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Mraugh. Don't wanna be awake, contemplating going back to sleep. Laundry and cleaning to be done, damn it. I want to be able to afford my own 'net again so I'm not tied to my bedroom.
Things I learned last night:
+ The Mutus Liber was authored by Pierre Dujols, in the mid-to-late 1880s. I thought the book was older than that, really - the copy I have is just scans of the images, put in the middle of a book *about* alchemy. Wouldn't mind a real copy eventually.
+ The name of the book of Abraham the Jew, the book that the angel led Nicholas Flamel to and supposedly held the secret of the Philosopher's Stone, is Aschmezareph. I don't even want to try to say that. xD;
+ That it was Charles-Francois Dupuy who pointed out that the Notre Dame cathedral's sculptures contain teaching on science, art and philosophy, and saved it from destruction during the French Revolution. Additionally, Victor Hugo was the one who changed public opinion on the cathedral and by doing so, they were able to start renovations.
It's kind of amusing to see how prevalent alchemy and esoterisicism were at the turn of the century. It makes sense in a way, but there were so many people all interconnected to alchemy - it makes it hard to separate the people who were bandwagon-interested and actually interested. From what I've seen there aren't any new treatise or the like after the late 1930s - they're all just rehashes and translations of older ones. I think the common notion is that the sudden drastic leaps in technology make alchemy in general moot, and that's just not fun. :P
At any rate, now I'm looking for copies of The Mystery of the Cathedrals and The Dwellings of the Philosophers ... too lazy to look up their proper titles in French. I'm sure I can find them about on the internet, but again with my desire to actually own copies of books.
Now, laundry! And outlining a bit for Nano. Seems Sceptre won the vote unanimously, so, uh. angelic war it is! ...I ought to start putting together playlists.
Things I learned last night:
+ The Mutus Liber was authored by Pierre Dujols, in the mid-to-late 1880s. I thought the book was older than that, really - the copy I have is just scans of the images, put in the middle of a book *about* alchemy. Wouldn't mind a real copy eventually.
+ The name of the book of Abraham the Jew, the book that the angel led Nicholas Flamel to and supposedly held the secret of the Philosopher's Stone, is Aschmezareph. I don't even want to try to say that. xD;
+ That it was Charles-Francois Dupuy who pointed out that the Notre Dame cathedral's sculptures contain teaching on science, art and philosophy, and saved it from destruction during the French Revolution. Additionally, Victor Hugo was the one who changed public opinion on the cathedral and by doing so, they were able to start renovations.
It's kind of amusing to see how prevalent alchemy and esoterisicism were at the turn of the century. It makes sense in a way, but there were so many people all interconnected to alchemy - it makes it hard to separate the people who were bandwagon-interested and actually interested. From what I've seen there aren't any new treatise or the like after the late 1930s - they're all just rehashes and translations of older ones. I think the common notion is that the sudden drastic leaps in technology make alchemy in general moot, and that's just not fun. :P
At any rate, now I'm looking for copies of The Mystery of the Cathedrals and The Dwellings of the Philosophers ... too lazy to look up their proper titles in French. I'm sure I can find them about on the internet, but again with my desire to actually own copies of books.
Now, laundry! And outlining a bit for Nano. Seems Sceptre won the vote unanimously, so, uh. angelic war it is! ...I ought to start putting together playlists.