Author: A. S. Raleigh
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Published: 2014-03
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781497969681
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Author: Titus Burckhardt
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781887752114
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spiritual attainment has frequently been described as a transformation whereby a human's leaden, dull nature is returned to its golden state. This wonderfully insightful volume introduces some of the metaphors useful for establishing attitudes required for the soul's advancement: trust, confidence, hope, and detachment. It is a reminder that when any substance or entity undergoes dissolution, it must eventually be resolved or re-crystalized in a new, possibly higher and more noble form.
Author: Sapere Aude (is pseud.)
Publisher: Inner Garden Foundation
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 908160922X
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Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Published: 2014-03-29
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13: 9781497863040
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Author: Lawrence Principe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0226682951
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alchemy, the Noble Art, conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons. Though the history of alchemy is intricately linked to the history of chemistry, alchemy has nonetheless often been dismissed as the realm of myth and magic, or fraud and pseudoscience. And while its themes and ideas persist in some expected and unexpected places, from the Philosopher's (or Sorcerer's) Stone of Harry Potter to the self-help mantra of transformation, there has not been a serious, accessible, and up-to-date look at the complete history and influence of alchemy until now.
Author: A. S. Raleigh
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Published: 2014-03
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781494124595
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Author: Pamela H. Smith
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016-09-20
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1400883571
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In showing how an overriding concern with religious salvation was transformed into a concentration on material increase and economic policies, Smith depicts the rise of modern science and early capitalism. In pursuing this narrative, she focuses on that ideal prey of the cultural historian, an intellectual of the second rank whose career and ideas typify those of a generation. Smith follows the career of Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682) from university to court, his projects from New World colonies to an old-world Pansophic Panopticon, and his ideas from alchemy to economics. Teasing out the many meanings of alchemy for Becher and his contemporaries, she argues that it provided Becher with not only a direct key to power over nature but also a language by which he could convince his princely patrons that their power too must rest on liquid wealth. Agrarian society regarded merchants with suspicion as the nonproductive exploiters of others' labor; however, territorial princes turned to commerce for revenue as the cost of maintaining the state increased. Placing Becher’s career in its social and intellectual context, Smith shows how he attempted to help his patrons assimilate commercial values into noble court culture and to understand the production of surplus capital as natural and legitimate. With emphasis on the practices of natural philosophy and extensive use of archival materials, Smith brings alive the moment of cultural transformation in which science and the modern state emerged.