Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter
Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter
By Brian Cotnoir
(Book design by Laura Captan)
This Enlightening Book on Alchemy is the Fruit of 30 Years Work with the Emerald Tablet.
Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter is an alchemical book rather than a book about alchemy. It is full of practice and experiments and perhaps a puzzle or an enigma. Its intent is to inspire curiosity about another way of knowing.
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Khepri Press
5.25” x 8.25”, Illustrated ( 8vo ), 172 pages.
Two-color printing throughout. New Translations of the Emerald Tablet.
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Khepri Press
5.25” x 8.25”, Illustrated ( 8vo ), Sewn hard-cover in printed dust jacket, 172 pages.
Two-color printing throughout. New Translations of the Emerald Tablet. Quality bookmaking for beauty and longevity
About the Author
Brian Cotnoir is an alchemist, artist and Emmy award-winning filmmaker. His books include Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter, Practical Alchemy: A Guide to the Great Work, Alchemical Meditations, On the Quintessence of Wine and the Emerald Tablet. His film work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, HBO, PBS and other international venues.
Description
This Enlightening Book on Alchemy is the Fruit of 30 Years Work with the Emerald Tablet.
Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter is an alchemical book rather than a book about alchemy. It is full of practice and experiments and perhaps a puzzle or an enigma. Its intent is to inspire curiosity about another way of knowing.
Alchemy is the art and science of bringing something to its final perfection, or its completion, much as a work of art is completed or perfected. And so, at heart, it is about creation, creator, and creativity. Rooted in the Alexandrian alchemical tradition and working from a new translation of the Emerald Tablet, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter is the author’s personal exploration of the union of material and non-material alchemical practice, that is of physical alchemy and inner alchemy. Engaging the Way of the Philosopher, and through direct experimentation, several areas are investigated in light of the Emerald Tablet – Chrysopoiea, the Green Lion, the Quintessence and Aurum potabile.
Unique to the book are five new translations of the earliest extant manuscripts of the Emerald Tablet, as well as translations of John of Rupescissa’s and Arnald of Villanova’s writings on the quintessence of wine and gold.
