The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 1 : Prologue: Bio-Bibliography and Introduction to Khunrath's Images (The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory (4 vols.))

Forshaw, Peter

Brill（2024/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 551 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004681682

Full Description

This is the 1st volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage's Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), 'one of the great Hermetic philosophers', whose Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609) has been described as 'one of the most important books in the whole literature of theosophical alchemy and the occult sciences'. Khunrath is best known for his novel combination of 'scripture and picture' in the complex engravings in his Amphitheatre. In this richly illustrated monograph, Forshaw analyses occult symbolism, with previously unpublished material, offering insight into Khunrath's insistence on the necessary combination of alchemy, magic, and cabala in 'Oratory and Laboratory'.

Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introductory Note

1 Prologue: a Bio-Bibliographical Introduction

 1 1560 Birth in Leipzig

 2 1570 Immatriculation at the University of Leipzig

 3 1575 Apprenticeship in Alchemy

 4 1588 Immatriculation at the University of Basel

 5 Khunrath's Portrait Engraving

 6 1588 On the Signatures of Natural Things, Graduation in Basel

 7 1589 Bremen: a Meeting of Maguses

 8 1588-1589 Magical Manuscripts in Berlin

 9 1591 A Patent Application to the Emperor

 10 1591 A Powerful Patron in Bohemia

 11 1592 The Ancient Arabian King and Sage Zebel, Prague

 12 1595 First Edition of the Amphitheatre, Hamburg

 13 1596 Confession concerning the Chaos of the Physico-Chemists, Magdeburg

 14 1597 On Primaterial Chaos, Magdeburg

 15 1597 Fashioning Magical Armour

 16 1598 A Physico-Chymical Testament, Hamburg

 17 1599 Universal Magnesia of the Philosophers, Magdeburg

 18 1599 Inventing an Alchemical Furnace, Magdeburg

 19 1601 Correspondence from Berlin

 20 1602 Extra Engravings for the Amphitheatre, Magdeburg

 21 Looking at the Watermarks

 22 1603 Second Edition of the Athanor, Magdeburg

 23 1603 Water of Health, Magdeburg

 24 1603 Signature of Magnesia

 25 1604 Gera

 26 Practical Philosophical Counsel

 27 A Practical Confession

 28 Cabbalistic Theosophical Tables

 29 1605 Khunrath's Death, Dresden

 30 1607 Three Questions, Leipzig

 31 1607 Urim & Thummim, Magedburg

 32 1608 On the Fire of the Mages and Sages

 33 1608 An Amphitheatre in Mageduburg

 34 1609 Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, Hanau

 35 A Puzzling Discovery

 36 'Complete in All Its Parts': the Structure of the Amphitheatre

 37 Changes in the Text between the 1595 and 1609 Editions

 38 The Gratulatory Verses

 39 Chimerical Editions

 40 1611 A Physico-Medical Treatise

 41 1614 Light in Darkness

 42 1615 Athanor; 1616 Chaos, Magdeburg

 43 Manuscripts & Untraced Works

2 Images in the Amphitheatre

 1 Part I. The Image of an Amphitheatre

 2 Sculpta, Picta, Scripta: 'Not Just of Words, ... but Rather of Things'

 3 Part II: the Amphitheatre Engravings

 4 The 'Inventor' and His Engravers

 5 Naming the Images

 6 Four 'Theosophical Figures'

 7 Circular Figure 1: Christ-Cruciform

 8 Circular Figure 2: Adam Androgyne

 9 Circular Figure 3: Rebis or Alchemical Hermaphrodite

 10 Avis Hermetis: Hermes' Bird

 11 Circular Figure 4: the Oratory-Laboratory

 12 The Oratorium

 13 The Laboratorium

 14 The Central Table

 15 The Auditorium

 16 A Matter of Perspective

 17 The Dormitorium

 18 Underlying Geometries and Symmetries in the Four "Theosophical" Figures

 19 Volvelles

 20 Reading the 1595 Circular Images

 21 From 1595 to 1602: Changes in the Circular Images

 22 The 5 Rectangular 'Hieroglyphic Figures' (1602)

 23 The Theo-Magical School of Nature

 24 The Entrance of the Amphitheatre

 25 The Triumphal Pyramid

 26 The Alchemical Citadel

 27 Mercurius and Caduceus

 28 Hieroglyphic Monad or Mercury?

 29 A Heart with Thorns

 30 Changing Perspective

 31 The Calumniators

 32 The Bespectacled Owl

 33 The Sequence of the Images

 34 Interconnections and Correspondences

 35 Khunrath's Dog

 36 Hermes's Caltrop in the Cave of Nature

 37 Part III: Hieroglyphs or Emblems?

 38 Hieroglyphica

 39 Emblemata

 40 Visual Exegesis or Eisegesis?

 41 Khunrath's Visual and Symbolic Terms

 42 Khunrath's Use of Symbolum

 43 Hieroglyphic Impressions

 44 Part IV: the Roles of the Images

 45 1. The Synoptic Role

 46 The Amphitheatre's 1609 Title Page

 47 Retrospective Synopsis in the Rectangular Figures

 48 Raising up and Defending Truth

 49 2. Didactic, Pedagogical, Instructional Roles

 50 3. Polemical Role

 51 A Surprising Discovery

 52 Conclusion

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Index of Biblical Citations