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Here’s an Alchemical Map of the Path to Enlightenment

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by Jason Louv
Ultraculture

An incredible image of the search for the Philosopher’s Stone from Heinrich Khunrath’s Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae, 1595

The alchemical picture below is taken from Heinrich Khunrath’s Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae, from circa 1595 AD. The text surrounding it is in Latin. Khunrath, a practicing alchemist, is considered by some to be the link between the magician John Dee and the birth of Rosicrucianism. (For more on this fascinating period of history, check out Ultraculture’s book The Angelic Reformation.)

Alchemy, of course, was much more than the material quest to transform lead into gold. It was a metaphorical system of turning unenlightened humans into enlightened ones, of turning the lead of the base human state into the gold of spiritual awakening—or, at least, that’s one interpretation. Clearly that’s what Khunrath is talking about with the image below:

Here’s a translation of the Latin text, via Dr. Heather Lynn:

Recognize the nature of, universally, and particularly out of the book of the Most Holy Scripture: Nature of Him who is, and the greater World, the whole: and they shall be less than the World, this is a man, for instance, and according to their own spirit, and the body: in short, or mediately, from the angels to the good , either directly, in the mirror of your mind cleansed, from God himself: theosophice; naturalists physicomedice; physicochemice; physicomagice; hyperphysicomagice; cabalice.
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