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| Date: | 1987 |
| Title: | THE PORTRAIT OF A MEDIEVAL ALCHEMIST WITH SYMBOLS OF ELEMENTS IMITATING CREATION |
| Contributor: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Author: | North Nazimabad S. Mahdihassan Block A |
| Description: | ABSTRACT: This paper depicts e paraphernalia of an alchemist who believed in imitating creation and generating a soul thereby. The magic wands of creation are a compass and a triangular carpenter’s square. They can produce the dual natured soul Ruh or Spirit symbolized as Cock and Nafs of “the soul ” as snake: The real creative energy by nature is ultrasonic energy, characterizing the word of command of the creator. Ultrasonic energy can be produced by fiddle which is depicted also as such a producer. Thus all the elements necessary to imitate creation have been depicted here. The portrait is of the medieval Italian alchemist, Giovanni Capponi, fig. 1, taken from Schouten’s who probably lived at the time of Dante when alchemy was believed to be the art that imitated creation. In fact Solomon Trismosin (8) who was the teacher of Paracelsus in alchemy maintained that “the secret of Arinestic science is “ovulknowledge” |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/76986 |
| Other Identifier: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.270.2121 |
| AMAD ID: | 568128 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
