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"Our Gold and Sylver ben no common plate" — Pearce the Black Monke Upon The Elixer — Also known (popularly, originally) as Terra Terrae Philosophicae, this short poem was attributed to Sir George Ripley. But did he actually write it, or someone else... the attribution to Ripley was questioned by Elias Ashmole, who found it written in a much older manuscript, attributed to one Pearce (the Black Monk). An alchemical poem weaving between three positions; 1 - physical material experiments, 2 - criticizing alchemy and showing it as NOT what covetous men see (the conversion of non-metals, or even other metals into GOLD), 3 - another voice, "Listen to my Daughter Megg". #ancient #wisdom #wisdomquotes #alchemy #hermetic #carljung #esoteric #theatrum #chemicum #britannicum #ordinal #compound #scroll #eliasashmole

"Not yet full sleeping, nor yet full waking, but between twain, lying in a trance..." — Dastin's Dream — This is a short six-page poem in Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. I spent about 2 weeks thinking about Dastin's Dream, reading and recording it a few times to get it the way I like, after uploading Chaucer's Chanon's Yeoman's Tale. Dastin's vision brings a view to sacrifice of the precious, highest, for the corrupt and lower. The dream strikes me similarity as the book of Revelation in The Bible; even the authors bear the same name. Elias Ashmole writes of this work of Dastin, being a relatively current (as of 1650s) English translation, in agreement with the Vision of Dastin, from Latin. Ashmole also writes he did not know when Dastin lived, but was long ago, before John Pitts and John Bale. In the 2020s, a user of Wikipedia can find that John Dastin was born around 1293, and lived until around 1386; and so was contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer; Dastin is known for several writings, including several that apparently were misattributed to others. In web searches, John Dastin can be found by looking up several different names. John (Johan, Johannis, Ioannis); also Dastine, Dastyn, Daustin, Dastinus, Astin, Astinus; Joannes Dacius, Johannes Anglicus. You get the idea. #music by Jacob Russell Jacob Russell has been a friend long before this channel was created, and has had a front-row seat for my own transformation, and supporter of this channel. See his youtube channel and a couple of my personal favourite songs of his: https://www.youtube.com/@JoJaDaRu/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBgKAKBd8fM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-quKakMTuVc "There is nothing which were more expedient, Then to choose one out amongst us all, Without spot all clear of his intent, For you to dye by his own assent, To save the people from their Damnation." — Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum audiobook playlist — https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJVWLi0e-4XjpaHH0Ln2zh2TB6UaAh0vb #dream #visions #ancient #wisdom #wisdomquotes #alchemy #hermetic #carljung #esoteric #theatrum #chemicum #britannicum #ordinal #compound #scroll #eliasashmole

"A Chorle's Chorle is oft woe be gone" — Hermes Bird — An alchemical philosophical tale translated from French, of The Bird of Hermes, that was captured by a churl/chorle, and contains many parables. Hermes Bird has two opening sections and a frontispiece/plate. Additionally, Elias Ashmole wrote two sections of notes at the back of the book on content here. In this recording I go over most of the notes and all the sections. "Who lost his freedom "New forged tales, I counsel thee to flee" "For loss of good take not too great heed" "Covet no thing that may not be" — Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum audiobook playlist — https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJVWLi0e-4XjpaHH0Ln2zh2TB6UaAh0vb #ancient #wisdom #wisdomquotes #alchemy #hermetic #carljung #esoteric #theatrum #chemicum #britannicum #ordinal #compound #scroll #eliasashmole

Faust part 1, by Goete A reading experiment, practicing with character voices