Collector's Edition of 33 color copies
Το Rosarium Philosophorum is a key book of the Alchemical secretariat of the 16th century. It became internationally known when Carl Jung found in it the proof of his psychological theories. Since then, it has occupied scholars from all over the world, as it condenses and presents almost all the practical and spiritual Stages of the alchemical "Great Work" (Opus Magnum).
The book is written in dialogue form. Great figures of the spirit of various ages and philosophical currents, come together to support Alchemy as a science and to applaud the possibility of transmutation of imperfect metals into gold. Geber, Avicenna, Thomas Aquinas, Rolandus, but also Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Parmenides, the god Hermes... these are just a few of the persons who converse and take part in a secret "Symposium", whose topic of discussion is the science of sciences, the hidden secret of God, the Art of longevity and the preparation of the Quintessential, that is, the Elixir of Life and the Philosopher's Stone.
With respect for the medieval text, but also with a desire to deepen its inner messages, the writer and scholar Petros Papapostolou translates for the first time in Greece the entire original text and attempts an interdisciplinary interpretive approach with the help of Philosophy, Depth Psychology, Religion and Religious Art. Embedding thus, in an "ontological" manner in the book's allegories, the psychic Archetypes of Wholeness and Individuation emerge through the words and images, and echo our unconscious need for completion as they prepare us for our spiritual "transmutation."
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