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Promethean ambitions
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ISBN: 1282932853 9786612932854 0226577139 9780226577135 0226577120 9780226577128 Year: 2004 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possibility of artificial life and the dangers of tinkering with nature more generally were shared by opponents of alchemy long before genetic science delivered us a cloned sheep named Dolly. In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman ambitiously uses alchemy to investigate the thinning boundary between the natural and the artificial. Focusing primarily on the period between 1200 and 1700, Newman examines the labors of pioneering alchemists and the impassioned-and often negative-responses to their efforts. By the thirteenth century, Newman argues, alchemy had become a benchmark for determining the abilities of both men and demons, representing the epitome of creative power in the natural world. Newman frames the art-nature debate by contrasting the supposed transmutational power of alchemy with the merely representational abilities of the pictorial and plastic arts-a dispute which found artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Bernard Palissy attacking alchemy as an irreligious fraud. The later assertion by the Paracelsian school that one could make an artificial human being-the homunculus-led to further disparagement of alchemy, but as Newman shows, the immense power over nature promised by the field contributed directly to the technological apologetics of Francis Bacon and his followers. By the mid-seventeenth century, the famous "father of modern chemistry," Robert Boyle, was employing the arguments of medieval alchemists to support the identity of naturally occurring substances with those manufactured by "chymical" means. In using history to highlight the art-nature debate, Newman here shows that alchemy was not an unformed and capricious precursor to chemistry; it was an art founded on coherent philosophical and empirical principles, with vocal supporters and even louder critics, that attracted individuals of first-rate intellect. The historical relationship that Newman charts between human creation and nature has innumerable implications today, and he ably links contemporary issues to alchemical debates on the natural versus the artificial.


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L'Esotérisme pour les nuls
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ISBN: 9782754068871 Year: 2015 Publisher: Paris Editions First / Edi8

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sources de l'ésotérisme --- les Lumières et les illuminations --- occultisme --- icons --- mythes --- récits fondateurs --- naissance des religions --- illumination --- rites et rituels --- Corto Maltese --- cultes à mystères --- le Timée --- Isis --- Mozart --- Hécate --- Asclépios --- Cybele --- Dionysos --- Bacchus --- Pan --- orphisme --- les mystères d'Eleusis --- Pythagorisme --- Pythagore --- arithmosophie --- Mithra --- christianisme primitive --- néopythagorisme --- néoplatonisme --- théurgie --- théosophie --- les grands courants ésotéristes --- hérésie chrétienne --- gnosticisme --- l'Eglise chrétienne --- hermétisme --- les textes hermétiques --- systèmes ésotériques --- la Table d'Emeraude --- le message divin --- les secrets de la création --- le Corpus Hermeticum --- le Grand Oeuvre alchimique --- alchimie --- Ars Magna --- alchimistes de fantaisie --- philosophes et savants --- le Grand Oeuvre --- magnum opus --- opus magnum) --- les métaux --- le corps --- l'esprit --- Ora et Labora --- cryptage des travaux --- les symboles --- jeux de mots --- traités alchimiques --- créatures alchimiques --- homoncule --- homunculus --- la kabbale --- influences de la kabbale --- la merkabah --- merkavah --- le char --- islam --- tariqa --- les ismaéliens --- les haschischins --- sectes --- la divination --- numérologie --- arithmancie --- astrologie --- astronomie --- chiromancie --- le tarot de Marseille --- ésotérisme medieval --- ésotérisme de l'Eglise chrétienne --- les écrits apocryphes de saint Jean --- la kabbale chrétienne --- le catharisme --- la Prophétie de saint Malachie --- Prophétie des papes --- les ordres de chevalerie --- la légende templière --- Bretagne --- le cycle arthurien --- la quête du Graal --- le cryptage des livres de pierre --- maçons et francs-maçons --- humanisme et onirisme --- Rose-Croix --- les sources Rose-Croix --- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili --- Le Songe de Poliphile --- le Manuscrit de Voynich --- récits symboliques --- les grands dépositaires de l'ésotérisme --- franc-maçonnerie --- la franc-maçonnerie des Lumières --- les Constitutions d'Anderson --- rechristianisation --- la légende maçonnique --- la franc-maçonnerie des mystères --- la création du Rite écossais rectifié --- RER --- illuminés et charlatans --- Emmanuel Swedenborg --- Swedberg --- Franz Xaver von Baader --- le comte de Saint-Germain --- Franz Anton Mesmer --- le comte de Cagliostro --- Giuseppe Balsamo --- la filière rosicrucienne --- Egypte --- Elus Coëns --- le philosophe inconnu --- doctrine ésotérique --- Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin --- les Illuminati --- les complots --- le surnaturel --- la magie --- la pensée magique --- la sorcellerie --- l'Eglise chrétienne --- le vaudou --- vodoun --- le spiritisme --- Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail --- les séances spirites --- l'Eglise catholique --- religion brésilienne --- spiritisme et telecommunication --- Pierre-Michel-Eugène Vintras --- Joseph-Antoine Boullan --- l'abbé Boullan --- Joseph Paul Oswald Wirth --- Paul Le Cour --- Lecour --- Jules Doinel --- Jean Bricaud --- Joanny Bricaud --- Constant Chevillon --- René Adolphe Schwaller 'de Lubicz' --- Jules Eugène Boucher --- Raymond Abellio --- Georges Soulès --- Docteur Encausse et mister Papus --- le martinisme --- les martinismes --- Robert Amadou --- a Société Théosophique --- les théosophies --- Mme Blavatsky --- Annie Bessant --- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa --- Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya --- Jiddu Krishnamurti --- la Fraternité blanche universelle --- Mikhaël Aïvanhov --- Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov --- le diable --- symbolisme --- danses macabres --- vanité --- la naturphilosophie --- ésotérisme et création --- l'art --- Poussin et Borges --- le mage d'Epinal --- sâr Péladan --- les Bons Cousins --- la SRIA --- la Golden Dawn --- l'Argentum Astrum --- Astrum Argentinum --- l'Ordo Templi Orientis --- OTO --- scientisme --- Léo Taxil --- tradition --- mystère et nazisme --- pérennialisme --- René Guénon --- Abd al-Wahid Yahya --- les guénonistes --- Fulcanelli --- l'Ancien et Mystique Ordre de la Rose-Croix --- AMORC --- anthroposophie --- Rudolf Steiner --- chakra --- médecine chinoise et psychiatrie --- Georges Gurdjieff --- le chamanisme --- néochamanisme --- les racines occultes du nazisme --- racisme et pseudosciences --- les Aryens --- la croix gammée --- armanisme --- ariosophie --- la société du Vril --- l'Atlantide --- l'Agartha --- Shambhala --- Hyperborée --- la Lémurie --- le pays cathare --- occultisme nazi --- le IVe Reich --- néopaganisme du Nord --- psychanalyse et ésotérisme --- l'anathor de Jung --- taoïsme --- Paracelse --- le Yi King --- la langue des oiseaux --- le zodiaque --- parapsychology --- rejet de la communauté scientifique --- pseudoscience --- la France --- perceptions extrasensorielles --- PES --- états modifiés de conscience --- EMC --- la psychokinèse --- PK --- le paranormal --- la zététique --- New Age --- l'Ere du Verseau --- Yakov Mikhailovich Berger --- Jacques Bergier --- Louis Pauwels --- réalisme magique --- Lobsang Rampa --- Tuesday Lobsang Rampa --- James Redfield --- le Centre de la kabbale --- la Nouvelle Acropole --- le néo-évhémérisme --- théorie des anciens astronautes --- le mouvement hippie --- les théories Gaïa --- enfant indigo --- enfant des étoiles --- channeling --- channelling --- développement personnel --- l'homme et le macrocosme --- corps éthérique --- le voyage astral --- aura --- expérience de mort imminente --- EMI --- Near death experience --- NDE --- la révolution transhumaniste --- l'humanisme des alchimistes --- les nouveaux mouvements religieux --- le Centre pour l'étude des nouvelles religions --- CESNUR --- sectes et sociétés secrètes contemporaines --- la wicca --- Gerald Brousseau Gardner --- Aleister Crowley --- satanisme contemporain --- la démonologie --- l'Ars Goetia et la clavicule de Salomon --- le satanisme de La Vey --- le nombre démoniaque --- la magie du Chaos --- les Illuminés de Thanateros --- OIT --- messe noire --- Loudun --- le nouvel ordre mondial --- NOM --- légendes urbaines --- Protocoles des Sages de Sion --- le Bohemian Club --- la Table d'émeraude --- le Serpent vert --- la Science de l'occulte --- les Vers d'or --- les Tribulations héroïques de Balthasar Kober --- Blanche-Neige --- le Livre du Tao --- Novalis --- les Disciples à Saïs --- Henri d'Ofterdingen --- les doctrines hindoues --- le Pendule de Foucault --- le Jeu des perles de verre --- Histoire de la reine du matin et de Soliman, prince des génies --- les Noces chymiques --- la Divine Comédie --- Que ma joie demeure --- les Métamorphoses, ou l'Ane d'or --- Là-Bas --- l'Oeuvre au noir --- le Golem --- légendes --- Rennes-le-Château --- le curé Saunière --- Wisigoths --- Brocéliande --- Paimpont --- Glastonbury --- le Graal --- Arthur et Guenièvre --- Prague --- la chapelle de Rosslyn --- Troyes --- Rachi --- Montségur --- Notre-Dame de Paris --- Castel del Monte --- Venise

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