Alchemy: The Hermetic Art

Englishwoman Mary Anne South (1817-1910) was a leading figure in the reinvigoration of the spiritual

The name Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) is often evoked with respect to the evolutionary history

Depicted above is a pie chart showing the individual stages of the alchemical process in

According to alchemical doctrine, the unremitting addition of mercury to the prima materia in the

  Alchemists have always understood sublimatio as an ascending movement of the cyclic process of

  In the alchemical opus coagulatio transcribes the process whereby a liquid is chemically transposed

Solutio comes under the mediation of the ethereal element of water and pertains to chemical

The seventh stage of the therapeutic process is a recapitulation of the first (the nigredo)

  Conjunctio has always been used in alchemy as a symbol of culmination and is

During the alchemical rotation, the putrefying black matter in the alembic wrought by the nigredo