The second series of Daniel Cramer Emblemata Sacra engravings. The introductory Coronor emblem immediately suggests that we are in a phase after Classical Alchemy. We are in theurgy.
[Read more…] about Cramer’s Emblemata Sacra, an Alchemical Heart Liber Mutus 2Alchemic Pictures
Cramer’s Emblemata Sacra, an Alchemical Heart Liber Mutus 1
Under the guise of apparently seventeenth-century Christian moral teachings, the German theologian Daniel Cramer presents the yearnings of a heart more suited to secret alchemical doctrines than to the theology of piety.
[Read more…] about Cramer’s Emblemata Sacra, an Alchemical Heart Liber Mutus 1Aurora Thesaurus and the Anatomical Alembic
In Aurora Thesaurus, Dorneus is said to have evolved Leonhard Thurneysser’s sketch of a right-size apparatus to distill urine. But even Thurneysser was profoundly influenced by the writings of Paracelsus.
[Read more…] about Aurora Thesaurus and the Anatomical AlembicCodex Laur. MS Ashburnham 1166 and the Acrostic I.A.A.T.
Giovanni Carbonelli translates the latin verses in Codex Laur. MS Ashburnham 1166 has dealt with the acrostic I.A.A.T on the vessel since the beginning.
[Read more…] about Codex Laur. MS Ashburnham 1166 and the Acrostic I.A.A.T.Coat of arms, the alchemical crucible
Any person in some degree familiar with the hermetic tradition cannot ignore the striking similarities between the symbolic language of alchemy and that of coat of arms. In fact, those similarities appear to be the more natural and logical the better we are versed in both subjects. [Read more…] about Coat of arms, the alchemical crucible