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 Ashburnham 1166
The MS Ashburnham 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 Ashburnham 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 the iron age as a wet path instead of a dry path? [Read more…] about Lucarelli & the Origins of Metallurgy
Lucarelli, Origins of Sulphur Name
Paolo Lucarelli (scientist, essayist, and 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