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Spiritual achemy : from Jacob Boehme to Mary Anne Atwood, 1600-1910 / Mike A. Zuber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zuber, Mike A., author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in Western esotericism.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in Western esotericism
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and science--History.
- Religion and science.
- Mysticism--History.
- Mysticism.
- Alchemy--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Alchemy.
- Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
- Böhme, Jakob.
- Atwood, Mary Anne, 1817-1910.
- Atwood, Mary Anne.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- 'Spiritual Alchemy' traces the early-modern antecedents of modern alchemy through generations of followers of Jacob Boehme, the cobbler and theosopher of Görlitz. Spiritual alchemy combines traditional elements of alchemical literature with Christian mysticism. In 1850, it inspired Mary Anne Atwood to write her landmark 'Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery', usually seen as the first modern interpretation of alchemy. Drawing extensively on manuscript and otherwise obscure sources, Zuber challenges the received wisdom that posits a rupture between pre-modern and modern forms of alchemy.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Spiritual Alchemy
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions
- Introduction
- 1. The Radical Reformation, Paracelsian Networks, and Pseudo-.Weigelian Alchemy
- 2. A Nuremberg Chymist and a Torgau Astrologer Read Pseudo-.Weigel
- 3. Jacob Boehme's Spiritual Alchemy of Rebirth
- 4. Abraham von Franckenberg and the Ancient Wisdom of Rebirth
- 5. Georg Lorenz Seidenbecher, Franckenberg's Spiritual and Philosophical Son
- 6. Friedrich Breckling, the 1682 Boehme Edition, and Spiritual Alchemy
- 7. Collaboration, Counterfeit, and Calumny in Amsterdam
- 8. Dionysius Andreas Freher, Boehme's Apostle to the English
- 9. Mesmerists and Alchemists in Victorian London
- 10. Mary Anne Atwood and Her First Readers
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-007306-3
- 0-19-007307-1
- 0-19-007305-5
- OCLC:
- 1273979084
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