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Showing 1 to 50 of 94 (page 1 of 2).Disciplines2AlchemyCosmological DisciplinesAlchemy is the art of transformation, aiming outwardly at the perfecting of metals, above all the turning of base matter into gold, and...WeizzaFigures in Burmese Buddhist folk belief held to have attained extended life and supernormal power through esoteric practice, documented as history and belief, not instructed here... ed, through esoteric practice combining alchemy, meditation, mantra recitation and the ritual use of potent objects, a form of greatly extended life and supernormal power that falls short of full Buddhist enlightenment. ...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.Practices5Internal alchemy (neidan)Meditative PracticesA Daoist contemplative discipline that takes the vocabulary of the laboratory, furnace and cauldron, elixir and firing times, and relocates...Waidan (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 ...Taixi (Embryonic Breathing)Meditative Practices... ation and was reinterpreted in internal alchemy, neidan, as a wholly inner circulation of qi. It stands for the Daoist conviction that the untrained breath ties one to mortality and the perfected breath returns one to th ...ZuowangMeditative Practices... ical disciplines of breath and internal alchemy. Modern Daoist and comparative writers treat it as China's closest counterpart to contentless contemplation elsewhere.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 ...Denominations2Quanzhen (Complete Reality)Taoism... the three doctrines. Its heart is inner alchemy, neidan, the refining of the body's vital energies, jing, qi, and shen, through meditation, breath control, stillness, and moral discipline, in order to still desire, culti ...Shangqing (Highest Clarity)Taoism... of the gods within the body, and inner alchemy over communal ritual. Founded on revelations received by the medium Yang Xi, it sought immortality through mystical visionary practice and the recitation of sacred scriptur ...Religious Organization & Structure1QuanzhenLineages... er cultivation, meditation and internal alchemy, the refinement of body and mind toward union with the Dao, rather than on the communal liturgy of exorcism and offering. It self-consciously drew Daoist, Buddhist and Conf ...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.Secret Societies3Hermetic Order of the Golden DawnHermetic Societies... ng together Kabbalah, astrology, Tarot, alchemy, geomancy, and the Enochian system of John Dee into a single graded curriculum. Its grade structure was modeled on the Tree of Life, and it developed influential ritual and ...RosicrucianismRosicrucian Societies... with Hermetic philosophy, Kabbalah, and alchemy, presenting an invisible college of adepts who guard ancient wisdom. The movement inspired many later initiatic orders that took the Rose Cross as their emblem.Societas Rosicruciana in AngliaRosicrucian Societies... ncluding Kabbalah, Hermetic philosophy, alchemy, and sacred symbolism. It is organized into colleges and a grade structure of nine grades in three orders and functions as a scholarly and devotional fraternity rather than ...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 ...Deities4HermesGreek 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.Zhongli 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 & Titles2DaoshiTaoism Roles... e monastic devoted to meditation, inner alchemy and the monastic round. In both cases the standing rests on ordination and the transmission of texts and ritual authority from a master, not on congregational appointment, ...FangshiChinese 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.Sacred Geometry1Earlier Heaven BaguaPattern... it is used for contemplation, for inner alchemy and for the theory of the changes rather than for practical siting. The arrangement is set out in one of the Ten Wings, the commentary that supplies the trigrams their attr ...Enochian Governors1Sigmorf... nd Dee and Kelley's attention turned to alchemy and to the patronage of the imperial court.Parts of the Soul1HunDaoist... t to the earthbound po. Daoist internal alchemy (neidan) practice concerns itself substantially with stabilising and unifying the hun as part of cultivating a settled, undivided spirit.← Prev12Next →