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| | Newton's Alchemy, recreated |
 | | There is also an operative and practical alchemy, which teaches how to make precious metals and pigments, and many other things better and more plentifully than they are made by nature." Roger Bacon, 13th century. | | | Like Newton, Starkey believed that most of ancient Greco-Roman mythology was really encoded alchemy. | | | 1 : "The science of alchemy is the science of the conversion of things into other species." Gundissalinus, 12th century. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~college/WilliamNewmanProject.shtml
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| | MQ MAGAZINE Issue 11 - Elias Ashmole - Masonic icon |
| | Ashmole was an extraordinarily accomplished man. By 1648 he had extended his studies in astrology and anatomy to botany and alchemy. | | | Yet Ashmole made a point of not allowing his enthusiasm for alchemy to obscure his factual historical research, and he never saw himself as a practicing alchemist. | | | Ashmoles many lawsuits as he says in preface to The Way to Bliss deprived him of the tranquillity of mind he wanted in order to pursue alchemy. |
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http://www.mqmagazine.co.uk/issue-11/p-08.php
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| | Ashmole |
| | Elias Ashmole was initiated, in the midst of Civil War into an apparently non-operative and possibly "occasional" lodge at Warrington in the diocese of Chester on 16 October 1646. | | | Ashmole himself wished to be known as a 'son of Hermes', an Hermetic philosopher (the winged-helmeted god Hermes appears aloft his personal crest): a magus - one with an operative grasp of the link between the spiritual and material dimensions of nature. | | | Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire in 1617, Ashmole began a brilliant career as a lawyer in 1638, entering the ranks of the Royalist Army as a Captain of Horse on the outbreak of Civil War and going on to spend the Inter-regnum studying alchemy, astrology and the natural sciences, the which subjects he soon mastered. |
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http://www.bessel.org/helmer/ashmole.htm
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| | OCCULT BOOKS, RITUAL MAGICK BOOKS, SPELL BOOKS |
| | The focus is primarily upon those aspects commonly called operative witchcraft of results, rather than the supposedly more spiritual aspects that have been the subject of so many books of late. | | | His sections on alchemy include details of the planetary spirits, the conjunction of the male and female principles, and each step on the path to the Tincture- one of the most complete descriptions in the whole Hermetic canon. | | | This is a source work of medieval magic that gives complete sets of zodiacal lamens, characters, and planetary sigils, with full details for their manufacture and consecration, often omitted by later writers. |
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http://www.anathemabooks.com/
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| | Guardian Unlimited Film Interviews Miller's own tale |
| | There was a curious alchemy in the moment: a woman who a second ago had been briskly co-operative became, by some combination of fresh air and celluloid, an ethereal, haunted, infinitely pensive being. | | | A few months before she was born, Rebecca's parents sowed their future: 'For three days,' Miller wrote in 1987, 'we went out and climbed the hillside, planting the hundreds of seedlings out of the pail, and finally, with some help, 6,000 of them. | | | This was something Miller herself believed, and though she thinks she has now come to 'accept the arbitrariness of life' a little more, she laughs when she remembers the compulsions she carried over even into her days studying art at Yale. |
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http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,910347,00.html
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| | America's Subversion The Enemy Within: Chapter 3 |
| | Ashmole records only one other Masonic event at which he was present: the admission of six gentlemen, none of whom were operative masons, to the 'Fellowship of Free Masons' at London in 1682. | | | For years Ashmole had dabbled in alchemy, Rosicrucian philosophy, and the Kabbalah... | | | Elias Ashmole may have been a member of the European order of Rosicrucians, and as such evidently knew that in various parts of Europe there were isolated individuals who were in possession of the secret doctrine handed down in unbroken line from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians... |
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http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/america_subversion3.htm
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