''Alchemy was never at any time different from chemistry. It is utterly unjust to confound it, as is generally done, with the gold-making of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...Alchemy was a science and included all those processes in which chemistry was technically apllied.''
(German chemist: Justus von Liebeg)
Las 7 Formas de la Transmutación-Arte: Das Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit (The Book of the Holy Trinity), c. 1450 – 1475.
Este es el primer Libro alquímico publicado en Alemán(c.1450-75).
Atribuido al monje franciscano Ulmann; sus imágenes discurren entre elementos cristianos acerca de la fusión de analogías y similitudes con los procesos de la muerte y resurrección del Cristo, la piedra y alquímia.
Posiblemente sea la obra un elemento importante e influyente para el Rosarium philosophorum de 1550.
HERMETIC PRINCIPLES OF ASCENSION = Scala Philosophorum Víctor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes. 'And he had a dream: He saw a ladder that was resting on the ground, and its end touched the sky. Angels of God ascended and descended through it'. (Genesis 28:12) Certainly, it is the only Biblical mention of a staircase where the Hebrew term of sul-lam is used precisely, in clear reference to the vision that Jacob manages to contemplate in dreams when stopping on his pilgrimage from Beer-sheba to Haran. Beautiful and significant is the vision of Bethel that manifests itself in an ancient sacred place. Sacred and productive place, for many ancient peoples, that for many centuries before this important vision was known by the Canaanites, with the powerful name of Luz=Light. (Genesis 28:19) Significantly, the place where Abraham had camped some time ago. (Genesis 28: 16-19; 35: 6) THE LADDER of Hermes, in its two basic modalities, the spiral and the straight, is unified with the fundamental ...
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