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Alchemy works translations, commentaries, and presentations of hidden evidence in myths, art, nature, science history

  • Classical Alchemy
    • The State of the Art
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Introductory Notes to the Boards of Pure Force

Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine

Materiarius

The human inclination to spread memory on the surface of objects reached unrivaled heights in the Baroque age, when cabinets of curiosities were a mixture of museums of the absurd and reservoirs of knowledge. There, libraries with manuscripts hidden for centuries were opened to those who had something to reveal, and the craze for esoteric erudition began, perhaps comparable only to the Alexandrian period. For them, the alchemists lived between the end of the harmonious Renaissance and the beginning of the disenchanted experimental physics, building a machine was drawing a thought, or rather, a memory. Instead, at the dawn of time, true alchemical machines were built, both in appearance and mechanism, since they nimbly followed the actual whispers from the earthly depths to move the sky, in a returning breath.

  • Smelting Metals in the Service of the Sanctuary
  • Dew as the Neglected Cold of Every Day
  • Night, Daughter of Ocean
  • The Concept of Black Light in Alchemy
  • Light and Shadow as Superior and Inferior
  • Mercurius’ Waves of Light, better known as “Light that Comes out of the Darkness”
  • Alchemy & Light, Introduction
  • Alchemy & Light, Known Authors
  • Alchemy is Physics, not Chemistry. Particles and Wave Functions
  • Physicists Begin to Consider Sound
  • A Neolithic-Proof Private Channel
  • Palingenesis, Seeds in the Wind
  • The Enigma of the Three Salts, i.e. the Alchemical Physis
  • The Foundations of Alchemical Symbolism: 1, Doubles, and Resonances
  • The Foundations of Alchemical Symbolism: 2, Unions, Seeds, Embryos, and Births
  • Flow and Reflux of the Philosophical Sea
  • Stellar Alchemy, the Aerial Ropes
  • Stellar Alchemy, the Signatures Palace
  • When the Stars Overshadow the Sun
  • The Cold and Dark Sun: The Spark
  • The Sun as Aura Shaker
  • Apollo, the Sun as Middle Note
  • Solar Alchemy: Pulvis Solaris, The Solar Dust
  • Planets, the Whirling Nature of the Sun
  • Planets, Bells
  • Lunar Alchemy
  • Air is Moved by That which Moves
  • Air, the Substrate between Sky and Earth
  • Air Alchemy, the Dust
  • Air Alchemy, the Fabric
  • Water, the Origin of Everything
  • Water Alchemy
  • Earth is a Sediment of Air and Water
  • Earth Alchemy
  • Fire Alchemy
  • The Struggle Within the Four Elements: Where Nature Hides Its Seeds
  • The Subtlety of the Exact Proportions between Sky and Earth
  • Alchemical Timing & Astronomical Code
  • Differences between Alchemy and Spagyrics
  • Concordances and Differences between Alchemy and Ancient Ordinary Chemistry
  • Before Preparatory Work, Spiritus Mundi
  • Before Preparatory Work, Magnetization
  • First-Preparatory Works, Introduction
  • First-Preparatory Works, Eagle Wings or Volatilization
  • Second-Main Work, the Rotation of Colors
  • The Third Work and the Last Cooking
  • Concordances and Differences between the Humid and Dry Path
  • Gold & Alchemy, or Adorn with a Star Ray
  • Gold & Alchemy, Apples to Stop Atalanta
  • Gold & Alchemy, Potable Gold
  • Alchemy Resounds
  • What is the Philosophers Stone?
  • The Genesis on a Small Scale
  • Transmutation of Metals
  • Alchemy and Electricity
  • Short Art Ars Brevis
  • Inner Alchemy

Physics at the Neolithic Gate

All the science of the ancients was necessarily within the reach of the Neolithic, i.e. without modern equipment and devices. Today we would say that they could only count on themselves and nature. One of the main processes employed was to induce or exploit changes in the state of raw matter.If we look carefully, alchemical processes all involve changes in the state of matter, either subtle and continuous or sudden and violent.

1. Something arcane happens in the state changes of matter

  • Smelting Metals in the Service of the Sanctuary
  • Dew as the Neglected Cold of Every Day
  • Night, Daughter of Ocean

Light in Alchemy soon became the Arcane of Arcana

It was during the Baroque age, and with the support of new discoveries in optical science, that light in Alchemy began to be openly discussed and treated. Light became the arcane of arcana, the secret of the ancients, the reason for Alchemy existence, the hidden message, the private channel, the communication between the world of the living and the world of the dead, the meeting point between spirit and matter, the knowledge of oneʼs archetype, the origin, the beginning of the immortalsʼ chain, the legacy as well as memory. In short, everything.

2. Don’t take the concept of light in Alchemy for granted

  • The Concept of Black Light in Alchemy
  • Light and Shadow as Superior and Inferior
  • Mercurius’ Waves of Light, better known as “Light that Comes out of the Darkness”
  • Alchemical Light as a Space of Relevance, also called the Fish Bladder

Alchemy & Light, according to Known Authors

It was during the Baroque age, and with the support of new discoveries in optical science, that light in Alchemy began to be openly discussed and treated. Light became the arcane of arcana, the secret of the ancients, the reason for Alchemy existence, the hidden message, the private channel, the communication between the world of the living and the world of the dead, the meeting point between spirit and matter, the knowledge of oneʼs archetype, the origin, the beginning of the immortalsʼ chain, the legacy as well as memory. In short, everything.

3. Don’t take the concept of light in Alchemy for granted

  • The Concept of Black Light in Alchemy
  • Alchemical Light as a Space of Relevance, also called the Fish Bladder
  • Mercurius’ Waves of Light, better known as “Light that Comes out of the Darkness”
  • Light and Shadow as Superior and Inferior
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  • Classical Alchemy
    • The State of the Art
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Introductory Notes to the Boards of Pure Force

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