In this video you will discover:

    Why ruling institutions suppressed alchemy to prevent individual spiritual sovereignty
    How to transmute your heaviest grief and repressed shadow into psychological gold
    The four distinct archetypal stages that govern every dark night of the soul
    Why the Philosopher's Stone is an indomitable state of embodied consciousness


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLVRVhiw4RU

Gary St. Michael Nottingham.

Online Event.

Thursday 19 November at 7.00 pm.

Whilst Regardie is noted primarily for his promotion and publication of the Golden Dawn corpus, little is acknowledged of his alchemical interest.
Writing in his youth on alchemy, via his work ‘The Philosophers’ Stone’, which explored alchemy from a psychological view, he later in life came to realise
that alchemical was, as the old masters had indicated, a practical laboratory experience. Having searched for years for someone to teach him he eventually became
involved with Frater Albertus and the Paracelsus Alchemy College. Here he was taught the laboratory alchemy of Paracelsus, Basil Valentine and Hollandus.
With this illustrated presentation we will explore what alchemy is and consider some of the practices which Regardie would have been familiar with as we drill
down into the alchemical practice of Solve et Coagula.


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Paul

The conversations between the [b]Comte de St. Germain[/b] and [b]Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel[/b] (Landgrave of Hesse) are preserved primarily in Prince Charles’s memoirs, Mémoires de mon temps (1861). St. Germain spent the final years of his life (roughly from 1779 until his death in 1784) living under the patronage of Prince Charles at his residence in Eckernförde and Schleswig, working on alchemy, textile dyeing, and natural philosophy. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Mémoires text here:

https://archive.org/details/mmoiresdemonte00karluoft

    Key Themes of Their Conversations

• [b]True Identity and Lineage:[/b] St. Germain told Prince Charles that he was [b]88 years old[/b] upon his arrival in Schleswig and claimed to be the son of [b]Prince Francis II Rákóczi[/b] (Ragoczy), the Prince of Transylvania, and that he had been raised under the care of Gian Gastone de' Medici (the last of the Medicis). He explained his adopted name as a clever play: when his half-brothers became subjects of the Emperor, he called himself Sanctus Germano ("the Holy Brother"). [1, 2]
  
• [b]Practical Science vs. Mysticism:[/b] While popular lore painted St. Germain as an immortal mystic, his daily conversations and work with Prince Charles focused heavily on practical chemistry, metallurgy, gem-stone purification, and industrial dyeing techniques. Prince Charles initially cared little for these inventions, but was gradually won over by St. Germain's deep earnestness and encyclopedic knowledge. [1, 2]
  
• [b]Religious Discussions and Jesus Christ:[/b] Prince Charles, a deeply devoted Christian, wrote about a notable disagreement where St. Germain made remarks about Jesus Christ that pained the Prince. When Charles expressed his hurt, St. Germain reportedly reflected and promised: "Jesus Christ is nothing, but to give you pain is something; I promise you therefore that I will never again speak of him to you." [1]
  
• [b]Deathbed Message:[/b] St. Germain died on [b]February 27, 1784[/b], in Eckernförde while Prince Charles was away in Kassel. Before or during his final illness, he sent a message through the physician Lossau to reassure Charles that he was not opposed to the true Christian religion—though this moment was later mythologized differently by critics and esoteric historians. [1, 2, 3]
  

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"Mysterium Hermeticum, vol. 6: The Archidoxis, or Principal Teachings of Paracelsus occupy a central place in the tradition of practical Alchemy. Composed as a working manual for the aspiring spagyrist and hermetic physician, it sets forth the fundamental operations by which the quintessences, arcana, magisteries, and elixirs are drawn from the things of Nature."

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"Coan calls the farmhouse a “perfect alchemical container.” Her interest in alchemy centers on transformation, particularly the shift into midlife. When I asked whether she understood it as metaphor or spiritual reality, she began with her experience of consciousness: how attending to daily life might change her reality through “initiations into different levels of consciousness".”

https://davincimagazine.com/emily-coan-m...al-vessel/

"The Professor believes the Master is seeking the alchemical secrets of Holy Roman emperor Rudolf II (the vials he is constantly swigging from presumably aren’t available from the hotel minibar). Considering it pertains to an all-illuminating conspiracy, Balda’s story is a dense yet vague mess, consisting of the Master’s espionage, the church’s counter-espionage and implausibly conducted press whistleblowing in the “Prague Times”."

Trailer and review:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/no...avid-balda

THE GREAT WORK | Episode 1: The Black Earth - A History Of Alchemy Documentary Series 

"Where did alchemy begin? Episode 1 of THE GREAT WORK, a documentary on the history of alchemy, starts in ancient Egypt, the Black Land of Kemet. It covers Alexandria, Mary the Jewess, Zosimos, Hermes Trismegistus and the Emerald Tablet. We visit the workshops of Egyptian metalworkers and dyers. We follow the art to Alexandria in Roman Egypt, where Greek philosophy met the furnace. There we meet the first alchemists whose names survive: Mary the Jewess, whose inventions are still used in laboratories, and Zosimos of Panopolis, who recorded his strange visions of transformation. The episode ends with Hermes Trismegistus, the "Thrice-Great", and the Emerald Tablet: "as above, so below"."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2pPY6_WR9Y

"That the Form Is Composite and Not Simple is an anonymous chapter from the Greek alchemical corpus, the body of alchemical writings preserved in Byzantine manuscripts and edited by Berthelot and Ruelle in 1887-88. Some manuscripts transmit it within the compilation attributed to the commentator known as Christianos. It asks whether the alchemical art and its product are simple or composite, arguing that every stage of the process contributes to the whole, and cites Hesiod, Aratus, Daniel, Hermes, Democritus and Zosimus."

Another text from the excellent Ancient Library:

https://ancientlibrary.net/anonymous-tha...al-corpus/