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 into the mystery of continuous creation and to know pristine reality revealed by the power of imaginal identification. Such vision differs radically from twentieth century…
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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 have done this, so what follows must be speculation. The mystery grows deeper the closer one attempts to look. Even to say what alchemy itself…
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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 maneuverings are the ingredients of this alchemical mixture, which is undoubtedly one of the most intriguing true stories ever told. Hasan bin Sabbah – businessman,…
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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 relationship between mankind and the world around us. As many scholars throughout the ages, Newton became obsessed with an idea that any element could be…
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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 of cases, contemporary Daoism is very different from what it used to be two thousand years ago. For instance, religious Daoism (a recent creation) has…
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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 suggests that there should be some affinity between Sufism and alchemy. In the present article, we focus on this subject. The first famous Moslem alchemist,…
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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 in the occult and applied a scientific approach to the study of scripture and Jewish mysticism. Now Israel’s national library, which contains a vast trove…
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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 in the small but exquisite museum devoted to the facts and legends concerning Dr. Faust tells us that, although alchemy has often been considered a…
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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 plus El, a Canaanite name for God and so the Sacred Fire…Fulcanelli wrote two books that were published after his disappearance during 1926, having left…
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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, “….you should be very concerned that our globalist elite does, and that they require human blood for their plans.” Marcos provides detailed descriptions of two…
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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 online by the University of Cambridge. “It was certainly far more common in the 17th and 18th centuries for scientists to be interested in magical…
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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 subject matter as Saint Germain combined conspi- cuous flare with mysterious habits, e.g., setting up a lab to practice alchemy wherever he traveled and eatly…