Wednesday, April 4th, 1979

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

APRIL 4, 1979

ALCHEMY

TOPIC: Alchemy

SUBSUBJECTS: Atwood, Vesica, Boehme's Three Forces (attraction, repulsion, circulation)

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Mary Anne Atwood, A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery

DIAGRAM embedded in these notes:

• FIGURE 1979 0404-1-AB. Alchemy Vesica diagramming A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery (Atwood), p. 152.

TYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT 2022

NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (hence V08). From Alan Notes 02 1977 to 06 1979.PDF.

• All spelling, capitalization, and punctuation corrected, abbreviations and astrological glyphs spelled out.

1979 04/04 at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Alchemy

[Alan Notes 0404 1979 Begin]

4/4/79 [Note: AB notes misdated 4/6/79. 4/4/79 is the correct date.]

Atwood – Alchemy

p. 152 [Note: Mary Anne Atwood, A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery.]

[FIGURE 1979 0404-1-AB. Alchemy Vesica diagramming A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery (Atwood), p. 152. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

Thou = vesica

Conjoins elements and produces object.

Fiery water -- Pisces life

Mystery of existence is how soul (Aquarius) grasps elements (Capricorn) and projects external world (Pisces).

True salt = real object or demiurgic energy (prakritic entity).

Boehme [Note: Jacob Boehme.] -- 3 forces:

repulsion-attraction to sensible image

attraction -- attraction of soul to [sensible image]

circulation -- circulation of life

proceeding body attraction mineral

paternal soul circulation vegetable

maternal spirit repulsion

[Alan Notes 0404 1979 End]