Khunrath, Heinrich

Khunrath, Heinrich. The "Confessio" of Heinrich Khunrath a paraphrased translation by J.B. Craven [with a short introduction by Adam McLean], Hermetic J, no. 13 (Autumn 1981) 13-20. 

Khunrath, Heinrich. "Amphitheater of eternal wisdom, 1609." In A Christian Rosencreutz anthology, ed. P.M. Allen, 329-348., 1968. 

Khunrath, Heinrich. The amphitheatre engravings of Heinrich Khunrath. Translated by Patricia Tahil. Edited by Adam McLean. Edited by Adam McLean. Translated by Patricia Tahil. Edinburgh Adam McLean, 1980. 95p. 

Khunrath, Heinrich. Khunrath s Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae. [http //www.librarv, wisc.edu/libraries/SpecialCollections/khunrath/index.htmll. Introductory page to Plates with accompanying text... 

Khunrath, Heinrich. Amphitheatrum Sapientiae aetemae. Hanau, 1609 rpt. in Amphitheatre christianoTahhalistique.. . de I eternelle sapience. Paris Chacornac, 1898 [facs. of 1609 ed. with modem French translation]. 

Khunrath, Heinrich. Von hylealischen, das ist pii-materialischen Catholischen odei allgemeinen natiirlichen Chaos Dei naturgemassen Alchymiae und Alchymisten. Magdeburg, 1597 reprint, Graz Akademische Druck- u. Verlag-sanstalt, 1990. 

Some Paracelsian alchemists, especially Heinrich Khun rath (ca. 1560-1605) and Stefan Michelspacher (active ca. 1615-23), were objects of persecution on the part of hoth Lutheran and Catholic authorities. Khunrath was an alchemist from Saxony, the heartland of the Reformation, but his theological stance was characteristic of the second generation of Protestants who felt that Luther s work had been left incomplete and that another religious reform was essential. In Khunrath s ideas this would take the form of a Lutheranism that could accommodate an autonomous personal piety. To express their Lutheran piety intellectually the alchemists employed the terms of Paracelsian theosophy, while they found an emotive outlet in the mystical experience of the power and grace of the Holy Spirit. They felt themselves to be inspired (literally breathed ) by the Spirit, a force that they identified with alchemical pneuma. Khunrath called himself an enthusiast, hlled with the presence of the divine. 

Johannes Arndt, Judicium uber die vier Figuren des Grossen Amphiteatrum Henrici Khunraths in Heinrich Khunrath, De Igne Magorum Philosophorumque secreto... 

McGrath, The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation (1987), 164. Heinrich Khunrath, Amphiteatrum Sapientiae Aetemae (Hanau, 1609), 19-60. McGrath, The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation (1987), 136, 155. 

See the discussion of Khunrath s theosophy in Szulakowska, The Alchemy of Light (2000), 79-137. Christ, the Ruah-Elohim, became the Paracelsian azoth. See Heinrich Khunrath, Vom Hylealischen das ist pri-matmalischen oder algerminen naturlichen Chaos (Magdeburg J. Schmeidt for Johann Francken, 1616), 75, 86-88. Christ is also identified with the Paracelsian Salt, the prime matter of creation. 

Christ in Glory, Heinrich Khunrath, Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aetenae (Hamburg, 1595 Hanau, 1609). With the permission of the British Library, London. 

Craven, James Brown. Doctor Heinrich Khunrath a study in mystical alchemy. Glasgow McLean, 1997. 141p. 

Deischer, Claude K. and Joseph L. Rabinowitz. The owl of Heinrich Khunrath its origin and significance. Chymia 3 (1950) 243-250. 

Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605). rhttp //www.crvstalinks.com/khunrath.htmll. 

McLean, Adam. Heinrich Khunrath. Hermetic J, no. 12 (Summer 1981) 35-39. 

Tilton, Hereward. Of Electrum and the armour of Achilles myth and magic in a manuscript of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605). J Warburg Courtauld Insts. 

The Amphitheatre Engravings of Heinrich Khunrath. Ed. A.McLean. Grand... 

Thrasybulus is a Greek form of Khunrath, "Bold in Counsel," and Ricenus is anagram of Khunrath s first name, Heinrich, or, in Latin, Enricus. I am grateful to Peter Forshaw for his assistance with the authorship of this text. 

Ricenus, Thrasybulus [Heinrich Khunrath]. "Treuhertzige Warnungs-... 

Forshaw, Peter. " Alchemy in the Amphitheatre Some Considerations of the Alchemical Content of the Engravings in Heinrich Khunrath s Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1609)." In Art and Alchemy, edited by Jacob Wamberg, 195-220. Copenhagen Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006. 

Another development in the seventeenth century was the proliferation of alchemical books. Certain publishers, notably De Bry of Frankfurt, printed almost nothing else. Apart from Michael Maier s Atalanta Fugiens, other celebrated works included the Book of Lambspring (1599), Heinrich Khunrath s Ampitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1609), and Altus s Mutus Liber (1677), an illustrated book that almost entirely dispensed with a written text. Encyclopaedic compendia appeared, such as the Theatrum Chemicum (1602), and the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652), edited by Elias Ashmole. 

The seventeenth century was the high water mark of alchemical book publishing and, aside from Maier, other notable emblem books include Heinrich Khunrath s The Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1609), Johann Mylius s Philosophia Rformata (1622), and Daniel Stolz s rare Viridarium Chymicum (1624). 

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