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I had not considered that this aspect was of paramount importance, until I recently requested from the British Library a microfilm of an important Rosicrucian book in their collection, the 'Speculum Sophicum Rhodo-Stauroticum' of Theophilus Schweighardt, published in Kabbalistic Cosmology Adam McLean - alchemy dial.

Quantum Consciousness Adam McLean - alchemy dial. There was a grand platonic metaphysical clockwork, as it were, through which our inner world was linked by means of a hierarchy of beings and planes to the highest unity of the Divine. This view though comforting is philosophically unsound, and the developments in thought since the early 17th century have made such a hermetic world view untenable and philosophically naive.

So do we now have to abandon such a beautiful and spiritual world view and adopt the prevailing reductionist materialist conception of the world which has become accepted in the intellectual tradition of the West?

I am not so sure. In treating our consciousness as if it were a digital computer or deterministic machine after the model of 19th century science, I believe we foster a limited and false view of our inner world. We must now take the step towards a quantum view of consciousness, recognising that at its base and root our consciousness behaves like the ever flowing sea of the sub-atomic world.

The ancient hermeticists pictured consciousness as the "Inner Mercury". The brain can no longer be seen as a vast piece of organic clockwork, but as a subtle device amplifying quantum events. If we trace a nerve impulse down to its root, there lies a quantum uncertainty, a sea of probability. The inner sea of quantum effects in our brain is in some way coupled to our ever flowing consciousness.

The central point within our consciousness, our "spirit" in the hermetic sense, can now be seen as an entity that can work to control quantum probabilities. We are challenged by quantum theory to build new ways in which to picture reality, a physics, moreover, in which consciousness plays a central role, in which the observer is inextricably interwoven in the fabric of reality.

In a sense it may now be possible to build a new model of quantum consciousness, compatible with contemporary physics and which allows a space for the inclusion of the hermetic idea of the spirit. Little is known of his life, except that he was probably of Scandinavian extraction, and that he spent a deal of his early life travelling around the world as a ship's surgeon.

Later he was to settle in London and gather around him a small circle of contacts including Ebenezar Sibley and General Rainsford , amongst whom he circulated a number of his own translations of alchemical texts from Latin, German, and French into English.

Material in other languages: French. Alchemical artwork: Alchemy and art Alchemical art prints The Alchemical Emblems Project Galleries of over coloured alchemical emblems Adam McLean's oil paintings Virtual musaeum of alchemical imagery My alchemy exhibition in Edinburgh Click for sample.

Artwork of Modern Tarot Project Sister site on tarot imagery Study course on the artwork of modern tarot Limited edition art tarots for sale Tarot weblog. In a way he acts as a bridge between the scholarly community interested in alchemy and those with a more esoteric and spiritual perspective. He takes the view that alchemy can best be appreciated and understood by reading the original texts and contemplating its elaborate symbolism, rather than by pointless and empty theoretical speculation.

Thus the website provides, for the first time, easy access to many alchemical texts as well as an extensive library of alchemical emblems and symbolism. In parallel with this he has published a number of books 42 as of October which document alchemical and hermetic ideas. McLean is a great researcher and has often discovered, buried in libraries and specialist collections, important texts, both in printed books and manuscripts, which have been neglected.

Some of these he has transcribed and published in the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks and other related series which are sold through the alchemy web bookshop. An important part of his work is to attempt an analysis of and commentary on the ideas and symbolism of key hermetic works.

McLean is a great researcher and has often discovered, buried in libraries and specialist collections, important texts, both in printed books and manuscripts, which have been neglected. Some of these he has transcribed and published in the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks and other related series which are sold through the alchemy web bookshop.

An important part of his work is to attempt an analysis of and commentary on the ideas and symbolism of key hermetic works. In he began to produce a series of in-depth study courses on the interpretation of alchemical symbolism. He is especially drawn to the rich vein of allegorical and symbolic material in the alchemical tradition. To make these more accessible to the modern eye he has produced coloured versions of key woodcuts and engraved alchemical emblems. He has also made some facsimile paintings oil on canvas of alchemical pictures.