Description: Spagyrics by Manfred M. Junius A comprehensive alchemical guide to plant extractions and their health benefits. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A comprehensive alchemical guide to plant extractions and their health benefits • Shows how spagyric methods "open" medicinal plants completely to release powerful healing properties • Provides a history and philosophy of spagyrics that reveal why Western medicine fails to recognize the full benefit to health offered by plants • Connects spagyrics to classical alchemical, hermetic, and ayurvedic traditions The practice of spagyrics is the application of ancient alchemical working methods to the preparation of tinctures, essences, and other products from medicinal plants. While ordinary tinctures and infusions use only a part of the great curative potential of plants, spagyric methods "open" medicinal plants completely to reveal their more powerful healing properties. Drawing on the rich imagery and symbolism of ancient source materials, Manfred M. Junius describes these methods in great detail, showing readers how to prepare plant remedies alchemically for their own use as well as imparting a knowledge of the ideological world in which alchemistic and hermetic thought flowered. Spagyrics includes the Plant Magistery of Paracelsus and the Life Elixir recipe of Andreas Libavius among its historic techniques as well as a wealth of scientific information that demonstrates the greater efficacy of alchemical methods of plant essence extraction. This classic source text preserves the nearly forgotten but highly valuable methods of this true hermetic art for preparing natural remedies. Back Cover HERBS / ALCHEMY "Simply put, this is a classic text on plant alchemy, or spagyrics, for the modern practitioner. . . . Anyone serious about learning alchemy needs to have a copy." --Mark Stavish, director of the Institute of Hermetic Studies and author of The Path of AlchemyThe practice of spagyrics is the application of ancient alchemical working methods in the preparation of tinctures, essences, and other products from medicinal plants. While ordinary tinctures and infusions use only a part of the great curative potential of plants, spagyric methods "open" medicinal plants completely to reveal their more powerful healing properties. Drawing on the rich imagery and symbolism of ancient source materials, Manfred M. Junius describes these methods in great detail, showing readers how to prepare plant remedies alchemically for their own use as well as imparting a knowledge of the ideological world in which alchemistic and hermetic thought flowered. Spagyrics includes the Plant Magistery of Paracelsus and the Life Elixir recipe of Andreas Libavius among its historic techniques as well as a wealth of scientific information that demonstrates the greater efficacy of alchemical methods of plant essence extraction. This classic source text preserves the nearly forgotten but highly valuable methods of this true hermetic art for preparing natural remedies.MANFRED M. JUNIUS (1929-2004) was a professor of biology at the University of Calcutta and later served as the production manager for spagyrics for Australerba Laboratories in Australia. He was also head of the Australian School of Ayurveda in Adelaide, Australia. His Western alchemical knowledge was obtained through many years of personalinstruction from Augusto Pincaldi in Switzerland. Author Biography Professor Manfred M. Junius (1929-2004) served as the production manager for spagyrics for Australerba Laboratories and was head of the Australian School of Ayurveda in Adelaide, Australia. His Western alchemical knowledge was obtained through many years of personal instruction from Augusto Pincaldi in Switzerland. Table of Contents FOREWORD BY BRIAN COTNOIR PREFACE1 SPAGYRIA AND SPAGYRICS 2 ADVICE OF BASILIUS VALENTINUS 3 THE THREE PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES AND THE ELEMENTS 4 MERCURY, SULFUR, AND SALT IN THE PLANT WORLD 5 THE EXTRACTION OF THE THREE PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES FROM PLANTS The Extraction of the Essential Oils, That Is, of the Volatile Sulfur Mercury Fixed Sulfur and Its Salt Salt 6 THE STARS The Foundations Stars and Medicinal Plants Days, Hours, and Rhythms of the Planets The Exact Horoscope as the Basis for the Works 7 PREPARATION OF SPAGYRIC TINCTURES AND ESSENCES 8 CIRCULATION 9 THE PLANT MAGISTERY OF PARACELSUS 10 THE CIRCULATUM MINUS OF URBIGERUS 11 ELIXIR--CLYSSUS--VEGETABLE STONE The Opus Vegetabile of M. Johannes Issac Hollandus Tractatus de Quinta Essentia Vini 12 ALCHEMICAL SIGNS AND SYMBOLS 13 OLD WEIGHTS EPILOGUE: HOW CAN WE HEAL? NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY SPAGYRIC RESOURCESINDEX Review "Simply put, this is a classic text on plant alchemy, or spagyrics, for the modern practitioner. . . . Anyone serious about learning alchemy needs to have a copy." * Mark Stavish, director of the Institute of Hermetic Studies and author of The Path of Alchemy *"What makes Juniuss book so special is that it is a practical primer on the subject. Traditional methods are presented as well as more modernized suggestions, but all within the strict confines of tradition. . . . Highly recommended." * Cauldron Brasil, May 2007 *If youve always been curious about the real nature of alchemy, this book will help you in that search. If you are looking for more holistic ways to heal, this book will supply many thought-provoking guidelines. It will be cherished by those already familiar with the subject matter, and represents a bold undertaking by its author." * Barbara Bamgerger Scott, Curled Up With a Good Book, Oct 2008 *"The word means to draw out and divide, a basic principle of alchemy. The techniques date back at least to Paracelsus and have been said to release powerful healing properties from plants." * The American Herb Association, 24:4, February 2010 * Long Description A comprehensive alchemical guide to plant extractions and their health benefits - Shows how spagyric methods "open" medicinal plants completely to release powerful healing properties - Provides a history and philosophy of spagyrics that reveal why Western medicine fails to recognize the full benefit to health offered by plants - Connects spagyrics to classical alchemical, hermetic, and ayurvedic traditions The practice of spagyrics is the application of ancient alchemical working methods to the preparation of tinctures, essences, and other products from medicinal plants. While ordinary tinctures and infusions use only a part of the great curative potential of plants, spagyric methods "open" medicinal plants completely to reveal their more powerful healing properties. Drawing on the rich imagery and symbolism of ancient source materials, Manfred M. Junius describes these methods in great detail, showing readers how to prepare plant remedies alchemically for their own use as well as imparting a knowledge of the ideological world in which alchemistic and hermetic thought flowered. Spagyrics includes the Plant Magistery of Paracelsus and the Life Elixir recipe of Andreas Libavius among its historic techniques as well as a wealth of scientific information that demonstrates the greater efficacy of alchemical methods of plant essence extraction. This classic source text preserves the nearly forgotten but highly valuable methods of this true hermetic art for preparing natural remedies. Review Quote "What makes Juniuss book so special is that it is a practical primer on the subject. Traditional methods are presented as well as more modernized suggestions, but all within the strict confines of tradition. . . . Highly recommended." Excerpt from Book from Chapter 1 SPAGYRIA AND SPAGYRICS Therefore, learn Alchimiam, otherwise called Spagyria, which teaches you to separate the false from the true. --Paracelsus In the word spagyria two Greek words are hidden: spao , to draw out, to divide; and ageiro , to gather, to bind, to join. These two concepts form the foundation of every genuine alchemical work, hence the often-quoted phrase " Solve et coagula, et habebis magisterium !" (Dissolve and bind, and you will have the magistery). The alchemical work always takes place in three stages: (1) separation, (2) purification, and (3) cohobation (recombination, or the "chymical wedding"). In the spagyrists view, these actions lead to an increase and a release of certain curative powers in the initial species. Spagyrics is the application of alchemical working methods to the production of medicaments. When we learn that the famous physician Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus (c. 1493-1541), prepared a large part of his famous medicines according to spagyric methods, we must thereby understand a very high level of the hermetic art. This hermetic art has little in common with vulgar alchemy, which is often disparagingly called "the art of goldmaking." The beginnings of this true hermetic art are to this day shrouded in obscurity. We know that the hermetic-spagyric method of preparation was known to many ancient cultures. In ancient China, in India, and among the ancient Egyptians, we find important contributions to alchemical medicine. Between the ancient Indian and Chinese alchemy there exist many parallels. In India, alchemical preparations are part of the southern Indian siddha medicine, of Ayurvedic medicine and also of Unani medicine, which came later to India through the Muslims and represents a further development of ancient Greek medicine. The alchemy of the Western schools is chiefly based on the Egyptian tradition. In ancient Egypt, hermetism was taught in the temples of Memphis and Thebes. From the writings of Zosimos of Panopolis (Akhmin, A.D. 300) we learn that alchemy was practiced in Egypt under the supervision of kings and priests, and that divulging the secrets of this art was against the law. The hermetic art was taught exclusively by oral transmission. The Arabs were the chief agents for transmitting theoretical and practical alchemy to the Europeans, who then merged it with the Christian tradition. Among the historically accessible European sources, special mention must be made of the writings of Paracelsus. Before the much older Indian and Chinese traditions became known in the West, the Paracelsian writings constituted the earliest information that could be dated with certainty. In his book Paragranum , Paracelsus says: "The third foundation upon which medicine rests is alchemy. If the physician does not have good ability and experience in it, his art is in vain." How do spagyric plant remedies differ from nonspagyric ones? Ordinary tinctures, infusions, decoctions, and the like, utilize in part the curative powers of the plants from which they are prepared. The spagyric preparation "opens" the plant and by its own process liberates stronger curative powers. It is in principle synergistic, and less interested in isolated pharmacologically active principles. We cannot do justice to the methodology of spagyrics if we measure it according to the standards of analytical chemistry or pharmacology, even if these sciences can explain in their own way part of the effects of spagyric remedies. Just as homeopathy has its own findings, experiences, and laws, which cannot be comprehended solely by the prevailing chemical-analytical knowledge, so, too, does spagyrics insist on its own standards, for which it has its own conceptions and symbols. In the case of many of these conceptions and ideas we are dealing with analogies, which, however, prove to be extremely valuable. We must not consider spagyrics and alchemy as a whole merely a preliminary stage of the later scientific chemistry. It is rather another way of looking at nature and its powers. We easily succumb to the temptation to judge the whole alchemical knowledge of the past by the criteria of the current stand of Western science, which leads to a distortion or an incomplete perception of genuine connections. Analysis can never lead to a complete perception, because the whole is always greater than its parts. Thus, for instance, analytical examinations of old Italian master violins have never been able to unveil the secret of the famous violin makers of Cremona. The whole scientific examination of the old violin making, including the analysis of the famous varnishes, could never lead to new heights of violin making, because it solely undertook the "solve" but not the "coagula." The quality of the master instruments of Stradivari and Guarneri del Ges Details ISBN1594771790 Author Manfred M. Junius Short Title SPAGYRICS Language English ISBN-10 1594771790 ISBN-13 9781594771798 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 615.321 Year 2007 Imprint Healing Arts Press Country of Publication United States Place of Publication Rochester Affiliation Manfred M. Junius DOI 10.1604/9781594771798 NZ Release Date 2007-02-16 US Release Date 2007-02-16 UK Release Date 2007-02-16 Subtitle The Alchemical Preparation of Medicinal Essences, Tinctures, and Elixirs Pages 288 Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and Company Edition Description 3rd Edition, New Edition of The Practical Handbook of Plant Alchemy Edition 3rd Publication Date 2007-02-16 Illustrations 47 b&w illustrations Audience General AU Release Date 2007-02-15 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:11551949;
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