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Summary
Spiritual Alchemy traces the early-modern antecedents of modern alchemy through generations of followers of Jacob Boehme, the cobbler and theosopher of G?rlitz. As Boehme's disciples down the generations -- including the Silesian nobleman Abraham von Franckenberg and the London-based German immigrant Dionysius Andreas Freher, among others -- studied his writings, they drew on his spiritual alchemy, adapted it, and communicated it to their contemporaries. Spiritual alchemy combines traditional elements of alchemical literature with Christian mysticism. Defying the boundaries between science and religion, this combination was transmitted from G?rlitz ultimately to England. In 1850, it inspired a young woman, later known as Mary Anne Atwood, to write her Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery, usually seen as the first modern interpretation of alchemy. Drawing extensively on manuscript or otherwise obscure sources, Zuber documents continuity between pre-modern and modern forms of alchemy while exploring this hybrid phenomenon.
Author Biography
Mike A. Zuber is a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. He received his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam in 2017. Before joining the University of Queensland, he pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford with funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
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
List of Works Cited
Index
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