The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source BookPrinceton University Press, 2014 M07 14 - 634 páginas In this monumental work, Raphael Patai opens up an entirely new field of cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Until now there has been little attention given to the significant role that Jews played in the field of alchemy. Here, drawing on an enormous range of previously unexplored sources, Patai reveals that Jews were major players in what was for centuries one of humanity's most compelling intellectual obsessions. |
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... alchemists considered the stages in the alchemical work steps in the mysterious process of spiritual regeneration . Thus Heinrich Khunrath ( 1560-1601 ) interpreted transmutation itself as a mystical process occurring within the adept's ...
... alchemists , and were scandalized by such alchemical doctrines as the one that identified the philosophers ' stone with Christ , since both redeemed base matter . One of the few to take a contrary view on this issue was Luther , who ...
... alchemical manipu- lation , and primarily to alchemical ennoblement . Thus alchemy was a comprehensive tradition embracing all aspects of human existence , which was conceived within the broader context of a universal ontology . It was ...
... alchemical usage of substituting the names of planets for those of metals . An alchemist spoke of “ Sun , ” and meant gold , of " Moon , " and meant silver , of " Venus , ” and meant copper , and so on . Another astronomical connection ...
... alchemists , on the other hand , even though they played an important role in the origin , development ... alchemical operations as they were to dabble in medical procedures . Contemporary scholars , unlike their nineteenth ...