By Joseph Needham (author), Lu Gwei-Djen (collaborator)
The 5th quantity of Dr Needham's mammoth venture, just like the fourth, is subdivided into components for ease of assimilation and presentation, every one half sure and released individually. the quantity as a complete covers the topics of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical know-how (which contains army invention, specifically gunpowder and rockets; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt undefined; and ceramics).
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In I 850 a young woman, Mary Anne Atwood, published a very peculiar book entitled 'A Suggestive Enquiry into the Hermetic Mystery.. ', one of the curiosities of literature, learned enough but exceedingly obscure and confusing. She readily admitted the practical experimentation of the early alchemist^,^ and affirmed that gold could have been made by their methods,e but nevertheless maintained that the greatest treasures in their writings were those of religious mysticism. '' When one can disentangle her meaning from the speculations about 'Mesmerism' (then a novel discovery)g and her preoccupation with the elucidation of the Eleusinian Mysteries, it seems that Mary b Ibid.
3 3 ' (2) especially (i, ii), and (4). It was not primarily psychological, like the 'mystical alchemy' of the West, though it made much use of meditational techniques. Our conclusion is, at the end of (4) and in (S), that most of its procedures were highly conducive to the health, both mental and physical, of the follower of the Tao. 3 3 . ALCHEMY AND C H E M I S T R Y G) T H E O U T E R A N D T H E I N N E R MACROBIOGENS; T H E ELIXIR AND T H E ENCHYMOMA T h e science of alchemy (ars alchimica) [said Martin Luther in the middle of the + 16th century],a I like very well, and indeed it is truly the natural philosophy of the ancients.
I. Abrams. a + + + 33. PHYSIOLOGICAL ALCHEMY Fig. I 542. Psychological projection in Western allegorical alchemy; sexual union as symbol of chemical reaction. Fifth woodcut of the Rosarium Philosophorum ( 1550). Cf. Jung (I), p. 448. " Presently we shall see how extremely Chinese this was, though in an utterly different context. The effects were doubtless similar, for in Europe, in so far as the alchemical work was a pattern of the purification or individuation of the soul, the value of the progressive reconciliation of contradictions is psychologically manifest.