Frater Robert

Honoured to be speaking at the Hermopolis Symposium next month - first time in Egypt and with such inspiring company! 🤲🌅 New website and full details here: hermopolis-foundation.org/sy…

Paid our respects to Joséphin Péladan today 🙏🌹 The role of the Adepts is to ensure there will always be colour, despite all that seeks to dull our sight.

Excited for the New Hermopolis Conference in October! Blessed to be in the company of so many inspiring people. I’ll be speaking on the resurgence of sacred imagination and how we can learn from the alchemical tradition to bring about new forms of utopian society. Onwards! 🙏🌅

The Work of the Moon and the Operation of the Sun 🌙 🌞

Scala Philosophorum showing both the Lapis and Elixir, alongside the Arbor Philosophorum 🙏🌹 Per the pseudo-Lullian alchemical texts depicted in Mellon MS 12, Yale University Library (c.1500)

I see what you’re saying and it’s indeed similar to an Ens. But not all crystals are ‘Stones’. video here shows it, as you have likely seen before: youtu.be/z3jTZWoAEug?si=zYvi… But I’m curious if you think this tracks with any specific description/s of the process for the Stone?

Translation of that page courtesy of GPT

Interestingly in Dee’s diary of 1588 he mentions that Kelley was distilling sericon (from Halliwell, 1842, p26) Greek text below on 19th translates to “he concluded wise, accounted with friends, under divine protection.” And then Dee’s son was born on the 28th! Wonderful stuff

They don’t for everything, it’s referred to as the fire against nature. Not nice for things you will consume. Highly recommend you read Experimental Fire by Jennifer Rampling, she lays it all out clearly. Also read Ripley’s Medulla Alchymiae: levity.com/alchemy/ripley_me…

I’d actually recommend starting with his videos, he does a whole series on lab alchemy mostly focused on Lull/Ripley. youtu.be/xBaR7yNyEqA?si=fivS…

After experiencing so much on the trail of Julius Sachse and his accounts of early theosophical communities in Pennsylvania, it was genuinely moving to visit his resting place… …among many family members inc. the Sadtlers, a generational dynasty of ‘renowned chemists’ 🙏🌹

Go down the Lull/Ripley track and you’ll see alternatives. If you watch the talk here, Frater Alistair talks through the first Coronatio steps… starting around 52min youtu.be/IKivFh25xEI?si=ycy6… It’s important not to mix paths when sourcing texts in alchemy, it can confuse things.

Wonderful manuscript in the PA Grand Lodge, a rare French precursor c.1760s to the Geheime Figuren… or ‘Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians’. This version is a link between the DOMA and Geheime documents, with its own unique pages showing the symbolism of alchemical birds. 🙏🌹

Have to say, the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania has the most impressive lodge rooms I’ve seen anywhere in the world… putting aside the Grand Temple at UGLE 🙌 Wonderful tour and more on the library visit soon! 🌅

Was in the archives in PA looking at a precursor French version today in fact 😆🌅

Spent today in the woods around the Wissahickon, visiting the cave of 17th century alchemist and mystic Johannes Kelpius. Unlikely to be the specific cave he would meditate in, but you can feel their spirit still resides here, surrounded by the streets of Philadelphia. 🙏🌹

You really can go and request them at Wellcome, there will be other U.K. libraries with versions too Archives are so much fun 🌅