Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 3

Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 3

Mage & Alchemist

Forshaw, Peter J.

Brill

09/2024

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Contents


Acknowledgements


List of Figures


List of Tables





Introductory Note





5 Magic: Physical, Hyperphysical and Divine


?1?Occult Forebears


?2?Hermes Trismegistus


?3?Reuchlin's Threefold Art of Miracles


?4?Agrippa's Three Books


?5?Paracelsus's Sagacious Philosophy


?6?Giovanni Battista Della Porta


?7?1) Natural (or Physical) Magic


?8?Theo-magia of the Macro- and Micro-cosm


?9?Signatures of Natural Things


?10?Phytognomonica


?11?Character Reading: Physiognomy, Metoposcopy & Chiromancy


?12?2) Mathematical, Celestial or Astral Magic


?13?i) Heavens: Meteorology, Astrology, & Astral Divination


?14?The Most Accurate Observations of King Zebel


?15?Image Magic: Talismans and Gamahaea


?16?Khunrath's Practical Applications


?17?ii) Earth: Geomantic Divination and the Casting of Lots


?18?Sortilegia of the Apostles


?19?Liber Albedachi


?20?Liber Almachbale


?21?Compendiaria Secretissimaque Operatio Geomantica


?22?iii) Oratorium, Auditorium, Laboratorium: Magic, Music, and Alchemy


?23?Oratory as the Sensorium, the Space or Place of Magic


?24?Counsel concerning Vulcan's Magical Forging of the Arms of Achilles


?25?3) Ceremonial or Ritual Magic


?26?Hyperphysical Magic


?27?Divine Magic


?28?Theurgy or Angel Magic


?29?Necromancy


?30?Addressative Magic and Intermediary Beings


?31?Seven Oracular Laws at the Entrance


?32?Consilium Dei


?33?Naming Demons


?34?Condemning Nigromancy


?35?Reformation of Magic


?36?Magical Prayer


?37?A Hymn to the Generator and Craftsman of Everything


?38?Sigillum Dei: Virtuous Pentacle of Solomon


?39?Almadel or Liber Intelligentiarum


?40?Tabulae Theosophicae Cabbalisticae - Cabbalistic Theosophical Tables


?41?Do Not Speak of God without Light


?42?A Concealed 'Illustration'


?43?Five Letters: I.V.A.O.V.


?44?From Majorca to Nettesheim: a Lineage of Magicians


?45?Circulus seu Tabula Veritatis - the Circle or Table of Truth


?46?Ars Crucifixi - Art of the Crucifix


?47?De proprio Angelo - on One's Own Angel


?48?Peri Anacriseon ton hypnoticon - on Visions of Secret Things in Dreams


?49?Dormiens Vigila: in Oratorio, Laboratorio, Dormitorio


?50?Conclusion





6 From Physico-Chymistry to Supernatural Alchemy?


?1?Khunrath's Terminology


?2?Alchemia, Alchymia and Halchymia


?3?Chrysopoeia - Goldmaking


?4?On Primaterial Chaos


?5?Universal Magnesia of the Philosophers


?6?The Athanor: Khunrath's Design for a Furnace


?7?Physico-Chemistry in the Amphitheatre


?8?The Influence of Paracelsus: Chymiatria, Iatrochymia, Spagyria


?9?Ratio & Experientia


?10?Khunrath the Paracelsian


?11?Three Questions


?12?Vulcan's Art of Fire


?13?Solar Fire and the Paracelsian Archaeus


?14?Higher and Lower Astronomy: Alchemy and Astrology


?15?Operations: Chrysopoetic and Spagyric


?16?Equipment in the Laboratory


?17?On the Table


?18?Under the Table


?19?Equipment in Khunrath's Portrait


?20?Reagent Bottles and Khunrath's Alchemical Glyphs


?21?Substances: Animal, Vegetable and Mineral


?22?Khunrath's Rebis and the First Secret of the Art


?23?The Subject or Matter of Our Stone


?24????? - Chaos


?25?Magnesia


?26?Azoth


?27?Neither Mercury, nor Antimony, but Salt


?28?? Mercurialists


?29?? Antimonialists


?30?? Vitriolists


?31?g & j There Is Nothing More Useful in the World Than Sun and Salt


?32?The Second Secret of the Art: the Threefold Regimen


?33?The First Regimen: Preparatory Work


?34?The Second Regimen: After-Work


?35?Colour Changes & the Bird of Hermes


?36?Plusquamperfectio: Surpassing Perfection


?37?The Third Regimen: the Stone's Union with the Macrocosm


?38?The Philosophers' Stone & Its Triune Use


?39?Types of Stones


?40?1. The Macrocosmic Stone


?41?2. The Microcosmic Stone


?42?3. The Divine Stone


?43?The Elixir: Elixeir


?44?Religion and Alchemy


?45?Book of the Holy Trinity


?46?The Dawn Rising


?47?Cabala and Alchemy


?48?The First "Cabalchemist": Giovanni Agostino Pantheo


?49?Cabala, Cabalia, sive Cabalistica Ars: Theophrastus Paracelsus


?50?A Vexed Question: Spiritual Alchemy


?51?Some Problems with 'Some Problems'?


?52?A School of Supernatural Alchemy


?53?The Occult Laboratory and 'Spiritual Chymists'


?54?The Vast Majority: Material Substances and Material Goals


?55?A by No Means Insignificant Minority: the Influence of Gerard Dorn


?56?Ascetic Practice and Alchemical Inspiration


?57?Religious Dimensions: Khunrath's Theo-Alchemy


?58?1) Alchemical Theology: the Alchemical Exegesis of Genesis


?59?2) An Analogical Harmony: Christ and the Stone


?60?Regeneration, Rejuvenation, Rebirth


?61?A Philosophical Song on the Incorporation of the Spirit of the Lord in Salt


?62?Alchemy and Theurgy: Philosophers' Stone in the Service of Divine Magic


?63?Father of All Talismans


?64?Artificially Fashioned Magical Stones


?65?Alchemy, Self-Perfection & Transformation in the Amphitheatre


?66?Spiritual Transmutation of Man


?67?Conclusion


Index
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