Renaissance magic
Heinrich Khunrath
Physician, alchemist and Christian Hermeticist, and the maker of one of the great emblematic books of Christian alchemy.
- Dates
- 1560 – 9 September 1605
- Dating
- documented dates
The life
He represents the transitional world immediately preceding the Rosicrucian manifestos.
Place in the tradition
His engravings join laboratory work, prayer, music, Kabbalah and mystical transformation into a single visual argument.
the written record
Principal works
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first form 1595; expanded 1609, posthumous
Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom
Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae
One of the great emblematic books of Christian alchemy, in which the laboratory and the oratory are the same room.