Christian world/Christianity

The fagade of the body, in effect a threshold between inner and outer worlds, was its skin which in Christian theology became invested with subjectivity. Cutting into the skin was an act that simultaneously split the subject, resulting in a plural being that was suspect, even considered to be demonic as evidenced by the hybrid creatures... 

I would like to introduce some references to the term alchemy in Arabic and Latin texts which historians of alchemy seem to have overlooked up to now, but which would seem to have a bearing on the introduction of alchemy both into the Islamic and into the Christian world. ... 

Christianity. The course of the alchemical mystery is followed from the Near East through the Byzantine Empire and into Europe. During these travels many pioneers in this field are met, including Roger Bacon, Raymond Lully, and Nicholas Flamel. The letters of Sendivogius to the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, almost completely unknown to the modern world, are discussed"... 

Barnstone, Willis and Marvin Meyer, eds.The Gnostic bible Gnostic texts of mystical wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds - Pagan, Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar. Shambhala, 2003. 860p. 

Gichtel, Johann Georg.Awakening to divine wisdom Christian initiation into three worlds translated and edited by Arthur Versluis. Edited by Arthur Versluis. St Paul (MN) New Grail, 2004. 144p. 

These character building stories are illustrated books for Christian home schooling children that show through a simple parable or allegory, Biblical views on issues that they all must face living in the world today. THE ALCHEMIST (Women Children at Home)... 

The esoteric books of Judaism speak of the Lamed-Vav, the thirty-six Just Ones on whose shoulders the world rests, and of the Seven Pillars of wisdom and righteousness, seven saints whose successive lives extend over the entire history of humanity. Tradition lists these seven as Adam, Methuselah, Shem, Jacob, Serah (the daughter of Asher), Ahijah of Shiloh (who was the Maggid, or Inner Teacher, of the Ba al Shem Tov), and the prophet Elijah himself. In fact, all three Religions of the Book, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, teach the resurrection of the dead, when all humanity, at the end of days, will rise in incorruptible physical bodies and reap the everlasting harvest of what they have sown. 

This heretofore closely-guarded secret of esoteric practice—the exteriorization—is also one of the meanings of the Rosicrucian (Christian-Qabalah) pledge to perform all practical work in a place concealed and apart from the gaze of the outer and uninitiated world. This means that the alchemical procedure is undertaken within the inner bodies, as well, of course, as in those objective Temples of Ingathering in the Worlds Above. 

Alchemists who are not Christians do not deny the attainments of Jesus. His alchemical achievements are among the best-known in the world. Sadly, however, they are perceived as a great exception rather than, what they are in fact, a great example, a call to the heights. 

The racial character of Jewishness in the New World ebbed and flowed over time. The saga of Jewishness-as-difference in North America properly begins as early as 1654, when Peter Stuyvesant wrote to the Amsterdam Chamber of the Dutch West India Company that Christian settlers in New Amsterdam had deemed it useful to require [Jews] in a friendly way to depart. Stuyvesant went on to pray that the deceitful race,— such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ,—be not allowed further to infect and trouble this new colony. 2 In the early republic Jewishness was most often taken up as a matter not of racial dif-... 

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