Προβολή Ταινίας 'The Ritman Library - Amsterdam 2017'

Προβολή Ταινίας 'The Ritman Library - Amsterdam 2017'

Προβολή ταινίας

The Ritman Library ένα φιλμ από την Sara Ferro και τον Chris Weil

Διάρκειας 90 λεπτών

Παραγωγή : Artoldo Pictures

Ποιότητα : HD 1080p

Γλώσσα : Αγγλικά

Σάββατο 3 Μαρτίου και ώρα 20:30

Ελεύθερη είσοδος 

Έναστρον Βιβλιοκαφέ

Σόλωνος 101 Αθήνα (Μετρό Πανεπιστήμιο ή Ομονοίας)

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Το ντοκιμαντέρ - παρουσίαση σχετικά με την βιβλιοθήκη είναι στα Αγγλικά αλλά και να μην καταλαβαίνει κάποιος την γλώσσα μόνον η θέαση όλων αυτών των σπάνιων βιβλίων φτάνει για να έχουμε έναν οργασμό ευχαρίστησης.

Πόσα παλαιά και σπάνια βιβλία σχετικά με την θεϊκή ουσία των πραγμάτων, την κρυμμένη πραγματικότητα πίσω από το πέπλο της ορατής ζωής μπορούν να γίνουν οι πρώτοι σύντροφοι για την ψυχή που αναζητά μια εσωτερική οδό πνευματικότητας και πώς μπορεί αυτή η ατραπός επίσης όσον αφορά την κοσμολογική της φύση, να επιδράσει ώστε να επέλθει η κατανόηση της στενής σχέσης μεταξύ του Μικροκόσμου και του Μακροκόσμου. 

Πώς η ανακάλυψη από παλαιότερες εκτυπώσεις αποκαλυμένων γνώσεων και κρυμμένων αληθειών μπορεί να προκαλέσει ένα σπινθήρα, ώστε να μας βοηθήσει του να περάσουμε ενός είδους μιας μυστικιστικής πύλης ώστε να βρούμε πρόσβαση σε έναν κύκλο μυημένων. 

Σε μια συμβολική αλχημική μετατροπή της ίδιας του της πραγματικότητας. 

Πώς μερικές αρχαίες μεταφυσικές παραδόσεις μπορούν να ενσωματώσουν το Απαραβίαστο, το Απόλυτο και το Μόνιμο. 

Πώς είναι ένας συγκεκριμένος κόσμος βιβλιόφιλων και βιβλιομανιακών, τι τους παρακινεί και πώς γίνονται άνετοι με μια δημοπρασία και πως δημιουργούν τη βιβλιοθήκη τους - και πάνω απ 'όλα γιατί να οικοδομήσουν μια βιβλιοθήκη.

Η κατανόηση των βιβλίων ως κινητήρια δύναμη των πολιτιστικών επαναστάσεων και ως κληρονομιά σκληροπυρηνικών θεωριών και αυστηρών συγγραφέων, τους οποίους μπορούμε τώρα να απολαύσουμε ελεύθερα. 

Ο ιδρυτής του BPH Joost Ritman, η διευθύντρια της βιβλιοθήκης Esther Ritman, η βιβλιογραφική ομάδα με τον Cis van Heertum και τον José Bouman, μας μιλούν για όλα αυτά, ενώ ο Δρ. Marco Pasi από το Πανεπιστήμιο του Άμστερνταμ διηγείται την υπέροχη και συναρπαστική ιστορία του δυτικού Εσωτερισμού.

Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam

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Once a treasure only for initiates, now available for everyone - the European underground heritage

We got the great opportunity to film some among the most famous books in the field of Western Esotericism like the Corpus Hermeticum, Tabula Smaragdina, Atalanta Fugiens, Spaccio della bestia trionfante, Plontin Polyglot Bible, all of them containing intriguing symbols illustrated in unique or very seldom pieces of late medieval woodcuts, baroque drawings, XVIII-th century engravings. Looking like a sort of cloak-and-dagger mystery plays, these at that time clandestine and heretical writings, arcane in the visions and hermetic in the language, constitute the basis of the heterodoxicity of our modern dissenting currents of thought and alternative ways of life. Old forgotten stories, our unsung, ignored roots and traditions of resistance to prevailing culture.

Alchemy: The Art of goldmaking

Hermetica: Who is Hermes Trismegistus, the Thrice Greatest

Mysticism: The Glory of the Trinity and the Divine

Cabala: Secret Hebraic texts and codes to hide the wisdom knowledge

Magic: Cults, ceremonial practices and magical experiences

Rosicrucianism: And then there was Christian Rosenkreuz

The secrets of the Micro- and the Macrocosm:

"That which is above is that which is below."

What does this mysterious sentence mean?

Learn more about some great yet neglected authors of the past, who were often punished or even murdered for their ideas. 

See exclusive works of: Basilius Valentinus, Marsilio Ficino, Johannes Reuchlin, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Paracelsus, Giordano Bruno, Heinrich Khunrath, Michael Maier, Jacob Böhme, Lambspring, Robert Fludd, Daniel Mögling, Baruch Spinoza, Matthäus Merian, Stephan Michelspacher and many more.

International Conference ‘Um 1600′

International Conference ‘Um 1600′

UM 1600
Konstellationen zwischen Schulmetaphysik
Konfessionalisierung und hermetischer Spekulation

Initiated by the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica to mark the fourth centenary of the  Rosicrucian Manifestos  (1614-1616), 

“Um 1600 – Konstellationen zwischen Schulmetaphysik, Konfessionalisierung und hermetischer Speculation” (Around 1600. Constellations between Schulmetaphysik, confessionalisation and Hermetic speculation) is an interdisciplinary and international conference taking place in Munich on 18-20 November to investigate the political, religious and social climate in Germany on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War.

The ’counterforce’ which challenged the religious, political and social establishment in the German lands can be associated with Florentine Hermetic Neoplatonism, late medieval apocalypticism and the Reformation. More than a conference devoted to Late Humanism, the encounter will not only bring to light the formal aspects of humanism – the exchange of letters, the Republic of Letters, the embrace of Antiquity – but also the theological, natural-philosophical, cultural and intellectual structures which mark the period ‘Around 1600′ as an era with its own special profile.

The conference has been organized by Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (Freie Universität Berlin) and Friedrich Vollhardt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich) with the generous support of the Freie Universität Berlin, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, the Carl-Friedrich-von-Siemens Stiftung, Munich, and the Stiftung Rosenkreuz.

To register for the conference, send an email to:

julia.roethinger@germanistik.uni-muenchen.de

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Alchemy – The Art of Change

Posted on October 15, 2012 

Today, the exhibition Alchemy on the Amstel – On Hermetic Medicine in the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic has opened its doors. During the last months curator Cis van Heertum in assistance of Jose Bouman collected manuscripts, sources and objects preserved in the library, but also Museum Boerhaave in Leiden and the Royal Library (KB) in The Hague. 

Exhibition panel texts, guiding scriptures and references were written and integrated in an artistic frame and a digital presentation has been created providing an introductory overview. Last week all these different elements were brought together in – what might be called – one alchemical ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’. 

Until May 17th you are invited to visit the exhibition and become initiated in the mysterious world of Alchemy.

The Alchemy on the Amstel exhibition is subdivided in 5 departments and opens with a brief exploration of traditional Galenic medicine as it was still practised in the Dutch Republic in the Golden Age.

This first part presents an overview of classical medicine largely based on Hippocratic Humorism, which deals with the four humors and corresponding temperaments affecting human (well)-being.

From here, the second part enters the Middle Ages characterized by a scholastic method of an universal and authoritarian approach. In this period a reforming force is represented by Paracelsus and his Spagyrian ‘art of healing’ connecting medicine to the four pillars of Philosophy of Nature, Astronomy, Alchemy and Ethics.

The third part of the exhibition focuses on Dutch medicine and gives an overview of iatrochemistry in the Republic meandering in a fourth part highlighting the toxic chemical element antimony and its characteristics, which was considered the most evocative and controversial of iatrochemical medicines.

The fifth and final part elaborates on Theodor Kerckring, physician and alchemist, who was in favor of the use of antimony in the field of medicine. Kerckring, a friend of Benedictus de Spinoza studied in Leiden and was a follower not only of Paracelsus but also Hermes Trismegistus, whom he extolled as the pater omnium chymicorum, the father of all alchemists.

Although the exhibition here in the Ritman Library mainly focuses on ‘Alchemy on the Amstel’ and its presence in the Dutch Republic, it might be worthwhile to put the exhibition in a larger context by meandering on the concept of Alchemy. When diving in the world of alchemy, different theories, practices, meanings and various etymological interpretations reveal themselves. The word Alchemy itself is thought to be rooted in Old French chimie, Medieval Latin chimia and further back in the Arabic al-kimia (الكيمياء), which is derived from the Ancient Greec chemeia (χημεία) or chemia (χημία) being connected to the Egyptian kēme and hieroglyphic Khmi meaning ‘black earth’. Also a Greec relation forms chumeia (χυμεία), which is associated with mixture. With reference to ‘-al‘, Jamīl Shāmi asserts that there is a type of ‘al-‘ that connotes the essence of something. Applied to chymia or chemia, it then would point at the essence of chumeia, chimia or chemia, in short the essence of mixture. Another interpretation of alchemy is ‘The Art or ‘The Sacred Art’ and many, many more ideas exist with reference to its etymological roots.

As with its meaning, Alchemy as a discipline or practice represents different intentions, styles and ways. According to some, it represents a pure spiritual discipline, others integrate a physical element to it or conceive it as rather physical than spiritual. Some alchemists relate it to the quest for a panacea, the so-called Lapis Philosophorum, the Philosopher’s Stone, which even became the theme of the first part of the world famous Harry Potter series.

Others apply alchemy to the work of transforming ‘lower’ metals into ‘gold’ in a literal sense or rather in a symbolical sense as a process of transmutation: the ‘conscious’ change of the ‘status quo’ to another status quo of a higher order.

In this, of course, risks do exist when forthcoming experiments go wrong and instead of a higher order, a lower order is reached. Nevertheless, all these different viewpoints and associations seem to share a place in what might be called the concept of The Art of (conscious) Change. And here a connection can be made with Magic, which deals with attracting forces to oneself, someone or something and implies to intentionally change its status quo.

When speaking of Alchemy as The Art of Change, it reveals a potential, which might be meaningful for the time we live in today. A time, which can be characterized by transition, the breaking-apart of societal structures, which were in service for a long time, though not necessarily seem to provide optimal answers for the rapidly changing world of today. Change forms the adagium of this time of transition, for transition reflects an in-between phase with change as the way to walk from the world of yesterday to the world of tomorrow. Change is development and development can be scary, it can be destabilizing or traumatic for it may leave the old behind without precisely knowing what comes next.

Though change can also be a pleasant experience, even educative and it generally fosters a (re)connecting force, a force of healing. Change is so to speak a ‘practice’ and when change becomes conscious and enflamed with intention it becomes an ‘Art’. It is Alchemy, which deals with this Art of Change in the broadest sense of the word and it is this Art of Change, which is forming the larger context of the Alchemy on the Amstel exhibition.

The Alchemy on the Amstel exhibition is presented in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (BPH) in conjunction with Leyden’s Luxuriance, Green discoveries in the Golden Age, on show in Museum Boerhaave from 11 October 2012 through 5 May 2013.

In addition to ‘Alchemy on the Amstel’ and ‘Leyden’s Luxuriance’, the Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden will show an exhibition on the History of Pharmacy from 5 October through 31 December 31 2012. This exhibition includes pharmacopeia, rare books on botany and books on the Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus (1493-1541).

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Exhibition 19 December 2011 ‘Infinite Fire’ at Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica

 Exhibition 19 December 2011 ‘Infinite Fire’ at Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica

From the beginning of the Christian era, the Christian-Hermetic body of thought collected by the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica has played a role in the West alongside the institutionalized religions, encouraging man to explore the secrets of nature and his place within creation, thereby attaining knowledge of God and himself. As an ‘unofficial religion’, followers of the Hermetic movement named after the legendary Egyptian philosopher and wisdom teacher Hermes Trismegistus were, at best, dismissed. At worst, they were accused of magical practices, persecuted as heretics and their books were banned or burnt. Nevertheless, the ancient Hermetic writings have never ceased to attract and inspire new generations of people. Its infinite and unquenchable fire, drawn from the heart of the collection of the de Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, is now presented to you in this exhibition.

One of the highlights in the exhibition ‘Infinite Fire’ is a magnificent edition of the works of the German mystic Jacob Böhme (1575-1624), published by William Law at the end of the eighteenth century. Included in this four-volume work are three hand-coloured tables originally devised by Dionysius Andreas Freher (1649-1728), a follower of Böhme. These figures visualize the relationship between God, cosmos and man as well as the connection between the macrocosmos and the microcosmos – man as the little world epitomizing the great world. Visitors to the exhibition are invited to discover these worlds by exploring the reproductions of Freher’s remarkable ‘pop-ups’, which open up to reveal deeper layers of Böhme’s theosophical insights. The explanations to the figures, provided by Freher himself, have been recreated in a stunning multimedia presentation.

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A Door Will Open for Europe by Marcel Messing

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A Door Will Open for Europe by Marcel Messing

Since January 1 1984, the Amsterdam library Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica has become known to the public. On national and international levels the press has paid wide attention to this library, the largest private hermetic-christian library of Europe.

The publications comprise : a 37 page article in the Dutch esoteric magazine Bres (No. 103, January 1984); a six page article in the French weekly Le Figaro Magazine (May 5th, 19841, with a circulation of approximately one million; the library was mentioned in the German weekly Die Zeit (July 1984); there was a 7 page article i n the French esoteric magazine Millenaire (JuneIJuly 1984); a 1 112 page long article in the cultural supplement of the Dutch newspaper NRC/Handelsblad (27th July, 1984). Within the November/December period, articles will be published in the Swiss journal Cahiers des Cathares, the American esoteric magazine Cauda Pavonis and in the Dutch Journal for librarians Open. And now this present article in the English magazine The Hermetic Journal published by Adam Mclean.

Several contacts with the worlds Dress and e.a. with the broadcasting companies will most likely result in arrangements with them in the coming months.

Within one year, then, millions of people especially in Europe have become acquainted with the Amsterdam Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica.

Reactions

The response t o these articles has been overwhelming. Thousands of people reacted : by letter, by telephone or by visiting the library. Within an exceptionally short period of time a lively network of contacts within Europe and North America developed. Contacts and agreements were made with e.g. several foundations, esoteric movements, universities and educational establishments in general, whereas also individual contacts were made with several interested persons, with authors in several countries and with antiquarian booksellers all over Europe and North America (e.g. in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London, New York, Paris, Stuttgart and Zurich).

Meanwhile friendly contacts have developed with libraries such as the Herzog August Bibliothek a t Wolfenbuttel, the place where the complete correspondence of Johann Valentin Andreae consisting of more than 3000 letters is preserved; the Blibliotheca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence; Yale the Pierpont University Library (Mellon Collection) at New Haven (U.S.A.); Morgan Library in New York; the University of Strathclyde Library (Young Collection) in Glasgow; the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp; the Amsterdam University Library; the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library) in the Hague;the Freemasons' Library in The Hague; the British Library in London and the Philosophical Research Society of Manly P. Hall.

In addition, through many national and international congresses and symposia, exchanges of thoughts could take place, and the library could become more widely known.
Within one year a great number of people have become acquainted with the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica. But acquainted with what? Acquainted with what purpose or meaning? To answer this question allow us to carry you back in time, time which is continuously illuminated by eternity, time which lies behind us like a snake's skin, while the spiralling movement of the snake itself goes on and on.

Wisdom is..
Wisdom is. Nobody owns it. It is not fully understood or defined. Wisdom It is the perpetual Truth and Love. It knows no boundaries, no is. definitions, no structures, no organisations. Wisdom is. Everything has sprung from it, everything shall return to it. It is the Bride of Light, the tender whisper in all creatures.

Wisdom builds its House on seven pillars, and only he who seeks it in his heart shall be found by it. Wisdom is. It turns the scientists' judgment into foolishness, the mockerers vanity into delusion, worldly knowledge into a cloud in the infinite Light.

Wisdom flourishes within all creatures, it acquires its scent in perfection, speaks all languages where mouths are silent. Wisdom is. It links everything and everybody with the one Arbor Vitae, with the one Source, with the one Truth of the everlasting Light. Those who breathe in Wisdom are linked with it, they live from heart to heart. The hearts of those who turn away from it shall be clouded; they will live in a fragmentary consciousness of the One. Wisdom is. He who forsakes it will encounter the wilderness of the other consciousness; he will meet thorns and thistles and will leave the paradise of the All-One-Being. Wisdom has no choice ... It is.

When man turns away from Wisdom, he turns away from the Truth, from Love, He creates his own surroundings out of a fragmentary from Light. consciousness and creates a world that reflects himself. When the Light-crystals i n the mind are split into good and evil, a tree of good and evil will sprout from the seed of ignorance. The tree of illusion, the tree of dichotomy. Wisdom, however, remains. The Truth remains. Love remains. Man may build himself a house of limitations, but the House of Wisdom is founded on seven pillars.

When man can no longer reflect the Light, he reflects his limitations wherever he goes. He becomes the stream which separates from the Source, the branch which breaks from the one Arbor Vitae.

But Wisdom, Light and Love never departs the errant man. "God does not forsake the work of His hands". The Light shines, if gloom gathers. And Wisdom keeps revealing God's Great Plan. There is always a way "back", the It links the connection with the All remains possible. For Wisdom is. wandering with the Sons of Wisdom, God's messengers. It points at the heart of every religion: the religion of the heart. For Wisdom is.

For Wisdom and Light "God's Sons" emanated. They tried to link man with the One Source. The source of Wisdom, Love and Light. We know them under many names: Rama, Krishna, Hermes Trismegistos, Abraham, Moses, Orpheus, Aglaophemus, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Vardhamana, Buddha, Lao Tse, Confucius, Zoroaster, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel... They all drew attention to the deep ignorance of man and showed him the path of inner redemption. Buddha already sighed: "The root of all sorrow lies in the very beginning and is being concealed in ignorance, from which life originates". And Lao Tse said in his Tao Teh King: "The highest knowledge is to know not. However, it is extremely painful to know how scant our knowledge is". Therefore Herrnes already spoke the words: "Stop and become sober: perceive with the eyes of your heart again! And if all of Thee cannot do this, then at least those who are able to do so. For the wickedness of ignorance floods the whole world, destroys the soul which is locked in the body and prevents it from docking into the port of salvation". Ignorance is the true cause of sorrow, "Father forgive them; for they know not what they do," t h e teacher Jesus was to sigh. Seen from the human awareness of time they carried out their task in the course of time, the period before Christ - as western chronology it so considers.

In Christ all that took place "before" Him and all that comes into activity after Him is connected in the circle of the present, a zeropoint in chronology, the symbolic year one.

What under the name of MELCHIZIDEK had been transmitted to Abraham under the symbols of bread and wine, is the work of Christ the Christ as Light, Love and Wisdom, one with the Father, the All.

What Christ as a planetary Spirit bestows on the earth is the spiritual power of the Sun which can fulfil the Christian mysteries in the heart of man. All peoples of the world have recognised the Sun as the source of all life. The Indian called it AGNI, the Egyptian called it HORUS or RA, the Babylonians MARDUK and later SHAMASH, the Persians spoke of MITHRAS, the Greeks of ADONIS, HELIOS or APOLLO-DIONYSIOS, the Norwegians of BALDUR or ODIN.

Countless temples, pyramids and monuments have been dedicated to the Sun: the Cheops pyramid In Egypt, the Yucatan temple in Mexico, the suntowers in Ireland, the Zikkurats in Babylonia, Stonehenge in England and Carnac in France. Countless lips formed their holy prayers addressed t o the Light of the Sun; from Echnaton to St. Francis. And many a mountain became a sacred sun altar for this Light, like the MONTSEGUR, the TABOR, t h e OLYMPUS, the MERU and mount ATHOS. That which was worshipped and glorified, for which numerous people joined hands and reached out, what in several countries was expected in the deepest darkness of winter solstice, it is always the Light, the Light of t h e SPIRITUAL SUN, which is the CHRIST. It is the Light that is reflected by the Sun, which illuminates the earth in our solar system. It is the Light that keeps shining in the darkness...

In the boundless mystery of Golgotha this Light is drawn around the earth like a "cloak without seams".

What is freed by this immense deed of Love is the Strength of the Comforter, the Strength of the purifying, Sanctifying Spirit who unites with every one who lets the inner Christ come into activity within his heart. For in the heart is the "Kingdom of God", called Atman-Brahman by the Indian, Osiris in the heart by the Egyptians and called the precious jewel of the lotus by Buddha. It is the golden grain of corn, Jesu, the Rose of the heart, from which this inner Kingdom, this All-Consciousness can begin to flourish.
The heart is the true "grotto" of  Bethlehem, the "Granary" by which the radiant shape within man is fed, is nourished.

By Christ the periods of time before and after Christ are abolished in the zero of eternity, in the perpetual potentiality of the present.

"And look, I am with you all the time till the completion of the world", the Christ says.

All those who were seized by the Light bore testimony to it; to this day. Despite persecution, hatred, murder, death by fire, being bricked up alive,gossip or denial. There has always been testimony to this Light. Now in private, then again openly. Sometimes by maintaining silence, by speaking or writing.., He who was touched by the Light has always tried to pass on his experience, to actuate it, to express it, to sing it, to write it down. In Upanishads, in Gathas, in Mudras, in Hieroglyphs, in Psalms, in Proverbs; in poems, in manuscripts, in books... Between what is written on the ancient clay tablets, the tables of the laws, the parchment and contemporary books there often is a mere difference in time. The contents, however, repeatedly refer to the one and the same Truth, to Wisdom. For Wisdom is.

Besides the spoken word, an immense tradition of the written word developed in the Occident. Thousands who were seized by the Light have testified to it by means of hieroglyphs of Light. Many stood in the Light, breathed from it; others looked for it intensely and experienced its touch.

For the first time in the history of Europe the principal currents of hermetic Christianity have now - together with other essential christocentric currents - been brought together in a unique library: the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, a library which will have reached its completion in the year 2000.

From : Hermetic Journal - Issue Number 27 - Spring 1985 Edited by Adam McLean

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