Talk:Aurora consurgens

Potential bibliography update
Aurora consurgens: a document attributed to Thomas Aquinas on the problem of opposites in alchemy by Thomas, Aquinas Saint; Marie-Luise von Franz;  C G Jung

The wedding of Sophia: the divine feminine in psychoidal alchemy by Jeffrey Raff

Art & Alchemy edited by Jacob Wamberg

Website describing what appears in the various images. 

Website about visualizations in medieval alchemy

JmFrioux (talk) 01:39, 27 May 2014 (UTC)


 * These all look like good sources. You referred to the Hyle article as a website, but it's actually a peer reviewed e-journal, so it's a very reputable sources.  Good luck, Kirwanfan (talk) 20:03, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

alchemical images: metaphors, allegories, symbols
In the eighties and 2003, Barbara Obrist has analyzed pictorial forms of alchemy and described them as allegories and metaphors. 2009 Theodor Abt stated in his analysis of the image "sage with the tablet" (of Aurora Consurgens, Ms Rhenoviensis fol. 7r), that this picture has to be regarded as symbolic. He bases this on the Egyptian and Arabic roots of this image as well as on Ibn Umails text "Book of the Explanation of the Symbols", where he regards names of chemicals and processes as symbols. (Th. Abt, Introduction in: Book of the Explanation of the Symbols. Kitab Hall ar-Rumuz by Muhammad inb Umail, Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum 1B, Living Human HEritage, Zurich 2009, e.g. p. 59-63). Thus in the section "Overview" we should more generally speak of the illustrations as "representations of alchemical symbols".--BineMaja (talk) 13:56, 7 May 2017 (UTC)