![]() The Kiss of Death: Amor, Corpus Resurrectionis and the Alchemical Transfiguration of Eros -Paul Scarpari 13. Becoming an Angel: The Mundus Imaginalis of Henry Corbin and the Platonic Path of Self-Knowledge -Angela Voss 12. Of Ether, Entheogens and Colloidal Gold: Heinrich Khunrath and the Making of a Philosophers’ Stone -Hereward Tilton 11. Turris Philosophorum: On the Alchemical Iconography of the Tower -Christopher A. Altus’ Ominous Aphorism: Reading as Alchemical Process -Mirco Mannucci 9. The Alchemical Khiasmos: Counter-Stretched Harmony and Divine Self-Perception -Aaron Cheak & Sabrina Dalla Valle 8. Iatrochemistry, Metaphysiology, Gnōsis: Tibetan Alchemy in the Kālacakra Tantra -Kim Lai PART II: TRANSFORMATIONS: Alchemies of the Spirit, Body and Word Introduction to Part Two: Interzone: On the Origins and Nature of European Alchemy -Aaron Cheak 7. Mercury and Immortality: The Hindu Alchemical Tradition -David Gordon White 6. Taking from Water to Fill in Fire: The History and Dynamics of Taoist Alchemy -Aaron Cheak 5. Metallurgy and Demiurgy: The Roots of Greek Alchemy in the Mythology of Hephaestos (Discussions) -Rod Blackhirst 4. Telestic Transformation and Philosophical Rebirth: From Ancient Egypt to Neoplatonism -Algis Uždavinys 3. The Perfect Black: Egypt and Alchemy -Aaron Cheak 2. CONTENTS Acknowledgements Peer Reviewers List of Illustrations PART I-CORNERSTONES: Ancient Alchemies, East and West Introduction to Part One: Circumambulating the Alchemical Mysterium -Aaron Cheak 1. PLAISANCE ∙ Hereward TILTON ∙ Angela VOSS ∙ Paul SCARPARI ∙ Leon MARVELL ∙ Mirco MANNUCCI ∙ Dan MELLAMPHY Egyptian alchemy ∙ Greek alchemy ∙ Hellenistic alchemy ∙ Taoist alchemy ∙ Hindu Tantric alchemy ∙ Tibetan Buddhist alchemy ∙ Islamicate alchemy ∙ European alchemy ∙ Surrealist alchemy ∙ Erotic alchemy ∙ Laboratory alchemy ∙ Alchemy of the word ∙ Alchemy of the body ∙ Alchemy of the spirit ∙ and more. Drawn from international ranks (Europe, the Antipodes, the Americas) and cutting across disciplinary boundaries (Egyptology, Classics, Sinology, Indology, Tibetology, philosophy, religious studies, Renaissance studies, history of science, art history, critical theory, media studies), the contributors to this volume include some of the most gifted investigators into the world’s esoteric lineages." Featuring Aaron CHEAK ∙ Algis UŽDAVINYS ∙ Rodney BLACKHIRST ∙ David Gordon WHITE ∙ Kim LAI ∙ Sabrina DALLA VALLE ∙ Christopher A. As a whole, the volume seeks to strike the perfect balance-the golden mean-between strict, historical objectivity and empathic, phenomenological insight. ![]() Featuring both well-established scholars and emerging, cutting-edge researchers, this book synthesises a quintessentially high caliber of academic authorities on the vast and baroque heritage of the alchemical world. Opening wide the full spectrum of alchemy-from east to west, in history and practice, from antiquity to the avant garde-our aim is to penetrate as deeply as possible, within the limits of a single volume, into the rich practical and experiential traditions of the alchemical mysterium. The present volume seeks to redress this false dichotomy by exploring alchemy as a quintessentially integral phenomenon. Despite this profoundly all-embracing purview, however, alchemy continues to be conceived as either proto-chemistry or proto-psychology. Ultimately-in its guise as « ars transmutationis »-alchemy penetrates to the heart of the transfiguring spiritual intensity that underpins the perfection of life, from mineral to human. ![]() From metallurgy to metaphysics, alchemy engages the technical, fine and hieratic arts in order to provide a living phenomenology of the one, single, elusive process that acts through all things. Spanning the world’s artistic, scientific and religious traditions, alchemy has embraced and continues to embrace the complete spectrum of existence.
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