THE QUINTESSENCE

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. 

Extracted from his Alchemy rediscovered and restored (1940). Contents The one thing The Archaeus The scientific approach The Quintessence... 

Taylor, Frank Sherwood. "The idea of the quintessence." In Essays in honour of Charles Singer, ed. E.A. Underwood, 247-265. Oxford OUP, 1953. 

The quintessence hypothesis was proposed by J. P. Ostriker and Steinhardt (2001). The authors use the term quintessence ( fifth substance ) to describe a quantum force field which is gravitationally repulsive. It has a certain similarity to an electrical or magnetic field and could lead to an invisible energy field which accelerates cosmic expansion. 

The central axis, Shushumna, is the channel for the Quintessence— the concealed Glory, all-pervading Akasha. But do not hold too rigidly to the idea that the Shushumna is confined to the subtle equivalent of the spinal column. Sometimes in meditation, the Shushumna can appear as fine as a hair and, at other times, so wide that the entire body becomes one stream of force, a fire of highest inspiration, annihilating all limits, and growing until it fills the whole universe. 

The most perfect alembic in which the Quintessence can be elaborated is conformable to this figure, and the Quintessence itself is represented by the Sign of the Pentagram. 

Matthew Frye Jacobson, Special Sorrows The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1995), pp. 102-105, and The Quintessence of the Jew Polemics of Nationalism and Peoplehood in Turn-of-the-Century Yiddish Fiction, in Werner Sollors and Marc Schell, eds., Multilingual America (New York New York University Press, forthcoming) John Efron, Defenders of the Race Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-de-Siecle Europe (New Haven Yale University Press, 1994). 

It is clear why this beautiful treatise has rapidly become a bestseller within the chemical community. The quintessence of hundreds of named reactions is encapsulated in a concise format that is ideal for students and seasoned chemists alike. Detailed mechanistic and occasionally even historical details are given for hundreds of reactions along with key references. This must-have book will undoubtedly find a place on the bookshelves of all serious practitioners and students of the art and science of synthesis. 

No indeed The stars are not made from some incorruptible ether but of ordinary matter. The last post had sounded for the quintessence, the fifth and highest of the elements, along with earth, air, fire and water. Tycho enlisted the services of Kepler and in 1604 master and pupil were rewarded by the magnificent spectacle of a supernova. 

Physicists in their all-pervading seriousness prefer the term scalar field to quintessence . For the quintessence field is indeed indifferent to direction, like a mere number. Space has no preferred axis just as it has no preferred centre. 

The geometric history of the Universe (its expansion) imposes a series of metamorphoses on matter and radiation, but not on the quintessence, which remains essentially constant. It escapes dispersion and ends up dominating over other energy forms. 

I have already indicated that all things are constituted of three essences - namely, mercury, sulphur, and salt - and herein 1 have taught what is tme. But know that the Stone is composed out of one, two, three, four, and five. Out of five - that is, the quintessence of its own substance. Out of four, by which we must understand the four elements. 

In metaphysical terms, the material world presents itself to the modern Alchemist as a flux of contingent events and relative objects. As metaphysics, or supernatural perceptions, these variously named processes of purification indicate the mind-set separating the modern pseudoscience I Alchirnie from medieval Alchemia. If, as the modern neo-Alchemist believes, the quintessence of these essentially symbolic materials can be refined, then the purity and wholeness of our universe will remain in refulgent Absoluteness and Unity. Therefore, success in attaining the metaphoric gold of philosophers was more often than not taken to be a symbol of visionary attainment of Unity with the One. 

This is a name which the [Hermetic] Philosophers have given to their Magisterium [alchemical operation] once it reaches perfection within the red stage. Because their materials are the Quintessence of the Universe and the First Matter of all individual matter in Nature, this materia prima presents a perfect correspondence with Adam. In Adam God put together the purest substance of all beings. Besides that, Adam, whose name signifies redness, best expresses the color and qualities of the Magisterium itself. ... 

Mediterranean travel reinforces the notion that architecture is the quintessence of creativity and practicality. In order for any building to get off the ground—literally— the architect must not only have a sense of art and of creating new spaces, he or she must consider new technologies, materials, engineering constraints, politics, zoning laws, and impact on communities. Architecture—a pinnacle of creative expression tempered by basic human needs and limitations—is emblematic of the entire range of topics covered in the book that require readers to reason and to dream. 

For in the cako of philosophers ar all the medicins potentiall and for that cause it is called quintessence. But in the Cako vulgar is not the quintessence medicinalle but the elemente and the matter only of the Quintessence. The which essence is a medison againste all diseases which proceed of the her of the lyttle wordle. 

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