Recipes, alchemical

Nonetheless, the few potent alchemical medicines that he did advocate reveal his unorthodox religious views. At the heart of Fludd s alchemy is the recipe for a red elixir which he described as being a catholic, that is, a universal medicine. It was the quintessence of both Nature and of the human soul, being permeated by the Holy Spirit of the resurrected Christ." It was said to be the alchemical equivalent of human blood, a tincture extracted from the red-oil of wheat. 

Karpenko, Vladimir and Pavla Widzova. Two alchemical recipes from the possession Hynek of Podebrady. Dejiny veda tecfmiky 33, no. 2 (2000) 99-. 

Chalquist, Craig. Cooking for the collective unconscious an alchemically enlivened recipe. Alchemy J 5, no. 4 (Winter 2004). rhttp //www.alchemvlab.com/AJ5-4.html. 

Cavalli, Thom Frank. Alchemical psychology old recipes for living in a new world / Thom F. Cavalli foreword by Robert A. Johnson. New York Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002. 364p. ISBN 1585421405... 

The alchemical waters of Saint Giles Text and context. Queen Isabel s dietary and its contents. Methods of prognostication on onomatomantic principles. A collection of medicinal recipes and charms. 

In a speech to Wagner (lines 1021-1055), Faust admits that neither he nor his father deserve any praise for their medical skills. His father brewed secret recipes in the Black Kitchen, or alchemical laboratory. He and his adepts blended contrariness of every sort, marrying a Scarlet Lion (mercury) to a Lily (hydrochloric acid). But in the end, the patients went on dying. Wagner consoles Faust, saying that both father and son did their best, and a father will always pass his knowledge down to his son. 

Like all alchemists, Zosimos followed his dreams and visions in his search for the basic material of the universe, and he experienced mysterious archetypal images of sacrifice and transformation. He conceived of the idea of the god-man, who fell into cosmic matter, from which he had to be freed by alchemy, a vision that is similar to the one expressed in the Hermetica. This mystical element of alchemy combined with the metallurgical recipes made for an exotic combination. Another early alchemical work, the Codex Marcianus, contains a translated text that asserts that it was written by Isis to her son Horus. In it she tells him the secret of making gold and silver, a secret she coerced from angels. 

The Gloria Mundi seems to imply that anyone who found the Philosopher s Stone would surely fail to recognize it. Yet thousands of alchemists, some relatively unlearned and others with a vast knowledge of alchemical literature, continued to seek it. They pored over cryptic alchemical recipes and performed intricate experiments in their quest for the Stone, which they called the Great Work. ... 

There were probably many reasons for writing alchemical recipes in code. The Church frowned on the practice of alchemy so the practitioners must have wanted to maintain a certain amount of secrecy, which helped to avoid other dangers too. There was always the chance that some prince might demand that the alchemist produce gold, and then become very angry if the claimant couldn t. 

Boyle was determined to keep his method of preparation secret. He published the paper on condition that no questions be asked about its contents. He later reiterated his determination to maintain secrecy, saying that he would never make this mercury again or reveal how it was prepared. This was a vow that Boyle didn t keep, incidentally. He later shared Starkey s recipe with various alchemical collaborators. 

Dee s library was an indispensable resource for Elizabethans seeking alchemical and Paracelsian texts Penny Bayer, Lady Margaret Clifford s Alchemical Recipe Book and the John Dee Q tc c, Ambix, 52 (2005), 271—84 David Harley, Rychard Bostok ofTanridge, Surrey (c.1530-1605), M.P, Paracelsian Propagandist and Friend of John Dee , Ambix, 47 (2000), 29—36 Webster, Alchemical and Paracelsian Medicine . 

Food, disease, and the Fall had been prominent in English theological and alchemical texts for several centuries, but references to the food of angels in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts were distinctive. manuscript compilation of astrological rules and recipes that Forman owned listed the afflictions of man and the discoveries of the knowledge to remedy them. In the year 3613 after creation God had given Moses the commandments, and had struck those who would not obey them with numerous infirmities, none of which could be helped with medicine. Obedient people in turn were fed with... 

Lady Margaret Clifford s Alchemical Recipe Book and the John Dee Circle ,... 

Whether Latin or vernacular, this medieval alchemical corpus was becoming increasingly available to sixteenth-century Europeans. Texts certainly continued to circulate in manuscript even a century after the invention of the printing press indeed, until the middle of the sixteenth century, it is likely that most alchemical texts remained in manuscript form (and this is especially true if one takes into account recipe books).23 When Sommering recommended Sternhals s Ritter Krieg to Julius, for example, he could only have had a manuscript in mind, since this fifteenth-century text would not be available in print for another two decades. Nevertheless, from the middle of the sixteenth century onward printers seem to have discovered a healthy market for alchemical texts, particularly those that dealt with medicine and the transmutation of metals, since they issued sixteenth-century editions of older treatises attributed (both pseudonymously and authentically) to authorities such as Raymond Lull and Bernhard of Treviso.24... 

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