Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · blog0.726

   And if we should draw it from living creatures (of which sort is man's blood, hair, urine, excrements, hens' eggs, and what else proceed from living creatures) we must likewise out of them extract Argent-vive and Sulphur by decoction, from which we are freed, as we were before. Or if we should choose it out of middle minerals (of which sort are all kinds of Magnesia, Marchasites, of Tutia, Coppers, Allums, Baurach, Salts, and many other) we should likewise, as afore, extract Argent-vive and Sulphur by decoction: from which as from the former, we are also excused. And if we should take one of t…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/the-mirror-of-alchemy.md

2. 02 · _intake0.722

   <<Iron>> is an essential mineral in the <<heme>> molecule of hemoglobin and the cytochrome proteins … - **Cold Thermogenesis in the News** - `_intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/cold-thermogenesis-news.md` - … How to Improve Your <<Redox>> Potential](https://jackkruse.com/<<redox>>-rx/)

   _intake/concept-digests/iron-heme-redox.md

3. 03 · blog0.711

   For truly, when the rustics in Hungary cast iron at the proper season into a certain fountain, commonly called Zifferbrunnen, it is consumed into rust, and when this is liquefied with a blast-fire, it soon exists as pure Venus, and never more returns to iron. Similarly, in the mountain commonly called Kuttenberg, they obtain a lixivium out of marcasites, in which iron is forthwith turned into Venus of a high grade, and more malleable than the other produced by Nature. These things, and more like them, are known to simple men rather than to sophists, namely, those which turn one appearance of a…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/the-book-concerning-the-tincture-of-the-philosophers-by-paracelsus.md

4. 04 · blog0.709

   Is the vehicular medium constitutive of the artwork, and if so, how exactly does that square with the claim of de-materialisation? 3.3 The Aesthetic Value of Art Underlying the claim that we need to have a direct experiential encounter with an artwork in order to appreciate it appropriately is the fact that some of the properties that bear on the value of a work can only be grasped in this way. The properties in question here are generally aesthetic properties, and the assumption motivating the experiential requirement is that the appreciation of artworks necessarily involves an aesthetic elem…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/conceptual-art.md

5. 05 · blog0.707

   Seeing that by the former Chapters we have been taught, that all metals are engendered of Argent-vive and Sulphur, and how that their impurity and uncleanness does corrupt, and that nothing may be mingled with metals which have not been made or sprung from them, it: remains clean enough, that no strange thing which has not his original from these two, is able to perfect them, or to make a Change and new transmutation of them: so that it is to be wondered at, that any wise man should set his mind upon living creatures, or vegetables which are far off, when there be minerals to be found near eno…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/the-mirror-of-alchemy.md

6. 06 · blog0.706

   Third, the pull towards thinking of cultural heritage as universally valuable (discussed in 2.2 ) is arguably stronger in the case of intangible heritage than in the case of material heritage. For example, if knowledge aspires to be free to all, then is it acceptable to restrict its flow, even for the sake of guarding against the exploitation of vulnerable indigenous communities (Brown 2005)? As discussed in section 2.3 , one might again counter that indigenous claims are more often for participation than outright control or rights of excludability, and thus such tensions are resolved if one a…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/the-ethics-of-cultural-heritage.md

7. 07 · blog0.705

   Sergey Blok, George Newman, and Lance Rips (2005) investigated people’s intuitions about the persistence of various types of objects, including persons, animals, plants, and artefacts. Participants were presented with a vignette about each of these objects either (a) being disassembled into individual particles, transported and reassembled again, or (b) being replaced by an identical material copy, the original of which is destroyed. People were inclined to see artefacts as the same after being ‘copied’. In a related study, David Rose and colleagues (2020) have investigated intuitions about th…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/experimental-philosophy-of-art-and-aesthetics.md

8. 08 · blog0.705

   As the examples just given indicate, the idea that a person’s essence is transferable to an object does not depend on the object’s aesthetic merits, and this severely limits the usefulness of this idea in explaining the role of authenticity in the arts (see, however, Korsmeyer 2019 where it is argued that genuineness is itself an aesthetic property). Bloom and colleagues stress the role of physical contact in the contagion process: “An original Picasso may be valuable because Picasso actually touched it” (Newman & Bloom 2012: 3). But Picasso may have got no closer than a brush length from Guer…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/aesthetics-and-cognitive-science.md

9. 09 · blog0.704

   When Mercury mortifies the matter of the Sun and Moon, there remains a matter like ashes." The Sage of Trevisa: "Add nothing above ground for digesting and thickening Mercury into the nature of gold or of metals." Again: "This solution is possible and natural, that is to say, by Art as handmaid to Nature, and is unique and necessary in the work; but it is brought about only by quicksilver, in such proportions as commend themselves to a good workman who knows the inmost properties of Nature." "Art of Alchemy": "Who can sufficiently extol Mercury, for Mercury alone has power to reduce gold to it…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/the-stone-of-the-philosophers-by-edward-kelly.md

10. 10 · _intake0.703

    It has one more key element that many in paleo forgot; it makes and restores the key reducing chemical element, **NADPH**, to replenish glutathione in **all** cells, but especially the liver. Glutathione is the major antioxidant in the body and is a critical element for reducing inflammation, oxidation, and detoxification in the body. Most of paleo think we optimally restore glutathione from “whey protein supplements or from NAC use”. Nothing could be further from the truth.

    _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/emf-4-why-might-you-need-carbs-for-performance.md