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 25 could be ranked. Use a longer or more specific word to see the rest.Doctrines3The Three TreasuresThe Way and the VirtuesIn Daoist inner alchemy and in Chinese medicine, the three treasures are the three grades of the vital constituent of a living person:...As Above, So BelowCosmology and World-Structure... above corresponds to a condition below. Alchemy becomes a spiritual operation as well as a material one, since what is done to the metal answers to what is done in the operator. And the human person becomes a small model ...DaoThe Way and the Virtues... on with it through meditation and inner alchemy, so that the same term names a philosophical absolute and the object of a living cult.Religious Events1The Founding of QuanzhenReform... nfucian material alongside Daoist inner alchemy, and it made monasticism central to a tradition whose priesthood had largely been hereditary and married. Quanzhen and Zhengyi remain the two principal orders of Daoism.Beliefs & Restrictions2Monastic celibacy and asceticism (Complete Reality)Core Tenets... munities under a rule, and pursue inner alchemy, the refinement of vital essence, breath and spirit within the body, rather than the ingestion of elixirs that earlier traditions had sought. The school is deliberately syn ...The Body Can Be Perfected into a Deathless State Through YogaCore Tenets... body is continuous with that of Indian alchemy. Both traditions hold this as binding without a single formal definition.Religious Symbols8JupiterAstral... ady-existing letter, not its origin. In alchemy the sign denotes tin. Astrologically it marks the greater benefic, the planet of expansion, faith, patronage, abundance, law and higher learning, and the ancient associatio ...MarsAstral... inuity is not perfectly established. In alchemy the same sign denotes iron, the martial metal from which weapons are made, and the association of the planet, the metal and the god is old and consistent. Astrologically it ...MercuryAstral... t mediating between soul and matter. In alchemy the same sign serves for quicksilver. It marks the planet of speech, commerce, travel, cunning and exchange, the messenger who alone moves freely between the worlds.MoonAstral... ntation the astrological glyph took. In alchemy the same crescent denotes silver, the lunar metal. Because the crescent is a partial and reflecting shape rather than a whole and radiating one, it carries the Moon's tradi ...OuroborosAnimal... t passes from there into Greco-Egyptian alchemy: a drawing in the Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra, known from a tenth-century Byzantine manuscript, shows the serpent half dark and half light with the caption hen to pan, the all ...SaturnAstral... c gloss on an inherited letter-form. In alchemy the sign denotes lead, the heavy and base metal. Astrologically it marks the greater malefic and the outermost of the seven traditional planets: time, limit, structure, dis ...SunAstral... central boss. The same figure serves in alchemy for gold, the incorruptible solar metal. Read symbolically the circle is the undivided whole and the point at its centre the seed or spark from which it unfolds, which is w ...VenusAstral... which is also the metal Venus rules in alchemy, where the same sign denotes copper. What is attested is that the cross is a relatively recent addition, being absent from the form in Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 235 and from the ...Deities3HermesGreek Deities... ermes Trismegistus, patron of magic and alchemy. He embodies the swift, clever, boundary-crossing mind.Queen Mother of the WestChinese Deities... ts, painters and the aspirants of inner alchemy.ThothEgyptian Deities... s as Hermes Trismegistus, the patron of alchemy and the hidden wisdom. He embodies the recording mind, language, and magic.Esoteric Texts6Aurora ConsurgensAlchemical Texts... he stages of transmutation. It presents alchemy as much a spiritual as a laboratory pursuit.BaopuziTaoist Texts... or seeking physical immortality through alchemy, dietary practice, breath cultivation and ritual, discussing laboratory procedures for compounding elixirs alongside more general Daoist religious philosophy. The Outer Cha ...The Emerald TabletAlchemical Texts... prized as the foundational statement of alchemy, best known for the maxim that as above, so below, so that the operations of the one thing may be accomplished. It compresses the whole doctrine of correspondence and trans ...The HermeticaHermetic Texts... arge technical literature on astrology, alchemy and talismans. The philosophical and the technical halves were long read as one body, and the Renaissance received the whole as a single ancient revelation older than Moses ...The Secret of the Golden FlowerTaoist TextsA short Chinese manual of internal alchemy describing the circulation of light and breath and the formation of what the text calls the golden flower. It became widely known in the West through a 1929 German translation w ...Wuzhen Pian (Awakening to Reality)TaoismA foundational text of Daoist internal alchemy (neidan) composed by Zhang Boduan in 1075, written mainly as a cycle of eighty one poems that describe the cultivation and refinement of essence (jing), energy (qi) and spir ...Screen Works1The Sacred History of the Rosicruciansscreenwork... h Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Kabbalah and alchemy, the seventeenth-century Rosicrucian manifestos, and the order's own twentieth-century revival under H. Spencer Lewis. One installment aired as a History channel episode in ...Literary Works1Zhen'gao (Declarations of the Perfected)literarywork... ho dictated instructions on meditation, alchemy and the soul's ascent through a celestial hierarchy the visions presented as higher than the deities recognized by earlier Daoist schools. Tao Hongjing, writing roughly a c ...