Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum -- Volume III

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Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum -- Volume III

Name: Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum -- Volume III
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CALA III: The Book of the Keys of the Work, Kitab Mafatih as-sana by Zosimos of Panopolis

Written by Theodor Abt, Salwa Fuat and Theodor Abt

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From the Introduction of the editor: The manuscript of Zosimoss Kitab Mafatih as-sana (The Book of the Keys of the Work), here presented as a facsimile together with a parallel English translation, makes this document accessible in a Western language for the first time. Although the scientific community has known of this book for almost a century, it has up to now remained difficult to obtain for study purposes. Yet this text is crucial for the history of alchemy and especially for a better understanding of the origins and the significance of symbolic alchemy, as will be demonstrated in the following [...] At the beginning of the Kitab Mafatih as-sana we read: "Zosimos, when he wrote about these treatises to Theosebeia, named them The Keys of the Work, and the completer (hatim) of what had been extracted as essence from its sciences. They (the ten keys) are for Theosebeia; it is the last thing that he wrote for her. And when she came across it, she understood the work." On the basis of arguments collected in the introduction to this book, one can conclusively say that it is a translation from a Greek original, and it can be considered as Zosimoses summa, the very essence of his teachings.

ISBN-13: 9783952388068
Publisher: Living Human Heritage Publ
Imprint: Living Human Heritage Publications
Publication date: 4 April 2017
Format: Hardback
Pages: 364
Dimensions: 230 x 155 mm
Illustrations: colour & b/w illus
Language: English