Swedenborg, a Hermetic Philosopher: Being a Sequel to Remarks of Alchemy and the Alchemists (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen

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ISBN 10: 1440069115 ISBN 13: 9781440069116

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2015

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Excerpt from Swedenborg, a Hermetic Philosopher: Being a Sequel to Remarks of Alchemy and the Alchemists

In my Remarks, I °did not attempt to point out precisely the nature of this philosophy, as such an attempt would have been the height of presumption. That which I chiefly intended, was simply to show from Alchemic books, some of the conditions set forth by the Alchemists themselves, though very mystically and obscure ly, as indispensably requisite in him who would possess the philosopher's stone.

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Asmodeus with so many that the few who escape delusion are mystical, not to say mythical, beings who are supposed to have lived upon dreams. I propose now, without pretending to solve the problem, to suggest the true difficulty in the study, which I take to be this, that the Alpha in the art is also the Omega, and the Omega the Alpha, and the two are one. Hence the difficulty is something like that of finding the commencement of a circle. Another mode of suggesting the difficulty is by saying that the object is analogous to an attempt to discover the place of that force in nature called gravity or gravitation. In mechanical calculations this force or power is referred to a certain centre, called the centre of gravity; yet every one knows that the absolute centre is a mere point and physically nothing at all, yet there is no particle of matter free from the influence of this power, and every, the most infinitesimal particle, has its own centre. So is it with what the Hermetic philosophers call their Mercuryr, which they say is everywhere seen in action, but nowhere in essence.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1440069115
• ISBN 13: 9781440069116
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 364