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1 Part of a series of articles on Hermetism Hermetic Religion Mythology Hermetica Three Parts of the Wisdom of the Whole Universe Influence and Influences Hermetic Movements Orders Topics in Hermetism Hermetists and Hermeticists al-khimia alkemie; al-kimia: kimia spagyric art to separate to join together Separate, and Join Together dissolve and coagulate

2 "Renel the Alchemist", by Sir William Douglas, 1853 aqua vitae Alchemical Catechism Q. When the Philosophers speak of gold and silver, from which they extract their matter, are we to suppose that they refer to the vulgar gold

3 and silver? A. By no means; vulgar silver and gold are dead, while those of the Philosophers are full of life. [7] The Great Work nigredo(-putrefactio) see also Suns in alchemy - Sol Niger albedo rubedo Extract and symbol key from a 17th century book on alchemy. The symbols used have a one-to-one correspondence with symbols used in astrology at the time.

4 Mutus Liber The Kinship of the Three The Sceptical Chymist Elements of Chemistry Atomic Theory

5 scientific transmutation Hermetic Fictions: and Irony in the Novel Fullmetal Alchemist Fullmetal Alchemist Buso Renkin Atelier Mana Khemia Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone, The Alchemist, The Alchemist The st: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Dagon and Other Macabre Tales Promethean: The Created Sith

6 Max Ernst and Fama The Aviator s Dream Alchemical Equipment Walter W. Skeat (1892). Principles of English Etymology. Oxford: Clarendon Press. books?id=m7kcaaaaiaaj&pg=pa286&dq=arabs+k

7 Blavatsky, H.P. (1888). The Secret Doctrine. ii. Theosophical Publishing Company ISBN SDVolume2.htm. Paracelsus. "Alchemical Catechism". tschoudy.htm. Retrieved on The origins and history of consciousness Since actually originated in Egypt, it is not improbable that esoteric interpretations of the Osiris myth are among the foundations of the art... Contribution à l histoire des idées scientifiques dans l Islam. I. Le corpus des écrits jâbiriens. II. Jâbir et la science grecque, To form an idea of the historical place of Jabir s alchemy and to tackle the problem of its sources, it is advisable to compare it with what remains to us of the alchemical literature in the Greek language. One knows in which miserable state this literature reached us. Collected by Byzantine scientists from the tenth century, the corpus of the Greek alchemists is a cluster of incoherent fragments, going back to all the times since the third century until the end of the Middle Ages. The efforts of Berthelot and Ruelle to put a little order in this mass of literature led only to poor results, and the later researchers, among them in particular Mrs. Hammer-Jensen, Tannery, Lagercrantz, von Lippmann, Reitzenstein, Ruska, Bidez, Festugiere and others, could make clear only few points of detail The study of the Greek alchemists is not very encouraging. An even surface examination of the Greek texts shows that a very small part only was organized according to true experiments of laboratory: even the supposedly technical writings, in the state where we find them today, are unintelligible nonsense which refuses any interpretation. It is different with Jabir s alchemy. The relatively clear description of the processes and the alchemical apparatuses, the methodical classification of the substances, mark an experimental spirit which is extremely far away from the weird and odd esotericism of the Greek texts. The theory on which Jabir supports his operations is one of clearness and of an impressive unity.

8 More than with the other Arab authors, one notes with him a balance between theoretical teaching and practical teaching, between the `ilm and the `amal. In vain one would seek in the Greek texts a work as systematic as that which is presented for example in the Book of Seventy. Ahmad Y Hassan. "A Critical Reassessment of the Geber Problem: Part Three". Retrieved on The Practical Handbook of Plant : An Herbalist s Guide to Preparing Medicinal Essences, Tinctures, and Elixirs [ Amsco School Publications]. "Reviewing Physics: The Physical Setting" (in English). Amsco School Publications. amsco_review_and_glencoe/ chapter05.pdf. ""The first artificial transmutation of one element to another was performed by Rutherford in Rutherford bombarded nitrogen with energetic alpha particles that were moving fast enough to overcome the electric repulsion between themselves and the target nuclei. The alpha particles collided with, and were absorbed by, the nitrogen nuclei, and protons were ejected. In the process oxygen and hydrogen nuclei were created." Gettgins, Fred (1986). Encyclopedia of the Occult. London: Rider. Greenberg, Adele Droblas (2000). Chemical History Tour, Picturing Chemistry from to Modern Molecular Science. Wiley-Interscience. ISBN Hart-Davis, Adam (2003). Why does a ball bounce? 101 Questions that you never thought of asking. New York: Firefly Books. Hughes, Jonathan (2002). Arthurian Myths and Alcheny, the Kingship of Edward IV. Stroud: Sutton. Marius (1976). On the Elements. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN Thorndike, Lynn ( ) (8 volumes). A History of Magic and Experimental Science. New York: Macmillan. Weaver, Jefferson Hane (1987). The World of Physics. New York: Simon & Schuster. Zumdahl, Steven S. (1989). Chemistry (2nd ed. ed.). Lexington, Maryland: D.C. Heath and Company. ISBN Dictionary of the History of Ideas Antiquity

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