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Alchemy & the Myth of Osiris |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-16-2025, 04:09 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"The Great Work can be found in its entirety in the Egyptian myth of Osiris. Osiris was a god-king who was locked up in a chest by his brother Seth. Seth is the symbol of the powers of decomposition, the fire that causes putrefaction. The chest is the alchemical ‘vas’, or vessel. The chest was closed with nails and lead (lead is the metal of nigredo, or blackness). Then, Seth threw the chest into the ocean. The ocean is the alchemical water, or the second stage of the Great Work, when the earth has been reduced to water. The ocean itself is a symbol of the prima materia to which the matter has been reduced. The chest eventually washed ashore under a tamarind tree. The tamarind is also a symbol of the second stage, albedo or whiteness, because of its white blossom."
https://theweaverprophecy.wordpress.com/...n-alchemy/
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Audiobook: Philosophical Letter of Philovite to Heliodorus |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-16-2025, 03:59 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts
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"Studious investigator, disciple of Hermes, child of philosophical science, do not imagine that it is easy to climb the rungs of the ladder of sapience and to reach the top, to win the palm of victory over the earthly infirmities, which is attached to its height. The way to heaven is narrow, thorny, rough and steep; it is the same with that of wisdom. We do not reach it and we cannot enter it without the wings of genius, that is to say without rising by means of a superior spirit, very penetrating, straight and simple, above the vulgar madman and the learned fools of the earth. For this science is fine and surpasses the ordinary forces of the mind."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0_T5qHaAHk
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Madame Guyon: Mystic of the Heart |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-16-2025, 03:54 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"While Christian in form, Madame Guyon’s teachings were alchemical in spirit, transforming the soul through silence, surrender, and sacred inner vision. These teachings, once condemned as heretical, now resonate like a hidden chant beneath many esoteric paths. Madame Guyon never called upon the four elements, cast circles, or invoked lunar forces but the quiet revolution Madame Guyon began found fertile ground in the metaphysical world"
https://vocal.media/bookclub/madame-guyo...-the-heart
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The Emerald Tablet reconsidered |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-16-2025, 03:31 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"The Emerald Tablet (Tabula Smaragdina) is arguably one of the most legendary and mysterious artifacts in Western esoteric lore. Allegedly inscribed by Hermes Trismegistus himself (a hybrid of the Greek Hermes and Egyptian Thoth), the tablet is said to contain the condensed truth of the cosmos. It is the sacred scroll of alchemists, magicians, philosophers, and confused Renaissance nobles.
But here lies the rub: while many mystical texts speak of the Tablet's content, they are suspiciously silent on its construction. Specifically: was it really made out of emerald? And if so, how? In this article, we revisit the Emerald Tablet with both scholarly skepticism and playful reverence, and propose a likely origin that is at once mundane and magical."
https://aetheriumarcana.org/the-emerald-...onsidered/
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