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Hey I’m CT. I study magic, mysticism, esoterica, cults, conspiracy theories, and con-artists, and I post about it here.

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theburlapwizard asked:

Hello Cryptotheism! I've been wanting to do some reading about the history of alchemy, and how alchemists believed that their studies interacted with physical/spiritual properties of their materials. Do you have any particular recommendations? I am mostly looking for western/middle eastern, but would be interested to see some comparisons between that and some more eastern schools of thought.

cryptotheism answered:

That’s hard because there isn’t much acessible literature on the history of alchemy or the practices of the Alchemists. I highly recommend Becoming Gold by Dr. Shannon Grimes. As for works on islamicate alchemy thats gonna be a lot trickier. Honestly if you get through becoming Gold I might recommend reading a translation of Secretum Secretorum? Maybe?

hagiomoto

For Islamicate alchemy...look up for anything that has to do with Jabir Ibn Hayyan and Muḥammad ibn Umail.

cryptotheism

Cosigned. See I was gonna reccomend the Jabirian corpus but it’s like 100 different authors who often conflict with each other, and that might be confusing for a new reader. It’s also huge, and represents the bulk of islamicate alchemical thought.

Ibn Umail might be a safe introductory choice because he was writing pretty early in the translation movement where alchemy really hit the Islamicate world.

Abu Bakr al-Razi (Guy who wrote Sirr al Asrar, Secret Book of Secrets) was basically writing textbooks for other alchemists, which imo makes him more approachable. He’s also very influenced by Alexandrian alchemy, so starting with Becoming Gold (which is about Zosimos of Panopolis) it might be an easier entry point.

Id say hit al-Razi first, then Ibn Umail, then the Jabirian Corpus more broadly. THEN you can hit Liber de Composition, which was the first alchemical text translated from Arabic into Latin. Which will be a good entry point for late medieval European alchemy.

Hi Anne!

theburlapwizard asked:

Hello Cryptotheism! I've been wanting to do some reading about the history of alchemy, and how alchemists believed that their studies interacted with physical/spiritual properties of their materials. Do you have any particular recommendations? I am mostly looking for western/middle eastern, but would be interested to see some comparisons between that and some more eastern schools of thought.

That’s hard because there isn’t much acessible literature on the history of alchemy or the practices of the Alchemists. I highly recommend Becoming Gold by Dr. Shannon Grimes. As for works on islamicate alchemy thats gonna be a lot trickier. Honestly if you get through becoming Gold I might recommend reading a translation of Secretum Secretorum? Maybe?

Anonymous asked:

Have you ever actually finished writing a story

Many times! I am a firm believer in “no backspaces until the first draft is done.” I think new writers get too in their own heads and don’t allow their first draft to be bad. Save perfectionism for the edit!