Bøger af Adam McLean

Henry More (1614-1687) the English poet and philosopher of religion was the best known of the Cambridge Platonists.He wrote entensively on the Cabala and in these pieces appended to his 'Metaphysical Essay' of 1748, he explores the Cabbalistic ideas of the Mercava, or chariot mysticism.This section he entitled "Doctor Henry More's short and faithful paraphrase on Ezekiel's vision of the Mercava (or Chariot of the God of Israel) representing emblematically the kingdom of the Messiah, and the revolution of souls through the Four Worlds or states of Aziluth, Briah, Jetzirah, and Asiah, from the Hebrew ."

Thomas Vaughan (1621-66) was a mid 17th century mystical philisopher, alchemist and Rosicrucian apologist. He wrote over ten substanstial works on these subjects.The Anthroposophica Theomagia is his earliest published work, being printed in 1648. He wrote under the pseudonym of Eugenius Philalethes.This book investigates the nature of Man within the context of the creation story in Genesis, and explores the relationship between Man and God.The 17th century English has been modernised by Adam McLean.

A detailed survey of the truth or falsity of the phenomenon of Chrysopeiea, the "art of goldmaking."A closely argued mid eighteenth century account of alchemy.Transcribed into modern English by Adam McLean.

William Yworth (- 1715) was an Anglo-Dutch distiller, alchemist, and physician who collaborated with Isaac Newton. He wrote a number of tracts on distilling and alchemy. Two of his alchemical works, Mercury′s Caducean Rod (1702) and Trifertes Sagani, or Immortal Dissolvent (1705) appeared under the pseudonym Cleidophorus Mystagogus. Cleidophorus is the Latinized form of the Greek kleidophoros, meaning "key bearer," and Mystagogus is, of course, a Latin term for a mystagogue.Edited into modern English by Adam McLean.

Centrum naturæ concentratum: or the salt of nature regenerated. For the most part improperly called the philosopher's stone... Done into English, 1696. By a lover of the hermetick science.Text edited into modern English by Adam McLean

Johann de Monte-Snyder (1625-c.1670) was the author of a number of much respected alchemical texts. Adam McLean transcribed this work into modern English from an incomplete manuscript translation of the original German text, and translated anew from the printed version some sections missing in the manuscript.It is an elaborate alchemical allegory, with some astounding imagery. Isaac Newton was much impressed by this work and struggled to grasp its imagery

Exhibition CatalogueStudio and Gallery, Kilbirnie, May 2023.

John Webster (1610-1682) was a mid seventeenth-century chemical writer, best known for his detailed analysis and description of the properties and extraction of metals. Though drawn to a chemical approach he could not ignore the alchemical ideas of transmutation, and in the final chapter of his book Metallographia: or, an history of metals, he explores the nature of transmutation and tries to bring it within his chemical model of metals.

In 1755 the most comprehensive listing of alchemical symbols was published at Ulm in Germany, the 'Medicinisch-chymisch- und alchemistisches Oraculum'. The book consists of a series of thirty four full page engravings of 1829 symbols with the names in Latin and German overprinted in letterpress. There are 359 entries with multiple graphic images associated with each entry. Some ten years ago Adam McLean placed these images onto his alchemy web site. A number of people then asked him to provide explanations for the obscure terms, but he was not immediately able to find the time to do this. At the end of 2013 he had the idea of issuing this in book form, and after a few months editorial work and research this has resulted in the present volume in the Hermetic Studies series.

A Deusa é um dos arquétipos mais eternos da psique humana. Ela sempre está ao nosso lado, mesmo quando desprezada, reprimida ou negada exteriormente como em nosso mundo atual. Este livro é um valioso recurso para quem se interessa pela natureza do Feminino Sagrado que reside dentro de nós. Ele descreve e examina a estrutura da Deusa Tríplice e mostra como, mediante o relacionamento com esse arquétipo, as mulheres (bem como os homens) podem vencer e compensar a tendência interior de dualismo alinhando suas energias dentro de si, por meio da unificação com os três aspectos do ser: corpo, alma e espírito. O autor Adam Mclean apresenta também uma visão inédita das várias deusas da Antiguidade.