Take a look at Psychology and Alchemy by Jung. Apart from being an
excellent book it has a substantial bibliography.
Regards,
Morgan Leigh
Ty Falk wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I'm writing because I require some assistance on a little project I'm
> working on. It is far larger in scope then anything I've attempted
> before. One of the aspects of mysticism that I've begun to teach as a
> normal part of my coursework is that of Alchemy, both as a system for
> internal change, as well as an external pseudoscience and system of
> allegory. The more I read about it, the more fascinating it becomes.
> What I noticed, however, is that, at least from what I've seen, the
> treatment of alchemy and the people who practice it is always as a
> side note in some other context, such as the exodus from Spain as a
> result of the Inquisition. I have yet to really come across anything
> that gives alchemy real spotlight treatment (granted, I've only really
> begun to traverse some of my newer sources). I want to do something
> that gives a relatively scholarly history of the concept from the
> scientific as well as mystical aspects, with a second section on
> practical application for the modern practitioner.
>
> Now I can handle the section on application well enough, it's the
> historical portion I'm finding daunting. I think the sort of
> symbolic/interpretive approach of, among others, Geertz, will be
> rather useful for doing this because of how allegorical and symbolic
> the tradition of Alchemy is. And I'm not above splashing some other
> theory here and there where needed. So in that vein I had a few
> questions.
>
> Firstly, has this been done before? As I said I have found a few books, but they
> seem to either treat the subject as secondary, or be rather limited in
> scope. (I have The Alchemical Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century
> by Grossinger on order, just waiting for it to come in.)
>
> Other then Hutton's book "The Triumph of the Moon", Adler's "Drawing
> Down the Moon", and Barrett's "A Brief History of Secret Societies",
> are there any modern texts you would recommend on the subject or that
> you think would give me a better context in which to do my analysis? I
> was already shown from this very site:
> http://www.alchemy-bibliography.co.uk/newthismonth.shtml
>
> There is a fair bit of occult literature that is circulated in
> electronic form. For example, one of the classic texts is "The
> Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz". This can be a difficult
> book to find a printed copy of, but is readily available on line from
> sites such as:
>
> http://www.sacred-texts.com/ and
> http://www.alchemywebsite.com/index.html
>
>
> How concerned should I be about being able to find physical copies to
> cite with regards to some of these texts? How should I treat different
> editions or translations?With regards to sources, how deep should I go
> check validity? Should I go back to a sources' sources'? Or would just
> the sources of the book I'm using suffice?
>
> Anything else you can think off of the top of your head, people or
> resource wise, that might be of use to me?
>
> Preciate it!
>
> Ty Falk
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> Erisian
> Anthropologist
> Grand Rapids, MI
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