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Ostanes war ein legendärer Alchemist. Laut einigen Quellen stammte er aus Alexandria, nach anderen Angaben aus dem Perserreich.

Wie der Orientalist Fuat Sezgin angibt, soll der historische Ostanes „ein geistiger Nachfolger von Zoroaster bei der Begründung der Astrologie gewesen sein und wahrscheinlich im fünften Jahrhundert v. Chr. gelebt haben“. Ostanes wird häufig in arabischer und persischer alchemischer Literatur als Autorität zitiert. Ein arabischer Traktat mit dem Titel Kitab al-Fusul al-ithnay ‘ashar fi 'ilm al-hajar al-mukarram wird ihm zugeschrieben.

Plinius der Ältere berichtet in seiner Naturalis historia, dass Ostanes als Hofwahrsager des Xerxes I. diesem auf dem Zug nach Griechenland gefolgt sei, magische Schriften verfasst und diese Disziplin überhaupt in Griechenland bekannt gemacht habe. Wikipedia

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„Die Natur freut sich der Natur // Die Natur überwindet die Natur // Die Natur beherrscht die Natur“

Synesios in einem Kommentar über Demokritos, in: K.C. Schmieder, Die Geschichte der Alchemie, Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-86539-003-X, S. 64
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“The nature is pleased to nature
The nature overcomes the nature
The Nature dominated nature.”

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Synesios in a comment about Demokritos, in K. C. Schmieder, The History of Alchemy (2005) p. 64; a translation of Geschichte der Alchemie (1832).

“The manuscripts in which these early Greek treatises have been preserved to us seem to be derived from an encyclopaedia compiled during the tenth century, at Constantinople, from the works of various alchemists…. The Greek text. now published by M. Berthelot and M. [Ch. Em. ] Ruelle, custodian of the Library of Ste.-Geneviève, is derived from a careful collation of all these sources, and is accompanied with notes by M. Berthelot bringing light and order into the mystical obscurity in which from the beginning the alchemists enveloped their doctrines.
First among these is the 'Physica et Mystica,' ascribed to Democritus of Abdera, a collection of fragments, among which a few receipts for dyeing in purple may be genuine, while the story of magic and the alchemical teaching are evidently spurious. The philosopher is made to state that his studies were interrupted by the death of his master, Ostanes the Magian. He therefore evoked his spirit from Hades, and learned from him that the books which contained the secrets of his art were in a certain temple. He sought them there in vain, till one day, during a feast in the sanctuary, a column opened, and revealed the precious tomes, in which the doctrines of the Master were summed up in the mysterious words: 'Nature rejoices in Nature, Nature conquers Nature, Nature rules Nature.'
The unknown Alexandrian who wrote under the name of Democritus gives not only receipts for making white alloys of copper, but others which, he positively asserts, will produce gold. M. Berthelot, however, shows in his notes that they can only result in making amalgams for gilding or alloys resembling gold or varnishes which will give a superficial tinge to metals”

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, Marcellin Berthelot, Ch. Em. Ruelle, "The Alchemists of Egypt and Greece," Art. VIII. (Jan. 1893) in The Edinburgh Review (Jan.-Apr. 1893) Vol. 177, pp. 208-209. https://books.google.com/books?id=GuvRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA208

“Pliny tells us that Demokritos was instructed in magic by Ostanes the Mede.”

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Francis Preston Venable, A Short History of Chemistry (1894) p. 9. https://books.google.com/books?id=fN9YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9

“Ostanes, the Mede, was one of the celebrated early alchemists. Several writers have recorded for us the existence of a book called The Book of the Divine Prescriptions, which seems to have been the most famous writing of these Persian sages.”

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Francis Preston Venable, A Short History of Chemistry (1894) p. 6. https://books.google.com/books?id=fN9YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA6

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