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The Identify Feature on sourcelibrary.org let’s you quickly find information such as author, publishing year and context on non-verbal or untranslated context.

So if you see something stunning or mysterious, take a foto of it and upload for matching on our website or hold your camera live looking at the image.

#identifyimages #ernsthaeckel #blankingonwords #imagesearch #dyslexic

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First AMA for Source Library with the founder @dereklomas at our headquarters in Amsterdam @embassyofthefreemind

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Source Library is a digital gateway to 10,000+ rare books on the history of ideas, from alchemy and Hermetica to Indian philosophy and early science. 🕯️📜

It’s a researcher’s dream with features you won’t find anywhere else:

✨ 10,000+ Rare Books: Primary sources from antiquity through the Enlightenment.

🌍 First-Ever Translations: Access texts never before available in English.

🎨 23,000+ Artworks: A massive gallery of museum-quality prints and engravings.

🤖 The Librarian: A research-grade AI that finds specific quotes, cites pages, and fetches rare images.

📓 Research Notebook: A persistent space to save your discoveries as you build your research.

Step into the archive and go straight to the source. 🗝️✨

#SourceLibrary #HistoryOfIdeas #Alchemy #Hermetica #RareBooks

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A message from our founder, @dereklomas
From ancient wisdom to a new Renaissance.

We’re here in Amsterdam @embassyofthefreemind, home to @theritmanlibrary , one of the world’s great collections devoted to magic, mysticism, Hermeticism, and esoteric thought.

It is now also home to Source Library, where AI translation is opening thousands of ancient and early modern texts to readers around the world.

In the 15th century, Marsilio Ficino helped ignite the Renaissance by translating ancient Greek wisdom for a new generation. Today, we’re asking what might happen if we do the same for the Renaissance itself.

A new Renaissance begins with access to the old one.

Explore the library at sourcelibrary.org

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A celestial weekend. The sun disappeared, and then the Perseids came tearing through the night.

In alchemy, the darkening of the sun is known as the Nigredo, the death of the old form before it could be born again.

The Black Sun descends into darkness, dissolves, and returns transformed.

Then the Perseids arrived, streaks of celestial fire, as if the earth itself were being seeded with new light.

Death. Darkness. Rebirth. Light.

All books and paintings sourced from the Source Library

Sources:

1. Hans Glaser, Celestial Phenomenon over Nuremberg, 1561. Broadsheet depicting the 1561 Nuremberg celestial event, interpreted at the time as a divine warning.

2. Johannes Regiomontanus, Kalendarium, p. 32. Partial solar eclipse predicted for May 1481.

3. Salomon Trismosin, The Splendour of the Sun (Splendor Solis), 1920. The Conjunction of Sol and Luna. The alchemical union of the Sun and Moon.

4. Claude Dariot, Golden Treasure Chamber, p. 193. The union of the solar King and lunar Queen.

5. Michael Maier, Viridarium Chymicum, p. 54. The personified Sun and Moon presiding over the alchemical work.

6. Splendor Solis, “The Black Sun,” 16th century. Representing the alchemical stage of nigredo.

7. Johannes de Sacrobosco, Sphaera Mundi, p. 112. The mechanics of a solar eclipse, with anthropomorphic faces on the celestial bodies.

8. Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subterraneus, 1664. The Sun. Depicted as a boiling, organic celestial body, the source of light that the eclipse was seen to mask.

9. Johannes Jakob Murer, Epilogismus Trivm Eclipseon Solaris, 1595, p. 21. Solar eclipse diagram showing the personified Sun being obscured by the Moon.

10. Robert Fludd, Utriusque Cosmi Majoris, 1617. The Sun (Solis). A Hermetic depiction of the solar spirit.

11. Salomon Trismosin, The Golden Fleece (Aureum Vellus), p. 873. Sol and Luna lying together within the philosophical vessel.

12. Salomon Trismosin, Aureum Vellus: Splendor Solis / Golden Fleece, p. 266. The internal transformation within the philosophical vessel.

Image credits:
@aj.smadi
@cosmic_background
@astrofalls @duskpiper @ovunno

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Nummer 6 van Vrije Geesten: Derek Lomas.

Een bijzondere ontmoeting met iemand bij wie renaissancefilosofie, mystiek en AI moeiteloos samenkomen.

Met kunstmatige intelligentie maakt Derek eeuwenoude kennis opnieuw toegankelijk. In de hoop op niets minder dan een nieuwe renaissance.

Source Library: sourcelibrary.org Zwart-witportret van Derek Lomas in de Embassy of the Freemind in Amsterdam, tussen historische boeken uit de collectie

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❤️❤️🌱🌙✨☀️🌱❤️❤️

Doubling the Power

Plant Power is the NEW Flower Power

@nijgh_cuisine_atelier_vitalite @nijghenvanditmar @gu.verlag @inner_traditions @mika_john_noguchi
@rijksrestaurant @jorisbijdendijk @jessielecomte @ikbennique @miriambrunsveld @_plantkracht_ @secretcinema @jashavanderwel @kasperjorissen @yaschao @djsofiya_2129 @nporadio1 @sandrien_ @samuellevie @sanderivovandriel @pianolamuseum @embassyofthefreemind @dereklomas @uva_amsterdam @lee_scratch_perry @alexgreycosm @buffalozine @isisvanderwel @hetparool @mozesmeijer @mariamarquesboving @aron_friedman @kokopelliamsterdam @ruigoord @hotelschoolthehague @burgemeesterfemkehalsema @platypusrecordshop @concertorecordstore @athenaeumboekhandel @buchmesse @pleintheater

I am that I am.

#plantpower #bluethunderboy #bluemagic #ramanamagic #plantkracht

The second book is written and going to press now. I am really greatfull to all the dear friends and family for support and trusting in the good WORK

Wie goed doet.
Goed ontmoet.

PS This book is all about consciousness becoming aware of it self the I am that I am. And about healing food and healing herbs. And about bees. And some trees.

We are The Keepers of Life. The Keepers of Wonder. And the Keepers of Sound.
And the Keepers of good food
It’s my gift to the world.
PS 2 please plant some seeds for the bees and to make others happy when they see them.
PS3 remember the religion of the bee is the future

Already mark in your agenda September 13, 15, 25, October 4 2026

More dates will be announced soon.

Some special things are going to happen.

Good things. Peaceful thing. Healing things.

as above so below

Love and Repect

Greetings from Magisch Centrum Amsterdam

stad van vrijdenkers

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The Odyssey: The Journey Home

Homer’s Odyssey is a journey home. But what if home is not a place?

Odysseus crosses violent seas and confronts gods, monsters, temptation, loss, and destruction. Beneath the adventure lies another journey: the soul returning to itself.

Each trial strips something away. Pride. Desire. Power. Certainty. Ego.

In this reading, Ithaca is more than an island. It is the self without illusion.

Source brings forgotten books, images, and ideas into one searchable library.

Sources, in order

1. Frederic G. Kenyon, The Palaeography of Greek Papyri (detail), 1899, p. 127. Ancient Greek papyrus writing.

2. Homer, The Odyssey (detail), 1537 edition. An early printed edition.

3. Antoine de La Barre de Beaumarchais, Le Temple des Muses (detail), 1733, p. 96. Classical mythology illustrated.

4. Hendrick Goltzius, The Giants Climbing the Heavens (detail), c. 1589. The Giants storm heaven.

5. Exekias, Dionysus Sailing among Dolphins (detail), c. 530 BC. Dionysus at sea.

6. Hendrick Goltzius, Neptune Plotting the Destruction of Man (detail), c. 1589. Neptune prepares the flood.

7. Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras (detail), p. 144. A page on Pythagoras.

8. Allegory of Life, or Circe and Ulysses (detail). Ulysses confronts Circe.

9. Athanasius Kircher, Latium (detail), 1671, p. 142. Ancient Latium.

10. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Apotheosis of Homer (detail), 1827. Homer enthroned.

11. Gerard de Jode, Speculum Orbis Terrarum (detail), 1578, p. 14. A map of the world.

12. Robert Fludd, The History of the Two Worlds (detail), 1617, p. 27. The cosmos and humanity.

13. Aegidius Sadeler, Fabel van het Schip en de Walvis (detail). A whale mistaken for an island.

14. Giovanni Bellini, Allegory of Fortune (detail), c. 1490. Fortune in an unstable boat.

15. Hendrick Goltzius, Phaeton Driving the Chariot of the Sun (detail). Phaeton loses control.

16. Jonah and the Whale (detail), from History of the Old and New Testaments, c. 1700. Jonah and the great fish.

Explore the works through Source Library. Link in bio.

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Haaland and the Historical Odin

Erling Haaland and his father reportedly paid about $140,000 for a rare 1594 edition of Norway’s royal sagas.

In Heimskringla, Odin appears not only as a god, but as a ruler, warrior, lawgiver, and ancestor.

This reflects euhemerism, the idea that some gods began as real people whose lives became legend.

For medieval writers, mythology, genealogy, and history often overlapped. A ruler could become an ancestor, a legend, and eventually a god.

Source brings forgotten books, images, and ideas into one searchable and translatable library.

Sources

1. Snorri Sturluson, Snorre Sturlesöns Norske Kongers Chronica (detail), 1633. A printed edition of Norway’s royal sagas.

2. Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda (detail), c. 1220. A medieval account of Norse mythology and the gods.

Read the digitized 1633 edition through Source Library. Link in bio.

#Haaland #Heimskringla #Odin #NorseMythology #SourceLibrary

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The Crowning of Nature
Anonymous · Late 16th to early 17th century

Is the Philosopher’s Stone real?

For centuries, alchemists searched for a mysterious substance believed to transform ordinary metals into gold and create an Elixir of Life.

*The Crowning of Nature* presents this search through a sequence of strange and beautiful images. Inside glass vessels, metals dissolve, creatures appear, colours change, and opposing forces are separated and reunited.

For some alchemists, these images described a physical experiment. For later readers, they also became symbols of inner transformation: breaking down the old self, purifying it, and rebuilding it in a more complete form.

The Philosopher’s Stone has never been proven to exist as the alchemists imagined it. But the dream behind it remains powerful: that nature, matter, and even the human being can be transformed.

Long before *Harry Potter*, the Philosopher’s Stone belonged to a much older world of laboratories, secret symbols, and the search for perfection.

Source brings the world’s forgotten books, images, and ideas into one searchable and translatable library.

Explore *The Crowning of Nature* through Source Library. Link in bio.

#HarryPotter #RareBooks #Alchemy #PhilosophersStone #SourceLibrary

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A real replica of a wooden submarine and a rare book by Dutch polymath, Cornelis Drebbel (1572–1633). The inventor who famously built the world’s first navigable submarine.
Source Library founder @dereklomas actually became guardian of a wooden replica that was temporarily exhibted at @ruigoord - here at talk for the Psychedelic Salon.
The sub is currently in Alkmaar - where Drebbel was from.

#corneliusdrebbel #alkmaar #Dutchhistory #woodensubmarine

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Welcome to the Source Library!

A huge shout out to @achedantes for sharing the Source Library with the world and making us go viral.

#anci̇entwi̇sdom #alchemy #hermetic #rarebooks #astrology

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