Alchemy - Nicolas Flamel - Life and Alchemical Legend - Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2024
- Few Alchemists have achieved such a legendary status as Nicolas Flamel. The Parisian scribe is said to have unlocked the keys of alchemical transmutation of base metals into gold and silver and even to have used the Stone of the Philosophers to achieve immortality. But, what do we actually know about the historical Flamel? Did he encode his alchemical secrets on a Tympanum which stood in the Holy Innocents' Cemetery for centuries? What is the alchemical theory found in the "Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures" the work most famously attributed to him? Was he even an alchemist, at all? In this episode, we explore the life and legend of Nicolas Flamel, from alchemical theory to Harry Potter.
#alchemy #nicolasflamel #harrypotter
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Pretty neat that Humanity has roughly 5000 years of recorded history and there's supposed to be a 1000 years of mega-happy ending, right?
I bet we're cool with Alpha-predators. 😎
Aesh mesarep?
I didn't realise Nicolas Flamel was a real historical figure until I saw the horror film As Above, So Below (2014) in which the main character, who is a scholar of Flamel, is searching for the Philosopher's Stone in the catacombs of Paris. While not the best of films, I found the history of Flamel and alchemy recounted in it quite interesting.
Yeah i didn't know that either. I heard the name in harry potter
I thought the movie was pretty good
Flamel reminds me of the Druids. They probably did exist, but 90% of what we 'know' about them was concocted many centuries later, from a wide variety of motives.
They have text records for Flamel and his house is a restruaunt. They have a confirned copy of his will. he existed. Now, the matter of his immortality...thats a whole other thing.
...this is literally the whole point and content of this video.
The idea of a creative continuation from an invented text like the Necronomicon towards "real" editions and iconographies, all stitched together in small winks of legitimacy, makes my hair stand on end with emotion.
As a teenager, I wanted to believe that the Necronomicon was indeed real. Even the "fact" that there was a reference from the original author to the existence of a copy of the book in a city in my country filled my imagination with creative incentives!
You don't now?
Last i heard there was a temple and practice dedicated to it and accept in Left hand path as legit, tho cant imagine its something desirable to mix with.
Ah, that one. The original in the stories was written in Arabic right? Not Sumerian or Aklo or R'lyethi. Still, I like the silly thing.
Anything that can be created in our imagination exists somewhere in the cosmos. Sit on that thought.
Elvis sightings, flamel sightings, it's amazing how humans don't change!
You really have to wonder who wrote that text. But, I kind of love the idea it was written as a prank, because that would mean it's one of the most successful pranks in history!
Thank you Dr. Sledge for yet another wonderful episode. So happy I have found your channel, you're content is great!
St. Germain is also known to have usurped mortality.
Excellent video as always. Keep up the Great Work :)
One of my all time fave channels, thanks for your content, Friend!
i loved this episode, thank you!
Thank you so much for being part of my journey for truth
Do you have a video about the Count of St Germain?
That was incredibly fascinating! Thank you for the fine work.
Flamel is interesting.
Great video, thank you so much for doing this.
Loved the video!
I went to that restaurant! They played a lot of Motown. I'm not sure why.
I’m a huge Harry Potter fan and also a subscriber to this channel, I was so thrilled to see this notification! 😊
Funeral goer viewing Flamel's interned body: "So how's that immortality thing working out?"
First video of yours I've seen and your low-key sass earned a sub. Hilarious. I look forward to exploring your catalog.
thank you for your information.
Hello Justin.Just wanted to say I really enjoy your work and and all the great videos on esoteric knowledge greatly appreciated..from Saint Louis mo
Great video!
Thank you for sharing
🤙Aloha Dr. Sledge mahalo
Wonderful observations & explanations
Boring History vs Romantic Legend Flamixed on a Friday...
I ll wach again on Monday to see if I get a different understanding of the 2 dragons :)
Thk thee, Doc.❣️
Good on you for clearing up all the Robert Duval confusion before it started Justin, that would have caused who knows what had it a mere moment to take hold. I myself totally knew you weren't talking about Tom Hagen from The Godfather...
I love the smell of Azoth in the morning
I always smile when you break character from being “professor,” and we see some of your personality- u seem like an interesting dude to have a beer with!
Please look for "prayer for logos" on youtube. It's a surprising analysis of the Sigrdrifa prayer. The prayer is a system that predates religions as we know them.
You might find it interesting.
Just tickled that you referenced the SNL Who's More Grizzled sketch from 1997. This is why you're the best, Dr Sledge.
My fav!
Dr. S, could you please pod up your gain next podcast? Your voice was not coming through at full volume. Thank You! You're the best Wayne Prof I know since my old roommates dad (O'Brien) passed in late 2021
Thanks!
I listened to this a couple of times while working on my car. I’ll listen to it a couple more! There is so much good info! 👍🏽
We are the Philosopher's Stone... 😉
Awesome
Are you going to do episodes for Cosimo Ruggeri and his brother who is sometimes mentioned? Or perhaps Antoine Caron? I feel theres more behind these characters and their benefactor than I've yet to be seen told, and you might know something I don't. Thanks!
Have you covered the Count of St.Germain?
In order to cover the Count of Saint Germaine one must first uncover him
I must say, you grew on me as I watched further. 👍😎
"Not that Robert Duvall" You crack me up, Doc.
This isn't a particularly deep comment on all this, but there's something that pleases me about the fact that I don't think I have ever seen a "pretty" philosopher's stone depicted in media. It's always just a lump of rock, with maybe a slightly unusual color. But nothing that you would look at and say it was legendary. It's rare for comic books, shows, or movies to show that much restraint.
Though I suspect I may have simply missed/forgotten a treasure trove of glitzy stones in culture.
I've been curious about something since I've started watching your videos. Are there many options for a career in these fields for one with your level of knowledge? Or, to put it differently, is there a conceivable way to make a living out of investing seriously in pursuing this knowledge academically? I really hope these questions don't come across as condescending. That is entirely contrary to my sentiment. I love the subjects you talk about, and my interest comes from wondering just how far one could go with an education in this area of study.
Edit: I just finished listening to the excellent episode of the What Magic Is This? podcast that you made a guest appearance on, and you pretty much answered my question there. So, thanks! You're certainly welcome to expand on the matter, if you have the time and desire!
There are two ways to study it
One is to study it historically and factually. The other is to study the actual subject the alchemists themselves sought. But even to be of any worth in studying it only historically youd be required to actually study it to be knowledgeable. Also it will never open to you if your intention is worldly gain for oneself.
Dr. Sledge is a scholar of religion so if you're interested in doing this kind of thing for a living you should pursue a degree in religious studies. As with most humanities work is somewhat precarious and you're likely going to end up working as a teacher somewhere, either in high school or as a lecturer at a univetsity, pure research positions are somewhat rare. But if you're really interested and love studying these kinds of things then it is absolutely worth getting a degree in religious studies and you'll probably make it work, it's just not quite as easy to find jobs or as profitable as say getting an engineering degree.
@@whit3rabb3t29 I don't think the OP is interested in becoming a chemist.
Dr. Sledge *Hammer* ... breaking down barriers for understanding
Can you do a follow up on the “ Masonic Royal Arch “? ( the symbol itself ) Also any work on the study of “Geodesy”, very old transits and gromas for the use of surveying in operative masonry? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Just so happened to watch this on March 22-23. I can’t help but laugh when I see your thumbnail pic.
nice!
The restaurant is excellent and I can highly recommend it to anyone visiting Paris. If you ask the waiters, they’ll show you the (wine) cellar in which Flamel supposedly was “cooking”.
Gonna have to go there though flamel never lived there - it was a poor house he had built.
@@TheEsotericaChannel Yes, now that you mention it, that is correct. The cellar was just a normal French wine cellar anyway, not the tiniest speck of red powder anywhere. However, when I visited Jean Julien Champagnes grave, I actually did find a red stone amongst the rubble of the then dilapidated tomb. Probably just a red glass bead someone had put there for fun, but it was a beautiful experience. His tomb has been restored now btw.
@@Plippito still super neat though!
While correctly identifying the circulating and intermingling of sulfur and mercury symbol in your assessment of the tympanum , you omitted the slaughter of the innocents which was one of the author of Flamels texts almost exclusive veiled allusions to the process.
Have you ever considered doing a video on esoteric hindu tantra occultism, like the Aghori sect. I know you mainly cover Western esoteric subjects but just a thought
Fascinating video! Quite strange how the figure of the Jew seems so central to the work. I'm guessing the second "l" in "hieroglyphicall" in the title is a typo? If so I figured I'd mention it so you can edit before the video goes live.
Nah, it's just the early modern English spelling (which is an orthographic nightmare)
@@TheEsotericaChannel Fun times! Thanks for the info.
Something is tickling my brain so I’ll inquire, did Marx use alchemy metaphors in his writings ever? Because the description of Flamel’s acquiring wealth made me think I may recall that and if not, that there’s definitely some way of coming up with some good metaphors.
I think so
Find the secret to alchemy, then the secret to life will find you 😉
Marx uses the metaphor of transmutation a few times but I think Das Capital largely avoids using metaphor. Though the names he gives things are usually metaphors.
5:11 what language is that on the stone tablet
Will we get a lecture on Fulcanelli as a sequel to this?
At some point, got a lot more historical alchemists to cover
@@TheEsotericaChannel What I meant by sequel is that I think there are parallels in the polemical cultural context within which both the texts ascribed to Flamel and to Fulcanelli have emmerged, suo tempore, so to speak.
More broadly speaking, I think that political history of modern occultism is a fainating topic, which hasn't received the love it deserves. From the top of my head I can name but a few authors who took that angle: K. Paul Johnson in his works on possible figuers the ascended masters of Theosophical Society were modelled on, Julian Strube on early socialist milieau out of which Eliphas Levi has emmerged, Richard Spence on the possible entanglements of Aliester Crowley with British intelligence - and subsequent elaboration on those hints by Tobias Churton, Markus Osterrieder with his writings on martinist and synarchist movement in Russia - and that's about it.
It's interesting to see how often those persons and movements originate on the left and with time gravitate towards the right - starting from Levi himself, a radical during the Revolution of February, but a later an objector to the Paris Commune, through egiptian freemasonry, the Italian lines of which come through Garibaldi to reach some of the veterans of Salo, up to the French alchemical revival from Francois Jollivet-Castelot to R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz.
It would also be interesting to try to trace the involvment of those movements with the "powers that be" - like the trajectory of the geopolitical involvement of Theosophical Society - from indiscriminate anti-British stance of the Russian Blavatsky, through promoting Indian independence under Olcott and Bessant, until it was effectively ruled by Leadbeater - a man with ostensible British imperialist leanings. Or the ways in which organizations like AMORC have served as a cover for the US intelligence, or the entanglement of African politicians with the neocolonialist politics of Françafrique.
Sorry, tangent over.
Would it be far fetched to consider that someone may have tried to paint him as a Rosicrucian?
Also so fascinating to me that misinformation, not just as rumor but as mass printed information, was a thing back then just as it is now. Humans really gonna human.
Flamel is a legend.
Flamel! Famous.
I know it's a work of fiction; but I recently read a great book about John Dee called The Alchemist's Door by
Lisa Goldstein; with my kid and he really liked it; it made him want to know more about Alchemy and other esoteric writings. Are there any fictional books about Alchemy, that you know about, that would be good for young people to read?
Curious about the boxes behind you to your right. They look like the wooden puzzle boxes made in Hakone, Japan. Are they?
Indeed!
Where might I acquire versions of these alchemical texts?
Did you watch to the end ?
@@TheEsotericaChannel thank you, brain fart moment my bad
Thank U, infinite intelligence. ♾
4:40 Maybe they should serve as dessert, The Philosopher's Scone!
I love the idea that "upwards social mobility" wasn't common, so people were more likely to make up stories of secret alchemists making themselves rich by strange and accelerated means. Being a merchant and making your own fortune wasn't easily understood by both the upper and lower classes. It's also a good excuse if you actually just stole all your wealth from Jews or other peoples and you need a better explanation for your progeny. Enter, alchemy!
PS I love alchemy and hermeticism to be clear
@@Wolffanghurricane exactly. Stealing from jews was totally acceptable.
Medieval society also generally saw land as being the ultimate source of all wealth so someone becoming wealthy without owning vast tracts of land would have seemed to defy reason. The modern conception of profit and markets weren't really a thing yet and of course you couldn't go look at tax statements or other public documents like we can today to figure out where someone's wealth came from.
15:59 did he say "Boyle"? As in Robert Boyle? What he has todo with all this?
Should make an episode on The Great White Brotherhood
I was still late, a true pelican 😅
i love when fanfics become canon
Dude, you get a like and sub just for that dry ass joke. Great lecture though. So many talk about the mysticism of it all, but you give cold facts which is hella cool. I really like your style too.
"flummoxed Flamel" 😂😂😂I'm dead
❤️❤️❤️….
base metals into GOLD, now we are talking
It appears that Flamel may have been one of the most well documented urban legends ever created, as I don't see much reason to say otherwise from what you present here. Sure, there could be something out there, but the idea that it is Flamel would be suspect if attached to it, at least. Names changed to mask a true master would be a better approach, but that I doubt as well.
Except if Flamel is actually the author of the texts attributed to him , he without a doubt knew the "art" very well , his symbolisms, descriptions and his interpretations of other "artists" are sound and consistent with, as well as expanded upon . If he indeed was the author he was without a doubt an alchemist and an adept.
Flamel was the king!
In the time of Sir Nigel.
More symbols equals more betterer.
January 17th ???? Interesting.
He lived in early 14th century France, right?
Kinda
🐙
So much history of the stepping and killing of Spanish Jews. History is so depressing.
Yep, Jews function in medieval lit not unlike the "women in refrigerators" trope - reveal secret knowledge then killed off to propel the plot.
@@tharealisrael1447 The evil do the stepping.
Argent vive to you
im here from assassin's creed unity
I met Flamel in Venice last week.... I told him he was a phoney ...
Well he did become immortal....kind of.
charlie don't de veritate et antiquitate artis chemicae
heheh .... his-story is not the real story !=]
flamel has an islamic equivalent as far as demystification ....Hassan Ibna Sabbah (ali to ths nizari cloaked imamate )
Eh, thanks; ruined that for me. How about the Count St Germain, tell us more about him Justin. Scant reputable info.
How so ruined?
@@TheEsotericaChannel My romantic notions of the Flamels immortally living in some Himalayan paradise. 😉
How about that St Germain?
Сказать что кто-то что-то испортил для вас не лучший способ отблагодарить их...
You know...im not saying this was done by Flemel but it seems to me that alchemy is an amazing money laundering scheme.
If alchemy worked it seems to me you'd have the opposite problem
@@TheEsotericaChannel Indeed...also I would think the ol "Raziel told me where to find it in a hole" approach may be a better way to explain away a bunch of ill-gotten gold.
Btw, your channel is wonderful. Your content has helped open up several branches of history, anthropology, and religious studies for me. I may have alreafy saud this in a previous exchange but regardless. Thank you.
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