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Primordial Alchemy and Modern Religion
Essays on Traditional Cosmology
Taschenbuch von R. Blackhirst (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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Of all the traditional sciences it is alchemy-based as it is in metallurgy-that is directly concerned with the coming of the industrial order. In alchemical terms modern man lives in the Ferric Age and his state is best analogized to the properties of the metal iron, hard, cold, unbending but quick to succumb to corrosion and rust. The great ancient wisdom traditions of the world all anticipated this present age for it was already implicit in the technological and other changes that brought on the dawn of history. These ancient traditions - dismissed as childish superstitions by the scientist-contain ideas essential to the self-understanding that contemporary man so desperately needs. This is the central contention of the writings brought together in Primordial Alchemy & Modern Religion. Drawing upon many unexpected sources-especially Plato and the ancient Greeks-these wide-ranging, generous essays provide timely reiterations of ancient alchemical traditions and trace some pivotal themes that have continued in the theology and symbolism of the modern religions. This work restores some important keys for the recovery of a lost heritage of primordial wisdom, offering fresh perspectives on aspects of the Western and Islamic alchemical traditions in particular, and at the same time exploring the most distant roots of the modern impasse.
Of all the traditional sciences it is alchemy-based as it is in metallurgy-that is directly concerned with the coming of the industrial order. In alchemical terms modern man lives in the Ferric Age and his state is best analogized to the properties of the metal iron, hard, cold, unbending but quick to succumb to corrosion and rust. The great ancient wisdom traditions of the world all anticipated this present age for it was already implicit in the technological and other changes that brought on the dawn of history. These ancient traditions - dismissed as childish superstitions by the scientist-contain ideas essential to the self-understanding that contemporary man so desperately needs. This is the central contention of the writings brought together in Primordial Alchemy & Modern Religion. Drawing upon many unexpected sources-especially Plato and the ancient Greeks-these wide-ranging, generous essays provide timely reiterations of ancient alchemical traditions and trace some pivotal themes that have continued in the theology and symbolism of the modern religions. This work restores some important keys for the recovery of a lost heritage of primordial wisdom, offering fresh perspectives on aspects of the Western and Islamic alchemical traditions in particular, and at the same time exploring the most distant roots of the modern impasse.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781597310833
ISBN-10: 1597310832
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Blackhirst, R.
Blackhirst, Rodney
Hersteller: Sophia Perennis
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: R. Blackhirst (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2008
Gewicht: 0,522 kg
Artikel-ID: 109669207
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781597310833
ISBN-10: 1597310832
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Blackhirst, R.
Blackhirst, Rodney
Hersteller: Sophia Perennis
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: R. Blackhirst (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2008
Gewicht: 0,522 kg
Artikel-ID: 109669207
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