#alexander roob

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You might have already answered many questions like this, but I wish to ask all the same, considering how tremendous you are at depicting this: Where do you get references and inspirations when it comes to medieval European clothing and fashion?

sorry for the late reply!

✶ Medieval Chronicles is a great place to start. It's like Wikipedia but for medieval Europe so I usually go there when I need information to base my further research on

✶ YouTube has lots of people talking about (and making!) medieval clothing but it's best to know what exactly you're looking for before going there so you won't get lost in the amount of information

✶ and finally I have two wonderful books I use almost daily

The Costume History by Auguste Racinet

The World of Ornament by Auguste Racinet and A. Dupont-Auberville

they function like a cheat sheet and I use them when I need an inspiration for an outfit. They contain depictions of clothes, armor, jewelry, a few depictions of weapons and even interior design!

[noise-vs-signal]

“The Sephiroth are also imagined as ten shells or casings around the innermost core of En Soph, the formless and ineffable centre of all being.

The Cabbalists called meditation on this Nothing-in-Everything, extrapolating from a verse in the Song of Solomon (6, 11), "Going down into the garden of nuts".

Shakespeare refers to this when he has Hamlet say, "O God! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space".

And Joyce in Finnegans Wake:

"Mark Time's Finist Joke.

Putting Allspace in a Notshall".

Image: Sephiroth scroll, Poland, 19th century.

From “Alchemy & Mysticism” by Alexander Roob (2011).

[verrdette]

Verrdette's Lore of Lords/Reference hub (Carcosa AU)

|will be updated as I learn more|

Status: 8/21 I have learned the anatomical contents of each "bodily humour," these will be the source of each Lord's magic. Learned about the City of Carcosa and the King in Yellow. Rereading SCP 2264...

My Lords:

Albedo / Phlegmatic water 🜄 (praying mantis) phlegm

Nigredo / Melancholic earth 🜃 (locust) black bile

Citrinitas / Choleric fire 🜂 (giant hairy scorpion) yellow bile

Rubedo / Sanguine air 🜁 (dragonfly) blood

Long, long ago the four Lords lived in harmony, then everything changed when the Earth Lord attacked. For more lore of the Carcosa AU, read below

Disclaimer - you may use this lore yourself, just credit this post. None of this is canon to scp, just a fun little set of ideas in my brain. To make it simple, let's call it the Carcosa AU. Credits to Metaphysician for creating Alagadda! Alagadda (Human name: Carcosa) - An ancient city whisked away into a role of an interdimensional nexus, where its inhabitants are cursed to live and rot, but death is nonexistent.

The Tale of the Black Death - A prophecy foretold by Alagaddans, often in jest and mockery at death. There are two versions of the prophecy, one false and the other true: The tale depicts the god of Death vanquished by the ascension of the Hanged King and the City of Alagadda. With the philosopher's goblet, Death cannot take them.

(the rest is WIP) The Court - The Hanged King - The Ambassador - (will be researching the King in Yellow) The Four Lords of Alagadda - (trying to figure out how to organize their lore in tumblr) Death - The Black Lord -

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you wish to have the text icons for alchemy use this site.

For a more general understanding of these four temperaments (without the mess of Wikipedia), refer to this small document.

p.s. to this document, I am Melancholic/Phlegmatic. How silly. Have a go if you wish.

I am currently studying this book - The Hermetic Museum: Alchemy & Mysticism by Alexander Roob - It's a collection of significant works concerning Opus Magnum. Beware: the information is as shallow as Rubedo, so if you're looking for long alchemy procedures, it's best to search it on your own if you are short on cash. Even then, I still highly recommend it. It's a great historical read.

[alchemy-fic]

Bibliography:

Alchemy and the Occult:

Western:

Alchemy Unveiled, Johannes Helmond (Translated into English and Edited by

Gerard Hanswille and Deborah Brumlich); (1963)

Practical Alchemy, A Guide To The Great Work; Brian Cotnoir (2006)

The Black Arts (50th Anniversary Edition); Richard Cavendish (1968)

Alchemy & Mysticism: The Hermetic Cabinet; Alexander Roob (2009)

The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structures of Alchemy (2nd Edition); Mircea Eliade (1962, 1978)

History of Alchemy; M. M. Pattison (1902)

Alchemy (Revised Edition); E. J. Holmyard (1990)

Dictionary of Symbolism, Cultural Icons and the Meanings Behind Them; Hans Biedermann, Translated by James Hulbert (1994)

The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft, and Wicca; Rosemary Ellen Guiley (1989)

The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits; Rosemary Ellen Guiley (1992)

Levantine:

The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book; Raphael Patai (1994)

Ancient Magic and Divination, A Microhistorical Study of the Neo-Assyrian Healer Kiṣir-Aššur; Troels Pank Arbøll (2017)

Fuck Your "Magic" Antisemitism: A Lesser Key To The Appropriation Of Jewish Magic & Mysticism; Ezra Rose (2022)

“His wind is released” - The Emergence of the Ghost Ritual of passage in Mesopotamia; Dina Katz, Leiden (2014)

Cursed Are You! The Phenomenology of Cursing in Cuneiform and Hebrew Texts; Anne Marie Kitz (2014)

Egyptian Magic; E.A. Wallis Budge (1901)

Mesopotamian Planetary Astronomy-Astrology (Cuneiform Monographs); David Brown (2000)

Astrology in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Science of Omens and the Knowledge of the Heavens; Michael Baigent (July 20, 2015)

Ancient Jewish Magic: A History; Gideon Bohak (2008)

PERFORMING DEATH: SOCIAL ANALYSES OF FUNERARY TRADITIONS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND MEDITERRANEAN; Nicola Laneri, Ellen F. Morris, Glenn M. Schwartz, Robert Chapman, Massimo Cultraro, Meredith S. Chesson, Alessandro Naso, Adam T. Smith, Dina Katz, Seth Richardson, Susan Pollock, Ian Rutherford, John Pollini, John Robb, and James A. Brown (2007)

Mesopotamian Conceptions of Dreams and Dream Rituals; Sally A. L. Butler (1998)

Forerunners to Udug-Hul: Sumerian exorcistic incantations; Markham J. Geller (1985)

Šurpu. A Collection of Sumerian and Akkadian Incantations; Erica Reiner (1958)

Mesopotamian Protective Spirits: The Ritual Texts; F. A. M. Wiggermann (1992)

The Alchemist's Handbook- Manual for Practical Laboratory Alchemy; Frater Albertus (1960)

Licit Magic: The Life and Letters of al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād (d. 385/995); Maurice A. Pomerantz (09 Nov 2017)

Further Studies on Mesopotamian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature; Tzvi Abusch (2002)

The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture; Francesca Rochberg (2004)

Greco-Roman:

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook; Daniel Ogden (2002)

Far East Asia:

I Ching; Fu Xi (~1000 BCE)

Myths, Legends, Religious Texts And Folktales

Levantine:

The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion; Thorkild Jacobsen (1976)

Persian Myths; Jake Jackson (2022)

Myths of Babylon; Jake Jackson (2018)

The Epic Of Gilgamesh (2nd Edition); Anonymous, Andrew George (????, 2000)

The First Ghost Stories; Dr. Irving Finkel (2021)

On Jewish Folklore; Raphael Patai (1983)

Sumerian Mythology, a Deep Guide Into Sumerian History and Mesopotamian Empire and Myths; Joshua Brown (2021)

Sumerian Mythology, a Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C. (Revised Edition); Samuel Noah Kramer (1961)

Sumerian Liturgies; Anonymous, Stephen Langdon (1919)

Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart, Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna; Enheduanna, Betty De Shong Meador (1989)

Ninurta's Journey to Eridu; Daniel Reisman (1971)

A Sumerian Proverb Tablet in Geneva With Some Thoughts on Sumerian Proverb (2006)

Enki's Journey to Nippur: The Journeys of the Gods; Al-Fouadi, Abdul-Hadi A. (1969)

The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature by Rachel Bromwich (1991)

Encyclopedia of American Folklore; Linda S. Watts (2006)

Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion; Joshua Trachtenberg (1939)

Amulets and Talismans; E.A. Wallis Budge (The copy I have was published in 1992 but he died in 1934. Not sure when the original work was created.)

Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews; Deatra Cohen, Adam Siegel (2021)

Encyclopedia of Catholicism; Frank K. Flinn (2007)

As Through a Veil: Mystical Poetry in Islam; Annemarie Schimmel (1982)

You Will Have Other Goddesses in Addition to Me: Polytheism Among Ancient Israelite Women; Liora Finke (2022)

Gods That Travel: On The Ritual Aspects of Divine Journeys And Processions; Klaus Wagensonner (2014)

NINURTA AND ENKI; A new divine journey of the warrior god to Eridu; Klaus Wagensonner (2013)

Jewish Music in Its Historical Development; Abraham Zevi Idelsohn (1929)

The God Enki in Sumerian Royal Ideology and Mythology; Peeter Espak (2010)

The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic & Mysticism: Second Edition; Geoffrey W. Dennis (2007)

Book of Jewish Knowledge: An Encyclopedia of Judaism and the Jewish People, Covering All Elements of Jewish Life from Biblical Times to the Present (03 May 1948); Nathan Ausubel

Encyclopedia of Judaism (Encyclopedia of World Religions); Sara E. Karesh & Mitchell M. Hurvitz (2006)

Aboriginal Australia: 

Gadi Mirrabooka: Australian Aboriginal Tales from the Dreaming; Pauline E. McLeod, Francis Firebrace Jones, June E. Barker, Helen F. McKay (2001)

The Two Rainbow Serpents Travelling: Mura Track Narratives from the 'Corner Country'; Jeremy Beckett, Luise Hercus (2009)

Mixed or Other:

Egyptian Myths & Tales; Japanese Myths & Tales, Aztec Myths & Tales, Scottish Folk & Fairytales, Viking Folk & Fairytales, Chinese Myths & Tales, Greek Myths & Tales, African Myths & Tales, Native American Myths & Tales, Persian Myths & Tales, Celtic Myths & Tales, Irish Fairy Tales; Anonymous, Flame Tree Publishing

Tales of King Arthur & The Knights Of The Round Table (Le Morte D’Arthur); Thomas Malory

The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore; Patricia Monaghan (2004)

Academic (Science including Psychology)

Stellar Alchemy: The Celestial Origin of Atoms, Michel Cassé, Stephen Lyle (2003)

Aboriginal Suicide Is Different: A Portrait of Life And Self Destruction; Colin Tatz (2005)

Fruit Domestication in the Near East; Shahal Abbo, Avi Gopher & Simcha Lev-Yadun (2015) 

Astronomical Cuneiform Texts: Babylonian Ephemerides of the Seleucid Period for the Motion of the Sun, the Moon, and the Planets (Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, 5); Otto E. Neugebauer (1945)

Studies in the History of Science;  E. A. Speiser; Otto E. Neugebauer; Hermann Ranke; Henry E. Sigerist; Richard H. Shryock; Evarts A. Graham; Edgar A. Singer; Hermann Weyl (Compiled In 2017)

Studies in Civilization;  Alan J. B. Wace; Otto E. Neugebauer; William S. Ferguson (Compiled In 2016)

Astronomy and History: Selected Essays; Otto E. Neugebauer (Compiled In 1983)

The Encyclopedia of the Brain and Brain Disorders; Carol Turkington (2002)

The Encyclopedia of Poisons and Antidotes; Deborah R. Mitchell & Carol Turkington (2010)

The Encyclopedia of Suicide; Glen Evans, Norman L. Farberow, Ph.D. & Kennedy Associates (1988)

Academic (History)

Western:

Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes; Carl Waldman (2006)

Levantine:

Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East; Dahlia Shehata (2014)

Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia: The Gilgamesh Epic and Other Ancient Literature; Rivkah Harris (05/12/2003)

House Most High: The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia; A. R. George (1993)

The Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East; Michael Roaf (1990)

The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia; Shiyanthi Thavapalan (2020)

The Loss of Male Sexual Desire in Ancient Mesopotamia; Gioele Zisa (2021)

Materials and Manufacture in Ancient Mesopotamia: The evidence of Archaeology and Art. Metals and metalwork, glazed materials and glass; P. R. S. Moorey (3/1/1985)

Collections; Bendt Alster, Takayoshi Oshima (2006)

Political Agency of Royal Women; Paula Sabloff (2019)

Studies in Sumerian Civilization: Selected Writings Of Miguel Civil; Miguel Civil, edited by Lluís Felu (2017)

A study on the natural heritage and its importance in the Sumerian civilization in southern Iraq; Al-Hussein Nabeel Al-Karkhi, Isam Hussain T. Al-Karkhi (2021)

A Sumerian Riddle Collection; Bendt Alster (1976)

SUMERIAN “CHILD”; Vitali Bartash (2018)

The civilizing of Ea-Enkidu an unusual tablet of the Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic; Andrew R George (2007)

Celibacy in the Ancient World: Its Ideal and Practice in Pre-Hellenistic Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece; Dale Launderville OSB (07/01/2010)

House and Household Economies in 3rd Millennium B.C.E. Syro-Mesopotamia; Federico Buccellati ,Tobias Helms & Alexander Tamm (2014)

The Harps That Once… Sumerian Poetry In Translation; Thorkild Jacobsen (1987)

The Divine Origin Of The Craft Of The Herbalist; Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1928)

Disease in Babylonia; Edited by Irving Finkel and Markham (Mark) Geller (2007)

Royal Statuary of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia; Gianni Marchesi and Nicolo Marchetti (2011)

Myths of Enki, The Crafty God; Samuel Noah Kramer, John Maier (1989)

Household and State in Upper Mesopotamia; Patricia Wattenmaker (July 17, 1998)

Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium; Albert Kirk Grayson (1987)

Gudea's Temple Building: The Representation of an Early Mesopotamian Ruler in Text and Image (Cuneiform Monographs); Claudia E. Suter (January 1, 2000)

Reading Sumerian Poetry (Athlone Publications in Egyptology & Ancient Near Eastern Studies); Jeremy Black (2001)

Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia; Stephen Bertman (2002)

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East; Amanda H. Podany (2022)

History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History; Samuel Noah Kramer (1981)

A History of the Animal World in the Ancient Near East; Edited by Billie Jean Collins (2002)

The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character; Samuel Noah Kramer (1963)

The Ancient Near East in Transregional Perspective: Material Culture and Exchange Between Mesopotamia, the Levant and Lower Egypt from 5800 to 5200 ... Sudan and the Levant; Katharina Streit (11/10/2020)

Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine; Laura Robson (September 1, 2011)

Poetic Astronomy in the Ancient Near East The Reflexes of Celestial Science in Ancient Mesopotamian, Ugaritic, and Israelite Narrative; Jeffrey L. Cooley (2013)

Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics (Jewish Culture and Contexts); Hannan Hever (October 17, 2023)

Mourning in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible; Xuan Huong Thi Pham (1999)

Medieval Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Egypt; Joachim J.M.S. Yeshaya (2011)

The Land that I Will Show You: Essays on the History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Honor of J. Maxwell Miller; J. Andrew Dearman & M. Patrick Graham (January 9, 2002)

Jerusalem in Ancient History and Tradition; Thomas L. Thompson (2003)

Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia, Confinement and Control until the First Fall of Babylon; Dr. J. Nicholas Reid (2022)

Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East; Jonathan Stökl & Corrine L. Carvalho (2013)

The Calm before the Storm- Selected writings of Itamar Singer on the late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant; Itamar Singer (2012)

"Holiness" and "purity" in Mesopotamia;  E. Jan Wilson (1994)

The Material Culture of the Northern Sea Peoples in Israel; Ephraim Stern (2013)

Family and Household Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant; Rainer Albertz and Rüdiger Schmitt (2012)

Scribal Education in Ancient Israel: The Old Hebrew Epigraphic Evidence; Christopher A. Rollston (11/2006)

Neanderthals in the Levant- Behavioural Organization and the Beginnings of Human Modernity; Donald O. Henry (10/2003)

Suddenly, the Sight of War- Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s; Hannan Hever (2016)

Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East; Victor H. Matthews, Victor H. Matthews, Bernard M. Levinson, Tikva Frymer-Kensky (1998)

The concept of fate in ancient Mesopotamia of the 1st millennium: Toward an understanding of 'simtu'; Jack N. Lawson (1992)

The Myth of the Jewish Race; Raphael Patai, Jennifer Patai Wing (01/01/1975)

The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492; Peter Cole (01/22/2007)

Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions; Raphael Patai (2013)

Hebrew Myths; Robert Graves and Raphael Patai (2005) 

Vast as the Sea - Hebrew Poetry and the Human Condition; Samuel Hildebrandt (12/05/2023)

Sex & Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature; Gwendolyn Leick (1994)

Far East Asian:

Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations; Charles Higham (2004)

Aboriginal Australia:

Aboriginal Peoples: Fact and Fiction; Pierre Lepage, Maryse Alcindor, Jan Jordon (2009)

Visions from the Past: The Archaeology of Australian Aboriginal Art; M.J. Morwood, Douglas Hobbs, D.R. Hobbs (2002)

Mixed or Other:

Early Civilizations of the Old World: The Formative Histories of Egypt, The Levant, Mesopotamia, India and China; Charles Keith Maisels (May 20, 2001)

20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment; Francois Boucher (1967)

Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam; Chouki El Hamel (2012)

The Birth of Science: Ancient Times to 1699; Ray Spangenburg & Diane Kit Moser (2004)

The Architecture of Castles: A Visual Guide; Reginald Allen Brown (1984)

Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide; Leslie Alan Horvitz and Christopher Catherwood (2006)

Linguistic

Cuneiform; Irving Finkel, Jonathan Taylor (2015)

An Introduction to the Grammar of Sumerian; Gábor Zólyomi (2017)

Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian: An Introduction for Complete Beginners; Joshua Aaron Bowen, Megan Lewis (2020) Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian: An Introduction for Complete Beginners, Volume 2; Joshua Aaron Bowen, Megan Lewis (2023)

The Sur₉-Priest, the Instrument giš Al-gar-sur₉, and the Forms and Uses of a Rare Sign; Niek C. (1997/1998)

Sumerian Grammar (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section One, the Near [And] Mi) (English and Sumerian Edition); Dietz Otto Edzard (2003)

A Late Old Babylonian Proto-Kagal / Nigga Text and the Nature of the Acrographic Lexical Series; Niek VELDHUIS -Groningen (1998)

Learning To Pray In A Dead Language, Education And Invocation in Ancient Sumerian; Joshua Bowen (2020)

Aboriginal Sign Languages of The Americas and Australia: Volume 1; North America Classic Comparative Perspectives; Garrick Mallery (auth.), D. Jean Umiker-Sebeok, Thomas A. Sebeok (eds.) (1978)

 The Literature of Ancient Sumer; Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, Gabor Zolyomi (2004)

Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language; John Alan Halloran (2006)

A Sumerian Chrestomathy; Konrad Volk (1911)

Online Articles, Dictionaries And Other Resources:

https://nationalclothing.org/middle-east/305-traditional-clothing-of-mesopotamia-what-did-it-look-like.html 

https://www.getty.edu/news/meet-the-mesopotamian-demons/ 

https://factsanddetails.com/world/cat56/sub363/ 

https://ehistory.osu.edu/articles/marriage-ancient-mesopotamia-and-babylonia 

https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr561.htm 

http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/nepsd-frame.html 

https://www.britannica.com/place/Africa/Trade 

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2185/festivals-in-ancient-mesopotamia/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/well/family/cutting-out-the-bris.html 

http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/nannasuen/ 

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-idea-imprisonment-prisoners-earliest-texts.html 

http://www.mathematicsmagazine.com/Articles/TheSumerianMathematicalSystem.php 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ooHEYR30oNCdI4Xxop9qBjKQGnqTPwLHQzT8cvv5oxA/edit Sumerian Grammar Made Easy! (2022 Edition)

Historians, linguists, etc:

https://sumerianlanguage.tumblr.com/ aka http://www.jamesbarrettmorison.com/sumerian.html

https://sumerianshakespeare.com/

https://www.youtube.com/c/DigitalHammurabi aka https://www.digitalhammurabi.com/

https://twitter.com/digi_hammurabi and https://twitter.com/DJHammurabi1 

Podcasts and online-exclusive documentaries, video essays, etc

8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities (2020)

13. The Assyrians - Empire of Iron (2021)

The Complete and Concise History of the Sumerians and Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia (7000-2000 BC) (2021)

The Royal Death Pits of Ur (2022)

Gilgamesh and the Flood (2021)

The Birth of Civilisation - Rise of Uruk (6500 BC to 3200 BC) (2021)

The Earliest Creation Myths - Mythillogical (2022)

Enuma Elish | The Babylonian Epic of Creation | Complete Audiobook | With Commentary (2020)

 Eridu Genesis | The Sumerian Epic of Creation (2021)

 Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure (2016)

Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel (2019)

Ancient Demons with Irving Finkel I Curator's Corner S3 Ep7 #CuratorsCorner (2018)

 How to perform necromancy with Irving Finkel (2017)

 Mesopotamian ghostbusting with Irving Finkel I Curator's Corner + #CuratorsCorner (2018)

Video Games

Sonic The Hedgehog Encyclospeedia; Ian Flynn (2021)

Direct Inspiration

The Golden Compass (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997); The Amber Spyglass (2000); Philip Pullman

The Last Unicorn; Peter S. Beagle (1968)

The 13 and ½ Lives Of Captain Bluebear: A Novel; Walter Moers (1999)

Allerleirauh; Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1812)

The Epic of Beowulf; Anonymous (c. 700–1000 AD)

The Writing In The Stone; Irving Finkel (October 10, 2017)

[venturama]

Opus Magnum: O Ovo Filosofal, O Museu Hermético, Alexander Roob

"O sol necessita da lua como o galo da galinha."

[ghostcitrus-blog]

my self appointed reading list for my upcoming art and spiritualism class (aka very basic western occultism/neoplatonic philosophy/(art) history study guide)

Ordered in a very lose timeline based on subject matter if it is a scholarly work or date written if it is a primary source:

• Living Theurgy - Jeffery S. Kupperman

• Corpus Hermeticum - Translated by G. R. S. Mead

• The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels

• The Book of Enoch the Prophet - Translated by R. H. Charles

• The Picatrix - Translated by John Michael Greer

• Mystical Origins of the Tarot - Paul Huson (indulgently rereading lol)

• Three Books of Occult Philosophy - Cornelius Agrippa

• Alchemy and Mysticism - Alexander Roob

• The Key of the Mysteries - Eliphas Levi

[white-whaale]

2 4 14 and 16 for the asks ily gay bitch

IL2 GAY BITCH!

2- Album of the year?

EEUUURRRGHHHHH Nile’s ‘Vile Nilotic Rites’ I’d say. Not my most listened to but it bops so who gaf honestly

4- Movie of the year?

Blade. Watched it for the first time this year! And I’m obsessed because that shit so corny

14- Favorite book you read this year?

Alchemy and mysticism by Alexander Roob! Still getting through it though LMAO

16- Post a picture from the beginning of the year.

Stack on himb

[theressomethinghappeninginparis]

Here's the rest of my luggage I've been carrying around. I hope it relieves me to share that. I surely can't talk to the police, or show my face, or reveal any other information. But I wish to not be all alone in this.

Transcript of the first page: This is Fayolah's second mail I had access to. She talked about her collegue scanning two pages for her and she attached that to the mail. The two pages contain one head that looks...kinda evil or at least mean spirited with three knives(?) surrounding it, and the other image is the symbol I've seen- in Vasiley's faxes to Werner von Croy. I also see Lux Veritatis next to it. So- does Vasiley skinwalk an ancient Templar club now? Or is it just an aesthetic choice to pick their symbol? Or, tinfoil: is he related to them in any way?

Transcript of the second and third page: Here's the list I found with books on alchemy and magic by another friend of Margot, Alessia. None of the books is available in my library and I hope to get to read them online. If you want to support my research and help me, you're welcome to look for clues there, too.

Leah DeVun: Prophecy, Alchemy and the End of Time, John of Rupecissa in the late Middle Ages

Richard Kieckhefer: Magic in the Middle Ages

Stepfen A Mitchell: Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages

Michael David Bailey: Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Consise History from Antiquity to the Present

Arthur Versluis: Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esotericism

Mark Stavish: The Path of Alchemy: Energetic Healing & the World of Natural Magic

Robert Allen Bartlett: Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy

Stanislas Klossowski De Pola: Alchemy: The secret Art

Alexander Roob: Alchemy & Mysticism

Transcript of the fourth and fifth page: Here I start the introduction to alchemy before I get more into detail. Alchemy is an Arabic name, coming from the word al-kimiya and the Greek word khumeia. It's a branch of natural philosophy with parts of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, mysticism, spiritualism and art. The idea is not to only purify materials and perfect them but to also cleanse the body, soul and mind. Most commonly alchemy is associated with the search for immortality, a panaceas (cure for all diseases) and to create gold out of base, cheaper metals. The first ever known alchemist was a woman: Mary the Jewess. She had a lot of other names like Maria Hebrea (meaning the same as Jewess), Mariya the Sage (Mariya is the Arabic spelling of Maria) and Miriam the Prophetess. A guy named Zosios of Panapolis wrote abouther in a text called "On Furnuces and Apparatuses". She described different metals like sexes in mammals as female or male. By melting they would eventually receive gold.

Transcript of the sixth and seventh page: Her apparent slogan was "Join the male and the female and you will find what is sought" and she also invented tools for alchemy:

the Tribikos, an alembic with three arms used for destillation, still used today

the Kerotakis, a device to collect vapors and heat substances

Mary's bath, a container that limits maximum temperature.

Arab people also called her "Daughter of Plato", used in alchemic texts to describe white sulfur. Her main goal was to create gold, the process is called Chrysopoeia, trying to get gold out of non-noble metals.

[jthehumanbeing]

Nice counter point to this is the “ideal” alchemical being containing both masculine and feminine attributes so therefore HRT actually creates magic. What’s more, the concept of both trans people and transitioning is ancient and almost always magical. Early Christians conceptualized Adam as what we today would class as intersex or non-binary, and after the fall have been looking for a way back ever since. Looking at the historic evidence, the argument isn’t that the transition took anything away from magic, but rather is the realization of it.

Idk about anyone else but listening to a trans person get to talk about their transition does make me believe in magic again so I could certainly believe it.

sources:

books: Practical Alchemy by Brian Cotnoir (don’t terribly recommend), Alchemy and Mysticism by Alexander Roob, and The Shape of Sex by Leah Devun (highly recommend)

podcasts: Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! by Liv Albert queer compilation episodes

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La divina agua mercurial, Baro Urbigerus, Besondere Chymishe Schriften, Hamburgo, 1975.

Empédocles enseñó también que toda vida es el producto del movimiento nacido de la tensión entre las dos fuerzas polares del amor y la disputa. En el opus magnum, esas fuerzas corresponden a las dos operaciones sucesivas de disolución y coagulación, dispersión y fijación, destilación y condensación, sístole y diástole, <<sí>> y <<no>> en todas las cosas (J. Boheme). A su vez corresponden con los dos agentes bipolares de la alquimia árabe: el mercurio filosófico y el azufre, el sol y la luna, la esposa blanca y el esposo rojo. Pero el punto culminante de la obra es la conjunción, es decir, la unión de los principios masculino y femenino en los desposorios del cielo y la tierra, del espíritu ígneo y la materia acuosa (el término latino mater, madre). El producto de este coito cósmico es el lapis, el <<hijo rojo del sol>>.

Alquimia & Mística, Alexander Roob.

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History of Press Graphics: The Golden Age of Graphic Journalism 1819 - 1921 by Alexander Roob

http://www.afnews.info segnala: Taschen ha pubblicato questo grande volume Press Graphics: The Golden Age of Graphic Journalism 1819 – 1921 di Alexander Roob. Copre l’esplosione dell’illustrazione di giornali in Europa e negli Stati Uniti nel XIX secolo e la sua influenza sull’arte moderna. È stato recensito da Olivia Ahmed per il Quentin Blake Center for Illustration qui… Vedi il resto su Mike…

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La Noche De Los Libros..Alquimia Y Mistica de Alexander Roob

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“A ladder appeared to Jacob in a dream, "and the top of it reached to heaven: and the angels of God were going up and down on it". (Genesis 28, 12)

For Blake, the image of Jacob's Ladder as a gate to heaven was closely allied to the anatomy of the ear, whose passages he calls “The endlessly twisting spiral ascending to the Heaven of Heavens.”

According to Swedenborg, with whose writings Blake was familiar, the "opening of the inner ear" is the precondition for making contact with the higher worlds.”

Image: “Jacob's Ladder” by William Blake c. 1800

From “Alchemy & Mysticism” by Alexander Roob (2011).

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Alchemy is one of the most misrepresented and poorly understood aspects of Western Esotericism. This video takes a look at five misconceptions from both the scientific dismissal of alchemy to the purely spiritual/psychological interpretation of its processes and symbolism.

Recommended Reading:

Linden, Stanton J. (ed.) The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton. 978-0521796620. Nicely edited collection of alchemical primary texts.

Principe, Lawrence. The Secrets of Alchemy. 978-0226103792. An up-to-date history of alchemy.

Newman, William. Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire" 978-0691174877. Cutting edge research on alchemy in the 17th century. An amazing wok of scholarship.

Roob, Alexander(ed.) Alchemy & Mysticism. 978-3836549363. A collection of alchemical imagery and symbolism, also a nice coffee table book!

Spiritual / Psychology School of Interpretation

Atwood, Mary Anne. A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery….(many re-print editions). The first text to introduce the ‘spiritual interpretation” of alchemy.

Eliade, Mircea. The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy. 978-0226203904. Religious-philosophical interpretation of alchemy.

von Franz, Marie-Louise. Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology. 978-0919123045. An introduction to the Jungian psychological interpretation of alchemy.

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Liked on YouTube: Alchemy - Maria the Jewess & Prophet - Greco Egyptian Alchemy & Hermetic Philosophy || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRb9vwk14OA || Perhaps the longest refenced alchemist in history was Mary or Maria the Jewess who lived in Egypt around the year 200 ce. In this episode of Esoterica we explore the legends, inventions, and alchemical theories developed by this early female scientist and mystic. Recommended Readings: Patai - The Jewish Alchemists - 9780691006420 Berthelot - Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs - https://ift.tt/k8IjopL Maier - Atalanta Fugiens - https://ift.tt/a9cgTCE Artis Auriferae - https://ift.tt/wcOZN6C Linden, Stanton J. (ed.) The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton. 978-0521796620. Nicely edited collection of alchemical primary texts. Principe, Lawrence. The Secrets of Alchemy. 978-0226103792. An up-to-date history of alchemy. Newman, William. Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire" 978-0691174877. Cutting edge research on alchemy in the 17th century. Roob, Alexander(ed.) Alchemy & Mysticism. 978-3836549363. A collection of alchemical imagery and symbolism, also a nice coffee table book! Spiritual / Psychology School of Interpretation Atwood, Mary Anne. A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery….(many re-print editions). The first text to introduce the ‘spiritual interpretation” of alchemy. Eliade, Mircea. The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy. 978-0226203904. Religious-philosophical interpretation of alchemy. von Franz, Marie-Louise. Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology. 978-0919123045. An introduction to the Jungian psychological interpretation of alchemy. #alchemy #marythejewess #hermetic

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Franciscus Aguilonius, Optica, 1611