cbi
Padawan Learner
In Alchemy, specifically in operative Hermeticism, there is a consistently reference to “Spiritus Mundi.” I've traced its origins to three possible sources, in chronologically order:
In order to provide more context to my question: When S.M. is collected on the flask —most of the Rosicrucian treatises call them Our Mercury incubating in the Philosophical Egg— there are another few steps to fetch the Stone of the Philosophers; then, if you repeat the process, you obtain The Philosopher's Stone. And if you can continue the cycle you may acquire the Transmutation Powder. In every cycle you'll need more S.M.
It would seem that the history of Hermeticism is closely related to the manufacture of glass and quartz. The ancient Greeks called it κρύσταλλος (krustallos), from which the modern word “crystal” comes and of course “Christo.” In addition to its remarkable hardness, one of the most astonishing properties of quartz is its ability to vibrate at precise frequencies and, perhaps, others capacities:
I found this session interesting because a few lines below, C's references Royal Raymond Rife: you can find in Eisen's Suppressed Inventions & Other Discoveries his harrowing ordeal inventing a biological microscope to observe living microorganisms at magnification considered impossible for his time, and for an “oscillating beam ray” invention, which could treat various ailments by “devitalizing pathogenic organisms” (cancer included) using radio waves. Incidentally, just as Gaston Naessens understands the biological model as pleomorphic... In short, Dr. Reich called them bions, Béchamp microzymas, and Naessens somatids: the very root of life. According to French physician Alain Scohy, in his recent book: Les microzymas, la révolution en Biologie, he discovered in the nucleus of microzymas a silica crystal identified as a five-sided crystal in somatids under a microscope.
So, Silicon (Si) seems to be the bridge between Alchemy, Hermeticism and Biological Life. I'd like to quote this Session because it seems to be related if Somatids can change from Virus to Bacterias and viceversa:
My question is —if I'm not in the wrong “track,”— what is the “track” to speed the recollection of Spiritus Mundi. There is an obscure reference in Les Demeures Philosophales (Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 3° ed., 1965, chap. Louis D'Estissac, § 1, pp. 241-242, footnote n° 3), where Fulcanelli repeatedly associates Alchemy with Music (and I translate): «It is not uncommon to find, in medieval texts, alchemy described as the Art of Music. This designation motivates the effigy of the two musicians that can be seen between the balusters that end the upper floor of the House of the Salamander in Lisieux. We have also seen them reproduced in the House of Adam and Eve, in Le Mans, and we can find them again, both in the cathedral of Amiens (musician kings of the upper gallery), and in the residence of the Counts of Champagne, commonly called the House of Musicians, in Reims. In the beautiful plates that illustrate the Amphitheatrum Sapientie Æeterne, by Henri Khunrath (1610), there is one that represents the interior of a sumptuous laboratory. In the middle, there is a table covered with musical instruments and scores. The Greek μουσικός comes from μούσες: muse, a word derived from μύθος: fable, apologue, allegory, which also means the spirit: the hidden meaning of a story.»
Do phonons have anything to do with this? How would they apply to the flask?
- Miriam the Prophetess (María la Judía), second century, from who we known the Bain-marie;
- Robert of Chester (Roberto el Castense) who translated in Spain Liber de compositione alchemiae from Arabic to Latin and then wrote Visio Arislei (the Dream of Arisleo);
- The Renaissance priest Marsilio Ficino who translated the Thot's Corpus Hermeticum (although scholar Isaac Casaubon in his philological analysis placed its origin in the third or fourth century C.E. by Christians monks); Ficino, in order to avoid any issues with the Inquisition, termed it as Spiritus Mundi and not Spiritus Sancti.
In order to provide more context to my question: When S.M. is collected on the flask —most of the Rosicrucian treatises call them Our Mercury incubating in the Philosophical Egg— there are another few steps to fetch the Stone of the Philosophers; then, if you repeat the process, you obtain The Philosopher's Stone. And if you can continue the cycle you may acquire the Transmutation Powder. In every cycle you'll need more S.M.
It would seem that the history of Hermeticism is closely related to the manufacture of glass and quartz. The ancient Greeks called it κρύσταλλος (krustallos), from which the modern word “crystal” comes and of course “Christo.” In addition to its remarkable hardness, one of the most astonishing properties of quartz is its ability to vibrate at precise frequencies and, perhaps, others capacities:
I found this session interesting because a few lines below, C's references Royal Raymond Rife: you can find in Eisen's Suppressed Inventions & Other Discoveries his harrowing ordeal inventing a biological microscope to observe living microorganisms at magnification considered impossible for his time, and for an “oscillating beam ray” invention, which could treat various ailments by “devitalizing pathogenic organisms” (cancer included) using radio waves. Incidentally, just as Gaston Naessens understands the biological model as pleomorphic... In short, Dr. Reich called them bions, Béchamp microzymas, and Naessens somatids: the very root of life. According to French physician Alain Scohy, in his recent book: Les microzymas, la révolution en Biologie, he discovered in the nucleus of microzymas a silica crystal identified as a five-sided crystal in somatids under a microscope.
So, Silicon (Si) seems to be the bridge between Alchemy, Hermeticism and Biological Life. I'd like to quote this Session because it seems to be related if Somatids can change from Virus to Bacterias and viceversa:
My question is —if I'm not in the wrong “track,”— what is the “track” to speed the recollection of Spiritus Mundi. There is an obscure reference in Les Demeures Philosophales (Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 3° ed., 1965, chap. Louis D'Estissac, § 1, pp. 241-242, footnote n° 3), where Fulcanelli repeatedly associates Alchemy with Music (and I translate): «It is not uncommon to find, in medieval texts, alchemy described as the Art of Music. This designation motivates the effigy of the two musicians that can be seen between the balusters that end the upper floor of the House of the Salamander in Lisieux. We have also seen them reproduced in the House of Adam and Eve, in Le Mans, and we can find them again, both in the cathedral of Amiens (musician kings of the upper gallery), and in the residence of the Counts of Champagne, commonly called the House of Musicians, in Reims. In the beautiful plates that illustrate the Amphitheatrum Sapientie Æeterne, by Henri Khunrath (1610), there is one that represents the interior of a sumptuous laboratory. In the middle, there is a table covered with musical instruments and scores. The Greek μουσικός comes from μούσες: muse, a word derived from μύθος: fable, apologue, allegory, which also means the spirit: the hidden meaning of a story.»
Do phonons have anything to do with this? How would they apply to the flask?
