Aurora Consurgens

Rupescissa s associate Arnald of Villanova in his Rosarium, as well as the Aurora Consurgens (late fourteenth century) had taught the same idea concerning the alchemical blood of Christ. The Aurora Consurgens was published in the compendium Artis Auriferae (1593), although the... 

Another fourteenth century text, the Aurora Consurgens, similarly provides a lengthy eschatological account in the course of which the author refers to Paul s doctrine of the resurrection of the body. The Sixth Parable explains in detail the analogy between the philosopher s stone and the Second Adam who is Christ in his Eucharistic form. 

See part 1 of Aurora Consurgens in Johannes RJienanus (ed.), Harmoniae inper-scrutabilis chymico-philosophicae (Frankfurt, 1625), 175 ff ( Decas II ). 

See part 2 of Aurora Consurgens in Artis Auriferm (1593), 185-246. Oswald GroU, Basilica Chymica (Frankfurt J. T. de Bry, 1609), 208-15. 

In the Aurora Consurgens the south wind is fiery, like the alchemical fire, and so is the Holy Spirit see von Franz, Aurora Consurgens (1966), 386. 

Franz, Marie-Louise von (ed. and comm.), R. F. C. Hull and A. S. B. Glover, Aurora consurgens a doeument attributed to Thomas Aquinas on the problem of opposites in alchemy (New York Pantheon, 1996). 

Aquinas, Thomas. Description of figures from the Aurora consurgens. rhttp //www.levitv.com/alchemy/ aurorafi.htmll. 

I made this description of figures from the version of the Aurora consurgens in Glasgow University Library (Ms. Ferguson 6.). The order, number of illustrations and precise details of each figure varies in the different manuscripts"... 

Manuscripts of the 15th century Aurora consurgens, sometimes attributed to Thomas Aquinas, often contain a series of 38 fine watercolour drawings". Introductory page to 9 illustrations and the Descriptions... 

Seligman, Simon. The Aurora Consurgens an alchemical text attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas. Hermetic J, no. 14 (Winter 1981) 18-21. 

Before the invention of printing, alchemical manuscripts would be copied out by hand and circulated discreetly, with some texts, such as Aurora Consurgens, proving to be highly sought after. The manuscript tradition was essential to the dissemination of... 

St Thomas Aquinas is more commonly known as the leading Scholastic philosopher of the thirteenth century, and was Albertus Magnus s star pupil. Like his master and Roger Bacon, he devoted some time to the ideas behind alchemy, and is held by some to be the author of Aurora Consurgens, an alchemical reading of the Song of Songs. 

By the time manuscripts of Aurora Consurgens began to circulate in the late fourteenth century, alchemy had become widespread in the monastic world, as Thomas Norton, writing a hundred years later, testifies ... 

Plate 5. Illustration from a manuscript of Aurora Consurgens (University Library in Prague, Ms. VI fd 26), second quarter of the 15th century. See also Plates 10 and 11. 

FIGURE 22 Sophia Reveals her Mercurial Nature. From a late fourteenth-century manuscript of Aurora Consurgens. (Zentralbibliotech Zurich, MS. Rh. 172, f. 29v)... 

Another example of the alchemists worldview relating the opus to the Zodiac is shown in Figure 30. In this late fourteenth-century illustration for the Aurora Consurgens, a woman appears ready to give birth. According to the author of the Aurora Consurgens, the ripening of the... 

Jung suggested that the triadic aspect of Mercurius, who was often represented as a three-headed snake, is the chthonic counterpart to the Christian Trinity.77 In Aurora Consurgens, the lower Trinity is described as earth, which von Franz interprets as... 

The yellow may also refer to a transitional stage of the alchemical process, the citrinatis or yellowing, found between the albedo and the rubedo. (This stage was not emphasized by alchemists in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. ) The author of Aurora Consurgens (thirteenth century) made an association between this yellow-red transition and the dawn The dawn [aurora] is midway between night and day, shining with twofold hues, namely, red and yellow... Marie-Touise von Franz commented ... 

Dick Davis, Introduction to Farid Ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds, trans. Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis, London, Penguin Books, 1984, p. 16. von Franz, Aurora Consurgens, p. 12. 

R.Kieckhefer, Magic in the Middle Ages, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989/2000, p. 146. The information on Albertus Magnus presented here relies on von Franz, Aurora Consurgens, pp. 412-21. 

The manuscript in the British Library, Harley 3469, was translated into English by K[ohn]. His translation also includes a commentary by the translator and additional texts attributed to Trismosin. von Franz, Aurora Consurgens, pp. 7-21. 

D.W.Winnicott, Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena (1951), reprinted in D.W.Winnicott, Through Paediatrics to Psycho-Analysis, New York, Basic Books, 1975, pp. 230-1. von Franz, Aurora Consurgens, p. 386. 

Quoted in Read, Prelude to Chemistry, p. 157. von Franz, Aurora Consurgens, p. 206. 

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