Citations

Introduction:

• Top image: Maier, Michael. “Emblema XXI. Fac Ex Mare & Fœmina Circulum, Inde Quadrangulum, Hinc Triangulum, Fac Circulum & Habebis Lap. Philosophorum.” In Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, Germany: Johann-Theodor de Bry, 1618. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/wp988k73q.
• History of alchemy and stages: Edinger, Edward F. Introduction. Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy, by Edinger, Open Court, 1994, pp. 1-16.
• The Emerald Tablet image: Hauck, Dennis William. “Materia Prima: The Nature of the First Matter in the Esoteric and Scientific Traditions,” Hidden in Plain Sight Conference, 23 July 2010, Rosicrucian Order AMORC, San Jose, CA, pp. 5. https://375b1364bab998f0d14f-9d7ce9244c1359862daf87d2617988df.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/vol8_72_88_hauck.pdf.
• Calcinatio image: Edinger, pp. 31.
• Jung quote: Jung, C. G. The Red Book: Liber Novus, ed. Sonu Shamdasani, trans. Mark Kyburz, et al. W.W. Norton & Company, pp. 311.
• Audio track: Amir Sulaiman. “Secret Art.” The Medinan Openings, True + Living, 2012.

Prima Materia

• Golden Tract quote: Edinger, pp. 26.
• Hauck quote: Hauck, pp. 7.
• brown quote: brown, adrienne maree. Emergent Strategies, AK Press, 2017, pp. 49.
• Cloud of Chaos: Marolles, Michel de. Tableaux du temple des Muses. 1655, from Franz, Marie-Louise von. Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology, Inner City Books, 1980, pp. 206.

Calcinatio

• Atalanta Fugiens image: Maier, Michael. Emblem 24. 1617. Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Maier_Atalanta_Fugiens_Emblem_24.jpeg.
• Atalanta Fugiens quote: Edinger, pp. 33.
• Earthseed quote: Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower, Grand Central Publishing, 1993, pp. 153.
• Ruins line inspired by 1936 quote from Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti: “We are not in the least afraid of ruins…We carry a new world here, in our hearts.”
• Agni mantra: Dr. R. Thiagarajan. “Agni Gayatri Mantra.” 2019. YouTube, https://youtu.be/-Rv4vQuDfsg.
• Aurora consurgens image: Ms. Rh. 172: Aurora consurgens. 15th century. Zentralbibliothek, http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/zbz/Ms-Rh-0172.

Solutio

• Top image: Barchusen, Johann Conrad. Water of Life Between Sun and Moon. 1718. Found in Franz, pp. 100.
• Franz quote: Franz, pp. 100.
• Unknown quote: Edinger, pp. 62.
• Ox-herding image and text: No. 2, 12th century. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten_Bulls&oldid=999362888#/media/File:Oxherding_pictures,_No._2.jpg.
• Isis image: Makmed the Miller, The Grief of Isis. 2012. Live Without Dead Time, https://livewithoutdeadtime.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/the-grief-of-isis/.
• Gumbs quote: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, AK Press, 2020, pp. 2.
• Sulaiman quote: Amir Sulaiman. “The Opening: I & Eye.” The Opening, True + Living, 2013.
• I Ching image: 59. Huan/Dispersion [Dissolution]. 2009. I Ching with Clarity, https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/index.php?threads/59-huan-dispersion-dissolution.8601.

Coagulatio

• Top image: Maier, Michael. “Emblema II. Nutrix Ejus Terra Est.” In Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, Germany: Johann-Theodor de Bry, 1618. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/6t053g89c.
• Upanishads quote: Edinger, pp. 99.
• “Halfway midst…” line borrowed in altered form from Jack Kornfield.
• brown quote: Selected passages from brown, pp. 18-19.
• Tree of Life: Jung, pp. 125.

Sublimatio

• Top image: “Sublimatio.” Sapientia Veterum. 18th century, from Edinger, pp. 135.
• Sublimatio quote: Salmon, William. Medicina practica, London, 1692. Quoted in Edinger, pp. 132.
• Zosimos image: El Khadem, H. S. “A Translation of a Zosimos’ Text in an Arabic Alchemy Book.” Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, vol. 84, no. 3, 1996, pp. 168-178.
• Atalanta Fugiens image: Maier, Michael. “Emblema XVII. Orbita Quadruplex Hoc Regit Ignis Opus.” In Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, Germany: Johann-Theodor de Bry, 1618. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/cr56n175s.
• Earthseed quote: Butler, pp. 270.
• Fugue score: Maier, Michael. “Fuga III.” In Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, Germany: Johann-Theodor de Bry, 1618. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/pc289j53n.
• Fugue performance: Burt Griswold. “Fugue no. 3.” Atalanta Fugiens, 2014. YouTube, https://youtu.be/QsGlApi9UwQ.

Mortificatio

• Top image: Basilius Valentinus. “IV. Clavis.” In Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum Et Amplificatum. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Apud Hermannum a Sande, 1678. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/5h73px346.
• Paracelsus quote: Paracelsus. Huser quart edition, Basel, 1605. Quoted in Edinger, pp. 164.
• Jung quote: Jung, C.G. Psychology and Alchemy, Princeton UP, 1980, pp. 99.
• Osiris image: From a bas-relief at Philae, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris#/media/File:Osiris-nepra.jpg.
• Earthseed quote: Butler, pp. 3.
• Goethe quote: Goethe, Johann W. von. “Blissful Yearning.” West-Eastern Diwan, 1819. Quoted in Edinger, pp. 184.
• Baldwin quote: Baldwin, James. “Letter from a Region in My Mind.” The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 1962, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind.

Separatio

• Top image: Beardy, Jackson. Loon and Fish. 1973. Pinterest, https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/553661347942304501/.
• Franz quote: Franz, pp. 127.
• The Emerald Tablet quote: “Emerald Tablet of Hermes (Tabula Smaragdina).” The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism, https://aras.org/concordance/content/emerald-tablet-hermes-tabula-smaragdina. Accessed 22 Feb. 2021.
• I/Not-I reflection in part inspired by Giovanni Dienstmann and Amir Sulaiman.
• Nut, Geb, and Shu image: Nut, Geb & Shu. 1069–945 BCE. Museo Egizio, Turin. AKG Images, https://www.akg-images.co.uk/archive/-2UMDHUNF97N3.html.
• Nut, Geb, and Shu myth adopted from Davis, Kenneth C. Don’t Know Much About Mythology, Harper, 2006, pp. 78-80.
• Jung quote: Jung, C.G. Seven Sermons to the Dead. Translated by H. G. Baynes, 1916, http://gnosis.org/library/7Sermons.htm.

Coniunctio

• Top image: Nollius, Heinrich, “Rebis.” Theoria Philosophiae Hermeticae. 1617. Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rebis_Theoria_Philosophiae_Hermeticae_1617.jpg.
• Franz quote: Franz, pp.7.
• Aurora consurgens quote: Franz, pp. 274.
• Ox-herding image and text: No. 8, 12th century. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ten_Bulls&oldid=999362888#/media/File:Oxherding_pictures,_No._8.jpg.
• Gumbs quote: Gumbs, pp. 157 & 161.
• Image alongside Gumbs quote: Doré, Gustave, Rosa Celeste. 1892. In Alighieri, Dante. “Canto XXXI” in The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Complete. From Digital Dante, Columbia University, https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/image/birk-illustrations/paradiso/.
• Video: Le Trio Joubran, “Masâr.” Majaz, Sheer Sound, 2008. YouTube, https://youtu.be/qbU8cgW5Y_Q.
• Darwish poem: Darwish, Mahmoud. “The Dice Player.” Translated by Fady Joudah. VQR: A National Journal of Literature and Discussion, vol. 85, no. 1, 2009, https://www.vqronline.org/vqr-symposium/dice-player.

Methodology

• Top image: The Squared Circle. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_opus_(alchemy)#/media/File:The_Squared_Circle.jpg.