5/19/2023 0 Comments Ipulse angel![]() Festivals offer a spatially and temporally bounded public platform or ‘pop-up third place’ where university activities are externalised and made available for public exhibition and consumption. Although it presents itself as a single phenomenon, the festival is actually a kind of meta-text, or an assemblage of texts and discourses. Festival programmes are different to other types of public cultural programmes that are offered to the public on a year-round basis. ![]() Festivals have not been extensively researched in this particular context and the understanding gained about the processes, structures and human networks through which they are designed, developed and delivered constitutes an original contribution of the PhD. It takes as its starting point the range of third mission, or engagement activities through which universities form links with the local cultural sector and to the wider community and considers how the university, a relatively permanent institution that constitutes the major element of the UK higher education landscape, provides a set of conditions and a site for a temporally bounded cultural formation, a festival. It is a context-specific and empirical study that examines events at three individual universities in major UK cities during 20. This thesis critically examines universities as cultural producers within the creative ecologies of their cities, with a focus on the occasions when they produce cultural events for the public. Transmission of Alchemy will delight professionals and enthusiasts alike who share interest in alchemy, history, spirituality and mysticism. The work also reveals itself as seamlessly marrying operative and mystic foundational theory with practical work in both alchemy and transcendent wisdom. Morienus’ alchemical expression reflects several Alexandrian Chrysopœian precedents, yet is surprisingly unique in its own right. Somewhat Hermetic or Gnostic in tone, Morienus draws on these as well as Persian, Greek, Jewish and Egyptian sources of wisdom accurately and from memory in his dialogue with Prince Khālid. The dialogue between Morienus and Prince Khālid holds the key to realizing alchemy as a model for mystic insight, be it framed in terms of Greek philosophical principles, Alexandrian Chrysopœia or Christian mysticism – all of which Morienus harmonizes and wonderfully expresses with a startling wholeness. The original Arabic form of The Epistle of Morienus is considered by many researchers to be one of the first – if not the first – of many initial alchemical texts translated into Latin during the 11th and 12th centuries. Not only is it a record of alchemy’s transmission to the rich Islamic culture of the Umayyad Caliphate during the 7th century, but also Islamic alchemy’s transmission into Europe. From there, it would evolve into its dynamic new, experimental and medicinal form as Islamic al-Kīmyāʼ. The Epistle of Morienus is considered a primary historical eyewitness account of the momentous occasion when the torch of Byzantine alchemy was transmitted to the Islamic Empire. The expression of alchemy preserved in these wonderful manuscripts was foundational to both Islamic and European alchemical traditions. Transmission of Alchemy is a new literal Arabic to English translation from two versions of an ancient source-work known as The Epistle of Morienus, the Wise Monk, to Prince Khālid bin Yazīd.
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