Becoming gold : Zosimos of Panopolis and the Alchemical arts in Roman Egypt
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List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- A note on conventions -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Historiographical issues -- Chapter summaries -- Primary sources -- 1. Zosimos and Greco-Egyptian alchemy, revisited -- Zosimos and statue making -- Color transmutation -- Philosophies of nature -- 2. Alchemy in Panopolis -- Temples and trade guilds -- Priests of the House of Life -- Temple guilds and workshops -- Craft knowledge -- Zosimos's associates and rivals -- Conclusion -- 3. Alchemy as a spiritual exercise -- Virtue and the purification of the soul -- Contemplating nature as a spiritual exercise -- Alchemy and sacrifice in 'on excellence' -- 'On excellence': Lesson one -- 'On excellence': Lessons two and three -- Conclusion -- 4. On Gnosis and natural methods -- Jewish and Christian influences in Zosimos's work -- Hebrew metallurgy and alchemy -- King Solomon the exorcist -- The Book of Enoch and the origins of alchemy -- The Anthropos, or primal human -- Jewish/Christian colleagues -- 5. Spirits in the material world -- Alchemy, theurgy, and the divine cosmos -- What is theurgy -- Cosmic knowledge vs. theurgical knowledge -- The divine hierarchy -- Linking spirit & matter through theurgic rites -- God-making -- Conclusion -- 6. Coda.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-275) and index.
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