Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 1

Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 1

Prologue: Bio-Bibliography & Introduction to Khunrath's Images

Forshaw, Peter J.

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11/2024

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Contents


Acknowledgments


List of Figures


List of Tables





Introductory Note





1 Prologue: a Bio-Bibliographical Introduction


?1?1560 Birth in Leipzig


?2?1570 Immatriculation at the University of Leipzig


?3?1575 Apprenticeship in Alchemy


?4?1588 Immatriculation at the University of Basel


?5?Khunrath's Portrait Engraving


?6?1588 On the Signatures of Natural Things, Graduation in Basel


?7?1589 Bremen: a Meeting of Maguses


?8?1588-1589 Magical Manuscripts in Berlin


?9?1591 A Patent Application to the Emperor


?10?1591 A Powerful Patron in Bohemia


?11?1592 The Ancient Arabian King and Sage Zebel, Prague


?12?1595 First Edition of the Amphitheatre, Hamburg


?13?1596 Confession concerning the Chaos of the Physico-Chemists, Magdeburg


?14?1597 On Primaterial Chaos, Magdeburg


?15?1597 Fashioning Magical Armour


?16?1598 A Physico-Chymical Testament, Hamburg


?17?1599 Universal Magnesia of the Philosophers, Magdeburg


?18?1599 Inventing an Alchemical Furnace, Magdeburg


?19?1601 Correspondence from Berlin


?20?1602 Extra Engravings for the Amphitheatre, Magdeburg


?21?Looking at the Watermarks


?22?1603 Second Edition of the Athanor, Magdeburg


?23?1603 Water of Health, Magdeburg


?24?1603 Signature of Magnesia


?25?1604 Gera


?26?Practical Philosophical Counsel


?27?A Practical Confession


?28?Cabbalistic Theosophical Tables


?29?1605 Khunrath's Death, Dresden


?30?1607 Three Questions, Leipzig


?31?1607 Urim & Thummim, Magedburg


?32?1608 On the Fire of the Mages and Sages


?33?1608 An Amphitheatre in Mageduburg


?34?1609 Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, Hanau


?35?A Puzzling Discovery


?36?'Complete in All Its Parts': the Structure of the Amphitheatre


?37?Changes in the Text between the 1595 and 1609 Editions


?38?The Gratulatory Verses


?39?Chimerical Editions


?40?1611 A Physico-Medical Treatise


?41?1614 Light in Darkness


?42?1615 Athanor; 1616 Chaos, Magdeburg


?43?Manuscripts & Untraced Works





2 Images in the Amphitheatre


?1?Part I. The Image of an Amphitheatre


?2?Sculpta, Picta, Scripta: 'Not Just of Words, ... but Rather of Things'


?3?Part II: the Amphitheatre Engravings


?4?The 'Inventor' and His Engravers


?5?Naming the Images


?6?Four 'Theosophical Figures'


?7?Circular Figure 1: Christ-Cruciform


?8?Circular Figure 2: Adam Androgyne


?9?Circular Figure 3: Rebis or Alchemical Hermaphrodite


?10?Avis Hermetis: Hermes' Bird


?11?Circular Figure 4: the Oratory-Laboratory


?12?The Oratorium


?13?The Laboratorium


?14?The Central Table


?15?The Auditorium


?16?A Matter of Perspective


?17?The Dormitorium


?18?Underlying Geometries and Symmetries in the Four "Theosophical" Figures


?19?Volvelles


?20?Reading the 1595 Circular Images


?21?From 1595 to 1602: Changes in the Circular Images


?22?The 5 Rectangular 'Hieroglyphic Figures' (1602)


?23?The Theo-Magical School of Nature


?24?The Entrance of the Amphitheatre


?25?The Triumphal Pyramid


?26?The Alchemical Citadel


?27?Mercurius and Caduceus


?28?Hieroglyphic Monad or Mercury?


?29?A Heart with Thorns


?30?Changing Perspective


?31?The Calumniators


?32?The Bespectacled Owl


?33?The Sequence of the Images


?34?Interconnections and Correspondences


?35?Khunrath's Dog


?36?Hermes's Caltrop in the Cave of Nature


?37?Part III: Hieroglyphs or Emblems?


?38?Hieroglyphica


?39?Emblemata


?40?Visual Exegesis or Eisegesis?


?41?Khunrath's Visual and Symbolic Terms


?42?Khunrath's Use of Symbolum


?43?Hieroglyphic Impressions


?44?Part IV: the Roles of the Images


?45?1. The Synoptic Role


?46?The Amphitheatre's 1609 Title Page


?47?Retrospective Synopsis in the Rectangular Figures


?48?Raising up and Defending Truth


?49?2. Didactic, Pedagogical, Instructional Roles


?50?3. Polemical Role


?51?A Surprising Discovery


?52?Conclusion


Index of Names


Index of Subjects


Index of Biblical Citations
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