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  Alchemy & the Myth of Osiris
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-16-2025, 04:09 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"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 - No Replies

"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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  Video: Unveiling the Alchemical Secrets of Isaac Newton
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-16-2025, 03:56 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Delve into the mysterious world of Isaac Newton in "Newton's Secret Alchemy: Gold, Mysticism, and Science." This 12-minute exploration uncovers the alchemical pursuits of the legendary physicist, revealing his secret experiments with mercury, philosopher’s stones, and the elusive quest for gold"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfoQZAyJa10

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  Madame Guyon: Mystic of the Heart
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-16-2025, 03:54 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"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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  Adam Becker, “More Everything Forever: AI Overlords"
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-16-2025, 03:51 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"Renaissance alchemists won the support of monarchs like Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor who squandered his realm’s money on a futile quest to discover the Philosopher’s Stone. Now, as Becker explains, AGI, or artificial general intelligence, has become the means through which philosophers might transubstantiate our mundane reality into a realm in which the apparently impossible becomes possible: living forever, raising the dead, and remaking the universe in the shape of humanity."

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the...technology

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  The Sacrum Bone: the Alchemical Bridge
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-16-2025, 03:45 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"What if everything you know about meditation is only part of the truth? What if the key to accessing other dimensions doesn’t lie in the mind, but in the body - and not even the whole body, but in a single, extraordinary bone: ancient and almost forgotten?"

https://www.anunnakibag.com/post/sacrum-...een-worlds

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  Courses: Alchmical Herbalism
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-16-2025, 03:39 PM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events - No Replies

"The European tradition of Alchemy forms the foundation of our spiritual-scientific integrative approach to herbalism. You’ll come to understand people and plants through the lens of the archetypal patterns of nature, such as the Elements, Philosophical Principles, and Planets."

https://www.evolutionaryherbalism.com/ho...grams/#alh

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  Music: Orthostat's Alchemical Veritas
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-16-2025, 03:34 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

At Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/album/1...e5HqkKOlO3

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Or...as/1345330

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  The Emerald Tablet reconsidered
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-16-2025, 03:31 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"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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  Cotnoir: Alchemy, the Poetry of Matter
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-16-2025, 03:29 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"This Enlightening Book on Alchemy is the Fruit of 30 Years Work with the Emerald Tablet.

Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter is an alchemical book rather than a book about alchemy. It is full of practice and experiment and perhaps a puzzle or an enigma. Its intent is to inspire curiosity about another way of knowing."

https://www.theajnaoffensive.com/product...-of-matter

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