Tag: alchemy
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Calling All Believers of CERN-Inspired Psych Rock
What happens when a scientist at CERN asks musicians to make an album about the Large Hadron Collider? You get a pulsating piece of psychedelic concept rock called “Patterns Of Light” by long-running Michigan band, His Name Is Alive.
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John Dee Painting Originally Had Circle of Human Skulls, X-Ray Imaging Reveals
John Dee was an eminent Elizabethan mathematician and astrologer. A painting of him has turned out to have a circle of skulls while he is performing an experiment for the Queen.
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Hermeticism and the Golden Fleece
from alchemywebsite.com: Every century and upon every continent a handful of exceptional men are born who possess the innate ability to read the signatures of nature directly, to see immediately […]
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The Dual Search for the Philosophers’ Stone
from newdawnmagazine.com: To say what the Philosophers’ Stone – the great goal of alchemy – is, one has to know. And to know, one must have attained it. I cannot claim to […]
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Hasan Bin Sabbah and the Secret Order of Hashishins
from Disinfo.com: The story of Hasan bin Sabbah is a tale of sex, drugs, myth, and murder. A secluded mountain fortress, a paradisial garden, poison dipped daggers, and covert political […]
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Alchemy of the Emerald Tablet
from AltHeadlines.com: Imagine a concept, that if Newton’s dedication to the Emerald Tablet instead followed a different path outside the realm of alchemy and delved more into spirituality and its […]
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The Alchemical Roots of Daoism
from ScholarSage.com: Like everything else, spiritual traditions evolve throughout history. The older the tradition, the more likely it is to differ from what it originally was. In the vast majority […]
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Alchemy and Sufism
from henrybayman.com: It is known that alchemy originated from Hermeticism. Some have even considered the two synonymous. We have also seen that Sufism is the contemporary form of Hermeticism. This […]
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The occult obsessions of Britain’s greatest scientist Sir Isaac Newton
from dailymail.co.uk: He laid the foundations of classical physics and is considered to be one of the greatest scientists of all time. But Sir Isaac Newton was also deeply interested […]
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C. G. Jung and the Alchemical Renewal
from gnosis.org: The lovely little town of Knittlingen, near the Black Forrest in West Germany, is noted far-and-wide as the original residence of the famed Dr. Johannes Faustus. A plaque […]
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Who Was Fulcanelli?
There’s nothing like a good mystery and Fulcanelli supplies it in spades! Fulcanelli, a pen name, “…seems to be a play on words: Vulcan the ancient Roman god of fire […]
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Do You Believe in Magick?
Do you believe in Magick – the opening of portals? Brother Marcos addresses in “Ex-Satanist Details Illuminati Spiritual Plan,” esoteric concept of “portals” with caveat, even if you don’t believe, […]
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Digital Alchemy: Sir Isaac Newton’s Papers
from TheConversation.com: The notebooks of Sir Isaac Newton, who was famously reported to have suffered a (scientifically) earth-shaking blow to the head from an apple, are being scanned and published […]
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Saint Germain: ‘The Man Who Would Not Die’
Leonard Nimoy narrates episode of circa seventies TV-series “In Search Of,” covering life of “The Count of Saint Germain.” The episode title, “The Man Who Would Not Die,” hints at […]