The Aurora Consurgens

Record summary

Aurora Consurgens is an illustrated Latin alchemical manuscript tradition associated in some scholarship with Thomas Aquinas, though that attribution is generally regarded as problematic. Its dialogue between personified Wisdom, biblical symbolism, and alchemical transformation makes it valuable for comparing mystical, psychological, and material readings of the Great Work. The Zurich manuscript is especially prominent in discussions of images and textual transmission. Researchers should distinguish the medieval text from Jungian interpretations and from modern claims that it records literal transmutation.