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A prova de doutoramento em Finanças, "IValuation of Financial Derivatives through Transmutation Operator Methods", por Igor Viktorovick Kravchenko, decorreu no auditório C1.03 do ISCTE-IUL, a 28 de setembro de 2018. Fotografia de Hugo Alexandre Cruz.
Dr. Alchemy - This foe of The Flash could transmute things using his science. this power created quite a challenge for the Scarlet Speedster.
Taken at Aftermath II - Metropolis - shops, clubs and RP *unsafe sims*, Unabated (224, 31, 2043)
The epigraph above is a Sufi saying. The “hand” refers to the Sufi master or teacher. The “stone” refers to seeker, or more precisely, the seeker’s Base Self, which is as hard to transform as stone. If the master finds a true, earnest student, the master is pleased. And if the master works his spiritual blessings (baraka) on the student, the Base Self will be transformed into “amber,” or the Purified Self. The Sufi master able to do this is a Perfect Human (insan al-kâmil), who has the ability to transmute other human beings also into perfect humans.
A sculptured landscape - earth in the nude.
We try the walls for echo values -
HELLO ...
Hello ...
hello ...
- and the sounds that come back to us, far off and fading, are so strange and lovely, transmuted by distance, that we fall into silence, enchanted.
#edwardabbey #desertsolataire
Photo : Kurt Ehrmann
Birth of the mysterious Alchemical Sentinels
3 months working day and night with an exceptional “dream team"… a big thank you to ACS, Luc, my trusty Giant who could lift a juggernaut onto a balcony (QED Thierry Loir) Thomas Cart'1, Goin, and of course Marc for the paints.
I have managed to set up my installation of 99 raw steel sculptures with an incredibly demanding specification: none of the 3600 work on the DDC site were to be hidden… we had to think about power sources, water crossings, access for construction machinery including the telescopic booms (3m wide)… public safety, ERP museum standards, etc, ... constantly alternating between the visible and the invisible...
Are they inhabited? I don’t know. One thing is certain: each sentinel stands as a unique sculpture in terms of its alchemical elements and paintwork (either with anti-rust paint or voluntarily with paints that do not resist rust). This autumn, each sentinel will reveal – with the acid rain – different interpretations, depending on the paints and solvents used, making each one different, with stratifications that future archaeologists will decipher.
But my most perilous challenge was to create a giant (9000 m²) installation that envelops the Abode of Chaos with dozens of tons of steel, so that my visitors, from any angle, enter a dreamlike fantasy and where the world of the Abode of Chaos on the one hand and that of the 99 monumental sculptures (named "Alchemical Sentinels" during an extremely busy night ) intersect like the Inframince defined by Marcel Duchamp (or, how to build intensities by subtraction).
These 99 Alchemical Sentinels are now the guardians of the Sanctuary that the Abode of Chaos has become. I designed them as veritable quantum energy wells that we placed with patience and wisdom at different spots all over the Abode of Chaos.
There are 99 in total, made of 10mm rough steel (50 tons), welded to form perfect equilateral triangles. Each of the three sides constituting an Alchemical Sentinel is itself cut to reveal a meurtrière, again in the shape of an equilateral triangle, presenting a superb Euclidean geometry to the visitor.
These 99 Alchemical Sentinels are each placed at specific energy points on the 9000 m² of the Abode of Chaos. Some are hidden by vegetation or natural landforms or are placed in relation to existing works. Others are located in our private and professionals spaces.
In my alchemical work that began on 9 December 1999, the three gates arranged in an equilateral triangle with one vertex pointing upwards, form the luminous delta. They represent the three elements that alchemists work with. These three elements are sulphur, mercury and salt.
Note that the three elements found in the Prima Materia (or Alchemical Chaos) are very closely related. The point triangle is also the symbol of the fire philosophers.
The equilateral triangle resting on its base – like the three points – is the symbol of the fire element, one of the four elements that the alchemist works with in the laboratory.
The geometric properties of the equilateral triangle evoke absolute perfection by their spiritual strength and their age-old symbolism going back to ancient Egypt… strength, beauty and harmony.
They will remain for a thousand years as witnesses to a civilization lost through the folly of men.
thierry Ehrmann
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3 mois de travail jour et nuit, une "dream team" hors du commun, un grand merci à ACS, Luc, mon fidèle Géant qui poserait un 38 T. sur un balcon (cqfd Thierry Loir) Thomas, Cart'1, Goin et bien sûr Marc pour les peintures.
Je suis arrivé à poser mon installation de 99 sculptures d'acier brut avec un cahier des charges de ouf, aucune des 3600 œuvres de la DDC ne devaient être occultées, penser aux sources électriques, les passages d'eau, les voies de transport pour engin de chantier, les nacelles télescopiques (3m de large), protéger le grand public, respecter les normes ERP muséales, etc… Alterner en permanence monstration et effacement…
Sont-elles habitées ? Je l'ignore. Une chose certaine est que chacune, par les éléments alchimiques et les codes peints soit à l'antirouille soit volontairement avec des peintures dégradables par la rouille avec le temps, rend chaque sentinelle comme une sculpture unique. Cet automne chaque sentinelle va laisser apparaître, avec les pluies acides, différents niveaux de lecture, selon les peintures et solvants utilisés, les rendant singulières avec des stratifications que les archéologues des temps futurs décrypteront...
Mais mon défi le plus périlleux, était de créer une installation géante de 9000 m2 qui enveloppe, par des dizaines de tonnes d'acier, la Demeure du Chaos pour que mes visiteurs sur 360 degrés, plongent dans un univers onirique et fantasmagorique où les deux univers que sont la Demeure du Chaos d'une part et d'autre part l'installation des 99 sculptures monumentales (baptisées par une nuit très agitée "Sentinelles Alchimiques") s'entrecroisent selon l'Inframince définit par Marcel Duchamp (ou comment construire des intensités par soustraction).
Ces 99 Sentinelles Alchimiques sont désormais les gardiennes du Sanctuaire que représente la Demeure du Chaos. Je les ai conçus comme de véritable puits d’énergie quantique que je pose avec patience et sagesse sur l’ensemble de la Demeure du Chaos.
Elles sont au nombre de 99, faites d’acier brut de 10 mm (50 tonnes) soudées pour former un triangle équilatéral parfait. Chacun des 3 pans constituant une Sentinelle Alchimique, est lui même découpé pour laisser entrevoir une mystérieuse meurtrière, elle même en forme de triangle équilatéral, donnant ainsi une géométrie Euclidienne au regard du visiteur.
Ces 99 Sentinelles Alchimiques sont chacune à des points d’énergie particuliers de la Demeure du Chaos sur 9000 m2. Certaines se dissimulent par la végétation ou les reliefs naturels ou bien en écho aux autres œuvres, d’autres sont dans les espaces privatifs ou professionnels.
Dans mon travail alchimique démarré le 9 décembre 1999, les trois portes disposées en triangle équilatéral, dont un sommet est dirigé vers le haut, forment le delta lumineux. Elle sont les trois corps sur lesquels l’alchimiste va œuvrer. Ces trois corps sont le soufre, le mercure et le sel.
Soulignons que les trois corps présents dans la Materia Prima ou Chaos alchimique sont étroitement mélangés. Le triangle de point est aussi la marque des philosophes par le feu.
Le triangle équilatéral reposant sur sa base, à la manière des trois points, est le symbole de l’élément feu, l’un des quatre éléments avec lequel l’alchimiste travaille au laboratoire.
Les propriétés géométriques du triangle équilatéral relèvent de la perfection absolue par sa force spirituelle, son symbolisme de la nuit des temps notamment dans l’ancienne Egypte, il est force, beauté et harmonie.
Elles resteront durant mille ans comme les témoins d’une civilisation disparue par la folie des hommes
thierry Ehrmann
'Amikejo: Uqbar (Irene Kopelman & Mariana Castillo Deball)', Laboratorio 987, MUSAC, 25 June–11 September
Uqbar (Irene Kopelman and Mariana Castillo Deball explore the “interchanges, mutations, transmutations, metamorphosis and contaminations that working together entails... the not belonging to one or the other but rather creating an in between zone”, as the artists have described. The artists investigate the principal of chirality or ‘handedness’ – the property of an object that is not superimposable on its mirror image (human hands being the most recognizable example: the left hand is a non-superimposable mirror image of the right hand). Uqbar take this phenomenon as a metaphor of two organisms working together, mirroring each other; and at the same time being completely different and alien to each other. The exhibition is dominated by a spiral staircase, which serves as a viewpoint for other artifacts and objects. Uqbar create a psychedelic chiral ecosystem, featuring hanging papier-mâché epiphyte sculptures and enlarged stone microfossils, as well as “Banyan tree drawings, a video of a chemical reaction, fables among non-humans and drawings of hybrid creatures”.
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'Amikejo: Uqbar (Irene Kopelman & Mariana Castillo Deball)', Laboratorio 987, MUSAC, 25 June–11 September
Uqbar (Irene Kopelman and Mariana Castillo Deball explore the “interchanges, mutations, transmutations, metamorphosis and contaminations that working together entails... the not belonging to one or the other but rather creating an in between zone”, as the artists have described. The artists investigate the principal of chirality or ‘handedness’ – the property of an object that is not superimposable on its mirror image (human hands being the most recognizable example: the left hand is a non-superimposable mirror image of the right hand). Uqbar take this phenomenon as a metaphor of two organisms working together, mirroring each other; and at the same time being completely different and alien to each other. The exhibition is dominated by a spiral staircase, which serves as a viewpoint for other artifacts and objects. Uqbar create a psychedelic chiral ecosystem, featuring hanging papier-mâché epiphyte sculptures and enlarged stone microfossils, as well as “Banyan tree drawings, a video of a chemical reaction, fables among non-humans and drawings of hybrid creatures”.
ENTER the DRAGON...
The ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. The ouroboros entered Western tradition via ancient Egyptian iconography and the Greek magical tradition. It was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and most notably in ALCHEMY.
Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
An ouroboros from a 1478 drawing in an alchemical tract.
Ancient Egypt - the Tomb of Tutankhamun
One of the earliest known ouroboros motifs is found in the Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld, an ancient Egyptian funerary text in KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, in the 14th century BCE.
DRAGONS In ALCHEMY:
Symbolism of Two Hermaphrodites - 15th-century German alchemical documents.
Some Dictionary Definitions of Alchemy:
⦁a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life
⦁a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way
⦁an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting
SUN and MOON symbolism is a frequent theme in Alchemical texts.
A reference to SOL(o)MON's Temple perhaps, where the ARK of the COVENANT is kept - the CONTRACT of the ARCH.
The Twin Pillars of Jachin and Boaz.
The ALCHEMical fusion of male and female to create a parthenogenic ‘HYBRID’.
The Chemical Wedding of Man and Woman, Mater and Pater, Sun and Moon, Mona and Lisa…
SOVEREIGN – to reign from above – the ‘HIGH BRID(e)’ – the monARCH.
SUPERIUS – The HYBRID(e) – monARCH – Sovereign – GOLD
INFERIUS – Man and Woman – LEAD
Figure 12 from "Hermaphrodite Child of the Sun and Moon" by Johann Augustin Brunnhofer (1752)
Alchemical DRAGON from “Hermaphrodite Child of the Sun and Moon” by Johann Augustin Brunnhofer (1752)
The word 'DRAGON' is 13th century.
'DRAGON' entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French word, 'DRAGON'.
ANDROGynous, however, is a much older word - from Latin androgynus, from Greek androgynos "hermaphrodite, male and female in one; womanish man".
ANDROGynous - a mixed up DRAGON.
Most interestingly, it requires very little or no translation in a significant number of languages - a UNIVERSAL word of sorts.
The definition of CATHOLIC - COMPREHENSIVE, UNIVERSAL.
The suggestion of this post is therefore that DRAGONs are used as symbolism for a 'SUPERIOR' monARCHical HYBRID ANDROGynous ROYAL BLOODLINE descended from the EGYPTIAN PHaraohs.
After all, the ancient Egyptian OSIRIS myth is all about ISIS conceiving HORUS without a PHallus - the original immaculate conception.
HORUS - the WIDOW's SON.
Christianity is merely a continuation of the worship of these ANDROGynous ROYAL BLOODLINES.
DRAG ACTS
The term "DRAG" refers to the performance of exaggerated masculinity, femininity, or other forms of gender expression, usually for entertainment purposes. Drag usually involves cross-dressing. A drag queen is someone who performs femininity and a drag king is someone who performs masculinity.
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Heavenly Bodies was created by using a Scanning Electron Microscope to visualize the detailed topography of the stones’ surface, transmuting them into objects of celestial beauty. Body stones (or calculi) are formed by the build-up of mineral salts within the body. Like comets or pearls, they are accidental waste products of the body, or as nurses used to call them, “tombstones to dead bacteria”.
Credit: Jürgen Grünwald