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Aurora Consurgens is a 15th century richly illuminated text in the
alchemical tradition. Like a well-wrought puzzle it fuses Bible
quotations with quotes from early alchemical texts to conjure up a
beautiful rumination on the female figure of Wisdom. While
described as beautiful, she wasn't flawless, weak, fearful, or
subordinate. She was a strong, intelligent, free-willed, even
fearsome creature who had all the knowledge of the world gathered
inside. That Wisdom, that everything connected to knowledge and
science is naturally a woman's domain appears to be an alien
thought to us today. Yet, when we think of all the Wisdom deities
like Athena,Saraswati, Benzaiten, Saga, etc. it once wasn't. The
alchemists remind us of that in this magnificent text. This book
combines an English translation of the Aurora with its traditional
illustrations reimagined by artist Aviva Brueckner. In its color-in
pages it leaves room to meditate upon the words while providing the
world with its splendid shades.
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