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  Video: Exploring the ancient chemistry of mercury
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-04-2024, 06:54 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

How On Earth Did Ancient Civilisations Get MERCURY?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6rx3u383j8

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  The Twilit Grotto
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-04-2024, 06:40 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

Nice collection of esoterica at:

http://www.esotericarchives.com/esoteric.htm

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  Art of Alchemy Lecture at Rare Books LA-Pasadena
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-03-2024, 12:06 PM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events - No Replies

"Join author and curator David Brafman to learn more about his new book The Art of Alchemy, the first to explore how the art of alchemy globally transformed human creative culture from the ancient world to the modern scientific age. David Brafman is the rare books curator at the Getty Research Institute and former adjunct professor in the NYU Classics Department and resident expert at H.P. Kraus, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, one of the world’s leading dealers in rare books and manuscripts from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment."

https://www.coloradoboulevard.net/events...-pasadena/

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  Herbal Spagyrics Course (Central Victoria, Australia)
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-01-2024, 09:23 PM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events - No Replies

2 Day Herbal Spagyrics Course
Goldfields, Central Victoria, Australia
Sat 24th & Sun 25th February, 10am-5pm.


"Learn how to confect holistic medicines such as herbal tinctures, essences, elixirs, the primum ens, stones, magisteries and more. No prior experience is required. Delve into the Western esoteric tradition of laboratory alchemy & spagyrics with two days of intensive, hands-on training covering the separation, purification and Cohobation of herbs, the use of lab equipment and Hermetic philosophy."


https://www.thetempleofmercury.com/in-person-course

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  The Alchemical Magnum Opus
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-01-2024, 09:19 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The concept of the alchemical Magnum Opus, or Great Work, sits at the heart of alchemical tradition, embodying a series of processes aimed at achieving the ultimate goal of transmutation and enlightenment. It represents not just the practical endeavor to turn base metals into gold, but also a symbolic journey of personal & spiritual transformation. Historically, this esoteric practice was shrouded in mystery, with alchemists using cryptic symbols and allegories to veil their work in secrecy and to protect their wisdom from the uninitiated."

With embedded videos.

https://personality-type.com/alchemical-magnum-opus

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  The Seven Great Hermetic Principles
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-01-2024, 09:11 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Mfuniselwa Bhengu

"The Hermetic teachings are found in all lands and all religions, their appeal is universal. In early days there was a compilation of certain basic hermetic maxims, axioms, and precepts, which were passed from teacher to student, which is called the “Kyballion”."

https://www.msingiafrikamagazine.com/202...rinciples/

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  Happy Birthday Roger Cooke
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-01-2024, 09:06 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"On this day in Tudor history, 1st February 1552, in the reign of King Edward VI, alchemist Roger Cooke was born."


https://www.tudorsociety.com/february-1-...ger-cooke/

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  Synergic Active Principles of Medicinal Plants
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-01-2024, 09:05 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The traditional herbal remedy utilises the active principles of medicinal plants, either in singular or combination. Electro-homoeopathy uses the favourable component of the active principle or medicinal properties, removing the toxic part, and using various scientific processes to prepare the remedies. To achieve faster recovery of the affected organ, Count Cesar Mattei invented a Complex herbal remedy by the Synergic mixing of the Spagyric essence of selected plants."

Full text with pdf button


http://www.informaticsjournals.com/index...view/34963

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  Internet Archive Scholar
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-01-2024, 10:49 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Search Millions of Research Papers

This fulltext search index includes over 35 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and preprints crawled from the World Wide Web.


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  Kosminsky on the Magic of Jewels and Stones
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-31-2024, 07:26 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky. Full text here:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57980


Illustrated article here:

https://www.mysticdoorway.com/the-magic-...hapter-ix/

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