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| The Chakras and the Alchemical Stages |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-21-2026, 09:43 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"Chakras and alchemy map precisely. Root chakra (survival, grounding) = Nigredo (blackening, dissolution, ego death). Heart chakra (love, integration) = Citrinitas (yellowing, illumination, heart opening). Crown chakra (transcendence, unity) = Rubedo (reddening, completion, philosopher's stone). Eastern energy system and Western material transformation describe the same process: hierarchical ascent from base to transcendent, from matter to spirit, from ego to Self. Both are seven-stage models because seven is optimal granularity for modeling complete transformation. The convergence validates both: different cultures, same truth."
https://mysticryst.com/blogs/the-mystic-...formations
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| Alchemy and Women's Medical Expertise |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-16-2026, 10:15 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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Kayla Perez.
In the Afro-Mediterranean world, alchemy served as a vessel for women's medical expertise amidst a shifting landscape of medical authority. The procedural grammar found in alchemical manuscripts underscores the significance of embodied practices in reproductive health.
"Abstract: This working paper reframes the interpretive difficulty surrounding medieval and early modern alchemical imagery not as obscurity to be decoded, but as displaced procedural knowledge. Examining alchemical manuscripts alongside women’s medical practice in the fourteenth–sixteenth-century Afro-Mediterranean world, it demonstrates that alchemical imagery preserves a procedural grammar organized around sequence, containment, regulated heat, rest, and regeneration. Verbatim evidence from the Trotula corpus and documentary material from the Cairo Geniza shows that this grammar governed household reproductive medicine transmitted through embodied practice rather than discursive text. As medical authority became increasingly institutionalized, this knowledge was reclassified and displaced from legitimate medicine while surviving within alchemy under new philosophical interpretations. The paper proposes a methodological shift from symbolic decoding to procedural analysis, restoring women’s medical labor to the history of early scientific knowledge."
https://www.academia.edu/161247769/Alche..._Centuries
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| WB Yeats's theories of spirituality |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 02-16-2026, 10:11 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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Yeats's Theories on Spirituality in "Magic," "Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places," Per Amica Silentia Lunae, and A Vision
by SueJean Joe
2021, Yeats Journal of Korea
Abstract: This essay aims to look into Yeats's theories on spirituality in his four essays: "Magic," "Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places," Per Amica Silentia Lunae, and A Vision. Before moving on to the main discussion, this article briefly examines the several factors that helped shaped Yeats's thoughts on spirituality, not least of which was his exposure to folklore and his father's repudiation of established religions. Such childhood influences led Yeats to join first the Theosophical Society and then the Golden Dawn in search of alternative forms of spirituality. It also contributes to Yeats's unique theories on spirituality that is based on Irish traditions such as Irish folklore and legends. Then, this essay discusses Yeats's prose writings, starting from his 1901 essay, "Magic" to A Vision, which can be considered as the culmination of his lifelong search for spirituality in order to talk about how Yeats tried to formulate his thoughts on spirituality over time.
https://www.academia.edu/49502630/Yeatss...d_A_Vision
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