Home›SearchSearchResults for “Alchemy”SearchConfidence Register:AllDocumented History and SocietyScriptural and Theological TraditionPractitioner SystemContested and Comparative ScholarshipReference and ClassificationConfidence Standing:AllThoroughly VerifiedVerifiedDevelopingMatches 97 across 8 categories. Only the first 19 could be ranked. Use a longer or more specific word to see the rest.Disciplines1AlchemyCosmological DisciplinesAlchemy is the art of transformation, aiming outwardly at the perfecting of metals, above all the turning of base matter into gold, and...Practices2Waidan (external alchemy)Esoteric PracticesWaidan, external alchemy, is the older, laboratory branch of Daoist alchemy: the compounding of an elixir of immortality from mineral and...BiguDietary Practices... y adepts pursuing immortality and inner alchemy. Grain was held to feed the three corpses, parasitic spirits believed to dwell in the body and hasten its death, so abstaining from grain was believed to starve them while ...Religions1HermeticismEsoteric / Occult... mbraces the study of nature, astrology, alchemy, and theurgy as ways of grasping the one power that pervades all things. It presents a hopeful vision of the human being as a great marvel able to know and rejoin the divin ...Deities1Zhongli QuanChinese Deities... turns stones to silver. In the internal alchemy lineages he is one half of the Zhongli Quan and Lü Dongbin pairing to which a substantial body of teaching is attributed, and he is normally the teacher in that relationshi ...Figures1Rudolf IIKings... e one European capital where astronomy, alchemy, astrology and natural magic could be pursued as a single enterprise with imperial money behind them. In 1609, pressed hard by the Bohemian estates, he signed the Letter of ...Historical Figures11Arthur Edward WaiteOccultists, Magicians & Esotericists... extensively and cautiously on Kabbalah, alchemy, the Holy Grail, and Rosicrucianism, favoring mystical union over practical magic. His deck made a fully pictorial tarot available to the public.Basil ValentineAlchemists... contemporary record, and historians of alchemy treat the name as a pseudonym for a writer or circle working around 1599, with the salt merchant Johann Tholde, who published the first books, the leading candidate. The at ...CagliostroOccultists, Magicians & Esotericists... ite of Freemasonry and offered healing, alchemy, and initiation across the courts of Europe. He cultivated a reputation as a wonder worker and possessor of ancient secrets. He became one of the most celebrated and contro ...Carl Gustav JungScientists, Physicians & Natural Philosophers... iduation, and synchronicity. He studied alchemy, Gnosticism, astrology, and mythology as symbolic maps of the psyche transformation. His engagement with the esoteric gave it new intellectual respectability in the modern ...Heinrich KhunrathAlchemists... ternal Wisdom fused Christian devotion, alchemy, and Kabbalah in a series of famous engraved plates. His imagery of the laboratory joined to the oratory expressed the union of work and prayer at the heart of the spiritua ...Hermes TrismegistusOccultists, Magicians & Esotericists... an Thoth. He was credited with founding alchemy, astrology, and the whole Hermetic philosophy. Though not a historical person, he functioned as the mythic patron of Western esotericism.Ho Peng YokeHistorians, Ethnographers & Scholars of Religion... nguage route into Chinese astrology and alchemy as historical practices rather than as modern systems, including the divination methods and star lore standing behind Zi Wei Dou Shu. He treated the material in its own his ...Jons Jacob BerzeliusScientists, Physicians & Natural Philosophers... en the mystical, secretive tradition of alchemy and the transparent, publicly shared notation of modern chemistry.Lawrence PrincipeHistorians, Ethnographers & Scholars of Religion... m Newman, argued that the split between alchemy and chemistry is a later invention and proposed the word chymistry for what early modern practitioners were actually doing. He backed the argument by going into a laborator ...Manly Palmer HallOccultists, Magicians & Esotericists... ymbolism of the mysteries, Freemasonry, alchemy, Kabbalah, and comparative religion. He founded a research society to preserve and teach this perennial wisdom.Michael MaierAlchemists... ng image, word, and sound. He presented alchemy as an ancient and noble wisdom veiled in myth.Religious Roles & Titles1FangshiChinese Folk Religion Roles... ical knowledge, of astrology, medicine, alchemy and divination, that fed into the formation of organised Daoism, and the figure of the fangshi stands at the point where the pursuit of longevity and the mastery of hidden ...Organizations1Church of LightReligious Body... respondence courses covering astrology, alchemy and magic, largely authored by Benjamine himself, and it remains active today as one of the longest running astrological teaching organizations in the United States.