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The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy

by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart

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  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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Introduction 1.China - The Golden Road to Immortality 2. India - The Way of Tantra and Mercury 3. Roman Egypt - The White and the Yellow Arising from Blackness 4. The Islamic World - Balance and Magic Numbers 5. Medieval Europe - Translations, Debates and Symbols 6. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Pretension, Fraud and Redeeming the World 7. The Rosicrucian Episode and its Aftermath 8. Theology Wearing a Mask of Science - the later Seventeenth Century 9. Alchemy in an Age of Self-Absorption - the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 10. A Child of Earlier Times - the Twentieth Century.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism, Asian esoteric and internal traditions, Initiatory orders and secret societies, and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the description and “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magic”· in description
    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the title, “Alchemy” in the description, “Alchemy” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “alchemy”· via OpenAlex
    • “Alchemy”· in title
    • “Alchemy”· in description
    • “Alchemy”· in subject
    • “Alchemy”· in edition title
  • Initiatory orders and secret societies

    Retained metadata contains “rosicrucian” in the description.

    • “rosicrucian”· in description
  • Asian esoteric and internal traditions

    Retained metadata contains “tantra” in the description.

    • “tantra”· in description

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Editions

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OpenAlex scholarly book record

2008-05-15Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology; Medical Entomology and ZoologyEnglish—Unknown

Subjects

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