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[zophiel666]

I've been reading David Goddard's The Tower of Alchemy. I've had it for a while here on my work shelves, and when the email server went offline earlier (which screwed up other programs as well), I pulled it down and started reading.

It's good. If I were the editor, I woulda said "Look, you can't talk about the student performing a mudra all of a

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[madmaggie]

I think, having done Aquinas and Theresa, that it is pretty historically conclusive that neither spent time practicing outside of the Roman Catholic realm. It is true, of course, that writings and theories cross over one another. (I mean geeze I never would have written the Theresa/Merkabah paper, it theological thought did not have a common arena) But I think Aquinas would have been appalled at being called an alchemist just as Theresa would have gone into rigid penance knowing her writings related to early Kabbalah. Although, now that I think of it, I think somewhere Aquinas wrote something on Alchemy and gold, from the context of if one were able to produce gold would it be morally just to sell it, but I think it is a stretch to jump from that to him being a practitioner. Ne?

[theocracy]

Considering Thomas was a student of Albertus Magnus, I do not think we can discount out of hand how he would have felt about the issue ... I think it necessitates more delving.
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