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El mundo esta lleno de riatadas

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You're conducting a dangerous research

Remember to bring sweets

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Some concept art for The Nightmare Before Christmas in celebration of the movie’s 25th anniversary.

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patmcgrathreal on ig

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Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.

J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition (via quotespile)

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Paracelsus, the physician

The 1567 “Rosicrucian” portrait

Paracelsus, born in 1493 was a Swiss astrologer, physician and an alchemist of the German Renaissance. He was a pioneer in many aspects of the ‘medical revolution’ of the Renaissance; emphasised the value in combing observation with received wisdom. Many of his teachings were based on the relation of human body and organs to the universe and stars, much like in ancient spiritual beliefs. Although his teachings have been widely influential in the medical field many of his findings came from a mystical understanding of human nature and that of the universe. I decided to research the physicians point of view after reading an essay by Carl Jung on the nature of his thought process.

Paracelsus’ ideas were closely tied to Hermetic beliefs of harmony in the human body- the microcosm and universe- the macrocosm, therefore proposing that nature and humans are expressions of the same essence.  The physician would highlight the importance on knowing the correlation of stars to the human body parts and organs and their effects on the areas. Paracelsus viewed the universe as one coherent organism controlled by a conscious life giving spirit.

Because everything in the universe was interrelated, important medical substances could be found in minerals, herbs and chemical combinations. 

‘’Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence. ‘’

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Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum – First published in 1652, this compilation of English alchemical literature was collected and annotated by Elias Ashmole. The book made available many works that had previously existed only in privately held manuscripts, and features alchemical verse from Geoffrey Chaucer, Edward Kelley, and John Dee, among others.

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Meteorologia philosophico-politica, 1698

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The Study Of Alchemy by aprologuetothechaos

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Samuel Norton, Mercurius Redivivus, 1630

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The Lectures of the Three Degrees in Craft Masonry, 1874

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Compendium Alchymist, 1706 

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by Joel Prittie

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by E.M. Engel

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by We Are All Corrupted

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