013) · p. 33».

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Transmitido por el linaje

Petrus Bonus de Ferrara (según Newman)

«In a word, Peter argues that the ancient alchemists were themselves prophets, and by an extension of this logic, he suggests that Adam, Moses, David, Solomon, and John the Evangelist were all alchemists.» «Newman — Promethean Ambitions (2004) · p. 100».

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Leído en la Naturaleza

Aurora consurgens

«For there is not nor shall there be in the future any man born who can fulfil this science without nature—the nature, that is to say, which is bestowed upon things and infused into them from heaven.» «Aurora consurgens, ed. latín e inglés 1966 · p. 133».

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Surgido en el operador

Carl Gustav Jung

«I am therefore inclined to assume that the real root of alchemy is to be sought less in philosophical doctrines than in the projections experienced by individual investigators.» «Jung — Psychology and Alchemy (1944) · p. 262».