Subject: | | Re: alchemy as performance art (examples from a bluebook) |
From: | | "Gilbert Arnold" <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 09 Mar 2000 20:18:17 -0500 (EST)594_us-ascii Someone mentioned that these figures have odd tonsures. Since the precise nature of the celtic tonsure seems still to be very much an issue in some circles, are any of the photos good enough to tell us what the tonsures look like? meg
> I can't think of any other flashing clerics, but there are a few male > Sheelas, or rather Sean-na-gigs: at Ballycloghduff in West Meath on > the gatepost of an old mill, at Grey Abbey in Co Down, and at Margam > in Wales. To my knowledge, the literature has largely ignored these > male figures. [...]44_09Mar200020:18:17-0500(EST)[log in to unmask] |
Date: | | Thu, 09 Mar 2000 10:31:32 -0500 |
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Hello Dr.Porter,
I was Benedictine monk in southern France in theearly 70s. We ran a pharmaceutical processing unit. It was housed on a site that had been used for medecine making since the 1200s. Back then, medicine making was called alchemy. Because the west did not possess the biodeversity in medicinal plants that the east did, alot of emphasis was placed on searching for coumpounds to help sich people. A major tool was esterifications created by circulating organics on prepared metallic salts, for example.
Some of the coumpounds described in the "triumphant chariot of antimony" by Basil Valentine, OSB are still in use today.
Gilbert Arnold, P.Eng.
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