Royal Art

Newman, William Royall. "Art, Nature and experiment among some Aristotelian alchemists." In Texts and contexts in ancient and medieval science studies on the occasion of John E. Murdoch s seventieth birthday, eds. Edith Sylla and Michael McVaugh, 305-317. Leiden Brill, 1997. 

Evola, Julius.The Hermetic tradition symbols teachings of the Royal Art translated from the Italian by E.E. Rehmus. Translated by E.E. Rehmus. Rochester (VT) Inner Traditions International, 1994. xix, 220p. 

Fabricius, Johannes. The alchemists and their Royal Art. Equation, 1994. 

Fabricius, Johannes. Alchemy the medieval alchemists and their royal art. Copenhagen Rosenkilde Bagger, 1976. 228p. ISBN 87-423-0165-3... 

Federmann, Reinhard.The royal art of alchemy translated from the German by Richard H. Weber. 1st American ed ed. Translated by Richard H. Weber. Philadelphia (PA) Chilton Book Co, 1969. 264p. 

Alchemy is one of the most mysterious arts practiced in the Western Mystery Tradition partly because it has a rich use of allegorical symbols and images. In this article we get a chance to explore those symbols and images as a means of understanding alchemy on a practical and spiritual level. This article is just an introduction to the rich art of Alchemical Images for use in the ancient tradition, and hopefully will stimulate the read to further reading into this "royal art" of the Hermetic Arts"... 

Classical scholars and modern pagans are often thoroughly confused, and led astray, by the way in which alchemists use the deities of ancient pantheons in their formulae. This calls for some clarification, if the symbolism of the Royal Art is to be understood, owned, and applied. 

Arguments and disputes about the various incumbents of this office of Messiah—the sectarian intolerance that has plagued humankind for so long—have no place in the Royal Art. They indicate a spiritual immaturity that reveals an unfitness for the Work of Unification. 

This book is a manual to the science of Hermes, the Thrice-Great, and a true guide to that Sacred and Royal Art. It presents the specific teachings and guided practices that will enable the sincere aspirant to attain to the secret of all spiritual works that can culminate in the completion, the Great Work. For this work is theurgy— Divine work —the true Alchemy that is the practical application of the holy Qabalah. It leads to the attainment of the Philosopher s Stone, whereby the personal consciousness and the Primordial consciousness unite as one. That Stone—the Jewel of Eternity—overcomes all limitation, heals all disease, and brings an end to the need for death itself. 

With the knowledge and potential experience that this book contains, Hermetic practitioners will hold the essence, the key, of the Royal Art. Should these practitioners refer to the ancient and obscure alchemical texts, they will appear to be lit from within. ... 

GEN. 151. I. Prigogine, K. Chemla, et S. Pahaut, Reflexions sur Thistoire des sciences en Chine (Reflexions on the history of sciences in China), in Catalogue, Chine, del et Terre, Musees Royale, Art d et d , Histoire, Bruxelles, 1988. 

Klossowski de Rola, S. Alchemy, the Royal Art. New York Bounty, 1973. 

Alchemists acquired the knowledge of Divine operations by the study of human arts and the observation of natural phenomena. Hermetism begins with the study of the operations of Nature, and ends with the knowledge of the Divine Principle. None, however, must hope to behold the secret Sun of this Royal Art while he remains in darkness regarding the fundamental principles of physical Hermetism, or Alchemy. 

The present work is divided into three parts an Introductory Discourse, an Expose of Natural Philosophy according to Hermetists, without which all attempt to understand the Art of Transmutations is impossible, and the Theory and Practice of the Magisterium, or Royal Art, briefly, but completely presented. 

J. Fabricius, Alchemy The Medieval Alchemists and their Royal Art, Rosenkilde Bagger, Copenhagen, 1976 rev. edn., 1989, repr. Diamond Books, London, 1994. 

This book is something of a transcription from those classes and will provide a short primer for those interested in exploring firsthand the Sacred Science and Royal Art which is alchemy. 

What is the secret meaning of alchemical symbolism Why was the Royal Art kept secret for so long Could ancient mages really turn molten lead into gold with a mere pinch of the Philosopher s Stone ... 

I Ik Royal Art of alchemy remains one of the most enduring and h.ilfling human enterprises. It is called the Royal Art, because it was practiced by, or on behalf of, kings and princes as far back as (he legendary Yellow Emperor Huang-Di [ca. 27th c. bc] and as lau as the 17th century, when the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf... 

So it is that these postulants apply themselves materially and experimentally in the secrecy of the laboratory of the Hermeticist. And this follows archaic processes, using material means rigorously identical to those of its distant origins in the Royal Art of Egypt, on a first matter whose name, immutably kept secret, already constitutes a first arcana. 

The Chapter of Clermont claimed to be the sole true descendant of the Knights Templar, fusing together the themes of chivalry, King Solomon s Temple and alchemy. It taught that the Knights Templar recovered dishes marked for alchemical purposes of the Royal Art from a hollow comer stone in the Temple of Jemsalem. The dishes were for the preparation of an alchemical Eucharist, which we looked at in Chapter... 

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