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Posted by nathan shafer on May 16, 19101 at 16:26:41:
In Reply to: Faust's homunculus posted by kevin on February 17, 19101 at 14:24:24:
: Does anyone know where Goethe got the idea of having Faust create a homunculus? The original Faust legends of the sixteenth century don't depict this, nor does Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus."
: Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D.
: New York Institute of Technology
Faust traded his soul for earthly knowledge, right?
well, in all the different tellings of Faust there are differnet endings,
Anyways, the ancient alchemists had a secret called an arcanum, the they
had a secret of secrets, called an
ARCANUM ARCANORUM
this was a recipe for a little man called homunculus,
supposedly perfected by Paracelsus
you put spagyric substances in an alembic then keep it in horse dung for
40 days then feed the homunculus on an arcanum of human blood for
40 weeks.
that may be coinsidered a secret of earthly knowledge and therefore would have
been revealed to Faust ny the Devil.
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