{"id":1188,"date":"2025-07-03T09:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/?page_id=1188"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T09:34:13","slug":"don-karrs-selected-writings-of-fm-van-helmont","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/?page_id=1188","title":{"rendered":"Selected Writings of FM van Helmont"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Selected Writings of FM van Helmont<\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"735\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/vanHelmont.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/vanHelmont.jpg 735w, https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/vanHelmont-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Cabbalistical Dialogue<\/em>, an English translation of <em>Fundamenta Cabbalae Aeto-Paedo-Melissaeae Dialogus <\/em>by Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-brilliance.org\/contributed\/Karr\/VanHelmont\/fmvhCabDial.pdf\">PDF<\/a>)<br>Transcribed, annotated and introduced by Don Karr<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Selections from Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-brilliance.org\/contributed\/Karr\/VanHelmont\/fmvhPDDB.pdf\">PDF<\/a>)<br>Containing Chapter IV of <em>The Paradoxal Discourses<\/em>. Also an appendix of <em>Several Questions with their Answers Concerning the Hypothesis of the Revolution of Humane Souls<\/em> taken from <em>The Divine Being and its Attributes<\/em>.<br>Transcribed, edited and introduced by Don Karr<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seder Olam: OR THE Order, Series, or Succession of all the Ages, Periods and Times of the World by Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-brilliance.org\/contributed\/Karr\/VanHelmont\/fmvhSOlam.pdf\">PDF<\/a>)<br>Transcribed, edited and introduced by Don Karr<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FM van Helmont (1614 &#8211; 1699 CE) tends to be overshadowed by his father, the famous iatrochemist Jan Baptista van Helmont [1580 &#8211; 1644 CE], but he is remembered through his friendships with a wide circle of&nbsp; European intellectuals that included Gottfried Leibniz, the English Platonists Anne Conway and Henry More, and Christian Knorr von Rosenroth. He edited and published his father&#8217;s works, preserved and published the work of Anne Conway, and collaborated with von Rosenroth on the publication of the famous <em>Kabbala Denudata<\/em>, a large compilation of Kabbalistic texts (including sections of the <em>Zohar<\/em>) that were translated into Latin and formed a primary resource for subsequent generations of Christian and Hermetic Kabbalists in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Colin Low 2006]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Page updated 9th November 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabbalistical Dialogue, an English translation of Fundamenta Cabbalae Aeto-Paedo-Melissaeae Dialogus by Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont (PDF)Transcribed, annotated and introduced by Don Karr Selections from Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont(PDF)Containing Chapter IV of The Paradoxal Discourses. Also an appendix of Several Questions with their Answers Concerning the Hypothesis of the Revolution of Humane Souls taken from The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1188","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1188\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}