Home›SearchSearchResults for “Alchemy”SearchConfidence Register:AllDocumented History and SocietyScriptural and Theological TraditionPractitioner SystemContested and Comparative ScholarshipReference and ClassificationConfidence Standing:AllThoroughly VerifiedVerifiedDevelopingMatches 97 across 31 categories. Only the first 94 could be ranked. Use a longer or more specific word to see the rest. Showing 51 to 94 of 94 (page 2 of 2).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 ...Periodic Elements8BerylliumAlkaline Earth Metal... discovery, it has no place in classical alchemy.CarbonTetrels... ut sublimes above about 3600 degrees C. Alchemy used charcoal constantly as a reducing agent but never counted it among the planetary metals.CopperCoinage Metals... om aes cyprium, the metal of Cyprus. In alchemy copper is Venus, marked with a circle set above a cross, the same sign biology still uses for female; the link is usually traced to the polished bronze mirror and to the gr ...HydrogenAlkali Metal... m the Greek for water-former. Classical alchemy had no knowledge of it, and no traditional correspondence attaches to it.LanthanumGroup 3... ry. None of these elements was known to alchemy.LithiumAlkali Metal... portable electricity. It was unknown to alchemy and carries no traditional correspondence.OxygenChalcogen... and with it the last chemical framework alchemy had left.TinTetrels... f the seven metals of antiquity, and in alchemy the metal of Jupiter, marked with a symbol resembling the numeral four. Alloyed with copper it makes bronze, and the search for tin drove some of the earliest long-distance ...Metaphysical Positions1HylozoismOntology... and the dispute matters practically for alchemy and vitalist medicine, both of which depend on nature being alive in some active sense rather than merely obeying blind mechanical law.Subtle Energies3Dantian and Hara... hs below the navel, treated in internal alchemy and qigong as the body's principal reservoir for storing and refining qi. The same location and a closely related concept were carried into Japanese Zen Buddhism and budo, ...Jing... of Chinese medicine and Daoist internal alchemy, alongside qi and shen, and names the body's essence, the dense, foundational substance from which qi and shen are in turn refined. It has two aspects, prenatal jing inheri ...Shen... of Chinese medicine and Daoist internal alchemy, standing above jing and qi, and names spirit, consciousness and the vitality visible in a person's eyes, expression and presence. It is said to be housed chiefly in the he ...Alchemical Substances12AzothSpirit... disputed by historians of language and alchemy alike and should not be treated as certain. Paracelsus himself used the term in a narrower, more concrete sense for a specific medicinal preparation involving mercury that ...CopperMetal Preparation... pper is the reddish, ductile metal that alchemy paired with Venus, smelted from ores including malachite, azurite and, notably, its own vitriol-forming sulfates, and long associated with the island of Cyprus, whose Latin ...GoldMetal Preparation... ense, soft, brilliant yellow metal that alchemy across every tradition treated as the most perfect of the seven classical metals, the goal toward which the Great Work's transmutations were ultimately aimed. Its resistanc ...IronMetal PreparationIron is the hard, dark grey metal that alchemy paired with Mars, the planet of war, an entirely intuitive correspondence given iron's overwhelming importance as the metal of weapons, armor and tools across nearly every p ...LeadMetal Preparation... s the dense, soft, dull grey metal that alchemy paired with Saturn, ranked at the very base of the traditional hierarchy of metallic perfection and treated as the raw, unrefined starting point that the whole transmutatio ...Luna CorneaCompound... ove historically significant far beyond alchemy: it darkens visibly on exposure to light, one of the first photosensitive chemical reactions ever documented, centuries before that same reaction became the chemical founda ...QuicksilverMetal Preparation... s the dense, silvery, liquid metal that alchemy across every major tradition treated as one of the two most philosophically important substances in existence, the volatile, fluid, penetrating principle that the tria prim ...SilverMetal Preparation... ht, white, highly reflective metal that alchemy paired with the Moon, second only to gold in the traditional hierarchy of the seven planetary metals and valued for a brilliance that, unlike gold's, tarnishes over time as ...Terra SigillataEarth... he "earths" of pre-modern chemistry and alchemy, historically mined at particular sites, most famously on the Greek island of Lemnos, and pressed into small tablets stamped with an official seal certifying authenticity b ...The Philosophers' StoneCompound... at the whole program of transmutational alchemy aimed to produce, credited with the power to perfect base metals into gold and, in many traditions, to grant health, longevity, or even immortality to whoever possessed it. ...TinMetal Preparation... n is the soft, silvery-white metal that alchemy paired with Jupiter, smelted chiefly from the ore cassiterite and prized above all for its essential role in making bronze, the copper-tin alloy that gave an entire early h ...White VitriolSalt... the seven planetary metals of classical alchemy, white vitriol carried no fixed planetary attribution the way its green and blue counterparts did. In modern terms it is hydrated zinc sulfate, chemically the near twin of ...Alchemical Apparatus3Blast Furnace... id not shrink into a laboratory tool as alchemy gave way to chemistry; it scaled up instead, and the blast furnace remains, under the same name, the primary method of ironmaking in the world today.Retort... ad inherited the technique from Islamic alchemy centuries earlier. The shape survived essentially unchanged into nineteenth-century chemistry, where it remained standard glassware for dry distillation and decomposition r ...Separating Funnel... irectly: it belongs to the period after alchemy had already become chemistry, built by glassblowers and chemists working with precision stopcocks rather than by alchemists working with luted joints and clay seals. The se ...Alchemical Principles3Mercury... is one of the tria prima of Paracelsian alchemy. It is the spirit and the volatile, mediating, fluid principle: mind, consciousness, and life-force, the fluid bond that passes between body and soul and reconciles them. O ...Salt... is one of the tria prima of Paracelsian alchemy. It is the body and the fixed, material, passive principle: solidity, weight, form, and the incombustible base that remains as ash when a substance is burned away. It is th ...Sulphur... eenth century) set at the foundation of alchemy alongside the older doctrine of the four elements. Sulphur is the soul and the active, fiery, expansive principle: combustibility, passion, desire, and the animating spirit ...Magnum Opus Stages1Nigredo... e of the Magnum Opus, the Great Work of alchemy, named for its color. The matter of the Work, and on the inner path the practitioner, is broken down, burned, and putrefied into a black, undifferentiated chaos, the massa ...Hermetic Principles1Polarity... ared scale. This is the basis of mental alchemy, by which an undesired mental state is changed into its opposite pole.Scholarly Disciplines2History of ChemistryHumanities... ng of chemical theory and practice from alchemy to modern chemistry, first given comprehensive treatment by Hermann Kopp in 1843. Supplies the atlas with the material meaning of alchemical operations that traditions also ...History of Western EsotericismHumanitiesHermeticism, Christian Kabbalah, alchemy and theosophy studied as documented historical currents with named authors and dated texts, not as branches of one timeless perennial wisdom. Founded as a field with the 1965 Pari ...Meridians2Conception Vessel... letes the Microcosmic Orbit of internal alchemy.Governing Vessel... forms the Microcosmic Orbit of internal alchemy.← Prev12Next →