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Periodical: Journal of the Alchemical Society

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Journal of the Alchemical Society, The.
1913-1915 Monthly
London, England. Language: English.
Publisher: H.K. Lewis. Editor: H. Stanley Redgrove.
Corporate author: Alchemical Society
1/1, 1913-1915. 12 pp.

This was an early semi-scholarly journal devoted to the history of alchemy. The Alchemical Society had been founded in 1912 by Stanley Redgrove, W. Gorn Old, and others and viewed alchemy broadly to include extensive reviews of kabbalism, Rosicrucianism, modern alchemy and occultism generally.

Other Sources:NYPL; University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin; J.R. Ritman Library; Glasgow University; University of Leeds; Yale University; etc.
Issues:Journal of the Alchemical Society V1 1913
Journal of the Alchemical Society V2 1913-1914
Journal of the Alchemical Society V3 1914-1915
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Journal of the Alchemical Society is the learned organ of the early-twentieth-century British alchemical revival, and it is exactly what it says: overwhelmingly about alchemy, read as a hermetic discipline. Its articles weigh the philosopher's-stone tradition, the number-symbolism of the metals, and the perennial question of whether alchemical 'symbolism' encodes proto-chemistry or spiritual transmutation. A modest astrological correspondence and an unresolved rosicrucian trace accompany the core, but this is a scholarly hermetic-alchemical journal, not a mind-cure or Spiritualist paper — it maps onto alchemy first, with hermeticism and esoteric philosophy behind it.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Alchemy | Rosicrucianism