Study Course on the Metamorphosis of the Planets (Esoteric symbolism)

 In the middle part of the 17th century this remarkable extended allegory appeared. It was written in German by the alchemist Johannes de Monte-Snyder. It attracted a great deal of attention due to the complexity of its allegorical material. Isaac Newton, in particular, struggled for years to understand and interpret it, and a number of his notebooks discuss this work.
It remains perhaps the most puzzling and complex of all alchemical allegories, extending over 31 chapters, and a number of people who have tried to make sense of it over the years have given up in despair, claiming it was a barbarous piece of unstructured nonsense. 
Adam McLean has devised this study course to allow the work to speak its message clearly. For the first time this work is explained in depth line by line, section by section, idea by idea. This course will be entirely based on understanding the structure of the allegory and the text itself. McLean's approach, as in his other work with alchemical material, is to uncover what is actually in the text itself and resist the temptation to make a trite interpretation, or project a mass of external ideas onto the work.
Following his usual approach, McLean does not resort to mystification, supposed secret teachings, or trying to explain this work through the filter of modern esotericism, nor by appealing to external (and later) sources, but instead focuses on what is contained in the text itself. Rather, he lets the work reveal itself by explaining the text from inside its own ideas.