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 CORPUS ALCHEMICUM ARABICUM *HardcoverCorpus Alchemicum Arabicum is a key manuscript on symbolic Arabic Alchemy. In this work, the Arabic text is always accompanied by a parallel English translation. This is a complete work within itself; Volume I of CALA presents the first edition of Hall ar-Rumuz (Explanation of the Symbols). It was written by Muhammad Ibn Umail (10th century), one of the most important representatives of the symbolic branch of alchemy. In later Latin alchemy he is known under the name, Senior. Ibn Umail's description of the alchemical work is a symbolic rendering of his experience of an inner-psychic process of transformation that he considered as being the highest goal in human life. Due to his extremely introverted lifestyle and his devoted focus toward the inner world, Ibn Umail was able to observe and describe this mysterious process with the "substantial symbols", emerging out of the depth of his psyche. His symbolic attitude facilitates a kind of inter-confessionalism: he states in Hall ar-Rumuz that "the result of the alchemical work can be produced by a person from any religion". The psychic transformation achieved by the work leads to the stone, a symbol for the solidified divine kernel of an individual. This center also has a collective dimension. Thus Ibn Umail also names the stone "mosque" or "temple". His work connects and bridges the Ancient Egyptian quest for immortality directly with later Latin alchemy and the modern depth psychology of C.G. Jung with its aim of creating spiritual gold: consciousness. Ibn Umail's work thus constitutes an important cultural link in the history of the spiritual aspect of alchemy. Muhammad Ibn Umail From the editor:
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The origin of this edition goes back to the time before the Second World War, when C.G. Jung asked Marie-Louise von Franz to
translate and edit the Aurora Consurgens, an alchemical text attributed to Thomas Aquinas. This book appeared in 1957 as
volume III of C.G. Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis. In this text, Muhammad Ibn Umail - in Latin called Senior - is the most
frequently quoted authority. These quotations come from a text of Senior that circulated under the short title Tabula chemica
(Chemical tablet). In the course of her work on the Aurora consurgens M.-L. von Franz came across the Arabic original of this
text, the Kitab al-Md al-waraqi wa-l-and an-nagmaya (Book of the silvery water and starry earth). This book is an extensive
commentary of Ibn Umail on his own alchemical poem Risalat as-gams ild l-hilal (Epistle of the sun to the crescent moon). The
text was edited by M. Turab `All, H.E. Stapleton and M. Hidayat and published in Calcutta in 1933. The Arabic text was not
translated into English. Only the incomplete Latin translation was published along with the Arabic text. The Kitab al-Ma'
al-waraqi is, to our knowledge, the only book by Ibn Umail that has partly been translated into Latin. It is considered to be
one of the most explicit sources for the spiritual dimension of Arabic alchemy as can be seen from the quotations in the
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