On Thursday December 1st, 2016, the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon

will review the recently published compendium of manuscript translations

dealing with the Homunculus, compiled and edited by Joseph Uncello from

Four Hands Press, Viatorium and Ouroboros Press. This is one of the most

remarkable books on alchemy and magick to have appeared since the

release of Picatrix. We now have Paracelsus's own detailed accounts of

the Homunculus operation.The creation of a humanoid being, using male

sperm in an artificial female womb. This is followed by other

Renaissance period authors elaborating on the process and presenting

eyewitness accounts of successful Homunculi experiments. We are treated

to works that seem to be the source material for The Chemical Wedding of

Christian Rosencrutz, the Tyrol experiment cited by W. Somerset Maugham

in his 1908 novel "The Magician," and the little King and Queen created

by Dr. Pretorious in the 1934 horror film "The Bride of Frankenstein."

For comic relief we have an Arabic version of the operation using a

sheep and a cow (without their consent) and for cultural diversity we

are treated to a poetic Taoist perspective on the process, and for

redeeming social value. We have a Valentinean Christian approach to

making a Magical Child by the German philosopher Jacob Bohme, which may

well have been the inspiration for Aleister Crowley's "Moon Child" --

So, If you want to delve into the dark secrets of creation, join us and

we will open up the forbidden book: Codex Homunculi.