9. Stellar Alchemy
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10. Solar Alchemy
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11. Planets
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12. Lunar Alchemy
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13. Air Alchemy
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14. Water Alchemy
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15. Earth Alchemy
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16. Fire Alchemy
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17. The Four Elements
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18. Alchemical Timing & Astronomical Code
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19. Differences between Alchemy and Spagyrics
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20. Concordances and Differences between Alchemy and Ancient Ordinary Chemistry
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21. The Didactic Path Explained in Baroque Texts: Before Preparatory Works, the Spiritus Mundi
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Spiritus Mundi, or everything that the alchemist possesses or must possess.
- The Night Journey of the Spiritus Mundi
- Spiritus Mundi and Anima Mundi are not synonymous
- Before Preparatory Work, Spiritus Mundi
22. The Didactic Path Explained in Baroque Texts: Before Preparatory Works, Magnetization
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Magnetization, the accretion of Spiritus Mundi
23. The Didactic Path Explained in Baroque Texts: First Preparatory Works
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24. The Didactic Path Explained in Baroque Texts: Second-Main Work
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Cohobating the Above with the Below. The Rotation of Colors
25. The Didactic Path Explained in Baroque Texts: The Third Work
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26. Alchemy Resound
For technicians, the stone is only an abnormal growth of the philosophical egg that emits whistles similar to musical notes and with the ultimate goal of becoming a resonance tuning fork for a note coming from far away.
27. Concordances and Differences between the Humid and Dry Path
Alchemical working methods are roughly divided into two families: the humid and the dry metallurgical ones. I said “roughly” because the two methods often overlap: you can start with one and end with the other. Wet processes use solvents – not chemical, but alchemical – to achieve changes of state, while metallugic processes involve direct changes of state – precisely, being metallurgical. The aim of both is to bring Mercurius from act to potency, which will thus be defined as “extracted”. While it is easy to understand the purpose of the works in the humid paths, this is not the case in the metallurgical ones. Not only, they who can understand the difference and the concordances between the two main paths grasp the core of alchemical work, but they will even be able to intersect or alternate the two methods.
They who can understand the difference and the concordances between the two main paths grasp the core of alchemical work.
28. Gold & Alchemy
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29. The Philosophers Stone
Of the Philosophers’ Stone, Basilus Valentinus claimed that he could look at it in the palm of his hand, while Heinrich Khunrath said that if someone had not originally called it a “stone” it would not have occurred to anyone to call it a stone. Some have said that the Philosophers’ Stone is the “sacrifice” par excellence with which to call the divinities, others that it represents the “help” that humans can give to the Olympians to free themselves from the threat of the primordial Titans. Supreme link in the chain, or bridge between heaven, sky and earth.
If only I could have a vague idea.
The supreme medicine or the entrance to the private channel?
30. The Alchemists’ Little Genesis
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31. Transmutations of Metals
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32. Alchemy & Electricity
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33. Short Art, Ars Brevis
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34. Body, Matter, Spirit and Soul. The Alchemical Physis.
It might seem that alchemists toyed with the soul, spirit, matter, and body of metals, as well as that of the winds and underground waterways, of the moon and the sun, and of course the stars. Yet few know the boundaries between soul and spirit like an alchemist, nor see the formation of the body from matter. Above all, some of them can witness the spectacle of entering a private channel, where a small genesis is said to take place. With metals, everything seems so inviting, until we reach very dangerous thresholds, where, by fate or wisdom, we decide to stop and have witnessed the simple human condition. As with so many things in life, going is exciting, returning safely is magnificent.
The Enigma of the Three salts
- Plotinus, the Field of the Soul
- Matter is Incorporeal
- The Enigma of the Three Salts, i.e. the Alchemical Physis