The article focuses on the physical, alchemical and medical doctrines of the texts, and, by studying acutely both doctrines and stressing the affinities between Roger Bacon and the Jābirian corpus, confirms that Roger Bacon was influenced by the De anima in many points of his doctrine.

Medical technology is failing and the medical care that we are receiving is often not healing us, but making us sicker.This paper explores the logic behind their excesses, and establishes a link to explorations in archetypal literary criticism.

I have included the Agrippa not only because it is perhaps the single most important original source of contemporary natural magic (magia naturalis) but also because, as the rest of the sources I refer to, it is readily available commercially, having been reprinted by Llewellyn in 2004. The alchemical vessel is then filled with dreams, and the work aims to manifest these images into material reality using alchemical imagination. Secondly, I will perfectly declare the natural principles and procreations of Minerals: where first it is to be noted, that the natural principles in the mines, are Argent-vive, and Sulphur.Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. The stars do tie the Vital Spirit to the body disposed, by light and heat, and by the same means do they inspire it into the body. Many astrologers dispute this approach because of the varying sizes and overlap between the zodiacal constellations. Through a detailed bio-bibliographical survey, the keys to Schwaller’s intellectual development are presented and situated within their relevant contexts. Lastly, an introductory series of practical steps and specific exercises, advice, and questions for each elemental stage is provided to help the reader use the cycle independently.

The two meditations are intended to be practiced by those interested, and free audio recordings of the guided meditations are available online. Alchemical meditation was an active instead of a passive activity, and it focused on harnessing spiritual forces for positive transformation and specific manifestations. Alchemists viewed consciousness as a natural force that could be harnessed through a marriage of logic and intuition – a union of objective and subjective realities. There are so many books that are written now by scientists, such as What the Bleep Do We Know, that proves that there is a soul inhabiting the body. Spirit and Soul of Elixir Alchemy is the introduction to Gold Elixirs - A Cross-cultural History of Therapeutic Gold, currently being written by J.The juncture of opposing principles perceived in the “hermetic problem” of salt anticipates the methodological discussion, which examines the dichotomy between history and phenomenology, along with the materialist and metaphysical sympathies of these methodologies. These natural disasters have always been taking place, but at this time in history, we are much more sensitive to them. This study focuses on three interrelated ideas in the oeuvre of René Schwaller de Lubicz: (1) the concept of symbolique, in which the phenomenal cosmos is perceived as a reaction to metaphysical processes; (2) the basis of this idea in the alchemical theory of sulphur, mercury, and salt; and (3) Schwaller’s conception of the alchemical stone as a ‘juncture of transcendence and concretion’.