Rosarium philosophorum

See the woodcut entitled Aenigma Regis in Rosarium Philosophorum, Artis Auriferae (1593), vol. 2, 359. 

In the Rosarium philosophorum Belinus had recalled the manner in which Saturn had dismembered his body, but he went to his mother (a type of Isis) to request that she collect up the parts and re-assemble him. ... 

De Jong, Atalanta Fugiens (1969), 161-62. The account of Belinus can be found in Rosarium Philosophorum in Theatum Chemicum (Zetzner, 1622), 5, 186-67. Theatrum Chemicum (Zetzner, 1622), 5, 187. 

Rosarium Philosophomm ) Rosarium Philosophorum in De Mchmda Opuscula (Frankfurt, 1550), reprinted in Artis Auriferae quam chemiam meant, 2 vols. (Basel n. p., 1593). 

Rosarium Philosophomm ) Rosarium Philosophorum in Eberhard Zetzner (ed.), Theatrum chemicum, 5 (Strassburg Heredium Eberhard Zetzner, 1622). 

Rosarium Philosophorum ] Rosariwn Philosophorum, 2 vols. (Weinheim VCH, 1992). Edited by Lutz Claren and Joachim Huber. 

Mylius version of the. Rosarium philosophorum series. rhttp //www.levi tv.com/alchemv/mvlrosar.htmll. 

Rosarium philosophorum illustrated. NuVision Publications, 2003. ISBN 1-932681- 57-4... 

Translation of the "Rosarium Philosophorum" From a Manuscript in the Ferguson Collection At Glasgow University... 

Voss, Karen. "The Hierosgamos theme in the images of the Rosarium philosophorum." In Alchemy revisited, ed. Z.R.W.M. von Martels, 144-153. Leiden ... 

In Giovanni Lacinius, Pretiosa margarita novella... Venice, 1546, there is a section Collectanea Lacinii ex Amoldo de Villa Nova, which is a summary of the Rosarius of Arnold de Villa Nova. This text obviously influenced the 1550 edition of the Rosarium philosophorum."... 

Serpent. Return Theosophical Society. Conjunctio Rosarium Philosophorum. Androgyny. Separatio. Hermetic Yantras. Trinity Fire. Philisophical Egg. Matrix. Fountain. Christ-... 

Nuttall, John. The Rosarium Philosophorum as a universal relational psychology Jung and object relations. Psychodynamic Counselling 6, no. 1 (Feb 2000) 79-100. 

Perrie, Walter. By Moon and Sun. Edinburgh Canongate Publishers, 1980. 92p. Poetry imbued with alchemical symbolism. Includes woodcuts from the Rosarium Philosophorum throughout the text... 

Rosarium Philosophorum, in Alchemy and the Alchemists, Reuben Swinbirne Clymer (London Philosophical Publishing Co., 1907), p. 108. 

Luckily, however, most alchemists agreed on several basic concepts and principal stages of the Great Work. These evolved over the centuries but remained framed by a mystical, mathematical system of number symbolism derived from the school of Pythagoras. Evidence of this structure is in the following quote from an alchemical text called Rosarium Philosophorum ... 

The most popular of his treatises in the fifteenth century and later was probably his Thesaurus Thesaurorum et Rosarium Philosophorum (Treasure of Treasures and Rose Garden of the Philosophers). It consists of two parts, the first in ten brief chapters gives the conventional Greek-Arabian doctrine of the origin and constitution of metals, of sulphur, mercury, and the philosopher s stone, and transmutation. The second part of thirty-two chapters contains seemingly specific directions for operations for the preparation and purification of substances supposed to be necessary for the preparation of the elixirs and the philosopher s stone. As Professor Thomas Thomson pertinently remarks,18... 

In the early alchemical texts (and in particular the Rosarium philosophorum ), this picture of soul alchemy is developed in parallel with descriptions of what was a sore physical process. Thus it was that the soul development of the alchemist went hand in hand with an actual physical operation, and this operation, the details of which have not been wholly lost, involved colour and form changes within a sealed flask, isomorphic to the inner changes of soul alchemy, described by these bird symbols. Thus we had a physical process which involved a blackening, a whitening a rapid iridescence of colours, a circular distillation stage, and a final sublimation. Part of the task of modern alchemy must be to rediscover this physical process, and explore its further ramifications. 

See also the Theatrum chemicum, 6 vols. (Strasbourg Lazarus Zetzner, t6o2-6t). On early printing and alchemy, see Hirsch, "The Invention of Printing" Telle, "Bemerkungen zum Rosarium Philosophorum," 163-64 and Lynn Thorndike, "Alchemy during the First Half of the Sixteenth Century," Ambix 2 (1938] 26-37. 

For an overview of this literature, see Moran, Distilling Knowledge, 11-25 Telle, "Bemerkungen Zum Rosarium Philosophorum/" 163. 

Figure 3. Processes depicting the separation and return of the spiritual part of the dissolved body of gold and silver, from the Rosarium Philosophorum (Frankfurt, 1550). The captions read (left to right) Here the four elements divide [while] the soul nimbly separates from the body and Here the soul springs downward and revives the purified corpse. ... 

Telle, Joachim. 1992. Bernerkungen zum Rosarium philosophorum. In Rosarium Philosophorum Ein alchemisches Elorilegium des Spdtmittelaltrs, vol. 2, ed. Joachim Telle. Weinheim VCH, pp. 161-201. 

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