Name: Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum -- Volume III
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SKU: 9783952388068
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Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum -- Volume III

CALA III: The Book of the Keys of the Work, Kitab Mafatih as-sana by Zosimos of Panopolis

Edited by: Theodor Abt, Translated by: Salwa Fuat, Translated by: Theodor Abt

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Published: 04-Apr-2017
ISBN: 9783952388068

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364 Pages
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From the Introduction of the editor: The manuscript of Zosimoss Kitab Mafatih as-sana (The Book of the Keys of the Work), here presented as a facsimile together with a parallel English translation, makes this document accessible in a Western language for the first time. Although the scientific community has known of this book for almost a century, it has up to now remained difficult to obtain for study purposes. Yet this text is crucial for the history of alchemy and especially for a better understanding of the origins and the significance of symbolic alchemy, as will be demonstrated in the following [...] At the beginning of the Kitab Mafatih as-sana we read: "Zosimos, when he wrote about these treatises to Theosebeia, named them The Keys of the Work, and the completer (hatim) of what had been extracted as essence from its sciences. They (the ten keys) are for Theosebeia; it is the last thing that he wrote for her. And when she came across it, she understood the work." On the basis of arguments collected in the introduction to this book, one can conclusively say that it is a translation from a Greek original, and it can be considered as Zosimoses summa, the very essence of his teachings.

Theodor Abt was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1947. He has a Ph.D. from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich 1977. Since 1975 he has been a Jungian analyst in private practice. From 1983 through 1988 he was a member of the board of the C G Jung Institute, Zurich. Since 1990 he has been professor for rural sociology at the ETH. He has been a member of the board of the Research and Training Centre for Depth Psychology according to C G Jung and M-L von Franz in Zurich since 1995, and president of the Society of the Friends of the Royal Tombs of Egypt since 1988. His research focuses on the relationship of the outer world with the needs of the inner unconscious world.