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Every origin story attached to Gurdjieff's teaching comes in two layers. One layer can be documented: a man of uncertain age arrives in Moscow, gathers…
Somewhere in the middle decades of the thirteenth century, a single Latin sentence began to haunt the alchemists of Europe.
From Summa Perfectionis
Sometime in 1547, in the Lombard city of Pavia, a quarrelsome professor of medicine went to sleep and did what almost no one in Europe did in 1547: he wrote…
In the spring of 1587, in a castle town in Bohemia, two Englishmen and their wives signed a document they believed God himself had demanded. The men were Dr.
In February 2018 the heritage blog of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow published a post about a sixteenth-century Latin book from the…
Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900, and the dream became a symptom.
Somewhere between the Nag Hammadi library and the internet, Yaldabaoth got a promotion he never asked for.
From Gnosticism Explained
In February 1570 a foldout sheet left John Day's London press tucked inside the first English translation of Euclid's Elements.
Over twelve days in January 1564, if we take him at his word, John Dee wrote out one of the strangest books in the alchemical canon.
From Monas Hieroglyphica
Open a copy of the 1570 English Euclid to the propositions on solid geometry and the page rises to meet you.
On 25 January 1564, in a printer's house in Antwerp, an English mathematician put down his pen and declared a short book finished.
From Monas Hieroglyphica
On the evening of 17 April 1584, in a rented house on Szczepańska Street in Cracow, Edward Kelley stood up in the middle of a session, told John Dee that…