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Concepts
Core concepts in alchemy relate to its goals and the parts of the process to obtain these. If the division
Quaternary
A central example is the division of the macrocosm into elements. In Western alchemy this is expressed in terms of the Classical Elements
Variations on this concept can be seen in Wu Xing, Mahābhūta or the Five elements (Japanese philosophy). A fifth element, quintessence or Aether (classical element) is sometimes discussed.
Septenary
===Tria Prima=== (three primes)
Works
(In the 1671 edition readings)
- The first Treatise of sulpher, vitriol and magnet of the philosophers. Work of Hermetic alchemy. Compares the holy trinity to the philosopher's stone.
- the second treatise of vulgar sulpher vitriol and magnet.
- Mysteries of the microcosm concerns man and medicinal remedies.
- "Manual operations of Basil Valentine". Medicinal remedies.
- On natural and supernatural things also "on the first tincture, root, and spirit of metals" as work of Hermetic Philosophy. Chapters to address the seven luminaries.
Triumphal chariot of antimony
http://www.levity.com/alchemy.home.html ~ Transcribed by Ben Fairweather ~ "This was first published as Triumph-Wagen Antimonii... An Tag geben durch Johann Thölden. Mit einer Vorrede, Doctoris Joachimi Tanckii., Leipsig, 1604. There were further editions in German issued in 1611, 1624, 1676 and 1757. A Latin edition was published in 1646. An English version was first issued in 1660, and there were further editions in 1667 and 1678. This work was much commented upon in 17th and 18th century alchemical works." --- Adam McLean
It is significant for its detailed information on antimony and because it was the source of controversial medicines based on it. [1]
The Last will and testament of Basil Valentine'
Letztes Testament (1626)
Published in English in London in 1671 by John Webster. "which, being alone, he hid under a table of marble, behind the high-altar of the cathedral church, in the imperial city of Erford : leaving it there to be found by him, whom Gods providence should make worthy of it : to which is added two treatises, the first declaring his manual operations, the second shewing things natural and supernatural"1671 Edition It's a physico chemical book.
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On Natural and Supernatural things
Tria prima
The tria prima is an alchemical concept related to a three fold-division of the monad.
The use of salt as a symbol (alongside mercury and sulfur became popular in Rennaissance alchemy with authors such as Gerhard Dorn, Schwaller de Lubicz and Paracelsus. Though credited to Paracelsus, the concept can be found in the Greco-Roman, and Islamic alchemical corpus. It's trinitarian function figures heavily in alchemical relations to unity, duality, the elemental tetrad (fire, air, water, earth), and the septenary.
Salt
Sulphur
Mercury
History
Numerous salts including common salts were listed in the Greco Roman translations of Marcellin Berthelot. Olympiodorus (late fifth century CE) illustrates three "volatile spirits" along the elemental quaternary.[3] This relationship of unity to duality, duality to trinity, and trinity to quaternary is pivotal to later alchemists.
"As both Eberly and Haage inform us, it was Abu Bakr Muhammad Zakariyya Ar-Razi (d. 925) who added the third principle of salt to the primordial alchemical principles (sulphur and mercury) inherited from Greek antiquity (implicit in the exhalation theory of metallogenesis), and already existing in Jabir’s system."[4]
Paracelsus can be credited with
Paracelsus’ writings, the tria prima are often compared to the three aspects that are present during the process of combustion (i.e. fire, smoke, ash) and pushed the concept towards a new prominence. [5]
===Tria Prima=== (three primes)
Comparisons
Christian trinity: father (sulphur), holy spirit (mercury), son (salt).
AARON CHEAK, PHD. "The Hermetic Problem of Salt"
Morienus also known as Morienus Romanus or Marianos the Monk was a seventh century Byzantine hermit and alchemist born in Rome. According to the writings attributed to him, Morienus lived in Damascus and famously instructed Calid, an Umayyad prince, in the study of alchemy. He is known from his writings including The Book of the Composition of Alchemy or The Testament of Morienus. In 1144, this work is became the first book on alchemy to be translated into Latin.
The Book of the Composition of Alchemy
Liber de compositione alchimiae, translated in 1144, the first book in Europe on alchemy[1]
List of Early Greek Alchemists from Taylor
Often these are pseudonyms[2]
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