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Adam McLean's Levity Website. Triad Publishing. Alchymie (French website) Helios-Adam (another French website/group) Also check out eBay for all sorts of equipment and materials. I use this site the most for my needs. Recommended Reading List. This is a very short reading list to help the new student of alchemy. Writings about Alchemy by Adam McLean. Adam McLean Adam McLean - alchemy@blogger.com I have been writing and researching alchemical and hermetic literature for many years and between and edited the Hermetic Journal.I also published during those years the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks a series of twenty-five editions of key source texts of the hermetic tradition. Study Course on alchemical symbolism by Adam McLean. It focuses entirely on European alchemy. The twenty four lessons are include text and much graphic material with nearly colour illustrations. After you purchase a copy you will be emailed a link through which you can download a personalised copy as a pdf file. If I am in my.
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I also published during those years the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks a series of twenty-five editions of key source texts of the hermetic tradition. In the course of my research I often come across important texts, both in printed books and manuscripts, adam mclean pdf alchemy levity download, which have been neglected.
Some of these I have transcribed and eventually I hope to publish these in the revived Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks and other related series which I sell through my alchemy web bookshop. An important part of my work is to attempt an analysis of and commentary on the ideas and symbolism of key hermetic works.
I am especially drawn to the rich vein of allegorical and symbolic material in the alchemical tradition, adam mclean pdf alchemy levity download.
I recently returned to producing paintings based on alchemical emblems. Coloured alchemical emblems Adam McLean - alchemy dial. In colouring these I made use of my intensive study of the original coloured manuscripts of the 15th to 18th centuries, which have been the main focus of my research over the past years.
I have often found that by contemplating and meditating on these handcoloured images one can resonate with and enter into the complex symbolic adam mclean pdf alchemy levity download of alchemy. The original series of twenty-three volumes was published between and by Adam McLean. Each work was edited or translated from original source material, and many of the volumes contained extensive commentaries and introductory material. These were issued in small editions of signed and numbered copies, handbound by the editor.
The Book of Lambspring is a short work with an introductory section in verse and an emblem showing a threefold furnace. Following the tradition of emblem books of the period its series of fifteen emblems each bears a motto or title with a verse on the facing page. The Book of Lambspring is a work of spiritual alchemy, has few references to physical alchemical processes, and it seems unlikely that it could ever have provided any clues that might help someone engaged upon physical experimentation.
Instead, it is a clear, powerful and extremely useful statement of the inner work of the spiritual alchemist. Its verses point to the soul and spirit involved in the alchemical transformation and its fifteen emblems are evocative symbols of these inner processes.
Goethe struggles to weave the personal inner journey of Faust towards some enlightenment, together with the collective social forces that are undergoing transformation through the historical process, so here Faust is also a representative of Northern European humanity striving for evolution from the limitations and strictures of the 16th century Reformation to the new aspirations of humanity that Goethe saw developing during the adam mclean pdf alchemy levity download century Enlightenment era.
The adam mclean pdf alchemy levity download characters in the play are thus polarised facets of the one human soul, whose journey to enlightenment is demonstrated in the drama. We can see Faust as the core of a complex being living within a net of polarities. Helen the ideal archetypal feminine, and Gretchen the earthly female from which he cuts himself off. Homunculus a potential inner hermaphroditic soul guide, whom he could have developed in his being had he stuck to his alchemical work, however, he turns to the Mephisto facet for guidance.
At the end of the play he has been stripped of all these polarities and lies open and vulnerable in death. Goethe always tried purposively to mystify his audiences and readers, as he wanted to lead them beyond intellectual appraisal of his ideas. To grasp the allegorical riddles in Faust requires no mere intellectual analysis of the drama and characters but an encounter with the Mephisto, Gretchen, Helen, Homunculus as well as adam mclean pdf alchemy levity download Faust within ourselves.
These different facets of the work interpenetrate and overlap each other. Indeed, in a sense, if we are to make any progress in alchemy, we must pursue the different facets concurrently, paralleling interior development with experience of the outer work. One symbol that belongs to all these different realms of this work is that of the alchemical vessel. In this article I would like to outline some ways in which we can use this symbol in our inner exercises.
It is a path, a way, a practical method for investigating the substance of our being, by meditating upon chemical processes, adam mclean pdf alchemy levity download.
They used events in their experiments as seed images for meditations, forming visual mantras from chemical changes. The alchemists reflected and mirrored these outward events into their interior world. They saw the processes in their flasks as an interaction and linking of the spiritual and the material. As the alchemists reworked these experiments over in their souls, they further drew parallels with the greater laboratory of Nature. They saw the work within their flasks as a kind of microcosm of macrocosmic Nature.
The living energies and beings in Nature were metaphorically drawn into their retorts, as they began to picture the living alchemical processes through animal symbols. It was the coherence and universality of this set of alchemical symbols that lead Carl Jung to the concept of the collective unconscious. The alchemists though pursuing their inner work independently as individuals, nevertheless found in their interior descent a coherent language of symbols.
Although at first glance all this complex mass of symbolism seems tortured and confused there is an inner coherence to these symbols, which the ancient alchemists used in adam mclean pdf alchemy levity download ways reflecting their esoteric content. In this article I wish to consider a particularly tight knit group of these animal symbols, the birds of alchemy - the Black Crow, White Swan, Peacock, Pelican, and Phoenix - which are descriptive of certain stages of the alchemical process.
Of course it would be wrong to suggest that there are fixed rigid meanings with regard to these symbols. The alchemists always integrated the symbols they used, so that one has to look at the total context, the background against which they stand, but when the birds appear in this sequence it is almost certain that the following interpretation can be applied: The essential thing about birds is that they, having as their domain the air adam mclean pdf alchemy levity download, mediate between the earthly realm and the heaven world.
The alchemist in observing the flight of birds, recognised in them a picture of the human soul undergoing spiritual development. The soul, aspiring upwards, flying free of the restraints of the earth bound body seeking the heavenly light, only to have to return to the earthly consciousness again after the meditation, the alchemist symbolised by the bird.
The following pages are based on the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks edition of The coloured figure included are my own redrawing of the coloured figures, based on a number of manuscripts.
I have sometimes indicated how certain of these diagrams can be seen to have an underlying geometric skeleton structure upon which the symbols are arrayed. However, I never analysed this aspect in great depth and merely pointed out some simple geometric features. I had not considered that this aspect was of paramount importance, until I recently requested from the British Library a microfilm of an important Rosicrucian book in their collection, the 'Speculum Sophicum Rhodo-Stauroticum' of Theophilus Schweighardt, published in Kabbalistic Cosmology Adam McLean - alchemy dial.
Quantum Consciousness Adam McLean - alchemy dial. There was a grand platonic metaphysical clockwork, as it were, through which our inner world was linked by means of a hierarchy of beings and planes to the highest unity of the Divine. This view though comforting is philosophically unsound, and the developments in thought since the early 17th century have made such a hermetic world view untenable and philosophically naive.
So do we now have to abandon such a beautiful and spiritual world view and adopt the prevailing reductionist materialist conception of the world which has become accepted in the intellectual tradition of the West?
I am not so sure. In treating our consciousness as if it were a digital computer or deterministic machine after the model of 19th century science, I believe we foster a limited and false view of our inner world. We must now take the step towards a quantum view of consciousness, recognising that at its base and root our consciousness behaves like the ever flowing sea of the sub-atomic world. The ancient hermeticists pictured consciousness as the "Inner Mercury". The brain can no longer be seen as a vast piece of organic clockwork, adam mclean pdf alchemy levity download as a subtle device amplifying quantum events.
If we trace a nerve impulse down to its root, there lies a quantum uncertainty, a sea of probability. The inner sea of quantum effects in our brain is in some way coupled to our ever flowing consciousness. The central point within our consciousness, our "spirit" in the hermetic sense, can now be seen as an entity that can work to control quantum probabilities. We are challenged by quantum theory to build new ways in which to picture reality, a physics, moreover, in which consciousness plays a central role, adam mclean pdf alchemy levity download, in which the observer is inextricably interwoven in the fabric of reality.
In a sense it may now be possible to build a new model of quantum consciousness, compatible with contemporary physics and which allows a space for the inclusion of the hermetic idea of the spirit.
Little is known of his life, except that he was probably of Scandinavian extraction, and that he spent a deal of his early life travelling around the world as a ship's surgeon. Later he was to settle in London and gather around him a small circle of contacts including Ebenezar Sibley and General Rainsfordamongst whom he circulated a number of his own translations of alchemical texts from Latin, German, and French into English.
The Count, then a venerable old man of some 96 years, seemed to have recognised in Bacstrom, his greatness as an hermetic student, and offered to take him on as a pupil and teach him the great work, and during this period, Bacstrom was allowed to perform a transmutation under Chazal's guidance and using his substances, adam mclean pdf alchemy levity download.
Chazal seems to have obtained his own alchemical knowledge while he was in Paris inand J. Perhaps we have in Bacstrom a direct connection through Chazal and the Comte de St Germain with a continuing stream of Rosicrucian mystery wisdom.
Helen Homunculus - Faust - Mephistopheles Gretchen. PETER anthroposophie. Helen Homunculus - Faust - Mephistopheles Gretchen We can see Faust adam mclean pdf alchemy levity download the core of a complex being living within a net of polarities.
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