Despite we defined the main goals of European alchemy and Hindu teaching of rasa as identical, we still have a huge actual discrepancy between these two branches of alchemy in terms of documented lot of the alchemical Opus. [Read more…] about General aspects of the Science of Mercury. Part 2
Alchemy History
Carbonelli, Bellini and the Codex Laur. MS Ashburham 1166
The MS Ashburham 1166 facsimile is today protected by copyright. However, a monochrome press version was entirely reproduced in Fonti Storiche dell’Alchimia by Giovanni Carbonelli. [Read more…] about Carbonelli, Bellini and the Codex Laur. MS Ashburham 1166
General aspects of the Science of Mercury. Part 1
Alchemy is not exclusively European or Mid-Eastern phenomenon. This tradition had been known in India long before the earliest Greek texts on the subject were written. [Read more…] about General aspects of the Science of Mercury. Part 1
Lucarelli & Alchemy in the land of Pyramids
“Ignore, o Asclepius, that Egypt is a copy of the sky, or, rather, the place where move and are projected here below?” [Read more…] about Lucarelli & Alchemy in the land of Pyramids
Lucarelli & the Origins of Metallurgy
Paolo Lucarelli presents the history of metallurgy. But is he right when identifying smelting processes before iron age as wet way instead of dry way? [Read more…] about Lucarelli & the Origins of Metallurgy
Lucarelli, Origins of Sulphur Name
Paolo Lucarelli (scientist, essayist, Canseliet’s friend) explains the historical origins of Alchemy and philology of the word Sulphur, θεῖον, theion, sacred. [Read more…] about Lucarelli, Origins of Sulphur Name