Study Circle 06 on
Reading Chapter 03
THE HERMETIC
WISDOM
Conducted by:
Taimoor K. Mumtaz (Director)
Raheel Ahmed (Coordinator Sacred Psychology Program)
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
Reading Chapter 03 THE HERMETIC WISDOM, 17th Dec. 2014
Reading Chapter 03
Sitting 05 - Chapter 02 Nature Language of Alchemy 10th Dec, 2014
Study Circle 05 on
Reading Chapter 02
Nature & Language Of Alchemy
Conducted by:
Taimoor K. Mumtaz (Director)
Raheel Ahmed (Coordinator Sacred Psychology Program)
Extract
CHAPTER 2
NATURE AND LANGUAGE OF ALCHEMY
' In my book on the principles and methods of sacred art I more than once had occasion to refer to alchemy, by way of
comparison, when considering artistic creation as it appears within a sacred
tradition, not from the point of view of its outward aesthetic aspect, but as
an inward process whose goal is the ripening, ‘transmutation’, or rebirth of
the soul of the artist himself. Alchemy too was called an art — even the
‘royal art’ (ars regia) — by its masters, and, with its image of
the transmutation of base metals into the noble metals gold and silver, serves
as a highly evocative symbol of the inward process referred to. In fact alchemy
may be called the art of the transmutations of the soul. In saying this I am
not seeking to deny that alchemists also knew and practised metallurgical
procedures such as the purification and alloying of metals; their real work,
however, for which all these procedures were merely the outward supports or
‘operational’ symbols, was the transmutation of the soul. The testimony of the
alchemists on this point is unanimous.'
Date: Wednesday 10th December 2014
Time: 6: 30 pm
Venue: Hast-o-Neest (31-G, Gulberg II)
Participants: Kausar Ali, Irshad-ul-Mujeeb, Farhan Khan, Mubarika, Mehr, Anum, Saba, Uzair, Mian farooq, Shaihan, Zoya, Taimoor,
Contact: 0300 849 3170
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Alchemy - Study Circle Sitting 04- 3rd Dec 2014, 6:30pm
Study Circle 04 on
Reading Chapter 02
Nature & Language Of Alchemy
Conducted by:
Taimoor K. Mumtaz (Director)
Raheel Ahmed (Coordinator Sacred Psychology Program)
'In fact alchemy may be called the art of the
transmutations of the soul. In saying this I am not seeking to deny that
alchemists also knew and practised metallurgical procedures such as the
purification and alloying of metals; their real work, however, for which all
these procedures were merely the outward supports or ‘operational’ symbols,
was the transmutation of the soul.' (Pg.23)
Date: Wednesday 3rd December 2014
Time: 6: 30 pm
Venue: Hast-o-Neest (31-G, Gulberg II)
Participants: Mubarika, Mehr, Uzair, Mian farooq, Shaihan, Zoya, Taimoor,
Contact: 0300 849 3170
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