"The Kybalion (full title: The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece) is a book originally published in 1908 by "Three Initiates" (often identified as the New Thought pioneer William Walker Atkinson, 1862–1932) that purports to convey the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus."
Dorothea Juliana Wallich also: Dorothea Wallich or D. J. W., née Fischer[1] (* 1657 in Weimar; † 1725 in Arnstadt) was a Thuringian alchemist and is thus one of the few women known as alchemists. She wrote three alchemical books, which were published in 1705 and 1706. Karl Christoph Schmieder assumed that she had only published her father's manuscripts; however, he also considered her authorship to be possible.
"This first volume contains an introduction which analyses the influence of alchemical literature on the Faustian grimoires and the role of the spirits in these texts."
"Alchemy in the Byzantine world is part of a set of scientific practices inherited from ancient civilizations, such as the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and Mesopotamians, which Byzantine intellectuals studied, taught, and transmitted through scientific institutions like the University of Constantinople."
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"Japanese distillation apparatus (Edo period). Murakami Medical Archives, Nakatsu (Oita Prefecture, Japan). Its Japanese name ranbiki derives from Portuguese alembique (< Arab. al-'anbiq < Greek ambix, cup)."
"L’auteur Jean-Patrick Pourtal aborde dans cet épisode du podcast 'Mystères & Inexpliqués' la vie de Nicolas Flamel, un personnage historique des XIVᵉ et XVᵉ siècles. Nicolas Flamel est connu comme "écrivain public", c’est-à-dire, selon les mots de l’invité, un "homme de loi capable de rédiger des textes officiels" pour ceux qui ne pouvaient "ni lire ni écrire"."
Alchemy: a workshop with furnaces and apparatus, the alchemist in the foreground tying up a leather bag. Watercolour, 1934, by V. Kaliba after K. Stapfer after a 17th century MS.
Kaliba, Vzcaslav, active 1933-4.
Date: 1934
