Translator: Not Translated
Four Emblematic Theosophical Figures,
from ‘Theologia Mystica’, London, 1683.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, are ‘Four Theosophical Figures Delineated‘, excerpted from Dr. John Pordage’s ‘Theologia Mystica’, London,...
Kaija Saariaho – LA PASSION DE SIMONE (WEIL)
Kaija Saariaho working on a composition, Paris.
Picture by Priska Ketterer, Luzern.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is an opera/oratorio by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho (14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023), ‘La Passion de...
Henri Coton-Alvart: From ‘Fragments d’Hermétisme’ (Hermetic Gleans)- Astrology, as a Natural Science
Henri Coton-dit ‘Alvart’,
collection particulière,
Editions Le Mercure Dauphinois.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is another excerpt from Henri Coton-Alvart’s posthumous collection of writings, ‘Astrology, as a Natural Science‘,...
A Little François Trojani Sampler-Part I
François Trojani
(1940-2023)
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is the foreword and the description of the first emblem, the Misero, from François Trojani’s ‘Alchemical Commentary’, upon the Mantegna Engravings. Editions Arnaud Seydoux....
A Little Joséphin Péladan Sampler – Part III
Sâr Joséphin Péladan. A sculpture by Zacharie Astruc
in the collections of the Musée des Beaux-arts de Lyon.
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In today’s sharing, from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, we journey further among quotations & excerpts from the works of Joséphin Péladan,...
Francis Warrain: Wronski’s Law of Creation
2 Portaits:
Francis Warrain,
posthumous portrait by Arlette Ryan, 1956.
Source: Antoine Mercier, his great-grandson.
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Józef Maria Hoëné -Wroński,
by Laurent-Charles Maréchal (1801-1887).
Pastel, 1845, on display at the Metz Museum of Fine Arts, France.
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Today’s...
A Little Simone Weil and Classical Exegesis Sampler–Part VI: About (the Roman) Empire
Simone Weil (1909–1943),
a French philosopher.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is our sampler-Part VI, dedicated to the French Philosopher Simone Weil, and it is about ‘The (Roman) Empire’. Our texts source is from ‘La Source...
A Little Simone Weil and Classical Exegesis Sampler–Part V: About Mediation, being the key to everything
Simone Weil (1909–1943),
a French philosopher.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is our sampler-Part V, dedicated to the French Philosopher Simone Weil, and it is about ‘Mediation, being the key to everything‘. Our text source is:...
A Little Étienne Perrot Sampler: Part 2- Alchemy In The Age Of The Atomic Bomb
Étienne Perrot, picture page 84 of the special edition
of ‘Le Monde Inconnu’, dedicated to Alchemy.
October 20 1978 issue.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA-constituting Part 2 of our sampler series dedicated to the memory of Étienne Perrot,...
A Little Paul François Gaspard Lacuria Sampler – Part II
A photographic portrait of Abbé Lacuria.
(Born in Lyon on January 6, 1806 & died in Oullins on March the 3rd, 1890)
From the private collection of Suzanne Christoflour-Moiroud.
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With today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, we are resuming...
A Little Abbé Alta Sampler – Part I
A portrait of Abbé Calixte Mélinge,
also known as ‘Abbé Alta’.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is Part I of a planned few in a new series devoted to the memory of Abbé Calixte Mélinge (born in 1842 & died in 1933),...
A Little Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Sampler – Part III
Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, a.k.a. Paracelsus.
A 1927 reproduction of an etching by A. Hirschvogel, 1538. In the collections of the Welcome Trust.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is the third offering of our Little...
A Little ‘Petrus Talemarianus’ Sampler: Part I – A Contextual Introduction + An Explanation Of The Frontispiece And Its Symbolism
Frontispiece of the 1983 second edition.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is Part I of a planned few devoted to the extraordinary ‘Natural Architecture, A Report by Petrus Talemarianus on The Establishment of a “Golden Rule,”...
Henri Coton-Alvart: From ‘Les Deux Lumières’ (The Two Lights) – The Gradual Forgetting Of The Original Knowledge-Tradition
Henri Coton-dit ‘Alvart’,
collection particulière,
Editions Le Mercure Dauphinois.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is a excerpt from Henri Coton-Alvart’s posthumous collection of writings, ‘Les Deux Lumières’ (The Two Lights), published...
Azizuddin Nasafi – From ‘The Book Of The Perfect Man’: About Revelation, Inspiration And Dreams: A Game Of Mirrors
‘Rustem sleeping’,
from the ‘Shah Nameh‘ by Firdusi,
School of Tabris, 16th century Persian miniature.
In the collections of the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris, France.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is excerpted...
Ibn Khaldun: From The ‘al-Muqaddimah’ – About Dreams
Life-size bronze bust sculpture of Ibn Khaldun that is part of the collection at the Arab American National Museum. (Catalog Number 2010.02). Commissioned by The Tunisian Community Center and Created by Patrick Morelli of Albany, NY in 2009, it was inspired...
Francis Warrain: From ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’–The System of the Scale-Part 4 & 5- Of the Notions of Genders and Persons
Francis Warain,
picture frontispiece
in ‘La Théodicée de la Kabale’,
Editions Véga, 1949.
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With today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, we continue our selections from Francis Warrain’s ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’, posthumously published by...
Charles Mopsik – ‘The Secret of the Couple’, according to Rabbi Joseph Gikatila
Charles Mopsik
Picture by Marc Attali
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is an extract from Charles Mopsik’s foreword to his French translation of the original Hebrew of Rabbi Joseph Gikatila’s ‘The secret of David &...
Georgi Mishev: From ‘Thracian Magic, past & present’-Drawing Down The Moon
Illustration ‘Drawing down the Moon‘, from page 102 of ‘Thracian Magic‘. The drawing-down of the moon was the characteristic activity of Thessalian Witches. [Thessaly is in northern Greece, below Macedonia, and in antiquity was considered...
A Little Étienne Perrot Perrot Sampler: Part 1- Introduction
Étienne Perrot, picture page 84 of the special edition
of ‘Le Monde Inconnu’, dedicated to Alchemy.
October 20_1978 issue.
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🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is an introductory sampler, first of a planned series, dedicated...
Elie-Charles Flamand: Introduction To ‘Erotique de l’Alchimie’ With A Foreword By Eugène Canseliet
Elie-Charles Flamand in 1981,
picture by Gwen Garnier-Duguy.
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‘Alchemy claims the necessity of a material foundation in order to support the building of a spiritual work.’ Elie-Charles Flamand.
🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of...
Count Cagliostro And The 2 Forty Days Retreats -The Key Source Texts
Frontispiece engraving for the 1791 ‘Biography of Count Cagliostro’,
extracted from the Inquisition file opened at the time of his trial in Rome.
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Portrait’s legend says:
‘Of this friend of Humanity recognize his features,
Every...
United Society of Believers (a.k.a. the Shakers): From ‘A Summary View’ – A Brief Illustration Of The Necessity Of Divine Revelation
Hannah Cohoon, The Tree of Light or Blazing Tree, 1845
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is an extract from ‘A Summary View of the Millennial Church or the United Society of Believers, commonly called SHAKERS. General Principles...
Rabbi Chayyim of Volozhyn: From the ‘Nefesh haChayyim’ – Is Sorcery A Contestation Of The Absolute?
VOLOZHINER, CHAIM, ‘Nephesh HaChaim’.
First edition. ff. (63), 4to. Vinograd, Vilna.
Vilna & Grodno: Partners Mann & Zimmel 1824.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is chapter 12 from the third Gate, ‘Is Sorcery...
Louis Ménard: The Legend Of Saint Hilarion
Saint Hilarion, Franciscan Breviary, Savoy, XV th Century.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is ‘The Legend Of Saint Hilarion’, excerpted from Louis-Nicolas Ménard’s ‘Les Rêveries d’un Païen Mystique’. Paris, George Cres, 1911. From p....
Sylvain Marechal: From ‘Les Voyages de Pythagore’ – A Chaldean Hymn To The Moon
King Ur-Nammo offers libations
to the Tree of Life to the Moon Goddess Ningal
from Leonard Woolley ‘s ‘Excavations at Ur’ published in 1954.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, an extract from Sylvain Marechal’s...
Ocke de Boer & Maurice Nicoll: We Have To ‘Make Moon In Ourselves’
‘Night Sky’, artwork by Kayla (Shifting Destiny at deviantart.org)
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, are two texts that are about to ‘Make Moon in Ourselves‘, coming from two specific currents of the Gurdjieff Work....
Thieleman van Braght-A Selection From The “Martyrs’ Mirror or The Bloody Theater”
A 1743 portrait of Tieleman van Braght by Jan Maurits Quinkhard.
From the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is a small selection from Thieleman Jansz van Braght‘s ‘Martyrs’...
A Little Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Sampler – Part II
Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, a.k.a. Paracelsus.
A 1927 reproduction of an etching by A. Hirschvogel, 1538. In the collections of the Welcome Trust.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is the second part of our Little Aureolus...
A Little Guillaume Postel Sampler: Part 4 – Chapters XI & XII From The ‘Venetian Virgin’ (1555)
Sitting portrait of Guillaume Postel, French linguist, astronomer, Cabbalist, diplomat, professor, and religious universalist, engraved on a copperplate by Esme de Boulonois; from the book ‘Académie Des Sciences Et Des Arts’ by Isaac Bullart, published...
A Little Antoinette Bourignon Sampler: Part 2- How We Ought To Speak Out Evil & The Psychology Of Its Nine Gates
Posthumous portrait of Antoinette Bourignon, engraved by Batterby & Son for the ‘Light of the World’ 1786 abridged edition, edited by Joseph Whittingham Salmon for the Society for Promotion of the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem (a.k.a. The...
A Little Hendrik Niclaes & The Familia Caritatis Sampler: Part 1-Introduction + ‘A New Balade Or Songe Of The Lambs Feaste’
A portrait of Hendrik Niclaes,
engraving by Christoffel van Sichem,
from the collections of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is the first part of a planned series dedicated to the memory of Hendrik Niclaes,...
Emma Hardinge Britten: From ‘The Lyceum Manual’- A Selection Of Core Spiritualist Values
Cover of the 1905 Lyceum Manual
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is a selection of core spiritualist values from Emma Hardinge Britten’s ‘The Lyceum Manual‘ written in collaboration with Reverent Alfred Kitson and Harry Augustus...
John Lacy: From ‘The General Delusion Of Christians’- Concerning Revelation By Voice In Scripture
Title page of the 1713 edition
of ‘The General Delusion of Christians’.
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Today’s sharing from the blue House of Via-HYGEIA is an excerpt from ‘The General Delusion of Christians, Touching the Ways of God’s revealing Himself,...
Mansour Al-Hallaj: From The ‘Book of Tawasin‘-About Moses & The Forty Stations
This is the tenth figure from the ‘Tawasin’, notice in the center of the circle of transcendance, the ‘circuit of completion’, locked-in itself. The ‘La‘s that surrounds it represent negation (nafi) of all directions (jihat). The two ‘Ha‘s on the sides...
Louis Ménard: The Origin Of Insects
Louis Ménard, painting by his nephew Emile-René Ménard. 1893.
Picture by Hervé Lewandowski. In the collections of the Musée d’Orsay.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is ‘The origin of insects, a rabbinical tradition’,...
Azizuddin Nasafi – From ‘The Book Of The Perfect Man’: ‘Of The Rules of Mystical Retreat’
Illustration from the ‘Marifet Name’, written by Ismail Hakki Erzurumi in 1756. It includes astronomy, mathematics, anatomy, psychology, philosophy, Islamic mysticism and Islamic subjects all brought together as an encyclopedic work. From the...
Arcade d’Orient Vial: From ‘Philosophie Naturelle’ – A Panorama Of Alchemy Throughout The Ages-Part II & Conclusion
Title page, ‘Philosophie Naturelle’ by Arcade d’Orient Vial
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is the continuation and conclusion of the ‘Panorama of Alchemy throughout the Ages’, of which we published the first part some time earlier,...
A Little Antoinette Bourignon Sampler: Part 1- Introductory texts
Posthumous portrait of Antoinette Bourignon, engraved by Batterby & Son for the ‘Light of the World’ 1786 abridged edition, edited by Joseph Whittingham Salmon for the Society for Promotion of the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem...
Francis Warrain: From ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’–The System of the Scale-Part 3-Hierarchy
Francis Warain,
picture frontispiece
in ‘La Théodicée de la Kabale’,
Editions Véga, 1949.
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With today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, we continue our selections from Francis Warrain’s ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’, posthumously published by...
A Little Antoine Madrolle Sampler: Part 1- A Marial Classical Genealogy & Exegesis
A portrait of Antoine Madrolle,
origin unknown.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is part 1 of a planned sampler-series devoted to Antoine Madrolle (May 29 1791-April 14 1861) with excerpts from his seminal work, ‘Les Magnificences...
A Little Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Sampler – Part I
Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, a.k.a. Paracelsus.
A 1927 reproduction of an etching by A. Hirschvogel, 1538. In the collections of the Welcome Trust.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is a little rare treat, the...
A Little Guillaume Postel Sampler: Part 3 – ‘The Great Victory of the Women of the New World’
Sitting portrait of Guillaume Postel, French linguist, astronomer, Cabbalist, diplomat, professor, and religious universalist, engraved on a copperplate by Esme de Boulonois; from the book ‘Académie Des Sciences Et Des Arts’ by Isaac Bullart, published...
Charles Mopsik – Of the Androgynous Nature of the Soul according to Jewish Qabbalah
Charles Mopsik
picture by Marc Attali.
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With today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, we offer the continuation of the excerpt devoted to the concept of soulmates with the thorough study of the concept of the androgynous nature of the soul...
A Little Simone Weil and Classical Exegesis Sampler–Part IV: About Friendship
Simone Weil (1909–1943),
a French philosopher,
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is our sampler-Part IV, dedicated to the French Philosopher Simone Weil, and it is about ‘Friendship‘…with a little more. Our text source is: ‘Intuitions...
Henry Corbin & Suhrawardi: From ‘The Incantation of the Simurgh’ – About the Sakina & the state of Fana
‘Zal Rescued by the Simurgh’-Attributed to Sadiqi Beg (1533–1610)-Part of the ‘Shahnameh’ of Shah Abbas.
In the collections of the Chester Beatty Library, in Dublin.
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, are chapter...
Francis Warrain: From ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’–The System of the Scale-Part 2-Bilateral Balance
Francis Warain,
picture frontispiece
in ‘La Théodicée de la Kabale’,
Editions Véga, 1949.
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With today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, we continue our selections from Francis Warrain’s ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’, posthumously published by...
A Little Guillaume Postel Sampler: Part 2 – The Doctrine Of The Golden Century
Sitting portrait of Guillaume Postel, French linguist, astronomer, Cabbalist, diplomat, professor, and religious universalist, engraved on a copperplate by Esme de Boulonois; from the book ‘Académie Des Sciences Et Des Arts’ by Isaac Bullart, published...
From A 1754 Moravian Church Hymnal: The ‘Faith, Hope & Love’ Triptych
Engraving II from the French translation of David Crantz’s ‘Brève et fidèle exposition de l’origine, de la doctrine, des constitutions, usages et cérémonies ecclésiastiques de l’église de l’Unité des Frères, connus sous le...
Thomas Bromley – Two Examples Of A 17th Century English Theosophical Exegesis Of The Bible
Biblical Patriarchs,
Duomo Baptistry in Florence
Picture by Matthias Kabel
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Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is an extract from Thomas Bromley’s ‘Journeys of the Children of Israel, as in their names and historical passages,...