Most Important Historical Text of Alchemy -The Turba Philosophorum | Assembly of the Philosophers
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- The Turba Philosophorum or Assembly of the Philosophers is one of the oldest and most important works of alchemical theory and practice. In it is imagined a great assembly of ancient philosophers to discuss cosmology and alchemical theory and practice. In this episode, I explore the history of this wonderful alchemical textbook along with discussing it's position in the development of the occult science of alchemy.
Recommended Readings:
Ruska - Turba Philosophorum: Ein Beitrag ƶur Geschichte der Alchemie - 978-3662229583
Plessner - The Place of the Turba Philosophorum in the Development of Alchemy - www.jstor.org/...
Artis auriferae - archive.org/de...
Waite - Turba Philosophorum - 9780722401095
Jung - Psychology and Alchemy - 978-0691018317 (not historically accurate)
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On alchemy day, we should study chemistry, make middle-school science volcanoes, wear mood rings to symbolize transmutation, and donate to school science and art programs :D
honestly how dare this channel be so good that i have no choice but make a patreon 😩
I had the same reaction. I have spent the last month going over Dr Sledge's videos. And this is the first channel in years that I jumped to be a patreon.
Methinks "Alchemy Day" should involve distilled spirits and vapors precipitated through fluids, and the rambling, "turbulent" philosophical discussions thus engendered.
Alchemy Day idea: color changing coctail that changes "gold."
Your videos are amazing!!!
the answer is homunculus, it is always homunculus.
it is homunculus all the way down.
Just sayin’ g’day to me mate Al Grythm
Justin bro would you pls do a video on Islamic black magic called SIHR? it would really be interesting to watch!
Here’s my video on some Islamic Magick - let me know what you think of this please - and if you like it please share; th-cam.com/video/dObgKOzLN8o/w-d-xo.html
@@SheDMontford that was both awful and confusing
But you must remember that there is theoretical Islamic magic - and it’s practical application in west and north Africa today - that documentary shows the practical application there off - I’m sorry it was confusing and awful but it was just Reportage - academia and what actually occurs are often two very different things- What I found interesting with that documentary was that the Mumzada- Approved Islamic white magic - is actually quite barbaric - but what is considered the black magic Shir - is actually used for higher purposes
@@SheDMontford it seemed to be traditional medicinal practices. I didn't see a connection there to anything islamic
Michael thrown into Kenosis without free will is the same as Shaaytan refusing to bow to Adam/Atom/Matter???? You see this theological concept?
How could you describe JINN in the fullest sense?
Alchemy day should definitely involve mixing cocktails
420 across Western Canada is totally divination central.
And mixing up some Kratom:
Put 5 grams of kratom powder in a cup. Squeeze at least 1 lime into the cup and mix well until all the powder is soupy.
Add a spoonful of cayenne pepper. Mix well.
Add a few ounces of hot water.
Mix well and drink immediately.
Wait 20 minutes and meditate.
Then you will see.
Alchemy day, when the mercury flows freely in the streets...
The Turba Philosophorum needs an action oil painting cover art like the old Megaman games.
Just when I thought this was a great video you went on that video game tangent...making it a fantastic video!
Unrelated, but also thanks to that tangent now I can't help but picture a group of people shouting "It's Turba time!" and then breaking into heated philosophical discussion
I agree! Hearing the Final Fantasy reference made me do a double take, perfect mix of personality and content here :)
This channel is one of the greatest fount of reliable knowledge about esoterism on this Plataform. I'm glad some one recommended it to me and I'm glad of your work, witch is very inspiring to me.
Alchemy Day For Sure, I'm sure we can conjure up something.
Socrates said he was looking forward to dying, so he could meet and converse with famous Greeks, I cant remember exactly who, I think Homer and Pythagoras were among them
i wish i could meet Pythagoras too but just so i can bully him for being the nerd he is. i believe there would be a queue
@@SHAX516 bullies do not get into the Elysian fields
@@gunkwretch3697 who would want to get into the Elysian fields in the first place its textbook def. of lame? i just want to give Pythagoras a wedgie then straight down into the pit, all the real ballers are down and everyone knows it
He also mentioned a few mythical heroes! I should look up who exactly...
I'm so glad you mentioned that TNG moment, I adore that episode! It's so memorable since it's the first episode in which Data organically experiences emotions!
As I understood it turba means “to whirl”. It’s where “turbine” come from. As well I always imagine this to be comparable to the “whirling dervishes”
If you serve alcohol at your alchemist party I’d suggest Goldschlager, not for the flavor but the little gold flecks floating around.
February 11th (Alchemy Day) should be celebrated with a toast to Hermes Trismegistus with a dram (or greater) of chilled Absinth.
The notification of this video has come through just as I’m cooking breakfast for my family - I have my iPad perched up on the kitchen bench - and all the great philosophers in this household are discussing it - as the porridge coagulates and bubbles and steams - as the eggs turn from liquid to solid in the pan - as the fresh bread dough ferments and comes out of the bread maker- originally ground up grains - now transformed in a technological iamblicus into something entirely different - people forget the alchemy was about the transmutation of everyday things including the human condition - and how these metals and elements within our everyday things transformed - alchemical texts are in a sense cookbooks on how to Transform all things around us every day - just early morning thoughts of the cook/alchemist in a turbulent family of philosophers! Haha!
Thank you Dr. Sledge for everything...
Why February the 11th? I must’ve missed something 😅 and fantastic lecture! I’ve learned so much from you in the past 3 months! Thank you 🙏🏽🖤
I’m pretty sure it’s his birthday.?
Is there any chance of getting a video on the vital life force energy? Also known as Vril, Qi, Orgone, Prana, Kundalini.
Extremely belated comment: I am sure that Dr. Sledge knows, but for the rest of non Spanish speakers, "turba" still means mob, a loosely formed group of people, and often very unruly. It competes with "chusma", which means the same. Although, chusma has also a derogatory meaning, closer to "foule" in French...
We do some alchemy to celebrate alchemy day!
On Alchemy day you write tutorials of any kind with the most cryptic symbols you can muster.
Descent (S6:E26) of ST:TNG is one of my favorite episodes. Yes, I was also inspired. Cheers
you are the first person i have seen bring some common sense to this text
as well as some historical background
and some insight as well
you do a good job on this channel
be safe, be happy, work hard
peace \m/
ps i am all for alchemy day
how about something simple like fermenting and distilling of alcohol
taking the distillation through 12 times
and holding it up to sunlight to show the "swimming serpents" within it?
it would be a good intro into spagyrics as well
not quite turning lead into gold, but...
probably safer though
just a thought
Would it be possible for you to comment about Aleister Crowley's work?
I would love to hear your take on him
More on esoteric ismaili circles please! Especially the mongol link
How is it that every time I watch one of your videos my Amazon wish list grows? :P
Hey Dr. Justin, i've always wondered what is the logo of the channel. It looks to me like a mayan sigil, no? Speaking of the Maya, it would be super interesting if you did a video on mayan numerology.
Turbo philosophy, brilliant, PMSL
Awesome video, "Turbo Philosophy" - lol, I love it.
Alchemy day should be issac newtons studies on alchemy and his search for the philosophers stone and his studies on the temple of solomon and how it relates to his studies of his alchemical believes.
The way you teach is just so satisfactory. Thanks for your work
ALCHEMY DAY 2/11/22 ✡️⚛️🔯
That intro gets me so chilled out
in Arabic Turba means Soil...
How about a conversation between you and a historian of science or/ and a chemist on the actual technology of alchemy for International Alchemy Day.
It's been three years, anybody finish the homework yet? >.>
How does this seem normal at 1,75 speed?
Oh my god...
Hmm, I can just see physicist Richard Feynman sneaking to prank the Philosophers with quantum mechanics...
"What would Aristotle have to say to Sartre, Siddhartha Gautama to the Stoic Chrysippus, Jacques Lacan to Chaka Khan?"
"O child of Troy! Harken unto me!
Beware the Magna Mater. Do not listen to those who urge you to join the rights under the moon in the fields
Of the wild Boii. The cursed old men who have learned the secrets in the groves. Better by far that your flesh was devoured by the beasts of the earth! But you will not listen to me! Some of you will one day follow the eagles over the ocean sea that rings the world to the islands of mist and rain. They will go down under the earth to learn that which should not be known!
Hear is wisdom. It is not "the rats in the walls" that will be heard! It is the secret shame of who Burrows from below. A beast more than beast! A birth. A man.
Thus Jupiter spoke to me.
The prophet Marcian.
From Livy book XXII.
Awesome update of the scholarship on the "Turba." The connection with Panopolis, Zosimos, and Greek alchemy is quite convincing. Thank you, Dr. Sledge.
A mob of Philosophers, perfect band name
4:53 Wasn't Plato a wrestler? I bet he could get into a fight or two.
I know some programmers who are working on turbo philosophy tech.
Thank you for your teachings.... 🙏. This CH is definitely my favorite
Who can hook me up with some
mercury and aqua regia?
I've been in a few faculty meetings with a lot of turba.
From now on February 11 is Alchemy Day
Would this be the Voltron of philosophy?
Love the content! Keep up the great work!
Marry the opposites on alchemy day
I bet the 9 philosophers represent the 9 of sacred geometry. The 9 points of the mobius circle. It means the completion of the cycle, wholeness, perfection. It could mean they represent a previous age.
@@Giantcrabz maybe in another context. I could see 7 being the divine 6 plus 1 being the individual. Like body and soul. I'm no expert, but it's all very interesting.
Can we celebrate Alchemy day by seeing you performing an alchemical marriage?
@@Jack-pz8ty Why? It would be a cool chemistry lesson and a recreation of an important part of alchemical history.
That was fantastic, thank you for taking the time to dive so deeply into the Turba
Yep, that's the least these texts deserve
Do the Ripley scroll next
Jung theorized that the old time Alchemists also meditated, but he never tells what he thought they meditated on. Do you have a theory on this?
Aside from the cycle of prayers that were common at the time, I don't now of any specific meditations. At least not prior to the 17th century, perhaps!
greetings!
Sir, I have been studying your content with utmost attention , I have a request , I have been studying the book Newton -the alchemist by William.r.newman , I will be very pleased if you could make a highly detailed episode or series of episodes about the alchemical study of Issac Newton , i would also request for some content on the alchemical works of Robert Boyle. thank you .
You might want to check out "The First Mythology" by A.W. Sylvester. It is probably the single most revealing book of All Alchemical manuscripts. The secrets are revealed there. It will show you how to read the Allegories as you learn the process.
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My birthday is feb 11
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ok so we celebrate alchemy day by playing megaman
t h i s - Mega Man 2 Dr. Wiley Stage 1 music is the J A M of all time
I'd go with Sonic for the turbo philosophy.
211 Alchemy day events I have no idea.... lulz
Are there esoteric readings of modern philosophers? Like Guénon's reading of Dante? Is there an esoteric reading of Heidegger for example?
Everything around me can seem coincidentally tethered to circumstances and references to my own life and experience.
So it's burdening.
My dog is safe, my dog is love, my dog is the best natural guard, too.
What a shame the suffer and forced devastations on our lives.
After listening to many if these presentations, and in light of my admittedly anti-religious slant, I'm gradually coming to the opinion that the purposeful obscuritanism of Alchemical literature and practice was a reaction to religious absutism's necessary suppression of the scientific impulse. Newton signaled the breakthrough moment when orthodox religion lost its veto power on science at the hands and pen of an Alchemist/mathematician/philosopher. This is truly the transformation of historical irony into comedy gold.
One excellent alchemy day thing YOU could do would be to bust out some hazmat gear and attempt some real alchemy for us!
Would you consider doing a study on genius chapter six on the fallen angels and the fallen watchers also different order and level of demons
All is one. I love how you mention Final Fantasy because the game is steeped in mythical information.
This is one of the reasons that I read about the First Circle in the Inferno and think, you know, hell doesn't sound so bad.
The traditional alchemy day gift is a lead watch.
this is very interesting, thank you very much!
I could watch you all day... and do. 😅
Picked up Waite's copy specifically bc of Jung. Great episode, Doc. Super solid! 😎
Screw the idea of turning basic metal to gold. It would be a dream if I can have a conversation with Siddhārtha Gautama(Buddha). Maybe that's because I am an independent Buddhist.
So I got all this built up trauma, and I rant and I rave.
The things I know I have accomplished can also negatively affect me, cause I remain caught up in disability from a violent crime at age 13.
I have literally seen the sky fall.
I know I have lived my early childhood over and over multiple times in overlapping places and the timelines clearly overlap.
We are in a Matrix of imperfect design and the tendency to fall into taxation and condemnation just as economic policies as subtle genocide destroyed my life and consumed me.
Terrible conditions to be thrown into Creation's expanse and ilked with the suffer.
Whatever ilk means to my automatic writing based mind & present wording. (?)
Yeah, it’s always been man’s search to claim God. The scriptures of the Bible are of truth, most agnostic fail to conceive what it is about. I know, have a gut feeling, the Star of David means the transfiguration of Adam and God once Adam, man, realizes there never was a transcendental meaning. The gospels explain the Transfiguration of the Christ; Father, son, and Holy Spirit. The point being the fall happened and people chose the fall rather than God. Satan is the phony god of this cycle and always has been ever since the Garden. The Uroboros is the one of the titles of Satan. The purpose of God is to live in a holy life, thus achieving worthy sacrifices such as the one’s of Abel sacrificing a lamb to earn God. Look, I know the prophecies came to realization. The serpent and the cross was fulfilled when Jesus was crucified. The bronze serpent of Moses was the mere symbol of Jesus; who ever looked at the bronzed serpent earned salvation trough faith alone by believing it will save them. There is so many symbols the word of God uses and it is epistemology in its own branch of science or knowledge. I don’t know if the Holy Spirit guided Jung, but certain symbols are verified by God.
I love this sort of thing and eat up these videos. That being said; I spent my life in Retail and tend to look at everything as a product to be sold. The the question that always comes to my mind is; Who bought this product? Who would buy a book of formulas that, simply, don't work? At least, I don't think anyone ever made gold from lead. Was it sold to people who just wanted a book on their shelf that would make it look like they were privy to ancient and mysterious knowledge? For that matter, how did Alchemy persist for centuries without success and with nobody ever making gold, or the philosopher's stone?
Ok, I'm 4 months late but alchemy did discover acids, fertilizers, dyes, metal coloring, etc. To say it produced nothing, is wrong. I won't even go into all the equipment still used in chemical labs.
@@Bildgesmythe I will grant you that. And I am sure that at least some alchemists were serious investigators. But Alchemy's grander goals were not achieved and I still don't see how one sold a book of spells that could not work.
Just in case TH-cam cancels my question as spam because of including a link, to I'll add the same comment twice - this time without the link
Amazon has three different "versions" listed as available. One of them is half the number of pages and so I suspect is only either part one or two of the whole work.
One gives the author as "attributed to Arisleus" and is part 13 of a series of books called "The R.A.M.S. Library of Alchemy"
Have you heard of this version and is it of any value?