Wednesday, 4 January 2 0 1 2: Grow Your Own Homunculus
Wednesday, 4 January 2 0 1 2: Grow Your Own Homunculus
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W E D N E S D A Y, 4 J A N U A R Y
2012
GROW YOUR OWN HOMUNCULUS
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symbolic
homunculus,
depicted
in
The
of
God'),
alchemical
work
an
important
by
15th-Century
Georgius
Aurach
de
Argentina
In
September
1994,
published
an
forgotten
arcane
however,
engrossing
subject
review
in
Paul
of
Thompson
this
America's
largelyFate
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the
growth
of
homunculi
contained
several
obtainable,
why
was
the
production
of
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Swiss
scholar
Theophrastus
Paracelsus
(aka
and
alchemist
Philippus
von
description
of
how
to
create
homunculus:
"Let the semen of a man putrefy by itself in a sealed
cucurbite [glass vessel] with the highest putrefaction
of the venter equinus [horse manure] for 40 days, or
until it begins at last to live, move, and be agitated,
which can easily be seen. After this time it will be in
some degree like a human being, but, nevertheless,
transparent and without body. If now, after this, it be
every day nourished and fed cautiously and prudently
with the arcanum of human blood, and kept for 40
weeks in the perpetual and equal heat of a venter
equinus, it becomes, thenceforth, a true and living
infant, having all the members of a child that is born
from a woman, but much smaller. This we call a
homunculus; and it should be afterwards educated
with the greatest care and zeal, until it grows up and
begins to display intelligence."
Equally obscure is 'animal tincture', listed in another
medieval recipe.
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series
of
processes
required,
records
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in
Elizabethan
which
magus
he
portrays
John
Dee
real-life
successfully
creating a homunculus
As
fully
documented
in
Dr
Emil
Besetzny's
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Homunculi
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created
from
blood,
or
merely
Geloni
and
Kufstein
ultimately
went
their
buried
in
the
grounds
of
Kufstein's
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