By Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Now to be had in a single volume
this can be the 1st complete reference paintings to hide the whole area of “Gnosis and Western Esotericism” from the interval of overdue Antiquity to the current. Containing round four hundred articles through over a hundred and eighty foreign experts, it offers severe overviews discussing the character and ancient improvement of all its very important currents and manifestations, from Gnosticism and Hermetism to Astrology, Alchemy and Magic, from the airtight culture of the Renaissance to Rosicrucianism and Christian Theosophy, and from Freemasonry and Illuminism to 19th-century Occultism and the modern New Age flow. in addition it comprises articles in regards to the existence and paintings of all of the significant personalities within the background of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, discussing their rules, value, and historic effect.
This one quantity version is an unabridged model of the 2 quantity version released in 2005.
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Except the corpuscular conception, Jabirian alchemy includes the primary principles of all resulting alchemy. The Corpus Jabirianum is aware of the esoteric, metaphorical, occult in addition to the exoteric point of alchemy. It deals either concept and empirical perform. 6. Rhazes the nice Persian health care provider and alchemist Rhazes (865-925) deals the main awesome instance 29 of a completely exoteric, sober, and sensible alchemy. His complete identify is Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi, that's “the guy of Ray” (ancient Rhagae) close to Teheran. including Jabir, the alchemist Rhazes exercised the best influence on Western alchemy. He established his notion mostly on Jabir, yet didn't settle for his thought of stability. He compiled his alchemical works in a listing known as “Pinax”. in the direction of the top of his existence he abridged his significant paintings “The booklet of secrets and techniques” (Kitab al Asrar) as “The mystery of secrets and techniques” (K. Sirr al Asrar) with a virtually exact creation. right here “secret” needs to be understood within the experience of technical wisdom. a set of twelve additional books belongs to the alchemical corpus of Rhazes, together with “The booklet of Propaedeutic creation” (written c. 900-910), which provides modern alchemy in a transparent and systematic model like a latest advent to chemistry. Rhazes was once chiefly dedicated to functional alchemy and test. even supposing his considering is much faraway from the allegory of Greek alchemy or an Ibn Umail and is reticent in hypothesis, he follows the speculation of Jabir particularly. He accepts the Aristotelian doctrine of parts, additionally the Mercury-Sulphur thought of Balinas realised via Jabir, regards “Sulphur” as non-inflammable oil and provides to Mercury and Sulphur a 3rd constituent of a salty nature, a triad that's obviously such as Paracelsus. Like Jabir, he makes use of plant and animal items for the practise of elixirs, with which the bottom, “sick” metals should be “healed” into gold, and in addition systematically classifies all chemicals into animal, vegetable and mineral. A corpuscular thought is happen in Rhazes’ “Book of Secrets”, extra sharply defined than its imprecise beginnings within the Corpus Jabirianum: our bodies encompass the smallest indivisible elements, that's atoms. those are everlasting and feature a definite dimension. The traits of the perceived parts, lightness, heaviness, color, softness, hardness, rely on the density of the atoms, that's at the quantity of the empty area among them. Rhazes’ principles about the thought of topic later influenced the corpuscular idea of the Latin Geber in the direction of the top of the thirteenth century. Armed with this thought, Rhazes describes the alchemical paintings in distinctive phrases: distillation, calcination, answer, evaporation, crystallisation, sublimation, filtration, amalgamation, ceration, i. e. a technique for making components right into a waxy reliable. For the transmutation, the components are purified by way of distillation and calcination. they're then amalgamated. Following their purification they're subsequent alchemy ii: antiquity-12th century ready in a waxen country, with none evolution of fumes.