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The quest for the phoenix : spiritual alchemy and Rosicrucianism in the work of Count Michael Maier (1569-1622) /
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| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
2003.
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| Colección: | Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte ;
88. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- I. Introduction: Jung and Early Modern Alchemy
- 1. The alchemical chimera
- 2. The reception of Jung amongst historians of alchemy
- 3. The arguments of Principe and Newman
- 4. The origins of Jung�s alchemy and the work of Richard Noll
- 5. �Secret threads�: the seventeenth century �Carl Jung of Mainz� and Count Michael Maier
- 6. Spiritual alchemy, Rosicrucianism and the work of Count Michael Maier
- II. Maier�s Formative Years
- 1. The context of Maier�s life and thought
- 2. Auguries of fortune: Maier�s childhood and parentage
- 3. The influence of Governor Heinrich Rantzau4. Galenism and Maier�s studies at Frankfurt an der Oder
- 5. �First love and grief�: Maier�s peregrinatio academica
- 6. The theses on epilepsy
- 7. Contact with the arcana
- 8. Maier�s first alchemical experiment
- III. Bohemia and England
- 1. Maier at the court of Emperor Rudolf II
- 2. The Hymnosophia
- 3. The reversal of fortune
- 4. The most secret of secrets
- 5. A �Rosicrucian mission� to England?
- 6. The seventeenth rung of the alchemical ladder and the art of gold-making
- 7. A journey to England8. Francis Anthony and the �drinkable gold�
- 9. The Golden Tripod: “Truth is concealed under the cover of shadows�
- IV. The Rosicrucian �Imposture�
- 1. Illness and a chance encounter
- 2. The origins of Rosicrucianism and the Leipzig Manuscript of Michael Maier
- 3. Johann Valentin Andreae and the nature of the Order
- 4. The serious jest
- 5. An invitation to Rosicrucians, wherever they may lie hidden
- 6. Uncovering the true Brethren
- 7. Defining Rosicrucianism: Silentium post Clamores and the Themis Aurea
- 8. Regni Christi frater. Maier�s �entrance into the Order�V. The Completion of the Work
- 1. The squaring of the natural circle
- 2. Maier and the Calvinist court of Moritz of Hessen-Kassel
- 3. Millennialism, nationalism and the descent into war
- 4. The Civitas Corporis Humani � procuring a medicine of piety
- 5. Ulysses and the death of Maier
- 6. The phoenix and the return of the long-absent traveller
- VI. Conclusion: Maier and the Historiography of Alchemy
- 1. Piety and the coniunctio oppositorum
- 2. Chymia and alchemia
- 3. The �Tradition� and the fate of Maier�s thought4. Alchemy and the re-emergence of Rosicrucianism
- 5. The historiography of alchemy
- Bibliography
- Index
- Illustrations