Sasha Chaitow Byzantine Alchemy substack

[Paul Ferguson]

"There is no better evidence that in Byzantium, the occult was ordinary, than in the history of Byzantine alchemy: a way of thinking that shaped a thousand year empire. In Byzantium, working on matter meant working on souls, cities, and empires: imperial perfume labs, iatrosophika, musical theory, and Graeco-Egyptian riddles all operated within the same grammar of transformation. Metals, resins, letters, and musical notes are treated as different alphabets of one shared language, read both in the laboratory and in the sanctuary."

https://thyrathen.substack.com/p/a-reade...ne-alchemy